05 May 1, 2016, Acts 8;26-39, Obedient

Acts 8:26-39
Obedient
May 1, 2016
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

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What’s the number one thing?

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The Glory of God!

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1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever
you do, do all to the glory of God.

May Memory Verse
John 13:34-35
34
“A new commandment I give to you;
that you love one another: just as I
have loved you, you also are to love
one another.
35
By this all people will
know that you are My disciples, if you
have love for one another.”

Do Something
Median Adults Service Day
Where: Mission First
When: Saturday, May 21, 2016 —
8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Why: To be difference makers and
serve our neighbors.

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Sunday

Acts 9:3-9,15-20
Converted
May 8, 2016
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

Acts 8:26-39 ESV
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
26 Now an angel of the Lord said to
Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to
the road that goes down from Jerusalem
to Gaza.”This is a desert place.

27 And he rose and went. And there was
an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of
Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who
was in charge of all her treasure. He had
come to Jerusalem to worship 28 and was
returning, seated in his chariot, and he
was reading the prophet Isaiah.

29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over
and join this chariot.” 30 So Philip ran to
him and heard him reading Isaiah the
prophet and asked, “Do you understand
what you are reading?”

31 And he said, “How can I, unless
someone guides me?” And he invited
Philip to come up and sit with him.

32 Now the passage of the Scripture that
he was reading was this:
“Like a sheep He was led to the slaughter
and like a lamb before its shearer is
silent,
so He opens not His mouth.

33 In His humiliation justice was denied
Him.
Who can describe His generation?
For His life is taken away from the
earth.”

34 And the eunuch said to Philip, “About
whom, I ask you, does the prophet say
this, about himself or about someone
else?”35Then Philip opened his mouth,
and beginning with this Scripture he
told him the good news about Jesus.

36 And as they were going along the
road they came to some water, and
the eunuch said, “See, here is water!
What prevents me from being
baptized?”

37 And Philip said, “If you believe with
all your heart, you may.” And he
replied, “I believe that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God.”

38 And he commanded the chariot to
stop, and they both went down into
the water, Philip and the eunuch, and
he baptized him.

39 And when they came up out of the
water, the Spirit of the Lord carried
Philip away, and the eunuch saw him
no more, and went on his way
rejoicing.
Acts 8:26-39 ESV

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Ray Stedman 1917-1992

The verses (Acts 8:1-25) just before the
passage that we are studying this morning
(Acts 8:26-39), tell of Saul persecuting the
early church, Philip leading a revival in
Samaria and Simon the Magician who
tried to purchase the power of the Holy
Spirit.

Acts 8:1 ESV
1 And Saul approved of his execution.
And there arose on that day a great
persecution against the church in
Jerusalem, and they were all scattered
throughout the regions of Judea and
Samaria, except the apostles.

Acts 1:8 ESV
8 But you will receive power when the Holy
Spirit has come upon you, and you will be
my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea
and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

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Tribal Allotments of Israel

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Northern and Southern Kingdoms

Samaria = Northern Kingdom
was defeated by Assyrian in 722 BC
and underwent forced settlement -
which led to the Jews to look at the
Samaritans as half-breeds.
Judea = Southern Kingdom

Today, the Judea/Samaria region is known
as theWest Bank territory, the west bank
of the Jordan River.
This area is also known as Cisjordan
(on this side of the Jordan River) as
opposed toTransjordan (on the other side
of the Jordan River).

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West Bank

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Cisjordan andTransjordan

Acts 8:2-3 ESV
2 Devout men buried Stephen and made
great lamentation over him. 3 But Saul was
ravaging the church, and entering house
after house, he dragged off men and
women and committed them to prison.

Acts 8:4-9, 14-15, 18-20 ESV
Philip Proclaims Christ in Samaria
4 Now those who were scattered went
about preaching theWord. 5 Philip went
down to the city of Samaria and
proclaimed to them the Christ.

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6 And the crowds with one accord paid attention
to what was being said by Philip when they
heard him and saw the signs that he did.

7 For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud
voice, came out of many who had them,
and many who were paralyzed or lame
were healed. 8 So there was much joy in
that city.

Simon the Magician
9 But there was a man named Simon, who
had previously practiced magic in the city
and amazed the people of Samaria, saying
that he himself was somebody great.

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,

18 Now when Simon saw that the Spirit
was given through the laying on of the
apostles' hands, he offered them money,
19 saying, “Give me this power also, so that
anyone on whom I lay my hands may
receive the Holy Spirit.”

