BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE
BIBLE
KNOWLEDGE!
QUESTION:
“WHY CAN’T CHRISTIANS GET THEIR
DOCTRINE OUT OF THE BOOK OF ACTS?”
I mean in
true
ignorance, Christians
just stumble into the Book of Acts with the wide eyed innocence akin to
a
little child in a lolly shop.
“It must
be
all Christian doctrine
because it’s in the New Testament!”
“Pick a box –
who do you like James,
Peter, Paul, Philip?””
“Mmmm! I like
smorgasbords!”
“Bob your head
into the barrel and get
an apple in your mouth”
“It’s lucky
dip time!”
“I just love
the alphabet and alphabet
soup!”
“What will I
be gobbling up today?”
Healed,
believe, deliverance, miracles
then signs and wonders, receive, water baptism, get the Holy Ghost
before water
baptism or after, Holy Ghost just falls on you, or the reverse, John’s
or
Peter’s water baptism, tongues then prophesying,
as to who
is
doing what, to whom,
where, how, when and why, and for what purpose, and before or after
this that
and the other, without a pattern or formula.
there’s
water
baptisms; power with the
Holy Ghost; speaking in other tongues; the events of Joel; wonders in
the
heaven; signs on earth; common possessions; daily temple worship for
the
saints; healings; deliverances; the sick being healed with the
apostles’
shadows; God’s Spirit on all flesh; repenting; being converted; bodily
translations; miracles; signs and wonders; palsied healed; the water
baptized
receiving the Holy Ghost; castings out of devils; water baptism after
believing;
eyesight healed; water baptism to receive the Holy Ghost; dead people
raised;
apostle refusing unclean food; miraculous escapes from prison; cripples
being
healed; saints emphasizing abstinence from pollutions of idols,
fornication,
things strangled and from blood; an apostle gets circumcised; the Holy
Ghost
falling on the hearers of preaching; Jews being baptized; water baptism
to get
the Holy Ghost, to then speak in tongues and then prophesy;
handkerchiefs
healing the sick and casting out devils; virgin daughters who prophesy;
Jews
having evil spirits cast out; an apostle undergoing purification and
head shorn
….
1. “Let’s
get
back to the early Acts
church” (Acts 1:8)
2. “Baptised
with Holy Ghost” (Acts
2:4)
3. “Baptised
with power” (Acts 1:8)
4. “Speaking
with other tongues” (Acts
2:4)
5. “Wow! We’re
living in the days of
Joel!” (Acts 2:16)
6. “The
pouring out of God’s spirit
upon all flesh” (Acts 2:17)
7. “Sons and
daughters shall prophesy
and old men dreaming dreams” (Acts 2:17)
8. “Wonders in
the heaven, signs in
the earth below” (Acts 2:19)
9. “Repent and
be baptized in the name
of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and receive the Holy Ghost”
(Acts
2:38)
10. “Wonders
and signs were done by
the apostles” (Acts 2:43)
11. “All
things in common” (Acts 2:44)
12. “Sold
their possessions and goods
as every man had need” (Acts 2:45)
13.
“Continuing daily in the temple”
(Acts 2:46: 3:1)
14. “In the
name of Jesus Christ rise
up and walk” and he did. (Acts 3:6)
15. “Repent
and be converted that your
sins may be blotted out” (Acts 3:19)
16. “Turning
everyone away from their
iniquities” (Acts 3:26)
17. “They
brought the sick into the
streets for Peter’s shadow” (Acts 5:15)
18. “Being
healed on unclean spirits”
(Acts 5:16)
19. “Apostles
put in prison and the
being translated to preach in the streets” (Acts 5:25)
20. “Stephen
full of faith and power
did great wonders and miracles” (Acts 6:18)
21. “Philip
doing miracles – casting
out unclean spirits, healing the palsied and the lame” (Acts 8:13)
22. “Peter and
John praying for some
those baptized in the name of Jesus Christ to receive the Holy Ghost”
(Acts
8:14-17)
23. “Philip
baptizes believing eunuch”
(Acts 8:38)
24. “Philip
translated to Azotus”
(Acts 8:39-40)
25. “Saul’s
sight healed, water
baptized and receives the Holy Ghost” (Acts 9:17-18)
26. “Peter
heals palsied man of eight
years” (Acts 9:33)
27. “Peter
raises dead Tabitha” (Acts
9:40)
28. “Peter
refuses unclean food” (Acts
10:14)
29. “Peter
says ‘In every nation, he
that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him’”
(Acts 10:35)
30. “Peter,
while preaching to
Gentiles, that whosoever believeth in God shall receive remission of
sins, has
the Holy Ghost fall on them which heard him, then they start speaking
in tongues,
and then they get water baptized in the name of the Lord” (Acts
10:42-48)
31. “Men see
angel in house that talks
to them” (Acts 11:13)
32. “Peter
speaks to the men at Joppa
and the Holy Ghost falls on them” (Acts 11:15)
33. “Agabus
prophesizes and great
dearth in the world” (Acts 11:28)
34. “Peter
miraculously gets out of
prison” (Acts 12:6-16)
35. “The Lord
commanded Paul and Silas
to be the light to the Gentiles” (Acts 13:47)
36. “Paul at
Lystra heals a crippled
man from birth” (Acts 14:10)
37. “James the
leader of the Jerusalem
church says to abstain from pollutions of idols, fornication, things
strangled
and from blood.” (Acts 15:20, 29)
38. “Paul
circumcised Timothy because
of the Jews” (Acts 16:3)
39. “Paul
baptizes Lydia and her
household” (Acts 16:15)
40. “Paul
baptizes the jailer after he
believes” (Acts 16:31-33)
41. “Paul says
he goes to the
Gentiles” (Acts 18:6)
42. “Paul
baptizes Crispus chief ruler
of the synagogue” (Acts 18:8)
43. “Apollos
the Jew knowing only the
baptism of John” (Acts 18:25)
44. “Paul
baptizes men, who had only
been baptized to John, in the name of the Lord Jesus, lays on them, the
Holy
Ghost comes on them, they speak in tongues and prophesy.” (Acts 19:6)
45. “Paul does
special miracles to
sick with handkerchiefs and aprons for diseases and evil spirits” (Acts
19:12)
46. “Paul
casts out Sceva’s sons, the
vagabond Jew, the evil spirit” (Acts 19:16)
47. “Paul
raises Eutychus from dead)
(Acts 20:9)
48. “Philip
the evangelist has four
virgin daughters who prophesy” (Acts 21:9)
49. “Paul
girdled by Agabus with the
future” (Acts 21:11)
50. “Paul
undergoes purification”
(Acts 21:16)
it’s a pot
pouri, an alphabet
spaghetti soup, a regular mish-mash of all sorts of doctrine, events,
places,
times, different apostles doing whatever the Lord commands – here,
there and
everywhere, without an identifiable pattern or formula.
2. Peter
ministered unto the Jews, the
circumcision
3. Paul
ministers unto the Gentiles
4. Paul stops
water baptisms
Paul’s
gospel
is bone dry and crispy
brittle with not a drop of water within 100 miles, pre- or post-
salvation to
the Gentile (Acts 3:14), as contained in his 14 books of the New
Testament.
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Harley Hitchcock
www.
AustralianBibleMinistries
.com
Q: “ARE CHRISTIANS KINGS
AND PRIESTS?”
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