Today we hear the fascinating story of Philip's conversation with a court official of the Queen of Ethiopia which led to his baptism. Who is this Philip? Is he the apostle Philip? No, he is the deacon Philip, who was chosen to serve when the Apostles found themselves overwhelmed with serving tables. Evidently, as we read earlier in chapter 8, he was not just a "waiter", but a successful evangelizer. It's no wonder that he was chosen to aid the courtier understand the passage from Isaiah that he was reading. After he had baptized him, his work was done and he was "snatched away" (Acts 8:39), but continued his evangelizing two town after town. God works in mysterious ways still today as we often find ourselves in the company of someone we don't know or hadn't planned to talking to, and we find ourselves filling in a need we had been unaware of, and then we just get "snatched" away.
Bro. Rene
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