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Acts 20:8 · BSB
20:8 Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
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…us readying ourselves perfectly in the manner that the Holy Spirit wants us to prepare and be ready for. I want to read a verse first. Let's readActs chapter 20, 28. Acts chapter 20, 28. Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. To care for the…
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…The preaching of the gospel. And as the preaching of the gospel has down through the years been blessed by the Lord, so, for example, Paul inActs chapter 20, where he said a very emotional farewell to the elders at Ephesus. I remember they came to him and they wept that they were not going to see his…
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…given that to us this morning. Great to be with you. Thank you for allowing us to come and just share and worship with you again this morning. SoActs chapter 20, if you have a Bible and you haven't turned there already, let's go to Acts chapter 20. And just an absolutely incredible passage, really, from a…
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…author of life is God. The one who creates life. Who gives life. And what he's saying is you killed the author of life. This very one. And then inActs chapter 20, you remember where Paul met with the elders from Ephesus. A very poignant emotional passage. An emotional meeting as it was. He wasn't going to…
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…rightly understood that he is willing to go 2,000 miles out of his way knowing exactly what might happen on the way or even when he gets there. Inacts chapter 20, Paul tells some of his dear friends, and now I am going to Jerusalem constrained by the spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there except…
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…in the church, and some of them even in leadership in the church. And so this is a church that has the same kind of arc as Ephesians. When Paul inActs chapter 20said farewell to the Ephesian church, he said, I'm not going to see your faces again. But he came back years later, and it's likely that it was…
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Acts chapter 20. I'm going to begin in verse 17 and read to the end of the chapter. This is Paul's farewell address to the Ephesian elders. He had been their…
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…nations that wanted to come in and tear down what had been built. And there will be people who come in as Paul warns the elders in Ephesus and uhActs chapter 20. There will be wolves who try to come in and tear down what the what the Spirit of God has built up, what your labor has built up in the preaching…
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…singular. Paul charges Titus to raise up elders in the churches. James instructs the sick to be prayed over by the elders of the church. Plural.Acts chapter 20speaks of the elders at Ephesus. And we see this pattern elsewhere in scripture as well. Moses raises up elders to share leadership with. Jesus…
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…many of them were uh faithful to Paul and loyal to Paul throughout his ministry? Very, very few. Very few. Take this the other detail we have fromActs chapter 20. He was Asian, he's described as Asian in Acts chapter 20, along with Trophimus, those two in the list of Paul's traveling companions that left…
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…thing I want to say is that a healthy church seeks spiritual protection in prayer. And this takes us to Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders. SoActs chapter 20, and we're going to read from verse 25 to 36. Now, so Paul gathers these elders. He's been with them for three years. He's been in the region for…
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…name, amen. You just never graduate. You just keep on. Keep on going from faith to faith and glory to glory, strength to strength. Let's look atActs, chapter 20tonight, acts 20. We'll start reading verse 17. And from Meletus, he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church. Now, the elders, you…
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…God should give us a joy to call them home. The love of God should give us confidence to call them home. God has a people. When the apostle Paul inActs chapter 20was beaten to the point of death and thrown out of a city, the Lord spoke to Paul as he's there pretty much on his deathbed. He speaks to me, he…
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…of Jesus Christ force in into the world and that there is no accomplished witness without speaking words. Now last week, Derek looked atActs chapter 20, which is a parallel passage to Acts 1 where we're given an account of what ministry looks like, of what mission looks like. And Paul says…
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…of Jesus Christ force in into the world and that there is no accomplished witness without speaking words. Now last week, Derek looked atActs chapter 20, which is a parallel passage to Acts 1 where we're given an account of what ministry looks like, of what mission looks like. And Paul says…
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…contain the books of all of the deeds of Jesus. Or again, there's an instance in the book of Acts when Paul is talking to the elders at Ephesus inActs chapter 20, where he says, For as the Lord has said, it is better to give than to receive, but there's nothing in the Gospels where Jesus says that. And so…
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…two questions because I believe these two questions should be the two questions. That every born-again believer should perpetually ask of God inActs chapter 20to turn your Bibles there, please. I want you to see what Paul asked. What he asked Jesus when he met Jesus and his eyes were open to the fact that…
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…truth. These people were distorting the truth, disturbing believers and ultimately destroying the church. Paul envisioned this happening back inActs chapter 20when he says to the Ephesian elders, from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away disciples after them, not…
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…I know. And he's telling you to repent. And this becomes Paul's pattern throughout his ministry. In fact, when Luke describes Paul's preaching inActs chapter 20, he says Paul was solemnly testifying to both Jews and Gentiles of repentance towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. It's amazing how many…
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…sensitive to our inheritance. Now I'll let the devil trespass and poach and squat on our property and here, in this setting that we preached out ofActs, chapter 20, we only preached verse 32. But when you go back, he's actually having a meeting with the elders of the church at Ephesus. This was his church that…
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