THE GOSPEL ON TRIAL (20 OF 26)
Scripture: Acts 21:17-40, Acts 22:1-22
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The Gospel on Trial (20 of 26)
Series: How the Church ACTS
Jordan Easley
Acts 21:17-22:22
Once upon a time... we came into this room and we opened our Bibles to Acts chapter 1... and since that moment, we've been walking through this incredible book and talking about the pattern of success in this thing called the Church.
And I want you to remember... It all started with Jesus...
• We began (Acts 1) by seeing the resurrected Christ present the Great Commission to the church... and then we saw Him ascend into the clouds.
• We witnessed 10 days of prayer concluding at the Day of Pentecost (in Acts 2)-when the Holy Spirit fell on the church and gave them the gift of communicating the Gospel to everyone present that day.
• We've seen Peter (a fisherman) be used by God; healing and preaching the Gospel despite the persecution he faced because of his faith.
• In Acts 7, Stephen was murdered because of his faith in Christ.
• In Acts 8, we see Saul, leading the charge in persecuting the church
• But then in (Acts 9) we see Saul become Paul after the scales fell off of his eyes... and he finally realized that Jesus truly was the Messiah.
Since then we've seen God use Paul in a powerful way-As of last week, he completed his third missionary journey.
I want you to think about that: In 3 missionary journeys, Paul would have traveled over 10,000 miles, preaching and teaching and healing in the name of Jesus.
In the final leg of his third missionary journey, the Lord revealed to Paul that he was supposed to go to Jerusalem. What made that difficult was the fact that EVERYONE... and I mean EVERYONE was telling Paul not to go.
His friends in Ephesus and the church leaders in Miletus... the disciples he stayed with in Tyre... even Luke (the author of this book) and Paul's other traveling companions on this journey... Everyone was saying, ''Don't go to Jerusalem!''
Why? Because it was dangerous. It would be difficult. The Holy Spirit had warn ...
Series: How the Church ACTS
Jordan Easley
Acts 21:17-22:22
Once upon a time... we came into this room and we opened our Bibles to Acts chapter 1... and since that moment, we've been walking through this incredible book and talking about the pattern of success in this thing called the Church.
And I want you to remember... It all started with Jesus...
• We began (Acts 1) by seeing the resurrected Christ present the Great Commission to the church... and then we saw Him ascend into the clouds.
• We witnessed 10 days of prayer concluding at the Day of Pentecost (in Acts 2)-when the Holy Spirit fell on the church and gave them the gift of communicating the Gospel to everyone present that day.
• We've seen Peter (a fisherman) be used by God; healing and preaching the Gospel despite the persecution he faced because of his faith.
• In Acts 7, Stephen was murdered because of his faith in Christ.
• In Acts 8, we see Saul, leading the charge in persecuting the church
• But then in (Acts 9) we see Saul become Paul after the scales fell off of his eyes... and he finally realized that Jesus truly was the Messiah.
Since then we've seen God use Paul in a powerful way-As of last week, he completed his third missionary journey.
I want you to think about that: In 3 missionary journeys, Paul would have traveled over 10,000 miles, preaching and teaching and healing in the name of Jesus.
In the final leg of his third missionary journey, the Lord revealed to Paul that he was supposed to go to Jerusalem. What made that difficult was the fact that EVERYONE... and I mean EVERYONE was telling Paul not to go.
His friends in Ephesus and the church leaders in Miletus... the disciples he stayed with in Tyre... even Luke (the author of this book) and Paul's other traveling companions on this journey... Everyone was saying, ''Don't go to Jerusalem!''
Why? Because it was dangerous. It would be difficult. The Holy Spirit had warn ...
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