The podcast episode focuses on the importance of recognizing and acting upon divine appointments in everyday life, as illustrated through the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch from Acts chapter eight. The speaker emphasizes that God often directs believers to individuals who are seeking truth but may lack the final understanding needed to connect the dots. Through Philip's immediate obedience and willingness to engage with the eunuch, the episode highlights the necessity of being prepared and bold when sharing the gospel. The speaker encourages listeners to reflect on their own lives, questioning how often they recognize and seize opportunities to witness to those around them. Ultimately, the episode serves as a call to action for believers to remain vigilant and responsive to the leading of the Holy Spirit in their daily interactions.

The podcast centers around the biblical narrative of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch, as described in Acts chapter 8. The speaker, Brother Stone, emphasizes the theme of divine appointments, illustrating how God orchestrates encounters for believers to share the gospel. He begins by recounting Philip's obedient response to the angel of the Lord, who instructed him to go to a desert area, a seemingly barren place with little promise of success. This sets the stage for a profound lesson on faith and obedience, as Philip, without hesitation, leaves a thriving ministry to pursue this divine directive. The speaker adeptly draws parallels to contemporary life, urging listeners to recognize and seize similar divine opportunities in their own lives. He reflects on the importance of being spiritually aware and actively seeking out those who may be searching for truth, much like the Ethiopian eunuch who, despite his high status, struggles to understand the Scriptures. The narrative unfolds further as Brother Stone discusses the eunuch's direct questions and how Philip, prompted by the Holy Spirit, engages with him, ultimately leading to the eunuch's baptism. This highlights the transformative power of direct and sincere dialogue about faith, underscoring the necessity of being prepared to guide others in their spiritual journeys. The episode concludes with a call to action for believers to remain attentive to God’s leading, to actively share the message of Christ, and to view every interaction as a potential divine appointment, reinforcing the idea that faith is not only about personal belief but also about reaching out to others. Overall, the discussion is rich in biblical insights and practical applications, encouraging a proactive faith that seeks to impact the lives of others.

Takeaways:

• Philip exemplifies immediate obedience to God's direction, leaving behind a successful ministry for a divine appointment in the desert.
• The Ethiopian eunuch's journey from confusion to faith highlights the importance of guiding those seeking truth towards Jesus.
• Philip's boldness in approaching the eunuch's chariot demonstrates his readiness to share the gospel with strangers.
• The passage underscores the significance of vocalizing one's faith through public declarations, as seen in the eunuch's baptism.
• Philip's persistent preaching after the eunuch's conversion illustrates the ongoing mission of evangelism beyond individual encounters.
• The message encourages listeners to actively seek divine appointments in their daily lives, recognizing opportunities to share the gospel.

Brother.

Thank you, Brother Stone.

I've been known to kick printers with the best of them, so I'm pretty good at that.

Well, if you have your Bibles, take it to Acts chapter number eight tonight.

Acts, chapter number eight.

I hope that you'll remain in prayer for our pastor and for our team over in West Africa this week.

I do not envy them with the plane flights.

You almost can't pay me enough to fly across the country, let alone across the ocean or to another country.

So be in prayer for them.

Be in prayer for our pastor.

But I'm thankful for the opportunity to preach tonight and thankful for the opportunity to speak on what the Lord's laid on my heart.

If you're in acts, chapter number eight, look at verse number 26.

That's where we'll start tonight.

Verse number 26.

The Bible says, and the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, arise and go toward the south, unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.

And he arose and went.

And behold a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, the queen of Ethiopians, who had the charge of all of her treasure, had come to Jerusalem for to worship, was returning, and sitting in his chariot read, esaias, the prophet.

Then the Spirit said unto Philip, go near and join thyself to this chariot.

And Philip ran thither to him and heard him read the prophet Isaias and said, understandest thou what thou readest?

And he said, how can I except some man should guide me?

And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

And the place of the scripture which he read was this.

He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.

And like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so he opened not his mouth.

In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away.

And who shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth?

And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this?

Of himself or of some other man?

And then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him Jesus.

And they went on their way, and they came unto a certain water.

And the eunuch said, see, here is water.

What doth hinder me to be baptized?

And Philip said, if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.

And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

And he commanded the chariot to stand still.

And they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch.

And he baptized him.

And when they were come up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord caught away Philip.

That the eunuch saw him no more.

But he went on his way rejoicing.

But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he preached in all the cities until he came unto Caesarea.

I am thankful that there are no accidents in the life of a believer, only divine appointments.

