Be Ready
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A MISSIONARY TO AFRICA
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• TOLD THE STORY OF AN ELDERLY
WOMAN
• WHO WAS REACHED WITH THE
GOSPEL.
• THOUGH SHE WAS BLIND AND
COULD NEITHER READ NOR WRITE,
• SHE WANTED TO SHARE HER NEW
FOUND FAITH WITH OTHERS.
• SHE CAME TO THE MISSIONARY
• AND ASKED FOR A COPY OF THE
BIBLE IN FRENCH.
• WHEN SHE GOT IT, SHE ASKED THE
MISSIONARY TO UNDERLINE JOHN
3:16
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• IN RED AND MARK THE PAGE IT
WAS ON SO SHE COULD FIND IT.
• THE MISSIONARY WANTED TO
SEE WHAT SHE WOULD DO,
• SO ONE DAY HE FOLLOWED HER.
• IN THE AFTERNOON, JUST
BEFORE SCHOOL LET OUT,
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• SHE MADE HER WAY TO THE FRONT
DOOR OF THE SCHOOL.
• AS THE BOYS CAME OUT WHEN SCHOOL
WAS DISMISSED,
• SHE WOULD STOP ONE AND ASK IF HE
KNEW HOW TO READ FRENCH.
• WHEN HE SAID “YES” SHE WOULD ASK
HIM TO READ THE VERSE THAT WAS
MARKED IN RED.
• THEN SHE WOULD ASK, “DO YOU
KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?”
• AND TELL HIM ABOUT CHRIST.
• THE MISSIONARY SAID THAT
TWENTY-FOUR OF THE SCHOOL
BOYS
• THAT LADY LED TO THE LORD
BECAME PASTORS.
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• GOD HAS CALLED ALL
CHRISTIANS TO PRESENT THE
GOSPEL
• SOMETIMES WE MAY THINK
WE ARE NOT IN THE RIGHT
PLACE
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• OR DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT
SKILLS
• MAYBE WE THINK IT JUST NOT
SOMETHING WE ARE GOOD AT
• WE NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR
GOD TO PUT US IN THE RIGHT
PLACE
• AT THE RIGHT TIME TO USE
THE ABILITIES HE HAS GIVEN
US
• TO PREACH THE GOOD NEWS
OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE LOST
• TODAY WE ARE GOING TO
LOOK AT GOD PUTTING
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• PHILIP IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT
THE RIGHT TIME
• TURN TO ACTS 8:25
• THE CROWDS IN SAMARIA HAD
HEARD PHILIP PREACH
• THEY HAD SEEN SIGNS AND
WONDERS
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• THEY HAD BELIEVED AND BEEN
BAPTIZED
• PETER AND JOHN HAD COME FROM
JERUSALEM
• AND LAID HANDS ON THE PEOPLE
AND THE HOLY SPIRIT HAD COME
UPON THEM
• LUKE CONTINUES:
ACTS 8:25–29
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SO, WHEN THEY HAD SOLEMNLY
TESTIFIED AND SPOKEN THE WORD
OF THE LORD, THEY STARTED BACK
TO JERUSALEM, AND WERE
PREACHING THE GOSPEL TO MANY
VILLAGES OF THE SAMARITANS.
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BUT AN ANGEL OF THE LORD
SPOKE TO PHILIP SAYING, “GET
UP AND GO SOUTH TO THE
ROAD THAT DESCENDS FROM
JERUSALEM TO GAZA.” (THIS IS
A DESERT ROAD.) SO HE GOT
UP AND WENT;
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AND THERE WAS AN ETHIOPIAN
EUNUCH, A COURT OFFICIAL
OF CANDACE, QUEEN OF THE
ETHIOPIANS, WHO WAS IN
CHARGE OF ALL HER
TREASURE;
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AND HE HAD COME TO JERUSALEM
TO WORSHIP, AND HE WAS
RETURNING AND SITTING IN HIS
CHARIOT, AND WAS READING THE
PROPHET ISAIAH. THEN THE
SPIRIT SAID TO PHILIP, “GO UP
AND JOIN THIS CHARIOT.”
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BE READY FOR GOD TO CHANGE OUR
PLANS
• SO, THESE FELLAS WERE;
• “PREACHING THE GOSPEL TO MANY
VILLAGES OF THE SAMARITANS.”
