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The Church for Real
The Church here was for real!
The Church here was pure!
Their was power in the church in verse 12, the apostles laid hands on the people.
Power, not from Peter or the apostles but from God!
Verse 13 tells us that none of the rest dare to join them, but yet verse 14 tells us that The Lord added to them more than ever,
What could this mean?
Back in verse 1-11 we saw Annanias and his wife Saphari, you know the hypocrites, the ones who were trying to be something without giving their all back to God.
Wanting all that The Lord has for them but yet witholding from the Lord.
Not willing to surrender all.
Lieing to God
We saw how the Lord dealt with this couple.
Bam, dead as a doornail was the husband, and three hours later bam again, down went the wife! both struck dead!
Back to that question in verse 13 and 14,
None of the rest dare to join them.
yet the Lord added to the church more than ever.
when I read verse 13, when i see the words none of the rest dared to join them,
The none of the rest, were no other than people who wanted to be seen or known for something that they actually werent, and those people didnt dare to join the Church!
No Way Jack, I am not going up in their!
You go, Im staying right here.
This is waht the casual follower of Jesus would have said.
Kinda reminds me of hearing the older men talk about the veitnam draft days.
One man said I am going in and I am gonna be in the C class, another man said well I am gonna enlist I am will be in the A class.
yet a third guy said well I am gonna be in the B class.
The other two men thought for a moment and they both said their isnt no such thing as the B class.
The third man said yes it is, I will B right here!
This man knew that the odds of being killed were pretty high and had decided it best to just B right here.
The people in verse 13 had decided it be best to not join the church as they were.
as they were is a key pharse I dont want you to miss.
These people werent willing to change, they werent willing to repent and they knew exactly what had happened to Annanis and Saphari.
They were struck dead.
Ever been around someone and all of the sudden you hear this gigantiac lie start coming from their mouths, what do people usally do, they duck so not to get struck with lightenng!
back in verse 12
Today people ask the question all the time,
Why dont we see the signs and the wonders as recorded in the Bible?
One reason we have it in the Bible is that the church was pure, it was clean.
The Church was the church.
The Body Of Christ!
The Church was complete and build on the the right foundation, Jesus and Jesus alone!
It wasnt about membership, power, control, fame or self glory.
It wasnt a social club of sorts.
It was about Jesus Christ and the Resurrection!
Everyone wantd Jesus and then they wanted even more of Him!
They had the desire to worship Him with everything they had.
This Church could have actually sung I Surrender All and meant it!
This church was of one mind and accord.
This Church had no division but complete unity,
The result, Many Signs and wonders were seen.
People were healed,
But what about today?
Many studys have been done and the results show that in just about every church everywhere that only 50% have never repented!
All you have to do is ask this one question to them,
When did you become a Christian?
You will probably hear that they have been a Christian their whole life.
warning warning!!!
No one has been a Christian their whole life, they have been a sinner their whole life but not a Christian.
We were all born into sin, we all have sinned amd fallen short of the Glory of God!
They may have been attending church snce they were born but that dosent make a Christian.
For the one who says they have been a Christian all their life well they are just as lost as a goat!
50% of the church has made profession of faith but yet never turned from their old ways.
This is what I beleive is the reason we dont see the signs and wonders in the church as they did in the Early church.
Oh, God does still do signs and wonders, many of you are a living testimony of that!
I have been so blessed to have wittnessed God’s hand at work right before my very eyes on sevral occasions.
I always asked, Lord why dont you let the church see this, It will stregenthen them so much.
But then I remember
You see Faith comes by hearing Gods Word, not seeing.
This is why we call it Faith.
So many people would beleive if they could see God.
But this isnt the way God works,
Man will say show me God and I will beleive, but God says beleive and i will show you!
This is the reason we dont see the signs and wonders today like they did in the early church.
Today the church is seen as being judgemental, outdated, out of touch.
This is totaly different from the early church as they werent looked upon in this way at all.
The ones who would not joing them held the church in high esteem.
I sold a car last week to a couple, nice people we got to talking and it just came out I started telling them about Jesus and we started talking and before I knew it I had done told them I was a Pastor.
I suddenly thought uh oh… I done blew it!
You see years ago if someone thought they were buying a car from a pastor they would beleive every word they were told, after all a pastor wouldnt lie to make a sale right.
we will fast forward to 2018 and well, i thought that these people might just walk away.
thinking we better watch out.
A story about a couple who were together since 1st grade.
they actually lived beside one another and were up in theuir years and had never gotten married.
They decided to get married and got in the car and headed to find a preacher and a tragic accident happened and they were both killed.
They never had the oppertunity to get married.
They get to heaven and see Peter, he welcomes them and ask if they need anything, they answer with how they want to get married.
Peter says ok after hearing their story.
a very long time went by and they still hadnt gotten married or seen Peter, then one day they saw Peter and they caught up with Him, Hey Peter did you forget about us?
Peter replied no, not at all Im am working on it.
they said well ok
Finally one day Peter comes looking for them and says ok, you ready to get married and they were delighted with joy.
They got married in heaven.
Guess what happened next?
no they didnt live happy ever after, from the wedding night on they couldnt stand one another anymore and decided best they get a divorce.
They go and find Peter, he ask how they are liking married life and they tell him they want a divorse.
He says what!
It took me over 2 years to find you a preacher up hear and now you want me to find you a laywer!
This is the problem with the church today, it isnt pure, it isnt Holy, it isnt for real anymore.
To many times we see a church being focused on entertainment instead of Holliness.
I have heard it said before that instead of the feeding of the sheep we have the entertainment of the goats!
This is why the church has the problems it has today because of it lack of being pure.
We see today men and women leaving the Lord and leaving the church,
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