As Paul and Silas set out on Paul’s second missionary journey how did they know where God was leading them? Acts 16 includes the stories of five new converts to the faith from an extremely wide variety of backgrounds. What does this tell us about the God of the Bible and the Gospel of grace as it relates to our own day and time? Join Pastor Jim for this practical look at the call of the Gospel.
Sermon Notes
1. The call of the Gospel is a work of God’s sovereign grace.
“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?”
C. S. Lewis
The Four Loves
2. The call of the Gospel is sometimes directive, sometimes corrective.
“The will of God must be discerned through a whole-souled engagement of heart and mind and will.”
David Clyde Jones
Biblical Christian Ethics
3. The call of the Gospel leads to the glory of God, the transformation of lives, and the advance of God’s kingdom.
“Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God – the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Letters and Papers from Prison