The document discusses Paul's vision of a man from Macedonia calling him to come and help, leading Paul and his companions to travel to Macedonia where the Holy Spirit was guiding them. It describes their interactions in Philippi, including Paul preaching to Lydia, a worshiper of God, whose heart the Lord opened to listen. The key message is that Christians should remain open to God's prompting and guidance by the Holy Spirit, trusting that the Spirit will work through them as they go where they are called without discrimination.

1. THE WORK OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT
6th Sunday of Easter
26th May 2019

2. Today…
What season are we living in?

3. Today…
What are our church concerns today?

4. Today…
What issues do we face today?

5. Today…
What issues do we face?

6. Today…
What does God’s Word have to say to us today?

7. Today…
What does God’s Word have to say to us today?

8. Acts 16: 9-15
16:9 During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and
saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us."
16:10 When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being
convinced that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.
16:11 We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to
Neapolis,
16:12 and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman
colony. We remained in this city for some days.

9. Context…
16 Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother
was Jewish and a believer but whose father was a Greek.
2 The believers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.
3 Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who
lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
4 As they travelled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and
elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.
5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.
Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia
6 Paul and his companions travelled 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.

11. How then shall we live?
Trusting God:
“As the Spirit leads…”
We remain open to God’s prompting…
do we go where we are called to go?

12. Today…
What does God’s Word have to say to us today?

13. Acts 16: 9-15
16:13 On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a
place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there.
16:14 A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper of God, was listening to us; she was from the
city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what
was said by Paul.
16:15 When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me
to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home." And she prevailed upon us.

16. Quick contemplation…
Paul does what is needed…
He does not discriminate…. Does not decide for God
He allows the Holy Spirit to work….
Trust and Obey!

17. Therefore….remember….let the Holy Spirit
work… we just go along with the flow