LEGACY 1 - EVANGELIZE - PTR. ALVIN GUTIERREZ - 4PM AFTERNOON SERVICE

2. Evangelize

3. 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to
Philip, “Go south to the road—the
desert road—that goes down from
Jerusalem to Gaza.”

4. 27 So he started out, and on his way he
met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important
official in charge of all the treasury of
the Kandake (which means “queen of
the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to
Jerusalem to worship,

5. 28 and on his way home was sitting in
his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah
the prophet.

6. 29 The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that
chariot and stay near it.”

7. 30 Then Philip ran up to the chariot and
heard the man reading Isaiah the
prophet. “Do you understand what you
are reading?” Philip asked.

8. 31 “How can I,” he said, “unless
someone explains it to me?” So he
invited Philip to come up and sit with
him.

9. 32 This is the passage of Scripture the
eunuch was reading:
“He was led like a sheep to the
slaughter, and as a lamb before its
shearer is silent, so he did not open
his mouth.

10. 33 In his humiliation he was deprived of
justice. Who can speak of his
descendants? For his life was taken
from the earth.”

11. 34 The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me,
please, who is the prophet talking
about, himself or someone else?”

12. 35 Then Philip began with that very
passage of Scripture and told him the
good news about Jesus.

13. 36 As they traveled along the road, they
came to some water and the eunuch
said, “Look, here is water. What can
stand in the way of my being
baptized?”

14. [37] Philip said, “If you believe with all
your heart, you may.” The eunuch
answered, “I believe that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God.”

15. 38 And he gave orders to stop the
chariot. Then both Philip and the
eunuch went down into the water and
Philip baptized him.

16. 39 When they came up out of the
water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly
took Philip away, and the eunuch did
not see him again, but went on his
way rejoicing.

17. 40 Philip, however, appeared at Azotus
and traveled about, preaching the
gospel in all the towns until he
reached Caesarea.

19. We can’t make something ripe. It’s
going to take time. We can’t make
someone ripe for Jesus. It’s going to
take time. And so we have to lovingly,
patiently wait until someone is ripe,
and then we pick them.

20. We tell them about Jesus, we love
them, serve them, inform them,
instruct them, and then their
heart’s open to Jesus as he’s
been preparing them.

22. SHOWSUPTOIMPART

23. Our God is a supernatural God. Our
God is a capable God. Our God is a
living God. Our God is a miraculous
God. Our God is a creative God. He
sends an angel to Philip, tells Philip,
“You’ve got to go somewhere. You’ve
got something to do.”

24. GREENAPPLETURNINGRED

25. He’s not even Hebrew. He’s not a
Jewish guy. He didn’t grow up with the
Bible, not in his country. So, he’s
making the 1,000 mile journey to get
to Jerusalem to worship God, to meet
God’s people, and along the way he’s
reading the Bible.

26. All right, he’s a green apple turning
red. God’s working on him.
God’s preparing him for the
message of Jesus.

27. THESPIRIT-FILLEDEVANGELIST

28. There is this guy named Philip. Godly
guy, filled with the Holy Spirit, loves
Jesus, missionary, minister, he’s an
evangelist.

29. That God loves one person enough
that he’d put together an entire plan to
go get that one person.

31. God uses people to save people. God
saves people. If you want to boil
Christianity down, here’s
one way to do it. God saves. We can
speak about the Savior.

32. We can serve on behalf of the Savior.
So we can speak and serve, but only
God can save. We can speak, we can
serve, only God can save. We don’t
save anybody.

33. Philip is not going to save this guy,
forgive his sin, give him access to the
presence of God for all eternity. That’s
not his responsibility. His responsibility
is to speak and to serve. God uses
people to save people.

35. Now, there are many case studies in
the Bible of evangelism and how
somebody becomes a Christian.
This is only one.

36. Sometimes you’ll see somebody, they
don’t know the Lord, they need to
know the Lord. They don’t know about
the Lord, they need to know about the
Lord. Sometimes there has to be a
sense of urgency.

