# Philip Shares Jesus - The Book of Acts

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 9 Apr 2024, 11 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 192. Join us in today's episode where Philip spreads the joy of Jesus in Samaria, performing miracles that amaze everyone, including a sorcerer named Simon who tries to buy the Holy Spirit's power. Then, Philip meets an Ethiopian official seeking understanding of the scriptures, leading to a desert road baptism and Philip's mysterious disappearance, but leaving behind a trail of rejoicing and continued sharing of Jesus' good news. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed
[0:03] Speaker 1: to them the Christ. The multitudes listened with one accord
[0:07] Speaker 1: to the things that were spoken by Philip when they
[0:10] Speaker 1: heard and saw the signs which he did. There was
[0:13] Speaker 1: great joy in that city. Acts 8, 5-6 and verse 8.
[0:19] Speaker 1: Dear God, thank you that learning how much you love
[0:23] Speaker 1: us gives us great joy. You want to change our
[0:27] Speaker 1: hearts and lives so that we can bring other people
[0:30] Speaker 1: great joy too. Help us learn through our story about
[0:34] Speaker 1: Philip today how we can have a heart like yours.
[0:37] Speaker 1: Thank you for loving us so much. We love you too.
[0:41] Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen.
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[1:19] Speaker 3: Philip shares Jesus. In our last story, Stephen was stoned
[1:24] Speaker 3: to death. And Saul began his mission to destroy other believers.
[1:30] Speaker 3: In this story, Philip will proclaim Christ in Samaria. While there,
[1:36] Speaker 3: Simon the sorcerer will try and buy the gift of
[1:39] Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit from Peter and John. And an official
[1:44] Speaker 3: from Ethiopia will be baptized by Philip. As inspired by Acts.
[1:54] Speaker 1: Hi again, it's Julianne Thompson, guest hosting for Julia Jeffress
[1:58] Speaker 1: Sadler with the Kids Bible in Ear podcast. I am
[2:02] Speaker 1: so excited you're here with me today. Today, we're gonna
[2:05] Speaker 1: hear a story about how a man named Simon listened
[2:08] Speaker 1: to Philip, but didn't really understand what it meant to
[2:12] Speaker 1: follow Jesus and how God used the apostles to help
[2:16] Speaker 1: him learn the truth. Let's dive in.
[2:22] Speaker 3: When persecution started, People continued to share Jesus wherever they went.
[2:27] Speaker 3: Philip went to a city in Samaria and spoke of
[2:30] Speaker 3: Jesus to them. The people there listened closely to Philip
[2:34] Speaker 3: when they saw the signs that he was performing. Demons
[2:38] Speaker 3: were being cast out of people and people were being healed.
[2:42] Speaker 3: This brought great joy to the city. There was a
[2:46] Speaker 3: well-known sorcerer in the city named Simon who claimed to
[2:50] Speaker 3: be someone great. People were amazed by his sorcery, so
[2:54] Speaker 3: they followed Simon and said he had the great power
[2:59] Speaker 3: of God. When Simon saw Philip, he heard the good
[3:03] Speaker 3: news of Jesus. He became baptized with other men and women.
[3:07] Speaker 3: Simon then began to follow Philip around and was amazed
[3:11] Speaker 3: by the miracles he was performing. The apostles heard what
[3:14] Speaker 3: was happening in Samaria with Philip, so they sent Peter
[3:17] Speaker 3: and John. Peter and John prayed for the new believers
[3:20] Speaker 3: to receive the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit was
[3:24] Speaker 3: not on them. They were only baptized. When Peter and
[3:29] Speaker 3: John placed their hands on the people, they received the
[3:32] Speaker 3: Holy Spirit. When Simon saw this, he also wanted the
[3:36] Speaker 3: Holy Spirit so he could give it to others. And
[3:39] Speaker 3: so he offered the apostles money to receive it. Peter
[3:43] Speaker 3: responded to Simon saying, May your money perish with you.
[3:47] Speaker 3: because you thought you could buy the gift of God
[3:50] Speaker 3: with money. He then told Simon that his heart was
[3:54] Speaker 3: not right and finished by telling Simon to repent and
[3:57] Speaker 3: pray for forgiveness. Simon asked Peter to pray for him.
[4:01] Speaker 3: After telling many more people about Jesus, Peter and John
[4:04] Speaker 3: went back to Jerusalem. An angel appeared to Philip and
[4:08] Speaker 3: told him to head south to the desert road that
[4:11] Speaker 3: goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. So Philip obeyed, and
[4:15] Speaker 3: on his way, he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official.
[4:20] Speaker 3: The eunuch had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on
[4:22] Speaker 3: his way home, he was reading from the book of Isaiah,
[4:25] Speaker 3: the prophet. The spirit told Philip to go to the chariot,
[4:29] Speaker 3: so Philip ran as fast as he could to catch up.
[4:32] Speaker 3: When he heard the eunuch reading aloud, he asked, Do
[4:35] Speaker 3: you understand what you're reading? The eunuch replied, How can
[4:39] Speaker 3: I unless someone explains it to me? The eunuch then
[4:42] Speaker 3: invited Philip up into the chariot to explain to him.
