Faith and Courage Commentary on ActsChristian Liberty Press, 2004 - 544 pages |
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... Holy Spirit was doing in those days . Acts was written after A.d. 62 ( when Paul was released from prison , cf. Acts 28:30 ) , and before the nineteenth of July A.d. 64 ( when Nero began to persecute Christians after the fire of Rome ) ...
... Holy Spirit was doing in those days . Acts was written after A.d. 62 ( when Paul was released from prison , cf. Acts 28:30 ) , and before the nineteenth of July A.d. 64 ( when Nero began to persecute Christians after the fire of Rome ) ...
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... Spirit ( promising that He will be with us always , even to the ends of the age , cf. Matt . 28:20 ) . Our lives as Christians are to be lived with the reality of the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us and with the presence of ...
... Spirit ( promising that He will be with us always , even to the ends of the age , cf. Matt . 28:20 ) . Our lives as Christians are to be lived with the reality of the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us and with the presence of ...
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... Holy Spirit . Acts 1 : 2 Luke begins Acts where his Gospel ended ( with the ascension ) , however , Christ did not ascend until He had made provision for the care and maintenance of our salvation which is clearly seen by the amount of ...
... Holy Spirit . Acts 1 : 2 Luke begins Acts where his Gospel ended ( with the ascension ) , however , Christ did not ascend until He had made provision for the care and maintenance of our salvation which is clearly seen by the amount of ...
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... Holy Spirit to walk in His ways . We are given the gift of the Spirit so that we might have the ability to face all things ( Phil . 4 : 13— " I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me " ) and also fulfill the Great ...
... Holy Spirit to walk in His ways . We are given the gift of the Spirit so that we might have the ability to face all things ( Phil . 4 : 13— " I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me " ) and also fulfill the Great ...
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... Holy Spirit . Jesus had promised that He would give them this if they waited . Now they were waiting — not so they could make big names for themselves , or so they could impress people with their wisdom or power , but they waited ...
... Holy Spirit . Jesus had promised that He would give them this if they waited . Now they were waiting — not so they could make big names for themselves , or so they could impress people with their wisdom or power , but they waited ...
Contents
Section 15 | 311 |
Section 16 | 317 |
Section 17 | 333 |
Section 18 | 347 |
Section 19 | 361 |
Section 20 | 373 |
Section 21 | 376 |
Section 22 | 461 |
Section 9 | 227 |
Section 10 | 255 |
Section 11 | 289 |
Section 12 | 297 |
Section 13 | 302 |
Section 14 | 307 |
Section 23 | 483 |
Section 24 | 494 |
Section 25 | 504 |
Section 26 | 529 |
Section 27 | 536 |
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Page 217 - They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us ; but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 278 - O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Page 465 - Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us...
Page 473 - The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture...
Page 278 - For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness; all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Page 266 - He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Page 224 - O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken : Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Page 236 - I have set the LORD always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 251 - Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Page 262 - Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?