Youth: "How Faith Will Help Me" by Andrew Itson

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 9:00AM Tent Speaker

 

Speaker: Andrew Itson

 

Faith That Will Survive - Lessons from Young Eutychus

• Don't fight sleep in a window seat.
  • Acts 20:1-6 - After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. ² When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. ³ There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews^[a] as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. ⁴ Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. ⁵ These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, ⁶ but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.
    • Troas is like subway station in that it is always an intersection on the path to somewhere else.
  • Acts 20:7 - ⁷ On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread,
• Change is proof of the resurrection.
  
  • Acts 20:7-8 - Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. ⁸ There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
• In the room, there was proof of expectation.
  
  • Acts 20:9 - ⁹ And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.
• "Deep Sleep" scenarios..
  
  • Acts 20:10-11 - ¹⁰ But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.” ¹¹ And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.
  • We easily get annoyed with distractions, but maybe the distraction is the main thing.
• What can we learn from young Eutychus? The dangers of falling asleep spiritually.
  • 1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
  • 1 Corinthians 16:13 -  Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
• Signs you are sleepy:
  
  • Little to no desire to pray
  • Loss of appetite for The Word
  • A desire to only be served, not to server
  • Avoiding accountability
  • Comparing yourself to other people
  • Isolated from a community of believers
• Be careful WHERE you rest.
• Eutychus showed up: Sometimes you are tired because of trying.
• Our goal should not be tired-free living. Our goal is to be tired for the right reasons.
• Intention gets you into the room. Attention keeps you in the room.
• Pursue spiritual things while you are young.
  • Colossians 2:6-7 - Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, ⁷ rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
  • Psalm 92:12-13 - The righteous flourish like the palm tree
        and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
    ¹³ They are planted in the house of the Lord;
        they flourish in the courts of our God.
  • Built up = level up
  • Acts 20:10 - But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”
• Fall on the fallen.
  
  • It takes an incredible amount of time and energy to walk alongside someone who is on both sides of the road.
  • "Ronnie's data loved me into the church" - Sandra Missildine
• How am I handling the "Eutychuses" among us?
• How to fall on the fallen:
  • There's a  time to talk and a time to be quiet. There's a time to speak the truth, and a time to let the truth speak for Himself.
  • Falling on the fallen means we embrace them.
  • We are to fall on our faces before the Father's throne.
• Ministry is about coming down from your upper room.
  • Acts 20:12 - And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.
• God saw value in continuing Eutychus' life.
• Don't fight sleep in a window seat.

Speaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=186fCdmVs3w

 

Duration 42:26