Jan. 04, 2026

Last week we saw Peter answer the question, “What must we do to be saved.” “Repent and be baptized” This week Peter preaches on and the Apostles perform many signs and wonders.

Acts Lesson 5 Study Questions

1.    Many signs and wonders were done: This was evidence of the _______ of God. Where God is at work, lives will be touched in ____________ ways.

2.    Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common: With the influx of more that 3,000 believers, most of whom stayed in Jerusalem and didn’t have jobs, the family of Christians had to ______ if they were to ________.

3.    So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house: The church is meant to worship God and ______ His Word together. Yet it is meant to do more; God wants us to _______ our lives with one another.

4.    And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved: This is God’s prescription for church _______. If we take care to follow the example of Acts 2:42-47a, God will take care of _______ the church Himself.

5.    At the hour of prayer: Morgan points out that Peter and John were not going to the temple at the hour of ________, but at the hour of _______ that followed the afternoon sacrifice. They realized that the sacrificial system was fulfilled in the perfect sacrifice Jesus offered on the cross.

6.    …expecting to receive something from them, Many have yet to come to the place where they really _______ something from God. This is ______, plain and simple – even if the man expected less than Jesus wanted to give.

7.    What I do have I give you: He gave the lame man power in the name of Jesus, but he could not give it unless he had it in his own _____. Many people want to be able to say, “rise up and walk” without having received the power of Jesus to ___________ their own life.

8.    When Peter saw it, he responded to the people: Peter wisely took advantage of the gathering crowd. Yet he knew that the phenomenon of the miraculous in itself _________ no one to Jesus, it merely aroused interest. Though they were greatly amazed, they weren’t _______ yet.

9.    Why do you marvel at this? Peter’s point was simple: Jesus _________ all sorts of people when He walked this earth, so why should it seem strange that He continues to ______ from heaven?.

10.    Holy One: Here Peter exalted _______ as God. The term Holy One is used more than 40 times in the Old Testament as a high and glorious title for ________, the covenant God of Israel.

11.    Through faith in His name: When God’s people really do _____ in this world, they do it through faith in His _____. The temptation is always to do things trusting in something or someone else.

12.    He has thus fulfilled: Despite all the evil they did to Jesus, it did not change or derail God’s _____. God can take the most horrible evil and use it for _____. Joseph could say to his brothers, “you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good.”