February 2 – A Secure Place to Stand

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in scripture and relevant
for today, February 2nd.

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A secure place to stand.
Everyone wants to feel secure.

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We all want something solid
under our feet, something that

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doesn’t shift every time life
throws A curveball.

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Maybe for you security has
looked like fitting in, being

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liked, getting good grades,
hitting certain goals, or

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finally having enough money so
you can relax.

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But if we’re honest, those
things don’t always feel as

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stable as we hoped.
One comment, one failure, one

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unexpected change, and suddenly
everything feels shaky.

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That’s why Proverbs chapter 10,
verse 2 speaks so clearly.

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It says treasures gained by
wickedness do not profit, but

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righteousness delivers from
death.

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In other words, not everything
that looks like a win actually

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is 1.
You can gain things fast,

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impress people, or get ahead the
wrong way and still feel empty,

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anxious, or afraid of losing it
all.

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But righteousness, choosing
God’s way, brings a kind of

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security that reaches deeper
than circumstances.

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Psalm 16 shows us what that
security looks like in real

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life.
David says in Psalm chapter 16,

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verse 8, I have set the Lord
always before me, because he is

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at my right hand.
I shall not be shaken.

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Notice he doesn’t say life won’t
be hard or that trouble won’t

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come.
He says he won’t be shaken.

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The difference is where his
focus is.

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God isn’t an afterthought or an
emergency option.

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God is set in front of him,
close, present, steady.

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Then we see this lived out
beautifully in Acts chapter 2.

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After the Holy Spirit comes, the
believers don’t scatter and try

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to do faith alone.
Acts chapter 2, verse 42 says

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they devoted themselves to the
apostles teaching, to

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fellowship, to the breaking of
bread, and to prayer.

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They built their lives around
God’s Word, shared life

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together, worshiped together,
and prayed together.

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That rhythm created strength.
That community created

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stability.
This matters for us today

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because isolation and shortcuts
are still tempting.

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We’re told to hustle harder,
chase more, do it alone, and

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prove ourselves.
But God invites us to something

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better.
Real security grows when you

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choose what lasts.
Keep God at the center of your

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daily life and surround yourself
with people who help you walk

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closer to Him.
When God is in front of you, you

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don’t have to be ruled by fear.
When your life is rooted in

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truth, you don’t crumble when
opinions change.

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When you walk with God’s people,
you don’t have to carry

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everything by yourself.
That’s a secure place to stand.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for

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being my steady foundation when
everything else feels uncertain.

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Help me to stop chasing things
that don’t last and to choose

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righteousness that brings real
life.

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Teach me to set You before me
every day in my choices, my

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thoughts and my habits.
Surround me with people who

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encourage my faith and draw me
closer to You.

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I want to stand firm, not
because life is easy, but

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because you are with me in Jesus
name, Amen.

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What if the way you pray changed
because you truly knew who God

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is?
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Mighty Creator who forms and

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sustains all things.
Yahweh draws you into

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relationship with the eternal I
AM who is present and faithful.

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the Lord and Master who leads

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sufficient God who nourishes and

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strengthens you.
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the everlasting God whose
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seen, known and cared for by a

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compassionate father.
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in the mighty God who defends,
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Now I invite you to spend time
with God in today’s three-year

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Bible reading plan.
Proverbs Chapter 10 Verse 2

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World English Bible Treasures of
wickedness profit nothing but

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righteousness delivers from
death.

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Psalm Chapter 16 World English
Bible a poem by David Preserve

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me God, for I take refuge in
you.

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My soul.
You have said to Yahweh, You are

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my Lord.
Apart from you I have no good

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thing.
As for the Saints who are in the

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earth, they are the excellent
ones in whom is all my delight.

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Their sorrows shall be
multiplied.

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Who give gifts to another God,
their drink, offerings of blood.

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I will not offer, nor take their
names on my lips.

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Yahweh assigned my portion and
my cup.

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You made my lot secure.
The lines have fallen to me in

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pleasant places.
Yes, I have a good inheritance.

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I will bless Yahweh who has
given me counsel.

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Yes, my heart instructs me in
the night seasons.

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I have set Yahweh always before
me because He is at my right

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hand.
I shall not be moved.

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Therefore my heart is glad and
my tongue rejoices.

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My body shall also dwell in
safety, for You will not leave

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my soul in Sheol.
Neither will you allow your Holy

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One to see corruption.
You will show me the path of

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life.
In Your presence is fullness of

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joy.
In your right hand there are

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pleasures forevermore.
Acts Chapter 2 World English

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Bible Now when the day of
Pentecost had come, they were

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all with 1 accord in one place.
Suddenly there came from the sky

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a sound like the rushing of a
mighty wind, and it filled all

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the house where they were
sitting.

