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Introduction
Imagine with me that we are farmers.
Some may not have to imagine very hard.
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We are farmers and we have been put in charge of acres and acres of prime farmland.
The land belongs to someone else but we are managing it.
This land has the best soil, the best irrigation, and the best weather for growing crops.
We stand on our porch, looking out at the fields and we notice a problem.
There is no harvest.
Day after day we look out at the field, but the harvest doesn’t come.
In fact, nothing seems to be growing at all.
We start complaining to one another.
“Look at those fields, they aren’t producing anything!”
Over time we determine that there must be something wrong with the field.
One day the owner shows up and we start complaining to him about how ridiculous it is that the fields haven’t produced anything.
“How is it that all this prime farmland isn’t yielding any crops?”
We say.
Then the owner asks us a question.
He asks us THE question.
“Why haven’t you planted any seed?”
We would all be quick to point out that it is ridiculous to expect a harvest when we haven’t planted anything.
This is obviously ridiculous.
No one would expect to get a harvest if they had never planted any seed.
Yet spiritually speaking, it seems we sometimes forget this point.
Look with me at (S).
We have been called by God to plant and water.
To sow seed for harvest.
Did we sow any seed this week?
Did we plant?
Did we water?
The reality is that If we are not planting and watering, if we are not sowing seed, there will be no harvest.
Look at what Jesus says in (S).
The problem is not with the harvest.
The problem is not with the field.
The problem is that the laborers are few.
What is the solution?
Jesus gives it to us here.
Pray for laborers, and participate in the harvest.
We are looking at Paul’s defense before Agrippa, Bernice, and Festus.
As he offers this defense, Paul is sharing the gospel.
From his gospel presentation we are learning three lessons.
As we apply these lessons we will be effective in sharing the gospel.
Briefly, let’s review the first two.
Lesson #1…
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The Gospel Is Personal vv.
1-11
a. Personal connection vv.
1-3
b.
Personal condition vv.
4-8
c.
Personal confession vv.
9-11
Lesson #2…
2. The Gospel Is Purposeful vv.
12-18
a. Purposeful confrontation vv.
12-15
Each of us comes to Christ after being confronted with the reality of sin and our need of a Savior.
When we share the gospel we are bringing that same confrontation to others.
b.
Purposeful commission vv.
16-18
Once we are saved we are commissioned by God to bring the gospel to a lost and dying world.
This is not an optional activity for the child of God.
This is a mandate!
Lesson #3…
3. The Gospel Is Powerful vv.
19-23
Do we believe this?
Do we truly believe that the gospel is powerful?
Paul believed it.
This is what he wrote in (S).
The gospel is the power of God to salvation.
The good news of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection is life changing.
Apart from the gospel, we have no hope and no ability to have a relationship with God.
When we proclaim the gospel, we proclaim it with power because it is powerful.
In these final verses of Paul’s defense we find him presenting the gospel with power in two unique ways.
#1.
Paul offers a…
a. Powerful proposition vv.
19-21
READ v. 19
After what has been declared to Paul, he is not disobedient.
This presents us with a somewhat difficult reality.
We can be disobedient.
Paul has received a vision from heaven.
His words here imply that once he received it, he has a choice.
Will he obey or not?
When truth is revealed to us, we have this same choice.
The Holy Spirit living within us does not guarantee that we will walk in obedience to God and His Word.
This reality is evident when we consider the multitude of commands in the NT for us to obey and walk worthy of the Lord.
These commands only make sense if we have the option not to obey.
However, this does not mean that there are no consequences for disobedience.
I want to take us to three passages to demonstrate what happens when we disobey.
(S).
This command comes after Paul has dealt with putting away lying, not being angry, not stealing, and not speaking corruptly.
When we lie, are angry, steal, and speak corruptly, we grieve the Holy Spirit.
If we continue to grieve the Holy Spirit we end up with another problem.
(S).
Quench = to suppress or stifle.
The more we grieve the Holy Spirit, the more we suppress his voice in our lives.
If this behavior continues, we will face the discipline of God.
Turn to (p. 1383).
(p.
1383)
This is where disobedience leads.
To chastening for the purpose of correction.
Yet Scripture has many examples of people facing this correction due to disobedience.
Here is the point.
We have a choice.
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