prayer points from acts 12

So there were sixteen soldiers altogether watching Peter in three-hour shifts, at all times chained to two of them while two were watching the door. And if anybody should try to take them, they can call down fire from heaven and consume them. But he had heard the voice of His mouth, and His words were spirit and life, eternal life, to his soul. And so the Jewish Passover usually coincides closely with our Easter season. One of the chief means was prayer. As the Christian Jews became increasingly offensive to their racial brethren (cf. "And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man." The civil power, not now, as usual (for aught that appears) stirred up by the ecclesiastics, acts by itself in the persecution. It was their responsibility now as ever to accept the gracious offer of God. He was the grandson of Herod the Great who was the Herod at the time of the birth of Jesus. Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural. Salvation means that the heart enters into deliverance by grace as a present known public standing in the world. On this occasion they of the circumcision see that the Gentiles receive the gift of the Holy Ghost; for they hear them speak with tongues and magnify God, and they were astonished. A szikrz napsts, sznesbe ltztetett termszet romantikus hangulat eredmnyez, ami kprzatoss varzsolhatja az eskvd is, azonban nem rt nhny krdst feltenned magadnak, vlasztott helysznnel kapcsolatban. There is a certain mystery about him. A soul that now looks to Jesus ought to rest without question on redemption; but we must remember that at this time Jesus was not yet publicly preached to the Gentiles not yet freely and fully proclaimed according to the riches of grace. 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. A zene vegyes felhozatal volt egy kivl Dj-vel. 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). This is an essential feature of Christianity. He would do this after Easter, meta to pascha--after the passover, certainly so it ought to be read, for it is the same word that is always so rendered; and to insinuate the introducing of a gospel-feast, instead of the passover, when we have nothing in the New Testament of such a thing, is to mingle Judaism with our Christianity. (748) Perpetuam. I refer to this just to show how far scripture is from countenancing the cramped ideas of men, and that the only way of truth is to believe all the word of God, searching out the special principle of God by which He instructs us in the different characters of His action. "And he arose and went." Scripture does show, though it does not sanction as divine, a faith that is founded on evidence. 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. Why is it so important to love God and place Him first in Thus, God preserved him. [Note: Ibid., 2:151. 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. Therefore, I think that the apostle and the son of Alpheus were all one, whom the Jews threw down headlong from the top of the temple, whose death was so highly Commended for his singular praise of holiness. He visits round about. The house of Mary the mother of Mark. How often our words show where we are! It was even, and urgently, pressed on them, but they refused with disdain the message, and rejected the messengers to blood. Pray we hate evil and cling to what is good (12:9). These chains have fallen off; I'm walking past these guards. His aim was not Christ; it was all for himself. The governor at that time, Herod Agrippa I (a grandson of Herod the Great), knew it was not wise to let the Jews become too excited. It was now guilty of resisting unto blood, not merely as their fathers had done, but the heavenly testimony of Jesus. And when Herod Agrippa saw this pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. 1. This is the Herod of our present passage in Acts 12:1-25. Azeskvi fotzst, eskvi szolgltatk munkjt rendszerint a felszn alapjn tlik meg, de elmeslem a valsgot megmutatni mindenfle kdsts nlkl. 3. 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. And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, whose name was Rhoda. At the same time, along with this is seen universality in the going out of both the truth and grace of God, which could not but be foreign to the law. That is, to destroy its chief ornaments and supports. To kill an apostle now was killing he knew not how many. His pedigree contains several infamous characters who opposed the purposes of God. "The Lord hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost." 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. Thus, although the others no doubt had the same Saviour taught them by the Holy Ghost, still there was not in every case the same measure of entrance or appreciation. He said, "Tell these tidings to James and to the brethren." . 2. Thus Cornelius was aware that God had sent the gospel to the Jews; but there was precisely where he necessarily stopped short. And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry ( Acts 12:24-25 ), Remember they had taken up an offering. (2.) 1Ki 21:1 Near King Ahabs palace in Jezreel there was a vineyard owned by a man named Naboth. A quaternion was a squad of four. So he comes to the place where the prayer meeting is being held. In the New Testament he is called Philip and is mentioned in Luke 3:1. Kedves Ltogat! He was murdered by his own father but he had a son called Herod Agrippa. 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. Herod the king: The Herod here referred to is Herod Agrippa I. To pray, pray for, offer prayer. Moreover, in these chapters the Church of Christ is first spoken of as in actual existence. 