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Notes on Acts 13:42-52
Introduction: This look at Acts
13:42-52 is being made with the use of Young’s Literal Translation.
Students of God’s word for years past, present, and future have
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(Author of Young’s Analytical Concordance.) Remember God’s Word
is God’s word. These are just translations
of the original. These translations are used for the study of God’s
word and for your enjoyment. I have a saying
to my Grandson; you need to broaden your horizons. If you listen
to a preacher or teacher expound on God’s
word, they are doing the same as a translation or commentary. Other
forms of Biblical writings fall in these
same categories. Again enjoy with the help the Holy Ghost.
As with always the Devil uses people
that have positions try to disrupt the spread of the Gospel.
The study of these verse reviles The Work of the Grace of God continues
forward and is powerful.
The leaders need to keep their hearts on the Grace of God. Keeping
the purpose of God Foremost is the first step
of receiving the entire blessing of God.
Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible by J.N. Young, 1862,
1898
(Author of the Young's Analytical Concordance)
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
This work, in its present form, is not to be considered as intended
to come into competition with the ordinary
use of the commonly received English Version of the Holy Scriptures,
but simply as a strictly literal and
idiomatic rendering of the Original Hebrew and Greek Texts. For
about twenty years—fully half hislife—time
—the Translator has had a desire to execute such a work, and has
been engaged in Biblical pursuits tending
to this end more or less exclusively; and now, at last, in the good
providence of God, the desire has been
accomplished. How far he has been able to carry out the just principles
of Biblical Translation, founded
on a solid and immoveable foundation, time alone will tell, and
for this he confidently waits. As these principles
are to some extent new, and adhered to with a severity never hitherto
attempted, and as the Translator has
perfect confidence in their accuracy and simplicity, he proceeds
at once to state them distinctly and broadly,
that not merely learned, but the wayfaring man need not err in appreciating
their value.
There are two modes of translation which may
be adopted in rendering into our own language the writings of
an ancient author; the one is, to bring him before us in such a
manner as that we may regard him as our own;
the other, to transport ourselves, on the contrary, over to him,
adopting his situation, modes of speaking,
thinking, acting,—peculiarities of age and race, air, gesture, voice,
&c.
Each of these plans has its advantages,
but the latter is incomparably the better of the two, being suited
—not for the ever—varying modes of thinking and acting of the men
of the fifth, or the tenth, or the fifteenth, or some other century, but—for
all ages alike. All attempts to make Moses or Paul act, or speak, or reason,
as if
they were Englishmen of the nineteenth century, must inevitably
tend to change the translator into a paraphrast
or a commentator, characters which, however useful, stand altogether
apart from that of him, who, with a work before him in one language, seeks
only to transfer it into another.
In prosecuting the plan thus adopted,
a literal translation was indispensable. No other kind of rendering
could place the reader in the position contemplated, side by side
with the writer—prepared to think as he does,
to see as he sees, to reason, to feel, to weep, and to exult along
with him. His very conception of time, even in the
minor accidents of the grammatical pasta, present, future, are to
become our own. If he speaks of an event, as
now passing, we are not, on the logical ground of its having in
reality already transpired, to translate his present
as if it were a past; or if, on the other hand, his imagination
pictures the future as if even at this moment present, we are not translators
by expounders, and that of a tame description, if we take the liberty to
convert his time,
and tense—the grammatical expression of his time—into our own. King
James’ translators were almost entirely unacquainted with the two distinctive
peculiarities of the Hebrew mode of thinking and speaking, admitted by
the
most profound Hebrew scholars in theory, though, from undue timidity,
never carried out in practice, viz:—
I. That the Hebrews were in the habit of using the past tense to
express the certainty of an action taking place, even though the action
might not really be performed for some time. And
II. That the Hebrews, in referring to events which might be either
past or future, were accustomed to act on the principle of transferring
themselves mentally to the period and place of the events themselves, and
were not
content with coldly viewing them as those of a bygone or still coming
time; hence the frequent use of the present tense.
