So when Peter preached repentance (that change of "nous" inside), it followed the preaching of that straightforward word, and many hearts turned to God and received the Holy Spirit
- on the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem (
Acts 2:14-40 to Judaea) - with the Samaritans about a year or so later (
Acts 8:14-17 to Samaria) - in the house of Cornelius (a word that means
a Horn, a Trumpet) in Caesarea (
Acts 10:34-48 to Romans, a number of years later, thus to Gentiles to the ends of the earth). Actually, Cornelius, according to the Coptic Church in Egypt, then became bishop, overseer in Caesarea.
Then we talked about “what happens next”, and Tony’s use of “C’s”, reminding me of Jesus’s parable and the “Seeds” 
Contrary — some seed will fall by the wayside, and the birds will eat them up. Some, like Elymas the magician/sorcerer in
Confusion — some seed fell among rocks. There will be direct opposition from others which can be very confusing. As Jesus said to the legalistic lawyers with their numerous laws in Luke 11:52, you take away the key of knowledge (of God), you do not enter, and you hinder, you just lop away at (the wings, the limbs) of those entering (so they become all flap, and no fly).
Compromise — some seed fell among thorns. Ok, there’s belief, initially, see Simon in
Commitment, followed by, perhaps, Consecration — Good soil, of various qualities, with fruitfulness accordingly as we go through life. Hallelujah.
https://www.swcs.com.au/SeekingGod.htm
Blessings all Steve
Update Monday, June 20, 2016 7:47 PM — Talking further about seeds, Paul, the Spermologos, in Acts 17:18 and also in Acts 16:16
Acts 17:18 “some said — what point is this babbler (spermologos) trying to make?”
Paul gets called a “spermologos”, a little seed-gathering bird, from sperma = seed + lego = collect or gather, in Athenian slang, one who is living hand to mouth in the markets by picking up anything that falls from the loads of merchandise being carried about, an intellectual’s Greek "put-down" for somebody who gathers bits of information and spouts them off second hand without any understanding of their meaning, a "babbler", like a baby, no apparent human coherence.
“others said — he appears to be preaching down to us a message about foreign daimonions”
because Paul was announcing the good news of Jesus Christ and his arising — his resurrection”.
Greek philosopher Socrates had spoken of his daimonion, his personal spirit-guide. Daemons were invisible "energies" in Greek, they rose and bestowed fortune, luck. Territorial gods of power.
In Deuteronomy 32:17, Moses speaks of them as Shed (from Shuwd in Hebrew) — swollen up beings.
Associated with judgment, with devastation and waste. Seen again in
As seen with Jesus, and his refusal to let them witness to his divine background.
And also in Acts 16:16, we see Paul, followed by a lady possessed with a "spirit of Python" in Phillipi, his refusing to communicate with her, for days, until finally, grieved through a “channel of pain", she just provoked his rebuke, and the lady was freed, but then the whole city got into an uproar. Messy stuff.
But, flogged and chained, praising God, the foundations of their jail were then destroyed at midnight in an earthquake, and then the jailer, and his family were saved, and then the following morning, coming to their senses, and learning Paul was a Roman, in fear, the rulers of the city apologised for the injustice done to them, beseeching them to leave, please.
Great story.
Blessings all 
Steve
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