Acts

December 29, 2017

December 29, 2017 churchintampa Daily Word NT Acts, lame man

Acts 3:1 — Acts 3:18

1 Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the ninth-hour prayer;

2 And a certain man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried there, whom they had laid day by day at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful to ask alms from those entering into the temple.

3 And he, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, began to ask to receive alms.

4 And Peter, gazing at him with John, said, Look at us!

5 And he turned his attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.

6 But Peter said, Silver and gold I do not possess, but what I have, this I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene rise up and walk.

7 And he seized him by the right hand and raised him up; and instantly his feet and ankles were made strong.

8 And leaping up and about, he stood and began to walk, and he entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God.

9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God,

10 And they recognized him, that he was the one who had been sitting for alms at the temple’s Beautiful Gate; and they were filled with amazement and astonishment at what had happened to him.

11 And while he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people ran together toward them at the portico called Solomon’s, greatly amazed.

12 And when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, Men of Israel, why are you marveling at this? Or why are you gazing at us, as though by our own power or godliness we have made him walk?

13 The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

14 But you denied the holy and righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be granted to you;

15 And the Author of life you killed, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

16 And upon faith in His name, His name has made this man strong, whom you behold and know; and the faith which is through Him has given him this wholeness of health before you all.

17 And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as also your rulers did;

18 But the things which God announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

December 28, 2017

December 28, 2017 churchintampa Daily Word NT Acts

Acts 2:22 — Acts 2:47

22 Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man shown by God to you to be approved by works of power and wonders and signs, which God did through Him in your midst, even as you yourselves know —

23 This man, delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you, through the hand of lawless men, nailed to a cross and killed;

24 Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, since it was not possible for Him to be held by it.

25 For David says regarding Him, “I saw the Lord continually before me, because He is on my right hand, that I may not be shaken.

26 Therefore my heart was made glad and my tongue exulted; moreover, also my flesh will rest in hope,

27 Because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You permit Your Holy One to see corruption.

28 You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of gladness with Your presence.”

29 Men, brothers, I can say to you plainly concerning the patriarch David that he both deceased and was buried, and his tomb is among us until this day.

30 Therefore, being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him to seat One from the fruit of his loins upon his throne,

31 He, seeing this beforehand, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was He abandoned to Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.

32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we all are witnesses.

33 Therefore having been exalted to the bright hand of God and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, He has poured out this which you both see and hear.

34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand

35 Until I set Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet.”

36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you have crucified.

37 And when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, What should we do, brothers?

38 And Peter said to them, Repent and each one of you be baptized upon the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

39 For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God calls to Himself.

40 And with many other words he solemnly testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this crooked generation.

41 Those then who received his word were baptized, and there were added on that day about three thousand souls.

42 And they continued steadfastly in the teaching and the fellowship of the apostles, in the breaking of bread and the prayers.

43 And fear was upon every soul; and many wonders and signs took place through the apostles.

44 And all those who believed were together and had all things common;

45 And they sold their properties and possessions and divided them to all, as anyone had need.

46 And day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they partook of their food with exultation and simplicity of heart,

47 Praising God and having grace with all the people. And the Lord added together day by day those who were being saved.

December 27, 2017

December 27, 2017 churchintampa Daily Word NT Acts

Acts 2:1 — Acts 2:21

1 And as the day of Pentecost was being fulfilled, they were all together in the same place.

2 And suddenly there was a sound out of heaven, as of a rushing violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which were distributed; and it sat on each one of them;

4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, even as the Spirit gave to them to speak forth.

5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven.

6 And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together and was confounded because each one heard them speaking in his own dialect.

7 And they were amazed and marveled, saying, Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

8 And how is it that we each hear them in our own dialect in which we were born?

9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, both in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,

10 Both in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya around Cyrene, and the sojourning of Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

11 Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the magnificent works of God?

12 And they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, What does this mean?

13 But others jeered and said, They are full of new wine!

14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke forth to them: Men of Judea, and all who are dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words.

15 For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the day;

16 But this is what is spoken through the prophet Joel:

17 a”And it shall be in the blast days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream things in dreams;

18 And indeed upon My slaves, both men and women, I will pour out of My Spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy.

19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord comes.

21 And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

December 26, 2017

December 26, 2017 churchintampa Daily Word NT Acts

Acts 1:9 — Acts 1:26

9 And when He had said these things, while they were looking on, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him away from their sight.

10 And while they were looking intently into heaven as He went, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them,

11 Who also said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you beheld Him going into heaven.

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

13 And when they entered, they went up to the upper room where they were residing, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the brother of James.

14 These all continued steadfastly with bone accord in prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers and said (there was a group of persons gathered together, about a hundred and twenty),

16 Men, brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who seized Jesus;

17 For he was numbered among us and was allotted his portion of this ministry.

18 (Now this man acquired a piece of land with the wages of unrighteousness; and falling headlong, he burst in the middle, and all his inward parts gushed out.

19 And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, so that that piece of land was called in their own dialect, Akeldamach, that is, Field of Blood.)

20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, “Let his habitation become desolate, and let no one dwell in it”; and, “His overseership let another take.”

21 It is necessary therefore that of the men who accompanied us all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,

22 Beginning from the baptism of John until the day on which He was taken up from us, one of these should become a witness of His resurrection with us.

23 And they proposed two, Joseph, called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

24 And they prayed and said, You Lord, Knower of the hearts of all, show us clearly the one whom You have chosen of these two

25 To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.

26 And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was counted with the eleven apostles.

December 25, 2017

December 25, 2017 churchintampa Daily Word NT Acts, Gospel of John

John 21:15 — Acts 1:8

15 Then when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.

16 He said to him again a second time, Simon, son of John, do you love Me? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Shepherd My sheep.

17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love Me? Peter was grieved that He said to him the third time, Do you love Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You. Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep.

18 Truly, truly, I say to you, When you were younger, you girded yourself and walked where you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go.

19 Now this He said, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when He had said this, He said to him, Follow Me.

20 Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also reclined on His breast at the supper, and said, Lord, who is the one betraying You?

21 Peter therefore, seeing him, said to Jesus, Lord, and what about this man?

22 Jesus said to him, If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.

23 This word therefore went out among the brothers, that that disciple would not die, yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?

24 This is the disciple who testifies concerning these things, and the one who has written these things; and we know that his testimony is true.

25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which, if they were written one by one, I suppose that not even the world itself could contain the books written.

CHAPTER 1
1 The former account I have made, O Theophilus, concerning all the things that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

2 Until the day on which He was taken up, after He had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He chose;

3 To whom also He presented Himself alive after His suffering by many irrefutable proofs, appearing to them through a period of forty days and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God.

4 And as He met together with them, He charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, He said, You heard from Me;

5 For John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

6 So the ones who came together asked Him, saying, Lord, are You at this time restoring the kingdom to Israel?

7 But He said to them, It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set by His own authority.

8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.