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Re: DO YOU KNOW HOW THE APOSTLES DIED? 
« Reply #40 on: August 20, 2009, 11:35:55 PM »
Blessed Peter the Apostle (CEPHAS; THE ROCK)


In our study of the book of Acts we have seen the birth and growth of the church as chronicled by Luke the physician. In the first eight chapters we read about the ministry and witness of the apostles, especially that of the chief apostle, Peter. In Acts 9 we learned about Saul of Tarsus, the great enemy of Jesus Christ, who went about breathing out slaughter and threatenings as he sought to destroy the church of Jesus Christ. As he traveled to Damascus to arrest Christians there, Saul was conquered and subdued by the mighty Lord Jesus Christ, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. As a result of Saul’s conversion, "the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace," as we read in Acts 9:31.

In Acts 9:32 Luke picks up the activity of Peter again. When we last saw him in Acts 8:25, Peter, along with John, was returning to Jerusalem, having preached the gospel in many Samaritan villages. Acts 9:32 says that Peter was moving west to the partially Gentile territory of the Mediterranean coast of Palestine, specifically to the cities of Lydda and Joppa. Known as Philistine country in earlier times, it was in this area that Samson, empowered by the Holy Spirit, picked up the doors of the city gates of Gaza, lifted them to his shoulders, and carried them up to a hill, thus demonstrating to the Philistines the power of the Spirit of the living God.

Peter was now coming to the same region to demonstrate the power of the gospel to save sinners. Despite the previous times of persecution by Saul and the Jews, the gospel was making steady progress as it spread from Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria, Galilee and beyond. As Jesus Christ said, the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church that he is building. They cannot, because, as Paul says in Romans 1, the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile. Our adversary Satan is powerless to resist the conquering Christ and the progress of his gospel.

Philip the Evangelist had visited this region before, as we read in Acts 8:40. Now Peter was coming as an apostle, not only to oversee the church and instruct it in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, but also to evangelize further. In this study, therefore, we will first examine the apostle Simon Peter; second, Peter’s ministry in Lydda; and, third, Peter’s ministry in Joppa.


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Re: DO YOU KNOW HOW THE APOSTLES DIED? 
« Reply #41 on: August 20, 2009, 11:37:33 PM »
The Miraculous Resurrection of Dorcas

The door was closed, there was a dead body, and Peter was alone on his knees. But he was not really alone. Peter saw God Almighty and prayed to him. And the Spirit of God gave him the confidence that it was God’s will to raise this young woman from the dead. So Peter turned, looked at the dead body and spoke to it: "Tabitha, cumi!" or "Tabitha, arise!" We are told that when Peter spoke, Tabitha opened her eyes, saw Peter and sat up. Peter gave her his hand, lifted her up, and she stood.

Oh, what a mighty God we serve! When Tabitha had died, her spirit had gone straight into the presence of God. But when Peter prayed and commanded her to get up, Tabitha’s spirit was sent back from heaven. It instantly entered her body and she was alive again.

When Christians die, their spirits go to God. When Stephen was being stoned he said, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Jesus Christ himself committed his spirit to God the Father before he died on the cross. To the thief who repented on the cross Jesus said, "Today you will be with me in paradise," and in Luke 16 we read that when the poor man Lazarus died, his spirit went to Abraham’s bosom, which was the presence of God.

But in this instance Peter prayed, and God said to Tabitha’s spirit, "I want you to go back into your body." The spirit obeyed, and Tabitha was made alive again.

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Re: DO YOU KNOW HOW THE APOSTLES DIED? 
« Reply #42 on: August 20, 2009, 11:44:37 PM »
Who Was Simon Peter?

When we first read about Peter in the gospel accounts, we notice right away that he was not a strong character. He seemed to be a weak, wishy-washy person by nature. But God has a plan to change his people, so when Peter was brought to the Lord Jesus Christ by his brother Andrew, Jesus told him, "’You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas’ (which, when translated, is Peter)," meaning he would become a rock--strong and mighty--through the work of Jesus Christ in his life (John 1:42).

We also know that Peter was a sinner, as he himself acknowledged. When he realized Jesus’ role in causing a miraculous number of fish to be caught, Peter told Jesus, "Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!" Confronted by the glorious manifestation of the power of Jesus Christ, Peter was filled with a profound consciousness of his own sinfulness and of Jesus’ divinity. In essence, he was telling Jesus, "Lord, I am too unholy and sinful to be in your presence. Depart from me! I am just nothing." But Jesus didn’t leave Peter, because God had ordained that Peter would become a fisher of men, one who would lead many souls to Christ.

Peter also had the distinction of being the only apostle--indeed, the only human being, other than the Lord Jesus Christ--to ever walk on water, as we read in Matthew 14:25-31. And Peter was the apostle who made the good confession that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, when Jesus asked his disciples, "Who do you say that I am?" in Caesarea Philippi. And in Matthew 16:18 Jesus told Peter, " You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church," meaning the church is built upon Peter’s confession that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God.

