Christ's command to his followers before his ascension to heaven was for them to be his

witnesses in Jerusalem, all Judea, in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth.

Our Lord did not intend for the good news of his death and resurrection to stay local,

but instead it was to be taken globally.

In this third section of Acts, the adventure continues as the gospel is taken to the ends of the earth.

Let's join Scott Pauley now for today's study.

Did you do your homework?

Did you write out your gospel testimony and pass it on to someone?

I want to encourage you to make

talking about christ just a part of your natural everyday conversations you know it's not unusual

to talk about people that you love i love to talk about my wife and my my children and all of my

family look if we really love the Lord Jesus, we ought to be

thrilled to talk about him. And that's what Paul did. We're in Acts chapter number 26, where he is

speaking for himself. And we've learned one principle already. When you speak for yourself about Christ,

speak with a happy spirit. Let me give you another principle today. Beginning in verse number four,

speak humbly from your heart. Just speak from your heart. Listen to verse four. My manner of life

from my youth, which was at the first among my own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews,

which knew me from the beginning if they would testify that after

the most straightest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand and am judged for the

hope of the promise made of God into our fathers, under which promise our 12 tribes instantly serving

God day and night hope to come. For which hopes sake, King Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be

thought of thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead? I verily thought with myself that

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