That was Warren Wiersbe who said that, you know, whenever God directs obedient believers, he directs them to hungry hearts.

Let's pray, and tonight we will jump right into it.

Dear Lord, thank you for this day, Lord.

Thank you for the opportunity to preach tonight.

Lord, I pray that you would hide me behind the cross.

Give me the words to say, Lord, I pray that you would have me say only the words that you want me to.

Lord, I pray that you would help us as we seek to take this passage tonight, Lord, and study it and then apply it to our lives, Lord.

In Jesus name I pray.

Amen.

You guys ever been lost before, like, real lost.

And you know you're heading roughly the right direction, but the details got a little murky.

I will never forget.

I had not been working here maybe six months.

We had just bought the one property acre over here.

The house had already been demolished and taken away, but there was a lot of rubble left over here on this one acre.

And it must have been a winter day or maybe a spring day.

And we called Brother Kirby and we said, hey, Brother Kirby, you have your dump truck still?

And he said, yeah, come on, come get it.

So we went and got the dump truck, and we filled that dump truck up.

It was full of all sorts of rubble and bricks and everything else.

And.

And then we called Brother Kirby.

We said, hey, where should we take this?

My hand on the Bible.

Brother Chad's already laughing in the back.

Cause he knows where this is going.

Here were the directions we got from Brother Kirby.

He said, all right, you gonna go up by the road by the Walmart?

He said, you're gonna go all the way up that road.

If you pass the big tree over the creek, you've gone too far.

All right, is there like a sign or something?

All right, let me know when you get there.

Click.

All right, we know roughly where we're going.

And so we got on the road and we went up 7:18 there.

We're heading up towards Boyd.

And there's a lot of big trees on that road.

I don't know if y' all ever been down that road.

There's also a lot of creeks.

It's by a lake.

And so we're passing by a creek and we're like, yeah, but that's a medium sized tree.

That's a large tree.

But the creek doesn't.

It's a dry creek bed.

I don't think we can in good faith call that a creek.

And we drove up.

I know we drove past it at least once.

We turned around and came back.

And I remember we finally found it, we thought.

And so we pulled into this dirt road and we went up and it looked like the place where people were dump things.

And so we're like, alright, let's go.

This must be the place.

And thankfully it was the right place.

We didn't do anything, anything illegal that day, but we started dumping it.

And all of a sudden this guy, hey, y' all didn't bring me another house, did you?

No.

Oh, okay, good.

We were in the right place, but we know the feeling and we felt it very real that morning.

The feeling of being lost and knowing we're heading sort of in the right direction, but missing the last few steps to get there.

Right?

In this passage we have the Ethiopian eunuch and he is reading the passage from Isaiah that brother Stone preached from this morning, Isaiah 53.

And as he's reading it, he doesn't quite understand what he's reading, but he's on the right path, right?

Many times in our life, I feel like God directs us to people who are seeking.

They're looking, they want to know truth.

They know maybe a portion of truth, maybe a smidge of truth, but they don't quite got the last few steps right.

They're missing the connection from point A to point B. I just want to look at this passage tonight and look at a few observations.

I want you to notice.

First off a divine appointment, look at verse number 26.

And the angel said to the Lord, the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, arise and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.

I want you to notice that the spirit of the Lord sent Philip to a desert place.

You may say, what's so unique about that?

We've all been to a desert.

No one likes the desert.

Agreed.

No one likes the desert.

Philip was preaching a revival.

He was having, humanistically, lots of results.

There were people being saved, there were people being baptized.

Over in Samaria, there was conversions, there were miracles taking place.

And in the midst of all this success that Philip was seeing humanistically, what we would call success, the Spirit of the Lord says, leave right now in the midst of all of it.

I want you to go to the desert.

I don't know if you're that familiar with geography, but typically there's not a whole lot of people to reach in the desert.

Not a lot grows there.

There's not a lot of food, there's not a lot of water.

There's not really anything that people like to have to live in the desert.

So a lot of people don't live in the desert.

But here, in the midst of this humanistic success, the Lord says to Philip, hey, go down to the desert.

I got something for you there.

God didn't give Philip details.

He just gave direction.

And what's really interesting is Philip didn't question it, did he?

He just obeyed right away.

If you look at verse number 27, and he arose and went, no questions asked, sending me to the desert.

Yes, sir, let's go.

It's interesting because I ask a lot more questions for a lot more simple tasks, right?

If I feel like the Lord's asking me to do something or asking me to go somewhere specific, Lord, why on earth would you want me to go to Walmart instead of Kroger?

Do you know what kind of people are in the Walmarts?

You know, we've all seen those videos, but for a lot simpler tasks, I'm a lot more stubborn.

Yet Philip heard, leave your successful ministry.

Leave the place where people are getting saved, Leave the place where people are getting baptized, and go to a desert place which, typically speaking, is empty.

And Philip just arose and went.

You know, whenever you go and you follow.

I gave this quote on Wednesday night, and I like it a whole lot.

Faith doesn't always know where it's being led, but it knows the one who's leading.

You know, whenever we live our lives by faith, whenever we try to live our lives by faith, we don't know the destination.

We don't know where we're going.

But the good news is that I know the one who's leading, right?

Therefore, I can trust my life and every individual decision I make in my life to the one who is leading me.

Because he's perfect, he's unchanging, he's perfect, he's holy.

He doesn't give wrong directions.

If you look at verse number 29, as Philip went, he found the eunuch there, verse 29.

Then the Spirit said unto Philip, go near and join thyself to his chariot.

He gave him a directed path.

I wonder what Philip's thoughts were when he gets to this desert place.

One, it's a miracle there's people there, right?

But I wonder if he thought if he pulled up or you know, walked into this general vicinity in this deserty area.

I wonder if he saw this chariot from a place off and thought, that's weird.

Or I wonder if maybe he, he was praying the whole time as he was walking and thought, I wonder why I'm going.

I wonder why the Lord led me to go down towards Gaza.

I think that the awareness of Philip here is something to behold as Christians.

Do you guys ever like live your life on passive mode?

You know what I'm talking about?

The best illustration I have of this is like if you're driving somewhere and then all of a sudden like you like, oh man, I'm already on at work.

What was I doing for the last 15 miles?

Maybe just me, maybe I'm a really scary driver to be around, right?

But you kind of like wake up and you're like, man, what was I doing?

And you just kind of went on passive mode, right?

You weren't actively thinking about what was happening, you weren't thinking about the opportunities in front of you, you weren't thinking about, in my case, driving.

You weren't thinking about the road or even whatever else.

You're just driving down the road, right?

And I think so oftentimes in my Christian life I'm super passive about my day to day activities, right?

I think that I live my life almost in this passive mode.

And I wake up and I go to work and I come home and I go to bed and I wake up.

Well, anymore with Emily, it's like I wake up, we feed Emily, we go to work, we get home, we feed Emily, we give her a bath, we feed Emily, we go to bed, right?

And that's kind of our day in and day out.

And then it's like days or weeks.

In fact, me and my wife were just talking about this the other day.

And it's like days or weeks or sometimes even months go by and we wake up and we're like, yeah, that was last week.

No, that was three months ago.

You know what I mean?

We live life on passive mode and in those moments when we're just kind of living life on autopilot, I wonder how many opportunities I've missed where I thought under direction of the Lord I was doing this or going to a specific place or doing a specific thing, there was someone there that I was supposed to meet and I didn't because I'm in LA la land, right?

I'm just going from point A to point B, it's really interesting that Philip noticed the person around him, right?

I think the awareness is something there for us to look at.

But the spirit said unto Philip, go near and join thyself to his chariot.

What boldness, right?

Just walk up and start talking to someone you've never met before.

I can't do that.

I got to like prepare myself, right?

I got to see them.

I got to see what they're doing.

And then I got to like, game plan in my mind.

Like, here's my opening line.

And if they reply with this, then I'm going to say this, right?

Or if they say this, then I'm going to respond with this.

And then, like, sometimes I'll prepare this, like, really awesome one liner that, like, this is going to get them.

This is going to share the gospel real well.

And then I'll say it.

And they're like, yeah, my name is so and so.

And I'm like, and that's why we're sinners.

They give me like, you know, the weird face and it's like, oh, yeah, no, you didn't respond the way I thought you did.

But Philip just was told, hey, go attach thyself to a chariot.

This next part's really cool.

Look at verse number 30.

And Philip ran through thither to him.

He's supposed to leave.

He went to the desert.

He's there.

He's aware.

He sees a chariot.

And the spirit urges Philip, he says, hey, go join thyself to the ferrit to the chariot.

And Philip says, I'm on my way.

40 yard dash.

Man, I got this.

It's incredible, isn't it?

Not only do we see a divine appointment, but we see a devoted servant.

I have often been on the record as saying, again tonight, there is no amount of money you can pay me to be a marathon runner.

