When Things Get Tough

Acts 8:1-8

• Lesson #1 – See your suffering for Christ as an opportunity to fulfill your mission (v. 1, 4).  Hebrews 10:32-34; Acts 1:8; Acts 11:19-21
• Lesson #2 – Do not allow your comfort, prosperity, safety and freedom to cause spiritual inertia (v. 1). Deuteronomy 8:10-18; Mark 4:19; Romans 12:11
• Lesson #3 – Be careful about your sincerity because you can be sincerely wrong (v. 3). Galatians 1:13; John 3 (Nicodemus)
• Lesson #4 - Make sharing the Gospel a top priority in all the circumstances of your life (v. 4-8). Acts 10:43
• The Gospel:  John 1:12-13; John 3:16-17; John 3:36; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 3:10, 20-24; Romans 5:1, 8; Romans 10:9-10; 2 Corinthians 5:20; Ephesians 2:8-,9; Titus 3:5; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 1:8-9; 1 John 5:11-13; Revelations 3:20.