Your Sons & Daughters Shall Prophesy - Prophetic Gifts Today In The New Testament Church

Christ's Continuing Voice in the Church

A Chronological Record

Acts is the only bona fide historical record of the first-century Church. As William Barclay said: "In one sense Acts is the most important book in the NT....If we did not possess Acts, we would have, apart from what we could deduce from the letters of Paul, no information whatsoever about the early church." 2 The book of Acts is also theological, for the history of the Church is in itself a revelation of God.Luke's record of the early Church purposes less to account for the doings of the Church than to account for the doings of God in and through the Church.It shows us what actually happened and how the Church realized life through the Holy Spirit.The primitive Church was the prototype for spiritual concepts designed to work in every generation and society.The religious accouterments of the Church may change as history progresses, but the manifold activities of the Holy Spirit remain consistent with the original principles.

rophetic-Happenings in Act

Reference in Acts 1:15; 2:4

Happening Spoke in prophetic tongues A prophetic era dawned

People involved

120 disciples 120 disciples

2:17-18 8:29-39 9:10-17;

Philip sent to eunuch Ananias sent to Saul

Philip and eunuch Ananias and Saul

22:12-14

10:9-48 10:44-48; 11:1-18 11:27-28 13:1-4 13:8-12 15:25-26, 32 16:6-7 19:6 20:22-23

Peter sent to Cornelius Gentiles received the Holy Spirit

Peter Household of Cornelius

Agabus predicted famine Prophecy confirmed mission Paul blinded a magician Prophets selected for mission Forbidden to go Spoke in tongues and prophesied Warnings given Paul More warnings given Paul Women prophesied Agabus enacted a prophecy

Agabus and Antioch church 5 men at Antioch Paul, magician and magistrate Judas and Silas Paul and associates Paul and the Ephesians Paul in the churches Disciples at Tyre Philip's four daughters Agabus and Paul

21:4 21:9 21:10-11

The Opening Manifestation (2:4)

"They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance."

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