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Hey there, my friends. I'm sitting in such a wonderful spot here in the country of Turkey.

I'm just outside of the ancient ruins of Ephesus, and we just took 134 people along a walk.

It is honestly one of the most incredible things you'll ever see in your life

to see the excavations there.

We talked about so much of the Apostle Paul's ministry.

Of course, you know that he spent the three years on his third missionary journey.

It's a good way to remember it.

Three years, third journey there in Ephesus.

And we talked a little bit about his ministry before Ephesus, the burden he had for that city,

the reason why he wanted to go to such a city as Ephesus, some of the pre-ministry he did there

by leaving Priscilla and Aquila. And then we talked about the ministry itself. We talked about

his time in the synagogue for three months. We talked about his time at the School of Tyrannis.

For two years, we talked about the opposition he faced there, the riot, the great

and effectual door that was open to him, the ministry he had writing to other churches, for

instance, the letter to the Corinthians, and just so much. We talked about so much. And then we

ended talking about what happened after his ministry there in Ephesus physically.

How that he appointed a delegate there later on, Timothy, how that he wrote them of that letter of Ephesians and then First Timothy and then second Timothy.

And then how the the apostle John continued on

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