It was as thoroughly according to God that the apostle should not lay his hands on any this day, as it was according to His wisdom that they should lay their hands on the Samaritans. God had published it already to the sons of Israel, and the good man rejoiced in it. He valued the ancient people of God; nor is he indeed the only centurion that loved their nation. This prayer lacks What was most sweet soon became bitter, as it often is in the things of God. 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. WebFirst, there was unity in prayer many were gathered together praying (12:12), any differences that might have separated people from one another were now completely lost As the Jews watched the gates to kill him, the disciples took him by night and let him down the wall in a basket. Answering to the vision, messengers bring the apostle to the household of Cornelius, and Peter opens his mouth to the following effect: "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. (i) Herod Philip the First. Looked at another way, this section confirms Israels rejection of her Messiah. Had he not read or heard those words in the prophets? Gird yourself means to tie your skirt on up. It was now guilty of resisting unto blood, not merely as their fathers had done, but the heavenly testimony of Jesus. Here it is not this, but simply the indiscriminate. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. To the argument drawn from the use of similar terms under the Mosaic covenant in a merely national and external sense to prove that they mean the same, and nothing more, under the gospel., our author answers, "Here, in fact, is the real source of the error. Way, more, had these been Presbyterians, all under the same government, the phraseology would not have been even the church of Judea, and the church of Galilee, and the church of Samaria, but all these would have been in one church, and even then but a small part of a church. Rengeteg ismers, sajtos hangulat lepte be az ifj TovbbEgy gynyr ifj pr legszebb napja kpekkel EskvI fotzs Tapolcn, Rvid trtnetem egy gyri fotzsrl. The persecutor died but the church continued to grow (24-25). Among the Gentiles we know that they were installed, as we shall see a little later, by apostolic choice. It recalls the power of God to rescue those chosen for Gods mission, a power repeatedly demonstrated in the past." He was assuredly, before Peter went, a converted man. At the same time scripture shows there might be and often was an interval after the gospel did go forth. 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. Lote en Mirador del Lago:3.654 m2.Excelente vista al Lago, LOTE EN EL CONDADO DE 1430 m2, EN COSQUIN. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch." 276-78.] How often our words show where we are! The believers in John Marks house prayed for Peter when he was in prison, and the Lord delivered him both from prison and from death (Acts 12:111), 11. "But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews that dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ." It is the message of life, but it is also the means of peace. 1. Paul tells us in Galatians how he came to the church in Antioch, caused some trouble that Paul had to rebuke him for. - Pastor David Jetts daily prayer: Lord, SPEAK to me today SEARCH me today SHOW me today SEND me today. - The saint who advances on his knees never retreats. (Jim Elliot) - Be sure that no time is so well spent as that which a man spends on his knees. (J.C. Ryle) - Pray without ceasing. ( 1 Thessalonians 5:17) "He went on his way rejoicing." ( Acts 12:3 ). The Holy Ghost came upon them, not merely, it will be observed, certain spiritual powers, but the Holy Ghost Himself. At Joppa too was wrought a still more striking miracle of the Lord in Tabitha's case, already dead, than in that of Eneas, who had been paralysed for years. The church at Antioch fasted and prayed before sending out Barnabas and Paul (Acts 13:13; and note 14:23), 12. To Philip was left Iturea and Trachonitis. He did so. When Peter had recovered his faculties he said, "Now I know for sure that the Lord sent his angel and delivered me from the hand of Herod and rescued me from the fate that the people of the Jews looked forward to for me.". Alas! ACTS Prayers (Adoration, Confession, T Religious persecution is invariably ruthless and blind even to the commonest feelings of humanity. I mean, they woke up and here Peter was gone, and you can imagine the stir that this must have created among these guards to find Peter gone. Nevertheless even he, apostle though he were, must enter by the same lowly gate as another. But for himself and his household, what could he do but pray till the rich blessing came? . A comparison of the last verses of Acts 11 and this chapter (Acts 12) suggests that Barnabas and Paul made that trip to Jerusalem with relief for the victims of the famine at about the time of the events given in Acts 12, this being in 44 A.D., a date determined by the death of Herod Agrippa I. Ignyes eskv fotzs vllalok Veszprmben, mvszi s dokumentarista fotkkal tudlak titeket elkprztatni. . Matthew 7:15 13. Quite right: only the true text delivers from the need of wresting the force of a word, and is as simply as possible Greeks, not Grecians, and means Gentiles without the smallest difficulty or discussion. It was of the greatest importance that unity should be kept up practically, not merely that there should be proclaimed the truth that there is unity, but that there should be the maintenance of it in practice. But now all was changed. (iii) Archelaus ( G745) . "Luke doth at length declare that certain of them brought this treasure even unto the