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do you do There have been people throughout church history who have been more excited about tapping into God's power than they have been about having a

having a relationship with him.

Today on Truth for Life, we'll look at two individuals who both professed

to be followers of Jesus, but only one of them was genuine.

Alistair Begg is teaching from the first 25 verses in Acts chapter 8. As I listen to

listen to Evangelical Christianity, who respond routinely in its public face to the

issues of our world that rejects Christ, so often it sounds like the

question of James and John. Shall we call down fire from heaven on these people?

Look at what they're doing. Look at the place, look at their reaction. This is what they should have.

That's not the response of Christ.

The response of Christ was to look at the crowds with compassion, to see them and to say of Jerusalem itself,

how often would I have drawn you and brought you as a hen gathers or chicks, but you wouldn't come to me?

James, John, no. Philip, I like your strategy. I like

your initiative. I like the fact that you are proclaiming Christ there.

It may well be that Philip had fastened very much on the stories of Jesus,

how Jesus had often introduced Pharisees. It seemed just to tweak the nose of his

listeners. He tells the story of the man who's beaten up and left for dead between Jerusalem and Jericho and he has a few people

come down the road, the religious establishment, the Orthodox Jew, and then he has the hero in the story a Samaritan.

Man that must have really annoyed people.

What's he making the point?

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