https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080830%20Acts%206vv7-10.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:42 — 7.5MB)Subscribe: RSSDiscover how Acts 6:7-10 shatters common assumptions about the early church. In this study of Stephen’s ministry, we explore why “a great many of the priests” believed, how signs and wonders relate to the Word of God, and whether Paul really changed the Torah—or […]
https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080823%20Acts%206vv1-7.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:13 — )Subscribe: RSSThe apostles, who were busy teaching and praying for the thousands of new believers in Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah, appoint seven exceptional men as deacons to manage a dispute over "equal treatment under the Torah" of needy Greek Jews and Hebrew Jews in the […]
https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080809%20Acts%204v32-ch5.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:35 — 9.9MB)Subscribe: RSSWhat does real unity in the Body look like—and how can careless words like “pagan” and “heathen” quietly tear it apart? In this study of Acts 4:32–5, we explore Spirit-led generosity, the shocking judgment of Ananias and Sapphira, and Gamaliel’s surprising defense of the […]
The early believers in Yeshua as God’s special Anointed One, His Messiah, had the Spirit of God bringing them together in “one heart” and “one mind.” Though the sharing of resources was a temporary necessity for pilgrims far from home and hungry for God, the commonality they experienced is something all believers throughout time must embrace.
The early believers in Yeshua as God’s Messiah had God’s Spirit bringing them together in “one heart” and “one mind.” Sharing was temporarily necessary for pilgrims, but all believers must embrace their commonality.
On the day after Shavuot (Pentecost), the priesthood in God’s temple are on trial, even as they put Peter and John on trial, as to whether they will cling to their presuppositions about God — that He created then vacated — or submit to the massive displays of God’s power in His house of prayer testifying to the reality that Yeshua is God’s Messiah.
There are language cues in Acts 3 that strongly suggest that it is a description of an event on the afternoon of Pentecost. Thus this is a continuation of the events of Acts 2. The Spirit of God is on display in the temple with power, a display meant to prompt Israel to “turn back” from their rejection God’s Messiah and be restored by God’s Spirit.