These two great principles of the Hebrew
language are substantially to be found in the works of Lee,
Gesenius, Ewald, &c.; but the present writer has carried them
out in translation much beyond what any of these ever contemplated, on
the simple ground that, if they are true, they ought to be gone through
with. While they affect very considerably the outward form of the translation,
it is a matter of thankfulness that they do not touch
the truth of a single Scripture doctrine—not even one.
Every effort has been made to secure a
comparative degree of uniformity in rendering the original words and
phrases. Thus, for example, the Hebrew verb nathan, which is rendered
by King James’ translators in
sixty-seven different ways (see in the subsequent page, entitled
‘Lax Renderings,’) has been restricted and
reduced to ten, and so with many others. It is the Translator’s
ever—growing conviction, that even this smaller number may be reduced still
further.
It has been no part of the Translator’s
plan to attempt to form a New Hebrew or Greek Text—he has
therefore somewhat rigidly adhered to the received ones. Where he
has differed, it is generally in reference to
the punctuation and accentuation, the division of words and sentences,
which, being merely traditional, are, of
course, often imperfect. For an explanation and vindication of these
differences, the reader is referred to the “Concise Commentary,” which
is designed to supplement the present volume.
The Translator has often had occasion to regret the want of a marginal
column to insert the various renderings
of passages where he has been unable to satisfy his own mind—he
has, however, cast the chief of these into an
appendix, under the title, “Additions and Corrections.” a still
more elaborately in the supplementary volume.
EDINBURGH, 10th Sept. 1862
More translations below the comments.
Acts 13:42-52 YLT
Act 13:42 And having gone
forth out of the synagogue of the Jews, the nations were calling upon
them that on the next sabbath these sayings may be spoken to them,
Facts:
1.
Where were they? Jews were gone out of the synagogue, Paul and Barnabas.
2.
Nations == Gentiles== Greeks.
3.
What did they ask? To lecture next Sabbath how the Gospel applied
to the Gentiles
(nations- Non-Jewish).
4. They the
Gentiles had friends they wanted to bring to heard. How long has
it been since you invited
someone to church.
A. This is what happens if the Gospel is preached with courage and authority.
B. We know Paul and Barnabas had the authority of the Holy Ghost, Christ
alive in them.
C. They used God’s Word. The Old Testament.
D. Things occur when God’s word is used. Heb 4:12
1. They either get angry.
2. They can get saved, receive eternal life. John
3:16.
3. God’s word leaves man works out.
Pro 3:5 Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, and unto thine own
understanding lean not.
6 In all thy ways know thou Him, and He doth make straight thy paths.
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside
from evil.
4. Who does the Saving? Who’s plan of Salvation is the salvation of Man’s
soul?
Eph 2:5 YLT even being dead in the trespasses,
did make us to live together with the Christ,
(by grace ye are having been saved,)
6 and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly
places in Christ Jesus,
7 that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding
riches of His grace in kindness
toward us in Christ Jesus,
8 for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and
this not of you--of God the gift,
9 not of works, that no one may boast;
10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to
good works, which God did before prepare,
that in them we may walk.
One of the greatest things about the fact that sinful as I am a man . God
left man out
of the plan of the salvation of my soul. I am glad God does the saving
for that reason He can do
the keeping. Is you God all powerful. Can he save completely?
Heb 7:25 YLT Therefore he is also able to save to the
uttermost those who draw near to God
through him, seeing he ever lives to make
intercession for them.
I have a saviour that ever speaks up for me. “Father,
I (Christ) died for him.”
Heb 10:12 YLT but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins
for ever,
sat down on the right hand of God;
13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool
of his feet.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are
being sanctified.
The salvation of our soul by
God’s plan is so grand, why should we want to add our filthy, sinful, works
to
any thing a blameless God has done for any soul that
will recognize Christ as saviour.
Heb 2:3 YLT how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation
-- which at the first having been spoken through the Lord,
was confirmed to us by those who heard;
4 God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders,
and by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit,
according to his own will?
According to whose will? God’s own not man's..
Act 13:43 and the synagogue
having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes did
follow Paul and Barnabas,
who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God.
Facts:
1. Services were over.
2. One of two or more things
were happening.
A. The one Group was still staying under the law. The Law has only been
a school master.
The law God gave Moses never Saved.
B. The preaching of the Gospel 1 Cor 15:1-11
had brought them under convicting of the Holy
Spirit.
C. They were eager to study more of the Grace of God.
3. Proselytes = PROS'ELYTE,
n. [Gr. to come.] A new convert to some religion or religious sect, or
to some particular opinion, system or party.
Thus a Gentile converted to Judaism is a proselyte; a pagan converted to
Christianity
is a proselyte; and we speak familiarly of proselytes to the theories of
Brown, of Black,
or of Lavoisier. The word primarily refers to converts to some religious
creed.
PROS'ELYTE, v.t. To make a convert to some religion, or to some opinion
or system.
4. Who again had been
speaking to these Proselytes? Paul – Barnabas.
5. Paul and Barnabas
encouraged them to stay in worship of the Lord. There was not any fear
of them losing the salvation of their souls. They weren’t going to lose
their souls by
changing their heart and not believing in God’s finished work any more.
If you were in a
church were should you be there to learn more about the Grace of the Lord.
To learn more about
the Grace you need to be around Christians which are grounded in
the world of God.
Act 8:31 YLT
He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?"
He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
6. A believer
a Christian must always study the word of God. To study you start of as
a babe in Christ.
for the meater stuff one must stay in the Grace of God. 1
Cor 3:2; Heb 5:12-13 .
1 Peter 2:1 YLT Having put aside, then, all
evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings,
and all evil speakings,
2 as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye
may grow,
3 if so be ye did taste that the Lord is gracious,
Act13:44 And on the coming sabbath,
almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God,
Facts:
1. The next meetings
in the synagogue was on the Sabbath.
2. Who came? People,
Paul and Barnabas talked to previous week.
3. How many came? Almost
all the city.
4. What did they come
to hear?
The word of God. ( Gospel .) verses 32, 39, 44, 46,
48, 49; Cp Gen 12:3; Rev 14:6
Everlasting (never-ending) Gospel. The Gospel brings eternal permanent
life.
1 Cor 15:1-11; John 6:48; John 10:9-14;
John 14:5 YLT
Thomas saith to him, `Sir, we have not known whither thou goest away,
and how are we able to know the way?'
6 Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life,
no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
7 if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known,
and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.'
Act 13:45 and the Jews
having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the
things spoken by Paul--contradicting and speaking evil.
Facts:
1.
Many came.
2.
They were filled with enthusiasm.
3.
Paul and Barnabas preaching had gathered a lot of believers to Christ.
4.
What did the religious influential people do, how did they react?
Could see their jealousy.
5. Did the
Jews tell the truth? No. Spoke in opposition to. Spoke evil.
6. Why did
they speak against the Gospel?
Just like today if you don’t preach the doctrines of God the leaders of
the church
will begin to think they are losing power over the masses. Religion is
used world wide by people
that want to control the minds of the masses. There is danger when someone
starts telling you
what to watch, read or not watch and read.
A. What were they doing reading or watching the subject.
B. The other answer if they have not read or watch it how do they know
about the subject..
C. If the person is informed that is another set of actions.
D. The souls in any Church or Group should be well Grounded in the doctrine
to the point any one could make their own decision.
If this Grounded is lacking something is lacking in the person or church.
2 Tim 2:15 YLT Give diligence to present yourself approved by God,
a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word
of Truth.
16 But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in
ungodliness,
7. How bad
did they speak against Paul and Barnabas?
Contradicting and Blaspheming.
8. Spoke
against the Gospel.
A. Didn’t like the Grace of God coming freely to the nations ( gentile
).
Act 13:46 And speaking
boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the
word of God be spoken,
and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of
the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;
Facts:
1. Paul and Barnabas at first did not close the door, They let the Spirit
make themselves become
Bold in their Preaching and teaching.
