Mosaic Teaching Guide
19 July 09

Teaching Series: Of Spirit and Flesh (7) Acts 13-15

Question: 1) Plain or Peanut? 2) On a scale of 1-10, 1 being I avoid conflict at all cost to 10 I love a good argument, where are you on this scale? 

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Chapter 13

1. Vv. 1-12 Paul and Barnabas Sent on a Mission
1. Paul speaking to the magician Bar-Jesus: “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord”(10)?
2. “He (Bar-Jesus the Wizard) was a crooked as a corkscrew” (The Message, Peterson).
   
   
2. Vv. 13-43 Paul Speaks to the People of Antioch in Pisidia
1. “Let it be known to you therefore, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you; by this Jesus everyone who believes is set free from all those sins from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses” (38,39).
2. Some receive Paul’s message others resist.
3. “We are now turning to the Gentiles” (48).
4. “I have sent you as a light for the Gentiles” (47).
5. Paul and Barnabas are driven out of the region.

Chapter 14

1. Vv. 1-7 Mission in Iconium and  a Near Stoning
2. Vv. 8-18 In Lystra a Man is Healed and Paul and Barnabas are Worshiped as Gods
1. “The gods have come down to us in human form”(11)!
2. “Barnabas they called Zeus, Paul they called Hermes” (12).
3. “Friends what are you doing? We are mortals just like you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God” (15).
3. Vv. 19-28 Paul is Stoned but not Stopped
1. “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God” (22).
2. Paul and Barnabas travel back the way they came.
3. Upon arrival in Antioch they give a report as to “how God had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles” (27).

Chapter 15

1. Vv. 1-5  The Old Debate is Revisted
1. Certain individuals form Judea came to Antioch teaching that “unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved” (1).
2. Vv. 6-11 A Meeting in Jerusalem
1. Peters stands up on behalf of the Gentiles.
2. “Why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear” (10)?
3. “We believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus” (11).
3. Vv. 12-21 Paul, Barnabas and James Affirm the Gentiles
4. Vv. 22-35 A Letter is Sent with a Delegation to Antioch
1. “For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication” (28,29).
2. The letter is received with joy.

Next Week: Chapters 16 and 17

 

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