Stubborn Holy Ghost Church part 3 (Acts Chapter 8)
Channel: RabboniInDaBronx
Date: 2013-09-07

Acts Chapter 8  Rev. Jeffrey Cortez (Associate Pastor @ Crossroads Tabernacle in Bronx, NY)

Proposition: Spirit Led Single-Mindedness in midst of Anything is what makes all believers a New Testament Church.

1-Saul Led Single-Mindedness Against the Church.

And Saul approved of their killing him (Stephen)... Saul began to destroy the church.

2- Spirit Led Single-Mindedness in midst of Scattering and Stressfulness

 Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went

3-Spirit Led Single-Mindedness in midst of Segregation and Selfishness

He boasted that he was someone great (Simon)

Ruben A Torrey The Person and work of the Holy Spirit " The conception of the Holy Spirit is a divine influence or power That we are some how to get hold of and use, leads to self exaltation and self sufficiency. One who still thinks of the Holy Spirit and who at the same time imagine that he has received the Holy Spirit will almost inevitably be full of spiritual pride and strut about as if he belonged to some superior order of Christians. One frequently hears such person say I am a Holy Ghost man or I am a Holy Ghost woman. But if we want to grasp the thought that the Holy Spirit is a divine person of infinite majesty and glory and holiness and power who in marvelous condescension has come into our hearts to make his abode there and take possession of our lives and make use of them, it will put us in the dust and keep us in the dust. I can think of no thought more humbling and more overwhelming then the thought of a person of divine majesty and glory dwells in my heart and its ready to use even me."

4-Spirit Led Single-Mindedness in midst of Suffering and Surprise

The Ethiopian eunuch asked Philip, "Tell me, please....

This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading:

"He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
 and as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
 so he did not open his mouth.
 33 In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.
 Who can speak of his descendants?
 For his life was taken from the earth."(Isaiah 53:7,8)

Luke 18:31-34(NIV)Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time

31 Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. 32 He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him and spit on him; 33 they will flog him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again." 34 The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.

Mark 8:31-32 (NIV) Jesus Predicts His Death

31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.