• AS THEY HEADED BACK TO
JERUSALEM
• THIS WAS THEIR PLAN
• BUT GOD HAD ANOTHER PLAN IN
MIND
• A PLAN FOR PHILIP, AN ANGEL
SPOKE TO PHILIP SAYING
• “GET UP AND GO SOUTH TO THE
ROAD THAT DESCENDS FROM
JERUSALEM TO GAZA.”
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• THIS ROAD STARTS NEAR
JERUSALEM AND GOES SOUTH
• SO, AS THEY NEARED
JERUSALEM THE ANGEL TOLD
PHILIP
• TO LEAVE JOHN AND PETER
AND TAKE THIS ROAD
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• WE NEED TO BE READY FOR
GOD TO CHANGES OUR PLANS
• THEY WERE DOING GOD’S
WORK, PREACHING THE
GOSPEL
• BUT GOD HAD SOMETHING
SPECIFIC IN MIND FOR PHILIP
PROVERBS 19:21
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MANY PLANS ARE IN A MAN’S
HEART, BUT THE COUNSEL OF
THE LORD WILL STAND.
• NOW THE ANGEL MAY HAVE
SPOKEN VERBALLY HERE
• OR IT MAY HAVE BEEN IN A
VISION OR DREAM
• IT DOES NOT REALLY MATTER
HOW THE ANGEL SPOKE
• PHILIP UNDERSTOOD THE
MESSAGE, THE PLAN HAD
CHANGED
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• GOD MAY SPEAK TO US IN ANY
NUMBER OF WAYS
• IN PRAYER, THROUGH
CIRCUMSTANCES, THROUGH
SCRIPTURE
• WE NEED NOTICE WHEN GOD
CHANGES OUR PLANS
BE READY TO GO WITHOUT
HESITATION
• HOW DOES PHILIP RESPOND TO THIS
MESSAGE
• “HE GOT UP AND WENT;”
• NO HESITATION, HE DID NOT ASK THE
ANGEL WHY
• HE JUST GOT UP AND WENT
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• WHEN GOD CLEARLY AND
DISTINCTLY CHANGES THE PLAN
• WE NEED TO BE READY TO ACT
WITHOUT HESITATION
• SOMETIMES OUR MESSAGE MAY
NOT BE AS CLEAR AS PHILIP’S
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• WE MIGHT NEED TO TAKE SOME
TIME TO CONFIRM THE MESSAGE
• LOOK THROUGH SCRIPTURE, GET
SOME GODLY COUNSEL
• BUT ONCE WE KNOW WHAT THE
NEW PLAN IS
• WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION
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EPHESIANS 5:15–16
THEREFORE BE CAREFUL HOW
YOU WALK, NOT AS UNWISE
MEN BUT AS WISE, MAKING
THE MOST OF YOUR TIME,
BECAUSE THE DAYS ARE EVIL.
• TO MAKE THE MOST OF OUR
TIME
• WE NEED TO BE READY TO
TAKE ACTION
• WHEN GOD CHANGES OUR
PLANS
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BE READY FOR OPPORTUNITIES
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• THIS ROAD WAS NOT AS HEAVILY
TRAVELED
• AS THE OTHER ROADS THAT LEFT
JERUSALEM
• SO, ON THIS MOSTLY EMPTY
DESERT ROAD PHILIP COMES UPON;
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• “AN ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH, A
COURT OFFICIAL OF CANDACE,
QUEEN OF THE ETHIOPIANS”
• SO, GOD’S PLAN WAS FOR PHILIP
• TO GO DOWN THIS ONE ROAD
TO MEET THIS ONE MAN
• IN ACTS 1:8 CHRIST HAD SAID;
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BUT YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS
COME UPON YOU; AND YOU
SHALL BE MY WITNESSES BOTH IN
JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA
AND SAMARIA, AND EVEN TO THE
REMOTEST PART OF THE EARTH.”
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• THE ROMAN EMPIRE CONSIDERED
ETHIOPIA TO BE “THE ENDS OF THE
EARTH”
• THIS EUNUCH HAD COME TO JERUSALEM
TO WORSHIP
• BUT BECAUSE HE WAS A EUNUCH HE
COULD ONLY BE A
• PROSELYTES OF THE GATE, HE COULD
NEVER FULLY PARTICIPATE
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• IN THE JEWISH FAITH, DEUTERONOMY
23:1 FORBIDS EUNUCHS
• FROM ENTERING THE ASSEMBLY OF
THE LORD
• AND YET PHILIP IS INSTRUCTED BY THE
SPIRIT
• TO; “GO UP AND JOIN THIS CHARIOT”
THE EUNUCH’S CHARIOT
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• WHEN WE FOLLOW GOD’S
PLANS HE WILL PUT US
• IN THE MOST UNLIKELY PLACES
• WHERE THE MOST UNLIKELY
OPPORTUNITIES
• WILL OCCUR TO PRESENT THE
GOSPEL TO
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• THE MOST UNLIKELY PEOPLE
• FOUR YEARS AFTER
THE TITANIC WENT DOWN,
• A YOUNG SCOTSMAN ROSE IN
A CHURCH MEETING IN
HAMILTON, CANADA,
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• HE SAID, “I AM A SURVIVOR OF
THE TITANIC.
