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So following the track of Philip and the eunuch

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It's important that the Philip was a eunuch because in the the Old Testament That that moral code for how

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God called his people to live you couldn't be a eunuch That was a that was a direct violation.

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That was something that would have rendered this man an outsider and every single one of us is

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Is by definition an outsider because we have all broken that same law of God We've all become isolated from God in a very real sense because of that rebellion

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It's it is in many places that our righteous needs And so when

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Philip reads to Isaiah 53 about the suffering servant who is

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Christ If we skip two chapters over just a little further down no foreigner

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Who has joined himself to the Lord should say the Lord will exclude me from his people should not say

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Look, I am a dried -up tree for the Lord says this for the eunuchs keep my sceptres and Choose what pleases me

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Sons and daughters I will give each of them an everlasting name that will never the eunuch was baptized

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He's carrying water That that that's an important piece that he's carrying water from his eunuch duties that's been likely consecrated for pagan use and So Philip takes him to a natural body of water and he's baptized there because he's been given a new name

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He's been given a new identity in Christ and Likewise just as we were foreigners in relation to God God beckons us

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To come on to him and be received as sons To believe in the

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Lord Jesus Christ who suffered and died that even the eunuchs would have a place in the house of God And we as the truth and love network implore you

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To go to God To go to God with empty hands broken hearts with a spirit in need of reconciliation