a small class (ac.8:26-40). i. setting the setting: 1. started with persecution ac.8:1-3 two amazing...
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A Small Class(Ac.8:26-40)
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I. Setting
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The Setting:1. Started with persecution
Ac.8:1-3 Two amazing facts:
1God was willing to send Hischildren into harm’s way
2Christians were willing to go, knowing what would happen
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The Setting:2. Started with busy people
Philip was preaching in Samaria1Jonah found excuses not to go.
Philip could have (desert; one man).2Abraham went immediately.Philip also trusted & obeyed.
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The Setting:3. Desert road, 26
Gaza: southernmost of Philistia’s five great cities Destroyed: 93 BC New city: 57 BC Old city became “Desert Gaza”
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The Setting:1. Persecution2. Busy people3. Desert road
4. Teaching as they traveled Recalls another Stranger who opened
Scriptures to travelers (Lk.24:13-35)
Use informal settingsto teach eternal truth
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I. Setting
II. Speaker
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The Speaker:1. Not angel, 26
Angel gave directions to preacher. Ac.10:3, angel connected sinner w.
preacher. 2 Co.4:7 Ga.1:6-8 . . . 1 K.13
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The Speaker:1. Not angel
2. Not Holy Spirit, 29 Identified Stephen’s next audience Ac.2, direct revelation to preachers Ac.10:44-48, HS ‘fell’ only after sending
preacher (10:19-20)
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The Speaker:1. Not an angel
2. Not Holy Spirit
3. Not Apostle Ac.6, had been with apostles
Philip could work miracles (8:6-8)
Philip could explain Scriptures (8:35)
Eunuch: Word was enough (8:36)
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The Speaker:1. Not an angel
2. Not Holy Spirit
3. Not Apostle Philip was able to help him Providence
Eunuch arrived in Jerusalem too late to hear Peter (Ac.2)
Christians had left Jerusalem (Ac.8)
God did not leave him in dark
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The Speaker:1. Not an angel
2. Not Holy Spirit3. Not Apostle
4. Philip: a “layman” Acts 6 . . . Acts 8:29 –
Not a beggar No meeting ads
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I. Setting
III. Sinner
II. Speaker
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A seeker
Eunuch (Is.56:3-5). Mk.16:15 One man. Mt.28:19 Official of Queen Candace
Hereditary title of Ethiopian queens.Political affairs beneath “divine” kings.
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Ethiopia (Gk.)
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A seeker
Eunuch (Dt.23:1; Is.56:3-5). Mk.16:15 One man. Mt.28:19 Official of Queen Candace To worship. Cf. Jn.12:20 Reading
Scripture . . . on way home Very passage he needed most
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A seeker
Eunuch (Dt.23:1; Is.56:3-5). Mk.16:15 One man. Mt.28:19 Official of Queen Candace To worship. Cf. Jn.12:20 Reading Doesn’t look lost (as Ac.2, 9, 10, etc.)
Religious, zealous,sincere, humble, obedient
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I. Setting
IV. Scripture
II. Speaker
III. Sinner
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Ac.8:30-33 (Isa.53)
Read without understanding Needed help: guide me
No evidence any Jew in 1st Century expected suffering Messiah Jesus taught disciples about Is.53
Jn.16:13 Mt.15:14
Suffer
Submit
Substitute
Son of God
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I. Setting
II. Speaker
III. Sinner
V. Salvation
IV. Scripture
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Philip begins were the eunuch is.Preaches Jesus
Person of Jesus: Messiah, Son . . . Plan of Jesus: includes baptism
Mt.3 Mt.28 Baptism . . . . . . . Baptism(Person) (Plan)
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Philip ends with words similar to Ac.2:22-38
Preached Jesus, 35-38 Stop the chariot!
TO. . .INTO. . .OUT OF (water baptism)
Jesus saves (Is.53)
We obey (Hb.5:7)
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Eunuch’s beginning and ending
Began: “I need help” Ended: resumed journey, rejoicing (8:8)
He was lost; now found
He was blind; now sees
Christian…uses Bible…teaches sinner…baptizes him
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Sinner: no excusesPreacher: no human creeds
What if preacher brought . . . Bible + Book of Mormon: Mormon Bible + Baptist Manual: Baptist Bible + Presbyterian COF: Presbyterian Bible + nothing: Christian? ?