Hi, and welcome back
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer.
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We'll be reading today from
the book of Acts, and we'll be
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reading Chapter 7,
beginning with Verse 10.
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But before we read
let's go to God in prayer.
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Dear Jesus, thank You
so much for Your presence
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in our lives every day.
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Thank You for Your wisdom that
we can come to Your word and
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read, and grow
to be more like You.
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Please send Your Holy Spirit
now as we read, to make this
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message a message not just
heard, but put into practice,
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so that we may serve
You and others better.
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We love You so much!
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Amen.
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Again, I'm reading from the
King James Version in the book
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of Acts, Chapter 7.
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And when we were last together
we were reading about Stephen.
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He's standing before the
council, and he's speaking of
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God and how when Joseph
was sold into slavery in Egypt,
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God was with him.
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And we'll begin in Verse 10.
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And delivered him out of all his
afflictions, and gave him favor
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and wisdom in the sight
of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
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and he made him governor
over Egypt and all his house.
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Now there came a dearth over all
the land of Egypt and Canaan,
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and great affliction: and
our fathers found no sustenance.
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But when Jacob heard that there
was corn in Egypt, he sent out
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our fathers first.
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And at the second time Joseph
was made known to his brethren;
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and Joseph's kindred
was made known unto Pharaoh.
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Then sent Joseph, and called his
father Jacob to him, and all his
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kindred,
threescore and fifteen souls.
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So Jacob went down into Egypt,
and died, he, and our fathers,
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and were carried over
into Sychem, and laid in the
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sepulcher that Abraham bought
for a sum of money of the sons
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of Emmor, the father of Sychem.
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But when the time of the promise
drew nigh, which God had sworn
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to Abraham, the people
grew and multiplied in Egypt,
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till another king
arose, which knew not Joseph.
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The same dealt subtly with our
kindred, and evil entreated our
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fathers, so that they cast out
their young children, to the end
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they might not live.
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In which time Moses was
born, and was exceeding fair,
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and nourished up in his
father's house three months:
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and when he was cast out,
Pharaoh's daughter took him up,
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and nourished
him for her own son.
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And Moses was learned in
all the wisdom of the Egyptians,
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and was mighty in
words and in deeds.
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And when he was full forty years
old, it came into his heart
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to visit his brethren
the children of Israel.
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And seeing one of them
suffer wrong, he defended him,
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and avenged him that
was oppressed, and smote the
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Egyptian: for he supposed his
brethren would have understood
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how that God by his
hand would deliver them;
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but they understood not.
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And the next day he
showed himself unto them as they
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strove, and would have
set them at one again, saying,
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Sirs, ye are brethren; why
do ye wrong one to another?
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But he that did his neighbor
wrong thrust him away, saying,
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Who made thee a
ruler and a judge over us?
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Wilt thou kill me, as thou
didst the Egyptian yesterday?
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Then fled Moses at this saying,
and was a stranger in the land
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of Midian, where
he begat two sons.
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And when forty years were
expired, there appeared to him
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in the wilderness of mount Sinai
an angel of the Lord in a flame
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of fire in a bush.
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When Moses saw it, he wondered
at the sight: and as he drew
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near to behold it, the voice of
the Lord came unto him, saying,
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I am the God of thy
fathers, the God of Abraham,
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and the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
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Then Moses trembled,
and durst not behold.
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Then said the Lord to him,
Put off thy shoes from thy feet:
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for the place where
thou standest is holy ground.
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I have seen, I have seen the
affliction of my people which is
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in Egypt, and I have heard their
groaning, and am come down to
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deliver them.
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And now come, I will
send thee into Egypt.
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This Moses whom they refused,
saying, Who made thee a ruler
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and a judge? the same did
God send to be a ruler and
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a deliverer by the hand of
the angel which appeared to him
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in the bush.
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He brought them out, after that
he had showed wonders and signs
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in the land of Egypt, and in the
Red sea, and in the wilderness
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forty years.
