Thursday Bible Study!  November 4, 2021

Subject: How church of Christ started?

  1. Church of Christ started.

Ac 2:1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.

Ac 2:47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

Mk 16:15 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.

Mk 16:16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Luke 8:5 "A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path;

it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up.

Lk 8:6 Some fell on rock, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture.

Lk 8:7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants.

Lk 8:8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.

" When he said this, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

Lk 8:9 His disciples asked him what this parable meant.

Lk 8:10 He said, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables,

 so that,  "`though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.'

Lk 8:11 "This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

Lk 8:12 Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts,

 so that they may not believe and be saved.

Lk 8:13 Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root.

 They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away.

Lk 8:14 The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life's worries,

 riches and pleasures, and they do not mature.

Lk 8:15 But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it,

 and by persevering produce a crop.

Lk 8:16 "No one lights a lamp and hides it in a jar or puts it under a bed.

 Instead, he puts it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.

 

Mt 16:13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?"

Mt 16:14 They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets."

Mt 16:15 "But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?"

Mt 16:16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Mt 16:17 Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven.

Mt 16:18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

Mt 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven,

 and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

How to bind and loose?

 

Ac 2:36 "Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ."

Ac 2:37 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"

Ac 2:38 Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.

 And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Ac 2:39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off-- for all whom the Lord our God will call."

Ac 2:40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation."

Ac 2:41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

Ac 2:42 They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

 

 

 

 

Mt 18:15 "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you.

If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.

Mt 18:16 But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that `every matter may be established by the testimony of two or

 three witnesses.'

Mt 18:17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church,

treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

Mt 18:18 "I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Mt 18:19 "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.

Mt 18:20 For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."

1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

1Jn 1:10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.

Ac 13:1 In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas,  Simeon called Niger,

 Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.

Ac 13:2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting,

 the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

Ac 13:3 So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.

Ac 13:4 The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.

Ac 13:5 When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. John was with them as their helper.

 

Ac 14:1 At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue.

There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed.

Ac 14:2 But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Ac 15:36 Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us go back and visit the brothers in all the towns where we preached the word

 of the Lord and see how they are doing."

Ac 16:6 Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from

preaching the word in the province of Asia.

Ac 16:7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.

Ac 16:8 So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas.

Ac 16:9 During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, "Come over to Macedonia and help us."

Ac 16:10 After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia,

concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

Ac 16:11 From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day on to Neapolis.

Ac 16:12 From there we traveled to Philippi,

a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.

Ac 16:13 On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we  expected to find a place of prayer.

 We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.

Ac 16:14 One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God.

The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message.

Ac 16:15 When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home.

"If you consider me a believer in the Lord," she said, "come and stay at my house." And she persuaded us.