Acts 15:1I think, in our day had God had this Word of God written, He might have said it something like,“And certain men and women, having been at Headquarters, came down to the areas and they taughtthe believers that unless they believe that Jesus is God, they would not be ab ... Read more

“James” - Galatians 1:19:But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.This James who is speaking here, in Acts 15:13, is the Lord’s brother. You and I would know him ashis half brother; same mother, different father. And yet he’s called brother. ... Read more

This first Jerusalem council that we’re dealing with in Acts 15, to which we will see the conclusionin this session, is absolutely phenomenal.Acts 15:22This must have been quite a time. James had given that tremendous message that he shared with thepeople there. Now, whe ... Read more

Acts 15:37“determined” - literally means “contrary to original” - That is really significant because it was God’swill for Paul and Barnabas to go. But Barnabas was one of these good-hearted fellows. Many timeshis heart would get ahead of the Word and the greatness of G ... Read more

In Acts 16, we have a seismograph, a device that measures earthquakes. So the Bible wasn’t too farbehind the scientists, I guess.Acts 16:25“Paul and Silas prayed” - You remember Paul and Silas were both Romans, and I showed you thatGod must have known from the begin ... Read more

You see, through the years, the Word and its depth just began to grow on me gradually. What I’mgoing to do here tonight, I could not have done thirty years ago. I could have shown you a little ofwhat I was doing, but I could not have done in totality, naturally, what I’m going to ... Read more

Now, I’m ready to go to Acts chapter 17. I’ll show you how we work this stuff.First of all, I always put in front of me either a pad or a piece of paper; sometimes an envelope,depends on what I have in my pocket or where I can get a hold of stuff. And, I get lectured good and Read more

Acts 17:5“which believed not” - not in the critical Greek text“but the Jews” - certainly it’s axiomatic they believed not, or else they wouldn’t have done what theydid. There again, you know every time you read the word “Jew” in the Bible, in our translations of ... Read more

Tonight we are in Acts 17. In my mind this is perhaps the greatest presentation in the Book ofActs by a man of God. And that perhaps is my reason that I feel so totally unqualified to handleit. I stand in utter amazement at the greatness of the revelation and the usage of that revelat ... Read more

I made the following notes going through this that I just quickly want to share regarding what Isee as God doing throughout this whole section:In verse 24: He is the CreatorHe is the Lord of heaven and earthHe is a God who dwelleth not in temples man madeIn verse 2 ... Read more

We learned about Priscilla and Aquila in Acts 18:2 and they’re still with Paul. Now we getdown to Apollos coming to Ephesus. He came from Alexandria, Egypt, right on the Nile River.It was founded in 332 B.C. by Alexander the Great and called Alexandria. It became one of thegre ... Read more

Acts 18:24“Jew” - It’s sort of interesting, in this book I was telling you about, he documents it like I did;that the word “Jew” never appeared in any language in English, or in any of it until 1775. In1611 King James was originally done. So they must have gotten this ... Read more

I worked my fanny off on some of this stuff and didn’t get it done. I just couldn’t put it alltogether. I just wondered if we couldn’t work on this and maybe put it together here with theCorps. When we finally get this all put together I wondered if we then couldn’t just have ... Read more

I see in this verse the beginning of the breaking up of the one mind in the Church of the Body.Because when he calls the elders together in Acts 20:30, he says:“Also of your own selves will men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw awaydisciples after them.”I will s ... Read more

Again here in the twentieth chapter of Acts, there’s no man living who can set the greatness ofthis thing like the Word sets it. Again my ability to set this is far below par, which I recognize,and yet some of the great salient truths in here are just absolutely fantastic.Afte ... Read more

Note: Sound issues the last 20 minutes.We begin tonight in that section of Acts, were it any other book than the Bible, it wouldn’t behere. The only reason this is in the Word of God is because the Word of God is truth, and ittells the truth about men of God. ... Read more

It was just one trouble after another. People say, “Well at least he got to witness.” Well, I guessthat’s right, but it isn’t right in the great sense in which the Word moves. The only reason hegot a chance to witness is because he had been out of alignment and harmony and wal ... Read more

Well, tonight we continue in the great opportunities with which Paul was confronted in theBook of Acts. This is the record tonight in the Book of Acts where, I think it’s in theFoundational Class when we talk about revelation, or is that the Advanced Class; the revelationPaul ... Read more