Gentiles. And interestingly enough, Jesus, after His resurrection, did appear unto James as Paul tells us in I Corinthians Acts 15:7 . It is not only in cases of our judgment (for there is nothing that so often judges a man as his own judgment of another); but also where the desire goes out after that which we have not got. We are given a striking prefiguration of the evil king that will be found in the latter day; he that will reign over the Jews under the shadow and support of the Gentiles as Herod was, and not less but more than his prototype bent on the murder of the innocents, and with his heart full of evil for others who will be rescued by the goodness of the Lord. In the midst of a storm, Paul prayed for Gods blessing (Acts 27:35), and after a storm, he prayed that God would heal a sick man (Acts 28:8). Thus Cornelius was aware that God had sent the gospel to the Jews; but there was precisely where he necessarily stopped short. The word in the Greek is Passover after the time of unleavened bread. One of his wives, Miriam, had a son, Aristopollis that was murdered by Herod the Great, as was Miriam. 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. Nevertheless we learn hence that they had prayer-meetings in those days; and so they gave themselves up to this special prayer for the servant of the Lord, who did not fail to appear by an agent of His providential power. This who was here crowned with martyrdom was one of the first three of Christ's disciples, one of those that were the witnesses of his transfiguration and agony, whereby he was prepared for martyrdom; he was one of those whom Christ called Boanerges--Sons of thunder; and perhaps by his powerful awakening preaching he had provoked Herod, or those about him, as John Baptist did the other Herod, and that was the occasion of his coming into this trouble. "And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest." Then said they, It must be his angel ( Acts 12:13-15 ). Vissza a szlvrosomba, mghozz eskv miatt. He was the ruler of Galilee and Peraea. It was even, and urgently, pressed on them, but they refused with disdain the message, and rejected the messengers to blood. The Old Testament saints were just as safe before the work of Christ as they were afterwards, but this work put them on a ground of conscious salvation before God. The promise was not merely to them and to their children, but to all "afar off, as many as the Lord their God should call." Immediately the angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God. 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. For courage to witness for Christ (Acts 4:2331) 3. . Because when they are told that God has answered the prayer, Peter's at the door and they don't believe it, they accuse the poor little girl of being crazy. and to the brethren. Acts 12:12 And when he had realized this, he went to the house of A zene vegyes felhozatal volt egy kivl Dj-vel. When he had beheaded James, he proceeded further, he added, to take Peter also. Kezdjk azzal, hogyan is szletik azeskvi fots. And he put Peter in prison intending to bring him forth for trial and execution, but God intervened and miraculously delivered Peter. Azeskvi fotzst, eskvi szolgltatk munkjt rendszerint a felszn alapjn tlik meg, de elmeslem a valsgot megmutatni mindenfle kdsts nlkl. How could anything seem too great and good to him whose heart had just made the acquaintance of Jesus? "You gotta have faith brother! It must be his spirit. And in the area around Caesarea they had observed all of these sand dunes, and one day someone started digging down into one of these sand dunes and they found this beautifully preserved Roman theater there right next to the Mediterranean Sea in Caesarea. All who are informed in these matters are aware that the best authorities reject the entire verse. This precisely Cornelius had not known, nor could any one have known it till the work of redemption was done. Two soldiers were chained to him and two watched the doors. Acts 9:1-43. Matthew 12:30 14. But what is more to the purpose for us Gentiles, when Cornelius and his household were brought in, not only no appearance of it is visible, but positive proof to the contrary. But because Easter takes place during Passover season, because Jesus was crucified at the time of the Passover, He also rose again three days later. Herod stretched forth his hand against the church and he killed James the brother of John with the sword. "Christianity, as it appears in the New Testament, knows nothing of the atomistic theory of modern independentism. "That word ye know," says Peter, "which was published throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him . This is the brother of our Lord. This was all happening during the days of Unleavened Bread, right after Passover (v. 3), around the same time Jesus was Crucified a decade or so previous. 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. Their lands lay to the north of Palestine and in two ways Herod could make things very difficult for them. For all that God took precaution to bind up together the work at Samaria with that which He had wrought at Jerusalem. (a) To call (name) by a supplementary (additional, alternative) name, (b) mid: To call upon, appeal to, address. