DA Brown - Associate Pastor's teaching references for 03/07/2021

Acts 2:42-47 - What Am I Supposed to Do?

Life Lesson (verse Acts 2:42)

We are called to be STEADFAST in the Word, fellowship, breaking bread with believers, and praying. Do it!

Life Lesson (verse Acts 2:47)

Invest the temporary time and resources you have been given into an eternal investment.

Steadfastly in Greek: proskartereo

Outline of Biblical Usage:

  1. to adhere to one, be his adherent, to be devoted or constant to one
  2. to be steadfastly attentive unto, to give unremitting care to a thing
  3. to continue all the time in a place
  4. to persevere and not to faint
  5. to show oneself courageous for
  6. to be in constant readiness for one, wait on constantly

Romans 15:26 NKJV

For it pleased those from Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem.
 

2 Corinthians 6:14 NKJV

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

Hebrews 1:9 NKJV

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions."

Psalm 44:8 NKJV

In God we boast all day long, And praise Your name forever. Selah

Mark 3:9 NKJV

So He told His disciples that a small boat should be kept (proskartereo) ready for Him because of the multitude, lest they should crush Him

Scripture quotations marked "NKJV(tm)" are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.