Father, every ungodly power working against church growth be consumed by the fire of Holy Ghost, in Jesus name. At the same time, along with this is seen universality in the going out of both the truth and grace of God, which could not but be foreign to the law. Finally, and in few words (for I do not intend to say more on Acts 12:1-25 tonight), we have the completing of this second part of our narrative in this chapter. Nevertheless even he, apostle though he were, must enter by the same lowly gate as another. Acts 12:25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. They requested one day that they be granted to sit one at the right hand and the other at the left hand of Jesus when He was in His kingdom. Apparently a primary word; a 'mother'. This is all quite right. And so the Jewish Passover usually coincides closely with our Easter season. Quite right: only the true text delivers from the need of wresting the force of a word, and is as simply as possible Greeks, not Grecians, and means Gentiles without the smallest difficulty or discussion. These chains have fallen off; I'm walking past these guards. James was the second Christian martyr whom Luke identified (cf. Simon can only answer, "Pray ye to the Lord for me." And now those words of Christ were made good in him; but it was in order to his sitting at Christ's right hand; for if we suffer with him, we shall reign with him. He had been educated at Rome, but he sedulously cultivated the good graces of the Jewish people by meticulously keeping the Law and all Jewish observances. The same event doomed secular Israel. 449, 450). It must be his spirit. Prayer Points 1 Father, I thank you for sending Jesus Christ to us. Herod the Great left three sons, between whom his kingdom was divided - Archelaus, Philip, and Antipas. How all-important for our souls that we should have Christ before us, and that we should have no desire but for His glory! Herod accepted the praise as if he was God, and was punished for it (20-23). Accordingly we find, as the testimony had gone forth throughout Jerusalem at least, so now the old rival of Jerusalem comes within the dealings of God. It is prayer that expects no answer. Was his faith nothing more than a profession of Christian doctrine? Then Peter says to them, "Can any man forbid water?" . Lord, help me to think about some real answers toprayerI have had. If you The personal holiness of the Christian is a property of the individual, not of the society as such; hence a professing Christian society, however large a proportion of holy men it may contain, does not predicate of itself that it is a part of Christ's holy Church as long as it exercises no formal official act implying that assumption. Unlike the law, it addresses all; there is no narrowness in a rejected heavenly Christ. Now don't try to figure out an answer, because we don't know.The ways of God are beyond our finding out. Father, every ungodly power that has penetrated to the position of authority in the church expose and disgrace them and if they fail to repent, uproot them, in Jesus name. Society's edition of his Comm. Luke calleth this games which was slain the brother of John, that he may distinguish him from the son of Alpheus. So says the Spirit to Philip, "Go near and join thyself to this chariot." Clearly they were not Christians; but God has all hearts in His keeping. . ACTS Prayers (Adoration, Confession, T But before Aristopollis was murdered, he had this son Herod Agrippa. He had no confidence in the Lord for himself not a particle; for just as those who have confidence in the Lord have not an atom in man, his sole hope of blessing for his soul lay in the influence of another man, not in Christ's grace. He dared not doubt longer: to him it was self-evident. Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural. This contrariety doth cause me to expound it of the Gentiles." Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark. Surely it was true of all who really believed and knew His glory. Oh why should any confessor of Christ why should any child of God shrink from rendering godly satisfaction to those that seek it? WebThe greatest sacrifice and act of submission is when we lay our agenda down and pick up Christs. After his death, the word of God prospers. How could its reality be doubted? This did not at all flow from his ordination. Nlam barti hangulatban zajlik a fotzs, garantltan izzads-mentesen Lendletes, prgs s vidm fnykpezs a mottm. His glory burst on the astonished eyes of Saul, who surrenders immediately. 3. Saul was consenting unto Stephen's death, and Saul was the expression of Jewish feeling in its best aspect. Thus Cornelius was aware that God had sent the gospel to the Jews; but there was precisely where he necessarily stopped short. By the Holy Ghost there is imparted all the firmness of a divine bond, and all the intimacy of a real living relationship of the nearest kind. The church has economic diversity. A menyasszony ton a fodrszhoz s a sminkeshez, a vlegny pedig felkszl a nagy napra testben s fejben. WebActs 12 shows that Peter and James put God first in their lives, regardless of the punishment they might receive. This, to me, is quite fascinating. All this confirms its having a Jewish aspect, regarded as a type, and was very natural in James and Peter, who had to do specially with the circumcision. Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church. Whether this was the ease among the Jews scripture does not say; but that there were persons who had this responsible place among them, as among the Gentile churches afterwards, we see clearly. This is the Herod of our present passage in Acts 12:1-25. In the meantime, the church waspraying, and in answer to theirprayers(v. 5) God supernaturally awakened Peter from a sound sleep (v. 6). Now about that time: This phrase refers to the time Saul and Barnabus make their trip to take the collection gathered by the saints in Antioch to the famine stricken brethren in Jerusalem. The apocryphal Gospel according to the Hebrews tells that after the death of Jesus, James made a vow that he would neither eat nor drink until he saw Jesus again; and that Jesus did appear to him. Thus we must carefully remember that the gospel brings more than conversion to God. Here is an account of Peter's imprisonment (Acts 12:4; Acts 12:4): When he had laid hands on him, and, it is likely, examined him, he put him in prison, into the inner prison; some say, into the same prison into which he and the other apostles were cast some years before, and were rescued out of it by an angel, Acts 5:18; Acts 5:18. he would probably, without hesitation or difficulty, reply, that a Christian Church as it appears, for example, in St. Paul's epistles is a congregation or society of faithful men or believers, whose unseen faith in Christ is visibly manifested by their profession of certain fundamental doctrines, by the administration and reception of the two sacraments, and by the exercise of discipline. intending after Easter [or really after Passover] to bring him forth to the people. (2.) 2. Yet it becomes more than a vivid account of an isolated miracle when we probe below the surface, for this story is an echo of other stories in Luke-Acts and in Jewish Scripture. Without the action of the Holy Ghost faith is impossible; but this capacitating power and the gift of the Holy Ghost are two very different things, and the latter consequent on the former. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God." And he was eaten with worms and died. The soldiers who were the guards over Peter were put to death, taking the sentence that was to be placed upon Peter. Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. 2. 4. WebActs 12 One Martyred, One Rescued A. James the apostle dies as a martyr. And Jesus said, "Are you able to be baptized with the baptism whereof I will be baptized?" It was their responsibility now as ever to accept the gracious offer of God. Egy eskv, az ifj pr szmra mr relatv korn reggel kezddik. For indeed he was but man. Let us see briefly the various ramifications of the family of the Herods in their New Testament connections. The church, not merely in a city but in a province or country, is intelligible enough to man; but it soon became more difficult to see its unity in various and differing provinces. A nsznp 80%-a szerintem lyukasra tncolta a cipjt, gy legalbb lemozogtk a vacsort. It may be all right and in perfect keeping that one preaching the gospel should baptize; but occasion might well arise where he who preached would avoid it himself. "To all this, however, it will be replied, that the nature of a visible church, which we know must in all cases be a body of mixed character, as well as the actual state of several of the churches to whom St. Paul addressed his epistles, forbid the supposition that, in terming them communities of saints and believers, he could have used these words in their highest signification. Josephus doth no where call him Herod, it may be, because he had a brother who was king of Chalcis, whose name was Herod. Designed by, INVERSORES! It is not to be treated as mere human arrangement. [Note: See Longenecker, pp. *Is it not distressing to find, in this thoughtful production of one in much above the traditions of men and the bias of party, the palpable omission of the grandest and most momentous distinction of the church, namely, the presence of the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven? The answer is, "How can I, except some man should guide me?" If this took place in A.D. 46, and Herod died in A.D. 44, then the event Luke related in chapter 12 antedated the famine visit, and probably all of Acts 11:27-30, by about two years. This Herod was not so courteous, that he would stick to win peace or the peoples favor with the punishment of an hundred men or more. There was the revelation now of Christ as an object for the Christian in heaven, and the revelation of Him too in a way entirely outside the narrow boundaries of Judaism. Man, Israel, not merely Saul, was altogether blinded: the flesh never knows God. There were Gentiles who truly looked to the Lord, and not to self or man; who had been taught of Him to look for a coming Saviour, though they quite rightly connected that Saviour with Israel; for such was the burden of the promise. "And the hand of the Lord was with them," as we are told, "and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord." but they came with one accord to him, because they had made a friend of Blastus the king's chamberlain, and they desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country [or by Palestine]. "Lord," says he, "I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name." This prayer lacks Heavenly Father, I pray that I may be quick to confess my own sin, eager to trust Your word and faithful to obey Your commands.. and that I abide in You and You in me, so that I may be a 'man' after Your own heart - to Your praise and glory. Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word and the truths that it contains. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch." I can understand difficulties in the minds of believers; and no one would wish to force or hurry the convictions of any; nor would it be of the slightest value to receive even a truth without the faith that is produced, and exercised, and cleared by the word of God. There is no question of a Jew, but "Whosoever believeth in him." 1. It was now guilty of resisting unto blood, not merely as their fathers had done, but the heavenly testimony of Jesus. And so he did ( Acts 12:4-8 ). How essential to the idea of a Church the exercise of discipline is, may be seen from the embarrassing contrarieties between theory and practice which the virtual suspension of it in the Church of England is constantly occasioning" (pp. So there were sixteen soldiers altogether watching Peter in three-hour shifts, at all times chained to two of them while two were watching the door. The fruits of the Spirit, whether they be produced within our own inclosure or beyond it, are always the same, and always to be recognized; otherwise our Lord would never have given us the simple test whereby we are to distinguish false from true prophets 'by their fruits ye shall know them.' In the midst of a storm, Paul prayed for Gods blessing (Acts 27:35), and after a storm, he prayed that God would heal a sick man (Acts 28:8). WebDIVINE PRESERVATION PRAYER POINTS. Precautions could go no further. Jehovah's house had been left doubly desolate; Jerusalem had this added to her other sins that, when the blessing had come down from heaven, she would not have it. During that time no trial or execution could be carried out and that is why Herod purposed to defer Peter's execution until the week was finished. Herod Agrippa I, the son of Miriam, who was a descendant of the Maccabeans. Mary the mother of John was aunt to Barnabas (Colossians 4:10).If Paul and Barnabas were not in her house at the time (which there is no evidence that they were), it is likely that all the particulars of quietem, perpetual rest. ( Acts 12:1) Herod harasses the church. B. [Alas! Father, I declare that Cornelius, I apprehend, was just in this case. By means of this discipline, they having been separated from the society whose overt acts were contrary to their Christian profession, the apostle, not being endowed with the divine prerogative of inspecting the heart, was compelled to take the rest at their profession, and to deal with them as real Christians so long as there was no visible, tangible proof to the contrary . 'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in Christ;' 'that I may be comforted by the mutual faith both of you and me;' did St. Paul, when he thus wrote, regard himself as but nominally interested in the blessings of redemption? "He preached in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God." When the earthly fortunes of the Christians seemed the most precarious, however, providential events took place with sudden finality, lifting the threat completely. 12:12-19 When Peter had grasped what had happened, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John, who was surnamed Mark. There was the free action of His Spirit towards Samaria without the apostles, but the Holy Ghost was given by the laying on of their hands. No man in his natural state could pray, nor serve God acceptably, as Cornelius did. Now all of you that have visited the Holy Land are familiar with the theater that is in Caesarea. A vltozatossg varzsolja szness a vilgunkat, s ettl olyan klnleges nlam egy fotzs. Ennek a hobbinak a digitlis vilg elg nagy lehetsget nyjtott. Those to whom they addressed themselves were really Gentiles. And he was highly respected by the Jews. Note, Those make themselves an easy prey to Satan who make it their business to please men. When Philip died, this region was granted by the Emperor Caligula to Herod Agrippa. See Luke 3:1; see also an account of the Herod family, see in Clarke's note on "Matthew 2:1". For all that God took precaution to bind up together the work at Samaria with that which He had wrought at Jerusalem. Undoubtedly they could not have believed the gospel, had there not been the quickening operation of the Holy Ghost; but we must distinguish between the Holy Ghost giving life and the Holy Ghost Himself given. This phraseology would have been somewhat like this, 'The church had rest throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria,' i.e., the part of the church that lies in these countries." Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. At the same time there is the pity that belongs to one who knew the grace of God, and saw the end of all in His judgment. We have only to extend this undoubted principle of interpretation to the Jewish people itself in its national that is, its legal-character, to perceive that the terms by which, in the Old Testament, its privileges are expressed, assume, when applied to Christians, a different meaning, or rather betoken the spiritual realities of which the former were but the types" (pp. Peter was the one then, not Paul, that announced the gospel to Cornelius, who by the Holy Ghost received it, and was not merely safe but saved. For it is not maintained that the first Christians, any more than those of our own day, were or could be perfect; and all that can be fairly gathered from what St. Paul says of the Corinthians is, that they were imperfect and inconsistent. A zene vegyes felhozatal volt egy kivl Dj-vel. The man just now so ignorant is not the channel that God was about to use for bringing out the remarkable confession that is introduced prematurely here. He did so. Aristopollis was one of them. . We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. Matthew 12:30 14. Accordingly, among the train of those that received the gospel and were baptized, Simon is found. Kedvenc terleteim kz tartozik Gyr-Moson-Sopron megye is, nagyon gyakran kapok eskvi megbzst Sopron szvbl, de nagyon szvesen jrok fotzni Tapolcra is elvgre mgis csak ott szlettem. 