The true text,* which has sufficient if not the most ancient authority, tells us that they spoke to Greeks or Gentiles. Acts 12:23), and moved his headquarters to Jerusalem. After this comes no slight discipline for Saul. And we hear almost daily of the tensions that exists with the Israeli occupation forces and the people of Sidon and Tyre today. So when we see that the enemies of godliness, being full of fury, do not commit horrible slaughters, that they may mix and imbrue all things with blood, let us know that we need not thank their moderation and clemency for this; but because, when the Lord doth spare his sheep, he doth not suffer them to do so much hurt as they would. Herod may have won the appreciation of the Jews, but he has lost any respect he may have had in the eyes of God. For hence the Lord called him to a new sphere a task which, to a Jewish mind, was beyond measure strange. This Is the Day 12 Prayer Points as Released by The Redeemed Christian Church of God Directorate of Prayer. For through the years the theater was covered with sand, and as the result, was well preserved. This is all quite right. The Church neither preaches nor teaches, but Christ sends those who evangelize the world and teach the Church. As we are told here and the Spirit delights to give such an account "he was a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.". He was the grandson of Herod the Great who was the Herod at the time of the birth of Jesus. O LORD, Where Is My Future Partner 19. In the remarks sometimes made upon this subject it seems to be assumed that there is no medium between our affirming of persons that they are not perfect Christians, and that they are not Christians at all; whereas in fact there is no Christian, however holy, who comes up to the ideal of Christian practice. Stretched forth his hands - A figurative expression, denoting that he laid his hands on them, or that he endeavored violently to oppress the church.. The latter is, unquestionably, the ground which he takes" (pp. He kept the Jewish customs. (1.) And he began to take a very strong role of leadership in the early church. Accordingly we find, as the testimony had gone forth throughout Jerusalem at least, so now the old rival of Jerusalem comes within the dealings of God. But the close lets us see more than this. a. Herod the king: This was Herod Agrippa I, the To a reflecting believer it will be plain that the reasons for this do not hold at the present time. The very same people had done it who had so lately received with the utmost favour (not the truth, nor the grace of God, which is inseparable from His truth, but), at any rate, the mighty impress of the grace as well as of the truth which had produced unwonted largeness of heart, unselfishness of spirit, and joy and liberty, that struck the minds of the Jews accustomed to the coldness of death in their own system. In the meantime, the church waspraying, and in answer to theirprayers(v. 5) God supernaturally awakened Peter from a sound sleep (v. 6). There was more work for him to do. And now Paul and Barnabas are returning back to Antioch, and John Mark, who is a nephew to Barnabas, is returning with them. But the testimony of miracles is apt to act upon the flesh. Certainly the Ethiopian received the truth; but verse 37 had better be passed by in your minds, at least in this connection. So he comes to the place where the prayer meeting is being held. was from Jesus. To these the Emperor Claudius afterwards added Judea and Samaria; which were nearly all the dominions possessed by his grandfather, Herod the Great. He was not only (as Herod Antipas was) tetrarch of Galilee, but had also the government of Judea committed to him by Claudius the emperor, and resided most at Jerusalem, where he was at this time. There is this difference, no doubt, between such cases now and that of Cornelius then, that, before the mission of Peter, it would have been presumptuous for a Gentile to have pretended to salvation; now it is the fruit of unbelief for a believer to question it. He began with vexing them only, or afflicting them, imprisoning them, fining them, spoiling their houses and goods, and other ways molesting them; but afterwards he proceeded to greater instances of cruelty. Remember that verse 37 is only an imaginary conversation between him and Philip. However, outside of the council in Jerusalem, this is the last mention of Peter that we have in the book of Acts. The reading of the Sinai MS. ( ) is a mere blunder, not uncommon in that most ancient but not very accurate document, arising from confusion through a contiguous word; it would give the sense of "unto the preachers, preaching the Lord Jesus." God will always be Himself, and cannot be other than Sovereign. It was their responsibility now as ever to accept the gracious offer of God. Though not at first fully aware of the great change which had taken place in their religious standing, still less of its ultimate consequences, the first believers at once formed a separate community in the bosom of the Jewish theocracy; a community having, for its distinctive marks, adherence to the twelve Apostles, baptism in the name of Christ, and the celebration of the Lord's Supper. However graciously given of the Lord as a token to attract the careless minds of men, they are dangerous when they are made the resting-place and the object of the mind; and this was the fatal mistake made then, and not merely there but by many millions of souls from that day to this. WebVerse 12. First, there are saints, or men in whom Christ is formed by an invisible operation of His Spirit, whose origin, however, is not unknown; then these saints proceed to execute their appointed mission" (p. 272). 