Caption transcript for In The Footsteps of The Rabbi From Tarsus: “Second and Third Missionary Journeys” (4/12)

• 00:02 WITH DR. JEFFERY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT
• 00:59 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:02 JEFFERY SEIF HERE
• 01:03 WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:04 SHALOM
• 01:05 AND WELCOME BACK.
• 01:06 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PAUL.
• 01:07 WHERE GONNA TALK ABOUT
• 01:09 THE 2ND AND 3RD MISSIONARY TRIPS THIS TIME.
• 01:11 FOUR YEARS HE'S TRAVELING.
• 01:12 YOU AND I ARE TRAVELING
• 01:14 AND SPEAKING AND FILMING
• 01:15 AND WE GET INTO IT
• 01:16 AND WE LIMIT THE WHOLE TIME ABOUT
• 01:19 THE TRAINS WE HAVE TO GET ON,
• 01:20 THE PLANES WE HAVE TO GET ON.
• 01:21 THIS MAN IS TRAVELING 3000 MILES AT A POP.
• 01:24 NOT TO MENTION THE ARDUOUS JOURNEY.
• 01:27 THERE WERE THE TROUBLES ASSOCIATED WITH
• 01:29 THE DOORS SLAMED ON THE FACE,
• 01:30 GETTING JACKED UP BY THE POLICE, THROWN IN JAIL.
• 01:32 IT'S A MESS.
• 01:33 IT IS A MESS,
• 01:35 BUT HE PERSEVERES, HE CARRIES ON.
• 01:36 WHAT IS THE SECRET?
• 01:38 WHERE DOES ONE GET THIS INDOMITABLE SPIRIT?
• 01:40 WE NEED THAT.
• 01:41 IT IS GOD.
• 01:42 GOD JUST... THE HOLY SPIRIT KEEPS US GOING
• 01:44 AND THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT KEEPS US GOING.
• 01:47 YOUR TEACHING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AEGEAN SEA IS WONDERFUL,
• 01:51 WE SEE PAUL ON THE WATER, IN THE BOATS.
• 01:52 IT IS REALLY GOOD.
• 01:54 HERE'S JEFF ON LOCATION.
• 01:58 PAUL, ON MANY OCCASIONS
• 02:00 SPOKE ABOUT HIS JOURNEYS
• 02:01 AND IN PARTICULARLY
• 02:02 HE NOTED THAT HE WAS MAROONED ON AN ISLAND,
• 02:04 SHIPWRECKED.
• 02:05 AND THE LIKE.
• 02:07 AND HERE WE ARE ON THE AEGEAN SEA RIGHT NOW, MAKING OUR WAY FROM EPHESUS,
• 02:12 WHERE PAUL FREQUENTED AND THEN HEADING OVER TO THE GREEK MAINLAND.
• 02:14 RIGHT NOW I'M HEADING TO ACHAIA WHEREAS PAUL LEFT THESE PARTS
• 02:18 AND WENT UP TO MACEDONIAN, NORTHERN GREECE AND THEN MADE HIS WAY SOUTH
• 02:23 ON WHAT WAS HIS 2ND MISSIONARY JOURNEY.
• 02:27 IT'S INTERESTING
• 02:29 YOU MIGHT RECALL PAUL LEFT ANTIOCH ON THE FIRST JOURNEY
• 02:32 AND WENT BY WAY OF CYPRUS
• 02:34 RIGHT INTO THE HEARTLAND OF WHAT WOULD BE MODERN TURKEY,
• 02:37 ANCIENT ASIA MINOR,
• 02:38 DURING WHICH TIME HE ESTABLISHED A NUMBER OF CONGREGATIONS.
• 02:42 WELL, HERE NOW FRESH OUT OF HIS JERUSALEM COUNCIL MEETING WITH BARNABAS,
• 02:46 HE'S MINDED TO THEN MAKE HIS WAY BACK TO VISIT THE CONGREGATIONS IN TURKEY,
• 02:51 TODAY ASIA MINOR OF YESTERDAY.
• 02:53 HE TRAVELS OVER LAND, HE GOES TO PHRYGIA,
• 02:56 THE REGION WHERE HE HAD MINISTERED BEFORE
• 02:58 AND EVERYTHING GOES WRONG WITH HIM THIS TIME.
• 03:01 IT SEEMS THAT IN THE FIRST JOURNEY, YOU KNOW THE LORD WAS OPENING UP ALL SORTS OF DOORS,
• 03:05 BUT IN THIS PARTICULAR TRIP THE WHOLE THING WENT BAD.
• 03:08 HE WAS A FRUSTRATED MAN.
• 03:09 LUKE TELLS US IN THE 16TH CHAPTER OF ACTS,
• 03:12 THAT HE'S FRUSTRATED,
• 03:13 THAT ALL DOORS ARE PREVENTED FROM OPENING.
• 03:16 AND THEN HE HAS A VISION.
