Summary
Pastor Safrit walks through Acts 16, highlighting how Jesus builds His church through the transformative power of the gospel. He discusses three individuals: Lydia, a religious woman seeking truth; a slave girl, relieved from bondage; and a jailer, a rough man who finds salvation. The sermon emphasizes that the gospel can change anyone, regardless of their background, and encourages believers to share their faith boldly, fostering a diverse community united in Christ.
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Thank you for listening to Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Sermon Audio. For more information, please visit our website, pgbcronda.com, or visit on all social media platforms. I want to be dismissed to Children's Church this time.
They can be dismissed. We're going to be in Acts chapter 16 this morning. We're going to be in Acts chapter 16, and we are going to continue our series here in the book of Acts. Believe it or not, it'll be done before we get there. Thank you, darling.
And we are, I have thoroughly enjoyed just studying through the book of Acts.
I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday, and I've been creating a little bit of reels on Facebook, and his daughter saw it pop up on YouTube, and she said, is Pastor James still in Acts? He said, yeah. He said, I wonder if your people are asking the same question.
I hope not. I hope you've been enjoying it. I've been enjoying it,
just looking at what the church looks like, how to build a healthy church, what the healthy church looks like. And today we've entitled it, How Jesus Builds His Church, in Acts chapter 16, verses 11 through the end of the chapter of chapter 16.
And so we're going to stand and read the words here of the Lord and the words of Scripture today. The Bible says, if you found your place, they'll be on the screens as well. Acts chapter 16, verse 11. From Troas, we put out to sea and sailed straight for Simothras,
the next day to Napolias, and from there they went to Philippi, a Roman colony and a leading city of the district of Macedonia. We stayed there for several days, and on the Sabbath day we went outside to the city gate by the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer.
We sat down and spoke with the women gathered there.
A God-fearing woman named Lydia, a dealer of purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, was listening.
The Lord opened her heart and responded to what Paul was saying. After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house. And she persuaded us.
Once, as we were on our way to prayer, a slave girl met us and had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She made a large profit for her owner by fortune-telling.
And as she followed Paul, and as she cried out, These men who are proclaiming to you a way of salvation are the servants of the Most High God. She did this for many days. I love this truth here. Paul was greatly annoyed.
This little girl's following him around, and you just see the humanity of him.
Paul's Encounter with the Slave Girl
Paul was greatly annoyed. Turning to the Spirit, he said, I command you in the name of Jesus, come out of her. And it came right out away.
When her owners realized that the hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities, bringing them before the chief magistrates. They said, These men are seriously disturbing our city.
They are Jews, and they are promoting customs that are not legal for us as Romans to adopt or practice. Verse 22, The crowd joined them and attacked against them.
The chief magistrates stripped off their clothes and ordered them to be beaten with rods. After they had severely flogged them, they threw them into jail, ordering the jailer to guard them carefully. Receiving such an order, he put them in the inner prison, secured their feet in stocks.
And about midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God.
And the prisoners were listening to them. And suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the jail were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's chains came loose.
When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped. But Paul came out with a loud voice, Do not harm yourself, because we are all here.
The jailer came for light, rushed in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. He escorted them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
They said, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you and your whole household will be saved. And they spoke the words of the Lord to him, along with everyone in his house. He took them the same hour of the night, washed their wounds.
Right away, he and all of his family were baptized. He brought them into his house and set a meal before them.
Rejoiced, because he had come to believe that God and his entire household. And when daylight had come, the chief magistrate sent the police to say, Release those men. The jailer reported these words to Paul, The magistrates have sent orders for you to be released. So come now and go in peace.
And I love Paul's response here. We're going to talk about it in the message. But Paul said to them, They beat us in public without a trial, although we were Roman citizens and they threw us in jail. And now we are going to send us away secretly? Certainly not.
On the contrary, let them come themselves and escort us out. The police reported these words to the magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.
And when they came to appease them, they escorted them from prison. And they urged them to leave town. And after leaving jail, they came to Lydia's house, where they saw and encouraged the brothers and sisters and departed. Lord, we love you.
Thank you for your word. I pray that you'll give me wisdom and guidance as we preach this morning. In your name we pray. Amen. You can be seated. Thank you for enduring the longer passage there.
