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This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson, I'm director of the Southside Life Station and pastor of

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New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo, and you're receiving this message

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because you opted in to be encouraged.

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As we're traveling briefly through the book of Acts, we stop at Acts 15, 7, where it says,

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After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, Brethren, you know that

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in the early days God made a choice among you, that by mouth the Gentiles would hear

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the word of the Lord and believe.

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What God has done becomes a testimony for what God will do.

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His methods are an obvious argument for his personality.

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Moreover, because he did it, it may well happen again, especially when the task can be seen

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as just beginning or unending.

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God wants to love people.

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He wants to bring people into proper relationship with him.

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God made a choice among you that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel

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and believe, and this is Peter speaking.

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The fact is you, an ordinary person, can take the gospel to someone who doesn't currently

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know it and bring them to Jesus Christ the Lord.

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There's no limitations.

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Not Jews, Gentiles, doesn't matter, rich, wealthy, skin color, age, none of that matters.

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Bring them to Jesus.

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In Jesus' name, amen.