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Lydia
Paul is on his second missionary journey, they are delivering the decrees by the apostles in Jerusalem declaring that non-Jewish believers in Christ didn’t have to be circumcised to become part of the congregations.
He is also sharing the good news of Christ with both Jews and Gentiles.
Lydia and all her household are baptized into the faith.
This slave girl that has the “spirit of divination” POSSESSED.
She makes a-lot of money for her masters by fortune-telling.
She if following Paul saying, “These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.”
Paul gets annoyed and commands the demon out of her.
Appealed to the antisemitic feelings of the Romans.
Technically correct.
Paul and Silas jailed.
Crowds are easier to manipulate than individuals.
Individuals will override their own conscious to fit into what the crowds wants.
2019 Masters
Woodstock 1999.
Any number of riots we have seen.
Why are they praising God?
The jailer though he had failed and was about to kill himself.
The Jailer would have known why they were jailed.
Maybe he heard some of the things they said.
Maybe they heard what the slave girl had said about them.
At the moment that he was about to die, Paul saved him.
Pauls response to the Jailer
The Jailers response to the Gospel
Why did Paul exercise his privileges as a Roman citizen?
To pave the way for the spread of the Gospel.
To glorify God.
Take home:
Don’t react to your circumstances, respond with thanks and praise.
Is he using your circumstances (And your faithful response) to draw people to Himself?
Love others as Christ loves them.
Paul stopped the Jailer from killing himself.
Trust in the Lord.
Hebrews 11 tells us about the great acts of faith of Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Rahab, and on an on.
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