1. Saemoonan English Bible Study 2013-05-05

2. Purpose of English Bible Study
Study the Bible in English.
Study English through the Bible.
Focus on;
Proper pronunciation
Scripture reading/comprehension
Listening/speaking/conversation

3. Organizing members Teachers: C. Justin Lee, Hong Bong Kim
Team Leader: Hong Bong Kim
General Secretary: wanted!
Associate Secretary: wanted!
Treasurer: In Hye Kim
Contact:
C. Justin Lee:
Hong Bong Kim:
Sang Hyun Cho:

4. Time table 8:30 Praise time: 2 ~ 3 songs
8:40      Greetings and Announcements
8:45      Psalm Reading and Prayer
8:50      Lesson
           -     Bible reading
           -     Verse memorization
- Today’s Phrase
           -     Conversation
- Lecture
- Discussion
           -     Pop quiz
9:45      Lord’s prayer
9:47      Dismissal song

5. Greetings
Are you enjoying the spring sunshine?

6. Today’s Announcements
Spring picnic at Samcheong Park: 8 people attended.
Conversation Festival: 5/26
Conversation material will be available on 5/12
Membership fee: 10,000 won for 6 months, voluntary.
Next week's prayer by  Elijah Lee, Psalm Reading 119 : 113~120 .
Download and listen to John MacArthur’s sermon in our home page,
Beginning English study in English with Elliot at 9:50AM.
Please attend English Worship Service at 11:30AM ~12:30, in the same room as NIV class.

8. Today’s New Members

9. Apostle’s Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ,
His only Son our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead, and buried;
He descended into hell,
The third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven,
and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit;
The Holy Catholic Church;
The communion of saints;
The forgiveness of sins;
The resurrection of the body;
And the life everlasting.
Amen

10. Today’s Psalm Reading by Myunghyun Kim
Psalms 119
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.
106 I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws.
107 I have suffered much; preserve my life, O LORD, according to your word.
108 Accept, O LORD, the willing praise of my mouth, and teach me your laws.
109 Though I constantly take my life in my hands, I will not forget your law.
110 The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from your precepts.
111 Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.
112 My heart is set on keeping your decrees to the very end.

11. Prayer by Myunghyun Kim
Today’s Prayer
Prayer by Myunghyun Kim

12. This Week’s Verse
God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them. (Acts 19:11-12) (May 5th)

13. Next Week’s Verse
When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed their evil deeds.
(Acts 19:17-18)

14. Today’s phrase In reality, they have become enslaved to sin and Satan.
In reality, ___________ have become enslaved to ___________________. (May 5)
In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.
In this way ________________ spread widely and grew in ____________. (May 12)

15. This Week’s Conversation
A: I saw a documentary of a male shaman on TV.
B: Yah? Was it interesting?
A: It was pretty scary. The man shaman was struggling so much in becoming a shaman.
B: Well, man has no authority over evil spirits. Only Jesus does.
A: That’s probably why the man shaman gets so exhausted after a ceremony.
B: Of course. Only Jesus has the absolute authority to drive out evil spirits simply with just one word.

16. Next Week’s Conversation
A: Why some people in the Bible show supernatural power? B: You mean like Paul who performed many miracles in the name of Jesus Christ? A: Yeah. Paul was a good example. Was that to show off? B: No, of course not. It wasn’t for showing off, but for authentication of Paul as God’s man. A: I see. When necessary God can grant a man of God a power to perform miracles. B: Right. If you are doing God’s work, you might receive His supernatural power to perform miracles.

17. Today’s Reading
Acts 19 8 Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God. 9 But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. 10 This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord. 11 God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them. 13 Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, 'In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.’

18. Today’s Reading
Acts Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. 15 (One day) the evil spirit answered them, ‘Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?’ 16 Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding. 17 When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. 18 Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed their evil deeds. 19 A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas. 20 In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.

