Sunday June 11 2017

Lesson’s from Paul’s Life Part 4

Pastor Kim Wenzel

Paul's Second Missionary Trip

Second tour of preaching AD50 to AD54   (Galatia, Mysia, Macedonia, & Achaia)

Lessons learned from second tour

  Acts 16:7-10 (NASB)
⁷  And after they came to Mysia, they were trying to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them;
⁸  And passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.
⁹  A vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing and appealing to him, and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us."
¹⁰  When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. 

Two Conversions 

Lydia - 
Acts 16:13-15 (NASB)
¹³  And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled.
¹⁴  A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening; and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.
¹⁵  And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us. 

 Philippian Jailer -

Acts 16:20-37 (NASB)  (Paul and Silas)
²⁰  And when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, "These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews,
²¹  And are proclaiming customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."
²²  The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods.
²³  When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely;
²⁴  And he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
²⁵  But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;
²⁶  And suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened.
²⁷  When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
²⁸  But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!"
²⁹  And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas,
³⁰  and after he brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
³¹  They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household."
³²  And they spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his house.
³³  And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household.
³⁴  And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.
³⁵  Now when day came, the chief magistrates sent their policemen, saying, "Release those men."
³⁶  And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The chief magistrates have sent to release you. Therefore come out now and go in peace."
³⁷  But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us in public without trial, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison; and now are they sending us away secretly? No indeed! But let them come themselves and bring us out." 

  Acts 16:40 (NASB) (Paul and Silas)
⁴⁰  They went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia, and when they saw the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.

Today's Verse 
 Mark 16:15
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
 

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