The Church: God’s Divine Construction Project, Part 2 (Acts 1,2)

The Church Built on Christ, Not on a Creed

Good to see each one of you this morning. Why don't we get started in our study this morning and we're gonna go back to studying the church. If you didn't get a Outline last time or if you need one, there are some out there.

I think some of them are being brought in here so there's there are some available and We're going to continue in our little short study of the church God's divine construction.

Project and.

Before we do that, why don't we commit our time to our Lord and ask his blessing? Let's pray together Father, thank you for this opportunity that we have to be together to study your word. To learn from what you would teach us today.

We pray that you would help us to see what the church is all about help us to use this great historic model that we have given to us by Luke the physician Luke the historian. But also Luke the theologian to learn about the church to see it for what you see it as and help us father.

Also to implement that in our lives teach us now from your word, and we will praise you in Christ's mighty name. Amen. If you remember last time and just very briefly we looked at the master builders plan and that plan took place in the midst of opposition.

Intense opposition and we as we know that led eventually to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. But in the sovereignty of God that was in the plan of God for that to happen. They came to him and they tried to test him.

We saw that's at the very top of page two on your notes. He pronounced them and their testing as evil and that they were an adulterous Generation, he later warned the Apostles to beware of their teaching the leaven of the Pharisees and he used that imagery to To indicate that the false teaching would permeate the church and permeate their minds and everything about them so he said stay away from their false teaching and then later we saw he led his Apostles up to his disciples up to the north area to get them alone to begin to teach them about his impending death and He asked them and solicited from them the response.

Who do men say that I am? Their response of course was all over the map men. Some say this some say that all wrong answers and then he said but who do you say that I am and then Peter gave? That great confession that foundational confession.

You are the Christ the Son of the Living God. He is the fulfillment of Old Testament Messianic prophecies and hope and there was a very high messianic expectation at that time among the Jewish people.

They anticipated the fulfillment of those promises. They took God at his word. They knew he promised the Messiah from the line of David and that he was going to come and he was going to set up his kingdom on the earth they anticipated that and.

But he also added the Son of the Living God. So what we have here are two elements of who Jesus Christ is. He is God in fact, and he's man. In fact, he is the promised Messiah that the rightful king of The Davidic throne, but he's also God in human flesh and that great Confession that statement from Peter.

Jesus said upon this rock I will build my church and we also noted that it wasn't Peter that he was going to build the church on and it wasn't even. This confession per se it was himself and I just wanted to remind us all that when we put our trust in Christ it is in Christ the person we don't put our faith in a creed.

We don't put our faith in a statement. We don't put our faith in a Some sort of a doctrinal statement or even a confession. It's kind of popular nowadays for people to say well, we're confessional. We have a confession and that's fine.

As long as the confession is biblical. We tell people put your faith in Christ the person. Remember John in the prologue to his gospel said to as many as received him. To them he gave power to become sons of God.

So just a reminder even though we stress this statement and how important it is and how foundational it is. The foundation is the person of Jesus Christ and then we saw the architect of the church. It is God the Father.

Peter didn't come up with that by himself. God gave him that of course through the ministry of the Spirit and the builder of the church is Jesus Christ. He's not only the foundation stone of the church.

He himself is the builder. He said I will build my church. He's the builder and he's the owner and later then we moved into Matthew chapter 28 and a very brief Look at them at the masters people an amazing thing.

He's going to build his church. He's the church, but he's going to use the church to build the church. Isn't that incredible that he would use us to build his church, but that's exactly what he wants to do the resurrected Christ.

Claiming all authority given to him where over heaven and earth and we mentioned that's an echo of Genesis chapter 1 and the created Order by God he created the heavens and the earth. Jesus is has all authority over heaven and earth.

He's risen from the dead. He's Lord of all the church with all authority and He commands his people to make disciples. We are to be disciple makers and we do that we go we baptize and we teach very important there to emphasize a Teaching ministry of the church.

The true church is a teaching church a teaching ministry and what do we teach all that he has? Commanded that is so basic and it's an amazing thing to see how the the departure from that all over the place.

Right, you know that you've seen that and then his promises. He's sending these the church out into a hostile world world. The hostility never goes away. The opposition never goes away as we're going to see in the book of Acts but we have his presence in the person of the Spirit of God and Because we have the Spirit and we're going to see this in Acts chapter 1.

We also have his power and that power also is power to do what he asks us to do to be witnesses to bear testimony and to bear whatever else we are going to bear but also Perseverance we will persevere.

It's a promise of eternal life through faith in Christ. So I thought I'd just pause briefly to see if there were any questions last time. We we moved pretty quick and we still are we're gonna take a flying trip through the book of Acts here in just a minute.

But did you have any questions about what we we talked about last time? Okay, let's open our Bibles to the book of Acts and we're going to see Jesus doing exactly what he said he would do when he said I will build my church.

The Promise of the Holy Spirit in Acts 1

That is an absolute promise that he is going to keep and Luke records for us the first roughly 30 years of church history in the book of Acts and Luke of course wrote the gospel of Luke and the book of Acts.

They originally were basically a two-volume work. And then late in the first century John wrote his gospel account and it was recognized as a gospel account and then sort of Inserted in between Luke's account and the book of Acts.

So if you're if you're I'm not saying you should take that out and move it around. Too late for that 2 ,000 years into church history, but that's how the early church understood Luke and Acts. It was a two-part work.

Luke wrote more of the New Testament than any other writer. May surprise you more than Paul or anybody else. Luke acts is a two-part work and it it really is Valuable to study it together. But let's look at Acts chapter 1 and we're going to be going through page 4 and 5 of your notes.

What we're going to see I'm sorry 3 and 4. What we're going to see first of all is the work of the Spirit to empower the church to do what Christ has called it to do. Luke wrote acts and we're going to recognize that he references his Gospel account in the very first verse.

He says in the first book. Oh Theophilus and if you look at Luke, he wrote to the very same person Theophilus his friend. I Have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach until the day when he was taken up.

After he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the Apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs. Appearing to them during 40 days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

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While staying with them, he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem But to wait for the promise of the Father which he said you heard from me for John baptized with water. But you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

So when they had come together, they asked him Lord. Will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel again? Very high level of Messianic kingdom. Expectation they expected the kingdom to to come right then and there and come on earth.

They didn't try to spiritualize it or change the meaning of it. They understood the promise from the Old Testament it's going to be an earthly kingdom and it's going to be led by King Jesus the Messiah and He doesn't correct them as far as anticipating an earthly kingdom.

He just simply says you're wrong about the timing. He said to them it is not for you to know times or seasons that the father has fixed by his own Authority another evidence I believe from the text that there will be a kingdom the father has fixed the time for it to come by his own Authority, you're not wrong to ask about a coming kingdom.

It's going to be here, but it's not going to come right now and then he says but You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.

And when he had said these things as they were looking on he was lifted up and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went behold two men stood by them in white robes and said Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven this Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will Come one more Evidence of a coming kingdom will come in the same way as you saw him go in to heaven.

Now there's an awful lot here. We could talk about. But we need to go from chapter 1 to chapter 28. We're gonna kind of buckle our seatbelts here and go through it very quickly. Don't worry, it won't be any turbulence, but we're gonna get through it we have a lot of advantage here from from the book of Acts number one from that statement in verse 8 that really forms sort of the the the theme of the book of Acts, but also it gives us some some marker points because he's talking about the spread of the gospel the movement of the gospel from Jerusalem to Judea Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth.

So we have this kind of a geographic Outline here and the book is going to follow that but what we also have Thankfully a very convenient set of progress reports. There's six of them written by Luke and we can as we move through we can sort of use these These progress reports as sort of markers to see and show because this is what Luke is doing that God is doing Through the church exactly what Jesus said he would do he would build his church.

So on your outline there what we're going to see and number one at the top of page three or Roman numeral one the promised power of course is the Holy Spirit and the expanding sphere from Jerusalem to the end of the earth what we're seeing here primarily and this is a major theme a Major theme really critical in Luke and in Acts is the movement of the gospel from Jew to Gentile.

