The Fifth Act | The Church at Antioch - Jon Tyson

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our series through the Book of Acts, The Fifth Act, with teaching on the history altering birth of the church at Antioch in Acts 11-13 and the roles Barnabas and Saul played in expanding the Kingdom from there. Following the rise of persecution in Jerusalem, followers of Jesus not only began to go to the ends of the earth, but to try and make disciples of all nations as Jesus commanded them, now that the Holy Spirit had been given to the Gentiles. Antioch marks the first place that the Gospel was actively being shared beyond the Jewish community, and it led to a radical move of God that transformed a nearly godless city to the place where believers were called “Christians” for the first time.

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0:00.0	Today's teaching text is taken from Acts chapter 11 verses 19 to 30 and Acts chapter 12
0:13.9	verses 25 to chapter 13 verse 3. Now those who have been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed
0:24.1	traveled as far as Venetia, Cyprus, and Antiox, spreading the word only among Jews. Some of them,
0:31.9	however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene went to Antioch and began to speak to the Greeks also,
0:39.1	telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus. The Lord's hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to
0:44.9	the Lord. News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. When he arrived
0:51.3	and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their heart.
0:58.8	He was a good man full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
1:04.5	Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch.
1:10.2	So for a whole year, Barnabas and Saul
1:12.3	met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians
1:17.1	first at Antioch. During this time, some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch, one of them
1:22.9	named Agabus, stood up and through the spirit predicted that a severe famine would spread over the
1:28.5	entire Roman world. This happened during the reign of Claudius. The disciples, as each one was able,
1:35.3	decided to provide help for the brothers and sisters living in Judea. This they did,
1:40.2	sending their gifts to the elders by Barnabas and Saul. Chapter 1225. When Barnabas and Saul had
1:45.8	finished their mission, they returned from Jerusalem, taking with them, John, also called Mark.
1:52.0	Now in the church at Antioch, there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon called Niger,
1:56.8	Lucius of Cyrene, Manayan, who had been brought up with Herod the Tetrarch and Saul.
2:03.4	While they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, set apart for me Barnabas and Saul,
2:10.0	for the work to which I have called them. So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands
2:15.1	on them and sent them off. This is the word of the Lord. Go ahead and
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