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Crossed into the neighboring nation of Ukraine.

The plan was too much to the contrary to the capital city, and the expectation was that they would be met with cheering crowds and flowers and it would all be over within a few days.

The reality was and is as we all know very different is that we met with Fierce resistance and hostility by the people of Ukraine.

Over 100 Days Later the fighting continues and who knows how?

And when it will end One thing, one thing is certain, you cannot capture the hearts and minds of a Nation with military might.

But there are other ways to win the allegiance of people.

And today, as we continue our Series in the New Testament book of Acts, we see an example, let me give you some background.

Almost 2,000 years ago, the city of Ephesus was one of the greatest and the Roman Empire and major Mediterranean port with a population of around 300,000 people.

He was the capital of the Roman province of Asia.

That's about Weston half of today's nation of turkey, the excavated science of the scythian is only about a tenth of it.

Been excavated this for Broad Street.

These magnificent buildings, like it's Library.

I need a 32 seating 25,000 people.

We've seen enough theories.

While Athens was the intellectual center of the ancient world and the City of Corinth was a major commercial center.

Epices was primarily known as a religious Center pain throughout the ancient world as the form of the goddess Artemis.

Usually created with Diana, the Roman goddess of the moon and hunting the Greek goddess Artemis.

I've been fused with some kind of fertility killed in Ephesus and she was usually depicted as a many breasted woman probably based on the meteorite that is full in nearby in which a figure could be discerned the Temple of Artemis and we only have a reconstruction of what it look like.

It was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, situated one and a half miles north of the city and make it, 400 ft by 200 ft.

That's four times, the size of the Parthenon in Athens with over 100 on it colors.

60, ft.

I support him and amazing.

White marble roof.

It was presided over by unit fries and three grades are priestesses who said service the code prostitution that flourished at Ephesus was also Age of Financial and banking center, where Merchants Kings and even cities made deposits and where that money could be safe.

Safely kept under the guardianship of the day that the economy of the safety depended on the temple worship, thousands of pilgrims and tourists visited, episodes every year, seeking food and lodging, and entertain as well as souvenirs and talismans.

That's a picture of the City Vapes is.

So it was that around the year 54 a.d.

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Of course, a small party of men entered the city and walk down the streets.

And if you've ever been there and I've been there twice and if you ever get a chance to visit, you will be on this Broad Street in you.

Imagine this little party led by a man, like his name power loss, which means small Was a small man in size but not Envision and intellect.

He was not a tourist or a pilgrim.

He was a missionary or to use the term that is used to describe himself.

He described himself as in the possible.

That means one sent by God with a message.

A message about 1, Jesus of Nazareth crucified in Jerusalem, raised from the dead, who we declared was the son of God and the Messiah promised in the Hebrew scriptures and the time the worship at that goddess, Artemis, And indeed the worship of all the gods of the ancient world was in the threat for pulse.

Message the message, he preached which equaled the good news of the Gospel with powerful the power of God.

That's awesome.

This morning routine more detail about what happened in Ephesus and how it challenged that great City and its worship is for this same word.

This would have power still has power to challenge the citizens of Edinborough as it did with those.

And emphasis I think Caroline's going to read a reading this morning and she'll introduce you.

Thank you Karen.

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1115, I'm going to read from Acts 19 and 48, the big 19, and small 8.

Pull into the synagogue and speak boldly there.

For 3 months.

Arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God, but some of them became obstinate, they refuse to believe.

And publicly Moline the way Circle left them, he took the disciples with him and had discussions daily.

In the lecture hall of Tyrod has this went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the proper province of Asia, heard the word of the Lord.

Through Pole to the deevan handkerchiefs an 8, Princeton to touched him were taken to those who were ill and their illnesses were cured and evil spirits, left them.

Some Jews, who went around driving, right, evil spirits.

Try to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who are demon-possessed.

They would save in the name of Jesus who can pull.

Preaching, I command you to come out, seven sons of skiva, a Jewish high priest for doing this one day that evil spirit on something Jesus, I know.

And I know it by heart but who are you, then the man who has the evil spirit jumped on them on favorite part of the mole.

He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.

This became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus.

They were all seized with fear on the name of the Lord.

Jesus was held in high honor.

Many of those who believed not came and opened a confessed what they had done a number who had practice sorcery, us girls together.

Unfriend them publicly.

When they calculate the value of the Scrolls, the total came to 55.

Some dry clothes.

In this way, the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.

I'll throw this attachment, pull decided to go to Jerusalem passing through Macedonia on the Kaya off dropping that he said I must visit room also, he sent two of his helpers Timothy and erastus to Macedonia while he stayed in the province of Asia, a little longer

Thank you very much.

If you got the Bible, imprint, take me to hope you have a screen dimmer Isis, what happened in Ephesus after 27 staff?

In this way, the wood is the Lord, spread widely and grew in power in this together.

A list of all the spreading of the word.

How did it spread?

And then the effects of the word.

What changes did he bring about Festival?

The spreading of the word pull did not beginning my post from a project like this.

How am I going to reach this vast city with the good news of Jesus?

You got no military.

Nothing else.

What is going to do was pull didn't match up to the Temple of Artemis with a placard saying down with Diana?

No, has been seen in the account to post missionary Journeys in the book of Acts.

His policy was not primarily one of Confrontation, but one of the Proclamation of persuasion.

Can we see this in Ephesus initially?

As was always his practice, he begins with the Jewish synagogue pull into the synagogue verse 8.

And spoke boldly that for 3 months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God, is kind of like the money equivalent to the church.

The message that was met with some rejection.

Obstinacy, wearied and so pull, moved on to the non-jews, the Gentiles any higher than electrical nearby owned by a man named Tyran Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus, his nickname is tyrannous, means Tyrant and one can hardly imagine a parent looking at that baby.

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It really starts with him since vs 9 inch and a with him and had discussions daily.

In the lecture hall that Iran is this went down to two years so the road Choosing Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord notices approach.

He argued persuasively.

He had discussions, the Greek word is deal.

As am I from which we get dialect dialogue with people.

They have today, we have to wait a month after month for two years. 1 rifle, John stock, Cummins post, presentation, the gospel with serious well-reasoned and persuasive, because he believed the gospel to be true, he was not afraid to engage the mind of his Harris.

He didn't simply Proclaim his message and it kind of take it or leave.

It Manor in steady Marshall these arguments to demonstrate his case he was seeking notices, which he was seeking to convince in order to convert.

And in fact, his roommates play, many were persuaded, the Christian message is one that stands up the question-and-answer to read through the mail given that's why we've invited you.

If you got a device to log on to Slidell, and if you got any questions about what I'm saying to post them, I'm going to try some of them.

That's why we preach God's word week-by-week in this church man, Testament year after year, which I'm sure will be our practices.

We plan to launch another church in 2023.

But should you be thinking about, maybe I should volunteer for this Enterprise.

Notice the time and effort and commitment involved in this, the time and effort and commitment involved in it.

One texted, the New Testament, says the teaching whole the teaching schedule, which of the teaching schedule in the Hall of tyrannus, took place between the 5th and 10th hours a day, that's Roman counting.