Notice below how the Holy Ghost and the disciples in the Book of Acts were all On The Move. The Church of God back then was delivering the Gospel and exhorting one another everywhere, just like FEDEX delivers messages and packages everywhere today. In the Book of Acts, the Church of the living God was the GOSPELEX, The Gospel Express, for they were always On The Move. Come what may, the disciples were delivering the Gospel through opposition, imprisonments, persecutions, distresses, reproaches, peril, storms, even hazarding and laying down their very lives for the Gospel's sake.
* Chapter 2) Jerusalem, Day of Pentecost: They were all with one accord in one place (1); The apostles filled with the Holy Ghost speak with other tongues, some were amazed and marveled, other mocked (4-13); Peter testifies of JESUS and exhorts the men of Israel (14-40); Continued stedfastly in the apostle's doctrine, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayers (42); All that believed were together, had all things common, sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men (44-45); Continuing daily with one accord, break bread with gladness and singleness of heart (46); Praising God, having favour with the people, The Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved (47)
* Chapter 3) Jerusalem: The lame man healed at the Beautiful gate (7); the lame man was Walking and leaping and praising God (8); They were filled with wonder and amazement, greatly wondering (10-11); Not our own power or holiness (12); The Holy One and the Just, The Prince of Life (14-15); Through faith in His name (16); Turning every one of you away from his iniquities (26)
* Chapter 4) Jerusalem before the council: They taught the people and preached through JESUS the resurrection from the dead (2); Many of them which heard the word believed, about 5,000 (4); What power, what name (7); Filled with the Holy Ghost (8); The Stone which was set at nought (11); None other name under heaven (12); They saw the boldness, they marveled, been with JESUS (13); Notable miracle, we cannot deny it, spread among the people (16); We cannot but speak (20); All men glorified God for that which was done (21); They lifted up their voice to God with one accord (24); Asked the Lord to grant boldness to speak His word (29); Assembled together, prayed, Filled with the Holy Ghost, and spake the word of God with boldness (31) Were of one heart and of one soul, they had all things common (32); Great power in their witness and great grace was upon them all (33); Distributed unto every man according as he had need, equality (34-35).
* Chapter 5) Jerusalem: Ananias and Sapphira lie and tempt the Holy Ghost and die (1-10); They were all with one accord (12); Multitudes of believers were added to the Lord (14); Speak to the people all the words of this Life (20); Teach in this Name, filled Jerusalem with this doctrine (28); We ought to Obey God rather than men (29); They were cut to the heart (33); They fight against God (39); Rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name (41); Ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ (42).
* Chapter 6) Jerusalem: Gave themselves continually to prayer and ministry of the word (4); Deacons chosen (6); Word of God increased, number of disciples multiplied greatly, great company were obedient to the faith (7); Disputing, Not able to resist the wisdom and spirit by which Stephen spoke (10).
* Chapter 7) Jerusalem: Stephen preaches; God gave them up (42); They resist the Holy Ghost (51); They were cut to the heart (54); Stephen cast out of the city and stoned (58-59).
* Chapter 8) Jerusalem: Great persecution against the church (1); Church scattered abroad (1); Went everywhere preaching the word (4); Samaria: Philip preached Christ (5); The people with one accord gave heed to Philip (6); the bewitched people gave regard to man, not God (11); Philip preached the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ (12); Holy Ghost fell upon them (15); Simon believed and baptized but still in the bond of iniquity (23); Testified and preached the word of the Lord; Preached the Gospel in many villages (25); Gaza: Preached unto him JESUS (35); Azotus, Caesarea: Philip preached in all the cities (40).