But it was one context of story, so I felt it was appropriate to read all of it. And as I was thinking through this and just meditating on this overnight, last night and yesterday, just the Lord brought again to my mind the thought.
I actually shared this just a couple of weeks ago as we were talking about our small groups. And we were talking about Jesus and him teaching his disciples there in the Abide to Me passage.
Jesus' Question to His Disciples
And Jesus makes a statement when he was with the disciples. And he was there at Caesarea Philippi, a different location.
And he asked his disciples, who do men say that I am? And Jesus, through that wisdom, Peter responded and said, the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus responded and he said, upon this rock, I will build my church.
Upon this statement that you just said, Peter, I'm going to build my church.
And when we begin to look at the context of the church and what the church is going to be about, Jesus said that he's going to build his church and that the gates of hell are not going to
prevail against it, which is comforting for us because we know that if we are faithful and if we are doing the duty of a believer and telling others about Christ, that he will build his church.
And we begin to see sort of how the Lord works in building his church in this little town called Philippi here in this instance of story that happened here. But I want to go back to 1935,
a young man by the name of John Wesley. Some of you may have heard the name John Wesley before. John Wesley was an England missionary and his journey or his mission was to colonize or to evangelize the colonies here in America.
So he was a missionary sent from London to come to America, specifically the Georgia area to reach the what we call the barbarian or heathen Indians is what he had said.
But in his journey, he was very disciplined. He was very moral, he was very religious, but he wrestled with doubts and fears in his entire journey. On the voyage across the Atlantic, he journals and he wrote this.
He said that the ship was caught in a violent storm. The winds howled, the waves crashed, and many feared that we wouldn't make it across. I admitted that I was terrified and I noticed something unusual. On the other side of a ship were German Moravian Christians. As the storm raged, they sang hymns.
They were calm and they were even joyful in what was going on. He said water poured in on the deck. Panic began to spread. And yet these Christians stood there confidently praying to their Lord for salvation. He wrote this. They weren't afraid to die.
He said the moment I saw this, it shook me because I was a man who preached Christ. I was a man who was facing death. And I realized that I didn't have the belief that these simple believers have. And he later wrote, I went to America to convert the Indians,
but who will convert me? It wasn't until three years later when Wesley came back to London to a place called Outer Great Street, where Wesley finally understood the gospel of grace.
After he had been preaching the gospel, after he had been living his life for Christ, he fully understood that I need Christ. He heard a message preached on Luther's Roman preface, and his heart was warmed and he trusted in Christ alone for salvation.
And he said, from that day forward, I'm going to serve the Lord. And from that day forward, he became one of the greatest evangelists the world had ever known. Now, it all began because he was reminded of the truth that we see here in Acts chapter 16, that the gospel changes people.
The religious people, the broken people, the hardened people, the people that are in heat right now, the people that are different from us and different backgrounds and different struggles, all are searching after one Savior,
Identifying with the Characters
Jesus. And the question we have to ask ourselves is this, if Jesus could reach them, if Jesus could reach the three people that we're talking about in the story today, if Jesus could reach John Wesley, a minister of the gospel, what can he do with our life?
If we fully just convert to him and fully just surrender to him and say, God, I want you to do something great in my life.
If we fully put our trust in him, what can he do with a group of believers that are fully sold out for him? So the first point is this, the gospel at work in Philippi. The gospel at work in Philippi.
The gospel didn't just reach this city, but it transformed specific lives. It began to work in a way that was radically different in a lot of different people here, but specifically we get an account of three people, three specific people who the gospel began to work in.
And as I begin to ask yourself, and I want you to really begin to ask yourself, which one of these three people are you? Which one of these people can you identify closely with in your life?
The first one is this, a religious woman. Her name was Lydia. She was a wealthy, influential seller of purple. She was someone who had influence in her community.
She had someone who was loving people, who was caring for people, who was at a Bible study already. She was someone who had began to seek truth.
And I believe this is where we can begin to ask ourselves, are we seeking truth? Are we beginning to allow the Lord to work in our heart? Lost people, they are seeking truth somewhere.
They are seeking for the word of the Lord from someone, and they are asking questions, and they are asking the question of, what is the meaning of life?
