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do you do Some people think that when you serve God he'll make your path clear and

effortless but the apostle Paul's experience suggests otherwise.

Today on Truth for Life will take a look at part of Paul's journey to find out how he was able

to persevere in his mission in spite of significant adversity.

Alistirbegg is teaching from First Thessalonians Chapter 2.

The way in which he opens up this section is directly related to the historical context out of which the birth of the church in Thessal and Aika came.

And that of course is recorded for us in the acts of the Apostles in Acts Chapter 17, and I encourage you for just a moment to turn back there, where Luke

records for us the way in which the Apostle and his friends arrived in Thessalonika.

At the beginning of Chapter 17, when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia,

they came to Thessalonika where there was a Jewish synagogue.

And it was in that context that Paul went into the synagogue and on three consecutive Sabbath

days he reasoned with them from the scriptures

explaining and proving all about the Lord Jesus. Now as a result of that

some of the Jews were told in verse four were persuaded and they joined Paul and Silas as did

a large number of God-fearing Greeks and not a few prominent women. But at that point, it all

goes quite crazy and the end of their mission is quite ignominious indeed it is

downright inglorious it is certainly not the kind of thing that we would expect or even anticipate if we ourselves

have been given the privilege of opening up the scriptures and preaching for a period of two or

three weeks in a certain place.

And we read in verse five that some of the Jews were jealous, so they rounded up some bad

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