26.07.11 “Thessalonica Tragedy?” (Acts 17:1-9)

 

Over the past few days, we’ve been traveling with the apostle Paul, Silas, Timothy and Dr. Luke on what we can call Paul’s SECOND missionary journey. This journey began in Syrian Antioch with only Paul and Silas. Their initial objective was revisiting the places Paul and Barnabas had first visited perhaps 5 years earlier.  Those places included Derbe and then Lystra, where young Timothy joined them. (Acts 16:1-5) Then on to Iconium and Pisidian Antioch. But Paul was not satisfied with only familiar places, and you’ll recall that as Paul tried to push further west the record of this trip indicates “the Spirit of the Lord Jesus would not allow them to.” (Acts 16:6,7) Yes, it’s true! The Holy Spirit of God was leading Paul very carefully by both motivating him to keep traveling, but then blocking his path and diverting him, eventually to Troas, a coastal city which Paul had evidently not planned to visit!?

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Pastor Doug Anderson    “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)

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