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We're so thankful to be here today for this study, for this quick look at the book of Acts, the outlining of things that stand out to me that I felt led to share with those that have an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying to them. God, touch this world. Hallelujah. We got a lot of stuff going on, God. Let us keep our faith in our host and our trust in you. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Hallelujah. Well, praise God once again. Uh, as we're looking at Paul's third journey, his third journey here in the book of Acts and chapter 17. Uh, sorry, chapter 19. So let me turn there with you. Acts chapter 19. Give me a couple of seconds here. In the book of Luke, so John. Alright, now over to 19. I had my Bible for a long time, and I don't want to deter my pages. I've had it rebound once, and it looks like it's getting close to that time again to have it rebound again. And book binding is not cheap. Everything is going up nowadays, but it is worth it. Alright, so in the book of Acts, we have chapter 19, verses 1 through 7. There's a group of people that was misguided. These are the disciples, but Paul leads them to the truth. Paul took the time out to share with them the doctrine and the gospel of Christ Jesus, hallelujah, and what the purpose was. Let us read chapter 19, verses 1 through 7. And it came to pass that while Apollos was at Corneth, Paul, having passed through the upper coast, came to Ephesus and finding certain disciples. Here we have Apollos. Remember that guy? Priscilla and Aquila had to teach him, expound to him a couple of things of the scriptures. Apollos was the Bible says, was an eloquent speecher. Speecher, excellent speaker. Uh, but they did have to enlighten him on some truths of God's word. Priscilla and Aquila, husband and wife. Hallelujah. So I'm imagining that they gave him a Bible study. Verse 2, he said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believe? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, uh, and he said unto them, Unto what were you baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized you with water of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him which should come after him. That is on Christ Jesus. Now, uh at that point in time, you know, John went around baptizing people. You can read about that in the book of John, hallelujah. But he just told us the story right here, but he had to make it clear and plain and say, hey, don't believe me. Don't believe upon me, although I can get you to the place of repentance. Hallelujah. But there's one that's mightier than me. And that's who you're gonna believe because he's gonna be able to baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire. In other words, he's gonna purify you, he's gonna cleanse you with the fire of uh that fire is used as a purification process. Hallelujah. Not the literal fire, but the strength and the fire that's within the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. Praise God. And that's what God uh that's what Jesus Christ was gonna do. He's gonna baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. So John was leading the disciples, he was leading Apollos. He was while he was at Corinth, he was telling these people uh what was to come. Now remember in Corinthians in the book of Corinth, in the book of Corinthians and in the city of Corinth, they had a lot going on there. If you recall our last uh talk or two regarding Corneth, and I'm not gonna revisit that, but you can always go back and listen to it again. I believe that was on um part two of his second journey. Uh we did discuss some of Corneth, and on the on my website, hallelujah, on our website, you can see that there is a link under uh I think it's uh line upon line page, and there's a link at the bottom of the page, and it'll take you over to a good study I found online, very plain, very simple, about uh the book of Corneth, uh the book, the city of Corneth and the book of Corinthians. It'll give you an idea on what was going on there. Sometimes we have to use additional material to definitely read and read, read, read, and understand what uh the Bible is actually trying to tell us. We have to study for ourselves to show ourselves approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. So, as these people were telling Paul that they had received the baptism, but they didn't hear anything of a Holy Ghost. Now, there's many people today out there that hasn't heard much about a Holy Ghost, or if they've heard about the Holy Ghost, they don't believe in the Holy Ghost. And a lot of people don't believe if they've heard about the Holy Ghost because of the way that they see people acting that have the Holy Ghost. Because some people say they have the Holy Ghost, but they act like they have not had a personal experience with the Holy Ghost by the evidence of speaking in tongues, by the renewing of their mind, hallelujah, by the changing of their speech, hallelujah, by the changing of their appearance. Come on now. Do you know what I'm saying? The Holy Ghost will change you once you get the Holy Ghost, and the and it will be an outward manifestation on what happened on the