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novinced upon Ananias and Sapphira by the Holy Spirit, ""great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things" (Acts5:1-11). WhenMiriamwassmittenbyleprosyafterhersedition against Moses, Aaroncried outofdistress unto Moses, "Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolish ly; and wherein we have sinned" (Numbers 12:11).
Nineveh was spared from an impending judgment of God by the
preaching of Jonah warning about the wrath to come (Jonah 3.4-10).
The spirit of God leads to repentance. Teaching about the work of the Holy Spirit, Jesus revealed that, "...when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness and of jud^ent Of si^ because they believe not on me.-" Oohn " f
souls repented on the day of Pentecost when the SP'"» thieugh the apostle Peter. Paul, giving an
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and confirming the word with signs following summarize the various supemat- whicn accompanieda tmhe preachning
of the of Ms works, that he may give them the heritage of the l:;^S'l^&>Kings 18.0-39).
. What a great miracle the Spirit of God wought on the day of Pentecost. Herewasamiracleofhearingonthepartofthehearers,as
wellasofspeechonthepartofthespeatere. God,mordertoconfirrn ^d establfeh^sHanity, was pleased to mv«t the apMtl« with ^i^tural powers, so that the many d.^«ts represented by tte
auSecouldallhearintheirowntonguethem^sageofgrace. As
?he result of this linguistic miracle, three thousand people repented and were baptized in Jesus'Name.
. The miracles of the lame man (Acts 3:1-26), Anamas and Sapphira (Acts 51-11) Peter's shadow (Acts 5:12-16), Philip (Acts 8:5-8,13), amon the siirceier (Acts 8:24), and others have brought many lives from unbelief and darkness to conviction and repentance.
• The book of Acts, which is the handbook on salvation, contains no greater token of God's saving grace and power than that of Saul of Tarsus, the persecutor of the Church, who became its most illustrious
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