prayer points from acts 12

the power of the Spirit to this end is lost sight of.] But the testimony of miracles is apt to act upon the flesh. But it is still more strange as evidence of the slipshod criticism of the Reformers that Beza, who was more of a scholar than his predecessors, uniformly edits , and writes a blundering note to the effect that it is here used in the sense of . Therefore some say that those came of the Jews, yet did they inhabit Greece [and these would be right if the reading had been really and not ]; which I do not allow. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And they said, "Yes, Lord, we are able." A honlapunk hasznlatval n a tjkoztatsunkat tudomsul veszi. He apparently became a believer only after Jesus resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:7; cf. 1.Here followeth new persecution raised by Herod. It is therefore our wisdom to take heed of the beginnings of sin. Though He did see fit and purpose that Peter should be delivered from Herod's sword. . But if the church were distrustful, the Lord was not unmindful, and knew how to give courage to the heart of His servant. is stricken by an angel, and dies miserably. It is noteworthy that the Christians evidently did not seek to perpetuate the apostalate by selecting a replacement for James as they had for Judas (ch. The Samaritans, as you know, were a mongrel race; the stranger may have been possibly a proselyte from among the Gentiles; but the apostle of the Gentiles is now to be called. . See how he advances gradually. It is a perilous mode of reasoning and likely to lead to universal scepticism, to maintain, for the sake of theoretical consistency, that the visible fruits of the Spirit do not possess a sufficiently distinctive character to enable us to pronounce where they are and where they are not: not to mention that the sin of denying the evident operation of the Holy Spirit is spoken of by our Lord in terms far too awful not to make us tremble at the thought of verging towards it. 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?" Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our personsbut they are helpless against our prayers. (J. Sidlow Baxter). Saul in his zeal had desired letters giving him authority to punish the Christian Jews, and was found on his way journeying near the Gentile city that he sought. Therefore, in an effort to please them he took action against the apostles by having one of them, James, executed (12:1-2).The execution of James pleased the Jews more than Herod expected, so next time he planned to kill the leading apostle, Peter (3-5). . From oikos; properly, residence, but usually an abode; by implication, a family. 7-11). At the same time there is the pity that belongs to one who knew the grace of God, and saw the end of all in His judgment. He was not entitled to take the peace of the gospel till God warranted Peter to bring it to him. (Acts 10:1-48). ( Acts 12:3 ). 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. And so he did ( Acts 12:4-8 ). It may well be the story of a thrilling rescue; but, however it happened, the hand of God was most definitely in it. From sun and athroizo; to convene. From this family history it may be seen that Herod Agrippa of this chapter was a direct descendant of the Maccabees through his mother Mariamne. Kett darab professzionlis Canon fnykpezvel s nagy fnyerej fix illetve zoom Canon objektvekkel dolgozom. From pros and euchomai; to pray to God, i.e. It was the fact. Persecution of the Christians now swung from religious to include political motivation. But it would seem that special reasons operated at Samaria to make it necessary there. And Luke calleth these Grecians not but [?]. God knows exactly the day and the circumstances by which He's going to take me home. He was the second husband of Herodias (see G2266) and consented to the death of John the Baptist. quietem, perpetual rest. One of his wives, Miriam, had a son, Aristopollis that was murdered by Herod the Great, as was Miriam. Thus it might seem incredible, if it were not the notorious fact, that the only two known manuscripts in favour of that which is here most certainly requisite are the Alexandrian and the Cambridge Graeco-Latin of Beza. * The external authority is very decidedly for the singular against the plural. They were not about to let that happen again. But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace [Don't make too bit of a stir, fellows. When Peter had knocked at the door of the entrance a maidservant called Rhoda came to answer the door. But what is more to the purpose for us Gentiles, when Cornelius and his household were brought in, not only no appearance of it is visible, but positive proof to the contrary. Stretched forth his hands - A figurative expression, denoting that he laid his hands on them, or that he endeavored violently to oppress the church.. 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. But this was not all. 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.". It is needless now to dwell on the scene, more than just to point out that which is familiar, no doubt, to many that are here the manner in which the Lord judged the apostate; for Herod owned shortly after by the people whom he had sought to please, disappointed in one place, but exalted in another was hailed as a god; and at that moment the angel of the Lord deals with his pride, and he is devoured of worms a sad image of the awful judgment of God that will fall upon one who will sit "in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.". 