The lesson on March 11, 2018 was a message given studying Paul and Timothy. Wayne has yet to settle on the next study so in the meantime, we are looking at the Apostle Paul when he was first accused of the Jewish leadership in Acts 24 and how they hired a professional speaker to accuse Paul of being "a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:" We are looking at the whereabouts of Paul from Acts 24 to Ephesians 1 in the transition of Acts 28 until the revelation of the Mystery in Ephesians 3. We...
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By Wayne Stewart
March 4th, 2018
The lesson on March 4, 2018 was part 13 of the "Mid-Acts or Acts 28?" study. This was the final lesson in this series and Wayne provides a recap of why the scripture seems clear that the church which is His body where Christ is the head was created new after Acts 28. When we studied the body of Christ that was formed in the Acts period, the attributes of this body have a different hope than that is defined in Ephesians. We did learn that when PAul wrote Ephesians, God gave gifts to individuals to minister to the body of Christ who came through the Acts 28 boundary because they needed...
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February 25th, 2018
The lesson on February 25, 2018 was part 12 of the "Mid-Acts or Acts 28?" study. This week Wayne takes an even deeper look at the message of transition from the Jew and Gentile to compare what was taught to the Gentiles after a Jewish group rejected what was taught. It looks at the message including the kingdom of God which was preached by Paul in Acts 28:23 and in Acts 28:31. Did it change after Acts 28:28? No. At some point in time after Acts, PAul received the Mystery by revelation and wrote Ephesians where he writes about the gifts of categories in chapter 4 that we certain...
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February 18th, 2018
The lesson on February 18, 2018 was part 11 of "Mid-Acts or Acts 28?" study. Wayne continued the thought of comparing the body of Christ metaphor to the church which is his body digging deeper in scripture to find evidence that the gifts that were given during Acts were fading away and those gifts given with the revelation of the Mystery were individuals who were mending the previous body of Christ into the new calling and the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ. We also looked at the laying on of hands were part of the old economy which we read in Numbers and Ezekiel. The gifts...
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February 11th, 2018
The lesson on February 11, 2018 was part 10 of the "Mid-Acts or Acts 28?" study. This lesson looks again at the metaphor of the body of Christ, comparing how in Acts, how members could be parts of the head like eyes or ears but after Acts 28, Christ is the head and we are holding the head as members of the body. Further, Wayne looked again at the gifts given after Acts 28 and studied the reason why these gifts of Apostles, Prophets, Pastors and Teachers were needed because they existed in Acts. It was offered that the reason they were needed was answered in Ephesians 4:12-13 KJV "12 For...
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February 4th, 2018
The lesson on February 4, 2018 was part 9 of the "Mid-Acts or Acts 28?" study. Last week Wayne reviewed the gifts given during the Acts and compared them to the gifts given after Acts 28 and clarified the distinctions. This week we looked at the body and compared it to the one body where Christ is head. By comparing how the body was constructed by every believer with gifts during Acts, where members could be part of the head in particular, it doesn't compare to the new body created from the two (Jew and Gentile) where Christ is the head. Our body today was created new after Acts 28 and...
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January 28th, 2018
The lesson on January 28, 2018 was part 8 of the "Mid-Acts or Acts 28?" study. This week the lesson looked at the gifts given during the Acts period compared to the gifts given after Acts 28. We learned how the gifts during Acts were given to everyone and that they collectively made parts of the body that was part of the church. These gifts were designed to provoke Israelt to jealousy and Christians had to be careful how they behaved during this period because if they offended God, they would be killed as referenced in Acts 5. The gifts given after Acts were people He gave some,...
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January 21st, 2018
The lesson on January 21, 2018 was part 7 of "Mid-Acts or Acts 28?" study. This lesson provided a review of what we previously learned regarding the term "same body" and that it is not referring to the body found in Acts mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12 or Romans 12 but that of a newly created body where Jews and Gentiles are the same. In this lesson we learn more of the manifestation of the mystery of Ephesians 3, which was not witnessed from the prophets and old testament scripture but hidden in God. The body you find in Acts is one that was manifested by the prophets and old testament...
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January 14th, 2018
The lesson on January 14, 2018 was part 6 of the "Mid-Acts or Acts 28" study. In this lesson, Wayne proceeds to explain how we will have errors multiplied when we try to place the church of the one body where Christ is head in Acts due to the fact that several mysteries were revealed in Acts but not the one that is in Ephesians because that was hid in God before the foundation of the world. If we try to put the church beginnng in Acts, you have the gifts of the spirit present with believers. You have promises that pertain to the land. You have Gentiles be a part of Abraham. After Acts...
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January 7th, 2018
The lesson on January 7, 2018 was part 5 of the "Mid-Acts or Acts 28" study. This lesson studied the Greek word "musterion" which is "mystery" and looked at the first occurrence Matthew 13:11 where we learn there are many mysteries in scripture. You must always study which mystery from its context and never assume when you read the word mystery as they are all referring to the same thing. in fact, the mystery in 1 Corinthians 2:7 is an Acts usage of the term compared to the mystery of Ephesians 3:9 which is a post-Acts occurrence. In the Ephesians Mystery, we learn that it was hid in...
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