Business As Usual Series

Acts 14 v 1-7 Business as Usual

1. The Practice

The Usual Place - 1 And it came to pass in Iconium,

that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews,

The Usual People - into the synagogue of the Jews,

The Usual Practice - and so spake,

The Usual Power - that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.

2. The Protest

The Source - 2 But the unbelieving Jews

The Force - stirred up the Gentiles,

The Course - and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

3. The Proof

The Endurance - 3 Long time therefore abode they

1 Cor 16:8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost 9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

The Eloquence - speaking boldly in the Lord,

The Excellence - which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and

The Evidence - granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

4. The Perplexity

It's Scale - 4 But the multitude of the city was divided:

It's Scope - and part held with the Jews,

It's Score - and part with the apostles.

5. The Plot

It's Certainty - 5 And when there was an assault made

It's Unity - both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers

It's Subtlety - to use them despitefully,

It's Severity - and to stone them,

6. The Parting

The Help - 6 they were ware of it,

The Haste - and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia,

The Hope - and unto the region that lieth round about:

7. The Preaching

The Place - 7 and there (Lystra and Derbe)

The Plan - they preached

The Plea - the gospel.

My faith has found a resting place, Not in device nor creed;

I trust the Ever-living One, His wounds for me shall plead.

I need no other argument, I need no other plea;

It is enough that Jesus died, And that He died for me.