#Highlight- Part II continuing last week’s sermon

Rev. Jeff Nesbit

Sunday, October 8th 2017

11th Hour Contempory Service

Series: #HIGHLIGHT

Part II continuing last week's sermon

Big Truth:

"I SEE IT NOW!"

REVIEW:

Last week's points:

I. RED HIGHLIGHTER:

JESUS LOVES HIS CHURCH - "I see it now!"

II. PURPLE HIGHLIGHTER:

JESUS IS IN CHARGE - "I see it now!"

THIS WEEK's POINTS:

III. YELLOW HIGHLIGHTER:

JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD - "I see it now!"

Acts 9:19-22

Acts 9:5

Acts 9:20

Matthew 16:15-17

Galatians 1:15

2 Corinthians 4:6

IV. BLUE HIGHLIGHTER (Ed - notice the change here - last week I had it as GREEN highlighter - I have changed it to BLUE)

JESUS CAN SUDDENLY/IMMEDIATELY TURN THINGS AROUND - "I see it now!"

JOHN PIPER QUOTE:

"One of the most devastating feelings in the Christian life is fatalism—the feeling that this is the way it is going to be forever and nothing is going to change it and that's that. This is the way I am; this is the way the my spouse is; this is the way my kids are; this is the way work is (or no work); this is the way our small group is; this is the way society is—and that's that. It's been this way for so long; it's just not going to change. It will go on this way forever and probably get worse and that's that.

But one of the messages of the book of Acts is that this is emphatically not true. Jesus Christ is not dead and he is not distant and he is not silent and he is not weak and he is not uninterested in the world and the progress of his mission and in your life. He is alive and what he began to do in his earthly life he is continuing to do. He is full of surprises for churches and for nations and for families, and for individual people....

...The world is not a machine. It's a drama. And there is a live author-director, named Jesus, who can and does jump on the set anytime he wants to and boggle the minds of the actors who think they know the script.

(A) Saul suddenly stopped/sees

Acts 9:3

Acts 9:25

Acts 9:29

Acts 9:18

Acts 9:20

Jonah 2:9

(B) Gentiles Turned

Acts 26:18

Acts 9:32-35

(D) Tabitha Presented Alive

Acts 9:36-37