Sermon: Acts 15:1-11; "Jesus + ? = Salvation"
Date: May 22, 2016
Pastor: Michael Howard


Scriptures: Acts 15:1-11

1 Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching
the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom
taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.”
2 This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with
them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other
believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders
about this question.
3 The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through
Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted.
This news made all the believers very glad.
4 When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and
the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had
done through them.

5 Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the
Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and
required to keep the law of Moses.”

6 The apostles and elders met to consider this question.
7 After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers,
you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the
Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the
Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us.
9 He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their
hearts by faith.
10 Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of
Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to
bear?
11 No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we
are saved, just as they are.”


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