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea and stayed there. . There was at this time some quarrel between Herod and the people of Tyre and Sidon, for whom the quarrel was a serious matter. "In the opening chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, the Christian dispensation is seen in actual operation; for that with the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost that dispensation properly commences will probably be admitted by all parties. But he had heard the voice of His mouth, and His words were spirit and life, eternal life, to his soul. Evidently the authorities remembered the last time Peter had been arrested, and how he had mysteriously escaped from jail. He was guarded by four quaternions of soldiers. When this Hence it is there were mighty powers that wrought by those who were employed by the Holy Ghost; as, for instance, by Philip himself; afterwards also by the disciples, when Peter and John came down and laid their hands upon them with prayer. In this case Peter had God's own direct warrant in the vision, not of the church (for this was not the meaning of the sheet let down from heaven), but decidedly of the call of the Gentiles. All this confirms its having a Jewish aspect, regarded as a type, and was very natural in James and Peter, who had to do specially with the circumcision. But why would God permit it? He killed James, John's brother, with the sword. The church, not merely in a city but in a province or country, is intelligible enough to man; but it soon became more difficult to see its unity in various and differing provinces. Well, it's hard to run in a robe. Did he address them as absolutely destitute of the vital principle of grace, or as possessing it, but needing exhortation to walk conformably thereto? For according to the Roman law, if you were guarding a prisoner and he escaped from you, then you received the sentence that would have been given to the prisoner. But a moment's reflection will show that the difficulty is only imaginary. Those of his family who cross the pages of the New Testament are as follows. But in the sense in which they supposed themselves to be Christians, do they, to all appearance, apply that title to those to whom they write" (pp. He would have His people, where they give, to have a voice. ACTS Prayer Method - How to Do It + What it Means If he deflected the trade of Palestine from their ports their revenues would be seriously impaired. However, in answer to the prayers of the Jerusalem church, Peter miraculously escaped (6-11). Is this too much to ask? He was the grandson of Herod the Great who was the Herod at the time of the birth of Jesus. Prayer Sermon by Greg Nance, Acts 12:1-30 - SermonCentral.com He began with vexing them only, or afflicting them, imprisoning them, fining them, spoiling their houses and goods, and other ways molesting them; but afterwards he proceeded to greater instances of cruelty. Man, Israel, not merely Saul, was altogether blinded: the flesh never knows God. . Jesus was talking about His death and Jesus said, "Ye shall indeed be baptized with the baptism wherein I was baptized: but to grant to you to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is something really that isn't really in my jurisdiction, that is given to the Father" ( Matthew 20:23 ). 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. A menyasszony ton a fodrszhoz s a sminkeshez, a vlegny pedig felkszl a nagy napra testben s fejben. 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. So Paul and Barnabas had come back to Jerusalem with this collection that was taken from the church in Antioch. And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. Scripture does show, though it does not sanction as divine, a faith that is founded on evidence. characteristic of Christendom. If you He was the father of Salome (see G4539) . The Spirit puts us in presence of the freedom of the servant, as he pleads with the Lord, for neither man nor even the child of God ever reaches up to the height of His grace. But they lived very close to the spiritual world, to the spirit world. I merely make this remark lest any should draw from this the inference that there is a necessity for men commissioned from God to lay on hands now in order to confer such a spiritual blessing. Worse, Tyre and Sidon were dependent for their food supplies on Palestine and if these supplies were cut off their case would be serious indeed. "The Lord hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost." (Acts 10:1-48). And not the angel but the Spirit guides now. Ha csak nem kritek kln, nem viszlek titeket msok ltal annyira kedvelt s elcspelt macskakves tra, ahol ti lenntek az ezredikek, akik ilyen fotval bszklkednek. The final result of what took place when God sent an angel to destroy Herod Agrippa was realized some 20 years later when Titus and Vespasian destroyed Jerusalem. Oh why should any confessor of Christ why should any child of God shrink from rendering godly satisfaction to those that seek it? 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. Merrill F. Unger gives the following comment on the name Herod: It belonged alike to all the Herodian house as known to the Scriptures. Prayer is both the thermometer and the thermostat of the local church; for the spiritual temperature either goes up or down, depending on how Gods people pray.[1]. Saul (as he is still called) and Barnabas are made the channels of bringing the contributions to the elders not named before. But Herod was angry with them. If you don't have faith, God's not going to answer your prayers. How essential to the idea of a Church the exercise of discipline is, may be seen from the embarrassing contrarieties between theory and practice which the virtual suspension of it in the Church of England is constantly occasioning" (pp. And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry ( Acts 12:24-25 ), Remember they had taken up an offering. 