A BOOK OF BEGINNINGS
The Book of Acts is a book
of beginnings. It gives us the story of
the birth and early years of the Body of Christ. Dr. Lee Martin’s course covering The Acts of
the Apostles is an exciting journey that will take students from Jerusalem on the
Day of Pentecost and follow along with Paul and others as they traveled to
spread the Gospel.
Early followers of Christ
took Jesus’ Great Commission to heart and ran with it. They spread the gospel everywhere they went
and the Word they preached was confirmed by signs following.
God worked with these men
and women of God in tremendous ways.
Entire cities were turned upside down!
Angels and earthquakes were breaking guys out of jail, people were
receiving God-given visions and being translated from one place to another in
the Spirit, liars dropped dead, those practicing black arts burned their stuff,
riots and revivals were breaking out everywhere!
FOUR KEYS OF THE
KINGDOM DEMONSTRATED IN THE BOOK OF ACTS
These early believers
accomplished their ministry by utilizing the keys of the kingdom they received
from Jesus Christ (Mt.
16:18-19). Jesus delegated to them His authority and
sent His empowering Spirit to enable them to do everything God had planned for
them to do (Eph. 2:10).
The first key given was
the Holy Spirit Himself. The Promise of the Father arrived in a
dramatic way on the Day of Pentecost. Apparently,
there was quite a commotion! Others in
the city heard the sounds coming from the direction of the upper room and the
streets were filled with curious people wondering what was going on. People on the street heard their native
languages being spoken by those who knew no language other than their mother
tongue.
The same thing still
happens today! Dr. Billye Brim reported
the occurrence of a person whose native language was Arabic and another whose
native language was German both hearing their native languages being spoken at
the same time. Each gave a translation
of phrases that they heard being spoken during that prayer session. Dr. Brim was simply praying in the Spirit in
her personal prayer language! It should
be noted that she does not know how to speak Arabic or German. ( Tongues &
Prayer by Billye Brim, Jan 12, 2021, https://billyebrim.org/tongues-prayer/ )
PETER AND THE DISCIPLES
WERE TRANSFORMED
On that momentous day,
Peter was transformed from an open-mouth-insert-foot kind of guy into a
Spirit-filled believer who stood up to preach the first Pentecostal sermon and
3,000 people got saved! A short time
later, he and John encountered a lame man asking for money, gave him the only
thing they had to give, and he was immediately healed. Peter took the opportunity to preach the Good
News again and 5,000 more were added to the Kingdom!
Enroll today to learn more
about the keys of the kingdom and the miracle-filled history of us – the Body
of Christ. Allow the Holy Spirit to
renew God’s vision for His Church today in your heart. He has not changed His plans concerning our
assignment to go and make disciples, to heal the sick, and cast out
demons. You will discover that God is in
the process of restoring and healing His Church so that we can effectively do
what we have all been called to do.
SUCCESSFUL CHURCH
PLANTING STRATEGIES
Following along with Paul
on his missionary journeys will help you learn effective church planting
strategies that can be easily modeled today.
Those early believers were
ordinary men and women who simply believed the Word of God and acted on
it. They trusted His empowerment through
His Spirit to enable them to fulfill all He had called them to do. You can do the same!
Call 1-214-202-0449 or
click for more information and enroll today!
http://www.integrityseminary.net/course?courseid=the-acts-of-the-apostles
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