Philip the Evangelist

INTRODUCTION

I want to ask you a question. I don’t want you to feel guilty. That isn’t the point of the question.

I don’t want you to be discouraged. That isn’t the point of the question.

It is just a question.

When is the last time you shared the Gospel with someone?

Take a moment to think about it.

A day ago?

A week ago?

A month ago?

A year ago?

Ever?

Have you ever shared the Gospel with someone?

As Paul writes to Timothy in the New Testament, he sends him two letters.

The first one instructs Timothy on how to run the church, and we should take note.

But the second instructs him on how to run his life.

And in an age when many will deny the truth, Timothy is to stand strong and do work for the Lord. What sort of work?

2 Timothy 4:3–5 ESV

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Do the work of an evangelist.

As Paul writes to the Romans, he describes beautiful feet.

Feet are not something I typically think of as beautiful. They are the tires of the body.

I don’t typically stop and look at a car’s tires as the first point of beauty.

Even if they are the best of tires, they are pretty utilitarian. They get a job done.

The rest of the car is the pretty part.

The lack of beauty in a foot would be even more true in the culture that the Roman church was born in.

As Paul writes to them, he writes to a world that understood the foot to be the filthiest part of the body.

And yet, Paul says this, as he quotes Isaiah:

Romans 10:14–15 ESV

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”

Have your feet been beautified by the obedient preaching of the Gospel?

Have you shared this great hope that the Lord has etched on your heart?

Was there a time in which you were a purposeful evangelist, following the Lord wherever He would lead you? Telling who ever He would bring you?

And if that time has come and gone—what happened?

God wants purposeful evangelists.

He wants YOU to be a purposeful evangelist.

In your house.

In your school.

In your workplace.

In your long-term care facility.

At the park.

At the game.

At the local convenience store.

At the hospital bed.

To be sure, He wants the believers sitting to your right and left to be a purposeful evangelist as well.

But His desire is also to use your life to share His life with a dying Babylon. A perishing world.

CONTEXT

This morning, we see our brother, Philip, being a purposeful evangelist.

The last time we saw him, he was in Samaria, preaching the Gospel and the whole crowd was listening to him with one accord.

The whole city was filled with joy.

And now, this man of God who was doing signs and wonders, is being sent by God to another region.

And through his obedience, we get a bird’s eye view to the life of a purposeful evangelist.

And through his obedience, the Gospel is continuing to advance—now beyond Samaria, to the very edges of the Roman Empire.

I’ll have just two teaching points about being a purposeful evangelist as we work through the text. But let’s start by reading it:

Acts 8:26–40 ESV

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth. In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.” And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

EXPLAINING THE TEXT

JERUSALEM TO GAZA (v. 26-27)

We start this morning by looking at God’s providential hand in this passage and see all the ways that He is moving the events of history along to bring Philip to this eunuch at the right moment.

We can see how the God of the universe is arranging the circumstances of this eunuch’s day of salvation.

An angel of the Lord comes to Philip and tells him to rise and go toward the south, to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza (v. 26)

Luke then comments that this location is a “desert place.”

It is remote. It is on the edges of the Roman Empire.

It is the last stop before heading into a sun-scorched desert.

So for Philip to go there, he is going there purely for obedience.

You don’t go there to vacation or sight see.

He is on a spiritual business trip and he is directed by the Lord.

We know that because he received his marching orders from one of the Lord’s messengers.

A EUNUCH (v. 27-28)

Now, while Philip is being sent, we have the Lord arranging a meeting for him with an Ethiopian eunuch who is visiting Jerusalem to worship.

This eunuch is a treasurer in the court of Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians.

Philip doesn’t know this. He is just obedient to go to the remote place that the angel directs him to.

This eunuch would have been what you called a “God-fearer.”

This was a Gentile who is not a full convert to Judaism, but they practice parts of it.

They are Gentiles who have found the Greco-Roman spirituality to be lacking and they are dabbling with the faith of the Hebrews.

We will see another man like this with Cornelius in chapter 10

But as a Gentile God-fearer who has just visited Jerusalem, he was only allowed to go so far under the Old Covenant.

First century Judaism had deemed the Gentiles unclean and banned them from going beyond the Gentiles’ courtyard

In their mind, their people were set apart by God in the Exodus and the Gentiles were not. They could no further than the assigned courtyard outside.

