The Ethiopian Treasurer

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Hello, My name is Evan a C.

Welcome to this week's Deeper truths.

Teaching a Siri's that is designed for people who have

said yes to Jesus Christ to have put him on

through baptism and whose names are written in The Lamb's

Book of Life, You're making heaven your home.

So these Siri's is designed to help us find out

exactly how God has intended for us to live this

life really well.

And he's given us his instruction manual, which is the

Holy Scriptures, in order to be able to know exactly

how we can do that.

So this Siri's we're gonna take the time to talk

about life, the universe and everything.

Let's dive right in.

I am so excited about the direction that we're gonna

go for the next couple of weeks.

As we dive into this particular area of deeper truths

in Jesus Christ, let's jump right into the Scriptures.

The message today is Philip and the Ethiopian.

The subtitle on it is where to find help when

you need it, so let's go ahead and turn to

God's were we're gonna read today in the Book of

Acts, Chapter eight, we're gonna read versus 26 through 40

lots of stops along the way.

I'm sure that you're gonna find yourself in this story

somewhere. Now, an angel of the Lord said to Philip,

go south to the road, the desert road that goes

down from Jerusalem to Gaza.

So he started out and on his way he met

an Ethiopian unit, an important official in charge of all

the treasury of the candidate, which means Queen of the

Ethiopians. Okay, let's take a stop.

You're really quick.

Let's see what we're looking at.

So Philip is in Jerusalem and he hears the voice

of God speak to him.

An angel, it says told him, Go on this road.

First thing I have to ask myself as a believer

in Jesus Christ.

Does God still talked to his people?

If God talked to me, sent the spirit that talk

to me, would I be in tune to hear that

voice? And if I Let's say, the voice said, I

felt on the inside of me.

You know that function from the Holy Spirit go into

downtown Portland.

There's somebody I'm going to bring you to number one.

Would I have heard number two.

If I did hear what I have the boldness to

follow through, I had to ask myself that question.

And then let's look at the Ethiopian here.

It says This might not about this central character in

this story, the Ethiopian unit.

He's an important official in charge of all the treasury

of the candidate, which means the queen of the Ethiopians.

So this guy is the treasurer for the queen of

Ethiopia. The Ethiopia spoken of here in the Scripture is

actually known as Sudan today, So it's over in Africa.

We know that this guy is educated because you can't

be the treasurer of a country unless you know mathematics

and the different things that go along with understanding mathematics.

He was highly educated.

We know that he is an important person.

He's the queen's treasure, which means that he has an

entourage of people.

Very likely he's got a lot of cash.

He's dressed very nicely.

He's highly educated now.

UNIX units are people men who have been castrated, sometimes

even emasculated, and sometimes that that was done by choice.

But more often than not, that person was actually captured.

A different country came into your country.

They overtook it.

And then they carried away a bunch of people and

brought them as exiles to their homeland.

So we don't know if this guy was eat the

opening with actor after an exile.

We don't really know if he was a unit, by

choice or by force, but anyway, we do know that

he was one.

And so he lives in Ethiopia now.

And, uh So let's move on.

In the scripture, the man had gone to Jerusalem to

worship, stopped the ponies.

Oh, my goodness.

The man had gone to Jerusalem to worship known Ethiopia.

There were a lot of different religions at the time,

and this is important background information.

Uh, he was There were a lot of different religions

there at the time, but he had come to Jerusalem

to worship Jerusalem was the center of the known world

for Jewish worship.

So I believe that we can say based on circumstantial

evidence, which is all we have that the unique waas

Jewish and he had been trained in the Jewish customs

and ways because he had traveled 1500 miles by horse.

That could be a two month journey.

It says here.

The man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, so he

had traveled all that distance so that he could worship

in Jerusalem.

He was most likely a Jew.

And so knowing that and knowing that he's an adult

because he's a treasure of a country, he's traveling.

He's got his on trust.

He's traveled to Jerusalem and he's on his way back

home. We know that this guy has probably been doing

this for all of his life.

He was probably trained in the Hebrew scriptures.

Uh, and so, uh, he was.

So we know that this Ethiopian was trained in the

Scriptures because we're gonna find out here in a minute,

um, as we read it says on his way home

was sitting in his chariot so we can see that

this Ethiopian was probably trained in the Jewish ways and

customs because he had gone to the center of Jerusalem

to worship.

And then we see picking up in 28 on his

way home was sitting in his chariot reading The Book

of Isaiah the Prophet.

The spirit told Philip, go to that chariot and stay

near So now the Jewish people had from the in

Early World had trained their Children in the home, how

to read and to write because they wanted the Children

to be able to read and write the Torah, the

written word of God that they had at the time.

In fact, there was the same in Jerusalem.

That said, as long as the voices of the Children

can be heard reciting as long as the voices of

Jacob's Children can be heard reciting Torah in the city,

the city will never all to the end of Isa.

So it was very important that the Children learn how

to read and write Scripture.

So this guy probably was trained in these customs from

childhood. Now here he is, an adult.

He's gone to Jerusalem to worship.

Just quickly point out here.

You know what that means?

Sky spent his whole life in church.