20 But Peter said to him, “May your
silver perish with you, because you
thought you could obtain the gift of
God with money!
Acts 8:4-9, 14-15, 18-20 ESV

Simon the Magician got jealous and
wanted to purchase the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit can’t be bought with
money or even with devotion.
• He is a gift (given at salvation).
• As a believers, we ask God daily to fill us
with His Holy Spirit. (we leak)

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Gnosticism is traced back to Simon the
Magician who tradition says eventually went
insane and buried himself alive.

Acts 8:25 ESV
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.

Acts 8:25 ESV
25 Now when they (Peter & John) had
a) testified and
b) spoken the word of the Lord, they
returned to Jerusalem,
c) preaching the Gospel to many
villages of the Samaritans.

Three normal, orderly, Spirit filled
activities (not extraordinary) that
every Christian is to be doing:
a) Testifying
b) Prophesying
c) Evangelizing

Testifying – not telling everybody else
what they ought to be doing but telling
others what God has done for you! You are
the world’s leading expert on what God
has done in your life. If you don’t tell what
God has done in your life, who will?

Ephesians 2:10 ESV
10 For we are His workmanship (God’s
poem), created in Christ Jesus for
good works, which God prepared
beforehand, that we should walk in
them.

If you don’t give voice to God’s poem
(what God has done in your life), who else
will?
Who better than you to tell the world
what He has done for you and through
you?

I am eternally grateful for my eternal
salvation and I am daily thankful for my
daily salvation.
He saves me every day from fear, anxiety,
depression, boredom and worry!

It is GodWho is testifying through you.
You just say ordinary things, you just talk
about what the Lord means to you – how
rich and real and comfortable He has
become to you.

That simple witness will be picked up by
the power of the Holy Spirit and
resurrection power will be added to it and
it will begin to do wonderful things – God
will do it through you!

That’s what gives boldness!
Peter and John testified about what had
happened to them.

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If you feel that you lack authority, then start
talking about what God has done in your life.
He has gone before you – Deut 31:8.

Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV
8 It is the LORD Who goes before you. He
will be with you; He will not leave you
or forsake you. Do not fear or be
dismayed.

Prophesying – proclaiming God’sWord!
You must know God’s word in order to
proclaim it.
We are told to speak theTruth.

Ephesians 4:15a ESV
15a Rather, speaking the truth in love,

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Evangelizing – reaching lost people for
Christ.

In Nik Ripken’s book,The Insanity of
Obedience, he states that the persecuted
Christians in Russian don’t record the
miraculous accounts of deliverance by
God from persecution because it is a
common place, expected, normal activity
of God.

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They reserve the term “miracle” for
conversion experiences.

The greatest miracle of all is the transformation
of a lost sinner into a child of God by the grace
of God.
That is the miracle that meets the greatest
need, lasts the longest, and costs the greatest
price—the blood of God's Son.

Acts 5:12 ESV
12 Now many signs and wonders were
regularly done among the people by the
hands of the apostles.

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These church members in Acts 5 had seen lame
people leaping and hypocritical people dying
and they well knew that these things were very
real.

In our church, we have seen people
from crippled marriages restored and
other folks with crippled businesses
get back on their feet.
We have also seen the spiritually dead
brought to life, saved and baptized!

That is one miracle we can all participate
in as we share the message of the Gospel,
"the power of God unto salvation to
everyone that believes" (Romans 1:16).
We have a very bright future here at FBCJ,
our best days are yet to be.

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Acts 5:14 ESV
14 And more than ever believers were added to
the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

Here in Acts we see three symbols of the
Holy Spirit:
1. Tongues
2. Fire
3. Wind

Three symbols of the Holy Spirit in
Scripture:
Tongues – proclamation of the truth –
revealing God to men.

The filling by the Holy Spirit is always
linked to theWord of God.
Acts 2:4 tells us that they were all
filled with the Spirit and spoke.

Acts 2:4 ESV
4 And they were all filled with the Holy
Spirit and began to speak in other
tongues as the Spirit gave them
utterance.

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Later in Acts 4, Peter had been called before
the Sanhedrin for healing in the name of Jesus
the 40-year-old man who had been lame from
birth, Peter “filled with the Holy Spirit” – spoke.

Acts 4:8 ESV
8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit,
said to them, “Rulers of the people and
elders

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In the same chapter, it says again, “they
were all filled with the Holy Spirit and
continued to speak theWord of God.”

Acts 4:31 ESV
31 And when they had prayed, the
place in which they were gathered
together was shaken, and they were
all filled with the Holy Spirit and
continued to speak the word of God
with boldness.

Fire – purifying. The judgment of God to
keep the church honest, sincere,
transparent, relevant and free of
hypocrisy.
• Acts 5 – Ananias and Sapphira
• Acts 8 – Simon the Magician

Don’t pretend that you have it all
together.
Those in the world can’t see God healing
us if we hide our problems from them and
then they say, “What a bunch of
hypocrites! I want nothing to do with any
of it.”

Allow them to see God at work in your life.
Let them see that all that is wrong in your
life is brought under God’s judgment so
they see His healing, His purifying, His fire
in our midst!

Three symbols of the Holy Spirit in
Scripture:
1. Tongues
2. Fire
3. Wind

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Wind – His sovereignty to direct our
activity.

Jesus said to Nicodemusin John 3:8;
John 3:8 ESV
8The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear
its sound, but you do not know where it comes
from or where it goes. So it is with everyone
who is born of the Spirit.”

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No one can predict Him.
He blows where He wants to blow.
No one knows where He comes from nor where
He is going.

Dr. Frank Pollard said:
We don’t know when nor from where the
Spirit blows but we can have our sails set
(through instant obedience) so that when
He does blow, we can take advantage of
His wind!

Leave room for the exciting adventure of
the Holy Spirit in your life.
Our worship services should be orderly
and well planned but we should also leave
room for the unpredictable Holy Spirit in
every meeting.

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You can’t plan a tornado –
a mighty rushing wind!

Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV
20 Now to HimWho is able to do far more
abundantly than all that we ask or think,
according to the power at work within us,
21 to Him be glory in the church and in
Christ Jesus throughout all generations,
forever and ever. Amen.

Our planning is limited to what we can ask
or think, He is not limited as we are so
leave room for Him!

Most churches have predictable bulletins,
printed in advance and dig channels for
the flowing of the river of God and then
line those channels with concrete and say,
“Come, oh river of God, and flow through
this channel we’ve made forYou.

Then, to their dismay, there is only a little
trickle that comes down and moves
through.

Francesca Battistelli’s Song:
"Holy Spirit"
There's nothing worth more
That could ever come close
Nothing can compare
You're our living hope
Your presence, Lord

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I've tasted and seen
Of the sweetest of loves
Where my heart becomes free
And my shame is undone
Your presence, Lord

[Chorus:]
Holy Spirit,You are welcome here
Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere.
Your glory, God, is what our hearts long for
To be overcome byYour presence, Lord
Your presence, Lord

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Let us become more aware ofYour presence
Let us experience the glory ofYour Goodness
Francesca Battistelli

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God has the freedom to interfere, the freedom
to override, the right to change our agendas.

Go ahead and plan the number of things
you expect God to do but put a box at the
bottom of that list that says, “NONE OF
THE ABOVE” and that is the box that God
usually checks.

Church growth experts often do surveys
and show what has been successful in the
past with methods and techniques and
gimmicks; then they put those things in
books and sell them for people to study.

The first century church did not have
anything like that to guide them in church
growth.
But they were so very responsive to the
guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Philip was responsive – it says that he
arose and went (ran) to something.
Elijah also ran, but he was running away
from something (Jezebel).
He ran 100 miles and prayed to die.

The first thing God did for Elijah was to
give him a good night’s sleep and two
good meals (physical needs).
Then God took him to a place of deep
emotional attachment – Mt Sinai – where
there were great memories of God’s
power and God’s presence.

As God ministered to Elijah’s soul, He
showed him three great symbols:
1) A great wind
2) A great earthquake
3) A great fire

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But God was not in the wind, nor the
earthquake, nor the fire.

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Then God spoke in a still, small voice to Elijah to
let him know that He was not intending to work
through the things that Elijah expected Him to
work through.

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God said, “No, instead I am going to work
through an awakened consciousness of this
whole land” and that is exactly what He did.

Acts 8 is a hinge of history because it is a
turning point in the book of Acts.
Stephen is martyred in chapter 7 and the
persecution is so severe in Jerusalem that
most all of the Christians left town.

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Although it looked to them as if everything was
falling apart; in reality, in God’s perfect plan,
everything was falling into place (as we also see
happening in our day).

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In Acts 1:8 Jesus had told His followers that
“you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the
earth.”

The persecution forced them into the
areas where Jesus had predicted that they
would be His witnesses.
Philip was one of the original seven
deacons selected in Acts 6.

Acts 6:2-6 ESV
2 And the twelve summoned the full
number of the disciples and said,
“It is not right that we should give up
preaching the word of God to serve tables.

3Therefore, brothers, pick out from
among you seven men of good repute, full
of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will
appoint to this duty. 4 But we will devote
ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of
the word.”

5 And what they said pleased the
whole gathering, and they chose
Stephen, a man full of faith and of the
Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus,
and Nicanor, andTimon, & Parmenas,
and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.

