Acts 17:1-3 - Part II (Research material) - Corps Notes - October 26, 1976
Acts 17:1-3 October 26, 1976 Part II (Research material) Now, I’m ready to go to Acts chapter 17. I’ll show you how we work this stuff. First of all, I always put in front of me either a pad or a piece of paper; sometimes an envelope, depends on what I have in my pocket or where I can get a hold of stuff. And, I get lectured good and proper if I put it on an envelope, because I usually lose it after it’s over with. And they think these things are important to them so we file everything in some file under Acts. They don’t want me to lose them, I guess, so Donna files them. But nobody will ever be able to read them because I just scribble them; and sometimes I can’t read them hardly. I take, for instance--we’ll start in Acts 17--and I’ll show you how I work this Word when I begin to sit down and to prepare a work for the ministry. Acts 17:1 Now, naturally, I know that they are headed for Thessalonica. Let’s say I want to know something about “Amphipolis.” You can read that word one hundred times and unless you look at it, and you’re doing exactly what I would do, too. I flip to the back of my Bible, take a look at the map that is proper for that particular New Testament period, and I endeavor to find these cities as they are listed on my map. But beyond that, I write down on my paper, like I have written here, “Amphipolis.” I just put “Am,” that’s all I’ve got; that’s why I say nobody will ever know what I’m doing. But to me that registered Amphipolis. And I put “Ap” below it. That isn’t Associated Press that means Apollonia. If I need to know anything about those, I go to my Bible Dictionary and I look up “Amphipolis.” “Amphipolis” - an important strategic and commercial center at the north of the Aegean, situated on the river Struma, about three miles inland from the seaport of Eion; Prized by the Athenians and Macedonians as the key both to the gold, silver, and timber of Mt. Pangaeus and also the control of the Dardanelles; It became, under the Romans, a free town
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Tweet Format: pdf, mp3 Publication Date: 10-26-1976 Victor Paul Wierwille was a Bible scholar and teacher for over four decades. By means of Dr. Wierwille's dynamic teaching of the accuracy and integrity of God's Word, foundational class and advanced class graduates of Power for Abundant Living have learned that the one great requirement for every student of the Bible is to rightly divide the Word of Truth. Thus, his presentation of the Word of God was designed for students who desire the in-depth-accuracy of God’s Word. In his many years of research, Dr. Wierwille studied with such men as Karl Barth, E. Stanley Jones, Glenn Clark, Bishop K.C. Pillai, and George M. Lamsa. His formal training included Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology degrees from Mission House (Lakeland) College and Seminary. He studied at the University of Chicago and at Princeton Theological Seminary from which