Luke has compressed the events of three years into just over a single page of written material. He is not telling us everything that happened in Ephesus; he is telling us six notable things that happened there, six ways in which Paul's apostleship was demonstrated and confirmed. Notice also that here again is one of Luke's handful of direct mentions of the Kingdom of God. In addition to being the agent of the Kingdom's coming, Paul directly taught about the Kingdom in the synagogue of Ephesus. We've come a long way from the Spirit's instructions in ch. 16 that Paul's team was not supposed to go into Asia; now, they make such an impact that all Asia hears the word of the Lord. Brothers and sisters, as we'll see next week, the Kingdom comes through weakness and suffering — but as Luke shows us in the text before us, it also comes through the powerful work and proclamation of the apostles, and specifically of Paul. We can be certain of what we've been taught about the Kingdom; just look at the six powerful Kingdom things Paul did in Ephesus.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...