• WHEN I WAS DRIFTING ALONE
ON A SPAR THAT AWFUL NIGHT,
• THE TIDE BROUGHT MR. JOHN
HARPER, OF GLASGOW, ON A
PIECE OF WRECK NEAR ME.
• ‘MAN,’ HE SAID, ‘ARE YOU SAVED?’
• ‘NO,’ I SAID, ‘I AM NOT.’
• HE REPLIED, ‘BELIEVE ON THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST AND THOU SHALT BE
SAVED.’
• THE WAVES BORE HIM AWAY; BUT,
STRANGE TO SAY BROUGHT HIM
BACK A LITTLE LATER,
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• AND HE SAID, ‘ARE YOU SAVED NOW?’
• ‘NO,’ I SAID, ‘I CANNOT HONESTLY SAY
THAT I AM.’
• HE SAID AGAIN, ‘BELIEVE ON THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THOU SHALT
BE SAVED,’
• AND SHORTLY AFTER THAT HE WENT
DOWN;
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• AND THERE, ALONE IN THE
NIGHT, AND WITH TWO MILES OF
WATER UNDER ME, I BELIEVED.
• GOD MAY INDEED MOVE HEAVEN
AND EARTH TO SAVE ONE SOUL
• HE MAY PUT US IN THE RIGHT
PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME
• WITH THE RIGHT WORDS
• BUT WE HAVE TO BE READY FOR
GOD TO CHANGE OUR PLANS
• BE READY TO ACT WITHOUT
HESITATION WHEN HE DOES
• BE READY FOR OPPORTUNITIES
WHEN THEY ARISE
• PHILIP WAS READY
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ACTS 8:30–35
PHILIP RAN UP AND HEARD HIM
READING ISAIAH THE PROPHET,
AND SAID, “DO YOU UNDERSTAND
WHAT YOU ARE READING?” AND
HE SAID, “WELL, HOW COULD I,
UNLESS SOMEONE GUIDES ME?”
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AND HE INVITED PHILIP TO
COME UP AND SIT WITH HIM.
NOW THE PASSAGE OF
SCRIPTURE WHICH HE WAS
READING WAS THIS:
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“HE WAS LED AS A SHEEP TO
SLAUGHTER; AND AS A LAMB
BEFORE ITS SHEARER IS SILENT, SO
HE DOES NOT OPEN HIS MOUTH. “IN
HUMILIATION HIS JUDGMENT WAS
TAKEN AWAY; WHO WILL RELATE HIS
GENERATION? FOR HIS LIFE IS
REMOVED FROM THE EARTH.”
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THE EUNUCH ANSWERED PHILIP
AND SAID, “PLEASE TELL ME, OF
WHOM DOES THE PROPHET SAY
THIS? OF HIMSELF OR OF
SOMEONE ELSE?” THEN PHILIP
OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND
BEGINNING FROM THIS SCRIPTURE
HE PREACHED JESUS TO HIM.
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BE READY TO APPROACH PEOPLE
• THE SPIRIT SAID GO, AND PHILIP RAN
RIGHT UP
• AS HE GOT CLOSER HE HEARD THE
EUNUCH READING
• NOT JUST ANY SCRIPTURE, A
PASSAGE THAT FORETOLD
• CHRIST’S SUFFERING AND DEATH
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• SO HE ASKED THE EUNUCH;
• “DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT
YOU ARE READING?”
• WHAT A GREAT WAY TO START A
GOSPEL CONVERSATION
• IT CAN BE PRETTY SCARY TO
JUST WALK UP TO SOMEONE
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• AND JUST START TALKING ABOUT GOD
• I USED TO DO STREET EVANGELISM IN
HOUSTON
• JUST WALKING UP TO RANDOM
PEOPLE
• ASKING THEM IF ANYONE HAD EVER
EXPLAINED THE GOSPEL OF JESUS
CHRIST
• I HAD PEOPLE YELL AT ME,
• THROW THINGS AT ME, CALL
ME HORRIBLE THINGS
• I ALSO HAD PEOPLE RESPOND
VERY KINDLY
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• ASK QUESTIONS, AND SOME
ACCEPT CHRIST
• YOU NEVER KNOW HOW
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO
RESPOND
• SOME RESPONSES ARE BETTER
THAN OTHERS
BE READY TO BE HUMBLE
• WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT WHAT
PHILIP HAS BEEN DOING
• BUT FOR A SECOND I WANT US TO
LOOK AT HOW THE EUNUCH
RESPONDS
• HE IS NOT OFFENDED BY PHILIP’S
QUESTION
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• HE DOES NOT TRY TO ACT LIKE HE
KNOWS WHAT THIS SCRIPTURE
MEANS
• THIS EUNUCH IS OF A VASTLY
HIGHER SOCIAL STATUS THAN PHILIP
• HE IS THE TREASURER FOR THE
CANDACE OF ETHIOPIA, THAT’S THE
QUEEN MOTHER
• HE HAS HIS OWN CHARIOT AND
DRIVER
• AND PHILIP IS JUST SOME GUY
RUNNING DOWN A ROAD
• YET HE IS SO AMAZINGLY HUMBLE
ABOUT THIS
• “HOW COULD I, UNLESS SOMEONE
GUIDES ME?”
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• I THINK I WOULD HAVE
LEARNED A LOT MORE IN
SEMINARY
• IF I COULD HAVE BEEN A
LITTLE MORE LIKE THIS
EUNUCH
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PROVERBS 11:2
WHEN PRIDE COMES, THEN
COMES DISHONOR, BUT
WITH THE HUMBLE IS
WISDOM.
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• WHEN PEOPLE TALK TO US
ABOUT GOD WE NEED TO BE
HUMBLE
• ONE OF THE WAYS WE CAN BE
HUMBLE
• IS STICKING TO THE GOSPEL
WHEN WE TALK TO THE LOST
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BE READY TO PREACH JESUS ONLY
• THE EUNUCH WAS READING A PASSAGE
FROM ISAIAH
• THE VERSE CONFUSED HIM SO HE ASKED
PHILIP A QUESTION;
• “OF WHOM DOES THE PROPHET SAY
THIS? OF HIMSELF OR OF SOMEONE
ELSE?”
• PHILIP ANSWERED BY CONNECTING
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• THE VERSE THE EUNUCH WAS
READING TO JESUS
• IT IS POSSIBLE THE EUNUCH HAD
HEARD ABOUT JESUS
• HE HAD JUST BEEN IN JERUSALEM SO
HE MIGHT HAVE HEARD SOMETHING
• ABOUT THE LIFE, DEATH, AND
RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
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• THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO
WITH PEOPLE
• TAKE THEM FROM WHERE THEY
ARE IN RELATION TO GOD
• AND BRING THEM TO JESUS
• WHATEVER QUESTIONS THEY
MIGHT HAVE
• WE START AT THE QUESTIONS
• AND TAKE THEM TO JESUS
• IF THEY HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT
SUFFERING
• OR EVIL IN THE WORLD, START
THERE
• IF THEY HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT
POLITICS OR HISTORY
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• START THERE AND PREACH JESUS
• WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE PREACH
JESUS AND NOT SOMETHING ELSE
• IT IS SO EASY TO RESPOND TO
PEOPLE’S QUESTIONS WITH
• SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, MORALS,
PSYCHOLOGY OR EVEN COMMON
SENSE
• BUT WE NEED TO ANSWER
WITH JESUS
• GOD PROVIDES US WITH
OPPORTUNITIES
• WE NEED TO USE THEM TO
PREACH JESUS
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AUGUSTE COMTE, THE FRENCH
PHILOSOPHER,
• AND THOMAS CARLYLE, THE
SCOTTISH WRITER, WERE
HAVING A DISCUSSION.
• COMTE SAID HE WAS GOING
TO START A "NEW" RELIGION
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• THAT WOULD SUPPLANT THE
RELIGION OF CHRIST.
• IT WAS TO HAVE NO MYSTERIES
• AND WAS TO BE AS PLAIN AS
THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE;
• ITS NAME WAS TO BE
"POSITIVISM".
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• "VERY GOOD, MR. COMTE,"
CARLYLE REPLIED
• ALL YOU WILL NEED TO DO WILL BE
SPEAK AS NEVER A MAN SPOKE,
• AND LIVE AS NEVER A MAN LIVED,
AND BE CRUCIFIED,
• AND RISE, AGAIN THE THIRD DAY,
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• AND GET THE WORLD TO BELIEVE
THAT YOU ARE STILL ALIVE.
• THEN YOUR RELIGION WILL HAVE A
CHANCE TO CATCH ON."
• HERE WE SEE THE REASON WE MUST
PREACH CHRIST AND ONLY CHRIST
• NO ONE EVER SPOKE LIKE HE SPOKE,
NO ONE EVER LIVED LIKE HE LIVED
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• MANY MAY HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED
• BUT ONLY ONE WAS RAISED ON
THE THIRD DAY
• CHRISTIANITY IS UNIQUE AMONG
RELIGIONS
• ALL OTHERS SAY YOU CAN EARN
HEAVEN
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• CHRISTIANITY IS UNIQUE AMONG
PHILOSOPHIES
• ALL OTHERS PRESENT MAN’S TRUTH
NOT GODS
• WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE
PRESENT CHRIST AND ONLY CHRIST
• WE NEED TO BE READY WHEN THEY
RESPOND
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ACTS 8:36–40
AS THEY WENT ALONG THE ROAD
THEY CAME TO SOME WATER; AND
THE EUNUCH SAID, “LOOK!
WATER! WHAT PREVENTS ME
FROM BEING BAPTIZED?” AND
PHILIP SAID, “IF YOU BELIEVE WITH
ALL YOUR HEART, YOU MAY.”
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AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID, “I
BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS
THE SON OF GOD.” AND HE
ORDERED THE CHARIOT TO STOP;
AND THEY BOTH WENT DOWN
INTO THE WATER, PHILIP AS WELL
AS THE EUNUCH, AND HE
BAPTIZED HIM.
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WHEN THEY CAME UP OUT OF
THE WATER, THE SPIRIT OF THE
LORD SNATCHED PHILIP AWAY;
AND THE EUNUCH NO LONGER
SAW HIM, BUT WENT ON HIS
WAY REJOICING.
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BUT PHILIP FOUND HIMSELF AT
AZOTUS, AND AS HE PASSED
THROUGH HE KEPT
PREACHING THE GOSPEL TO
ALL THE CITIES UNTIL HE CAME
TO CAESAREA.
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BE READY FOR PEOPLE TO ACCEPT
CHRIST
• WE DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG
PHILIP PREACHED JESUS
• IT COULD HAVE BEEN FOR HOURS
• BUT AT SOME POINT THEY CAME
TO SOME WATER
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• AND THE EUNUCH ASKED A
QUESTION
• “WHAT PREVENTS ME FROM
BEING BAPTIZED?”
• MAYBE PHILIP HAD EXPLAINED
BAPTISM WAS SIGN OF
BECOMING A CHRISTIAN
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• MAYBE HE HAD TOLD THE
EUNUCH ABOUT THE DAY OF
PENTECOST
• AND THE 3000 WHO HAD BEEN
BAPTIZED
• THIS IS THAT MOMENT WE
NEED TO BE LOOKING FOR
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• IT WAS ALMOST MIDNIGHT, WE WERE
SITTING OUT SIDE A SKATEBOARD PARK
• I HAD BEEN TALKING WITH THIS YOUNG
MAN FOR NEARLY 2 YEARS
• HE ASKED ME, “CAN I PRAY THAT
PRAYER NOW”
• WHEN PEOPLE ARE READY WE NEED TO
BE READY
BE READY TO ACT
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• THEY PULLED OVER TO THE SIDE OF
THE ROAD
• “AND THEY BOTH WENT DOWN INTO
THE WATER, PHILIP AS WELL AS THE
EUNUCH, AND HE BAPTIZED HIM.”
