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2005
- Touchet Baptist Church, Touchet, Washington - Pastor Mike Paulson - 2005
Expounding
the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26
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with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II
Timothy 2:15
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- Experiences from the Journeys of Paul -
Let's Learn from How Paul Presented His Own Gospel
Witness...
and How His Listeners Handled Him...
and How He Handled Them!
part IV
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It Was Never an Easy Ministry,
Even in the Beginning!
Note that the highlighted and
underlined words/phrases are those areas emphasized in the audio semron
portion.
Acts 15
1: And certain
men which came down from Judaea taught
the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised
after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
2: When therefore
Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension
and disputation with them, they determined
that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem
unto the apostles and elders about this question.
3: And being
brought on their way by the church,
they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring
the conversion of the Gentiles: and they
caused
great joy unto all the brethren.
4: And
when they were come to Jerusalem, they
were received of the church, and of the
apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with
them.
5: But there
rose up certain
of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That
it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law
of Moses.
6: And the
apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
7:
And when there had been much disputing,
Peter
rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren,
ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles
by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
8: And
God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy
Ghost, even as he did unto us;
9: And
put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
10: Now
therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples,
which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11: But
we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be
saved, even as they.
12:
Then all the multitude kept silence,
and gave audience
to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles
and wonders God had wrought among the Gentilesby them.
13:
And after they had held their peace, James
answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken
unto me:
14: Simeon
hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out
of them a people for his name.
15: And to
this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16: After
this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which
is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set
it up:
17: That the
residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles,
upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
18: Known
unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
19: Wherefore
my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles
are turned to God:
20: But that
we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols,
and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
21: For Moses
of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the
synagogues every sabbath day.
22: Then pleased
it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men
of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas
surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
23: And they
wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren
send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and
Syria and Cilicia:
24: Forasmuch
as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you
with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and
keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
25: It seemed
good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto
you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26: Men
that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27: We have
sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things
by mouth.
28: For it
seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden
than these necessary things;
29: That ye
abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled,
and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.
Fare ye well.
30:
So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered
the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:
31: Which
when they had read,
they rejoiced for the consolation.
32:
And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren
with many words,
and confirmed
them.
33: And after
they had tarried there a space, they were let go in
peace from the brethren unto the apostles.
34: Notwithstanding
it pleased Silas to abide there still.
35: Paul
also and Barnabas continued in Antioch,
teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
36: And
some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let
us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached
the word of the Lord, and see how they do.
37: And
Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.
38: But Paul
thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia,
and went not with them to the work.
39: And the
contention
was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other:
and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
40: And Paul
chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace
of God.
41:
And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming
the churches.