Acts 18:1-17 - Paul in Corinth

Introduction

Last Week

Paul in Athens with the “city of idols”

The stoic and epicurean philosophers

The unknown god

God the creator, has overlooked the former sins but now calls all to repent and follow the Lord Jesus Christ.

This week

Paul in Corinth

Body

Verse 6: Your blood be on your own heads

Mark 6:11 ESV

11 And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”

Ezekiel 33:1–7 ESV

1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman, 3 and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, 4 then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand. 7 “So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.

Verse 9-10: Do not be afraid; God guarantees success in our evangelism

Acts 13:48 ESV

48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

“who are my people” - “my people” = elect

Application

Do not be dismayed by resistance to the gospel

Do not let the blood of the people be on your hands

Share Christ with boldness knowing God has people in this city