It is our desire that these studies from Gods Word would be helpful to point you in the direction of the one true God and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul, the Prisoner, Spreads the Gospel from Jerusalem to Rome (Acts 21:15-26:31)Ĭlick below for the 16 lessons about the Life of Paul grouped together as a set. These Bible studies are published by the MIDDLETOWN BIBLE CHURCH, 349 East Street, Middletown, Connecticut 06457 (U.S.A.). Paul Spreads the Gospel and Plants Churches in Asia and Greece (Acts 13-21:14) The Gospel Spreads to the Gentiles (Acts 8:4-12:25) Peter & John Heal a Man Who Could Not Walk.The Gospel Spreads to the Jews (Acts 1:12-9:31) 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 1:7-8, NIV Lessons from the Book of Acts Jesus Ascends to Heaven (Acts 1:1-11) “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. In his final words to the Apostles before he returned to heaven Jesus outlined what would happen next.
In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. The opening verses of the book again refer to Theophilis: The rest of the book is a record of how the Holy Spirit worked through the Apostles in telling everyone about Jesus. He tells them that the Holy Spirit will provide them with the ability to accomplish this task. Before leaving them Jesus commissions the Apostles with the task of taking the good news of the salvation of Jesus Christ and spreading it throughout the world. Sometimes referred to as the “Book of Acts” Luke’s second writing opens with Jesus saying farewell to the apostles before returning to heaven to sit in his rightful place as King. With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught. Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. Luke opens his telling of the gospel in the following way: The Book of Luke is referred to as a “gospel” because it contains the good news of the birth, life, ministry, death, resurrection and enthronement of Jesus and what that means to the world.
Both were addressed to a man named Theophilus. The two parts, or books, were written by Luke as a narrative that is an orderly (not necessarily chronological) account of the story of Jesus and his first followers. The “Gospel of Luke” and the “Acts of the Apostles” are both parts of the same story with one following directly after the other.