Acts Chapter 14, Half Way Through The Book Of Acts, Paul's 1st. Missionary Journey, to the Jew first , Iconium, Pisidia, Pamphylia, Lystra, Fasting, refused to believe, blinded unbelievers, signs confirm message

1. Acts 14
Acts Chapter 14, Half Way Through The Book
Of Acts, Paul's 1st. Missionary Journey, to the
Jew first , Iconium, Pisidia, Pamphylia, Lystra,
Fasting, refused to believe, blinded
unbelievers, signs confirm message

2. Acts 13:6, Paphos

3. Acts 14:1, Iconium
• One pastor, that I listened to, said that
Iconium was named after Greek mythology
which tells that the gods and goddesses
restored humanity after a great flood, in this
region. By coming down and making images
(icons) out of mud. And that we get our
English word “icon” from this story. I find it
very interesting, but I have not been able to
either confirm or deny this account.

4. Acts 14:1, Iconium
• Acts 14:1 At Iconium
Paul and Barnabas
went as usual into the
Jewish synagogue.
There they spoke so
effectively that a great
number of Jews and
Gentiles believed.
• “Iconium” is only used
concerning Paul. ½ of
it’s uses are in Acts 14

6. Acts 14:1, Iconium,
Modern Konya , Turkey
• Wikipedia,
Konya “… Greek: Ικόνιον Ikónion, Latin:
• Iconium) is a city in the Central Anatolia
Region of Turkey. It is the seventh most
populous city in Turkey. As of 2011, the
Konya Metropolitan Municipality had a
population close to 1.1 million…”

7. Acts 14:1, Iconium,
Modern Konya , Turkey
• Wikipedia,
Hercules Sarcophagus (ca.
250–260 AD) at the Konya
Archaeological Museum

8. Acts 14:1, To The Jew First
• Acts 14:1…Paul and Barnabas went as usual
into the Jewish synagogue…
• To the Jew first;
• Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the
Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
• Romans 1:16, 2:9, 10 ...to the Jew first and
also to the Greek...

9. Acts 14:1, They Spoke Effectively
• Acts 14:1…There they spoke so effectively that a great
number of Jews and Gentiles believed.
• God is sovereign! He does it, and He involves us.
• Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God. KJV
• Rom 10:14-15 How, then, can they call on the one they
have not believed in? And how can they believe in the
one of whom they have not heard? And how can they
hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And
how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is
written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring
good news!“

10. Acts 14:1, They Spoke Effectively
• Acts 14:1… they spoke so effectively …
• 2 Cor 5:20-6:2 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors,
as though God were making his appeal through us.
We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to
God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us,
so that in him we might become the righteousness of
God. 6 As God's fellow workers we urge you not to
receive God's grace in vain.
• KJV 2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto
God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.

11. Acts 14:2, Poisoned Their Minds
• Acts 14:2 But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up
the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the
brothers.
• 2 Cor 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of
unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel
of the glory of Christ…
• NAU 2 Corinthians 11:14 …Satan disguises himself as an
angel of light. 15 Therefore it is not surprising if his servants
also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness…
• Col 1:21 Once you were alienated from God and were
enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
• Titus 1:15…to those who are corrupted and do not believe,
nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences
are corrupted.

12. Acts 14:3, Miraculous Signs
• Acts 14:3 So Paul and Barnabas spent
considerable time there, speaking boldly for the
Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by
enabling them to do miraculous signs and
wonders.
• The miraculous signs were to confirm apostles.
• The New Testament wasn’t written yet.
• 2 Cor 12:12 The things that mark an apostle —
signs, wonders and miracles…

13. Acts 14:6, To The Lycaonian Cities
• Acts 14:6 But they found out about it and fled
to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and
to the surrounding country,

14. ISBE, 4509 Iconium
• “…The topographical position of Iconium is clearly indicated in
Acts, and the evidence of Acts has been confirmed by recent
research. … Xenophon, who marched with Cyrus' expedition
through Phrygia into Lycaonia, calls Iconium the last city of
Phrygia. The writer of Acts 14:6 makes the same statement when
he represents Paul and Barnabas as fleeing from Iconium to the
cities of Lycaonia--implying that the border of Phrygia and
Lycaonia passed between Iconium and Lystra, 18 miles to the
South. Other ancient authorities who knew the local conditions
well speak of Iconium as Phrygian until far into the Roman
imperial period. At the neighboring city of Lystra (Acts 14:11),
the natives used the "speech of Lycaonia." Two inscriptions in
the Phrygian language found at Iconium in 1910 prove that the
Phrygian language was in use there for 2 centuries after Paul's
visits, and afford confirmation of the interesting topographical
detail in Acts …”

16. Acts 14:8, Crippled In His Feet
• Acts 14:8 In Lystra there sat a man crippled in
his feet, who was lame from birth and had
never walked.
• Triple redundancy!
• Paul is doing all the same miracles that Peter
did earlier.
• Confirms his apostleship.

