Cecil Haney

Bible Study

Time:  7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.  

**** Next class will be Wednesday October 21, 2026 ****

Study Book:  Acts 1-12 God's Power in Jerusalem & Judea

Scripture:  Acts 8 & 9

Class Content:  

We were blessed to continue our bible study of Acts 8:1-40.   We discussed:

• How Saul’s persecution of the church caused the church to scatter beyond Jerusalem.
• How Simon the Sorcerer’s desires for the Holy Spirit was dealt with by Peter and how Simon the Sorcerer can be called a religious racketeer wanting to profit vice being transformed in his heart.  This included a discussion of how we must be on guard for people like this today that ultimately may be doing the devil’s work to hurt the church from within.
• How Phillip, and then John and Peter went to Samaria. Then Philip was directed by an angel of the Lord to go south of Jerusalem and into Gaza, a desert.  Here Philip encounters the Ethiopian eunuch reading Isaiah 53 and through the interaction Philip baptized him and the eunuch continues his journey spreading the word to North Africa, beginning the witness to the “ends of the earth” as Philip moves along the coast to Caesarea.
• We discussed the contrast between the heart of Simon the Sorcerer and the Ethiopian eunuch.
• We concluded with a discussion of how we see our opportunities and responsibilities of taking the gospel to the ends of the earth.

We also looked at a map of the spread of the Word in Acts 8 which can be found at this website - https://www.freebibleimages.org/illustrations/bi-maps-acts/

Next, we will continue with our study of Acts 8 starting with question 11 found on page 36 of our study guide and likely start our study of Acts 9.

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Our next study will be the Book of Hebrews. 

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Please let Cecil Haney know if you need a study guide and we will work to get you one for this Bible Study.  Please join us.

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