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Acts 2:47

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while praising God. Everyone liked them, and each day the Lord added to their group others who were being saved.

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But they could not find a way to do it, because everyone else was eager to listen to him.

Jesus became wise, and he grew strong. God was pleased with him and so were the people.

The Lord's power was with them, and many people turned to the Lord and put their faith in him.

Barnabas was a good man of great faith, and he was filled with the Holy Spirit. Many more people turned to the Lord.

This message made the Gentiles glad, and they praised what they had heard about the Lord. Everyone who had been chosen for eternal life then put their faith in the Lord.

Paul and Barnabas spoke in the Jewish meeting place in Iconium, just as they had done at Antioch, and many Jews and Gentiles put their faith in the Lord.

Paul and Barnabas preached the good news in Derbe and won some people to the Lord. Then they went back to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch in Pisidia.

The churches became stronger in their faith, and each day more people put their faith in the Lord.

Many of them put their faith in the Lord, including some important Greek women and several men.

This promise is for you and your children. It is for everyone our Lord God will choose, no matter where they live."

On that day about three thousand believed his message and were baptized.

The officials could not find any reason to punish Peter and John. So they threatened them and let them go. The man who was healed by this miracle was more than forty years old, and everyone was praising God for what had happened.

In a powerful way the apostles told everyone that the Lord Jesus was now alive. God greatly blessed his followers,

But a lot of people who had heard the message believed it. So by now there were about five thousand followers of the Lord.

A lot of people were now becoming followers of the Lord. But some of the ones who spoke Greek started complaining about the ones who spoke Aramaic. They complained that the Greek-speaking widows were not given their share when the food supplies were handed out each day.

God's message spread, and many more people in Jerusalem became followers. Even a large number of priests put their faith in the Lord.

The church in Judea, Galilee, and Samaria now had a time of peace and kept on worshiping the Lord. The church became stronger, as the Holy Spirit encouraged it and helped it grow.

Many people in the towns of Lydda and Sharon saw Aeneas and became followers of the Lord.

If you serve Christ in this way, you will please God and be respected by people.

God then accepted the people he had already decided to choose, and he has shared his glory with them.

And this is what the prophet Isaiah said about the people of Israel, "The people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand along the beach. But only a few who are left will be saved.

The message about the cross doesn't make any sense to lost people. But for those of us who are being saved, it is God's power at work.




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