WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:15.599 Story that he told as pertaining to Christ's conception, his birth, his life, his death, which is a crucifixion, his burial, and his ascension up, a resurrection, as well as his ascension. 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:26.640 And uh in that time when he first came, and these are statements that uh he himself made, he came only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:32.640 Those were natural Jews, or as Paul calls them, Jews after the flesh, Israel after the flesh. 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:44.640 And because that was the people he was in a covenant relationship with uh every Jew, every male that was circumcised the eighth day, as was the law of Moses. 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:55.520 It preceded the law, but once the law was implemented, it sealed the covenant, not so much between uh the descendants of Abraham, because every male had to be circumcised. 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:11.840 But when Moses came on the scene, circumcision was necessary so that you could be engrafted into the Abrahamic covenant, and then plus you had to keep the Sabbath, which was a uh sign between God and the nation of Israel. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:16.000 That was that was their perpetual uh uh sign. 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:35.840 And so for 1600 years, God tried to turn these people, he tried to salvage their souls, but he couldn't do it because they were stiff-necked rebellious, uh, there was obstinate until 2 Chronicles 36, that there was no remedy. 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:37.599 There was just no remedy. 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:48.640 And so he poured out his wrath upon them, and he allowed first of all the uh Babylon to bring them into captivity for 70 years. 00:01:48.879 --> 00:02:00.239 When he let them return, or remember returned, they rebuilt the temple that was burnt down in um 586 BC. 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:10.159 They rebuilt the temple exactly 70 years later, it was completed, the walls was completed, and uh they went back to the adulterous waves again. 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:22.960 And so he allowed uh the divided kingdom of the Grecians, and one of them was the solution, and the other one was the uh Ptolemy, which was Egypt. 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:29.680 And then, of course, one of the descendants of the solutions, uh Antiochulus, you might want to study him if you haven't. 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:31.439 We talked about him quite a bit. 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:37.439 Uh he caused the deadly sacrifice to cease, and it was a horrible time for them. 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:47.520 And then, of course, he he um delivered them again, and then uh that was during the Grecian era, and then came Rome. 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:53.919 And um, we'll talk about that another time, but maybe you're familiar with the terminology. 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:57.039 Uh, it was a beast perverse from all the other ones. 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:00.879 Rome was the most cruelest of the governments that had ruled Israel. 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:06.240 And when Jesus was born, he was born under Romans, occupation and rule. 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:10.400 And so uh there wasn't a liberty for the people. 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:16.159 Anytime they gathered together, Rome was somewhere, the soldier was somewhere monitoring them. 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:24.000 And uh the place they had of central worship, which was less restraint, but there still was Roman soldiers there, was a temple. 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:30.080 And Solomon's porch was one place that uh they could gather by the thousands on a daily basis. 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:43.680 And this is where this whole book, from chapter one uh right up to the persecution that started with the new against the New Testament church, which we pick up in uh Acts chapter seven. 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:49.439 And so these first seven chapters was a time of semi-peace for the church. 00:03:49.520 --> 00:04:00.800 He gave it a chance to be birthed and a chance to be um planted, and that it would could withstand the heat, withstand the persecution, and not stomp it out. 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:12.319 Um but I want you to pick up, we've been familiar with the book of Acts, which is I'm sorry, not Acts, Luke, which is the gospel that the same writer wrote. 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:24.720 And I'll just read uh um two verses, then I want someone to kind of bring me up from there all the way up to the conclusion of Acts chapter four. 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:29.839 Uh I'll just do verse one for just to get a foundation on the for the night. 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:34.879 The former theses are gospels, what he's making reference to. 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:36.959 Have I made O Theopolis? 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:41.199 Theopolis is a name, but the name means uh the love of the Lord. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:45.279 And so he's writing to a people, not just an individual, of all that Jesus. 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:46.560 Here's a key word. 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:49.839 He began both to do and to teach. 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:54.560 Began because he needed someone to finish his week. 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.079 He was cut off in the midst of the week, not just on a Wednesday. 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.600 I know some think it's Friday, but you read the Bible, it's actually a Wednesday. 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:02.959 That's another subject. 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:05.600 The week he's talking about is a week of days. 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:08.800 So in the midst of seven years, he was cut off. 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:12.399 Uh, three and a half years, he was put to death. 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:17.360 And so someone else had to finish his generation, as he says in Isaiah 53. 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:18.800 Of course, it was the apostle. 