19. The Powerful Word (Acts 19:8 – 20) Exorcism: True or False?
A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas. (Acts 19:19)

22. Introduction: The Powerful Word
Ever since the Fall, members of the human race have been in rebellion against God.
Having (so they think) torn God’s “fetters apart, and cast away [His] cords from [themselves]” (Ps. 2:3), they imagine themselves to be free.
In reality, they have become enslaved to sin (John 8:34; Rom. 6:17) and Satan (1 John 5:19).
The apostle Paul reminded the Ephesians: You were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 2:1–2)

23. Introduction: The Powerful Word
Satan manipulates fallen men by two means. First, he influences their minds.
“A natural man,” wrote Paul to the Corinthians, “does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised” (1 Cor. 2:14).
We are waging war against ideas, proud philosophies and thoughts in an effort to tear down human idealogies and bring every thought captive to Christ.
That can be done only with the truth of Scripture.

24. Introduction: The Powerful Word
Second, Satan exerts a sinister influence over the fallen human will, though he cannot force it to act.
He does so by temptation, both externally; through the evil world system and internally through sinful human nature.
Jesus expressed the fearful effect of that influence to the Pharisees when He said, “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father” (John 8:44).
The earthly ministry of Jesus Christ foreshadowed Satan’s ultimate defeat.
From the very outset, He exercised absolute power and authority over Satan and his demons.
Tempted three times by Satan himself, Jesus emerged from the struggle victorious.

25. Introduction: The Powerful Word
The gospels are replete with examples of His power over the demonic realm.
Matthew 17:14–18 relates one such incident: And when they came to the multitude, a man came up to Him, falling on his knees before Him, and saying, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic, and is very ill; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to Your disciples, and they could not cure him.” And Jesus answered and said, “O unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.” And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured at once.

26. Introduction: The Powerful Word
Interestingly, while men through the centuries have debated Jesus’ identity, the demons have no such doubts.
This fallen angel knew that he was in the presence of “the Holy One of God,” and such awareness terrified him (cf. James 2:19).
It should be noted that in this instance, as in all the instances recorded in the gospels, there was no struggle.
Jesus spoke, and the demons instantly acquiesced. Such miraculous power over demons was unique to a few individuals during the apostolic age, being basically one of the “signs and wonders and miracles” that constituted “the signs of a true apostle” (2 Cor. 12:12).

27. Introduction: The Powerful Word
The fascination, seen today in some Christian circles, with exorcising demons is without biblical support and dangerous.
The assumption that a believer has authority to command demons and Satan, or to bind them, is fiction.
Even Michael the archangel would not be so bold (cf. Jude 9).
But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you!'
And reducing the Christian life to a demon hunt obviates believers’ biblically mandated responsibility to pursue true sanctification by holiness and godly living.

28. Introduction: The Powerful Word
Nowhere in the epistles is there any promise to Christians that they can deliver the unsaved from demons.
Nor is there any command for believers to exorcise demons out of each other.
Nowhere in Scripture are demons ever cast out of believers.
Since there is no evidence in Scripture that demons reside in Christians, it is not surprising that there is no record of demons ever being cast out of believers.

29. Introduction: The Powerful Word
The weapon Christians are to wield in their personal battle with the forces of darkness is “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Eph. 6:17).
As it is through the power of the Word alone that the intellectual fortresses of Satan fall, so Christians by that truth can successfully battle Satan and his demon hosts.
Even the book of Acts, which records the apostles’ evangelistic ministry, emphasizes the preaching of the Word over signs, wonders, miracles, and exorcisms.

30. Introduction: The Powerful Word
This rich text shows how powerfully the Word of God dominated the city of Ephesus.
Verse 20 summarizes the passage: “So the word of the Lord was growing mightily and prevailing.”
The power of God’s Word is evident through its proclamation, confirmation, competition, conviction, and domination.

31. Proclamation (8-10)
8 Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God. 9 But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
10 This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.
The first step in unleashing the power of the Word is to proclaim it, and Paul did just that.
He had established cordial relationships with the Ephesian Jews on his previous, brief visit (18:19–21).
Returning to Ephesus, he found the door still open, so he entered the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.

32. Proclamation (8-10)
8 Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God. 9 But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
10 This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.
Some of the Jews became hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude.
Realizing nothing was to be gained by remaining in the synagogue any longer, Paul withdrew from there and took away the disciples (those who had repented and confessed Jesus as Lord), and began reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

33. Confirmation (11-12):
11 God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
To provide incontrovertible evidence that the message was true, God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul.
Such miraculous confirmation was a standard feature of apostolic preaching.
In the absence of a written New Testament by which to measure someone’s teaching, God used signs and wonders to authenticate His message (2 Cor. 12:12; Heb. 2:3–4; cf. Acts 2:22).

