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The Witness in Corinth – <a id="si_2" onclick="return mV('Act',18,'1-17');">Act 18:1-17</a>
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The city of Corinth
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A political center – Capital of Achaia
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A commercial center
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A pagan center
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The temple of Aphrodite, goddess of sex
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The mystery religions
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A wicked center
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Prostitution in the religions
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Homosexuality in the city
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The problem of drunkenness
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Paul’s new friends – <a id="si_3" onclick="return mV('Act',18,'1-4');">Act 18:1-4</a>
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Aquila and Priscilla
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They were Jewish
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They had to leave Rome due to anti-Semitism under Claudius
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They were tentmakers
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They were faithful workers
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They helped the Apostle Paul
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The ministry of Paul – <a id="si_4" onclick="return mV('Act',18,'4-11');">Act 18:4-11</a>
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In the Synagogue
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He reasoned with them
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He persuaded them
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He appealed to mind and to will
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The arrival of Silas and Timothy
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The stubborn resistance of the Jews – <a id="si_5" onclick="return mV('Act',18,6);">Act 18:6</a>
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The turning to the Gentiles – <a id="si_6" onclick="return mV('Act',18,6);">Act 18:6</a>
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The new converts – <a id="si_7" onclick="return mV('Act',18,7,8);">Act 18:7-8</a>
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They heard
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They believed
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They were baptized
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The new encouragement – <a id="si_8" onclick="return mV('Act',18,9,10);">Act 18:9-10</a>
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The promised presence
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The promised protection
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The promised people
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The sovereignty of God in salvation
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The sovereign election - “I have many people in this city”
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The response to the Lord – <a id="si_9" onclick="return mV('Act',18,11);">Act 18:11</a>
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Paul continued preaching
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He stayed a year and a half
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The attempt to silence the witness – <a id="si_10" onclick="return mV('Act',18,'12-17');">Act 18:12-17</a>
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The occasion – <a id="si_11" onclick="return mV('Act',18,12);">Act 18:12</a> - A new pro-consul came to Corinth
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The accusation – <a id="si_12" onclick="return mV('Act',18,13);">Act 18:13</a> - That Paul persuaded men to worship God contrary to the Law
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The failure of their attack – <a id="si_13" onclick="return mV('Act',18,14,15,16);">Act 18:14-16</a>
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Gallio threw the case out of court
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He ruled that it was a Jewish religious matter and not a Roman concern
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The rage of the Jews - they beat their own leader, Sosthenes
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Observations and Applications
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Paul wrote his first epistles from Corinth - <a id="si_14" onclick="return mV('1Th',1,'1-');">1</a> and <a id="si_15" onclick="return mV('1Th',2,'1-');">2 Thessalonians</a>
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The decision of Gallio gave freedom to preach the Gospel throughout the Roman Empire without being charged with breaking the Roman law
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Sosthenes became a believer – <a id="si_16" onclick="return mV('1Co',1,1);">1Co 1:1</a>
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From Athens to Corinth, from intellectual pride to sensual lust
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The message proclaimed – <a id="si_17" onclick="return mV('1Co',2,'1-5');">1Co 2:1-5</a>
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The church in Corinth
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