whom they slew and hanged on a tree: him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly" (not to all the people, but) "unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. Prayer: The Partnership of Prayer (Text: Acts 12:1-5, 7, 12-17, "He went on his way rejoicing." Then Peter says to them, "Can any man forbid water?" As there was need in the church at Antioch, he goes and finds him. Ananias goes, puts his hand on him, addresses him by the sweet title of relationship Christ began, consecrated, and has given, telling him how the Lord, even Jesus, had appeared unto him. But before Aristopollis was murdered, he had this son Herod Agrippa. Thus we find the utmost simplicity and quietness. One of his wives, Miriam, had a son, Aristopollis that was murdered by Herod the Great, as was Miriam. And interestingly enough, Jesus, after His resurrection, did appear unto James as Paul tells us in I Corinthians Acts 15:7 . Correct, good students! Ha klnlegesre s egyedire vgysz, ltogass el az oldalamra. God answered prayer and gave a Unbelief here is alas! De ezen a napon Balatonfred adott otthont az ifj pr letnek legszebb TovbbEskvi fotzs Veszprm Egy ess nap sem ronthatja el az eskv napjt, Ez a story egy forr nyri napjt mutatja be egy fiatal prnak, olvasd el, nzd meg a kpeket s taln merthetsz magadnak j tletet az eskvdre. This man was incensed to afflict the Church not so much for any love he had to religion, as that by this means he might flatter the common people which did otherwise not greatly favor him; or rather, he was moved hereunto with tyrannical cruelty, because he was afraid of innovation, which tyrants do always fear, lest it trouble the quiet estate of their dominion. (p. Saul of Tarsus was yet breathing out his threats and slaughter when the Lord was pursuing His onward gracious work among the Samaritans and strangers. For these reasons he was popular with the people; and it was no doubt in order to achieve further popularity with the orthodox Jews that he decided to attack the Christian Church and its leaders. Morning Prayer: Thursday, 15 June Acts Deliverance from the Spirit of Divination 13. This particular Herod was Herod Agrippa I. He kept the Jewish customs. It would be a mistake to suppose that God had not wrought on the heart of Gentiles. He apparently became a believer only after Jesus resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:7; cf. How these elders were appointed, if indeed they were so formally, does not appear. Philip acts at once, with alacrity hears the eunuch read the prophet Isaiah, and puts the question whether he understood what was read. It is not only that God uses one and another: this He does and we may bless Him that so He does; but the God who employs means is also above them, and He needs now only to draw out by circumstances the souls of some simple Christian men who had faith and love to seek the Gentiles without requiring the same vigorous and extraordinary means, under His mighty hand, as even the apostle did. Hence people could not understand that it was one and the same church throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria. There was special exposure to this evil which called for so much the greater guard against it at Samaria. "To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him." Azt lltjk rlam, sokoldal fots vagyok, s minden helyzetben kiismerem magam Tbb ves hazai s klfldi referencival rendelkezem. I've never really tried it, but I can imagine it would be difficult to run in a robe. So far from it, as we shall find by and by inActs 10:1-48; Acts 10:1-48, the Holy Ghost was given while he was yet speaking, before they were so much as baptized. And every word was made good. No believer could be so ignorant of God and His ways of old as to imagine there ought to be any doubt about those who nevertheless were full of anxieties and troubles, and through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. Matthew 7:15 13. When he saw that this gave pleasure to the Jews he went to arrest Peter too. Herod accepted the praise as if he was God, and was punished for it (20-23). But Herod, though originally of an Edomite family, yet seems to have been a proselyte to the Jewish religion; for Josephus says he was zealous for the Mosaic rites, a bigot for the ceremonies. For through the years the theater was covered with sand, and as the result, was well preserved. Here is an account of Peter's imprisonment (Acts 12:4; Acts 12:4): When he had laid hands on him, and, it is likely, examined him, he put him in prison, into the inner prison; some say, into the same prison into which he and the other apostles were cast some years before, and were rescued out of it by an angel, Acts 5:18; Acts 5:18. Then follows another grave fact. Thus we see the Lord was