• 03:17 WHAT THEOLOGIANS CALLED THE MACEDONIAN CALL,
• 03:22 HE'S VISITED BY A MESSENGER
• 03:23 FROM MACEDONIA WHO SAYS,
• 03:28 PAUL MAKES HIS WAY WEST FURTHER WHERE HE HOPS ON A BOAT
• 03:32 AND HE CROSSES THESE WATERS THAT WE ARE IN RIGHT NOW.
• 03:34 HE'S GOING TO MAKE A STRETCH BY SEA.
• 03:38 PAUL WAS SUCH AN INTREPID BOLD SORT.
• 03:40 RIGHT NOW I CAN FEEL THE SPRAY WASHING UP AGAINST ME OCCASIONALLY AS I'M HOLDING ON.
• 03:45 AND THESE ARE REASONABLY CALM WATERS.
• 03:47 PAUL TRAVERSED THESE SEAS IN DIFFERENT CONDITIONS.
• 03:50 WHAT A BOLD SORT AS I HAD SAID?
• 03:52 THIS IS A MAN THAT DOGGED DETERMINATION TO TELL A STORY.
• 03:55 WELL, HE HITS GREEK MAINLAND.
• 03:58 HE'S GONNA BE AT THESSALONICA, APOLLONIA
• 04:00 HE'S GONNA MAKE HIS WAY SOUTH
• 04:04 HUGGING THE EASTERN SEABOARD.
• 04:06 WHAT'S INTERESTING FOR MY MONEY, AS MUCH AS HE HAD A DIFFICULT TIME IN ASIA MINOR,
• 04:12 WHEN HE GETS TO GREECE, IT'S LIKE THE WHOLE WORLD OPENS UP FOR HIM.
• 04:16 HE'S IN PHILIPI,
• 04:17 HE'S GONNA MEET A WOMAN NAMED LYDIA THERE.
• 04:20 WHO'S GOING TO, WITH HER HOUSEHOLD,
• 04:23 BECOME CONVERTED AND HE'LL START A CHURCH THERE
• 04:25 AND A VARIETY OF OTHER CITIES ALL ALONG THE EASTERN COAST.
• 04:28 IT SEEMS THAT THE LORD IS GONNA GIVE HIM REMARKABLE FAVOR.
• 04:31 PAUL, AS I'VE SAID, IS MAKING HIS WAY SOUTH ALONG THE EASTERN SEABOARD.
• 04:35 HE'S GONNA COME TO ATHENS IN HIS 2ND JOURNEY,
• 04:38 WHERE HE'S GONNA GET A RATHER CRUEL RECEPTION.
• 04:50 BY SEA, BY LAND, MADE NO DIFFERENCE.
• 04:54 THE MAN WOULD CLIMB A MOUNTAIN,
• 04:56 HE'D TRAVERSE A DESERT.
• 04:58 WHY?
• 04:59 BECAUSE, PAUL WAS A MAN ON A MISSION.
• 05:03 THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW HIM AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION.
• 05:07 MATTERED NOT HOW PRECARIOUS IT WAS.
• 05:10 THE HEBREW FOR PROPHET, "NAVI" MEANS TO BUBBLE FORTH.
• 05:14 THERE WAS SOMETHING WITHIN THIS MAN THAT NEEDED TO COME FORTH.
• 05:17 AND SO HE NOT ONLY SPOKE THE MESSAGE, BUT HE SPOKE IT ALL OVER THE WORLD.
• 05:23 PARDON ME IF I'M STUMBLING ALONG HERE,
• 05:26 BUT THIS IS RATHER PRECARIOUS UP HERE AT MARS HILL IN ATHENS.
• 05:31 I'M SURE IN PAULS MIND, HOWEVER, WASN'T ON HOW PRECARIOUS IT WAS IN ATHENS.
• 05:36 I'M SURE HE WAS THRILLED TO BE HERE.
• 05:38 PAUL WAS AN INTERESTING CHARACTER.
• 05:40 HE WAS AT HOME IN GREEK CULTURE AND HE WAS AT HOME IN JEWISH CULTURE.
• 05:47 AND HERE HE FOUND HIMSELF SOME 2000 YEARS AGO IN ATHENS.
• 05:51 ATHENS GREECE, THE SITE OF MANY A PLACE OF RENOUN FOR THE GREEKS.
• 06:00 THE PARTHENON OVER YONDER HILL.
• 06:03 TEMPLES SCATTERED ABOUT DEDICATED TO VARIOUS GREEK DEITIES.
• 06:08 OF COURSE, PAUL DIDN'T BUY INTO ALL OF THAT, BUT HE WAS COMFORTABLE IN GREEK CULTURE.
• 06:14 AS COMFORTABLE AS HE WAS, HOWEVER, LUKE REPORTS THAT HE WAS DISCOMFORTED.
• 06:20 HE CAME TO ATHENS BY WAY OF THESSALONICA AND HE HAD TO LEAVE THESSALONICA SWIFTLY.
