We invite you to take your Bibles and open to the book of acts, the fifth chapter.

If you didn't bring one from home, you can use a Pugh Bible.

It's in Iraq nearby. Turn turn to the New Testament Book of Acts, Chapter 5, and I'll begin reading in the middle of the 21st verse.

Now the High Priest came and those who were with him and called together the Council and

all the Senate of Israel and sent to the prison to have them brought. But when the officers came, they did not find them in the

prison, and they returned and reported. We found the prison securely locked, but when we opened

it, we found no one inside. Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard

these words, they were much perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to. And someone came and told them,

the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.

And the captain with the officers went and brought them, but without violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council, and the high priest questioned them saying,

We strictly charged you not to teach in this name,

yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching,

and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.

But Peter and the Apostles answered,

We must obey God rather than men.

The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. God

exalted him in his right hand as leader and savior to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those

who obey Him.

In order to understand the meaning of Spand 3, the building of this worship building,

and the whole process, indeed all of Spand 1 and Spand 2 and

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