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03 Acts 1:12-14 - Unity: A Goal or A Byproduct?
Title: Unity: A Goal or a Byproduct?
Text: Acts 1:12-14
FCF: We often struggle with the disunity present in the church today.
Prop: Because unity is a product of truth and obedience, we must believe and obey our Lord to be unified.
Scripture Intro:
[Slide 1] Turn in your bible to Acts chapter 1.
Last week we opened up Luke’s part 2 of His gospel. We discussed God the Triune’s Sovereign role in advancing the Kingdom of God the Son by the Power of God the Spirit and in the timing of God the Father. Therefore, the title of Acts may best be rendered the Sovereign Acts of God through His Church.
Jesus told His apostles of their great mission; to go and be His witnesses to the farthest reaches of the earth. But to do this, they must wait for the Spirit to empower them to accomplish that task.
Our text today could have easily been included in last week’s message. But it also functions well as a standalone sermon and an intriguing follow up message to what we saw last week.
All of Acts is the exploration of the effect of the gospel on those who have received it. What effect does the gospel have on the apostles after being told by Jesus to wait in Jerusalem for the Power of the Spirit? What effect does the gospel have on the apostles after the angels told them that Jesus would return but not to wait idly for Him?
Today we will see the gospel’s effect on those who have truly received it. In short it produces belief, obedience, and through these… unity.
I am in Acts chapter 1. I’ll begin reding in verse 12. I am reading from the NET which you can follow in the pew bible on page 1229 or in whatever version you prefer.
Transition:
In 1974 a 3M scientist named Art Fry was abundantly frustrated as a choir singer at his church. Each Wednesday night they would practice the songs they were going to sing on Sunday, but inevitably every Sunday, every paper he had inserted to mark the hymns would have fallen out. He needed something sticky to put on the back of the bookmarks that would not damage the page when removed. As frustration grew, he remembered back to a seminar he had attended where a colleague of his, Dr. Spencer Silver, had described his failed attempt to create a strong adhesive able to be used in the aerospace industry. Rather than creating a strong adhesive, he instead created a rather weak adhesive that was easily removed without residue. Although taking some time to work out the kinks, by the 1980s they had both worked together to develop the product we all know as Post-It Notes. In this little story we see that one person set out to create something that was only discovered when doing something else. In many ways the adhesive used in Post it Notes is nothing more than a byproduct of failure. There is no doubt about it – Acts presents to us a church that is United and triumphant. It’s kinda the tag line of the sermon series
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By Christopher FreemanTitle: Unity: A Goal or a Byproduct?
Text: Acts 1:12-14
FCF: We often struggle with the disunity present in the church today.
Prop: Because unity is a product of truth and obedience, we must believe and obey our Lord to be unified.
Scripture Intro:
[Slide 1] Turn in your bible to Acts chapter 1.
Last week we opened up Luke’s part 2 of His gospel. We discussed God the Triune’s Sovereign role in advancing the Kingdom of God the Son by the Power of God the Spirit and in the timing of God the Father. Therefore, the title of Acts may best be rendered the Sovereign Acts of God through His Church.
Jesus told His apostles of their great mission; to go and be His witnesses to the farthest reaches of the earth. But to do this, they must wait for the Spirit to empower them to accomplish that task.
Our text today could have easily been included in last week’s message. But it also functions well as a standalone sermon and an intriguing follow up message to what we saw last week.
All of Acts is the exploration of the effect of the gospel on those who have received it. What effect does the gospel have on the apostles after being told by Jesus to wait in Jerusalem for the Power of the Spirit? What effect does the gospel have on the apostles after the angels told them that Jesus would return but not to wait idly for Him?
Today we will see the gospel’s effect on those who have truly received it. In short it produces belief, obedience, and through these… unity.
I am in Acts chapter 1. I’ll begin reding in verse 12. I am reading from the NET which you can follow in the pew bible on page 1229 or in whatever version you prefer.
Transition:
In 1974 a 3M scientist named Art Fry was abundantly frustrated as a choir singer at his church. Each Wednesday night they would practice the songs they were going to sing on Sunday, but inevitably every Sunday, every paper he had inserted to mark the hymns would have fallen out. He needed something sticky to put on the back of the bookmarks that would not damage the page when removed. As frustration grew, he remembered back to a seminar he had attended where a colleague of his, Dr. Spencer Silver, had described his failed attempt to create a strong adhesive able to be used in the aerospace industry. Rather than creating a strong adhesive, he instead created a rather weak adhesive that was easily removed without residue. Although taking some time to work out the kinks, by the 1980s they had both worked together to develop the product we all know as Post-It Notes. In this little story we see that one person set out to create something that was only discovered when doing something else. In many ways the adhesive used in Post it Notes is nothing more than a byproduct of failure. There is no doubt about it – Acts presents to us a church that is United and triumphant. It’s kinda the tag line of the sermon series