• 06:28 HE LEFT AND WHILE IN ATHENS HE'S WAITING FOR THE TROOP TO CATCH UP TO HIM.
• 06:32 HE'S BUYING SOME TIME,
• 06:34 BUT LUKE TELLS US,
• 06:47 AND LUKE TELLS US IN THE 17TH CHAPTER OF ACTS,
• 06:58 AS I'VE NOTED IN THIS SERIES,
• 07:01 THE SYNAGOGUES WOULD SWELL UP WITH WOMEN AND MEN OF NON JEWISH EXTRACT,
• 07:06 WHO WERE ATTRACTED TO THINGS JEWISH.
• 07:08 AND SO PAUL, THE APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES, SPOKE TO GENTILES WHO THEMSELVES WERE HALF-BAKED JEWS.
• 07:17 AND HE EXPLAINED TO THEM HOW THE MESSIAH HAD COME,
• 07:20 THE HOPE OF ISRAEL, AND PERSUADED THEM ACCORDINGLY.
• 07:22 WELL, HE DOES MUCH THE SAME WE'RE TOLD BY LUKE, IN ACTS CHAPTER 17.
• 07:26 BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT WHAT'S INTERESTING HERE IN ATHENS IS
• 07:31 PAUL TAKES THE CASE OUT OF THE SHUL, OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE AND HE GOES INTO THE MARKET PLACE.
• 07:38 AND THAT BRINGS US TO NOW, HERE AT THE FAMOUS SITE OF PAUL'S MARS HILL SERMON.
• 07:47 LUKE TELLS US THAT HE TRAVELED ABOUT TO LOOKING TO BUILD A BRIDGE TO HIS HEARERS,
• 07:52 ROUND ABOUT.
• 07:53 HE SAID,
• 08:09 AND THEN PAUL PREACHED JESUS.
• 08:13 THE APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES, SPOKE TO GENTILES, SPOKE TO JEWS, SPOKE TO ALL OF "YOUS"
• 08:20 IN THE INTEREST THAT FOLK MIGHT COME TO KNOW HIM.
• 08:23 AND SO ON THIS 2ND MISSIONARY JOURNEY, WE ENCOUNTER PAUL BLAZING NEW TRAILS,
• 08:30 AS HE'S PRESSING OUTWARD AND ONWARD THAT THE WORLD MIGHT KNOW JESUS.
• 08:47 PAUL WROTE LETTERS
• 08:49 AND THE LETTERS THAT PAUL WROTE ARE PRESERVED IN THIS BOOK THE BIBLE.
• 08:55 SOME PEOPLE READ THIS BOOK AND THEY'D WRITE LETTERS TOO.
• 09:00 SOME OF THEM WRITE LETTERS TO:
• 09:11 THEY CHECK IN AND SAY HI.
• 09:14 THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DO.
• 09:16 AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 09:18 WE'RE LOOKING FOR THOUSANDS OF MORE TOO.
• 09:21 WHY?
• 09:22 BECAUSE, WE WANNA KNOW WHO OUR FRIENDS ARE
• 09:25 OUT THERE IN THE WORLD.
• 09:27 WE GET LETTERS, I READ LETTERS.
• 09:30 IT'S SO GREAT TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.
• 09:33 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTACT US BY MAIL, PLEASE DO SO.
• 09:37 IF YOU WOULD AS WELL YOU CAN CALL:
• 09:43 IF YOU'RE WONDERING ABOUT THIS JEWISH OUTREACH,
• 09:45 WE'RE WONDERING WHO'S WONDERING, SO AGAIN 1-800-WONDERS.
• 09:51 AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO TRAVEL WITH US TO JEWISH LANDS,
• 09:54 ISRAEL AND TO LANDS WERE PAUL TRAVELED IN GREECE.
• 10:01 WE SEE MARS HILL WHEN WE GO TO GREECE AND WE TAKE THE TOURISTS TO MARS HILL.
• 10:07 WE SEE THE PARTHENON, WE SEE THE ACROPOLIS, WE SEE THE AGORA, WE SEE THE SAME THINGS PAUL DID.
• 10:12 WE ARE IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL.
• 10:14 YES, NEVER MIND WHAT WE SEE FOR A MOMENT.
• 10:17 DID YOU EVER HERE ANYBODY SAY, "HEY, YOU WERE A RIOT?"
• 10:20 (LAUGHING) OH NO.
• 10:22 THE REASON WHY I MENTIONED THAT IS
• 10:25 WE'RE GONNA SEE AND HEAR PAUL REALLY WAS A RIOT.
• 10:29 HE CAUSED A RIOT.
• 10:30 THAT'S WHAT I MEANT.
• 10:31 WHAT IS IT ABOUT HIM THAT STIRRED IT UP?
• 10:34 INQUIRING MINDS WANNA KNOW.
• 10:38 AND SO OFF WE GO NOW TO EPHESUS.