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." Nevertheless, care was taken to hinder all appearance of independence or indifference to unity. When Caligula was slain, he was at Rome, and having ingratiated himself into the favor of Claudius, he conferred on him also Judea and Samaria, so that his dominions were equal in extent to those of his grandfather, Herod the Great. But the close lets us see more than this. He did what, I have no doubt, was the right thing. So John often speaks of it; and the very one that tells us most of the divinely given character of true faith who most of all lets us into its secret power and blessedness, even eternal life as bound up with it, that same John is the one who more than any other furnishes instances of a mere humanly produced faith. 515-517). And he realized that God had delivered him from the hand of Herod. The previous gift of the Spirit without the intervention of any human hand was the most effectual stopper on the mouths of the brethren of the circumcision who were ever prone to object, and would surely have forbidden water, if God had not undeniably given them the unspeakable gift of the Spirit. He could not deny the might that proved itself without effort superior to anything he had ever wielded. Where man chooses for human things, we have the Lord recognising it. The believers in John Marks house prayed for Peter when he was in prison, and the Lord delivered him both from prison and from death (Acts 12:111), 11. But what a rebuke is this to those that would make the church to be merely a creature of government, or in any wise to be of man's will, which is still worse, How blessed to see that it is a real organic whole, not only a living thing, but that He who is the spring of its life is the Holy Ghost Himself a divine person, who cannot but answer to the grace of the Lord Jesus whom He is come down to glorify. Israel had the truth presented to them as it was afterwards to all. Such, I suppose, therefore, was the principle that lay at the bottom of the difference of the divine action on these two occasions. At the passover, when the Jews came from all parts to Jerusalem to keep the feast, they irritated one another against the Christians and Christianity, and were then more violent than at other times. 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. Correct, good students! Question. "One visible manifestation, then, of the sanctity of the Church is the holy walk and conversation of individual Christians; but there is another, and more formal, mode in which she professes herself to be holy, and that is, by the exercise of discipline. We have only to extend this undoubted principle of interpretation to the Jewish people itself in its national that is, its legal-character, to perceive that the terms by which, in the Old Testament, its privileges are expressed, assume, when applied to Christians, a different meaning, or rather betoken the spiritual realities of which the former were but the types" (pp. Let this suffice them if the Lord grant them some time wherein they may recover their strength. ", Even here the intimation is sufficiently plain that the Gentiles were in the foreground of the work designed for Saul of Tarsus. He said, "Tell these tidings to James and to the brethren." When he saw that this gave pleasure to the Jews he went to arrest Peter too. The Gentiles were sinners: why should they not dare to speak to the Gentiles? For courage to witness for Christ (Acts 4:2331), 3. He had gone up to the great city of solemnities, but the blessing was no longer to be found there. 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 was not without the deepest searching of heart, though smitten down at once; for how could there be a question as to the divine power? 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. "Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the very same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus." 466, 467. Accordingly Peter and John, two of the chiefs among the apostles, come down from Jerusalem. Perhaps you have heard it said, Never underestimate the power of prayer .. "About that time" probably harks back to the famine visit of Barnabas and Saul mentioned in Acts 11:30. Paul and Barnabas had fulfilled their errand of mercy to the Church at Jerusalem and so returned to Antioch, taking with them John Mark. on the Acts, i. pp. Ha csak nem kritek kln, nem viszlek titeket msok ltal annyira kedvelt s elcspelt macskakves tra, ahol ti lenntek az ezredikek, akik ilyen fotval bszklkednek. But at this point a still more important step was about to be taken; and the Lord enters on it with due solemnity, as we shall see in the following chapter. And every word was made good. All was ordered of God. The people of Tyre and Sidon, anxious to ensure a constant food supply from Herods territory, had tried to win his favour with a show of extravagant flattery. We must recollect that in the Apostolic Church an effective discipline the very idea of which seems to be lost amongst us existed. whom they slew and hanged on a tree: him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly" (not to all the people, but) "unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. 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. The fact is, that the notion of imposition of hands being a universal medium of conveying the Holy Ghost is certainly a mistake. 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. 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. Acts 7:54-60). 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. "He commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. WebPrayer. To vex certain of the Church. Kezdjk azzal, hogyan is szletik azeskvi fots. 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. 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. Peter was on the housetop praying when God told him how to be the answer to Cornelius prayers (Acts 10:9), 10. Desmond Tutu Nobel Peace Prize, Colonel John Connally, Articles P