Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Lord, Change My Attitude About That Person” TOR16


“Lord, Change My Attitude About That Person” (Acts 9:10–19)
Prop: 3 regularly-repeated phases which call for Attitude Change


1. A difficult God given Directive (vv. 10–12)

2. A conflicting soul-born Dilemma (vv. 13–16)

A. Ananias expresses his fears over Saul (vv. 13–14)
B. The Lord authoritatively overrides Ananias’s fears (vv. 15–16)

3. A Spirit-born soft-hearted Decision (vv. 17 – 19)

A. Ananias obeyed functionally (v. 17a)
B. Ananias obeyed relationally (v. 17b.)

Take-Home Points:

  1. Being a Christian can make your life seem dangerous
  2. Being a Christian insists that you to love people you wouldn’t usually love
  3. Being a Christian means that circumstances don’t have to make sense for them to be God’s will
  4. Being a Christian comes down to being God’s instrument
  5. Being a Christian means to suffer is your privilege
  6. Being a Christian insists that you welcome all other Christians as family
  7. Being a Christian means you have a whole new outlook on life





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