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Introduction
In Acts 3, Peter and John used a sign gift that God gave them to create a platform where the Gospel of Jesus Christ was preached.
Acts 4:1-22 speaks of the response to the Gospel that was preached.
These 22 verses are sectioned into four areas:
Background
Proceeding
Dilemma
Verdict
Background - v.1-4
Changing of the guard
During the Gospels of Jesus Christ, the main enemy was the Pharisees and Scribes
Matthew 23, Jesus pronounced a series of woes against the Pharisees and Scribes
Hypocrites
Matthew 23:13 - They shut up Heaven so that others do not enter.
Matthew 23:14 - They devour widows houses and for a pretense give long prayers.
Matthew 23:15 - You compass land and sea to proselytize the Gentiles with a damning message.
Matthew 23:23 - You pay tithe but omit the weightier matters of the law
judgement
mercy
faith
Matthew 23:25 - You clean the outside of the cup but the inside of the cup is filthy.
Matthew 23:27 - The outside is beautiful but the inside is dead.
Matthew 23:29-31 - You are no different than your fathers who killed the prophets.
Blind guides
Matthew 23:16-17 - It is ok to swear by the Temple, but not the God in the Temple - The Temple sanctifies the gold.
Matthew 23:18-20 - It is ok to swear against the altar but not the gift.
Yet, the altar sanctifieth the gift.
Matthew 23:24 - Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
Conclusion - Matthew 23:33
In the Acts of the Apostles their is a new nemesis - The Priest and Sadducee -
Who were the Pharisees and Sadducees and why a changing?
Who were they:
Pharisees and Scribes
The Pharisees were a religious order and political party in Israel.
Scribes were more than copyist of God’s word, they were the experts of God’s law.
Lawyers and Scribes appear to be synonymous terms.
Scribes aligned themselves with the Pharisees.
The Pharisees believed in all the Old Testament.
The Torah - Genesis - Deuteronomy
The Prophets - Joshua,Judges, Samuel (1 and 2)Kings (1 and 2), Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Solomon, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles (1 and 2)
The believed in the super natural - angels, demons, after-life, resurrection.
They viewed oral traditions as authoritative.
They were more common people
The Sadducees and Priests
The Sadduccees were a political party and religious sect
They were collaboratively working with the Romans.
The Priest were predominantly Sadducee
The Sadduccees did not believe in the Supernatural.
They did not believe in angels, demons or after-life.
They believed the Messiah had come during the Maccabees revolt in the 160’s B. C.
They only accepted the first five books of the Bible and rejected oral traditions.
They were more aristocratic
Why the change?
Isreal was divided into three sections:
Judea - South
Samaria - Central
Galilee - North
During the earthly ministry of Jesus, He spent the first year in Judea.
The only Gospel write to record these events was John (2 and 3).
Matthew, Mark, and Luke, picks up His ministry in Galilee.
For much of the rest of His ministry, He spends in Galilee.
Galilee was the Pharisees headquarters.
During the Acts of the Apostles, the church’s ministry took place primarily in Jerusalem, where the Sadduccees and Priests operated.
There is a lesson - Whenever the gates of Hell are threatened b y the Gospel of Jesus Christ, there will be push back.
Beginning in Acts 4, we will examine the varied areas of push back by Satan and his minions.
Regardless of who the guard to wickedness is, the Gospel has power over the enemies of truth.
Consider the momentous and historic statement.
The Gospel preached in a place that hated truth.
The guards
The Sadduccees
The Priests
The Sanhedrin wanted Jesus dead.
The people wanted Jesus dead.
This was a place of darkness.
Yet, in this place of darkness, about five thousand men were saved.
Even though the preaching had stopped, the Holy Spirit was working.
Why is this momentous and historic
The condition of the people
Blind
Deaf
Sick
Dead
Darkness
Dark understanding - Ephesians 5:8
They are hopeless - Cannot elevate their status.
Religion
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Education
Many which heard the word believed.
This is not a simple belief but a transformative and metamorphic belief.
You have been profoundly modified from bad to new creation
How is this possible?
They heard the word
Disavowed the Holy and Just One
They killed the Prince of Life
Judgement - Every soul that does not hear, will be destroyed
Blessed in turning us from our iniquities
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