The Truth About
God’s Hidden
Heroes
Sermon from cong readings in Acts 19-23,
Oct 21, 2007 – bk@kluth.org
Acts 23:12-18 The
Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink
until they had killed Paul. More than forty men were involved in this plot…But
when the son of Paul's sister heard of this plot, he went into the barracks and
told Paul. Then Paul called one of the
centurions and said, "Take this young man to the commander; he has something
to tell him." So he took him to the commander.
Ex 2:1-10 Now a
man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and
gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for
three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket
for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and
put it among the reeds along the bank of the
John 6:5-13 When Jesus
looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip,
"Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" He asked this
only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. Philip answered him, "Eight months' wages
would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!" Another
of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up, "Here is a boy
with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go
among so many?" Jesus said,
"Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass in that place,
and the men sat down, about five thousand of them. Jesus then took the loaves,
gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted.
He did the same with the fish. When they
had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces
that are left over. Let nothing be wasted." So they gathered them and
filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by
those who had eaten.
Lesson 1: God uses
ordinary people for extraordinary ends
Isaiah 26:12 All
that we have accomplished you have done for us.
Lesson 2: Don’t
ever underestimate your importance in the
1 Cor 1:27-29 God
deliberately chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those
who think they are wise. And he chose those who are powerless to shame those
who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world,
things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the
world considers important, so that no one can ever boast in the presence of
God.
Lesson 3: Remember
your smallest acts of kindness are recorded and rewarded in heaven
Matt 10:42
(Jesus said) “If anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little
ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not
lose his reward."
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DAILY BIBLE READINGS for this week, read Acts 23:23-28, Isaiah 1