This morning's text is from Acts chapter 8 verses 26 to 40. Let's read this together.

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, go south to the road, the

desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. So he started out and on his way he met an

Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Condyike, which means queen of the Ethiopians.

This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home, he was sitting in front of the

chariot reading the book of Isaiah, the prophet. The spirit told Philip, go to the chariot

and stay near it. Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah

the prophet. Do you understand what you were reading? Philip asked. How can I? He said, unless someone

explains it to me. So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. This is the passage of

scripture the eunuch was reading. He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,

and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. In his humiliation,

he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.

The eunuch asked Philip,

tell me please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?

Then Philip began with that very passage of scripture

and told him the good news about Jesus.

As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said,

Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized? And he gave

orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water,

and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord suddenly

took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again,

but he went on his way rejoicing. Philip, however, appeared at Azotas and traveled about,

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