Acts 22:22-23:1

Key verse 23:1

“Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, ‘My brothers, I have fulfilled my duty to God in all good conscience to this day.’”

When Paul came to know the Lord personally, nothing was ever the same for him. He a was changed man, inside out, being transformed from within and from without. Years later Paul talked about this transformation which every born against Christian goes through in meeting the Lord personally when he said: “We, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18) Exactly as he said then! He met the Lord and began to “reflect the Lord’s glory” in his life. In other words, … Read the rest

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Acts 21:27-22:21

Key verse 22:14-15

“Then he said: ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. You will be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.’”

In verses 17 through 26 Luke tells us what happened when Paul first arrived at Jerusalem, where things began with sweet fellowship with James, the head of the church and the elders. They welcomed Paul and his companions and listened to a detailed account of what God had been doing through his ministry among the Gentiles. And when he was done, they were genuinely elated and gave praise to God. We are certain that they were greatly encouraged to also receive the … Read the rest

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Acts 21:17-26

Key Verse 26

“The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them.”

“Why are you weeping and breaking my heart?” (13a) Paul told the people who came to see him off at Philip’s house in Caesarea. It was hard enough for him to know what’s going to happen to him when he would finally get to Jerusalem. He had been informed by the Holy Spirit that in Jerusalem nothing but hardship and prison were in store for him there. And then wherever he went, those who loved him who knew by the Spirit what would … Read the rest

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Acts 21:1-16

Key Verse: 21:13

“Then Paul answered, ‘Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.’”

Paul’s farewell address to the Ephesian church elders on the beach at Miletus is one of the most beautiful and moving speeches to ever be recorded in the Bible. They reflect the man Paul’s shepherd heart for God’s people whom he raised in the Lord and whom he loved as if they were his own children. He was truly a man in Christ whose legacy was stamped on every heart his life influenced and changed. When he finished speaking to these elders, they all tearfully parted company and Paul and his companions were … Read the rest

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Acts 20:13-38

Key Verse 20:28

“Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.”

Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesian Elders (20:1-38)

He was on his way to Jerusalem.  He did not want to stop at Ephesus. We are not sure why. But it may be that he wanted to avoid places like home. Its hard to pry oneself away from home and from places we love and cherish in our hearts. Ephesus was like this to Paul— a place he could call home. The people there were his family. They loved him, and they would do anything to keep him. he in turn may be tempted to remain … Read the rest

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Acts 19:13-41

Key Verse 19:21

“After all this had happened, Paul decided to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. ‘After I have been there,’ he said, ‘I must visit Rome also.’”

We started chapter 19 and so far spoke quite a bit about those “believing” “disciples” that Luke mentions at the beginning of the chapter who actually scare us. They scare us because as many as existed in those days back then, they exist today as well; and the scary thing about them is that they are believers who actually consider themselves disciples of the Lord Jesus, but who do not have the Holy Spirit. Worse yet, many of them have no idea who the Holy Spirit is! And that’s scary. It’s not their fault though. It’s the … Read the rest

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About The Kingdom Of God

BY PASTOR TEDDY

Acts 19:8-16; 1-7

Key Verse: 19:10

“This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.”

The first part of this chapter (19:1-7) is troubling. It is always troubling when one reads it. Twelve men, not one or two, but twelve men who could potentially be a disaster of false teaching! Twelve men who were probably associated with, or even personally taught by the charismatic Apollos— of course— before he was educated by the house church of Priscilla and Aquila, if you haven’t caught this the first time, Luke says they were believers and disciples! So we can say they were believing disciples of the Lord. And here’s what’s deeply troubling … Read the rest

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Acts 18:24-19:7

Key Verse: 19:5

“On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Look at 18:24-25. It’s describing Apollos. “He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John.” In other words, although he had a good knowledge of the Bible, and had been acquainted with the way of the Lord Jesus, and taught about him accurately, and with a passion, there was something terribly wrong with his understanding of the way of life, and the true gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The core— the heartbeat— of the gospel was missing from … Read the rest

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Acts 18:9-28

Key Verse 18:21

“But as he left, he promised, ‘I will come back if it is God’s will.’ Then he set sail from Ephesus.”

We left off at the Lord’s words to Paul. The Lord Jesus, spoke both revealing and consoling words to Paul’s ears. “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. (10) For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.” To someone like the Apostle Paul, we’d have to wonder why he would need such words. When a man decides to run back into the city that just stoned him, we’d have to wonder why he would have cause to fear. He already seems fearless. But … Read the rest

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Acts 18:1-10

Key Verse: 18:9-10

“One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: ‘Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.’”

“What is this babbler trying to say?” (17:18) That’s what the sophisticated philosophical people of Athens were saying about Paul and his gospel message. What a travesty that Jesus and his servants are treated this way, whether back in those days or even today. Most people, especially the stoic intellectuals and the egocentric philosophers who trust in intellect and logic, in science and ego more than they trust in their Creator God and his message, are expected to behave … Read the rest

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Acts 17:16-34

Key Verse 17:31

“For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

And now we want to look at how Athens responded to the gospel message. It’s interesting how a city like that with such a rich cultural history had the worst response, for its people responded as expected— with skepticism. Uninterested, cynical, unbelieving and disdainful of it! Mind you, that’s human culture at its finest and re-finest! But if you grow up in a culture that idolizes itself above all else— a culture that teaches you to worship the ego, the intellectual, and all that’s human and super human, how … Read the rest

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The Noble Bereans

Acts 17:1-15

Key Verse 17:3

“Explaining and proving that the messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. ‘This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah.’”