2. God sent the Gospel to the nation of Israel First. They were a chosen
people to carry the Gospel to
the world. But they said no. The Gentiles are thankful the Gospel has came
to
us. God chose Paul to carry the Gospel to the Gentiles ( nations)
3. The Jews are told how they had chosen their destiny and considered themselves
( the Jews )
unworthy of everlasting life.
A. Yes we are unworthy by our own merits for everlasting Life. ( life age-during
)
There is no way we as a sinful people can approach the righteousness of
God.
We are so sinful we will never be able to have any thing to do with the
salvation of our own
soul. Gain Heaven is a completed work of Christ.
Isa 53:6; Romans 3:10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23
The salvation of our souls is dependence on God saving our soul. All we
can
do is accept God’s unmerited Grace.
Romans 5:8; Romans 6:23; 1 Cor 15:1-11; John 14:6; Eph 2:8-9; John 3:16-18.
We have to accept the Death, Burial, And Resurrection of Christ and Him
setting
at God the Father’s right hand. ( the place of authority ) 1
John 5:10-13.
4. The Jews judged themselves.
Act 13:47 for so hath
the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations--for thy
being for salvation unto the end of the earth.'
Facts:
1. Again Israel was to be a light to the world ( Gentiles ).
A. Believers should live for Christ as we are bought with a price.
The believers carry
the Gospel by their lives. Romans 14:21; 1 Peter
2:8
Live your life as if you meant it and believe it. Acts
11:26; Acts 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16.
Practice what you believe.
2. Where should the Gospel of Salvation be carried? Unto the end of the
earth.
3. There are several Gospels ( god news ) preached today.
A. Social Gospel.
B. Gospel of Government.
C. Gospel of Family.
D. Gospel of Village .
E. Gospel of Education.
F. Gospel of Club ( Organization ).
G. Gospel of Church.
H. Gospel of Job ( work for wages. )
I. Gospel of Law.
I could go on and on, but in truth only one Gospel Saves. The Gospel of
God..
Not the Gospel of man.
Christ on the cross said it is finished!
John 19:30; John 14:16; John 15:26; John 16:7; Acts
1:8
Act 13:48 And the
nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and
did
believe--as many as were appointed to life age-during;
Facts:
1. Gentiles heard this.
2. The Gentiles were glad.
3. They praised God and His word.
You can not praise God’s word without praising God.
4. When the word of God is preached with boldness many are saved.
5. The moment one believes they have life age-during. ( eternal life.)
6. How did they get eternal life? Believing. Does it say any
thing else.
7. When one believes what happens? They have eternal Life.
A. If it is eternal how can one lose it and it be eternal?
B. If God does the saving the saving who can be against God.
Romans 8:28-31; 1 John 5:10-13.
8. Appointed= [Grk. 5021] tasso (tas'-so) Strong’s
KJV translated ordained.
a prolonged form of a primary verb (which latter appears only in certain
tenses); to arrange in an orderly manner, i.e. assign or dispose
(to a certain position or lot):--addict, appoint, determine, ordain, set.
People's N.T.
When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad. Glad, not only that the gospel
was offered to them, but that in sacred writings of the Jews, it was declared
that the Gentiles should have the gospel. They, too, had always been
embraced in God's plan of redemption.
As many as were ordained to eternal life. This passage has been used as
a
proof text for the extreme Calvinism that makes God arbitrarily select
some
for salvation and reject others. Wesley, on the other hand, says: "The
original
word rendered ordained is not once used in the Scriptures to express eternal
predestination of any kind. The sense is that those, and those only,
now ordained, now believed. Not that God rejected the rest; it was his
will
that they also should be saved, but they thrust salvation from them. Nor
were
those who then believed forced to believe. Grace was offered to them and
they
did not thrust it away." It is God's ordination that those of humble, teachable,
honest hearts, seeking the truth and life, shall come to life when it is
offered,
and such accepted the gospel on this occasion.
Believed. "Made a public profession of their faith."-- Dean Howson.
