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Before we dropped on pause levered regulations, we were hanging out with paul and silos in prison in Philippi and watching them get released. After which point the local authorities apologized for imprisoning the moda, a trial since their roman citizens today they had for destiny a, where they're staying with a guy name.
Jason desalinization is a big port city in greece today with population of about a million people, except now it's called delicate. It's about one hundred miles from Philippine, which is about a four day trip. By the way, paul writes two letters to the church and desAlination, and will read those letters tomorrow.
The guy's in destiny a for a long time, and at one point pulls band's a string of three days going to the local jewish synagogue. Reason with them about the scriptures. He shows them how jesus s is, the massage the profits wrote about.
Here is one thing I find interesting about this polis in just sharing his own personal, even though he has a more compelling one than anyone have ever met. Instead, he sharing scriptures, testimony of Christ. It's true that personal stories are moving for many people, but paul knows that subjective experiences can also be usually dismissed by anyone who has a different experience.
So he takes a more objective and logic based approach. He sharing facts, not feelings. He let scripture speak for itself. Per usual, the audience is split.
Some believe in, some do they want to believe, include jews, as well as a lot of greeks and a lot of female leaders to you who don't believe him for my mob, and started riot. And they go to Jason's house to try to find the guys. When they can't find them, they drag Jason and a few others out of the house and take them to the authorities.
Like most of the accusers, they're saying that the early church is rebelling against the establishment. This time sees are in particular, they say these men have turned the world upside down. Yes, and a men, the effects of the gospel are dramatic.
That's the upside down kingdom of god. Jason. Post bail for everyone, and the authorities let them go home.
This money probably has a bit of a promise attached to IT as well in way that bail money serves as a promise that you will return for your court date. Jesson's money probably serves a promise that paul and sillas will leave town. They live in the middle night and head to beria.
First up is in a gug. And you know how paul love is a good script or testimony. So he shares IT.
And they love IT, but they don't just take his word as fact. They crack open their scroll every day and check his words against scripture. They walk in wisdom and humility. They're open to receive, but not just anything. They'll only receive the truth.
And because of that, a lot of them believe, including greeks and prominent male and female leaders, when word gets back to the salonica, they march over her to beria to try to shut IT down. So paul packs up to leave, but silence, and Timothy stay behind. When pockets to attends, he since worried that he needs silence, intimidate y their state.
We don't know why he needed them so urgently, but they don't make IT to him for a while. Heston athons, maybe with luck. We don't overture and its full of ideology.
People they are, worships so many different things, in part because they were open to many different ideas, and they are indicated with religious options. And the people love hearing new ideas. In fact, a lot of the prominent people polling counters are kind of professional seekers.
They're always following the current trains, which change frequently. IT seems like they love to seek, but they don't like to find. They prefer to just keep seeking.
This is no territory for poll. He's mostly been used to talking to jews or gentiles who already have some kind of grass on the high rise ript res. But the authorities are not on that page at all.
Still, they're intrigued by polls message, not because they're moved by their own sinfulness and god's great mercy, but because it's a new idea they hadn't heard yet. Polis educated a nose, had to lean into that when it's helpful. So he talks to them in the intellectual language they understand, much like jesus did when he used agricultural analogies in his parables to farmers and Fishermen.
Paul quotes philosophers and pots there are with. He points out that they know something is missing amid all their religious pair, familia. They still haven't alter dedicated to an unknown god. He says, I know the guy you're missing, I know the one your soul cries out for and hasn't bound amit all these other orders and opinions, but you didn't make him like you made these idles in their orders.
In fact, he made you when when he did, he was intentional about every detail, including the time and location of your birth IT all serves to point you back to him. And he calls you to repent and turned him so we, because someday he will judge the earth through the one he raised from the dead. Some of them mark the idea of the resurrection, but others believe, including diane sia.
endemics. Today, my god shot was impulse quote from a greek poet in verse twenty eight. IT says in him, we live and move and have our being. Paul clips a quote from culture and pace IT into his conversation about god, because IT speaks to the truth of who god is. Ultimately, all truth is god's truth.
Anything that is true points back to him, the author of truth, the way, the truth and a life, which is kind of what this first says in him. We live. He's the life and move.
He's the way and have our being. He's the very true that the core of who we are and he's where the joy is tomorrow will be reading first in second. Festive onions will link to a short .
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