1. Foundations for the Believer

2. Division of Acts The Jewish Church (Acts 1:1-6:7)
Expansion into Judea and Samaria (Acts 6:8-9:31)
The Gentiles Receive Salvation (Acts 9:32-12:24)
The Holy Spirit said (Acts 12:25-16:5)
The Gospel to Asia Minor and Europe (Acts 16:6-19:20)
Paul’s Destiny at Rome (Acts 19:21-28:30)

3. Acts 1:1-11 (NIV)

4. Foundations For the Believer
Belief – Acts 1:1-3

5. Your faith will never advance beyond your belief.

6. Foundations For the Believer
Belief – Acts 1:1-3
Power – Acts 1:4-7

7. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:17, 18 NIV)

8. Foundations For the Believer
Belief – Acts 1:1-3
Power – Acts 1:4-7
Action – Acts 1:7-8

9. Romans 10:14
14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

10. The only truly effective words or actions are those initiated, motivated and activated by the Holy Spirit.

11. Foundations For the Believer
Belief – Acts 1:1-3
Power – Acts 1:4-7
Action – Acts 1:7-8
Promise – Acts 1:9-11

12. I Peter 1:3-5
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

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