Acts
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Session 1 · Acts 1–5
The Spirit creates witnesses, and the word holds Jerusalem.
- The risen Lord orders the apostles to wait for the Spirit and witness from Jerusalem outward, then ascends, and the company prays and chooses Matthias.
- At Pentecost the Spirit is poured out, Peter preaches that God has made the crucified Jesus both Lord and Christ, and about three thousand are baptized.
- Peter and John heal a lame man at the temple gate in the name of Jesus and call Israel to repent so that times of refreshing may come.
- The council threatens the apostles, who pray for boldness rather than for ease, and the believers share their goods while Barnabas is named for encouragement.
- Ananias and Sapphira lie to the Spirit and die, the apostles are freed from prison by an angel, and Gamaliel warns the council not to fight God.
Session 2 · Acts 6–10
From Stephen's blood the word reaches Samaria and the nations.
- Seven men full of the Spirit are set apart to serve, and Stephen, full of grace and power, is seized after he disputes in the synagogue.
- Stephen retells Israel's story as a pattern of resisting the Holy Spirit, sees the Son of Man standing, and dies asking that this sin not be charged against them.
- Persecution scatters the church through Judea and Samaria, Philip proclaims Christ in Samaria, and he baptizes the Ethiopian eunuch on the desert road.
- Saul is blinded by the risen Jesus on the Damascus road, Ananias calls him brother, and the former persecutor preaches that Jesus is the Son of God.
- Cornelius, a Gentile centurion, sends for Peter, who learns that God shows no partiality, and the Holy Spirit falls on the household before they are baptized.
Session 3 · Acts 11–15
Antioch sends laborers, and Jerusalem will not yoke the nations.
- Peter defends the Gentile baptism in Jerusalem, and in Antioch the disciples are first called Christians as Barnabas fetches Saul to teach the growing church.
- Herod kills James, imprisons Peter, and is struck down after accepting divine praise, while the word of God continues to increase and multiply.
- The Spirit sends Barnabas and Saul from Antioch, they confront a magician on Cyprus, and Paul preaches in Pisidian Antioch that through Jesus forgiveness is proclaimed.
- In Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe they preach and heal, refuse worship, suffer stoning, and appoint elders in every church before they report back to Antioch.
- The Jerusalem council refuses to put circumcision on Gentile disciples as a yoke, writing that they are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus.
Session 4 · Acts 16–20
The word crosses the sea and gathers churches in the cities.
- Paul takes Timothy, is called into Macedonia by a vision, baptizes Lydia, and sings in a Philippian jail until an earthquake opens the way for the jailer's household.
- In Thessalonica and Berea the word divides the cities, and in Athens Paul announces the unknown God, the resurrection, and a coming judgment by a Man God appointed.
- At Corinth the Lord tells Paul not to be afraid, many believe, and Apollos is taught the way of God more accurately before Paul returns through Galatia and Phrygia.
- In Ephesus disciples of John receive the Spirit, the name of the Lord Jesus overcomes magic, and a riot rises because the gospel threatens the trade of Artemis.
- Paul travels through Macedonia and Greece, raises Eutychus at Troas, and at Miletus charges the Ephesian elders to shepherd the church God purchased with His own blood.
Session 5 · Acts 21–25
A prisoner in Jerusalem appeals to Caesar and keeps witnessing.
- Despite Agabus's prophecy Paul goes up to Jerusalem, is seized in the temple, and is rescued by Roman soldiers who discover that he is a citizen.
- On the steps he tells the crowd of his encounter with Jesus and of the command to go to the Gentiles, until that word throws them into a rage.
- Before the council he confesses the hope of the resurrection, the Lord stands by him and promises Rome, and soldiers carry him by night to Caesarea.
- Before Felix he defends the Way as worship of the fathers' God and speaks of righteousness, self-control, and coming judgment, which leaves Felix afraid and undecided.
- Festus, wishing to grant the Jews a favor, hears Paul's appeal to Caesar, and King Agrippa arrives so the prisoner can be examined before he is sent to Rome.
Session 6 · Acts 26–28
Storm, shipwreck, and an open gospel in the heart of Rome.
- Paul tells Agrippa that the Christ had to suffer and rise, that he preaches nothing beyond Moses and the prophets, and that light has been given for Jews and Gentiles.
- On the voyage a storm drives the ship for days, an angel assures Paul that God has granted him all who sail with him, and everyone reaches land after the wreck.
- On Malta he is unharmed by a viper and heals the sick, then in Rome he preaches the kingdom and the Lord Jesus with all boldness and without hindrance.