“The Victorious Church” I Will Build My Church

I. Introduction
Matthew 16-18
A. We have just returned from a ministry trip visiting some of our extensions.

II. We see this happening not only today, but in the book of Acts.
A. They grew in ____________________.

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In Acts 2, ____________________ were added to the church.

In Acts 3, because of the healing of a crippled man at the temple, it states in Acts 4:4, “the numbers grew
to about ____________________.”

In Acts 5:14, it states, “more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were ____________________
to their number.

In Acts 6:1, “In those days the number of disciples were ____________________”

B. The church grew in power through signs and wonders and miracles.
1. Acts 3 A ____________________ man is healed.

2. Acts 4:33, “with great ____________________ the apostles continue to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.”

3. Acts 5 Ananias and Sapphira were struck ____________________ by God.

4. Acts 5:12 the apostles performed ____________________ miracles, signs, and wonders among the people.

5. Acts 5:15-16 it states crowds brought their sick so Peter’s shadow could fall on them, and it says, “____________________ of them were healed”.

6. Acts 9 a paralytic is healed and a girl is raised from the dead.
C. The church ____________________ beyond Jerusalem.

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In Acts 8 Philip goes to ____________________.

In Acts 10, ____________________, a Roman centurion is saved along with his friends and family in Cesarea.

In Acts 11:19 the church in ____________________ is established made up of Jews and Gentiles.

III. Along with the growth of the church came ____________________.

A. In Acts 4:17 & 18 the Sanhedrin ____________________ Peter and John, “not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.”

B. In Acts 5:40 the apostles are ____________________ by the Sanhedrin and again ordered not to speak in the name of Jesus.

C. Stephen is ____________________ to death in Acts 7 and on the day he died a great persecution broke out against the church.,

D. ____________________ persecuted the church in Acts 9.

E. King Herod, in desiring to please the unbelieving Jews killed ____________________, the brother of John and ____________________ Peter with the intent of killing him.
IV. How was the church victorious and continue to grow.

A. They understood about the Apostle Paul stated in I Corinthians 3:9.
1. They fasted and ____________________.

2. They ____________________.

3. They ____________________.

4. They ____________________.

B. They believed God would turn things to good.
1. God gave the church ____________________ and great ____________________.

2. The ____________________ empowered them and directed them.

C. They were fully ____________________ to the great commission.

V. Conclusion.