Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro:

TV commercial.

Cleaning powder

New and improved?

If it’s new ~/improved.

If you can improve on it, its not new.

Paul coming into Ephesus~/offering a new way.

The old way~/Mans Strength.

Attain righteousness on your own.

The new way~/Gods grace.

Accept righteousness through Christ.

This shook up the whole countryside.

v.18

And many who had believed cam confessing and telling their deeds.

19 Also, many on those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all.

Illustration;

Book burning;

Motivated by an intense objection the material.

Burning so it will be destroyed forever.

Sixties

Lennon claimed that Beatles were more popular than Jesus.

Radio stations~/record burning parties.

The name of Jesus Christ;

Such controversy~/division.

In the world today~/yesterday.

Recap

Last we saw of Paul.

Ephesus~/working miracles

·        Sick.

·        Diseases.

·        Evil spirits.

He was calling on the name of Jesus.

Jewish exorcist tried it.

Demon, leaped on them overpowered them.

When all the towns people saw and heard what had happened.

When they were told about this “New Way”

·        Believed.

·        Confessed.

·        Repented.

Like always the name of Jesus stirs up one of two things.

·        Conviction.

·        Controversy.

In Ephesus it started a riot:

Paul as was his custom.~/Being

led by the Spirit.

·          Synagogue.

·          Then to Gentiles.

·          Sharing the gospel  (3 yr.) of Jesus Christ, “New Way”

Back pedal a few pages~/remember Paul was in Athens~/Statues?

Someone had to make those statues.

(idols)

If someone was making them~/someone was buying them.

Ephesus had the new and improved idols.

Weren’t made of stone~/silver.

Meet Demetrius, silversmith (union leader)

·        Gathered all the craftsmen together.

·        Paul is turning people away from idols.

·        Great confusion.

·        Panic.

·        Ran to temple.

·        Chanting (Diana)

·        Wouldn’t calm down.

·        Finally this city clerk calmed them down.

·        If these men have broken the law~/steps to take.

Read Acts 19:21-41

 

Meet some of these people.

Demetrius;

The silversmith at Ephesus~/main occupation making shrines of Diana~/models of shrine.

Diana:

The Goddess.

Housed in this temple.

·        Built out side the city of Ephesus.

·        220 years to build.

·        All marble building.

·        Center of it hidden by curtains.

·        Image of Diana.

·        Fallen from heaven.

(Some truth)

·        She was this big black chunk of rock.

·        Behind her treasure kings stored their treasures.

Paul:

Comes with a “New Way”

A new way to worship.

·        Not with hands~/hearts.

Illustration;

People don’t like change.

It’s not that you don’t like change~/fear change.

Fear the unknown.

Spouses that have been abused usually continue to choose abusive spouses.

Find comfort in sameness.

Even if it’s bad for you.

Slide:

*Acts 19:* *21*When these things were accomplished, Paul purposed in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.” *22*So he sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, but he himself stayed in Asia for a time.

*23*And about that time there arose a great commotion about the Way.*NKJV*

Paul was…

·        Purposed in Spirit.

·        Preaching in Ephesus.

(3yrs.)

A great commotion about the Way.

This “New Way”