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The Signs of an Apostle – <a id="si_2" onclick="return mV('2Cr',12,12);">2Co 12:12</a>
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The poisonous snake miracle – <a id="si_3" onclick="return mV('Act',28,'1-6');">Act 28:1-6</a>
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The people
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Described as “barbarous”
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They did not speak Greek
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They were not savages
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They treated the shipwrecked people with kindness
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The snake bite – <a id="si_4" onclick="return mV('Act',28,'3,4,5);">Act 28:3-5</a>
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Paul was gathering firewood
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The poisonous snake clung to his arm
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The people thought Paul was being punished for sin
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Human ideas of justice
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Human ideas of judgment
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The explanation of Christ – <a id="si_5" onclick="return mV('Jhn',9,'1-');">Jhn 9</a>
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Paul suffered no harm
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The people now thought Paul was “a god”
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The healing of the father of Publius – <a id="si_6" onclick="return mV('Act',28,7-8);">Act 28:7-8</a>
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The man was sick
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The healing was instantaneous and miraculous
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The healing of the people – <a id="si_7" onclick="return mV('Act',28,9);">Act 28:9</a>
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The rest of the sick came to Paul
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They were all healed
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The principles involved
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The gift of healing was an apostolic sign
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The gift of miracles was an apostolic sign
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The sign gifts ended with the apostles
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No one today has the sign gifts
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The sign confirmed the message of resurrection
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The people honored the apostolic party - <a id="si_8" onclick="return mV('Act',28,10);">Act 28:10</a>
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Gratitude produces generosity
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They loaded the ship with supplies
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The Trip from Malta to Rome – <a id="si_9" onclick="return mV('Act',28,'11-16');">Act 28:11-16</a>
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Three days on the Island of Sicily – <a id="si_10" onclick="return mV('Act',28,11,12);">Act 28:11-12</a>
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Landing at the port of Puteoli – <a id="si_11" onclick="return mV('Act',28,13,14);">Act 28:13-14</a>
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130 miles from Rome near the city of Naples
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Paul was met by Christians – <a id="si_12" onclick="return mV('Act',28,14);">Act 28:14</a>
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The miraculous witness of the Gospel
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The wide spread of Christianity
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On to Rome – <a id="si_13" onclick="return mV('Act',28,15,16);">Act 28:15-16</a>
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Two groups of Christians meet up with Paul
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Some at the forum of Appius (40 miles from Rome)
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Some from the three taverns (30 miles from Rome)
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They welcomed him
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They prayed with him
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They encouraged him
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In Rome – <a id="si_14" onclick="return mV('Act',28,'17-31');">Act 28:17-31</a>
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Paul invites the local Jewish leader to meet with him
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He explained his predicament – <a id="si_15" onclick="return mV('Act',28,'17-23');">Act 28:17-23</a>
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He points out the real reason for Jewish opposition: for the hope of Israel
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The next meeting – <a id="si_16" onclick="return mV('Act',28,23);">Act 28:23</a>
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Paul led in Bible study
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The subject: The Lord Jesus Christ
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The study of Moses and the prophecies
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The result – <a id="si_17" onclick="return mV('Act',28,24);">Act 28:24</a>
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Some believed
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Some did not believe
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Paul’s observation of Isaiah’s word – <a id="si_18" onclick="return mV('Act',28,'25-28');">Act 28:25-28</a>
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Two years in Rome – <a id="si_19" onclick="return mV('Act',28,30,31);">Act 28:30-31</a>
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Paul was preaching and teaching - The Lord Jesus Christ
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Paul was “unhindered”
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Paul wrote Philippians, Ephesians, Colossians and Philemon
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Paul’s History
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Released
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Rearrested
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Beheaded
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