38 Acts Flashcards
Acts vital info
Writer: Luke
Date: 65 AD
Chapters: 28
Key thought: Witness
Key verse: 1:8. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Christ seen as: Ascended Lord and Christ
Conclusion: The work that Jesus “began” to do was, and is, continued by Him through the Holy Spirit.
Acts 1
Resurrection ministry of Christ. The apostolic commission. Promise of the Lord’s second coming. Waiting for the coming of the Spirit.
// Staying (tarrying)
Acts 2
Holy Spirit’s coming on day of Pentecost. The gospel given to the Jews. Peter’s great sermon on the resurrected Christ, and the conviction of the people.
// Holy Spirit, Witnessing
Acts 3
The lame man healed at the temple gate.
// Power of Christ
Acts 4
The first persecution. Peter’s address to the Sanhedrin. Preaching in Jesus’ name forbidden. Christians again filled with the Spirit. State of the Church at Jerusalem.
// Persecution
Acts 5
Sin and death of Ananias and Sapphira. The second persecution and answer of apostles to their persecutors. Warning of Gamaliel. Apostles beaten.
// Sin against the Holy Spirit
Acts 6
The first deacons. Third persecution. Stephen before the council.
// Deacons
Acts 7
Address of Stephen before the council. Stephen martyred.
// Testimony, Martyrdom
Acts 8
Saul persecuting Christians. The first missionaries. The case of Simon, the sorcerer. Philip and the Ethiopian.
// Preaching Christ
Acts 9
Conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Paul preaches and visits Jerusalem and returns to Tarsus. Peter heals Aeneas. Tabitha raised from the dead.
// Saul
Acts 10
Peter opens the gospel door to the Gentiles. Cornelius sends for Peter and Peter goes to Caesarea. Peter’s sermon to Gentiles in Cornelius’ house. Holy Spirit comes upon Gentile believers.
// Gentiles called
Acts 11
Peter vindicates his ministry to the Gentiles. Name “Christians” first applied at Antioch.
// Antioch Christians
Acts 12
Persecutions of the church and arrest of Peter. Prayer for his deliverance and his miraculous release Death of Herod.
// Delivered
Acts 13
Paul and Barnabas called. Satanic opposition from a sorcerer. Paul’s sermon in the synagogue at Antioch. Opposition from Jews. Paul and Barnabas turn to Gentiles.
// Word spread
Acts 14
Work of the Gospel at Iconium, Derbe, Lystra. An impotent man at Lystra healed. Paul stoned. Elders appointed in the churches.
// Giving testimony
Acts 15
The council at Jerusalem and the question of circumcision. Paul’s second missionary journey. Silas chosen.
// Council
Acts 16
Paul finds Timothy. Paul’s Macedonian vision. The first convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten. Conversion of the Philippian jailer.
// Called and kept
Acts 17
Founding of church at Thessalonica and the Jewish opposition. Paul and Silas at Berea. Paul at Athens and the sermon from Mars’ hill.
// Scriptural reasoning
Acts 18
Paul at Corinth. The careless Gallio. Paul takes a Jewish vow. Apollos at Ephesus.
// Testifying and reasoning
Acts 19
Paul at Ephesus. Disciples of John the Baptist become Christians. Paul in the synagogue and in the school of Tyrannus. Paul’s miracles. Uproar of the silversmiths.
// Disputing and persuading
Acts 20
Paul goes to Macedonia and Greece. His visits at Troas, Miletus. Paul’s conference with the Ephesian elders.
// Testifying
Acts 21
Holy Spirit forbids Paul to go to Jerusalem. Paul goes to Jerusalem. Paul takes a Jewish vow. Seized in the temple by the Jews and bound with chains.
// Warnings disregarded
Acts 22
Paul’s defense before the multitude. Recounts his conversion.
// Experience
Acts 23
Paul before the Sanhedrin. The conspiracy to kill Paul and its defeat. Paul sent to Felix.
// Dissension and conspiracy
