Identity Daytona Sermon Podcast

What is your life worth? Something is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. In Acts 20, Paul says goodbye to the elders of Ephesus and gives us our price tag: we are the church God “purchased with his own blood.”

In this message from our series Acts: Story of a Bold Church, Pastor Byron shows how knowing what we cost changes how we live.

We are blood-bought, so we hold nothing back.

Serving the Lord will cost us our comfort (vv. 17–21)

Our calling will cost us our lives (vv. 22–24)

Guard what Jesus has already purchased (vv. 25–31)

The richest lives are the ones given away (vv. 32–38)

This week’s challenge: Write down one thing you’ve been holding back: your comfort, your time, your story, or your money. Then write down one person you’ll give it to this week.

Keep this question in front of you: What am I holding back from the One who bought me?

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What the Church Needs | Acts 20:1–12 | Pastor Byron

What do you reach for when you’re tired, or when life drops you into a valley? Something new? The way things used to be? More success? A way out?

In this message from our series Acts: Story of a Bold Church, Pastor Byron walks through Acts 20:1–12, where Paul encourages the churches, gathers with believers in Troas on the first day of the week, and sees a young man named Eutychus raised from the dead.

Luke opens and closes the story with the same word, encouragement, and shows us that when we get weary, God doesn’t give us something new. He revives us with His encouragement.

In Ephesus, the gospel didn’t stay in its row. As people turned to Jesus, they stopped buying silver shrines of Artemis, and the city’s idol economy started to crumble. The result was a riot.

Acts 19:21–41 shows that real gospel transformation affects every area of our lives and exposes the systems we’ve built around our idols. Like a mustard seed, the kingdom of God starts small but refuses to stay contained. Jesus didn’t come only to forgive our sins, but to give us abundant life.

Where have you kept Jesus in a corner? What would it look like to let him take the whole garden?

We tend to overestimate what God can do in a moment and underestimate what he can do over time.

In Acts 19, Paul’s plans change when a door closes in Ephesus. He moves his ministry into a simple lecture hall and teaches there every day for two years. The result: “all the residents of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.”

In this message from our series Acts: Story of a Bold Church, we look at how the kingdom of God grows less like an explosion and more like fermentation, at the pace of patient faithfulness.

In this message:

-God may change your plans, but he will not change your mission

-The gospel often spreads most in simple spaces

-Persistence is key to gospel explosion

If you’ve been tempted to quit because you haven’t seen results yet, this one is for you.

In Acts 19, Paul walks into Ephesus and finds twelve men who look like disciples. They had repented. They had been baptized. They had followed faithfully for twenty years. Then Paul asks one question and everything comes apart: "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?"

Sincerity isn't the marker. Baptism isn't the marker. Religious longevity isn't the marker.

This message works through what it means to be baptized into the name of Jesus — a first-century banking phrase for transferring something into someone's possession — and why the Spirit is the proof that we belong to Christ rather than a second stage we're missing.

It is not enough to be close to God. You have to be found in him, and him in you.

Three questions from this message:

Who do you belong to?

Whose name is on you?

Whose Spirit lives in you?

If the gospel moves through great men, most of us are in the audience. But at the end of Acts 18, Luke sends Paul offstage and hands the scene to a tentmaking couple and a gifted preacher with gaps in his theology. Priscilla and Aquila take Apollos aside, explain the way of God more accurately, and the church sends him to Corinth. No apostle in the room — just faithful, ordinary people doing the work.

The mission is carried forth by the faithfulness of ordinary people who have lives shaped by the gospel.

In this message, you'll see that:

-Faithful & ordinary people go where God sends (vv. 18–23)

-Faithful & ordinary people live, breathe and teach the gospel (vv. 24–26)

-Faithful & ordinary people send the gospel further (vv. 27–28)

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