Raise your hands if you’ve taken a chemistry course before? It’s a lovely class that I’m sure many of you have just the fondest memories of. Before I decided to study chemistry in college, it was a subject that I didn’t like. It didn’t come naturally to me. I failed it in high school. And I failed it twice more in college. Eventually God gave me victory of that course. But because of my many attempts, I have a pretty good sense for the curriculum that is outlined in the intro course. So by the second or third attempt, I always knew what … Read the rest

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Those Of More Noble Character

BY PASTOR TEDDY

Acts 16:6-10; 17:1-15

Key Verse: 17:11

“Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.”

As you may know, we are still following Paul’s second missionary journey as he makes his way into Europe, following his vision of the man of Macedonia. (16:6-10) He makes his way to Philippi, where two famous and extraordinary conversions take place. First, there’s this Lydia, an amazing and successful business woman, whom Luke initially describes as a “worshiper of God”, but after she hears Paul’s sermon and receives the gospel into her heart, she refers to herself as a “Believer in the Lord”! Unashamed to … Read the rest

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Prison Songs In The Night

BY Pastor Teddy

Acts 16:16-40

Key Verse 16:34

“The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God— he and his whole family.”

We saw in last passage how Paul was so eager to pioneer Asia. It was on his heart to go there and share the treasure of the gospel with that province; and I suppose his companions Silas and Luke and whoever else might have accompanied him went along with Paul’s decision since he was the driving force of all missionary journeys. There was no one  like him with a passion to pioneer new places and to plant new churches where Christ was not heard of. But whatever his plans might have … Read the rest

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Acts 16:6-15

Key Verse 10: 10

“After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.”

In the previous passage, we learned that Paul and Barnabas had such a sharp disagreement with each other that caused them to go their separate ways. This was certainly not an easy decision for either of them. They deeply loved one another as brothers. It was largely because of Barnabas that many of the other believers came to also accept Paul as a brother. And they both journeyed hundreds of miles by ship and by foot together, sharing their lives and carrying the load of the gospel ministry together. Both Paul and Barnabas were beloved shepherds, … Read the rest

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BY GOD’S GRACE ALONE

By Mark Moon

Acts 15:1-35

Key Verse: 15:11

“No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”

In the last passage we learned about the conclusion part of the first missionary journey by Paul and Barnabas. Right after being stoned and left for dead, Paul got up and went back into the city instead of escaping the city. Strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith, they said, “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.” (14:22) We should not avoid inevitable hardships for pure Christians. We must go through them by faith to enter the kingdom of God.

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TURN FROM THESE WORTHLESS THINGS TO THE LIVING GOD

Acts 14:8-28
Key Verse: 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.”

On their missionary journeys to evangelize the Gentiles, it’s curious why Paul and Barnabas seemed to first visit the Jewish synagogues to deliver the gospel message. We spent a lot of time talking about that last Sunday, and it’s all good and true. But I think it also had a lot to do with how exclusive the Jewish people had become as a race and as a religious sect among the people of the world whom God had also creation. A … Read the rest

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Acts 14:1-7
Key Verse: 14:1

“At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed.”

The chapter we are looking at today is the continuation of Paul’s and his companion Barnabas’s very first missionary journey. As the Holy Spirit directed them, they had gone out from the first missionary minded church at Antioch and set out to share the good news of the gospel wherever the Lord would send them. So they had sailed to the island of Cyprus where they evangelized a few coastal cities, and after that, they crossed over to the mainland, to Asia minor to what is known today as the country of Turkey. And it is in some of the old cities of Turkey where most of … Read the rest

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A Light For The Gentiles

By Pastor Teddy

Acts 13:1-52

Key Verse: 13:47

“For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

Still on their first mission journey, Paul and Barnabas end up in Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath they now go to worship with fellow Jews, as perhaps was their custom. It was customary for the Jews to read Scripture on the Sabbath, and so after the assigned Old Testament Bible passages were read, here’s what happened. Look at verse 15. The synagogue rulers sent word to Paul and Barnabas, saying: “If you have a message of encouragement for the people, please speak.” Paul was eagerly waiting for this moment, and so he raised … Read the rest

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Paul’s First Missionary Journey Continues

We Tell You The Good News

By Timothy Lopez

Acts 13:13-35

Key Verse 13:26

“Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.”

As we’ve been traveling along with Paul on his first missionary journey. I’d like for us to review where Paul has been so far up to where we are currently in this passage. In verse 4, the Holy Spirit sends Paul and Barnabas from Antioch on their way to Seleucia. In verse 5 they sailed to Cyprus. Then starting from Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God all throughout this island until they came to Paphos, where they met the sorcerer Elymas, and where Sergius Paulus, an attendant of the proconsul received the gospel. Today’s passage … Read the rest

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