The result of this meeting was many Jews turning to Christ. They were encouraged to come back the following Sabbath to preach. Unfortunately, the following week when the Jews saw the Gentiles showing up some Jews became jealous and started to contradict what Paul had to say. Since the Gentiles were more willing to hear what Paul had to say, he turned and preached to the Gentiles.
And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. Very similar to what happened in Antioch, Paul went to the synagogue in Iconium to teach and many Jews and Greeks alike believed, but the unbelieving among the Jews stirred up trouble again dividing the city.
When they came to Lystra Paul performed a miracle making a crippled man walk again, when this occurred the people of the area assumed they were gods and started sacrificing to them. When Paul and Barnabas realized what was happening, they tore their clothes and told the people of the one true God.
Once again the Jewish unbelievers from Antioch and Iconium stirred up trouble and had Paul stoned. They thought that Paul was dead but he got up and walked to the city. Surprisingly after recently coming out of many cities that persecuted and tried to kill Paul and Barnabas, they decided to return to Antioch in Syria through Galatia.
The quicker way would not have required them to go through any of the towns for a second time but Paul was intentional with his journey. Their journey through these cities for a second time gave them a chance to establish elders of the church, and pray and fast with the Church. Paul and Barnabas then continued down to Perga and sailed back to Antioch in Syria. When they arrived back in Antioch, they were able to tell everyone there about how God had been working and the many who had come to faith.
Originally Paul invited Barnabas to go and visit all the Churches they had started a year or two earlier. Paul and Barnabas disagreed on who else to take. Barnabas wanted John Mark to come along, but Paul was against this since John Mark had left them on the previous trip before they made it to Galatia. Paul returned to many of the churches that he had helped establish on his last missionary journey.
He was well spoken of, therefore Paul decided to let Timothy accompany them, but because he was Jewish, and for the sake of the gospel, Paul circumcised Timothy. While in Galatia they also told believers about the decisions that were made in Jerusalem, and because of this many churches continued to grow and were strengthened in their faith.
As the three men, Paul, Silas, and Timothy traveled on, they continued into Asia but were restricted by the Holy Spirit to speak about the good news. Paul did receive a vision while in Asia. His vision was a Macedonian man asking for Paul to come and help them. After receiving that vision they made their way to Macedonia.
When they first arrived in Macedonia, they traveled to Philippi where they stayed for a while and were able to preach to some women there.
One specific woman, Lydia, became a believer along with the rest of her household and invited Paul and his companions to stay. Paul and Silas soon ran into more issues, but also more opportunities to share the Gospel. Throughout their stay a particular girl who was possessed had been following them around declaring who they were.
Paul called out the demon inside of her, the owners were very upset as they would lose money from the demon no longer possessing the girl. The owners being upset took Paul and Silas to the magistrates.
Paul and Silas were then beaten and thrown into prison. While in prison, Paul and Silas prayed and sung hymns to the Lord, as they sang and prayed many of the other prisoners listened.
Late in the night an earthquake occurred, this earthquake not only opened all the doors but broke their chains. The jailer at the time believed that all the prisoners had escaped and was about to kill himself but Paul and Silas stopped him and told him that no one had escaped.
While in Ephesus on his third trip, Paul wrote 1st and 2nd Corinthians in about A. After Paul arrived in Jerusalem, he was quickly met by men who sought to destroy him. He was beaten, falsely accused, imprisoned, transferred from one place to the next, shipwrecked, held under house arrest, all in the course of around 4 years.
After Paul entered the Jewish Synagogue for the first time to teach, he was immediately met with opposition by the Jews. They incited a riot so violent and chaotic that Paul was arrested and carried off by two soldiers for his own safety. Finally Festus planned to transfer Paul back to Jerusalem to be put on trial there, but before this happened, Paul appealed to Caesar and was transported by ship to Rome. It was during this journey to Rome that Paul was shipwrecked and experienced many difficulties before finally making it to Rome in 60 A.