What does it happen when death happens? What happens when I live my life this way or that way? People are searching for truth, and we have this truth that we can share with them.
After she came to the Lord, she began to say, listen, I have a place, I have a house that's big enough for people to come and meet in. Would you come and use my house?
Would you come and use the things that I have been blessed with in order to have the church meet in this location? You know, in my journey through life, some of the hardest people that I have ever had to reach for the gospel is the religious people.
Because religious people believe they're good enough already, right? I don't need this. I'm already good enough. I've already got these things. I've already begun doing these things.
But the person that is oftentimes in our life the hardest to reach are those that are convincing themselves that they're healthy.
And I'll give you a practical illustration of this. When I was a young kid, when I was five or six years old, six or seven years old, I can't remember exactly how old I was. I know my daughter just laughed a little bit when I said six, seven. But when I was a young kid, my dad was diagnosed with cancer.
When it was about this time, when I was about six or seven years old. And for a year, he was sick. For a year, he was sickness and flu and cold-like symptoms. And my mom kept telling him, go to the doctor. No, I'm fine, right?
No man wants to go to the doctor. And so he kept saying, no, I'm fine. No, I'm fine. No, I'm fine. Put it off for a year. And then when he finally went, it was stage three cancer, stage four cancer.
He was very advanced. The purpose of that story is oftentimes we go through life.
We realize there are things wrong. And we just justify in our life that I'm okay. I've done things that are okay. I don't need a savior. I don't need Jesus.
And oftentimes we must be the ones that say, I'm not just almost a Christian. I am the person that needs Christ. I need to be transformed by Christ. I have sinned.
I have done wrong. And I need Christ to come in and radically change my life. Maybe that's us this morning who you've lived a good life. You've lived a moral life, but you've never truly accepted that Jesus is Lord and Savior of your life. As John Wesley preached for many years that he,
others needed Christ and yet he had not trusted in that. So we see the religious woman, but we also see the relieved woman.
We see this slave girl who was exploited, who was enslaved for her deeds, who was oppressed spiritually and even socially. She was oppressed because she was this force of nature against what was going on. And Paul begins to encounter her.
I love the transparency of the story, right? Paul is going through his journey and there's this little girl beside him that's like every time he'd say something, she'd say something. Every time he'd say something, she'd say something. He's like, what are you doing? Why are you following me?
I mean, I've got a little daughter. I've got this. I've got a little son, four years old. He does this.
You've experienced kids and grandkids that just sort of follow you around. Like you can imagine the annoyance that this would happen. Paul gets up and preaches. He says a couple of things. He takes a breath and all of a sudden this little girl starts talking.
He's like, what are you doing? Get away from me. The Bible literally says, I am getting annoyed at her. And he got so annoyed that he turned to her and he said, I command you in the name of Jesus, spirit come out of her. And he radically changed her life.
He radically set her free. He allowed her to go from bondage to liberty.
And this is a beautiful picture of what happens when Christ comes into our life. We go from being bound by sin, by being bound by addiction, by being bound by these things in our life to being set free in Christ. There's a movie that came out years ago.
It's probably not a wholesome movie, but it was the movie called Taken where Liam Neeson's daughter gets abducted and goes through human trafficking. And what happens is he is on this mission journey to set his daughter free.
He's taking down criminals. He's got a specific set of skills where he is coming in to liberate his daughter. And this is the idea that someone is bound by sin. Someone is bound by these addictions in life, these chains of life.
And we are, by the grace of God, coming in and being able to set them free through the grace of God. This is what Jesus does spiritually.
He takes the bounds of sin. He takes the chains of sin. He breaks them off of us so that we can be free in Christ. And the question I have to ask us this morning is, what chains are we allowing ourselves to be bound up in? Maybe it's pride.
Maybe it's addiction. Maybe it's fear. Maybe it's self-image. Whatever it may be, what are we allowing to be bound up in our life so that we cannot be set free?
Freedom in Christ
And Christ says, I'm here, as I say often in Galatians 5.1, for freedom. Christ has set us free.
Not to be under the yoke of bondage, but to be set free for Christ. So we see that there's a relieved woman.
