Last week we covered the healing of the lame beggar at the Beautiful Gate and Peter preaching at Solomon’s Portico. Today Peter calls the crowd to repentance, and Peter and John are taken before the Sanhedrin.

Acts Lesson 6 Study Questions

1.    Repent therefore: As he did in his first sermon (Acts 2:38), Peter called upon the crowd to repent. He told them to turn around in their _________ and _________.

2.    Blotted out: This has the idea of wiping ink off of a document. Ink in the ancient world had no acid content and didn’t “bite” into the paper. It could almost always be _____ off with a damp cloth. Peter said that God would ______ away our record of sin just like that.

3.    Sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities: This is the fourth blessing that comes from __________ and turning to God. Jesus blesses us from heaven, and does this by ________ us away from our sins. 

4.    The number of the men came to be about five thousand: Despite the opposition coming against the _______, the number of Christians kept ___________, growing to 5,000 from 3,000 at last count (Acts 2:41). Opposition did not slow the church down at all.

5.    By what power or by what name have you done this? The ideas behind by what power and by what name are virtually the same. In their thinking, the power resided in the _____, because the name represented the _________ of the person.

6.    Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit: He was instantly filled with the Spirit again, evident by his supernatural _________ and ability to speak the gospel directly to the _______ of the matter.

7.    Nor is there salvation in any other: Peter didn’t merely proclaim Jesus as a ____ of salvation, but as the _____ way of salvation. The idea that there is no salvation in any other, and that there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved is hard to accept for many, but is plainly stated.

8.    They saw the boldness of Peter and John: Because they had been with Jesus, they were naturally _____. When one is a servant of the all-powerful God, they have nothing to fear from the __________ of men.

9.    They realized that they had been with Jesus: This means that the bold exclusivism of Acts 4:12 was coupled with a radiant love characteristic of _______. If we will preach no other name we should also make it evident that we have been with _______.

10.    They could say nothing against it: This miracle was examined by ________ and stood up as a genuine _______. This was not a case where the healing was “lost” in a few hours, as some claim happens today.

11.    We cannot deny it: The corruption of their ________ was plain. They acknowledged that a miracle had genuinely happened; yet they refused to submit to the God who worked the _________.