ACTS Chapters 17 & 18 TROUBLE FERVOR August 18, 2002

1 Thessalonians 2:14 For you, brothers, became imitators of God's churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own countrymen the same things those churches suffered from the Jews.

1 Thessalonians 3:3 …so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. You know quite well that we were destined for them.

2 Thessalonians 1:6 God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you

1 Thessalonians 2:17 But, brothers, when we were torn away from you for a short time (in person, not in thought), out of our intense longing we made every effort to see you.

Acts 4:31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

Acts 16:26 Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains came loose.

1 Corinthians 13:5 It is not rude, it is not self- seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Psalm 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek out your decrees.

Isaiah 55:6 Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.

Psalm 22:19 But you, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.

1 Corinthians 15:32 If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

Titus 1:12 Even one of their own prophets has said, "Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons."

John Pollock, Apostle He could not know that whole books would be written about it or that in a few hundred years the Parthenon would become a Christian church;

John Pollock, Apostle And that nineteen centuries on… the national flag which flies beside the ruins of the Parthenon would be lowered to half-mast each Good Friday, and raised on Easter Day in honor of Christ’s resurrection.

God’s Word for the Biblically Inept, Acts, 204 Prostitutes were called “Corinthian girls.” To “act the Corinthian” meant to engage in sex outside of marriage. And when a Corinthian was portrayed in a play, he was always drunk.

1 Corinthians 2:3 I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

Acts 18:18 Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because of a vow he had taken.

Acts 18:26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.

Romans 16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 4:19 Greet Priscilla and Aquila and the household of Onesiphorus.

1 Corinthians 16:19 The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house.

2 Corinthians 11:9 And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed.

Matthew 27:25 All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and on our children!"

Acts 19:8 Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.

Acts 28:17 Three days later he called together the leaders of the Jews.

1 Corinthians 1:14 I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius.

God’s Word for the Biblically Inept, Acts, 210 He (Gallio) was known for kindness and fairness. His brother wrote: “No man was as ever as sweet to one as Gallio is to all.”

1 Corinthians 1:1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

2 Corinthians 3:1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?