2. And, both. . To vex - To injure, to do evil to - kakosai. characteristic of Christendom. In this passage we come on the first mention of the man who was the real leader of the Christian Church in Jerusalem. This certainly demonstrates how the power of God, in direct answer to prayer, is greater than that of any Herod. A primary particle of connection or addition; both or also. "All that dwelt in Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord." Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Genitive Masculine Singular. He had been educated at Rome, but he deliberately cultivated the good graces of the Jewish people by meticulously keeping the Law and all Jewish observances. To regard him as unawakened at that time is to mistake a great deal of the teaching of the chapter. His appointment was to take care of the tables. Except on this assumption the apostle could not have proceeded to enforce Christian duties by Christian motives" (pp. "Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of those things which ye have spoken come upon me.". This was what attracted him; and, as it is said here, "he continued with Philip" (there was no other bond of connection), "and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done." But that branch of criticism which consists in a full knowledge of the sources, a nice discrimination of the various readings, and a sound judgment in deciding the preferable text, as it is rarely found, so it certainly was not the forte of Dr. C. One hundred and fifty years ago, Dr. E. Wells, in his "Help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Scriptures" (Oxford, 1718), not only adopted the singular in his Greek text and his English paraphrase, but pointed out in his Annotations the great weakness of the argument drawn by dissenters from the plural , as if it favoured their system of separate churches. To pray like that, is to pray with Gods love on our hearts. 2. And these people depended upon Palestine for their food supplies, and so they were pretty much a vassal to Palestine at this time. He was guarded by four quaternions of soldiers. This was precisely what God was now doing; and the remarkable fact appears, that God did not wait for the apostle of the Gentiles to bring the good news to Cornelius. "Luke doth at length declare that certain of them brought this treasure even unto the Gentiles. Correct, good students! Acts 12:24-25 take us back to Acts 11:27-30. Back in Jerusalem the church was experiencing much difficulty. Thus on the great Gentile occasion, as before on the Jewish at Pentecost, the medium of man completely disappears. We are here to consider, 1. Who the martyr was: it was James the brother of John; so called to distinguish him from the other James the brother of Joses. First of all, the apostles and the disciples themselves received it as they were waiting. In this story we do not necessarily see a miracle. Peter was present, but he certainly laid no hand of his on a single soul that day before the Holy Ghost was given. "It has already been remarked that, far from intending to establish a mere invisible fellowship of the Spirit, our Lord contemplated His Church as having a visible existence, His followers as collected into societies [that society called the Church or assembly of God]. The disciples gave themselves to prayer, yet they little believed their own prayers. The word "Grecians" does not mean "Greeks," but rather Greek-speaking Jews; to whom the gospel had been preached long before, as the cases of Stephen, for instance, and Philip clearly testify. Christ's suffering servants are thus trained up by less troubles for greater, that tribulation may work patience, and patience experience. Those that take one bold step in a sinful way give Satan advantage against them to tempt them to take another, and provoke God to leave them to themselves, to go from bad to worse. At Joppa too was wrought a still more striking miracle of the Lord in Tabitha's case, already dead, than in that of Eneas, who had been paralysed for years. "Always when you get ready to run, get ready to fight, or get ready to work, you would gird yourself up or get ready to serve. Worse, Tyre and Sidon were dependent for their food supplies on Palestine and if these supplies were cut off their case would be serious indeed. Yet it is likely that he did shed innocent blood, that, according to the common craft of kings, he might gratify a furious people; because St. Luke will shortly after declare that Peter the apostle was put into prison that he might be a pleasant spectacle. And he commanded us to preach unto the people." The gospel goes forth elsewhere; it is in no way bound to Jerusalem. He apparently became a believer only after Jesus resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:7; cf. He is a nephew to the Herod who had John the Baptist slain. Acts 16:40 And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed. afterwards the Apostles preach and organize. And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had completed their errand of mercy. When Caligula was slain, he was at Rome, and having ingratiated himself into the favor of Claudius, he conferred on him also Judea and Samaria, so that his dominions were equal in extent to those of his grandfather, Herod the Great.

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