SNT 1244 The Words of This Life
The Words of This Life September 16, 1984 SNT 1244 All That I Am - Branded Everytime - Vivian Epstein The Only Thing Worth Believing - Brian Bliss Reach Out & Give Him Your Heart - Branded Act 5:1-5 Act 5:6-21; 2Pe 1:19 (Dr. says 2Ti 1:19); Act 5:24-42 1Pe 1:3-5; 2Pe 1:4-9; Lev 17:11; Heb 9:9, 11-14; 10:1, 2, 22, 24; 1Jo 1:7, 9; Eph 2:10; 4:24 What A Change You've Made in My Heart - Brian Bliss & Branded ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Words of This Life Victor Paul Wierwille – Sunday Night Teaching Transcript – September 16, 1984 Heavenly Father, we thank you for the greatness of your love and grace and mercy and goodness to us. Thank you for the wonderful privilege of working your Word, and blessing the hearts and lives of your wonderful people. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen and God Bless. Take your Bibles and turn to the book of Acts, please. Tonight, I’d like to share with you on the subject of the words of this life. If we could have all heard and believed what we heard in the manifestations, I wouldn’t have to teach tonight. It was all covered in the manifestations. The book of Acts is a history of the rise and the expansion of the Christian church. Every time I read and study it, I always stand in utter amazement of the greatness of the revelation in that book. How little they knew, but how much they did! The vital experience of receiving God’s gift of holy spirit and speaking in tongues just electrified all of their action. In comparison, I see in so-called religious Christianity how much we know, but how little we do. Apparently, the greatness of the new birth and the receiving of holy spirit and speaking in tongues does not do as much for us as it did for the original apostles and disciples. It fails to have the great significance for us as it did for them. They were fearless. They were bold. And they shared everything above their need. And everywhere where they went, they preached the Word. In compari
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the apostles [these are the religious leaders, the Sanhedrins, laid hands on the apostles], and put them in the common prison. 2 www.eternallyblessed.org “Preserve and Make Available” The word “common” is, in the public prison. It may be of interest, you know, to historically that the public prisons were never cleaned out. So men were thrown in there; they had to stand in the excretion of others, in water that would run in when it would rain. And that’s where they cast them. The record in the Word of God, following the death of Ananias and Sapphira, states in verse 12: Acts 5:12-16: And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord [unity of purpose] in Solomon's porch. And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. And [the] believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes bot