• 10:42 A THEATRE WHERE THOUSANDS MET TO DEBATE THE ISSUE OF THE DAY.
• 10:47 AND THAT IS, HOW TO GET THIS RABBI OUT OF OUR HAIR?
• 10:50 WE'RE GOING THERE, AS WE FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS.
• 10:57 THE BOOK IS CALLED,
• 10:59 "ACTS OF THE APOSTLES."
• 11:01 QUITE FRANKLY AT ONE LEVEL,
• 11:02 I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY.
• 11:05 I WISH THERE WAS A BOOK THAT DEALT WITH THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.
• 11:09 LUKES VOLUME BEGINS BY TALKING ABOUT THE APOSTLE PETER.
• 11:13 BUT THEN THE FOCUS NARROWS SPECIFICALLY
• 11:17 TO GIVING A LOOK AT THE MOVEMENTS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.
• 11:22 LUKE BEGINS BY UNDERSCORING HOW HE WAS RADICALLY CONVERTED.
• 11:26 HE HAD A NEW DISPOSITION WITH HIS RECEIVING OF THE RUACH HAKODESH,
• 11:29 THE HOLY SPIRIT, IN THE WAKE OF HIS ENCOUNTER WITH YESHUA.
• 11:33 THEN THERE'S A SEASON OF DEVELOPMENT FOR THE MAN AND THEN HE EMBARKS ON A JOURNEY.
• 11:37 COMMISSIONED FROM ANTIOCH HE IS TO THEN GO FORTH INTO THE WORLD AT LARGE
• 11:42 AND ADVOCATE FOR THE MESSIAH, WHO HE FIRST WAS GIVEN TO DESTROY.
• 11:46 WELL, TRUST YOU KNOW THE STORY.
• 11:48 OUR STORY TODAY LOOKS AT ONE OF PAUL'S JOURNEYS THE WAY LUKE DID.
• 11:53 AND THAT JOURNEY IS HIS 3RD.
• 11:55 STARTS OFF OVERLAYING BEGINNING IN ANTIOCH AND THEN MAKES HIS WAY INTO PHRYGIA,
• 12:01 A REGION IN ASIA MINOR, MODERN TURKEY.
• 12:04 AND THEN HE MAKES HIS WAY TO THE COAST WHERE WE ARE TODAY
• 12:07 IN WHAT WAS THEN THE GREAT CITY OF EPHESUS.
• 12:12 HOW MAGNIFICENT WAS THAT CITY?
• 12:15 OH, IT'S GRANDEUR IS EVIDENCED HERE IN THE THEATRE OF EPHESUS, WHICH SEATED 24,000 INDIVIDUALS.
• 12:26 LUKE TELLS US THAT THEY CONVENED HERE ONCE UPON A TIME
• 12:31 TO CONSIDER THE GROWING MOVEMENT OF JEWISH
• 12:35 AND NON JEWISH FOLLOWERS OF THE MESSIAH, JESUS.
• 12:38 THEY DIDN'T JUST MEET HERE TO ATTEND TO THAT BUSINESS,
• 12:41 HOWEVER, THIS IS IN EFFECT A KILLING FIELD.
• 12:44 GLADIATORS HACKED IT OUT HERE.
• 12:47 FIGHTING BATTLE ROYALS TO GET OUT ALIVE AT THE END OF THE DAY.
• 12:51 WHY?
• 12:52 TO ENTERTAIN FRENZIED MASSES THAT HAD BLOOD ON THEIR MIND.
• 12:56 WELL, PAUL'S COMPANY WAS IN HERE, THEY HAD BLOOD ON THEIR MIND TOO.
• 13:01 BUT IT WAS THE BLOOD OF JESUS,THAT WAS SHED FOR HUMANKIND.
• 13:04 THIS WAS A NEW RELIGIOUS VISION FOR THE EPHESIANS.
• 13:08 HERE IN THIS CITY VARIOUS DEITIES ARE REPRESENTED.
• 13:12 ISIS IS REPRESENTED WITH THE TEMPLE DOWN THE STREET.
• 13:15 THERE'S DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEITIES,
• 13:17 ALL OF WHICH ARE ECLIPSED BY THE CULT OF ARTEMIS, KNOWN AS DIANA.
• 13:23 NOW, WHAT HAPPENS IS,
• 13:25 THERE WERE INDIVIDUALS THAT PLIED A TRADE BY MANUFACTURING ACCOUTREMENTS
• 13:29 THAT WERE USED IN HER ADORATION.
• 13:30 AND LUKE TELLS US AS THE GOSPEL PENETRATES INTO THIS CULTURE,
• 13:35 INDIVIDUALS ARE GIVEN TO ABANDONING THE CULT WITH THE NET RESULT,
• 13:39 THAT THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT CARVED OUT A LIVELIHOOD BY SELLING PARAPHERNALIA
• 13:44 DEDICATED TO ARTEMIS, THEY START LOOSING MONEY, THEIR ECONOMIC INTERESTS.
