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POWER IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST

• MEMORY VERSE: ACT 19:18

• PAUL’S THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY (54-57 AD) BEGAN IN ACT 18:23. HE REVISITED SOME OF THE TERRITORY (GALATIA AND PHRYGIA) OF HIS FIRST AND SECOND JOURNEY IN ORDER TO CHECK ON THE NEW CHURCHES THERE. IN CHAPTER 19 WE FIND PAUL COMPLETING THIS PART OF HIS JOURNEY AND HIS ARRIVAL IN EPHESUS.

• READ ACT 19:1-7 PAUL ARRIVES IN EPHESUS
• THE CITY OF EPHESUS:
• EPHESUS WAS A LARGE CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ABOUT 500,000.
• IT WAS AN EXPORT AND TRADING CENTER.
• WHAT WAS THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION AND BELIEF OF THE PEOPLE IN EPHESUS? WHAT GOD DID THEY WORSHIP?
• EPHESUS WAS A CENTER OF IDOLATRY AS IT HAD ONE OF THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, THE TEMPLE OF DIANA. THIS WAS THE LARGEST GREEK TEMPLE EVER BUILT.
• THE PEOPLE WORSHIPPED DIANA OR ARTEMIS WHO WAS THE GODDESS OF THE MOON, NATURE, LIFE, AND FERTILITY. SHE IS A GODDESS WITH MANY BREASTS.
• THE BEGINNINGS OF THE SATANIC WORSHIP OF DIANA (ARTEMIS) (CYBELE) IN THIS CITY:
• DIANA WAS CONSIDERED THE MOTHER OF ALL GODS.
• WHEN A METEORITE FELL FROM THE SKY (FROM THE GOD JUPITER AND POSSIBLY FROM THE PLANET JUPITER) AND LANDED NEAR EPHESUS, THE PEOPLE SAW THAT THIS BLACK STONE RESEMBLED A WOMAN WITH MANY BREASTS. THEY GAVE THE IMAGE THE NAME OF THE ALREADY EXISTING GODDESS AND CALLED HER A GODDESS OF FERTILITY.
• EPHESUS WAS ALSO A CENTER FOR EMPEROR WORSHIP.
• AS WE WILL OBSERVE IN THIS CHAPTER, THE PEOPLE OF EPHESUS WERE VERY SUPERSTITIOUS PEOPLE.
• WHEN PAUL ARRIVES IN EPHESUS, HE HAD JUST MISSED APOLLOS WHO IS NOW IN GREECE.
• YOU WILL REMEMBER THAT APOLLOS WAS IN EPHESUS (ACT 18:24-28) AND DID NOT KNOW ABOUT JESUS’ CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION. HE ONLY KNEW ABOUT THE MESSAGE OF REPENTANCE FROM JOHN THE BAPTIST. PRISCILLA AND AQUILA BROUGHT APOLLOS UP TO DATE IN HIS DOCTRINE. APOLLOS THEN WENT TO GREECE.
• THE PEOPLE HAD HEARD ABOUT JOHN THE BAPTIST’S MESSAGE OF THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE, BUT LIKE APOLLOS, THEY HAD NOT HEARD THAT THE MESSIAH, JESUS, HAD COME AND DIED ON THE CROSS FOR THEIR SINS AND THEN RAISED FROM THE DEAD. THEY WORSHIPPED THE GOD, JEHOVAH.
• IT IS LIKELY THAT THESE 12 MEN WERE DISCIPLES OF APOLLOS BEFORE APOLLOS BECAME BORN AGAIN.
• THESE MEN BELIEVED EVERYTHING ABOUT JESUS CHRIST BUT THEY HAD NOT RECEIVED HIM INTO THEIR HEARTS.
• IN OTHER WORDS, THEY HAD HEAD KNOWLEDGE BUT DID NOT HAVE HEART KNOWLEDGE.
• IN OTHER WORDS, THEY WERE “PROFESSORS” CONCERNING JESUS CHRIST, BUT THEY WERE NOT “POSSESSORS” OF JESUS CHRIST.
• NOTICE THAT THESE MEN HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN BAPTIZED IN WATER ACCORDING TO THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE PREACHED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST.
• BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT BORN AGAIN, THEY DID NOT HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT INSIDE OF THEM.
• THEY DID NOT KNOW THAT THE DAY OF PENTECOST HAD OCCURRED.
• NOTICE THAT THEY WERE BAPTIZED AGAIN IN THE NAME OF JESUS TO INDICATE THAT THEY WERE NOW BORN AGAIN AND HAD RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• NOTICE THAT THEY BEGAN TO SPEAK IN TONGUES AND PROPHESY WHEN PAUL LAID HANDS ON THEM.
• THIS IS THE LAST MENTION OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES IN THE BOOK OF ACTS.
• WE HAVE THREE SPECIFIC OCCURRENCES OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES IN ACTS.
• =1= IN JERUSALEM ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST. (ACT 2:4)
• =2= IN CAESAREA AT THE HOUSE OF CORNELIUS WITH PETER (ACT 10:46)
• =3= IN EPHESUS WITH THE LAYING ON OF HANDS BY PAUL. (ACT 19:6)
• DOES THIS MEAN THAT THERE WAS NO SPEAKING IN TONGUES IN OTHER CHURCHES AND OTHER LOCATIONS? NO.
• PAUL WROTE THE BOOKS OF 1 AND 2 CORINTHIANS, IN WHICH HE TALKS IN DETAIL ABOUT THE PURPOSE AND USE OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES. THIS PRACTICE MUST HAVE BEEN OCCURRING IN CORINTH. OTHERWISE HE WOULD NOT HAVE ELABORATED ON IT IN HIS LETTERS TO THAT CHURCH.
• WHY ARE ONLY THESE THREE LOCATIONS MENTIONED IN ACTS REGARDING SPEAKING IN TONGUES?
• THE THREE CITIES OF JERUSALEM, CAESAREA, AND EPHESUS WERE IMPORTANT COSMOPOLITAN WORLD CENTERS FROM WHICH THE GOSPEL SPREAD WITH POWER TO OTHER AREAS.

