The book of Acts is the narrative of how God’s end-times promises have begun to be fulfilled by the risen Lord Jesus through the Spirit-empowered apostolic preaching of the gospel to all people and the establishing of local churches.
I have had the blessing of preaching through Acts in our regular church services not once but twice in the last four years (I’ll explain that later). I strongly encourage fellow preachers to take their congregations through this unique book. Here’s six reasons why:
1. Acts will bolster your confidence in God’s sovereignty.
Acts assumes God’s rule over history, events, and people. Most strikingly, the apostles repeatedly frame the gospel and their ministry as the fulfillment of God’s promises in the Old Testament. Everything from the death and resurrection of Jesus, to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, to the Gentile mission happens because God said it would.
This fulfillment of the Old Testament happens in very concrete and often dramatic ways. God sovereignly directs the apostles’ movements through the Spirit, opens the hearts of those ordained to salvation, unlocks prison doors and chains, judges rulers and hypocrites, and saves the shipwrecked. Despite all manner of persecution, God’s Word advances. Nothing
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