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WELCOME
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WELCOME
Good morning CrossPointe
Thankful to worship together this morning as we continue in our series through the book of Acts
PASSAGE CONNECTION
Today we will be in
The Big Idea
Imagine the Apostle Paul invited you over for dinner.
This is the man who was a pharisee that hunted down Christians
but little did he know that God was hunting him
God saved Paul and then sent him out on mission but also said that he would suffer for the name of Jesus
Now Paul is heading toward the end of his missionary journeys.
He senses that persecution awaits him
We’ve see the gospel go out from Jersualem into all the world.
Now Paul is heading to Jerusalem but will ultimately end up in Rome.
After you finish the meal you are sitting around the table, drinking a cup a coffee, and he says that you will never see him again.
This is it.
He’s a friend.
A co-laborer in the gospel.
He’s a man you’ve respected and admired and now he is saying goodbye.
He keeps talking and nobody wants to interpret because they don’t want the night to end.
These are Paul’s final works to you face to face
Will you listen
What issue weighs heaviest on Paul’s heart?
The church and caring for the people who make up the church.
Connection
The church’s value leads us to care and protect her.
We value our homes so people are buying video-enabled doorbells
We value our pets so they now have mircochips inside them
We pay extra to insure and protect our smartphones and smart watches.
For Paul - the church was worth caring and protecting.
READ 20:17-38
PRAYER
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND
Acts Overview
READ ACTS 20:17-38
PAUL’S PLATFORM
AMERICAN VIEW OF PASTORS
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PAUL’S PLATFORM
Shepherd
Serving the Lord - humility and tears while surrounded by hardships
Teaching
Declaring all of God’s word
Repentance & Faith
Willingly and gladly lay down my life - so that I might finish
VALUE OF THE CHURCH
INTRO
This passage has so many things we could talk about
Paul serving the church in humility and with tears in spite of the trials.
His continued message of repentance toward God and faith in Jesus
Paul is heading to Jerusalem, knowing that he would would additional persecution, yet he went anyway
The fact that these words were the last these men would hear directly from the lips of Paul.
Focus this Morning
Verse 28-32
This is the heart of Paul’s message to the elders and I believe they are helpful for us this morning.
Lead-In
Last week Paul was in Ephesus - a city of 100,000 with its temple to Artemis - one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world - Riot
Left for Macedonia then to Greece but Jews tried to kill him
Sailed to Syria, back to Macedonia and then to Troas
On his last day in Troas, Paul decided to preach until midnight.
There were lamps in the room so you can imagine the light of the flames dancing across the wall.
This poor young man, Eutychus, (called out by name), fell in a deep sleep in the window
Paul just kept talking, until the man fell out the window and fell three stories
They bolt to the ground level and Paul sees that he’s fine
They go back upstairs, celebrate communion and Paul continues preaching until daybreak.
From Troas they went to Assos - to Mitylene - to Chios - to Samos - to Miletus
They sailed past Ephesus because Paul was hoping to make it back to Jersualem before the celebration of Pentecost.
It’s here that Paul calls the Ephesians elders to visit.
CARING FOR THINGS OF VALUE (When it comes to things of value…)
Example:
When you buy your first car or your first home.
Eleanor...
We care for things that we value
Paul’s Value for the Church
(28b) “Church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.”
CULTURAL VIEW OF CHURCH V. BIBLICAL VIEW OF CHURCH
Cultural View
Organized Religion
CEO, provide services
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Biblical View
A people, purchased with the blood of Jesus
The church is valuable because of the price God was willing to pay.
Blood of Jesus - Why is this valuable…?
Who Jesus Is? - God, clothed in humanity, fully God and fully man.
What Jesus Has Done? - His hands and feet were pierced to pay the penalty for our sins.
Sin = wrath, death, separation
Jesus became our sin
Why Jesus Died? - so that by faith we might become the righteousness f God.
Personally
verse 28 has really hit me this week
“Pay attention to yourselves… and the church”
God made you overseers of his church
Which he brought with his blood.
Yesterday I asked my son to move the van into the street for me
He’s nervous, the van is valuable, another son has already taken out the neighbor’s mailbox...
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