FVC Sermon Podcast

FVC Sermon Podcast


Are You Committed?

September 12, 2019

https://youtu.be/M4V3C7wmtzY

Are you
committed?                                                               Acts 18: 1-8

Paul leaves
Athens and goes to Corinth

Aquila with
wife Priscilla are kicked out Rome by the emperor

Paul goes to
see these guys and since they were both tent makers, they stayed and worked
together

Paul is doing
the usual – reasoning and debating in the synagogue every Sabbath day - Persuade
Jews to turn to Christ

Silas and
Timothy come down – takes over and now Paul can devote himself 100% to preaching

Someone
stepped in to be a supporting role

The Jews kept
on rejecting God, and so Paul is done

I
have spoken the truth and if any of you get lost it’s not my fault

From there
on, he went to the Gentiles

A
man named Titus Justus – A
worshipper of God

People come
to Christ when they heard him. There was change!

My attitude (selfishness or empathy)

Here we see Aquila and Priscilla having been kicked out of Rome have to start a new life

They have to
find a new “normal”

Have you ever
moved from one country to another? Was it out of will or were you forced to
move?

Philippians 2:1-4 Therefore if there is any [a]consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship
of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, 2 fulfill my
joy by being like-minded, having the same
love, being of one accord, of one
mind. 3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition
or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than
himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the
interests of others.

Interesting
Paul did not go to the native, someone who lived there a long time

Sometime, the
best place to be is with the people that have already experienced what you
have, they know where you have been

Are you committed?

We have to
watch out for our brothers and sisters

In the last
days- we will have to resolve in our hearts that it’s not an individual
survival but that we are willing to stand together, and that starts today

2
Timothy 3:1-5- But know this, that in the last days [a]perilous times will
come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy, 3 unloving, [b]unforgiving, slanderers, without
self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong,
haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a
form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn
away!

Are you
committed to your Christian brothers and sisters so that we can endure?

Don’t
ignore what Aquila and Priscilla did, they didn’t preach the message like Paul
did, but they did their part

Ephesians
2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared
beforehand that we should walk in them.

We
all have an assignment. It may look different but it does matter in order to
advance the kingdom