Acts: Sermon & DefenseActs: Sermon & Defense

South Florida Bible College & Seminary

© John Stevenson, 2009

Peter’s Pentecost Peter’s Pentecost SermonSermon

• Introduction

• Main Points

• Closing

• Result

Break into groups of 2-3 and list the following:

Other Sermons in Other Sermons in ActsActs

• What is the same?

• What is different?

Go through the other sermons of Acts to see how those same major points are used :

What are some of the divisions What are some of the divisions in Christian thinking regarding in Christian thinking regarding

Spiritual Gifts?Spiritual Gifts?

What are some of the gifts What are some of the gifts listed in the Scriptures?listed in the Scriptures?

Romans 12:6-8

1 Corinthians 12:4-11

1 Corinthians 12:28-30

Ephesians 4:11

1 Peter 4:10-11

What purposes do What purposes do spiritual gifts spiritual gifts

serve?serve?

Ephesians 4:11-13Ephesians 4:11-13And He gave some as

apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers…

to the building up of the

body of Christ

for the work of service

for the equipping of

the saints

…until we all attain… to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.

Hebrews 2:3-4Hebrews 2:3-4After it was at the first

spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, 4 God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.

What are some of the What are some of the “sign gifts”?“sign gifts”?

What purposes do the What purposes do the “sign gifts” serve?“sign gifts” serve?

1 Corinthians 14:21-22 1 Corinthians 14:21-22 In the Law it is written, “By

men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to me,” says the Lord. 22 So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

Have the “sign gifts” Have the “sign gifts” ceased?ceased?

1 Corinthians 13:8-10 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 Love never fails; but if there

are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

1 Corinthians 13:8-11 1 Corinthians 13:8-11 When I was a child, I used to

speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.