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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Everyone carries a longing they can't quite name — and most of us respond to it one of two ways: we numb it, or we chase something too small to satisfy it. In Berea, a group of people who'd spent their whole lives waiting for a promised Messiah finally heard that he had come. What they did next — and what it cost them — shows us what it actually looks like when longing meets its answer.

In this message from our Acts series through the book of Acts, Pastor Byron unpacks Acts 17:10-15 and the story of the Berean believers: their eager search of the Scriptures, the belief that followed, and the resistance they faced for holding onto what they'd found.