* Chapter 9) Road to Damascus: Saul of Tarsus saved and prayeth (1-11); Saul baptized by Ananias (18); Saul preached Christ in the synagogues (20); Barnabas takes Saul to the apostles, Saul spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, disputed against the Grecians (27-29); Churches edified, comforted by Holy Ghost, and multiplied (31); Peter heals Aeneas of the palsy (34); Dorcas dies in Joppa and arises (Peter) (40); Many believed in the Lord (42)
* Chapter 10) Caesarea: Cornelius was a devout and just man, feared God, gave much alms, fasted, prayed to God alway, of good report, an holy angel of God appeared to him, but still needed to be saved (1-8); Cornelius and the Holy Spirit send the household servants and a devout soldier to find Peter in Joppa (9); God is no respecter of persons (34); Preaching peace by Jesus Christ (36); Word was published (37); Peter preaches to Cornelius; Jesus went about doing good, God was with Him (38); The Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word, Cornelius and his kinsmen and near friends were saved (44); On the Gentiles was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost (45); They received the Holy Ghost (47); they were baptized in the name of the Lord (48).
* Chapter 11) Jerusalem: The Holy Ghost fell on them (15); They believed on the Lord Jesus Christ (17); Gentiles granted repentance unto Life (18); Preaching the word to Jews only (19); Preaching the Lord Jesus (20); The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord (21); Antioch: Barnabas sees the grace of God at Antioch (23); Exhorts them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord (23); Much people was added unto the Lord (24); Barnabas and Saul taught at Antioch for one year; Disciples were called Christians first in Antioch (26); Because of dearth, relief sent to the brethren in Judaea (29)
* Chapter 12) Jerusalem: Herod vexes and kills Christians; Imprisons Peter (1-4) Prayer made without ceasing for Peter (5); Peter freed from prison by angel of the Lord (7); Peter goes to John Mark's house (12:16); No small stir (18); Herod smote by angel of the Lord and eaten of worms (23); Word of God grew and multiplied (24).
* Chapter 13) Antioch: They ministered, fasted, prayed (2-3); Paul and Barnabas sent forth by the Holy Ghost (4); Preached the word in the synagogues (5); Saul's name changed to Paul (9); Paul preaches in Antioch synagogue and declares glad tidings concerning JESUS, the despisers wonder and perish (32-41); Preached Jesus (38); Persuaded them to continue in the grace of God (43); Almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God (44); Jews judged themselves unworthy of everlasting life; The Gospel turns to the Gentiles (46); Gentiles were glad, glorified the word of the Lord and believed (48); The word of the Lord was published (49); Paul and Barnabas expelled (50); Disciples filled with joy and the Holy Ghost (52)
* Chapter 14) They spake in Iconium, and a great multitude of Jews and Greeks believed (1); Spake boldly in the Lord, gave testimony unto the word of His grace (3); Preached the gospel (7); Lystra: Paul heals impotent cripple man (10); Paul stoned and left for dead at Lystra, but then he rose up from the dead (19-20); Preached the gospel at Derbe and taught many (21); Confirm the souls of the disciples, and Exhorted them to continue in the faith (22); Ordained elders and commended them to the Lord (23); Preached the word (25); Antioch: Gathered the church and rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how that God opened the door of faith to the Gentiles (27).
* Chapter 15) Dissension at Antioch (1-2); Jerusalem; Declared all things that God had done with them (4); Peter preaches (7-11); James preaches (13-21); Assembled with one accord (25); Hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (26); Exhorted the brethren with many words and confirmed them (32); Teaching and preaching the word of the Lord (35); Visit the brethren and see how they do (36); Dispute and division between Paul and Barnabas over John Mark, Barnabas takes John Mark to Cyprus (39); Paul and Silas confirmed the churches (41)
* Chapter 16) Timothy is first mentioned; Churches established in the faith, Increased in number daily (16:5); Vision of man of Macedonia appears to Paul (9); Paul speaks to women at Philippi, Lord opens the heart of Lydia (13-15); Paul casts spirit out of a damsel (16-18); Philippi: Paul and Silas falsely accused, beaten, imprisoned (19-24); Freed by earthquake, Jailor saved (25-39); They comforted the brethren (40).
