Christ's command to his followers before his ascension to heaven was for them to be his witnesses in Jerusalem, all Judea, in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth.

Our Lord did not intend for the good news of his death and resurrection to stay local, but

instead it was to be taken globally.

In this third section of Acts, the adventure continues as the gospel is taken to the ends

of the earth. Let's join Scott Pauley now for today's study.

Sometimes when you think the devil is winning, no good is being accomplished. God is about to do

the biggest thing you have ever seen. We're in Acts chapter 16.

We're in one of my favorite cities.

Now, I've never personally been there,

but it is the ancient city of Philippi.

It is the city that the book of Philippians

in our New Testament is connected to.

So we know that a wonderful church was built there.

When Paul first showed up there, it didn't

look so good. It was a morally corrupt place. It was a place of immorality and idolatry. They called

Philippi Little Rome, and that wasn't a good thing, not for Christians. This was a place that it would

seem the devil had a stronghold in and a strangle hold on,

and yet to God be all the glory, the gospel broke through.

Light came.

The power of God is mightily seen, and we're on the verge of that in our study.

Let's pick up where we left off the other

day. You remember the little prayer meeting that seemed so inconsequential out on the riverside,

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