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Acts 11:26 · BSB
11:26 and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.
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…is a follower of Christ. This word occurs three times in the New Testament. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch in the book ofActs, chapter 11, verse 26, three times. Agrippa said to Paul, because of Paul's ways and speech, you almost persuaded me to be a Christian. That's in Acts 26 and 28. Peter…
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…and this church was booming and growing. He called for Saul of Tarsus. Saul of Tarsus went with him to Antioch. They were there for a whole year.Acts 11:26says it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called what? They were first called Christians in Antioch. So that's the church in Acts 11:19,…
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…church in the New Testament that sends out missionaries and does the Lord's work. And as a result, Barnabas brings Saul, the church grows. Look atActs 11:26. The disciples are first called what? In Antioch. This is the challenge of stabilizing the local church. And maybe we don't think about this. Okay,…
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…that it's going to facilitate a name change. In other words, it was their identity that actually led to a change in the name. We're going to see inActs 11:26this statement: **"And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians."** In the time we have together today, I want to ask the…
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morning church. Open your Bibles to the book of Acts. Our text today isActs chapter 11 verses 19 through 26. Let's pray. Father in heaven as we open your Word today, would you open our hearts, open our minds, open our ears to hear and our eyes to see.…
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…as well. It's a church made-up of mostly Gentile believers. And it's the first place where disciples of Jesus were called Christians. That'sActs 11, verse 26. And from this point onwards in the book of Acts, Antioch becomes central in taking the good news of Jesus to the ends of the earth. And what do we…
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…It's this posture of here I am, God, use me. Point three and our final point this morning is God unifies his church. God unifies his church.Acts chapter 11, verses 25 through 30. The word says, So Barnabas went to Tarshus to look for Saul, and when he and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year…
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…more in a minute. But we know that Christian, the word Christian means Christlike. They were called Christians first at Antioch. That's found inActs 11, verse 26. Christian. The word Christian. The name Christian means an imitator of Christ. And we, as born again believers are to imitate Jesus Christ, we are…
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…you turn there in this, this passage, there's an interesting thing that happens in this passage in down in verse 26. For the first time in verse inacts 11, verse 26, the first time followers it's the first time followers of jesus are called christians. It's the first time we see that word in the Bible and…
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…gospel? I think everybody can say that. But the question is, is what does that actually mean? All right, I'm going to start out with this verse inActs Chapter 11, verse 26, because this is where our conflict arises. And it actually started all the way back here where there became, there becomes a challenge that takes…
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…that are with you. So a person that has a... He made the disciples, people that were with him, so that they would be like him. We saw that inActs chapter 11, verse 26, where they were first called Christian. And the observation is that these people were behaving like the Christ. Praise the Lord. So he made people…
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…neglected in the daily distribution. He said the number of the disciples were multiplied. And then we also see the same thing in Acts chapter 11.Acts chapter 11 verse 26. Acts chapter 11 verse 26. Then when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled in the church and…
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…and trembling like the. Like the Word says. And to be a disciple, it truly means to be a Christian. It's like, what is a Christian? You look atActs 11:26really quickly. It says, and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year, they met with the church and taught a great many…
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…detailed into some of these questions. How about the question of, what is a disciple? Okay? What is a disciple? Well, a clue of this is, I think,Acts chapter 11, verse 26. Before Acts chapter 11, there's no mention of a Christian. There's only mention of disciples. Right? And then in Acts chapter 11, 26, it says, and…
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…who was the first people that were called Christians? No, I wasn't expecting because it's not something that everyone comes across. But if we readActs Chapter 11, verse 26, listen to this Acts 11, Bina. Yes, yeah. But they weren't called Christians. They were called the people of the way, the yeah, the first people…
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…of us are interested in our ancestors, aren't we? We like to know the stories of our family. We like to know where does our name come from. AndActs chapter 11 verse 26tells us that it was in the city of Antioch in the middle of the first century AD that the name Christian was first used. So Acts chapter 11, here…
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…become the great world movement that it is today because something really significant happened in the passage that we read. Look at what it says inActs 11, verse 26. For a whole year, they met with the church and they taught a great many people and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called…
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…word your and you get into the New Testament and all my goodness, right? So here's a few examples, right? So there's the one that we just looked atacts 11:26and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch and now so think about the significance of this term. Now if you'd ask the followers of…
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…have been a recipe for disaster and division. But notably in this church, it was their new identity in Christ that dominated their thinking. InActs 11, verse 26, we're told that for the first time, they were united around the term Christian. Each a servant of Jesus, each a believer, each a Christian, that…
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…you see that the church in Antioch was like that. The church in Antioch would deliberately target people who weren't like them. So if you go toActs chapter 11, verse 19 to 26, Antioch was a granary of sorts. Antioch was like a resource center. Hey Shiloh, do you like those pictures? Let me know which one you want. And…
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