The Council at The Council at JerusalemJerusalem

Acts 15

47 A.D.

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and

in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the

earth.”

Acts 1: 8

33 A.D.

Coming of the Holy SpiritWho was present?

Acts 2: 1-5

33 A.D.

“whom you crucified…”

“Repent and be baptized…receive the gift of the Holy

Sprit.”

Acts 2: 36-41

33 A.D.

“They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy

Spirit.”

Acts 6: 5

~ 35 A.D.

“…and now you have betrayed and murdered

Him – you who have received the law…but have not obeyed it.”

Acts 7: 51 – 8: 1

~ 36 A.D.

“ “On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at

Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were

scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.”

Acts 8: 1

~ 36 A.D.

Acts 8: 1

“…“…so that you may see again and be filled with

the Holy Spirit." Immediately, something

like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again.

He got up and was baptized…”

Acts 9: 17-18

~ 37 A.D.

Acts 9: 31

Acts 10

“The circumcised believers who had come

with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even

on the Gentiles.”

Acts 10: 44-48

~ 35-37 A.D.

Acts 11: 19

~ 40 A.D.

Acts 15: 1

47 A.D.“Unless you are circumcised, according to

the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be

saved.”

http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm

Acts 15: 1-11

47 A.D. “Now then, why do you

try to test God by putting on the necks of

the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able

to bear?”

Acts 4: 36Acts 9: 26-27

Acts 11: 19-26

Paul & Barnabas

Acts 15: 2-4

Acts 15: 5

Then some of the believers who belonged

to the party of the Pharisees stood up and

said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey

the law of Moses."

Acts 15: 6-12

“God, who knows the heart, showed that he

accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to

us.”

Galatians 1: 6-7, 2: 1-5; 3: 1-5; 5: 1-6

Paul’s troubles in Galatia

“Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything;

what counts is a new creation.”Galatians 6: 15

Acts 15: 13-21

“The words of the prophets

are in agreement with this,

as it is written…”

In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is

fallen, and will rebuild the ruins of it, and will set up the parts thereof that have been broken down, and will build it up as in

the ancient days:

that the remnant of men, and all the Gentiles upon whom my

name is called, may earnestly seek [me], saith the Lord who

does all these things.

Amos 9: 11-12 Septuagint

"Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again

in three days."

“ “I have other sheep that

are not of this sheep pen.

I must bring them also.”

John 2: 19

John 10: 14-16

Acts 15: 19-21

Gentiles should Gentiles should abstain from:

* food polluted by idols

* sexual immorality* meat of strangled

animals* blood

“Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of

food.”

Romans 14: 19-20a

Ephesians 4: 22-23

“…put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires…”

Exodus 19: 3-7Leviticus 20: 22-26

“I am the Lord your God, who has set you

apart from the nations.”

“Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of

food.”

Romans 14

“Be careful, however, that the exercise of

your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.”

I Corinthians 8

Acts 15: 21

““For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”