It was the way of the Jewish people at the

time. He's traveled 1500 miles to go worship in Jerusalem.

He's probably been a church his entire life, so let's

keep reading this move onto 1st 30 Then Philip ran

up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah

the Prophet.

Do you understand what you're reading, Philip Ass.

How can I said unless someone explains it to me?

So he invited Philip to come up and sit with

him. Now, I had to stop and ask myself a

question. So I don't know really what Philip and the

rest of the disciples dressed and looked like all the

movies that I see these days show that they're kind

of ragged looking and get haircuts are unshaven.

Their feet are dirty.

Uh, it just, you know, they really kind of in

the movies, they make about toe look almost like they

would look like homeless people.

So I think for myself sitting in a part and

I'm reading my Bible and some, this shovel guy who

looks like he needs a haircut and a shave comes

up to me.

He goes, Oh, I see you're reading the Bible.

Do you know what that means?

Did Do you actually understand what you're reading?

And I have a choice.

I can look at him and think we'll become indignant.

What do you need?

Of course I do.

I have a Bible.

I've been in church my whole life.

Of course I know everything that says, uh, or I

can actually take a path of humility in and asked,

Why do you you know something that maybe I haven't

studied because I love to go toe to toe with

the scripture and talk to people about passages and verses

and thoughts and chapters and time periods.

I love those things.

So this Ethiopian, he doesn't become indignant with Philip in

back, he says to him, I'm reading this and I

have no idea what it's saying.

He says, How can I said unless someone explains it

to me?

So he invited Philip to come up and sit with

him. We'll continue reading.

This is a passage of Scripture of the eunuch was

reading. He was led like a sheep to the slaughter

and as a land before it shares his silent.

So he did not open his mouth.

In his humiliation, he was deprived of justice who can

speak of his descendants for his life was taken from

the Earth unit cast billet, Tell me, please, who was

a prophet talking about himself or someone else.

Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and

told him he could news about Jesus.

So once again, let's take a look and consider Really,

What's happening?

We got a guy who is trained and in the

Scriptures. Uh, he's probably reading the CEP to a gym,

which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures.

But, uh, he is educated.

He's gone 1500 mile journey to worship.

He's on his way home.

And so now he realizes, you know, even though I've

been to the temple of that, listen to the priest,

talk their stuff, I just don't understand.

There's there's something more.

I can feel it on the inside.

I'm missing it.

And the spirit since Philip to explain it to him.

And that is so important to really understand, do things

here. Number one.

This guy had a genuine need.

He knew inside that although he was doing all the

right things, that there must be something more.

And he admitted it.

It wasn't a struggle for him to have toe realize

that he just fundamentally nude on the inside me was

okay, was saying No, I don't know.

I don't know the answers.

I would love to, though, And so Philip explains to

him, Jesus and a beautiful thing takes place here as

they traveled along the road.

They came to some water in the UNIX set.

Look, here is water.

What can stand in the way of me being baptized?

Philip said.

If you believe with all your heart, you may the

unit cancer.

I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God

and he gave orders to stop the chariot.

Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the

water and Philip baptized him.

Oh, child of God, How beautiful!

In this story, this guy actually needed Jesus but remembered,

I'm trusting that I'm talking to people who have already

said yes to Jesus.

You're making heaven your home.

But yet you actually can honestly say I don't get

it. There's things in the Bible that I read, and

I think that just doesn't make sense to me.

I just am not comfortable with believing what that says

right there or that must have been for somebody else.

But not for me.

All of those things that we say when we come

to those passengers that we don't really fully comprehend.

Uh, so for this the guy had a teachable spirit,

and then the Holy Spirit sent someone to teach the

unit what he needed to know.

And it says when they came up out of the

water and the spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip

Away, who've gone?

The unit did not see him again, but went on

his way.

Rejoicing. Philip, however, appeared at as taught and traveled about

preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached

that Syria.

So salvation came to the house of the unit, and

he went back 1500 miles away.

And no doubt, he told his story.

So the great commission was being fulfilled by the action

of the Holy Spirit, sending Philip to talk to this

guy. Phillip had an open spirit to hear the voice

of the spirit, and he had a willingness to go

do what he said.

He went to a guy who had been a church

his whole life and realize he didn't know everything, and

he asked for help.

The spirit of God sent Philip to help him, and

then for him.

His eyes were open.

He said yes to Jesus.

So for us, I'm excited about the next couple of

weeks because there's a reason why the Holy Spirit actually

took care of that Ethiopian and helped him by sending

somebody to learn.

Listen to what Jesus said the Holy Spirit would do.

Jesus said in John, 14.

26 is recorded.

But the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the father will

send in my name will teach you all things.

And we'll remind you of everything I have said to

you. So here's the challenge.

Come back next week because we're gonna actually start to

study the Holy Spirit.

Where to find help when you need it.

Jesus promised the Holy Spirit would be here to help

us. And in Jesus name, I'm gonna help you connect

through God's true and living word with the truth about

the Holy Spirit.

I'm excited about where we're going with that.

So in the meantime, I'm havin a C.

And if you have questions, please reach out to us.

We're here for you and will answer your questions as

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The Ethiopian Treasurer

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