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Acts 12:9 · BSB
12:9 So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.
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…just down the road. But lovely to be with you today and to be able to open God's Word. So if you've got a Bible, it'd be great if you'd open it atActs chapter 12that we just had read for us. That's what we're going to be thinking this morning. So as you get to the end of chapter 11 in Acts, we're told…
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…potlucks Fellowship conferences, nothing. No, this nothing and it was being built up. And in three chapters later, look what happens. In verse 1 ofActs chapter 12, About that time Herod, the king laid violent hands on some who belong to the church. the image that I have here is if you've ever if you've grown…
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…presence and is like, whoa, am I awake or asleep? This is incredible. It's like a dream come true. That's this language described. I think of uhActs chapter 12. You remember Peter's in jail, and Peter's praying for his own deliverance. The church is praying for Peter's deliverance, and then an angel comes…
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…remember that, that choice was preceded by night of prayer, we chose your member prayer is important, prayer does wonders, Peter was out of prisonActs chapter 12. The story is told in 11 verses 11 through 17, they went out the first place you went with stuff, the Christian ladies home which he knew that was…
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…in a list of disciples. And James the son of Zebedee gets a lot more attention. Unfortunately though, he was executed by Herod Agrippa the first inActs chapter 12. Which means he wasn't around by the time this letter was written. And so that leaves James the brother of Jesus. And this James we read about in…
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Well, inActs chapter 12, we will turn there. You've already there, some of you. We've read that passage together so joyously and so glad that the children could join us. I…
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…specifically charged to guard safely in verse 23 have escaped the jailer would have been punished severely perhaps even executed. We saw earlier inActs chapter 12that the guards under whose watch Peter, Apostle Peter escaped prison were executed by Herod. But Paul interrupts him with a loud voice in verse 28…
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…Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work. You might recall fromActs chapter 12that John called Mark is the son of a certain Mary in Jerusalem who hosted a house church there, so a prominent believer in Jerusalem. Mary, it…
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…12 and a profound miracle that happened in the life of this small and vulnerable group of Christians known as the Jerusalem church. Let's turn toActs 12:1-19. Acts 12:1. About that time, Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. He killed James, the brother of John, with the…
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…pastor, all of that is fine and good, but you're just giving us Old Testament scriptures. Well, let me give you a couple more examples. In book ofActs, chapter 12, the Bible says Herod killed Philip or James, the brother of John. Excuse me, he killed James, the brother of John, and he intended to kill Peter…
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…seven sons of Schema. They tried using the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus that Paul preaches, come out and the young man in whom the demon wasActs, chapter 12, jumped on them, beat them, stripped them neck it, sent on their way. He said Jesus, I know, paul, I know, but who are you? Listen? They know.…
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…God is going to act. To do otherwise would be inconsistent with who he is. We can look into the New Testament, we can see in the book of Acts, uh,Acts chapter 12, I think it is, uh, the apostle Peter has been, you know, arrested and he's about to be put to death by Herod, and it's gonna be this big public…
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…so. I think he Is telling us that it's possible to interact with angels. And so therefore we must be on guard against worshiping them. In fact,acts chapter 12, Peter is released from prison by an angel. He thought it was a vision. He thought it was a dream. He did not know that this was actually…
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…but also their lot that they're gonna endure, their own suffering for being associated with him. So James is gonna be the first apostolic martyr inActs chapter 12. He's gonna suffer and die. And John in Revelation, we read about his exile on the island of Patmos. So both of them will suffer for their…
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…with the voice of the Lord? Fifth, women in the church may serve as patrons of the gospel. after Peter is rescued by God from imprisonment inActs chapter 12it says in verse 12 that he went to the house of Mary the mother of John whose other name was Mark where many were gathered together and were…
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…his rhythm of prayer when God visits him challenges his hypocrisy and his racism against the Gentiles and starts the mission to the Gentiles inActs chapter 12Peter is in prison for preaching and the church gathers to pray and he is miraculously released from prison in Acts chapter 13 the church fasts and…
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…means trusting God for being God, not because he will give us an outcome that we particularly want or desire. We actually see the same thing inActs chapter 12. In Acts chapter 12, this amazing situation. King Herod is persecuting the Christians, because they're causing trouble, they're turning the city…
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…church that is not just for a certain people or a few people or the right people or anytime. It was for all people. Now, as we conclude, we're inActs chapter 12, and it's actually a parentheses in the storyline for Luke, and he actually moves back from Antioch all the way back to Jerusalem, and he's gonna…
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…and made their own fire. It was called strange fire. When they offered it to God, God consumed them with the fire. You have whenever Herod inActs chapter 12, whenever he's given a speech, and all the crowds are like, Wow, it's not the voice of a man, it's the voice of a God. And it says they they called…
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…by Emperor Nero after bearing witness in Rome. James bore witness to Christ throughout Judea and was killed by King Herod Agrippa I, as noted inActs chapter 12. John bore witness to Jesus throughout Asia until he was exiled into the island of Patmos under the persecutions of Emperor Domitian. He was the…
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