God's Hand in Antioch

Dale Gooding - Acts 11:19-30

https://youtu.be/Fm_NY4NdDxA

I)  Exclamation - Acts 11:19-21 (Speaking & Proclaiming)
        A)  They Preached "the Good News"
        B)  To the Gentiles (Greeks)
        C)  The Lord's Empowerment (Acts 11:21)
                  - He was behind this, His Effort
        D)  The Lord's Blessing (Acts 11:22)
                  - "a large number believed"

II)  Edification - Acts 11:22-24 (Encouraging)
        A)  Change in Thinking - Acts 11:2 vs Acts 11:22
                 (The Jerusalem church responds differently)
        B)  Change in Strategy - Acts 11:22
                 - Barnabas is sent, not an Apostle
        C)  Barnabas Observation

III)  Education (Discipleship) - Acts 11:25-26 (Teaching)
        A)  Publicly "the Church"
                 - whatever it consists of, Luke refers to
            Antioch as "a church."
        B)  Thoroughly
                 - a whole year of regular discipleship w/ Paul
        C)  Resistance?
                -    "Christian" may have been a term of
              derision (normally "The Way")

IV)  Emotional - Acts 11:27-30 (Giving Benevolently)
        A)  Authentic Agabus (see again in Acts 21:10)
                 (History says famine happened)
        B)  Giving parallels
                 - support given in Acts 4:32
        C)  Giving is a shift change
                 - Gentiles (as a Church) now giving to Jews