298, 299). There was at this time some quarrel between Herod and the people of Tyre and Sidon, for whom the quarrel was a serious matter. Peter and John prayed for the Samaritans (Acts 8:1417), 6. Take, as the most solemn moment of all, the day of Pentecost. King Herod persecutes the Christians, kills James, and imprisons Peter; whom an angel delivers upon the prayers of the church. Herod the king This was Herod Agrippa, the son of Aristobulus, and grandson of Herod the Great; he was nephew to Herod Antipas, who beheaded John they Baptist, and brother to Herodias. Oh why should any confessor of Christ why should any child of God shrink from rendering godly satisfaction to those that seek it? * The external authority is very decidedly for the singular against the plural. And he put Peter in prison intending to bring him forth for trial and execution, but God intervened and miraculously delivered Peter. Lord Jesus stand by me in my times of trouble,23:11. Azt lltjk rlam, sokoldal fots vagyok, s minden helyzetben kiismerem magam Tbb ves hazai s klfldi referencival rendelkezem. The chapter itself proves that he had to be forced to go. WebPrayers To Get A Permanent Job This Month 12. What in our Lord's discourses is a matter of anticipation or prophecy, here appears as a matter of fact. He was very interested in the Jewish customs and daily offered a sacrifice according to the Jewish law. Grace can credit grace easily, understands the ways of the Lord, and disarms suspicion. It was of all moment to keep up the links practically between a work which might have looked to many there, as now, not a little irregular. For indeed he was but man. As there was a Job in the Old Testament, independent of the law and perhaps before it, so we find a Cornelius before the glad tidings in the New Testament had been formally sent to the nations. The word "Grecians" does not mean "Greeks," but rather Greek-speaking Jews; to whom the gospel had been preached long before, as the cases of Stephen, for instance, and Philip clearly testify. It is too familiar how soon human superstition perverted this blessed institution of the Lord into a sacramental means of grace, duly administered by one in the line of succession. due to the church of God? For all that God took precaution to bind up together the work at Samaria with that which He had wrought at Jerusalem. Here the Lord alone gives, alone calls, alone sends forth. This, to me, is quite fascinating. But he was intending to bring him forth for judgment and, of course, for execution at the end of the Passover period. Theirs was not the joy that saw into the presence of God. Festus did not have any charges to send with Paul, and so he had asked Herod Agrippa II, the son of this Herod Agrippa I, to hear Paul's case in order that they might develop charges against him to send to Nero when he was sent there. He apparently became a believer only after Jesus resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:7; cf. No believer could be so ignorant of God and His ways of old as to imagine there ought to be any doubt about those who nevertheless were full of anxieties and troubles, and through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. The Old-Testament martyrs were slain with the sword (Hebrews 11:37), and Christ came not to send peace, but a sword (Matthew 10:34), in preparation for which we must arm ourselves with the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, and then we need not fear what the sword of men can do unto us. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea and stayed there. How could anything seem too great and good to him whose heart had just made the acquaintance of Jesus? Three things we are here told he did--. And no wonder. On the fourteenth of Nissan they began the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and so it was during this Feast of Passover that Peter was arrested. "To him give all the prophets witness." The Holy Ghost came down upon them suddenly, with no previous sign whatever, except that which was suitable to the Holy Ghost when sent down from heaven the mighty rushing wind, and then the tokens of His presence upon each were manifested. But just as the great apostle of the Gentiles was the one that wrote the final word of testimony to the Christian Jews in the epistle to the Hebrews, so the great apostle of the Jews was the one sent to fling open the door to the Gentile. Peter was on the housetop praying when God told him how to be the answer to Cornelius prayers (Acts 10:9), 10. - Pastor David Jetts daily prayer: Lord, SPEAK to me today SEARCH me today SHOW me today SEND me today. - The saint who advances on his knees never retreats. (Jim Elliot) - Be sure that no time is so well spent as that which a man spends on his knees. (J.C. Ryle) - Pray without ceasing. ( 1 Thessalonians 5:17) "Always when you get ready to run, get ready to fight, or get ready to work, you would gird yourself up or get ready to serve. It was a public privilege he was warranted to confer on the Gentiles thus baptized of the Spirit. Here is an account of Peter's imprisonment (Acts 12:4; Acts 12:4): When he had laid hands on him, and, it is likely, examined him, he put him in prison, into the inner prison; some say, into the same prison into which he and the other apostles were cast some years before, and were rescued out of it by an angel, Acts 5:18; Acts 5:18. Gird yourself up and tie on your sandals. Going back to verse Acts 12:5 . Szeretek a termszetes fnyekkel fotzni, de ha nincs ms megolds, marad TovbbEskv fotzsa Sopronban Egy fergetes buli a hatr mellett, Itt az l plda mirt nem kell ktsgbe esni ha szeszlyes az idjrs.Tbbek kztt azrt sem mert olyan fotid lesznek ami msoknak nincsen. If Christ were the object of our souls, we should bow as one did called of God with incomparably better tokens of the Lord's favour than any other, this blessed man, Saul of Tarsus. Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural. It was at the feast of the passover, when their celebrating the memorial of their typical deliverance should have led them to the acceptance of their spiritual deliverance; instead of this, they, under pretence of zeal for the law, were most violently fighting against it, and, in the days of unleavened bread, were most soured and embittered with the old leaven of malice and wickedness. He martyred James, seized and imprisoned Peter, planning to execute him publicly after the Passover festivities. But why would God permit it? One of his wives, Miriam, had a son, Aristopollis that was murdered by Herod the Great, as was Miriam. For assuredly he would never have been content with one or two murders, and so have abstained from persecuting the rest, but he would rather have piled up martyrs upon heaps, unless God had set his hand against him, and defended his flock. When King Herod mistreated the believers in Jerusalem and had James put to death, he saw that it pleased the Jews, many of whom hated the Christians and considered them a cult. . Why is it so important to love God and place Him first in It was plain enough to see the Christian assembly in a city, even if it were as numerous as in Jerusalem, where it must have met in not a few different localities and chambers. They are, indeed, a sign to unbelievers, and that such is the result we find shown us by the Spirit of God in the chapter before us. Now about that time,. That the famine was in Judea, and Saul and Barnabas were sent thither with what the church at Antioch had collected. In verse five we read thatprayerwas made: 2. If Israel would have received, the Lord would have given. I pray thatI may read its pages with wisdom and understanding. But they said unto her, [You're crazy.] On the day of Pentecost they were baptized first, and then they received the gift of the Holy Ghost. But now finding himself eclipsed, like a wily man, his object was to avail himself of this superior energy if it were possible. Settle it invariably that God is wiser than we. Here it is not this, but simply the indiscriminate. If the blood of his saints, much more the blood of apostles, is precious in his eyes, and therefore, we may be sure, is not shed but upon a valuable consideration. They were not about to let that happen again. In this story we do not necessarily see a miracle. Hence the great importance of discipline. WebActs 12 One Martyred, One Rescued A. James the apostle dies as a martyr. I quote from the original edition (Edinburgh, 1807): "Acts 11: 31. How often our words show where we are! And he actually murdered several of his sons. In fact, it is thought by some that the upper room was actually in the house of Mary the mother of Mark. Peter therefore was kept in prison, but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. He dared not doubt longer: to him it was self-evident. Power was what struck Simon's mind himself a devotee of power, who in times past had sunk indeed low, even to the enemy of God and man in order from any source to be the vessel of a power beyond man. The civil power, not now, as usual (for aught that appears) stirred up by the ecclesiastics, acts by itself in the persecution. When day came there was no small disturbance among the soldiers about what had happened to Peter. This was what attracted him; and, as it is said here, "he continued with Philip" (there was no other bond of connection), "and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done." By and by the power of the gospel and the action of the Holy Ghost fill their souls with desires as to the need of others. The next chapter (Acts 11:1-30) shows us Peter having to give an account of himself before those who had not witnessed the effects of the mighty power of God in the house of Cornelius. And interestingly enough, Jesus, after His resurrection, did appear unto James as Paul tells us in I Corinthians Acts 15:7 . Religious persecution is invariably ruthless and blind even to the commonest feelings of humanity. The word in the Greek is Passover after the time of unleavened bread. There was special exposure to this evil which called for so much the greater guard against it at Samaria. (v) Herod the Great had another son called Aristobulus (see Aristoboulos G711) ; his mother was Mariamne, a princess who was descended from the great Maccabaean heroes. We are given a striking prefiguration of the evil king that will be found in the latter day; he that will reign over the Jews under the shadow and support of the Gentiles as Herod was, and not less but more than his prototype bent on the murder of the innocents, and with his heart full of evil for others who will be rescued by the goodness of the Lord. Hence people could not understand that it was one and the same church throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria. Clom a teljesen giccsmentes fotzs, megfizethet ron, online galrival. Of Hebrew origin; Joannes, the name of four Israelites. In His name I pray, AMEN. [Note: Ibid., 2:151. Strikingly, beautiful it is to see the devoted simplicity with which he answers to the call of his Master. The Encyclopedia Britannica has this regarding Herod's death: It is ironic that the Jews who had, in the elevation of Herod Agrippa I, achieved for themselves tolerance and accommodation, should at the same time have refused so adamantly to extend the same to Christians; and that God's thwarting of their campaign against the body of Christ, by the summary execution of Herod, also by that same event removed the one man who could have preserved their own toleration by Rome. WebFirst, there was unity in prayer many were gathered together praying (12:12), any differences that might have separated people from one another were now completely lost In this passage we come on the first mention of the man who was the real leader of the Christian Church in Jerusalem. Note what the Christians were doing. His preaching Christ was the fruit of the Lord's call. A man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under the queen of the Ethiopians, was returning after having gone up to Jerusalem to