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:27.920 All that he began both to do and to teach, until this is where he stopped directly, until the day in which he was taken up. 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:29.360 He ascended. 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:34.959 After that, he he might want to underline these terms, he threw the Holy Ghost. 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:41.279 So the things that he taught, the things he explained, even the miracles he did was through the Holy Ghost. 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:48.240 Uh, to uh given commandment unto the apostles, uh, which he had chosen. 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:50.079 Wow, I'll stop there. 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:52.399 And so they're the one who finished this week. 00:05:52.560 --> 00:06:01.279 And uh, I need someone to pick it up from here, not necessarily reading, but kind of bring us through the events that bring us up to chapter five. 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:09.680 Um you can volunteer or you can be volunteer. 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.399 I prefer volunteers. 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:19.680 Okay, it's just a fabric. 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.240 You can you can uh walk us up there. 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:33.199 Say that again. 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:39.120 You can walk us up just the highlights of it's not before quick chapters. 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:42.560 Tell us that the chain of events that occurred. 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:47.839 And if someone loves you enough to assist you, it'll be wonderful. 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:50.160 Oh Lord. 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:53.839 Now I have heart palpitations. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.319 Someone help her out when her heart is palpitating. 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:02.240 I think I can help her. 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:05.759 I have a few things that you didn't already say, Brother Brown. 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:07.360 Okay, ma'am. 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:19.519 Um, what I gather from what we've been learning the the last few weeks uh is that the first few books of Acts was written to the Jews. 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:55.279 And that um it talks about when Christ's ministry first got started and in that time, how long it lasted, and then how the uh he was taken off, and how the apostles um we we referred to a scripture um about how even though he was no longer there, he was still considered the cornerstone because the apostles went about with his teachings and his doctrine that he the things that he taught them. 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:58.319 So that's that's that's all I could have. 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:00.240 Well, that's that's good. 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:01.920 We accept that we appreciate that. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:05.519 That you didn't already say I know you miss, I know you misstep. 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:07.759 I mean you misspoke when you said chapters. 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:11.360 I mean books have actually meant the chapters, and you're correct. 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:25.680 Up till up to chapter 10, it was either the Jews, that's where you began, which is in Jerusalem, and then of course it went all the way out to the Samaritans, which is in the eighth chapter. 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:31.680 And thereabout after into the 10th chapter, then it became all the way out to the Gentiles. 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:32.879 But I appreciate that. 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.919 Someone else help us real quick before time get away. 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:41.840 And then none elder. 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:51.840 I know y'all are not gonna make me cry. 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:55.440 Thank you, sir. 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:08.240 So um in the in the last chapter of Luke, Jesus gave his disciples a uh a requirement that they were supposed to do. 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:19.279 Um in Luke chapter 24, it told them to tarry in Jerusalem, and they'll be endued with power from on high, uh, and they will receive the promise. 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:24.799 And so in chapter 1, you can see that uh the disciples, they they were doing exactly that. 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:34.240 They were in Jerusalem, um, and they were gathered together, and he said he repeated the same thing in Acts chapter 1. 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:39.120 He said, Tarry in Jerusalem, and you will receive power from up on high. 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:51.120 And and um talked about the Holy Ghost, that it was gonna come, which the Holy Ghost was referenced also in John chapter 7. 00:09:51.360 --> 00:10:00.960 Um, Jesus had mentioned that uh the Holy Ghost, he was not, he was not yet glorified, and so the Holy Ghost was not yet given. 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:05.120 Well, so in chapter 1, they were just together. 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:10.879 Uh, all of the disciples, Peter, Andrew, James, John, Bartholomew, all of the men, they were together. 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:18.480 However, it wasn't twelve, it wasn't that governmental number that uh had to be for that foundation. 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:32.559 I think one of the scriptures Sister Michelle was even mentioning uh was in Ephesians uh chapter 2, it says we built upon the foundations of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone. 00:10:32.720 --> 00:11:02.320 And so those uh disciples they were together, but it wasn't that 12 because of uh uh Judas Iscariot, he basically gave up his bishopric, but someone had to fulfill that spot, someone had to uh be in that position uh to give it that that governmental number of twelve, and so uh the uh the apostles they cast lots, lot fell upon Matthias, uh, and he was named with the twelve. 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:11.440 And so now you have that governmental number, and that's chapter one, and then in chapter two, that's when the Holy Ghost it fell. 