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Acts 15:40 · BSB
15:40 but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.
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…you're looking on the top 10 list of greatest Pharisees who ever lived, brother's number one, according to Paul. And yet he saw things differently.Acts chapter 15is where Luke tells this story. They meet together, they share all this going on, and then verse 6, the council begins. So the apostles and the…
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…him because of the Jews who were in those places since all they knew was that his father was a Greek. Now, if if you've been following us sinceActs chapter 15, you know, wait a minute, this sounds contradictory. I thought they declared that circumcision was not necessary for salvation. But here's what we…
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All right. If you have a Bible or an app, let's open it up. We're back inActs chapter 15this morning. Acts chapter 15. We're going to conclude Acts chapter 15 by looking at a moment not just in the life of the New Testament church, but…
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…this morning. What happens is that grace is experienced. And point number two this morning is grace must be experienced. Verses 30 through 35 ofActs chapter 15. So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter. And when they had…
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…does it save? Is it required for salvation today? You can read your New Testament and actually the discussion took place quite quite seriously.Acts chapter 15you can read the debate in the early church and then what Paul writes in Galatians chapter 6 verse 14 and 15 makes it absolutely, unmistakably…
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All right. If you have a Bible or an app, let's open it up. We're going to be back inActs chapter 15. Acts chapter 15. We're almost done with the chapter, but we're pressing into this part of Acts chapter 15 because this involves the Jerusalem…
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…is this whole circumcision thing. Because some of you, that's the first thing you thought of, like, okay, like, didn't we just deal with this inActs chapter 15earlier? It's Jesus plus nothing, not Jesus plus circumcision and and, yes, that is the truth. He he didn't circumcise him to make him become a…
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…to the Gentiles. Their first missionary journey is thus complete. They're giving a missionary report back to the church. And that brings us toActs chapter 15. So you like the map? We fans of the maps? Alright. So Acts 15, where we're going to be today, it's a defining moment in the history of the gospel.…
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…is it meant that you not only had to place faith in Christ as your Lord and Savior, it meant you had to add to this. And in the context ofActs chapter 15, it was Pharisees saying, "Well, you Gentiles want to become Christians, then they need to follow through with that decision with circumcision." In…
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…says it is a pivotal chapter. Listen to this among the most critical, he says, in the entire New Testament. And so what we are going to see inActs chapter 15today is of utmost importance. And I will tell you up front that what is at stake here, what is being addressed here in the early church, 2000…
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…this is only the second time in the entire New Testament that we see the name, the Hebrew name Simeon used for him. The only other time is inActs chapter 15. The vast majority of the time when we see his name in the Bible, he's either just called Peter or he's called Simon Peter, because Simon was the…
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…from one another. This Gentile pinnacost so to speak, set the stage for major changes that would come and we'll see those changes when we get toActs chapter 15. This event will be referred to again as having great significance in God's plan for the salvation of the world. The Holy Spirit was a…
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…we're going to be working uh through our journey of Luke's writing about the history of the New Testament church. And so, we'll find ourselves inActs chapter 15this morning. We'll be reading verses 1 through 11. Now, if you have not been with us since we started the book of Acts, we are actually in part…
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…multiple elders or a plurality of elders in the local church. In Acts chapter 14, verse 23, Paul and Barnabas appointed elders in every church. InActs chapter 15, during the Council of Jerusalem and leading up to those events, Acts chapter 15 in multiple places in verses 2, 4, and 6 and verses 22 and 23,…
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…of trying to make vision a little bit stickier. If you were here in November, we did a series called Deep and Wide, and I preached a message onActs chapter 15, and I'm gonna review some of that this morning for us because it has become a foundational piece of our ethos and thinking. It has um solidified…
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…got there, he left, and we're not really told why. We don't really know what happened there, but we will see a little bit later, when we get toActs chapter 15, that it's a source of tension and conflict, so much so that it will lead Paul and Barnabas to even split over whatever it is that happened here.…
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…now we see Pentecost and the Holy Spirit coming to all these Gentiles, which stirs everything up from this point forward, It takes us right toActs chapter 15, where the council decisively says, no, you do not have to become a Jew first and then a Christian. You become a Christian, period, from wherever…
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…people of the Word, not people of the world. OK, Acts chapter 16 to get a lead up. You go. Well, what happened to 15? I'll give you a summary. InActs chapter 15, there was a conflict over circumcision. A group of Hebrew Christians said, well, these gentiles that are getting saved, they need to come through…
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…about this offering, and what is this offering? If you read Paul's letters and end of Romans chapter 15, 2nd Corinthians chapters 8 and 9, and thenActs chapter 15through 19. Paul had gone to the Gentiles to share the gospel. Jewish people and Gentile people in the 1st century, did not get along. There was…
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…forgiveness can be in relationships. One of the most challenging situations for us to understand is the disagreement between Paul and Barnabas inActs chapter 15. Two men who were critical to the beginning of the Church of Jesus Christ. One somewhat recruited by the other. They became partners in ministry,…
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