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GIVING WAY TO GODS PLAN (5)

by Craig Smith

Scripture: Acts 13:13-52
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Title: Giving Way to Gods Plan (5)
Series: Comfort Zone
Author: Craig Smith
Text: Acts 13:13-52

Hey, we're gonna jump right into scripture today. So if you wanna go ahead and grab a Bible, start making your way to Acts Chapter 13, verse 13. We're gonna jump right in 'cause we got a lot of ground to cover. It's actually a little bit of a longer passage than I would normally try to do in one week.

The problem is if we break it up, we're actually gonna break it. Because I think what God wants to say to you today actually comes from seeing that there's a theme that gets repeated over and over again in this passage. And so we need to deal with the whole thing so that God can speak.

And I'll just tell you right now, really, I think God wants to speak two words to you today. Okay? Two words. We're gonna look at a passage that has 875 words, and you're like, you really, you counted them. Yeah. Because, 'cause that's the links that I will go to to bring a word from God. It's 8 75 words, but that's what we're gonna see is that all 8, 8 75 words boil down to two words that God wants to say to you.

Now I'm not gonna tell you what those are yet. See how fast you catch on. Okay. Acts 13. 13. Here's what's going on. Barnabas and Paul are on the first missionary journey. They're taking the the good news about Jesus and they're sharing it out outside of Jewish comfort zones. They're beginning to share it with gentiles, non-Jewish people.

They got a companion with him, a guy named John Mark. We met him last week. He's just been along for for the ride. And then acts 1313, they're leaving the the island of Cyprus and they're heading north to what we call modern day Turkey. And here's what it says. It says, from PAOs on Cyprus, Paul and his companion sailed to Perga in paraphilia where John left them to return to Jerusalem.

He left them to turn to Jerusalem. And on the surface like that doesn't necessarily sound like it's necessarily a bad thing, right? Maybe he's ...

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