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6These they set before the apostles, and
they prayed and laid their hands on them.
Acts 6:2-6 ESV

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Jon Courson's
NT Application Commentary

In Acts 8:27 Philip arose and went to Gaza
in instant obedience.
He went down to the desert – without
saying, “what about the book signing? I’m
so influential up here.There’s nothing
down there.”

God often doesn’t give you the full story up front.
He just wants you to do step 1 first.
He may not show you step 2 until you do step 1.
We want Him to show us steps 2,3 and 4; then
maybe we will consider doing step 1.

That’s not how it works.
That’s one reason why the Christian life is so
exciting.
He doesn’t show you the whole thing at once.
You just have to be obedient.

Dr.ThomasWatson experimented with
caterpillars.
He took a large pot full of dirt and plants that
caterpillars like to eat and placed lots of
caterpillars – one next to the other – all around
the rim of the pot and they began to move.

Each caterpillar following the one in front
of him and they went around and around
and around until each one of them finally
died of starvation.

They were all within reach of caterpillar
goodies to eat but did not partake
because they assumed that the caterpillar
in front of him knew where he was going.
Each one thought that the one in front of
him was the leader.

Just like us (we go round and round and round),
life is like a merry-go-round for many without
the merry.
You just go round and round in circles.
So, what’s the problem?

Why should I go to the desert?
And you just keep going in circles – year after
year after year until you feel like you are dying.
Could it be that the Lord spoke to you at some
point and said, “Go to the desert!”

But you didn’t go because it did not make
any sense to you at the time.
You didn’t go, you missed the adventure
and you ended up going round and round
and round, following the caterpillar in
front of you.

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The key to the exciting, impacting Christian life
is instant obedience.

John 14:21 ESV
21Whoever has My commandments and
keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he
who loves Me will be loved by My Father,
and I will love him and manifest (disclose)
Myself to him.

When you hear the Lord’s voice or feel the
pull of the Holy Spirit – you go!
You just do it!
It is not foolishness nor being weird
(Freddy).

When you know that God is telling you to
share with someone or take on some
project or do something practical but then
you ask, “How am I going to pay for this?”
or “What if this or that happens?”

Philip didn’t do that, he arose
immediately and went and heard the
eunuch reading Isaiah the prophet.
The eunuch was the second most
powerful official in Ethiopia.

He was a God-fearer and his heart was still
hungry after going to Jerusalem and
seeing the ritualism and the traditionalism
and people observing the Law.
He still wanted more so God sent Philip
and the eunuch took the Gospel to
Ethiopia!

God had already been using Philip in
Samaria in a powerful way and now called
him to go all the way down to Gaza to talk
with this lone Ethiopian whom the Father
saw was searching and hungering.

God will do whatever it takes to reach a
person who is hungering for Him and
desires to know Him.
How is God going to reach the unreached
people groups?

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If their hearts are hungry – God will reach them
and He gives us the opportunity (opportunity)
to be involved in His business!

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If God lays someone on your heart – you need
to be the one to go and tell them about Him.

This Ethiopian with a hungry heart wanted
to know God and the Father prompted
him to go to Jerusalem where he saw the
vanity and the traditions and hypocrisy
and left empty so then God told Philip,
“You go down to Gaza.”

Philip goes and it was God’s plan in God’s timing
to reach one person, one Ethiopian.
The Spirit told Philip to go near to the man and
the Bible says that Philip “ran” to join him.
He did not say, “Oh well, OK.”
No, he ran!

It is wonderful to see someone full of
enthusiasm and excited about ministry,
service and obedience.
Enthusiasm means full of God.

EnTheos = full of God.
An enthusiastic Christian is one who is full
of God, full of the Holy Spirit!

2Timothy 1:6-7 ESV
6 For this reason I remind you to fan
into flame the gift of God, which is in
you through the laying on of my
hands, 7 for God gave us a spirit not of
fear but of power and love and self-
control.

1Thessalonians 5:19 ESV
19 Do not quench the Spirit.
(Quench is the opposite of enthusiastic.)

Philip is a good example of enthusiasm
personified.
He runs to this fellow and asks, “Do you
understand what you are reading?”
The Ethiopian replies, “How can I except
someone guide me?”

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He invites Philip to come sit with him.

The eunuch read, “Led as a sheep before
shearers. Who shall declare His
generation? His life was taken from the
earth.”
The Ethiopian asked Philip, “Who is this
talking about?”

Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the
same Scripture and preached unto him, Jesus
(from OT).
Not Judaism - but Jesus!
Not denominationalism - but Jesus!
Not water baptism - but Jesus!

