Would you'll open up your Bibles, please, to Acts Chapter 1. I'm going to read at

verse 15, verses 15 through 26, and you'll profit from following along and keeping the Bible open as Pastor John brings

the message of the morning.

Acts Chapter 1 verses 15 to 26.

In those days Peter stood up among the brethren.

The company of persons was in all about 120 and said, brethren, the scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand

by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who arrested Jesus.

For he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.

Now this man bought a field with the reward of his wickedness and falling headlong, he burst

open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.

And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that the field was called in their

language, A-Kaldama, that is Field of Blood.

For it is written in the book of Psalms, let his habitation become desolate and let there

be no one to live in it, and his office let another take.

So one of the men who had accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and

out among us, beginning from the baptism of

John, until the day when he was taken up from us, one of these men must become with us

a witness to his resurrection.

And they put forward to Joseph called Barsevis,

who was surname Justice, and Mathias.

And they prayed and said, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men show which of these two

thou hast chosen to take the place in this ministry and a postorship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place. and they cast lots for them, and they cast lots for them and the lot fell on

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