The People's New Testament (1891) by B. W. Johnson
John Gill's Commemtary
and as many as were ordained unto eternal life believed; faith is not the
cause,
or condition of the decree of eternal life, but a means fixed in it, and
is a fruit and
effect of it, and what certainly follows upon it, as in these persons:
some would
have the words rendered, "as many as were disposed unto eternal life believed";
which is not countenanced by the ancient versions. The Arabic renders it
as we
do, and the Syriac thus, "as many as were put, or appointed unto eternal
life"; and
the Vulgate Latin version, "as many as were pre-ordained". Moreover, the
phrase
of being "disposed unto", or "for eternal life", is a very unusual, if
not a very
improper, and an inaccurate one; men are said to be disposed to an habit,
or to an
act, as to vice or virtue, but not to reward or punishment, as to heaven
or hell; nor
does it appear that these Gentiles had any good dispositions to eternal
life,
antecedent to their believing; for though they are said, Acts
13:42 to entreat the
apostles to preach the same things to them the next sabbath, yet the words
as there
observed, according to their natural order, may be rendered "they", i.e.
the
apostles, "besought the Gentiles"; and in some copies and versions, the
"Gentiles"
are not mentioned at all: and as for their being "glad", and "glorifying
the word of
the Lord", it is not evident that this was before their believing; and
if it was, such
things have been found in persons, who have had no true, real, and inward
dispositions to spiritual things, as in many of our Lord's hearers; besides,
admitting that there are, in some, good dispositions to eternal life, previous
to
faith, and that desiring eternal life, and seeking after it, be accounted
such, yet
these may be where faith does not follow; as in the young rich ruler, that
came
to Christ with such an inquiry, and went away sorrowful: as many therefore
as
are so disposed, do not always believe, faith does not always follow such
dispositions; and after all, one would have thought that the Jews themselves,
who
were externally religious, and were looking for the Messiah, and especially
the
devout and able women, were more disposed unto eternal life, than the ignorant
and idolatrous Gentiles; and yet the latter believed, and the former did
not: it
follows then, that their faith did not arise from previous dispositions
to eternal life,
but was the fruit and effect of divine ordination unto it; and the word
here used, in
various places in this book, signifies determination and appointment, and
not
disposition of mind; see Acts 15:2 The phrase
is the same with that used by the
Jews, , "who are ordained to eternal life" (y); and , "everyone that is
written to
eternal life"; (z) i.e. in the book of life; and designs no other than
predestination
or election, which is God's act, and is an eternal one; is sovereign, irrespective,
and unconditional; relates to particular persons, and is sure and certain
in its
effect: it is an ordination, not to an office, nor to the means of grace,
but to grace and glory itself; to a life of grace which is eternal, and
to a life of
glory which is for ever; and which is a pure gift of God, is in the hands
of Christ,
and to which his righteousness gives a title: and ordination to it shows
it to be a
blessing of an early date; and the great love of God to the persons ordained
to it;
and the certainty of enjoying it.
(y) Zohar in Exod. fol. 43. 4. (z) Targum in Isa. iv. 3. Vid Abkath Rocel,
p. 5.
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Dr. John Gill (1690-1771)
Robertson’s word pictures.
As many as were ordained to eternal life Periphrastic past perfect
passive indicative
of --, a military term to place in orderly arrangement.
The word "ordain" is not the best translation here. "Appointed," as Hackett
shows, is
better. The Jews here had voluntarily rejected the word of God. On the
other side were
those Gentiles who gladly accepted what the Jews had rejected, not all
the Gentiles.
Why these Gentiles here ranged themselves on God's side as opposed to the
Jews
Luke does not tell us. This verse does not solve the vexed problem of divine
sovereignty and human free agency. There is no evidence that Luke had in
mind an
absolutum decretum of personal salvation. Paul had shown that God's plan
extended to
and included Gentiles. Certainly the Spirit of God does move upon the human
heart to
which some respond, as here, while others push him away
Robertson's
Word Pictures in the New Testament courtesy of
e-sword.
2 Tim 1:12; Jude 1:24; 2 Cor 1:22; Eph 1:13-14;
Eph 4:30
Eph 1:13 YLT
in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth—
the good news of your salvation--in whom also having
believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
14 which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the
acquired possession,
to the praise of His glory.