Peter was the only disciple we read about who rebuked Jesus for saying he would be crucified, and who received a rebuke from Jesus in return. "Get behind me, Satan!" Jesus told him. It was Peter who also boldly asserted that he would never leave Jesus, even though later that same night he denied him three times. And it was Peter whom Satan wanted to sift like wheat, but we are told in the gospel of Luke that Jesus prayed for him that his faith not fail.

After he rose from the dead, Jesus singled out Peter and spoke to him when he met with the disciples by the Sea of Galilee. No doubt Peter was still remembering how he denied Jesus before his death on the cross. Jesus restored Peter, telling him his sins were forgiven, and then he recommissioned him as an apostle, saying, "Feed my sheep. . . . Feed my lambs."

Like the other apostles, Peter was baptized in the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, and as we read in Acts 1-8, he became a bold witness about the Lord Jesus Christ, especially about his resurrection from the dead. On several occasions Peter declared to the masses and to the Sanhedrin that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the only Lord and Christ, the Prince of life, the Holy One and the Righteous One. He also fearlessly told the Sanhedrin on two occasions, "We must obey God rather than men" when they told him to stop preaching the gospel.

By the time we catch up to Peter in Acts 9:32, we find that through God’s working in his life, he was now a true rock of a man. Enabled by the might of our Lord, Peter was now ready to be beaten and maltreated, to spend and be spent, to suffer and to be killed, all for the sake of his master, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus had commissioned Peter and the other apostles to go and preach the gospel beyond Jerusalem. So in Acts 9:32 we read, "As Peter traveled about the country," meaning he left Jerusalem and began to go about, preaching the gospel. In the Greek it says, "He was traveling through all," meaning through all the territories. Eventually, Peter came to Lydda, where he visited with the church there.

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Re: DO YOU KNOW HOW THE APOSTLES DIED? 
« Reply #43 on: August 21, 2009, 03:05:41 AM »
I hope through this thread, some will get saved,
   come to realize that we are not on this world to do
   whatever pleases our flesh, do life with gusto and 
   to heck with eternity.

Remember: we are all born sinners
                   Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned, and come
                                   short of the glory of God"

Psalm 23:4 "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
                    shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou
                     art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me"

As aforementioned, the life and sufferings of the apostles and
           what terrible death they had succumbed and kept the faith
            on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Imagine yourself for a moment into dark valleys,
    even into the valleys of death where nothing will be
    seen but  dry bones, skulls and frightful skeletons
    of those who had been slain;
        those beheaded,
        those drowned
        strangled at the stake
        some burnt
        others broken on the wheel
        many torn by wild beasts half devoured
        some put to death in manifold cruel ways

2Corinthians 4:17- "For our light affliction, which is
                             but for a moment, worketh for us a
                             far more exceeding and eternal weight
                             of glory"

   
       
           

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Re: DO YOU KNOW HOW THE APOSTLES DIED? 
« Reply #44 on: August 25, 2009, 03:52:16 AM »
now, that i know, does it matter to my life?

"are you going to leave me alone?"



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Re: DO YOU KNOW HOW THE APOSTLES DIED? 
« Reply #45 on: August 26, 2009, 03:12:47 AM »
Did you know, that Blessed Peter, was able to raise the dead to life? By the power of the Holy Spirit.

Truly the Head of the Church.

 nakadungog ko ani nga estorya sa akong mga Apohan
really nice, makahinoklogong story,yes ;)

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Re: DO YOU KNOW HOW THE APOSTLES DIED? 
« Reply #46 on: August 26, 2009, 05:37:04 AM »
He was the only apostle and follower of Christ Jesus that walked on water.
By The Spirit of God The Father's Divine Grace, he walked on water.

Blessed Peter the Rock, to me, represents totality.
His totality in holy life
and his totality in human frailties.

Christ Jesus knew this.
Christ knew that Peter would abandon him and deny him before the cocked crowed 3 times, Christ also knew that Peter was human and plagued with the sins and the frailties that mankind was deemed and guaranteed to suffer.

But it is Peter's confidence in Christ Jesus that we see in Matthew that he confessed that Christ was the CHRIST. The Son of The Living God.
Christ remarked and said to him, "Blessed are you Simon Bar Jonah, for it was revealed to you by the Spirit of My Father. And You are Simon Peter, and upon this rock I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH. And not even the gates of Hell can overpower it." :)

Peter is the confesser,
Peter is man totally,
Peter is a holy man of the Cloth
Peter is the Vicor of Christ,
And upon his chair is the Holy See,

How powerful
How humbling.

The First Priest of the Holy Roman Catholic Church
was the First Apostle of Christ.
And the First Confessor of Christ's Divine Grace.


GOD BE BLESSED FOREVER.
Glorify Him!

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