inside. Hallelujah. So that's what's happening there. So Paul did go on to spend two years in Ephesus preaching the word of God, uh verses 19, uh, chapter 19, still, verses 8 through 10. God approved his work and blessed him with the gift of spiritual and natural healing. Paul was able to heal because God had touched him, he approved him, and by approving him, uh got what he was doing, preaching the word, talking to people, uh witnessing, uh, door knocking, if you would, uh, preaching in the synagogue, hallelujah, two years in Ephesus preaching the word of God, and God approved it, and by him, by showing, putting his stamp of approval on it, God gave him, blessed him with spiritual gifts. And uh right here in verse uh chapter 19 and 9 it says, and when diverse uh hardened, and when diverse were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that which were before the multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyran uh Tyrannerus. And this continued by the space of two years, so that all that which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Gentiles. And it goes on in verse 11 and says, And God wrought special miracle by the hands of Paul, so that from his body were brought unto him sick handkerchiefs and aprons, aprons, and that and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them. Now that's a healing ministry right there. It says, with aprons and with handkerchiefs. So in most cases, Paul didn't even have to lay hands, he just prayed over that handkerchief, prayed over that apron, took it back, and the people that had sick loved ones took it back, and hallelujah, they were healed when they laid that handkerchief or whatever, or the apron upon them. The sinners were confounded, and many, many of their evil books was burned. I find that being interesting, interesting because when you're reading something that's not gonna enhance your spiritual life, and when you put more of that into more of your time into that, instead of more time of worshiping and reading something that's gonna edify your mind, your body, your heart, and your soul spiritually, according to the word of God, that's what's gonna benefit us. That's what's gonna give us good moral, moral, and ethical guidelines. That's what's gonna help us uh be more definitive and a more round, well-rounded person. Hallelujah in the name of Jesus. That's gonna give us integrity, good integrity. And if we go on, and in 23 to 41, we can read that the silversmith was concerned and caused a great uproar because of God of Paul's preaching. Now, here it is, Paul is preaching the word of God in the streets and the synagogue. Now, this is gonna cause some problems, but why? Because now there's not gonna be much need for the silversmiths and making these idols and whatever other things that are making that they that's taking the people away from God and putting their, I mean, not away from God, but away from the uh well, the silversmiths was making things that would take them away from God, hallelujah, uh the true God, and have them worshiping false gods and idolatry. So Paul's preaching would preach against those uh those idolatrous worship and turning the people towards God. So this um this uh this destroyed or or put a severe dent in the business of idol making, and and so the silversmiths had an issue with Paul in that area. Hallelujah. So so we have a lot here happening in the Acts chapter 19, and this is pretty much uh what was going on in the book of Acts. In the book of Acts, we this is known as where the church really got its roots dug in, got established, hallelujah, and it got to it just took off from here. Once the Holy Ghost was poured out, and people were born again of the water and of the spirit, and Paul was full of the Holy Ghost, uh, a small man but mighty in stature, and he just went along preaching the word of God with power, with might, with signs, with wonders, following him. So Paul was truly somebody God put his stamp of approval on. I want God's stamp of approval like this in my life. I don't know about you, but I want to be able to talk to someone about the word of God and let the word of God, because that's all we really speak to people when we speak to them is about the Bible says this, the Bible says that. Hallelujah. Let God use me, let God use you as a mouthpiece, as an oracle, as a spokesperson, hallelujah, as an ambassador for Christ. Hallelujah. That many would come to Christ because of your testimony, because of your zeal for the word of God, and because of your lifestyle that you're living. Now, sometimes we do, the Bible tells us that we become all things to all men. So sometimes we do have to understand what they're talking about, hallelujah, but not to the point of where it's gonna cause us to fall into sin. Nope, but we can relate because some of us had a past, and I'm not speaking of a church past, but a secular past and got converted and bought in. So in the name of Jesus, read all of Acts chapter 19, and it won't hurt to read the whole book of Acts. It's a powerful book, it's a mighty book, and it's a great book, just like the other uh 65 books of the Bible. So, Lord bless you and keep you, and until we meet again, God be with you. God be with you until we meet again. God bless.