Another thing that I recently learned while reading about Phillip and the Eunuch.  Phillip had gone to Samaria and was preaching Christ to them.  He was letting these Gentiles know that they could become Christians.  That they would never again be excluded.  And the people "...with one accord gave heed to those things which Phillip spoke to them..." Acts 8:6.

In the middle of preaching to thousands in Samaria, an angel appeared to Philip and told him to go to Gaza, a desert.  So Philip left what he was doing and went.  He saw the Ethiopian eunuch sitting in his chariot, reading Isaiah from a scroll.  We know this story.  Phillip shared the meaning of the passage that the man was reading, (from Is. 53:7) and told him that what he was reading had been fulfilled.  Jesus, the Christ had come, died and risen from the dead.  The Isaiah prophecy was now a fact.

So the eunuch believed.  And since they were near water, he was baptized.  Right there.  Right then.

And here is the thing that I learned from this passage which I have taught many times, and never thought about.  Phillip was in the middle of a revival.  Thousands were coming to Christ--people were believing the story that he and the disciples were telling them.  But God had Phillip leave the thousands and go out to an empty desert to witness to one man.

The individual is always important to God.  And when an individual begins to search for God and begins to search the Word of God, God responds.

"And you shall seek me and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart."  Jeremiah 29:13.

People who want some other way to be saved say things like, "I think there are many paths to God."  The Bible says there is one way.  Jesus.  That's it.  And because God says that you will find Him if you seek Him,  he doesn't need a plan B.  Jesus is our savior.  He is the one who died for us.  Acts 4:12 "...there is no other name under the heaven that has been given among men by which we can be saved."   Look for Him and you will find him.