This is a huge theme. This is a and this was also a Mountain that the church had to get over. You remember last week the scripture reading was from Acts 15 the Jerusalem Council and Gordy talked about from Genesis I mean from Galatians to this issue in the church about the gospel moving from Jew to Gentile.

Well, the Jerusalem Council, of course was about their decision that the Gentiles are being saved this was not a a Minor point most of us probably are Gentile Christians but for a Jewish Christian They retained much of the animosity against Gentiles.

Even some of them many of them after they were saved. It was tough for them to get over that that God is going to save Gentiles. We tend to see of course God wants to save everybody but historically this is a huge Mountain for them to get over and it's a gigantic issue when you see that and you understand that.

What they're failing to want to do is to fulfill that third element of the Abrahamic Covenant when God said I will I will I will five times one of those was to through Abraham and his descendants bless all the nations of the earth all the nations and So when he said I will he will and he is and part of what we're seeing here is God actually carrying out What he promised to do.

When God makes a promise he fulfills that promise. And so we have then the expanding sphere of the gospel from Jerusalem to the end of the earth. That's what we're going to see. Well, we want to look at Peter's Pentecost proclamation as you know Acts chapter 2.

We're going to start moving fairly quickly here the spirit comes down and empowers to the church to do exactly what Jesus said it would do and Then Peter begins to preach He they of course are accused of being drunk because of this issue of tongues.

He corrects them by taking them back to the prophecy of Joel and again in Joel what he promises there if you notice he says in 217 and in the last days it shall be God declares that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh.

Now when we see this word all or every or Everyone we often think of everyone without exception, of course, we're evangelical Christians. We want everybody everyone but what did Joel mean all flesh and He says your sons your daughter shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams.

Even on my male servants and female servants in those days. I will pour out my spirit and they shall prophesy. That's not all men without exception. That's all men without distinction. He very clearly outlines what he's talking about and then down in verse 21.

It shall come to pass that Everyone not just Jews. But everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved and then he addresses the nation in verse 22. Men of Israel hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst as you yourselves know.

This Jesus delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, there's the sovereignty of God. You crucified and Killed by the hands of lawless men. There's a responsibility of man and those two are right together in Scripture.

Now we could talk a lot about that and but we'd probably be here after lunch. That's not our purpose. But for the purpose of our class and what we're doing here today. We need to see those two are together in Scripture.

They're not in conflict but they are together and they need to be understood in that context the sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of man and then he goes and he connects this up to the prophecy concerning David the kingship of David.

What we need to see first of all from this Peter's proclamation and that's a he preached about their sin. He preached about their sin any Proclamation any preaching anything we we evangelize and we evangelize people.

The issue of sin has to come up one of the things that the the church growth movement did it Marginalized that in fact many books by the authoritarian church growth experts said well You don't want to talk about sin can't do that because people won't come you they'll you'll discourage him and make them feel bad.

You don't want to do that. Peter did and as we know all of the Apostles did John the Baptist did Jesus did these men were preachers of the word and First thing they they talk about is sin. If we don't talk about sin, then we can't talk about salvation.

We don't talk about the wrath of God the grace of God makes no sense. Right, but Peter did to all of these people in the power of the Spirit of God. And he showed that be Jesus is the prophesied Son of God.

He's risen from the dead and he's coming back and he will judge his enemies. And what was what was the required? Response. They asked that as we as they move he moves into verse 36 of chapter 2 let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ.

This Jesus and there it is again whom you crucified. Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart. It didn't chase them away apparently. Even though he just indicts them in their sin. The Spirit of God is at work and they're cut to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles brothers What shall we do?

And Peter said to them repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and You will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promises for you and for your children.

Descendants of Jewish people. And there's another group here and for all who are far off. That is the Gentiles everyone Defined in Scripture as everyone without distinction Jew and Gentile. Oh, but by the way sovereignty of God whom the Lord our God calls to himself.

