HANGING IN WHEN YOU WANT TO HANG IT UP (7 OF 7)
Scripture: ACTS 18:1-11
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Hanging In When You Want To Hang It Up (7 Of 7)
Dr. Ernest L. Easley
Acts 18:1-11
As your finding the 18th chapter of Acts I want to ask you a question! When was the last time you felt like quitting and giving up? Perhaps it was a job .. teaching a Sunday School class .. your marriage ... school?
It's often easier to hang it up rather than to hang in! And if there was anybody that experienced that it was the Apostle Paul. You will recall that Paul went on several mission trips. When you come to chapter 18 he is still on his second mission trip. He had just left the city of Athens where he was alone waiting for Silas and Timothy to join him.
Athens was the university city .. a college town. And there he found an atmosphere of intellectualism. There were 30,000 gods in the city of Athens in addition to dozens of pagan philosophies. And when Paul looked around and realized how Satan had blinded them to superstition .. it angered him.
While at Athens he was called a bird brain! Look at chapter 17.18, ''Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, ''What does this babbler want to say?'' And that word translated ''babbler'' literally means ''seed picker.'' It was used to describe a bird that would gather a little seed over here and some over there and throw it all together for a meal. When they called Paul a ''babbler'' or a ''seed picker''... they were accusing him of gathering theology over here and a little theology over there and putting it all together.
Now after he preached to these intellectuals they responded in one of three ways. Some were Critical (v.32) ... others were Curious (v.32b) .. while others were Converted (v.34) Now beginning in chapter 18.1 we read, ''After these things Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.'' You talk about wanting to hang it up! If Athens was the city of intellectual pride .. the city of Corinth was the city of sensual lust!
Corinth was ...
Dr. Ernest L. Easley
Acts 18:1-11
As your finding the 18th chapter of Acts I want to ask you a question! When was the last time you felt like quitting and giving up? Perhaps it was a job .. teaching a Sunday School class .. your marriage ... school?
It's often easier to hang it up rather than to hang in! And if there was anybody that experienced that it was the Apostle Paul. You will recall that Paul went on several mission trips. When you come to chapter 18 he is still on his second mission trip. He had just left the city of Athens where he was alone waiting for Silas and Timothy to join him.
Athens was the university city .. a college town. And there he found an atmosphere of intellectualism. There were 30,000 gods in the city of Athens in addition to dozens of pagan philosophies. And when Paul looked around and realized how Satan had blinded them to superstition .. it angered him.
While at Athens he was called a bird brain! Look at chapter 17.18, ''Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, ''What does this babbler want to say?'' And that word translated ''babbler'' literally means ''seed picker.'' It was used to describe a bird that would gather a little seed over here and some over there and throw it all together for a meal. When they called Paul a ''babbler'' or a ''seed picker''... they were accusing him of gathering theology over here and a little theology over there and putting it all together.
Now after he preached to these intellectuals they responded in one of three ways. Some were Critical (v.32) ... others were Curious (v.32b) .. while others were Converted (v.34) Now beginning in chapter 18.1 we read, ''After these things Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.'' You talk about wanting to hang it up! If Athens was the city of intellectual pride .. the city of Corinth was the city of sensual lust!
Corinth was ...
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