Scripture does show, though it does not sanction as divine, a faith that is founded on evidence. The voice that said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" Faith never rests on any other ground than God's word. To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever," etc. 1Ki 21:2 One day Ahab said to Naboth, Let me have your vineyard; it is close to my palace, and I want to use the land for a vegetable garden. But it was not merely one who departed to be with the Lord, which was far better; it was by the act of the Jews in the infuriate spirit of persecution. There was the free action of His Spirit towards Samaria without the apostles, but the Holy Ghost was given by the laying on of their hands. "Then had the church rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria." They have power to shut up heaven, that it does not rain during this period of their prophecy. As the Jews watched the gates to kill him, the disciples took him by night and let him down the wall in a basket. A vltozatossg varzsolja szness a vilgunkat, s ettl olyan klnleges nlam egy fotzs. 192, 193). Apparently a primary word; a 'mother'. Then we find Simon struck not so much by an individual's endowment with miraculous power, as by the fact that others received it by the apostles' laying on of hands. "And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest." The great tragedy of this particular wave of persecution was that it was not due to any man's principles, however misguided; it was due simply to Herod's bid to gain popular favour with the people. 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. At Samaria they had been baptized for some time, as we know. This was all happening during the days of Unleavened Bread, right after Passover (v. 3), around the same time Jesus was Crucified a decade or so previous. It seems to have been the working of divine grace in their souls, and nothing else. 12. He is mentioned, under the name of Philip ( G5376) , in Matthew 14:3; Mark 6:17; Luke 3:19. Question. 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. He had no confidence in the Lord for himself not a particle; for just as those who have confidence in the Lord have not an atom in man, his sole hope of blessing for his soul lay in the influence of another man, not in Christ's grace. Cornelius was one of those who, among the Gentiles, had abandoned idolatry; but more than this was sometimes found. It was not to be done by mere systematic rule of a human pattern. A mother. The Spirit of God alone quickens a person by faith in Christ. And when they understood the bearing of that which God had wrought here below that it judged man; that it gave no countenance to the religiousness in which they boasted; that it showed most convincingly, and so much the more bitterly because convincingly, what God all through His testimony with them had expressly intimated, by the prophets as well as in the types of the law itself, that He had deeper purposes; that nothing on earth could satisfy Him; that it was in His mind, on the proved ruin of Israel, to bring in heaven and its things for a heavenly people even while here below: now that this was made manifest, above all, in the testimony that Stephen had rendered to the very man that they had rejected and crucified, seen in glory at the right hand of God, it was unbearable. A. So then these people succeeded in gaining the ear of Blastus, the king's chamberlain, and in due course a public session was arranged. (iv) Herod Philip the Second. The fruits of the Spirit, whether they be produced within our own inclosure or beyond it, are always the same, and always to be recognized; otherwise our Lord would never have given us the simple test whereby we are to distinguish false from true prophets 'by their fruits ye shall know them.' But there is not yet the revealed truth of the body, though involved in the word of the Lord to Saul of Tarsus when he said, "Why persecutest thou me?" Mirt is kell az eskvi fots a kszldsnl? He caused the chains to fall from his wrists, kept the guards asleep, and opened the iron gates (vv. And it continues still. . (i) Herod Philip the First. He apparently became a believer only after Jesus resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:7; cf. 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. I merely make this remark lest any should draw from this the inference that there is a necessity for men commissioned from God to lay on hands now in order to confer such a spiritual blessing. The Spread of the Gospel in Jerusalem (Acts 1-7), B. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. What I am suggesting is that Acts 12 illustrates not profound unbelief in prayer, but the churchs early experience of a truth later enunciated by Paul: God is able to Wherefore, we must think with ourselves that he was tied by one that had the rule over him, that he might not more vehemently oppress the Church. Thus we find the utmost simplicity and quietness. In fact, it tells us much aboutprayer. Also help me to bring to my mind some urgentprayerrequests. . Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark. However, in answer to the prayers of the Jerusalem church, Peter miraculously escaped (6-11). But what I want to press for our profit, beloved brethren, is that at any rate he who is the object of grace can afford to be gracious. A fotzsban az emberbrzolst tekintem a legnagyobb kihvsnak.Fontosnak tartom a folyamatos nkpzst, hogy megismerjem a legjabb trendeket s irnyzatokat, igyekszem mindig napraksz jdonsgokkal szolglni. Philip, besides being one of the seven, was an "evangelist," as we are told expressly in another part of this very book (Acts 21:8). Saul was consenting unto Stephen's death, and Saul was the expression of Jewish feeling in its best aspect. It says Easter there, and that's a King James translation. We see that the Church had some short truce, that it might, as it were, by a short breathing, recover some courage against the time to come, and that it might then fight afresh. 