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Acts 6:9 · BSB
6:9 But resistance arose from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia. They disputed with Stephen,
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…opposition. It's not really what we expect. We want the early picture of the church to be full of roses and good things. But here, very early onActs chapter 6, we recognize that a huge persecution begins to happen to the church. And we recognize that God wants us as believers, as Christians, to learn…
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So we are back to the book of Acts and with this week we are inActs chapter 6. It's the story of the deacons, the story of how the deacons came to be, where they came from and what they do. And at the heart of the story of…
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…Ananias and Sapphira brought their giving to the feet of the apostles, and they lied about it, and what was the consequence? They died. InActs chapter 6, we find that there was another problem in the matter of stewardship, and we see that the illustration that you can glean from this is that giving…
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…early church do, those who come to faith? Well, they devote themselves along with the sharing of all their goods to the teaching of the apostles.Acts chapter 6, as the Greek widows are worrying because they're missing out on some provision, what happens? Well, deacons are appointed. Why? So that the…
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…gospel proclamation, be gone just those who are Jewish, to the Hellenists. Who is Luke referring to when he talks of the Hellenists? Now back inActs chapter 6, you may remember this title. Acts 6.1 says, Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose…
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…equivalent of the god Apollos. She tends to keep that name. She's described as a deacon. That causes some people controversy. Does she have like anActs chapter 6kind of role in the church? Is that even open to females? She's also described as a benefactor the word Patronus, meaning someone who has been…
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…a lot of people say, well, let's just get back to the early church. Well, be careful what you wish for. The early church was far from glorious. InActs chapter 6, I'm not going to turn to these. Just a few days after Pentecost, when there was this miraculous outpouring of God's Holy Spirit, you want a…
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Please take your copy of God's Word and turn to the book ofActs chapter 6. Our text for this morning will be Acts chapter 6, verse 8 through Acts chapter 7, verse 1. And while you're getting there, let me just express to…
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…The early church continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching. Now note, the apostles themselves were men of the word. If you turn with me toActs chapter 6, this increasing number of new believers made it impossible for the apostles to minister all to these people, and so they selected men whom we…
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…recognized, you can address them. I want you to think with me of another passage in relationship to this that I don't need you to turn to, but inActs chapter 6, you'll remember that what happened in that case as the church grew, it ended up where the needs of the widows, particularly the Gentile widows…
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We're in the second in our four-part series called The Serving Seven, looking at the early life of the church fromActs chapter 6to Acts chapter 8. I wonder if anybody here bears an uncanny resemblance to somebody else in their family. Now, if Reuben and Joshua were still…
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…not long after that he is going about and he's preaching he's teaching the word and he's brought to trial and I'll just encourage you to readActs chapter 6there's a fantastic sermon brought by the Spirit in Stephen's life but Stephen's not a he's filled with the Spirit not intellectually gifted in any…
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…my brothers in the Lord Jesus and preachers of righteousness. And so, after having thanked you for that, I want you to turn in your Bibles now toActs chapter 6, and I'll share a little story. My wife is in the nursery, so she will not hear this unless you tell her. But this morning, as we were having time…
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…way because by this time in mystery, there's probably tens, twenty, thirty thousand people who would become Christians. That's what they think byActs chapter 6. So he would have known about Christians. He would have access to the official records of the crucifixion and the empty tomb. And Paul says to his…
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…both giving and giftedness were to be played out and we see this very clearly in 1 and 2 Corinthians. The model that we find in Acts chapter 5 andActs chapter 6point to the church rather than individuals as being the principal vehicle through which giving is to come. And guess why most people avoid giving…
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…what's called a Pharisee. He wasn't always a Christian. The Bible refers to him, he has another name, he's referred to as Saul. Like if you read inActs chapter 6and chapter 7, you'll see that they stoned a man named Stephen. The people that did not believe in Christianity stoned Stephen to death. And the…
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…but we definitely notice when they're wrong on the screen right these are the people who want to fly under the radar and receive no praise inActs chapter 6we see the very first appointing of deacons and an issue had arisen the hellenistic jews weren't being served in the serving of meals and so a…
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…believers at Pentecost and they prophesied. They preached the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in the languages of the nations who were present. InActs chapter 6, the believers appointed seven men from among you who are known to be full of the spirit and of wisdom. The load of ministry leadership was…
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…But I do think that we need to recover the practice of teaching people to pray as part and parcel of that discipling. See, it's interesting inActs chapter 6when those apostles were saying, look, we need some people to wait on tables because we are being diverted from our apostolic ministry. You know…
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…we read in John, chapter 7, and verse 5, even His own brothers did not believe in Him. Initially, He had a great following. But if we look atActs, chapter 6, we're told that many of His people, many of those who claimed to be His disciples, did not follow Him. They did not continue with Him. He told…
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