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Acts Lesson 2/Day 6

Acts Lesson 2/Day 6
Acts 2:1-13
Understanding Jewish Holy Days...
If I said that our family got together on Christmas day, you’d have a quick picture in your mind of what that might look like...tree, presents, traditional foods, music, and family all together. Just thinking of Christmas brings to your mind the memories with all its sights, sounds, and even smells, doesn’t it? Well, naming a Jewish holy day would do the same for any observant Jew.
Chapter two opens with “the day of Pentecost” and any Jew would immediately know what that meant – do you? Read here to understand more...
After God had given the ten commandments to His people through Moses and they were all still gathered at the foot of Mt. Sinai, God gave them seven celebrations to observe. This is all recorded in Leviticus 23. Each of these celebrations or feasts has a prophetic connection to God’s amazing plan of redemption from the crucifixion all the way through the ultimate coming of the Kingdom of God.
What does this have to do with Pentecost?
Pentecost is the Greek word for the Jewish holy day of Shavuot (Hebrew for “weeks”) or, as you will see in Leviticus 23, the “Feast of Weeks” which took place 50 days after Passover. This holy day is one of three sojourn feasts where all who were able were required to return to Jerusalem. This city would have been filled to fifty times its normal occupancy during the feast. Devout Jews – men and even women and children gather in Jerusalem every year during Pentecost. Jesus was crucified on Passover fulfilling this feast day and fifty days later as the Jews were observing Shavuot, He fulfilled this feast day as well.
"Acts: Seeds of the Gospel" is a Dwelling Richly Bible study - A 13-Lesson verse-by-verse study through the book of Acts.
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Acts Lesson 2/Day 5

Acts Lesson 2/Day 5
Acts 1:12-26
...Casting Lots...
Prescriptive -vs- Descriptive
If it’s in the Bible, we should do it, right? The disciples cast lots (rolled dice or flipped a coin perhaps) to decide between two disciples. They even prayed for God’s help. So, that means we should pray and cast lots when we have a big decision to make too, right?
 
Not necessarily. Just because the Bible describes something happening, doesn’t mean it is prescribing for us to do the same. This is what we call the difference between “prescriptive and descriptive” passages in the Bible. Nowhere in the Bible are we instructed to cast lots. We are told to pray, seek God, and have patience. The lot casting account in Acts is an example of descriptive writing which simply tells us what happened and should not be misunderstood as prescriptive – a passage telling or prescribing for us to do the same.
"Acts: Seeds of the Gospel" is a Dwelling Richly Bible study - A 13-Lesson verse-by-verse study through the book of Acts.
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Acts: Lesson 2/Day 4

Acts Lesson 2/Day 4
Acts 1:6-11
...The Sabbath...
Acts 2:12 says that the disciples had returned from Mt. Olivet to Jerusalem which was a “Sabbath day’s journey away.” What is the Sabbath?
 “The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant. It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work and rested” (Exodus 31:16–17).
God commanded the Jews to observe a day of rest, and He called it the “Sabbath.” This was observed from sundown on the last day of the Jewish week (our Friday) to sundown the next day (Saturday). Because God commanded no work to be done on this day, the rabbis (Jewish teachers) taught that the distance someone could travel on a Sabbath should be a little less than three-fourths of a mile. Since this happened forty days after Easter, it was a Thursday, not a Sabbath day
"Acts: Seeds of the Gospel" is a Dwelling Richly Bible study - A 13-Lesson verse-by-verse study through the book of Acts.
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Acts: Lesson 2/Day 3

Acts Lesson 2/Day 3
"Acts: Seeds of the Gospel" is a Dwelling Richly Bible study - A 13-Lesson verse-by-verse study through the book of Acts.
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Acts: Lesson 2/Day 2

Acts Lesson 2/Day 2
"Acts: Seeds of the Gospel" is a Dwelling Richly Bible study - A 13-Lesson verse-by-verse study through the book of Acts.
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Acts Lesson 2/Day 1

Acts Lesson 2/Day 1
Have you ever felt like the more things change the more they stay the same? It’s an old saying, and I think it’s interesting and true. We may have the modern inventions of technology, but really, when you think about it, we’re just like the men and women you read about in Bible. It may have been 2000 plus years ago that their stories were written, but like you and I they lived and breathed, ate and drank, had families, lost loved ones, worried and rejoiced just like you and just like me. And just like you and me wanting to know and experience Jesus Christ, the disciples 2000 years ago wanted more of Him and what they received we still receive today. Let’s read with anticipation then as we move through this account called “The Acts of the Apostles” keeping in mind that while we might imagine times with togas and stone-paved roads and think we have little in common, we have the most important thing in common and it unites us across time – Jesus Christ.
"Acts: Seeds of the Gospel" is a Dwelling Richly Bible study - A 13-Lesson verse-by-verse study through the book of Acts.
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"Restoring Me" - My Story part 1

How God restored my hope, my joy, my purpose... My life. 
Recorded live at the "This is Me Gathering" 2018 #ThisIsMeGathering #DwellingRichly
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Acts: Lesson 1/Days 9 & 10

Acts: Lesson 1/Days 9 & 10
Reflect, Create, and Share
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Acts: Lesson 1/Day 8

Acts: Lesson 1/Day 8
Acts 25:1-28:31
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Acts: Lesson 1/Day 7

Acts: Lesson 1/Day 7
Acts 21:1-24:27
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