People Died at Your Church? Can I Join? (Acts
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Ananias and Sapphira got caught lying to God and then died. That seems like it could be a real momentum killer for the fledgling church. What'll happen next? Will everyone bail? Is God angry with them, will he keep his distance for a while? Or will the movement persist?
Everyone is thanking you in these comments. Is that what it's like to have s beard? Also I thought your bit about miracles was pretty interesting. I've always been fascinated at why they happened at this point in history. Fascinated at? I think it's improper grammar but whatever
+SmarterEveryDay "I've always been fascinated at why they happened at this point in history." They didn't. People were generally just more gullible back then. There, made you smarter today.
Miracles still happen today. I've laid hands on people and prayed for them to be healed, and they were fully healed. Not by me, of course, because all I did was act on faith and the Spirit healed them. But this happens somewhere every day, I'm positive. I've seen it lots myself.
Wim VDB I hope you are doing better today than 4 years ago. As for me, I think miracles happened back then because God said they would happen at that time. There were prophecies stating that miracles would happen around the time of Jesus, and God was still in the middle of exacting his plan to set up his new relationship with us. To redeem his relationship with us. It really is pretty cool stuff.
Matt thank you so much for taking all of us viewers deep into God's word with your spiritual insights and knowledge. Your style of no fluff has allowed me to ponder on the truths about the Christian church in Christ time and how that applies to me today. Thank you for taking the time to put together the Ten Minute Bible Hour I am blessed and I pray the Lord's blessing on you.
PS ... in regard to producing one of these a week, one everyday would be enough. But we all understand that a ton of work goes into each episode keep up the good work.
Shelby Seiler This comment means a lot to me. Thanks amigo.
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A year and a half after you recorded it, I get around to it, and it's exactly what I needed today.
+Felicia Cravens glad to hear it Felicia!
I've never found the Ananias and Sapphira passage to be "difficult" at all. Don't lie to God, end of story. Death as a "thing" is not unfair. It happens to every single person. The manner of your death usually depends quite a lot on your own behavior -- what you eat, whether you look both ways before you cross the street, whether you join a gang or join the military, base-jump, work with lepers, tempt the wrath of that big guy at the bar, or of God Himself. Your choices are yours, but the consequences are logical from there.
First things first, Thank you so much for this Series! it is great to hear the Book of Acts in "Laymens terms" and getting the back story and ideas of what is going on around during the time period of when this is written. Second.... Is that Ronald Reagan petting a Manatee while having a lego Peyton Manning shoved in his jacket??
Kyle Reitsma Dear Kyle, you have won the Ten Minute Bible Hour. That's correct. That absolutely is Ronald Reagan petting a Manatee while having a lego Peyton Manning strapped to his chest Hangover style. You're the first one to really put words to this, and I'm in your debt my friend.
@@MattWhitmanTMBH I wondered about that, too. Is there a story behind this?
Once again, I thank you.
Just got my reminder so I need to say...
"May The Fourth be with you."
Theresa Gregorcy and with you Theresa, and with you.
I like what you do Matt, great work!
The commentary for verses 15 and 16 is so pertinent to what was happening in South Africa a few months ago. We had churches with pastors making their congregations eat grass, live animals and drink petrol (gas). It was Ludacris!
+Koketso Setlhodi What?! Yikes. What was their rationale?
Hi Matt. Sorry for the late response been in a student protest lol. I am not really sure as I have not visited any of the churches. However from the interviews I have seen on tv, their rationale seems to be that we (humankind) have been given power and dominion over everything and also that these 'pastors and prophets' have been specially gifted and ordained to do everything that they are doing. And honestly, they have found a gap in the market because people are desperate for ...something and so they follow along.
Just read through this part of Acts. Thanks for the video.
Whew! I'm so glad you addressed the beard issue... I swear, you were like 28 when we stared on this Acts journey, and I totally thought you had put production on pause until you doubled your age to achieve the beard #rivalingmoses
Lindsey M It hurts me to think about all the sleep you've lost regarding the beard issue. I'm so glad you can finally be at peace.
keep up the great work. i love it!
still "watching this thing" :)
Lol.
Phone rings..
Caller ID. “Peter’s calling”
Phone: keeps ringing lololololololol lolololol
I thought the raising of the dead was supposed to be a proof of the divinity of Jesus, but as you mentipned and when i read through the whole N.T. last month I see apostles did the same also. I assume this takes away as a 'proof' of the divinity of Jesus then? (This coming from an ex-protestant [myself] who has now been Muslim for 9 years.
Respectfully, I think that argumentation is very thin. The scriptures are very clear that Jesus commissioned the disciples to perform such miracles in his name and through the power of the Holy Spirit. Resurrections in the Bible are proof of the divinity of Jesus and the Holy Spirit through whom those miracles occurred.
I think it is important to consider that the miraculous healings performed by the apostles were not done by their own power or ability but explicitly through the power of Jesus. For example, see Acts 3:6-16. The text implies to me that if they had not been specifically given the power to heal through Jesus, then they would not have been able to perform any miracles. Jesus was the only one who could raise himself from the dead on his own accord.
@@MattWhitmanTMBH yeah it makes sense the way its been put here by yourself and others. I am trying to approach a self bible study as neutrally as I humanly can (as in read the n.t. for the document it is and not adding my views into it) in which I see about 10 passages that seem to imply the divinity of Jesus and about 3 times as much (at least in my 8 pages of notes) that appear to be directly in contradiction with it.
@@JeremyDavidsonTheMuslimRevert Sorry, I know this is an old post but I wanted to chime in. This could be completely irrelevant, since I don't what specific notes you have, but keep in mind that the claims and historical belief of Jesus is that he's both divine and human, so a passage that seems to be making the point of Jesus being human isn't automatically an argument against him being divine; they aren't considered mutually exclusive. Again, this may not relate to your notes at all but it is what I thought of reading your post and maybe it'll help someone else clarify in their own minds.
Thanks again Matt. It's interesting that today if you get away from apostate western 'christianity' to where the Holy Spirit is working say in Asia you again find miraculous events, besides every miraculous conversion by God's grace, anywhere.
+Kyle Hornsey For example?
+wimsweden Sorry, I haven't kept a record of miracles reported in Asia but every conversion, every answer to prayer, every vision of Jesus experienced by Muslims, Jews, Buddhists...is a miracle in my book. I was privileged myself to experience an amazing instant answer to prayer when I puzzled over an astronomy question from Job 38:32....hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/a-conversation-with-god.html
+Kyle Hornsey "Sorry, I haven't kept a record of miracles reported in Asia" I'm not asking for an exhaustive list. Just give me one convincing, well-attested case. Conversions, "visions" (aka hallucinations) and "answered prayer (i.e. selection bias, confirmation and post hoc ergo procter hoc fallacious thinking) are not miracles and are claimed by basically all religions. And your claim of an "answered prayer" is less than impressive: Judging from your site, you have an obvious prior interest in and knowledge of astronomy (or should I say astrology in your case, since you seem to believe in that pseudoscientific nonsense as well), so a generic astronomical fact about a star that comes to you during an interior monologue (which you project onto a god concept), vaguely related to a passage you are thinking about, is nowhere near a miracle. What's more likely: That a guy with a prior interest in the stars who is thinking about an ancient reference to a star should come to remember a factoid he once read or heard about that star that he'd forgotten about, or that this guy is having private conversations with a purported god about astronomical factoids?
I was going to say the only thing missing from the TMBH was a beard. Not anymore! 😂👍
Martin Hurley Time coupled with my abject laziness solved that problem!
The Ten Minute Bible Hour haha. I know what you mean. Although mine grows too patchy to look cool, so I just look scruffy AND lazy haha.
I'm sorry, but I can't take this seriously. You think it's nonsense to believe that these things could happen today, but you think theologically-driven, ancient propaganda about such past events somehow makes it believable? Why do you even think this presents actual history instead of a cautionary tale invented by the people who actually wrote it? And then you put forward an argument from ignorance without even blinking: "I can't come up with any other explanation." Then you must also be a Muslim, what else could be the explanation for the success of Islam, and you're also a Hindu, etc. etc. And how does a timeless being intervene in time to perform "tragicles"? Does he move his... (no, that requires time), does he think... (nope, that requires time too), does he wiggle his (no, requires time)? And why does this proposed being require glory (as you put it)? Is he needy?
Context. He didn't say it's nonsense to believe miracles happen today, but rather the thought that just hanging around holy people hoping their shadow passing over you would heal you would be nonsense. While I would never discount God doing things that way again, I do find it unlikely. What we DO actually see is people praying for others and then those people getting healed. That actually happens all the time.