The ACTS of the Apostles - Chapter One

The ACTS of the Apostles

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Chapter 1 to 12 

1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that  Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3 After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: ‘Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptised with water, but in a few days you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit.’

6 Then they gathered round him and asked him, ‘Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?’

7 He said to them: ‘It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’

9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 ‘Men of Galilee,’ they said, ‘why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.’

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12 Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city. 13 When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. 14 They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty) 16 and said, ‘Brothers and sisters, the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas, who served as guide for those who arrested Jesus. 17 He was one of our number and shared in our ministry.’

18 (With the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out. 19 Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)

20 ‘For,’ said Peter, ‘it is written in the Book of Psalms:

‘“May his place be deserted;
    let there be no one to dwell in it,”

and,

‘“May another take his place of leadership.”

21 Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us, 22 beginning from John’s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.’

23 So they nominated two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias. 24 Then they prayed, ‘Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen 25 to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.’ 26 Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.

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ACTS Chapter One

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The ACTS of the Apostles

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Chapter 1 to 12 

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The ACTS of the Apostles

David Pawson

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Introduction to Acts /John MacArthur

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PSALM ONE HUNDRED AND SIX

Psalm 106 

1 

Praise the Lord.

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;
     His love endures for ever.

2 

Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the Lord
    or fully declare His praise?

3 

Blessed are those who act justly,
    who always do what is right.

4 

Remember me, Lord, 

when you show favour to your people,
    come to my aid when you save them,

5 

that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones,
    that I may share in the joy of your nation
    and join your inheritance in giving praise.

6 

We have sinned, even as our ancestors did;
    we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

7 

When our ancestors were in Egypt,
    they gave no thought to your miracles;
they did not remember your many kindnesses,
    and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.

8 

Yet He saved them for His name’s sake,
    to make His mighty power known.

9 

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
     He led them through the depths as through a desert.

10 

He saved them from the hand of the foe;
    from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.

11 

The waters covered their adversaries;
    not one of them survived.

12 

Then they believed his promises
    and sang his praise.

13 

But they soon forgot what he had done
    and did not wait for his plan to unfold.

14 

In the desert they gave in to their craving;
    in the wilderness they put God to the test.

15 

So he gave them what they asked for,
    but sent a wasting disease among them.

16 

In the camp they grew envious of Moses
    and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the Lord.

17 

The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
    it buried the company of Abiram.

18 

Fire blazed among their followers;
    a flame consumed the wicked.

19 

At Horeb they made a calf
    and worshipped an idol cast from metal.

20 

They exchanged their glorious God
    for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

21 

They forgot the God who saved them,
    who had done great things in Egypt,

22 

miracle said He would destroy them –

    had not Moses, His chosen one,
stood in the breach before Him
    to keep His wrath from destroying them.

24 

Then they despised the pleasant land;
    they did not believe His promise.

25 

They grumbled in their tents
    and did not obey the Lord.

26 

So He swore to them with uplifted hand
    that He would make them fall in the wilderness,

27 

make their descendants fall among the nations
    and scatter them throughout the lands.

28 

They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor
    and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;

29 

they aroused the Lord’s anger by their wicked deeds,
    and a plague broke out among them.

30 

But Phinehas stood up and intervened,
    and the plague was checked.

31 

This was credited to him as righteousness
    for endless generations to come.

32 

By the waters of Meribah they angered the Lord,
    and trouble came to Moses because of them;

33 

for they rebelled against the Spirit of God,
    and rash words came from Moses’ lips.

34 

They did not destroy the peoples
    as the Lord had commanded them,

35 

but they mingled with the nations
    and adopted their customs.

36 

They worshipped their idols,
    which became a snare to them.

37 

They sacrificed their sons
    and their daughters to false gods.

38 

They shed innocent blood,
    the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    and the land was desecrated by their blood.

39 

They defiled themselves by what they did;
    by their deeds they prostituted themselves.

40 

Therefore the Lord was angry with his people
    and abhorred his inheritance.

41 

He gave them into the hands of the nations,
    and their foes ruled over them.

42 

Their enemies oppressed them
    and subjected them to their power.

43 

Many times He delivered them,
    but they were bent on rebellion
    and they wasted away in their sin.

44 

Yet He took note of their distress
    when He heard their cry;

45 

for their sake He remembered His covenant
    and out of His great love He relented.

46 

He caused all who held them captive
    to show them mercy.

47 

Save us, Lord our God,
    and gather us from the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
    and glory in your praise.

48 

Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,
    from everlasting to everlasting.

Let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Praise the Lord.

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PSALM ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE

 Psalm 105

1 

Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;
    make known among the nations what He has done.

2 

Sing to Him, sing praise to Him;
    tell of all His wonderful acts.

3 

Glory in His holy name;
    let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

4 

Look to the Lord and His strength;
    seek His face always.

5 

Remember the wonders He has done,
    His miracles, and the judgments He pronounced,

6 

you His servants, the descendants of Abraham,
    His chosen ones, the children of Jacob.

7 

He is the Lord our God;
    His judgments are in all the earth.

8 

He remembers His covenant for ever,
    the promise He made, for a thousand generations,

9 

the covenant He made with Abraham,
    the oath He swore to Isaac.

