Category: New Testament

How do we hear from God? The Apostle Paul may have obeyed the Lord in going to Jerusalem, or he may have been overcome by his own desires to see Israel come to faith in Jesus and missed the Spirit’s warnings. Either way it is an example to us on why we need to hear…

Paul heads to Jerusalem despite multiple warnings from people speaking by the power of the Holy Spirit. Was Paul working against God in his desire to see the Jewish nation come to faith in Christ?

Pastor Carl takes an expanded look at the Roman’s Road and the work of the Holy Spirit in salvation after the Apostle Paul speaks with some of what may have been Apolos’ disciples in Ephesus.

From Athens Paul moves on to Corinth and soon meets up with Timothy and Silas who bring encouraging news from Macedonia. Paul is once again fired up and determined “not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.”

Paul’s second missionary journey begins by visiting where he was stoned 5 years before. The Holy Spirit forbids Paul preaching in Asia but sends him to Macedonia instead, modern day Greece on the continent of Europe.

To circumcise or not to circumcise, that was the question that caused great debate between Paul and Barnabas and Pharisees from Jerusalem. James by the power of the Holy Spirit came up with an acceptable answer to all.

Paul and Barnabas move on after being kicked out from Antioch to Iconium where they escape for their lives to Lystra where they are worshiped as gods and Paul is later stoned to death. “We must through many tribulations enter the Kingdom of God!”

Paul shares in the synagogue of Antioch in Pisidia a short history of the nation of Israel and Jesus’ fulfillment as Messiah. The crowds love the message, the leaders don’t.