“Lord, Send Me”

The book of Acts begins with Jesus meeting with His disciples after His resurrection.

 In Acts 1:8 Jesus tells them:

“…you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Last Sunday we spent time in Acts chapter 8 where we saw that Phillip left Jerusalem to proclaim the good news about Jesus in Samaria. Those who accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior were baptized by Phillip.

Then an angel of the Lord told Phillip to leave Samaria and travel along the road that led to the ends of the earth - to Africa. On the road, the Holy Spirit told Phillip to proclaim the good news about Jesus to an Ethiopian eunuch who was traveling home in a chariot after worshipping God at the Temple in Jerusalem. The church leader Irenaeus wrote in 180 AD that the name of this man was Simeon Bachos. Simeon became a follower of Jesus and was baptized by Phillip.

Then Simeon Bachos took the good news about Jesus back home to Africa where others embraced Jesus as their Lord and Savior and were baptized. Eventually the good news about Jesus has reached us, living at the far ends of the earth in North America. We have become followers of Jesus and we have been baptized.

So where will we go? Where will we go to proclaim the good news about Jesus? The angel didn’t give Phillip a map with an X marked on it to show the exact location of the Ethiopian eunuch’s chariot on the road. The angel just told Phillip to go, and the Holy Spirit told him who to speak with.

Are we willing to step out onto whatever road God calls us to travel? Are we willing to allow the Holy Spirit to tell us whom to talk to about Jesus?

For some that road may take them out of town, like Phillip. For others that road may take them home, like Simeon Bachos.

The road may take you to a place where people will criticize you for talking about the good news about Jesus or for even praying in Jesus’s name. Jesus told us this will happen sometimes.

The road may take you to a place where people are eager to hear the good news about Jesus.

Jesus told us this will happen as well.

If you are willing to follow the Lord to the people, He wants you to speak with, then let Him know. All you have to say is “Lord, send me”. I promise you will have the adventure of a lifetime.

You never know where the Lord will take you to share the good news about Jesus. But the Lord will take you somewhere if you let Him.

In Christ,

Pastor David

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