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  • Big Idea for the Series: In the book of Acts, we see God advancing his Kingdom by his Spirit through his Church.
    FCF: Along our journey of sharing the gospel and reaching others for Christ, we will face much opposition. But we should take comfort in the sovereignty of God and press on in our labors, knowing that God uses even what appears to be failure to advance his plan and his kingdom.
    Intro: It’s been three weeks since we last looked at the book of Acts, so I want to refresh your memory a bit on where we are. Jesus ascends to heaven in chapter 1 and tasks his disciples with making more disciples, starting in Jerusalem, then expanding to Judea and Samaria, and then finally with taking the gospel to the ends of the earth.
    Acts 1:8 ESV
    8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
    And that’s what we’ve seen so far. In the first few chapters, we see phase one of Jesus’ mission plan unfold as an amazing revival breaks out in Jerusalem and thousands of Jews come to believe in the risen Messiah Jesus. But, the Jewish leaders get jealous of all the attention and fierce persecution breaks out against them. Steven, one of the first deacons, is stoned to death in a mob lynching (chapters 6-7), and many of the Christians flee Jerusalem to the surrounding regions.
    This leads, of course, to the gospel going to Samaria—Phase 2 of Jesus’ mission plan. In chapter 8, Philip, one of Steven’s fellow deacons, travels to Samaria and proclaims the gospel to them. Many are saved, and for the first time, non-Jews receive the Holy Spirit and are welcomed into the new Church.
    Then, in chapter 9 we have, as C.S. Lewis described himself, “A most reluctant convert.” A Jewish leader, a Pharisee who had approved of and been part of Steven’s execution, is converted. He meets the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus, as he’s on his way to persecute believers, and he becomes a Christian.
    In Chapter 10, Jesus’ mission plan enters phase 3—the gospel goes to Gentiles, non-Jews. A Roman centurion by the name of Cornelius, along with his whole house, hears the gospel and believes in Jesus and receives the Holy Spirit. They don’t convert to Judaism first, and so the first uncircumcised Gentiles are welcomed into the church.
    It’s been several years, maybe a decade or so, since the events of Acts 1. Saul, Barnabas, and John Mark head off on a mission trip from Jerusalem to Asia Minor (Modern-day Turkey). Everywhere they go there are people who believe, and there are people who reject their message and persecute them. So, today we pick up in Acts 13, where Saul is now going by his Greek name “Paul.”
    Before we dive in, though, let’s pray.
    Prayer
    Acts 13:13–52 ESV
    13 Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem, 14 but they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia. And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.
    In this passage, we see Paul and Barnabas continuing their missionary journey. John Mark leaves them at this point for reasons we don’t ever find out, and that later becomes a point of contention between Paul and Barnabas. Paul and Barnabas arrive in Perga, then in Antioch, and the first thing they do—as always—is go to the local synagogue to proclaim the good news there.
    Now, this was a few years before social media, so word has not yet (fully) reached this synagogue of all that Jesus had done. So this is probably the first time they’re hearing the gospel. Paul recounts a bit of OT history to give them some context, reminding them that “we’ve been waiting for the Son of David, the Messiah to come for hundreds of years now.”
    Acts 13:13–52 ESV
    15 After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, say it.” 16 So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: “Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen. 17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. 18 And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. 19 And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance. 20 All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
    Paul here is reminding them of Israel’s disobedience when they rejected God’s rule over them as king and demanded a human king instead. He’s reminding them, “Things don’t go well when you reject God and his rule.”
    But, God raised up a good king—David. And here, Paul is reminding them of what they already know—the OT foretold of a day when God would send a Son of David, a descendent of David, to take David’s throne as King of Israel. That person would be called the Messiah, the anointed one. Here, Paul is setting the stage to tell them the good news—Messiah has arrived!
    Acts 13:13–52 ESV
    23 Of this man’s offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised. 24 Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25 And as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’ 26 “Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
    Just like in the OT, God sent a prophet before his king to prepare the way. That prophet was John the Baptist.
    But, just like in the OT, the people rebelled against God:
    Acts 13:13–52 ESV
    27 For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. 28 And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed. 29 And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb. 30 But God raised him from the dead, 31 and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people. 32 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, 33 this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “ ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’ 34 And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, “ ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’ 35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, “ ‘You will not let your Holy One see corruption.’
    Now here, Paul is answering some objections that might be coming up in their minds— “wait, the Messiah was executed?!?! That wasn’t supposed to happen! And wait, he rose from the dead? Where does it say that in the OT prophecies?”
    So, Paul points them to one of David’s Psalms where David, speaking in the Holy Spirit, says Psalm 16:10 “For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.”
    Now, most Jews thought David was speaking about himself in this Psalm. But the problem is, David did die and get buried. His body did ‘see corruption,’ which is just a euphemism for decaying. So, Paul points this out:
    Acts 13:13–52 ESV
    36 For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption, 37 but he whom God raised up did not see corruption.
    Jesus, on the other hand, did not. He was raised from the dead before his body decayed. So, Paul is making the case that David wasn’t actually writing about himself here. In fact, David does that a lot in the Psalms. In many of the Psalms, though they’re written in first person, David is clearly talking about someone greater than himself. These are called “Messianic Psalms” because they refer to the future Messiah. So Paul is saying here that Jesus’ resurrection is a fulfillment of OT prophecies about the Messiah.
    So, he goes on to explain why this is all good news for them:
    Acts 13:13–52 ESV
    38 Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
    Now, Paul knows his Jewish friends well. They’re stubborn folks, just like Paul himself was. Over and over in the OT God describes Israel as a “stubborn and stiff-necked people,” so he warns them not to turn away from the good news:
    Acts 13:13–52 ESV
    40 Beware, therefore, lest what is said in the Prophets should come about: 41‘Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’
    From this point on, I’m just going to read the text because I’m going to focus primarily on these last 10 verses from here on out.
    Acts 13:13–52 ESV
    42 As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath. 43 And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God. 44 The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. 45 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him. 46 And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles. 47 For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ” 48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. 49 And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region. 50 But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district. 51 But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium. 52 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
    What we see in this passage here is a pattern that we’ve seen all through the book of Acts. As the apostles go about sharing the gospel and reaching others for Christ, they face almost constant opposition. And if we obey and engage in the Great Commission, we will face opposition as well. But we can take comfort in the sovereignty of God and press on in our labors, because we know that God uses even what appears to be failure to advance his plan and his kingdom.
    One of the things that becomes very clear in the book of Acts is that...

