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keep proclaiming the good news of Christ crucified for people just like you. And thank you so much

to those of you who have done that. We are in Acts chapter 14. Just got through the very

beginning of this chapter. We get to paul and uh and barnabas

doing some work uh it's good work but also some people don't like it so you have this thing that

always happens and with the gospel is it's doing what the gospel is promised to do which is being

efficacious and also doing the other thing that the gospel is

promised to do, which is offend a bunch of people and have them try to kill you. And so it's, the God is, is keeping up on his promises, man. He has lived up to his word. So yes, is it going to bear fruit? It absolutely is. Are they going to be, are people going to hate you for it? They definitely are. And that's kind of where

we're at. Yep, that's the way this goes, oftentimes for the apostles and in the early church,

for that matter. It doesn't just wrap up nice and tidy with a beautiful little bow. It takes

a long time, a lot of slogging, a lot of preaching. And yet, like you say, Dan, the word does bear

fruit. And we're going to see some of that today, too. So we pick it up in verse 8 of chapter 14.

It says, now at Leistria, there was a man sitting who could not use his feet. He was crippled from

birth and had never walked. He listened to Paul speaking. And Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be made well,

said in a loud voice, stand upright on your feet, and he sprang up and began walking.

And when the crowd saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lyconian,

the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men.

Barnabas, they called Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

Now, let me just pause here real quick.

The reason why these people assume that Zeus and Hermes are visiting them is because kind of the whole region was built around this myth that Zeus and Hermes had visited them in the past.

And so they see Paul heal this guy and they assume, oh, we're being visited again. So the response is not as out of left field

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