37. Sometimes there just has to be a
sense of urgency, and here it is. And in
God’s kindness, the heart of the
Ethiopian eunuch, he’s becoming a red
apple. He’s ready for that message.

38. SHOWSUPTOSPEAK

39. It says that the Holy Spirit spoke to
Philip and the Holy Spirit’s overseeing
the process. Jesus said early on, you
know,

40. “You’ll receive power when the Holy
Spirit comes upon you. You’ll be my
witnesses to the ends of the earth.”

41. The good news of Jesus is getting out
to the nations of the earth through the
person, the presence, the power of the
Holy Spirit. He’s mentioned frequently.

42. The Holy Spirit is God, and the Holy
Spirit is not just a force, it’s a person.
He doesn’t inhabit a physical body, but
he has feelings, he has a will, and he
can communicate with us.

43. He’s God. He can be grieved, he can
be resisted, he can be quenched, the
Bible says. He’s God, and it’s not an
impersonal force, it’s a personal God.

44. Here’s my question: Who had God put
in front of you? So, God puts the
Ethiopian eunuch in the middle of
nowhere in front of Philip. Whom has
God put in front of you? Family, friend,
neighbor, coworker.

45. Who is God already preparing their
heart, ripening their soul for his
evangelistic harvest? Who is in front of
you that you need to put your phone
down so you can see them and initiate
a conversation with them?
Whom has God put in front of you?

47. THREE

49. Go to the person that the Holy Spirit
sends you to.

51. Give them a Bible. Give them one. If
you’re here, and you’re not a Chris-tian,
and you don’t have a Bible, take one.

52. One of the best gifts you can give
somebody is a Bible. Get them a good
Bible. If you love them, give them a
good Bible.

54. Answer their question by telling them
about Jesus.

55. This is the book that God wrote, and
it’s all about Jesus from beginning to
end. There are many stories, but
there’s only one story. There’s only one
hero. This book is for you, but it’s not
about you. It’s about Jesus.

57. We need you to see that everything in
this book is about Jesus. And if you
give this book to anyone and then they
have questions, the answer is always
somehow connected back to the good
news of the person and work of Jesus.
This includes events.

59. So when you see, in the Old Testament,
Passover, where God’s people sacrificed a
lamb, and they cover the doorpost of their
home with blood so that the wrath of God
would pass over them, that through the
shedding of blood their sins would be
atoned for, that all points to Jesus, our
Passover Lamb who was slain.

60. He died for our sin. His blood covers us so
the wrath of God would pass over us.

62. And Jesus came to suffer, he came to be
without sin, to suffer at the hands of
sinners, to go to the cross and die in the
place of sinners, and in so doing, he is the
one who serves us through his suffering.

63. It’s not just that Jesus is found in the
events and the titles, but also the
prophesies.

65. The includes types. The first man in the
Bible is Adam, and we’re all born with a sin
nature into Adam. Jesus is called the last
Adam, and we’re born again with a new
nature through Jesus, the last Adam. The
first Adam sinned in a garden; the last
Adam bled for sin in a garden.

66. The first Adam sinned at a tree; the last
Adam atoned for our sin on a tree. The first
Adam was made naked and unashamed;
the last Adam was naked and bore our
shame.

67. The first Adam brought us thorns; the last
Adam wore a crown of thorns. The first
Adam brought us condemnation, but it’s
through the Lord Jesus Christ, the last
Adam, that God alone brings us salvation.

68. This is the bedrock of where we stand. The
Bible is true—it’s all about Jesus. When the
book is open and Jesus is proclaimed, the
Holy Spirit shows up because that’s the
book he wrote and that’s the person he
loves to glorify.

71. We want to meet with you, talk with
you, pray for you, care for you,
give you a Bible, help you,
love you, serve you.