• 13:49 AND ONE OF THOSE PRINCIPLE RELIGIOUS MERCHANTS IS PARTICULARLY CHAGRINED.
• 13:54 AND WHAT DOES HE DO?
• 13:55 WELL, HE CAUSES AN UPROAR, CAUSES A FUSS.
• 13:57 AND THE WHOLE CITY IS UP IN ARMS, ACCORDING TO LUKE,
• 14:01 AND THE NET RESULT IS
• 14:02 THAT THERE IS IN FACT A RIOT.
• 14:05 WHAT I WANNA DO IS TAKE YOU TO THE 19TH CHAPTER OF ACTS,
• 14:07 WHERE PAUL'S 3RD MISSIONARY JOURNEY IS RECOUNTED.
• 14:13 AND WHAT'S PARTICULARLY INTERESTING ABOUT THIS JOURNEY,
• 14:16 LET ME JUST LOOK AT IT BROADLY AND THEN NARROW THE FIELD.
• 14:18 WHILE PAUL'S JOURNEY IS TOLD, REALLY THE FOCUS OF IT, IS WHAT WAS TRANSACTED HERE AT EPHESUS.
• 14:25 THERE'S BRIEF SCANTED ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE OVERLAYING JOURNEY TO EPHESUS.
• 14:29 THERE'S A LARGE SWATCH OF TEXT THAT DISCUSSED WHAT HAPPENS IN EPHESUS.
• 14:34 AND THEN VERY QUICKLY AND IN AN ABBREVIATED MANNER,
• 14:37 LUKE TELLS US ABOUT PAUL'S TRAVELS IN MACEDONIA ACHAIA,
• 14:42 HOW HE MAKES HIS WAY TO THE GREEK MAINLAND AND THEN BACK HERE.
• 14:45 EMPHASIS IS ON "HERE" HENCE EVEN THE 3RD MISSIONARY JOURNEY,
• 14:49 WHILE LUKE WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT HE'S REALLY FOCUSING ON WHAT HAPPENS WITH PAUL.
• 14:55 SO IF YOU WOULD, LET'S GO THERE.
• 14:57 THE JOURNEY PICKS UP IN CHAPTER 18, VERSE 23 WHERE LUKE NOTES THAT THEY DEPARTED.
• 15:02 AND THEN IN VERSE 19, PAUL COMES TO EPHESUS, WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
• 15:07 AND WHAT HAPPENS IS WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 8,
• 15:17 AGAIN, PAUL WAS A MEMBER OF THE PERUSHIM, A RELIGIOUS LEADER.
• 15:20 THEY RESPECTED HIM AS SUCH.
• 15:22 HE'S ADVOCATING SOME NEW RELIGIOUS IDEAS, BUT STILL HE'S RETAINED WITHIN THE SYSTEM.
• 15:26 THE NET RESULT IS THAT INDIVIDUALS ARE GONNA BECOME PERSUADED.
• 15:29 IN FACT, WE'RE TOLD AS MUCH,
• 15:36 RAV SHAUL, THIS APOSTLE PAUL BELIEVED THAT THE MESHIA HAD COME,
• 15:40 THE MESSIAH HAD COME AND HIS NAME WAS JESUS.
• 15:42 AND HE ADVOCATED FOR THAT.
• 15:44 WE'RE TOLD THAT IN ADDITION TO HIS REASONING PROWESS IN VERSE 11,
• 15:52 SO PAUL COMMENDS HIS MESSAGE BY VIRTUE OF HIS BEING ABLE TO APPEAL TO THE SCRIPTURE.
• 15:56 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT, THE MESSAGE IS COLLABORATED BY SIGNS AND WONDERS.
• 16:00 AND THIS COMMENCES WHAT PAUL WAS TRYING TO SAY TO THOSE
• 16:03 THAT WOULD HAVE PERHAPS HAVE EARS TO HEAR.
• 16:05 LUKE GOES ON TO THEN UNDERSCORE
• 16:07 THAT THERE WERE SOME JEWISH EXORCISTS THAT WERE
• 16:10 GIVEN TO EXPUNGING DEMONS.
• 16:12 AND PAUL AND THEM GET KINDA SIDEWAYS.
• 16:15 AND PAUL SHOWS THAT THE GOD WORKING THROUGH PAUL IS GREATER THAN ALL OF THAT.
• 16:20 AND THERE'S SOMETHING OF A FUSS.
• 16:22 AND WITH PAUL'S SUPREMACY OVER THOSE JEWISH LEADERS, WE'RE TOLD THOSE JEWISH EXORCISTS,
• 16:27 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 17,
• 16:33 PEOPLE KNEW THAT SOMETHING WAS HAPPENING.
• 16:36 THERE'S THIS INBREAKING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
• 16:38 SIGNS AND WONDERS, GOOD BIBLE TEACHING.
• 16:40 PAUL'S MAKING INROADS.
