The Almost
From Acts 26
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1. : Sold out for
2. : Lost before the
3. : Let Personal define his
4. : Let his of God’s Word keep him from God’s
📖 Mark 12:34 ESV “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.
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📖 Acts 26:1-3 ESV So Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense: 2 “I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am going to make my defense today against all the accusations of the Jews, 3 especially because you are familiar with all the customs and controversies of the Jews. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.
📖 Acts 26:22-23 ESV To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: 23 that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”
📖 Acts 26:27-29 ESV King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.” 28 And Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time would you persuade me to be a Christian?” 29 And Paul said, “Whether short or long, I would to God that not only you but also all who hear me this day might become such as I am—except for these chains.”
📖 Acts 26:28 NKJV Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You almost persuade me to become a Christian.”
Annihilate the “almost” mantras of life:
1. “I have a to .”
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Annihilate the “almost” mantras of life:
2. “What will ?”
📖 Acts 25:23 ESV So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
📖 Mark 10:17 ESV a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
📖 Mark 10:22 ESV Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
Annihilate the “almost” mantras of life:
3. “I need some .”
📖 Acts 26:27-28 ESV King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.” 28 And Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time would you persuade me to be a Christian?”
📖 Ecclesiastes 11:4 ESV He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
📖 Matthew 21:31-32 ESV Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
📖 Psalm 95:7-8 ESV For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness
