The righteous woman is bold as lion. She hears the words of 1 Peter 3:5–6 and says, “Yes!” “In former times the holy women also, hoped in God,

Paul says that it is necessary that entrance into God’s reign be accompanied by persecutions. Paul seems sure that persecution is the inevitable destiny of God’s people who are about to enter into the blessings of God’s eternal reign.

On their return journey they established local leaders for the church.

The gospel automatically divides between the saved and the unsaved, the people who accept it, the people who reject it, and so it’s a shattering thing.

Peter says in light of our inheritance is that we love one another earnestly. He links obedience to purity of heart, working itself out practically in the form of brotherly love.

“The palm branch represented goodness and victory and was symbolic of the final victory He

would soon fulfill over death.”

You know, the biggest religion in America is the cult of conformity.

God has appointed a future day of judgment. The Bible says, ‘That for every man who rejects Jesus Christ, there will be the judgment of eternal hell.” Has God kept His promises in the past? Yes. Will He keep them in the future? Yes. God’s predictions come true, for one who rejects Jesus Christ … it is a fearful thing to fall under the hands of the living God.

Before the church has much effect on the world it must be strong in itself. As best as we can tell, it was seven years after the founding of the Jerusalem church that people were first sent out from there, first sent out toward Antioch.

The main point of the chapter is: if you oppose Jesus, you lose. Luke put this chapter together to make this plain for the early church: you may feel small and insignificant in the Roman empire; you may think that you are overpowered when some of your best leaders are killed on

Jesus said, Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.