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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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…stature of the fullness of Christ. Which means that we still need these ministries, these gifts to function within the church. Last week's passage,Acts chapter 20, 17 to 38, painted a picture of how apostles and shepherds and teachers functioned in the early church. An apostle or a missionary is someone who…
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…of God among them, and there Peter uses the word elder and shepherd interchangeably. Paul to the Ephesians, not in the book of Ephesians, but inActs chapter 20, gathers together the Ephesian elders and he refers to them as the overseers of the church. The Greek word here in 1 Timothy 3, verse 1, is the…
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…and he appoints them to that role. But acts 14 and Titus 1 or not, the only places that we read about this office of Elder in the New Testament andActs chapter 20, Paul meets with the elders from Ephesus. He meets with them on the shores of Meletis and there. We see three titles that are synonymous in the New…
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…week. Last week, Paul said his farewell to the Ephesian elders, marking the end of his third missionary journey. And between then and now, betweenActs chapter 20and today, Acts chapter 28, there's quite a bit that's happened. After his Ephesian farewell, Paul, led by the Spirit, he says, I feel like I need…
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…The church in Ephesus had some problems. More specifically, they they had some problem people. But that was not that surprising when we look atActs chapter 20, because the Apostle Paul gathered with the Ephesian elders and told them, he says, listen, after I leave, there are going to be men springing up…
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…places to launch the Christian mission. And prior to Paul's third missionary journey, there was no church in this city of Ephesus. But now inActs chapter 20, Paul, having spent about three years in the city, the longest he's spent in any place, there is a church. There's new converts and new leaders in…
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…cross. If Jesus never died on the cross, there would be no Christian church. The church was literally paid for by the blood of Christ on the cross.Acts chapter 20and verse 28 says, Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to shepherd the church of…
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…the work of building churches churches because this is the work of Christ in the world. Secondly, Jesus purchased the church with his blood. InActs chapter 20and verse 28, Paul is saying goodbye to the Ephesian elders. It's the last time he'll see them. And he says to them, pay careful attention to…
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…you know, encounters, it's it's not always uh what you think it is. And today, Paul, he has a difficult circumstance before him. In the book ofActs chapter 20. If you've got a Bible, you can head there with me. Acts chapter 20, there's a difficult circumstance Paul Paul is in. He has to leave a community…
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…question is, can you all or can I can all of us defend it? The title of our lesson. Today is Bible classes and Sunday school. And I want to takeActs chapter 20and verse 7 as our introductory text, Hang on one second. It acts 20 verse 7, the bible says, now, on the first day of the week when the disciples…
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…to change. I want to go from strength to strength. I want to go from faith to faith. I'm moving from glory to glory in Jesus' name, amen, amen.Acts, chapter 20. Tonight let's start reading in verse 17. And this is Paul. And from Meletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church, and when they…
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…to change. I want to go from strength to strength. I want to go from faith to faith. I'm moving from glory to glory in Jesus' name, amen, amen.Acts, chapter 20. Tonight let's start reading in verse 17. And this is Paul. And from Meletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church, and when they…
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…together to break bread. Paul came intending to depart the next day and began preaching. So Paul comes to a dinner with the congregation inActs chapter 20. Comes to a dinner. After dinner, he starts a little sermon, a little devotional time, and he keeps going. And he keeps going until, says in verse…
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…He has given shepherds, under-shepherds, to the church in the form of elders, pastors, or teachers. We all labor under Christ. In fact, Paul inActs chapter 20gives a sermon to the Ephesian elders, the same people who are going to get the book of Ephesians. Paul's already preached to them in Acts chapter…
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…Paul's in Philippi. And that brings Luke to Philippi. But then the wee passages leave off and then it doesn't come back until six years later inActs 20, verses 1 to 16, when Paul returns to Philippi, which suggests that Luke was left in Philippi to provide some oversight and leadership for the church there. And if…
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…today. And so we see then the price of our redemption was blood. It was blood. Redemption in a spiritual sense is always bloody. That's whyActs chapter 20and verse 28 would say that Jesus obtained us, obtained us with his own blood. Peter would say it a little bit differently in a more verbose way.…
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…people to be shepherds to his church. That's why the Apostle Paul, as he gathered the elders of the church of Ephesus together for the last time inActs chapter 20and verse 28, he gathers them together. He says, Listen, this is the last time I'm gonna see you. They hug and they cry, do they do all that good…
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…God saved him and called him, he planned to do whatever it took to be faithful to the very end. I want you to look at this statement he made inActs chapter 20. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me. If only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me. The task of…
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…the Ephesians, wrote letter to the pastors of Ephesus and uh pastor there himself as well. He told them that this was gonna happen. If we look inActs chapter 20, 29 and 30, we see Paul addressing the elders at Ephesus before he's being sent away to Rome to be executed for his faith. He says this I know that…
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…start. That is a power packed chapter. You know there's some chapters that just got a lot of things in it. Romans eight's one of them. And thenActs, chapter 20. And we'll start with Romans, chapter eight and verse 16. The Spirit itself, or Himself, bears witness, with our spirit, that we are the children…
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