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GETTING CONNECTED, LOVING JESUS
AND LIVING OUT HIS MISSION
Acts 12: Spirit break out
Last week we looked at the importance of Holiness. Which has nothing to do with being a goody too shoes, but everything to do with being in relationship with a God who is Holy, distinct, perfect, and yet meets us where we are and makes us holy, healed, forgiven and made whole. We saw how the Christians scattered after Stephens death, and some ended up in Antioch, an important and strategic City. The third most important city after Rome and Alexandria. In that City, we see the Holy Spirit move powerfully, through miracles, people coming to faith in Jesus, being made holy and whole and even practical provision met. Now Luke the writer of Acts, shift his attention back to Jerusalem as the carnage of Christians begins to increase!
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