We see there's a religious woman, but we also see a rough man. We see a man here in the latter part of the passage, 19 through 34, where this jailer is introduced into the story. Now this jailer, he was most likely a retired Roman soldier.
Now how many of you have ever met a retired soldier before? Okay, three people. Okay, have any of you ever watched a war documentary and you've seen soldiers before? Right, we've seen these people, war soldiers.
I used to work with a guy, I can't remember his name specifically. I just remember he was an older man. I worked at a cabinet shop with him and he served in Vietnam.
And I went up to him one day and I was trying to talk to him about Vietnam and he just got so mad one day. As I was talking to him, a bandsaw had broke and it sounded like a gunshot.
He picked his tape measure up and threw it across the wall. It went through a window. So he picked up his tool bag and he walked out. This like PTSD happened from this moment.
Like he was rough, but then like that'd be the next day and he'd be like the most gentlest guy ever. And so my mind goes to this guy as I began thinking through this, this retired Roman soldier. He's tough.
He's not seeking God. He's been through things. He's seen death. He's seen war. He's seen pain and he's seen turmoil. He's just trying to make ends meet. He's taking care of these prisoners that were causing disturbances.
He's listening to his orders. And in this moment, in this situation, an earthquake happens. He wakes up from his earthquake. He goes back and he sees all the prison cells open.
He sees the chains on the ground and he just says, you know what? I'm going to die anyways because I didn't do my job. My job is to take care of these prisoners. And so I'm just going to go ahead and kill myself and end it here. And in this moment,
Paul says, don't do yourself any harm. We're all still here. We're waiting on you. And this moment of this situation where this would have been a tragic situation, the gospel begins to work in this tough man's life.
The Bible says that he looked at Paul and Silas, almost with tears, almost with brokenness of his heart. And he said, what must I do to be saved?
And Paul, in this moment, says, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
You know, some of the hardest people we'll meet in life are those that are beaten up by the world, those that are blue collar, the tough jobs that begin to just sort of just have written off humanity.
And they're written off and say, you know, there's no point in this. I'm just going to continue going on my life.
But man, when the gospel begins to radically change their life and when the gospel comes in and they're working their life, there's something about when their life gets changed, they just have to tell everybody.
Right? When we're raised in church, we're like, yeah, I've heard this my whole life. When someone who has been set from darkness into light and their life gets changed, just like they've got to tell every single person. There's a guy right now named Zane Black.
And Zane Black, he's a youth speaker. He was part of like gangs and mobs.
And literally, he was up in, he lived up in the Rocky Mountain areas. And his dad was the head gang guy.
Like he was the guy that you didn't mess with him. And he tells this story about how the gospel came in and reached his uncle. And his uncle had to tell his entire family. Like he's walking into bars.
He's walking into places and he's sharing the gospel, not fear of any type of persecution. Why is that?
Because they realized that what they were living for was useless and worthless. And they've got to go to the gospel. And they've got to tell every single person about what the gospel does and how the gospel can change their life. And oftentimes, church, we get to the point where we've written off people.
Well, they're too far gone for the gospel. They're too hard and the gospel can't work in their life.
I want you to remember back before the summer, I challenge you to write down three to five names that just needed to hear the gospel, that needed to be invited to church, that needed to be prayed over and begin asking yourself, have you been praying over those people?
Have you been purposely saying, Lord, allow me to intersect with them so that I can invite them to church, that I can share the gospel with them so that when a situation happens in their life, I can tell them about the good news of the gospel.
Allow me to have opportunities to do that. Because church, I'm here to tell you, Jesus changes lives. Jesus changes the wealthy. Jesus changes the exploited. Jesus changes the rough lives. Unlikely people who we wouldn't necessarily pick.
The Lord says, hey, that's the people I want. That's the people that I want to go and tell the gospel. That's the people that I want to transform with the gospel. I want everyone to be transformed with the gospel.
But man, when these people, they get transformed, they just, they're on fire for the Lord. They want to go and tell other people because the gospel begins to work here in this region.
Not only does the gospel work, but we begin to see the growth of the church. We begin to see the growth of the church here in Philippi. The last five verses,
the gospel doesn't only save individuals, but it begins to gather a new community. It begins to gather a new body of believers. And these body of believers come together and they begin to worship together. They begin to fellowship together. They begin to do some things together as a community.
