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October 16 - Acts 18 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it is Sean here it is a new week.
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  It is Monday, it is the 16th of October and I'm so delighted
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  that you and I get to start our week together.
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  I hope you're doing well. Just when we thought the year
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  was coming around to the warm part of it, Tasmania has got
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  another well, I'm going to say hopefully another week.
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  Of chilly weather left to throw at us before spring takes hold.
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  But today we are going to go to a warmer part of the.
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  We are going to be bordering on the Mediterranean, where Paul is
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  moving around the ancient world and he is meeting new people.
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  He is growing the church, he is travelling and doing amazing
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  stuff. Through the power of the Spirit
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  in him so. Let us go back and hear the next
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  chapter. Of the story as written down in
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  Acts chapter 18. Then Paul left Athens and went
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  to Corinth. There he became acquainted with
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  a Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently arrived
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  from Italy with. His wife, Priscilla.
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  They had left Italy when. Claudius Caesar deported all
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  Jews from Rome. Paul lived and worked with them
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  for they were tent makers just. As he was, each Sabbath found
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  Paul at the synagogue trying to convince the Jews and Greeks.
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  And after Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul spent
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  all his time preaching the Word. He testified to the Jews that
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  Jesus was the Messiah, but when they opposed and insulted him.
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  Paul shook the dust from his clothes and said.
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  Your blood is upon your own heads.
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  I am innocent. From now on I will go to preach
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  to the Gentiles. Then he left and went to the
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  home of. Titious Justice a Gentile.
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  Who worshipped God and lived next door to the synagogue.
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  Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, and everyone in his
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  household believed in the Lord, many others in Corinth.
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  Also heard Paul became believers and were baptized one night the
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  Lord. Spoke to Paul in a vision and
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  told him don't be. Speak out.
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  Don't be silent, for I am with you and no one will attack and
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  harm you, for many people in this city belong to me.
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  So Paul stayed there for the next year and a half, teaching
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  the word of. But when Gailio became the
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  governor of Akaya, some Jews rose up together against Paul
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  and brought him before the governor for judgment.
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  They accused Paul of persuading people to.
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  Worship God in ways that are contrary to the law.
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  But just as Paul started to make his defense.
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  Gailia. Turned to Paul's accusers and
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  said listen. You Jews.
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  If this were a case involving some wrongdoing or a serious
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  crime, I would have a reason to accept your case.
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  But since it is merely a question of words and names and.
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  Your Jewish law. Take care of it yourselves.
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  I refused to judge such matters, and he threw them out of the
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  courtroom. The crowd then grabbed
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  Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him right
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  there in the courtroom. But Galio paid no attention.
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  Paul stayed in Corinth for some time after that, then said
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  goodbye to the brothers and sisters and went to nearby
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  Sincria. There he.
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  Shaved his head, according to the Jewish custom, marking the
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  end of a vow. Then he set sail.
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  For Syria, taking Priscilla and Aquila with him.
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  They stopped first at the port of Ephesus, where Paul left the
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  others behind. While he was there, he went to
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  the synagogue to reason with the.
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  They asked him to stay longer, but he declined.
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  As he left, however, he said I will come back.
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  Later, God willing, then he set. Sail from Ephesus the next.
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  Stop was the port of say, Saria. From there, he went up and
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  visited. The church at Jerusalem and then
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  went back to Antioch. After spending some time in
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  Antioch, Paul went back. Through Galatia and Frajia,
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  visiting and strengthening all the believers.
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  Meanwhile, a Jew named Apollos, an eloquent speaker who knew
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  the. Scriptures well had arrived in
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  Ephesus from Alexandria in Egypt he had been taught.
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  The way of the Lord and he. Taught others about Jesus with
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  an. Enthusiastic spirit and with.
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  Accuracy. However, he knew only about
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  John's baptism. When Priscilla and Aquila heard
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  him preaching boldly in the synagogue, they took him aside
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  and explained the way of God even more.
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  Accurately, Apollos had been thinking about going to Akaya,
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  and the brothers and sisters and Ephesus encouraged him to go.
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  They wrote to the believers in Akaya, asking them to welcome
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  him. When he arrived there.
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  He. Proved to be of great benefit
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  to. Those who by God's grace had
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  believed he refuted. The Jews with powerful arguments
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  in public debate using the scriptures.
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  He explained to them that Jesus was the Messiah.
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  Jesus, you give all of us apart to play some of them out the
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  front, some of them out the back, but all of them.
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  That heartfelt service to you? What an incredible.
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  Privilege that you would entrust.
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  Us with the work of your Kingdom, your incredible life
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  giving world changing Kingdom. Jesus, I thank you for.
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  The gift of your spirit, Holy Spirit, I pray that you would
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  grow in us that. You would shape us according to
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  the. Fruits of your spirit, so that
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  we would be the sorts of people who live your Kingdom values.
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  Thank you. God that you love us to
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  overflowing and that it's in your.
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  Power and through your example that.
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  We're able to be a part of this work, shape us, use us, and most
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  importantly, thank you. That you save us before we even
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  take our. First step in mission for you.
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  What a gracious, loving, holy and kind God you.
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  Are we praise you and pray all these things in the name of
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  Jesus? Amen.
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  SMS Ansari.