Well, on Wednesday night, we looked at chapter 16 of Acts, and we've been, you know, we've begun Paul's, you know, second missionary journey.

This time without Barnabas, but Paul and Silas, and then Luke and Timothy are going to join them along the way.

And we've been kind of tracking where they've been going on the map of the kind of a known world at the time, the Roman Empire, really.

And they start over in Jerusalem on the western side of the Mediterranean Sea.

They had the council there in Jerusalem in Acts chapter 15.

And then so Paul and Silas left from there and went up to Antioch of Syria.

There's another Antioch in Turkey, but they kind of hopped around to these different towns.

And we saw that on Wednesday. But, you know, they ended up going to a place called Philippi.

That's where we ended up.

And it was a beautiful story of Lydia, the cellar of purple, this lady that got baptized

there in the stream and some other ladies as well.

And then eventually, you know, Paul and Silas were thrown into jail.

We talked about that last week where they sang praises to the Lord.

But as they get ready to leave Philippi, we have three cities here in Acts chapter 17 that they're going to visit.

And really, it's a tale of three cities.

I'd like to show you that this morning, the tale of three cities.

And in just a minute, we're going to leave Philippi. But one of the things that

I want you to notice is the difference responses to the gospel of Jesus Christ that Paul and

Silas would see. And it was very different one city to another. Just like it'll be very different

to the way you're received when you share the gospel. Some people, they'll love it and they'll be saved.

Other people, they'll hate you and they'll want to kill you.

It just depends on who they are.

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