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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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…another. Prayer changes things when it's prayed in faith. There's one more thing I want to tell you. There was a time where Paul was preaching inActs chapter 20and during his preaching, a man named Eutychus, a young man, fell out of a window. He fell asleep and he fell out while Paul was preaching and he…
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…let's look into the Bible and see what God has for us here today. All right, we're going to go ahead and get our Bibles and we're going to turn toActs, chapter 20. Acts, chapter 20. Can you believe we are already to chapter 20 in the book of Acts? If you were here with us when we started, you were, you were…
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…that matchless glory, that worthy God and Savior. And just, I want us to see just the weight of this call and this office and the role it has. InActs chapter 20, I think it's a special place for us to go because we're in the book of Ephesians. Paul is kind of saying his last words to the elders of Ephesus,…
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…law has been fulfilled The curse has we've been redeemed from the curse Amen You know the pattern of the New Testament church you even see it in uhActs chapter 20in 1 Corinthians 16 You see that they gather on the first day to celebrate the completed work of our risen Lord and Savior Jesus Because the truth…
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…But Paul says, I am ready. He was ready to evangelize. Not only was he ready to evangelize the lost, but he was ready to encourage the saints inActs, chapter 20, verse number seven. Won't take time to turn there. But he's preaching and he's preaching long. He must have been a good Baptist. Don't worry, I…
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…in church in leading and in teaching. They had influence and when they spoke others listened. Now we heard a little bit about these guys inActs chapter 20as Paul said his final words to the elders of the Ephesian church, a church much like Corinth. He warned them about such people and I've just got…
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…It's a difficult passage, if I was honest with you, which I will be tonight. These are the types of passages of scripture that I say, oh, we're onActs, chapter 20next week. Because there I don't have a great answer for some of the things that are gonna be coming up in this next passage, other than the fact…
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…yourselves. You're to make disciples of Christ. And I think the danger in making disciples of ourselves is we end up drawing people to ourselves.Acts chapter 20, Paul warned of this. When he was talking to the Ephesian elders, his last kind of address to the Ephesian elders, this quintessential, like,…
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…and the New Testament describing the overseers with somewhat of interchangeable titles. And to to get an example of that, you can actually studyActs chapter 20. We won't look at the whole chapter, but we've referenced it a couple times in this sermon series because Acts chapter 20 describes Paul's…
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…They are called by God. They are affirmed by the church. They lead on the basis of Christ's will for his people. And we see this again plainly inActs chapter 20and verse 28. Paul addresses the elders in Ephesus. And he says, pay careful attention to yourselves. Pay careful attention to all the flock, to…
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…and he would bring them back to Jerusalem. In fact, the very last time he went to Jerusalem. Everyone said, in fact, Agabus. It says it inActs chapter 20, I believe Agabus said to Saul again as he was making his way to Jerusalem the last time, said Saul, if you go, let me take this belt and tie you…
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…refer to that evening of the Passover. Then you'll find an allusion, again, to this breaking of bread in Acts chapter two. You'll find it again inActs chapter 20, and then we get a treasure trove of information from the apostle Paul, don't we? In 1 Corinthians 10 and 11. What's interesting about that is in…
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…the leadership is often kind of all mixed together and used as one idea. In fact, this is not on my notes, but really quickly, let me just show youActs chapter 20. Let me show you how Paul uses this. Acts chapter 20. He's talking to the Ephesians and he's saying, look, I'm going away. Uh, but I, I want you to…
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…deacons, or to the elders and whoever, the saints in Rome or whatever the case may be, you'll notice elders plural is there a lot. It's plural. InActs, chapter 20, luke tells us that in the church in Ephesus, when Paul went to speak to them for the last time, he gathered the elders plural, more than one. In…
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…into that way of understanding. So let's have a look at the Bible. We're going to start earlier than what Ross read, and we're going to look atActs chapter 20. Acts chapter 20, beginning at the first verse. And while you find that in your Bibles, just sort of the context and the flow of the book, we're…
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…the episkopon must be above reproach. So same office, two different words. And this happens multiple times in the New Testament. It's very clear.Acts chapter 20is another great example. Paul calls for the elders from the city of Ephesus to meet him in Miletus. And then he tells them that the Holy Spirit…
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…in Berea, but even so, we know that there was an individual that left Berea and actually went with Paul on one of his trips. And so if you go toActs, chapter 20. Acts, chapter 20, verse 4, Paul visits Macedonia and Greece, and we see that there, accompanying him into Asia is so potter of Berea. And so we…
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…because I wanna see our passage in the Book of Acts through that lens. We've been journeying through acts for several months now. We've made it toacts chapter 20, and in our passage today, the Apostle Paul is going to share some of the commitments that have characterized or identified his life and ministry.…
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…it. Right? And so in the midst of the storm, I hope that you're warm and and doing well and we're just going to roll with it here this morning fromacts chapter 20versus one through 12. So if you would open up your Bible, turn to acts chapter 20, we'll be looking at verses one through 12. And as you do, as…
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…get to our main text. You can have some context and you can have some background. Okay, so the first passage of scripture we're going to look at isActs, chapter 20. You weren't expecting to go to the Book of Acts here on Christmas week, but that's what we're going to do because we're going to be looking at…
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