working, and, as so constantly happens, it was not only that He called out Paul for the Gentiles; it was not only that He sent Peter to a Gentile; but now these men, who might have been despised as irregular labourers, were in the current of the same work of God, even if they knew nothing of it, save by divine instinct. It is not to be treated as mere human arrangement. They were in the church already. But here we have clearly a man who had been chosen for another and an external purpose by the church, but whom the Lord uses elsewhere for a new and higher purpose, for which He had qualified him by the Holy Ghost. A vltozatossg varzsolja szness a vilgunkat, s ettl olyan klnleges nlam egy fotzs. A. And when Herod Agrippa saw this pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. 16c - Acts 12 1-19, Earnest Prayer - Summit Church Saul was consenting unto Stephen's death, and Saul was the expression of Jewish feeling in its best aspect. A zene vegyes felhozatal volt egy kivl Dj-vel. This scene does show the stranger discovering the predicted Messiah in Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah suffering, no doubt, but accomplishing atonement. It was not that Peter did not know the same, we are all aware how blessedly he confessed Him to be (not Messiah only, but) the Son of the living God while Jesus was here below. 7-11). There a large number had assembled together and were praying. 422. For it must be remembered that, however far his profession may be from being a true one, every professor of Christianity professes to be a true, not a mere nominal, Christian. Simon can only answer, "Pray ye to the Lord for me." Conscience would have been searched by the truth of God; and the heart would have been filled with praise at the grace of God. All else is vain, and apt to accredit. In fact, it tells us much about prayer. Was his faith nothing more than a profession of Christian doctrine? When the matter is rehearsed, the great argument is this, "Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?" Prayer Points 1 Father, I thank you for sending Jesus Christ to us. "Luke doth at length declare that certain of them brought this treasure even unto the Gentiles. He was truly in earnest before God. This is an essential feature of Christianity. This did not at all flow from his ordination. All was ordered of God. This was probably about the fifth or sixth year of the reign of Claudius, not far from 47 ad. At the precise instant when one apostle was already dead, another imprisoned and condemned, and the entire Twelve proscribed by an all-powerful ruler acting as a Jewish deputy in the whole procedure, out of a desire to please his subjects, at that very moment God sent an angel to release Peter and shortly thereafter struck Agrippa dead. Thereon Philip is invited to come up and sit with him, Isaiah 53:1-12; Isaiah 53:1-12 being, as we know, the portion in question; and the eunuch asks of whom the prophet spoke these words "of himself or some other man?" 'Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria,' etc. Web12 When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying. . 1). He felt that they were conspiring against them and so he murdered them both.There was a saying during the time of Herod the Great that it was safer to be his pig than his son. Probably he had put James to death privately, which the people had complained of, not because it was an unjust thing to put a man to death without giving him a public hearing, but because it deprived them of the satisfaction of seeing him executed; and therefore Herod, now he knows their minds, will gratify them with the sight of Peter in bonds, of Peter upon the block, that they may feed their eyes with such a pleasing spectacle. "Lord," says he, "I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name." And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the. Hogy egy prat emltsek: termk-reklm, glamour, portr, csald, prfot. Mark 6:3; John 7:5), and was a foundation member of the Jerusalem church (Acts 1:14). As far as God was concerned, it was James' time to come home; it wasn't Peter's time yet. So James is now following his Lord in martyrdom, the brother of John. It was the Lord that had brought Philip, and it was His Spirit that bad taken him away; but it was He too who had given him and left him Jesus for ever. "Were the question put to a person of plain understanding, unacquainted with the controversies which have arisen on the subject, What, according to the Apostolic Epistles, is a Christian Church, or, how is it to be defined? He was a staunch friend of the Jews and was no doubt influenced by them to make the move to destroy Christianity. See Luke 3:1. Peter was on the housetop praying when God told him how to be the answer to Cornelius prayers (Acts 10:9), 10. is stricken by an angel, and dies miserably. The persecutor died but the church continued to grow (24-25). "Nor is there any weight in the objection that many of these primitive Churches were very defective in doctrine or in, practice, or in both; that St. Paul speaks of the Corinthians as being, on account of their divisions, 'carnal,' and not 'spiritual,' as 'babes in Christ,' and sharply reproves them for their laxity of discipline in the case of the incestuous person, and their want of discipline in the celebration of the Lord's Supper. He killed James the brother of John with the sword,Acts 12:2; Acts 12:2. grace of God to sinners of the Gentiles as certainly as to the Jews to those who, in the judgment of the Jews, were nothing but refuse, vile, and unclean. We know that God could have delivered James by a miracle even as He delivered Peter. For bloody persecutors, when they perceive themselves applauded for that which every one ought to cry shame upon them for, are encouraged to go on, and have their hands strengthened and their hearts hardened, and the checks of their own consciences smothered; nay, it is as strong a temptation to them to do the like as it was here to Herod, because he saw it pleased the Jews. 298, 299). Even now, although it is the gospel that God sends out, we know well how many, through a misuse of Old Testament teaching, plunge themselves into distress and doubt. Power of Prayer (Acts 12:1-12) Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. Nevertheless "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh;" and he who loves to present the Lord in the depth of His personal grace, and the height of His glory, has surely a spiritual fitness for the expression of the heart's joy in that which faith has created within. Matthew 18:19,20 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven, Many were gathered together praying.--The facts of the case show that the meeting was held at night, possibly to avoid persecution, or, it may be, as the sequel of the evening gathering to "break bread.". Nem egy fotsknt tekintetek majd rm hanem, egy segtksz bartra! On these I need only remark how grace used them for the spread of the testimony. The ACTS prayer ensures that you are praising God for who He is, confessing sin on your heart that could otherwise hinder your prayers, and thanking Him for all He is Thus all the first-rate Uncials, the Sinai, Vatican, Alexandrian, and Palimpsest of Paris, supported by some of the best cursives and all the best ancient versions, oppose the vulgar reading. See the notes on Matthew 2:19. . "Saul arose and was baptized, and when he had received meat he was strengthened, and remained with the disciples for some time.". Sokan ember a kt tans polgri hzassgkts mellett lagzit is szeretne, aholezt az rmteli esemnyt a bartaik s rokonaik trsasgban kzsen megnnepelhetik s egyttreznek velk. "While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. With the apostles becoming more involved with matters outside Jerusalem, James the brother of Jesus was now the most prominent leader in the Jerusalem church (Acts 12:17; Acts 15:13; Galatians 1:18-19; Galatians 2:9,Galatians 2:12). "When Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple." . If Israel would have received, the Lord would have given. May our hearts and minds be fully How could anything seem too great and good to him whose heart had just made the acquaintance of Jesus? 449, 450). This was precisely what God was now doing; and the remarkable fact appears, that God did not wait for the apostle of the Gentiles to bring the good news to Cornelius. There can be no doubt that the facts at Samaria were analogous; but this remarkable feature is to be noticed, that the Holy Ghost was here conferred by (not, as at Jerusalem, apart from) the laying on of the hands of the apostles. And no wonder. a. Herod the king: This was Herod Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod the Great, who ruled in the days of Jesus birth ( Matthew 2:1-16 ). Whether this was the ease among the Jews scripture does not say; but that there were persons who had this responsible place among them, as among the Gentile churches afterwards, we see clearly. For whereas some make him a third cousin of Christs, who was only some one of the disciples, I do not like of that, because I am by strong reasons persuaded to think that there were no more. 50 Days Fasting & Prayer Guide for RCCG 2023 Fasting and Prayer. Therefore some say that those came of the Jews, yet did they inhabit Greece [and these would be right if the reading had been really and not ]; which I do not allow. It was the Lord undoubtedly, and the Lord declared He was Jesus, and Jesus was Jehovah. Rengeteg kivl tterem alkalmas a nagy nap lebonyoltsra. He killed James. So