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A Sermon by Br. James Garbutt, Elder at Sovereign Grace Church
ACTS: THE GREAT MISSION OF GOD
1. PROLOGUE OF ACTS
A. Purpose of the mission
1. Mission of Christ (Acts 1:1-3)
2. Great mission of Christ (Mt 28:18)
3. Old mission or new? (Mt 23:12-27; 5:20)
2. PLAN OF GOD
A. Plan before, during, and all of time.
1. Plan before fall (Gen 1:28)
2. Plan for patriarchs (Gen 12:1-3)
3. Plan for covenant community (Ex 9:14; Deut 28:9; I Sam 17:46; I Chron 16:7; II Chron 6:32-33; Psalm 2:78; 22:27-28)
4. Plan continuing (Is 2:3; 24:14-16; Jer 3:17; 16:19-21; Mic 4:2; 5:4; Hab 2:14; Zeph 2:11; Zech 2:11; Mal 1:11)
3. PRAYER
A. Praying and communing with God
1. Praying God’s way (Mt. 6:9)
2. Praying rightly (Mt 7:7; James 4:2)
4. PRECIOUS PEOPLE
A. Precious are the souls of men
1. Precious souls with God (Rev. 4, Rev. 7)
2. Back to Acts 1