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Title: A Study in the Book of Acts


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A Study in the Book of Acts
Part 12 - The Mission Goes Forth
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  • Our lives

3
Stephen
  • known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom (Acts
    63)
  • a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit (Acts
    65)
  • a man full of God's grace and power (Acts 68)
  • did great wonders and miraculous signs among the
    people. (Acts 68)

4
  • 1. Life can be very challenging
  • even when you are in the
  • center of Gods will.

5
  • Acts 62 Godly men buried Stephen and mourned
    deeply for him.

6
  • Acts 82 On that day a great persecution broke
    out against the church at Jerusalem

7
Expect Trouble
  • John 1633 In this world you will have trouble
    (tribulation). But take heart! I have overcome
    the world.

8
Expect Trouble
  • Matthew 510-12 Blessed are those who are
    persecuted because of righteous-ness, for theirs
    is the kingdom of heaven. 11"Blessed are you
    when people insult you, persecute you and falsely
    say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
    12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your
    reward in heaven, for in the same way they
    persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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Expect Trouble
  • John 162-4 They will put you out of the
    synagogue in fact, a time is coming when anyone
    who kills you will think he is offering a service
    to God. 3 They will do such things because they
    have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told
    you this, so that when the time comes you will
    remember that I warned you.

10
When Stephen was being Stoned, Saul was there
  • 757,58 At this they covered their ears and,
    yelling at the top of their voices, they all
    rushed at him, 58 dragged Stephen out of the city
    and began to stone him.
  • Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their clothes at
    the feet of a young man named Saul.

11
When Stephen died, Saul was pleased
  •  81 And Saul was there, giving approval to his
    death.

12
When the Mob turned ugly, they had a Ringleader
  • 3 But Saul began to destroy the church. Going
    from house to house, he dragged off men and women
    and put them in prison.

13
  • Acts 224,5 I persecuted the followers of this
    Way to their death, arresting both men and women
    and throwing them into prison, 5 as also the high
    priest and all the Council can testify. I even
    obtained letters from them to their brothers in
    Damascus, and went there to bring these people as
    prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.

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2. God is a work even in the bad things!
15
The Church Scattered
  • 2 and all except the apostles were scattered
    throughout Judea and Samaria.

16
The Fulfillment of Jesus Commission
  • Acts 18 But you will receive power when the
    Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my
    witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
    Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

17
Tertullian (164-200AD)
  • Kill us, torture us, condemn us, grind us to
    dust. The more you mow us down, the more we grow,
    for the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the
    church. Every single drop of our blood springs
    up, in some thirty, in some sixty and in some and
    hundred-fold.

18
Philip in Samaria
  •  4 Those who had been scattered preached the word
    wherever they went. 5 Philip went down to a city
    in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ there.

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John 4
  • 4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came
    to a town in Samaria called Sychar
  • 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water,
    Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" 8
    (His disciples had gone into the town to buy
    food.)

20
  • 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew
    and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me
    for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with
    Samaritans.)

21
  • 10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of
    God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you
    would have asked him and he would have given you
    living water."

22
  • 19 "Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are
    a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this
    mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where
    we must worship is in Jerusalem."

23
  • 21 Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is
    coming when you will worship the Father neither
    on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You
    Samaritans worship what you do not know we
    worship what we do know, for salvation is from
    the Jews.

24
  • 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the
    true worshippers will worship the Father in
    spirit and truth, for they are the kind of
    worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit,
    and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in
    truth."

25
The Good Samaritan
26
The Ten Lepers
27
  • 6 When the crowds heard Philip and saw the
    miraculous signs he did, they all paid close
    attention to what he said. 7 With shrieks, evil
    spirits came out of many, and many paraly-tics
    and cripples were healed. 8 So there was great
    joy in that city.

28
  • Life can be very challenging even when you are in
    the center of Gods will.
  • 2. God is a work even in the bad things

29
  • Youre not home yet!

30
1 Peter 16-7
  • In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a
    little while you may have had to suffer grief in
    all kinds of trials. These have come so that your
    faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes
    even though refined by fire--may be proved
    genuine and may result in praise, glory, and
    honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

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If I could live my life from here to eternity, I
would
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