Do you know how you end up has a lot to do with the way you began. Certainly is true in a race. It’s true in your pursuit of education. Many times it’s true in a business. Certainly true in building a church. And it’s really true in your Christian life. And so I want to talk to you today about how to start right.
And very frankly, some of you have still not yet started, right? Because you have not obeyed what the Bible has to say about believers baptism. Take God’s word and turn to Acts chapter 8, would you please? Acts chapter 8. You know, how you end up has a lot to do with the way you began. Certainly, it’s true in a race. It’s true in your pursuit of education.
Many times it’s true in a business. Certainly true in building a church and is really true in your Christian life. And so I want to talk to you today about how to start right. And very frankly some of you have still not yet started right because you have not obeyed what the Bible has to say about believers baptism.
Now let me give you the background for this passage of scripture before I read it. God has taken his u deacon, evangelist, preacher, Philillip, and he’s taken him from Samaria where there was a revival crusade going. And and the spirit of the Lord said, “Philip, I want you to go down uh to uh Gaza. I want you to go down to the desert.
I have a special assignment for you there.” And so, Philip went down there and he saw a man riding in a chariot. Now, this man was a man of great authority. He was a man who was a treasurer for Queen Candace of Ethiopia. And he’s riding in the chariot and he has the word of God open and he has he is reading the prophet Isaiah. Now he he has been to Jerusalem to worship but he still has not found the Lord and the wells of religion were dry there in Jerusalem.
And he’s reading, would you know it, he’s reading the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, which is the gospel according to Isaiah. It’s in the Old Testament. He’s reading this and the Lord says to Philillip, “Philip, that’s the one. That’s that opportunity on wheels. I want you to go now and witness to this man.” And so the Bible says that Philillip went, he ran, found a chariot, introduced himself, and found that the man was reading the prophet Isaiah.
