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Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 19:1-20
Take God's Word in your hands and turn to Acts 19. We're in a series called ''Unstoppable,'' looking at the second half of the book of Acts. Last year we did the first half of Acts under the heading ''Unfinished.'' Now we're reading about the missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul, who along with others spread the good news of Jesus Christ throughout the known world.
In his first two journeys, Paul saw the gospel make some impressive inroads in different parts of the Roman Empire. Now in Acts 19, we'll see him embark on his third missionary journey. He made four journeys altogether, and the last journey ended with him as a prisoner and eventual martyr in Rome. But that allowed him to share the good news of Jesus Christ in the central city of Rome, which revolutionized the entire empire and impacted us as well. It's amazing how God blessed so many through these few people who were faithful to be all in for the gospel.
In Acts 19, after a short vignette on a man named Apollos, we'll be picking up the story of Paul again. Apollos was impacted by the ministry of a husband and wife team-Aquila and Priscilla-from whom he learned how to more powerfully and accurately proclaim the gospel to others. Paul had been serving in Galatia and Phrygia, which is modern-day Turkey, going from city to city in that region. Looking again at our map, we will find Paul now in Ephesus on the shore of the Aegean Sea.
Ephesus was not a backwards community but was rather a metropolis of about 300,000 people. It was the site of the temple of the goddess Diana, also known as Artemis. People came from far and wide to see this temple-one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. But along with its fame came all the temple prostitution and other forms of pagan worship. This meant Ephesus was much like Corinth, filled with debauchery and depravity, thus much in need of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Whi ...
Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 19:1-20
Take God's Word in your hands and turn to Acts 19. We're in a series called ''Unstoppable,'' looking at the second half of the book of Acts. Last year we did the first half of Acts under the heading ''Unfinished.'' Now we're reading about the missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul, who along with others spread the good news of Jesus Christ throughout the known world.
In his first two journeys, Paul saw the gospel make some impressive inroads in different parts of the Roman Empire. Now in Acts 19, we'll see him embark on his third missionary journey. He made four journeys altogether, and the last journey ended with him as a prisoner and eventual martyr in Rome. But that allowed him to share the good news of Jesus Christ in the central city of Rome, which revolutionized the entire empire and impacted us as well. It's amazing how God blessed so many through these few people who were faithful to be all in for the gospel.
In Acts 19, after a short vignette on a man named Apollos, we'll be picking up the story of Paul again. Apollos was impacted by the ministry of a husband and wife team-Aquila and Priscilla-from whom he learned how to more powerfully and accurately proclaim the gospel to others. Paul had been serving in Galatia and Phrygia, which is modern-day Turkey, going from city to city in that region. Looking again at our map, we will find Paul now in Ephesus on the shore of the Aegean Sea.
Ephesus was not a backwards community but was rather a metropolis of about 300,000 people. It was the site of the temple of the goddess Diana, also known as Artemis. People came from far and wide to see this temple-one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. But along with its fame came all the temple prostitution and other forms of pagan worship. This meant Ephesus was much like Corinth, filled with debauchery and depravity, thus much in need of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Whi ...
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