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

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