Holy-Spirit-Empowered Church

Acts 2:37-47

Purpose: to see how the Holy Spirit gives life to the believer and to the church!

1. Holy-Spirit-Empowered Gospel Preaching
   1. The Gospel of the Risen Jesus Christ (Luke 24)
   2. The Promised Holy Spirit Arrives (Acts 1-2)
   3. Holy-Spirit-Empowered Gospel Preaching
      1. This Jesus is the very one you crucified! (Acts 2:23, 36)
      2. But God raised Jesus up again! (Acts 2:24, 31, 32)
      3. God made Jesus both Lord and Christ (Acts 2:36)           
   4. The People Respond to the Preaching (Acts 2:37-41)
      1. Repentance (Acts 2:38)
      2. Baptism: 3,000 added! (Acts 2:38, 41)
      3. Salvation and Receiving of the Holy Spirit

       

2. Holy-Spirit-Empowered Gospel People (Acts 2:42-47)
        1. The Word: Continual Devotion to the Apostles’ Teaching (Acts 2:42, 43)
        2. The Fellowship (Acts 2:42)
        3. Hospitality: Breaking of Bread (Acts 2:42)
        4. Prayer (Acts 2:42)
        5. Meeting Needs Ministry (Acts 2:44)
        6. Worshipful Unity:
               1. Public Worship in the Temple (Acts 2:46)
               2. Family Fellowship House to House (Acts 2:46)
               3. Praising God (Acts 2:47)
         7. Favorable Witness (Acts 2:47)

“And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved” (Acts 2:47)

Holy-Spirit-Empowered Gospel Preaching Begets Holy-Spirit-Empowered Gospel People!

Jesus’s gospel saves people, giving them the Holy Spirit, and brings them together in the body of Jesus Christ, the church! Individual faith is inseparable from corporate faith!

The church is built upon the gospel of the risen Jesus Christ, is empowered by the Holy Spirit, and added to by the Lord. From beginning to end, the church is a creation of God Himself!