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THE BEGINNING OF THE CHURCH AGE

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  Intro into the book of Acts   Kent Hughes wrote in his commentary on Acts, he said, “One reason I love to study the book of Acts is its uniqueness. It is the sourcebook for the spread of early Christianity.”   The birth of the church is God’s mission for the world to know the gospel.   The work is finished, but unfinished!  In the sense Christ has conquered sin and death completely, so that sinners can enter in, through repentance and faith, and nothing may be added to it .  But now God has purposed the church to be His hands and feet with the gospel that saves to uttermost parts.  The Book of Acts is the beautiful beginnings of His church, God’s plan, for God’s people to grow in the Scriptures, and to worship Him in the new birth.  Luke writes to his dear friend Theophilus (his name means “friend of God” we don’t know much about this man, but we do know according to Luke he is “most excellent”  We read in Luke’s first letter, ...
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DEAD MAN WALKING

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  Luke 19:37-44 "Dead man walking" is a phrase traditionally used in prisons to identify a condemned prisoner being led to execution. It now commonly acts as an expression for anyone facing unavoidable doom, such as a, likely, impending job loss or a failed, desperate situation.  As Jesus enters the city for the last time, He comes prepared to die on a cross for the sinfulness of mankind, though they are ignorant to the reality that Jesus is a “Dead man walking”   This special Sunday is a historical event of gospel prophecy fulfilled.  All four of the Gospels contend that this incident was the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy.  The gospel writers affirm what was said by the prophet Zechariah, who was among the fifty thousand, or so Jews, who returned in the first wave of Hebrews, who were released from Babylonian captivity in 536 B.C.  He wrote about this event five centuries before the birth of Jesus in 520 B.C.  The prophet’s main empha...
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