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Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 21:15-26
Let's turn to Acts 21 as we continue in our series ''Unstoppable,'' where we're seeing God's mission moving in the life of the Apostle Paul, his companions and the early church. We must also realize that God's unstoppable work didn't stop with them. God is at work in our communities and homes and lives as well. If we're not seeing that, it's not because God has gone on furlough or vacation. Rather, it means we're missing what God is doing in and through His Word and His Spirit today. If we're not seeing this, we need to ask ourselves why not? This morning we're going to look at a way to position ourselves to see God moving in wondrous ways.
For the last five or six chapters in Acts, we've been following Paul's missionary journeys. In this chapter he is at the end of his third missionary journey. In all his travels, his focus was on proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost world. He had gone to cities primarily in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and Macedonia (modern-day Greece). Some of these cities were prominent and others were smaller, but he proclaimed the gospel in all of them. In most of these cities there were people who opposed his ministry and rejected the gospel message. But in each case, there were always some, at least a few, who called upon the name of the Lord and were saved. As a result, Paul established churches in each city, then on return journeys he would often revisit these places to strengthen them so the gospel would continue to be spread.
On his third journey, Paul had two goals. He went to the existing churches to encourage them, but he also was collecting offerings from the Gentile churches to bring back to the church in Jerusalem that was very needy because they were going through a significant famine. Paul saw this as a great opportunity to unite Gentiles and Jews together, showing the Jews who used to consider the Gentiles to be less than dogs th ...
Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 21:15-26
Let's turn to Acts 21 as we continue in our series ''Unstoppable,'' where we're seeing God's mission moving in the life of the Apostle Paul, his companions and the early church. We must also realize that God's unstoppable work didn't stop with them. God is at work in our communities and homes and lives as well. If we're not seeing that, it's not because God has gone on furlough or vacation. Rather, it means we're missing what God is doing in and through His Word and His Spirit today. If we're not seeing this, we need to ask ourselves why not? This morning we're going to look at a way to position ourselves to see God moving in wondrous ways.
For the last five or six chapters in Acts, we've been following Paul's missionary journeys. In this chapter he is at the end of his third missionary journey. In all his travels, his focus was on proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost world. He had gone to cities primarily in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and Macedonia (modern-day Greece). Some of these cities were prominent and others were smaller, but he proclaimed the gospel in all of them. In most of these cities there were people who opposed his ministry and rejected the gospel message. But in each case, there were always some, at least a few, who called upon the name of the Lord and were saved. As a result, Paul established churches in each city, then on return journeys he would often revisit these places to strengthen them so the gospel would continue to be spread.
On his third journey, Paul had two goals. He went to the existing churches to encourage them, but he also was collecting offerings from the Gentile churches to bring back to the church in Jerusalem that was very needy because they were going through a significant famine. Paul saw this as a great opportunity to unite Gentiles and Jews together, showing the Jews who used to consider the Gentiles to be less than dogs th ...
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