1 Thess 4:13-18
Overview of Acts
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Chapters 1-7 Witnesses in
Chapters 8-12 Witnesses in
Chapter 13-28 Witnesses in
The community in Jerusalem at this point is called a ““
As we have had about 3000 added on Pentecost and numbers were added day by day since then -And an important aspect of this community is that they were of one heart and soul
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Acts 4:33-5:16
Acts 5:1
Acts 5:3
why has Satan filled your heart?
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Compare this with the filling in Acts 2:4
Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it’, while really it is finding its place in him.
His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work, build up in him a sense of being really at home in earth …which is just what we want.
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (New York: Macmillian, 1950)
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Acts 5:3 And you have kept back for yourself
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Acts 5:4 – While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal?
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Acts 5:4b Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart?
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Peter’s question is more along the lines of How could you do this?
Acts 5:4
When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last
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English doesn’t give us the full view of what happened. Just as Peter was speaking – simultaneously Ananias fell and died. Whoa!! Seems a bit
In this early development of the body of Christ – God’s has been violated. God will not be
kept back
Joshua 7
Achan at Ai
God’s holiness was mocked
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Lev 10:1-2
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Acts 5:6-7
It’s hard to imagine what was going through the community of faith at this moment.
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Acts 5:8
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Acts 5:9 BUT
Contrasting the statement made by Saphria – through the power of the Spirit
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Acts 5:10
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Acts 5:11 the
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Eph 4:22-25
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Acts 5:12 Answer to prayer from Acts 4:29-30
Acts 5:12 And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico.
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Acts 5:13
The interesting result of these signs and wonders
1 – none of the rest dared to join
This might point to the other believers don’t want to be with the apostles – for fear of further persecution
2 – but the people kept them in high esteem
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Acts 5:15 – Peter’s shadow
demonstrating the hope and expectation of the people –
not that his shadow actually healed people – for the text doesn’t say that.
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Acts 5:16
We are still in a but not against one another
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Ephesians 6:12
But the has ultimately been won.
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1 Corinthians 15:57-58
For our King and His kingdom!
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