SNT 0222 Acts 11-17
Acts 11-17 April 14, 1968 The gift of holy spirit. Four Different Healings Act 11:19-26 Act 11:26; 12:1-16 Act 12:16-18; 2Pe 1:13, 14; Eph 3:20; Act 3:6; 5:12; 6:8; Mat 9:8; Act 8 Poem - God Has No Hands But Our Hands Acts 11-17 Victor Paul Wierwille – Sunday Night Teaching 222 Transcript – I said to the people in the Advanced class that signs, miracles and wonders should be commonplace among the Christian believer. When I turn to the Book of Acts and I read the records in the Book of Acts of the Early Church as they moved out across the world, and as our friend Dr. Williams told us that in the first century, by 55 A.D., Bartholomew was in the Bombay area teaching the Word of God. When I read the records of these men, the march of 12 men, how they’d walked with great boldness, with great power, signs, miracles and wonders were commonplace. Today, to have signs, miracles and wonders is almost uncommon, except in the spiritualist field where you…they get it from the wrong source. There they are producing what the church should legitimately have been doing all along. I think, for those of us who have been in this Way ministry for any length of time, because of the way we feel regarding testimonies and talking about the things that God does for us individually, perhaps this is the reason why very little is said from time to time about the greatness of the signs, the miracles and the wonders that God does in our midst. Because it seems like every time The Way people are together, there’s always one thing predominant in our heart and in our life, and that is that we can get to the Word. Because men’s illustrations, they will come and go. You cannot always trust a man, or a testimony, or a sharing. You can't always trust it because you're not always sure if it's the Word of God. But upon this Book, the Bible, this I can say to my people and declare boldly that this is The Word of God. And when a story is told in here of a miracle of healing, or of a sign, or by a wonder th
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have been a bad criminal, putting this many men to watch him] intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. [verse 5] Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night [in other words, the night before the following morning when Herod would have brought him forth before the people, that same night] Peter was [what?] sleeping [he was sleeping] between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. Isn’t that something? He just couldn't get out of that. There’s not much in that verse that disturbs me except one truth; how in the world can a man sleep. Everything else real clear, almost. Here was Peter, one arm here is shackled to a soldier, another arm shackled to another one. And they was he was lying on the floor, sound asleep