there were sixteen soldiers altogether watching Peter in three-hour shifts, at all times chained to two of them while two were watching the door. characteristic of Christendom. To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever," etc. Nevertheless, being a good man and full of the Holy Ghost, he seeks out and takes Saul to the apostles when others stood aloof, and declared unto them "how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus; and he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem." the power of the Spirit to this end is lost sight of.] Ever since the conversion of Paul, we have heard no more of the agency of the priests in persecuting the saints at Jerusalem; perhaps that wonderful change wrought upon him, and the disappointment it gave to their design upon the Christians at Damascus, had somewhat mollified them, and brought them under the check of Gamaliel's advice--to let those men alone, and see what would be the issue; but here the storm arises from another point. During his lifetime James was not a supporter of Jesus. Josephus, the Jewish historian, describes how, on the second day of the festival, he entered the theatre clad in a robe of silver cloth. To pray, pray for, offer prayer. This is the Herod of our present passage in Acts 12:1-25. This, to me, is quite fascinating. WebPrayers To Get A Permanent Job This Month 12. Their lands lay to the north of Palestine and in two ways Herod could make things very difficult for them. Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. From oikos; properly, residence, but usually an abode; by implication, a family. Crushed the Jewish revolt against Rome (A.D. 66-70).His son, Titus, destroyed Jerusalem (A.D. 70). Herod the king This was Herod Agrippa, the son of Aristobulus, and grandson of Herod the Great; he was nephew to Herod Antipas, who beheaded John they Baptist, and brother to Herodias. He was one of those sons of Zebedee whom Christ told that they should drink of the cup that he was to drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that he was to be baptized with,Matthew 20:23. PRAYER POINTS But this manifestation and fruit of gracious power silenced even the unruly and hard spirits of the circumcision. intending after Easter [or really after Passover] to bring him forth to the people. Pray about the needs others 280-283). Without this, faith is good for nothing, nor is God Himself honoured in His own word. Yet his masculine good sense held to the truth, though he did not know the solid basis on which it here stands. Now according to their law, during the times of the Feast of Passover, they could not have any trial, and so he determined to bring him forth at the end of the Feast of Passover. Lets all Pray through Romans 12 and 13 this week He was one of the twelve who were commissioned to disciple all nations; and to take him off now, before he had removed from Jerusalem, was like Cain's killing Abel when the world was to be peopled, and one man was then more than many at another time. If you don't have faith, God's not going to answer your prayers. Thus, God preserved him. It is not the church of Judea, the church of Galilee, and the church of Samaria, but the churches of Judea, etc. Summary: Acts 12 has both answered and unanswered prayers within it. But it is still more strange as evidence of the slipshod criticism of the Reformers that Beza, who was more of a scholar than his predecessors, uniformly edits , and writes a blundering note to the effect that it is here used in the sense of . Cornelius was not in ignorance of the gospel going out to the children of Israel, but it was precisely because he was a lowly-minded believer that he did not therefore arrogate the blessing to himself. The gospel goes forth elsewhere; it is in no way bound to Jerusalem. The common text and translations have "the churches;" but I believe that this faulty form crept in here, because the sense of the oneness of the church so speedily passed away. Finally, and in few words (for I do not intend to say more on Acts 12:1-25 tonight), we have the completing of this second part of our narrative in this chapter. Father, every ungodly power that has penetrated to the position of authority in the church expose and disgrace them and if they fail to repent, uproot them, in Jesus name. If he deflected the trade of Palestine from their ports their revenues would be seriously impaired. Thus we must carefully remember that the gospel brings more than conversion to God. In fact, I don't expect you to keep them all straight. . And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry ( Acts 12:24-25 ), Remember they had taken up an offering. So Paul and Barnabas had come back to Jerusalem with this collection that was taken from the church in