🔎📖 The Book of Ephesians - Part 1

The story of how Paul came to Ephesus - Acts Chapter 19:

Ref (1-10) - Paul was rolling through the upper country of Corinth when he encountered 12 dudes who were disciples of John. They were baptized but hadn't received the holy spirit. He explained what is was then baptized them b'shem Yeshua (in the name of Jesus). When he did, they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.

While he was there, he went to a synagogue and spoke out boldly, to convince and persuade folks about the kingdom of God for 3 months. Now as we all know, a few bad apples will spoil the bunch! There were some who came out, speaking against Paul and rejecting why Jesus was crucified and the proof of His resurrection.

So Paul rolled out, and the disciples left with him. They went to the school of Tyrannus (in Ephesus) and stayed there for two years, learning all they could from Paul. Coincidentally, this opened the door for the gospel to reach Jews and Greeks who lived in Asia.

Ref (11-20) Very interesting but, crazy times!🤣 Exorcisms, naked people, magic, book burning, OH MY! There's a lot of this type of stuff going on in Ephesus at the time but there's also believers who kept coming and confessing their sins and because of all that the people there were seeing, the word of the Lord was growing and prevailing!

Ref (21-41) Basically, some dudes (business owners) who thought they were loosing their business because of what Paul was preaching, started making a ruckus that swallowed up the entire city.

#TODO - fix references