Plus, according to Old Testament Law, a eunuch was not able to be a part of temple worship because of his physical state.

Eunuch’s had their male private parts altered so they could be a non-threatening, loyal servant to whatever throne they belonged to.

Eunuch’s cannot have sons who rise up in a court and state a coup.

But the law kept a eunuch from the assembly of worshippers.

Deuteronomy 23:1 ESV

“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

So this man is on his way back home and he has the scroll of Isaiah open and he is reading in it, as Philip is sent to him (v. 28)

EVANGELISM (v. 29-34)

Then in verse 29, he is sent over to the chariot by the prompting words of the Spirit of God.

He runs up alongside the chariot and as he hears him reading from Isaiah (He probable has the scroll because he is wealthy and serves Candace), he asks, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

The eunuch says, “How can I, unless someone guides me?”

And then Philip is invited into the chariot.

And in that chariot, Philip will share the good news of Jesus Christ with the man.

This is evangelism, by the way.

People have all different types of definitions of what evangelism is—but we don’t need to complicate things.

How then should evangelism be defined? The New Testament answer is very simple. According to the New Testament, evangelism is just preaching the Gospel, the evangel. It is the a work of communication in which Christians make themselves mouthpieces for God’s message of mercy to sinners.

JI Packer

That is it.

It is the transmission of the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ from the mouths of Christians to the ears of people who need it.

In verses 32-33, we see the passage of Scripture that the eunuch is reading. It is from Isaiah 53:7-8

Isaiah 53:7–8 ESV

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?

And you see the interpretative conundrum that the eunuch finds himself in, in verse 34.

He wonders whether or not some are saying that the text is about Isaiah, himself?

Many Jewish people taught that and some schools of Jewish interpretation still believe it today.

Other think the text is about Israel itself.

But we know what Philip knows—Isaiah 53:7-8 are about the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is the One who was oppressed and afflicted, yet opened not His mouth. He was the One who was silent like a sheep before its shearers

Luke 23:8–9 ESV

When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him, and he was hoping to see some sign done by him. So he questioned him at some length, but he made no answer.

He is the One who was led to the slaughter.

The glorious Son of God humiliated at Calvary

Denied justice in the sense that The Just died for the Unjust

The sinless died for the sinner

He is the One whose life is taken away from earth, but only for three days.

For Isaiah 53 also promises prolonged days for the Servant who suffers

I was at the Museum of the Bible last week and they have a Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. The real scrolls are not there, but even considering the replica is amazing.

The scrolls were found in the 1950s, and in them, they found a copy of all of Isaiah that predates the birth of Christ by 100-200 years.

Meaning, we can be sure Isaiah wasn’t changed by Christians trying to shoehorn their theology about Christ dying an atoning death into the text years after Christ’s life.

Before God sent His Son to earth, God’s prophecies foretold His coming and in the case of Isaiah, the Dead Sea Scrolls made us more sure of that than ever.

THE GOSPEL FOR EUNUCHS (v. 35-38)

Verse 35 says that Philip opens his mouth and beginning from Isaiah 53:7-8, Philip explains the Gospel of Jesus to him.

It is reminiscent of Philips’ Lord on the Emmaus Road:

Luke 24:27 ESV

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

What all did Philip tell the man?

Well we can assume he told him how to be saved—that he explained repentance and faith—because the man receives the Gospel and becomes a Christian.

We can also assume that Philip gives him an explanation of baptism.

The man is asking for baptism in some roadside water in v. 37

But considering the context, Philip might have just kept walking the man through the scroll in his hands:

For Isaiah 53 is the text about the suffering servant—the Messiah, Jesus Christ, who comes to pay for the sins of His people

But if you keep reading, Isaiah 54 promises that a future time of restoration will come to the people of Israel. Exile and discipline will not carry on forever.

Isaiah 54:8 ESV

In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord, your Redeemer.

And then you get to Isaiah 55, which looks to God’s sweet compassion and how His Word will accomplish its purpose and ultimate, a new creation will come and it will never pass away.

Isaiah 55:10–13 ESV

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. “For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the Lord, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

Now, maybe if Philip walked this man down this Isaiah Road, the eunuch would have thought, “Not for me pal.”

The Lord’s Servant came to die for His people.

The Lord’s kindness came to bring restoration to His people

The Lord’s merciful compassion will see His Word come to pass and a new creation establised

“But all that is for the assembly of Abraham’s people.

