Title: Evangelist who burns in command
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Title: Evangelist burning in spirit
Bible: Acts 8:4-8
2007. 6. 3. Daytime
June is the month of veterans nationally and the month of revival in our church. Combined, this is a marathon
Around 490 BC, to tell the news of the Greek victory in the battle between Greece and Persia, he ran from Marathon Square to Athens and fell down after saying that we had won. 42.195Km. It is the month when the church is revived and the kingdom of God is expanded by sharing the gospel with the nation and nation.
From June 18-20, there will be a revival of the spirits.
We have two goals through this revival meeting.
1. Please revive my soul.
2. I hope it will be an amazing opportunity for quantitative and qualitative revival of our church.
The revival meeting was the most sure force and opportunity that changed this river and mountain into the gospel of Jesus Christ. Many people met the Lord through the revival meeting and were filled with the Holy Spirit and changed. And he experienced miracles and became a powerful saint.
At the revival meeting, I also received the Holy Spirit, received grace, and received power.
Therefore, dear saints! First of all, I pray that your hearts will be kindled through this revival meeting. May you be filled with the Holy Spirit and have a burning passion for evangelism. I hope you experience the amazing miracle in the field of your life.
And I hope that you will go forward with that hot Holy Spirit experience and burn with evangelism. I earnestly pray that the history of transforming Jaesong-dong into the arms of Christ and Busan into the gospel by evangelizing all neighbors will occur through our church.
Philip in today's text is the person the Lord wants and wants us to be. I sincerely pray that you will become an evangelist like Philip. to be so
1. You must first change yourself.
Philip was one of the first 7 deacons of the Early Church. The criteria for selecting deacons at that time were 1) full of faith, 2) full of the Holy Spirit, 3) full of wisdom, and 4) people who were praised by people. Philip was without blemish by that standard.
That's right. Before I can become like Philip, I must change myself. How should we change?
1) You must be full of faith.
Therefore, dear saints! May you have this faith fully. Please evangelize many people before the revival meeting.
2) You must be filled with the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit gives me strength, gives me wisdom, and works miracles even in situations where my strength and abilities are beyond my reach. Therefore, those who are filled with the Holy Spirit are not discouraged. We only go forward for the sake of happiness. Since you have learned to be filled with the Holy Spirit so far, I hope that you will evangelize with the Holy Spirit in your position and courage.
3) You must be full of wisdom.
When people are foolish, they make what they have succeeded in failure, and they fear people and the environment more than God. However, a person with wisdom fears God only and trusts God rather than people or circumstances, and what is not possible becomes God. Therefore, it is the only way to go forward with God's way of eating. This is wisdom.
When Jerusalem was unable to preach the gospel due to many persecutions, they crossed over to Samaria and obeyed God's command. That is wisdom. Dear saints, I hope you will follow God's will by relying on God's great wisdom rather than our little wisdom.
4) Compliments from people should be people.
This is very valuable for evangelism. Evangelism is for people. Don't do it to animals. Therefore, what people think of me and what my impression is is an important issue whether the door of evangelism is opened or closed. Therefore, compliments to people must be human.
At least Philip was such a person. Like Philip, I pray that you will change yourself first.
2. He was an evangelist who obeyed God's commands.
He went to Samaria when the Jerusalem church was persecuted and scattered. It is also part of the Lord's Great Commission.
“The new Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ to the people, the new Philip, from whom the scattered men were going about preaching the word of the gospel.”
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” It is proof that your words are being fulfilled. Philip is an evangelist who completely obeys the Word of God. If an evangelist tries his tricks, he will fail. You must always listen to God's commands and learn to listen to even the smallest voices.
In verse 26, the angel of the Lord told us to go down the road going down to Gaza. That road was a wilderness road. It was not a place for people to live. But he obeyed God's word. I went and saw a wagon passing by. The voice of the Lord was heard to draw near to the chariot. As I got closer, I saw a man reading the Bible, and he was reading the chapter of Isaiah 53, the sufferings of Jesus. So we got on and went together, and when I asked what it meant, there was no one to teach me, so I didn't know. Then Philip taught me in detail and gave me interpretations. In other words, it said that Jesus suffered for us and that we were saved because of his suffering, so we must believe in Jesus to be saved. At that time, the man got off the carriage, was baptized, and received Jesus to be saved. who is he It was the eunuch of the Ethiopian Queen Gandage. He returned to his home country and preached the gospel, and then Ethiopia turned into a Christian country.
Evangelists must obey the Lord's commands. When the Lord tells you to go, you go and when the Lord tells you to stop, you have to stop. Therefore, dear saints! Please take this opportunity to obey the Lord's commands and evangelize so that the work of saving new life can be revealed.
3. He was an evangelist who performed miracles and powers.
God gave the evangelist Philip the amazing power.
“The unclean spirits that had been attached to many went out with a loud voice, and many paralytics and lame people were healed.”
He had the gift of healing, the gift of casting out demons, the ability to heal the paralytic and to make the crippled walk. Jesus said, “And these signs shall follow those who believe; in My name they will cast out old and new things; they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents; if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. “One word appeared in the field of evangelism. If you also evangelize, you will experience these miracles and powers. Our church is a church where many miracles occur.
It is a church where demons are healed, spinal discs are healed, prayers are answered, and God's grace is always displayed. If you have a sincere heart to evangelize, go out to evangelize and share the gospel with people, you will experience these amazing facts.
Therefore, I pray that you will be reborn as a capable ws ceramics through this revival meeting.
4. He is gifted by his whole family.
“The next day we left and came to Caesarea, and went into the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the seven deacons, and stayed there. He had four daughters, who prophesied as a virgin.”
I hope that you will accomplish the salvation of your family on this occasion. Please take this opportunity to evangelize families who have not yet received the Lord and come together to receive grace.
conclusion
June is the month of revival. We all want to wake up in a revival of my soul first. So, through this revival meeting, history must be turned upside down. I hope that you will receive the Holy Spirit, receive grace, and receive gifts, so that you can become an evangelist burning with the spirit of commandment.
Second, I want you to put all your efforts into the revival of the church. I hope that the fire of revival in the church may be kindled because I am faithful to my little things and do my best with pride and reward.
To that end, we hold a special early morning prayer meeting from tomorrow to the revival meeting. Come out and cry out and pray earnestly. Since God has promised not to meet those who seek me earnestly, I sincerely pray that you will meet the Lord and be filled with power and grace and become a new person.