A TENACIOUS WITNESS (42 OF 56)
Scripture: Acts 18:1-17
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A Tenacious Witness (42 of 56)
Series: The Church in ACTSion
Wyman Richardson
Acts 18:1-17
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Paul now moves from Athens to Corinth. The city of Corinth was the Las Vegas of the day. It was a place of libertinism though much of it came dressed in the guise of spirituality. There was a temple to Aphrodite there. She was the goddess of love and pleasure. The Romans knew Aphrodite by the name Venus. The reformer Johann Spangenberg pointed out that ''there was a temple of the goddess Venus [in Corinth], in which more than a thousand women, fashioned in the image of Venus, lived in open sin. Satan led the Corinthians into such blindness that they considered rampant shame a service to God.'' It should be pointed out that the phrase Spangenberg used - ''a thousand women, fashioned in the image of Venus'' - was a thinly veiled reference to sexually promiscuous women. The Latin adjectival form of Venus was venerius which is the root for the English word venereal.
That should give you some insight into exactly what kind of place this city of Corinth was. But it is here that Paul goes next, and he goes with the same broken and burdened heart that he had in Athens.
Paul saw the act of witnessing as a responsibility for which he would be held accountable if he failed to do it.
Paul's behavior at this point is completely predictable. He goes first to the synagogue. While there, he faces opposition and, in his response, he makes a most interesting comment. Let's watch the story develop.
1 After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them, 3 and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.
Paul comes to Athens and ...
Series: The Church in ACTSion
Wyman Richardson
Acts 18:1-17
Read Acts 18:1-17
Paul now moves from Athens to Corinth. The city of Corinth was the Las Vegas of the day. It was a place of libertinism though much of it came dressed in the guise of spirituality. There was a temple to Aphrodite there. She was the goddess of love and pleasure. The Romans knew Aphrodite by the name Venus. The reformer Johann Spangenberg pointed out that ''there was a temple of the goddess Venus [in Corinth], in which more than a thousand women, fashioned in the image of Venus, lived in open sin. Satan led the Corinthians into such blindness that they considered rampant shame a service to God.'' It should be pointed out that the phrase Spangenberg used - ''a thousand women, fashioned in the image of Venus'' - was a thinly veiled reference to sexually promiscuous women. The Latin adjectival form of Venus was venerius which is the root for the English word venereal.
That should give you some insight into exactly what kind of place this city of Corinth was. But it is here that Paul goes next, and he goes with the same broken and burdened heart that he had in Athens.
Paul saw the act of witnessing as a responsibility for which he would be held accountable if he failed to do it.
Paul's behavior at this point is completely predictable. He goes first to the synagogue. While there, he faces opposition and, in his response, he makes a most interesting comment. Let's watch the story develop.
1 After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them, 3 and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.
Paul comes to Athens and ...
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