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Tongues like fire appeared and
were distributed to them, and

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one sat on each of them.
They were all filled with the

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Holy Spirit and began to speak
with other languages as the

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Spirit gave them the ability to
speak.

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Now they were dwelling in
Jerusalem, Jews, devout men from

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every nation under the sky.
When this sound was heard, the

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multitude came together and were
bewildered because everyone

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heard them speaking in his own
language.

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They were all amazed and
marveled, saying to one another,

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Behold, aren’t all these who
speak Galileans?

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How do we hear everyone in our
own native language, Parthians,

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Medes, Elamites and people from
Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia,

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Pontus, Asia, Phrygia,
Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of

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Libya around Cyrene, visitors
from Rome, both Jews and

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proselytes, Cretans and
Arabians, we hear them speaking

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in our languages the mighty
works of God.

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They were all amazed and were
perplexed, saying to one

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another, what does this mean?
Others mocking said they are

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filled with new wine.
But Peter, standing up with the

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11, lifted up his voice and
spoke out to them.

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You men of Judea, and all you
who dwell at Jerusalem, let this

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be known to you, and listen to
my words.

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For these aren’t drunken, as you
suppose, seeing it is only the

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third hour of the day.
But this is what has been spoken

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through the prophet Joel.
It will be in the last days,

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says God, that I will pour out
my Spirit on all flesh.

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Your sons and your daughters
will prophecy.

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Your young men will see visions.
Your old men will dream dreams.

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Yes, and on my servants and on
my handmaidens in those days I

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will pour out my spirit and they
will prophecy.

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I will show wonders in the sky
above, and signs on the earth

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beneath, blood and fire and
billows of smoke.

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The sun will be turned Into
Darkness and the moon into

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blood.
Before the great and glorious

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day of the Lord comes, it will
be that whoever will call on the

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name of the Lord will be saved.
Men of Israel, hear these words,

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Jesus of Nazareth, a man
approved by God to you by mighty

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works and wonders and signs,
which God did by him among you,

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even as you yourselves know him,
being delivered up by the

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determined counsel and for
knowledge of God.

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You have taken by the hand of
lawless men, crucified and

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killed, whom God raised up,
having freed him from the agony

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of death, because it was not
possible that he should be held

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by it.
For David says concerning him, I

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saw the Lord always before my
face, for He is on my right hand

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that I should not be moved.
Therefore my heart was glad and

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my tongue rejoiced.
Moreover, my flesh also will

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dwell in hope, because you will
not leave my soul in Hades,

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neither will you allow your Holy
One to see decay.

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You made known to me the ways of
life.

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You will make me full of
gladness with your presence.

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Brothers, I may tell you freely
of the Patriarch David that he

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both died and was buried, and
his tomb is with us to this day.

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Therefore, being a prophet, and
knowing that God had sworn with

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an oath to him that of the fruit
of his body according to the

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flesh, he would raise up the
Christ to sit on his throne.

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He, foreseeing this, spoke about
the resurrection of the Christ,

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that his soul wasn’t left in
hades, and his flesh didn’t see

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decay.
This Jesus God raised up, to

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which we all are witnesses,
Being therefore exalted by the

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right hand of God, and having
received from the Father the

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promise of the Holy Spirit, he
has poured out this which you

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now see and hear.
For David didn’t ascend into the

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heavens, but he says himself,
The Lord said to my Lord, sit by

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my right hand until I make your
enemies a footstool for your

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feet.
Let all the House of Israel

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therefore know certainly that
God has made him both Lord and

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Christ, this Jesus whom you
crucified.

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Now when they heard this, they
were cut to the heart and said

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to Peter and the rest of the
apostles.

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Brothers, what shall we do?
Peter said to them, Repent and

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be baptized everyone of you in
the name of Jesus Christ for the

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forgiveness of sins, and you
will receive the gift of the

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Holy Spirit.
For the promise is to you and to

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your children, and to all who
are far off, even as many as the

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Lord our God will call to
himself.

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With many other words he
testified and exhorted them,

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saying, Save yourselves from
this crooked generation.

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Then those who gladly received
His word were baptized.

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They were added that day about
3000 souls.

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They continued steadfastly in
the Apostles, teaching and

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fellowship, in the breaking of
bread and prayer.

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Fear came on every soul, and
many wonders and signs were done

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through the apostles.
All who believed were together

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and had all things in common.
They sold their possessions and

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goods and distributed them to
all according as anyone had

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need.
Day by day, continuing

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steadfastly with 1 accord in the
temple and breaking bread at

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home, they took their food with
gladness and singleness of

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heart, praising God and having
favor with all the people the

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Lord added to the assembly day
by day, those who are being

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saved.
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