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Christ Moves Believers

Christ Moves Believers

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Scripture: Acts 20:17-35

From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church. When they arrived, he said to them: “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I came into the province of Asia. I served the Lord with great humility and with tears and in the midst of severe testing by the plots of my Jewish opponents. You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.  I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus. “And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.  I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me.  However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. “Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again.  Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of any of you.  For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God.  Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.  Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.  So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears. “Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.  I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.  You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.  In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

Sermon: Christ Moves Believers – Daniel Lowe

  1. Serve Christ with humility.
  2. Serve Christ with tears and trials.
  3. Serve Christ by declaring truth.
  4. Serve Christ with Spirit driven determination.

Westminster Shorter Catechism Question #79

Which is the Tenth Commandment?

The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.

Exodus 20:17

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The Whole Counsel of God

The Whole Counsel of God

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The Whole Counsel of God

For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

Acts 20:27

The Apostle Paul was bidding farewell to the Ephesian elders. As he did, he gave a brief review of his ministry. Before he transitions into a charge to the elders regarding their own responsibilities, he closes with the statement which serves as our text today. He says, ‘For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.’ Here is the Apostolic standard for ministry. Let us consider it carefully, if we would desire to have such a ministry ourselves, or sit under one. The ‘whole counsel’ of God involves the preaching of Christ from every portion of the Scripture. The preaching and writing of the New Testament is replete with the preaching of Christ from all over the Old Testament. The preaching of Christ was the hallmark of Apostolic ministry, ‘And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.‘ If we read the Epistles of the New Testament they brim with references to Christ, examples of Christ, and make the resurrection of Christ their constant refrain. All the commandments of the New Testament find their foundation in Christ and the obedience we render must be by the Power of Christ for ‘without Me, you can do nothing.’ We cannot make scant reference to the Person and Work of Christ and still claim to ‘declare…the whole counsel of God.’ The message of the Scripture is not mere religion nor pretentious morality, but rather the Living, Saving, Transforming, Enabling Christ. He and all that goes with Him is ‘the whole counsel of God.’

Our most Holy and Wise God,
we praise You that the message of Your Word,
is Christ, from beginning to end.
We rejoice that You give us the great privilege
of dwelling upon Him and declaring Him to all.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning

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