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:16.080 Uh, and that church was was inaugurated in uh Acts chapter two, verse one. 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:37.279 They were all in one accord, in one place, uh, and then that sound from heaven came as a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were gathering, and they were gathered, as you may mention, or as you were opening up, brother Brown, they were there in the temple, uh, and uh they were on Solomon's porch. 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.720 And so uh it was some other people that was there. 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:54.159 You had some meads, some Parthians, you had all sorts of people that were there, but and they didn't all speak the same language, and so that was the miracle that happened, how everyone was able to hear and understand in their own language. 00:11:54.320 --> 00:12:12.000 Uh, and so someone made a statement and said, These men are drunk, and then Peter began to speak, and he he preached the message from back when from when the nation of Israel first uh became a group of people, uh, and he walked them all the way down through when Christ came and how Christ had to come. 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:16.399 Um, and then uh it pricked some of those men and women's heart. 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:19.440 Uh, and I believe it's in Acts chapter 2, verse 38. 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:24.799 And at that point, the men and brethren they said, What must what must we do to be saved? 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:31.360 And Peter gave them the prerequisite, they needed to repent and be baptized, every one of you. 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:37.039 Um and so uh then you see people begin to be added to the church. 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:41.360 Um, but they those men and brethren, they still continue daily. 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:47.600 You mentioned fellowship, they continue daily from house to house, breaking bread and fellowshipping. 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:54.240 Um, they they stayed in one accord, those those people they stayed a knit community together. 00:12:54.399 --> 00:13:07.919 Um, and then uh I believe in, and I might be missing out a few things, but in Acts chapter 3, um there was this man that was uh he was lame and he was at the gate called Beautiful. 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:17.120 And so in Peter, they passed by, they saw this man sitting there, um, and this man had been lame for a very long time. 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:21.679 Um, and this man expected to receive something of Peter. 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:24.960 Uh, but Peter said, Silver and gold have I none. 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:35.360 And this man with the first, this is one of the first miracles that these apostles uh did, and this man that was lame, he rose up and walked. 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:45.039 And uh this was a great thing, and so of course, this miracle did attract some other people, and then more people began to be added to the church. 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:57.279 Um, and then when you get to, and again, I might be skipping a few things, but in the uh in the fourth chapter, um uh let's see. 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:02.799 Yes, well, go back to the third chapter. 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:07.919 Peter did make mention of repenting again, um, and that's uh verse 19. 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.159 He tells them to repent and be converted. 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:18.480 Um, and so the message of repentance is still being proclaimed, which is the same message that John preached in uh Matthew chapter 3. 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:21.840 Uh, he told them uh that they need to repent. 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:24.720 Um, so it's the same message. 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:33.519 Uh, and then when you get to Matthew, I mean I'm sorry, Acts chapter 4, um, it's still basically a continuation of that that man that was healed. 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:46.960 Um, and and um the people had to take note of Peter and John uh because they perceived that they were ignorant and unlearned, but they had to take note of them, they had to they had to really consider these men. 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:59.840 Um and so the life that these men were living, their conversation, their walk, their attitude, their boldness that they had in the word of God, uh, the people had to really consider that these men had been with Jesus. 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:15.039 Um, and so when you get to um down to the end of chapter four, um, you can see how the men and men and women they were all on one accord again. 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:19.519 I believe we touched a little bit about this on uh last Tuesday. 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:23.440 These men, these people, they all had a willing mind and a willing heart. 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.399 Uh they wanted to put their hand to the work of God. 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:32.159 Uh they want to help, they wanted to help uh with this establishment that had just started. 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:40.960 Um, and so uh you had men like Bar uh Barnabas and uh how he sold the possession that he had and he laid it at the apostles' feet. 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:52.799 And so the people that was at it, the people that was a part of that that uh uh that nucleus, uh, these people all had a mind to want to work for God. 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:56.159 Uh they wanted to give everything that they had for the work of God. 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:01.039 There was no hypocrisy, uh, there was no division uh in that group of people. 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:04.000 So I'll I'll stop right there, Brother Brown. 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:07.200 That was absolutely outstanding. 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:10.720 Um Brother Felton. 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:12.000 Very concise. 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:15.759 Um sister Michelle. 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:22.000 Well, I seen Sister, I seen Sister Vanessa. 