Pastor David McGee's teaching references for 01/28/2007

Acts 8:26-40

Life Lesson (verse Acts 8:31)

God goes before you when you are following Him.

Life Lesson (verse Acts 8:32)

The Bible points us and everyone else to Jesus.

Life Lesson (verse Acts 8:33)

Every person who is following Jesus should be serving others in a caring and committed way.

Life Lesson (verse Acts 8:35)

We tell other people about Jesus because Jesus told us to.

Life Lesson (verse Acts 8:36)

Every follower of Jesus should be baptized.

Selected Notes/Illustrations

Romans Road Verses

Acts 3:13 NKJV

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go.

Acts 3:26 NKJV

To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."

Acts 4:27 NKJV

"For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

Acts 4:30 NKJV

by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus."

Heb 10:24 NLT

Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds.

Titus 2:7 NKJV

in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility,

Titus 2:14 NKJV

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

Titus 3:8 TEV

This is a true saying. I want you to give special emphasis to these matters, so that those who believe in God may be concerned with giving their time to doing good deeds, which are good and useful for everyone.

Titus 3:14 NKJV

And let our people also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful.

Eph 2:8-10 NKJV

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Matt 16:27 NKJV

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.

James 2:26 NLT

Just as the body is dead without a spirit, so also faith is dead without good deeds.

James 2:17 NLT

So you see, it isn't enough just to have faith. Faith that doesn't show itself by good deeds is no faith at all--it is dead and useless.

Rom 10:17 NKJV

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

1 Peter 1:23-25 NLT

23 For you have been born again. Your new life did not come from your earthly parents because the life they gave you will end in death. But this new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God. 24 As the prophet says, "People are like grass that dies away; their beauty fades as quickly as the beauty of wildflowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall away. 25 But the word of the Lord will last forever." And that word is the Good News that was preached to you.

Phil 1:6 NKJV

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

Jude 24 NLT

And now, all glory to God, who is able to keep you from stumbling, and who will bring you into his glorious presence innocent of sin and with great joy.

Isa 53:6 NLT

All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the guilt and sins of us all.

Scripture quotations marked "NKJV(tm)" are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.