There it is right there and with many other words He bore witness and continued to exhort them saying save yourselves from this crooked generation. So those who received his word were baptized and there were added that day about 3 ,000 souls.

What an amazing day that was. They received his word and they were baptized. Baptism is the first evidence of obedience. The first evidence the first audio-visual thing you can see in somebody's life that they truly are saved.

Obedient baptism is commanded to the church to baptize. Believers and Believers are commanded to be baptized and there it is. But notice a little detail here. Repent and be baptized. But verse 41 says those who received his word were baptized.

There is a connection between repentance and receiving the word. In fact the old good old-fashioned Word conversion and I just put it there.

Conversion.

Sort of a good working definition is repentance and faith or we might say Repentant faith those two are together in Scripture. They're welded together. There are two identifiable Entities you can talk about either one of them, but you can't separate them.

If you separate them, then you can misdefine them both. They are always together and they together make up what we would call conversion. Apostle Paul commended the Thessalonian Christians in his first letter and he said you turned to God from idols.

To serve the living and true God that is a good definition from Scripture of conversion. Repentance and faith or repentant faith if you like. So Peter's Pentecost proclamation talked about sin. Jesus is the Son of God and he's risen from the dead.

He preached the resurrected Christ. He's coming back to judge his enemies and so repent and be baptized. Which two three thousand souls did that now? I want to make sure that we understand something in and 42 to 47 is very important.

It kind of gets more down into the details of what this group of people did. They devoted themselves to the Apostles teaching There again in obedience to the Great Commission teaching them to obey. They and they had the Apostles right there to teach them.

That would have been great and The fellowship and I think the best way to understand that is the fellowship which is made up of the breaking of bread and prayers. Fellowship is really defined by two major things the fellowship of communion and the fellowship of prayer and That's what they did.

They were devoted to that but look down at verse 47. Praising God and having favor with all the people and the Lord added to their number day by day. Those who are signing up to join the church. Day by day those who raise their hand and said yeah sign.

I want to join make me a member. Day by day those who are being saved now, is it so? Difficult to define the church as those whom the Lord adds to the church and those who are saved. How do you miss that?

Well, there's only one way to miss it and that's not pay attention to the Word of God. And but as we know that's that's so common out there. You can go to a church you can sign up for a church you get but it is the Lord Who adds to their number those who are being saved so basic and also so important in understanding?

What the church is? Well as we we see here in the birth of the church the growth of the church and That's under Roman numeral number one. We have the master builders progress as a church then begins to move out into the world and.

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These six progress reports are going to really be our outline as we see this. We're going to move right through there's always opposition for the church and it's in various forms of various kinds and just as a reminder.

The church is always persecuted from the outside. But it's perverted from within. All right, we see that we see that all around us. In fact, you know, we could. Perhaps I haven't taken a poll, but maybe we evangelical Christians worry more about persecution than we do.

Perversion from within but what destroys the church more often than not is perversion from within so just bear that in mind. The Apostle Paul when he met with the Ephesian elders, you remember that in Acts? 20 he warns them.

He says from among your own selves. He's the elders of the Church of Ephesus. And he talks about false teachers coming from among your own selves. Persecution from the outside but perversion from within.

Okay, we're gonna see this and that's part of the opposition as as we know. Well, the church then goes out. There's there's healings. There's preaching and teaching. In chapter 3, there's the healing of a beggar Peter speaks in the the temple and Peter and John then as part of the persecution and the opposition there are arrested and we also then there's a great sermon preached by by Peter after they get out of jail and They basically say, you know, you can arrest us.

You can persecute us. You can do whatever you want, but we're gonna obey God rather than men and they they go ahead and do that. So the persecution is very evident up through chapter 4, but then in chapter 5 what happens something happens internally and you have this Issue of Ananias and Sapphira that's there for a very good reason.

So the church can learn that the how important the church holiness is to the church and to God because they lied to the Holy Spirit and. Then we get to chapter 6 and we realize there's some other issues that need to be solved.

The there are certain widows that weren't being Fed and they were Hellenists. They were these Greek speaking Jewish widows. They weren't being fed by the church and that was an issue and here we see very importantly they met that need.

