Scary Cool Christianity

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Scary Cool Christianity

• Acts 512-16

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Acts 512

• At the hands of the apostles many signs and
  wonders were taking place among the people and
  they were all with one accord in Solomon's
  portico.

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Signs and Wonders

• Sign
• semeion (say-mi'-on) an indication,
  especially ceremonially or supernaturally a
  sign, mark, token
• 1. that by which a person or a thing is
  distinguished from others and known
• 2. a sign, prodigy, portent,
• a. of signs portending remarkable events soon to
  happen
• b. of miracles and wonders by which God
  authenticates the men sent by him, or by which
  men prove that the cause they are pleading is
  God's

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Signs often confirm a covenant
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Wonder

• Wonder teras (ter'-as) a prodigy or omen
• a prodigy, portent miracle performed by anyone
• (Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's
  Greek-Hebrew Dictionary.
• (from Thayer's Greek Lexicon, Electronic
  Database. (c) 2000 by Biblesoft)

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Some Signs You Just Wonder about
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• William Branham had a powerful healing ministry
  in the 1940s and 1950s.
• God confirmed his message with signs and wonders,
  until he started to believe he was Elijah

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Acts 512

• At the hands of the apostles many signs and
  wonders were taking place among the people and
  they were all with one accord in Solomon's
  portico.

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They were all in one Accord?
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One Accord (More than agreement)

• homothumadon (hom-oth-oo-mad-on') from a
  compound of the base of NT3674 and NT2372
  unanimously (of one mind)
• homou (hom-oo') at the same place or time
• thumos (thoo-mos') passion
• (Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and
  Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew
  Dictionary. (c) 1994

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Acts 513

• But none of the rest dared to associate with
  them however, the people held them in high
  esteem.

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They were SCARY and COOL
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Magicians are Scary and Cool
Harry Houdini
David Blaine
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Lions and Tigers and Bears are
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Rock Stars can be
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You Can Be Scary and Cool

• but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit
  has come upon you and you shall be My witnesses
  both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,
  and even to the remotest part of the earth."
• Acts 18

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John 1412-14 TLB

• "In solemn truth I tell you, anyone believing in
  me shall do the same miracles I have done, and
  even greater ones, because I am going to be with
  the Father.
• You can ask him for anything, using my name, and
  I will do it, for this will bring praise to the
  Father because of what I, the Son, will do for
  you. Yes, ask anything, using my name, and I will
  do it!

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Acts 514

• And all the more believers in the Lord,
  multitudes of men and women, were constantly
  added to their number,

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Acts 515

• to such an extent that they even carried the sick
  out into the streets and laid them on cots and
  pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his
  shadow might fall on any one of them.

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Peter Had Nothing You Cant Have

• But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from
  the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ
  Jesus from the dead will also give life to your
  mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in
  you.
• Romans 811

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Acts 516

• Also the people from the cities in the vicinity
  of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing
  people who were sick or afflicted with unclean
  spirits, and they were all being healed.

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Casting out Demons is Scary and Cool

• And then he told them, "You are to go into all
  the world and preach the Good News to everyone,
  everywhere. Those who believe and are baptized
  will be saved. But those who refuse to believe
  will be condemned.
• "And those who believe shall use my authority to
  cast out demons, and they shall speak new
  languagesand they will be able to place their
  hands on the sick and heal them."
• Mark 1615-18 TLB

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Next Week

• The Apostles are arrested again
• God sends an Angel to let them out