You are listening to David Platt Messages, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from

pastor, author, and teacher David Platt. And what we're going to see is how Jesus, and he's doing

the action there, they're not coming up with programs, they're manufacturing to grow the church.

Jesus is adding to their number daily those who are being safe. How did he do that? That's the

question we're going to ask. What we need to realize, though, is that this is a summary statement that Luke gives us to tell us that the church was growing, and he does this periodically throughout the book of Acts. And I want to show you some verses that kind of mirror what's going on here in Acts chapter 2, verse 47. we look at these verses we'll kind of put them

together in a package and ask the question how was Jesus adding to their number daily those who

are being saved so 247 is the first one then turn over to Acts chapter 4 verse 4 what we're

going to see is Luke being very intentional to show us how the church was growing and I maybe encourage you to underline these different verses that show the growth of the church.

Acts chapter 4, verse 4 says, many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew

to about 5,000.

Remember it was about 3,000 in Acts chapter 2.

Now it's up to over 5,000.

That's just the men alone there.

When you come to chapter 5,

chapter 5 verse 14, right after Ananias and Safira or struck down before the Lord, what happens?

It says in Acts 514, nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their numbers.

So the church

is continuing to grow. Next chapter, chapter 6, verse 1, Luke starts off and he tells us, in

those days the number of disciples was increasing. Then after that, he talks about how there

were some inner strife between the Grecian Jews and the Hebraic Jews. There were some problems,

and so they handled those problems, and look what the result is.

In verse 7, after they handle those problems, so the word of God spread, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly,

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