The Story of What happened spread quickly! ACTS 19:11-20

01Jul09

There are many unusual stories popping up nowadays on websites, on radio waves,or on TV screens everywhere.  The news media is quick to report these events and either pay attention to them and analyze them or dismiss them by claiming their impossibility.  Generally speaking, people follow unusual stories with insatiable desire to quench their curiosity.  The story which is found in Acts 19 is an extremely unusual story.  A man possessed by an evil spirit jumps on certain ‘wanna-be’ miracle workers and overpowers them with so much violence that they run  for their lives naked and battered (v.16).  The town hears about the incident and a solumn fear envelopes them and they begin to honor the name of the Lord Jesus.   But what seems to be most interesting in the story is what they did, they became believers and: “Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices.  Those who practiced sorcery brought their books of incantation and burned them at a public bonfire.”

WOW!  What a profession of faith!  A true declaration of faith and completely burning of bridges.  No more of going back to sorcery or incantation!  No more of the old habits!  This is a true confession of faith! 

Faith without works is dead and works without faith is empty. 

This Sunday we will explore this and many other stories that are worth spreading quickly! 

Let me know also if you have a story that should be spreading quickly as well!

Pastor Daniel

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