Wednesday, April 2, 2014

DBRP_Apr03_2014 Deut2-3 Ps50 Acts8a


In today's reading, Moses gives his personal account of how God led the people of Israel in not attacking three nations, but finally led them in attacking two kings. Moses pleaded with God to allow him to cross the Jordan into the promised land, but God refused to let him.

Remember what Moses said yesterday in Deuteronomy? Psalm 50 adds God's perspective about what He wants most from his people.

http://biblehub.com/nlt/acts/8.htm

Today we hear how the believers in Jerusalem were scattered by a wave of persecution following Stephen's martyrdom. Philip (the deacon, not the apostle) is given the wonderful privilege to turn many to the Lord in Samaria. My own thought about why the Holy Spirit was not given when the believers were baptized is because Peter really was given the “keys to the kingdom.” Peter was present when the Jewish people received the Holy Spirit, and when the partly-Jewish despised Samaritans received the Holy Spirit, and when non-Jews received the same gift.

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