[4:46] Speaker 3: Philip took the passage of Scripture and shared the good
[4:49] Speaker 3: news of Jesus with the eunuch. As they were traveling,
[4:52] Speaker 3: they came across some water, and the eunuch asked Philip
[4:55] Speaker 3: if he could be baptized, at which Philip agreed. When
[4:59] Speaker 3: they came out of the water, the Spirit of the
[5:01] Speaker 3: Lord took Philip away, and the eunuch never saw Philip again, but.
[5:06] Speaker 2: Continued to rejoice.
[5:08] Speaker 3: Philip then appeared in another town and went about sharing
[5:12] Speaker 3: Jesus with everyone that he met.
[5:19] Speaker 1: Wow, Philip has been having some wonderful adventures, hasn't he?
[5:25] Speaker 1: He's traveled all over telling people the good news about Jesus.
[5:30] Speaker 1: And God is doing amazing things. Let's take another look.
[5:35] Speaker 1: To start with, Philip visits Samaria. This shows us Philip
[5:40] Speaker 1: has a heart like Jesus. You see, nothing had changed
[5:44] Speaker 1: between the Jews and the Samaritans since Jesus had been alive.
[5:49] Speaker 1: Jews didn't like the Samaritans, and the Samaritans still didn't
[5:52] Speaker 1: like Jews. And now that Jesus had gone home to heaven,
[5:57] Speaker 1: it would have been easy for Philip to avoid the
[6:00] Speaker 1: Samaritans like all the other Jews did. Everybody in Israel
[6:04] Speaker 1: needed to know about Jesus, and Philip could have gone
[6:07] Speaker 1: elsewhere to share the good news with people. Everyone liked instead.
[6:12] Speaker 1: But Philip knew how much God loved the Samaritans and
[6:16] Speaker 1: how much they needed to know it. So even though
[6:19] Speaker 1: Jesus wasn't around, the Holy Spirit was. And Philip headed
[6:24] Speaker 1: to Samaria to tell the people there about the hope
[6:26] Speaker 1: they could have in Jesus. Philip's choice is a good
[6:30] Speaker 1: lesson for all of us. Maybe you know someone that
[6:34] Speaker 1: other people don't like very much. Did you know God
[6:39] Speaker 1: loves that person just as much as he loves you?
[6:43] Speaker 1: And he wants you to share his good news with them.
[6:47] Speaker 1: you might be the only person who tells them that
[6:50] Speaker 1: God loves them. One of the people Philip shared the
[6:53] Speaker 1: good news of Jesus with was Simon. Now, Simon was
[6:57] Speaker 1: a sorcerer, which meant people paid him money to do magic.
[7:02] Speaker 1: It's how he made a living. But when Simon heard
[7:05] Speaker 1: what Philip said about Jesus, and he saw the signs
[7:08] Speaker 1: and wonders Philip did by the power of the Holy Spirit,
[7:11] Speaker 1: he was amazed. This wasn't magic or sorcery or playing
[7:16] Speaker 1: tricks on people at all. It was real. And Simon
[7:20] Speaker 1: wanted to be a part of it. So Simon believed
[7:23] Speaker 1: in Jesus and was baptized. A little bit later, Peter
[7:27] Speaker 1: and John came to visit Samaria too. When they placed
[7:31] Speaker 1: their hands on people and prayed, the Holy Spirit came
[7:35] Speaker 1: to those people just like it had in Jerusalem. Simon
[7:39] Speaker 1: was amazed again. And he wanted to be able to
[7:42] Speaker 1: do the same thing. In his mind, he thought people
[7:46] Speaker 1: could pay him to give them the Holy Spirit. Like
[7:49] Speaker 1: they once paid him to do magic. But God's power
[7:53] Speaker 1: isn't for sale. It's free. And when we come to Jesus,
[7:58] Speaker 1: we ask to do things differently than we did before.
[8:01] Speaker 1: You see, Simon wanted to live like he always lived.
[8:05] Speaker 1: Just under a different name. But God wanted so much
[8:09] Speaker 1: more for him than that. God wanted to give him
[8:12] Speaker 1: a brand new heart and a whole new life. And
[8:15] Speaker 1: he wants the same for you and me. Because being
[8:19] Speaker 1: a Christian isn't about going to church on Sunday or
[8:22] Speaker 1: saying nice things. It's about becoming a whole new person.
[8:27] Speaker 1: The person God made you to be when he thought
[8:30] Speaker 1: you up. But don't worry. Your eyes won't change colors
[8:35] Speaker 1: or your hair won't suddenly become curly or straight. You
[8:38] Speaker 1: won't stop liking baseball or dancing or coloring or whatever
[8:42] Speaker 1: it is you love to do. But when you come
[8:45] Speaker 1: to Jesus and listen to the Holy Spirit, things will
[8:49] Speaker 1: start changing around on your inside. God will help you
[8:53] Speaker 1: love people more and treat them better and be willing
[8:56] Speaker 1: to give up things that are yours so other people
[9:00] Speaker 1: can have everything they need. And living this way doesn't
[9:04] Speaker 1: make you less of yourself. It makes you more like
[9:08] Speaker 1: Jesus and more like the you you really want to be.
[9:13] Speaker 1: It's fantastic. Simon needed help understanding this. So Peter and
[9:19] Speaker 1: John let him know pretty clearly that God didn't care
[9:22] Speaker 1: about his money. God wanted Simon's heart just like he
[9:27] Speaker 1: wants your heart today. I am so happy you joined
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[9:34] Speaker 1: man who hated Jesus' followers suddenly found himself face to
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