Following God (When Life Takes an Unexpected Turn)

This past Lord’s Day, Pastor Harlow opened Acts 8:26-40, the account of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch, to show how God directs His servants down unlikely roads to reach unlikely people. Philip’s obedience took him to a desert highway, where he found a court official puzzling over Isaiah 53 with no one to explain it to him. Pastor Harlow traced how the suffering servant of Isaiah pointed forward to Christ, and how the gospel Philip preached reached across every barrier of nation and status to bring a foreigner and outcast into the family of God. The sermon closed with the eunuch’s baptism as a picture of the good news still going out today, to outsiders near and far.