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:25.360 Go ahead, ma'am. 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:26.240 I saw your hand up. 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:27.120 Yes, sir. 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:34.879 I just wanted to add two um quick quotes that you said in the beginning that kind of really helped frame the book of Acts for me. 00:16:34.960 --> 00:17:21.599 The first one you said in the very beginning was that the book of Acts is the bridge between two kingdoms, and we saw um the Old Testament kingdom or for the church in the wilderness, the laws were given in Exodus 20 through 23, and then the blood was sprinkled in chapter 24, and then for the New Testament church, the laws were given in Matthew 5, 6, and 7, and then we see the blood sprinkled in Acts chapter 2, and then the second quote you said, was he came for the whole world, but he did not come to the whole world, and that was basically the commission that he gave to the apostles in Acts chapter 1, and then we see um in Acts chapter 1, verse 22, um, where they were saying that one had to be ordained to be witness with us of his resurrection. 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:30.319 So that was the whole purpose of the apostles to be a witness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, first to the Jews and then to Judea, Samir, and then to the uttermost parts of the earth. 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:36.480 So those were the kind of the two quotes that you said in the beginning that kind of helped frame the book of Acts for me. 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:38.319 Beautiful. 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:39.680 You've done well. 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:46.400 Uh let me let me uh get us up to the fifth chapter. 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:50.559 Again, what's essential, and we can't ever lose sight of this. 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:52.640 You have to be able to visualize it. 00:17:52.799 --> 00:18:00.079 And to visualize something, there has to be a place, there has to be a time, there has to be a setting. 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:06.480 Uh, all these are the things that makes uh location events meaningful to us. 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:08.400 We have to be able to envision it. 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:12.799 And the minister job is to write the vision and make it plain that he didn't read, he can run. 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:30.079 So, uh, first of all, uh the key word that you want to remember until you get to the persecution of the church, uh, it's not just a temple, which is a spectacular building, but a location that everyone could gather. 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:36.960 And they did on every feast days, on uh holy days, and then just even days. 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:42.160 The number was swell when it was a feast day up into the many thousands. 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:44.640 But every day there would be thousands of people. 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:46.319 And uh, this is nothing new. 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:53.359 Jesus did preach by the river of Jordan, he preached in cities, he preached in villages, he preached in towns. 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:58.240 But when he was in Jerusalem, he went where there was a mass crowd of people. 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:08.240 Uh, if you go to John, I think we went over this before, but just to bring this up, I'm trying to draw the picture so you can see the events uh and just keep it condensed. 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:11.920 Go to John uh 10 and the 23rd verse. 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:28.319 And you want to write these keys down because it's very, very important, irregardless of what you would hear, because everybody in Pentecost started with the Azusa Street movement, uh reference the baptism of the Holy Ghost being in the upper room. 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:34.640 It was not in the upper room, but I don't take offense with people saying that, but you distort the picture. 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:39.279 120 people cannot be in a room, and you had men and women. 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:41.200 That's a total impossibility. 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:45.759 And then how could how could 3,000 people hear you in the upper room? 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:48.079 That's a total impossibility. 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:50.240 It wasn't a type of audience. 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.440 Uh but uh someone read from it, please. 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:55.359 Uh John 23. 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:01.039 John 1023. 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:09.680 And he and he turned them unto his disciples and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things. 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:12.000 That's not 1023, but Mike. 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:14.160 Oh, I'm sorry, I'm in Luke. 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:14.880 I'm sorry. 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:15.839 I'm sorry. 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:20.160 Sorry about that. 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:23.039 John 1023. 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:28.079 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:31.039 Then came the Jews round about him. 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:35.039 Okay, that's the essence, it's just showing you the location. 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:39.359 When he was in Jerusalem, this is how thousands of people heard him. 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:50.079 And when he told them to go tarry in Jerusalem until they'd be in due with power from on high, they kept what they understood uh was the law of God. 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:51.839 This is where they gathered. 00:20:52.079 --> 00:21:02.799 And uh even when they had that discussion among themselves, brother Phelps brought out real well that it was 11 people, but they needed 12. 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:04.240 That's a governmental number. 