Acts 8:26-40<\/p>\n
This would be a season of reaping souls for Christ.<\/p>\n
Philip is directed by an angel!\u00a0 Today we are directed mainly by God\u2019s completed word.\u00a0 The question that comes to me is; why would an angel be sent to direct my day?\u00a0 Am I living for the gospel that an encounter with an angelic being will make a difference?\u00a0 Today you and I will meet someone that is heading to an eternity in Hell.\u00a0 Why am I unconcerned about that when God has told me that without the gospel that is their destiny?\u00a0 There are many religious systems that say believe in Jesus.\u00a0 But this is a head knowledge and not a call to repent and trust in Jesus’ work on the cross.\u00a0 Many who claim Christianity are not born again, so share the gospel with someone today.<\/p>\n
Philip is not led to Hawaii but to the desert.\u00a0 We are not told if Philip knew why or if he was just directed to go.\u00a0 God does not tell us the future, just our present, we walk knowing God holds our future.<\/p>\n
Philip finds an Ethiopian eunuch a man of great authority traveling on the road.\u00a0 The angel of God sent him this, for now the Spirit of God tells Philip to join the chariot.\u00a0 God had already been working on the Ethiopian man.\u00a0 He had just finished worshiping God and he was now reading scripture.<\/p>\n
Philip desired for someone to show him the meaning of Scripture.\u00a0 You will meet someone today who knows a little and needs you to help them surrender and receive Jesus.\u00a0 Philip showed him Jesus.\u00a0 Secondly, Philip led him to be baptized.\u00a0 Notice he could not get baptized unless he believed first.\u00a0 This is why we hold to believer\u2019s baptism, not infant baptism.\u00a0 Baptism is that first step of obedience after salvation.\u00a0 We need to make baptism a very important next step.\u00a0 Tradition has this Ethiopian man taking the gospel in the Africa.<\/p>\n
The chapter closes with Philip being carried away by the Spirit.\u00a0 One minute Philip is with the chariot and the next God moved him to the next place that he needed to share the gospel.\u00a0 Everywhere you find yourself share the gospel of Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}