210 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 2 - Book 18 - Acts Chapter 5 - Timeline

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 18 ACTS CHAPTER 5 - TIMELINE Let's turn to Acts Chapter 5. One thing is certainly evident already, and that is we Gentiles have a relation to Paul that we do not have to the other apostles. I've read that to sort of settle folk down who think I make too much of the Apostle Paul. And I also make a point of separating Peter and Paul. We have to get to the place that we can see that in all of these early Chapters of Acts Peter is constantly ministering to the Jew. By inspiration, we are told in many places, that Paul is the Apostle to the Gentiles and that he is the example for the Gentiles. Just because I'm a little different don't call me a heretic, because I'm still blood bought. I maintain this is not Church ground or the Body of Christ as the Church. This is the Jerusalem assembly, primarily Jewish believers of the fact that Jesus was The Christ. Now the closing verses of Chapter 4. None of that is Church language. I've always maintained as long as I've been teaching, how long could a pastor keep his congregation under his wing if he would ask them to cash in all their property and bring him the money? Well he wouldn't last to Monday morning, not if he has intelligent people. If Chapter 5, telling about the death of Ananias and Sapphira, is Church ground then there wouldn't be a believer left on this earth. The reason they are so willing to sell their property and turn it into cash and bring it to the apostles' feet is because they knew that as soon as The King would set up the Kingdom they wouldn't have to worry about houses and land. Remember, according to Psalms Chapter 2 and the Old Testament program, not long after they would reject The Messiah, then would come the wrath and vexation, and then would come The King. For the poor at Jerusalem who had sold everything, but since Christ hadn't returned, the kitty had run dry. verse 2: thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God." I dare say the average believer tells a bigger lie than that at least once in his life time. And if this is Church ground then we would all be gone. We know that death is possible in the Kingdom. Verse 6. Then Peter said unto her, `How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt (or test) the Spirit of the Lord? Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost; and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. What kind of power? Miracle working power. They were to be an extension of Christ's earthly ministry. "(...And of the rest [of Judaism] durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)" In those four lessons he laid out that during Christ's earthly ministry it was the Gospel of the Kingdom. Not the Gospel of Grace. When Paul comes on the scene, then it goes to the Gospel of the Grace of God. I had no more than finished reading it, when someone gave me a copy by Sir Robert Anderson of a book titled the "Silence of God." I've made reference to that book before on this program, and if you get a chance, read it. The Gospel of the Kingdom faded off the scene, and the Gospel of Grace took its place. Now verse 14: You know religious people haven't changed. Religious people do not want the truth. Verse 18: I've always asked this question ever since I read Sir Robert Anderson's book, the "Silence of God." He made the point: Do you know of a single account in Church history that angels came down and delivered God's people? In Church history? Now I'm not saying that God isn't a God of miracles, don't misunderstand me. I know that God can still answer prayer and God can still perform the miraculous. But I'm talking about the kind of miracles that Israel experienced. Angels coming in and opening prison doors. Now verse 27: "Saying, `Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name (do you see there's no mention of the shed blood, or His death, burial and Resurrection, but only His Name. "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, `We ought to obey God rather than men, The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.'" That throws a curve at some people. Then the Jewish authorities would order him to be stoned. The end of verse 23 reads. "(for he that is hanged is accursed of God;)" Peter is bringing that picture to the Nation of Israel. If you go into Hebrews 13, you will find that the Crucifixion was awful. It was accursed, because God laid on Him the sins of the whole human race. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible