{"id":518,"date":"2011-08-07T11:46:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T16:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:42","slug":"but-who-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;But Who Are You?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Acts 19:8,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cor. 2 11:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8220;A great door and effectual is open unto me.&#8221; The difficulties of the situation created the Greatness of the Opportunity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> I: The City of Ephesus was A Challenge:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. A great trade center.<br \/>\n2. A religious city of immoral religious practices.<br \/>\n3. The practice of Magic cast its dark shadows.<br \/>\n4. Here was the Center of Worship of Dian.<br \/>\n5. Wealthy, Profoundly Religious, and Rotten to its core.<\/p>\n<p><strong> II: &#8220;We Wrestle not against Flesh and Blood&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Here Paul came up against Satan in his Strong Hold.<br \/>\n2. Paul dared not take Financial Aid from the Christians. (No Seller of Magic).<br \/>\nFinancial gain was the inspiration of all religions of Ephasus.<br \/>\n3. He taught for 2 yrs. in the School of Tyrannies.<br \/>\n4. &#8220;God wrought Special Miracles!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: &#8220;Who Are You?&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Sons of Sceva tried to use Paul&#8217;s Method.<br \/>\na. &#8220;In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches.&#8221;<br \/>\nb. No power without Personal Acquaintance.<br \/>\nc. Danger in calling on God for Personal Gain without Personal Committal.<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Fear fell on them all.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. A time of soul searching for the Christians. Boas and Curious burned worth about 50,000 pieces of Silver.<br \/>\n4. &#8220;So mighty grew the Word of God.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts 19:8,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cor. 2 11: &#8220;A great door and effectual is open unto me.&#8221; The difficulties of the situation created the Greatness of the Opportunity. I: The City of Ephesus was A Challenge: 1. A great trade center. 2. A religious city of immoral religious practices. 3. The practice of Magic cast its dark shadows. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}