Acts: The Spread of the Gospel

This study is taken from John MacArthur's "Acts: The Spread of the Gospel." My prayer and goal for this devo is that we will learn more about how the early church laid the foundation for what we possess today, and that we would allow God to use us to turn our world upside for Him!

This will be an exciting journey, so encourage others to join you! I'm looking forward to the interaction we will have on this blog as we study the book of Acts!

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Monday, June 30, 2008

Secrets of the Spirit - Part 2 - Devo for 07/01/08

Reading
John 16:5-15 (2nd of 3 devos from this passage)

Responsive Questions
1. What does Jesus say the Spirit's ministry would be toward the world (vv. 8-11)?
2. How does the Spirit do the same work today in the hearts of people who have not believed in Jesus?
3. "The prince of this word" mentioned in verse 11 is Satan, our spiritual enemy. In what way does Satan "now stand condemned"?
4. Why is it important for the Holy Spirit to convince the world that its "prince" is already condemned?

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

responsive questions:

1.it will be hard to win souls because so many people are of the world.

2.the spirit makes them feel guilt.

3.now there is a threat to him its christians trying to win more to Christ.

4.so they wont fall into temptation.

*this was confusing for me kinda i mean ill be honest i had trouble on this, which you can probebly tell*

Anonymous said...

1. Reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, and judgment.

2. The Holy Spirit convicts them.

3. Christians have the Holy Spirit to fight against Satan.

4. So that we won't sin because of temptation from Satan.

Anonymous said...

1. He will reprove the world of sin, righteousness and judgement.

2. It makes them realize they are sinners (guilty).

3. He is condemned to go to hell. That is his destiny.

4. So that people see that satan is not in control he is condemned and so is anyone who follows him.

Anonymous said...

1.He will reprove the world of sin, righteousness and judgement becausewe are a sinful world.

2.It convicts them and makes them feel guilty for what they have done.

3.He knows he is going to hell after Jesus comes back.

4.We have more power than him if we have the Holy Spirit in us.

Anonymous said...

1. say the same thing as taylor because it would be hard to win souls.

2. The Spirit convicts them.

3. judgment.

4. because he has already been set out of heaven by God.

Anonymous said...

1.Its job is to reproove the world of sin,judgement,and of righteousness.

2.It makes them realize what they have done wrong and what to do to change that.

3.He is judged and sentenced,and will reap the consequences of his choices.

4.So they won´t follow in his path of destruction

Anonymous said...

1.everyone dose sin
2.sinnres are guilty
3.christen are aginst satan
4.so they will not fall in to tempation

Anonymous said...

responsive questions

1. i dont understand this question in think it is because we all sin

2.it makes them think about what they did and makes them feel gulity.

3. when god comes back he will go tohell

4. temptation

Anonymous said...

Responsie Questions

1)That there will be sin, rigtheousness,and judgment

2)It will convit them

3)Sinful and judgment

4)So we don't get fooled by temptation

Anonymous said...

Answer to 1.
"to reprove the world of sin, righteousness, and judgement"
Answer to 2.
You hear stories time and time again about people who have drfifted away from coming to church after they move out of the house but they come back once when they're like 40 and get convicted by the Holy Spirit.
Answer to 3.
He made the horrible choice of trying to be bigger than God and now hes going to get his consequences.
Answer to 4.
Because there are many people who are not-affiliated with a church and/or believe there is no God and for those people it would be hard to get away from Satan's grasp.

Anonymous said...

1. that because so many people are of the world it would be hard to win souls.
2. it makes them feel guilty.
3. well that it will be hard for satan to win because so many people are trying to win people to Christ.
4. so they wont follow satan and fall into tempation