Cover Picture The Crisis That Almost Crippled the Church Acts 15:1-12 (Part 2)

ACTS 15:1-12 OUTLINE The Argument of the Men (1-6) The Apology of Peter (7-12) The Awe of the Congregation (12)

ROMANS 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

MATTHEW 5:48 Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

ROMANS 3:10 as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE…

JOHN 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

1 PETER 3:18 For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit…

1 CORINTHIANS 1:30 But by His [God’s] doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

PHILIPPIANS 3:9 and may be found in Him [Christ], not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith…

EPHESIANS 2:8-9 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

5 He [God the Father] predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He lavished on us. EPHESIANS 1:5-8a

ACTS 13:39 and through Him [Jesus Christ] everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.

25 Therefore He [Jesus] is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. 26 For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; 27 who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. HEBREWS 7:25-27

The Apology of Peter (Acts 15:7-11) After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe. 1 Peter 3:15 - but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense [an argument, an apology for the faith] to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you…

Of Him [Jesus] all the prophets bear witness that through His name [not through His name and the Law; or through His name and circumcision; or through His name and personal merits or good works; but that through His name] everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins. ACTS 10:43

8 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us; 9 and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. ACTS 15:8-9

ACTS 10:28 God has shown me [Peter] that I should not call any man unholy or unclean

ACTS 15:10 Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

GALATIANS 5:1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

ACTS 15:11 But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are.

ROMANS 3:24 … justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus

ROMANS111:6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.

The Awe of the congregation (Acts 15:12) And all the multitude kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul as they were relating what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.

Cover Picture The Crisis That Almost Crippled the Church Acts 15:1-12 (Part 2)