1. The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 11 – The Faith is Defended and Extended
Sunday – June 18, 2017
Many of the slides used in this presentation are prepared by Joe Price and are used and adapted with his permission.

2. The Gospel Goes Northward, 11:19-26
Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, 11:19-20
Phoenicia: Present-day Lebanon
Cyprus: Island off coast of Phoenicia
Antioch: Capital city of province of Syria
3rd largest city in Roman Empire (~200,000)
Dispersed Jewish Christians had been preaching only to Jews – Significant shift, 11:19-20

3. The Gospel Spreads Northward
Acts 11:19-26

4. Starts Here
Acts 13-15

5. The Gospel Goes Northward, 11:19-26
Many Gentiles converted, 11:21; Ephesians 2:17-18
Note: Believing and turning are two distinct things, John 1:12; Acts 10:35
News spreads and the Jerusalem church sends a worker, 11:22-24
How a church works in evangelism: Send a preacher!

6. The Gospel Goes Northward, 11:19-26
Barnabas, 11:23-26
Rejoiced, 11:23
Responded, 11:23
Reinforced, 11:24-26
Retrieved, 11:25-26
Remained, 11:26

7. Disciples called Christians, 11:26
chreematizoo – “give an injunction or warning, foretell, direct; bear a name, be called” (Exegetical Dictionary)
Disciples called Christians, 11:26
Followers of Christ; “of, pertaining to, belonging to”
Called: “to be called or named” (Robertson)
Identified with the Hebrew Messiah
Some suggest Hellenists (rather than the Jews) most likely identified the disciples with the Hebrew Christ, cf. Acts 24:5; 28:22

8. Divine Calling
Matthew 2:12, “And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.”
Matthew 2:22, “But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee”

9. Divine Calling
Luke 2:26, “And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.”
Acts 10:22, “And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.”

10. Divine Calling
Romans 7:3, “So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.”

11. Divine Calling
Hebrews 8:5, “Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.”
Hebrews 11:7, “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.”

12. Divine Calling
Hebrews 12:25, “See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven”

13. Relief Sent to Needy Brethren, 11:27-30
Approaching famine, 11:27-28
Claudius Caesar (AD 41-44)
Judean famine recorded, AD 41-48
Faith produced free-will giving to relieve fellow saints, 11:29-30
Gentiles, Galatians 3:28; Romans 15:26-27
Relief sent to churches of Judea (Galatians 1:22) – Not only Jerusalem
Delivered by Barnabas and Saul, 12:25 (26:20)

14. Relief Sent
to Needy Brethren
in Judea
Acts 11:27-30
cf. Galatians 122

15. The Benevolent Work Of The Church Was To Saints
1. "all that believed …" Acts 2: "them that believed …" Acts 4: "the disciples …" Acts 6:1 4. "relief unto the brethren …" Acts 11:29 5. "unto the saints …" Romans 15:25 6. "for the poor saints …" Romans 15:26 7. "accepted of the saints …" Romans 15:31 8. "collection for the saints …" 1 Corinthians 16:1 9. "ministering to the saints …" 2 Corinthians 8:4 10. "the ministering to the saints …" 2 Corinthians 9:1 11."supplieth the need of the saints …" 2 Corinthians 9:12 12."relieve them that are widows indeed …" 1 Timothy 5:16