PAUL PREACHES THE GOSPEL (30 OF 56)
Scripture: Acts 13:13-41
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Paul Preaches the Gospel (30 of 56)
Series: Acts 13:13-41
Wyman Richardson
Acts 13:13-41
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Preaching sermons is like raising children: everybody is an expert on it until they actually have to do it.
Gordon MacDonald said of one sermon he preached, ''The sermon was so bad that I asked someone else to give the benediction while I left the building, ran home, and spent the afternoon in the fetal position trying to forget I'd preached that morning.'' Matt Chandler said, ''I have my first sermon on my computer, and it's painful, all of it-exegeses, application, flow of thought, illustrations, theology-it was a train wreck of epic proportions...'' The Apostle Paul once preached Eutychus to death (Acts 20:7-12)!
Indeed, somebody once said that nowhere is the power of the gospel more evident than in the fact that it survives its own preaching. This is likely true! Even so, there is power in the gospel proclaimed. Acts can almost be seen as a chronicle of powerful sermons preached. Among those, the sermon recorded in our text is one of the greatest. Here we are privileged to witness the first sermon that Paul ever preached. This is his inaugural sermon in a ministry that would inspire the ages to come even to our current day.
In our text, Paul, Barnabas, and some others travel to Antioch at Pisidia, a city that, New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III points out, ''is not necessarily the most obvious choice for the next place to evangelize.'' It may be the case that they traveled there because the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus, who Paul had led to Christ earlier in the first part of our chapter, had family there who owned a massive estate in the area. That is, they likely had strategic connections in the area and so they made their journey and took the gospel to this region.
13 Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem, 14 but they went on from Per ...
Series: Acts 13:13-41
Wyman Richardson
Acts 13:13-41
Read Acts 13:13-41
Preaching sermons is like raising children: everybody is an expert on it until they actually have to do it.
Gordon MacDonald said of one sermon he preached, ''The sermon was so bad that I asked someone else to give the benediction while I left the building, ran home, and spent the afternoon in the fetal position trying to forget I'd preached that morning.'' Matt Chandler said, ''I have my first sermon on my computer, and it's painful, all of it-exegeses, application, flow of thought, illustrations, theology-it was a train wreck of epic proportions...'' The Apostle Paul once preached Eutychus to death (Acts 20:7-12)!
Indeed, somebody once said that nowhere is the power of the gospel more evident than in the fact that it survives its own preaching. This is likely true! Even so, there is power in the gospel proclaimed. Acts can almost be seen as a chronicle of powerful sermons preached. Among those, the sermon recorded in our text is one of the greatest. Here we are privileged to witness the first sermon that Paul ever preached. This is his inaugural sermon in a ministry that would inspire the ages to come even to our current day.
In our text, Paul, Barnabas, and some others travel to Antioch at Pisidia, a city that, New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III points out, ''is not necessarily the most obvious choice for the next place to evangelize.'' It may be the case that they traveled there because the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus, who Paul had led to Christ earlier in the first part of our chapter, had family there who owned a massive estate in the area. That is, they likely had strategic connections in the area and so they made their journey and took the gospel to this region.
13 Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem, 14 but they went on from Per ...
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