• 16:41 AND WE'RE TOLD,
• 16:49 THAT THE JESUS MOVEMENT WAS GROWING HERE.
• 16:51 WE'RE TOLD AS WELL IN VERSE 19, AND HERE'S WHERE THE TROUBLE BEGINS
• 16:55 THAT LANDS US IN THIS PLACE, SOME 2000 YEARS AGO.
• 16:57 WE'RE TOLD,
• 17:16 AND THEN HE GOES ON TO NOTE, THERE'S A SILVER SMITH,
• 17:18 THAT PARTICULARLY IS GIVEN OVER TO ANGST BECAUSE OF ALL OF THIS.
• 17:21 THE LOSS OF BUSINESS AND HE CREATES QUITE A STIR.
• 17:25 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 24,
• 17:33 AND AGAIN, ARTEMIS WORSHIP WAS PRISTINE HERE IN EPHESUS.
• 17:38 THE EPHESIANS PRIDED THEMSELVES IN HER, AMONG OTHER DEITIES.
• 17:42 THERE'S ALL SORTS HERE, BUT ARTEMIS PARTICULARLY.
• 17:44 WELL WHAT HAPPENS IS AGAIN
• 17:46 THIS PERSON THAT'S GIVEN TO
• 17:48 MANUFACTURING ACCOUTREMENTS OF THAT SYSTEM,
• 17:50 CALLS TOGETHER THE WORKERS
• 17:51 OF A SIMILAR OCCUPATION IN VERSE 25,
• 17:53 AND THEN BEGINS TO
• 17:55 THEN TALK INVECTIVE AGAINST PAUL
• 17:57 AND THOSE THAT ADVOCATE.
• 17:59 AND THE NET RESULT IS THAT A RIOT ENSUES.
• 18:02 IT'S FASCINATING, FRANKLY.
• 18:05 THERE'S SWELLING DISCONTENT.
• 18:06 NOW, THIS ATTESTS TO THE FACT THAT PAUL,
• 18:09 HE DIDN'T JUST HAVE A LITTLE BIBLE STUDY AT THE PERIPHERY OF THE CULTURE,
• 18:14 HE ENGAGED IT.
• 18:15 AND YOU CAN SEE MOMENTUM GOING.
• 18:17 IN FACT THERE'S A LITTLE HYPERBOLE HERE.
• 18:19 THEY'D CRY FOUL.
• 18:21 THEY'D SAY THIS TROUBLE MAKER IN ALL OF ASIA
• 18:23 HE STIRRED PEOPLE UP ALL OVER.
• 18:25 ALL OF ASIA.
• 18:26 WELL, THAT'S A LITTLE OVERSTATED, BUT THE POINT IS,
• 18:29 IS THAT THE MOVEMENT IS GROWING, IT'S EXPANDING, THE GOSPEL'S GETTING OUT THERE.
• 18:32 WELL, THERE'S A RIOT THAT BREAKS OUT IN THIS PLACE AND THE NET RESULT IS THAT,
• 18:36 THE WAY IT'S FINALLY TAPERED IS THAT THEY SAY,
• 18:41 LISTEN, THE COURTS ARE OPEN AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO HERE IS
• 18:44 CALM THIS THING DOWN,
• 18:45 LESS WE INVOKE THE HOURS OF THE FATHERS OF THE CITY.
• 18:48 AND THEN THE POLICE ACTION IS BROUGHT
• 18:50 TO BEAR IN RESPONSE TO IT.
• 18:51 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S UNDERSCORED
• 18:54 AND PRINCIPALLY WHAT'S UNDERSCORED IN PAUL'S JOURNEY HERE,
• 18:57 IS THE FACT THAT AS THE GOSPEL WENT FORTH THERE WAS TENSION,
• 18:59 BECAUSE PAUL ENGAGED THE POWERS THAT BE.
• 19:02 HE WASN'T JUST A RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHER, HE WAS A BOLD SORT, HE WAS.
• 19:05 THIS RABBI.
• 19:07 AND WE'LL CONTINUE OUR JOURNEY AS WE STUDY HIM
• 19:09 AND FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS.
• 19:26 THE THEATRE AT EPHESUS, CONSIDERED A WONDER OF THE WORLD WHEN IT WAS BUILT,
• 19:31 STILL A WONDER, AUTHENTIC SITE.
• 19:33 WE SEE IT WHEN WE GO TO EPHESUS, JEFF.
• 19:35 BUT TO SEE 24,000 PEOPLE IN THAT THEATRE RIOTING,
• 19:39 I CANNOT IMAGINE THE VISUAL THAT, THAT MUST HAVE BEEN FOR PAUL, FOR ALL OF THEM.
• 19:45 EVERYTHING IS BURNED, BOOKS ARE BURNED.
• 19:47 NOT ONLY THE SILVER, BUT THE ALL THE BOOKS,
• 19:49 EVERYTHING THAT WAS AN IDOL WAS TAKEN CARE OF
• 19:53 WHEN PAUL REACHED THEM, TALKED TO THEM.
