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Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. – Acts 8:26 ESV

As some of you know, I am currently in the process of recording video lectures for a class I am teaching at Covington Theological Seminary. The lectures are around an hour each (a little less), and I’m supposed to be doing around 30 of them – all from the book of Acts.

Believe me, this is not work! I pretend that I get to preach for nearly an hour without one person complaining! How awesome is that??

Anyway, after a long time away from doing the lectures – all because of our recent move, and all that – I got back into the studio and back into Acts. Today I recorded lectures on chapters 7 and 8.

My Bibles and notes set up a lecture on Acts.

Well, even though I use notes, especially notes that I made when preaching through the Book of Acts a while back, there are always moments when God shows me something mid-stream. That’s what happened today, and, boy, did I get excited!

In the latter part of chapter eight we read of where God sent Philip to meet up with the Ethiopian eunuch, but notice the instructions… “Take a road south…to the desert.” (my paraphrase)

How easy it would be to quickly read over that last part and not catch the significance of it! Philip had just experienced what could literally be called a full-fledged revival in Samaria – even Peter and John came over as guest speakers. Now, here’s the Lord sending Philip out into the desert, far away from the wells and the villages teaming with new church members.

How many of us would have almost immediately questioned the direction of God? But what does Luke say that Philip did? He “rose and went.” No arguing, he just went.

Remember, it was in Acts 6:3 that we read where Philip was one of seven men chosen to be deacons, men “full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom.” What an example! A wise man, a man filled with the Spirit, should be one who says, “Yes, Lord.” Unfortunately, we have too many these days who would question God’s leading, even to the point of missing an incredible opportunity and a divine appointment.

Philip could have rationalized that there was nothing in the desert, so why go? But God knew what Philip didn’t: there was a man on a chariot who need to be told about Jesus.

You see, God may have called you away from the well-watered villages of Samaria to a dry and deserted place. Maybe He’s call you, but you haven’t left, yet. Don’t wait! Don’t worry! God has a reason that might result in hundreds, thousands, or even millions being reached with the Gospel, all because you were faithful to witness to a man in a chariot.

Warning: The following content is controversial and my tick you off. Vulgar comments will not be allowed.

You may have already heard about what happened this weekend, but I will go ahead and tell you what happened, just in case.

A girl (Mack Beggs), who believes she’s a boy, doped up on testosterone and beat up some other girls, therefore winning the Texas state title in girls high school wrestling.

Don’t believe me? Here is a link:  CLICK HE/SHERE

Seriously, you can frame the story however you wish, but I had to take a moment to comment.

As I was thinking about it, the tune from Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody started ringing in my head, especially last part: “Nothing really matters to me.” What matters anymore? I mean, really?

If you think a girl who thinks she is a boy should be allowed to wrestle girls, even though she would normally be disqualified for doping, or if you think a girl should be allowed to compete on a boy’s wrestling team, then…

• You don’t care about rules.
• You don’t care about the other kids’ feelings.
• You don’t care about fairness.
• You don’t care about uniqueness.
• You con’t care about cheating.
• It doesn’t matter if boys and girls share the same locker room.
• It doesn’t matter if boys and girls wrestle together.
• It doesn’t matter that common sense is being thrown to the wind to satisfy political correctness.
• It doesn’t matter that inmates run the prison.
• It doesn’t matter that the insane are calling the sane crazy and getting away with it.

Seriously, I know that I am going to offend someone, maybe even a follower or ten, but if you don’t think this whole story is nothing more than a petri dish-example of a larger disease, then you’re already suffering with the symptoms.

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened. – Romans 1:21 HCSB