![]() Then we receive strength from God to be obedient to Him and do His will instead of our own. To receive God’s blessing, we first need to repent from seeking our own advantage and show remorse for the sin we have committed. ![]() The Holy Spirit is given as a help, as power to carry out God’s will. The power and gifts of the Holy Spirit and God’s blessing aren’t given so we become great and get earthly advantages. He also needed to repent from bitterness, which was probably because he didn’t get the honor he felt he deserved. Simon had to repent from unrighteousness, which was that he wanted to become great and received honor from people. 110 Simon Magus plays an extraordinary role in early Christian literature. What can we learn from Philips ministry and his obedience to Gods direction 3. Nero was a believer in magic, and had patronized Simon. They are a gift from God, and we can never receive honor or glory for them. How did the persecution of the church contribute to the spread of the Gospel 2. Simon Magus the sorcerer, who had followed him to Rome to oppose and hinder the work of the gospel. Gifts of the Spirit are given to us to bless and edify. Then Simon realized that what the apostles had was genuine, and not just a show for their own profit, and he asked them to pray for him. When he offered the apostle money to get the same power, Peter rebuked him strongly and exhorted him to repent from his unrighteousness. Simon became a believer and was baptized (a tribute to the power of Philips preaching). He was good at what he did, and was called 'Great Power of God.' Undoubtedly, Simon made a good living at what he did. He was baptized, but it became evident that it wasn’t because he wanted to repent, but because he looked up to the miracles and the outward things. A sorcerer is a person who makes use of various occult practices (spells and fortune-telling and perhaps astrology). Simon had become great because of his sorcery (magic) and he admired the apostles, who could heal and perform great miracles. Giving out that himself was some great one Ī divine person, or an extraordinary prophet, and it may be the Messiah since the Samaritans expected the Messiah, as appears from ( John 4:25 ) and which the Syriac version seems to incline to, which renders the words thus, "and he said, I am that great one" that great person, whom Moses spake of as the seed of the "woman", under the name of Shiloh, and the character of a prophet.We can read the story of Simon the sorcerer in Acts 8:5-25. Simon Magus also known as Simon the Sorcerer or Simon the Magician, was a religious figure whose confrontation with Peter is recorded in the Acts of the. Peter himself denied Christ as a new believer and later. Believers can succumb to bitterness and sin ( Eph. Or rather astonished them, with the strange feats he performed which were so unheard of and unaccountable, that they were thrown into an ecstasy and rapture and were as it were out of themselves, through wonder and admiration, at the amazing things that were done by him: Peter's take on Simon's problem is not that he is dead in sin or separated from God, but that he is 'poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity,' both obvious references to his covetousness and avarice ( Acts 8:23 ). Simon the Sorcerer, sometimes referred to as Simon Magus or Simon of Gitta, is mentioned by Luke in Acts 8:924. ![]() ![]() Who before Philip came thither, practised magic arts wherefore he is commonly called "Simon Magus", for he was a magician, who had learned diabolical arts, and used enchantments and divinations, as Balaam and the magicians of Egypt did: Which beforetime in the same city used sorcery Simon had only ever done clever magic tricks, so he was amazed when he saw real miracles performed. When he preached in Samaria, a well-known sorcerer (or magician) named Simon believed and became a Christian. Moreover, he does not let sorcerers go easily We must always remember that we are engaged in a spiritual warfare look up 2 Corinthians 10:4 Ephesians 6:12. Story Overview: Philip was one of the original seven helpers in the church. Upon this new church, the success of the Gospel in this place, and the joy that was there a man of great wickedness and sophistry plays the hypocrite, feigns himself a believer, and gets in among them ( See Gill on Acts 5:1), Wherever God is at work, so is the Devil, and one of his strategies is to counterfeit the work of God. Who, as Justin Martyr F6 says, was a Samaritan, and of a village called Gitton and so a Jewish writer F7 calls him Simeon, ( ynwrmvh), "the Samaritan", a wizard: here is a ![]()
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