What happened next

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What happened next?
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The Church on the CHARGE!
Acts 81-25
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1. Saul The Protagonist

• A religious spirit
• Based on tradition and ritual
• Personal preferences become principles
• Fighting this generations wars with last
  generations methods and practices

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1. Saul The Protagonist

• God was doing a new thing (Isaiah 4318-19)
• A new covenant Jeremiah 3131
• A new heart and a new spirit Ezekiel 3626
• A new song Psalm 403
• A new heavens a new earth 2 Peter 313
• A new command 1 John 28

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2. Philip The Evangelist
God uses ordinary people to do extra-ordinary
things
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2. Philip The Evangelist

• Philips ordinariness was activated by
• The fullness of the Holy Spirit
• Being attentive and obedient to the promptings
  of the Holy Spirit
• Doing the only thing necessary to spread the
  Good News speak it out

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3. Simon The Opportunist

• A sham conversion
• Motivated by greed for power not conviction
  of sin
• Unmasked by the apostles, Peter and John

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4. What do we learn?

• The Holy Spirit draws crowds and individuals.
• God will use whoever is available.
• There is astonishing power in the Gospel to
  change lives!
• The pursuit of God, not power, is what counts