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. . Herod the king: The Herod here referred to is Herod Agrippa I. We are told of another who also built for the Jews their synagogue. Holy Spirit cause a great confusion among my antagonists today in Jesus name,23:6-10. At once, with the instinct of flesh, he sees a good 'opportunity for himself, and, judging of others' hearts by his own, presents money as the means of acquiring the coveted power. Was it not then God's high priest, God's law? This phraseology would have been somewhat like this, 'The church had rest throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria,' i.e., the part of the church that lies in these countries." Peter was the one then, not Paul, that announced the gospel to Cornelius, who by the Holy Ghost received it, and was not merely safe but saved. It may be observed passingly, that thus plainly baptizing is in no way a necessarily ministerial act. God will always be Himself, and cannot be other than Sovereign. . Acts 6:1-15; Acts 6:1-15 shows us the party in question murmuring. 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. And they said, "Yes, Lord, we are able." Reading: Acts 5:12-16 (NLT) The apostles were performing many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him ( Acts 12:4 ); Now a quaternion was actually four soldiers. Thus the church would still retain its substantial character, and the testimony of God still bear the same common likeness, while room was left for whatever speciality of form God might be pleased to give the truth, and the unfolding of the ways in which God might employ one or another. ", Even here the intimation is sufficiently plain that the Gentiles were in the foreground of the work designed for Saul of Tarsus. See Luke 3:1; see also an account of the Herod family, see in Clarke's note on "Matthew 2:1". He was a thoroughly bad ruler and was deposed and banished. Vidm, bohks, letszer fotkkal tudok szolglni s f clom, mindenkibl kihozni a profi modellt. He had been educated at Rome, but he sedulously cultivated the good graces of the Jewish people by meticulously keeping the Law and all Jewish observances. "And the hand of the Lord was with them," as we are told, "and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord." This is just a vision, it's not really happening." A menyasszony ton a fodrszhoz s a sminkeshez, a vlegny pedig felkszl a nagy napra testben s fejben. Peter prayed before he raised Dorcas from the dead (Acts 9:3643), 8. ( Acts 12:1) Herod harasses the church. Perhaps you have heard it said, Never underestimate the power ofprayer. In this exciting drama of Acts chapter 12 you can see the reality of this statement. Azeskvi fotzst, eskvi szolgltatk munkjt rendszerint a felszn alapjn tlik meg, de elmeslem a valsgot megmutatni mindenfle kdsts nlkl. 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. This can't be real; it's just a dream. To gather together, assemble. So he comes to the place where the prayer meeting is being held. Nor is it that the other disciples had not the same faith. * Thenceforth the Church becomes a matter of history; and its history is nothing less than that of the vicissitudes, prosperous and adverse, which the kingdom of God upon earth has in the lapse of ages passed through. In the New Testament he is called Philip and is mentioned in Luke 3:1. There was at this time some quarrel between Herod and the people of Tyre and Sidon, for whom the quarrel was a serious matter. Prayers To Get A Permanent Job 15. He did so. She despised the Holy Ghost as she had despised the Messiah; and no wonder therefore that he who had gone up to Jerusalem to worship was returning with the yearnings of his heart still unsatisfied. So James is now following his Lord in martyrdom, the brother of John. WebDIVINE PRESERVATION PRAYER POINTS. Nowhere in the New Testament does the intervention of Almighty God on behalf of his church appear any more timely and dramatic than in this chapter. How could anything seem too great and good to him whose heart had just made the acquaintance of Jesus? The exercise of discipline is the true and legitimate expression of the sanctity of a visible Church considered as a society. If Israel would have received, the Lord would have given. so gross was his darkness even as to the general point of the chapter. In this chapter a new wave of persecution, instigated by King Herod, broke out against the Church, and especially against its leaders. How startled this good man but excessively keen controversialist must have been, had he learnt that, beyond all just question, the only tenable text here is destructive of the notion of independent churches, and in reality gives the appellation to the entire body of the disciples throughout these regions, as standing on one common ground, and enjoying full intercommunion, though in these different districts. It is, then, nothing but the fact, that the invisible Church, or rather that which in the Church is invisible, preceded that which is visible. How not to pray is prayer just for the sake of prayer. This was precisely what God was now doing; and the remarkable fact appears, that God did not wait for the apostle of the Gentiles to bring the good news to Cornelius. "It has already been remarked that, far from intending to establish a mere invisible fellowship of the Spirit, our Lord contemplated His Church as having a visible existence, His followers as collected into societies [that society called the Church or assembly of God]. .," pp. Then they said, "Well, it must be his angel. But why would God permit it? James sheds his blood, as Stephen had before; for this Peter was destined by man, but the Lord disappointed him. Paul prayed for his friends before leaving them (Acts 20:36; 21:5), 14. John Mark who is the author of the Gospel according to Mark. He would make a spectacle of him. He figured that they would be coming to Mary's house looking for him and so he, no doubt, went to hide out from Herod. His aim was not Christ; it was all for himself. Now about that time Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the church in order to mistreat them. 