Acts 8:5-8 - Homilies By R.a. Redford

Samaria evangelized.

I. The STEPPING - STONE to work among the Gentiles . Half heathen.

II. THE PREPARATION FOR CHRIST . The Pentateuch. The false teaching of Simon and others. Mental and moral degradation.

III. A specimen of SPIRITUAL WANT AND PRIVATION . Unclean spirits. Palsied. Lame. The multitudes under the dominion of physical and spiritual disease. Adaptation of the new message to universal humanity.

IV. THE MEANS EMPLOYED . Preaching the Christ. Signs and wonders. The two great facts—a personal Redeemer the object of faith; a Divine power at hand able to lift up the fallen, to subdue the evil, to heal the sick, to change the world.—R.