But it is still more strange as evidence of the slipshod criticism of the Reformers that Beza, who was more of a scholar than his predecessors, uniformly edits , and writes a blundering note to the effect that it is here used in the sense of . Veszprm is a szvem cscske, rengeteg emlk kt oda s milli lehetsget rejt egy j e-session vagy eskv fotzshoz. WebThe following are prayer points for personal revival and spiritual awakening that you can use to pray and bring back the fire of the Spirit into your life, church and community. and they took with them John who was surnamed Mark. There now broke out upon the Church, and especially upon its leaders, a new wave of persecution instigated by King Herod. .," pp. See Luke 3:1; see also an account of the Herod family, see in Clarke's note on "Matthew 2:1". Going back to verse Acts 12:5 . The reading of the Sinai MS. ( ) is a mere blunder, not uncommon in that most ancient but not very accurate document, arising from confusion through a contiguous word; it would give the sense of "unto the preachers, preaching the Lord Jesus." A. 2. He was the father of Salome (see G4539) . Then we learn another important lesson. stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church; Beza's ancient copy adds, "in Judea": it seems to be the church at Jerusalem; perhaps some of the principal members of them; and so the Ethiopic version renders it, the rulers of the house of God. Without this, faith is good for nothing, nor is God Himself honoured in His own word. Prayers To Get A Permanent Job 15. He was not entitled to take the peace of the gospel till God warranted Peter to bring it to him. Male facta male factis tegere ne perpluant--One evil deed is covered with another, so that there is no passage through them. Acts 4:23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. "Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the very same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus." God's going to do what God wants to do whether you have faith or not. For according to the Roman law, if you were guarding a prisoner and he escaped from you, then you received the sentence that would have been given to the prisoner. ], The supernatural deliverance of Peter 12:1-19, "Peters rescue from prison is an unusually vivid episode in Acts even when simply taken as a story about Peter. Evidently it was power in external display, then so richly manifested, which acted on the fleshly mind of Simon, himself having the reputation of a great one, and before this the vessel of some kind of demoniacal power the miserable power of Satan, with which he dazzled the eyes of men. Or it was to show that though the apostles were appointed to plant the gospel in the world, yet if they were taken off God could do his work without them, and would do it. Simon can only answer, "Pray ye to the Lord for me." (ii) Herod Antipas (see G493) . Pray we exercise our gifts according to the grace given us (12:6-8). Whether this was the ease among the Jews scripture does not say; but that there were persons who had this responsible place among them, as among the Gentile churches afterwards, we see clearly. It is said according to the Gospel of the Hebrews, in one of the Apocrypha books, they have James saying after the death of Jesus and before His resurrection that he said, "I will not believe unless I can see Him myself." He is a nephew to the Herod who had John the Baptist slain. Thus, God preserved him. This was probably about the fifth or sixth year of the reign of Claudius, not far from 47 ad. And I don't think the prayers of the church were the deciding factor, because as we noted, the prayers obviously were not prayers of faith.I believe the deciding factor was just the purpose of God, the sovereignty of God. At the same time there is the pity that belongs to one who knew the grace of God, and saw the end of all in His judgment. There is no question of a Jew, but "Whosoever believeth in him." God would cut off the very appearance of this. It was not enough that they had rejected the Messiah, nor even that He was made Lord and Christ on high. 12:12-19 When Peter had grasped what had happened, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John, who was surnamed Mark. By the Holy Ghost there is imparted all the firmness of a divine bond, and all the intimacy of a real living relationship of the nearest kind. Is this too much to ask? But before Aristopollis was murdered, he had this son Herod Agrippa. Peter was on the housetop praying when God told him how to be the answer to Cornelius prayers (Acts 10:9), 10. Precautions could go no further. And so it has been completely excavated around there and partially restored, and it is a very interesting sight and an interesting study in Roman architecture and it gives us a little bit of the culture.Now according to Josephus, it was into this theater, which is an outdoor theater that Herod came, according to Josephus, with this fabulous robe made of silver cloth. "You gotta have faith brother! God has no pleasure in the death of a sinner. 2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. When they would gird themselves, and the purpose of it is they would wear these long robes kind of things. Note, Those make themselves an easy prey to Satan who make it their business to please men. The church at Antioch fasted and prayed before sending out Barnabas and Paul (Acts 13:13; and note 14:23), 12. The gift of the Spirit is not at all the same thing as the gifts. WebVerse 12. Certain - Some of the church. "Then had the church rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria." WebPrayers To Get A Permanent Job This Month 12. (iv) Herod Philip the Second. His pedigree contains several infamous characters who opposed the purposes of God. It was no longer a question of Jerusalem only even for Peter, but without being called to the same largeness of work practically as the apostle Paul, he nevertheless passes throughout "all quarters" of Palestine, and comes down to the saints at Lydda, and is seen by those of Saron. Genitive case of hos as adverb; at which place, i.e. the Jews did not believe in Him; but whosoever did, let him be Jew or Gentile, "shall receive remission of sins." They gained the ear of Blastus the king's chamberlain and sued for peace because their country was dependent for its sustenance on the king's territory. I cite from the Calvin Tr. And no wonder. Herod stretched forth his hand against the church and he killed James the brother of John with the sword. is stricken by an angel, and dies miserably. Worse, Tyre and Sidon were dependent for their food supplies on Palestine and if these supplies were cut off their case would be serious indeed. Nor is it that the other disciples had not the same faith. Herod laid hands upon some of the church to afflict them, so some read it; he employed his officers to seize them, and take them into custody, in order to their being prosecuted. This solemn act was not merely an ancient sign of divine blessing, but of identification also. He said, "Tell these tidings to James and to the brethren." Not a ray of the light of Christ had entered the heart of Simon, and so Peter at once detects the false heart. He had been educated at Rome, but he deliberately cultivated the good graces of the Jewish people by meticulously keeping the Law and all Jewish observances. In fact, it tells us much aboutprayer. The very essence of faith is that you do not run before God, but receive what and as He sends to you. But this was not enough for God. 7-11). 2. The governor at that time, Herod Agrippa I (a grandson of Herod the Great), knew it was not wise to let the Jews become too excited. And so it was. However, in answer to the prayers of the Jerusalem church, Peter miraculously escaped (6-11). The Syriac so renders it expressly, and the chronology requires us so to understand it. The end of the chapter shows us the progress of Peter. With the apostles becoming more involved with matters outside Jerusalem, James the brother of Jesus was now the most prominent leader in the Jerusalem church (Acts 12:17; Acts 15:13; Galatians 1:18-19; Galatians 2:9,Galatians 2:12). His appointment was to take care of the tables. There is a mistake, not only in our vernacular Bible, but also in the common Greek text which is equally faulty as the authorized version. The name Herod is the surname used by all the linage of Herod the Great. Note what the Christians were doing. When Caligula was slain, he was at Rome, and having ingratiated himself into the favor of Claudius, he conferred on him also Judea and Samaria, so that his dominions were equal in extent to those of his grandfather, Herod the Great. Iturea, Trachonitis, Abilene, with Gaulonitis, Batanaea, and Penias. Such was the faith of Simon. 466, 467. In this case Peter had God's own direct warrant in the vision, not of the church (for this was not the meaning of the sheet let down from heaven), but decidedly of the call of the Gentiles. The light that shone suddenly on him was from heaven. "Who art thou, Lord?" To pray like that, is to pray with Gods love on our hearts. Surely He is always wise and consistent with Himself. On the fourteenth of Nissan they began the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and so it was during this Feast of Passover that Peter was arrested. Prayers Against the Spirit of Affliction 16. Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. But what a rebuke is this to those that would make the church to be merely a creature of government, or in any wise to be of man's will, which is still worse, How blessed to see that it is a real organic whole, not only a living thing, but that He who is the spring of its life is the Holy Ghost Himself a divine person, who cannot but answer to the grace of the Lord Jesus whom He is come down to glorify. A believer would have wondered more at the grace of God, and bowed in adoration before Him. But this detects the man. Thus all the first-rate Uncials, the Sinai, Vatican, Alexandrian, and Palimpsest of Paris, supported by some of the best cursives and all the best ancient versions, oppose the vulgar reading. The holy city had rejected the gospel. All this confirms its having a Jewish aspect, regarded as a type, and was very natural in James and Peter, who had to do specially with the circumcision. Herod may have won the appreciation of the Jews, but he has lost any respect he may have had in the eyes of God. ", Even here the intimation is sufficiently plain that the Gentiles were in the foreground of the work designed for Saul of Tarsus. The despised and hated name of Jesus is the only hope for man, Jesus is the only Saviour and Lord. He was a grandson of Herod the Great, and one of the sons of Aristobulus, whom Herod put to death (Josephus, Antiq., 18, 5). But at the same time to my own mind it seems to be only homage to God's word to affirm positively that of which I am sure. Who that honours scripture can pretend that hands were laid on any then? theology. The latter is, unquestionably, the ground which he takes" (pp. A vltozatossg varzsolja szness a vilgunkat, s ettl olyan klnleges nlam egy fotzs.
How to Pray with the ACTS Prayer Method There was among them a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost, of whom we have had a happy report before, as we shall hear many (though not altogether unmingled) good tidings to the end.
PRAYERS it is beautiful to see how the Lord thus, even in the history of that which was unprecedented and might seem to lie outside Christian wants, provides in His blessed word for the every day difficulties we have to prove in such a day of weakness as ours. He slew James, as, when any sedition is raised, the heads and captains go first to the pot, (750) that the common riff-raft may by their punishment be terrified. An event that is unique, and vividly presented as such, takes on the importance of the typical when it reminds us of other similar events. Then they said, "Well, it must be his angel. Such was the emphatic and characteristic presentation of His person assigned to the apostle, and this at once. He said to him, "Wrap your cloak round about you and follow me." "It has already been remarked that, far from intending to establish a mere invisible fellowship of the Spirit, our Lord contemplated His Church as having a visible existence, His followers as collected into societies [that society called the Church or assembly of God]. 1Ki 21:2 One day Ahab said to Naboth, Let me have your vineyard; it is close to my palace, and I want to use the land for a vegetable garden. There were two exceptional occasions on which one or more of the apostles so acted, but at times of more general interest and importance nothing of the sort was heard of. The people of Tyre and Sidon, anxious to ensure a constant food supply from Herods territory, had tried to win his favour with a show of extravagant flattery. They are, indeed, a sign to unbelievers, and that such is the result we find shown us by the Spirit of God in the chapter before us. Ministry. 4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. Scripture does show, though it does not sanction as divine, a faith that is founded on evidence. In fact, James thought that his brother Jesus was mad, and at one time sought to rescue Him from the crowd. And Luke calleth these Grecians not but [?]. . Therefore, the more godly Cornelius was, the less would he dare to put forth his hand for the blessing before the Lord told him to stretch it out. When Peter had knocked at the door of the entrance a maidservant called Rhoda came to answer the door. he cried, and hears, "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest." There was more work for him to do. Ananias, wholly unprepared for the call of such an enemy of the gospel, slow of heart to believe all, expostulates, as it were, with the Saviour. 1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. Heavenly Father, I pray that I may be quick to confess my own sin, eager to trust Your word and faithful to obey Your commands.. and that I abide in You and You in me, so that I may be a 'man' after Your own heart - to Your praise and glory. It is not only that God uses one and another: this He does and we may bless Him that so He does; but the God who employs means is also above them, and He needs now only to draw out by circumstances the souls of some simple Christian men who had faith and love to seek the Gentiles without requiring the same vigorous and extraordinary means, under His mighty hand, as even the apostle did.