Acts 15 ：1-35
What were the false teachers saying the Gentiles must do to be saved?
verse support
Be circumcised. v1
How the slave girl earn her masters money?
verse support
Telling fortunes (v16)
The philosophers took Paul to the _____________(v19).
Areopagus
A court named for the hill on which it once met. Paul was not being formally tried, only being asked to defend his teaching
Paul was sailing to __________.
Italy/Rome. (v1)
True or False: Everyone believe the words Paul spoke to them.
verse support
False. (v24)
True or False: The Jerusalem council agreed with the disciples.
True
What were Paul and Silas doing at midnight in prison?
verse support
praying and singing hymns to God (v25)
True or false: The Athenians believe in the one true God.
verse support
False.
v16
Paul advised the men to stop sailing because the voyage could end in _____ ______ _____ (27:10)
Injury, loss and death
While imprisoned, Paul taught people about _______.
the kingdom of God and Jesus (v23, 31)
Peter, Paul, Barnabas, and James argued that salvation comes through F_______ in Jesus Christ, not W_______.
Verse support
Faith, Works
v11
What did the jailer have to do to be saved?
verse support
Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved (v31)
Because they were worshiping false gods, Paul ______ with the people in the synagogue (Acts 17:17).
reasoned
Paul is prepared to talk about Jesus in a way that makes sense.
Gospel is something that can be shown to be true.
Sharing gospel is showing why it's true, answering objections, and showing why other beliefs are false.
What did God use to get the men on the ship to stop trusting themselves?
A huge storm. (v14ff)
Explain what it means to evangelize?
To evangelize is to share the gospel, the good news that Jesus died and rose again to bring people back to God, their King.
Define the word faith
Trusting in Christ's power and not in your own.
Define what it means to BELIEVE in Jesus
To trust in who Jesus is （John 20：31）and to accept what He has done (1 Cor 15:3-4)
What did Paul tell the Athenians about God?
Creator (v24a)
Lord/Owner (v24b)
Transcendent: greater than the world, not a part of it, and not dependent on it (v24c-25a)
Sovereign: completely in control of the world (v26)
Immanent: Present in the world and so close that anyone who seeks him will find Him (v27-28a)
Person -- A living being who can make decisions about right and wrong
Who promised Paul that not one person would die in the shipwreck? Which verse(s)?
God. (v22, 24)
What did Paul use to explain the gospel to the Jews?
He used scripture.
v23 both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets (OT)
List the four things Gentiles were to avoid to not offend Jewish Christians for the purpose of loving one another in fellowship (vv 20-35)
verse support
1) abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols
2) and from blood
3) and from what has been strangled,
4) and from sexual immorality
v20 and v29
What two things confirmed the jailer's faith？
verse support
He was baptized and he showed love for Paul and Silas by washing them and feeding them. vv33-34
Explain why the resurrection proves the gospel true. (v31b)
The resurrection is proof that Jesus is who He says He is, which means He will come back to judge just as He said He would (John 5:22-29).
Explain how God was faithful from this passage.
Paul safely went on to Rome (28:14), just as God had promised (27:24).
According to Isaiah, why did most of the Jews refuse to believe?
vv26-27, Isaiah 6:9-10
They were not willing to listen. They heard the truth over and over, but their hearts were hard. They did not want to be changed (not able).
God's word enter their ears but did not change their lives.