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…6, or you can look down on your handout because I've printed out the verses for you. You can thank me later for that. And I'm going to read to youActs 6, verses 1 to 7. Let me read those verses to you and we'll spend the rest of our time there. In those days, when the number of disciples was increasing, the…
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…character. How do I come to know that he is of good character? Chapter 6, verse 3. He was among those who were selected to share food in chapter 6.Acts chapter 6, verse 3 to 5. Therefore, Brennan, seek out among you seven men of good reputation. All right? If we make this call in any safe and say, please, we need five men…
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…that happened, and we want to see the growth. We want to see the expansion. I want to see the reasons for it. All the things that are happening inActs 6, verse 1 to 7. Acts 6, 1 to 7. Acts of Apostles 6, 1 to 7. It says, now in those days, when the number of the disciples were multiplying, there arose a complaint…
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…So you keep reading later on in Acts 8, and we'll get there in just a moment. There's a guy named Philip. Philip, first time we see him is inActs chapter 6. In the Jerusalem church, he's an ordinary believer, and his role was simply to pass out bread. Him and five other guys are commissioned to pass…
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…God builds it. Is that right? If you would, he said the door was open and he said to come over to Macedonia and help us. Look if you would atActs chapter 6. Acts chapter 6. I want God to do something in my lifetime, don't you? And I'm not saying mine, don't you want God to do something with your life…
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…English word we get from diakonos. Deacon. It's God's sovereign design that we were ordaining Stephen today as a deacon, a servant in the church.Acts chapter 6describes them as table servants. They come along and they serve others. He says, if you want to be great in my kingdom, then don't try to be…
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…in the church and the dispute over the neglect of the widows, What was their answer? They appointed 7 good deacons. But here's what it says inActs chapter 6and in the verse 4. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word, the Word. These men were not being sidelined…
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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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…relationship with God through faith in Christ and allow nothing to pull us away from that chief priority. Remember Paul says in the book of Acts inActs chapter 6and he he says there in the verse 4. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word. And we read in Acts chapter…
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…and women are able to serve as deacons. But what I want us to do for the rest of our time is spend it in Acts 6. So either turn in your Bible toActs chapter 6, or you can look down on your handout because I've printed out the verses for you. You can thank me later for that. And I'm going to read to you…
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…them out. Praise the Lord. You will send them out. Even as you are doing the little things that you are doing, you are filled with the Spirit. InActs chapter 6, talking about Philip and the other people that were chosen, when there was a problem in the church because some people were neglected, these men…
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…same thing they were praying for. We want to do it more. So the believer ought not to be praying anything that the will of God. Hallelujah. Now,Acts chapter 6. Acts chapter 6. Verse 4. But we will give ourselves what? Continually and what? To the ministry of what? Of the word. Verse 8. Verse 7. And the…
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…of them did. Even the priests. The very leaders who had sneered. At the foot of the cross. Would later be counted. Among the church. Where inActs chapter 6. It says. A great many of the priests. Became obedient to the faith. That's the grace of God. Where he is still. The friend of sinners. Even those…
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…you remember the teaching yesterday? We are the custodians. We are ministers. Paul will say, the stewards of grace of God. We write in Acts, right?Acts chapter 6. Go back there, quickly. Oh, did I read that text? Hebrews. Oh. Hallelujah. Let me read Hebrews first. Hebrews 1. For this Melchizedek, king. Verse…
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…Great. He started somewhere. Hallelujah. Learning under the apostles in chapter 6. Let's go to chapter 6 of Acts. And see where he was coming from.Acts chapter 6from verse 1. Now in those days when the number of disciples were multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists…
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…Believers. Believers. Believers. Right? They had the words, they got saved, and they are now what? Believers. Amen? So, but now let's go toActs chapter 6. Let's go to Acts chapter 6. Acts chapter 6 verse 1. See now from believers what is already happening now to them. Acts chapter 6 verse 1. And in…
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…the Lord bring multiplication? In meetings. They started 12, they became 120, they became 3 ,000, they became 5 ,000, they became a multitude inActs chapter 6. The Lord kept increasing, increasing them. By Acts chapter 8, they were scattered abroad. Acts chapter 8, there was so much persecution and they…
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…to properly interpret the scriptures. And then we also see this word, disciples, in Acts of the Apostles. So if we open to Acts of the Apostles,Acts chapter 6, Acts chapter 6, Acts chapter 6, verse 1. It says, Now in those days, when the numbers of the disciples were multiplied, there was a complaint…
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…Rome, known for its patriotism and military history. In fact, this was the first city in Europe where Paul preached the gospel. We can see that inActs chapter 6, Acts chapter 16. Let's look at it. Acts chapter 16. Acts 16 from verse 6. Now when they had gone through Phrygia and region of Galatia, they were…
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…the things of God. Have a kind of attitude that initiate the flow of the things of the Spirit. When you get into a place, Haven't we read inActs chapter 6? He said, let's get amidst us men that are full of faith. Men that are full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom. Men that can start out the flow of the…
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…You can add these scriptures, Acts chapter 7, verse 65. Acts 7 was 55. Acts chapter 13 was 52. Acts chapter 13 was 9. Acts chapter 13 was 9. AndActs chapter 6was 3. Acts chapter 13 was 9. Acts chapter 6 was 3. So write this. What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit? That word, to be filled with the…
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…stood up to confirm and strengthen him. Who's the him, michael? There is another time in the Bible where we're told that Jesus stands, and it's inActs, chapter 6. Stephen is being martyred and stoned for his faith and he looks up and the heavens open up and he sees Jesus not sitting, jesus standing rising to…
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…some good, some bad, some biblical, some unbiblical. And so what I want to do this morning, with the help of God through His Word, is to open up toActs chapter 6and explain biblically what we are getting ourselves into with this gift of deacons this morning. So open it up to Acts chapter 6. And I want you…
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…wrong and having done all to stand? That's what a deacon is. A deacon is a knight of truth. We'll turn next, please, to Acts. Turn to the book ofActs chapter 6. As you're turning there, let me pose this question to you. If a church has elders, as we saw last week, why then are deacons needed? And here's…
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…to deal with it and address it and understand it. And not one way or one size is better or better, but it's reality the early Christian church andActs chapter 6is only a few chapters maybe weeks or months after Pentecost. But if you don't happen from Acts chapter 1 to Acts chapter 6, actually. 1 tells us…
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…back there and and we see that in Acts chapter 5 where we read that whole story about all the things that were happening. But I want you to look atActs chapter 6and look at verse #7 because this, I mean this makes it very clear and and a lot of times we don't think about this when we're reading in the book…
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…called to serve. And we see this word used again in the book of Acts. We're giving that the description of the very first deacons who were calledActs chapter 6, and a 6 were told that the church had grown so much that the ministry. You had become too much for the apostles to handle on their own. And so…
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…sheep. He says, how does he feed it feed? The church WIll number one, and you can turn to as many of these passages as you can. We're gonna be inActs chapter 6, give himself to the ministry of the word, Acts chapter 6. Hopefully, you'll recognize the passage we talked about last week which is where the…
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