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:11.359 And that choice was made from people who had been with them from the baptism of John until the time that Christ was taken away. 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:18.640 And we know that he had a host of disciples, besides the apostle was seven, as is stated in Luke chapter 10. 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:22.400 I think verse 1 and 2 tells you that there were seven disciples. 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:24.720 In chapter 9, he sends out the 12. 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:27.680 And in chapter 10, he sends out another 70. 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:33.039 And so uh that's 82 people, and so this was not in the upper room. 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:35.759 This is a place where eight or two people was gathered together. 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:38.480 Well, 82 plus the 11. 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:46.400 And so that's 81 people, and uh, it's no doubt where it was, and uh that's in chapter one. 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:54.559 I'm giving this for a reason because Solomon's temple is gonna become critically important for you to understand the gathering, the reality. 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:56.000 This is not some myth. 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:59.680 This is historical, though it's spiritual, and we have to actually be able to. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:08.720 It and so uh once the government was established, you got 12 according to God's uh number, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 months and a year. 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:37.920 Uh then you go to two and one, and when the day of Pentecost, and it's talking about a feast day, which is exactly 50 days after Christ uh crucifixion, when the um Passover lamb was sacrificed, when the day of Pentecost was fully come, and now it starts in the evening, every day starts in the evening at sunset, but this is fully come, meaning this is daytime now in the morning. 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:41.759 There's with all uh with one accord in one place. 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:46.559 It doesn't tell you the place there, but if you keep reading, it doesn't leave room to where the place will. 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:49.519 And it's one place together, this is very important. 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:56.559 And of course, the misconception, uh I could just touch this, but so that we can keep truth from Phillips. 00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:02.000 Uh, the misconception, uh being in the upper room, it's in the first chapter. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:09.440 Uh, this is after Jesus spoke to them and told them again to re uh they'll receive power uh when the Holy Ghost came upon them. 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:12.160 Uh, then they return, verse 12. 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:20.160 And they then returned they to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olive, which is from Jerusalem Sabbath days' journey. 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:22.640 And when they was come in, they went. 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:25.279 Now he's talking about the 11 now. 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:28.559 They went in and went up into an upper room. 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:32.960 Then he where they are board, where a board he tells you who's a board in his upper room. 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:36.640 He named the eleven in verse 13. 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:41.759 Verse 14 say these all, he tells you what all is the 11. 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:46.880 These all continue with one accord in prayer and in supplication. 00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:54.000 They was not in prayer and supplication in the upper room, they went to the temple three times a day. 00:23:54.240 --> 00:24:05.039 The third hour, the sixth hour, third hour, nine o'clock in the morning, the sixth hour, 12 noon, and uh the ninth hour, which is three o'clock in the evening. 00:24:05.119 --> 00:24:06.960 This was the hours of prayer. 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:09.200 And uh, when he prayed, they went with the women. 00:24:09.279 --> 00:24:12.799 The only place that the women could actually go was Solomon's porch. 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:21.039 The only place that the Roman soldier was permitted, they couldn't go into the temple, even a Roman soldier that was just for the priests only, was on Solomon's porch. 00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:28.799 So these continuing prayer uh and supplication with the women, Mary and Mother of Jesus, and with his brother. 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:35.279 And of course, uh, he said, and in those days, Peter stood in the midst, in the midst of the disciples. 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:39.359 So it wasn't just the 11, but with the disciples and the women. 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:41.680 That's that they'll tell you what that's gonna be later. 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:46.480 Said the number of them names together, that's all of them was about 120. 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:48.160 That's not a strange number. 00:24:48.400 --> 00:25:00.720 If you have uh if you have 70 disciples, 11 apostles, that's 71, and they had spouses, their wives was with them, and they're uh and this is how you get to the 120. 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:06.000 And so then, as brother Philip pointed out, Peter began to proclaim, okay, we are we're at 11. 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:09.680 That's not a scriptorial number, that's not a governmental number. 00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:14.240 And of course, uh the one that was chosen, his name was Matthias, and he was never with them. 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:18.640 And so now, chapter two, verse hidden highlights, that's very important. 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:24.960 And then when the day of Pentecost was come, they was in one accord in one place, because it was time for prayer. 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:29.680 And of course, uh, that's when the the birth of the New Testament church was given. 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:35.039 When Sister Appreciated, Sister Vanessa, this is when the blood was supplied to them. 