After lighting a spiritual fire in Samaria, Deacon Philip has been miraculously transported to Azotus from where he leaves on a preaching trip which ends in the city of Caesarea. But trouble is looming back in Jerusalem where the Lord has instructed the apostles to stay until they receive further orders. Chapter nine Verses one through nine: Saul of Tarsus, the probable instigater of the […]

Philip, Peter and John have ministered in Samaria. Believers have been baptized for the remission of sins and have received the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands. Verses eighteen through twenty-four: Simon the Sorcerer has seen the light, believed and been water baptized. Fast forward to the modern church: A miracle worker who had been hailed […]

With Saul of Tarsus in hot pursuit, the disciples have been forced to leave Jerusalem following the death of Stephen. Only the apostles remain in the city. Verses five through eight: Philip, a deacon, not the apostle, having escaped Saul’s wrath, went down into Samaria where Jesus had spent two days teaching those who came to […]

The number of disciples is growing in Jerusalem, so much so that the apostles are forced to take time to deal with a distribution situation. After giving directions to the disciples on how to handle the problem, they return to their assigned duties–praying and ministering the Word of God. Upon their command, the people put forth several men to […]

The Book Of Acts (Ch. 5), the religious authorities are angry and afraid. The upstart sect is growing daily and filling Jerusalem with this new religion and its dead god. There was only one solution–kill all of the leaders. Crush the head and the body would die. But out of the midst of the heated rhetoric came […]

The apostles are in trouble with the priests, Pharisees and Sadducees who have brought them before the ruling council. Once again they are warned not to speak in “this name.” These men knew that by using the name of Jesus Christ the apostles unleashed the power of the One who bore the name. They had […]

Jerusalem is in turmoil. A new religion has come forth and is threatening to bring down the wrath of the Roman government on the heads of the Jewish hierarchy who have been allowed to hold onto a modicum of power because they could control the people. Now a significant number of the Jewish population is […]

In the eyes of the Jewish hierarchy, maximum trouble had been unleashed on them because many of the people were turning to the Galilean carpenter the Roman soldiers had nailed to a cross. The movement of masses of people to the “Son of God” to whom they could go independent of the religious hierarchy would […]

By shaking the place where the disciples were assembled, the Lord has let His followers in Jerusalem know that He has heard their prayers. Verses thirty-two through thirty-seven: Much has been made of this passage of Scripture, most of which is incorrect in that it does not take into consideration the context of the situation. Those who believe […]

Peter and John have been released by the religious leaders following two stern warnings not to speak (and certainly not to act) in the name of Jesus. Verses twenty-three through thirty-one: Following their release the apostles went to where their spiritual brethren were gathered and reported to them what the Jewish leaders had done and said to them. […]