WHEN LIFE LEAVES YOU DOWN AND OUT (9 OF 22)
by Tim Badal
Scripture: Acts 18:1-17
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When Life Leaves You Down and Out (9 of 22)
Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 18:1-17
Let's turn our attention to God's Word. We'll be in Acts 18 in our series ''Unstoppable,'' where we're looking at God's work through the New Testament church. The impact they had despite difficulties and persecution was truly unstoppable because it was empowered by the Holy Spirit. We too have that Spirit residing in us as individuals, and corporately we as a church have been commissioned to go into the world to do exactly what the early church did-make disciples.
Jesus' final command was that the church would make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:18-20). We've seen baptism in practice this morning and our other task is what we're about to do now, teach the disciples what it means to obey the commands of Jesus Christ.
We've seen the Apostle Paul doing that as well. In the previous chapters, he's gone out on two missionary journeys. We're now in the middle of his second journey, which began in Antioch-modern-day Syria. After the break-up between Paul and Barnabas, he left Antioch to travel through Galatia and Asia Minor-modern-day Turkey.
Then in the communities of Lystra and Derbe, Paul picked up a new disciple, a young man named Timothy. Eventually Timothy would become a pastor in the church at Ephesus, as we'll see later in this series. They traveled on through Asia, until Paul received a vision from the Lord indicating that they should go next to Macedonia-modern-day Greece.
They obeyed the call and ended up in the city of Philippi. There we're told of three conversions: Lydia, a demon-possessed slave girl, and the Philippian jailer. The jailer was impacted by the miracles and the example of Paul and Silas who had been imprisoned.
Next, they traveled to Thessalonica, where their ministry continued successfully until they were run out of town by a mob. Then they moved on to Berea, which is w ...
Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 18:1-17
Let's turn our attention to God's Word. We'll be in Acts 18 in our series ''Unstoppable,'' where we're looking at God's work through the New Testament church. The impact they had despite difficulties and persecution was truly unstoppable because it was empowered by the Holy Spirit. We too have that Spirit residing in us as individuals, and corporately we as a church have been commissioned to go into the world to do exactly what the early church did-make disciples.
Jesus' final command was that the church would make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:18-20). We've seen baptism in practice this morning and our other task is what we're about to do now, teach the disciples what it means to obey the commands of Jesus Christ.
We've seen the Apostle Paul doing that as well. In the previous chapters, he's gone out on two missionary journeys. We're now in the middle of his second journey, which began in Antioch-modern-day Syria. After the break-up between Paul and Barnabas, he left Antioch to travel through Galatia and Asia Minor-modern-day Turkey.
Then in the communities of Lystra and Derbe, Paul picked up a new disciple, a young man named Timothy. Eventually Timothy would become a pastor in the church at Ephesus, as we'll see later in this series. They traveled on through Asia, until Paul received a vision from the Lord indicating that they should go next to Macedonia-modern-day Greece.
They obeyed the call and ended up in the city of Philippi. There we're told of three conversions: Lydia, a demon-possessed slave girl, and the Philippian jailer. The jailer was impacted by the miracles and the example of Paul and Silas who had been imprisoned.
Next, they traveled to Thessalonica, where their ministry continued successfully until they were run out of town by a mob. Then they moved on to Berea, which is w ...
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