Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ,

and has impacted untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth simply stated.

Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers.

Acts chapter 15, God had begun to save some Gentiles, and the church was concerned because they

thought that Christianity was a Jewish thing. They found out that a lot of Gentiles were coming

to know the Lord Jesus. So they called a conference in Jerusalem, to find out what the will of the Lord was and what God was up to.

And I begin in verse 13, and after they had held a peace, James answered saying,

Men and brethren, harken unto me.

Simeon hath declared how God at first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people

for his name. Now that's us folks, that's the church. God visited the Gentiles,

take out of the Gentiles a people for his name. That's why we're here to glorify his name. And to this

agree the words of the prophets as it is written after this. That is, after he takes the church

and builds the church, after this, I will return. We're looking forward to that, aren't we?

After this, he's coming back,

and we'll build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down. Now, the tabernacle of David

means the throne of David, the rule of David, the reign of David, and it's going to be done

by David's greater son, the Lord Jesus. Now he's talking

about what God's plan for the Jew is, that when the church is taken out, then God's going

to begin to work again to restore National Israel. I will build again the taranacle of David,

which has fallen down,

and will build again the ruins thereof,

and I will set it up.

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