#LESSONS FROM SIMON THE SORCERER FULL#

23 For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”Ģ4 Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me ( S) so that nothing you have said may happen to me. Peter immediately rebukes Simon for believing that he could purchase. 22 Repent ( R) of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. When Simon sees that the power of the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of hands by the apostles, Simon offers the apostles money, desiring to be given the ability to give the power of the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands. ( N)ġ8 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money 19 and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”Ģ0 Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! ( O) 21 You have no part or share ( P) in this ministry, because your heart is not right ( Q) before God.

( L) 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, ( M) and they received the Holy Spirit. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, ( J) 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them ( K) they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. We look at Simon's story, as well as some similar stories in Acts, to learn four important facts about those who practise the magic arts. There are still sorcerers, witches, psychics, occultists, and their ilk in the world today. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles ( F) he saw.ġ4 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria ( G) had accepted the word of God, ( H) they sent Peter and John ( I) to Samaria. Simon the Sorcerer was one of the great sorcerers of all time (Acts 8:9-24). 13 Simon himself believed and was baptized. 12 But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God ( D) and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, ( E) both men and women.

He boasted that he was someone great, ( B) 10 and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.” ( C) 11 They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his sorcery. 9 Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery ( A) in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria.

Lessons from simon the sorcerer