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Introduction
That isn’t what happens.
We might be tempted to ask, what was the point?
Why did God put Paul through all of this?
That’s what our title is all about today.
Paul’s journey was about 1 thing.
The Christian life is about 1 thing.
It’s about the gospel.
The gospel brings glory to God.
The Gospel grows the believer.
The Gospel changes a sinner into a saint.
It’s about the gospel.
I read a story about a man and his wife who went to a football game.
At the end of the game the man turns and asks his wife what she thought.
She said, “I have one question.
What’s so special about the coin?”
He looked at her in confusion and asked “what do you mean?”
To which she replied, “there must be something special about the coin since one team gets it at the beginning and the other team spends the whole time trying to take it away!”
A man takes his girlfriend to a football game.
After the game is over he asks if she had a good time.
She replied “yes that was fun, but I don’t understand why they do all of that for 25 cents”.
A man takes his girlfriend to a football game.
After the game is over he asks if she had a good time.
She replied “yes that was fun, but I don’t understand why they do all of that for 25 cents”.
The man, puzzled, asks “what do you mean?”
To which the blonde replied “well the game started with a coin toss, and afterward they just ran around hitting each other screaming get the quarterback!
get the quarterback!”
She missed the whole point.
In the Christian life, there is a danger of us missing the whole point.
There is a message being preached in many places today that life is about you.
Life is about personal growth, personal advancement, and success.
That is not what we see in Scripture.
The Christian life is not about self.
It is about the honor and glory of Jesus Christ.
It is about the transformation we experience when Christ comes into our lives.
As we finish the book of Acts today, we reflect on all that has been recorded and we understand some important points about Christianity.
After everything Paul has been through to get to Rome, we might expect a huge conversion like at Pentecost or other times.
That isn’t what happens.
We might be tempted to ask, what was the point?
Why did God put Paul through all of this?
That’s what our title is all about today.
The man, puzzled, asks “what do you mean?”
To which she replied “well the game started with a coin toss, and afterward they just ran around hitting each other screaming get the quarterback!
get the quarterback!”
Paul’s journey was about 1 thing.
The Christian life is about 1 thing.
We all laugh because she watched the whole game, and never understood the point.
It’s about the gospel.
As believers in Jesus Christ, life has a point.
It has a purpose.
The gospel brings glory to God.
The Gospel grows the believer.
The Gospel changes a sinner into a saint.
I don’t want us to get to heaven, stand before the King of kings, and realize that we have missed the whole point.
It’s about the gospel.
As believers in Jesus Christ, life has a point.
It has a purpose.
The purpose of our lives is to bring honor and glory to Jesus Christ.
This is accomplished as we grow in our faith and share Christ with others.
In short, it’s about the gospel.
It’s about the gospel.
As the book of Acts draws to a close, we are faced with a final gospel presentation.
As the book of Acts draws to a close, we are faced with a final gospel presentation.
In this presentation a familiar and common format is observed.
The gospel is preached, some believe some don’t, and Paul keeps preaching.
Why?
Because he is all about the gospel.
That’s where we are going this morning.
PURPOSE STATMENT
As believers in Jesus Christ our lives must be all about the gospel.
OR
we must live to be all about the gospel.
For life to be all about the gospel we must embrace three situations.
When these have been embraced we can live with gospel purpose.
Situation #1…
Situation #1…
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The Gospel Proclaimed 23-25a
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The Gospel Proclaimed 23-25a
I can’t even list the number of movies that use a similar plot point.
There is a person in the movie; a daughter, a son, a loved one, we waits for a letter or letters that never arrive.
They grow bitter and angry only to discover as the plot unfolds that the letter or letters were written, they just never received them.
Had the letters been delivered there would have been so much pain avoided!
If only they had gotten the message.
Church.
We have the greatest message anyone could ever receive.
We have the words of eternal life ()!
We are supposed to be all about the gospel.
But as Paul writes to the Romans, people cannot hear if we do not proclaim the gospel ()!
I cannot be about the gospel if I never share it.
I cannot be about the gospel if I never share it.
CONGREGATION
There are people who need to hear and they need to hear the gospel from us!
They can avoid so much pain if only we will share the message!
With that in mind, we get into our passage here and discover something vital.
There are two elements of a successful gospel proclamation
Element #1…
Element #1…
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