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:39.599 That's the talking about the baptism of the Holy Ghost, which brought life to the soul. 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:47.920 As he says in Leviticus, redundantly, the life of the creature is in the blood, and so the life of the soul is in the spirit of God. 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:55.680 Uh, and there uh you can begin to see it was a time of prayer, it was the hour of prayer. 00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:59.119 Uh, you can verify that by in the same chapter two. 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:08.640 If you go down to um the 15th verse, and it's making marker because these men were speaking, and it's a key word here. 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:15.039 They wasn't speaking in unknown tongues, they were speaking in other tongues, other than the tongue they knew. 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:32.720 But it was a supernatural phenomenon because it was the tongue of men, and though it wasn't native to them, it was native to someone who was in their temple, and so those people could hear someone out of that 120 speaking in their native language, in which they were born. 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:34.960 And I won't take the time to read, I know you know that. 00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:47.839 And some was marking, and so Peter says, uh, verse 15 these are not joint as you suppose, seeing this, but the third hour of the day, it is the hour of prayer, and they're in the temple. 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:51.119 The proof of that, again, give you a supporting scripture. 00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:59.599 If you go over to the third chapter, just real quickly, uh, look at verse 3, you're gonna see a continuation, and this is important. 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:07.039 Uh, the point I'm making is that these people initially they didn't have to go in the highways and hedges compelling men. 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:11.440 That was an audience every day down at the temple, every single day. 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:19.599 That was thousands of people, and so and this is what God had ordained because it was to the Jew first, and this is where you're going to find the Jews. 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:30.640 Uh, if you go to the first verse, now Peter and John went up together, here it goes again, into the temple at the hour of prayer. 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:35.200 It's the same one that he just mentioned on the day of Pentecost being the ninth hour. 00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:42.160 That's I'm sorry, yeah, being the ninth hour, which is showing you that's three o'clock in the evening. 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:45.920 So hence, uh, this is where they went for prayer. 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:47.359 They didn't try to pray in the upper room. 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:49.440 That's where they're bored, that's where they slept. 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:59.039 And if you can get 11 men in one room, you're still doing well, but it's impossible to get 120, and it's impossible for 3,000 people to hear you in a room. 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:10.319 So uh I want to point that out, and I need you to understand that because as we go through these chapters, uh, it's imperative that you see the reality. 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:11.519 This is not a myth. 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:23.119 And so when Peter began to stand up, as Brother Felton said, and preach the first message in the kingdom of heaven, the first message that was preached, Peter preaches it right here. 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:35.200 And uh uh Brother Felton, as well as says Vanessa pointed out, the message he preached was trying to convince them, help them to see that this Messiah that you've been looking for, it was Jesus. 00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:39.680 And to confirm that God begotten him from the dead. 00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:52.559 Uh I won't read all of it, but if you go down to the 32nd verse, uh even the 30 verse, he's talking about David. 00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:59.200 How David prophesied that is, he made a statement, David did, that God was not going to leave his soul in hell. 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:04.000 His soul is the life, it's your your memories, it's your thoughts, it's your affections. 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:05.200 That's the soul. 00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:10.000 And Jesus soul, he poured out his soul unto death, as he says in Isaiah 53. 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:12.480 And in hell, here is meaning the grave. 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:14.880 That's what he's making reference to in death. 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:21.119 Verse 27, because thou would not leave my soul in hell, neither suffer thy holy one to see corruption. 00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:27.200 Well, David was a king and a prophet, he wasn't a holy one, so he's prophesying about one to come. 00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:30.319 And so then he's trying to tell him, uh, tell the nation. 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:32.880 This is why Peter giving these information. 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:36.799 First message, verse 30, uh, he's explaining that verse. 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:50.640 Therefore, being a prophet talking about David, and knowing that God has sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his lawns, that's his natural descendants, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. 00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:53.039 The word raised up is interesting. 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:56.480 Uh, it don't mean he just raised him up in elevation. 00:29:57.119 --> 00:30:00.000 It's a play of raising them up from the dead. 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:01.519 That's what he's making reference to. 00:30:01.599 --> 00:30:04.480 And of course, the scripture will bear that out as we go on. 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:06.960 And now he's explaining in verse 31. 