We are Acts chapter 16, so if you want to take your Bibles and go to Acts chapter 16, that's where we will be studying today.

If you didn't bring a Bible, you can always pull up a Bible on your phone.

I'm reading from New King James Version.

If you're new to Cornerstone, we go straight through the Bible.

We are presently going through the book of

Acts, and today we're going to land here in Chapter 16. In our study through the book of Acts,

we have learned about Paul, a very zealous Jew, who was originally bent on persecuting Christians

because he believed that Christianity was a heretical sect and that

Jesus was not the Messiah. That is, of course, until the Lord Jesus appeared to him personally.

And when Paul had this encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus, Paul gets radically saved. He has this radical conversion

experience. It doesn't mean that he stops being Jewish. He's Jewish by birth, but he's a Christ

follower by faith. He's a Christian by faith. And when he gets saved, he spends 10 years

on the backside of the Arabian desert. Later, he will go to Jerusalem,

visit with the disciples. But in those 10 years, God is preparing him for ministry. And then at the

end of those 10 years, following his conversion, he then begins what Acts records as three

different missionary journeys into parts of Asia Minor and even into

Europe, sharing the good news of Jesus with all who will listen to him, spreading this good

news about salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. He is a Jew, so he goes first to a Jewish

community whenever he visits a city.

For the most part, unfortunately, they reject him.

Some believe.

Most reject.

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