Open Door Baptist Church
Acts 5:24-32
Just read.
Acts 5:33-42
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The threat of imminent death was very real. This is why the Angel of the Lord let them out of prison.
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Gamaliel was well regarded as a scholar of the law.
Acts 22:1-5
Paul studied under Gamaliel. He uses the name to give himself authenticity when confronting the Jews in Jerusalem.
Gamaliel was clearly tender towards the Holy Spirit. He had not hardened his heart against the new Christianity and he was prepared to wait and see what would happen.
Gamaliel’s wisdom had apparently been instilled into Paul, and when he looked at the situation objectively he realized that …
And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
( Acts 9:5 )
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Gamaliel clearly has a Godly perspective on what Peter has been saying.
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
( Proverbs 1:23-25 )
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Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
( James 4:13-17 )
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Proverbs 1:1-7
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Matty (Headwind) 