#64: Acts: Jesus’ Friends on Assignment

Allen Jackson Ministries

Dillon Matheny

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🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

As we follow Paul during his travels and ministry in the book of Acts, he faced beating, stoning, and assassination plots even as people were believing the Jesus-message by the thousands and the Church was growing in extraordinary ways. What did Paul say that caused the people to be so angry that they were willing to see him publicly executed? His message was simple and unambiguous: Every human being is a prisoner of sin. But if you will believe in Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah and serve Him as Lord, you are a child of God and an heir to all that He has promised. Pastor Allen Jackson leads us through the bullet points of Paul’s consistent message and reminds us of the privileges we receive and the responsibilities we bear when we choose to follow Jesus. “I believe with all my heart that we are in a struggle for the heart and soul of our nation,” he says. “And the Church has an essential role to play, more essential than it has ever been in my lifetime.”

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0:00.0	See there's no way to resolve this corporately. There's no way to resolve this
0:06.8	corporately. There's no way to resolve this with just economics. There's no way to
0:12.0	resolve this with with a better legal system.
0:15.0	The problem of sin has to be addressed on a spiritual level.
0:20.0	We need a power beyond us to help us.
0:24.0	We can hide it, we can deny it, we can re-label it,
0:28.0	we can change definitions so that it seems somehow less intrusive and more acceptable.
0:34.0	We can find groups of people that will call our particular choice of sin acceptable.
0:38.0	We can find people with PhDs, but the reality is God is the judge of every human being and God's not going to be
0:46.1	impressed by our manipulations. We have a sin problem. The problem isn't the people outside the church. The problem isn't the
0:55.8	pagan or the ungodly or the wicked or whoever you whatever label you use for those
1:00.1	that you think are different than you. The problem isn't someone else. The
1:04.4	problem is within every one of us. The challenge of sin.
1:10.0	Hey guys, this is Alan Jackson Ministries. You can get the outlines for this
1:16.4	episode at Alan Jackson.com slash podcast. If these messages help build you up
1:22.2	or encourage you to be a more fully devoted Christ follower,
1:25.3	leave us one of those five star ratings. Hopefully that will help others find out about them as well.
1:30.2	Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.
1:35.0	Our reading assignment this week was the second half of the Book of Acts.
1:40.0	In addition to our normal Bible reading as we work through our Bible systematically as we've walked through this COVID season, I've been giving you some weekly assignments and we've read a lot of fun stuff.
1:50.0	Well, this week we took on the second half of the book of acts. We started in chapter
1:54.4	13. First half of the book of acts centers predominantly on Peter in the ministry that
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