Acts 5:16
“The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.”
This is the first time the message of Jesus and His work makes its way outside of Jerusalem. Jesus said take this message and good news from Jerusalem, to Judea, into Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. NOTICE: that the disciples did not leave Jerusalem, so God brought people from those towns around Jerusalem to the disciples. The language here means a steady stream of people constantly coming to them, and notice they ALL were healed.
Jesus said Go
We say Come
He said All
We say some
Waiting for God to bring people to them is going to work for a time, but eventually God will use the persecution from the government to push them out into the surrounding areas, so that they are obedient to His Word, and take the message to ALL the people in the world. Father God, do not allow me to get comfortable telling people to come to church, and call it good, but compel me to go with You on mission to reach the lost, the blind and the hopeless, in Jesus’ name, Amen.
ACTION: GO