World Upside Down | Paul’s Sermon at Antioch in Pisidia Acts 13:13-52

[David Snelling – Deacon of Production]

Acts 13:13-52 

Numbers 23:19

Job 42:2

The supremacy of God is good news to the world because….

God maintains His purposes and faithfulness, not IN LIGHT of His peoples faithfulness, but despite their unfaithfulness.

2 Timothy 2:11-13

Psalm 19:7

Romans 3:23, Romans 2:15

“And the First use of it, without question, is, to convince the world of sin….But it is the ordinary method of the Spirit of God to convict sinners by the law. It is this which, being set home on the conscience, generally breaketh the rocks in pieces. It is more especially this part of the word of God which is zvn kai energhs, — quick and powerful, full of life and energy, “and sharper than any two edged sword.” This, in the hand of God and of those whom he hath sent, pierces through all the folds of a deceitful heart, and “divides asunder even the soul and the spirit;” yea, as it were, the very “joints and marrow.” By this is the sinner discovered to himself. All his fig-leaves are torn away, and he sees that he is “wretched, and poor, and miserable, and blind, and naked.” The law flashes conviction on every side. He feels himself a mere sinner. He has nothing to pay. His “mouth is stopped,” and he stands “guilty before God.” – John Wesley

The weight of the law is meant to reveal to all people their need for a Savior.

Romans 3:21-25

Titus 3:5, Ephesians 2:8, Romans 6:23

For both Jew and Gentile – Salvation is not a matter what you “earn” but a matter of who you give your life to.