1. I don’t know who this Apollos guy is at this point. It says he was in Corinth. OK. I wonder why they mentioned him here…
2. Paul went to talk to the Ephesian believers. Apparently, they had not received the Holy Spirit at the moment they believed. They didn’t even know that there was a Holy Spirit. These guys had been living under a rock. Yeah, they believed because of the words of John the Baptist (good for them); but they didn’t know the rest of the story. Good thing Paul was there.
3. Paul connected the dots for them, letting them know that the repentance of John was in preparation for the arrival of Jesus. They received the “baptism of the Holy Spirit.” Sweet.
4. Oh…so here’s where some Christians get the idea that, if you really believed, you would “speak in tongues” and “prophesy” when you were in the “Spirit.” But it really only happens in this situation and on Pentacost (and then it seems like a different kind of “tongues.”)
5. Again, Paul’s preaching is described as “arguing persuasively.” He was definitely preaching with his mind and with logic. Too bad some people were just stubbord because Paul took his show over to the lecture hall.
6. Wow, he preached there for two years. I bet he developed quite a following. And, no doubt, he held nothing back.
7. Ha…so there is a Biblical reasoning for the whole idea of a “prayer cloth.” I always thought that television preachers used those things to make more money. But, apparently, Paul make hankies and aprons have the same healing power as him. (I still think it’s kind of dumb to by stuff like that off of TV, though.)
8. OK…on the outside looking in, it doesn’t seem like these guys were trying to drive out the evil spirits, right? But, apparently, these sons of Sceva were not the real deal. The demon went buck wild on them!
9. I guess the whole idea that the demons acknowledges Jesus and Paul only made His name that much greater in the area.
10. People stopped hiding. They actually confessed their sin, and that’s definitely a good thing. They burnt their old magic scrolls, even though they could have sold them for a lot on eBay (Ephesian Bay?).
