Acts 8

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  1. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit as Revealed in His Names cites Acts 8:29

    …and might” because He gives us counsel in all our plans and strength to carry them out (Acts 8:29, 16:6-7 1:8). It is our privilege to have God's counsel in all our plans and God's…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.4 The Right Understanding of the Law cites Acts 8: 1

    …cast one stone at Stephen, yet the Scripture says, ‘Saul was consenting unto his death.’ Acts 8: 1. Thus he had a hand in it. If several combined to murder a man, and should tell another…

  3. The Big Story · Ochorus Originals

    To the Ends of the Earth cites Acts 8:1

    …death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem” (Acts 8:1). The believers scattered, talking about Jesus wherever they went. Persecution meant to…

  4. Tell Me the Story – Book 7: The Church Begins · Ochorus Originals

    Good News in Samaria cites Acts 8:1–17

    …first book? “You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.” Read it in your Bible: Acts 8:1–17 Dear God, thank you that you can use even bad things for good. Thank you that the good…

  5. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    The Church cites Acts viii. 1

    …23.)?(2) It is applied to the baptized Christians of a particular place or district. (Acts viii. 1.) (3) It is applied to a small number of professing Christians, in a particular family.…

  6. Portraits of Courage – David Livingstone · Ochorus Originals

    Faithful Hands cites Acts 8:2

    “And devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.” — Acts 8:2, ASV The Council The men who gathered outside the hut at Chitambo’s village on the…

  7. Portraits of Courage – David Livingstone · Ochorus Originals

    Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites Acts 8:2

    …price for baptism, fell, and became the evangelist of his people. Scriptures to revisit Acts 8:26-39; 1 Peter 3:15. Reflection 1. How would you answer Sechele’s question about his…

  8. Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    The Church and the Body of Christ cites Acts 8:4

    …took Acts seriously. The early church was scattered and “went about preaching the word” (Acts 8:4, ASV). Mission is not only the work of professional missionaries. Businesspeople…

  9. The Key Teachings of Catherine Booth · Ochorus Originals

    Aggressive Christianity cites ACTS 8:4

    …ever been. Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. ACTS 8:4 Only do it She knew the objections. You must be careful and judicious, people told her…

  10. The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    The Church in the Place cites ACTS 8:4

    …place. Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. ACTS 8:4 The persecution in Acts 8 destroyed the Jerusalem church as a single visible congregation…

  11. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    A Brief Account of the Author’s Call to the Work of the Ministry cites Act. 8.4

    …and examples of the godly, both specified in the Word and other ancient histories (Act. 8.4; 18.24, 25; 1 Pet. 4.10; Rom. 12.6; Foxe’s Acts and Monuments). 271. Wherefore, though of…

  12. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Conversion cites Acts viii. 8

    …converted through Philip’s preaching. We read that “there was great joy in that city.” (Acts viii. 8.) Let us hear what the Ethiopian eunuch felt in the day of his conversion. We read that…

  13. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

    The Baptism of the Holy Spirit cites Acts viii. 12

    …Holy Spirit, Rom. viii. 9, but not every believer has the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, (Acts viii. 12‒16; xix. 1‒2). We shall see very soon that every believer may have the baptism of the…

  14. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Baptism with the Holy Spirit cites Acts 8:12

    …and additional to it to be baptised with the Holy Spirit. The same thing is evident from Acts 8:12, compared with the fifteenth and sixteenth verses of the same chapter. In the twelfth…

  15. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

    Dealing with the Willful and the Deluded cites Acts viii. 13

    …he must have baptized them, but in 1 Cor. i. 14, he declares he had not baptized them. Acts viii. 13, 21, 23, shows that a man may be baptized, and yet his heart not be “right in the sight…

  16. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    Reality cites Acts viii. 13

    …in the sight of God. It is even written of the devils that they "believe and tremble." (Acts viii. 13; James ii. 19.) Is there not an unreal holiness? Beyond doubt there is. Joash, king of…

  17. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    V. Truly gracious affections are attended with a reasonable and spiritual conviction of the judgment, of the reality and certainty of divine things cites Acts 8:13

    …signs which were done; but yet remained in the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity, Acts 8:13, 23. And if there is such a belief or assent of the judgment in some natural men, none…

  18. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 6 — Of the Primacy of the Romish See cites Acts 8:14

    …11:3). Being ordered by his colleagues to go with John into Samaria, he declines not (Acts 8:14). The apostles, by sending him, declare that they by no means regard him as a superior…

  19. The Key Teachings of R. A. Torrey · Ochorus Originals

    The Baptism with the Holy Spirit cites ACTS 8:15–16

    …he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) ACTS 8:15–16 From passages like these Torrey concluded that a person may be truly born again and not…

  20. Baptism with the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    How the Baptism with the Holy Spirit can be obtained cites Acts 8:15

    …believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit,” and they did then and there. (Acts 8:15, 17). Paul of Tarsus was not obliged to wait in the ninth chapter of the Acts. Ananias…