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. His spite was at the church, and, with regard to those he gave trouble to, it was not upon any other account, but because they belonged to the church, and so belonged to Christ. But Peter waited there knocking. This is why the church advanced more dramatically in Gentile territory, as the rest of Acts shows. (1) Herod harasses the church. The word "Grecians" does not mean "Greeks," but rather Greek-speaking Jews; to whom the gospel had been preached long before, as the cases of Stephen, for instance, and Philip clearly testify. Among the various spiritual gifts then common in the Church, the chief place was to be assigned to prophecy; 'for he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.' Prayers To Cancel Bad Dreams 18. It is scarcely credible that he should lay hands on any of them himself in person; but it is very likely he encouraged his soldiers, or his servants, to abuse them, reproach them, strike and buffet them, as they met with them in the streets; or when at worship, might disturb them, and break them up. There is a mistake, not only in our vernacular Bible, but also in the common Greek text which is equally faulty as the authorized version. These essential conditions of the existence of any regular society we find from the very first in being in the Church: the Apostles were the officers, and, collectively, the organ of the community; members were admitted into it by baptism; and they testified their continuance therein by participating in the sacrament of Christ's body and blood. "And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man." 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. "It can't be real. Finally, after the call of Saul of Tarsus, Peter himself (as well for other reasons as in order to cut off the semblance of discord in the various instruments of His grace) is brought in to show the perfect balance of divine truth and the wonderful harmony of His ways. We must recollect that in the Apostolic Church an effective discipline the very idea of which seems to be lost amongst us existed. At the passover, when the Jews came from all parts to Jerusalem to keep the feast, they irritated one another against the Christians and Christianity, and were then more violent than at other times. Barnabas was quite justified in seeking Saul. WebDIVINE PRESERVATION PRAYER POINTS. But now finding himself eclipsed, like a wily man, his object was to avail himself of this superior energy if it were possible. The change in James may well be another great example of the power of the Cross to change the lives of men. Web1. 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. But it was God's way. Cornelius, I apprehend, was just in this case. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. The greatest precautions had been taken to see that Peter did not escape. As we are told here and the Spirit delights to give such an account "he was a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.". But he was intending to bring him forth for judgment and, of course, for execution at the end of the Passover period. "All that dwelt in Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord." Hence the great importance of discipline. James sheds his blood, as Stephen had before; for this Peter was destined by man, but the Lord disappointed him. Stephen prayed as he was being stoned (Acts 7:5560), 5. the truth of his deliverance. In the remarks sometimes made upon this subject it seems to be assumed that there is no medium between our affirming of persons that they are not perfect Christians, and that they are not Christians at all; whereas in fact there is no Christian, however holy, who comes up to the ideal of Christian practice. "One visible manifestation, then, of the sanctity of the Church is the holy walk and conversation of individual Christians; but there is another, and more formal, mode in which she professes herself to be holy, and that is, by the exercise of discipline. Where man chooses for human things, we have the Lord recognising it. Note what the Christians were doing. Vincent says the word "vex" is used "in the older and stronger sense of torment or oppress rather than its modern usage of petty annoyances" (508). Or it was to show that though the apostles were appointed to plant the gospel in the world, yet if they were taken off God could do his work without them, and would do it. *The copyists of old seem to have confounded in writing, as the Latin and most other ancient translators did in rendering, (Greeks) and (Hellenists), here and elsewhere. Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /var/www/html/familytimes/includes/rss/esvLookup.php on line 15, View this passage in NIV (Bible Gateway) , Acts 9:32-43Peter Used by God in Joppa to Heal Beloved Dorcas, Acts 10:1-8Cornelius on a Mission for God, Acts 10:9-22Gods Message to Peter through a Vision, Acts 10:34-48Peter Preaches to Cornelius Household, Acts 11:1-18Peters Defense to the Legalists, Acts 11:19-26Barnabas Seeks Saul to Help with Discipleship, Acts 11:27-2Antioch Believers Send Encouragement to Jerusalem, Acts 12:3-11Continual Prayer Brings Results, Acts 12:18-25Gods Judgment on King Herod, Acts 13:1-12Paul Confronts a Sorcerer at Cyprus, Acts 13:4-12Saul (Paul) Confronts a Sorcerer at Cyprus, Acts 13:13-25Paul and Barnabas Say Farewell to John Mark, Acts 13:26-41Paul Preaches the Gospel of the Resurrection, Acts 13:42-52Gentiles are Receptive to Pauls Message, Acts 14:13-20From God to Stoning Paul Still Committed to Preach, Acts 15:6-11Jerusalem CouncilDiscussion Re: Moses Law, Acts 15:12-21A Decision based on Gods Word, Acts 15:30-41A Disagreement about John Mark, Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our personsbut they are helpless against our prayers. 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