• 19:56 HE DID MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR LIVES.
• 19:57 IT WAS GREAT.
• 19:58 AND SPEAKING OF WONDER.
• 20:00 WASN'T AYLIN WONDERFUL?
• 20:04 OUR GUIDE IN EPHESUS WAS ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL.
• 20:06 JUST KNEW EVERYTHING.
• 20:10 THINGS I HADN'T HEARD.
• 20:12 WE HAVE GUIDES ALL THE TIME IN EPHESUS, BUT THIS WAS REALLY DIFFERENT.
• 20:15 SHE REALLY HAD SOME REALLY DEEP INSIGHTS INTO EPHESUS.
• 20:19 HERE'S AYLIN IN EPHESUS.
• 20:23 YOU'RE SEEING AND VISITING THE 3RD EPHESUS.
• 20:25 OH, THAT'S RIGHT
• 20:27 THIS IS FROM 334 B.C
• 20:30 UNTIL 650 A.D. THE LIFE WAS HERE.
• 20:35 AND WHAT HAPPENS IN 650 A.D, EARTHQUAKE?
• 20:38 SEVERAL EARTHQUAKES EVERY HUNDRED YEARS
• 20:42 AND EVERY YEAR IS WHAT IS HAPPENING.
• 20:44 BUT, THE MAJOR PROBLEM IT WAS
• 20:46 THAT THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS WAS CLOSED.
• 20:48 AFTER THE 3RD ECONOMIC COUNCIL
• 20:50 WOULD HAVE PLACED IN EPHESUS.
• 20:53 AND THE WORSHIPPING TO ARTEMIS WHEN IT'S FINISHED,
• 20:56 NO PILGRIMAGE.
• 20:58 OK, PILGRIMS, NO PILGRIMS,
• 20:59 NO TOURISTS. NO TOURISTS WERE COMING.
• 21:01 THE HARBOR WAS ALSO SEALED UP.
• 21:05 IT'S INTERESTING THE HARBOR IS RIGHT HERE,
• 21:07 BUT IT'S 7 MILES FROM KUSADASI IN TURKEY.
• 21:10 IT'S 7 MILES FROM WHERE THE PORT ORIGINALLY WAS. YES
• 21:12 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PORT?
• 21:14 THE RIVER.
• 21:16 THE RIVER DRIED UP.
• 21:18 AND TODAY WE HAVE ONLY ONE SMALL LAKE LEFT,
• 21:21 WHO'S CONNECTING WITH A SMALL CANAL TO THE SEA.
• 21:24 SMALL CANAL.
• 21:27 AND THAT'S IT.
• 21:28 SO NOW EPHESUS IS HERE AND WE'VE SEEN,
• 21:32 I'VE SEEN ALL KINDS OF RUINS.
• 21:34 1ST CENTURY, 2ND CENTURY, AND BEFORE THEN 3RD CENTURY B.C
• 21:37 3RD CENTURY B.C
• 21:39 THE GREEKS WERE HERE, THE ROMANS WERE HERE.
• 21:41 AND THE BYZANTINES, THEY WERE HERE. THE BYZANTINES, THAT'S RIGHT
• 21:44 THE CITY WAS, THE LAST 200 YEARS,
• 21:46 IT WAS A CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN CITY.
• 21:48 CATHOLIC CHRISTIANS.
• 21:50 IN FACT BEHIND US IS 2 CHURCHES TO SAINT MARY,
• 21:53 YES TO THE VIRGIN MARY, RIGHT?
• 21:55 YES
• 21:56 WE'RE HERE IN THE SUMMER,
• 21:58 I'M WONDERING WHAT WOULD A 1ST CENTURY PILGRIM SEE HERE?
• 22:03 WHAT WOULD THEY SEE?
• 22:04 THEY WOULD SEE BIG TEMPLES...
• 22:05 ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
• 22:08 THEY WOULD COME AND SEE IT, OF COURSE,
• 22:11 WHICH HAD BEEN BURNED BY AN HEROSTRATUS.
• 22:14 HE WAS A CRAZY MAN, BUT HE BURNED IT
• 22:17 AND BUILT ANOTHER ONE AFTERWARD.
• 22:20 AND SEVERAL TIMES IT'S BEEN BUILT,
• 22:22 THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS.
• 22:23 ST. JOHN
• 22:24 ST. JOHN, RIGHT.
• 22:25 ST. JOHN, HE WAS IN EPHESUS.
• 22:27 ST. PAUL, HE WAS IN EPHESUS TOO.
• 22:29 AND THE 1ST CENTURY BELIEVERS WERE HERE.
• 22:31 THEY ALL MADE A PILGRIMAGE HERE.
• 22:34 THEY ALL CAME TO... IT WAS THE CAPITAL OF ASIA MINOR.
• 22:36 THAT'S RIGHT
• 22:37 AND THE GOVERNORS, THE PROCONSULS,
• 22:40 THEY WERE LIVING IN EPHESUS.
