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To: Jim 0216

Yes, I’m doing this is good faith. But no, not for fun.

If we can find the answers in Acts 1, we can understand what the Lord wanted us to learn from reading this book. If we go looking elsewhere, then we’re not learning Acts, and the Lord’s work through Luke is not accomplishing its purpose in us.

I do hope you’ll try again, and won’t consider this just an elementary exercise. :-)


5 posted on 08/15/2015 12:06:46 PM PDT by LearsFool (Real men get their wives and children to heaven.)
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To: LearsFool

Well, God bless you.

You can glean a lot from a portion of scripture like Acts 1 as I have with the help of the Holy Spirit and time, like the whole Peter jumping the gun and having a board meeting without first being baptized in the Holy Spirit. But except for the fact that Peter didn’t wait as Jesus said (which is a lesson in itself), unless you read on, you don’t know about the results.

Remember, chapters are not God-made, they are man-made to make it easier for us to reference. So to confine to a man-made chapter is not fair, even to Luke.

The rest of Acts sheds light on the first part (”Chapter One”). For example, you never hear from the new guy, Matthias, again. The effort appears to have been, in fact, futile which our self-efforts always are when we don’t wait on the Lord. Also we learn that Peter’s understanding was flawed because he and the rest believed at that time that salvation was confined to the Jews. Later we also see that God’s choice for the twelfth apostle was Paul who didn’t necessarily meet Peter’s requirements (God isn’t subject to man’s requirements). But Paul turned out to be the greatest communicator of the gospel of the the grace of Jesus Christ to all, both Jew and Gentile.


6 posted on 08/15/2015 1:01:20 PM PDT by Jim W N
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