Noble ‘Unsaved’ Bereans?

I recently received a letter from a brother (who, BTW, "enjoys the website") that brought up another point about the ‘noble Bereans’ in response to my thought of the day about the ‘mid-Acts’ preacher who prayed for "that Berean spirit". Let’s revisit Acts 17:11, from where the conference speaker based his prayer request for "that Berean spirit".

In the CONTEXT, when you read on into verse 12,
you realize that the ‘noble Bereans’ in verse 11 were not yet saved!
They were NOT believers having a Bible study .... as ‘mid-Acts-ers’ imply!
They were JEWS,
of the synagogue,
who BECAME believers,
AFTER they VERIFIED what Paul was preaching in the OLD testament record.

Acts 17:10-13 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11 These (Jews in Berea) were more noble than those (Jews) in Thessalonica,
in that they received the word with all readiness of mind,
and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12 Therefore many of them (Berean Jews) believed;
also of honourable women which were Greeks (honourable Greek women), and of men, not a few (many Greek men).
13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.

The Berean Jews (vs. 11)
were more noble than those Thessalonian Jews (vs. 11a, 13)
because every day they checked out Paul’s messages IN THE SCRIPTURES
to make sure that what he was preaching WAS IN ONE ACCORD
with what God’s word already said.

Luke recorded that by Paul’s own mouth, he declared that everything he said was in the Bible:

Acts 26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:

‘Mid-Acts-ers’ ought to be CAREFUL with the holy writ (for English speaking people -- the KJV), instead of picking out certain phrases and spinning them to make their own paradigm. (This only applies to those 'mid-Acts-ers' who claim to be KJV .... not those 'mid-Acts-ers' who do not claim to be KJV, nor to mainstream denominations who accept the verses that they are a flock of sheep with pastors, even though I do not agree with them. I am KJV, and I can see when someone AVOIDS the KJV words.)

This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
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