34. Confirmation (11-12):
11 God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
Steeped in superstition and failing to understand that Paul was merely the human channel for God’s power, the Ephesians did some amazing things.
The handkerchiefs, or sweatbands, and aprons Paul wore during his tentmaking labor were even carried from his body to the sick.
The idea that healing power could be so magically transmitted was prevalent in the ancient world.
The miracles God performed through Paul were essential to convince the Ephesians that he was from God.
Impressed with him as the messenger of God, their hearts were prepared to hear his message of salvation.

35. Competition (13-16):
13 Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, 'In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.’ 14 Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. 15 (One day) the evil spirit answered them, ‘Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?’ 16 Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
Seeing the potency of the name of Jesus, some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists decided to add it to their repertoire of incantations.
As John Polhill explains, Ancient magicians were syncretists and would borrow terms from any religion that sounded sufficiently strange to be deemed effective.
These Jewish exorcists of Ephesus were only plying their trade. Paul’s “spell” in Jesus’ name seemed effective for him, so they gave it a try.

36. Competition (13-16):
13 Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, 'In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.’ 14 Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. 15 (One day) the evil spirit answered them, ‘Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?’ 16 Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
Exorkistōn (exorcists) appears only here in the New Testament.
It derives from a root word meaning “to bind with an oath”; ancient exorcists attempted to expel demons by invoking the name of a more powerful spirit being.
Exorcists were common in the ancient world, even among the Jews (Matt. 12:27; Acts 13:6).
Their fanciful spells and ritual formulas were very different from the absolute authority delegated by Christ and exercised by the apostles.

37. Competition (13-16):
15 (One day) the evil spirit answered them, ‘Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?’ 16 Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
By demanding of the exorcists “who are you?” the demon challenged their authority over him.
The exorcists, of course, had neither the right to use the name of Jesus nor the power to command demons, so the demon attacked them viciously.
Satan would have wished these sons of Sceva to succeed, so that the domain of darkness could compete with God, as Pharaoh’s magicians did with Moses (Ex. 7:22).
But the attempt to provide competition for the Word was thwarted.
In fact, it completely backfired and only brought greater conviction among the Ephesians of the power of Jesus’ name and the truth of Paul’s preaching.

38. Conviction (17-19)
17 When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. 18 Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed their evil deeds. 19 A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.
The tremendous reality of the name (encompassing all that is true about Him) of Jesus was evident to everyone.
They recognized that He was no one to trifle with but someone before whom to bow in faith.
Shaken by what had happened, and recognizing the futility of pagan magic, many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. Thus they displayed the turning from sin that marks genuine repentance.
The staggering value of it, noted as fifty thousand pieces of silver (equivalent to 50,000 days’ wages for an average laborer), was given to indicate Ephesus’s widespread involvement in the magic arts.

39. Dominion (20)
20 In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.
Luke’s brief summary statement pulls the passage together and emphasizes the dominant position the Word of God achieved in Ephesus.
All the satanic forces of the occult and magic arrayed against the Word could not overpower it.
The bold preaching of the gospel, the confirming miracles, the defeat of the exorcists, the resultant awe and respect for the name of Jesus, and the public repudiation of the magical arts demonstrated the invincible might of God’s Word.

40. Today’s discussion
Have you seen any Christian exorcism?

41. Today’s pop quiz Which of the following statement is not true?
1. There is no promise to Christians that they can deliver the unsaved from demons.
3. There is no record of demons ever being cast out of believers.
4. There is no evidence in Scripture that demons reside in non-Christians.

42. The Lord’s Prayer Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
for yours is the kingdom and the power
and the glory forever.
Amen.
(Matthew 6:9-13)

43. Today’s Prayer Topic
For strengthening of Biblical knowledge.

44. God will make a way God will make a way Where there seems to be no way
He works in ways we cannot see
He will make a way for me
He will be my guide
Hold me closely to His side
With love and strength for each new day
He will make a way....
He will make a way