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As they went their way he came to some water
and said, “See, here is water. What keeps me
from being baptized?”

Philip replied, “If you believe with all of your
heart, you may.”
Simon the magician believed in his head.
Philip says to the Ethiopian, “If you believe with
all of your heart. If you really believe, you can
be baptized.”

And he said, “I do believe that Jesus is the
Son of God” so he commanded the chariot
to stand still and they both went down
into the water (for full immersion, not a jar
full of water to sprinkle with).
Then they came up out of the water.

Immersion is the best way to be baptized.
You are buried and resurrected saying “I am
perfectly forgiven.”
Cleansed!
He was ready, having seen Jerusalem and the
emptiness there.

Jon Courson was baptizing folks in the
Jordan River and some bystanders from
Hungary were curiously watching what
was happening.
They told one of his friends that your
pastor takes this baptism thing very
seriously.

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They had seen ceremonial baptisms that did
not seem to convey as much meaning.

They had been to Jerusalem and had left
somewhat empty and when they saw
something real on the faces of the people
being baptized, they knew that it was not
just something ritualistic nor traditional
but that it was dynamic and real.

They asked, “Can we be baptized?”
They were introduced to Jon and
conversed with him through two different
translators.

Jon spoke in English which was translated into
Hebrew which was translated into Hungarian
because Jon wanted to make sure that they
knew what they were doing.
He thinks they understood.
Yes, we want to be baptized!

The Ethiopian wanted more than religion.
Religion means - ligate/bind.
He went down into the water and when they
came out of the water the Spirit caught away
Philip and the eunuch saw him no more and
goes on his way rejoicing (not because he would
not see Philip any longer.)

He was rejoicing in the fact that his sins
are forgiven, he is going to Heaven, he has
a reason for living and a fresh start in life.
He was celebrating!

Here he was, struggling in the Scriptures,
he was on a pilgrimage to the Holy City,
still empty - but now he finds his heart
rejoicing.
When a person really understands the
Gospel – the Good News – it is thrilling!

So Philip went about preaching (back to
his normal routine), then settled in
Caesarea and raised four daughters who
all became prophetesses - right on the
beach.

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Initially Philip was serving tables, then he
became a significant evangelist in Samaria.

First he is a deacon, then an evangelist of
real effectiveness, then goes on from
there and does some personal work – out
of the limelight – one on one ministry with
the Ethiopian and then he finds himself
raising a family.

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You will go through different seasons of
ministry at different times in your life.

In your walk with the Lord there will be
times when you are serving tables, then
God may use you more publicly -
dynamically - or it may be a season of
private one on one work of hospitality,
ministering away from the lime light.

Then God may have you focusing on the family
(good name for a ministry).
Philip found himself flowing – thrilled and
enthusiastic at each stage.
Wherever he was – glowing for the Lord –
flowing for the Lord.

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No agenda of his own, just growing and flowing
and glowing.

Acts 21:8-9 ESV
8 On the next day we departed and came
to Caesarea, and we entered the house of
Philip the evangelist, who was one of the
seven, and stayed with him. 9 He had four
unmarried daughters, who prophesied.

If you feel you are not being used as much as
you once were or want to be or you ask
yourself, “When will I ever have time with my
family?” Or find yourself serving obscurely or
doing menial tasks – know this – to everything
there is a time and a season and a purpose.

There’s a time for ministering.
There’s a time for prioritizing the family.
There’s a time for ministering in the quiet ways.
There’s a time to be used in more radical ways.

You don’t have to be bummed or burdened and
find yourself saying, “I should be doing more or
I should be doing less.”
You just go with the flow – you walk with the
Lord one step at a time and you’ll find yourself
where you should be – just obey Him.

John 14:21 ESV
21Whoever has My commandments and
keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he
who loves Me will be loved by my Father,
and I will love him and manifest (show
more) Myself to him.”

Don’t set your own agenda.
Don’t be a caterpillar, circling indefinitely,
stavring to death!
Just respond to what He is saying to you.

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The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NKJV
16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have everlasting life.”
John 14:6 NKJV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Romans 3:23 NKJV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NKJV
23 For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death, died
in this life to pay the penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second
death explained in Revelation 21:8.

Revelation 21:8 NKJV
8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable,
murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and
all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns
with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Romans 6:23 NKJV
23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Revelation 21:7 NKJV
7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will
be his God and he shall be My son.”
•Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how become an
overcomer.

Romans 10:9-10 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:13 NKJV
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be
saved.”

If you have questions or would like to know more,
Please, contact First Baptist Church Jackson at
601-949-1900 or http://firstbaptistjackson.org/contact/

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