COULD A CHANCE ENCOUNTER CHANGE YOUR LIFE?
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Acts 8:2, Acts 8:4, Acts 8:6-8, Acts 8:26-27, Acts 8:29, 28
Could a Chance Encounter Change Your Life?
Scott Maze
Acts 8:4-8; 26-40
We love to tell the ''before and after'' stories. Weight loss - I lost 100 pounds! Before and after for dental cosmetics commercials. Rogaine - I have hair! Or look at this one: meet my wife's first husband (show picture of younger me) -:). Acts loves to tell ''before and after'' stories as well. Only they are conversion stories. Acts loves to highlight the changes in our lives that are not physical but spiritual and moral. This morning I want to speak to you about this: Can a Chance Encounter Change Your Life?
''Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. 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.
Mysteriously, God moves Philip from a place of great success to a desert, of all places.
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 befo ...
Scott Maze
Acts 8:4-8; 26-40
We love to tell the ''before and after'' stories. Weight loss - I lost 100 pounds! Before and after for dental cosmetics commercials. Rogaine - I have hair! Or look at this one: meet my wife's first husband (show picture of younger me) -:). Acts loves to tell ''before and after'' stories as well. Only they are conversion stories. Acts loves to highlight the changes in our lives that are not physical but spiritual and moral. This morning I want to speak to you about this: Can a Chance Encounter Change Your Life?
''Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. 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.
Mysteriously, God moves Philip from a place of great success to a desert, of all places.
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 befo ...
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