He came all the way with me, and sat down, and we prayed together. Somehow God has made it that if a fellow is right in his soul and he has given his heart really to Jesus, to come down before people, men and angels, anywhere in the world, and confess his faith is something he is glad to do. I think of their being young because I went to school with them. He eventually sold himself to a slave trader in Africa, and went down the lowest of any man that I have ever read about. Come and be seated here.”  And he said, “No.”  He said, “No. Obedient to the Spirit, Philip goes out to the wilderness to wait for someone who was on his appointment calendar, someone he had never met, someone he had probably never heard of. Oh!

Philip is first introduced in Acts chapter ...read more Scripture: Acts 8:26-40 Is there a message from heaven? People responded to Philip’s preaching with faith: “But when they believed Philip as he preached the good news of, the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both.

Do you remember it? I am saved, and I’m bound for the Promised Land. Acts 8:1-25. And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. And these are the words: “John Newton, once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa, was by the rich mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ preserved, restored, pardoned, and finally appointed to preach the faith he had long labored to destroy.”  Isn’t that like heaven? An evangelist called Philip (vs 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”.

Then he found the incomparable grace of God in Christ Jesus, in the Lord Jesus. “Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them” [Acts 8:5].

And then again in the twenty-sixth verse of this same chapter, when the Holy Spirit, the angel of the Lord, sent him down into the desert [Acts 8:26], standing by the way, and the chariot of the treasurer of Ethiopia passed by, and God said, “Join yourself to that chariot” [Acts 8:29]. And on the radio, we invite you to open your Bible and read it out loud with us. Philip was a model evangelist because he focused his witness on Jesus Christ. And the last time I saw him, he was the superintendent of the Sunday school in the church, and he was the leader of the Brotherhood in that part of the state.

SAVING SOULS IN SAMARIA Philip was a deacon (Acts 6:1-7) and he was an evangelist (Acts 8:1-40) ?- he is referred to by the Holy Spirit as “the Evangelist” (Acts 21:8). 35 Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus. [from “Glory to the Lamb”; Selected Hymns, the New Onward and Upward, (Logansport, Indiana; Home Music Co.) around 1900], Oh, my! So Philip went down from Jerusalem to Samaria [Acts 8:5]; there were two reasons why the great ministry of Philip in Samaria. This morning we left off preaching at verse 4; now tonight we begin at verse 5, and I am going to preach through the chapter; but we are going to read together verses 5 through 8. “And he preached unto him Jesus” [Acts 8:5]. What we long for and seek is, is there a word from God? After stoning of I’m coming this moment.”  Make that decision in your heart, and when you stand up in a moment, stand up walking down that stairway, coming down that aisle, “I’m on the way, pastor, and here I am.”  God bless you as you come, while we stand and while we sing. And yet I said to him, “If you don’t come down here and sit down there on that front row, and if you don’t receive the ordinance of baptism, you can’t be saved. If you turn around and go back, you will go back a lost sinner.”  He was astonished at that word, especially when he was three or four times as old as I was. The good life is the happy life, it is the Christian life, “and he went on his way rejoicing” [Acts 8:39]. “And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing” [Acts 8:39]. If I were to stand in this pulpit and preach about economics, or about politics, or about cultural revolutions, or about book reviews, or any other thing of passing and current events, the people would come one time, a few of them might come a second time, but in a few times there would be no one present. The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. Somehow the disciples realized that the Samaritan believers had not received the Spirit. The last of the hymns of John Newton that are published in this book is entitled “Amazing Grace: how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.”  John Newton, born in 1725, was an orphan lad; his mother died when he was a very little boy; his father was a sea captain; and he went out to sea and he fell into the most prodigal and profligate of all lives. Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same Scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.

There is no gladness in the world like the life in Christ, none, none.

