WORDS FITLY SPOKEN FOR ALL OCCASIONS
Acts 21:40-22:29
I. INTRODUCTION:
A. Three false assumptions that led to a murderous mob:
Chapter 21
B. Paul’s response in sharing his personal testimony: v. 40
C. Your personal testimony, the most effective evangelistic
tool:
1. Your audience can’t disagree with you:
2. Your main vehicle in telling the truth about Christ
without offending:
3. It is designed to whet the appetite of the listener to
want more information:
D. Three vital essentials to master in sharing your
testimony:
1. What my life was like before Christ became my Lord
and Savior:
2. What I must believe and then by faith, decide to do:
3. How Christ has changed my life since surrendering to
Him:
II. ILLUSTRATING THE ESSENTIALS FOR OUR
INSTRUCTION: vv. 1-29
A. Paul begins with a bridge: vv. 1-3
B. Paul presents the three essentials: vv. 4-21
1. Life before Christ: vv. 4-6
2. When Christ came in: vv. 7-16
a. What he had to believe: vv. 7-8
b. What he had by faith to choose: v. 16
(Rom. 10:9-10, 13)
c. Obedience, his badge of assurance: v. 16
(Jn. 10:27)
- Life after his spiritual birth: vv. 17-21
C. Paul leaves the results to God: vv. 22-29
1. The mob: vv. 22-23
2. The captain: vv. 24-29
III. PRINCIPLES TO PERSONALLY APPLY:
(Together becoming “people of the Word” in principle AND in practice)
A. Testimonies are generated from spur of the moment
conversations; so write yours out and practice it,
making the Gospel the centerpiece. (I Cor. 9:22b)
B. Measure the success of the encounter from God’s
perspective, not yours. (See Acts 20:20-21, 26-27)
C. Don’t be surprised to discover that often, a bridge to the
Gospel is linked in some way, by your Creator God, to
your birth and heritage.
Sinners Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, I was made by you and I was made for you, but
I have been living for myself. I am sorry for that self-rule you call sin.
I believe that Jesus Christ being my creator God, died, was buried,
and rose again to pay the insurmountable debt that my sin has
created since birth. So right now, I am turning from a life of going my
own way, to by faith, place my trust in Jesus Christ, to pay the debt of
all my sin, and to get me to heaven, when I breath my last breath.
Lord Jesus, from today on, I am yours. Thanks for saving me, this
very moment, in Jesus name, Amen.
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