ACTS

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• ACTS
• 932-43

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• UPCOMING EVENTS AT BBC
• February 12, Thursday
• Small group meeting is at the Gansons at 700pm
  We are studying the book of Ephesians

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• FROM
• PERSICUTOR TO
• PREACHER
• Acts 920-31

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• FROM
• PERSICUTOR TO
• PREACHER
• Acts 920-31

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• and he took food and was strengthened. Now for
  several days he was with the disciples who were
  at Damascus,
• (Acts 919 NASB)
• and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the
  synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God."
• (Acts 920 NASB)

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• and he took food and was strengthened. Now for
  several days he was with the disciples who were
  at Damascus,
• (Acts 919 NASB)
• and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the
  synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God."
• (Acts 920 NASB)

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• Immediately he preached the Christ in the
  synagogues, that He is the Son of God.
• (Acts 920 NKJV)
• and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the
  synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God."
• (Acts 920 NASB)

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• Immediately he preached the Christ in the
  synagogues, that He is the Son of God.
• (Acts 920 NKJV)
• and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the
  synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God."
• (Acts 920 NASB)

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• Immediately he preached the Christ in the
  synagogues, that He is the Son of God.
• (Acts 920 NKJV)
• and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the
  synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God."
• (Acts 920 NASB)

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• Immediately he preached the Christ in the
  synagogues, that He is the Son of God.
• (Acts 920 NKJV)
• and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the
  synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God."
• (Acts 920 NASB)

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• "He will be great, and will be called the Son of
  the Most High and the Lord God will give Him the
  throne of His father David
• (Luke 132 NASB)
• And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy
  Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the
  Most High will overshadow you and for that
  reason the holy offspring shall be called the Son
  of God.
• (Luke 135 NASB)

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• "He will be great, and will be called the Son of
  the Most High and the Lord God will give Him the
  throne of His father David
• (Luke 132 NASB)
• And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy
  Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the
  Most High will overshadow you and for that
  reason the holy offspring shall be called the Son
  of God.
• (Luke 135 NASB)

13

• and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily
  form like a dove, and a voice came out of heaven,
  "Thou art My beloved Son, in Thee I am
  well-pleased."
• (Luke 322 NASB)

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• and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily
  form like a dove, and a voice came out of heaven,
  "Thou art My beloved Son, in Thee I am
  well-pleased."
• (Luke 322 NASB)

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• And those who were in the boat worshiped Him,
  saying, "You are certainly God's Son!"
• (Matthew 1433 NASB)

16

• And they all said, "Are You the Son of God,
  then?" And He said to them, "Yes, I am."
• (Luke 2270 NASB)

17

• And they all said, "Are You the Son of God,
  then?" And He said to them, "Yes, I am."
• (Luke 2270 NASB)

18

• But He answered them, "My Father is working until
  now, and I Myself am working." 18 For this cause
  therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to
  kill Him, because He not only was breaking the
  Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father,
  making Himself equal with God. (John 517-18
  NASB)

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• But He answered them, "My Father is working until
  now, and I Myself am working." 18 For this cause
  therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to
  kill Him, because He not only was breaking the
  Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father,
  making Himself equal with God. (John 517-18
  NASB)

20

• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
  with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the
  beginning with God. 3 All things came into being
  by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into
  being that has come into being.
• (John 11-3 NASB)

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• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
  with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the
  beginning with God. 3 All things came into being
  by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into
  being that has come into being.
• (John 11-3 NASB)
• "theanthropic"
• Jesus Christ is the God-Man

22

• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
  with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the
  beginning with God. 3 All things came into being
  by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into
  being that has come into being.
• (John 11-3 NASB)
• "theanthropic"
• Jesus Christ is the God-Man

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• The separating line between the saved and the
  damned is what they think of Jesus.
• The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ is God.

24

• and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the
  synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God."
• (Acts 920 NASB)
• And all those hearing him continued to be amazed,
  and were saying, "Is this not he who in Jerusalem
  destroyed those who called on this name, and who
  had come here for the purpose of bringing them
  bound before the chief priests?"
• (Acts 921 NASB)

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• and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the
  synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God."
• (Acts 920 NASB)
• And all those hearing him continued to be amazed,
  and were saying, "Is this not he who in Jerusalem
  destroyed those who called on this name, and who
  had come here for the purpose of bringing them
  bound before the chief priests?"
• (Acts 921 NASB)

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• What can you say about Christianity when its most
  outspoken and zealous opponent suddenly claims to
  have seen the risen Christ, and to have trusted
  in Him as the Messiah?

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• But Saul kept increasing in strength and
  confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by
  proving that this Jesus is the Christ.
• (Acts 922 NASB)

28

• But Saul kept increasing in strength and
  confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by
  proving that this Jesus is the Christ.
• (Acts 922 NASB)

29

• nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were
  apostles before me but I went away to Arabia,
  and returned once more to Damascus.
• (Galatians 117 NASB)
• What do you suppose that Paul did for three years
  in the desert?

