{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"FSOP Lectureship Podcast","title":"26-31 - Melvin Otey - The Macedonian Call (Acts 16:9-10)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2840,"description":"00:00 Coming Under Jesus' Authority\n19:49 Responding to Divine Guidance\n27:33 Flexibility in Ministry\n34:35 The Importance of Open Doors\n40:38 The Macedonian Call and Its Implications\nMelvin Otey (00:06)\nGood evening.\nJesus says in Acts chapter 1 and verse number 8, will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the end of the earth. In Acts chapters 2 through 7 you can read about the going forth of the gospel in the city of Jerusalem.\nBeginning in chapter eight, verse number one, we read in a summary form about the gospel going into Judea and then Samaria. In Acts chapter eight and verse number four, you read about the gospel going into Samaria in earnest throughout the rest of that chapter. We read about a man named Philip and he goes to that city. He performs miracles empowered by the Spirit of God. And then the Holy Spirit says to him to join himself to a chariot that's occupied by a person we oftentimes call the Ethiopian eunuch. In Acts chapter nine, we read about a man named\nname Saul of Tarsus being converted. And then in Acts 10 and 11, we read about the beginnings of the gospel going to the Gentiles. You'll remember a man named Peter receives a vision and he's being told by the Holy Spirit that he needs to go to a place called Caesarea so he can share the gospel with the centurion named Cornelius and those of his household. That is a Gentile population that he is called to speak to. He has to give account for what he has done in Acts chapter 11.\nAnd then at the end of Acts chapter 11, we read again about this person named Saul, or at least his effects. That is, after Stephen had been stoned, some people fled from Jerusalem and they went as far as a city called Antioch in a region called Syria.\nWhen the gospel goes there, at least initially, the folks are only going to share the gospel with the Jews because they've been dispatched from Jerusalem and they're sharing the gospel with people they know, with people they're most comfortable with....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/NGE0aV1deh_IoPlX-p6t_29-vqvSqyVCfX2KG1GjIXw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lZmRi/MjAwNDMwZjJkMGMx/MTFlMDRkMzYwMmQ3/YTYxNy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}