Acts 2 Pentecost -
Jews & Proselytes saved.
Acts 8
Samaritans saved.
Acts 15 Council at Jerusalem
Paul observes Jewish vow.
Acts 18:18.
Paul observes water baptism
and blood sacrifices years after the cross!
Acts 21:18-24.
“The law of commandments
contained in ordinances” abolished at the cross…
…but not revealed until
after the close of the book of Acts. See Eph. 2:14-15;
Col. 2:14.
After
Acts closed, signs, wonders and
miracles
ceased. Now Paul could not
heal Timothy (1 Tim. 5:23), nor Trophemus (2 Tim. 4:20)
nor
Epaphroditus
(Phil.
2:25-26); yet he once “wrought special miracles,” including healing. (Acts
19:12). What happened?
J
E W I S H
B E L I E V E R S
Jewish
believers observe the Mosaic law and its physical ordinances for years after
the cross.
The final revelation
regarding
“the law of commandments contained in ordinances"
being abolished by Christ’s fulfillment of
them at the cross, was not
revealed until Paul wrote Ephesians 2:14-15 and Col. 2:14.
G E N T I L
E
B E L I E V E R S
commanded to
“OBSERVE
NO SUCH THING”
as the law of Moses!
Acts 15:19-29; 21:18-25.
This mandate immediately set
Gentile saints apart from every physical ordinance stemming from the law of
Moses!
STUDY OF THE
TRANSITION
IN ACTS
- Not one of the 7
prison
Epistles of Paul address the doctrines of water baptism,
the Lord’s supper new covenant tithing,
or Sabbath keeping. Why?
Because we believers are
called to “walk by faith,
not by sight.”
2 Cor. 5:7.
“We
are the circumcision
which worship God in the
Spirit, rejoice in Christ
Jesus, and have no NO CONFIDENCE IN THE
FLESH.”
Phil. 3:3.
Strange, is it not, that after 1 Cor. 11, Paul,
was not led of the Holy
Spirit to say one, single, Solitary word in his 13 epistles about the supper
or water baptism. Yet, on
the whole, organized religion regards these two
Jewish rituals
as indispensable to sectarian
programming.
Furthermore, organized Churches
embrace the New Covenant as belonging to them, though
nowhere
in Scripture are we told that the New
Covenant belongs to the
body of
Christ.
Think it over!
Priesthood - blood
sacrifices -
head-shaving – sabbath days – feast
days – new moons – passover – ceremonial washings, etc.
Strange is it not?