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You are

welcome

Stone

Creek

www.rossvillechurch.com

781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741

November 14, 2012

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The Bowmans will be here

Saturday, December 29, 2012

at 6:00 PM

Pure Heart will be here

Sunday morning, January

13, 2013 to lead worship.

Fifth Sunday dinner and fellowship

Sunday, December 30, 2013

Soup and chili dinner

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Next Wednesday night

will be our traditional

Thanksgiving service.

Come prepared to give a testimony praising

God for the good things He has done.

I like to emphasize things from the current

year, but you can do as you feel you should.

Let’s try to limit ourselves to three or four minutes.

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Paul met with James

and the elders of the

church.

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A bunch of unbelieving Jews from

Asia accused him of teaching against

Jewish beliefs and of profaning the

temple by taking a Gentile in.

They were about to kill him, when

the Roman soldiers rescued him.

Paul asked to speak to them, and

the Roman’s chief leader let him.

The speech

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Acts 22 1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my

defense which I make now unto you.

He opened with a friendly salutation.

They were trying to kill him, but he was not their

enemy, and he wanted them to know it.

Proverbs 15:1 (KJV) A soft (gentle) answer turneth

away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

We should apply this message to our

personal witness efforts.

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2 (And when they heard that he spake in the He-

brew tongue to them, they kept the more silence:)

He spoke their language.

That he spoke Greek impressed the Roman soldier.

That he speaks Hebrew gets the Jew’s attention.

Identify with your audience, even if it’s an

audience of one.

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For a doctor to

communicate with his

patient, he must speak in

layman’s language.

For a Christian to be an

effective witness, he must

not use religious speak –

He must speak words used

by his audience.

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2b-3 and he saith, I am verily a man which am a

Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up

in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught

according to the perfect manner of the law of the

fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are

this day.

Recognizing that they’re zealous to do God’s work.

He would get nowhere insulting them.

They are as Paul was before he was saved.

Gamaliel

“As ye all are”

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Acts 5:34 (KJV) Then stood there up one in the

council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of

the law, had in reputation among all the people, …

In giving this background, Paul is showing that he

is not a man likely to turn against the Jews.

Paul was taught by a respected doctor of the

Law of Moses.

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4-5 And I persecuted this Way (Christianity) unto

the death, binding and delivering into prisons both

men and women. As also the high priest doth bear

me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from

whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and

went to Damascus, to bring them which were there

bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

Paul had been as zealous in persecuting Christians

as these Jews were now.

He understands and identifies with them.

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6 -7And it came to pass, that, as

I made my journey, and was

come nigh unto Damascus

about noon, suddenly there

shone from Heaven a great

light round about me. And I fell

unto the ground, and heard a

voice saying unto me, Saul,

Saul, why persecutest thou Me?

It would have taken such a dramatic event to

convince Paul that Jesus is Messiah and Lord.

Personal

testimony

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8 And I answered, Who art thou,

Lord? And He said unto me, I

am Jesus of Nazareth, Whom

thou persecutest. 9 And they that

were with me saw indeed the

light, and were afraid; but they

heard not the voice of Him that

spake to me.

Anything done to the church is done to

Jesus

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Acts 4:12 (KJV) Neither is there salvation in any

other: for there is none other Name under Heaven

given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Fussing at people for their sins will not get

them saved from their sins.

Tell them how much God loves them.John 3:16

Teach them how to be saved from sin and from hell.Romans 10:9-10