    There will always be some who reject the gospel and some who embrace it.

    This pattern is so often repeated in Acts that as soon as we hear that Paul is going and preaching in the synagogue, we kind of already know how this is going to go.
    It makes us wonder, “Why is it this way? Why do some people refuse to believe no matter the evidence staring them in the face, and others seem to believe with hardly any effort? Why does the same message soften some and harden others?”
    Well, this passage gives us some hints and some insight into that question. What we see emerge in this passage is two very clearly separated groups of people. There are those who, as Paul puts it,
    Acts 13:46 ESV
    46 ...thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life...
    and then there are those who:
    Acts 13:48 ESV
    48 ...began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
    So, let’s take these two groups in turn and see if we can explain this a bit.

    Those who reject the gospel do so out of their own corrupt nature.

    Paul makes it clear that those who reject the gospel...
    Acts 13:46 ESV
    46 ...thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life...
    Luke, and Scripture in general, makes it clear that when evil, sinful people reject God, even when it fulfills his plan and purposes, the blame for their rejection falls squarely upon the people themselves.
    Paul knows that the hearts of many of these people are squarely set against God. That’s why he warns them in his sermon:
    Acts 13:41 ESV
    41 “ ‘Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’ ”
    And already we see signs that things are not going to go well. In the very next verse we’re told:
    Acts 13:42–43 ESV
    42 As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath. 43 And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.
    Now, that might sound hopeful at first—and it sort of does. But, notice that they don’t ask him to stick around longer, they don’t ask him to come back the next day even, they ask him to come back ‘next week.’
    Some of them stick around and follow Paul and Barnabas, but the others are content to wait a week to hear more.
    Paul has just explained to them that their hopes and dreams of a Messiah, of a restored relationship with God, what the Jewish people have been waiting for for hundreds of years—thousands of years, really—has all now been fulfilled in Jesus. He’s told them that Jesus has risen from the dead, that he offers them salvation and forgiveness of sins.
    And yet, they’re content to wait another week before they hear more about it.
    Some of you in this room are like this. You come here week after week and you hear the good news about how God in his mercy has made a way for you to be reconciled to him, for your sins to be forgiven, for you to receive new life, and you feel the Spirit’s tug at your heart and you feel the conviction of your sins and you know that you ought to respond right now. You ought to stand up and interrupt me this very second because you know that your eternal destiny hangs in the balances and that if you were to die right now you would go to Hell, eternally separated from God. You ought to raise your hand right now and demand that I give an invitation—and I would do it! I would happily stop my sermon right here and give you an opportunity to respond, because nothing is more important.
    But, some of you, even now, will hear these words and know that they apply to you, but you will sit there and squirm in your seat, or you will occupy your mind with other things to distract you and you will walk out that door at the end of service, content to put it off for another week. You assume that you have another week.
    But the problem is that you are presuming upon the grace and mercy of God.
    Romans 2:4–5 ESV
    4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
    You are presuming upon his mercy, and in the process, storing up wrath for yourself on the Judgment Day.
    Why do people do this? Because this is the natural state of every human heart. All of us, Paul says, were once like this. There may be two groups of people, but all of us start off in this first group.
    Ephesians 2:1–3 ESV
    1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
    All of us begin like this. This is what we are by nature. All of us start off “dead in sin,” living in the desires of the flesh (sinful, rebellious desires that are contrary to God).
    So, in a way, we don’t really have to explain why some people end up rejecting God in the face of all the evidence to the contrary.
    For some, it’s jealousy. Like the Pharisees and religious leaders of Jesus and Paul’s day.
    Acts 13:44–45 ESV
    44 The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. 45 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.
    The Jewish leaders rejected Jesus out of jealousy. They enjoyed power and prestige and were afraid that this new Jewish leader challenged all that. They were going to lose their jobs and their notoriety and influence. So, they rejected Jesus. And the word here at the end of verse 45 is actually stronger in the Greek than it looks in most English translations. The word is actually “blasphemed.” I think the NASB translates this a little more accurately here:
    Acts 13:45 NASB95
    45 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were blaspheming.
    Their jealousy of Paul and Barnabas’ ability to draw a crowd and get the people interested led them to blaspheme what God himself was doing through Christ and the Holy Spirit.
