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Last Sunday we examined Paul’s Apostleship.
We saw primarily that he was a called man.
“by the will of God” We saw that he was the product of God’s work for God’s glory to be lived out in God’s prescribed means.
Application
We must recapture our sens of wonder at the fact that we are the products of God’s doing.
Not our own.
This squashes pride.
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Ephesus, A Called People
Turn to Acts 18
The History of the Church
Paul started the Church at the end of his Second Missionary Journey.
Continued by Priscilla, Aquilla, and Apollos.
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Paul came and spent 3 years teaching and preaching in total.
Some peope were hardened by the gospel, some were softened.
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The gospel caused a riot in the city
Paul develops a deep emotional bond with the Church.
The Culture of Ephesus
Port city and as such was a wealthy central hub for all of Asia.
The worshiped the god Artemis or Diana.
In the Greek system she was the daughter of Zeus and god of nature and fertility.
They worshiped more than just that god, estimated up to 50 different gods.
Mixed in this worship were things like sensuality and magic.
(The riot is likely due to the emphasis that there is only one God!)
Artemis was however the patron deity of the city.
The people prided themselves in her worship and it became their identity.
The temple they built was one of the ancient wonders of the world and was a center of their social and economic life.
It is said to have functioned as a bank.
It was in this culture that God was building his Church!
This should encourage us!
No matter how bad the culture around us gets, the gospel is still the power of God unto salvation.
The Gospel and Culture
The Gospel Assaults the Culture
The gospel always confronts the culture that it is in.
It never has been coherent with culture because culture is always filled and governed by sinful men.
(Even in the Bible Belt South) Men by nature turn aside and worship other things.
Men are born idolaters!
The Gospel Assaults the Culture
Romans 1:21-23
The gospel exposes this and says that if you want God, peace with God, then you are going to put him before everything else.
That compared with him, there is nothing else in you life.
(Possibly what offended the Ephesians)
You know you’ve found your idol when it defines you.
You find you sense of security, satisfaction, ultimate purpose in it!
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Application
If you are not a Christian the gospel and Christ are open to you! but at a cost.
You must give up what you hold as precious and make Christ the most precious thing there is!
We as believers need to be reminded of this!
The Gospel saves people out of the culture
The Gospel transcends the culture
After we come to Christ, we take on a new identity.
We are in Christ!
This transcends the culture we live in.
That’s why the Church is made up of people from different walks of life.
It’s not our similarities that bring us together, we are often very different.
(Blue collar, white collar, administrative professional, tradesman, American, Canadian, Mennonite, Hutterite.)
None of these things define us anymore, the gospel does!
Their Status
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Saints
This is one of the most common designations of Christians in the Bible.
All Christians are saints.
It means to be called out, to be set apart as belonging to God!
Faithful in Christ Jesus
Christians are those who continue to the end.
Matthew 10:
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We persevere in Christ because he keeps us!
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Grace- the undeserved favor of God
Peace- the absence of war with God
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