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Acts chapter 8 verse 4.

Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word.

That is one simple verse that totally turned

the world upside down.

Because the gospel at this point was stuck in Jerusalem, so to speak.

I mean, Jesus had said in Acts 1, verse 8,

you'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon.

You'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem, from Jerusalem. Acts 1, verse 8, you'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you

you'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem, from Jerusalem to Judean Samaritan at the

end of the earth, but six chapters later the gospel hadn't gone outside of

Jerusalem. But then with the stoning of Stephen, that precipitates persecution in the

church on a greater scale and sends the church scattering. And verse four says,

those who are scattered, and it says earlier in verse one

they were scattered throughout the regions of Judean Samaria and what were they doing?

They were preaching the word so this is the the gospel spreading to Judea and Samaria. Now what's interesting is it said

back up in verse one that all of these people who scattered were it was everybody except the apostles so it wasn't

like the leaders of the church so we would picture spreading the gospel into new

places it was just your ordinary average believers

who were spreading the gospel in in new places.

And wherever they went, they were preaching the words.

So when you hear preaching there, don't just think, okay, the gifted

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