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A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS
PART VIII - IIA
This morning we had a very special occasion .... Many of the new believers in Samaria were baptised.... You can imagine that we celebrated that event....Philip baptised all the new believers.... Among those baptised was a man named Simon... He used to be a sorcerer....He is well known in Samaria.... He called himself great.... But then he saw the miracles that Philip was able to perform... However, Philip performed these miracles in the Name of Jesus...It seems Simon noticed the difference between what he had done and what Philip had done....And he has become a follower of Jesus.... That meant, of course, that he had to give up his magic tricks.... Otherwise Philip would not have baptised him."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn of a man named Simon....
ATTACHMENT A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS
PART VIII - IIA
One of the people in Samaria who heard Philip preach was a man named Simon. He was a sorcerer and had influenced many people there because of his magic as you can read in Acts 8:9-13
Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, "This man is the diving power known as the Great Power." They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his magic. But when they believed Philip as he preached the good news of the Kingdom of God and the Name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised, both men and women. Simon himself believed and was baptised and he followed Philip everywhere, asthonished by the great signs and miracles he saw.
It seems Simon had a genuine encounter with the Lord Jesus after he had heard Philip preach, and had given up his occult practices. His genuine conversion seems to have been confirmed by the fact that he had been baptised.
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