Paul may have been released after 2 years in prison c. It is hard to say for sure whether Paul went on a fourth missionary journey or not, and some count his trip from Caesarea to Rome as his fourth, as he ministered to many people along the way. So much can be learned from the life of Paul and his missionary journeys, not only can we learn the example by which we are to model present-day missions, but we can also learn what living an abandoned life for Christ actually looks like.
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ. Missions work is no easy business, in some countries you may not face the threat of death, in others you might, but one thing is true of all countries, living in a different culture can be incredibly challenging.
In Philippians 3, Paul is explaining and contrasting his life before surrendering to Christ, and he had everything——status, money, respect, knowledge, all of it. But none of it meant a single thing to him next to knowing Christ.
This kind of abandon ushers in radical, society altering, world-shaking impact. Among the many many other things we can learn, we know by his example how to live abandoned and obedient to the call of God and we learn that the key to perseverance in difficult times is through eyes set on God and God alone.
Subscribe Written by alyssialwilson Paul is known as the greatest missionary of all time; he went to the ends of the known world, heart set ablaze, to bring the Gospel message to all the lost people groups of the earth.
Who was Paul? Pharisee Before Paul was converted in Acts chapter 9, he was a Pharisee who trained under Gamaliel, also a Pharisee who was held in great esteem among the Jews. Philippians Pharisees were teachers of the law; they studied and followed scripture to the T, though they were severely misguided and lost the point of the law and scripture.
Persecutor Paul, as a Pharisee was of the same mindset as the rest of his brethren. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison Acts It was partly because of him that a great persecution broke out against the church, which then caused them to scatter. Changed Man But now on to the good part of the story. Acts After a time of preaching in Derbe, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Attalia, then they returned to the church in Antioch where they first set sail from and spent some time there before heading out a second time.
This, however, did not go as planned. Acts During their time in Damascus, Paul once again faced much opposition but in spite of this, they planted the churches in Philippi and Thessalonica. Acts In response to this great revival, a riot broke out in the city against Paul because their way of life was being threatened by the Gospel.
Melanie Hurlbut It is hard to say for sure whether Paul went on a fourth missionary journey or not, and some count his trip from Caesarea to Rome as his fourth, as he ministered to many people along the way. See Acts —4. Just north of Phrygia was the province of Galatia. Acts makes no mention of what happened here, but this is the province Paul wrote to in his letter to the Galatians.
But by the time Paul wrote the Book of Galatians, Christians there were feeling pressure to obey the law particularly in regards to circumcision in order to be saved. So they passed by Mysia and headed to the city of Troas. From Troas, Paul and his companions sailed across the Aegean Sea, making a pitstop on the island of Samothrace before landing in Neapolis and then traveling to Philippi. In Philippi, they spoke with women outside the city gate.
One of them was a wealthy cloth dealer named Lydia. Later, Paul, Silas, and the others were confronted by a spirit-possessed slave woman who could predict the future. Paul became so annoyed that he cast out the spirit. Her owners were furious, because they had been profiting off of her fortune telling.
So they turned the local magistrates against them, claiming Paul and Silas were stirring up trouble and trying to get Roman citizens to believe and do illegal things. The authorities had Paul and Silas severely flogged and thrown in prison.
Late at night, while they were worshiping, an earthquake shook the foundations of the prison, opened the doors, and freed the prisoners from their chains. When the jailer awoke and saw the doors open, he prepared to kill himself. But Paul stopped him and assured him everyone was still in the prison. After listening to Paul and Silas share the gospel, the jailer believed in Jesus and had his whole household baptized.
The next morning, the magistrates ordered Paul and Silas released. Paul revealed that they were Roman citizens, who had just been beaten and imprisoned without trial, and the authorities became afraid. After passing through the Macedonian cities of Amphipolis and Apollonia, they arrived in Thessalonica. Since Thessalonica had a synagogue, Paul turned to his usual method—preaching the gospel on the Sabbath.
Over the course of three weeks, he achieved the usual result—many Jews and Greeks alike embraced the gospel. At night, the Thessalonian believers sent Paul and his companions away to the nearby city of Berea. Many Jews and Greeks became believers, but some agitators from Thessalonica heard Paul was in Berea, and they stirred up the crowds. In the first century, Athens was in the region of Achaia, just south of Macedonia. Paul was essentially waiting around for Silas, Timothy, and the others to rejoin him.
But while he waited, he noticed that Athens was full of idols. He debated with philosophers in both the synagogue and marketplace. Some Athenians were open to his ideas, and they were eager to discuss them. After establishing a group of believers in Athens, Paul headed west to the city of Corinth. Every Sabbath, he preached to Jews and Greeks in the synagogue.
Silas and Timothy rejoined Paul here, and Paul began focusing his energy on testifying about Jesus to the Jews. When the Jews opposed his message, Paul devoted himself to reaching Gentiles, and he left the synagogue. As more Greeks embraced the gospel, the Corinthian Jews brought Paul before the governor, who basically told them to take a hike and refused to help.
Before setting off for Syria, Paul stopped for a vow-fulfilling haircut in the port city of Cenchreae, which was just a hop, skip, and a jump from Corinth.
With his companions, he sailed across the Aegean Sea to Ephesus, where he dropped of Priscilla and Aquila, and promised to come back if he could. After a short stay in Ephesus, Paul set sail for Caesarea, which was across the Mediterranean and far to the southeast.
The Jews in Berea were studious and paid close attention to Paul's message. Then they went to the Scriptures to examine his teaching for themselves.
Many Jews joined the church as well as many Gentiles. But the Jews from Thessalonica followed the disciples to Berea and started stirring up trouble there, too. While Paul was alone in Athens, he became upset about all the city's idolatry. When he wasn't preaching in the synagogue, he was in the marketplace reasoning with the Greeks.
After sharing the gospel with the crowds in the market, many jeered but others were interested in hearing more. By the time Paul left Athens, he converted a number of citizens. Paul hit it off with them. Like him, they were tentmakers, and they invited Paul to stay with them while he shared the gospel in the local synagogue. After he was reunited with Silas and Timothy, he devoted himself to preaching to the Jews. But eventually, they became abusive and, once again, Paul vowed to focus his attention on preaching to the Gentiles.
He introduced a number of Corinthian Gentiles to Jesus. After Paul received a vision from the Lord to be courageous and keep preaching, the Corinthian Jews attacked him, dragged him before the proconsul, and charged him with blasphemy. But Gallio, the proconsul, wasn't interested in hearing about a Jewish disagreement.
The crowd turned on Sosthenes, the local synagogue leader who had allowed Paul to preach, and beat Sosthenes in front of Gallio. Paul stayed in Corinth for some time. There he reasoned in the synagogue. The Jews asked Paul to stay, but he declined, promising to come back if it was God's will. After a brief stay in Antioch, Paul set off again to Asia Minor. He started by strengthening the believers in Galatia against the Jewish brethren who were stirring up controversy around the law.
But then he headed back to Ephesus. Paul arrived in Ephesus and instructed believers on the difference between water baptism and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Then he spent the next three months preaching in the synagogue. When the Jews became too difficult to get along with, Paul began speaking in a local lecture hall. He stayed in Ephesus for two years.
During this time, Paul was performing a lot of miracles, and many Jews were trying to copy him by invoking the name of Jesus. The sons of a local priest named Sceva had attempted to cast out an evil spirit "in the name of Jesus who Paul preaches. Then the spirit caused the possessed man to beat the seven men. The result was that many Jews and Gentiles had great reverence for Jesus. Those who were practicing sorcery burned their expensive scrolls and teachings.
Because of this, the Word of God spread. About this time, a silversmith named Demetrius who made his living casting idols began stirring up dissension. He told the artisans around Ephesus that this God who Paul preached was going to end up driving them out of business and discrediting the local temple of Artemis.
The whole city erupted into pandemonium. Paul wanted to address them, but the disciples and city officials wouldn't let him. Eventually, the city clerk instructed Demetrius and the other craftsmen to either bring a legitimate charge against Paul or drop it.
If they didn't, they would be charged with rioting. And the whole issue was dropped Acts
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