What is the difference between being religious and being redeemed? Have you ever found yourself questioning God’s ways of doing things? Have you ever wondered about the commandments of God? These questions lie at the heart of the first part of Acts 10. Join Pastor Jim as he explores the answers to these and other questions from the ancient book of Acts.
Sermon Notes
1. Being religious is not the same thing as being redeemed.
“The gospel is not good advice to men, but good news about Christ; not an invitation to us to do anything, but a declaration of what God has done; not a demand, but an offer.”
John Stott
2. God is at work in ways, at times, and in hearts you might never have imagined.
“We cannot tell in what strange ways God will work. We can be sure that he is utterly worthy of our trust.”
N.T. Wright
“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
Oswald Chambers
3. Increased understanding follows loving obedience.
“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
Augustine
“God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.”
Elisabeth Elliot