Courage in Sharing the Gospel
And we begin to see some really cool things happen when people come together for the sake of the gospel, for the sake of reaching other people that are around them. The first thing that happens is we begin to see courage and persecution.
Persecution is going to happen. If you've been with us any point in the book of Acts and you've been here any moment in the book of Acts, persecution happens. When we go against darkness, darkness is going to go against us.
We are the light of the world and we are called to go and put our light out on a candlestick so that all the world may see. But when we do that, the darkness is going to try to push out our candlestick. The darkness is going to try to push out our light.
And we are called to go and to tell others.
And when we do that, persecution happens. People aren't going to like what we're saying. People aren't going to like what we have to do. Our job is just to simply go and to tell others about Christ.
And so Paul and Silas, they see here in verses 19 through 24, but also in 35, we see they're beaten and they're in prison unjustly. Their job is to come in and preach the gospel.
And in doing this, in saving someone's life, in taking a young girl who was here in a slave situation and freeing her, they then get put in jail.
Doesn't make sense in our world, right? They're trying to free people and yet they are being imprisoned. They are being harmed. And the Bible says that in this moment, in the moment of persecution, we find them at midnight,
not complaining about what's going on, but in verse 25, they were praying and singing hymns to God.
And the prisoners around were listening to them. It's such a challenge to encourage us to know that people around us are watching us. People around us are looking at us.
They're watching how we respond when a situation happens, when we get in trouble at school and they know we're a believer.
When we get in trouble at work and they know we're a believer, how are we going to respond when someone comes and says something against us and all of a sudden now we have an opportunity to respond. People are watching us and people are looking at how we respond in our life.
And Paul and Silas just said, you know what? We've been beaten. We've been persecuted.
Let's just begin to worship Jesus. They weren't at church. They weren't at a Wednesday Bible study. They were in prison at midnight and they began to worship.
And in their suffering, their suffering becomes their testimony. Their instances of justice began to change their view of life because they began to look at what they were going through and they were like, you know what? Hey, Jesus said that, hey, the world's going to hate us.
And so we're just going to love Jesus. We're just going to continue to do what God has called us to do. And we're going to continue to have courage. We're going to continue to stand up. We're going to continue to praise the Lord. Lord, I'm not a horticologist.
I think that's what it's called, an agricultural guy. What are the plant people? Horticulturists? Horticulturists. I'm not one of those guys by any means.
I just sort of made that word up and was hoping I was going to be on the right track with it. But what I do know is when you plant seed, when you plant it very, very shallow, typically the roots don't go in deep enough.
Typically, you've got to take seed and you've got to plant it down far enough for the roots to get down and the roots to grow. And as the roots go into the soil, that plant begins to get stronger and stronger.
Church, we ourselves must be pressed into the ground sometimes and we must be pushed down a little bit in our faith so that our roots can grow, so that our plant can grow stronger and better for the glory
of God, so that we can show other people how good and great our God is.
When pressure comes, when difficult times come, that's when our roots begin to go down and our life begins to be grounded in the grace of God. How do we typically respond when adversity comes?
Or is it fear? Is it anger? Is it faith? Do we begin to trust closer in the Lord or do we have the courage that Paul and Silas had in persecution and say,
God, by your grace and by your faithfulness, I'm going to trust in you. And then we begin to see the community of Christ being planted. The community of Christ in verse 40, it's mentioned in verse 15, verse 34, but specifically in verse 40. The Bible says that they gathered in their home.
You see, Paul also didn't shy away from standing up for truth.
When they came against him, the Bible says that they were not going to be put away secretly. They were going to, on the contrary, they were going to stand up for themselves. And oftentimes it is us standing up for truth.
But when the community of believers gathers, we begin to see that Lydia gathers them in their home. And we begin to see some people here. The jailer shows hospitality.
The jailer who was hardened, who was commanded to beat them and put them in jail, he begins to love on them and make a meal for them and take care of them and wash their wounds.
But the believers here begin to encourage Paul and Silas. They're about to leave.
And they said, hey, can you stay a little bit longer? We just want you to stay and encourage us and give us some guidance and give us some strength.
