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TITLE: No Small Stir
TEXT: Acts 19:23-28
PROPOSITION: God expects the Gospel to cause a stir.
QUESTION: Why?
KEY WORD: Causes
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
- INTRODUCTION: "no small stir"
means "a great stir"
- The cause of it "that
way" (Acts 19:9)
- They imprisoned those of the way
Acts 9:2
- They persecuted this way Acts 22:4
- Background Diana, not just an idol
the foundation of their economy
- Bring in the gospel = disrupt the
financial security of Ephesus.
- The gospel was turning their world upside
down. (Acts 17:6)
The Nature of the Gospel Produces a
Stir
- Comfort the afflicted and afflict the
comfortable.
- Dispel darkness with light (Matthew 5:14)
- Spread purity among the immoral.
- Urges moderation in world of excess.
- Convicts of SIN among those who love sin.
- Teaches truth where error is espoused.
- WHY DOES THE GOSPEL PRODUCE A STIR?
One God stirs the idolater and atheist
Creator stirs the evolutionist
Bible authority stirs the modernist
Immortality stirs the materialist (this world only
view)
One church stirs the denominationalist
Lordship of Jesus stirs the self-centered, Burger
King, Frank Sinatra world
I want what I want, Have it your way, I did it my way
- In conduct of life:
Drinking, Gossip, Abortion, Homosexuality, Adultery,
Divorce, etc.
The Gospel Produces a Stir
Peculiar System
- Peculiar thinking Philippians 4:8
- Peculiar security Forgiven, saved,
Gods family
- Peculiar teaching Distinctive,
Restoration, Biblical, Gospel
The Way Produced by the Stir
- A salesman must be excited about his
product.
- "You dont want any magazines do
you?"
- Our product the gospel. Get
Excited!
- We are taking the gospel to the World!
- They are lost and we have the answer they
are looking for!
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