1. Acts: Sermon & Defense South Florida Bible College & Seminary © John Stevenson, 2009

2. Peter’s Pentecost Sermon Introduction Main Points Closing Result Break into groups of 2-3 and list the following:

3. Other Sermons in Acts What is the same? What is different? Go through the other sermons of Acts to see how those same major points are used :

5. What are some of the divisions in Christian thinking regarding Spiritual Gifts?

6. What are some of the gifts listed in the Scriptures? Romans 12:6-8 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 1 Corinthians 12:28-30 Ephesians 4:11 1 Peter 4:10-11

7. What purposes do spiritual gifts serve?

8. Ephesians 4:11-13 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers… to the building up of the body of Christ for the work of service for the equipping of the saints …until we all attain… to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.

9. Hebrews 2:3-4 After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, 4 God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.

10. What are some of the “sign gifts”?

11. What purposes do the “sign gifts” serve?

12. 1 Corinthians 14:21-22 In the Law it is written, “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to me,” says the Lord. 22 So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

13. Have the “sign gifts” ceased?

14. 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

15. 1 Corinthians 13:8-11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.