Eph 4:29 YLT Let no corrupt word out
of your mouth go forth,
but what is good unto the needful building up,
that it may give grace to the hearers;
30 and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God,
in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.
I thank God for what taking the salvation out of my hands since I have
committed
My soul to Him. God does the saving. God does the sealing. The people of
Paul’s
time under stood what Paul meant by the sealing of the Holy Spirit.. Only
Kings had
authority to break some of the seals. God is the only one with enough authority
to
keep any thing. Man is to sinful that is why Man needs a Saviour. The Law
only
condemns a soul to Hell. Only a just righteous can save sinful man’s
soul. John 3:16.
Act 13:49 and the
word of the Lord was spread abroad through all the region.
Facts:
1. The word of God ( the Gospel of Salvation ) is so powerful it cannot
be contained.
Heb 4:12. YLT
Heb 4:12 For the word of God
is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword,
and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and
marrow,
and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
2. This is an example for us today to preach the Gospel everywhere.
Act 13:50 And the Jews
stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the first men of the city,
and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out
from their borders;
Facts:
1. Leaders like their positions. They get worried if someone gets a bigger
following than
them.
2. The Jews knew whom to stir up. Beware of respectable people.
3. The Devil is powerful but not all powerful.
There are three things he uses to bother a believer or even a none believer
( unsaved )
It all comes under love of the world. 1 John 2:15;
Gen 3:6
1a. Lust of the Flesh.
2a. Lust of the Eyes.
3a. Pride of Life.
4. A true preacher of the Gospel ( 1 Cor 15:1-11
) will suffer persecution.
Any believer that works for the Lord will suffer persecution.
Missionaries have be jailed, life sentence to death for spreading the Gospel.
When a religion has a law that it is death for any one to talk to anyone
about another
religion must not be telling the truth. Christ died for ours and arose
the third day.
God of the Christian is a righteous God, He will judge the wicked. The
wicked is
anyone trying to work their way to heaven on their own merits. God does
the saving.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ has stood the test of time. It has been known
from eternity
past and will be known in eternity future.. Christ died and arose again.The
only religion
that the saviour is risen and alive.
Act 13:51 and they having
shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium,
Facts:
1. When all things fail the preacher or soul winner is to move on. First
the
Gospel has to be presented. Romans 10:9-14
.
Romans 10:9 YLT
that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus,
and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be
saved.
10 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness;
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will
not be disappointed."
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek;
for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
13 For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord wil be saved."
14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed?
How will they believe in him whom they have not heard?
How will they hear without a preacher?
What is Mentioned? Believing.
We must tell the Story. God through Jesus Saves.
Man is to add nothing to what God has done. Cp Rev
22:19
2. They will not listen or mock the Gospel we are not to fight them or
kill them. Christ told
His disciples to symbolically shake the dust from their feet. Luke
9:5; Luke 10:11.
Act 13:52 and the disciples were filled
with joy and the Holy Spirit.
Facts:
1. The disciples were happy. Any time a Believer Does the Lords work
there will be Joy. Acts 5:41
Luke 15:5 YLT When he has found it,
he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
6 When he comes home, he calls together his friends
and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me,
for I have found my sheep which was lost!'
7 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one
sinner who repents,
than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
Self-righteous people. Not God righteous through Jesus Christ.
2. They had the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
A Check on your Salvation.
Are you filled
with Joy? The staying in the word and the Grace of God gives
you that Joy.
There
is a difference in Salvation and Fellowship. You are always your
fathers child. The
fellowship may no be close.
Do you know if the Holy Spirit
is in you? Are you living the way Christ would have you live.
Could you witness cause someone
to come to Christ or would it cause a person to be lost to hell
Forever?
Do you have a story you
need to tell the world?
Ecc 3:14
I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to
be added, and from it
nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before
Him.
1 John 5:9
If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because
this is the
testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son.
10 He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself;
he who is not believing
God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony
that God hath
testified concerning His Son;
11 and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to
us, and this--the life— is in His Son;
12 he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having
the Son of God—the life he hath not.
13 These things I did write to you who are believing in the name
of the Son of God,
that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe
in the name of the Son of God.
