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 Re-Blogged From Dewayne Dulaney Introduction In the previous article of the series, we looked at the answer given by God’s Holy Spirit to the question about salvation asked in Acts chapter 2 by some Jews visiting Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. The Apostle Peter, chosen by Jesus as the one who would have the “keys to the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 16:19) had just had the privilege of preaching the first Gospel sermon and thus, [ continue reading ]

Re-Blogged From Dewayne Dulaney In our last post, we began to study the answer to the question of how to be saved from our sins by Jesus. In our study we looked at Acts 2:1—38. We saw that on the day of Pentecost, fifty days after Jesus' death, resurrection, and return to heaven, Jesus' promise to the apostles that they would receive power from the Holy Spirit to proclaim the message of salvation began to come [ continue reading ]

Re- Blogged From  Dewayne Dulaney Introduction In the last article in the series, we saw that the Holy Spirit led Luke to record in the New Testament Book of Acts three occasions on which people asked how to be saved from their sins (Acts 2:37—41; 16:30—34; 22:10—16). Each time the question is asked, it is answered by a divinely-led individual. While the question is worded differently in each case, the intent is the same. In this [ continue reading ]

Re- Blogged From  Dewayne Dulaney Before the day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2, the founding of the church is spoken of as a future event. The prophets Isaiah, and Micah had spoken of its coming “in the last days”. We saw in the first article that Peter and the other apostles were empowered by the Spirit of God, in accordance with Jesus' promise, and that their preaching in Acts 2 began to fulfill, or carry [ continue reading ]

Re- Blogged From  Dewayne Dulaney Many today would like to follow Jesus and be a part of his church, but are confused by the variety of competing creeds, religious bodies, and religious practices in today's world, most of which claim to be authorized by Jesus or instituted by him. In this series of lessons we will attempt to find out what the New Testament church was like, so that the honest inquirer may judge for himself [ continue reading ]