Tonight, we will read Acts 1-8.  As this is the place in the Bible that is all about the Great Commission in great detail, as we read, we will hear some things that people are seeking today.  For 'some reason,' people just don't want to consider Paul - but THIS is where they get their desires and faked results, which only leads to frustrations, lies, pride and embarassment if they don't happen today.

Sadly, preachers are preaching these things more and more today.  Sure, it is the Pentecostals that have always preached this stuff, but why this is coming more and more from Bible Believers - well, gain proving godliness is becoming more and more goal.

I Timothy 6:3-6 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain.

• They look like they had been with Jesus! (do you look like you have been in the KJB?)
• Building shakes
• Boldness to the point of causing trouble and persecution.
• Thousands of souls added unto the church
• Walking, leaping and praising God
• Wonder, amazement - sight (not faith)
• Unity - but under different design to what Paul preaches!
• Teach and preach Jesus Christ (the gospels, not Paul's gospel)
• Sins blotted out (not washed away)
• Remission (not clean)
• Repent and be converted (not works meet for repentance, as Paul preached)
• Magnify the apostles
• Fear (Paul preaches the goodness of God is what brings repentance)
• Cut to the heart (the KJB is to do that today, not the preacher)
• Healing, miracles, signs, great wonders, etc. (who does those these days?)
• Tongues
• Continued in prayer (is different than praying without ceasing personally)
• Repent and be baptized
• Disciples 120 of them... not just the 12 - those were apostles
• Calling upon the name of the Lord
• The name of the Lord
• Flesh shall rest in hope
• Ways of life
• Pricked in the heart!
• We cannot speak but the things which we have seen and heard (today, that is the KJB that we speak)
• Persecution and arrest for preaching, etc. (but Paul also tells us not to be stubborn about it, either)
• Word of God increased (KJB today)
• Blaspheme the law, etc.
• Work of men or of God
• Rejoicing in suffering
• They hated the 'history' lesson from Stephen, but they really hated his conclusion
• Main characters:  Stephen, Philip, Peter, John, Holy Ghost - but no Paul until chapter 7:58 & 8:1