  21. How to Pray · R. A. Torrey

    The Importance of Prayer cites Acts 8:15

    …FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, and they spake the Word of God with boldness.’” “How about Acts 8:15? was that before Pentecost or after?” “After.” “Please read.” “‘Who, when they were come…

  22. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 19 — Of the Five Sacraments, Falsely So Called cites Acts 8:15

    …themselves to be imitators of the apostles. But what did the apostles do? Luke narrates (Acts 8:15, 17), that the apostles who were at Jerusalem, when they heard that Samaria had received…

  23. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 15 — Of Baptism cites Acts 8:16

    …Christ, though they were enjoined to baptise in the name of the Father and Spirit also (Acts 8:16; 19:5; Mt. 28:19). For all the divine gifts held forth in baptism are found in Christ…

  24. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 3 — Of the Teachers and Ministers of the Church cites Acts 8:17

    …did the same thing over those on whom they conferred the visible gifts of the Spirit (Acts 8:17; 19:6). However this be, it was the regular form, whenever they called any one to the…

  25. The Key Teachings of John Owen · Ochorus Originals

    What It Is to Mortify a Sin cites ACTS 8:21–23

    …For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. ACTS 8:21–23 A sin can be exchanged for another as easily as a coat. Owen notes, with a dry realism…

  26. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    June cites Acts viii. 21

    …what is your crime.—Macduff. June 24 Thy heart is not right in the sight of God. Acts viii. 21. The worst of all mockeries is a religion that leaves the heart unchanged: a religion…

  27. Godliness · Catherine Booth

    Saving Faith cites Acts 8:21

    …true condition became clear. As the apostle said: “Your heart is not right before God.” Acts 8:21 No one is converted whose heart is not right with God. That is the test. If Simon had…

  28. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Without Christ cites Acts viii. 21

    …was baptized, and yet was distinctly told that he had “no part or lot in this matter.” (Acts viii. 21.) Head-knowledge is no proof that we are joined to Christ. The devils know Christ well…

  29. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    The Heart cites Acts viii. 21

    “Give Me thine heart.”—Prov. xxiii. 26. “Thy heart is not right in the sight of God.”—Acts viii. 21. The heart is the main thing in religion. I make no excuse for asking the special…

  30. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Baptism cites Acts viii. 21

    …that we can see, none at all! Their hearts were “not right in the sight of God.” (Acts viii. 21.) They remained “dead in trespasses and sins,” and were “dead while they lived.” (Ephes.…

  31. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    Prayer cites Acts viii. 22

    …the Lord," says Hosea. (Hosea xiv. 1.) "Repent and pray," says Peter to Simon Magus. (Acts viii. 22.) If you want faith and a new heart, go and cry to the Lord for them. The very attempt to…

  32. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 1 — Of the True Church cites Acts 8:22

    …despair. He is rather told to hope, since Peter invites him to have recourse to prayer (Acts 8:22). 27. What shall we say to the fact, that occasionally whole churches have been…

  33. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Repentance cites Acts viii. 22

    …I find him saying, “Pray God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart may be forgiven.” (Acts viii. 22.) I am content to follow in the Apostle’s wake. I say the same to every one who is…

  34. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Effectual calling cites Acts viii. 23

    …Every man is by sin bound in fetters. “I perceive that thou art in the bond of iniquity” (Acts viii. 23). A man that is in fetters, if you use arguments, and persuade him to go, is that…

  35. Tell Me the Story – Book 7: The Church Begins · Ochorus Originals

    Philip and the Man from Ethiopia cites Acts 8:26–40

    …Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus” (Acts 8:35). Read it in your Bible: Acts 8:26–40 Dear God, thank you that you care about every single person. Help me to listen to you and…

  36. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 2 — Of Faith cites Acts 8:27

    …fatigue and expense of a long and difficult journey to obtain an opportunity of worship (Acts 8:27, 31); and yet we see how, when interrogated by Philip, he betrays his ignorance of the…

  37. Real Questions – Book 3 · Ochorus Originals

    Isn’t Christianity a Western Religion? cites Acts 8:27

    …One of the first non-Jewish believers was “an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official” (Acts 8:27). And the church at Antioch was led by a team that included “Simeon called Niger, Lucius…

  38. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    Bible-Reading cites Acts viii. 28

    …that book in a childlike persevering spirit,—like the Ethiopian eunuch, and the Bereans (Acts viii. 28; xvii. 11),—and miss the way to heaven. Yes, many a broken cistern will be exposed to…

  39. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

    The General Conditions of Success in Bringing Men to Christ cites Acts viii. 29

    …us to speak, and we must ask Him to point him out to us, and, expect Him to do it. (Acts viii. 29). (2). We must pray God to show us just what to say to those to whom He leads us. After…

  40. The Key Teachings of R. A. Torrey · Ochorus Originals

    How to Bring Men to Christ cites ACTS 8:29

    …vastly more. Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. ACTS 8:29 And he must be endued with the power of the Holy Spirit, the subject to which the book’s…

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