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Calling, to be saved
📖 Acts 16:08-09
Acts 16 - Series 02/Episode 14 - Fri, 19th June 2026 - Calling, to be saved - Acts 16:06-10 - THE MACEDONIAN CALL - Ephesians 02:01
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Acts 16:8-9 So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. (9) And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us."
The Macedonian Call came for Paul. A man from Macedonia stood and pleaded with him to come to Macedonia to help them. We are in a desperate state, and we need God's help.
We see people are in a state of apathy towards God. This man from Macedonia called, asking for help. There was no specific need stated for help, but it was a call to come and help them. Paul understood that this plea was from the right state of repentance and realisation that they needed God.
The prodigal son had reached this place of desperation, and he needed help. Luke 15:14-19 But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. (15) Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. (16) And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything. (17) "But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! (18) I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, (19) and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants." '
Not all have reached the desperate state of the prodigal son. Many are like the elder brother in this parable. Luke 15:25-30 "Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. (26) So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. (27) And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.' (28) "But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. (29) So he answered and said to his father, 'Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. (30) But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.'
Whether a person identifies with the younger or older son, every person on earth desperately needs God.
God gave us life in all its fullness. We lived and moved and had our being in God. We were created in the image of God to be His vice-regents and have dominion over all of God's creation. We were blessed with the Creation Mandate to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it and have dominion. Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." We were given a task of work as worship to God, service of humanity, being righteous and taking care of and protecting
We were rightly related within ourselves for we submitted to God's will, willingly, and so we had life in all its fullness.
We were rightly related to one another as we together completed the image of God. Genesis 1:27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
We were also rightly related to the rest of Creation as the co-rulers of God. Psalms 8:5-6 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. (6) You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
This was life in all its fullness. It is from this state that we have fallen. We are alienated from God in all of these areas. Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.
This alienation is death. Ephesians 4:18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; / Ephesians 2:1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
It is from death that Jesus brought us to life. This is the desperate need of humanity. Man needs to come from death to life, but people are not calling on God. The man from Macedonia called for help, and Paul knew that he must go and tell them the good news of Jesus and bring them from death to life.
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