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July 28, 2024 - Acts 8:26-40

                                                                                                          July 28, 2024

Acts 8:26-40

Lessons Learned

by Wayne Gaeddert

1. Persecution was the catalyst to scatter the church, spreading the gospel as they went.

2. Candace is a title like Pharaoh or Caesar.

3. God prepares evangelists for those who seek Him.

4. H. A. Ironsides suggests that the eunuch was reading a Greek Version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint.

5. Gaza was the last watering place before the desert on the road from Jerusalem to Egypt. ESV Study Bible note

6. The Holy Spirit is for all who believe.

7. No one is excluded from the good news about Jesus.

8. God uses our past experiences to prepare us for future service.

9. It is the Word of God that the Holy Spirit uses to transform lives.

10. Allowing the Holy Spirit to direct your life will position you to be used by God.

11. Rejoicing is evidence of a changed life.

12. You never know who you will meet on the 'desert road'.

13. The ‘lost’ need a teacher to tell them about Jesus.

14. Philip was not intimidated by high-ranking officials of a foreign country.

15. Baptism is a public testimony of faith declaring that you believe that Jesus died on the cross to pay for your sins, rose from the grave in victory over death, ascended into heaven, and is coming again to gather the believers of all ages to eternally be with him.

16. Divine activity spurs the characters in Acts into action. Dr. Bradley
Chance

17. This story of the eunuch serves to foreshadow for the reader the Gentile mission “to the ends of the earth.” Dr. Bradley Chance

18. Do you allow God to direct your life as Philip did?

19. Chapters 1-7 have all been about what took place in Jerusalem. Chapters 8-12 will show the gospel spreading through Judea and Samaria.

20. Application:

  • God does not turn away from those who seek Him.

“And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” Luke 11:9-10

  • Although Philip left a successful ministry, it resulted in the gospel being carried to the ‘end of the earth’.

  • One result of conversion is joy.

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