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*Change Your World*
*Change Your World…through Obedience*
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We must stay in step with the Spirit*
6 Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.
7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.
8 So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas.
9 During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
Acts 16:6-9 NIV
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We must be willing to leave our comfort zones*
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After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
Acts 16:10 NIV
*Changing Your World*
You can change your world through obedience!
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Welcome
I’ve been going through a Series of messages called *Change Your World*…the book of Acts…turning points in the early church…
We’ve discovered so far *You can Change Your World…*
…Through prayer:
…Through encouragement…
…Through the gospel…
…with courage
Last week…
You can change your world…through suffering
Today…
*You can change your world…through obedience*
Obedience is defined as:
/“the act or practice of following instructions, complying with rules or regulations, or submitting to somebody's authority.”/
First Lady Laura Bush recalls one overnight visit with her husband in the home of his parents, the former President and Mrs. Bush.
/"George woke up at 6 A.M. as usual and went downstairs to get a cup of coffee,"/ Laura says.
/"And he sat down on the sofa with his parents and put his feet up.
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And all of a sudden, Barbara Bush yelled, /'Put your feet down!' /
"George's dad replied, /'For goodness' sake, Barbara, he's the President of the United States.' /
"And Barbara said, /'I don't care.
I don't want his feet on my table.'"
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The president promptly did as he was told, for as Mrs.
Bush observes, /"Even Presidents have to listen to their mothers."/
Many of us like President Bush, no matter how old or big we got, respected our Moms and listened to them.
If that is the case, how much more should we be willing to listen and obey our Heavenly Father?
When is the last time you heard God speaking into your life?
How did you respond?
When God speaks to us we have two choices: obedience or disobedience.
When we obey Him, God will lead us and use us to accomplish His will…to change our world…
We see this over and over again in the book of Acts…especially in Acts 16….
Here we find the story of Paul during His second missionary Journey and God’s call for him to go to Europe to spread the gospel.
Paul, along with Silas and Timothy, teach us by their example….that
God can change our world when we obey Him…
2 Significant Truths…
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\\ *You can Change Your World…through Obedience…*
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We must stay in step with the Spirit*
In Acts 16:6-9 we see this…
6 Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.
7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.
8 So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas.
9 During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
Acts 16:6-9 NIV
Paul and Silas set out on a second missionary journey to visit the cities Paul had preached in earlier.
(Show Map…ppt)
This time they set out by land rather than sea, traveling the Roman road through Cilicia and the Cilician gates--a gorge through the Taurus Mountains--then northwest toward Derbe, Lystra, and Iconium.
The Spirit told them not to go into Asia, so they turned northward toward Bithynia.
Again the spirit said no, so they turned west through Mysia to the harbor city of Troas.
Did you notice how the Holy Spirit closed the door twice for Paul?
Paul must have wondered which geographical direction God wanted him to take in spreading the gospel.
Paul and Silas went on through Mysia to the city of Troas.
There, at last, God opened the door...Finally God spoke.
During the night, Paul had a vision in which he saw a man from Macedonia who was pleading, “Come over here and help us.”
God directs us in similar way…
Not through a vision necessarily…but He will close doors and give directions at just the right time.
We need to follow the directions…
Putting together swing set…
PPT cartoon…First pants then shoes…
GPS system~/Holy Spirit
God will close doors…
6 They went to Phrygia, and then on through the region of Galatia.
Their plan was to turn west into Asia province, but the Holy Spirit blocked that route.
Acts 16:6 (MSG)
7 So they went to Mysia and tried to go north to Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus wouldn’t let them go there either.
Acts 16:7 (MSG)
/But the Holy Spirit blocked that route… the Spirit of Jesus wouldn’t let them go there/
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Have you ever had God close a door in your life?
I asked Lisa that question yesterday and she said…She could only think of the times when He slammed the door in her face!!!
\\ In the classic movie The Sound of Music we see God closing a door in Maria’s life.
Maria had longed to be a nun since she was a young girl, yet when she became old enough discovered that it wasn't at all what she thought.
Often in trouble and doing the wrong things…she is called into the Mother Superior’s office…
Watch what happens…
[Sound of Music clip…Ch 7 (length 4 mins 22 seconds)]
Whenever God closes a door…somewhere He opens a window…
For Maria, she bonds with the Von Trapp children and of course falls in love with their widowed father and marries him.
He closes some doors and opens others…the key is going through the open doors…and knowing where they are…
Which leads to one of the most often asked questions…
\\ So how can you know God’s Will?
Jo M. Guerrero wrote this account of about her daughter in Christian Reader magazine.
She wrote…
/My five-year-old daughter, Barbara, had disobeyed me and had been sent to her room.
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/After a few minutes, I went in to talk with her about what she had done.
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/Teary-eyed, she asked, "Why do we do wrong things, Mommy?"/
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/"Sometimes the devil tells us to do something wrong,"// I replied, "and we listen to him.
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/We need to listen to God instead."/
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/To which she sobbed, "But God doesn't talk loud enough!"/
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Jo M. Guerrero, Christian Reader (Sep~/Oct 1996)
God is speaking…we just need to listen more closely…
*LA Note…*
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