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THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE Acts 14:1-21a
INTRODUCTION
One-major attractions amusement parks=roller coaster.
Parks-Great America, Cedar Point-Sandusky, OH-built reputat-twisting, looping, rolling, incredibly fast coasters.
Other parks like Busch Gardens-Tampa, FL-roller coasters to entice younger while other forms entertain available-less adventurous.
Number years ago-fam visit Tampa Busch-unique twist-roller coaster concept.
One=riders feet dangle feet above pond-alligatrs.
Also=The SheiKra, nation’s first dive coaster.
From 200’ up-plunge true 90° straight down-wind rush thru hair@ 70 mph.
Since-cars floorless=full exper-unobstruct view!
Disney parks-Space Mtn.
Roller coaster but inside-design simulate space, dark-can’t see ahead.
Each turn, twist, drop, rise unseen, unexpect.
Wikipedia-/attraction's thrills are derived more from the surprise of not being able to see the track than from physically intense maneuvers.
A//ttraction ends with a tunnel in which the rockets suddenly decelerate while colored stars zip along the walls & the blinding flash of the ride cameras goes off.
Rockets then pull back into the station, where guests disembark/.
How relate Script?
No have ride roller coaster to exper ups, downs life.
PROPOSITION: Each of us will exper ups & downs in life.
ORGANIZATIONAL SENTENCE: The ups & downs in life should cause us to draw closer to Christ.
I. OVERVIEW OF THE MINSITRY SO FAR.
\\ Ch13-Pisidian Ant-P&B-one week-2 Sabbaths.
Leave= involunt-expell!
However-not discour-cont’d.
Next-Iconium: SE across roll country, past snow-cap mtns-Grk city 80 mi.
II.
THERE WERE NEW OPPORTUNITIES.
\\ A. Iconium.
\\ 1.
The city.
\\ Ancient-7000 BC-today=Turkish city Konya.
Gently roll plain 3370' above sea.
Pisidian Mtns-3,4 mi away-ample water-agri: flax, wheat-plum, apricot orchards.
Sheep, goats-wool use by merchants-manufact.
Iconium=prosperous, not famus.
Greek myth-NB part city's culture-yet appear fairly tolerant diverse lifestyles, religious beliefs.
2. The response to the gospel.
\\ P&B not completely give up Jews-synag & effective ministry-many believe.
Paul clarify speak-1 Co2:4-5 My message & my preaching were not with wise & persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.
Along with tremend opport & posit response, came opposit-some refuse believe.
Like G.Gordon Liddy, Watergate conspirator: "I have found within myself all I need & all I ever shall need.
I am a man of great faith, but my faith is in George Gordon Liddy.
I have never failed me.
The greater the opposit, the greater need for gosp.
Didn't believe so didn't want others believe.
So poison minds=*to hurt, injure*.
P&B no run-considerable=*to wear thru by rubbing*; speak boldly for Lord.
Took more than Jews stir up trouble-run.
No time defend self, fight opponent-focus message God's grace.
Miraculous signs, wonders.
Calvin: *God hardly ever allows them to be detached from his Word.
Their true use is the establishg of the Gospel in its full & genuine authority*.
Peopl sides-for apostles-for Jews.
Plot conceive whereby P&B-mistreat, stone.
Now-fled.
No know basis decisions stay, run-both approved by God.
B.
Lystra.
1.
The city.
\\ Roman colony-Augusta 6 BC.
Lay-fertile valley 20 mi SW Iconium-famous=advanced ed, higher learn system.
Not enough Jews-synag.
Worship gods Rome, Grk names.
2.
The response of the people.
\\ Positive \\ First heal=journey.
Man cripple from birth listen-Paul-seed faith sprung life.
Command stand-no name Jesus-& man exper instant heal-walk & cont’d.
Bruce-*in Acts, as in the Gosps, we should note how regularly faith is emphasized as a condition of receiving both physical & spiritual healing*.
Crowd react immed-gods have come down to us in human form!
*About 50 years previous-Latin poet, Ovid series narrative poems-explain wildly emotional response-P&B.
Accord ancient legend, Zeus, Hermes once came-"Phrygian hill country" disguised as morals seek lodging.
Ask-1000 homes, none took.
Finaly, humble cottage-straw, reeds-elderly couple, Philemon, Baucis, freely welcome with banquet-strain poor resourc.
In apprec, gods transform cottage into temple-gold roof, marble columns.
Philemon, Baucis=appointed priest, priestess temple, who, instead of die, became oak, linden tree.
As for inhospitabl people, gods destroy houses*.
Crowd thot gods return-worship.
Once-actual-Jn1:14 The Word became flesh & made his dwelling among us.
We have seen his glory, the glory of the One & Only, who came from the Father, full of grace & truth.
Human nature want gods-see, touch gods in likeness man.
Men respond as soon as understood.
P&B no inkling what transpire--crowd exclam own native Lycaonian dialect which *was an isolated hill-country dialect & are few literary remains of it.
Centuries of Hellenistic influen in area would have give knowledge Grk & would have had no difficulty in understand Paul’s koine*.
JBPolhill, v26, /Acts/, elec ed., LLS; TNAC (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2001, c1992), 313.
Tore clothes -rush stop people from do something foolish as worship mere mortals.
To receive worship due God be to sin.
Do we turn people's atten to God quickly?
Satan tries in many ways to destroy Xian-if can't lure into gross sin, shower with praise, adorat-believe really special!
Need praise, affirm-okay as long remem who gave abilities.
v15-explan mission-exalt living God.
Refer things understand-nature, rain, crops.
Then move to true God who behind all.
Turn God-leave worthless things behind.
What worthless= *worthless cuz deceptive or ineffectual*?
Here=idols but general anything comes tween us, God.
*In fact, Paul states that even Xian faith itself is futile if it does not rest on historical fact of resurrect*.
GKittel, GFriedrich, GWBromiley, /TDof the NT/, Tran of: TheWNT.
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1995, c1985), 572. 3 part messag: v15-only 1 God-creat everything; *Jews called idols “vain” (futile), in contrast to “living” God.
Jewish peop believe-God allowed lower moral standard for Gent, who had only 7 laws to keep; but idolatry, like sexual immorality, was not issue on which God would permit compromise*.
CSKeener & IVP, /TIVP BBC: NT/(Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1993).
v16-this one God give humans freedom choose how live, having great forbearance, mercy; v17-shown self us, first in nature then Son.
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