Friday, December 23, 2016

Gospel first offered to Israel

Matthew 10:6

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Acts 3:26

God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”

Prayer for power to preach and confirm the gospel

Acts 4:23-30

When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.  And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit,      

“‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves,  against the Lord and against his Anointed’—  for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,  to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

Mark 16: 17-20

And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

  So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.  And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]

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