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Introduction
Pray
Ethiopian Eunuch
Philip is on mission we saw last week how he preached to the masses ever where he went and demons left with shrieks and people were healed.
While he is doing his missions the Holy Spirit tells him to head south along a 50 mile stretch between Jerusalem and Gaza.
A very desert road.
We are not told just where Philip is but while he is heading south on this road.
He meets up with an Ethiopian eunuch.
Who had gone to Jerusalem to Worship.
The Picture you see is called the “The baptism of the eunich” Done some where around 1626 by Rembrand van Rijn
The Eunuch is a A Male with no sexual organs.
Eunuchs were trusted men, often put in charge of the harem.
Herem includes riches, slaves, concubines all of the power symbols of a king.
This one was an important official in charge of the treasury of the queen of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia at that time is the land south of Egypt.
It is unusual that he went to Jerusalem to Worship.
Deuteronomy 23:1 explicitly stipulates that no emasculated male could be included within the Jewish religious community.
Isaiah 56:3-5 however, speaks of eunuchs being accepted by the God of Hesed.
Hesed is God’s love often translated lovingkindness or loyal love.
This is Not someone that would be in the usual witness to list.
This actually someone that would have been seen by the Hebrews as unclean.
This is not the person you would “want to” witness to.
Unclean meant that you could be unclean just by being around them.
This Eunice was sympathetic to the Jewish Way.
And he is bringing back with him a copy of Isaiah.
Which can be a difficult passage for believers let alone non believers
He is reading Isaiah 53:7-8.
Now there is no page breaks, no verses, no chapters.
Eunuch reading from the lower section of the scroll and Phillip begins the conversation with.
A simple question, Do you understand what you are reading?
What a question.
I wonder how many of us could say I have studied the scriptures and listen to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
So that we could say I do understand, Or could answer questions about it.
This passage allows Philip to tell the eunuch about Jesus.
Which leads to his salvation and being baptized right there on the side of the road.
Not waiting for the priest.
Not waiting for the baptizer.
Not going and finding a church.
Not when I understand more.
But right now.
Then according to tradition the Eunuch brings the good news of Jesus back to the queen and she believes.
Philip is then taken up and witnesses in all the towns he goes to until he settles down in Caesarea.
Meat him later in chapter 21 when he has four daughters.
When Philip accepted That Jesus was the Messiah I bet he never thought that he would be witnessing to sorcerers and eunuchs.
Witnessing to people that have the ear of Queens.
Witnessing to unclean people that were not exclusively Jews.
Were not the “good” or “right kind” of person, But that’s what happens when you listen to the Holy Spirit It will take you places you never thought you were going to do.
For the glory of God and it is a wonderful Journey.
He is witnessing to people that aren’t normally witnessed to and then he is taken up, And sent someplace to witness.
And joy is spread because the love of God is spread.
And the truth of the Gospel is spread.
The Journey of Your Life
What a wonderful Journey.
The problem becomes that sometimes we really don’t want to be taken places.
We like being comfortable.
We like not going places.
Even if it is better than where we are.
It still requires movement.
And that dreaded four letter word, Work.
The wonder of the Holy Spirit.
A blessed journey.
Thank God for the Journey so far.
Praise God for this Journey.
Open yourself to the journey, Afraid to listen to the Guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Afraid it will lead you somewhere you don’t want to Go.
We don’t like the word fear so maybe unsure.
The Desire to Go will come with the call.
Philip open to the Holy Spirit lead farther than he ever thought he would
Next Steps
Open yourself to the Holy Sprit
Pray
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