1. The Synagogue and the Sorcerer
Acts 5-9
The Synagogue and the Sorcerer

2. Acts 5-9 The Synagogue & the Sorcerer
5:42  Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.
8:4-5 Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.5 Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there.
8:25 After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.
8:40 Philip… traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.

3. Acts 5-9 The Synagogue & the Sorcerer
Is 54:5-6,10 For your Maker is your husband — the Lord Almighty is his name — the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth. The Lord will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit … “my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord
Eph 5: As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.

4. Acts 5-9 The Synagogue & the Sorcerer
The Synagogue - Acts 6:8 – 7:60
6:8-14 Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people. Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)—Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia—who began to argue with Stephen. But they could not stand up against the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he spoke.
Then they secretly persuaded some men to say, “We have heard Stephen speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.”

5. Acts 5-9 The Synagogue & the Sorcerer
The Synagogue - Acts 6:8 -7:60
6:8-14 So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin. They produced false witnesses, who testified, “This fellow never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses handed down to us.”

6. Acts 5-9 The Synagogue & the Sorcerer
The Synagogue - Acts 6:8 - 7:60
6:14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses handed down to us.
7:39,41 But our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt… and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
7:51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your
ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!

7. Acts 5-9 The Synagogue & the Sorcerer
The Sorcerer - Acts 8:9-24
Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.” They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his sorcery. But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Simon himself believed and was baptized.

8. Acts 5-9 The Synagogue & the Sorcerer
The Sorcerer - Acts 8:9-24
And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw.
When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

9. Acts 5-9 The Synagogue & the Sorcerer
The Sorcerer - Acts 8:9-24
When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God.

10. Acts 5-9 The Synagogue & the Sorcerer
The Sorcerer - Acts 8:9-24
Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”
Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

11. Acts 5-9 The Synagogue & the Sorcerer
The Good News
2 Chron 7:14 – If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin
Ps 51:17: The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Ps 65:2-3 All of us must come to you. Though we are overwhelmed by our sins, you forgive them all.

12. Acts 5-9 The Synagogue & the Sorcerer
The Good News
Acts 3:19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord
Heb 3:7-8 So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts
Luke 18:14 I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those
who humble themselves will be exalted.

13. Proclaim the good news
1 Cor 11:26-29
For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes…
Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves.