Closer To Heaven
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After Pentecost, Luke shifts the narrative to a general description of the inner life of the church in Jerusalem. “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers” ( Acts 2:42, NKJV ) .
Read more at the source: Sunday: Teaching and Fellowship
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Image © Pacific Press from GoodSalt.com Read for This Week’s Study: Acts 2:42-46 ; Acts 4:34-35 ; Acts 3:1-26 ; Acts 4:1-18 ; Acts 5:1-11 ; Acts 5:34-39 . Memory Text: “Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people” ( Acts 2:46-47 , NIV) .
Read more at the source: Sabbath: Life in the Early Church
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Further Thought: The outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost revealed a crucial truth about what happened in heaven and about how God the Father accepted Christ’s sacrifice for the sins of the world.
Read more at the source: Friday: Further Thought – Pentecost
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My apologies that the hymns are late for this week. Sunday – The Holy Spirit descended to the brand new church and so we ask for that now: Hymn 269, “Come, Holy Spirit” and Hymn 268, “Holy Spirit, Light Divine” . Monday – Hymn 250, “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing” and Hymn 81, “Though I Speak With Tongues” . Tuesday Peter’s sermon brings out the wonderful story of the resurrection of Jesus: Hymn 526, “Because He Lives” . On Wednesday, there are two hymns that remind us that Jesus is exalted: Hymn 166, “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today” , Hymn 230, “All Glory, Laud, and Honor Forgiveness is shown on Thursday in Hymn 299, “Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive”
Read more at the source: 2: Pentecost – Singing with Inspiration
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“Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear” ( Acts 2:33 ) . Image © Lifeway Coll. Goodsalt.com In the third part of the speech, Peter went back to the issue of tongues, which had attracted the people in the first place. Instead of being drunk, which would have been strange at nine o’clock in the morning ( Acts 2:15 ) , the believers were speaking in tongues because the Holy Spirit had just been poured out from heaven. Read Acts 2:33-36
Read more at the source: Wednesday: The Exaltation of Jesus
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