Five Words Rather than Ten Thousand

1. Cash Register Acts 4:32–37; 5:1–16 2. Core Concept Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? And who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart 3. College days Kmart Stockroom Sporting Goods Register 4. Common theme of unity And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was his own, but all things were common property to them. 5. One Heart and One Soul Heart-seat of inner self Soul-seat of thinking will and feelings 6. Unity Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation. 7. Unity …make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. 8. Love whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart…, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love with wor...

The Anvil Acts 4:1-31

1. The Anvil Acts 4:1-31 2. Our concept Please stand And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 3. History Channel has a show called “Forged in Fire.” Make weapons from scrap metal. Three rounds. Judged until only two. Go home to their shop and make an exotic weapon. 4. It’s a process Clip Review last week 5. No good deed goes unpunished As they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them, being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people 6. No good deed goes unpunished (continued) and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on them and put them in jail until the next day, for it was already evening. 7. What were they mad about? Unauthorized teachers-control Resurrection-Sadducees didn’t believe 8. Prophesied by Jesus When they bring you before the synagogues ...

Timing is everything Acts 3

Patterns Acts 2

1. Patterns Following success Acts 2 2. Patterns See that you make them after the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain. 3. Patterns (continued) Then David gave to his son Solomon the plan of the porch of the temple, its buildings, its storehouses, its upper rooms, its inner rooms and the room for the mercy seat; 4. Patterns (continued) The counsel of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart from generation to generation. 5. Patterns (continued) O Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; For You have worked wonders, Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness. 6. Pattern pray 7. Power When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place…And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance. 8. The pattern  Unity  Prayer  Spiritual 9. First church service Peter, taking his stand with the eleven, raised his v...

The Day of Pentecost Acts 2

1. The Day of Pentecost Acts 2 2. Acts 2 video 3. Pray We need to understand what happened 4. The three most important days in history 1. Death of Jesus-Passover-sins atoned 2. Resurrection-First fruit-first fruits of the grave 3. Day of Pentecost-Feast of Weeks-the abundance of the Spirit 5. Important 1. Obedient to Christ’s command 2. Corporate prayer 3. Unity 6. That day 1. Sound of wind from heaven (ruach) 2. Tongues of fire (Baptize with fire, power) 3. Spirit utterance (Tongues) 7. The promise of the Father And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high. 8. What’s the promise? Power for witnessing, life of holiness, edification 9. Gift for you But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 10. A promised gift If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father g...