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Acts 2:42 · BSB
2:42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
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…2. I'll start with verse 42. Luke chapter 2, 42. I said, Luke, I meant Acts. Thank you, Jim. Luke did write it. Just give me a little credit there.Acts chapter 2, verse 42. As Luke gives us a sketch of this young church, I think we'll see that his description offers us vital signs of what this young church looks like,…
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…technique to evangelize. No, but it was. Acts chapter 2, earlier we saw this and we spent some time on it. What's the heart and life of the church?Acts chapter 2, verse 42. And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, the breaking of bread and prayers and awe. What? Youth groups, no praise…
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…way that it flourished is because the biblical community from the very beginning was very intentional about community. Very intentional. Look atActs chapter 2, verse 42. They devoted themselves to the apostles, teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and a prayer. Everyone was filled with all the many…
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…could write down and instruct us. So that we could become mature. And this is the example and pattern of the early church. For what did they do?Acts chapter 2 verse 42. They continued steadfastly in what? In the apostles doctrine. And fellowship. In the breaking of bread. And in prayers. Those then who ministered…
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…you understand what I'm saying. All right, So I'm going to close with this scripture. Acts 2. I started reading it, but I'm going to read on a bit.Acts 2, verse 42. They were continually devoted. They continually devoted themselves to the apostles teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to…
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…the Spirit? Nothing. There's no greater depth of relationship than that. Which brings us to number three, that being devoted to the fellowship. InActs chapter 2, verse 42, it says they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching, to prayer, to the fellowship and the breaking of the bread. A lot of times we don't…
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…If you're tracking with us in Join the Journey, we just spent the entire week looking at the first-century church. If you were to go and readActs 2:42-47(which we're going to do today), what you see is a community of thousands of people who are all collectively experiencing joy and awe to the…
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…the picture, but this is not the entire point of the sermon. We're going to be going back. Make sense, All right, [snorts]. We're going to start inActs 2, verse 42- 47. And it says this: "They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled…
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…and emotionally, we build unity, love and brotherhood. That is what we do in our church. Yes, we fellowship. We do everything together. SoActs chapter 2, verse 42. This is where the early Church Bible says they devoted themselves to the apostle teachings and to fellowship and to breaking of bread. So this…
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…he says silver and gold have I none but such as I have give I thee raise up and he raises up this man, he's been crippled all his life. Let's readActs chapter 2 verse 41 to 46. I pray you have your Bible. It's really good to go to church with the Bible. Think it's important, important that you have a Bible and read it.…
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…we hold dear to the doctrine that is from God's word. It's the apostles' doctrine, right? If you remember all the way back in the beginning ofActs chapter 2, verse 42, the disciples and the apostles, they stuck to this simple game plan. The apostles' doctrine, prayer, communion, and breaking of bread, they just…
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…and Peter gives his sermon, 3,000 people trust in Christ, and what becomes a key part of the routine of the first-century church? Turn over toActs 2:42. It says, **"And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers."** Prayer was such…
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…they, they're baptized, they're added to the local church. What did that look like at that time? What did that, what did that look like? Well,Acts chapter 2, verse 42tells us what that looked like. It looked like this says, and they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine, which means they, they were,…
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…do it our way, but we're going to lay it down before him as the early church did. They devoted themselves to the teaching and the things of God inActs 2:42. They got in the word. And today we must seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And then all these things will be gathered to us. And…
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…finish. The first thing is it needs the people of God to be hungry. You look at that passage. If you're just following along in the Bible, there'sActs chapter 2 verse 42 to 47. You see these people, they are filled with awe and wonder. They are glad and generous. No one is in need and that whole community, the whole…
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…We have every reason to believe that this gathering at Troas with Paul teaching included every aspect and every element that is referenced inActs chapter 2 verse 42. The life of the church is built on the pattern that the apostles had given to them. That the apostles themselves had instituted and established in…
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…what does that necessarily assume and require of these companions? That there is agreement in apostolic doctrine and truth. Do you remember inActs chapter 2, verse 42? We'll go ahead and turn there. Acts 2 .42, it says this. They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching or doctrine and to…
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…God's people when we're meeting together. And there was simply this, be in church. To be where you ought to be, consider what the Bible tells us.Acts chapter 2 verse 42told us this, in the early church they didn't have to be told, it says they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship and…
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…we want to notice about the word of God is that it is central to the Christian life. This was the word that was preached in the Christian church inActs 2:42, we read that the early Christians devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching. That was their bread and butter. That's how they grew, and they…
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…WITH IS, JUST LIKE EVERYTHING WE DO IN THIS MINISTRY, EVERYTHING WE DO IS BIRTHED OUT OF THE BIBLE. SO PASTORS YEARS AGO WITH ACTS, THE SCRIPTURE,ACTS 2:42, THEY'RE GOING TO PUT THAT UP. ACTS 2:42 SAYS, "AND THEY CONTINUED STEADFASTLY IN THE APOSTLES' DOCTRINE, AND FELLOWSHIP, AND BREAKING OF BREAD,…
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