Sermon
Together We Build: Barnabas
Cross Church
Speaker: Nick Floyd
September 26, 2022 · 45 min
Holy SpiritDiscipleshipStewardship & GenerosityChurch / EcclesiologyActs 11:19–26Acts 11:24Acts 4:36–37
Summary
Barnabas exemplified a Spirit-filled life through encouragement, generosity, faith, and disciple-making. Being filled with the Holy Spirit means yielding to Christ's lordship daily, which produces supernatural fruit in the church and personal life, more than striving through human effort alone.
Highlights
When you commit to help build the church and help the church to flourish, here's what happens in your life. Your own life gets built and your own life begins to flourish.
Yielding is greater than trying harder. So, in many ways, many people will hear this message today and say, okay, I gotta do more for God. No, no, no, it actually means you might do less for God.
I need to yield, not strain. If this is not a constant prayer in your life of yielding to the Lord and asking to be filled with the Spirit, you're living in the flesh way more than you realize it.