"What Money Can't Buy"

1) God cannot be _______ for any _____ and the _____ of the Holy Spirit is also _____ for sale.

Acts 8:14-15

14 Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, 15 who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit,

2) The first __ chapters of Acts is a time of ________. God is _______ the Jews and _______ and the Gentiles.

Acts 8:16-17

16 for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.

Acts 8:18

18 Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

3) It is ____ and ______ to want to do ______ things for the _______ of God.

Acts 8:19

19 saying, “Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

4) Wanting to do ________ isn’t _________. That is something ________ would ____ to do.

Acts 8:20

20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

5) There ____ be a clear __________ from _____ and the ____ of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 8:21

21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

Psalm 139:23-24

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!

Try me and know my thoughts!3

24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting!4

6) Money is a ____. It must ___ be an ____, but it ___ be.

Acts 8:22

22 Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.

7) Simon needed to ______ of thinking ______ could ___ what only God could ________.

Acts 8:23

23 For I see that you are in the gall3 of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”

Acts 8:24

24 And Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.”

Acts 8:25

25 Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.