Reaching a City (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Paul proclaimed that manmade gods aren’t gods at all. As a result, the sale of idols plunged, and the craftsmen incited a riot against him. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explains how Paul’s response to opposition sets an example for Christians today.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. When the Apostle Paul preached the gospel in Ephesus, he proclaimed that man-made gods aren't gods at all. |
| 0:33.8 | As a result, sales of idols plummeted, and the local craftsmen incited a riot against him. |
| 0:40.6 | Today, on Truth for Life, we'll learn how Paul's response to the opposition set an example for Christians not only then, but in our day as well. |
| 0:49.5 | Alistair Begg is teaching from Acts chapter 19. |
| 0:57.8 | Okay. beg is teaching from Acts chapter 19. So you have then the craftsman, and then you have the crowd, and then we're introduced to the |
| 1:04.1 | city clerk. |
| 1:05.9 | Well, actually, we're not really immediately introduced to the city clerk, because in verses |
| 1:09.3 | 32 and 33 and 34 we have a |
| 1:12.6 | couple of important insights first of all that the assembly was in confusion some were shouting one |
| 1:18.9 | thing some were shouting another thing and most of the people didn't even know why they were there |
| 1:23.2 | it's almost humorous isn't i think it probably is i think. I think this is one of the little insights into Luke's humor. |
| 1:30.2 | Some shouted one thing, some shouted another thing, and if you ask the majority of the people, they didn't even know what they were shouting at all. |
| 1:37.2 | It's not dissimilar to many crowds that we find in the cities of our day. Why are you here? I don't know. I'm part of Rent-A riot. I don't know why I'm here. |
| 1:45.3 | I like, some guy came up to me and said, hey, you know, if you hold this sign and shout, |
| 1:50.5 | what do I have to shout? How great is our team? I see, I can shout that for a while. That's fine. |
| 1:54.8 | Okay. Well, then let's get going. Now, in the midst of that confused crowd, the Jews wishing verse 33 to distinguish themselves from Paul and his colleagues |
| 2:04.3 | choose a poor unsuspecting fellow Alexander, and they push him to the front. |
| 2:10.7 | We didn't delay here, but I don't want you to miss this. |
| 2:13.0 | There's nothing in the Bible except for our help. |
| 2:21.2 | And again, I think this is vaguely humorous, |
| 2:26.9 | isn't it? The Jews pushed Alexander to the front. And once he got to the front, standing there, |
| 2:33.7 | poor soul, some of them began to shout instructions to him. Okay, go ahead, Alexander. Come on now. Go, Alexander. Start. Say your peace, Alexander. The poor fellow |
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