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First off is that Ephesus is like us in that there are people that have heard of Jesus, or church, or Christianity and maybe even consider themselves to be a disciple, but they do not have the Holy Spirit. SDSU is much like this. Students come to school with, maybe, a loose grip on their parents' faith. Maybe they went to youth group or a church camp or had friends that went to church. This is a group that would check Christian under religion on their box, but they do not have the Holy Spirit. Their heart and life has not been changed. They are not filled with the Holy Spirit. We need to tell these people who God is. Tell them of the beautiful gift of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. This is a different type of baptism. Not just dunking in water but a change of heart. A heart that now loves Jesus and is baptized in the name of Jesus. They die to their old self and now rise again and live with and for Jesus. College Area is filled with those that check the Christian religion box, but it is, unfortunately, not filled with Jesus loving, Holy Spirit filled, identity now in Christ Christians. But we, like Paul, get to point them to Jesus. This passage always brings up the point well ... do I have the Holy Spirit? Well, do you love Jesus? Do you find your identity in him and his death, burial and resurrection? Then you have a new heart that loves and trust Jesus, and not an old heart that hates Jesus and loves itself and identifies in your own works. That is proof of the Holy Spirit. The second thing I want to point out in these verses is that men step up, and love Jesus ... and a church is planted. We as men need to lead in repentance. Lead in loving Jesus. Men step up, love Jesus, and are filled with the Spirit ... and a church is planted. This is how Jesus starts his church. He gets twelve disciples and calls them to love and follow him, fills them with the Spirit, and now Christianity is the largest religion in the world. This is not to ignore the women or belittle the women as we see both Jesus and Paul will take radically controversial steps in including women to plant churches. An example is the woman at the well who was sleeping around and then met Jesus and evangelized her entire town. But for a minute I want to stress the importance of men stepping up and being Jesus loving men. This is one reason we are starting the men's prayer and confession groups. We need to fight for each other, keep each other accountable, prayer for each other, point each other to Jesus, and get on mission so this city can be transformed for Jesus. College Area, like Ephesus, is in dire need of men stepping up and being real men that love Jesus more than themselves. Acts 19:8-9 Acts 19:8 Preaches and persuades them to believe gospel daily. Do we do this daily? Persuade that Jesus is King of Kings that his kingdom is only one worth living for? Our bosses, teachers, governor, president, and false idols are not king.  Some remained stubborn. We live in Ephesus & some will remain stubborn despite our reasoning. What will you do? We must keep preaching gospel. Paul finds a new venue, but it's the same message. If your boss' or teachers' hearts stay hardened, you may want to keep preaching gospel but do so elsewhere. Paul went every day to the hall of Tyrannus. This was a hall for philosophy, teaching etc. It could easily be likened to a SDSU classroom. We need to be sending people on campus to reason daily with the gospel. Invest as best you can, and help support and send missionaries to this campus. We want to rally around and be the church with those who can be on campus daily. The Navigators, Young Life, Campus Crusade, our brothers and sisters at AGO and ADX ... let s support and encourage them and invite them to be the church. Maybe rearrange your work schedule so you can have a day to spend on campus and start bible studies. This semester I am going to work to start a bible study at AGO during the day and am doing a guys bible study with Young Life on campus. Just trying to share and spread the gospel on campus. I would love for us to to do more to send people from Kaleo to be on campus daily. Acts 19:10 Ephesus is a culturally diverse hub. It is a center for magic & spirituality, a trade and financial center, a philosophy and education hub, and was immensely diverse and populated. It was a port city and was very  upstream culturally. Paul stayed in Ephesus longer than any other place because he knew it was upstream. It is easier to convert upstream, where culture is made and flows out of, rather than converting downstream and sending the message back upstream. This is why Paul stays in Ephesus, reasons daily, and is able to send church planters all over Asia from Ephesus. The College Area is Ephesus. SDSU is the fifth largest university in California. 1 in 7 college graduates working in San Diego graduated from SDSU. It is the largest educator of our workforce. It is in the top 10 for most racially diverse schools in the entire nation. Do you see how upstream this is? If people meet Jesus at SDSU, they will bring Jesus to the workforce in San Diego, to their different cultural backgrounds, nations and cities. College Area as a whole is like this. Horace Mann Middle School, our middle school in College Area, has English Language Learners as the majority of its population. We are surrounded by families from different nations, religions and backgrounds and have a unique opportunity to send the gospel worldwide by being gospel focused in College Area. We are upstream. College Area is a hub and universities and schools in general are designed to be centers for equipping and sending out. We have a responsibility as Christians to love, serve and point these hubs to Jesus so the gospel can flow downstream from College Area. This is exciting that we are here in College Area. And many of you have caught the vision for why we are here. Many of you are moving or have moved to College Area and not for your jobs or for the best yard or biggest house but to be a community focused on the gospel on mission to our neighbors. This is awesome. Paul is all about church planting ... we at Kaleo are all about church planting. We do MCs and do life together and when MCs grow, we replicate so we can be in more neighborhoods, and then replicate more so we are in more neighborhoods, and then plant more gatherings. We prayerfully are doing this constantly, teaching more and more people about the gospel so we can reach all of College Area, San Diego, California, and the world. 19:11-18 There is a lot going on here and we do not have the time to get into all of it, but we will work our way through some of it. Before we dig in it is worth mentioning the author of Acts is a guy named Luke. Luke is a medical doctor. He is a physician. He is trained, well educated and prone to look to solutions as being physical and medical rather than super natural and spiritual. So it makes this section all the more remarkable and is worth remembering as we head into it. We see that Ephesus is a city that believes in good and evil and is very spiritual. College Area is a spiritual city filled with real evil. Christians believe in good and evil. We believe in angels and demons and God and Satan. We believe some issues are physical and need a doctor and others are spiritual and gospel issues. We see here in Acts that God is the one doing extraordinary miracles. God can do miracles whenever he wants but narrative is not normative. Most of us can not blow our noses and heal people with the snot. Paul was used by God to do some rad miracles. I believe we will see some crazy miracles here in College Area. Some of these may be more traditional physical healings and miracles and many others will be miracles from spiritual bondage. The gospel heals us from the crippling effects of believing lies and accusations. Satan is the Father of lies and the accuser. Many of us have heard and believed lies that we are unlovable, unforgivable, worthless nobodies, or many other lies. We have believed these lies and bought into temptation, and that has lead us to misery. Jesus Christ miraculously frees us from lies. The gospel is what frees us from lies and bondage. Others will try self help books,  Oprahism, false teaching, false religions and will believe new twisted lies. If it is not from Jesus and is not the truth, it will not free you from anything. Lies do not free us. Honesty, openness, forgiveness from Jesus Christ is our only freedom. The truth will set us free. The gospel is the key to healing and freedom from demonic possession, belief etc. Many will come in the name of Jesus, but many of them will come with twisted lies, false gospels and heretical teaching from the Bible and it will not help. College Area is filled with false hopes, lies, religion, and all in all heavy demonic activity. People believing the promise that sex, drugs, alcohol, education, job or whatever will give them the freedom or healing that they need. The gospel is all that can heal. So when these sons of Sceva try to use Jesus like a magic potion, and it does not present the gospel, he gets the crap beat out of him. Many false teachers are getting the crap beat out of them, but others like the devil are just using them to propagate lies. An interesting thing is going on here, because they use the name of Jesus, but like Jesus says, many will come in his name and not know him. They do not know Jesus or the gospel, so they get beaten until they are naked and bleeding. If you try to take on your personal demons without the gospel, you will lose. Try to outsmart or out think the devil you will lose. But Jesus Christ has defeated Satan and his demons. He defeated them at the cross. There are two things the enemy will never preach, so when looking out for false teachers, look for these two things. They will never preach repentance  you are a sinner in need of a Savior, so turn from your sin to your savior- and they will never preach the cross. The cross is where Satan and demons were defeated. We do not need Jesus or the Bible as a superstitious incantation, rather, we need Jesus Christ the Lord of Lords and King of Kings as our personal Savior. We need his work on the cross. We need the gospel. And so does all of College Area. They need the gospel. Acts 19:19-20 Are we prepared to burn all that we worship and depend on Christ? Can you imagine what it would look like if we burnt all the crap we have that does not glorify Christ? Maybe those Oprah magazines, workout magazines, Sports Illustrated, porn, school books, video games, CDs etc. Imagine if you burnt every object that you depended on above Christ ... Now imagine all of College Area did this. That would be one crazy fire and party. 19:21-41 Will Jesus be enough when persecution comes? Are you prepared to say great is Jesus Christ out Lord and Savior when everyone else is crying out  Great is Artemis ? This is how Ephesus reacts. They react by defending their idols, their money and throwing a riot. How dare we expect that College Area or San Diego will react any different than Ephesus. We have broken down so many similarities today and can see how Ephesus and College Area are so alike. Are we ready to boldly reason daily with the gospel even when the riots and persecution come? When it is not popular and when it is difficult? What about when the gospel will cost you your job, education or a girlfriend? Will you still cry out  Great is Jesus or will you sell out and cry  Great is Artemis ? 32  ...most did not know why they came together If there is one phrase in Acts 19 that sums up SDSU best, I believe it is this one. SDSU is not a school that attracts a lot of education, career driven students. It attracts a lot of students who are just going to school because people say they should, and so they go somewhere that they can party. It is a bit like a community college in that it also attracts older students who may have spent the last ten years not knowing what to do, and as a response to that have decided that going back to school is something to do. It is a campus that reflects our hearts, in that people are going through the motions looking for a reason to live ... looking for a purpose or for meaning. This is why even though there is a riot of metal workers, Paul is not shrinking down but wants to point to the one who gives us a reason to die and a reason to live! Paul is not afraid here because he knows the most meaningful life is a life lived for Christ. The gospel has given him purpose, motivation and life! We have the gospel! We have the greatest gift ever given and have the liberty and opportunity to spread this good news. No longer do we have to just do things because others are doing it. No longer do we search aimlessly for meaning and purpose. We are now living for eternity for the one who Created all. Remind yourself of what you are living for and what you have to offer and you like Paul will not shrink from persecution but jump at the opportunity to present the gospel daily to all that are around you. College Area is much like Ephesus. This letter to the Ephesians is immensely practical to us today. We will spend 9 months in it as a church, and I encourage you to get to know the book on your own and in your families too. Read this inside and out. See the gospel that motivated Paul and motivated this church. Jesus is enough and the letter to the Ephesians reminds us of that. Lets grow in love with Jesus together and grow in our ability to cry,  Great is Jesus Christ!  sbd24D▄▐ln║╝╘╓&)()@)Т8Ф8Ў;°; <─?╞?I¤√∙ўїєёяэыщчхус▀▌█┘╫╒╙╤╧I IФYЦY┤Y]],]ь_ю_&c,cRos s¤√∙ўїєёяэыщчху0░╨/ ░р=!░"░#Ра$Ра2P1РЁ0pА3P(20Root Entry         └F└ CompObj    jOle         1Table            SummaryInformation(     WordDocument            2zDocumentSummaryInformation8            %t            ■