* Chapter 17) Thessalonica; Opening and alleging, Reasoned with them out of the scriptures (2); Preached JESUS unto them who is Christ; they believed and consorted with Paul; great multitude of Greeks and chief women believed (3-4); Turned the world upside down (6); Bereans received the word, Searched the scriptures daily, many of them believed, not a few (11); Athens (16); Paul disputed with them in the synagogue and market daily (17); Paul preached unto them JESUS and the resurrection (18); Paul declares the Gospel to the superstitious Athenians at Mar's hill (22-31); they want to hear a new doctrine, strange things to our ears, hear some new thing (19-21); Some mocked, some procrastinated, some believed (32-34)
* Chapter 18) Corinth; Paul wrought tents with Aquila and Priscilla (2-3); Reasoned in the synagogue and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks (4); Testified to the Jews that JESUS was Christ (5); Crispus and many of the Corinthians believed and were baptized (8); Ephesus; reasoned with the Jews in the synagogue (19); Galatia and Phrygia: Strengthens the disciples (23); Ephesus: Aquila and Priscilla teach Apollos (24-26); Achaia; Apollos helped them much which had believed through grace (27); Apollos mightily convinced the Jews, shewing by the scriptures that JESUS was Christ.
* Chapter 19) Ephesus; Paul instructed disciples, baptized, Holy Ghost came upon them, spake with tongues, and prophesied (1-7); Paul disputes and persuades the things concerning the kingdom of God, Divers were hardened and believed not (8-9); Paul disputed daily in the school of Tyrannus for two years (9); All they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks (10); Exorcists are overcome by evil spirit they tried to cast out in the name of JESUS (13-16); Name of the Lord Jesus was magnified (17); many believed, confessed, shewed their deeds, burned their books, and the word of God grew mightily and prevailed (18-20); Demetrius the silversmith stirs up the people against Paul, because of greed, but Alexander the Jew quiets the confused mob and dismisses them (21-41).
* Chapter 20) Macedonia; Paul gave them much exhortation (1-2); Troas: Paul was long preaching until midnight, Eutychus dies from fall; Paul heals Eutychus (7-9); Miletus:
Paul exhorts the elders of the church at Ephesus; Taught publicly and from house to house; Testifying both to Jews and Greeks (20); Preaching the kingdom of God (25); Declare all the counsel of God (27); Commends them to God and to the word of His grace, and prays with them (32-38).
* Chapter 21) While traveling, Paul warned by disciples not to go to Jerusalem (4); Paul warned again by Agabus not to go to Jerusalem (11); Jerusalem: Declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry (19); Paul compromises with the Jew, shaves his head and take a vow, offered temple sacrifices (20-26); Asian Jews stir up the people against Paul (27-32); Paul arrested in the temple (33-40).
* Chapter 22) Jerusalem; Paul declares his conversion in Hebrew before the Jews (1-16); Paul's calling to the Gentiles (17-21); Paul in the custody of the Chief Captain Lysias; Paul escapes scourging, because he claims the privileges of a Roman (22-30).
* Chapter 23) Jerusalem; Paul testifies of his conversion and pleads his cause before the Sanhedrin council; The high priest Ananias commands that Paul is smitten (1-10); The Lord encourages Paul (11); A band of Jews plot to kill Paul, and lie in wait to kill him, but Paul's young nephew informs the Chief Captain Lysias of the plot (12-22); Paul sent to Felix, the Roman governor of Palestine, in Caesarea; Chief Captain Lysias sends letter to Felix, Paul presented before Felix (23-35).
* Chapter 24) Caesarea; Tertullus and the Jews falsely accuse Paul before Felix (pestilent fellow, mover of sedition, ringleader, profane the temple) (1-9); Paul defends himself before Felix (the way which they call heresy, believing all things written in the law and in the prophets, hope toward God resurrection of the dead) (10-23); Felix heard Paul concerning the faith in Christ (24-26); After two years, Felix left Paul bound (27).
