Sovereign Grace
PAUL’S AUDIENCE
PAUL’S ARGUMENT
- GOD CHOSE our Fathers. 17a
- GOD EXALTED US while we dwelt as Strangers in Egypt. 17b
- GOD’S STRONG ARM delivered Us. 17c
- GOD WAS PATIENT with Us. 18a
- GOD DESTROYED 7 NATIONS in the land of Canaan. V19
- GOD DIVIDED the land for them. V19
- GOD GAVE THE JUDGES for 450 years. V20
- GOD GAVE THEM A KING 21
- GOD RAISED UP DAVID to be their King. 21-22
- GOD SENT A SAVIOR; JESUS
- GOD SENT JOHN THE BAPTIST to introduce Jesus. 24-25
PAUL’S APPEAL
Acts 13:26
26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, TO YOU IS THE WORD OF THIS SALVATION SENT.
Acts 13:27
27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Acts 13:28
28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
Acts 13:29-30
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a sepulcher. 30 But God raised him from the dead:
Acts 13:31
31 and he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
Acts 13:32-33
32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again;
Acts 13:38-39
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39 and BY HIM all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Acts 13:40-41
40 BEWARE therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; 41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
THE AFTERMATH
Acts 13:42-43
42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
THE ATMOSPHERE
Acts 13:44
44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
Acts 13:45
45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women…
Acts 13:46-47
46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
Acts 13:48
48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.