But they also maintained their priority. If you look at chapter 6 verse 2, it says the 12. That's the Apostle summoned the full number of the disciples and said it is not right that we should give up preaching the Word of God to serve tables.

Serving tables is important serving tables is critical. It was a need in the church, but they had a priority and that priority was the preaching of the word. Good definition to have for any church a true church.

Do they have a priority for the preaching of the Word of God? Therefore brothers pick out from among you seven men of good repute full of the Spirit and of wisdom whom we'll appoint to this duty now for the most part this is generally seen to be the appointment of the first deacons in the church men who are going to meet a Material need in the church.

But verse 4 they reiterate, but we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word. It's very common in the church growth movement in the last 30 40 years for churches to abandon the Word of God or Marginalize the preaching of the Word of God to do something else and that something else is something very good.

Well, we feed.

25 ,000 people a week out of our food bank we do that. But does your pastor preach the Word of God? Well, he's involved in this other ministry. It's a very good ministry important ministry. Well, then he's abandoned the Word of God and the prime priority of the Word of God in the church.

And the church is built upon the preaching and teaching of the Word of God characteristic of that movement and still is they they Marginalized what was best for something that was merely good and there's a lot of good things.

You can do all kinds of things all kinds of ministries. You can get involved in but if you if you can do those and still keep the priority of the pulpit great if not It's not in God's will that the church does those things.

Yes question. Were these men elders in the church? I think probably I would lean more toward calling them deacons because it's it's. At this point in the church the the Apostles are really carrying out the duties of the elders the preaching of the teaching and that type of thing.

And so what you see here is a bit of a division of labor. These are godly men. But it's just in order for us to keep the priority of the of the preaching of the word and prayer. We need some other people to do that and I think I Would say so.

Yeah, and I would think if we wanted to put a label on it. We would maybe call these more more like deacons in the church. So we have we have this coming up to the first progress report meeting of this need.

Did God bless the keeping of this priority? Well, we're told in verse 7. Here's the first progress report and the Word of God continued to increase and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem and a great many of the priests became obedient to The faith.

God certainly did bless the keeping of that priority. Also, he provided a way for them to meet the needs within the church the this material need of feeding these These widows. Well, the church continues to move out Jerusalem Judea and Samaria we see that and in in verse 8 of chapter 6 through 9 31 We have still the persecution in the opposition and we have Stephen being arrested.

Stephen then eventually as you know preaches this tremendous sermon to the to the hierarchy and He's talking about their own history. They love to hear their history and he says in chapter 7 verse 2 Brothers and fathers hear me the God of glory appeared to our father Abraham.

We was in Mesopotamia now. He has their ear and they're they're listening to everything. He says and he recounts their history through the Bible. They're loving this these spiritual leaders and he goes on and on and it's a pretty long extensive sermon.

Except he gets down to the end verse 51 of chapter 7. Here's kind of the punchline. You stiff-necked people? Uncircumcised in heart and ears. Now he's calling the Jewish leaders uncircumcised. Okay, you always resist the Holy Spirit as your father's did.

So to you which of the prophets did your father's not? Persecute and they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the righteous one whom you have now betrayed and murdered. Whoa, just like Peter.

He's just hammering them with their sin after he you know. He got them all interested in this sermon about their past which they took a lot of pride in you're calling these Jewish leaders Uncircumcised and they are not keeping the law and you murdered your own Messiah.

So once again sin is a prominent issue in the preaching of the of the New Testament here. And we know what happened to Stephen. He was taken out. He was stoned to death and You might think well boy there goes the there goes the church.

That's it. There goes the effort. That's not that boy. That's no way to to to build the church and to move it forward talking to people like that. Look at chapter 8 verse 1 here. We have Saul who became Paul Saul approved of his execution and There arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem and they were all scattered throughout the regions.

Where.

Judea and Samaria. Except the Apostles, that's it. Church is gone church is scattered. There goes the effort that'll never work. Wait a minute. Look at verse 4 now those who were scattered went about preaching the word.