To the best of my knowledge, to the best of my ability and my research and studying through this, a church was born here in Philippi. The church that was born here in Philippi was the first church in Europe. This church is the reason that we are sitting here today.
The reason that we're able to gather on September 7th in the year 2025 of our Lord is because Paul was commissioned to go to this church.
Remember last week he wanted to go one way and the Spirit commanded him to go another way. And now he comes here, he gets beat, he gets thrown in jail.
The Impact of the First Church
But a church is established and now this church launches the movement of the churches all across the world. And we're sitting here today because of this first church here in Europe. I often think of how radically different people can pull for the same football team. Right?
NC State last night pulled off a great win and I watched most of the half of it. But I was watching the stands and I was seeing like it was white people, black people, it was Indians, there was girls, there was boys, there was all different type of people.
Even there were crazy NC State fans. It's just crazy. They were there cheering too. But they were all together and they were diverse and they were cheering them on.
And it begins to sort of show in the same way that the church is built the same way. The church is built with business people and soldiers and teachers and students and believers and people who are just trying to grow in their faith.
And all of a sudden we've got to ask ourselves, how can we from different backgrounds, from different classes, from different cultures, point people to the gospel of Jesus Christ?
And when we do this, we begin to build a church, we begin to build a group of people who are so invested in the believing community together where we can worship the Lord together, where we can grow together and we can begin to see God work in a radical, radical way.
As Terry comes and plays, and I'm going to close with our message and try to get done quicker, through this very first church in Europe. Wealthy businesswoman who already had everything she wanted.
There was not a need that we can see in scripture that she needed in life. She had everything. She had the purple clothes. She was a dealer. People were listening to her.
She had all these things and yet she still needed Christ. We see this broken slave girl who was trapped in darkness.
and yet through the grace of God Jesus set her free and we see a hardened jailer who was one of the most least likely candidates for salvation in this story
yet he cried out what must I do to be saved you see this is the church at Philippi they weren't people that were alike they were people that were changed by a common savior they were people who said
listen my life is is maybe on the wrong path and they wrote through the joy here I love how Paul later on in his writing he wrote this he said with joy and affliction I thank my God upon
every remembrance of you book of Philippians one of my favorite books in the new testament
Paul is writing back to this church he's writing back and he's thinking about his time when he was in jail he's thinking about Lydia he's thinking about the slave girl he's thinking about the Roman soldier and as he
is thinking about this he says I thank my God the remembrance of you so we have to begin to ask ourselves as I begin this sermon by saying where are you at are you Lydia are you the religious
moral respectable person who still needs to open your heart to Christ are you the slave girl who's been bound by sin shame destructive patterns who continue to do the same thing over and over again and you feel like
you're trapped and you just need to say God I need to be set free or you like the jailer who's skeptical maybe not even looking for Jesus and you need to come and you need to say God I
need you to work in my life the same Jesus that built this church in Philippi is building the church today
and we can either say God I want to be a part of this church I want to be a part of this movement I want to buckle in I want to see God work in our community or God
I don't know what you want years ago I came across a story this week of a man who visited a small church in a rural community in a congregation and as he was sitting there he began to look out and he saw a doctor
sitting next to a recovering addict he saw a wealthy businessman sharing a hymnal with a single mom he saw a teenager working worshiping and working alongside of a senior citizen after the service he went to the pastor and
he said to him how did you get such a diverse group of people together the pastor smiled and looked at him and said we've all met the same Savior and because we've all met the same Savior we can
come together and we can worship and we can love the Lord together because Jesus is the one that changes everything this morning church this is the gospel this is the invitation this is the church of us coming together
Unity for the Gospel's Sake
putting our differences aside and saying what can we do for the sake of the gospel what can we do to build a church that the community looks at and says I want to be a part of that because
something crazy is going on over there I don't know what it is but I want to be over there so that I can have my family grow in the the nurture of what they're doing have the the people
that are in this community be impacted by what we are doing for the sake of the gospel what does our look like what does our life look like and most importantly how has Jesus changed your life or what
does he need to do in order to change your life this morning let's all stand father we thank you for this day
we love you we pray that you would have your will and way in the service today help us to respond appropriately in your name we pray amen thank you again for taking your time to listen to the sermon audio of pleasant road please subscribe to get our latest sermons each week
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