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:15.839 Seeing this before, he, that's David, seeing this before by being a prophet, spake of the resurrection of Christ. 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:17.759 That's what he means by raise him up. 00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:20.160 That was mean by what raised up Christ. 00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:26.559 He that is the resurrection of Christ, that his soul, Jesus' soul, was not left in the grave or hell or Hades. 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:30.720 Neither did his flesh, his body seek corruption. 00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:31.519 Wow. 00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:34.079 This Jesus has God raised up. 00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:36.079 Showing what raised up mean. 00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:38.880 Doesn't mean that he elevated him while he was on the earth. 00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:39.519 No. 00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:42.559 He was begotten when he came from the grave. 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:45.279 First time he was born, he was born of a woman. 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:51.119 This time he was born from the dead, from the grave, to never see death again. 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:53.200 Uh verse 32. 00:30:53.519 --> 00:31:04.960 This is the essence of what the Jews preached to the, I'm sorry, what the apostles preached to the Jewish people was the resurrection of Christ that bear witness that he was the Messiah. 00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:31.759 Uh, of course, I won't go too far into that, but you'll see that all the doctrines in Hebrews chapter 6, you'll see these things proclaimed, uh, not in a doctrinal form, but each one of them, uh, faith toward God, repentance from dead works, the doctrine of baptisms, you'll see laying on of hands, you'll see resurrection of the dead, which you're seeing right here, and you'll see eternal judgment. 00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:36.960 You'll see all these doctrines, how it was played out, uh, that is in the book of Acts. 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:39.759 You'll see them, you'll see them being presented. 00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:42.559 Here's the first one resurrection of the dead. 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:45.039 And Christ was the first fruit of those that slept. 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:47.279 And so now you get into the resurrection of the dead. 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:50.960 Christ was the first one to resurrect, to never die again. 00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:53.680 There was people who resurrected before Christ. 00:31:53.920 --> 00:32:02.480 Uh Jesus raised up Lazarus, uh, Jesus raised up a daughter, uh widow's son in the city of name. 00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:09.599 Uh, Elijah raised the dead, but all those people was resurrected in a natural way that they would go back to the grave. 00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:14.000 Christ was the first one to resurrect and never taste death again, could not die. 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:22.240 And so uh when you look at verse 32, um you're seeing the resurrection of the dead. 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:24.640 So this is the message he first preaching to them. 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:36.559 This is uh the message, and of course, he makes a profound statement after he was very gentle, and then he makes a statement that was pretty indicted. 00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:48.799 Uh, verse 36 Therefore, let all the house of Israel know as surely that God had made that same Jesus, look at this statement, whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ. 00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:53.279 They crucified him using the Roman government's hand, but they did it. 00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:56.720 They chose a thief and a murderer over the just one. 00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:58.640 So the blood was on them. 00:32:58.799 --> 00:32:59.920 It was on them. 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:06.480 And they even said the religious leaders um in Pontius Powers determined to let him go. 00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:12.559 And uh they say, if you let this man go, you're no friend of you're no friend of Caesar. 00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:13.359 Wow. 00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:19.519 And he said, What we should do is just let his blood be on us and on our children, and that's exactly what it was. 00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:23.039 Uh the Bible says you're snared by the words of your mouth. 00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:25.519 Um this quote, no, I'm not. 00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:26.960 Proverbs chapter six. 00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:29.279 You're snared by your mouth, that's how he put it. 00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:33.680 And you know, you're snared by your lips, and you're taken by the words of your mouth. 00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:38.400 Uh, that's verse one and two of uh uh anyway, let's keep reading. 00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:39.759 That's not the subject here. 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:46.799 Uh, and so that's when they heard this verse 37, they was pricked, that means convicted in their hearts. 00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:49.920 And he said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, this is important. 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:53.519 We want to get this out of the first two chapters. 00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:57.440 This is probably the most profound statement about to be made. 00:33:57.599 --> 00:33:59.680 What shall we do that is to be saved? 00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:04.559 And Peter gives them here is the plan of salvation, in case you don't know it. 00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:08.719 This is it in a capsule, encapsulated in its simplest form. 00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:12.239 Uh, you'll see the doctrine of baptisms, of repentance here. 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:12.960 Watch this. 00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:15.039 And Peter said of them, repent. 