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Live Free with Josh Howerton

The Son of Encouragement // Acts 4:32-37

Live Free with Josh Howerton

Lakepointe Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

2.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The early church in Jerusalem was led by the Holy Spirit and shared what they had with each other. Luke, the author of Acts, singled out one generous individual named Joseph, aka Barnabas, who sold a field and brought it to the church to help those in need. This is not the only place Barnabas shows up in Acts. He also plays a key role in the life of a certain apostle named Saul, aka Paul.   For more information, visit lakepointe.church/dailydrive

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0:00.0

Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.

0:08.6

When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

0:15.2

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

0:20.6

For more digital content to

0:22.6

feed your faith, visit lakepoint.combe.com slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to today's

0:29.0

devotional. What is up, everybody? Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive. I'm Mike Bro, and we have

0:34.5

been walking through a book in the Bible called The Book of Acts.

0:45.1

It's kind of like a documentary of the early church written by historian named Luke and starring the Holy Spirit of God.

0:49.9

We left off yesterday toward the end of chapter 4, so let's pick it up in verse 32.

0:54.6

This is kind of an update on how things were going in this new community called the church.

0:59.7

It says all the believers were united in heart and mind, and they felt that what they owned was not their own. So they shared everything they had. The apostles testified powerfully

1:05.3

to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God's great blessing was upon them all. There were no

1:10.5

needy people among them,

1:12.0

because those who owned land or houses would sell them and bring the money to the apostles to give

1:16.7

to those in need. Like we saw back in chapter two, they're still unified, one heart, one mind.

1:24.1

Taking care of each other and those who are in need. They shared their stuff, pooled their

1:27.8

resources to get this movement off the ground so that everybody could hear the good news of God's

1:33.0

love through Jesus. Well, one particular guy gets singled out as an example at the very end of the

1:39.0

chapter. And when you get to know this guy, you will realize he probably wasn't super happy about

1:43.9

Luke drawing attention like this to him.

1:46.5

But God wanted to point him out, because he was an extremely humble and generous guy who was always lifting people up.

1:53.2

Let me read the last few verses.

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