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( See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16).
Praising God - See Luke 24:53 . And having favour - See Luke 2:52 . With all the people - That is, with the great mass of the people; w...
The Religious Life of the Brethren. The four items in Acts 2:42 should be taken in two pairs; ( a) the believers adhered steadfastly to the apos...
Praising. Greek. aieno. Always used of praising God. Here; Acts 3:8 ; Acts 3:9 ; Luke 2:13 ; Luke 2:20 ; Luke 19:37 ; Luke 24:53 . Romans 1...
47. Having favor. This is the fruit of an innocent life, to find favor even amongst strangers. And yet we need not to doubt of this, but tha...
DISCOURSE: 1741 THE STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS Acts 2:44-47 . And all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold th...
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. Praising God - As the fountain w...
And having favour with all the people, &c.— Some would translate the original, exercising or shewing charity towards all the people; which...
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. Praising God, and having...
The Day of Pentecost 1-13. Pentecost. On this day the risen Lord fulfilled His promise to send another Comforter (or Advocate) 'that He may abide...
The life and worship of the first converts . The converts were still earnest Jews, attending the services in the Temple daily ( Acts 2:46 ), but the...
And the Lord] RV 'And the Lord added to them' (RM 'together') 'day by day those that were being saved,' i.e. conscious of sin and seeking salvation...
Having favour with all the people. — The new life of the Apostles, in part probably their liberal almsgiving, had revived the early popularity of t...
Pentecostal Days Acts 2:37-47 There were no exceptions in Peter's great appeal for repentance. Every one of you! he declared. “But I drove th...
The first paragraph of this chapter records the first page of the history of the Church. It is seen as it began to form. The separated units of the d...
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. (42) And they continue...
REFLECTIONS Blessed be God; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for all the blessings vouchsafed the Church, in all the Covenant purposes, before all world...
Praising God ,.... Not only for their temporal mercies and enjoyments of life, which they partook of in so delightful and comfortable a manner; but...
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. Ver. 47. Such as should be s...
And continuing daily with one accord With unanimity and fraternal affection; in the temple At the appointed hours of public service. This was the...
The feast of Pentecost in Israel looked forward to the very day on which God had decreed that the Spirit of God should come to form and indwell and e...
The Fellowship of the Disciples. 42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles...
OLBGrk; Praising God; acknowledging him who teacheth one to want, and another to abound. Having favour with all the people; that is, generally t...
The Kingly Rule of God Is Revealed As Present In The Life of the New Congregation of Israel (2:42-47). Now, as a result of Pentecost, we have the...
‘And day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness...
CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 2:42 . They continued steadfastly .—Lit. constantly applying themselves unto , or being engaged in . A term characterist...
Acts 2 We have here the history of the first Christian revival. Let us trace it through, and mark at once its origin and its characteristics. I....
Acts 2:46-47 The Daily Service a Law in God's Kingdom We have here the very remarkable fact that the Apostles and the whole Church of Christ stil...
Acts 2:47 (R.V.) A pure Church an Increasing Church Notice here: I. The profound conception which the writer had of the present action of the...
Acts 2:1 . And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. The first lesson that we ought to learn from...
You know that Peter had been preaching a plain, simple, straightforward sermon upon the death, crucifixion, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Acts 2:1 . The day of Pentecost. The fiftieth day after our Lord's resurrection, and the day when the sheaf of the firstfruits was offered. Though...
All that believed were together, and had all things common. The primitive Christians, as here depicted I. Presented a new social development, m...
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. At once godly and popular I. Piety. “Praising God.” Behold the natural history of regenera...
EXPOSITION Acts 2:1 Was now come for was fully come, A.V.; all together for with one accord, A.V. and T.R. When the day of Penteco...
The effect of the sermon in the establishment and progress of the Church:
praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the Church daily such as should be saved. The Word of God which had been...
Acts 4:21 ; Acts 4:33 ; Acts 11:24 ; Acts 13:48 ; Acts 2:39 ; Acts 5:14 ; Luke 19:48 ; Luke 2:52 ; Romans 11:5-7 ; Romans 14:18 ; Romans 8...
The Lord added daily such as were saved — From their sins: from the guilt and power of them.
47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.