Welcome to the living word of god in acts chapter 8 verse 9 onward it says in the city where Philip was preaching in Samaria there was a man who was considered to be great there was a man by the name Simon and the people in that city said this man is the great power of god they thought he had the power of god because he was a magician he was a sorcerer and he did all kinds of sorceries he was deceiving the people to believe that he was a man of god but when Philip was performing miracles with the power of god was teaching the gospel the story of the great love of Jesus Christ and when he saw that the multitude followed the bible says he also listened to that and he believed in verse 12 it reads but when they believe Philip does they preach the thing concerning the kingdom of god in the name of Jesus Christ both men and women were baptized then Simon himself also believed brothers and sisters
are we like Simon today just because the crowd is following something do you also follow just because everybody is doing something do you also do it the bible says that because everybody was believing and following what Philip was preaching Simon himself believed oh brothers and sisters it is one thing to believe it is an entire thing to live what we believe because few verses down the line we find that Simon only believed but he was not ready to live what he believed
he was offering money to Philip and john and peter and said please give me the holy spirit that I can do what you are doing I will pay you money and the bible says peter turned to him and you say your money perish with you because you thought that gift of god could be purchased by money brothers and sisters no money can buy the gospel no money can buy god may god bless us. Amen