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September 25th 2022
Series: The Book of Acts
Sermon Title: God can work through ANYONE!
Topic: Journey through the book of Acts.
Key Passages: Acts 11: 19-30, Acts 7:59
Sermon Blurb: Everyone goes through good times, and bad times.
We all have conflicts with other people at times.
We see the same thing in the early church.
In this message, we also see how they processed through that.
Sermon:
Well, hello everyone!
Family Moment
Believe it or not this will be our LAST sermon in the book of Acts this year!
Some of you might wonder why because we have been in the book of Acts for the last 5 months!
And if you were here last week we only got ½ way through chapter 11….which means we are not even ½ done with the book of Acts!
PAUSE
So why are we done after today……
Well because every October we pause whatever series we are in to focus on missions!
October is mission’s month!!!
But this year we are going to shake things up!
This year we are investing two months in missions!
Most of you probably don’t remember but earlier this year we told you that Pastor Kevin Harney was going to do some coaching with Pastor Adam and Pastor Bob.
Well….
That coaching has been going on all year, you might remember Pastor Adam was out at Pastor Kevin’s church in California in August.
And Pastor Kevin just wrote an AWESOME book
And he asked us to be a church that would walk through the major takeaways from that book this year.
So we are going to spend the next two months doing that and Pastor Kevin will be here in the middle of that series to do a teaching for us as well!
PAUSE
Then like always at Family Church the month of December will be focused on Christmas and Jesus.
PAUSE
So now you know what is going on from now until the end of the year!
PAUSE
So let’s shift back to today…...
Grab your Bible and open it up to Acts 11
New Person Bible Talk
App Talk
If you are new or newer to Family Church, we are so happy you are here today!
Let me catch you up just a little bit.
We are on a journey through one of the books in our Bibles called Acts.
We will continue that journey next year.
The book of Acts is a GREAT book for churches and Christians to study because it is all about how the early church operated.
PAUSE
As we have walked through the book of Acts we have seen good times for the church and hard times for the church.
Just like we all have GREAT seasons of life….
And hard seasons of life.
And today we are going to see the church on the heals of growth and great things…which we have been talking about that story for 3 weeks….
Now the church heads into a hard season….
PAUSE
And so here is what I want to do today.
I want us to read the rest of this chapter and then I want to rewind in the book of Acts….
Remind you all of something…..
And then re-read it and show you all something…..
So Acts 11….starting at verse 19
Acts 11: 19 - 30 19 Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews.
20 Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.
21 The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.
22 News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
23 When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts.
24 He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
25 Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, 26 and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch.
So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people.
The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
27 During this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
28 One of them, named Agabus, stood up and through the Spirit predicted that a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world.
(This happened during the reign of Claudius.)
29 The disciples, as each one was able, decided to provide help for the brothers and sisters living in Judea.
30 This they did, sending their gift to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.
Thus ends chapter 11.
Go back to verse 19 and then I will re-wind in remind us all of some things to give context
19 Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews.
Stop there…..
Does anyone remember in what chapter of Acts Stephen was killed?
Chapter 7.
Now let me remind you some things about Stephen….
Stephen was a REGULAR guy like you and me.
He was not one of the close followers of Jesus when he lived on earth.
He was a regular dude.
A regular guy who loved God.
A regular guy who had faith.
A regular guy who was filled with God’s Spirit.
So, he was nothing special.
He had NO advantage in life over any person in this room when it comes to spirituality.
He was NOT a Pastor, or Rabbi or Elder….
He was just a regular guy following Jesus and doing what Jesus told him to do and Jesus was moving through him in mighty ways.
And because of the ways God moved in his life….
He ended up being killed by the Jewish leaders.
PAUSE
But flip back to chapter 7 and I want to remind us of something POWERFUL in Stephen’s death…..
In the midst of being killed……Stephen prayed…
In the midst of being pelted with stones…..Stephen prayed….
And I am going to read this prayer slowly….because it is sooooo humbling to me as a Pastor and I hope it is to you as well….
Acts 7:59 “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
He says, God…..I am yours….
God, here I come!
God, I know this is the end!
God, receive my spirit….
60 Then he fell on his knees and cried out, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.”
When he had said this, he fell asleep.
He ends his life….by
forgiving…..
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