How did that video make you feel

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How did that videomake you feel?

• Which comments made sense to you?
• Did the early church have these kinds of
  issues?

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Acts 18 NASB

• but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit
  has come upon you and you shall be My witnesses
  both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,
  and even to the remotest part of the earth.

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Acts 18 NASB

• but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit
  has come upon you and you shall be My witnesses
  both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,
  and even to the remotest part of the earth.

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Jewish Samaritan Animosity
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Assyrian Empire
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• Adam
• Noah
• Abra
• Issac
• Jacob
• Joseph
• Moses
• Joshua

• Ruth
• Gideon
• Sampson
• Saul
• David
• Solomon
• Isaiah
• Jeremiah

• Daniel
• Hosea
• Zechariah
• Jesus
• Apostles
• Paul
• Timothy
• Dr. Luke

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• Jesus recognized early on that the excitement
  generated by miracles did not readily convert
  into life-changing faithAlthough faith may
  produce miracles, miracles do not necessarily
  produce faith.

Philip Yancy
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• God is doing a
• special outreach ministry in the new territory of
  Samaria.

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• What did most Samaratans think of Simon?

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• What did Simon
• think of Simon?

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Astonishing/amazed

• ???st?µ?
• existemi

Out/beside to stand to displace, to
stand aside from, amazed, astonished, astounded,
beside ourselves.
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Believe is

• AWARE of information
• ACKNOWLEDGE as true
• ACCEPT with commitment

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• Many were believing in Jesus and were being
  immersed.

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Romans 89b NASB

• if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you But if
  anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he
  does not belong to Him.

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Acts 2
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Matthew 161320 NASB

• Now when Jesus came into the district of
  Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples,
  Who do people say that the Son of Man is?  And
  they said, Some say John the Baptist and
  others, Elijah but still others, Jeremiah, or
  one of the prophets. He said to them, But who
  do you say that I am?  Simon Peter answered,
  You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
  And Jesus said to him, Blessed are

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Matthew 161320 cont.

• you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did
  not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in
  heaven. I also say to you that you are Peter,
  and upon this rock I will build My church and
  the gates of Hades will not overpower it. I will
  give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven and
  whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound
  in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall

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Matthew 161320 cont.

• have been loosed in heaven. Then He warned the
  disciples that they should tell no one that He
  was the Christ.

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Luke 952-54 NASB

• and He sent messengers on ahead of Him, and they
  went and entered a village of the Samaritans to
  make arrangements for Him. But they did not
  receive Him, because He was traveling toward
  Jerusalem. When His disciples James and John saw
  this, they said, Lord, do You want us to command
  fire to come down from heaven and consume them?

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God goes out of His way to maintain ONE church.
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SIMONY

• is the crime of paying or selling of offices or
  positions in the church.

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Simon is not a believer

• Negative introduction in story
• Doesnt say what he believed
• He is listed separate from Samaritans
• Perish with you

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Perish

• ?p??e?a
• apoleia

Destruction, loss, perdition, perish, waste
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Simon is not a believer

• Negative introduction in story
• Doesnt say what he believed
• He is listed separate from Samaritans
• Perish with you
• No remorse for sin only consequences
• He is self centered and self promoting

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Simon is not a believer

• Negative introduction in story
• Doesnt say what he believed
• He is listed separate from Samaritans
• Perish with you
• No remorse for sin only consequences
• He is self centered and self promoting

• Everyone has negative intro

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Simon is not a believer

• Negative introduction in story
• Doesnt say what he believed
• He is listed separate from Samaritans
• Perish with you
• No remorse for sin only consequences
• He doesnt pray, asks for it
• He is self centered and self promoting

• Everyone has negative intro
• Believe is same as Samaritans

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Simon is not a believer

• Negative introduction in story
• Doesnt say what he believed
• He is listed separate from Samaritans
• Perish with you
• No remorse for sin only consequences
• He doesnt pray, asks for it
• He is self centered and self promoting

• Everyone has negative intro
• Believe is same as Samaritans
• He is an individual character

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Simon is not a believer

• Negative introduction in story
• Doesnt say what he believed
• He is listed separate from Samaritans
• Perish with you
• No remorse for sin only consequences
• He doesnt pray, asks for it
• He is self centered and self promoting

• Everyone has negative intro
• Believe is same as Samaritans
• He is an individual character
• Means waste, maybe no reward

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Simon is not a believer

• Negative introduction in story
• Doesnt say what he believed
• He is listed separate from Samaritans
• Perish with you
• No remorse for sin only consequences
• He doesnt pray, asks for it
• He is self centered and self promoting

• Everyone has negative intro
• Believe is same as Samaritans
• He is an individual character
• Means waste, maybe no reward
• He responds to Peters rebuke

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Simon is not a believer

• Negative introduction in story
• Doesnt say what he believed
• He is listed separate from Samaritans
• Perish with you
• No remorse for sin only consequences
• He doesnt pray, asks for it
• He is self centered and self promoting

• Everyone has negative intro
• Believe is same as Samaritans
• He is an individual character
• Means waste, maybe no reward
• He responds to Peters rebuke
• Doesnt say he didnt pray

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Simon is not a believer

• Negative introduction in story
• Doesnt say what he believed
• He is listed separate from Samaritans
• Perish with you
• No remorse for sin only consequences
• He doesnt pray, asks for it
• He is self centered and self promoting

• Everyone has negative intro
• Believe is same as Samaritans
• He is an individual character
• Means waste, maybe no reward
• He responds to Peters rebuke
• Doesnt say he didnt pray
• True

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Simon is not a believer

• Negative introduction in story
• Doesnt say what he believed
• He is listed separate from Samaritans
• Perish with you
• No remorse for sin only consequences
• He doesnt pray, asks for it
• He is self centered and self promoting

• Everyone has negative intro
• Believe is same as Samaritans
• He is an individual character
• Means waste, maybe no reward
• He responds to Peters rebuke
• Doesnt say he didnt pray
• True
• Outside/Inside opposition pattern

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Simon is not a believer

• Negative introduction in story
• Doesnt say what he believed
• He is listed separate from Samaritans
• Perish with you
• No remorse for sin only consequences
• He doesnt pray, asks for it
• He is self centered and self promoting

• Everyone has negative intro
• Believe is same as Samaritans
• He is an individual character
• Means waste, maybe no reward
• He responds to Peters rebuke
• Doesnt say he didnt pray
• True
• Outside/Inside opposition pattern
• no part John 138

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What Do You Think?

• Believer?

Non-believer?
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2 Timothy 219a NASB

• Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands,
  having this seal, The Lord knows those who are
  His,

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• God wants to use
• ME to reach
• WHO?