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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 18
1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-4
"Saying, did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name?... Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, `We ought to obey God rather than men.'"
"The God of our fathers (notice the language here is all Jewish. The God of our fathers was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a tree." No, only Israel, that's what The Book says. Now here in Luke Chapter 1 compare with what Peter has just said in Acts 5:31. Luke 1:67,68
"And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Ghost (why? "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people," Who are His people at this time? The Nation of Israel!
Luke 1:69-71
enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us,"
Luke 1:72,73
"To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant (what Covenant?); The oath which he swear to our father Abraham."
Luke 1:74-77
"That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies (physical enemies), might serve him (This King, and Messiah, This God) without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways (now look at verse 77); To give knowledge of Salvation unto his people (Israel) by the remission of their sins,"
Notice nothing has changed between here and Acts Chapter 5. Peter is saying practically the same thing in Acts, that Zechariah did in Luke Chapter 1. Kill them. Never. Religion is a bad word according to this Book. When Paul says in Galatians Chapter 1, how he profited in the Jews religion, it was bad thing. "Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, (he's the one who taught the apostle Paul Judaism) a doctor of the Law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space: And said unto them, `Ye men of Israel (do you see the language), take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men.'"
We are in such a minority that we almost get a little fearful, and get a little timid, and I'm probably as guilty as anybody, but look at the promise here in God's Word. Romans 8:31
If God be for us, who can be against us?"
We don't have to, God will do it for us.
Romans 8:32
Well, if God was willing to give the best that ever inhabited Heaven, if God was willing to put Him to the shame and the suffering of the Cross for you and I, is there anything else that He can withhold? Romans 8:33
"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect (to the believer)? It is God that justifieth." In Acts, in the Jewish economy, it's the same God. God hasn't changed. Just because He changes His program of dealing with the Jew to the Gentile, God doesn't change. There again, they were not to preach the Name of Jesus. There were many people who couldn't believe in resurrection. Temple,..."
That hadn't changed. I have been blessed now for over twenty years by being able to teach these small groups outside the church environment. I have never told anyone to quit going to their church. It was an evening Bible class in their adult education section. We always had a paid enrollment of between 40 and 45 people in that college class room.
We taught there for thirteen years, just exactly the way I teach to you. Here's Les' roster of class people." We teach so they can go in and teach and share these things with other folks.
But getting back to the original Church. Paul didn't set up huge congregations on a corner place, but rather a little group of believers in a home. It was small group meeting in a home atmosphere. In verse 42 they are still meeting in the Temple. The kitty was getting a little short. Greeks are pure Gentiles. The Hebrews are self-explanatory - that's the Jews. Remember all the Jews didn't return from the Babylonian captivity. Those people who would come to Jerusalem were the Grecians! "Then the twelve (notice the Twelve are in control of all of this) called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, `It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.'"
The Bible never calls the seven men deacons. They played much the same role as a deacon, but The Bible doesn't call them deacons. "Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost (watch this language) and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business (to bring back fairness in the distribution). Everybody would be in the right relationship with God. And when Stephen and the rest of these Jewish believers were proclaiming that, the religious section of Judaism said, "No way!
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