There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.

Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length

Bible message given through Scott's pulpit ministry. These messages were recorded live

in a local church or gospel event in recent days. It is our prayer that the message will be a help

to you today. Let's return in the Word of God again to Acts chapter 6.

Do you have it open there in front of you?

We've read the opening verses of this chapter and studied it in the early Bible study hour.

What a passage it is.

In those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied there arose

a murmuring of the grecians against the hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily

ministration growing up always hated multiplication problems don't you hate multiplication problems

this is the ultimate multiplication problem the church is growing and things are going forward and God is blessing.

Somebody says, oh, they must not have any problems in.

No, the exact opposite is true because when you're moving forward, the devil's always going to

press back against that.

And so, opposition arises, dissension, division among the people. You think, you think the

worst battles come from outside. I tell you, the worst battles come from inside. It's not the

world that you have to worry about. It's when God's people can't get along, and when the Lord's

people can't move forward together. And so they had to

work through all of that. And thank God they were spiritual enough. They did that very thing. No perfect

church, but there is a perfect Christ. Amen to that. And so what do they do? They designated what we now

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