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Acts 6:1 · BSB
6:1 In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
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…card looks like today, I want you to leave here with the license to be an imperfect mom that knows the power of God's grace. So turn with me now toActs chapter 6, a great story in the history of the church. We're still in Jerusalem. We have yet to spread beyond the the the initial movement of these first…
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…along, and leadership has to do something about it, right where we all live. So I picked this one. I can relate. Let me read you the story. FromActs chapter 6. But as the believers rapidly multiplied, there were rumblings of discontent. The Greek -speaking believers complained about the Hebrew -speaking…
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…And so would we be aware of our own vulnerabilities? Would we be on guard against the attacks of the enemy? It's in Jesus' name. Amen. All right,Acts chapter 6. I'm just gonna read the first verse. We're gonna break this down. There's an issue in this passage. There's an issue, there's a solution, and then…
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…Jesus asked him for everything, he would lose nothing. We're going to read part of his story this morning, try and talk about all of it. Join me inActs chapter 6and verse number 8. If you have a Bible with you, Acts chapter 6 and verse number 8. Acts chapter 6 and verse number 8. The word of God says that…
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…to a life of overflow. In John 1.1 and 1.14, it says that Jesus was full of grace in truth, living a life of overflow. It says that Stephen inActs chapter 6was full of faith in the Holy Spirit and that overflowed into boldness. It says that Barnabas was full of the Holy Spirit and with faith, and that…
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…Peter is the one getting freed from prison, Peter is the one preaching again. It's been Peter, Peter, Peter. But a shift happened last week inActs chapter 6, where we were introduced to this man named Stephen. Okay, if you remember the church was growing like crazy. Uh and uh typically uh when things…
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…of Acts, Acts chapter number six. We are going to resume this morning our study of this great, great book in the Bible. So we will consider todayActs chapter 6and verses 1 through 7. Acts chapter 6, verses 1 through 7. And as we have seen over the past few months studying the book of Acts, this book…
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…go and set the elders in place at the Isle of Crete to make sure that churches were set in order and that there was leadership? Yes. Do we find inActs chapter 6that there were deacons, table servers if you will, that assisted with the apostles in the leadership because there was more work to be done than…
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…over time. And thankfully, you know, it didn't go crazy. We got our boys back home. And I start there this morning to say this because inActs chapter 6, we find a similar problem here. Okay, if you've been with us for the most part, the problems in the early church have mostly been external to the…
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…might be. But you need to pour into the community, to become a part of the community, be be fit together. And this is what we see happening here inActs chapter 6. We see some people that have some really good gifts, some godly people, some really good, you know, skills as well that are very practical to be…
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…But God has also called me to do another thing. And so, how does it, how does it, how does it balance with that? One example, in, I think it's inActs chapter 6, when there was a quarrel about the distribution of food. The apostles were like, we cannot leave preaching to serve tables. Not like it was bad,…
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…portion consistently. Well, there's only the 12, and you can readily imagine. I mean, we've already seen it went from 12 to 120 to 3,000, and byActs chapter 6, there's another 5,000, so you've got 8,120, where just a couple months before it was 12. And then after Acts chapter 6, the Bible just starts…
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…important to have a good reputation and esteem among men. This is a good step of usefulness in the ministry. For example, the deacons ordained inActs chapter 6were to be men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom. But Paul cannot make it his chief endeavor and goal to please men. For this…
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…your help to rightly understand it and give it application. We pray to this end that you would help us for the glory of Jesus. Amen. All right.Acts chapter 6, beginning in verse 1. Now, in these days, when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews…
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…a different story, so they get arrested again, interrogated again. This time they're beaten before they are released. In the following chapter, inActs chapter 6, Stephen, one from their number, is now executed, legally killed for his faith in Jesus, in the same way that Jesus was legally killed. This wasn't…
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…might serve you more and more faithfully. We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen. Please be seated. If you would grab your Bibles, you can turn toActs Chapter 6. It'll be helpful to have the Scriptures in front of you as we work our way through this text together. I want to begin, though, by expressing…
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…burial, and resurrection of the Messiah, the death, burial, and resurrection of God's Son and God's servant. And in Acts 2, Acts 3, Acts 4, Acts 5,Acts chapter 6, the beginning of the preaching of the cross was at Jerusalem to the nation of Israel, and they get one great final opportunity, the leaders of…
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…ask God to forgive the priest who condemned him? Would God actually forgive them? You know what we read in the book of Acts? We read in the book ofActs, chapter 6, that many of the priests became believers in Jesus Christ. And no doubt some, or perhaps many of them, came to faith in Christ on Pentecost Sunday…
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…leaders who are mocking his suffering, he says, Father forgive them, they know not what they do. It's incredible. And it worked. In the book ofActs, chapter 6, it says, a ton of priests were coming to the faith after the resurrection. And a lot of Pharisees became Christians. Now they became the Judaizers…
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…is to be this a servant, and not just a servant, but a servant of the gospel. This is the charge that is laid upon me as a pastor. That's why inActs chapter 6, when there was dissension within the young church, because the widows were not given their daily ministration, they were not given the portions of…
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