In the great

So he had a wonderful open door to proclaim the message of Christ in Samaria [Acts 8:5]. You know, sometimes the Holy Spirit will lead you to do some unusual things, that when you look at it theologically, it would be very, very hard to defend. Now that, I say, would be hard to defend theologically; but empirically, practically, it is God’s truth. Samaria (Acts 8:5, 34-35), 1. Hallelujah! And to receive the ordinance of baptism is something that his heart longs to obey. I would not look down here in the church among God’s people; why, the happiest people in the world are God’s people. high priest not tolerated there, 2. Now all of us together, Acts 8, verses 5 through 8: Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. What is the content of a man’s message who is sent from God? Philip was a model evangelist because he passed his passion for ministry on to another generation. Oh! Number one was the Samaritans looked with contempt and hatred on the Jew.

And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. There is no one that has the ableness to deceive us like Satan.

After a period of discussion the eunuch asks for baptism. When the gospel is preached with clarity and power there is occasion for great joy because people’s needs are being met. The first person to be given the title “Evangelist” in the New Testament was Philip. If the Cowboys were to win a place in the Super Bowl and the game was played out there at that Texas Stadium, the whole city would be a frenzy of interest, caught up in it. And that man, that treasurer, was reading out loud the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah [Acts 8:30]; and then the eunuch said to Philip: I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this?

In both episodes, Philip’s work was accompanied with joy.

We are going to stand and sing our invitation hymn in a moment.


And look again, “And there was great joy in that city” [Acts 8:8]. I have accepted the Lord as my Savior; I want to be baptized just as God has commanded in the Book [Matthew 28:19-20]. He lived, he was born in 1725. Third: I want you to look at the spirit of his converts. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. I would look in that world out there that is given to the glitter of the sin and the debauchery that the world could afford.

And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. I take Him as my Savior. And we are going to read together in the eighth chapter of the Book of Acts these few verses as an introduction, Acts chapter 8, verses 5 through 8. I must close. they were baptized, both men and women” [Acts 8:12]. I think had he gone back, he would have been a lost man. Is it sitting on that front row that saves you?

And dear friend, to walk with us in the Christian way is the glory road to heaven. “And he went on his way rejoicing” [Acts 8:39]. What is an evangelist? And we just have the best time in the world together. When Philip went to Samaria to preach, he was blazing a new trail for the gospel, but not one which Jesus hadn’t predicted. . “Pastor, I have decided for God, and here I am [Ephesians 2:8]. No wonder a man like that could write “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me,” and that beautiful poem I just read of his testimony of his salvation. There is converting ableness of God in the name of Jesus our Lord; that is the message that Philip preached, this deacon layman [Acts 6:5].

I see a city that is simply caught up in the fever of a great athletic contest, such as a football game. I visited with him, prayed with him, talked to him, read the Bible, made appeal to his heart. Philip was a model evangelist because he began where people were. Lord, Lord! Does the Lord have anything to say? “And he preached unto him Jesus” [Acts 8:35], there is power in the gospel. There was a reason why Philip went down to Samaria. There is no bitter aftertaste, there is no dark hangover, there is no remorse, there is no, “would to God I were dead.”  If I were looking for people who were candidates for suicide, you know where I would look? Not every believer is supposed be in a position of leadership in the Church, but every Christian should be an evangelist. sins (Acts 35, Isaiah 53), B.
Sermons, historical notes, and other stuff from a former pastor with too much time on his hands. Isn’t that a wonderful description of a man’s assignments, who stands in a pulpit, or who witnesses by the wayside, or who speaks to a friend? That is universally true.

remembrance of the ministry of Jesus, A.  Incarnation, Think of all of the wonderful things out here in the world that you will never enjoy if you give your heart to Jesus, and if you be a Christian. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing. These are the people who have found life and found it abundantly. I must close. Is he talking about himself or of some other man?

Don’t you be a Christian; you’ll miss all that if you be a Christian.”  There never was a bolder lie, there never was a deeper deception than that! Think of this great throng here on Sunday night in a hot day, the last Lord’s Day in July. That’s how Philip found himself in Samaria. He and William Cowper—the great English poet who wrote many hymns such as “There is a Fountain Filled with Blood”—were friends together in a little English town called Olney. . And there is something marvelous, to me miraculous, about the man who preaches the Lord Jesus.

“And beginning at the same Scripture, he preached unto him Jesus” [Acts 8:35].


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