Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it

points to Jesus. Hi friends welcome back to a year in the Bible with daily grace. My name is

Shelby Turner. I'm one of your hosts for this podcast and today we're going to

talk about acts 13 through 15. The book of

acts is all about the work Jesus does through his spirit and the apostles in the

early church. He tells the apostles to take the message of the gospel to Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth.

So far we've seen the gospel message preached in Judea and Samaria, but today we're going to see

it go beyond that.

In Chapter 13, Saul and Barnabas

are sent from the multi-ethnic church established

an Antioch to Asia Minor to preach the gospel. Paul preaches a sermon at Antioch that may remind you of

Stephen's sermon before his death. He is making the case for Jesus in the

Messiah in the hope of salvation for all Jews.

Then he preaches the gospel to the Gentiles which angers some Jews and they threaten

persecution against Paul. This isn't a new theme we've seen this all

throughout acts. Chapter 14 is extremely interesting because Barnabas and Paul

preach the gospel in Iconium where some respond favorably and some reject the message.

Then they travel to Leistra and in Leistra Paul heals a man who has been crippled since birth. The people respond favorably to this, but it's

because they think Barnabas must be Zeus and Paul must be Hermes. They are ascribing their

Greek cultural deities onto these apostles and servants of Jesus.

Paul and Barnabas try to explain that they are just men and that they are just doing these things by the power of the spirit of the living

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