The Sunday School Lesson Paul Confronts Evil Spirits by David McGee
Feb 13, 2022
Paul Confronts Evil Spirits (48:02)
Referenced Scriptures: Acts 13:1-12; Acts 16:13-18; Acts 19:11-20
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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
Acts 13:1-12
1) Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
2) As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them."
3) Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
4) So, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.
5) When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. They had also John as their attendant.
6) When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus,
7) who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. The same called Barnabas and Saul to him, and sought to hear the word of God.
8) But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith.
9) But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,
10) and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
11) Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
12) Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
Acts 16:13-18
13) On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.
14) A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshipped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
15) When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." She urged us.
16) It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
17) The same, following after Paul and us, cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation!"
18) This she did for many days. But Paul, becoming distressed, turned and said to the spirit, "I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" It came out that very hour.
Acts 19:11-20
11) God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,
12) insomuch that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out.
13) But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."
14) There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
15) The evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?"
16) The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
17) This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
18) Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
19) Not a few of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20) So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.
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