Unit 4 TBP - ACTS & The Holy Spirit

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Gracious H. Harpole REL 1301: New Testament Week 4 Video Assignment 1 Unit 4 TBP - ACTS & The Holy Spirit Watch the 3 Bible Project Videos: TBP – Acts (Part 1 & 2)                          https://thebibleproject.com/explore/acts/ TBP – The Holy Spirit                          https://thebibleproject.com/explore/holy-spirit/ Then answer the following questions basing your answers directly upon the videos: TBP - "The Holy Spirit" 1) What words does the Old Testament use to describe God's spirit? The Old Testament describes God’s spirit as the Hebrew word ruakh, which is also known as God’s personal presence. 2) What do the Old Testament prophets see as the fundamental problem with the world? While God’s ruakh had created a really good world, humans have given in to evil. Humans were unleashing chaos into the world through their injustice. 3) How will God solve this terrible problem? God’s spirit empowers Jesus to begin his new creation after Jesus is baptized in the Jordan River. Jesus then goes to heal people of forgive them for their sins to absolve them of the evil that keeps trying to coerce them. 4) Where in the New Testament does the Holy Spirit show up? The Holy Spirit shows up when Jesus was baptized, when Jesus was risen from the dead, and when he appeared to his closest followers, he breathed on them and said “Receive the Holy Spirit” and then the Holy Spirit powerfully comes onto all of his disciples. More specifically in the Book of Acts, the Holy Spirit is presented as a life principle of the Early Church and provides five separate instances of the Holy Spirit in ACTS 2:1-4, 4:28-31, 8:15-17, 10:44, and 19:6. 5) What is the Holy Spirit doing today in the lives of God's people? The Holy Spirit hovers over dark places to point people to Jesus even still to this day. TBP - "ACTS 1 & 2" 6) Summarize the Book of ACTs in 3 movements using no more than 100 words to explain each section:      a) The opening of the book until Pentecost: The Book of Acts is a unified two-volume work of ACTS 1 & 2. They are both written by Luke, and he describes the first Act as the first account of all the things Jesus began to do and teach. Luke describes the second Act of what Jesus continued to do and teach. The Book of ACTS describes the risen Jesus Christ spending 40 days with his disciples to teach them about the kingdom of God. Jesus promises that the Holy Spirit will come and immerse them in His personal presence. Jesus then tells his disciples “You’ll be my witness in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the Earth. Jesus is then exalted as the King of the world.
Gracious H. Harpole REL 1301: New Testament Week 4 Video Assignment 2      b) Pentecost through the conversion of Cornelius the Centurion: The Jerusalem focus section begins with Jesus’ followers waiting until the feast of the Pentecost. Then all the Jewish pilgrims from all over the ancient world were in the city, and the Holy Spirit came on the disciples as a great wind and then flames appeared over each person’s head. Together they start announcing and telling stories of God’s mighty deeds. They are also speaking in various languages that they didn’t know before, but all the people who gathered there understood them perfectly. Therefore, the new temple is Jesus’ new covenant family. The apostles keep calling the Israelites to acknowledge Jesus as their Holy Messiah and people respond by forming new communities of generosity, worship, and celebration. However, not everyone was celebrating and started to face hostility from the Jerusalem leaders. Peter is led by the Holy Spirit into the house of a Roman soldier named Cornelious with a house full of non-Jewish people. They all respond to the good news of Jesus Christ.      c) Paul's   ministry around the Roman Empire: The movement began in Jerusalem as the Holy Spirit came and formed Jesus’ followers into the new temple promised by the scriptural prophets. This generated conflict with the leaders of Jerusalem and led to the prosecution of the Christians. However, the Holy Spirit transformed it into good, by becoming the means by which the original Jewish communities were pushed outside of Jerusalem to become a multi-ethnic international movement. This was called the Church in Antioch. Paul was serving in the Antioch church and the church prompted him and Barnabas on a missionary journey to travel to different cities around the Roman Empire announcing the good news that Jesus is King. The first mission was the Asia Minor, and it ends in an important meeting of the Apostles back in Jerusalem. The second mission is through Asia Minor and into ancient Greece. Then the third mission is through Asia Minor and Greece again but concludes with Paul’s journey all the way back to Jerusalem. Whenever Paul enters a new city, he always goes first to the Jewish synagogue to share about the risen King Jesus and how he’s forming a new multi-ethnic family of God. Some people oppose Paul and even throw him out of town as a dangerous rebel who opposes the Torah and Jewish tradition. Paul then discovers that there are some Jewish Christians in Antioch, and they are claiming that unless non-Jewish people become Jewish by practicing circumcision, the Sabbath, and obeying kosher food laws; then they can’t become part of Jesus’ family. The multi-ethnic reality of Jesus’ movement has a groundbreaking effect by writing a letter that states that membership in Jesus’ people is not based on ethnicity or Torah observance, but simply on just trusting and obeying Jesus. 7) What was the strange paradox of Christianity that confounded the Roman empire and its rulers? It starts with a clash of cultures between the early Christians and the Greek and Roman world. Paul then goes and announces Jesus as the revelation of the one true God and as the King of the world. Paul then says that God shows up all other gods and idols as powerless and futile. Paul’s message is consistently viewed as subversive to the Roman Way of life and he gets accused of being a dangerous social revolutionary. This showed how the multi-ethnic monotheistic communities of Jesus did not fit into any cultural boxes known to the Roman people. Paul and the Christians are being accused of rebellion and treason against Caesar the Roman Emperor. The Romans saw that the Christian way of life was a challenge to many Roman cultural values. However, every time that Paul gets arrested and interrogated before Roman officials, they don’t
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