10 

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree,
    to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

11 

‘To you I will give the land of Canaan
    as the portion you will inherit.’

12 

When they were but few in number,
    few indeed, and strangers in it,

13 

they wandered from nation to nation,
    from one kingdom to another.

14 

He allowed no one to oppress them;
    for their sake He rebuked kings:

15 

‘Do not touch my anointed ones;
    do my prophets no harm.’

16 

He called down famine on the land
    and destroyed all their supplies of food;

17 

and He sent a man before them –
    Joseph, sold as a slave.

18 

They bruised his feet with shackles,
    his neck was put in irons,

19 

till what he foretold came to pass,
    till the word of the Lord proved him true.

20 

The king sent and released him,
    the ruler of peoples set him free.

21 

He made him master of his household,
    ruler over all he possessed,

22 

to instruct his princes as he pleased
    and teach his elders wisdom.

23 

Then Israel entered Egypt;
    Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

24 

The Lord made His people very fruitful;
   He made them too numerous for their foes,

25 

whose hearts He turned to hate His people,
    to conspire against His servants.

26 

He sent Moses His servant,
    and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

27 

They performed His signs among them,
    His wonders in the land of Ham.

28 

He sent darkness and made the land dark –
    for had they not rebelled against His words?

29 

He turned their waters into blood,
    causing their fish to die.

30 

Their land teemed with frogs,
    which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.

31 

He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
    and gnats throughout their country.

32 

He turned their rain into hail,
    with lightning throughout their land;

33 

He struck down their vines and fig-trees
    and shattered the trees of their country.

34 

He spoke, and the locusts came,
    grasshoppers without number;

35 

they ate up every green thing in their land,
    ate up the produce of their soil.

36 

Then He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
    the firstfruits of all their manhood.

37 

He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold,
    and from among their tribes no one faltered.

38 

Egypt was glad when they left,
    because dread of Israel had fallen on them.

39 

He spread out a cloud as a covering,
    and a fire to give light at night.

40 

They asked, and He brought them quail;
    He fed them well with the bread of heaven.

41 

He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
    it flowed like a river in the desert.

42 

For He remembered His holy promise
    given to his servant Abraham.

43 

He brought out his people with rejoicing,
    his chosen ones with shouts of joy;

44 

he gave them the lands of the nations,
    and they fell heir to what others had toiled for –

45 

that they might keep his precepts
    and observe his laws.

Praise the Lord.

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O give thanks to the Lord 

PSALM 105 - Ian White

 

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PSALM ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR

 Psalm 104

1 

Praise the Lord, my soul.

Lord my God, you are very great;
    you are clothed with splendour and majesty.

2 

The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment;
    He stretches out the heavens like a tent

3 

    and lays the beams of His upper chambers 

on their waters.
He makes the clouds His chariot
    and rides on the wings of the wind.

4 

He makes winds His messengers,
    flames of fire His servants.

5 

He set the earth on its foundations;
    it can never be moved.

6 

You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment;
    the waters stood above the mountains.

7 

But at your rebuke the waters fled,
    at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;

8 

they flowed over the mountains,
    they went down into the valleys,
    to the place you assigned for them.

9 

You set a boundary they cannot cross;
    never again will they cover the earth.

10 

He makes springs pour water into the ravines;
    it flows between the mountains.

11 

They give water to all the beasts of the field;
    the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12 

The birds of the sky nest by the waters;
    they sing among the branches.

13 

He waters the mountains from His upper chambers;
    the land is satisfied by the fruit of His work.

14 

He makes grass grow for the cattle,
    and plants for people to cultivate –
    bringing forth food from the earth:

15 

wine that gladdens human hearts,
    oil to make their faces shine,
    and bread that sustains their hearts.

16 

The trees of the Lord are well watered,
    the cedars of Lebanon that He planted.

17 

There the birds make their nests;
    the stork has its home in the junipers.

18 

The high mountains belong to the wild goats;
    the crags are a refuge for the hyrax.

19 

He made the moon to mark the seasons,
    and the sun knows when to go down.

20 

You bring darkness, it becomes night,
    and all the beasts of the forest prowl.

21 

The lions roar for their prey
    and seek their food from God.

22 

The sun rises, and they steal away;
    they return and lie down in their dens.

23 

Then people go out to their work,
    to their labour until evening.

24 

How many are your works, Lord!
    In wisdom you made them all;
    the earth is full of your creatures.

25 

There is the sea, vast and spacious,
    teeming with creatures beyond number –
    living things both large and small.

26 

There the ships go to and fro,
    and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.

27 

All creatures look to you
    to give them their food at the proper time.

28 

When you give it to them,
    they gather it up;
when you open your hand,
    they are satisfied with good things.

29 

When you hide your face,
    they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
    they die and return to the dust.

30 

When you send your Spirit,
    they are created,
    and you renew the face of the ground.

31 

May the glory of the Lord endure for ever;
    may the Lord rejoice in His works –

32 

He who looks at the earth, and it trembles,
    who touches the mountains, and they smoke.

33 

I will sing to the Lord all my life;
    I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

34 

May my meditation be pleasing to Him,
    as I rejoice in the Lord.

35 

But may sinners vanish from the earth
    and the wicked be no more.

Praise the Lord, my soul.

Praise the Lord.

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