Breaking New Ground (2 of 26)
Series: How the Church ACTS
Jordan Easley
Acts 11
Have you ever been to a 'groundbreaking' ceremony? Typically, when you launch something new or prepare to build a new building, you have a groundbreaking ceremony. That's the moment that symbolically represents the beginning of a brand-new season.
That term 'groundbreaking' was initially a farming term. For thousands of years, farmers would till the soil-they would break through the hard ground-in preparation for planting new seed.
So, a groundbreaking-is preparing for a new season.
Throughout the history of the church, God has demonstrated a pattern of 'breaking new ground.'
When His people get calloused... when their hearts get hardened... when His children become blinded to the reality of their own spiritual pride or worldly sin...
...God is known for 'tilling the soil' and 'breaking up the ground'-and every time He does that-it's in preparation for a new crop to be planted and a new harvest to be reaped.
We're going to see an example of God doing just that in Acts chapter 11 this morning. The Jewish Christians of the early church had gotten to a place where they felt spiritually superior because they were in fact God's chosen people.
They were the circumcised people who (as they thought) had the exclusive path to having a relationship with God... and they misunderstood their uniqueness, as superiority compared to the rest of the world.
So, you can just imagine what they were thinking when they heard about Peter sharing the Gospel with Gentiles. I'm sure their heads exploded when they heard that Gentiles (the uncircumcised)-believed, were baptized and were filled with the Holy Spirit.
That was unheard of... and that's where we're picking up this morning. Acts 11-These Jewish Christians are preparing to confront Peter.
[Acts 11:1-17] The apostles and the brothers and sisters who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received ...
Series: How the Church ACTS
Jordan Easley
Acts 11
Have you ever been to a 'groundbreaking' ceremony? Typically, when you launch something new or prepare to build a new building, you have a groundbreaking ceremony. That's the moment that symbolically represents the beginning of a brand-new season.
That term 'groundbreaking' was initially a farming term. For thousands of years, farmers would till the soil-they would break through the hard ground-in preparation for planting new seed.
So, a groundbreaking-is preparing for a new season.
Throughout the history of the church, God has demonstrated a pattern of 'breaking new ground.'
When His people get calloused... when their hearts get hardened... when His children become blinded to the reality of their own spiritual pride or worldly sin...
...God is known for 'tilling the soil' and 'breaking up the ground'-and every time He does that-it's in preparation for a new crop to be planted and a new harvest to be reaped.
We're going to see an example of God doing just that in Acts chapter 11 this morning. The Jewish Christians of the early church had gotten to a place where they felt spiritually superior because they were in fact God's chosen people.
They were the circumcised people who (as they thought) had the exclusive path to having a relationship with God... and they misunderstood their uniqueness, as superiority compared to the rest of the world.
So, you can just imagine what they were thinking when they heard about Peter sharing the Gospel with Gentiles. I'm sure their heads exploded when they heard that Gentiles (the uncircumcised)-believed, were baptized and were filled with the Holy Spirit.
That was unheard of... and that's where we're picking up this morning. Acts 11-These Jewish Christians are preparing to confront Peter.
[Acts 11:1-17] The apostles and the brothers and sisters who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received ...
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