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• nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were
  apostles before me but I went away to Arabia,
  and returned once more to Damascus.
• (Galatians 117 NASB)
• What do you suppose that Paul did for three years
  in the desert?

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• nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were
  apostles before me but I went away to Arabia,
  and returned once more to Damascus.
• (Galatians 117 NASB)
• What do you suppose that Paul did for three years
  in the desert?

32

• And I will put enmity Between you and the woman,
  And between your seed and her seed He shall
  bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him
  on the heel."
• (Genesis 315 NASB)
• "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign
  Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a
  son, and she will call His name Immanuel.
• (Isaiah 714 NASB)

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• And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said,
  "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son."
  And he said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but
  where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" 8 And
  Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the
  lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So the two
  of them walked on together. (Genesis 227-8
  NASB)

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• And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said,
  "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son."
  And he said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but
  where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" 8 And
  Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the
  lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So the two
  of them walked on together. (Genesis 227-8
  NASB)

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• "Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying,
  'On the tenth of this month they are each one to
  take a lamb for themselves,... then the whole
  assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill
  it at twilight. 7 'Moreover, they shall take some
  of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and
  on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
  
• (Exodus 123-7 NASB)

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• "You search the Scriptures, because you think
  that in them you have eternal life and it is
  these that bear witness of Me
• (John 539 NASB)

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• In our raw state as young Christians, it may not
  be injurious to receive truth from pastors and
  parents, and so on but if we are to become men
  in Christ Jesus, and teachers of others, we must
  quit the childish habit of dependence on others,
  and search for ourselves. We may now leave the
  egg, and get rid of the pieces of shell as
  quickly as may be.

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• It is our duty to search the Scriptures to see
  whether these things be so and more, it is our
  wisdom to cry for grace to appropriate each
  truth, and let it dwell in our inmost nature.
• Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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• But Saul kept increasing in strength and
  confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by
  proving that this Jesus is the Christ.
• (Acts 922 NASB)

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• But Saul kept increasing in strength and
  confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by
  proving that this Jesus is the Christ.
• (Acts 922 NASB)

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• But Saul kept increasing in strength and
  confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by
  proving that this Jesus is the Christ.
• (Acts 922 NASB)

42

• And when many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted
  together to do away with him,
• (Acts 923 NASB)

43

• but their plot became known to Saul. And they
  were also watching the gates day and night so
  that they might put him to death 25 but his
  disciples took him by night, and let him down
  through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a
  large basket. (Acts 924-25 NASB)

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• but their plot became known to Saul. And they
  were also watching the gates day and night so
  that they might put him to death 25 but his
  disciples took him by night, and let him down
  through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a
  large basket. (Acts 924-25 NASB)

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• but their plot became known to Saul. And they
  were also watching the gates day and night so
  that they might put him to death 25 but his
  disciples took him by night, and let him down
  through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a
  large basket. (Acts 924-25 NASB)

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• but their plot became known to Saul. And they
  were also watching the gates day and night so
  that they might put him to death 25 but his
  disciples took him by night, and let him down
  through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a
  large basket. (Acts 924-25 NASB)

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• If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains
  to my weakness.
• (2 Corinthians 1130 NASB)
• Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with
  insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with
  difficulties, for Christ's sake for when I am
  weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 1210
  NASB)

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• If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains
  to my weakness.
• (2 Corinthians 1130 NASB)
• The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is
  blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
• (2 Corinthians 1131 NASB)

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• In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king
  was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order
  to seize me, 33 and I was let down in a basket
  through a window in the wall, and so escaped his
  hands.
• (2 Corinthians 1132-33 NASB)

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• In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king
  was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order
  to seize me, 33 and I was let down in a basket
  through a window in the wall, and so escaped his
  hands.
• (2 Corinthians 1132-33 NASB)

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• In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king
  was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order
  to seize me,
• (2 Corinthians 1132 NASB)

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• And when he had come to Jerusalem, he was trying
  to associate with the disciples and they were
  all afraid of him, not believing that he was a
  disciple.
• (Acts 926 NASB)

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• And when he had come to Jerusalem, he was trying
  to associate with the disciples and they were
  all afraid of him, not believing that he was a
  disciple.
• (Acts 926 NASB)

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• And when he had come to Jerusalem, he was trying
  to associate with the disciples and they were
  all afraid of him, not believing that he was a
  disciple.
• (Acts 926 NASB)

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• And when he had come to Jerusalem, he was trying
  to associate with the disciples and they were
  all afraid of him, not believing that he was a
  disciple.
• (Acts 926 NASB)

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• Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this
  temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
  
• (John 219 NASB)
• And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us,
  and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only
  begotten from the Father, full of grace and
  truth.
• (John 114 NASB)

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• Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this
  temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
  
• (John 219 NASB)
• And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us,
  and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only
  begotten from the Father, full of grace and
  truth.
• (John 114 NASB)

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• "He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE
  BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone.
  