• READ ACT 19:8-12 PAUL’S EXTENSIVE STAY IN EPHESUS
• DURING PAUL’S SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY, HE STOPPED BRIEFLY IN EPHESUS BUT DID NOT STAY. THIS TIME HE STAY FOR APPROXIMATELY 2 YEARS. THIS WAS THE LONGEST TIME PAUL STAYED ANYWHERE ON HIS MISSIONARY TRIPS.
• FOR THREE MONTHS HE PREACHES IN THE SYNAGOGUE TO THE JEWS.
• SOME BELIEVED BUT MANY DID NOT.
• FINALLY BECAUSE OF GROWING OPPOSITION, PAUL PERSUADES THE NEW JEWISH BELIEVERS TO LEAVE THE SYNAGOGUE AND TO BEGIN MEETING IN THE HALL OF TYRANNUS.
• THIS WAS A RENTED LECTURE HALL.
• PAUL PROBABLY PREACHED THERE BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 11:00 AM AND 4:00 PM WHICH WAS THE TIME OF SIESTA FOR THE EPHESIANS AND THEN VISITED FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE IN THE EVENINGS.
• WHY DID PAUL STAY IN EPHESUS SO LONG?
• YOU WILL REMEMBER THAT THIS WAS AN AREA PAUL WANTED EVANGELIZE ON HIS SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY BUT WAS FORBIDDEN BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO DIRECTED HIM TO GREECE.
• BECAUSE EPHESUS WAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT POPULATION CENTER, FROM THE CITY OF EPHESUS, TRADERS AND TRAVELERS TOOK THE GOSPEL TO ALL OF TURKEY.
• LATER THE APOSTLE JOHN WRITES THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND MENTIONS THE 7 CHURCHES IN TURKEY, OF WHICH EPHESUS WAS ONE.
• THESE 7 CHURCHES IN TURKEY WERE PROBABLY STARTED AS A RESULT OF PAUL’S LENGTHY STAY IN EPHESUS WITH THE GOSPEL SPREADING TO SMYRNA, SARDIS, THYATIRA, LAODICEA, PHILADELPHIA, AND PERGAMOS.
• PAUL’S STAY IN EPHESUS WAS HIS GREATEST SUCCESS.
• ALSO, PAUL WROTE THE BOOKS OF GALATIANS AND 1CORINTHIANS HERE IN EPHESUS.
• THE UNUSUAL MIRACLES IN VERSES 11 AND 12.
• THE GREEK WORD FOR “MIRACLE” IN VERSE 11 IS dunamis FROM WHICH WE GET THE WORD, DYNAMITE. Dunamis MEANS = ACTS OF POWER. IT IS THE SAME WORD IN ACT 1:8 WHERE JESUS PROMISED THE DISCIPLES THEY WOULD RECEIVE “Dunamis” AFTER THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME UPON THEM.
• THE HANDKERCHIEFS WERE SWEAT RAGS WORN AROUND THE HEAD TO PREVENT SWEAT FROM RUNNING INTO THE EYES WHILE PAUL WORKED AT HIS TRADE OF TENT MAKING. THEY WERE DIRTY RAGS.
• THE APRONS WERE APRONS PAUL WORE AROUND HIS WAIST WHILE WORKING AT HIS TRADE. THEY WERE DIRTY.
• THE PEOPLE OF EPHESUS WERE VERY SUPERSTITIOUS PEOPLE. THEIR PAGAN RELIGION SAID THAT FOR ANYTHING TO BE godly, IT MUST BE WHITE AND CLEAN.
• THEREFORE, GOD USED THESE DIRTY OBJECTS BELONGING TO PAUL AS SIGNS TO ADVERTISE THE GOSPEL IN OPPOSITION TO PAGANISM.
• GOD GAVE THESE OBJECTS POWER, AND TOUCHING THEM CAUSED THE PEOPLE TO BE HEALED AND THEN TO BELIEVE.

• READ ACT 19:13-20 THE EXORCISTS OF EPHESUS
• VAGABOND JEWISH EXORCISTS DECIDED TO USE THE NAME OF JESUS IN THEIR FORMULA TO EXTRACT SPIRITS FROM PEOPLE FOR MONEY.
• JEWISH EXORCISTS WERE VERY POPULAR BECAUSE PEOPLE THOUGHT THEY HAD SPECIAL POWERS WHEN THEY USED THE NAME OF YHWH (JEHOVAH).
• HOWEVER, TRUE JEWS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO PRONOUNCE THE NAME OF GOD, BUT CORRUPT JEWS IGNORED THIS RESTRICTION.
• THE 7 SONS OF SCEVA:
• SCEVA WAS A JEWISH CHIEF PRIEST ACCORDING TO LUKE. HOWEVER, OTHER THAN LUKE, THERE IS NO OTHER RECORD OF HIM.
• THE DEMON’S RESPONSE TO THE NAME OF JESUS USED BY THE EXORCISTS:
• NOTICE THAT THE DEMONS SAY THEY KNEW WHO JESUS WAS, AND THEY KNEW WHO PAUL WAS.
• WHEN JESUS CAST OUT DEMONS, THEY RECOGNIZED THAT HE WAS THE SON OF GOD. (MAR 3:11)
• THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A MAGIC FORMULA LIKE THESE EXORCISTS BELIEVED.
• NOTICE THAT THE DEMONS DID NOT COME OUT OF THE DEMON POSSESSED MAN, BUT INSTEAD THE MAN, WITH THE DEMONS IN HIM, ATTACKED THE EXORCISTS WHO FLED.
• WHAT DOES THE PASSAGE TEACH ABOUT EXORCISM AND BLACK MAGIC?
• DEMONS AND BLACK MAGIC ARE REAL BUT SUBJECT TO THE GREATER POWER OF JESUS CHRIST.
• HOWEVER, ONLY THOSE WHO BELONG TO JESUS HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO USE THE NAME OF JESUS TO CAST OUT DEMONS AND STILL BE PROTECTED FROM ATTACK BY THEM.
• THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS DISPLAYED TO MAGNIFY JESUS:
• THROUGH THE CONTRAST OF SEEING THE POWER OF GOD EXHIBITED THROUGH PAUL, AND THE LACK OF POWER EXHIBITED THROUGH THE FALSE EXORCISTS”
• PEOPLE BEGAN TO FEAR THE LORD. (17)
• PEOPLE BEGAN TO GET SAVED, INCLUDING FORMER MAGICIANS. (18)
• PEOPLE BEGAN TO BE CONVICTED OF THEIR OWN INVOLVEMENT INTO THE BLACK ARTS OF EVIL. (19)
• THIS IS A CITYWIDE REVIVAL.
• PEOPLE BEGAN TO BURN THEIR PAGAN IMPLEMENTS. (19)
• THE TOTAL COST OF THE SATANIC OBJECTS THEY BURNED AMOUNTED TO 50,000 DAYS OF WAGES. (APPROXIMATELY $8,000 TO $10,000 TODAY)
• WHY DID THE PEOPLE BURN THEIR BOOKS?
• WHEN A PERSON TURNS HIS LIFE OVER TO JESUS CHRIST, THE HOLY SPIRIT BEGINS TO CONVICT HIM OF THINGS IN HIS LIFE THAT NEED CHANGING. THESE PEOPLE WERE FOLLOWING IN OBEDIENCE THE CONVICTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

