Sermon Video: Often imitated, never duplicated - Acts 19:13-20

How genuine does your faith need to be?  Can you get by with the equivalent of a generic version?  In Acts 19, the people of Ephesus learn the answer to such questions when seven Jewish men attempt to utilize the name of Jesus, without actually believing in Jesus, in order to cast out a demon from a possessed man.  Their attempt didn't go according to plan, the demon recognized their lack of faith and instead of obeying those empowered by Jesus as per usual, it beat all seven men brutally as they barely escaped with their lives.  Still think that a knock-off or diet version of the Gospel is good enough?
When news of this spread to the people of Ephesus, those who already believed publicly confessed their sins to each other, and brought a huge pile of scrolls used in their former life for sorcery to be burned.  The people of Ephesus got the message: Take God seriously.  Will you?

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