Prophetic Insights from Paul's First Missionary Journey
November 07, 2020      |     By: Jonathan Brickley      |      Category: Sermons      |      Location: El Dorado
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Approximately 14 years after Christ’s Crucifixion

Antioch = Starting Point (for all three of Paul’s missionary journeys)
Starting at Acts 13:4 - ending at Acts 14:26
Led by Paul & Barnabas

Seven Main Cities = A Progression through Trial & Into Victory

1) Salamis - Gospel Proclaimed
John Mark = Helper

2) Paphos - Sorcery (“From Jesus”)
- 13:10 - “Distort” or “Pervert” God’s Ways
Acts 13:10 (NIV)
10 “You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?
- Blindness & Darkness for satan’s Kingdom
- Light & Truth in God’s Kingdom

3) Perga - Friends Leave

4) Pisidian Antioch - Word Proclaimed
- OT Judgment Warning from Habakkuk
- Jews Jealous / Gentiles honored word
- 13:50 “Persecute & Expelled”
Acts 13:50 (NIV)
50 But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region.
- “shake dust off & Leave”

5) Iconium - Word Proclaimed
- Great numbers believe
- Signs & Wonders
- 14:5 - Plot to Kill
Acts 14:5 (NIV)
5 There was a plot afoot among both Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them.
- Flee!

6) Lystra - Healing Lame Man
- Attempt to Deify
- 14:19 - Stone Paul & Leave for dead
Acts 14:19 (NIV)
19 Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowd over. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead.

7) Derbe - Gospel Proclaimed
- Great number of disciples won!

Return to:
- Strengthen & Encourage Disciples
- 14:22 - To “Remain Firm / True to Faith”
Acts 14:22 (NIV)
22 strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

Why Lystra ?
Young Timothy was there! (Acts 16:1-2)
Acts 16:1-2 (NIV)
1 Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was Jewish and a believer but whose father was a Greek.
2 The believers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.

20 years later:
2 Timothy 3:10-17 (NIV)
10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,
11 persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.