Acts 21:1-14 | Do Hard Things

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Slides:

Look at prophecy in the same way you study Scripture:

• Observation – What did God say?

• Interpretation – What did God mean?

• Application – What does He want me to do?

Do Hard Things:

• We need friends to do hard things.

Proverbs 17:17 

A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.

John 15:12-15

"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 14 "You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 "No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

Do Hard Things:

• A sense of your calling prepares you to do hard things.

Acts 9:15 

But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel; 16 for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name's sake."

Matthew 16:24-27

Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. 25 "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 "For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and WILL THEN REPAY EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS.