Thursday, May 25, 2017

ACTS OF THE APOSTLES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 58

The Church Triumphant  

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DHudYWez5J0?list=PL4ByrircmXL5Jwtb3O68grD2OEFRUo-L3

The disciples were men who knew how to speak and pray sincerely, ... How closely they stood by the side of God, and bound their personal honor to His throne! If the church will put on the robe of Christ's righteousness, withdrawing from all allegiance with the world, there is before her the dawn of a bright and glorious day.

The workmen were slain, but the work advanced. The Waldenses, John Wycliffe, Huss and Jerome, Martin Luther and Zwingli, Cranmer, Latimer, and Knox, the Huguenots, John and Charles Wesley, and a host of others brought to the foundation material that will endure throughout eternity.

The apostles built upon a sure foundation, even the Rock of Ages. To this foundation they brought the stones that they quarried from the world. Not without hindrance did the builders labor.
Upon the foundation that Christ Himself had laid, the apostles built the church of God.
Writing of the building of this temple, Peter says, To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:4, 5