September 24, 2023 Messages Serving Saves Lives

Part 3 | Kingdom of Heaven G.P.S.

From Acts 6, 8, 21

Kingdom of Heaven G.P.S. = .

If you will , God will bless you .

Philip’s Scene 1: Acts 6

1. Serve anywhere there’s a .

📖 Acts 6:3 ESV Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.

Two Key Ingredients to Philip’s start:

1. Philip was faithful to the .

2. Philip where the was.

📖 Acts 10:38 ESV God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Philip’s Scene 2: Acts 8:5

2. Serve anywhere there’s a .

📖 Acts 8:5 ESV Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ

📖 Luke 15:2 ESV the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”

📖 Leviticus 19:34 ESV You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Philip’s Scene 3: Acts 8:26

📖 Acts 8:26-31 ESV Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. 27 And he rose and went.

3. Serve anywhere there may be only .

📖 Acts 8:27b-28 ESV And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship 28 and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

📖 Acts 8:32-33 ESV “Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth. 33 In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.”

Philip’s Scene 4: Acts 21

📖 Acts 21:8-9 ESV On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. 9 He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.