Week 50 | Expansion in the Face of Persecution

The Church will grow! Steve and Diana discuss the chaos of the new church of Jesus Christ developing. Miracles are happening! Many are coming to faith! And persecution is already alive and well. One minute the Gentiles are worshiping Paul and Barnabas as Gods for the healing of a lame man, and next, they want to stone them. Stephen is stoned to death for preaching the truth of Christ and the Jews’ betrayal of Him. We are a fickle people—we want to worship something or kill it.

Then comes the argument of how Gentiles can be saved by Jesus alone, or must they be circumcised? But the apostles maintained hearts of devotion and reasoned with them, “It seemed good to us AND to the Holy Spirit.” The church is established in truth, but must remain rooted and grounded in Love.

In Revelation, we see the glorified Christ. Jesus is now our great High Priest, making intercession for us. More than anything, Revelation is about the coming again of the glorified Christ, ruler of all the earth. Rather than just focusing on trying to predict when the end times will occur, perhaps approach it from a different point of view. Read the letters to each church and ask Holy Spirit to search your own heart in each one. “Where am I in this church, Lord?” Then take each of the chapters where there is worship in the throne room and find yourself among the saints and angels worshiping Him.

We go into the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem in Ezra and then start back into the Prophets through the end of the year.

Every work of God will face resistance. It’s in the pressure that faith is chosen and it builds within us, or we turn to our own ways. God will always give a call to repentance and door of escape. May this be a season of re-capturing our hearts and returning to the Lord.

Scripture Readings: Tier One—NT: Acts 12-17, Revelation 1-7 Tier Two—OT: Ezra 3-10, Haggai 1-2, Zechariah 1-8

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