Bringing the Gospel to Those Who Need Encouraged

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Bringing the Gospel to Those Who Need Encouraged

• Acts 1313-52 Page 1714

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Who Do You Know?

• Life can be tough.
• What is your word of encouragement?

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Encourage

• 1 a) to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope
  hearten or b) to attempt to persuade urge
• 2 to spur on stimulate
• 3 to give help or patronage to foster

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Making the Connection
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Map From http//www.ccel.org/bible/phillips/CN092
MAPS1.htm More information about each place is
found on this site.
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Acts 1313-52 Page 1714

• 14 They go to the synagogue.
• 15 if you have a message of encouragement
• 16 20 Paul covers 450 years of history!
• 20-22 covers the judges and the first two kings
  mentioning David as a man after my own heart.
• 23 He skips everything else connecting David to
  the Messiah.
• 24-31 shows how it was foretold and supported by
  evidence but he only blames the leaders in
  Jerusalem.

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Acts 1332-33 Page 1715

• "We tell you the good news What God promised our
  fathers 33 he has fulfilled for us, their
  children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written
  in the second Psalm

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Acts 1336-39

• 36-37 Jesus did not see decay.
• 38-39 "Therefore, my brothers, I want you to
  know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins
  is proclaimed to you. 39 Through him everyone who
  believes is justified from everything you could
  not be justified from by the law of Moses.

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The Bad News

• 40-41 Paul leaves them with a warning Take care
  that what the prophets have said does not happen
  to you " Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish,
  for I am going to do something in your days that
  you would never believe, even if someone told
  you.' " Habakkuk 15

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The Result

• 42-47 Mixed response. Some are encouraged and
  others are not.
• Verse 46 "We had to speak the word of God to you
  first. Since you reject it and do not consider
  yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to
  the Gentiles.

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Verses 48-52

• 48 When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad
  and honored the word of the Lord and all who
  were appointed for eternal life believed.
• AC 1349 The word of the Lord spread through
  the whole region. 50 But

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Remember

• Not everyone is encouraged by the good news so
  keep looking for those who are and invest deeply
  in them.

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Jesus is the Answer!

• No matter what the problem is Jesus is the
  answer. He is the source of our encouragement
  and our courage.

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Taking It Home

• Lead people to Jesus and His word by example.
• Have a list of passages that help you when you
  need encouragement.
• Offer to study the Bible with people.
• Beware the risk of carrying the burdens of
  others.
• Know when, and how, to help.