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7 days ago
7 days ago
THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION (Acts 1:1-9)
The book of Acts is a wonderful, wonderful, book, and we are going to be looking at this book for quite a while. As a matter of fact, I got to thinking about a title for this particular study and I came up with “That Old-Time Religion.” Now, the reason that I want to call it “That Old-Time Religion” is that we need to take a look back, so that we might really face the future. And it is very important that we do this today, because it is the Old-Time Religion that needs to be the New-Time Religion.
The book of Acts tells a very impressive story of what happened in the first century when the church was created. The book of Acts is the story of success. It is the story of a church triumphant. Really, it is the story of a small group of unlettered, uncultured people with meager resources, very little money, no prestige, no colleges, no seminaries, no radio or television, no internet, Google didn’t exist, there were no printing presses, and no magnificent buildings in which to draw people in. All they had was a small group of people who went out to tell the story of a publicly executed Jew.
They went out against great obstacles. They faced the imperial might of Rome, the intellectual sophistication of Greece, the religious bigotry of that day, and they turned that world inside out, and upside down, for Jesus Christ. They did so much with so little. Today, we do so little with so much. Therefore, I believe we need to go back and see what they did, and how they did it. And for that reason, we are going to be studying the Book of Acts, which is the story of a church on fire with evangelism and growth, and I believe it can become our pattern for today. And I want God to burn the message into your heart.
Click on the play button to hear a message on what Jesus can accomplish through you, if you let Him. Do you want this year to be a great year? Then recognize His presence in you, receive His promise to you, and respond to His program through you.
Our prayer, today, should be “Father, I pray, in the name of Jesus, that You would make me a greater soul winner. And Lord, help me to recognize that, in the truest sense, You are the one who draws those people to Yourself as You inhabit my humanity and display Your deity. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”
This is a live recording of The Master’s Class Bible Study at LifeChange Church Wichita, KS.
Amen.
Sunday May 25, 2025
Sunday May 25, 2025
INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF ACTS (Acts 1:1-8)
Today, we begin our study of the book of Acts. The KJV lists the title of this book as “THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.” Of course, the titles of the books in our Bibles are not inspired, they were inserted by the translators, so there will be differences based on the translation, although this, and the “THE ACTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,” are the two that you will generally see. But to me, a title that would more accurately describe the book is “The Lord Jesus Christ at Work by the Holy Spirit through the Apostles.” The reason I like that title is this book is, first and foremost, about the work of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit, to establish the New Testament church, in order to call out a body of believers, whose mission would be to spread the Gospel message to the uttermost parts of the earth.
The Book of Acts, which is sometimes called the fifth Gospel, is a continuation of the Gospel of Luke. Luke is the writer, and it was written in about the year 60 A.D. The Book of Acts is remarkable in many ways, for it is a bridge between the Gospels and the Epistles. The New Testament without the Book of Acts leaves a great hole that needs to be filled.
The Book of Acts furnishes a ladder on which to place the Epistles. It is something that allows us to climb from the gospels into the Epistles. For the book of Acts gives the history of the founding of the churches to which the Epistles are directed. The book of Genesis records the origin of the spiritual body, and the book of Acts records the origin of the church.
Click on the play button to hear a message on the special features of this wonderful book. It speaks of the prominence of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is prominent. He is at work from the vantage place of heaven itself. And it also speaks on the Prominence of the Holy Spirit. Christ promised to send the Holy Spirit. You and I are living in the age of the Holy Spirit. The great fact of this age is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in believers.
This is a live recording of The Master’s Class Bible Study at LifeChange Church Wichita, KS.
Amen.