• READ ACT 19:21-28 DEMETRIUS, THE SILVERSMITH
• PAUL’S PLAN “IN THE SPIRIT” (21-22):
• THE WORD “SPIRIT” IS NOT CAPITALIZED, SO SOME THINK THAT THIS WAS NOT THE GUIDING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BUT PAUL’S OWN SPIRIT.
• PAUL PLANNED TO STAY AWHILE IN TURKEY WHILE HE SENT TIMOTHY AND ERASTUS TO MACEDONIA (GREECE). (23)
• WE HAVE ENCOUNTERED TIMOTHY BEFORE, BUT WHO WAS ERASTUS?
• INFORMATION WE HAVE ABOUT ERASTUS IS VERY SKETCHY.
• ERASTUS EVIDENTLY WAS AN ASSISTANT TO PAUL IN HIS MINISTRY. HE OBVIOUSLY JOINED THIS MISSIONARY TEAM SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, BUT WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE.
• ERASTUS AND TIMOTHY WERE SENT TO GREECE BY PAUL TO FOLLOW UP ON THE CHURCHES PLANTED ON PAUL’S SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY, TO RAISE MONEY, AND TO DELIVER PAUL’S FIRST LETTER (BOOK) TO THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH WHICH HE HAD JUST WRITTEN.
• ERASTUS EVIDENTLY ENDED UP STAYING IN CORINTH (2TIM 4:20)
• PAUL PLANNED TO GO TO JERUSALEM AGAIN. WHY?
• PAUL WAS BURDENED BY THE GREAT POVERTY THAT EXISTED IN THE JERUSALEM CHURCH. THEREFORE, HE PLANS TO RAISE MONEY AMONG THE MACEDONIAN CHURCHES TO TAKE TO JERUSALEM.
• FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE LEARN OF PAUL’S EVENTUAL PLAN TO GO TO ROME. (21)
• IN HIS LETTER (BOOK) TO THE ROMANS, HE ALSO PLANNED TO GO TO SPAIN. (ROM 15:24)
• OPPOSITION FROM DEMETRIUS AND OTHER SILVERSMITHS:
• BECAUSE OF THE SPIRITUAL REVIVAL IN EPHESUS, THE SILVERSMITH TRADE WAS ADVERSELY AFFECTED. PEOPLE WERE NOT BUYING SILVER IDOLS OF DIANA AND HER TEMPLE.
• WHAT WAS THE MOTIVE OF DEMETRIUS, THE SILVERSMITH?
• THIS MAN’S MOTIVE WAS MONEY. HE SAW HIS LIVELIHOOD DRYING UP.
• REMEMBER THAT EPEHSUS WAS THE CENTER OF THE WORSHIP OF DIANA AND THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
• IF THE TEMPLE OF DIANA FELL INTO DISREPAIR FOR LACK OF WORSHIPPERS, THE TOURIST BUSINESS WOULD BE THE NEXT TO SUFFER.
• IF TOURISTS DID NOT COME TO EPHESUS TO WORSHIP DIANA, THERE WOULD EVENTUALLY BE NO NEED FOR THE SILVERSMITH TRADE TO MAKE IDOLS OF DIANA. THEY ALSO MADE SILVER REPLICAS OF THE TEMPLE BUILDING WITH THE IDOL INSIDE. THESE WERE VERY POPULAR THROUGHOUT THE TOURIST WORLD IN THAT DAY.
• THE MAIN POINTS OF DEMETRIUS’ ARGUMENT THAT LED TO A MOB RIOT.
• THE SILVERSMITH TRADE WILL SUFFER GREAT LOSS BECAUSE OF PAUL’S PREACHING IN EPHESUS.
• THE SILVERSMITH TRADE WILL SUFFER GREAT LOSS BECAUSE OF PAUL’S PREACHING THROUGHOUT GREECE AND ASIA.
• NO TOURISTS, NO BUSINESS.
• A SPRING FESTIVAL HONORING DIANA WAS VERY POPULAR TO THE TOURIST TRADE.
• THE TEMPLE OF DIANA WILL BECOME WORTHLESS.
• THE WORSHIP OF DIANA WILL BECOME NON-EXISTENT.

