Tonight we’re studying ACTS 16: 8-15

Pastor Greg Diamanti
CHRISTIAN FAMILY Church Of God
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STUDY NOTES:


ACTS CHAPTER 16 (continued):
Verses 8-10… Paul has a vision of a certain man in Macedonia, concluding that God has called them to preach the Gospel there.
Joel 2:28-29… Isaiah 44:1-8…
          Paul immediately obeys the vision.
2nd Corinthians 10:5… Proverbs 3:5-7… 1st Samuel 15:1-23… 
          Verses 11-13… Paul travels to Macedonia to a leading city there called “Philippi”, where he preaches the Gospel.
Romans 1:16… 2nd Timothy 4:1-5…
          Verse 14… A woman from Thyatira named Lydia listened to Paul, and God opened her heart to the Gospel.
Revelation 2:18-29… It is obvious that this church had tolerated sin, it had tolerated acts of immorality and certain involvement with idols, as verse 20 indicates it. And not only had it tolerated, but it had allowed the woman who was teaching that to have reached a point of prominence where she was articulating it and leading Christians astray, as well as collecting around her some false believers. The Lord promises that He's going to judge and He's going to judge that church severely, sparing only those, according to verse 24, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them.
Here is a church that has been infiltrated by error and sin, a church that has done nothing about it. It then deals primarily with the church that tolerates sin. It takes us back to a very basic understanding that we have to have in regard to the church and that is that the Lord wants His church holy. He wants His church in every sense intolerant of sin and plenteous in love.                                                                                
So in verse 14, it becomes clear that Lydia was listening, and God opened her heart…
Revelation 2:29… She heard the Holy Spirit…
John 14:6… No one can come to the Father except by Jesus!
John 6:44-45… The Father was drawing her to Himself.       

Verse 15... Lydia wanted more of the Gospel and fellowship.
Matthew 5:6… John 6:32-35… Matthew 6:25-34…
Revelation 3:14-18…
 
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