The Guidance of the Spirit in the Work

(Acts 15:36 to 16:13.)

1. 1.Give a statement of the cause, the work, and the result of the general meeting held in Jerusalem?
2. 2.Where did Paul and Barnabas labor immediately after the meeting?
3. 3.After some days, what proposal did Paul make to Barnabas? Acts 15:36.
4. 4.What did Barnabas determine to do? Verse 37.
5. 5.What objection had Paul to this plan? Verse 38.
6. 6.What was the result of this disagreement? Where did Barnabas go with his chosen companions? Verse 39.
7. 7.Whom did Paul select to labor with him? Verse 40.
8. 8.Where did they go? Verse 41.
9. 9.After passing through Syria and Cilicia, to what place did they come? Whom did Paul find at Lystra? Chapter 16:1.
10. 10.What do we know about this young man? Verses 1, 2.
11. 11.What did Paul wish? What did he first do? Why was this done? Verse 3.
12. 12.As they went through the cities, what did they do? Verse 4.
13. 13.With what result? How often were additions made to the churches? Verse 5.
14. 14.What countries did the apostles next pass through? What were they forbidden to do? By whom? Verse 6.
15. 15.Where did they then go? In what province did they then think to preach? Why did they not do so? Verse 7.
16. 16.To what place did they then come? Verse 8.
17. 17.While at this place, what appeared to Paul in the night? What was the vision? Verse 9.
18. 18.After this vision, what did Paul and his companions immediately set out to do? Of what did they feel assured? Verse 10.
19. 19.By what course did they sail to Macedonia? Verse 11.
20. 20.Having reached Macedonia, what important city did they first visit? Verse 12.
21. 21.Where did they go on the Sabbath day? What did they do? Verse 13.

Additional Questions and Suggestions

1. 1.Is the example of the apostles alone an infallible guide? What evidence can you give? What must back their example, in order to have it of authority? Whose example may be followed implicitly? 1 Peter 2:21, 22; 1 John 2:6.
2. 2.In circumcising Timothy, did Paul go contrary to his position before the meeting at Jerusalem? What was the difference between the reason for which he circumcised Timothy and that given by the men who came from Judea to Antioch? What positive statements does Paul in his epistles make concerning the nature and value of circumcision?
3. 3."Forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the Word in Asia." As a matter of fact they were in Asia all the time, that is, they were in the continent of Asia; but as used in the Acts, the word "Asia" signifies what is known as Asia Minor—the extreme western part of the continent. In Biblical maps this portion of the country is designated as Asia.

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