• 22:41 AND SO, IT WAS A REALLY IMPORTANT POINT.
• 22:45 AND THE TEMPLE WAS HERE ALSO.
• 22:47 WORSHIPPING ALL ASIA MINOR FOR ARTEMIS,
• 22:51 WHICH A DIFFERENT GOD THAN THE ARTEMIS,
• 22:55 GREEK ARTEMIS.
• 22:56 THEY COMBINED THE GREEKS WHEN THEY CAME TO COLONY.
• 22:59 THEY COMBINED THEIR GODDESS WITH CYBELE,
• 23:02 MOTHER GODDESS OF THE LOCALS OF ASIA MINOR.
• 23:05 SO THEY CREATED ANOTHER ONE, A POWERFUL ONE.
• 23:08 SHE'S REALLY A POWERFUL,
• 23:10 THIS POWERFUL IDOL THEN.
• 23:12 YES, EXACTLY.
• 23:13 AND THEY ARE WORSHIPPING HER
• 23:15 AND NO WONDER THEY'RE MAKING SILVER THINGS FOR HER TO GIVE TO HER.
• 23:18 SILVER, GOLD, TERRA COTTA.
• 23:20 ANYTHING
• 23:22 OH, ANYTHING.
• 23:23 WHATEVER YOUR STATION WAS IS WHAT YOU WOULD MAKE AND GIVE TO HER.
• 23:27 AND THEY WERE WORSHIPPING EVEN IN ROME FOR ARTEMIS,
• 23:30 TO CHANGE LATER ON TO WORSHIPPING TO ARTEMIS.
• 23:36 MAYBE THE REASON WHY ST. JOHN AND ST. PAUL THEY CAME TO EPHESUS.
• 23:41 BECAUSE OF THE IDOL WORSHIP.
• 23:42 SURE, BECAUSE WE FOLLOW THE ONE TRUE GOD
• 23:46 RATHER THAN AN IDOL. YES
• 23:55 ♪(ORCHESTRA PLAYING)♪
• 24:43 WE LIVE IN A WORLD TODAY, WHERE MANY CAN'T FIND SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR.
• 24:49 I'M WONDERING BY ENTERING INTO A WORLD WHERE SOMEONE FOUND SOMETHING TO DIE FOR,
• 24:56 IF HUMAN BEINGS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING IN LIFE
• 24:59 MIGHT FIND SOMETHING IN THE MESSAGE OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS.
• 25:03 HE WAS SO BOLD, SO FORTHRIGHT, SO DIRECT.
• 25:08 HE STARTS A RIOT.
• 25:10 IF YOU'LL LOOK WITH ME IN ACTS CHAPTER 19, VERSE 17, HE DID IT ALL,
• 25:15 WITH THE EFFECT THAT THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS WAS MAGNIFIED.
• 25:21 AND IF YOU'LL PERMIT, BUT FOR A MOMENT, I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND AN OFFER FOR YOU.
• 25:27 TO RECEIVE THE SAME SPIRIT THAT PAUL RECEIVED.
• 25:31 HE LIVED AND DIED FOR A MESSAGE THAT WE MIGHT COME TO KNOW ISRAEL'S MESSIAH, THE ONE JESUS.
• 25:39 AND IF YOU WOULD BUT TODAY, REPENT OF YOUR SINS AND CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD,
• 25:45 THEN YOU'D DISCOVER WHAT PAUL ADVOCATED.
• 25:48 AND THAT IS, THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD,
• 25:52 WILL BE SAVED.
• 25:54 AND THAT WAS PAUL'S MESSAGE.
• 25:56 HE TAUGHT THAT GOD WAS SOVEREIGN,
• 25:58 HE WAS THE CREATOR, HE WAS THE JUDGE,
• 26:00 HIS MESSAGE NEVER VARIED.
• 26:03 IT DIDN'T CHANGE ACCORDING TO
• 26:05 POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
• 26:06 IT STAYED THE SAME.
• 26:08 RIGHT AND THAT SAME GOD IS GOD OF ALL.
• 26:11 AND EVERYONE WHO CALLS UPON THE NAME OF THAT LORD
• 26:15 WILL BE SAVED.
• 26:16 AMEN.
• 26:17 THERE'S NOTHING EASIER TO DO THAN TO SAY, "LORD I AM A SINNER.
• 26:20 I CALL ON YOU TO FORGIVE MY SINS." THAT'S IT.
• 26:24 THAT'S ALL ANYONE HAS TO DO, IS ASK MESSIAH INTO THEIR HEARTS.
• 26:28 BE JEW, GENTILE, DOES NOT MATTER, DOES NOT MATTER, JEFF.
• 26:32 GREAT TEACHING IN EPHESUS.
• 26:34 GREAT TEACHING ALL ALONG.
• 26:36 I'VE REALLY ENJOYED IT.
• 26:37 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
• 26:38 AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:39 SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 26:43 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM