Getting Connected with God

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Getting Connected with God

• What in the World is God Doing?
• Acts 2828-31

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What GOD Doing ???
Nothing
Everything
Some Things
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Heb 116  And without faith it is
impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw
near to God must believe that He exists and that
He rewards those who seek Him.
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1A. The Gospel of God is MovingForward
Geographically Acts 2830a

• Rome - Acts 2816
• Paul started in Antioch - Acts 131
• Book of Acts started in Jerusalem -Acts 18
• Moved out into Judea and Samaria -Acts 81

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2A. The Gospel of God is MovingForward
Universally Acts 2830b

• Jews - 2817-25a, esp vs. 23
• Gentiles 2825b-28
• all universal
• you purchased for God with your blood from every
  tribe and tongue and people and nation
  Revelation 59

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3A. The Gospel of God is MovingForward
Circumstantially Acts 2831

• with all boldness (ESV) openness (NASB)
  boldly (NIV)
• without hindrance
• Last word of the Book of Acts unhindered
• The Gospel of God, The Kingdom of God, The Church
  advances in spite of insurmountable obstacles

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Insurmountable Obstacles1st Century 21st

• Fear
• Uneducated People
• Persecution
• Famine-Poverty
• Imprisonment
• Leadership Differences
• False Teaching
• Spiritual Attack

• HIV/AIDS
• Global Warming
• Poverty and Famine
• Racial reconciliation
• Sexual trafficking
• Abortion
• War and Peace
• Financial Meltdown
• Rising Health Costs

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The Blood of the Martyrs was the Seed of the
Church
Hudson Taylor 3 Steps to Gods Work 1st
Impossible 2nd Difficult 3rd - Done
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We are World Christians. We put Gods love for
all people first. No race is superior to
another. We dont put our nations economy before
Gods economy. He tells us to seek first His
kingdom. We are driven to action daily with the
knowledge that 4 billion people do not know our
Savior. Our passion in life, our unquenchable
desire, is to take Gods love to them. No task
is too small for us. All that limits us is our
unwillingness to believe God can enable us to do
it. We are sold out to Jesus Christ. Nothing
less. We understand following Him means absolute
death to ourselves.