Sermon Tone Analysis

Read Acts chapter 13.

Now.

We sang something.

Great Is Thy Faithfulness.

We're going to be talkin in this first part today.

Again, this is Paul Sermon, we're breaking into three parts but this first part is talking about how God keep his keeps.

His promises of the Lord is the Lord is faithful to keep his promises.

He never, he never doesn't keep his promise.

There's not a time when he's not faithful to you.

And I it's really, really one of the promises that that is a guarantee to us that we know that he'll always be faithful and and and when we think about the faithfulness of God, it comes to the love of God because well He planned this out from the very beginning of time and the way he would love us and adore us and planned it out from the very beginning that we would that are since we paid for by a loving Savior by Christ, you would come and walk on this Earth and give his life for us until this first part of the passes that were in today will be.

It's it's Old Testament and it's speaking to the fact of what God had planned and it how he showed those signs along the way and gave us pictures of exactly what the promise would be and how it would be fulfilled in.

And all the things along the came up with, with the Messiah coming, but in the middle of this, we just need to be reminded really quickly cuz this is a spirit empowered man.

Going out and spreading the good news of the Gospel.

This is it, this is a man Paul who is going with Barnabas, we saw him last week, they were in Cyprus this week, they moved along this week.

We'll look at that in just a second, but we've seen how it began in the very beginning of act, one with the spirits poured out, when we see the spirit poured out upon the people of the that believe upon the disciples on the apostles and then how it pours out in Jerusalem.

And then it goes out from there, to the Samaritans, and it goes out from there to the Gentiles.

And and, and as it goes out the, the war continues to spread as I don't think we want to miss that.

Part of it, that this isn't just a continuation on that.

We're not like, it's not a totally different story.

It's not a different spirit.

It's the same spirit that dwells inside you, and I are the same one that drives Paul on this day to open his mouth and say what he says.

I'll leave doing is telling about his God.

All he's doing is telling the story of the one who saved him.

The one who kept his promises and he's laying out.

The story in front of these people on this day and this synagogue that some might come to know him.

It's a calling, they be placed on Paul's life but it's a calling that he's placed on our lives as well.

With the spirit of God dwelling inside of us.

This is the life that we live that, as we are going that we spread the fan of who, our Lord is because well, we know he's good.

We we've experienced the we we we know, we know, we know him, if we have a relationship with him, if if we repent and believe and live that life repentance and Faith, he is in, brought us to this place, not for ourselves.

But for his good Mercy.

A man, his he showed us some mercy.

When you can't help.

But look at those judges.

And we went through those judges and where we got today and the Very depravity of our hearts.

At the very core of who you and I are apart from Jesus Christ.

That's who we are.

We lead ourselves away from anything, even looking a resembling, the god of creator of the heavens and the Earth.

But empowered by him.

So, this morning of my prayer is that we would understand more of the death of the love of Our Lord for us, that he planned this from the very foundation of the world.

So let's just jump into verse 13.

Now, they visit to that.

They think a visit to the synagogue which we all know I'm from last week is kind of the pattern that we're going to see the starting in verse 13 says now Paul and his companions set sail from set sail from Pathos and came to virga in Penfield Celia and John left them and returned to Jerusalem but they went on from purga and came to Antioch in pisidia and on the Sabbath day they went from the synagogue sat down after the reading from the laws and the prophets.

The rulers of the synagogue, send a message to them saying, Brothers, if you have any words of encouragement to, for the people, Say it.

Okay, so they leave Cypress.

They go to Parker and which is in what we know today is turkey, they end up end up in Antioch in pisidia which is little further away.

But I wanted to kind of give you where it is.

Just kind of a picture in your head.

It is a hundred miles away and it's over a mountain range.

To get from one place to the next cuz sometimes we just kind of missed, at least in my mind.

It's like, you know, when they're in Chapter 13, still I just take them, they went from one door to another, you know, needs cuz like anyway or they just took a little trip, you know, they get on a plane and they just, you know, they're there the next day and it's no big deal.

It's, it's a hundred miles over a mountain range.

Listen to this.

And said, the route was bearing often flooded by swollen Mountain Streams notorious for its Bandits, which even the Romans had difficulty breathing under control.

Antioch itself was in the highlands.

Some 3,600 ft above sea level.

So this is this is not just like a hey, let's just go over here real quick and we'll get there and let you know in an hour.

This is a hundred miles away through mountains to a high location.

I don't know them.

It just spoke of the links that they are willing to go to be obedient to what God's told them to do.

There's no place that they won't go.

There's no place that their feet cannot go.

That they won't be obedient to.

If the Lord opens the door, if the Lord guides they will go There's no debate about it.

They simply just go from one place to the next again and during any of the synagogue's point in their life.

In the people, we talked about it last week, they're going into the synagogue's cuz those are the people who will they know scripture.

They've heard it at least before so it's a good place to start.

We know it's not where they finish every time but it's where they start in a synagogue is more than just, you know, I got a place to just gather that have church so to speak.

It's like a way of life.

It's it's it's the way you know people.

It's the way you you do, you do snails and you do everything kind of threw this community, that is built around a synagogue.

They started their, they could easily kind of expand out into the neighborhood into the city Itself by using the synagogue's.

So that's what Paul is doing.

And what's really need to me in these vs.

Is that they come there and they go to the synagogue and they listen But then, they're asked to speak.

Now, that's kind of encouraging, right?

I mean, can you see Paul, you know, Paul tell us what, you know, I don't know nothing.

I wish you were just happy to be here.

We're just so thankful that we were able to cross that mountain range walk, 100 miles and we're still thankful to be here.

We just want to hear what you have to say.

Give me a message.

If you're done, that sounds like to us just silly.

Be at the Lord takes us to places and runs into people all the time and which he saying, hey, I'm putting this person in your life for this reason.

What are you doing?

It is asking us to respond and just tell him what we know, right?

It's always saying he's, he's saying respond to me.

What do you know you're at?

Somebody just brought your heart and then and talked about like all these things that I don't know.

I told you before, sometimes I have the sign on my head that says talk to me.

You may not have that, you may have that from time to time, but the majority of the time I have that sign on my forehead, it can be anywhere.

I don't know why.

But I do.

The Lord puts me there, any push me there to listen but the respond and see, that's what he's doing with them.

He brought them there, they gone to the synagogue, they brought their now they came with a purpose.

I understand that they came with a person, you're not you're not going a hundred miles over a mountain range.

Just to go to a synagogue, I can sit around and be like, hey, you know what, let's pull up the scroll of Isaiah.

We want to hear some of that.

They come to help interpret scripture, they come to help explain the Messiah.

And so when Paul gets a chance to stand up, He stands up.

He's ready.

Both guns ready in the holster ready to tell him everything.