2. Wittenberg Church Door

3. Wartburg Castle

4. Location of the Diet of Worms

5. The First Christian Martyr
Acts 7:54-8:1 March 3, 2019

6. Filled with Anger
Vs.
Filled with the Spirit

7. Romans 11:7–10 (ESV) What then
Romans 11:7–10 (ESV) What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.” And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever.”

8. Hebrews 3:7–12 (ESV) Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put Me to the test and saw My works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ As I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ” Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

9. Luke 12:11–12 (ESV) And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.

10. Spiritual Blindness
Vs.
Spiritual Sight

11. Death
&
Life

12. Hate
Vs.
Love

13. 2 Chronicles 24:20–22 (ESV) Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you break the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’ ” But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD. Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and avenge!”

14. Implications & Applications:
Controlled by the Spirit or the flesh/self.
Romans 8:9–11 (ESV)
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

15. Implications & Applications:
Controlled by the Spirit or the flesh/self.
Spiritually enlightened or blind.

16. 1 Corinthians 2:14 (ESV) The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 2 Corinthians 4:4 (ESV) In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

17. Ephesians 1:16–18 (ESV) I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which He has called you, what are the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

18. Implications & Applications:
Controlled by the Spirit or the flesh/self.
Spiritually enlightened or blind.
Spiritually alive or dead.

19. Ephesians 2:1–6 (ESV) And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

20. Implications & Applications:
Controlled by the Spirit or the flesh/self.
Spiritually enlightened or blind.
Spiritually alive or dead.
Capable of divine love or not.

21. Romans 5:5 (ESV) and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Galatians 5:22 (ESV) But the fruit of the Spirit is love…

22. Implications & Applications:
Controlled by the Spirit or the flesh/self.
Spiritually enlightened or blind.
Spiritually alive or dead.
Capable of divine love or not.
Jesus Christ is the common denominator.