The Sharing And Sins Of The Saints
ACTS. 4:32-5:11
Miles Seaborn
INTRO: The church has been born. Like anything newborn, it is unstained, clean, pristine. Happy days, fellowship and love is real and their testimony is loud and clear throughout Jerusalem and so many are being saved and baptized into the church fellowship they stop counting! 5,000, 10,000, 20,000. They prayed for more boldness. It came. More people were saved and it grew! God was real, Christ alive, the Spirit at work. New life. New nature. What a delight to visualize it .
Bus as we come to our message today, we are going to see the first occasion of sin in the church. There are many firsts in the book of Acts, but this is the saddest of all. Satan, in his effort to persecute the church, had only given Peter and John the opportunity to preach the gospel to the Sanhedrin. In an effort to stop the church's boldness, Satan had only allowed them the privilege of increasing it,. He found out that external pressure only tends to fan the flame. Satan knew that he had to get at the very base of the fire. Therefore, he began to infiltrate the church. It's a heartbreaking text because this is the beginning of that which has continued to plague, disease, cripple and even kill the church throughout history - the sins of the saints.
I. THE SHARING OF THE SAINTS - 4:32-37
1. Spiritual Participation Verse 32a 1)Preoccupation with each other. 2) Preoccupation with reaching the lost
2. Strong Preaching - Verse 33
1) Given by the Apostles
A. Continuation
Saints Sins/2
B. Obligation
2) Grace for the Apostles
A. Favor of the People
B. Favor of God
3. Sharing Practically - verse 32b-34, 35
1) The Attitude - verse 32b -
2) The Act - Verse 34
ILL. Is there such a thing as Christian communism? Acts 2:34 states, "Neither was there any among them that lacked, for as many as were possessors of lan ...
ACTS. 4:32-5:11
Miles Seaborn
INTRO: The church has been born. Like anything newborn, it is unstained, clean, pristine. Happy days, fellowship and love is real and their testimony is loud and clear throughout Jerusalem and so many are being saved and baptized into the church fellowship they stop counting! 5,000, 10,000, 20,000. They prayed for more boldness. It came. More people were saved and it grew! God was real, Christ alive, the Spirit at work. New life. New nature. What a delight to visualize it .
Bus as we come to our message today, we are going to see the first occasion of sin in the church. There are many firsts in the book of Acts, but this is the saddest of all. Satan, in his effort to persecute the church, had only given Peter and John the opportunity to preach the gospel to the Sanhedrin. In an effort to stop the church's boldness, Satan had only allowed them the privilege of increasing it,. He found out that external pressure only tends to fan the flame. Satan knew that he had to get at the very base of the fire. Therefore, he began to infiltrate the church. It's a heartbreaking text because this is the beginning of that which has continued to plague, disease, cripple and even kill the church throughout history - the sins of the saints.
I. THE SHARING OF THE SAINTS - 4:32-37
1. Spiritual Participation Verse 32a 1)Preoccupation with each other. 2) Preoccupation with reaching the lost
2. Strong Preaching - Verse 33
1) Given by the Apostles
A. Continuation
Saints Sins/2
B. Obligation
2) Grace for the Apostles
A. Favor of the People
B. Favor of God
3. Sharing Practically - verse 32b-34, 35
1) The Attitude - verse 32b -
2) The Act - Verse 34
ILL. Is there such a thing as Christian communism? Acts 2:34 states, "Neither was there any among them that lacked, for as many as were possessors of lan ...
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