Paul then met with the disciples in Ephesus and encouraged them, said goodbye, and left for Macedonia, accompanied by Sopaterm Aristarchus, Secundus, Galius, Timothy, Tychicus, and Trophimus. They visited the churches in Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea before he made his way to Corinth after a short time there, Paul sought to go back to Syria but was stopped short when he discovered a plot against his life.
Paul then retraced his steps back through Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea, stopping in Troas where he stayed for seven days. Led by the Holy Spirit to go to Jerusalem, and eager to be there for Pentecost, Paul bypassed Ephesus knowing that he would need to stay there longer than he had time, so he called for the Ephesian elders to come and meet him in Miletus. This meeting was a difficult one for all the disciples and elders because Paul knew he was saying goodbye for the last time. When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.
They all wept as they embraced him and kissed him. What grieved them most was his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship. In about 55 A. After Paul had received a prophecy that he would be persecuted in Jerusalem, the people whom he was staying with at Caeserea pleaded with him not to go, but Paul refused to stay.
I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. While in Ephesus on his third trip, Paul wrote 1st and 2nd Corinthians in about A. After Paul arrived in Jerusalem, he was quickly met by men who sought to destroy him. He was beaten, falsely accused, imprisoned, transferred from one place to the next, shipwrecked, held under house arrest, all in the course of around 4 years.
After Paul entered the Jewish Synagogue for the first time to teach, he was immediately met with opposition by the Jews. They incited a riot so violent and chaotic that Paul was arrested and carried off by two soldiers for his own safety. Finally Festus planned to transfer Paul back to Jerusalem to be put on trial there, but before this happened, Paul appealed to Caesar and was transported by ship to Rome. It was during this journey to Rome that Paul was shipwrecked and experienced many difficulties before finally making it to Rome in 60 A.
Paul may have been released after 2 years in prison c. It is hard to say for sure whether Paul went on a fourth missionary journey or not, and some count his trip from Caesarea to Rome as his fourth, as he ministered to many people along the way. So much can be learned from the life of Paul and his missionary journeys, not only can we learn the example by which we are to model present-day missions, but we can also learn what living an abandoned life for Christ actually looks like.
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ.
Missions work is no easy business, in some countries you may not face the threat of death, in others you might, but one thing is true of all countries, living in a different culture can be incredibly challenging. In Philippians 3, Paul is explaining and contrasting his life before surrendering to Christ, and he had everything——status, money, respect, knowledge, all of it. But none of it meant a single thing to him next to knowing Christ. This kind of abandon ushers in radical, society altering, world-shaking impact.
Among the many many other things we can learn, we know by his example how to live abandoned and obedient to the call of God and we learn that the key to perseverance in difficult times is through eyes set on God and God alone. Nevertheless, the people accepted Christ in large numbers and Antioch also became a major center of Christianity in the middle of the first century.
The first missionary journey began in about 45 A. From Antioch, Barnabas and Saul traveled about sixteen miles to the coast, to the port at Seleucia Pieria. From there, they boarded a ship bound for Cyprus, which is the third largest island in the Mediterranean, being about a hundred and fifty miles long and averaging about twenty miles across.
The island lay about a hundred miles southwest of Seleucia and was important for copper mines and timber. This miracle caused Sergius Paulus, who as the Roman proconsul was ruler of the island, to become a believer. Up until this time, Paul is referred to as Saul, the Hebrew version of his name, but from this time forward, he is always called by the Greek version: Paul.
When his work in Cyprus was completed, Paul set sail for Perga in Pamphylia, about a hundred and fifty miles to the northwest.
The region of Pamphylia was located on the Mediterranean coast in what is today southwestern Turkey. At this point, Mark, who had accompanied Paul and Barnabas, left them and returned to Jerusalem.
The message was so well-received at Antioch that the Jewish leaders became jealous and began to obstruct them, causing them to turn from the Jews and preach to the non-Jewish population.
The Jewish leaders then stirred up the leaders of the city and had Paul and Barnabas expelled from the region. After being expelled from this region, they continued north into Galatia , a Roman province in what is central Turkey today, where they preached in the cities of Iconium, Lystra and Derbe. After an attempt was made to stone them, they moved on to Lystra where, after Paul healed a man who had been crippled from birth, the population tried to worship them as gods.
Then some of the Jews from Antioch and Iconium came and stirred up a crowd who stoned Paul and left him for dead, but he recovered and continued to Derbe. After making many disciples at Derbe, they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, encouraging the churches they had started and appointing elders over them.
Then they returned to Syria, arriving back in Antioch after a journey lasting about two years. They gave account of all their experiences, causing great joy among the disciples there.
In the course of his evangelistic travels, he was constantly making enemies of the Jewish communities in the cities where he preached.
For various reasons, it was his policy when entering a city for the first time to go and preach the Gospel in the synagogue first. Often, his initial reception would be warm. But he was invariably rejected when envious synagogue leaders saw that his powerful and convincing teaching was resulting in many converts.
Salvation, for Paul, was no longer the exclusive privilege of the Jewish nation, as it had been for so long. It now included all who were willing to come to God through faith in Christ. In about 50 A. The age of law had been replaced by the age of grace. Now, therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? Soon after the Jerusalem Council, Paul embarked on his second missionary journey.
However, there was a disagreement between the two when Barnabas decided he wanted to take Mark, because Mark had returned home before completing the first journey.
As a result, Barnabas and Mark who were cousins traveled together, while Paul teamed up with Silas also known by his Latin name, Sylvanus instead. On this occasion, Paul chose to take the overland route, going north from Syrian Antioch about a hundred miles, then west into Asia Minor.
Continuing west, Paul came into Galatia, where he revisited the churches at Derbe, Lystra and Iconium. At Lystra, the group was joined by Timothy. After visiting the towns of Galatia, they arrived at the coastal city of Troas on the Aegean Sea.
This led him to cross the Aegean to the region of Macedonia, now in northern Greece. Paul and Silas were whipped and imprisoned at Philippi after Paul cast a fortune-telling demon out of a slave girl, who, as already noted, had made much money for her master. However, Acts tells us that the Holy Spirit miraculously opened the doors of the prison in the night, and as a result, the jailer and his family were converted. After his release, Paul traveled westward to Thessalonica where he made many converts, both Jewish and non-Jewish.
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Esther 17 Nov. Esther 18 Nov. Esther 19 Nov. Esther 20 Nov. Esther 21 Nov. Esther , 22 Nov. Amos , 23 Nov. Amos , 24 Nov. Hosea 25 Nov. Hosea 26 Nov. Micah 27 Nov. Micah , 28 Nov. The two evangelists tear their clothes in amazement! They are barely able to keep the crowd from sacrificing to them as if they were Greek gods Acts - 18! In a short time, Jews from Pisidian Antioch and Iconium arrive in Lystra and succeed in turning people against the two evangelists.
After being stoned, some people drag Paul's dead body out of the city. Some believers find his body and as they stand around it, he comes back to life! Amazingly, He re-enters the city. The next day Paul and Barnabas travel to Derbe Acts - They preach the gospel in Derbe then retrace their steps through Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch in order to strengthen the brethren.
From Pisidian Antioch they travel to Perga and then to Attalia, where they catch a ship to sail back to where their missionary journey started Acts - Paul and Barnabas stay in Antioch for almost three years, from the Fall of 46 A. Acts - All cities visited by Paul. First Missionary Journey. Second Journey.
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