SNT 0209 The Lord Added
The Lord Added to the Church May 5, 1968 An expository teaching with emphasis on men’s learning the Word, walking on it, holding it forth boldly, and the Lord’s adding to the Church as a result. SNT – 209 Act 2:41-44 Act 2:45-47, 42; 3:1-6 Act 4:22; 3:6-19 Act 3:19-26; 4:1-4 _____________________ snt-0209 the lord added to the church(vpw) Thank you Rhoda. Thank you, Dorothy. Take your Bibles tonight and turn to the book of Acts, please chapter two. In the post Easter season, of course, we think about the appearances of the Lord Jesus Christ among His apostles and more than 500, who had witnessed the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we're moving on toward the day of Pentecost, which is the great birthday of the church, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the new birth, which changed men's lives, and made them stalwart, bold, and gave them that which has made possible the ministry that is still resident in our midst in this time. In chapter two, of course, you have the record of the original outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the new birth. And in verse 41, at the close of Peter's message on that tremendous day, it says, Then they that gladly received the word were baptized, and the same day they were added unto them, onto the 12 apostles, who were the only ones filled with the Holy Spirit that morning, or that day of the Rehome of the pendant cause, there were added to those 12 about 3000 souls, Then they that gladly received the word. There are some people who received the word, but it's never gladly. And in those people, the word never gels. The word never crystallizes. It never really becomes a part of them and does anything to them or for them. The word receive is the word DECO, my those who gladly deco my subjectively received. And it it's receiving it with gluttons. I am confident that people like you come here Sunday after Sunday, many of you drive great distances to be here. Others of our people who hear the teaching ministry on the joy that cheer on the
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work for the Doctor of Theology degree. Dr. Wierwille taught the first class on Power for Abundant Living in 1953. Books by Dr. Wierwille include: Are the Dead Alive Now? published in 1971; Receiving the Holy Spirit Today published in 1972; five volumes of Studies in Abundant Living— The Bible Tells Me So (1971), The New, Dynamic Church (1971), The Word's Way (1971), God's Magnified Word (1977), Order My Steps in Thy Word (1985); Jesus Christ Is Not God (1975); Jesus Christ Our Passover (1980); and Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed (1982). Dr. Wierwille researched God's Word, taught, wrote, and traveled worldwide, holding forth the accuracy of God's "wonderful, matchless" Word. DOC AUDIO