Tag: We Must Introduce Jesus - Acts 7-8

Acts 8:30-35

So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this:

“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter

and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,

so he opens not his mouth.

In his humiliation justice was denied him.

Who can describe his generation?

For his life is taken away from the earth.”

And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.

Tag:  We Must Introduce Jesus

The above story is about the Ethiopian eunuch who was traveling in his chariot.  God had, in His sovereign power, sent Philip to the Ethiopian.  God sends us to others to share the good news about Jesus.  In the above text the Ethiopian was already searching the Scriptures for the truth about life.  He started with God’s Word.   He needed help seeing that God’s Word was talking about Jesus, the Savior of the World.   He had to put his faith in the fact that God’s Word was and would lead him to Christ.  In our speaking truth to others we have to be willing to share God’s Word, because it points people to God’s Son, Who provides them with God’s Salvation.   It all begins with God’s Word.  The Ethiopian had to believe the Word of God.   Note:

Romans 10:17

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

We don’t get faith without hearing and believing God’s Word.  

However, note this:

Romans 10:14-15

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”

No one can hear unless someone is sent to teach them God’s Word.   So, God, in His grace, chooses to use mankind to speak to mankind in order to deliver God’s Word - of which, if they believe God’s Word they can have faith to come to Christ.   Philip was obedient to teach God’s Word.   The Ethiopian was obedient to the Word and believed it for His salvation.