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Acts 15:8 · BSB
15:8 And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.
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…that. Such behavior is outside of God's design. You may also remember that the early church got together to have a meeting. This takes place inActs chapter 15. The early church gets together to have a meeting about, you know, we've got all these Gentiles coming into the church. What parts of the old law…
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…particularly that for the first time or the umteenth time we would see, feel, and respond to you as a God of all grace. In Jesus' name. Amen. SoActs chapter 15. I'm actually going to start reading the last couple of verses of the previous chapter, Acts 14, 27. Let's listen to the words of Almighty God. And…
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…is stay with them through the struggle. Now this makes me feel good. I hope somebody else in the room room room you can feel good as well cuz inActs chapter 15we just go forward just a couple of chapters and all of a sudden we see the result of a a moment that has taken place. And in verse 37 through39 it…
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…easy to love. I mean, this dude comes alongside the most unlovable people on Earth and he encourages them and they become success stories. But, inActs chapter 15, the opposite is happening. He is actually encouraging someone who has failed pretty publicly. And so, we got to see what does he do? What does…
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…any kind, whatever those works are. Paul was in full agreement with that. Matter of fact, you remember he advocated and argued that very point inActs chapter 15. The issue in Paul's mind has nothing to do with salvation. The issue has to do with reaching Jews with the good news of Christ. And here's why.…
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…Now, here's what's interesting about him saying, Bring Mark. You would think that Paul would never want Mark to come with him. Here's why. InActs chapter 15, the scripture says there was a sharp disagreement between Paul and Mark, and it was such a sharp disagreement that they ended up going separate…
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…Morse, and I'm excited that you're joining us, and I'm excited to open God's Word with you. If you have a Bible, I want to invite you to turn toActs chapter 15. Uh, we're gonna finish up a sermon that I intended to finish two weeks ago that I just hadn't preached in a long time and got carried away. And so…
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Open your Bibles toActs chapter 15. In our text today we'll be Acts chapter 15 starting in verse 32 through chapter 16 verse 5. Let's pray. Father, thank you for your word. Thank you…
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…Just such a privilege to worship with you and to sing God's praises together. If you have your copy of God's Word, I want to invite you to findActs chapter 15. If you do not have a copy of God's word, there's one in the Pew rack in front of you. I would strongly encourage you to use that copy. And you can…
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…available through the QR code. If you want to uh uh tap into those a little bit ahead of time, you're welcome to do that. We're gonna be looking atActs chapter 15today. We'll start though by just making a couple of observations. We live in a world um that runs on performance. Uh your value is your output. Uh…
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…that we start to look to ourselves as the source of righteousness, we're looking in the wrong place. And this is the controversy that we find inActs chapter 15. This is 1,500 years before Luther. This is 2,000 years before us, and the church was facing the same question. Where do the guilty find their…
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…two aren't together, then let's put them together. And it's this work of having to rethink the things in our life that we used to always think. AndActs chapter 15is where I'm gonna read this, and I want to explain this to you out of the early church again. Because Paul, how many know things were going good,…
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…if they're still like you. Maybe we don't really want them to be as critical. Right? Are you everybody with me on this? This was the problem atActs chapter 15. And and it wasn't a free-for-all, like, hey, the church is allowed to do whatever it wants. That's not what all what the Lord was doing, but God…
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…But there's something even greater that Barnabas is for Saul that I think is the hardest to kind of put all of this together. Fast forward,Acts chapter 15. Sometime later, Paul said to Barnabas, let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preach the word of the Lord and see how…
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Open your Bibles toActs chapter 15. Beginning in verse 12, and our text will be from 12 to verse 31, the end of the chapter. Let us pray. Father, thank you for your word. Thank you…
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…up here for about six weeks, so maybe forgot how to do this, but we're gonna give it a go. If you have a Bible, I want to invite you to turn toActs chapter 15. Acts chapter 15. Before we dive in, I just want to say I'm not a math guy at all. And I know that's hard to say for me from the stage because I…
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…has already revealed with who we know God to be. In Acts, the early church would have gone to the Old Testament. We're gonna see that remarkably inActs chapter 15and to the words of Jesus, to the things that they knew Jesus had said and spoken. They didn't have the New Testament can yet, they're writing it.…
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…are equally capable of fulfilling the role. We don't know much about these men. We know a tiny little bit about Joseph called Barsabbas, because inActs chapter 15, he's one of the guys who brings the letter from the council of Acts chapter 15 to the Gentiles and helps them understand the decision that was…
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Let's open our Bibles toActs chapter 15. We will be today in Acts chapter 15, our text is verses 6 through 11. Acts chapter 16, I'm sorry, Acts chapter 15 verses 6 through 11. We hear the…
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…that Christians should become Jews and they should be circumcised. This actually was the thing that sparked the very first great church council inActs chapter 15and verse 1. And certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, unless you are circumcised, you cannot be saved. And again, chapter 15,…
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