Unit IV Works of the Spirit in Acts

Question 1

In the book of Acts, the Holy Spirit . . .

Answer 1

1) Will baptize the disciple with power to be witnesses for Christ
2) Filled the disciples and enabled them to speak in tongues
3) Fulfilled the promise that he would be poured out on all flesh
4) Identifies Jesus as the Christ
5) Convicts men of sin
6) Empowers the disciples to testify of Jesus before hostile authorities
7) Filled the disciples, resulting in their speaking God’s word with boldness
8) Protected the Church from internal deception
9) Enabled the Apostles to speak God’s Word before hostile authorities
10) Was a mark of those qualified to serve in official capacities within the church
11) Enables Stephen to speak of seeing Jesus in Heaven just before he dies
12) Came on Samaritan believers after Peter and John laid hands on them
13) Leads Philip to give the Gospel to the Ethiopian Eunuch
14) Catches Philip away to another location where he continues to preach
15) Fills Paul, enabling him to preach that Jesus is the Christ
16) Leads Cornelius to send messengers to Peter, and informs Peter that he has done so
17) Falls on gentile believers, enabling them to speak in tongues
18) Is the basis for Peter’s defense against those skeptical of Gentile conversion
19) Gives the Church advance warning of a coming famine
20) Selects Barnabas and Saul to begin first missionary journey
21) Fills Paul as he denounces a false prophet for trying to keep the deputy of Paphos from receiving the Gospel
22) Continues to fill the disciples after Paul announces that he will take the gospel to the gentiles
23) Anticipates the first significant disagreement in the church, definitively providing the answer to the issue before it arose
24) Is acknowledged as the basis of the Church’s decision at the Jerusalem Council
25) Leads Paul and Silas by preventing them from continuing to preach in Asia
26) Came on some disciples of John the Baptist after they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, and Paul laid hands on them, enabling them to speak in tongues
27) Gives Paul advance warning that he will be imprisoned in Jerusalem
28) Commits oversight and safe keeping of the church to prepared leaders
29) Gives Paul a public warning that he will be bound in Jerusalem
30) Is credited with predicting the Jews’ refusal to hear God’s word and be converted