Acts 19:11 — God worked powerful miracles by the hands of Paul.

Revelation

Response

Rejection

Reception

Am I open to God in my life?

Am I open to MORE of God in my life?

Acts 18

24 Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, born in Alexandria, who was an eloquent man and powerful in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John, but being fervent in spirit, he accurately spoke and taught the things concerning the Lord.

26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him and explained the way of God more accurately.

Acts 19

1 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples

2 and said to them, “Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?” They said to him, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

3 He said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”

4 Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.”

5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

6 When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in other tongues and prophesied.

7 There were about twelve men in all.

8 He went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, lecturing and persuading concerning the kingdom of God.

9 But when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil of the Way before the crowd, he withdrew from them and took the disciples, lecturing daily in the school of Tyrannus.

10 This continued for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

11 God worked powerful miracles by the hands of Paul.

12 So handkerchiefs or aprons he had touched were brought to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

Have you received ______________________ since you believed?

Revelation (Baptism/Re-Baptism)

Infancy

Understanding

Immersion

Pressure/Pleasing

Christ/Christian

Revelation (Holy Spirit)

Response

Am I open to MORE of God in my life?

Rejection

The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ.

— Billy Graham

To reject Christ is to choose hell.

— Charles Spurgeon

“Hell is truth known too late.”

The greatest tragedy is not the death of the body, but the death of a soul still alive in rebellion against God.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The greatest sin is not the sin you commit, but the rejection of the Savior who died for those sins.

— Watchman Nee

Luke 11:52 — “Woe to you experts in religion! For you hide the truth from the people. You won’t accept it for yourselves, and you prevent others from having a chance to believe it.”

Reception/Receiving

1 Corinthians 2:14 — Whoever does not have the Spirit cannot receive the gifts that come from God's Spirit. Such a person really does not understand them, and they seem to be nonsense, because their value can be judged only on a spiritual basis.

Luke 13:34 — Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets. You stone to death the people God has sent to you. How many times I wanted to help your people. I wanted to gather them together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But you did not let me.

Revelation

Response

Rejection

Reception

John 1:10-12

He came into the very world he created, but the world didn’t recognize him. He came to his own people, and even they rejected him. But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

Those who have God, have everything; those who reject Him, have nothing.