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Acts 6:4 · BSB
6:4 and will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
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…decades of the Christian church, it occasionally will describe times where Christians are in conflict with one another about how to serve the Lord.Acts chapter 6is one of those occasions. Acts chapter 15 is one of those occasions. In fact, Acts chapter 15 has two different conflicts within it. At the…
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…it wasn't favored, but he went anyways. This this Philip is not to be confused with uh the apostle Philip. This Philip is first introduced inActs chapter 6. He's one of the seven men. Chosen by the church and approved by the apostles. His original assignment, along with Stephen, do you remember…
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…from Tyre, they go to a couple other places, and they wind up in Caesarea in the house of Philip. Now we know Philip. We met Philip way back inActs chapter 6. Philip was one of the seven who were selected by the church to minister to the Hellenistic Jews. Remember there was another guy named Stephen who…
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Let's take our Bibles. Let's open toActs chapter 6. Go ahead and turn there. Acts chapter 6. As you're turning there, you know, I know I've told this story or one like it before, but uh there was a…
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…own is actually a disaster waiting to happen. So, the qualifications for deacons, we find them in Acts 6.3, and we find them in 1 Timothy 3. So inActs chapter 6, uh, when they're calling these uh seven men to serve this particular need in the brand new church uh in Jerusalem, well, they needed to be men of…
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…him away to continue his ministry going up the Mediterranean Sea coast. And then, of course, there's Philip himself, who's one of the deacons fromActs chapter 6, who's involved in preaching and evangelizing. And then lastly, there's Fred. Now, here's Fred. You know, if you remember from the sermon series in…
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…gospel in the New Testament was not an elder, it was not an apostle, it was not some wild evangelist, it was a deacon. If you continue reading inActs chapter 6and chapter 7, it would be Stephen, who would begin to serve, and he'd end up being stoned to death. And in the whole time, he's praying for the…
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Let's take our Bibles. Let's open toActs chapter 6. As you're turning there, you saw it in the news. There was a large tank that was leaking in Southern California Southern California, a very…
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…it grows and it multiplies, and men and women and boys and girls from that kind of world come into it and are discipled within it. Who decides?Acts chapter 6. Who decides which widows are in need? How they are to be looked after. That's actually the job of the deacon. And it did become a formal office,…
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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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…in verse 5, and it feels a little out of nowhere. It's not actually, if you're reading Acts all the way through, the last time we see Philip is inActs chapter 6, okay? And that's not that far back, but for us, and if you've been following along with us on this journey, it was actually in December, okay? So,…
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…And we believe, we do this because we believe that as a leadership, the most important job that we have is prayer. You remember the apostles inActs chapter 6? They were busying themselves with a lot of different ministries, and and there were some Grecian widows that were in need, and and uh they were so…
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…they prayed and they broke bread. They prayed and they broke bread. We see it in Acts chapter 4, we see it in Acts chapter 5, and we see it inActs chapter 6. And then we miss it. There's nothing there about meeting, praying, and breaking bread in 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. In verse 12, all of a sudden, one of…
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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 Acts chapter 5, you'll. Remember Ananias and. Sapphire we saw the 1st. Judgement, the cleansing of the church happening very early on. And byActs chapter 6we saw the 1st. Complaint arise. The widows tables were divided. And some of the widows were being neglected. But in Acts chapter 6 we see. Our…
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…in prayer with folks, we need to make that attempt to be with each other because Jesus is coming back. And uh it's an exciting and wonderful time.Acts chapter 6. If you read it, there's a situation where there were the Hellenists, which were Greek-speaking Jews, and the Hebrew Jews were having a…
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…My name is Pastor Kyle Morris, and I have the honor of bringing you God's word today. If you have a Bible, I want to invite you to turn it toActs chapter 6, beginning in verse 8. If you are newer to Revive and you haven't had the opportunity to pick up an Acts journal, we have plenty of these in the…
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…Let's look at his life for just a minute. So remember, he was one of the seven chosen to serve tables, to care for and serve Greek widows inActs chapter 6. He was waiting tables. The seven were chosen because they were of good repute, full of the Spirit, full of wisdom, before anything else. These men…
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…even if it means it cost them their life. We do see people in the book of Acts devote themselves to the Word and the teaching of the Apostles. InActs chapter 6, it sets up church leadership. These people who are selected are to be living in this idea out already. They were people of the Spirit, willing to…
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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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