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Acts 8:9 · BSB
8:9 Prior to that time, a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and astounded the people of Samaria. He claimed to be someone great,
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…us to test the spirits. Don't simply believe everything you hear because it sounds spiritual. Spiritual discernment helps us to guard against that.Acts chapter 8, you can write this down if you're taking notes. Acts chapter 8 tells a story about Simon the sorcerer. And this is a very interesting story…
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…Extraordinary opportunities come as a result from just simple obedience. Simple obedience. Um we see an example of that in the New Testament inActs chapter 8. We may have heard the name Philip. Philip was an evangelist and he was in the early church. And uh Philip was called by God and asked by an angel…
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…so we are jumping back into Acts, and we're excited to be continuing our journey through this book. So if you have a Bible or an app, open it up.Acts chapter 8. That's where we're going to be at this morning, verses 26 through 40, as we read earlier. Now, if you ask most Christians who the gospel is for,…
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…killed because of his preaching about Jesus, the new message of Jesus Christ. [SPEAKER_00]: and he was killed and from that point we pick up fromActs chapter 8. [SPEAKER_00]: So why don't you stand with me as I read just the first eight verses of Acts chapter 8? [SPEAKER_00]: And Paul approved Paul, who…
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…that God is calling them to. And he does. The Bible doesn't detail how, but we see the results of God doing this pruning in their life because inActs chapter 8, these same Samaritan people, they end up following Jesus. They become Christians, they end up following Jesus. They believe in him, they believe…
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…of pulling men and women out of their homes and arresting them. Who knows what happened to their children? And the situation at this point inActs chapter 8, it looks bleak. And if I'm an early church member, my pessimistic side would have set in. I would have been thinking, it's the end of the church…
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…meet with you and we're gonna feed you. Um so um please plan to be here. And it's going to be awesome. Amen? Enough of that. Let's go to the word.Acts chapter 8. I want to take you to Acts chapter 8. And we're going to read a little bit today, Acts chapter 8, 26 through 40, if you would stand with me. Amen.…
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…somebody to Jesus, anybody can tell somebody about Jesus. Because everybody is somebody to Jesus, anybody can tell somebody about Jesus. Let's readActs chapter 8together. Acts 8, verse number 26. The Bible says, Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise, go toward the south along the road…
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…the kind of fighting spirit that we do celebrate this Memorial Day. We're not retreating, we're attacking in a different direction. When we readActs chapter 8, we see a church that should be in retreat. We see a church that is attacked. We see a church that is threatened, that is vulnerable. But we see…
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…bound to Jerusalem. So we read that this morning to help illustrate just who Saul was. Luke in verse 1 is tying him to the death of Stephen back inActs chapter 8. And this wasn't someone who was just curious about the church. It wasn't someone who was seeking a connection to this Jesus guy. This was someone…
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…poured out on the day of Pentecost. So in the first seven chapters of Acts, we see that the church is almost exclusively Jewish. Then starting inActs chapter 8through Acts chapter 12, which we just finished Acts 12, we see a transition taking place. God poured out his Spirit in that time of transition,…
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…poured out on the day of Pentecost. So in the first seven chapters of Acts, we see that the church is almost exclusively Jewish. Then starting inActs chapter 8through Acts chapter 12, which we just finished Acts 12, we see a transition taking place. God poured out his Spirit in that time of transition,…
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…but not to deflate ourselves, to see it for the way that God sees it. And as a believer, you have an identity in Christ. You could call out to him.Acts chapter 8tells us that we can cry out to him, abba, Father, Daddy. We have that personal relationship with him later on in Acts chapter or excuse me, Romans…
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…know more about Stephen, but Stephen's probably more familiar with us. Philip was one of those seven who was chosen. We also encountered Philip inActs chapter 8. In Acts chapter 8, God sends Philip down to Samaria. And he, in Samaria, he preaches the gospel, and the Samaritans come receive the Holy Spirit…
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…say, too lost beyond help. Because that's what his fellow Jews would have said. The main issue for this morning's sermon is going to be looking atActs chapter 8. That's our priority. Verses 26 to 40. Then we're going to look at the solution to the problem that's found in the Gospel, and in particular in the…
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…through our souls this morning? That you may be glorified. God, have your way with us. It's in Christ's name we pray. Amen. So we're looking inActs chapter 8, and what we discover in the book of Acts is the gospel has come, the gospel has been preached, people have been saved, the Spirit has empowered…
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…available, those who can make themselves available, those who are made available through whatever life brings. And this is where we're at. We're inActs chapter 8, and what Acts chapter 8 is trying to show us here is what happens when God uses ordinary people. He can do it. The text really is ultimately not…
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…the resurrection? Okay, so I want you to just hold those questions this morning as we begin to enter into the text. Look at we, me, look with me atActs chapter 8, starting in verse 1. If you need a Bible, there's probably one on your row. You can please feel free to use that this morning. Acts 8, starting in…
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…53 is where they started having the Ethiopian Union. Well, that was where his challenge was. Praise the Lord. Remember the Christian he was asking?Acts chapter 8from verse 30 to 34. Is he speaking of himself or another? Praise the Lord. So Philip ran to him and had him reading from the prophet Isaiah and…
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…somewhere. I want to help you here. Here's I get that it sounds like semantics, but here's why it's really important. Because there were people inActs chapter 8, and there were people in Acts chapter 19 who had been saved a while, and Jesus, or people go up to them and saying, Hey, have you heard about the…
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