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The Witness in Macedonia and Greece – <a id="si_2" onclick="return mV('Act',20,'1-24');">Act 20:1-24</a>
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Revisiting the churches
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The traveling seminary
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The experience of Eutychus – <a id="si_3" onclick="return mV('Act',20,'7-12');">Act 20:7-12</a>
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Christians were meeting on the first day of the week
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Paul preached till midnight
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Eutychus fell and died
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He was miraculously restored
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The communion service lasted till daybreak
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The Witness at Miletus – <a id="si_4" onclick="return mV('Act',20,'17-38');">Act 20:17-38</a>
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The elders from Ephesus join Paul
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Paul reviews his ministry – <a id="si_5" onclick="return mV('Act',20,'18-21');">Act 20:18-21</a>
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Consistent - “I lived among you”
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Humble - “Serving the Lord with all humility”
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Earnest – “With tears”
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Dangerous – “With triaIs and plots”
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Fearless - “I shrank not”
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Tireless - “Publicly and from house to house”
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Redemptive - “Repentance and faith”
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Paul states his commitment to serve – <a id="si_6" onclick="return mV('Act',20,'22-24');">Act 20:22-24</a>
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The trouble awaiting him
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His attitudes and convictions
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The danger does not affect him
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He does not count his life as precious to himself – <a id="si_7" onclick="return mV('Phl',3,'7-10');">Phl 3:7-10</a>
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He wants nothing for himself
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He lives only for God’s glory
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His goal is to accomplish God’s purpose – <a id="si_8" onclick="return mV('Jhn',4,31);">Jhn 4:31</a>
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He had received his ministry from the Lord Jesus – <a id="si_9" onclick="return mV('Act',9,15);">Act 9:15</a>
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He was to testify to the Gospel of the Grace of God
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A Gospel Worth Dying For
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It was the Gospel of the grace of God
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The Gospel news
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God will pardon transgression
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God will take away sin
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God will justify the ungodly
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God will cover the sinner with righteousness
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God will accept the sinner into His favor
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God does it out of pure grace – <a id="si_10" onclick="return mV('Rom',9,16);">Rom 9:16</a>
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No goodness can bring us in
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No badness can shut us out
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How God removes sin
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God gave His Son
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The Son gave His life
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The blood is a just payment
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The message to us
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Do not look within
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Do not search for personal merit
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Do not look for strength or ability
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The command of God is to believe
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God calls for faith
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God supplies the faith
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It was Paul's life cause to testify to the Gospel of the Grace of God
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A graceless Gospel is not worth dying for
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The Gospel of Grace is the greatest need of the world
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It glorifies God
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It saves the sinner
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Application
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What are you living “for”?
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A purpose
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A cause
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Fulfillment
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Sense of contribution
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What does a Christian do with self?
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Living for self is destructive
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We must have a greater purpose
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Paul valued the Gospel as greater than his own life
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