Acts
13:42 KJV ¶ And when the Jews were gone
out of the
synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might
be preached to them the next sabbath.
43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the
Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas:
who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the
grace of God.
44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city
together to hear the word of God.
45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with
envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by
Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was
necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken
to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves
unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to
be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation
unto the ends of the earth.
48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and
glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained
to eternal life believed.
49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the
region.
50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women,
and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against
Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and
came unto Iconium.
52 And the disciples were filled with joy,
and with the Holy Ghost.
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Acts 13:42-52 NIV
42 As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue,
the people invited them to speak further about these
things on the next Sabbath.
43 When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews
and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and
Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to
continue in the grace of God.
44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to
hear the word of the Lord.
45 When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with
jealousy and talked abusively against what Paul was
saying.
46 Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly:
"We had to speak the word of God to you first.
Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves
worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
47 For this is what the Lord has commanded us:
" `I have made youG a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth."
48 When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and
honored the word of the Lord; and all who were
appointed for eternal life believed.
49 The word of the Lord spread through the whole region.
50 But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high
standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up
persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled
them from their region.
51 So they shook the dust from their feet in protest against
them and went to Iconium.
52 And the disciples were filled with joy and
with the Holy Spirit.
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Bible NIV
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Acts 13:42-52 CEV
42 As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the meeting,
the people begged them to say more about these same
things on the next Sabbath.
43 After the service, many Jews and a lot of Gentiles who
worshiped God went with them. Paul and Barnabas
begged them all to remain faithful to God,
who had been so kind to them.
44 The next Sabbath almost everyone in town came to hear
the message about the Lord.
45 When the Jewish people saw the crowds, they were very
jealous. They insulted Paul and spoke against everything
he said.
46 But Paul and Barnabas bravely said:
We had to tell God’s message to you before we told it to
anyone else. But you rejected the message! This proves
that you don’t deserve eternal life. Now we are going to
the Gentiles.
47 The Lord has given us this command,
“I have placed you here as a light for the Gentiles.
You are to take the saving power of God to people
everywhere on earth.”
48 This message made the Gentiles glad, and they praised
what they had heard about the Lord. Everyone who had
been chosen for eternal life then put their faith in the
Lord.
49 The message about the Lord spread all over that region.
50 But the Jewish leaders went to some of the important men
in the town and to some respected women who were
religious. They turned them against Paul and Barnabas
and started making trouble for them. They even chased
them out of that part of the country.
51 Paul and Barnabas shook the dust from that place off their
feet and went on to the city of Iconium.
52 But the Lord’s followers in Antioch were very happy and
were filled with the Holy Spirit.
The Contemporary English [computer
file],
electronic ed., Logos Library
System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson)
1997, c1995 by the American
Bible Society. |
Acts 13:42-52 NLT
42 As Paul and Barnabas left the synagogue that day,
the people asked them to return again and speak about
these things the next week.
43 Many Jews and godly converts to Judaism who
worshiped at the synagogue followed Paul and
Barnabas, and the two men urged them,
“By God’s grace, remain faithful.”
(Paul Turns to the Gentiles )
44 The following week almost the entire city turned out
to hear them preach the word of the Lord.
45 But when the Jewish leaders saw the crowds,
they were.
46 Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and declared,
“It was necessary that this Good News from God be
given first to you Jews. But since you have rejected
it and judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life
—well, we will offer it to Gentiles.
47 For this is as the Lord commanded us when he said,
‘I have made you a light to the Gentiles, to bring
salvation to the farthest corners of the earth.’ ”
48 When the Gentiles heard this, they were very glad and
thanked the Lord for his message; and all who were
appointed to eternal life became believers.
49 So the Lord’s message spread throughout that region.
50 Then the Jewish leaders stirred up both the influential
religious women and the leaders of the city, and they
incited a mob against Paul and Barnabas and ran
them out of town.
51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them
and went to the city of Iconium.
52 And the believers were filled with joy and
with the Holy Spirit.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation,
(Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House
Publishers, Inc.) 1996. |
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