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Introduction
How important is accuracy?
Lets say you are baking a cake.
Instead of following the recipe you decide to “wing it” and put it the amounts you think should be there.
That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Our maybe you are building a house and instead of looking at the blueprints, you simply put walls where you think they should be.
That’s a blueprint for failure.
Or your at school, and instead of following the proper steps to solve a math problem, you guess.
Or your building a Lego set and putting the pieces wherever you want hoping it will eventually look like the picture.
In all of these scenarios, accuracy is important.
If I were to say to you, “I want you to go to that store, buy 5, and come back on time” I would be setting you up for failure.
Why?
Because I haven’t told you where to go, what to buy, or when to return!
Accuracy is vital!
When we are inaccurate we set ourselves and others up for failure
Last week as we examined how Priscilla and Aquila instructed Apollos, we saw a repeated emphasis on accuracy.
When teaching and preaching the Word of God, accuracy is vital.
As we look at this picture (S) you may wonder why there are three darts in the bulls eye.
There are three darts in the bulls eye because accuracy is needed more than once.
If someone hits the center of the target once and never again, we assume it is an accident or a chance occurrence.
However, when someone regularly hits the bulls eye, it is clearly a matter of practice and ability.
When teaching and preaching the Word of God, it is important to be consistently accurate.
Occasional accuracy or accuracy on only one topic will not bring consistent growth to the body of Christ.
Paul has embarked on his third missionary journey.
This journey is one of encouragement and strengthening as he visits the churches he has planted.
While accurate teaching is needed in all areas, we will only consider two.
Accuracy in these two areas will result in personal and corporate spiritual growth.
Personal growth enables us to handle life with maturity.
Corporate growth enables us to accomplish our mission.
Area #1.
We need…
1. Accurate Teaching About Salvation vv.
1-10
There is much confusion in our world about salvation.
Are works necessary for salvation?
Am I saved the moment I believe, or sometime later?
Once I am saved can I lose salvation or reject salvation?
What about people who never hear the gospel?
These questions and more can be answer clearly from Scripture.
Yet the failure of many to teach and preach about salvation with accuracy, has resulted in confusion!
We won’t answer all of those questions this morning.
But from this passage we will answer some of them.
When it comes to salvation, accurate teaching declares that…
a. Salvation is about belief vv.
1-7
READ vv.
1-2
We saw in ch.
18 that Apollos went to Achaia and now we find that he ended up in Corinth.
Paul arrives in Ephesus sometime after that (S).
All of the events in ch.
19 take place while Paul is in Ephesus.
Paul has been strengthening the churches he planted.
Arriving in Ephesus he finds some people described as disciples.
This word is used here in its technical sense.
Disciples – μαθητής (mathētēs) disciple.
A student who adheres to (and travels with) a teacher.
Disciples – μαθητής (mathētēs)
This word does not always describe someone who is a follower of Jesus.
Whenever we see the word “disciple” we have to ask “disciple of what or whom?”
What we will learn in a moment is that these men were not yet believers in Jesus, they were disciples of John the Baptist.
Paul meets these men and he asks them a very important question.
Did they receive the Holy Spirit?
We need to pause for a minute and establish something important.
Look at (S).
If you do not have the Holy Spirit, you do not belong to Jesus.
What Paul is asking here is whether or not they are saved.
This is a very important point.
Someone who does no have the Holy Spirit is not saved.
While they may believe truth about Jesus they do not know Jesus.
They have not begun a personal relationship with Him.
Let me make a few points here.
Accurate teaching requires accurate questions.
These people don’t even know about the Holy Spirit at all! Paul would never have known that if he didn’t ask.
Ask theological and spiritual questions.
Accurate teaching requires accurate answers.
They don’t pretend to know.
They want to learn, so they answer accurately and honestly.
There are people today we do not know or believe the truth about the Holy Spirit.
We should not be waiting to be asked.
We should take the initiative and find out where they are spiritually.
Paul is not content to “live and let live”.
He is not content to leave them in unbelief!
Are we?
How did Paul know to ask this question?
i. Belief has a gift vv.
1-2
Paul understands that belief comes with the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Anyone without that gift has not truly placed their faith in Jesus Christ.
v. 1 – They are disciples but haven’t received the Spirit yet.
This highlights the transitional nature of Acts.
READ vv.
3-4
Verse 3 is where we find out they are disciples of John the Baptist.
We mentioned this last week with Apollos.
He only knew the baptism of John.
Apparently, that is all these folks know as well.
In verse 4, Paul clarifies the problem.
The problem is that they didn’t know Jesus had come in fulfillment of prophecy as the one for whom John prepared the way.
They had not yet believed in Jesus Christ.
This is the focus of faith.
The object of our belief is Jesus!
We are not saved by knowing about Him.
We are saved by believing in Him.
We can intellectually know that Jesus died to take away sin.
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