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:19.199 That's repenting, not just from your sins, but all these dead works. 00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:24.559 Uh, your your um your turtle dove offering, your celebrations. 00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:26.719 That's that was for a time. 00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:30.559 And now, since the day of Pentecost, that becomes dead works. 00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:39.519 Any religious activity that does not bring life to the soul or substantiate life to the soul is just dead works. 00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:41.760 And so he starts with this repent. 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:50.159 Then he says, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins. 00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:52.639 And that baptism is water baptism. 00:34:52.800 --> 00:35:03.840 Of course, it's not just one baptism, it is one baptism, but that one baptism has three distinct phases, makes the whole water, holy ghost, and fire. 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:05.519 Uh, I won't take the time to read it. 00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:07.039 You're familiar with the Bible. 00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:13.519 Uh, Matthew chapter 3, read from verse 11 and 13, he tells you 11, 12, and 13. 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:15.519 He gives them the same thing. 00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:18.000 Uh, I indeed baptize you with water. 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:19.840 That's John the Baptist, water one. 00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:25.039 He that cometh after me who shoes on that word the Lucy shall baptize you with, and baptize you with. 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:29.599 I baptize you with water, he's going to baptize you with the Holy Ghost. 00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:30.239 That's two. 00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:32.960 And which is a conjunction, fire. 00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:35.599 So that's water, holy ghost, and fire. 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:38.320 These three consummate and actually makes one. 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:42.559 It's like I write unto you, little children, I write unto you, young men, I write unto you, father. 00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:44.239 These three make one. 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:51.119 And so hence uh he introduced the subject right here because the Jews were not ever baptized. 00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:54.880 It was the proselyte of other nations who became Jews. 00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:56.480 They had to be baptized. 00:35:56.800 --> 00:36:00.239 They were baptized as a nation when they came across Jordan. 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:02.400 As he says in uh, what is that? 00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:04.559 1 Corinthians chapter 10. 00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:05.840 He was all baptized unto Moses. 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:06.480 That's another stuff. 00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:07.920 I don't go into further with that. 00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:09.440 Repent and be baptized. 00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:10.880 So you see two of the doctrine. 00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:13.599 You see repentance from dead works, and you see baptism. 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:17.360 Every one of you, look what he says in the name of Jesus Christ. 00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:24.960 The reason he didn't say the name of the Father, the name of the Son, and the name of the Holy Ghost, because those three are titles. 00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:29.519 They're prepositional phrases pointing back to the preposition. 00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:32.639 The preposition is name. 00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:39.280 The name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, all pointing back to one name. 00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:41.519 And so, what was that name? 00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:48.960 Paul said, Wherefore I bow my knees into the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, among the whole family and help her name, the stock name. 00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:50.960 Everything is done in the name of Jesus. 00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:52.800 You'll see that throughout the scriptures. 00:36:52.960 --> 00:37:03.599 As you said over the fourth chapter, I think it's four and twelve, when uh Peter said, There is no name uh under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. 00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:06.000 That's the only name you must be saved. 00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:08.639 And so Jesus said, Come in my father's name. 00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:09.199 Okay. 00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:12.960 Uh then he says, I'll send the Holy Ghost in my name. 00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:14.079 So that name is one. 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:16.639 When you say Jesus, you say in the Father's name. 00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:21.199 The Father is not named Jesus, but it's the authorization that he gave him. 00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:22.719 Uh that's enough of that. 00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:24.880 I'm just trying to touch these things. 00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:27.039 So repent and be baptized. 00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:29.519 So you see two of the sixth doctrine right there. 00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:36.079 Every one of you in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:38.159 I want to point out something real quick here. 00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:40.320 It's two different baptisms. 00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:42.880 Be baptized, everyone in the name of Jesus. 00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:47.119 That's one baptism, that's the that's water for the remission of sins. 00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:53.599