The Acts of the Apostles Acts 16 – The Macedonian Call Sunday – April 8, 2018 Many of the slides used in this presentation are prepared by Joe Price and are used and adapted with his permission.

The Gospel is the Same in Every Nation and Culture The gospel is defined by revelation, not by culture, 16:21 Jews of Lycaonia, Phrygia, and Galatia, 16:1-3 Woman from Asia in Europe, 16:14 Gentile jailer and his family, 16:31-32 “My ways in Christ …” “I teach everywhere in every church,” 1 Corinthians 4:17 “And so I ordain in all the churches,” 1 Corinthians 7:17 I Corinthians 4:17 - “For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.” I Corinthians 7:17 – “Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.”

The Gospel is the Same in Every Nation and Culture The gospel is common to all (Jude 3) Same need: To be saved, 16:30 Same truth: The word of the Lord, 16:32 Same commands: Believe, repent, and be baptized, 16:14-15, 31-34 Same blessings: Salvation, 16:15, 30, 34 Jude 3 – “Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.” “Same truth” – Acts 13:6-12 – “… 7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. The same called unto him Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God. 8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith … 12 Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.” “the word of the Lord” – Acts 8:25 – “They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans” cf. “the word of …” – Acts 13:26 – “the word of this salvation”; Acts 13:44, 46, 48 – “the word of God”; Acts 13:49 – “the word of the Lord”; Acts 14:3 – “the word of his grace”; Acts 15:7 – “the word of the gospel”; Acts 15:36 – “the word of the Lord”

The Gospel is the Same in Every Nation and Culture Different cultures will call for different expediencies, but culture does not define truth Circumcision of Timothy, 16:3 Cannot condone sin because it is culturally accepted: Fornication in Corinth Social drinking in Europe Marijuana smoking in Washington Immodest dress in Hawaii, California …