Text: Acts 19:11-41<\/p>\n
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I. God performed great miracles through Paul as Paul worked in Ephesus.<\/p>\n A. Even a handkerchief or aprons touched by Paul would heal a person when carried\nto the ill.\n
B. With such an impression, there were bound to be imitators.<\/p>\n 1. Some Jewish exorcists tried to command evil spirits out in the name of the\nLord Jesus whom Paul preaches.\n 2. They did not personally believe in Jesus, but they thought the name alone\nwould hold power over the demons.\n 3. When seven sons of the chief priest, Sceva, tried the demon stated he\nknew of Jesus and Paul, but did not recognize these men as having\nauthority. The man possessed by the demon then proceeded to trounce the\nseven men until all seven fled the house naked and wounded.\n C. Word of this lack of success spread among the Jews and the Greeks. It brought\ngreater glory to Jesus and his true followers.\n
D. The church grew as people believed and confessed their sins.<\/p>\n 1. People who had once practiced witchcraft turned to God and burnt their\nold books which they no longer needed or believed in.\n 2. The cost of the books destroyed was estimated to be worth 50,000 days’\nwages (or 137 years worth of labor).\n
3. It shows the strength of these people’s faith and conversion.<\/p>\n
4. Such strength showed in the church<\/p>\n
II. Just as Paul had decided to leave, trouble broke out.<\/p>\n A. Paul wanted to visit Macedonia and Achaia once again and then from there go to\nJerusalem and then continue on to Rome.\n 1. Timothy and Erasmus were sent ahead to Macedonia to make preparations,\nbut Paul stayed behind for a while in Ephesus.\n
B. Meanwhile a silversmith named Demetrius became concerned about his trade.<\/p>\n 1. He made money by selling little silver shrines modeled after the temple of\nArtemis (Diana).\n 2. So many were converting to Christianity, that he was seeing an impact on\nhis profits.\n 3. He gathered his fellow tradesmen and warned them that Paul was driving\nthem out of business (oh, and their goddess was being dethroned).\n 4. The tradesmen became so upset that a riot broke out. They began chanting\n“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians” over and over again.\n 5. The whole city of Ephesus was in an uproar. Two of Paul’s traveling\ncompanions were found and dragged to the open air theater where public\nassemblies were held.\n
a. Paul wanted to go, but the Christians there prevented him.<\/p>\n b. Messages were sent to Paul from other brethren at the scene\nwarning him not to come.\n 6. There was so much confusion that most did not even know why they were\ngathered.\n
a. Some thought it was Alexander, a Jew, who was causing problems.<\/p>\n b. He was pushed forward, but before he could make a defense for\nhimself, the crowd realized he was a Jew and began their chant\nagain.\n
c. They kept it up for two hours.<\/p>\n
C. Finally the town clerk got the crowd quieted down.<\/p>\n 1. He stated that Ephesus is the center of worship for Artemis. A mob\nchanting it won’t change the matter.\n 2. He pointed out that the men brought had not rob the temples or disparaged\ntheir idols.\n 3. If there was a legitimate complaint, Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen\nshould take it before the courts.\n 4. But this unlawful mob while merely bring the wrath of the Roman\nauthorities down of them.\n
5. With this, he sent them home.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrior Lesson\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tActs of the Apostles\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNext Lesson\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Riot in Ephesus Text: Acts 19:11-41 I. God performed great miracles through Paul as Paul worked in Ephesus. A. Even a handkerchief or aprons touched by Paul would heal a person when carried to the ill. B. With such an impression, there were bound to be imitators. 1. Some Jewish exorcists tried to command evil spirits out in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10021,"menu_order":31,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10216,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/bible-studies\/acts-of-the-apostles\/farewell-to-ephesus\/","url_meta":{"origin":10210,"position":0},"title":"Farewell to Ephesus","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Farewell to Ephesus Text: Acts 20:16-38 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Paul didn\u2019t want to take time to stop in Ephesus as he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem by Pentecost. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Therefore from Miletus, he sent for the elders. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Elders are men charged with overseeing the faithfulness of a congregation. 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