Page 26 - August 2025 - Truth & Tidings

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Exodus linked with Acts – 40 days and 50 days; deliverance from bondage of Egypt
and the Law; the 3,000 slain or saved; Bezaleel and believers filled with the Spirit; in-
crease, multiply, fruitful; Moses and Paul (both received blueprint); Acts 12 and Passover
background (gates yield like Red Sea, Pharaoh and Herod slain).

Luke - author
The Perfect Man and His growth; growth and development of the Church. Note the
parallels – birth, favor, hostility, imprisonment at the end.

Layout - several different outlines:
A. Peter (chs.1-12) Paul (chs.13-28)
Sermon (ch.2) Sermon (ch.13)
Lame healed (ch.3) Lame healed (ch.14)
Sorcerer (ch.8) Elymas the sorcerer (ch.15)
Influence of shadow (ch.15) Influence of handkerchief (ch.19)
Worshiped (ch.10) Worshiped (ch.14)
Raised (ch.9) Raised (ch.20)
Prison (ch.12) Prison (ch.28)
B. Progress Reports of the Acts (2:47; 6:7; 9:31; 12:24; 16:5; 19:20; 28:30-31)
C. David Gooding’s Division
1. Christianity and Restoration of All (1:1-6:7)
2. Christianity and Spiritual Worship and Witness (6:8-9:31)
3. Christianity and Sanctification (9:32-12:24)
4. Christianity and Doctrine of Salvation (12:25-16:5)
5. Christianity and the Secular World (16:6-19:20)
6. Christianity and the Sovereign God (19:21-28:31)
D. The Common and Perhaps Simplest Outline
1. Jerusalem – Institution of the Church and the local church

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