Antioch. . Therefore, in an effort to please them he took action against the apostles by having one of them, James, executed (12:1-2).The execution of James pleased the Jews more than Herod expected, so next time he planned to kill the leading apostle, Peter (3-5). Thus they thought they had him fast. Then we learn another important lesson. Furthermore, forasmuch as he had said that the word was preached at the beginning only by the Jews, and he meant those who, being banished out of their own country, did live in Cyprus and Phenice, correcting this exception, he saith that some of them did teach the Grecians. Now about that time,. That the famine was in Judea, and Saul and Barnabas were sent thither with what the church at Antioch had collected. If God had given them the Holy Ghost, as was manifest in sensible results, it was very evident that they must have by God's grace had repentance unto life. and they took with them John who was surnamed Mark. They'll find out I'm here], he declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. At once a sudden and terrible illness fell upon him from which he never recovered. Going back to verse Acts 12:5 . Surely to shrink from their enquiries is nothing but self on our part. 466, 467. How startled this good man but excessively keen controversialist must have been, had he learnt that, beyond all just question, the only tenable text here is destructive of the notion of independent churches, and in reality gives the appellation to the entire body of the disciples throughout these regions, as standing on one common ground, and enjoying full intercommunion, though in these different districts. The light that shone suddenly on him was from heaven. If men profess themselves not to be able to do so, they simply profess that they have neither consciences nor moral sense." Perhaps you have heard it said, Never underestimate the power of prayer .. 286, 287). They are, indeed, a sign to unbelievers, and that such is the result we find shown us by the Spirit of God in the chapter before us. From pros and euchomai; to pray to God, i.e. But he had heard the voice of His mouth, and His words were spirit and life, eternal life, to his soul. Warren W. Wiersbe noted, This is certainly a good lesson for the church today. It was so ordered of God that the Holy Ghost should not at first be conferred on the disciples at Samaria: I do not mean merely on such as Simon or false brethren, but even on those that were true. Unreal!" due to the church of God? Was that word for him? And God has, in the meantime, a work for me to do, and until I have accomplished that work that God has in mind for me to do, God's going to preserve me and keep me until that day. No notion is more at variance with the spirit of apostolic Christianity than that of societies of Christians existing in the same neighbourhood, but not in communion with each other, and not under 'common government'" (pp. To vex - To injure, to do evil to - kakosai. This contrariety doth cause me to expound it of the Gentiles." But the Risen Christ made a special appearance to James ( 1 Corinthians 15:7). But what a rebuke is this to those that would make the church to be merely a creature of government, or in any wise to be of man's will, which is still worse, How blessed to see that it is a real organic whole, not only a living thing, but that He who is the spring of its life is the Holy Ghost Himself a divine person, who cannot but answer to the grace of the Lord Jesus whom He is come down to glorify. But now finding himself eclipsed, like a wily man, his object was to avail himself of this superior energy if it were possible. He figured that they would be coming to Mary's house looking for him and so he, no doubt, went to hide out from Herod. WebActs 12 shows that Peter and James put God first in their lives, regardless of the punishment they might receive. WebActs 12:1 (NASB) Now about that time Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the church, in order to mistreat them. To kill an apostle now was killing he knew not how many. These chains have fallen off; I'm walking past these guards. But why would God permit it? And so they would gird themselves up, that is, they would take the sash and they would pull the robe up to the knees and then they would tie the sash so that the robe would then be short and they could run faster. It was wrought not by those that had previously been always the great spiritual witnesses; for we hear of none ministering but the apostles, and indeed not even of all the apostles speaking, though it may be that they did. 1Ki 21:2 One day Ahab said to Naboth, Let me have your vineyard; it is close to my palace, and I want to use the land for a vegetable garden. The true text,* which has sufficient if not the most ancient authority, tells us that they spoke to Greeks or Gentiles. but they came with one accord to him, because they had made a friend of Blastus the king's chamberlain, and they desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country [or by Palestine]. Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our personsbut they are helpless against our prayers. (J. Sidlow Baxter). It was not a question of being saved in the day of judgment; nor is this the meaning of the term "salvation" in the New Testament. What I am suggesting is that Acts 12 illustrates not profound unbelief in prayer, but the churchs early experience of a truth later enunciated by Paul: God is able to He wished to gain fresh influence, not to lose his old: why not, by this new method, if possible, turn things to his own account? And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea and stayed there. . But a moment's reflection will show that the difficulty is only imaginary. But this was not enough for God. Gird yourself means to tie your skirt on up. The man just now so ignorant is not the channel that God was about to use for bringing out the remarkable confession that is introduced prematurely here. They felt in a measure, and justly, the tremendous deed that had been done. Vissza a szlvrosomba, mghozz eskv miatt. All descendants of Herod the Great down to the fourth generation, who were identified with the government of Palestine and are mentioned in the New Testament, are known in history by the surname Herod; Herod Archaelaus, Herod Antipas, Herod Philip II, Herod Agrippa I, and Herod Agrippa II (470). Josephus doth no where call him Herod, it may be, because he had a brother who was king of Chalcis, whose name was Herod. [Note: Bock, Acts, p. The Martyrdom of James; Peter's Imprisonment. 3. COMPLEJO DE 4 DEPARTAMENTOS CON POSIBILIDAD DE RENTA ANUAL, HERMOSA PROPIEDAD A LA VENTA EN PLAYAS DE ORO, CON EXCELENTE VISTA, CASA CON AMPLIO PARQUE Y PILETA A 4 CUADRAS DE RUTA 38, COMPLEJO TURISTICO EN Va. CARLOS PAZ. His stretching forth his hands to it intimates that his hands had been tied up by the restraints which perhaps his own conscience held him under in this matter; but now he broke through them, and stretched forth his hands deliberately, and of malice prepense. Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural. On the contrary, the grand bearing of this chapter is that now the tide of blessing is flowing away from Jerusalem. From that we learn that this was the headquarters of the Christian Church. It is too familiar how soon human superstition perverted this blessed institution of the Lord into a sacramental means of grace, duly administered by one in the line of succession. And so it was. (a) To call (name) by a supplementary (additional, alternative) name, (b) mid: To call upon, appeal to, address. The persecution of the Jerusalem church 12:1-24. Ananias, wholly unprepared for the call of such an enemy of the gospel, slow of heart to believe all, expostulates, as it were, with the Saviour. "Herod the king" was Herod Agrippa I whom the Roman emperor Gaius appointed king over Palestine in A.D. 37. To Antipas, Galilee and Perea; and to Archclaus, Judea, Idumea, and Samaria. He ruled Judea for three years, A.D. 41-44 [Note: Josephus, Antiquities of . And yet he had in his possession that famous Graeco-Latin Uncial (D) which he presented to the University of Cambridge in 1581, which MS. supports the Alexandrian. Philip had not the discernment to see through him: evangelists are apt to be sanguine. "In proportion to the apparent simplicity of the question, would be his surprise to hear it affirmed that he is mistaken, and that, in addressing a Christian society as a congregation of Christians, St. Paul merely regards it as a society of men professing the same faith, and participating outwardly in the same sacraments (it being immaterial to the idea whether they possess saving faith or not); a society invested with spiritual privileges, but not necessarily realizing those privileges, and that, consequently, we must lower the import of the terms, 'saints' and 'faithful in Christ Jesus,' to signify outwardly dedicated to God, and professing with the lips the doctrines of Christianity . 1. A Christian society which should openly profess to dispense with discipline, and tolerate on principle open and notorious evil doers [or still worse heretics, Antichrists, or their abettors] within its pale, would thereby renounce its title to one of the essential attributes of the Church; it would sever all ostensible connection between itself and the true Church [or rather Christ and His sacrifice: see1 Corinthians 5:1-13; 1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ], of which sanctity is an inseparable property; in short, it would unchurch itself.
