Exploring Acts: An Expository Commentary
Overview
This commentary on the book of Acts provides pastors, Sunday school teachers, and students of Scripture with doctrinally sound interpretation that emphasizes the practical application of Bible truth. Working from the King James Version, John Phillips not only provides helpful commentary on the text, but also includes detailed outlines and numerous illustrations and quotations. Anyone wanting to explore the meaning of God’s Word in greater depth—for personal spiritual growth or as a resource for preaching and teaching—will welcome the guidance and insights of this respected series.
Top Highlights
“In effect that is what has happened with the gospel. Paul was determined to be no part of it. Jerusalem did not need him, Antioch did not need him. There were plenty of people carrying the bread of life to the first few rows, and they were already quarreling over it in Jerusalem. He would press on, baskets full, to the regions beyond, where people were starving for the bread of life.” (Acts 15:36a)
“Also, they heard the sound, but there was no other sensation. They heard this wind, but they did not feel it. There was no emphasis on feeling at all, for it is faith, not feeling, that is the hallmark of this age.” (Acts 2:2)
“The very last words Jesus spoke before He left for heaven were these: ‘The uttermost part of the earth.’ That was the Great Commission. They were to tell the story to the untold millions still untold. They were not called to be lawyers, not called to argue the case before the minds of men. That was the work of the Holy Spirit. They were called to be witnesses. A witness simply tells what he has seen and heard. He tells what happened. It is the Holy Spirit who does the pleading and who calls for the verdict. True, He uses men in the process, but it is words supplied by the Holy Spirit that make the difference (Mark 3:11). Supremely the Holy Spirit uses the Bible.” (Acts 1:8)
“Ye shall be witnesses unto me,’ the Lord said. We are not sent out to spread American culture or to found colonies or to convert people to an ideology or a theological proposition. We are to introduce people to the Lord Jesus Christ. We are to be witnesses unto Him. The Holy Spirit does the rest.” (Acts 1:8)
- Title: Exploring Acts: An Expository Commentary
- Author: John Phillips
- Series: The John Phillips Commentary Series
- Publisher: Kregel
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Acts › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:JPCS65AC01
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:11:14Z