Supernatural Power

Supernatural Power
Acts 11:19-26; s.s.

I. Prototype of Antioch
A. Hand of the Lord was with them (Acts 11:21)
1. King Saul (1 Samuel 10:1-10)
2. Elijah (1 Kings 18:46)
B. Barnabas saw the grace of God (Acts 11:23)
1. Conversions (vs. 21,24)
2. Prayer & Fasting (13:2,3)
3. Spontaneous Generosity (vs. 27-29)
4. Unprejudiced Fellowship (vs. 19-20)
C. Disciples called Christians (Acts 11:26b)
1. ‘Little Christs’
2. Imitators of Christ
II. Precedent of Paul
A. Roman Church (Romans 8:11), “But if the Spirit
of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead
shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that dwelleth in you”
B. Corinthian Church (1 Cor. 3:5-7), “Who then is
Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom
ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave
the increase. So then neither is he that planteth
any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that
giveth the increase.”
III. Pattern of Scripture
A. The Exodus (I Am)
B. Jericho
C. Pentecost
D. Peter & John before Sanhedrin (Acts 4)
1. Acts 4:12, “Neither is there salvation in
any other: for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must
be saved”
2. READ ACTS 4:13,19-20