17. Relief found at
Rome,
showing a
slave leading a
garlanded
bull, ready for
sacrifice. Cf.
Acts 14:12-13

18. ACTS
14:15
Sirs Why
Do Ye
These
Things

20. Acts 14:15, Cosmological Argument
• Acts 14:15…the living God, who made heaven
and earth and sea and everything in them.
• Acts 14:17 Yet he has not left himself without
testimony:…
• Teleological Argument
• Acts 14:17…he provides you with plenty of
food…
• Providence

21. Acts 14:16, He Let Nations Go
• Acts 14:16 In the past, he let all nations go their own way.
• Acts 17:30-31 In the past God overlooked such ignorance,
but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31
For he has set a day when he will judge the world with
justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of
this to all men by raising him from the dead."
• NAU Hebrews 1:1 God, after He spoke long ago to the
fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways,
2 in these last days has spoken to us in His Son…
• NAU Genesis 3:9 …God called to the man…"Where are you?“
• NAU Genesis 6:13 Then God said to Noah…
• NAU Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD said to Abram…
• NAU Genesis 31:3 Then the LORD said to Jacob…
• NAU Jonah 1:1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah…

22. Acts 14:19, They Stoned Paul

23. Acts 14:19, They Stoned Paul
• Acts 14:19 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.
• Gal 6:17 Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for
I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
• 2 Cor 12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen
years ago was caught up to the third heaven.
Whether it was in the body or out of the body I
do not know — God knows.

24. Acts 14:24, Pisidia To Pamphylia
• Acts 14:24 After going through Pisidia, they
came into Pamphylia,
Aspendus:
Roman
theater

25. Aspendos, Pamphylia
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspendus,
“Aspendos was an ancient city in Pamphylia, Asia
Minor, located about 40 km east of the modern
city of Antalya, Turkey. It was situated on
the Eurymedon River about 16 km inland from
the Mediterranean Sea… The wide range of its
coinage throughout the ancient world indicates
that, in the 5th century BC, Aspendos had
become the most important city in Pamphylia. At
that time the Eurymedon River was navigable as
far as Aspendos, and the city derived great
wealth from a trade in salt, oil, and wool…”

26. Aspendos, Pamphylia, wikipedia.org
• The Roman theatre in Aspendos has been
preserved remarkably well.[1]

27. Aspendos, Pamphylia, wikipedia.org
• Aspendos theatre from the upper gallery

28. A river in Pamphylia with the Tarus
Mountains in the background.

30. Acts 14:21, The Return Trip
• Acts 14:21…Then they
returned to Lystra,
Iconium and Antioch,
• Lystra, that’s where we
get…
• Listerine
• 1924-bottle
• Then Pamphylia must be
where “pamphlets” come
from!

31. Acts 14:23, Appointed Elders
• Acts 14:23 Paul and Barnabas appointed
elders…
• Titus 1:5 The reason I left you [Titus] in Crete
was that you might straighten out what was
left unfinished and appoint elders in every
town, as I directed you.

32. Acts 14:23, Fasting Is Jewish
• Acts 14:23 When they had appointed elders for them
in every church, having prayed with fasting, they
commended them to the Lord in whom they had
believed.
• Matthew 17:21 "But this kind does not go out except
by prayer and fasting.”
• Acts 13:2 While they were ministering to the Lord and
fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for Me Barnabas
and Saul for the work to which I have called them.“3
Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their
hands on them, they sent them away.

33. Acts 14:23, Fasting
• Matthew 9:14 Then the disciples of John came to Him,
asking, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but Your
disciples do not fast?" 15 And Jesus said to them, "The
attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as
the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days
will come when the bridegroom is taken away from
them, and then they will fast.
• The only pertinent NT verses on fasting are before Acts
15, and the introduction of gentiles…
• After Acts 14:23 the NAU has no uses of “fasting,
fasted, fastings.” The church epistles are silent on fasts.

34. Prayer
And
Fasting
Acts 14:23

35. Acts 14:24, Pamphylia, Fausset's Bible
Dictionary
• Southern province of Asia Minor, bounded on the N. by Pisidia,
from which it was separated by the Taurus range, W. by Lycia, E.
by Cilicia, S. by the Levant. In Paul's time it with Lycia formed a
province under the emperor Claudius. His "peril of robbers" was
in crossing Taurus, the Pisidians being notorious for robbery. He
visited Pamphylia at his first missionary tour, sailing from Paphos
in Cyprus to Perga in Pamphylia on the river Cestrus, where Mark
forsook him (Acts 13:13; 15:38). They stayed only a short time
then, but on their return from the interior "they preached the
word" (Acts 14:24-25). Then they "went down (sea being lower
than land) to Attila," the chief seaport of Pamphylia. The minute
accuracy of the geographical order, confirming genuineness, is
observable, when, in coasting westward, he is said to "sail over
the sea of Cilicia, and Pamphylia." Also Acts 13:13-14, "from
Perga to Antioch in Pisidia," and Acts 14:24, "after Pisidia ... to
Pamphylia," in returning to the coast from inland.

36. Acts 14:26, Attalia Back To Antioch
• Acts 14:26 From Attalia they sailed back to
Antioch,
• End of 1st. Missionary journey

37. 1st. Journey = green line
2nd. Journey = red line

39. Church Swappers
• I don't know why some people change
churches; what difference does it make which
one
• you stay home from?

40. Acts 13:6, Paphos

41. Don’t forget
to give
thanks this
week!
THE END