I’m a foreign eunuch—I can’t be a part of it.”

Listen to Isaiah 56:3-8

Isaiah 56:3–8 ESV

Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant, I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. “And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant— these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, “I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.”

The good news for this eunuch is that in the New Covenant, having Abraham’s blood or bearing his mark, won’t do anything for you.

It never did.

People of the Old Covenant repent of their sin and looked forward in faith to the coming Messiah

People of the New Covenant do the same, looking back in faith at Christ

Was Philip able to look at this man and say, “The Messiah who died for you in chapter 53, promises full kingdom citizenship to a foreign eunuch like you in chapter 56?”

We don’t know.

But we know the promise is there.

And we know that in receiving Christ, the man who could not enter the temple can now worship anywhere in spirit and truth.

We know that in receiving Christ, the man who could not be in the assembly of Israel is now promised to be a co-heir in the Kingdom.

We know the Gospel is for foreign eunuchs, just like it was for a sinful 14 year old from Powhatan, VA.

Just like we know it is for you.

Romans 1:16 ESV

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Everyone who believes.

SUPERNATURAL DISAPPEARANCE (v. 39-40)

The man is baptized and then Philip is carried away.

Next thing you know, he is in Azotus doing ministry.

Azotus is 20 miles Gaza, so this is some journey that seems to take place in an instant.

How did it happen? We don’t know.

Why did it happen? We don’t know.

Philip is having great success in Samaria and yet, God keeps him moving.

He sees immediate fruit in Gaza and yet, God sends him off to Azotus

Why all this moving around?

We don’t know. We can simply be sure it is for the Lord’s purpose and glory.

The Gospel has reached the edges of the Roman Empire and it must keep moving.

RELYING ON GOD’S PROVIDENCE

I want to spend the rest of our time giving us two teaching points from this amazing account Philip preaching to the Ethiopian. In many ways, they are just two observations.

One has to do with awareness and the other has to do with action.

Here is the first and it is more about awareness:

1. Purposeful evangelists are yielded to God’s providence.

Notice how many things God is in control of in this passage.

An angel of the Lord comes to Philip—we can assume that the angel is coming at the decree of God, since angels of the Lord are obedient messengers of the Lord (v. 26)

Philip goes and there just happens to be this Ethiopian eunuch who is coming through—a God-fearer who is reading the scroll of Isaiah (v. 27-28)

The Spirit of the Lord tells Philip to run over and join the chariot, which he does (v. 29)

And then the passage that the man is in, is a clear Messianic prophecy about the death of the Lord Jesus, plus—in its context, it is located right next to this passage in Isaiah 56, where there is this great news for eunuchs

Even in verse 36, there happens to be water sufficient for baptism

And in verse 40, as the evangelism of the eunuch is wrapped up, Philip is whisked away to Azotus.

The world might foolishly look at all of these events as happenstance. A convergence of circumstances that can only be attributed to dumb luck.

The naturalist, who claims knowledge can only be apprehended from what you can quantify and measure in this world, would say— “This is all nature’s chaotic coincidence.”

After all, we are all just bags of chemicals walking around and banging into each other with no real purpose and certainly, no divine providence.

But you and I know better. We know that God is a providentiaI God.

He is powerfully preserving and governing all of His creatures and all of their actions, according to His divine purpose.

This is what we mean when we speak of God’s providence.

We mean that God is not a spectator when it comes to the world He created and those who live in it.

He is present everywhere.

He is governing everywhere.

And if He were to remove His providential hand of governance, existence would come apart at the seams.

But it is not in His nature to do that.

He is a Sovereign Governor and providence is His sovereignty being exercised for His purposes.

From the biggest complexities to the smallest, the hand of God is in control:

Every raindrop and every snowflake which falls from the cloud, every insect which moves, every plant which grows, every grain of dust which floats in the air has had certain definite causes and will have certain definite effects. Each is a link in the chain of events and many of the great events of history have turned on these apparently insignificant things.

Loraine Boettner

We think we are these autonomous agents moving around in God’s world—completely free to do whatever we would like—but we don’t stop to think about how much we have not chosen.

I did not choose where I would be born

I did not choose who my parents would be

I did not choose what I would look like

I did not choose to grow up in a home with a dad who would become a Christian and then lead his family to the Lord

I did not choose my intelligence level

I did not choose my good health

I did not choose whether I would have artistic ability or the ability to be an orator or the ability to be a banker

I do have plenty of real choices that I make with real consequences, but there are times I do not choose the circumstances I am making them in

What the Scriptures show to us is that nature, the animal world, the nations of the earth, individual people, the free acts of people, the sinful acts of people, fortunate events and unfortunate events are all within God’s providential control

He exercises His purposeful sovereignty to bring about His will each and every day—each and every second

Does that mean you and I are just puppets being moved by the strings of the Divine?

Not according to Boettner:

But while the Bible repeatedly teaches that this providential control is universal, powerful, wise and holy, it nowhere attempts to inform us how it is to be reconciled with man’s free agency. All that we need to know is that God does govern His creatures and that His control over them is such that no violence is done to their natures.

Loraine Boettner

So we are not puppets. But God is indeed providentially governing every second of your life and He is never surprised.

This should be a comfort to you in a myriad of ways, but especially in evangelism.

What it means is that you never know what God may be up to in someone’s life—or your own.

As you, within your nature, are making choices, His governing could be seeing to it that your choices and someone else’s choices are intersecting, just like Philip and the Ethiopian in chapter 8.

As you go about your day and you are on your way to your next task, you could be on your way to a providential appointment where you can share the Good News of Christ.

As you are on your way home at night and you are stopping to grab milk, your forgetfulness to get it the day before could all be a part of God’s providential plan to put you in front of a person that needs hope.

ILLUSTRATION: My uncle Norman had a peculiar way of fishing that he taught my dad. My dad handed it down to me.

He would get in a river with a weedless grape worm

He would cast it out and hold the rod with one hand and keep a finger on his line with the other hand

And he would drag the worm across the bottom and feel every rock and every piece of debris through the vibrations of the line

And if a fish hit it, he knew—there was no question—the very first strike of the smallmouth would be so obvious because Norman was completely aware and he was looking for it

Mark 1:17 ESV

And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.”

Follow ME and I will make you fishers of men.

This is part of what it means to be a disciple of Christ

We carry crosses

We pray as Jesus taught us, not as the Gentiles or the Pharisees

We serve others

We love one another

We fish for men

This is basic discipleship

This is 101—this is ground level

Some of us aren’t catching anything because we are not fishing.

We are not alert and aware to God’s providential activity that is going on all around us

We need to get our eyes up off of our agendas and our anxieties and the line of the Gospel and start dragging the bottom

Let me give you one example:

If you have a convenience store you go in a lot, there is probably a few reasons.

It is close to you

You like something they sell in there

It is easy to get in and out of

Now, if you go there a lot, I am assuming you start to notice some of the staff. You recognize their faces and having worked retail, I can tell you that they recognize you

The world would say, “You just happen to go there. They just happen to work there. You have no relationship with or to these humans. Mind your business and buy your coffee and move on.”

But we can’t do that. We look at God’s providential hand and say:

He has placed me in this context and He has placed those people in this context

HE HAS A PURPOSE

And once you are convinced of that—once you come to see nothing in your life as happenstance, and you start looking at all of God’s arrangements in your life as providential provisions—you begin to fish.

You start thinking, “I wonder what He wants to do through me in these waters.”

You start thinking, “I exist to glorify God—how does He want to glorify me in this Royal Farms?”

Now, you might say, “What does that fishing look like?”

And my answer is that it looks like leveraging.

God has made you with certain abilities and interests and you need to leverage them.

Do you like comic books? Do you wear comic book shirts at least 3-4 days a week?

Well the next you go to that store and you are wearing a comic book shirt or someone else is, you are asking a question.

“You like Green Lantern? Are you into DC over Marvel too? Oh man—this guy at my church loves DC comics.”

Did you hear that? Leveraging the Green Lantern to bring up church.

If they ask, “Where do you go to church?” Well that’s a bite.

And now you are in a conversation that is happening in God’s providential governance—and you will be so pleased and joyful to be a part of it.

Sports, Christian t-shirts, shared experiences, music, TV shows, food—it all must be leveraged.

For example—I wear a lot of sports gear. I wear pro wrestling gear. I wear some Christian t-shirts.

If I am out and about and you say something to me about any of that—I take that as a vibration in the fishing line.

Something hit it.

