MARTYRS, MISSIONARIES AND ME: DOING GOD'S WILL WITHOUT FEAR (15 OF 22)
by Tim Badal
Scripture: Acts 21:1-14
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Martyrs, Missionaries and Me: Doing God's Will Without Fear (15 of 22)
Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 21:1-14
Turn with me to Acts again this morning. We're in our series called ''Unstoppable,'' which looks at the second part of Acts where we've seen God's unstoppable work, not only in the people who were themselves followers of Jesus Christ, but also the unstoppable impact of the gospel throughout the world. In particular we've seen this in the journeys of Paul and his companions as they traveled through Macedonia, Asia and Greece, where he proclaimed Christ to a lost world.
We've also seen how people came to know Jesus and how churches were established and then began to impact the culture around them. Today we're in Acts 21, where we find a passage that is challenging and has a lot of different implications. Depending on how we view this text, we can come up with different conclusions.
I will tell you that putting together an outline for this sermon took probably longer than any other outline I've done. I'd scratch down some ideas, then I'd rip them off the notepad and start again, but I'm confident that what I've ended with will help us find truth and application from this part of God's Word. We'll see several different things taking place in these verses and have a lot of questions, because it appears that God was giving contradictory instructions. The people of God seemed to have one idea, while Paul had a completely different understanding of what God wanted for him. But both believed the Spirit of Almighty God was directing them. How are we here in the 21st century to understand God's will when we hear competing ideas about His will? How can we verify that it's God's voice we're hearing?
What do Polycarp, John Paton, Jim Elliot, John Chau and Christians today have in common? The lives of these men spanned 2,000 years across very different places, yet we have far more in common with them than we realize. The number one thing we ...
Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 21:1-14
Turn with me to Acts again this morning. We're in our series called ''Unstoppable,'' which looks at the second part of Acts where we've seen God's unstoppable work, not only in the people who were themselves followers of Jesus Christ, but also the unstoppable impact of the gospel throughout the world. In particular we've seen this in the journeys of Paul and his companions as they traveled through Macedonia, Asia and Greece, where he proclaimed Christ to a lost world.
We've also seen how people came to know Jesus and how churches were established and then began to impact the culture around them. Today we're in Acts 21, where we find a passage that is challenging and has a lot of different implications. Depending on how we view this text, we can come up with different conclusions.
I will tell you that putting together an outline for this sermon took probably longer than any other outline I've done. I'd scratch down some ideas, then I'd rip them off the notepad and start again, but I'm confident that what I've ended with will help us find truth and application from this part of God's Word. We'll see several different things taking place in these verses and have a lot of questions, because it appears that God was giving contradictory instructions. The people of God seemed to have one idea, while Paul had a completely different understanding of what God wanted for him. But both believed the Spirit of Almighty God was directing them. How are we here in the 21st century to understand God's will when we hear competing ideas about His will? How can we verify that it's God's voice we're hearing?
What do Polycarp, John Paton, Jim Elliot, John Chau and Christians today have in common? The lives of these men spanned 2,000 years across very different places, yet we have far more in common with them than we realize. The number one thing we ...
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