Open Door Baptist Church Acts 5:1-11 Finish up Acts 4 and set the scene: Acts 4:32-37 How seriously are we taking God? It's not hard to imagine the conversation between Ananias and Sapphira: Sapphira: wow, that's a lot of money.Ananias: yep, now we can give it to the apostles.Sapphira: all of it?Ananias: what do you …
Why Did the Heathen Rage?
Open Door Baptist Church Acts 4:23-31 23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. 24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made …
Unschooled Idiots
Open Door Baptist Church Acts 4:13-21 13 Unlearned - unschooled - ἀγράμματοί - agrammatoi Ignorant - ordinary - ἰδιῶται - idiōtai The irony here is that over the last few days Peter has quoted: Acts 1 Psalms 41:9Psalms 55:12-13Jeremiah 32:6-10Zechariah 11:12-13Psalms 69:21, 25Psalms 109:8 Acts 2 Joel 2:28-32Malachi 4:5Psalms 110:1Psalms 16:9-11Job 19:25-26 1 kings 2:1-4, …
The Head of the Corner
Open Door Baptist Church Acts 4:1-12 1-4 5 6 Annas and Caiaphas were related, as we know from the passage directly after Jesus arrest in Gethsemane. Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him, And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law …
Kicking the Hornet’s Nest
Open Door Baptist Church Acts 3:1-26 1-10 Confirming the Word with signs following. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. ( Mark 16:20 ) This was confirmation that Peter and the apostles were authentic and the work that they did was …
All Things Common
Open Door Baptist Church Acts 2:37-47 37-40 v. 37-40 is a paragraph which would work well as the basis for a salvation message. It would be a good Sunday morning passage. 41 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy …
This Jesus
Open Door Baptist Church Acts 2:29-36 Peter continues to lay out the case that recent events - the sky went black when Christ died on the cross - are proof that the great and terrible day of the Lord is upon them AND that this Jesus is the fullfilment of God's promise that one of …
Blood, fire, and vapor of smoke
Open Door Baptist Church Acts 2:14-28 15 the third hour of the day: 9am Peter is coming out of a 10-day period of intense Bible study which was what lead him to figure out that they had to replace Judas. He and the others had probably read every parchment and scripture that they had 10 …
Speaking in Tongues
Open Door Baptist Church And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as …
Peter Stood Up
Open Door Baptist Church Acts 1:12-26 12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: ( Luke 24:52 ) 13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where …