Acts 16:11-40 - Gospel Breakthrough

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts:

Notes//Quotes:

Acts 16:11-40 - Jack

 

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Scene 1: The Conversion of Lydia (16:11-15)

 

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Takeaways from Scene 1

1. God is sovereign in salvation

 

2. Obedience is our response to His work

 

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Scene 2: The Exorcism of the Slave Girl (16:16-24)

 

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Takeaway from Scene 2: We are wise to see the spiritual battle going on behind the scenes.

 

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“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 6:12

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Scene 3: The Conversion of the Jailer (16:25-34)

 

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“From one perspective, Paul and Silas’s day was a picture of perfect mayhem. Their spiritual power was slandered; their gospel trampled by a mob; their innocence silenced by injustice. They appeared like two victims caught in the chaos of a merciless, purposeless world.

But such was not their perspective. For Paul and Silas, all the day’s sorrows rested in the hand of a sovereign God. God had called them to Philippi through a midnight vision. Was he now any less sovereign in a midnight prison? God had used them in Philippi to save Lydia and her household. Had he discarded them now? No, prison could neither thwart the plans of God nor remove them from his sight; of this they were sure.”

 

Scott Hubbard

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Takeaway from Scene 3: We do well to ask ourselves “What does God owe me?”

 

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“He lets things happen that I don’t understand. He doesn’t do things according to my plan, or in ways that make sense to me…

If you have a God great enough and powerful enough to be mad at because he doesn’t stop your suffering, you also have a God who is great enough and powerful enough to have reasons that you can’t understand…

And so often, if God seems to be unconscionably delaying his grace and committing malpractice in your life, it’s because there is some crucial information that we don’t yet have, some essential variable that’s unavailable to us.”

Tim Keller

 

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Scene 4: The Vindication of Paul and Silas (16:35-40)

 

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Takeaway from Scene 4: In the end, God wins. And so do His people.

 

Slide 13

The Takeaways from Phiiippi

1. God is sovereign in salvation

2. Obedience is our response to His work

3. We are wise to see the spiritual battle

4. We do well to ask ourselves “What does God owe me?”

5. In the end, God wins. And so do His people.