Acts 20:28
Be on your guard, for yourselves and for the whole flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to shepherd the church of God, which he won for himself through his own blood.
Treated in 22 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Men Who Tended the Flock ·
Scripture Appendix: God’s Word on the Pastoral Calling cites Acts 20:28
…or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost.” Acts 20:28 — “Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you…
- Men Who Tended the Flock ·
Richard Baxter — The Reformed Pastor Who Visited Every Door cites Acts 20:28
…his own soul was not merely personally compromised but pastorally disabled. He quoted Acts 20:28 and then unpacked its first clause with piercing intensity: “Keep watch over yourselves…
- Men Who Tended the Flock ·
Introduction: The Weight and the Glory of the Pastoral Calling cites Acts 20:28
…you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood” (Acts 20:28, NIV). Two things are inseparable in this command: the pastor must first keep watch over…
- Communion with God ·
What it is wherein we have peculiar fellowship with the Lord Christ cites Acts xx. 28
…spoken of the person of Christ, under what name soever, of God or man, he be spoken of, Acts xx. 28, iii. 21. [3dly.] The execution of his office of mediation in his single person, in…
- Communion with God ·
Digression I: some excellencies of Christ proposed to consideration cites Acts xx. 28
…his life a ransom for many,” Matt. xx. 28. “God redeemed his church with his own blood,” Acts xx. 28; and therein was the “love of God seen, that he gave his life for us,” 1 John iii. 16. On…
- The Reformed Pastor ·
Introductory Note cites Acts 20.28
…you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. Acts 20.28 Though some think that Paul’s exhortation to these elders doth prove him their ruler, we…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
Of the Church cites Acts 20:28
…it is unquestionably taken by St. Paul, in his exhortation to the elders of Ephesus: (Acts 20:28:) “Take heed to the Church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.” The Church…
- George Müller of Bristol ·
Appendix M: Church Conduct cites Acts xx. 28
…His church. (2) How do such come into office? Ans. By the appointment of the Holy Ghost, Acts xx. 28. (3) How may this appointment be made known to the individuals called to the office, and…
- The Key Teachings of Ignatius of Antioch ·
Truly Born, Truly Crucified, Truly Raised cites ACTS 20:28
…you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. ACTS 20:28 To Polycarp he put the same wonder in a string of opposites: the Eternal, the Invisible…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 1, Chapter 13 — The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons Taught, in Scripture, from the Foundation of the World cites Acts 20:28
…a share in the sovereign power of sending the prophets to the Holy Spirit. (Calvin in Acts 20:28). In this his divine majesty is clear. But, as I observed, the best proof to us is our…
- Thoughts for the Quiet Hour ·
September cites Acts xx. 28
…Champness. September 6 The church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood. Acts xx. 28. Surely He may do what He will with His own. The price He has paid to make them His own…
- The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit ·
The Personality of the Holy Spirit cites Acts 20:28
…'Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” And in Acts 20:28, “Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 14 — How Two Natures Constitute the Person of the Mediator cites Acts 20:28
…or properties, when Paul says, that God purchased the Church “with his own blood,” (Acts 20:28), and that the Jews crucified the Lord of glory (1 Cor. 2:8). In like manner, John says…
- The Key Teachings of Richard Baxter ·
The Reformed Pastor cites ACTS 20:28
…yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers. ACTS 20:28 In 1656 Baxter published a book intended for the ministers of Worcestershire, written to…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 5 — Of the Modes of Supplementing Satisfaction cites Acts 20:28
…died for us. Paul elsewhere says that Christ purchased the Church with his own blood (Acts 20:28). Indulgences assign another purchase to the blood of martyrs. “By one offering he has…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 11 — Of Justification by Faith cites Acts 20:28
…elsewhere quoted from Paul’s discourse, that God purchased the Church with his own blood (Acts 20:28). Were any one to infer from this that the blood by which sins were expiated was divine…
- Lectures to My Students ·
The Call to the Ministry cites Acts xx. 28
…be able one day to speak of the flock over whom” the Holy Ghost has made you overseers” (Acts xx. 28), and I pray that every one of you may be able to say with the apostle of the Gentiles…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Christ the Mediator of the Covenant cites Acts 20:28
…and passion are meritorious. Christ’s blood is called sanguis Dei, the blood of God, in Acts 20:28, because the person who was offered in sacrifice was God as well as man. This is an…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 3 — Of the Teachers and Ministers of the Church cites Acts 20:28
…in the Acts we have his celebrated address to the presbyters of the Church of Ephesus (Acts 20:28). Let every one, then, who undertakes the government and care of one church, know that he…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 5 — The Ancient Form of Government Utterly Corrupted by the Tyranny of the Papacy cites Acts 20:28
…Scripture plainly testifies that it is the duty of a presbyter to rule his own church (Acts 20:28), is it not impious profanation to transfer it to another purpose, nay, altogether to…
- Old Paths ·
Justification! cites Acts xx. 28
…require his debts to be paid twice over. Hence the true Christian is a justified man. (Acts xx. 28; 1 Pet i. 18, 19.) Christ has obeyed the law of God perfectly. The devil, the Prince of…
- Holiness ·
Visible Churches Warned cites Acts xx. 27-35
…cannot help remarking just the same fact in Paul’s parting words to the Ephesian elders. (Acts xx. 27-35.) He was then leaving them for ever. He was giving his last charge on earth, and spoke as…