The church can be persecuted the church can be killed you can try to burn it out. Elect it out. Whatever you want to do Jesus said I will build my church. Here's a good example. Persecution now, what was it easy for those folks?

Of course not. It must have been horrible. Their lives were turned upside down. They were chased out. They were persecuted, but they did what Christ told him to do. And the church continued to grow. So in chapter 8 then we have the continuation of the church moving out.

Philip is preaching people are saved and baptized. Philip then has an encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch and the church is moving from Jew to Gentile as we can see just as he said and then in chapter 9 we have the conversion of Saul of Tarsus this one who was approving of the death of Stephen he is now saved by the sovereign work of God and he then becomes a leading evangelist specifically Commissioned to go to the Gentiles.

God's moving the church from Jew to Gentile. He's using Paul to do it. He comes back down to Jerusalem and people are afraid of him they because they know who he is and yet Barnabas vouchers for him. And so he's accepted.

But these other people are seeking to kill him and when the brothers learned this down in verse 30 They brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus. So they even Paul gets chased out of the area.

Well, guess what that does it moves his ministry out to where God wanted it. Anyway, and that brings us to progress report number two. Paul's chased out of town. You might think well boy, that's that's it.

He ought to be right in the middle of Jerusalem right in the the center of the influence and everything but no he goes out verse 31, so the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it multiplied all the persecution all of the Chasing the Christians out of the area.

All that did was advance the gospel and then we move into the the witness to the end of the earth from 932 and following.

Jew and Gentile in the Expansion of the Gospel

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2831 this whole section has more detail because it's a bigger area. There's more going on there and there's there's actually Four progress reports in this whole section witness to the end of the earth we know that Miracles are still being done through the Apostles because the apostolic message is being confirmed by these signs.

The signs of the Apostles and the church moves out. We have the story in chapter 10 of Peter and Cornelius. Cornelius was a Gentile convert to Judaism. He's what they would call a God fearer and we're going to come back and look at this in I think two weeks, but this is the gospel moving into the Gentile world.

Peter then has plays a big part in that and then it he reports this back to the church in chapter 11 that Gentiles are actually being saved and. The church then it has to deal with this and this again.

This is a massive issue. Gentile salvation. How does that happen? We thought we were the ones that God is going to save we Jews but back to the Abrahamic Covenant all the nations all the nations and. So then we have the movement of the church.

It moves out from Antioch. Antioch on the Orontes River or Antioch of Syria, there's two Antiochs. There's one up called Pisidian Antioch you'll see that mentioned but Antioch of Syria became sort of a focal point of missionary activity and.

But then there's still more persecution. And so in chapter 12 Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belong to the church. He killed James the brother of John puts Peter in prison. Peter then as you know is miraculously released walks right out of the jail and at the end of that chapter chapter 20 Herod Has a special day where he puts on a robe a royal robes in verse 21 Took a seat upon the throne and he delivers an address.

The people of course or or wanting to Cater to him and impress him and their response was the voice of a God and not of a man. But it didn't go too well for Herod verse 23 immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give the glory To God and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.

Whoa, that is gnarly. I mean It's that you don't want to be eaten by worms, but he breathed his last. Verse 24 is the third progress report in the midst of that persecution even Herod, of course. He's out of the picture.

Now. Here's here's the the progress report number three, but the Word of God increased and multiplied. People are being executed people being put in jail. This despotic King is doing all kinds of things.

He's out of the picture, but the Word of the Lord is increasing and multiplying. We then move into the progress of the gospel to Cyprus and Asia Minor. Progress report number four is in Acts chapter 16 verse 5 after the ministry through that whole area.

Acts chapter 16, of course they come to.

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Philippi and We have the the we have Lydia saved the Philippian jailer and so forth. We get down to Chapter 16 verse 5 It says. So the churches were strengthened in the faith and they increased in numbers daily.

Progress report number four. It then moves into the Aegean Shores. This is on page 4 number C the progress to the Aegean Shores. And we have all of the the ministry that they did there Paul and Silas and so on.