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Essentials for Life Together.
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The Life of the early believers and the church was most unusal, a far cry from the way the church and its believers live today.
A study of the lives of the believers in the early church gives us a clear picture of the essentials for living together and for fulfilling the Lords mission.
They were of one heart and mind.
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They gave a witness to the resurrection of Jesus.
v 33
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They took care of all who had need.
v 34-37
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Verse 32 is about heart and soul, unity
The Greek here is indicating unity, the heart and mind / soul were one!
This isnt just one person we are talking about here, its all of the beleivers were of the same heart and mind, They had unity!!!
The whole being was one.
all of the people were one.
what would this produce?
oneness
unity
accord
harmony
love.
All of these were the result of one heart and mind!
Remember there are over 5000 beleivers in unity at this time.
Acts
How could a body of such large numbers of people become one heart and mind?
How could they become so unified together?
This verse shows us how,
The early believers gave their heart and souls to Jesus, to His Lordship and to His mission!
They truly believed!
What did they believe?
That Jesus...
Had died for their sins.
had risen from the grave.
had been exalted to the right hand of God.
had commissioned them to go forth, reaching people and helping people.
and was to return to reward believers for being faithful to the great commission and saving and ministering to people.
These people were throughly convinced of the mission of Jesus, of the Great Commision.
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Therefore they gave all they had and were to speak the Word of God.
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Nothing, not even the persecution could keep them from proclaiming the Word and carrying the mission of Christ!
The point is this..
They knew Jesus to be Lord, therefore the gave their lives to be His servants.
(dulos meaning slaves)
They surrendered themselves to Jesus!
To His Life and Will
To His purpose and mission.
Jesus became their all in all!
They lived and existed to do what He said,
They did it so that men might be saved from sin and death, and hell and to receive eternal life!
Nothing could stop them, not even the threats they received.
In fact, the more oppsistion they received the more boldness and energy they received.
The early believers knew what the Lordship of Jesus meant, it meant to surrender all one is and all that one has so that the whole world may know that no man need to ever die!
A man can live eternally, beggining even right now!
The early beleivers could not keep such a message to themselves!
No matter what it would cost them personally of financially!
Some things the early believers did not do..
they did not insist on owning property
count their own possessions as their own
trust in riches
take from others
glory in possessions
lay and store up wealth.
They did none of these things.
The early believer did truly believe
In the Lordship of Christ
in inheritance of eternal life
in being rewarded for faithfulness to Jesus
in denying self
in forsaking all for Jesus
in loving others sacrificially
in God’s ownership of all!
The early believers believed they were on earth to serve Jesus and were being blessed with material possessions to help others.
This allowed them to meet the needs of their families, then they gave what they had left to meet the needs of the lost and desperate world.
The Bible is very clear about this in the following verses.
Eph
He who had gathered much had nothing left over...
he that gathered little had no lack..
Jesus said that a rich man lost his soul and went to hell because of his indulgence, storeing, hoarding and the neglecting the needs of those in the world who were in need.
This story is told in
Their is no hope for a man who has and holds back for more than his family needs.
A starving child is Gods child, a needy child / person is Gods needy child / person.
If God cares so much about the needs and human suffering, how much more does He care about the Spiritual and eternal sufferings?
How much more will God hold us accoutable for of witholding His Gospel from them!!!
He cared enough to sacrifice His own Sons life for man’s spiritual rebirth.
If any man keeps back anything when he could be spreading the Gospel of eternal life around the world, how much more punishment does he deserve?
Jesus teaches that every soul is lost and doomed that does not accept Him.
The responsibility to send the Gospel around the world rest in the hands of men.
US!!
God isnt going to send anyone else to earth to do this.
He has sent us!
How in the world can a group of people so large be in one heart and one mind?
They gave their hearts to Jesus!
The result...
They became one in following and doing His will!
The Spirit of God gives them supernatural love and a spirit bond with other believers.
The results of these verses
Its this that creates one heart and one soul in the Church, in that day and in this day!
Great Power and Great Grace was upon them all!
This is the result of a effective wittniess for Jesus
Great Power… this is both the result and the root of the attitude in the previous verse.
It shows they were putting God first, people second and material things third.
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