HOMEWORK 9/23 DUE 9/30
Homework Questions
1. What are the 7 festivals?
• Include: Hebrew names, location/scripture in the Old Testament, and what scripture does Apostle Paul say about whether we need to celebrate them today.
2. Why should we celebrate the Sabbath?
• How is Jesus our Sabbath?
• Define the Sabbath using the Bible and find the scripture reference.
Homework Questions
1. What are the 7 festivals?
• Include: Hebrew names, location/scripture in the Old Testament, and what scripture does Apostle Paul say about whether we need to celebrate them today.
2. Why should we celebrate the Sabbath?
• How is Jesus our Sabbath?
• Define the Sabbath using the Bible and find the scripture reference.
Tuesday Bible Study – 9/23
Bishop Carey Conor
Scripture Focus: Acts 1:8
Scriptures Referenced
•Acts 1–2 •Joel 2:28 •1 Corinthians 12:3 •Matthew 7:1
•Deuteronomy 28:2
•Acts 1–2 •Joel 2:28 •1 Corinthians 12:3 •Matthew 7:1
•Deuteronomy 28:2
Acts 1-2
•The Rapture (when believers in Jesus will be suddenly caught up (taken) to meet Him in the air when He returns (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17))– If you’re afraid of it, check your salvation.
•Acts 1–2: Jesus ascended, the apostles gathered and prayed. Judas Iscariot (not Judas son of James) betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver, then took his life.
•The field where Judas died was later called Akeldama (Field of Blood) – Acts 1:19
•Acts 1–2: Jesus ascended, the apostles gathered and prayed. Judas Iscariot (not Judas son of James) betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver, then took his life.
•The field where Judas died was later called Akeldama (Field of Blood) – Acts 1:19
Acts 1:8 –Power & Witness
•Martyr = witness (one who dies for the cause).
•The Holy Spirit is not limited to one time or one people.
•He’s available to all who believe.
•“No one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:3).
•Joel 2 foretold what happens in Acts 2 – the release of the Spirit.
•The Holy Spirit is not limited to one time or one people.
•He’s available to all who believe.
•“No one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:3).
•Joel 2 foretold what happens in Acts 2 – the release of the Spirit.
Power of the Holy Spirit
•Miracles, signs, and wonders aren’t limited to the early church.
•The same power that raises the dead is in the Holy Spirit, and we are the conduits for it.
•“The Holy Spirit can only be active to the point of your belief in your life; it’s unbelief that hinders.”
•Whatever you don’t believe for, you won’t experience.
•“He was released during a time, but He’s not subject to that time.”
•The Spirit moves on what you yield and believe.
•The Spirit is alive and active today!
•The church, filled with the Spirit, restrains the activity of Satan.
•Stop giving Satan so much credit—he is subject to God.
•“I have given thee power; not a power but thee power!”
•The same power that raises the dead is in the Holy Spirit, and we are the conduits for it.
•“The Holy Spirit can only be active to the point of your belief in your life; it’s unbelief that hinders.”
•Whatever you don’t believe for, you won’t experience.
•“He was released during a time, but He’s not subject to that time.”
•The Spirit moves on what you yield and believe.
•The Spirit is alive and active today!
•The church, filled with the Spirit, restrains the activity of Satan.
•Stop giving Satan so much credit—he is subject to God.
•“I have given thee power; not a power but thee power!”
God’s Faithfulness
•God blesses not because we deserve it, but because we ask.
•If an evil father gives good gifts, how much more will our Heavenly Father give to His children? (Matthew 7:11 (KJV)
•Peter denied Jesus, yet he still received the Holy Spirit because he stayed in the upper room.
•Obedience postures us to be overtaken by blessing.
•If an evil father gives good gifts, how much more will our Heavenly Father give to His children? (Matthew 7:11 (KJV)
•Peter denied Jesus, yet he still received the Holy Spirit because he stayed in the upper room.
•Obedience postures us to be overtaken by blessing.
Expansion of the Gospel
•Acts 1:6–8: The gospel was released first in Jerusalem, then Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
•Jerusalem had to receive the outpouring first—God starts with His own before reaching the rejected.
•Jesus went to Samaria because of the woman at the well—she evangelized her whole city with, “Come see a man!”
•God knows how to lift you up to lift up a generation.
•One seed can prepare a nation.
•Jerusalem had to receive the outpouring first—God starts with His own before reaching the rejected.
•Jesus went to Samaria because of the woman at the well—she evangelized her whole city with, “Come see a man!”
•God knows how to lift you up to lift up a generation.
•One seed can prepare a nation.
Proximity, Location, Prayer, Agreement
•Acts 1:12–14: The apostles stayed in obedience, in one place, in prayer, in agreement.
•Promise requires proximity. You must be in the place He told you to be.
•In Acts 1:26, Matthias was chosen to replace Judas.
•Acts 2: Pentecost—Feast of Weeks fulfilled. The Spirit came down during the wheat harvest.
•Passover = Exodus (the deliverance from Egypt).