• READ ACT 19:29-41
• THE MOB GRABBED GAIUS AND ARISTARCHUS, TRAVELLING COMPANIONS OF PAUL’S. (29) HOWEVER, THEY FAILED TO CAPTURE PAUL.
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT GAIUS AND ARISTARCHUS?
• GAIUS:
• THIS WAS A VERY COMMON NAME AND THERE ARE 4 NEW TESTAMENT REFERENCES TO PEOPLE WITH THIS NAME. ALL OR PART MAY BE THE SAME MAN, BUT NOT PROVABLE.
• THIS GAIUS WAS FROM MACEDONIA AND TRAVELED TO EPHESUS WITH PAUL.
• ARISTARCHUS:
• HE WAS FROM THE NEWLY FOUNDED CHURCH IN THESSALONICA AND TRAVELED WITH PAUL FROM THERE TO EPHESUS.
• HE TRAVELED WITH PAUL TO JERUSALEM AS A THESSALONIAN CHURCH DELEGATE TO DELIVER MONEY TO THE JERUSALEM CHURCH FROM THE MACEDONIAN CHURCHES. (ACT 20:4)
• HE WAS IMPRISONED WITH PAUL IN ROME, PERHAPS VOLUNTARILY TO MINISTER TO PAUL. (COL 9:10-12)
• THE THEATER IN EPHESUS:
• THIS THEATER WHERE THE MOB TOOK GAIUS AND ARISTARCHUS WAS THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD AT THAT TIME. IT COULD HOLD 30,000 PEOPLE AND STANDS IN RUINS TODAY.
• THE MOB ATTEMPTS TO MAKE THIS A LEGAL PROCEEDING, BUT THEIR EFFORTS FAIL.
• WHEN PAUL TRIES TO COME TO THE DEFENSE OF GAIUS AND ARISTARCHUS, OTHER BELIEVERS PREVENT HIM FROM ENTERING THE THEATER.
• THEN, “CERTAIN OF THE CHIEF OF ASIA” CAME TO PREVENT PAUL FROM SACRIFICING HIMSELF TO THE MOB.
• THESE MEN WERE CALLED “ASIARCHS”. THEY WERE PROMINENT MEN OF EPHESUS THAT WERE GOODWILL AMBASSADORS TO ROME AND THE EMPEROR.
• IN VERSE 31 THEY ARE CALLED “PAUL’S FRIENDS”.
• THESE ARE NOT NECESSARILY BELIEVERS IN CHRIST BUT MEN WHO KNEW THAT PAUL WAS A ROMAN CITIZEN.
• BECAUSE THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS NOT OFFICIALLY PERSECUTING CHRISTIANS IN THIS AREA, THEY PREVENT PAUL FROM ENTERING THE THEATER.
• THE INTERVENTION OF THE JEWS:
• BECAUSE OF THE MASS CONFUSION IN THIS RIOT, THE JEWS WERE AFRAID THE SITUATION WOULD TURN ANTI-SEMITIC.
• THEREFORE, ALEXANDER, A JEW, ATTEMPTS TO SPEAK TO THE CROWD AND DISCLAIM ANY ASSOCIATION WITH PAUL. HOWEVER, THE CROWD WOULD NOT LISTEN TO A JEW.
• THE CITY CLERK PLEADS FOR THE RULE OF LAW: (35-41)
• THE POSITION OF CITY CLERK WAS SECOND ONLY TO THE ROMAN COMMANDER IN TOWN. WE WOULD CALL HIM THE TOWN MAYOR.
• HE IS CONCERNED ABOUT KEEPING THE PEACE LEST ROME IMPOSE SEVERE RESTRICTIONS ON THE CITY.
• THE CLERK’S ARGUMENTS THAT APPEASED THE CROWD:
• THE GREEKS AND THE ROMANS WERE NOTED FOR KEEPING THEIR RULE OF LAW, AND IT WAS A CAPITAL OFFENSE TO BE INVOLVED IN A RIOT.
• THE CITY OFFICIAL REMINDS THE MOB THAT THESE MATTERS SHOULD BE BROUGHT BEFORE A LEGAL COURT IN DUE PROCESS. DEMETRIUS SHOULD BRING HIS CASE TO THE COURT.
• THE CLERK TELLS THE PEOPLE THAT PAUL AND HIS COMPANIONS DID NOT SPEAK AGAINST THE GODDESS DIANA OR ATTACK THE TEMPLE.
• THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT!
• TO WITNESS TO PEOPLE AND BRING THEM TO CHRIST, CHRISTIANS DO NOT NEED TO ATTACK THE CULTS OR FALSE GODS. THEY ONLY NEED TO PREACH THE TRUTH OF JESUS CHRIST.
• NEGATIVE ATTACKS AGAINST PEOPLE IN THE CULTS ONLY TURN PEOPLE OFF TO THE GOSPEL.
• APPLICATION:
• THROUGHOUT THIS CHAPTER WE SEE THE POWER IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.
• THE EPHESIANS, WHO HAD NOT HEARD THAT THE MESSIAH CAME, WERE SAVED AND BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
• THE EPHESIANS, WHO WERE SICK, WERE HEALED BECAUSE PAUL PREACHED THE NAME OF JESUS.
• THE EXORCISTS IN EPHESUS SAW THE POWER OF THE NAME OF JESUS WHEN THEY USED THE NAME OF JESUS WITHOUT AUTHORITY AND WERE ATTACKED.
• THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO FEAR GOD WHEN THE NAME OF JESUS WAS MAGNIFIED.
• PAUL’S COMPANIONS WERE RELEASED BY THE MOB WHEN THEY REALIZED THAT PAUL DID NOT ATTACK DIANA BUT ONLY PREACHED THE NAME OF JESUS.
• READ PHI 2:9-11
• THE POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD IN THIS CHAPTER CHANGES LIVES:
• PEOPLE ARE CONVICTED OF THEIR SINS.
• PEOPLE ARE SAVED.
• PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS: BELIEVERS AND NON-BELIEVERS.

