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Preaching
Intro:
Thank you Eschers.
Kari, Duane,
My name is Alan Hensley.
Associate Pastor.
It’s a joy to worship with you this morning.
Many of you know that I was born and raised in Alamosa, about 2.5 hours from here.
Most of my family lived there growing up.
We’ve been a part of that community for a long time.
My mom has been a teacher there for many years.
Shout out to all of the teachers in here, we appreciate you and all you do for the community.
So I grew up in the classroom.
I would watch and observe my mom teach elementary students.
At the time, I don’t think I realized how impactful that would be throughout my life.
Throughout my years in school, it was kind of a blessing a curse because I would have a critical eye for teaching.
Fast forward I entered into ministry jobs.
Ranging from camping ministry, College ministry, and now pastoral Ministry.
All of these ministry settings gave me the opportunity to preach and teach.
And as I got the opportunity to do it, the more I began to love it.
Now don't get me wrong, sometimes even still I have a love-hate relationship with it.
It's kind of fun to think back on how I used to preach when I first started.
I went through some rough stages with preaching.
I had a stage of not preaching with my shoes on.
For some reason, I think that’s a trend with us younger guys.
I also had a stage of constant pacing.
I’ve been able to grow over the years.
I am still learning this craft, but I do love it.
But if you think about the stories of preaching in the Bible you can go all the way back to Moses as he would preach to the Israelites the Word and they would respond.
In the bible, we see this long line of men who would preach.
And that's true for us in the book of Acts.
As we have been reading we have encountered so many sermons whether it be from Peter in Acts chapters 2,3, 4, 10, and 11.
Or Stephen in Acts chapter 7. Now here in chapter 13, we get to the point in Acts that Paul really began to preach.
Today we get to see the Apostle Paul’s first recorded sermon.
As we do that we want to look at a couple of things that the text provides.
We want to look at how Paul preaches and why Paul preaches.
Before we really do that let's pray.
Acts 13:13–14 (ESV)
Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos (Pay-fus) and came to Perga in Pamphylia (Pam-fill-ee-ah).
And John left them and returned to Jerusalem, but they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia (pa-side-ee-ah).
And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.
If you remember last week we came across the story where we see the author, Luke, tell the story of Paul and his “companions” after the encounter of the magician we talked about last week named Bar-Jesus.
From there he tells us where they are heading.
First missionary trip.
They take off from Paphos (Pay-fus) and go to Perga then once again head somewhere different which is Antioch in Pisidia.
But we see something significant happen.
We see that not all of the companions followed Paul to Antioch of Pisidia.
John Mark decides to head back to Jerusalem in verse 13.
We don’t know exactly why he went back, but it seems to be because he was sent back because of some tension.
But it seems as if there was some sort of disagreement or something.
We don’t know for sure, but we will see at the end of Chapter 15 that it was a big deal for Paul, which then caused another disagreement between Paul and Barnabas (John Mark’s cousin).
But that is kind of a spoiler of the story and we will Jimmy cover that one at the end of the month.
Now you may be thinking that in chapter 11 we already visited the Church of Antioch.
Which we did, but in today’s scripture, we see the disciples in a different city also named Antioch.
There were actually 15-17 cities close to the area that were named Antioch.
The one we have first encountered was Antioch of Syria, this was the city the disciples fled to after Steven was martyred in Jerusalem.
That Antioch would serve as a sending gound somewhat for the disciples, sort of like a home base for them.
We saw this at the beginning of chapter 13 last week.
Acts 13:1-3 .
Acts 13:1–3 (ESV)
Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (Man-ann) a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch (tet-rark), and Saul.
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
It’s kind of confusing, there's a church of Antioch that sends them, but they end up at another Antioch in the passage we read today.
Yet, Antioch of Pasida where there are today was much further from Jerusalem.
It was a Roman colony that was very “roman” in culture.
It really almost served as a military and administrative center for the Romans.
Yet at the same time, it also had many Jewish people living there.
Nonetheless, Paul and his companions end up there in Antioch of Pisidia in a Synagogue (Where the Jewish people would worship) on a sabbath.
They go and join this worship service, where they would pray, read the law and Prophets there was oftentimes, by someone competent, would give a message alongside the reading.
They knew Paul was going to be there and invited him to preach.
This is where we hear Pauls's first recorded Sermon.
While we read Paul’s sermon, I want to break down a couple of different elements that he has in this sermon.
We want to look at how did Paul preach and what did he preach about.
The first element we see is something that we call context.
Elements of Pauls Sermon
1. Context
Acts 13:15–25 (ESV)
So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said:
“Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen.
The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.
All this took about 450 years.
And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
Of this man’s offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.
Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
And as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am?
I am not he.
No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
So what we see here from Paul, is he is plunging into the history of Israel, and how they have become a nation.
In verse 15, it talks about how they became great (in numbers) during their stay in Egypt.
Eventually Moses led the out of Egypt and they received thier intheritance after 450 years.
Talk about waiting on the Lord.
God Established a government for them.
They had judges until Samuel.
They asked for a king, and God gave them Saul.
40 years, removed.
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