894 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 2 Book 75 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture - Part 18

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 75 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 18 Genesis – Revelation It’s good to have you all back. I see you’ve had your coffee. For those of you out in television, I trust you know by now that we take a break every half hour. We keep it informal, and that’s why you can see coffee cups on the table. We’re just here to study the Word. I trust and hope I’m not saying something out of place, but I trust that everybody has their own Bible. If I can brag on anything, that’s what I like to brag on, that I can get people to study their own Bible. So when you all come in with your separate Bible, you don’t know how I appreciate that. The same for those of you out in television, get your Bible and don’t just listen, study. That’s why we like to put the Word on the screen. In fact, I think I shared it with the whole national audience. One time I had a fellow call from Florida. He had caught my program for the first time and at the end of thirty minutes he was saved. But he said, “Don’t get the big head.” Well, no, I’m not prone in that direction, but why? He said, “You didn’t do it.” I said, “Well, I know that, but what did?” He said, “It was the Scripture that you showed on the screen.” That’s why I just told Mike a little while ago, I’d rather have Scripture on the screen as me. And the man said, “That was the first time in my life I had ever read a word from the Bible and what verse it was.” I don’t know what Scripture was up there, but it did it in thirty minutes. That’s why it’s more important to see for yourself what the Book says, as to hear me say it. All right, we’re going to go right on back where we left off in the last thirty minutes, and that was in Acts chapter 6. We’re dealing with this multitude of Jews in the area of Jerusalem who are evidently part and parcel of all these who would come to celebrate the feast of Pentecost. And when they saw that they had the free lunch and the hope of this coming earthly Kingdom, why go back home and grub out a living. That’s the way I look at it. They just stay in Jerusalem. They are getting a free lunch. Now we’re going to see all this, if you study the Scripture, it’s there. All right, let’s start at verse 1, even though we covered it in the last lesson. Acts 6:1 “And in those days (That is while Peter and the eleven are holding forth in Jerusalem. They’re gathering all this wealth that people are turning in, and they’re administering it out as people have need. But it’s getting more than they can handle. It’s just going beyond them. All right, here we go.) when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.” We explained that in the last half hour. Jews who had grown up outside of the land of Israel were murmuring against the Hebrews, the homeland people, because their widows were being neglected in the daily ministration, the handout. Acts 6:2 “Then the twelve (Peter, James, John, and the rest of them) called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve (What?) tables.” Now you remember the last program, I made mention of my old battalion mess hall? That thing was humongous. What was it filled with? Tables that would seat thousands at a time—that’s what they have here. They had tables for who knows how many people. I don’t know where they’re meeting, but, nevertheless, you’ve got to put two and two together. They’re coming together for their meals, and they’re being served. But the Twelve said we got more important things to do than to handle all of this. Now, what is the word at the end of verse 3? What is it? “business.” Well, it was big business. My, when you’re going to dispense food, clothing, and needs of thousands of people, that’s a big business in any man’s language. That’s what we’ve got here. That’s what I want you to see. All right, then verse 4. Acts 6:4 “But (Peter says) we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.” Because after all, what’s the end hope? Christ will return and bring in the Kingdom. That’s why these people are so willing to not go back home. Now, I’m interjecting that. I can’t prove that. I’m telling you that that’s the way I look at it. That they just don’t see any need to go clear back to Babylon or over to Spain, or wherever, because the King is coming. The Kingdom will be coming in, and who needs houses and lands and wealth? That’s the idea. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible