Marks of a Godly Minister
(pt. 2)(20:13-38)
Acts 20:25
And now, behold, I know that none of you among
whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom
will see my face again.
Acts 20:13-17
But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos,
intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had
arranged, intending himself to go by land. And
when he met us at Assos, we took him on board
and went to Mitylene. And sailing from there we
came the following day opposite Chios; the next
day we touched at Samos; and the day after that
we went to Miletus. For Paul had decided to sail
past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend
time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at
Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost. ..
Acts 20:13-17
… Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called
the elders of the church to come to him.
Acts 20:29-31
I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come
in among you and will not spare the flock. Even
from your own number men will arise and distort
the truth in order to draw away disciples after
them. So be on your guard!
Marks of a Genuine,
Godly Minister
1. Leads By Example
2. Models Humility
3. Models Love
4. Refuses to Water-Down /Edit/
Minimize God’s Word
5. Not Deterred By Suffering
6. Gospel-Focused
7. Lives By Faith
Acts 20:18
And when they came to him, he said to them: "You
yourselves know how I lived among you the whole
time from the first day that I set foot in Asia
Acts 20:19
serving the Lord with all humility and with tears
and with trials that happened to me through the
plots of the Jews;
Godly Ministers
Model Love
(v. 19) – serving the Lord with all humility and with
tears and with trials that happened to me through
the plots of the Jews
(V.31) – Therefore be alert, remembering that for
three years I did not cease night or day to
admonish every one with tears.
Philippians 3:18
For many, of whom I have often told you and now
tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the
cross of Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:4
For I wrote to you out of much affliction and
anguish of heart and with many tears, not to
cause you pain but to let you know the abundant
love that I have for you.
Acts 20:29
I know that after my departure fierce wolves will
come in among you , not sparing the flock; and
from among your own selves will arise men
speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples
after them.
2 Timothy 4:2-4
preach the word; be ready in season and out of
season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with
complete patience and teaching. For the time is
coming when people will not endure sound
teaching, but having itching ears they will
accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their
own passions, and will turn away from listening to
the truth and wander off into myths.
2 Timothy 4:2-4
preach the word; be ready in season and out of
season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with
complete patience and teaching. For the time is
coming when people will not endure sound
teaching, but having itching ears they will
accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their
own passions, and will turn away from listening to
the truth and wander off into myths.
Acts 20:28
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the
flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you
overseers, to care for the church of God, which he
obtained with his own blood
Marks of a Genuine,
Godly Minister
1. Leads By Example
2. Models Humility
3. Models Love
4. Refuses to Water-Down /Edit/
Minimize God’s Word
Acts 20:20
how I did not shrink from declaring to you
anything that was profitable, and teaching you in
public and from house to house
Acts 20:26
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am
innocent of the blood of all, for I did not shrink
from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Ezekiel 33:7-9
So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for
the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word
from my mouth, you shall give them warning from
me. If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall
surely die, and you do not speak to warn the
wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person
shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require
at your hand. But if you warn the wicked to turn
from his way, and he does not turn from his way,
that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will
have delivered your soul.
Ezekiel 33:7-9
So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for
the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word
from my mouth, you shall give them warning from
me. If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall
surely die, and you do not speak to warn the
wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person
shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require
at your hand. But if you warn the wicked to turn
from his way, and he does not turn from his way,
that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will
have delivered your soul.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the
last days. People will be lovers of themselves,
lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive,
disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without
self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God— having a form of
godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to
do with such people.
I hope you don’t preach that. It will hurt a lot
of beautiful people.
Robert Schuller
We’re all about building people up. We’re all about
helping people reach their full potential. We don’t
push some kind of religion.…all we push is joy and
peace and victory through Jesus Christ. …Our
message every single week - is through faith in God
you can live an overcoming life of victory … I believe
that’s the message this generation needs to hear…
…We’ve heard a lot about the judgment of God and
what we can’t do and what’s going to keep us out of
heaven. But it’s time people start hearing about the
goodness of God, about a God that loves them. A
God that believes in them. A God that wants to help
them. That’s our message here at Lakewood."
John Newton
“The Bible is the grand repository … It is the
complete system of divine truth, to which nothing
can be added, and from which nothing can be
taken, with impunity. Every attempt to disguise or
soften any branch of this truth, in order to
accommodate it to the prevailing taste around us,
either to avoid the displeasure, or to court the
favour, of our fellow mortals, must be an affront to
the majesty of God, and an act of treachery to
men.”
Hebrews 5:12-13
For though by this time you ought to be teachers,
you need someone to teach you again the basic
principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not
solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is
unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is
a child.
2 Timothy 4:1-4
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus,
who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his
appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready
in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and
exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the
time is coming when people will not endure sound
teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate
for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and
will turn away from listening to the truth and wander
off into myths.
GOD - He’s awesome!
JESUS - See above…same person
HOLY SPIRIT - See above…same person
SALVATION - It’s awesome, includes the package deal off all three
above, which are really one…but they are three…but one…uh…
MANKIND - We suck (translation, we’re not awesome!)
On Theology…
END TIMES - It’s going to be awesome (and people who
try to predict it are stupid!)
CREATION - It was awesome, then mankind, who sucks,
messed it up and have been doing so ever since. BUT…one
day God is going to make it awesome again!
SIN - People think it’s awesome, but it sucks…but God
saves us from it, which is awesome!
THE BIBLE - It is a story about a God who is awesome!
On Theology…
Marks of a Genuine,
Godly Minister
1. Leads By Example
2. Models Humility
3. Models Love
4. Refuses to Water-Down /Edit/
Minimize God’s Word
5. Not Deterred By Suffering
Acts 20:19
serving the Lord with all humility and with
tears and with trials that happened to me
through the plots of the Jews
Acts 20:22-23
And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem,
constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what
will happen to me there, except that the
Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that
imprisonment and afflictions await me.
Acts 20:24
But I do not account my life of any value
nor as precious to myself, if only I may
finish my course and the ministry that I
received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to
the gospel of the grace of God
Acts 9:15-16
But the Lord said to him (Ananias), "Go, for
he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry
my name before the Gentiles and kings and
the children of Israel. For I will show him
how much he must suffer for the sake of
my name."
2 Corinthians 12:8-10
Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this,
that it should leave me. But he said to me, "My
grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made
perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all
the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the
power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake
of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses,
insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities.
For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Timothy 4:6-7
For I am already being poured out as a drink
offering, and the time of my departure has
come. I have fought the good fight, I have
finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Godly Ministers Are
Gospel-Focused
(v. 21) – testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of
repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Luke 6:26
"Woe to you, when all people speak well of
you, for so their fathers did to the false
prophets.
Repentance…
The conscious act of a sinner, whereby he
turns from his sin toward God.
Repentance…
(Acts 2:38) – And Peter said to them, "Repent and be
baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for
the forgiveness of your sins…
(Acts 3:19) – Repent therefore, and turn back, that your
sins may be blotted out.
(Acts 14:15) – "Men, why are you doing these things? We
also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you
good news, that you should turn from these vain things to
a living God
Repentance…
(Acts 17:30-31) – The times of ignorance God overlooked,
but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the
world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed;
and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from
the dead."
(Luke 13:3) – No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will
all likewise perish
Faith…
The positive conviction that the Gospel is
TRUE & you are going to Bank Your Life On It!
Maverick pastor gets crowds streaming
into church after erecting a stripper pole
behind pulpit
Ed Young – Fellowship Church (Grapevine, TX)
Granger Community Church
Granger, IN
Granger Community Church
Granger, IN