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This is that Moses, which said
unto the children of Israel,
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A Prophet shall the Lord your
God raise up unto you of your
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brethren, like unto
me; him shall ye hear.
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This is he, that was in the
church in the wilderness with
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the angel which spake to him
in the mount Sinai, and with our
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fathers: who received the
lively oracles to give unto us:
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to whom our fathers would not
obey, but thrust him from them,
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and in their hearts
turned back again into Egypt,
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saying unto Aaron, Make us
gods to go before us: for as for
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this Moses, which brought us out
of the land of Egypt, we wot not
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what is become of him.
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And they made a calf in those
days, and offered sacrifice unto
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the idol, and rejoiced in
the works of their own hands.
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Then God turned, and gave
them up to worship the host of
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heaven; as it is written
in the book of the prophets,
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O ye house of Israel, have ye
offered to me slain beasts and
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sacrifices by the space of
forty years in the wilderness?
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Yea, ye took up the tabernacle
of Moloch, and the star of your
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god Remphan, figures
which ye made to worship them:
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and I will carry
you away beyond Babylon.
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Our fathers had the tabernacle
of witness in the wilderness,
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as he had appointed, speaking
unto Moses, that he should make
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it according to the
fashion that he had seen.
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Which also our fathers that
came after brought in with Jesus
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into the possession of the
Gentiles, whom God drove out
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before the face of our
fathers, unto the days of David;
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who found favor before God, and
desired to find a tabernacle for
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the God of Jacob.
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But Solomon built him an house.
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Howbeit the Most High dwelleth
not in temples made with hands;
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as saith the prophet, Heaven
is my throne, and earth is my
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footstool: what house will
ye build me? saith the Lord:
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or what is the place of my rest?
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Hath not my hand
made all these things?
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Ye stiff-necked and
uncircumcised in heart and ears,
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ye do always resist the Holy
Ghost: as your fathers did, so
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do ye. Which of the
prophets have not your fathers
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persecuted? and they have slain
them which showed before of the
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coming of the Just One; of whom
ye have been now the betrayers
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and murderers: who
have received the law by the
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disposition of
angels, and have not kept it.
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When they heard these things,
they were cut to the heart,
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and they gnashed on
him with their teeth.
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But he, being full of the Holy
Ghost, looked up steadfastly
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into heaven, and saw the
glory of God, and Jesus standing
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on the right hand of God, and
said, Behold, I see the heavens
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opened, and the Son
of man standing on the
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right hand of God.
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Then they cried out with a loud
voice, and stopped their ears,
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and ran upon him with one
accord, and cast him out of the
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city, and stoned him: and
the witnesses laid down their
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clothes at a young man's
feet, whose name was Saul.
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And they stoned Stephen,
calling upon God, and saying,
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Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
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And he kneeled down, and cried
with a loud voice, Lord, lay not
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this sin to their charge.
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And when he had said
this, he fell asleep.
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We're reading from the book of
Acts, in the King James Version,
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and we're going
now to Chapter 8.
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And Saul was
consenting unto his death.
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And at that time there was a
great persecution against the
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church which was at Jerusalem;
and they were all scattered
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abroad throughout the
regions of Judea and Samaria,
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except the apostles.
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And devout men carried Stephen
to his burial, and made great
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lamentation over him.
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As for Saul, he made havoc of
the church, entering into every
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house, and haling men and
women committed them to prison.
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Therefore they that were
scattered abroad went everywhere
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preaching the word.
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Then Philip went down to the
city of Samaria, and preached
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Christ unto them.
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And the people with one accord
gave heed unto those things
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which Philip spake,
hearing, and seeing the miracles
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which he did.
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For unclean spirits, crying with
loud voice, came out of many
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that were possessed with them:
and many taken with palsies,
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and that were lame, were healed.
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And there was
great joy in that city.
