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Acts 12:5 · BSB
12:5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.
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…through us. And so that's what we've been talking about. And that should be of no surprise to all of us as we come here this morning and are now inActs chapter 12. We're almost halfway through. So hopefully that's not a surprise. Today in Acts chapter 12, we have to talk about prayer. And I realized that if…
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…It is evident that the Holy Spirit is moving and working through a people who are committed to the mission of the gospel. And then we come toActs chapter 12. And what we find that is really thematic and prevalent all throughout the scriptures is that when the church continues to thrive, when the church…
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…said, Hallelujah, give God some praise. If you are ready for supernatural peace in your life, in your home, in your family. Now let's go toActs chapter 12in our Bibles and we will pick it up there from verse 6. The night before here it was to bring him to trial. Peter was sleeping. Everybody…
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…They were coming to Christ. And so, just an amazing situation. I want to read the passage where we begin today from their scattering. I'll begin inActs, chapter 12, and read through verse 17 if you want to follow along. Now, about that time, herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the church in order…
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…so, she prepared a foundation of lifelong service for her son. This is not one of the Marys that we are typically thinking of in the New Testament.Acts chapter 12and verse 12. Peter is in prison. He's been released from prison by the angel in the middle of the night. And so he went to the house of Mary,…
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…by the Holy Spirit. It increased in numbers. So there's expansion, geographical expansion, numerical expansion. Just turn over a little bit toActs, chapter 12and verse 24. And there we find it moving not only from Jerusalem, not only into the regions of Palestine, but also into Antioch and beyond. In…
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Please turn toActs chapter 12. This is a passage for everyone who is feeling weak and powerless and overwhelmed. ! Anyone like that here? ! And the Bible allows us into the mind…
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…James, the sons of Thunder. They were the apostles, the original 12 of the apostles of the Lamb. But here we are. But he was martyred or killed inActs chapter 12. He did not come and see that James. He saw this James, James the Lord's brother. This James is the James that wrote the book of James, and this…
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…And he said, as it turns out, you will. You will endure a baptism like me. And did you know that James would be beheaded by Herod Agrippa I?Acts chapter 12tells that story. In fact, most likely, James became the first of the apostles to be martyred. John would suffer persecution and torture and be…
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…the church supplied the need and there was revival in Samaria. Amen, are you with me now Talking about the corporate anointing? So then you find inActs, chapter 12, that Herod killed James, the brother of John, and had arrested Peter and was intending to kill Peter after Easter and prayer was made by the…
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…know about all the King Herods. They're crazy. They're all crazy and they want to kill people, okay? And so what happened in verses 1 through 5 ofActs chapter 12, the previous to what we just read, is that James, the brother of John, not James the brother of Jesus, but James the brother of John has been…
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…the angel that brings the death of the firstborn. In Psalm 34, verses 5 and 6, it's the angels that drive God's enemies out from in front of them.Acts chapter 12. Herodanthippus is opposing God. It's an angel that strikes him dead, not Peter who is in the wings. If you know anything about Peter, he would…
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…book. And the end of the book has one answer for us: God wins. God wins, and his church will be victorious and glorious on earth. The reason forActs chapter 12, and maybe Jason will agree that the reason for the entire book of Acts is Matthew 16, 18. Jason is staring at me, so I'm not getting it on, but I…
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…can't stop these people. God, you have to move. And you've got these two things. So let's look at another story. This one's from the book of Acts,Acts chapter 12. You can flip to that one. I don't have the page number, but we can try to find it together. It looks like it's 1106. 1106. So in Acts, you've got…
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…automatically, without visible cause, apart from any human help. There's only one other time this verb is used in the New Testament. It's used inActs chapter 12when Peter escaped from prison. You may recall that night he was in prison and God delivered him before he would be killed. And the verb says, the…
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…family. You're not you don't have it as bad as the Herods. Herod Herod's dad was the one who persecuted the church and killed the apostle James inacts chapter 12. His grandfather ruled during Jesus' birth and killed all the babies, and his great uncle is the Herod you see during the lifetime of Jesus, who…
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…only tells us the death of one of the disciples. And that's James, but not Jesus' brother, it's James the brother of John. And that happens inActs chapter 12. And we could date when that happened too, right? So that's in the 50s. So it begins to give you this perspective. You're like, okay, the Bible…
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…the church all that God has been doing, he meets with specifically, we' told James, this isn't James the apostle, James the apostle was killed inacts chapter 12if you were with us then and recall that. This is James the brother of Jesus, or the half brother of Jesus, the author of the book of James in our…
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…him, he wanted to be a god to them. And the same happens in the New Testament with King Herod, King Herod Agrippa, the first we read in the book ofActs chapter 12, don't have the verse right now, but the Bible says that the people came together. These were Jewish people, they came together and they were…
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…and ministry. God opens and closes doors. Let me give you a couple of examples. I want you to turn to Acts. We see this drawn out in scriptures.Acts chapter 12. If you want to turn there and you want to hold that and look at Acts chapter 16 as well, we're going to go through just a couple of spaces. But in…
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