• (Acts 411 NASB)
• "And there is salvation in no one else for there
  is no other name under heaven that has been given
  among men, by which we must be saved."
• (Acts 412 NASB)

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• And when he had come to Jerusalem, he was trying
  to associate with the disciples and they were
  all afraid of him, not believing that he was a
  disciple.
• (Acts 926 NASB)

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• And when he had come to Jerusalem, he was trying
  to associate with the disciples and they were
  all afraid of him, not believing that he was a
  disciple.
• (Acts 926 NASB)

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• But Barnabas took hold of him and brought him to
  the apostles and described to them how he had
  seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked
  to him, and how at Damascus he had spoken out
  boldly in the name of Jesus.
• (Acts 927 NASB)

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• Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to
  become acquainted with Cephas, and stayed with
  him fifteen days. 19 But I did not see any other
  of the apostles except James, the Lord's brother.
  
• (Galatians 118-19 NASB)

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• And he was with them moving about freely in
  Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the
  Lord. 29 And he was talking and arguing with the
  Hellenistic Jews but they were attempting to put
  him to death. (Acts 928-29 NASB)

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• And he was with them moving about freely in
  Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the
  Lord. 29 And he was talking and arguing with the
  Hellenistic Jews but they were attempting to put
  him to death. (Acts 928-29 NASB)

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• And he was with them moving about freely in
  Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the
  Lord. 29 And he was talking and arguing with the
  Hellenistic Jews but they were attempting to put
  him to death. (Acts 928-29 NASB)

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• And he was with them moving about freely in
  Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the
  Lord. 29 And he was talking and arguing with the
  Hellenistic Jews but they were attempting to put
  him to death. (Acts 928-29 NASB)

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• But when the brethren learned of it, they brought
  him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.
  
• (Acts 930 NASB)

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• "And it came about when I returned to Jerusalem
  and was praying in the temple, that I fell into a
  trance, 18 and I saw Him saying to me, 'Make
  haste, and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because
  they will not accept your testimony about Me.'
  
• (Acts 2217-18 NASB)

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• Then I went into the regions of Syria and
  Cilicia.
• (Galatians 121 NASB)

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• So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee
  and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up and,
  going on in the fear of the Lord and in the
  comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to
  increase.
• (Acts 931 NASB)

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• So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee
  and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up and,
  going on in the fear of the Lord and in the
  comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to
  increase.
• (Acts 931 NASB)

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• So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee
  and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up and,
  going on in the fear of the Lord and in the
  comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to
  increase.
• (Acts 931 NASB)

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• So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee
  and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up and,
  going on in the fear of the Lord and in the
  comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to
  increase.
• (Acts 931 NASB)

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JESUS IS THE CORNERSTONE

• Jesus is the Cornerstone,
• Came for sinners to atone
• Though rejected by His own,
• He became the Cornerstone
• Jesus is the Cornerstone

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• When I am by sin oppressed,
• On the Stone I am to rest
• Where the seeds of truth are sown,
• He remains my Cornerstone
• Jesus is my Cornerstone

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• Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
• Let me hide myself in Thee
• Rock of Ages, so secure,
• For all time it shall endure
• 'Til His children reach their home,
• He remains the Cornerstone

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• Til the breaking of the dawn,
• Til all footsteps reach His throne
• Ever let this truth be known,
• Jesus is the Cornerstone
• Jesus is the Cornerstone

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• Jesus is the Cornerstone
• Psalm 11822
• Isaiah 814
• Isaiah 2416
• Matthew 2142
• Acts 411
• Romans 933
• Ephesians 220
• 1 Peter 24

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IN CHRIST ALONE

• In Christ alone my hope is foundHe is my light,
  my strength, my songThis cornerstone, this solid
  groundFirm through the fiercest
• Drought and storm

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• What heights of love, what depths of peaceWhen
  fears are stilled,
• When strivings ceaseMy comforter, my all in
  allHere in the love of Christ I stand.

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• In Christ alone, who took on fleshFullness of
  God in helpless BabeThis gift of love and
  righteousnessScorned by the ones He came to save
• 'Til on the cross as Jesus diedThe wrath of God
  was satisfiedFor ev'ry sin on Him was laidHere
  in the death of Christ I live

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• There in the ground His body layLight of the
  world by darkness slainThen, bursting forth in
  glorious dayUp from the grave He rose again
• And as He stands in victorySin's curse has lost
  it's grip on meFor I am His and He is
  mineBought with the precious blood of Christ

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• No guilt in life, no fear in deathThis is power
  of Christ in meFrom life's first cry to final
  breathJesus commands my destiny
• No pow'r of hell, no scheme of manCan ever
  pluck me from His handUntil the day He calls me
  homeHere in the pow'r of Christ I'll stand