PAUL'S MISSIONARY JOURNEYS: PISIDIAN ANTIOCH
(Message by Tanny Keng)
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i) 24 Five times I was given the thirty-nine lashes. . . 25 three times I was whipped by the Romans; and once I was stoned. I have been in three shipwrecks, and once I spent twenty-four hours in the water. 27 There has been work and toil; often I have gone without sleep; I have been hungry and thirsty . . . (2 Corinthians 11)
The End ...
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1. Paul evangelizes the city during his first and second missionary journeys. What RISKS did he take in order to bring the gospel to the area?
a) Antioch (or Pisidian Antioch, to distinguish it from the city with the same name in Syria) is a city in ancient Phrygia. It is located fairly close to the Pisidian border in the western-central part of modern-day Turkey. Seleucus I Nicator (one of Alexander the Great's generals and the founder of the Seleucid Dynasty of rule) ruled the city sometime after 323 B.C. In 189, after the peace with Antiochus the Great, the Romans made Antioch a 'free city.' The Romans took over total control of the city in 25 B.C. Antioch was made a colony of the Romans under Emperor Augustus around 6 B.C. It became a military colony and a center of civil administration centers in the region.
b) The Apostle Paul visited the city during his first, second and third missionary journeys. There were many Jews who lived in the city (Acts 13:14, 50). During his second journey he took with him to Antioch a new traveling companion named Timothy. Having met Paul in Lystra, Timothy would become a valuable aid in spreading the gospel and eventually be Paul's most trusted friend. He would be with Paul until the very end of his life, when the apostle was martyred by the Romans.
c) Pisidian Antioch, in Paul's day, was notorious for its many robbers. This may have been one of the places Paul alludes to when he lists in the book of 2 Corinthians some of the trials and troubles he had experienced while preaching the gospel:
a) Antioch (or Pisidian Antioch, to distinguish it from the city with the same name in Syria) is a city in ancient Phrygia. It is located fairly close to the Pisidian border in the western-central part of modern-day Turkey. Seleucus I Nicator (one of Alexander the Great's generals and the founder of the Seleucid Dynasty of rule) ruled the city sometime after 323 B.C. In 189, after the peace with Antiochus the Great, the Romans made Antioch a 'free city.' The Romans took over total control of the city in 25 B.C. Antioch was made a colony of the Romans under Emperor Augustus around 6 B.C. It became a military colony and a center of civil administration centers in the region.
b) The Apostle Paul visited the city during his first, second and third missionary journeys. There were many Jews who lived in the city (Acts 13:14, 50). During his second journey he took with him to Antioch a new traveling companion named Timothy. Having met Paul in Lystra, Timothy would become a valuable aid in spreading the gospel and eventually be Paul's most trusted friend. He would be with Paul until the very end of his life, when the apostle was martyred by the Romans.
c) Pisidian Antioch, in Paul's day, was notorious for its many robbers. This may have been one of the places Paul alludes to when he lists in the book of 2 Corinthians some of the trials and troubles he had experienced while preaching the gospel:
i) 24 Five times I was given the thirty-nine lashes. . . 25 three times I was whipped by the Romans; and once I was stoned. I have been in three shipwrecks, and once I spent twenty-four hours in the water. 27 There has been work and toil; often I have gone without sleep; I have been hungry and thirsty . . . (2 Corinthians 11)
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