No amount of money you could set me and my family up for the rest of our lives.

Millions and millions of dollars.

You cannot pay me to be a marathon runner.

Marathon walker.

We'll talk.

I could walk a marathon for you, but not a marathon runner.

And it's funny because there are many things in our lives that we feel that way about, right?

I'm not gonna run.

I'm not gonna do it.

If there is a path in this life that leads me to not running, that's the one I'm going to take every time.

But there are other things, more spiritual things that I also have a line in the sand over, right?

You guys ever been out door knocking or out doing new Move ins, and someone's in their garage, like, listening to music, working on their car.

I know how frustrated you are.

You're working on a car.

I know how mad you are.

I'm not fixing to interrupt you, right?

And I have this, like, little line in my sand where I'm not gonna talk to someone who's working on their car.

Because in my experience, every person who's ever worked on a car is angry, right?

And so I have this, like, spiritual line in my sand that I'm not gonna cross yet.

Philip was devoted enough to run and jump on a chariot for a man that he's never met before.

He ran to obey.

He didn't debate.

He didn't delay.

He didn't doubt.

He didn't question.

He just ran.

What boldness?

What obedience from Philip, right?

Like, we talk about obeying every impulse of the Holy Spirit.

And in the junior church and everywhere, we teach kids that action is the key.

Do it immediately for obedience, right?

We teach them that little song, and we do it over and over and over again.

It's what we live our whole life doing.

But then when the promptings of the Holy Spirit come to me.

Whoa.

Are you sure, God?

Hold on.

Do you think that that's actually what I'm supposed to do?

And I wonder how many opportunities I've missed just in the questioning moments.

No, I'm not a scholar of the Bible by any stretch of the imagination, but I understand running because I've spent much of my life avoiding trying to do it.

If a chariot, presumably pulled by horses, is moving one direction and I want to run and jump onto that chariot, you have a very small window to make that decision.

Very small.

And it almost doesn't matter what direction they're going.

If they're coming towards you, you got just a split second to think about it.

If they're going away from you, you have even less, right?

Just a split second decision.

He didn't question.

He didn't doubt the spirit.

He didn't think.

I don't know.

Is this the right time?

He looks kind of busy.

He was a little busy.

He just jumped right on.

Look at verse number 31.

And he said, how he.

Verse 30.

He ran him and jumped on the chariot and heard him read the prophet Isaiah and said, understandest thou what thou readest?

And he said, how can I except some man should guide me?

What an awesome opening line from the Ethiopian Eunuch.

It's like if we were to knock on the door, and we're like, hey, do you have anywhere you go to church?

No, how could I unless someone were to invite me.

Yeah.

Amen.

Right.

Okay.

I know what to do here.

Right.

Invite you.

And he says, how can I understand?

Unless someone were to tell me.

And then verse 32, it gives us some context of where the passage was.

It was Isaiah 53, which, by the way, this wasn't planned, but I think it's super cool that Brother Stone gave a gospel presentation from Isaiah 53 this morning.

And as he heard the gospel present, or as he was reading the passage in verse verses 31 through 33, in verse 34, the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this?

Of himself or of some other man?

You know what's funny is when Philip saw this in verse 35, then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him, jesus again, I think it's really cool that we heard a gospel presentation from isaiah53 this morning showing that even today we can do the same thing.

But you know what's really funny is Philip didn't debate the eunuch's current understanding.

He didn't try to walk him to a place of which then he was comfortable to share the gospel.

He took the eunuch exactly where he was with the questions he had and was able to walk from there straight to Jesus.

I think that's a challenge to us as Christians.

And to me, how prepared am I to go from somewhere in the Old Testament to Jesus?

You know what people are questioning more than ever today is the Old Testament law.

They're questioning absolute truth.

They want to know, is the entire Bible true?

And if so, why?

Why can I not mix my cotton and polyester shirts?

That's what they want to know.

That's what they're confused about.

How can I take those questions and run straight to Jesus?

From that I can tell you I'm commanded to.

First Peter 3:15 says that we are ready to be given answer to any man at any time.

We're to give a defense, an answer to the questions that they have.

You may say, well, this is the only example of someone doing that.

Luke 24, on the road to Emmaus, Jesus, beginning at Moses and all the prophets and expounded unto them all the things about himself.

Jesus did it from Moses and the prophets and the law, he walked.

Would you like to hear that?

I enjoy listening good Bible teachers and good Bible preachers.

I would assume that Jesus is probably the best, right?

I would have loved to hear Jesus just expound the entire Old Testament to Me also.

How long was that walk?

It had to be a long walk, right?

It's been said that evangelism without Scripture is just opinion without power.

In other words, we all have our opinions, and I can share my opinion with you on just about anything.

I'm an opinionated person.

I can share my opinion on fast food restaurants, and I promise you it'd be just as passionate.

But without Scripture, I'm just talking my opinions.

I don't know nothing.

I'm not a source of truth, but I hold in my hands absolute truth.

And when I speak from the absolute truth, this is the only thing in this world that God has promised wouldn't return.

Void Scripture.

AW Tozer said, open your Bible anywhere and it'll point you to Jesus.

But I think we ought to know how to help guide him along the way.

So not only do we see a divine appointment and a devoted servant, but I want you to notice lastly, a decisive Response in verse 36.

As they went on their way, they came into a certain water.

And the eunuch said, see, here is water.

What doth hinder me to be baptized?

I would say that his understanding is much deeper than it was just a few verses beforehand.

He went from not knowing who the prophet Isaiah was talking about to knowing that he needed a full body of water to be baptized.

He had been taught, and Philip said, if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.

And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.

And he commanded the chariot to stand still.

And they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch.

And he baptized him.

You know, we see here the Ethiopian eunuch.

Here he makes a public declaration of his faith.

After hearing it right, he looks at it and he says, see, here's water.

What doth hinder me to be baptized?

All right.

Hey, here's the gospel.

Here's everything you've taught me.

I know that people, when they respond to the gospel, they get baptized.

So here's water.

Why can't I be baptized right now?

And Philip said, well, hold on.

We're missing a step.

Do you believe with all your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord?

Have you accepted him?

And then he gives this public declaration.

He says, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.

I personally don't believe that you have to say the words out loud in order to mean it.

But it is different when you say the words out loud, isn't it?

When me and my wife first started dating, I thought many times to her that I loved her, but I did not say it.

I did not say it for a long time, Right?

Because the first time you say it out loud, it's different.

It means something.

Then you've verbalized something, and you can't take that back, Right?

Your relationship is forever different from that moment.

And I think kind of in the same way, our relationship with God can't be different.

Whenever we say that out loud, whenever we say, I believe Jesus Christ is the son of God.

Whenever we verbalize it, it's something that we can't take back.

It's verbalizing something that you may think, something you may be shy to say, but you're verbalizing it.

It becomes out, it comes different.

There's so many verses that talk about being bold and unashamed about our faith, Right?

And there's many ways to show our faith.

I think speaking it's one of the best ways to show our faith.

You may say, well, I know you and you talk a lot.

Yeah, but it's a good way for me to share my faith, right?

We can share.

We can show our faith through the actions that we do.

Right?

Whoso giveth a cup of cold water in my name.

We can show our faith by the way we live and the way we react.

We can show our faith through our works.

Right?

James chapter two makes that very clear.

He says.

He says show you.

He says.

He says that I'll show you my faith by my works.

Right?

But I think vocalizing it is a really important part.

So we see a public declaration there.

By the way, this wasn't just Philip in the Ethiopian Eunuch.

It's a little detail, but if you look at verse 38, and he commanded the chariot to stand still.

Horses don't often just listen and need to be driven without any sort of direction.

Also, I would imagine driving a chariot while reading is probably akin to, like texting and driving today, right?

You're probably not going to be reading a book or doing something else while you're driving a chariot.

To me, this indicates there's at least another person there, probably a whole company.

He's an important man sent from Candace of Ethiopia.

He probably had a whole delegation with him.

He probably had extra chariots for, well, empty chariots for the gifts and all the things that he would have brought.

There was probably a pretty sizable crowd here.

And yet this Ethiopian eunuch, this man of prominence, this man of power in his nation, he's not afraid to make a public declaration of his newfound faith.

I want you to notice that every single Time, every single time there's a public declaration, there's a personal delight.

Look at verse 39.

And then they were come up out of the water.

The spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, that the eunuch saw him no more, and he went on his way rejoicing.

What a unique sentence.

There's a lot of people in this world that I've met and I've never seen since, but this person walked away different, didn't he?

The Ethiopian eunuch, he accepted Jesus.

He said, I believe that Jesus is the son of God.

He got baptized publicly, he showed his faith, and then he went on his way rejoicing.

And that's all we know about him.

That's it.

That's all we have on the Ethiopian eunuch until we get to heaven.

I imagine he has an interesting story to tell, right?

But I think even though we see the.

The personal delight here, I think this story is less about the Ethiopian eunuch and more about Philip.

Look at verse 40.

But Philip was found at Azotus and passing through.

He preached in all the cities until he came to Caesarea.

Now, the book of Acts is a historical record, it's a historical narrative.

And we understand that, that really this verse may just be included to give us the context of where Philip went next, to give context for the next story in Acts, chapter number nine.

But I would like to think that this is on purpose because Philip didn't just share the gospel with Ethan and Eunuch and was like, whew, well, that was good work.

Back it up, everybody.

Let's go home, back to Jerusalem.

We're done.

Mission accomplished.

No, he goes straight from the desert place in Gaza and goes straight to a whole new region and preaches in all the cities until he comes into his next semi permanent destination.

We see a persistent messenger there.

Philip didn't just settle, he kept serving.

He passed through all the cities.

You know, the gospel doesn't stop.

It's supposed to spread.

They always say, and it is true, the gospel is just one generation away from extinction.

In other words, if my generation, if the generation after me doesn't pick up and carry the gospel and continue to spread, stops.

But it shouldn't stop with me.

I need to continuously be sharing the gospel to look for those divine appointments that the Lord has given for it.

Warren Wiersbe on his commentary on this passage, he said, if you're still breathing, God's not done using you.

I like that thought.

Sometimes I feel done, sometimes I feel used, like, that's it, there's nothing left in the cup, right?

I've done spent all there is, but I wake up the next day with a pulse, which means that God's not done yet.

I wonder how many of us are looking for the divine appointments that God has in our life.

I wonder.

And I don't know this, this is just me pondering up here.

I wonder how often we have divine appointments set up for each and every one of us.

Have you ever wondered about that?

Is it daily, is it weekly, is it monthly?

How often do I come across people that I'm supposed to share the gospel with that I miss?

I just, I live my life on autopilot and I miss it.

How often you may be here and you say, well I do the same thing every day.

I go and see the same people every day.

I get it.

I've shared the gospel enough with the church office that I had to give up and go down to the school office.

I'm serious though.

Whenever you see the same people every day and you think, well you know what, maybe this isn't my divine appointment.

Maybe these aren't the people I'm supposed to reach.

Maybe it's time to switch things up a little bit.

Maybe it's time to go to the Walmarts instead of the Kroger's.

Maybe it's time to switch the gas station we go to.

Maybe it's time to join a new pickleball club or whatever it is that you do for fun.

There are people out there that are looking for truth and we have it.

Why would we just sit on it?

I think this passage is more about Philip than it is the eunuch.

It's awesome that the eunuch got saved.

I think we have a lot of questions for him when he gets to heaven.

Maybe we'll do like open forum style questionnaires for some of these characters of the Bible.

How much like Philip are we in our day to day?

Are we motivated to try to reach others with the gospel?

Are we willing to run, to go jump and see a stranger that we've never met before and share the gospel with him?

What's our line in the sand that we're not willing to cross?

It doesn't seem like Philip had any.

What about when we're tired?

What do we do then?

Do we keep going?

Do we keep spreading?

Do we keep sharing the gospel?

How much of a fill up are we tonight?

We're beyond blessed to be at a church where we have souls saved regularly in service and throughout the week.

That's not normal among a lot of churches, but it could be more normal.

It's encouraging.

It is.

That we had soul saved today and I don't want to belittle that at all, but can I encourage you?

Let's not be satisfied with that.

There's two souls that got saved today.

There's a million that live in this county.

Right.

So let's be Phillips tonight.

Let's look for the divine appointments that God has for each and every one of us.

And when they come, let's take advantage of them.

Let's not spend our moments questioning the Holy Spirit or questioning God's leading jump on the moment.

Let's share the gospel.

Let's preach the truth to a world that is seeking truth.

God doesn't need your abilities.

He needs our availabilities.

Let's all stand.

We'll have a verse of invitation and all that after we pray.

Dear Lord, thank you for this day, Lord.

Thank you for this passage that you've given us with Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch.

Lord, I pray that you would help us as we seek to be Philip's tonight, Lord, in this week, Lord.

I pray that you'll help us as we take the encouragement from this services today, Lord, as we take everything that we've heard.

And I pray that you would help us as we seek to live for you this week, Lord.

I pray that you'll help us to have spiritual eyes to recognize the divine appointments that are given to us, Lord.

And I pray that you'll help us as a church to see souls saved this week.

In Jesus name I pray.

Amen.

As the instrument prays.