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NASB | Acts 2:22 ¶ "Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know-- |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 2:22 ¶ "Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man accredited and pointed out and attested to you by God with [the power to perform] miracles and wonders and signs which God worked through Him in your [very] midst, just as you yourselves know-- |
Bible Question:
IN ACTS THE 1:8 IT STATES THAT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS COME UPON YOU. TO ME THIS MEANS THAT EVENTUALLY YOU WILL RECEIVE GOD'S POWER BUT IT IS GOING TO TAKE SOME TRIALS AND TRIBULATION FASTIN AND PRAYING AND THE STUDING OF GOD'S WORD. IS THIS CORRECT? |
Bible Answer: You might get a few more responses by using more lower case letters and reserve upper case letters for those few instances when you want to emphasize a particular one/two word point. All upper case letters suggests you're shouting at folks. I'd like to cite Acts2:22 "Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. 23This man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. Also 2 Cor 12:12, Heb 2:1-4. When one does a thorough review of this whole subject throughout the Bible, you quickly get the idea that God did these kind of miracles through a select number of persons for the single purpose of confirming the words being preached as coming from God. Look at Mk 16:20 Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it. Another fact of the Bible is that NOWHERE is there an example of ANYONE getting these miraculous powers from any other source other than from the "laying on of hands from the apostles." Now the two exceptions to this is in Acts 2 with the apostles initial "baptism of the Holy Spirit" and Acts 10 with Cornelius and his family which was done for the express purpose of endorsing the Gentile world with the same endorsement from the Holy Spirit as was done for Jews in Acts 2. If after all this you've still got questions, I could only urge you to look for people who claim to have this measure of power and compare it to what you see in the Bible. In other words, do people raise up from the dead, are limbs replaced, eyesight restored to a person BORN blind. The miracles in the Bible are unmistakable acts of the supernatural, something that is ABSOLUTELY unquestionable acts and NOT a cure of a headache or backache or something else that can be conceled or possibly governed by someone's sincere mind control. In other words, look for the same kind of miracles in today's world and TRY to match them with what you see in your Bible. Remember 1 Jn 4:1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. God bless. --Rowdy. |
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