TEXT: Acts 28
What part will we have in the Gospel continuing to impact our world?
II Timothy 4:16
“At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.”
II Timothy 4:6, 7
“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:”
The mission of the church continues on and the message of the Gospel is still being proclaimed by God’s messengers!
I. OPPOSITION AND OBSTACLES TO THE CHURCHES MISSION AND MESSAGE REMAIN
We are not to be superstitious people but Spiritual.
There is no truer test of our claim to Christianity then how we react and respond to calamities.
II. GOD ORDAINED OPPORTUNITIES ABOUND
"For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been’! ”
John 12:35,36a
“Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.”
Ephesians 5:8
“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:”
I Thessalonians 5:5, 6
“Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.”
1. Take the opportunity to invite!
2. Take the opportunity to invest!
3. Take the opportunity to get involved!
4. Take the opportunity to increase!
Philippians 1:9, 10
“And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;”