ACTS TWO BELIEVERS STUDY GROUP

Consider this a sneak preview of Act 8.  Simon the sorcerer was saved, baptized, and still of a wrong spirit.  Here is the passage for your own reading: The Sorcerer’s Profession of Faith 9 But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great, 10 to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.” 11 And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time. 12 But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized. 13 Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were done. The Sorcerer’s Sin 14 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and ...

March is already gone!  Thursday 27th we reviewed the difference between knowing and knowing.  English is so very limited in its expression. In Spanish it is conocer vs saber.  Conocer is always used when speaking of a person knowing another person.  While saber refers strictly to factual knowing.   There is no English equivalent word corresponding with conocer:  best we can say is to know personally. In Genesis the context reveals what sort of knowing was intended when Adam knew his wife Eve, but this is not the knowing we mean either. That is, we are not talking about physical intercourse, although that can be a part of the intimacy of personally knowing, it is not the main idea. John felt so comfortable with Jesus, (lets keep pure thinking here) that he leaned up against him during meals.  The custom was everyone lay around a meal set on rugs on the floor.  It was not at all unusual for many to be close together on an elbow next to each o...