This is the greatest hour to follow Jesus.

I want you to go with me to Acts chapter 6.

I want to talk to you about something tonight that is so important, and that is on how to remain and maintain fullness in the spirit.

Like how do you stay strong in the Lord?

Especially in these days.

Like, what do you do to just stay strong?

Because there's so much that's coming against us today

with what's going on in the world.

And how to maintain fullness and how to stay strong in the Lord is in the Bible.

But first I want to show you a picture of blessings in the Bible.

This is a beautiful picture of fullness. And so I read verse one of Acts 6. In those days when the number

of the disciples was multiplied, there arose murmurings of the Grecians against the Hebrews

because their widows were neglected in the daily administration.

This basically was where these early Jewish believers, both local believers and Hellenistic believers,

who were Jews also, by the way, even though they were called Greeks.

There was a question of helping the Hellenistic, and they were not being taken care of. And so it says

they came to the apostles. And then it says in verse two, then the 12 called the multitude of

the disciples to them and said, it is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables.

Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report,

full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the minister of the word. And this was key because

had the apostles been distracted, we would not see what it says next. And the saying pleased the

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