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Men Who Have Turned the World Upside Down
Acts 17:1-15
Message 6 in our 9-part series on the Acts of the Apostles.
Sunday, June 1, 2014Speaker: Doug Virgint
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Outline
1. The cities
2. The listeners
3. The message
4. The reaction
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Outline
1. The cities
2. The listeners
3. The message
4. The reaction
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The cities - Thessalonica• Chief city of Macedonia
• Rich port city
• Main trade route between fertile farm land to west and ocean trade route
• Most imports and exports for all Macedonia passed by Thessalonica
• Founded by Cassandra (one of Alexander’s generals)
• Named for Cassandra’s wife (Alexander’s half sister)
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The cities - Thessalonica• Paul followed the “Egnatian Way” – an important
Roman road
• From Philippi, Paul traveled 33 miles south to Amphipolis
• Then on 27 more miles to Appolonia
• And a further 40 miles to Thessalonica
• Perhaps Paul wanted to get far away from Philippi
• And perhaps he wanted to work in a city with a synagogue and a large Jewish population
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The Egnatian way
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The cities - Thessalonica• Cicero called this city “the bosom of our domain”
• It was a “free” city – no Roman garrison
• They could make their own laws
• 200,000 people
• This was close to the time when all Jews had been banned from Rome because of riots.
• The political leaders perhaps feared losing their status if there was unrest.
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The cities - Thessalonica
• Paul preached only 3 Sabbaths in the synagogue
• But he must have stayed longer because Philippians 4:18 tells us that the church in Philippi sent money at least twice to support his ministry while he was in Thessalonica
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The cities - Thessalonica• The Greek word “city authorities” is “politarchs”
• This word appears only here in the whole Bible and is not used in any secular ancient Greek manuscript
• For many years people felt this was an error in the Bible
• Then, in 1835, an inscription over a city gate in Thessalonica was found
• 16 or more additional inscriptions found since
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The cities - Thessalonica
• Luke uses many words to describe the authorities in areas visited by Paul
• “Praetors” in Philippi
• “First man” for Publius in Malta
• “Asiarchs” in Ephesus
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The cities - Thessalonica• Despite doubts, archeology has proven that Luke
was right every time.
• Luke was a careful and accurate historian.
• And these are clear proofs that Acts was written at about the time of the events – titles changed so quickly.
• Sometimes a particular title was used only for a very few years – but it was always during the time of Paul’s visits.
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The cities – Berea
• Located 50 miles from Thessalonica
• Cicero tells us that it “was off the beaten track”
• Not on the “Egnatian way”
• It too had a synagogue and a Jewish population
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Outline
1. The cities
2. The listeners
3. The message
4. The reaction
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The listeners
• Jewish people from the synagogue
• Greek (gentile) proselytes and “God fearers”
• Highly placed and intelligent women
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Outline
1. The cities
2. The listeners
3. The message
4. The reaction
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The message
• It was necessary for Christ to suffer
• It was necessary for Christ to rise from the dead
• Jesus is the “Christ”
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It was necessary for Christ to suffer
• This universe was created by the Lord God Almighty
• All men and women exist because of the creative power exercised by the Lord God Almighty
• We owe our allegiance and obedience to Him
• But like our first father and mother, Adam and Eve, we have lived in rebellion against Him
• We are sinners and thus subject to God’s eternal judgment
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It was necessary for Christ to suffer
• God is just and must judge and punish our sin
• Because of his character He cannot just overlook our sin and rebellion
• But He is a God of love and mercy, and thus He has provided a way for our sins to be forgiven and for us to be reconciled with Him
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It was necessary for Christ to suffer
• The Old Testament is full of pictures that show us how God planned to forgive us for our sin
• It is through “substitution”
• The penalty for our sin is death – but in his mercy God has provided a substitute to die in our place.
• When Adam and Eve sinned, God killed an animal to provide clothing to cover them
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It was necessary for Christ to suffer
• In the temple the Ark of the Alliance was overshadowed by gold cherubim – powerful angels who symbolized God’s presence. The Ark was a box containing the law of God. These angels constantly looked down at this law – the evidence of our disobedience.
• Once a year the blood from a sacrifice was sprinkled on the Ark’s cover, symbolically hiding the broken law from God’s eyes.
• But these were all just symbols.24
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It was necessary for Christ to suffer
• We know that we are sinners and that we have offended the sovereign holy God of the universe.
• Instinctively we are looking for a way to find forgiveness.
• Paul explained that all these Old Testament symbols pointed to Christ.
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It was necessary for Christ to suffer
• Jesus was the perfect Son of God, the second Person of the Trinity, God Himself.
• He came to earth and took a human body.
• He was perfect and sinless.
• On the cross he offered himself as the only perfect, acceptable sacrifice.
• He took our sin on himself and suffered the punishment our sins deserved.
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It was necessary for Christ to suffer
• God treated Him as if He had committed every sin that we have committed.
• He was the perfect accomplishment of all those Old Testament symbols.
Story of the Cossack chieftain
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Necessary for Christ to rise
• How can we be sure that Christ is really God?
• How can we be sure that God really accepted his death as our substitution – that our sins have already been punished in Him, that our debt has been paid?
• When Christ was raised form the dead, it was the proof that God had accepted Christ’s substitutionary work.
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Jesus is the Christ• From the time of Adam and Eve, men have been
waiting for a Savior.
• He was promised throughout the 2000 years of Jewish history.
• Hundreds of prophecies gave hints and evidences so God’s people would know Him when He would come.
• Paul showed how Christ had accomplished every one of those prophecies.
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Outline
1. The cities
2. The listeners
3. The message
4. The response
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The response
• Some people were not interested.
• Some people opposed the message of Christ, and caused a riot.
• But many people in Thessalonica and Berea received the message of Christ.
• In Berea they studied the Bible for themselves to make sure that what was being said was true.
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The responseThis morning, God requires that you receive Christ:
– That you accept His sacrifice for you.
– That you believe in Christ.
– That by faith you appropriate what He has done for you.
•Will you accept Christ this morning?
– It is the only way to receive forgiveness and the assurance of eternal life.
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