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The Nature of Paul’s Witness in Ephesus – <a id="si_2" onclick="return mV('Act',19,'8-20');">Act 19:8-20</a>
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It was extensive – <a id="si_3" onclick="return mV('Act',19,10);">Act 19:10</a>
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It was expanded – <a id="si_4" onclick="return mV('Act',19,10);">Act 19:10</a>
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It was effectual – <a id="si_5" onclick="return mV('Act',19,'11-20');">Act 19:11-20</a>
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The gift of healing was present – <a id="si_6" onclick="return mV('Act',19,12);">Act 19:12</a>
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This was not magic
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The cloth was a symbol
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The counterfeit
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The Jewish attempt to “join-up”
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The seven sons of Sceva
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They are overcome by the evil spirit
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Satan’s kingdom is divided
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Lives were transformed – <a id="si_7" onclick="return mV('Act',19,18,19);">Act 19:18-19</a>
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The great bonfire
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They were free from bondgage
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The deceit of evil
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The promise of new power
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The call for yielding
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The Word of God grew and prevailed – <a id="si_8" onclick="return mV('Act',19,20);">Act 19:20</a>
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The Parenthesis – <a id="si_9" onclick="return mV('Act',19,21,22);">Act 19:21-22</a>
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Paul’s plans
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To visit Macedonia and Achaia
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To go to Jerusalem
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Opposition to the Witness – <a id="si_10" onclick="return mV('Act',19,'23-41');">Act 19:23-41</a>
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The city
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A center for witchcraft
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Superstition and demonism reigned
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Filled with occult leaders
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People lived in darkness and fear
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The occasion for the opposition – <a id="si_11" onclick="return mV('Act',19,23-27);">Act 19:23-27</a>
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The effectiveness of the witness
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The darkness was challenged with the weapon of truth!
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The extensive teaching
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The loss of “idol-business”
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The concern for “Diana”
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The intensity – <a id="si_12" onclick="return mV('Act',19,'28-34');">Act 19:28-34</a>
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They were filled with wrath
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They were filled with confusion
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They incited a riot
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They were determined to stop the witness
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They rejected the Jewish spokesman
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The settlement – <a id="si_13" onclick="return mV('Act',19,'35-41');">Act 19:35-41</a>
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The city clerk’s recommendations
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Diana needs in defense
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The Christians have not robbed the temples nor blasphemed the goddess – <a id="si_14" onclick="return mV('Act',19,37);">Act 19:37</a>
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Rome will not accept the illegal assembly
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Dismiss and work through the law
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The assembly is dismissed – <a id="si_15" onclick="return mV('Act',19,41);">Act 19:41</a>
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Application – <a id="si_16" onclick="return mV('Eph',6,'10-13');">Eph 6:10-13</a>
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How the Christian lives
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By the authority of the Word
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In the power of the Spirit
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The strongholds around us
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Drugs and drinking
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Witchcraft – occult
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Perversion
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Men as women
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Women as men
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Homosexuality
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Crime
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Terrorism
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Family break-down
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The weapons of our warfare – <a id="si_17" onclick="return mV('2Cr',10,4-5);">2Co 10:4-5</a>
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Strong in the Lord
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Our strength is in Him –
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<a id="si_18" onclick="return mV('2Cr',3,5);">2Co 3:5</a>;
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<a id="si_19" onclick="return mV('Jhn',15,5);">Jhn 15:5</a>
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Not in self
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The power of His might
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A deep, settled conviction that He is almighty in power
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That His almighty power is committed toward us
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The ties that inspire faith in His almighty power to us
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We are His by choice
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His by birth
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His by gift
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His by purchase
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His by conquest
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