Open Door Baptist Church
Acts 8:1-25
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Paul didn’t participate in Stephen’s murder, but he didn’t do anything to stop it. He was determined to prove that he was the most zealous of all the pharisees. At this time he thought that meant he had to stop the spread of the church, but he must have been conflicted because of the impact Stephen’s sermon had on him.
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
( Acts 22:3-4 )
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
( Acts 23:6 )
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
( 1 Timothy 1:15 )
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Following the Lord’s commands
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But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
( Matthew 10:23 )
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And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
( Acts 6:5 )
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And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
( Mark 16:17 )
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- Sorcery –
- μαγεύων – mageuōn
- to practice magic
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Peter and John.
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Remember Ananias and Sapphira?
Matty (Headwind) 