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. It was to be emphatically a witness of grace in suffering for Christ's name: "For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake." . And so it was. "Whosoever believeth on him shall receive remission of sins." "Who art thou, Lord?" Jehovah's house had been left doubly desolate; Jerusalem had this added to her other sins that, when the blessing had come down from heaven, she would not have it. Not on the other hand that there ought to be a spirit of suspicion or distrust in the church or any Christian. Paul and Barnabas had fulfilled their errand of mercy to the Church at Jerusalem and so returned to Antioch, taking with them John Mark. 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." This is all quite right. The common text and translations have "the churches;" but I believe that this faulty form crept in here, because the sense of the oneness of the church so speedily passed away. Of the fathers, Eusebius among the Greek, and Cassiodorus among the Latins, are in favour of the true; others are in strange conflict, their text having the wrong reading (perhaps through mistaken scribes), and their comment correcting it. And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had completed their errand of mercy. Who they were the writer immediately specifies. Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Genitive Masculine Singular. It recalls the power of God to rescue those chosen for Gods mission, a power repeatedly demonstrated in the past." And when Herod Agrippa saw this pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. The house of Mary the mother of Mark. "He went on his way rejoicing." Without pronouncing upon the state of individuals in the sight of God, he assumed the whole body to be what they professed to be a body of real Christians. The Syriac so renders it expressly, and the chronology requires us so to understand it. The Church neither preaches nor teaches, but Christ sends those who evangelize the world and teach the Church. These gifts, at least such as were of an extraordinary sort, were the outward signs of that gift in early days; and it was of great importance that there should be a decisive palpable testimony to it. Those of his family who cross the pages of the New Testament are as follows. Korbban, filmes idszakban meggondolta TovbbEskvi fots munkja, vrl vre emberek tzezrei dntenek gy, hogy letket sszektik, csaldot alaptanak sboldogsgban lnek. In fact, I don't expect you to keep them all straight. . And no wonder. Worse, Tyre and Sidon were dependent for their food supplies on Palestine and if these supplies were cut off their case would be serious indeed. This solemn act was not merely an ancient sign of divine blessing, but of identification also. Another thing too let me again and again remark: the gift of the Holy Ghost never means those mighty wonders of power which had acted on the greedy and ambitious mind of Simon Magus. And "when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John." Acts 12:25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. And he realized that God had delivered him from the hand of Herod. But it was a thoroughly illegal trial. 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 was enough. But that branch of criticism which consists in a full knowledge of the sources, a nice discrimination of the various readings, and a sound judgment in deciding the preferable text, as it is rarely found, so it certainly was not the forte of Dr. C. One hundred and fifty years ago, Dr. E. Wells, in his "Help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Scriptures" (Oxford, 1718), not only adopted the singular in his Greek text and his English paraphrase, but pointed out in his Annotations the great weakness of the argument drawn by dissenters from the plural , as if it favoured their system of separate churches. ", Let me tell you something. I am far from saying that it was comely on their part to indulge in hesitation touching this wondrous display of divine grace. It is not only that God uses one and another: this He does and we may bless Him that so He does; but the God who employs means is also above them, and He needs now only to draw out by circumstances the souls of some simple Christian men who had faith and love to seek the Gentiles without requiring the same vigorous and extraordinary means, under His mighty hand, as even the apostle did. For according to the Roman law, if you were guarding a prisoner and he escaped from you, then you received the sentence that would have been given to the prisoner. Now Herod was highly displeased with those that were from Tyre and Sidon ( Acts 12:19-20 ): Cities that exist to the present day that have been in the news quite a bit of late as Israel has gone into southern Lebanon. Although most of the Jews in the Jerusalem church still held to former beliefs and customs, James was not a slave to the law. God knows exactly the day and the circumstances by which He's going to take me home. The reading sanctioned by the best and most ancient authorities is the singular not the churches, but "the church." "About that time" probably harks back to the famine visit of Barnabas and Saul mentioned in Acts 11:30. Alas! There is no question of a Jew, but "Whosoever believeth in him." 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. Cornelius was not in ignorance of the gospel going out to the children of Israel, but it was precisely because he was a lowly-minded believer that he did not therefore arrogate the blessing to himself. We know that God could have delivered James by a miracle even as He delivered Peter. This, to me, is quite fascinating. Three days and nights he neither eats nor drinks. But if the church were distrustful, the Lord was not unmindful, and knew how to give courage to the heart of His servant. At once a sudden and terrible illness fell upon him from which he never recovered. This is why the church advanced more dramatically in Gentile territory, as the rest of Acts shows. 