    For others, it’s bitterness. Some church person hurt them. And maybe it was something minor, or maybe it was something major. But instead of confronting that person and trying to reconcile, or instead of realizing that people are sinners and church members are not always the best picture of Jesus himself—instead of leaning into Jesus, they took that hurt that some person caused them and they blamed Jesus instead.
    Some allow the pain of life, a loss, a difficult time in life, to make them bitter against God. Instead of looking to God as their refuge and their source of strength, they blasphemed God as the cause of their problems.
    The fact is that all of us were like this at some point. The real question is not “Why do some people reject God when it’s so obvious?”
    They reject God because that’s what they desire to do. And that’s why Paul says that these people:
    Acts 13:46 ESV
    46 ...thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life...
    Those who reject the gospel do so out of their own corrupt nature, their own sinful desires. Despite what the world may tell you, the Bible does not present mankind as “basically good at heart.” It presents us as “dead in our sins,” and by nature “children of wrath” and rebels to the King of the Universe. And by carrying out those desires, they thrust aside the gospel and judge themselves unworthy of eternal life.
    That’s what all of us are naturally like. The real question then becomes, “Why does anyone end up believing in God?” How does anyone end up in that second group?

    Those who embrace the gospel do so because God first embraced them.

    Acts 13:48 ESV
    48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
    Now, as soon as we read that verse, we want to change the word order. What we would like for it to say is “as many as believed were appointed to eternal life.” But that isn’t what it says. And you can look in whatever English translation you want—every major English translation renders this pretty much the same because the Greek is pretty clear on this.
    In fact, the Greek word “were appointed” has a couple of elements in it that make this even more clear. First off, it’s what scholars call a “divine passive.”
    A passive verb would be like if I said, “the ball was thrown to me.” If I say that, it’s very clear that I’m not the one throwing it. Someone else threw the ball.
    In the Greek here in v. 48, the word “appointed” (which could also be translated “chosen, or destined”) is passive. That means that the people who believed did not appoint or choose themselves. They were appointed or chosen by a third party—namely, by God. This is where the “divine” part of the “divine passive” comes into play. In places like this, where the subject of the passive isn’t identified, the context makes it clear that it’s God.
    So, we could rephrase that phrase in active voice like this: “As many as [God] appointed to eternal life believed. God is the one that does the appointing, the choosing.
    Now, the word also contains another element that is crucial to understanding what’s going on here—it’s in the Perfective aspect.
    What that means is that it marks the verb off as something that happened prior to the timeline of the rest of the sentence. If I said “I went to John’s house, but he had gone to the store” I mean that John went to the store before I got to his house. He was already gone.
    So, we could make this verse a little more clear if we added the word “had” in there. That’s how the NASB renders this:
    Acts 13:48 NASB95
    48 When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.
    What this verse is telling us, then, is that those who believed had already been appointed or chosen or destined by God before this event ever took place.
    Or, to put it more succinctly, we could say that God had pre-destined them for eternal life, and then at some point down the road, they believed. How long beforehand did this “predestination” take place?
    Paul, in the opening lines of Ephesians, says that it was ‘before the foundation of the world.’ Before Creation.
    Ephesians 1:3–6 ESV
    3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
    In theological terms, we call this the doctrine of election (aka., predestination, choosing).
    If we go back to the former group and remember that all of us, as Paul says in chapter 2 of Ephesians, were once ‘dead in sins’ and ‘children of wrath,’ and we ask the question “Then how did I become saved? If in my sinful state, my natural state, I was a rebel to God and never would have desired him, how did that change?”
    Paul gives us the answer:
    Ephesians 2:1–9 ESV
    1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
    Why did these Gentiles in Acts 13 respond positively when the Jewish leaders didn’t? Were they better people? No—Ephesians 2 says they were dead in their sins. Was it because they considered themselves worthy of eternal life? No, Eph. 2:4 says “But God...” not “But you...”
    The reason that these Gentiles—and the only reason you were saved—is because God “made you alive” with Christ. You were like Lazarus—dead in the tomb—and God called into that tomb and said “Arise!”
    You are a believer not because of something you did but because of something God did before the foundation of the world. He chose you as an object of his mercy and grace.
    Why me? God does not answer that question except to say that the answer lies within his grace and mercy, not within my worthiness.
    Why not others? Again, God does not answer that question except to say that it is his prerogative to give grace and mercy to whom he wills.
    This doctrine raises a lot of questions, and I can’t answer them all. But, what I can do is show you from Scripture how you should live in light of this.