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. WebPraying through Acts 13:22 Heavenly Father, I pray that I may be quick to confess my own sin, eager to trust Your word and faithful to obey Your commands.. and that I abide in You But even this short mention of the thing is sufficient to let us know that the first preachers of the gospel were so well assured of the truth of it that they sealed it with their blood, and thereby have encouraged us, if at any time we are called to it, to resist unto blood too. At Joppa too was wrought a still more striking miracle of the Lord in Tabitha's case, already dead, than in that of Eneas, who had been paralysed for years. quietem, perpetual rest. There followed also such signs, or outward powers; but the Holy Ghost was given Himself, according to the Lord's word the promise of the Father, a promise which, as all know, was in the first instance assured to those who were already believers, and which was made good to them because they were believers, not to make them so. 7-11). It is a fallacy then to suppose that Cornelius had no better than merely natural religion. "You gotta have faith brother! Aristopollis was one of them. The saints in Jerusalem not only suffered as a result of the famine, they also suffered because Jewish and Roman governmental opposition against them intensified as time passed. Evidently it was power in external display, then so richly manifested, which acted on the fleshly mind of Simon, himself having the reputation of a great one, and before this the vessel of some kind of demoniacal power the miserable power of Satan, with which he dazzled the eyes of men. And he said, Who art thou, Lord?" Did he not feel so much the more settled in Jesus as there was no other object now before his soul? "Nor is there any weight in the objection that many of these primitive Churches were very defective in doctrine or in, practice, or in both; that St. Paul speaks of the Corinthians as being, on account of their divisions, 'carnal,' and not 'spiritual,' as 'babes in Christ,' and sharply reproves them for their laxity of discipline in the case of the incestuous person, and their want of discipline in the celebration of the Lord's Supper. So says the Spirit to Philip, "Go near and join thyself to this chariot." Aztn a prok elkezdenek kicsitelmerlni az eskv megszervezsnek rejtelmeibe s egyik dbbenetbl TovbbEskv szolgltatk dja, Vgre itt a j id, ami egyben azt jelenti hogy, lassan kezddik az eskv szezon.. Eskvszervezs tern szabadtrit szeretne a legtbb pr lmai eskvjnek. We know that God could have delivered James by a miracle even as He delivered Peter. Clearly they were not Christians; but God has all hearts in His keeping. characteristic of Christendom. Web12 When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying. But the Risen Christ made a special appearance to James ( 1 Corinthians 15:7). The change of reading here seems to prove it was too much for the copyists of this book. They requested one day that they be granted to sit one at the right hand and the other at the left hand of Jesus when He was in His kingdom. But for himself and his household, what could he do but pray till the rich blessing came? He had been educated at Rome, but he deliberately cultivated the good graces of the Jewish people by meticulously keeping the Law and all Jewish observances. Father, I declare that A primary particle of connection or addition; both or also. 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. 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. 1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. This man was incensed to afflict the Church not so much for any love he had to religion, as that by this means he might flatter the common people which did otherwise not greatly favor him; or rather, he was moved hereunto with tyrannical cruelty, because he was afraid of innovation, which tyrants do always fear, lest it trouble the quiet estate of their dominion. Sopron, gynyr vros, az osztrk hatr eltti utols lloms. So Paul and Barnabas had come back to Jerusalem with this collection that was taken from the church in Antioch. Three days and nights he neither eats nor drinks. Undoubtedly the cruelty of this mad man was restrained and bridled by the secret power of God. The Spirit puts us in presence of the freedom of the servant, as he pleads with the Lord, for neither man nor even the child of God ever reaches up to the height of His grace. Nevertheless "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh;" and he who loves to present the Lord in the depth of His personal grace, and the height of His glory, has surely a spiritual fitness for the expression of the heart's joy in that which faith has created within. Leadership. A nevem Hring Attila, profi fotogrfus vagyok. . ., 19:8:2; idem, The Wars . 3. Herod Agrippa I, the son of Miriam, who was a descendant of the Maccabeans. Oh why should any confessor of Christ why should any child of God shrink from rendering godly satisfaction to those that seek it? It was no longer a question of Jerusalem only even for Peter, but without being called to the same largeness of work practically as the apostle Paul, he nevertheless passes throughout "all quarters" of Palestine, and comes down to the saints at Lydda, and is seen by those of Saron. Some of our other records tells us that he went to Rome and was there crucified upside down. I believe that all of our lives are bound within the purposes of God and that God knows the day in which He's going to take me home. And in the present case this requirement is the more reasonable from the circumstance that the Apostles uniformly identify themselves, as regards their Christian standing and hopes, with those to whom they write. And although its character had to be yet more brought out by another and far greater witness of divine things who was still in the blindness of Jewish unbelief at this very moment himself taking his own miserable part, though with a good natural conscience, in the death of Stephen, all told powerfully upon the Jews, but lacerated their feelings to the utmost. For it is not maintained that the first Christians, any more than those of our own day, were or could be perfect; and all that can be fairly gathered from what St. Paul says of the Corinthians is, that they were imperfect and inconsistent. Surely you cannot accuse these people of praying the prayer of faith. James the half brother of Jesus did not believe the claims of Jesus during His lifetime. Could it be otherwise, when, spite of proud unbelief and conceit of distinctive privilege, they were forced to feel that they were none the less the constant resisters of the Holy Ghost like their fathers, who had been guilty themselves, and suffered the consequence of their guilt in their prostration to the Gentiles; to feel now that they themselves were no better, but rather worse; that there was the same unbelief bringing out its effects even more tremendously; that they were guilty of the blood of their own Messiah, who was now risen and exalted in the highest seat of heaven? Though He did see fit and purpose that Peter should be delivered from Herod's sword. Next we find Barnabas stirred up to another and a characteristic enterprise. the Jews did not believe in Him; but whosoever did, let him be Jew or Gentile, "shall receive remission of sins." Yet his masculine good sense held to the truth, though he did not know the solid basis on which it here stands. There can be no doubt that the facts at Samaria were analogous; but this remarkable feature is to be noticed, that the Holy Ghost was here conferred by (not, as at Jerusalem, apart from) the laying on of the hands of the apostles. Now go back to verse Acts 12:5 where it says, "But prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for Peter." In due time follows the further development of the truth as to Christ in testimony. Ha szeretntek, ott vagyok, de ha nem, akkor szrevehetetlenl teszem a dolgom. Note, Blood to the blood-thirsty does but make them more so, and the way of persecution, as of other sins, is downhill; when men are in it, they cannot easily stop themselves; when they are in they find they must on. So he went away to another place. . Full of the truth himself, he speaks with the utmost simplicity to Cornelius, who with his household hears the blessed word. Archclaus, being accused of cruelty, was banished by Augustus to Vienna in Gaul, and Judea was reduced to a province, and united with Syria. I do not therefore comment upon these additions here: they will remain for their own real and suitable places. He was delivered to four quaternions of soldiers, that is, to sixteen, who were to be a guard upon him, four at a time, that he should not make his escape, nor be rescued by his friends. [Alas! By means of this discipline, they having been separated from the society whose overt acts were contrary to their Christian profession, the apostle, not being endowed with the divine prerogative of inspecting the heart, was compelled to take the rest at their profession, and to deal with them as real Christians so long as there was no visible, tangible proof to the contrary . It is therefore our wisdom to take heed of the beginnings of sin. 3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. 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 was indeed the unmistakable action of the Spirit of God on this occasion the power that cast out unclean spirits and healed the sick, as well as the means of spreading joy throughout that city for the souls of men. 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. We must recollect that in the Apostolic Church an effective discipline the very idea of which seems to be lost amongst us existed. Nevertheless, the Lord suffered him whom he had furnished with constancy to be put to death, that by death he might get the victory as a strong and invincible champion. Yet the Holy Ghost was given in especial power on that day. Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /var/www/html/familytimes/includes/rss/esvLookup.php on line 15, View this passage in NIV (Bible Gateway) , Acts 9:32-43Peter Used by God in Joppa to Heal Beloved Dorcas, Acts 10:1-8Cornelius on a Mission for God, Acts 10:9-22Gods Message to Peter through a Vision, Acts 10:34-48Peter Preaches to Cornelius Household, Acts 11:1-18Peters Defense to the Legalists, Acts 11:19-26Barnabas Seeks Saul to Help with Discipleship, Acts 11:27-2Antioch Believers Send Encouragement to Jerusalem, Acts 12:3-11Continual Prayer Brings Results, Acts 12:18-25Gods Judgment on King Herod, Acts 13:1-12Paul Confronts a Sorcerer at Cyprus, Acts 13:4-12Saul (Paul) Confronts a Sorcerer at Cyprus, Acts 13:13-25Paul and Barnabas Say Farewell to John Mark, Acts 13:26-41Paul Preaches the Gospel of the Resurrection, Acts 13:42-52Gentiles are Receptive to Pauls Message, Acts 14:13-20From God to Stoning Paul Still Committed to Preach, Acts 15:6-11Jerusalem CouncilDiscussion Re: Moses Law, Acts 15:12-21A Decision based on Gods Word, Acts 15:30-41A Disagreement about John Mark, Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our personsbut they are helpless against our prayers. 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