Acts-In-Replay: Thessalonica Upside Down!Acts 17:1-9 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the JewsPaul and Silas and Timothy are at Thessalonica.  They have been to the Synagogue, three Sabbaths in a row, and they have been teaching from the Scriptures at Sabbath worship, and when Paul speaks he aways points to Christ, the Messiah, who died and rose again.  So effective was his reasoning, his explaining and demonstrating, so persuasive was his passion for the gospel, that some of the Jews were converted, a lot of the Gentile God-fearers who came to the Jewish services, and quite a few of the aristocratic women.   But no matter where Paul preaches, his message is divides people into two different groups.  The gospel is always thus, for it divides society down the middle, into the saved and the lost, the only two types of people that there are. Jesus warned about this.  Matthew 10:34   In Thessalonica the divide is not only obvious, but it is violent.Read the NOTES HERE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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