Devoted Acts 2:42

Devoted

Day of pentecost

Holy spirit comes on peter and he preaches. “Save yourself from this corrupt generation.”

He speaks in everyones language…significant

Think he is drunk..

Acts 2:41-47  (ESV)

41 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common. 45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. 46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Devoted themselves

Acts 2:42a (ESV)

42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Football..Last year’s superbowl America spent 15.3 billion dollars. That’s 81.17 per person in America..

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Last week ..we learned we are all broken hearted without Jesus

But when we accept Jesus.. he has sent his spirit and called us to be his witnesses to our neighbors.

Devoting ourselves to be witnesses to the gospel in all areas of our life.

Ezekiel 33:31 English Standard Version (ESV)

31 And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.

Ruth and naomi

Ruth 1:16-18  (ESV)

16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” 18 And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.

Shadrach Meshach abendengo (Daniel 3:16-)

Daniel 3:16-18 (ESV)

16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.[d] 18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”

What are you willing to live and die for?

Biblical teaching

Psalm 19:7 English Standard Version (ESV)

7 The law of the Lord is perfect,     reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure

Beautiful Eulogy ..Odd Thomas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTHR_hqH9I

start at.23 seconds and end at 2:03

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (the Message) There’s nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another—showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us.

Fellowship

Fish tank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=qjWNRPq_iqg

Acts 2:44-45 (ESV)

44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common. 45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need

KOINONIA… KOINO

COMMONALITY having things in common

Neighbor sheets

Luke the writer admires the people in this community

Luke has a thing about parables

Luke the only one who talks about the good samaritin.. great banquet.., dishonest manager, Rich man lazaraus

Luke and Acts is filled with the idea that you choose if your possessions are more important than those around you..

How much spent on superbowl last year

his point is that when you are so bonded with other believers, how can you hold on to luxuries as others struggle to survive.. isn’t that how you want to be loved..

Big groups and small groups

Mr Rogers,” "There's a part of all of us that longs to know that even what's weakest about us is still redeemable and can ultimately count for something good."

Hebrews 10:23-25  (ESV)

23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Breaking of bread

Acts 2:46 (ESV)

46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,

Purposeful dinner to share about/with God

Jesus on road to Emmaus. cleopus

Luke 24:30-35 (ESV)

30 When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. 31 And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight. 32 They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?” 33 And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, 34 saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” 35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.

Meal with God

Remembering what Jesus did for us.

Prayer

Luke 6:12  (ESV)

12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.

Luke 10:2  (ESV)

2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

Praising God

Acts 2:47 (ESV)

47 praising God and having favor with all the people

Time with God together

Fred Rogers “You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are."

Isaiah 55:8-9 English Standard Version (ESV)

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,     neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,     so are my ways higher than your ways     and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Experienced wonderful signs

DL Moody once said, “The world has yet to see what a man or woman totally devoted to Christ can do.” Do you want to be that man? Do you want to be that woman?

Lew and Nancy

So lets get devoted Meeting together studying Gods word while we praise God for what he is doing in our lives.

Added to their number daily.. salvation

Acts 2:47b (ESV)

And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

It was their every day life style….

You take our failure, You take our weakness You set Your treasure in jars of clay So take this heart, Lord I'll be your vessel The world to see Your life in me