HOMEWORK
ACT 20
THIS IS A SELF-STUDY. PLEASE DO NOT SEND HOMEWORK ANSWERS TO THE TEACHER FORCORRECTION.

• APPLICATION FOR ACT 19
• DO YOU SOMETIMES FEEL DEFEATED AND POWERLESS IN YOUR LIFE?
• IF SO, YOU NEED TO READ MORE IN THE WORD OF GOD.
• WHEN WE SEE THE POWER OF THE WORD AND THE POWER OF THE NAME OF JESUS, OUR FAITH IS LIFTED TO BELIEVE GOD FOR THIS SAME POWER IN OUR OWN LIVES.
• MAKE A DETERMINATION TO READ THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS AND LOOK FOR THE PHRASE “IN CHRIST” OR “IN HIM” TO BEGIN TO SEE WHAT POWERFUL TREASURE YOU HAVE AS A BELIEVER.

• PREPARATION FOR ACT 20
• READ ACT 20:1-38
• FROM THIS CHAPTER, MAKE A LIST OF EXAMPLES OF THE THINGS CHRISTIANS SHOULD DO IN THEIR LIVES.

• IF WE ARE TO LOOK TO PAUL AS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A CHRISTIAN, WHAT CHARACTERISTICS DO YOU OBSERVE IN PAUL IN THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS OF THIS CHAPTER?
• ACT 20:17-21

• ACT 20:22-24

• ACT 20:25-32

• ACT 20:33-35

• ACT 20:36-38

• MEMORY VERSE: 2TIM 4:7