All right, everybody, you can take your Bibles and go to Acts chapter 18.

Acts chapter 18. Let me give some background to where we are. We have just come from Athens,

about 50, a little more than 50 miles. West of Athens is Corinth. That's where we are right now.

And this place is significant because this is the place that Paul came to next after visiting Athens. So the drive we just took,

imagine walking that drive, that, you know, that route that we took. Perhaps he, you know,

maybe was on a horse or some other mode of transportation, but certainly not a bus

like what we enjoyed. And yet he came here. Why did he come here? Because Paul wanted to spread

the gospel to the most populated places. Remember, we live in such a technological age. It's an

information age. And so we have information at our fingertips our fingertips constantly but back in that day how did

people hear information how did they hear news you had to live along a major trade route you had to live

in a populated city and then word spread by mouth by and large and as paul understood this how are people

going to hear the good news of Jesus unless I

go to tell them in these various places? So Corinth, where we are located here, and these are the

ancient ruins of the ancient city of Corinth, was the capital of the southern province of the

Kai. Remember if you've been with us at Cornerstone on Sunday mornings, I've talked about how

Greece was divided into two provinces. Remember if you've been with us at Cornerstone on Sunday mornings, I've talked about how Greece

was divided into two provinces during the Roman Empire. The northern province was Macedonia,

the southern province was A.I. Corinth was the capital of the southern province of Akei.

So we're talking about Greek culture and we're in Greece, but you have to

remember that in the first century, when Paul visited here around AD 51, 52, this was under the

Roman Empire. So there's, the ruins around here are Roman period when Paul was here.

The significant things about Corinth, it was an important port city along the GNC, and so this was a high-trafficked area.

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