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We had six, or perhaps more individuals today who have chosen to brave the weather conditions and be Baptised.
Six people who testify to the most dramatic transformation a person can ever have, to go from death to life. A light has sparked in them that has brought them overwhelming joy and it’s a testimony those who are closest to them can see and have witnessed.
They have been SAVED.
It’s an expression that understands the just condemnation each and every one of us deserved for our sin.
When the jailor of Acts 16 cried out saying “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”, certainly the single most important question that anybody could ever ask, he was given the answer,
Acts 16:31
31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
The name of Jesus Christ is the name above all names. No man can come to the father but by him, he is the way, the truth and the life, all who have believed on his name shall not perish but have eternal life.
He is the one who died for their sins, it’s in his name each of these individuals have believed, and now all of them have eternal life. NOT FROM WHAT THEY HAVE DONE, NOR FROM WHAT THEY DO, but simply because they have believed with all their heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Which leads us to our text this morning.
Acts 8:32–38
32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: 33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth. 34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. 36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? 37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
The passage in Acts chapter 8 gives an historical account of a wealthy and important man, an official who had taken his journey into Israel and had previously arranged for the purchase of the word of God. Unless the man had remained in the city for some months before, we must assume that its purchase must have been previously arranged.
A private copy of the Hebrew Bible would not have been inexpensive and so it seems evident he was a man of means and wealth
We are not told in the scripture how much of the Old Testament he took with him, we know only of a certainty of the book that he was reading the book of Isaiah, for we have the same copy in our own bible.
We know also that the copy we have is precisely that which he was reading a the time of the first century, how do we know this?
In 1946 an account is given of two cousin teenagers, shepherds with a small flock of sheep, herding them in the area of Wadi Qumran, near the Dead Sea in Southern Israel.
One of the cousins threw a rock into one of the caves and, hearing the breaking of a clay pot, went to investigate the source of the sound. In that first cave he discovered a number of large clay jars containing leather scrolls, another 10 caves would be found with more earthen vessels containing a total of some 850 manuscripts.
The Scrolls were written by a Jewish sect known as the Essenes. They date as far back as the 3rd Century BC.
The cave Muhammed ed-Dib cast his stone, is known as ‘Cave 1’, it was in this cave that a full copy of the book of Isaiah was found and is today housed in a building known as “The Shrine of the Book” in Jerusalem, Israel.
What is fascinating is tha
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By Hope Baptist ChurchSomeone Saved
We had six, or perhaps more individuals today who have chosen to brave the weather conditions and be Baptised.
Six people who testify to the most dramatic transformation a person can ever have, to go from death to life. A light has sparked in them that has brought them overwhelming joy and it’s a testimony those who are closest to them can see and have witnessed.
They have been SAVED.
It’s an expression that understands the just condemnation each and every one of us deserved for our sin.
When the jailor of Acts 16 cried out saying “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”, certainly the single most important question that anybody could ever ask, he was given the answer,
Acts 16:31
31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
The name of Jesus Christ is the name above all names. No man can come to the father but by him, he is the way, the truth and the life, all who have believed on his name shall not perish but have eternal life.
He is the one who died for their sins, it’s in his name each of these individuals have believed, and now all of them have eternal life. NOT FROM WHAT THEY HAVE DONE, NOR FROM WHAT THEY DO, but simply because they have believed with all their heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Which leads us to our text this morning.
Acts 8:32–38
32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: 33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth. 34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. 36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? 37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
The passage in Acts chapter 8 gives an historical account of a wealthy and important man, an official who had taken his journey into Israel and had previously arranged for the purchase of the word of God. Unless the man had remained in the city for some months before, we must assume that its purchase must have been previously arranged.
A private copy of the Hebrew Bible would not have been inexpensive and so it seems evident he was a man of means and wealth
We are not told in the scripture how much of the Old Testament he took with him, we know only of a certainty of the book that he was reading the book of Isaiah, for we have the same copy in our own bible.
We know also that the copy we have is precisely that which he was reading a the time of the first century, how do we know this?
In 1946 an account is given of two cousin teenagers, shepherds with a small flock of sheep, herding them in the area of Wadi Qumran, near the Dead Sea in Southern Israel.
One of the cousins threw a rock into one of the caves and, hearing the breaking of a clay pot, went to investigate the source of the sound. In that first cave he discovered a number of large clay jars containing leather scrolls, another 10 caves would be found with more earthen vessels containing a total of some 850 manuscripts.
The Scrolls were written by a Jewish sect known as the Essenes. They date as far back as the 3rd Century BC.
The cave Muhammed ed-Dib cast his stone, is known as ‘Cave 1’, it was in this cave that a full copy of the book of Isaiah was found and is today housed in a building known as “The Shrine of the Book” in Jerusalem, Israel.
What is fascinating is tha