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The Witness in Lystra – <a id="si_2" onclick="return mV('Act',15,'4-');">Act 15:4</a>-<a id="si_3" onclick="return mV('Act',16,'1-3');">16:3</a>
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In Syria and Cilicia – <a id="si_4" onclick="return mV('Act',15,41);">Act 15:41</a>
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The local churches
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Strengthening the churches
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In Derbe and Lystra – <a id="si_5" onclick="return mV('Act',16,'1-3');">Act 16:1-3</a>
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Timothy’s background
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He was a disciple
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He was Hebrew-Greek – <a id="si_6" onclick="return mV('Act',16,1);">Act 16:1</a>
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He was respected by the believers
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Timothy’s ministry with Paul – <a id="si_7" onclick="return mV('Act',16,3,4);">Act 16:3-4</a>
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He journeyed with Paul
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He was trained on the job
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The Witness from Lystra to Troas – <a id="si_8" onclick="return mV('Act',16,'4-10');">Act 16:4-10</a>
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The content: the triumph of the Gospel of Grace
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The result
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The churches were strengthened (edified) in the faith
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They increased in number daily
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The divine direction – <a id="si_9" onclick="return mV('Act',16,6,7,8);">Act 16:6-8</a>
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The Holy Spirit led
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The men followed
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The call to Macedonia – <a id="si_10" onclick="return mV('Act',16,9,10);">Act 16:9-10</a>
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The vision
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The response
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The reason Europe needed the Gospel
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The Witness in Philippi – <a id="si_11" onclick="return mV('Act',16,'11-40');">Act 16:11-40</a>
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The city is an important colony
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A church was established that was dear to Paul’s heart – <a id="si_12" onclick="return mV('Phl',1,'1-9');">Phl 1:1-9</a>
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The conversion of Lydia, the first believer on European soil
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The setting – <a id="si_13" onclick="return mV('Act',16,14);">Act 16:14</a>
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It was the Sabbath
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There was a prayer meeting at the riverside
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Lydia
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A seller of purple cloth
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From the City of Thyatira
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She worshipped God
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The manner of her conversion
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It was brought about by providential circumstances
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She was from Thyatrira
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Paul is forbidden to go there
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Paul and Lydia must meet at Philippi
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Paul must be directed
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He must be brought to Troas
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On a ship going to Samothrace
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Landing at Neapolis
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He must go down by the river
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Lydia must be present
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God brought them together
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God’s providence is working everything together for the salvation of His elect
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God will not allow one elect soul to miss the predestined moment!
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God is in control of salvation!
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The grace in preparing the heart
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She knew something of the Word of God
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She worshipped
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She did not know Christ
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God was preparing her heart
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Grace opened her heart
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She did not open her own heart
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Her prayers did not do it
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Paul did not do it
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Nothing short of divine power can do it – <a id="si_14" onclick="return mV('Jhn',1,13);">Jhn 1:13</a>
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Faith is the gift of God – <a id="si_15" onclick="return mV('Eph',2,8,9);">Eph 2:8-9</a>
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God uses “means”
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She went to a prayer meeting
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She heard the message
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God used the witness of Paul
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The truth entered the open heart
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Her desires were awakened
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Her understanding was enlightened
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Her heart was influenced to believe
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Her life was exercised in faith
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The evidence of her conversion – <a id="si_16" onclick="return mV('Act',16,15);">Act 16:15</a>
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She is obedient to baptism
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She communicates to her household
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She is gracious in hospitality
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Our conversion
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Same natural condition
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Same providential work
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Same marvelous grace
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Same miraculous believing
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Our response
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Thankful hearts for the providences which brought us to the place where Christ was revealed to us
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Appreciation that results in devotion, obedience, and service
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Faith in continuing grace to provide and empower
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