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But there was a certain man,
called Simon, which beforetime
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in the same city used sorcery,
and bewitched the people of
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Samaria, giving out that
himself was some great one:
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to whom they all gave heed,
from the least to the greatest,
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saying, This man is
the great power of God.
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And to him they had regard,
because that of long time he had
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bewitched them with sorceries.
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But when they believed Philip
preaching the things concerning
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the kingdom of God, and
the name of Jesus Christ,
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they were
baptized, both men and women.
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Then Simon himself believed
also: and when he was baptized,
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he continued with Philip, and
wondered, beholding the miracles
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and signs where were done.
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Now when the apostles which were
at Jerusalem heard that Samaria
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had received the word of God,
they sent unto them Peter and
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John: who, when they were
come down, prayed for them,
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that they might receive the
Holy Ghost: (for as yet he was
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fallen upon none of them: only
they were baptized in the name
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of the Lord Jesus.)
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Then laid they their
hands on them, and they received
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the Holy Ghost.
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And when Simon saw that through
laying on of the apostles' hands
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the Holy Ghost was given,
he offered them money, saying,
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Give me also this power,
that on whomsoever I lay hands,
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he may receive the Holy Ghost.
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But Peter said unto him,
Thy money perish with thee,
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because thou hast thought that
the gift of God may be purchased
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with money.
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Thou hast neither part nor lot
in this matter: for thy heart
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is not right in
the sight of God.
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Repent therefore of this
thy wickedness, and pray God,
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if perhaps the thought of thine
heart may be forgiven thee.
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For I perceive that thou
art in the gall of bitterness,
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and in the bond of iniquity.
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Then answered Simon, and said,
Pray ye to the Lord for me,
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that none of these things which
ye have spoken come upon me.
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And they, when they had
testified and preached the word
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of the Lord, returned to
Jerusalem, and preached the
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gospel in many
villages of the Samaritans.
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And the angel of the Lord spake
unto Philip, saying, Arise,
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and go toward the south, unto
the way that goeth down from
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Jerusalem unto
Gaza, which is desert.
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And he arose and went:
and, behold, a man of Ethiopia,
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an eunuch of great authority
under Candace queen of the
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Ethiopians, who had the
charge of all her treasure,
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and had come to Jerusalem
for to worship, was returning,
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and sitting in his
chariot read Esaias the prophet.
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Then the Spirit said
unto Philip, Go near, and join
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thyself to this chariot.
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And Philip ran thither to him,
and heard him read the prophet
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Isaiah, and said, Understandest
thou what thou readest?
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And he said, How can I,
except some man should guide me?
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And he desired Philip that he
would come up and sit with him.
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The place of the scripture which
he read was this, He was led as
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a sheep to the slaughter;
and like a lamb dumb before his
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shearer, so opened he not his
mouth: in his humiliation his
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judgment was taken
away: and who shall declare
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his generation? for his
life is taken from the earth.
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And the eunuch answered Philip,
and said, I pray thee, of whom
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speaketh the prophet this? of
himself, or of some other man?
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Then Philip opened his mouth,
and began at the same scripture,
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and preached unto him Jesus.
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And as they went on their way,
they came unto a certain water:
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and the eunuch said, See, here
is water; what doth hinder me
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to be baptized?
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And Philip said, If thou
believest with all thine heart,
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thou mayest.
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And he answered and said,
I believe that Jesus Christ
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is the Son of God.
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And he commanded the chariot to
stand still: and they went down
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both into the water,
both Philip and the eunuch;
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and he baptized him.
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And when they were come up out
of the water, the Spirit of the
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Lord caught away Philip,
that the eunuch saw him no more:
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and he went on
his way rejoicing.
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But Philip was found at Azotus:
and passing through he preached
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in all the cities,
till he came to Caesarea.
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Thank you again for being
with us for the reading of the
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precious word of God today.
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And until we meet again
for His Words Are Life, may He
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keep you, and bless you,
and may you know His love as
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you serve Him and others.
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Goodbye.
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