• The Nature of Paul’s Witness in Ephesus – Act 19:8-20
  • It was extensive – Act 19:10
  • It was expanded – Act 19:10
  • It was effectual – Act 19:11-20
    • The gift of healing was present – Act 19:12
      • This was not magic
      • The cloth was a symbol
    • The counterfeit
      • The Jewish attempt to “join-up”
      • The seven sons of Sceva
        • They are overcome by the evil spirit
        • Satan’s kingdom is divided
    • Lives were transformed – Act 19:18-19
      • The great bonfire
      • They were free from bondgage
      • The deceit of evil
        • The promise of new power
        • The call for yielding
    • The Word of God grew and prevailed – Act 19:20
• The Parenthesis – Act 19:21-22
  • Paul’s plans
    • To visit Macedonia and Achaia
    • To go to Jerusalem
• Opposition to the Witness – Act 19:23-41
  • The city
    • A center for witchcraft
    • Superstition and demonism reigned
    • Filled with occult leaders
    • People lived in darkness and fear
  • The occasion for the opposition – Act 19:23-27
    • The effectiveness of the witness
      • The darkness was challenged with the weapon of truth!
      • The extensive teaching
    • The loss of “idol-business”
    • The concern for “Diana”
  • The intensity – Act 19:28-34
    • They were filled with wrath
    • They were filled with confusion
    • They incited a riot
    • They were determined to stop the witness
    • They rejected the Jewish spokesman
  • The settlement – Act 19:35-41
    • The city clerk’s recommendations
      • Diana needs in defense
      • The Christians have not robbed the temples nor blasphemed the goddess – Act 19:37
      • Rome will not accept the illegal assembly
      • Dismiss and work through the law
    • The assembly is dismissed – Act 19:41
• Application – Eph 6:10-13
  • How the Christian lives
    • By the authority of the Word
    • In the power of the Spirit
  • The strongholds around us
    • Drugs and drinking
    • Witchcraft – occult
    • Perversion
      • Men as women
      • Women as men
      • Homosexuality
    • Crime
    • Terrorism
    • Family break-down
  • The weapons of our warfare – 2Co 10:4-5
    • Strong in the Lord
      • Our strength is in Him – 2Co 3:5; Jhn 15:5
      • Not in self
    • The power of His might
      • A deep, settled conviction that He is almighty in power
      • That His almighty power is committed toward us
    • The ties that inspire faith in His almighty power to us
      • We are His by choice
      • His by birth
      • His by gift
      • His by purchase
      • His by conquest

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