There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.

Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-linked Bible message given through Scott's pulpit ministry.

These messages were recorded live in a local church or gospel event in recent days.

It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today.

Now, I want you to open your Bible with me.

Would you please, at the Book of Acts, this book of the

continuing Christ and the advancing church to Acts chapter number 11. We're going to pick up

right where we left off in the Bible study hour. I introduced to you in the Sunday school hour

this morning one of increasingly my favorite churches. It is the church in the city of Antioch. And might I just say

Antioch was a most unlikely place. It was a wicked, worldly place. It was not a place that men would

have chosen and said, that's a city now. That's going to change the world. In fact, everybody really thought that was Jerusalem.

But from Jerusalem, the gospel has now advanced to Antioch, and praise God Antioch when they got it,

didn't keep it to themselves.

Can I just tell you, there's a relay race to the gospel.

You relay what you receive.

It's not enough that you've received it.

How many of you're glad somebody told you about Jesus? Don't keep it to yourself.

If you keep it to yourself, you'll be like that body of water where we were with your pastor and his

wife here a few weeks ago called the Dead Sea. You know the problem of the Dead Sea? The problem of the

Dead Sea is not that living things don't come into it. The problem of the Dead Sea is that nothing ever goes out of it, and life always becomes death when it's kept to itself. You want to have a living church? I'll tell you how to have a living church. It's not just about the pastor giving good sermons on the Lord's Day. It's about taking the life that you receive and passing it on to somebody else. And when you become a channel for the grace and truth of Jesus, when you become a tributary for the mercy of our God, I tell you in the authority of the Word of God, God will keep your church alive and will sustain it with strength. And the church at Antioch and the city of Antioch is proof of

that. And so we come back to our text. Look at Acts chapter number 11 now, verse 19, they which

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