    Living in light of God’s election.

    Be humble.

    Some people think that the doctrine of election makes people proud. “Look at me, I’m part of the chosen group! I’m special!” Well, if you don’t understand it, I guess it could lead to that attitude.
    But, if you understand election in Ephesians 2 terms, election teaches us that salvation is a work of God, not man. As one man put it:
    I can contribute nothing to my own salvation, except the sin from which I need to be redeemed.
    William Temple (bishop)
    In Acts 13 we see that the reason that the Gentiles were saved is not because they were smarter, more godly, or more deserving, but simply because God had appointed them to eternal life.
    The reason that you are able to clearly see the truth of the gospel, the reason that you are not blinded by the god of this age is because before the foundation of the world, God marked you out as one of his. He chose you. Not because of any good deed you did, but because he loved you.
    So there is no room for arrogance at the foot of the cross.

    Expect miracles.

    If God has willed that someone be saved, it’s going to happen. Most of the Jews rejected the gospel message, but not all of them.
    Acts 13:43 ESV
    43 And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.
    Acts 13:49 ESV
    49 And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region.
    We know that it is a miracle that anyone comes to faith. We also know that our God works miracles, and that as long as Christ has not yet returned, there are more people he intends to add to his Kingdom.
    Even those that we might consider ‘irredeemable,’ like Saul, can and will be saved if the Spirit moves. So, we should expect such miracles.

    Persist in prayer for unbelievers.

    Paul and Barnabas knew that the results were not up to them. So, they depended upon the Lord
    Even though this passage doesn’t directly reference prayer, we know that the early church was a praying church.
    If salvation depends upon the Lord, then we need to be praying to the Lord for the salvation of others.

    Go where the Spirit is moving.

    Acts 13:47 ESV
    47 For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “ ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”
    You can’t—and shouldn’t try to—force someone to believe. If they reject your gospel and ridicule or persecute you, shake off the dust and move on.
    This doesn’t mean that we abandon people at the first sign of resistance. Paul didn’t do that. He didn’t move on and “shake the dust off his feet” until there was a firm rejection and even persecution.
    Perhaps the best analogy is a burning building.
    If someone was in a burning building and refusing to leave, at what point would you abandon trying to rescue them?
    Most likely, the line of “shaking off the dust” is probably a lot further than most of us usually go in our evangelism. So, this isn’t something you jump to quickly. But, if they are hostile or very firm, then it’s time to move on.
    God often uses rejection by some to force his people to go share with others. We should be wise in how we use our time and effort and we should not, as Jesus said, “Cast our pearls before swine.” (Mt. 7:6)
    God used the rejection of some to drive Paul and Barnabas to proclaim the gospel elsewhere. So, some people’s rejection of the gospel actually ends up advancing it. God uses even what appears to be failure to advance his plan and his kingdom.
    So trust him and follow where he leads.

    Be faithful and zealous to proclaim the gospel.

    Some people get hung up on election because they think “If someone isn’t elect, what’s the point in evangelizing them?” But do you know they’re not? Of course not! None of us know ahead of time. It’s not your job to try to figure out the deep mysteries of God and who he has chosen and who he hasn’t. Frankly, that is none of your business.
    Your business is to be faithful and zealous in proclaiming the gospel. Tell it to everything that moves. Sow your gospel seeds everywhere you can and time will reveal what is good soil and what is not.
    You are not responsible for the results. You be faithful.
    Reflection Questions:
    If you are a believer, what is your gut reaction to the idea that you were chosen by God before creation to be one of his children? Why do you react that way?
    Read Ephesians 1:3-14. How does Paul respond to the doctrine of election?
    How should this doctrine influence our efforts in evangelism?
    How does the doctrine of election free us from a results-based view of evangelism?
    How should you respond when someone adamantly rejects the gospel? How do you know where that line is?
    Who do you need to pray for and share the gospel with this week?
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