• PHILIP IS DOING EXACTLY WHAT JESUS
HAD INSTRUCTED
MATTHEW 28:19
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“GO THEREFORE AND MAKE
DISCIPLES OF ALL THE NATIONS,
BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME
OF THE FATHER AND THE SON
AND THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• NOTICE HE DID NOT MAKE HIM TAKE A
CLASS
• OR FILL OUT SOME PAPER WORK
• HE BAPTIZED HIM RIGHT THERE ON THE
SPOT
• WHEN SOMEONE TRUSTS IN JESUS
CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOR
• WE NEED TO BE READY TO TAKE THE
NEXT STEP WITH THEM
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• SOMETIMES THIS WILL BE
BAPTISM,
• OTHER TIMES IT MIGHT MEAN
HELPING THEM STUDY THE
BIBLE
• MAYBE WE WILL NEED TO PRAY
WITH THEM
• WE NEED TO BE READY TO
TAKE THAT NEXT STEP WITH
THEM
• NO MATTER WHAT IT MIGHT
BE
• MAYBE WE NEED TO HELP
THEM FIND A CHURCH
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• OR GET THEM A BIBLE, OR
HELP THEM THROUGH A
ROUGH TIME
• YOU MAY NEED TO HELP THEM
FOR SOME TIME
• OR GOD MAY HAVE OTHER
PLANS FOR YOU
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BE READY FOR GOD TO CALL YOU
TO SOMEPLACE NEW
• GOD HAD OTHER PLANS FOR PHILIP
• “WHEN THEY CAME UP OUT OF THE
WATER, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD
SNATCHED PHILIP AWAY;”
• PHILIP IS TRANSPORTED BY THE SPIRIT
TO AZOTUS ABOUT 20 MILES AWAY
• WHY DID THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD
CARRY HIM AWAY?
• BECAUSE HE HAD TO GO ON TO
PREACH IN OTHER CITIES.
• HE HAD COME TO THIS DESERT
ROAD TO PREACH THE GOSPEL
• HE HAD DONE SO, HE WORK WAS
DONE
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• SO GOD MOVED HIM TO THE NEXT PLACE
HE WAS NEEDED
• SOMETIMES WE WILL BE PART OF
PEOPLE’S LIVES AFTER THEY COME TO
CHRIST
• SOMETIMES GOD WILL MOVE US ALONG
TO REACH OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE
• WE NEED TO BE WILLING TO GO WHERE
GOD DIRECTS US
CHRISTOPHER WAS PLAYING
BASKETBALL
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• WITH HIS FRIENDS ON MAY 16, 1998
WHEN HE WAS SHOT IN THE CHEST,
• THE BULLET PERFORATED HIS AORTA.
• HIS FRIENDS HELPED HIM GET TO
WITHIN FORTY FEET
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• OF THE ENTRANCE TO
RAVENSWOOD HOSPITAL
• THEY WENT INSIDE AND ASKED FOR
HELP.
• THE HOSPITAL STAFF REFUSED TO
HELP CHRISTOPHER
• SAYING THAT IT WAS AGAINST THE
HOSPITAL’S POLICIES
• TO ADMINISTER AID TO THOSE
OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL.
• EVENTUALLY A POLICEMAN WAS
ABLE TO GET A WHEEL CHAIR
• HE WHEELED CHRISTOPHER INTO
THE HOSPITAL
• WHERE HE WAS HELPED BY THE
HOSPITAL STAFF.
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• IT WAS TOO LATE, HOWEVER,
AND CHRISTOPHER DIED
ABOUT AN HOUR LATER.
• MANY TIMES CHURCHES ARE
SURROUNDED
• BY PEOPLE THAT DESPERATELY
NEED TO HEAR THE GOSPEL,
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• YET CHRISTIANS ARE CONTENT TO
SHARE IT
• ONLY WITH THOSE THAT MANAGE TO
COME INSIDE THEIR CHURCH.
• WE HAVE TO BE READY TO TAKE THE
GOSPEL OUT WITH US INTO THE WORLD
• WE CAN’T WAIT FOR THE WORLD TO
COME TO US
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WE SHOULD WANT TO SPREAD THE
GOSPEL AS STRONGLY
• AS THE BLIND WOMAN THE
MISSIONARY TOLD ABOUT
• BEING WILLING TO DO WHATEVER
IT TAKES TO GET
• THE GOSPEL MESSAGE TO THE LOST
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• GOD HAS CALLED ALL CHRISTIANS
TO PRESENT THE GOSPEL
• SOMETIMES WE MAY THINK WE
ARE NOT IN THE RIGHT PLACE
• OR DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT SKILLS
• MAYBE WE THINK IT JUST NOT
SOMETHING WE ARE GOOD AT
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• WE NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR
GOD TO PUT US IN THE RIGHT
PLACE
• AT THE RIGHT TIME TO USE THE
ABILITIES HE HAS GIVEN US
• TO PREACH THE GOOD NEWS
OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE LOST
• TO TELL THEM GOD LOVES
THEM
• AND WANTS AN ETERNAL
RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM
• BUT WE ALL SIN….
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