On a dusty wilderness road, a powerful Ethiopian official rides home from Jerusalem, puzzling over the words of Isaiah. He is a man who has sacrificed everything for his career, an outsider who came close to God but never quite belonged. And he is reading about a mysterious suffering servant he simply cannot understand. Then God sends Philip to run alongside his chariot and ask one simple question: "Do you understand what you are reading?"

In this sermon from Acts 8:26-40, Revd. Mark Fletcher shows how Jesus is the suffering servant of Isaiah 53 — written 600 years before he lived — and why faith is never just believing, but stepping out and acting on that belief.

We live in a world where God is already at work, where people are hungry for deeper truth. Who are you being called to walk alongside right now? And when the official asks, "What can stand in the way of my being baptised?" the answer is: nothing — not sin, not doubt, not unanswered questions.

So what is standing in the way of you?

Full transcript and video: https://stpeters.ch/sermons/philip-and-the-ethiopian/