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Welcome to the Word of the Lord endures forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

But it was the last item that really stirred up the crowds, that Paul had brought Greeks into the temple and thus defiled the holy place.

Separating the court of the Gentiles from the court of the Jews was a wall with the clear warning

that any Gentile who crossed that barrier did so at the risk of their own life.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church,

past and present.

Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of Acts.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with

you all.

Amen.

Greetings, people, loved by God.

So, in our previous study, Paul arrived in Jerusalem and was welcomed by the brothers gladly. He went in to report to James and the elders how his last

mission trip had gone. They all glorified God for the things God did through him in his ministry.

But James and the elders go on to explain the problem.

Many thousands have become believers, but they're all zealous for the law. And some folks have

told them that Paul was going around teaching the Jews who live out in the diaspora not to

circumcise their children, not to observe the laws and the

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