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Philip who Shared Jesus to an Ethiopian Eunuch

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[Acts 8竊?/span>35 (NIV)]

Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

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Philip left Jerusalem because of the great difficulty that he had faced at the Jerusalem church. He went to Samaria and spread the gospel there as the first missionary then God gave him a new mission.

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One day, an angel came to Philip and told him,
 "Go south to the road?�the desert road?�that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza."

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Philip obeyed what the angel told him. He did not know what he would do there but he obeyed and went to the southside of the road?�the desert road?�that went down from Jerusalem to Gaza.

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On his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the queen of the Ethiopians.

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This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way to Ethiopia.
The Spirit told Philip, ?�Go to that chariot and stay near it.??/span>

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Then Philip ran up to the chariot.
Amazingly, the man was reading from Isaiah the prophet out loud.
This man had so much interest in the Bible.

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?�Do you understand what you are reading???Philip asked.

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He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me? If you know it please get into my chariot and explain it to me."

Even though Philip was a stranger to him, he let him ride in his chariot because he was curious.

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The passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading was about Jesus having to suffer to clean our sins.

The eunuch asked Philip, ?�Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about?"

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Philip told him that He is Jesus and he also told the eunuch about lots of things that Jesus had done while on this earth.

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As Philip shared the good news about Jesus, the Holy Spirit came to his heart so that he started to believe Jesus as he listened. The reason why the angel let Philip to cross this way was to share the gospel to this man.

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As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, ?�Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of me being baptized??�And they stopped the chariot to baptize the eunuch.

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Philip gladly baptized the Ethiopian eunuch.
When they came up out of the water, Philip was no longer there.
The Spirit of the Lord had suddenly taken Philip away.

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The Ethiopian who had been baptized, was so happy and he went on his way rejoicing. God had sent Philip to this place to save this certain Ethiopian.

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Today, God does to us as he did to Philip. God allows us to remember those friends that we have to share the good news and He wants us to share the gospel of Jesus. We should have courage and share the gospel to our friends when the Holy Spirit leads us so that they too can go to heaven.

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