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The challenge of sharing the Gospel
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Acts 17 - Series 01/Episode 18 - Wed 30th Sep 2026 - The challenge of sharing the Gospel - Acts 17:01-09 - MINISTRY IN THESSALONICA - John 15:18-19
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Acts 17:6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.
The message of the cross of Jesus disturbs people from the life of rejecting God that they have chosen to live. When the prophets of God spoke, the people and the nation were angry at their words. I Kings 18:17-18 Then it happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, "Is that you, O troubler of Israel?" (18) And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father's house have, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals. Elijah confronted King Ahab about the sin that he and his father's house had committed. Ahab did not like Elijah.
John the Baptist confronted Herod about his sin of taking Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. Mark 6:17-19 For Herod himself had sent and laid hold of John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; for he had married her. (18) Because John had said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." (19) Therefore Herodias held it against him and wanted to kill him, but she could not;
Herodias was able to implement her scheme to kill John the Baptist. Mark 6:25-28 Immediately she came in with haste to the king and asked, saying, "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter." (26) And the king was exceedingly sorry; yet, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he did not want to refuse her. (27) Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in prison, (28) brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.
Prophets spoke the word of God to the people, the nation and to the rulers, and they were angry and sought to banish the prophets of God. Pilate did not find any fault in Jesus, but the Jews were angry because Jesus had confronted them about their sin. Luke 23:4-5 So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, "I find no fault in this Man." (5) But they were the more fierce, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place." Pilate succumbed to the pressure of the Jews, and he had Jesus crucified. Luke 23:22-24 Then he said to them the third time, "Why, what evil has He done? I have found no reason for death in Him. I will therefore chastise Him and let Him go." (23) But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices that He be crucified. And the voices of these men and of the chief priests prevailed. (24) So Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they requested.
The teaching of Paul caused much disturbance to the Jews, and they instigated violence against him repeatedly. Acts 21:28, 30-31 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, the law, and this place; and furthermore he also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place." (30) And all the city was disturbed; and the people ran together, seized Paul, and dragged him out of the temple; and immediately the doors were shut. (31) Now as they were seeking to kill him, news came to the commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
The Lord has called us to be His ambassadors and be those who reconcile people with God. II Corinthians 5:18-20 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, (19) that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. (20) Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
The message that we preach provokes people, and they seek to cause much harm to us. How can we understand this from God's perspective? John 15:18-19 "If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. (19) If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Learning: It is into this context that the Lord has commissioned His church. John 17:18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. / Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
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