20/02/2024
The majority of the church today don't practice Acts 2:42 maybe is problem of sight particularly breaking of bread is done occasionally instead of daily and maybe is one of the reasons church is not demonstrating the power like of early church apostles. The early church moved from initial grace to great grace because of Acts 2:42. The early church apostles, laid the foundation for us to build upon and follow.
The four pillars of apostolic culture in Acts 2:42 points to Christ Himself.
1. WORD or APOSTLES DOCTRINE. Christ himself is the word. Apostles are custodians of doctrines of Christ. The word is light, Christ himself is the light of the world, he is the lampstand. This is antitype of lampstand in the Holy place.
2. FELLOWSHIP. Jesus Christ is in his body and true fellowship of believers is the body of Christ. Christ means anointing and his anointed one. Anointing is Christ the Head and anointed one is the Body of Christ. This is the antitype of table in the Holy place.
3. BREAKING OF BREAD. Jesus is the bread that come down from heaven, his body was broken on the cross for us. Eating his body and drinking his blood brings life. This is antitype of shewbread in the Holy place. The word shew means to declare, to make know, to advertise. As was called table of shewbread, so true table(fellowship) is to advertise Christ to the four corners of the earth that he is the real bread that come down from heaven that when we eat him we will never die but live forever more
4. PRAYERS. The effective prayer, is to pray to the Father in the name of Jesus. His name speaks of power, authority, nature , excellence, tangible presence, oneness etc etc. The kingdom of darkness fears his name. This is antitype of golden altar of incense with five ingredients as frankincense, stacte, onycha, galbanum and salt and all points to different kinds of prayers in the new testament.