ACTS 19 " RELENTLESS FAITH IN THE FACE OF FEAR"

The apostle Paul was fearless in his quest to obey the Lord. Once he received his instructions from the Holy Spirit he could not be moved, discouraged or hindered in the purpose of spreading the gospel. What if the church today had the same commitment and fire that the apostle Paul had, we would be unstoppable! Paul was totally about doing the will of God , and whatever territory he went in he brought change. People's lives were changed by the power of God , and that came from a life of surrender. Nothing can stop a man that's not afraid of die, hence we have the apostle Paul.  That's why he wrote "For to me to live is Christ , and to die is gain." PHIL 1:21)                                                                                                                                                         How many people you know that will say they gain in death? Not to many, because everybody wants to live. Again the apostle writes in (ROMANS 14:8 " For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die , we die unto the Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's". The apostle Paul hit Asia with a bang and preached against the main principality there the goddess Diana. The whole area was controlled by this stronghold called Diana. So in "ACTS 19" The apostle Paul goes in to Ephesus and begins to preach and dispute and persuade the people concerning the kingdom of God. Verse 10 says " so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks." The people received the word and had a bond fire burned their arts and books worth fifty thousand pieces of silver.    In our money the estimated value of this bond fire was worth one million dollars. Because of the fearless pursuit of the apostle Paul the silversmiths that sold miniature statures of Diana were going out of business. The apostle Paul faced all odds and evangelised the whole continent of Asia because he was fearless! Imagine what you can do if you refuse to be stopped by fear?