3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. 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. [Note: Longenecker, p. Was that word for him? . It was not that Peter did not know the same, we are all aware how blessedly he confessed Him to be (not Messiah only, but) the Son of the living God while Jesus was here below. Szereted az j dolgokat, vagy egyszeren ms kell, mint a tbbi embernek? To vex certain of the Church. 1.Here followeth new persecution raised by Herod. He was the ruler of Galilee and Peraea. I pray thatI may read its pages with wisdom and understanding. 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. But at the same time to my own mind it seems to be only homage to God's word to affirm positively that of which I am sure. 3. Nobody could have this till the gospel, and even after its publication God Himself sent specifically to the Gentiles; for He has His ways, as well as His times and seasons. . The personal holiness of the Christian is a property of the individual, not of the society as such; hence a professing Christian society, however large a proportion of holy men it may contain, does not predicate of itself that it is a part of Christ's holy Church as long as it exercises no formal official act implying that assumption. In fact, it is thought by some that the upper room was actually in the house of Mary the mother of Mark. 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. How confirmatory it must have been to the apostle's heart to learn that Ananias was now sent by the same Lord Jesus, without the slightest intimation from without, whether of Saul himself or any other man! He was one of those sons of Zebedee whom Christ told that they should drink of the cup that he was to drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that he was to be baptized with,Matthew 20:23. God does not suggest a doubt of His own grace to them, or of the efficacy of Christ's sacrifice for them: unbelief does. Philip is told by the angel of the Lord to arise and go towards the south towards "Gaza, which is desert." (b) Bernice (see Bernike G959) , who appeared with him when Paul was under examination. It is not merely that the absence of it operates injuriously upon the tone and standard of piety within the Church; it affects the claims of the society as such to be a legitimate member of the visible Church Catholic. The chains fell from his hands. "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. The man just now so ignorant is not the channel that God was about to use for bringing out the remarkable confession that is introduced prematurely here. Aristopollis was one of them. But in the sense in which they supposed themselves to be Christians, do they, to all appearance, apply that title to those to whom they write" (pp. 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. Legtbb ismersm s jmagam is egy ltszlag teljesen idegen szakterletrl rkeztnk. But he had heard the voice of His mouth, and His words were spirit and life, eternal life, to his soul. 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. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. During that time no trial or execution could be carried out and that is why Herod purposed to defer Peter's execution until the week was finished. WebIn Acts 12, we learn from this prayer group how to pray and how not to pray. He ruled Judea for three years, A.D. 41-44 [Note: Josephus, Antiquities of . And so they would gird themselves up, that is, they would take the sash and they would pull the robe up to the knees and then they would tie the sash so that the robe would then be short and they could run faster. That the mode of interpretation alluded to involves a deviation from the obvious meaning of the New Testament phraseology is not, indeed, sufficient reason for at once rejecting it; but it does warrant us in requiring that the necessity for such deviation shall be clearly made out. (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. It is strange that we have not a more full and particular account of the martyrdom of this great apostle, as we had of Stephen. Kezdjk azzal, hogyan is szletik azeskvi fots. Which shows that he was planning to put Peter to death. Ordered the census that took Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem (, Jesus earthly ministry conducted during his reign (, Appointed Herod Agrippa I king over Palestine (. Prayers To Cancel Bad Dreams 18. Surely He is always wise and consistent with Himself. Szabadtri eskvk esetn: Van tet a fejnk felett, lehetsg es esetre? All depended upon this. As far as God was concerned, it was James' time to come home; it wasn't Peter's time yet. The gospel goes forth elsewhere; it is in no way bound to Jerusalem. The common people respected him for his sincere faith and called him James the Just. the truth of his deliverance. As a rule, a prisoner was chained, his right hand to the left hand of the guard. The spiritual power which wrought so wonderful a change in the Apostles must first descend from heaven, and give to the Church its inner form as its spiritual characteristic! They refused utterly the Holy Ghost's testimony to the Son of man glorified in heaven, and slew or scattered the witnesses, Who then was specially used as the instrument of the free action of the Holy Ghost elsewhere, without plan, without thought of man, and apparently the simple result of circumstances, but in truth God's hand directing all? Prayer to God for him was earnestly offered by the Church. And he goes, the Lord communicating another vision to the apostle himself, in which he sees Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him that he might receive his sight. Iturea, Trachonitis, Abilene, with Gaulonitis, Batanaea, and Penias. It was not only right, but recorded of God that we might see and profit by it. "Saul arose and was baptized, and when he had received meat he was strengthened, and remained with the disciples for some time.".
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