worship. Alas! A comparison of the last verses of Acts 11 and this chapter (Acts 12) suggests that Barnabas and Paul made that trip to Jerusalem with relief for the victims of the famine at about the time of the events given in Acts 12, this being in 44 A.D., a date determined by the death of Herod Agrippa I. To pray, pray for, offer prayer. Nlam barti hangulatban zajlik a fotzs, garantltan izzads-mentesen Lendletes, prgs s vidm fnykpezs a mottm. Acts 16:40 And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed. and to the brethren. He felt that they were conspiring against them and so he murdered them both.There was a saying during the time of Herod the Great that it was safer to be his pig than his son. One must be born again; but, like many others who had really been quickened in those days (and it may be even now, I presume), a soul might be born again, and yet far from resting in peace on redemption, far indeed from a sense of deliverance from all questions as to his soul. All know that there were Jews waiting for the Saviour. WebTHE POWER OF PRAYER. Christ's suffering servants are thus trained up by less troubles for greater, that tribulation may work patience, and patience experience. Who they were the writer immediately specifies. The light that shone suddenly on him was from heaven. Before the gospel was preached to every creature, a new nature was communicated to many a soul; but till then there was not and could not be peace. And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the. Deliverance from the Spirit of Divination 13. But a moment's reflection will show that the difficulty is only imaginary. James sheds his blood, as Stephen had before; for this Peter was destined by man, but the Lord disappointed him. stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church; Beza's ancient copy adds, "in Judea": it seems to be the church at Jerusalem; perhaps some of the principal members of them; and so the Ethiopic version renders it, the rulers of the house of God. and they took with them John who was surnamed Mark. They served in three-hour shifts around the clock in guarding the prisoner. Let this suffice them if the Lord grant them some time wherein they may recover their strength. "Lord," says he, "I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name." The apocryphal Gospel according to the Hebrews tells that after the death of Jesus, James made a vow that he would neither eat nor drink until he saw Jesus again; and that Jesus did appear to him. Saul was consenting unto Stephen's death, and Saul was the expression of Jewish feeling in its best aspect. After a brief visit to assure the Christians he was free again, Peter fled to a safer place (12-19).Herod, by contrast, suffered a horrible death. Thus we see the Lord was working, and, as so constantly happens, it was not only that He called out Paul for the Gentiles; it was not only that He sent Peter to a Gentile; but now these men, who might have been despised as irregular labourers, were in the current of the same work of God, even if they knew nothing of it, save by divine instinct. We are told of another who also built for the Jews their synagogue. Persecution of the Christians now swung from religious to include political motivation. And when Herod had sought for Peter, and found him not, he cross-examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death ( Acts 12:19 ). 12:1-17. Rengeteg ismers, sajtos hangulat lepte be az ifj TovbbEgy gynyr ifj pr legszebb napja kpekkel EskvI fotzs Tapolcn, Rvid trtnetem egy gyri fotzsrl. "Saul arose and was baptized, and when he had received meat he was strengthened, and remained with the disciples for some time.". "Therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word;" for the God who not only has hearts at His command, but controls all circumstances, was now about to accomplish that which He had always at heart, making the disciples to be witnesses of Jesus to the very ends of the earth, though first of all to Judea and Samaria. It is granted that man sees difficulty in this: there is what he cannot reconcile; but be assured that the great point is, first, to believe. Thus we see God had allowed things apparently to take their course. [1] Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary (Wheaton, Ill.: Victor Books, 1996), Ac 1:15. God's going to do what God wants to do whether you have faith or not. "It was known throughout all Joppa, and many believed on the Lord." Veszprm a bulik vrosa.. Persze nem csak a partyk, hanem az eskvk is igen npszerek a vrosban. But before Aristopollis was murdered, he had this son Herod Agrippa. 3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. He said to him, "Wrap your cloak round about you and follow me." Where, whither, when, in what place. Mirt is kell az eskvi fots a kszldsnl? Scripture does show, though it does not sanction as divine, a faith that is founded on evidence. When Peter escaped he took his way straight to the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark. Father, every ungodly power working against church growth be consumed by the fire of Holy Ghost, in Jesus name. Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Acts 12 . "He went on his way rejoicing." There were four such squads because the day and the night were divided into four watches each of three hours duration; and each squad was on duty for three hours at a time. There were Gentiles who truly looked to the Lord, and not to self or man; who had been taught of Him to look for a coming Saviour, though they quite rightly connected that Saviour with Israel; for such was the burden of the promise. All was ordered of God. "When Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple." .," pp. Such is salvation. Such, I suppose, therefore, was the principle that lay at the bottom of the difference of the divine action on these two occasions.
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