* Chapter 25) Caesarea; The Jews accuse Paul before Festus, the Roman governor of Palestine; Paul defends himself, and appeals unto Caesar (1-12); King Agrippa (Herod Agrippa II) comes to Caesarea, Festus addresses King Agrippa, and then King Agrippa requests to hear Paul (13-22); Paul brought before Agrippa and Bernice, and then Festus explains the case prior to Paul speaking (23-27).
* Chapter 26) Caesarea: Paul defends himself, testifies of his life as a Pharisee, and of his conversion to Christ before King Agrippa (1-18); Paul's tells of his witnessing to Jews and Gentiles (19-23); Paul persuades Agrippa to believe, and Agrippa is almost converted; Agrippa sends Paul to Rome to appeal to Caesar (24-32).
* Chapter 27) Paul sails from Caesarea toward Rome (1-9); During the voyage, they stop at Sidon, Myra, Cnidus, Crete (the fair havens); In Crete, Paul warns of danger that is to come during their voyage (10); but the Roman centurion disregards Paul's warning (11); the angel of God assures Paul they will all be saved (22-24); they suffer shipwreck after 14 days in a tempestuous storm named Euroclydon (27-41); They escaped all safe to land (22, 34, 44).
* Chapter 28) Island of Melita, Paul showed kindness, bitten by viper, but felt no harm (1-6); Lodged by chief man of the island, Publius (7) Paul healed father of Publius and others (8-9) After three months, they sailed toward Rome and stopped in Syracuse, Rhegium, and finally landed in Puteoli; Went toward Rome (14-15), Arrive at Rome (16); Paul called chief of the Jews together and preaches to them (17-22); Paul preaches again and expounds and testifies of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning JESUS, and some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not; The salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles (23-29); For two whole years; Paul preached the kingdom of God, and taught those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ (30-31).
Paul's First Missionary Journey (Galatia): Acts 13-14
Paul's Second Missionary Journey: Acts 15:36-18-22
Paul's Third Missionary Journey: Acts 18:23-20-38
The Unbelievers' Acts: Grieved when the apostles taught the people and preached through JESUS the resurrection of dead, Stir up the people against the apostles and disciples, Stoned Paul, opposed themselves, blasphemed, hardened, plotted to kill Paul, called the Gospel superstition,
Not a few, Not a little, No little, no small stir, no small gain
The Holy Ghost was received multiple ways in the book of Acts:
* Acts 2:4 They were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake with tongues, but they were not baptized, and no hands were laid on them
* Acts 2:38 They repented, were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, and then received the gift of the Holy Ghost
* Acts 8:17 Peter and John prayed the Samaritans would receive the Holy Ghost, then they were baptized, then they laid hands on them, and then the Samaritans received the Holy Ghost (no tongues)
* Acts 8:35-38 Ethiopian eunuch heard the gospel, believed, then baptized (no laying on of hands, no speaking in tongues)
* Acts 9: Conversion of Paul; Ananias put his hands on Paul (9:17) Paul was filled with the Holy Ghost in (9:17), then Paul was baptized (9:18); calling on the name of the Lord (22:16), and his sins were washed away (22:16) (oops, Paul did not speak in tongues)
* Acts 10:44-48 Heard the word, Holy Ghost fell on them which heard the word, they spake with tongues, and then they were baptized in the name of the Lord (Note: they received the Holy Ghost before they were baptized)
* Acts 11:15 Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning
* Acts 16 Lydia believed, Lord opened her heart, then bapized (no laying on of hands, no tongues)
* Acts 16 Philippian jailor, believed, then was baptized (no laying on hands, no tongues)
* Acts 19:6 Certain disciples; They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, Paul laid his hands on them, then the Holy Ghost came on them, they spake with tongues, and prophesied
