Sermon Notes
Matt Hardy
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*1) God is Sovereign and will accomplish his will *
a) The spread of his word
b) The salvation of his people
2) There is no promise that life will be pleasant for us here
a) This is not your best life now
b) Sorry Joel Osteen Everyday is not a Friday
c) Jesus, Paul, Peter, Stephen, all the disciples
d) The Millions of martyrs around the world since
*3) We are called to endure *
4) Acts is a story about God
a) Not about Peter, Paul, or Stephen
b) God Alone is faithful and good
5) A call to the faithfulness of the ordinary by example of the extraordinary
a) We are called to obedience in the everyday
12 I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, 13 so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. _11 The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.” _
_20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed, 21 nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.” _
_31 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”
33 He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.” _
_16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, _
_“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!” _