Acts 12:6–9
6 The very night before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison.
7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.
8 The angel said to him, “Fasten your belt and put on your sandals.” He did so. Then he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”
9 Peter went out and followed him; he did not realize that what was happening with the angel’s help was real; he thought he was seeing a vision.
Acts 12:12–16
12 As soon as he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name was Mark, where many had gathered and were praying.
13 When he knocked at the outer gate, a maid named Rhoda came to answer.
14 On recognizing Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that, instead of opening the gate, she ran in and announced that Peter was standing at the gate.
15 They said to her, “You are out of your mind!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”
16 Meanwhile Peter continued knocking; and when they opened the gate, they saw him and were amazed.
Acts 19:11–20
11 God did extraordinary miracles through Paul,
12 so that when the handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, their diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them.
13 Then some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”
14 Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.
15 But the evil spirit said to them in reply, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”
16 Then the man with the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered them all, and so overpowered them that they fled out of the house naked and wounded.
17 When this became known to all residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks, everyone was awestruck; and the name of the Lord Jesus was praised.
18 Also many of those who became believers confessed and disclosed their practices.
19 A number of those who practiced magic collected their books and burned them publicly; when the value of these books was calculated, it was found to come to fifty thousand silver coins.
20 So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.
Note: The slide labels this passage Acts 19:11–19, but its text also includes verse 20.
“Love God and do as you please”
— St. Augustine
“Love God and sin boldly”
— Martin Luther
1 John 4:16–18
16 God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.
17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.
1 Corinthians 15:24–26
24 Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and every authority and power