You keep feeling it out—is it a rock? Is it seaweed? Or do we have a nibble here?

Quite often, you will find the nibble is a pretty hard bite and the next thing you know, you are fishing.

PREPARATION

But as we close, I want to say that this work must be intentional.

And by that, I mean YES—in the moment, it must be intentional. You don’t share the Gospel on accident too often.

But even before that, you must be prepared.

I remember going on fishing trips with my dad as a kid and the night before, he would be in the garage getting ready.

He was putting his new lures on his line and making sure mine wasn’t tangled.

He was organizing his tackle box.

He always said, “You don’t want to get out on the water unprepared.”

It is no different in our evangelism.

We must be prepared.

2. Purposeful evangelists are prepared for proclamation.

In this text today, Philip is ready.

He is ready to teach this man that is reading the scroll of Isaiah.

He is ready to proclaim Christ to him.

And that is not in a vacuum.

We know from his selection as one of the seven deacon prototypes in chapter 6, that Philip is a man who is “full of faith” and “full of the Holy Spirit.”

We see him preaching and doing signs and wonders in Samaria.

His boldness, his knowledge and his powerful ministry, lead us to believe that this is a man who loves the Word of God and the God of the Word.

Philip is a brother who is publicly AND privately devoted to the Lord.

See—the reality is that we all evangelize.

We evangelize for the things we are prepared to evangelize for.

“My team is going to win 10 games this year. We have #3 overall defense in DVOA. We ranked 13th in stopping the run last year, but we drafted this tackle out of A and M that is a stud. We are ready to contend.”

Do you know why you can evangelize for your football team? Because you are publicly and privately devoted. It shows in how you talk. You are prepared.

So you evangelize for your team’s success.

“Your kid has eczema. You have to try this spray I got off the internet. Two sprays and your kid won’t even say eczema again. Your kid won’t even disobey anymore. They’ll just sing Jesus songs and seek God’s face and not have eczema.”

Moms are like this. A mom will ride for something that helped her kid.

And she will be prepared with stats and test results.

This is the portion of the sermon about action.

We must be aware of God’s providential activity around us, as much as we can.

But once the fish strikes the hook, but must proclaim.

And that is where many Christians back down.

And I fear it is because the Good News is not the natural overflow of their lives.

They are publicly devoted—church attendance is faithful, sermons are heard, service is done

But privately—they don’t really read the Bible or pray or fast or seek the Lord

And so, when the fish strikes, they are unprepared

But don’t mishear me.

I am convinced that evangelicalism has bought the lie that the way we prepare the church to evangelize is by offering another training course and another presentation.

I think we are off on that.

Instead of teaching someone another presentation to memorize, I think we should just be pushing people to their prayer closets and their Bible everyday.

How did the disciples learn to fish for men? By walking with Jesus.

And that is how you will learn as well.

Fly to Him in prayer.

Find in Him in His Word.

Seek him in your closet and then, from the rooftops, shout about what He has spoken softly to your ear

The best evangelists are simply the most godly of Christians.

Pursue the Lord to prepare for His work.

CONCLUSION

About three days a week, I go to Yorktown Beach to spend time with the Lord and hopefully get into some conversations like Philip had with the eunuch.

I have made a few new friends down there.

But I have also learned the names of either Jehovah’s Witnesses. Cultists.

They teach Jesus is not God

Salvation is by good works

The Holy Spirit is not God, but a force

Jehovah is the only true name of God

Jesus is a lesser created god

God chooses not to know the future

God is not Triune

They teach a brutal gospel that tells people the way they are living is wrong and offers them no real way out of it

It offers a Jesus that can’t save, which is no Jesus at all

And they are at Yorktown Beach for two hours a day, six days a week

Because they are trying to work their way to heaven? Sure.

But they are there.

Trying to take your city

Our city

They are trying to win people over to their Christ-less, obscene, neutered version of Christianity

I know eight of them by name.

If they will pound the pavement for a lie—what will we do for the truth?

Are you feet beautiful?

It all depends on the message they carry.

Prepare yourself by coming to the feet of our Lord each day in the Word and prayer

And then yield yourself to His providential hand—He will show you where to fish

Beautify your feet with the shoes of the Gospel of peace—and GO.

Soon you will crush Satan with those shoes. Our time to fish is limited.

Be a purposeful evangelist.