3. Acts 9:31 (ESV)
31 So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.

4. Acts 9:31 (AIV)
31 So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace. While being built up, and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.

5. Acts 12:1–3
1 About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. 2 He killed James the brother of John with the sword, 3 and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread.

6. Building Up - Atmosphere of Encouragement 1 Thessalonians 5:11
11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

7. Building Up Atmosphere of Encouragement Love for God
1 Corinthians 8:1–3
1 Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.

8. Building Up Atmosphere of Encouragement Love for God Love for Others
1 Corinthians 10:23–24
23 “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. 24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

9. Building Up Atmosphere of Encouragement Love for God Love for Others
Operation of Gifts
1 Corinthians 14:12
12 So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.

10. Building Up Atmosphere of Encouragement Love for God Love for Others
Operation of Gifts
Ministry of the Word
Acts 20:32
32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

11. Building Up Atmosphere of Encouragement Love for God Love for Others
Operation of Gifts
Ministry of the Word
Building Up id Growing in Christ

12. 1 Corinthians 3:10–12
10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—

13. 1 Corinthians 3:13–15
13 each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

14. Going on in the Fear of the Lord
Psalm 25:14
14 The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
Psalm 33:18
18 Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,
Psalm 34:7
7 The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

15. Psalm 34:9
9 Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack!
Psalm 103:17
17 But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children,
Psalm 111:10
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

16. Psalm 115:11
11 You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield.
Psalm 115:13
13 he will bless those who fear the Lord, both the small and the great.
Psalm 147:11
11 but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

17. Proverbs 8:13
13 The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
Proverbs 16:6
6 By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.
Proverbs 19:23
23 The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.

18. Going on in the Comfort of the Holy Spirit
John 14:16
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
John 14:26
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

19. John 15:26
26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
John 16:7
7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

20. Isaiah 40:1–2
1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.

21. The Promised Comfort in Isaiah 40:1-2, 49:13, 51:3,12
God will take away sin
God will bring Joy and Gladness
God will gain a victory on the peoples’ behalf.
When we come to the N.T. we have these three things involved in God's comfort.
Forgiveness of sins (Conviction of Sin)
New level of daily experience (Conviction of Righteousness
Entering into the victory of the Lord. (Conviction of Satan’s Judgment)

22. Luke 2:25–32
25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. 27 And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law, 28 he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, 29 “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; 30 for my eyes have seen your salvation 31 that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, 32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”