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Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 18:18-28
Open your Bibles to Acts as we continue our series called “Unstoppable.” For the few past weeks we’ve been studying the second missionary journey of the Apostle Paul. He spent his first missionary journey in the area of Asia Minor, which is modern-day Turkey. Now he’s moved to Macedonia, which is modern-day Greece. God Himself called Paul to go there through a vision in which he saw a Macedonian man asking him to come to them.
Today we’ll look at the transition between Paul’s second missionary journey and his third, and in this section we’ll learn some important truths about who we are. Albert Einstein said that once we stop learning, we start dying. He was a pretty smart dude and was right about this. It’s true for those who are students, but it’s especially apropos for us as followers of Jesus Christ. That’s because we have the privilege of knowing and being in relationship with the God of the universe. He has revealed Himself not only through His creation, but also through His Word and through His Son, Jesus Christ. For this reason, every day we have the opportunity to know more and more about our Lord and Savior, about the God Who has loved us and saved us despite our sin and failings.
We should long for this. It’s what theologians call the process of sanctification—becoming more like Jesus every day. The second we stop becoming more like Him, we start to die spiritually. But as we become like Him, we die instead to ourselves, to our sins. our temptations, and the distractions that would keep us from Him.
Even though Einstein wasn’t a believer, he understood that if we stop learning, we start dying. What we’ll see today is that the process of sanctification is a lifelong process. It will go on until we see Jesus Christ face to face. But there are times when we can think we’ve graduated from learning. Some of us think we no longer have to go to class. Yet as we’ll see ...
Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 18:18-28
Open your Bibles to Acts as we continue our series called “Unstoppable.” For the few past weeks we’ve been studying the second missionary journey of the Apostle Paul. He spent his first missionary journey in the area of Asia Minor, which is modern-day Turkey. Now he’s moved to Macedonia, which is modern-day Greece. God Himself called Paul to go there through a vision in which he saw a Macedonian man asking him to come to them.
Today we’ll look at the transition between Paul’s second missionary journey and his third, and in this section we’ll learn some important truths about who we are. Albert Einstein said that once we stop learning, we start dying. He was a pretty smart dude and was right about this. It’s true for those who are students, but it’s especially apropos for us as followers of Jesus Christ. That’s because we have the privilege of knowing and being in relationship with the God of the universe. He has revealed Himself not only through His creation, but also through His Word and through His Son, Jesus Christ. For this reason, every day we have the opportunity to know more and more about our Lord and Savior, about the God Who has loved us and saved us despite our sin and failings.
We should long for this. It’s what theologians call the process of sanctification—becoming more like Jesus every day. The second we stop becoming more like Him, we start to die spiritually. But as we become like Him, we die instead to ourselves, to our sins. our temptations, and the distractions that would keep us from Him.
Even though Einstein wasn’t a believer, he understood that if we stop learning, we start dying. What we’ll see today is that the process of sanctification is a lifelong process. It will go on until we see Jesus Christ face to face. But there are times when we can think we’ve graduated from learning. Some of us think we no longer have to go to class. Yet as we’ll see ...
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