Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it

points to Jesus. Hi friends and welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. My name is

Shelby Turner. I'm one of your hosts and for this podcast today we are going to talk about acts 4 through 6.

Now if you joined us yesterday on the podcast or on the podcast Instagram

account to see my intro to the

intro to the book of acts, then you know that acts is about the work that Jesus does in the world

after his ascension, through the apostles and the Holy Spirit.

And today we're going to see Jesus do a lot.

Chapter 4 begins with Peter and John being arrested by temple leaders for

healing a man.

And we will see this dichotomy a lot in acts. Temple leaders are going to respond

with persecution and threats to the miracles being done. While many other people are going

to respond by believing in Jesus.

In this chapter we learn that the church now numbers around 5,000 people.

When this all started in Acts Chapter 1, it started with about 120 people.

The temple leaders ordered the apostles to stop preaching about Jesus.

They do not want to see the church grow any further. But the Apostles can't do this, and empowered

by the Holy Spirit, they keep proclaiming the Gospel despite the threats that they're receiving. They pray

for boldness and God answers. They are

also living out unprecedented generosity and people are selling all they have to

provide for the needs of one another within the church.

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