Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Yesterday, the early church had its launch party.

God, the Spirit, came to dwell in believers, continuing the process of redemption God planned

and set in motion before He even created the world.

While Jesus can only be in one place at a time, and He's currently seated at the right

hand of the Father in heaven, God, the Spirit, isn't bound by a body.

He is dispersed to all believers.

But even in this dispersion, it's for the sake of unity.

He demonstrated that by unifying a divided language, by bringing clarity and understanding

that wasn't there without Him.

Then Peter and John healed a man who was 40 plus years old, who had been crippled

for his entire life.

Then took that opportunity to preach the gospel again.

And today we see Peter encountering some pushback from the local religious authorities

as he preaches his second sermon.

Instead of making things so much better, the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus

has heightened the local tensions and the oppression of its followers.

On earth, it has made things worse for them.

Peter and a few others are preaching and get thrown in jail for it.

But they don't even seem to care about that as far as we can tell.

They don't silence the message of hope and redemption.

They turn it up to 11.

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