Rooted and Grounded

1. What happens according to Acts 5:17-18? What was the motivation according to the verses?

2. What happens during the night according to Acts 5:19-20? What is the message the apostles were given?

3. What do they do the next morning according to Acts 5:21? Why? Why at that location?

4. What happens when the temple police go to the prison, at the request of the council and the body of elders under the direction of the high priest, according to Acts 5:21-23?

5. What is the reaction of the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests when they heard according to Acts 5:24?

6. What happens according to Acts 5:25?

7. What do the temple police do? What were they afraid of?

8. What does the high priest say to them according to Acts 5:28?

9. Copy Acts 5:29. Meditate on this. How does this impact your heart? Are you excited? Afraid? Uncertain? Ask God to reveal what is in your heart concerning these things.

10. What are the teachings in spoken in the following verses?
Acts 5:30

Acts 5:31

Acts 5:32

11. What is the reaction of the high priest and those gathered with him according to Acts 5:33?

12. Who is Gamaliel? What does he advise according to Acts 5:35-39?

13. Copy Acts 5:39. Meditate on this. Who else does scripture tell us was fighting against God? What was the result? Open your heart to God. Ask Him to reveal times and situations when you were or are fighting against God. Ask God to re-align your heart and soul to be on God’s side. Confess and turn from your rebellion against God.

14. What was the reaction of the high priest and those gathered to the words of Gamaliel in Acts 5:39?

15. What did they do with the apostles according to Acts 5:40?

16. What was the response of the apostles as they left the council according to Acts 5:41?

Going deeper: “The name” is a reference to the tetragrammaton (Y-H-W-H). This is often substituted for using “HaShem” which literally means “the name” in Hebrew. Other substitutes include “Adonai” and “Yahweh.”

17. Copy Acts 5:42 here. Meditate on this. What do you think this looked like in the first century in Jerusalem? Take some time to describe the scene(s) or draw some images from your mind’s eye. These events were most likely happening in the heat of the summer that year since Pentecost is at the end of the spring (more or less).

Going deeper: This “teach and proclaim Jesus as Messiah” necessarily refers to teaching the Hebrew Scriptures, showing those which point to Messiah and which are fulfilled in the life, ministry and death of Yeshua. What might be some of the scriptures which they were focused on or bringing to light?

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