Today's story is about the riot which broke out in ephesus when paul went to preach there alright
that sounds scary paul's third missionary journey was in ephesus did you receive the holy spirit
he asked the believers there the people had no idea what he was talking about
then what baptism did you experience he asked them once again the baptism of john they answered paul
then went on explaining them that john's baptism was to show a desire to turn away from sin but
john always encouraged people to believe in jesus the people understood this and were soon baptized
in the name of jesus when paul placed his hand on them they immediately received the holy spirit
paul then went to the synagogue to preach he stayed there for three months and preached
about god's kingdom some people rejected his message while some turned into believers paul
took the believers and continued to preach in the lecture hall he did this for two years and
many people came to know about god's message god also gave paul the power to do amazing miracles
and many people were healed through the powers however there was a group of jewish people
who were traveling from town to town casting out evil spirits they tried to use jesus's name to
do their miracles by saying i command you to come out in the name of jesus who paul preaches about
but they came across one evil spirit which said to them i know jesus and i know paul but who are you
the spirit then jumped on them and attacked them the jewish group ran out of the house to
escape the evil spirit the news of this incident spread quickly through ephesus
and a great fear settled on the city people began to honor jesus's name and many of them
started believing in him and confessed their sins a little later paul felt the holy spirit
telling him to visit macedonia he went to several other cities too but then again he heard of
trouble stirring up in ephesus the trouble began with demetrius demetrius was a silver smith
who had a flourishing business building silver shrines for the greek goddess artemis one day
demetrius brought his workers together and said you know our money comes from this business
you have also heard about paul who spreads the word that our gods are nothing
he's doing this not only in ephesus but in other places too our own goddess artemis
is losing respect of people because of paul she's being robbed for importance
demetrius's speech stirred up the crowd they were very angry and so they rushed to the amphitheater
hoping to capture paul paul's companions begged him not to go there the crowd grew more angry
and unruly until the mayor was able to get them to quieten down and listen to him the mayor said
everyone knows that ephesus is the guardian of the great artemis so don't do anything that
will get you in trouble if demetrius has a case against paul then take it to court
but don't riot or the roman government will come down on us hearing this the crowd broke up
and went back to their own work thank goodness paul was saved yes the holy tales
today's story is about paul getting arrested in jerusalem paul bid goodbye to the believers in
ephesus and headed for jerusalem some of paul's friends begged him not to go there because paul
had received death threats from the jewish leaders who were very angry with him but paul was ready to
give his life for jesus sake his friends were unable to convince him otherwise so some of his
friends went along with him in jerusalem paul met the leaders of the church and told them all about
his experiences preaching in other cities and the number of people who were following jesus now
the leaders praised god for all the work he had done but then they said we know that a lot of jews
now believe in jesus because of your preaching however we take the law of moses very seriously
the christians of jerusalem tell us that your preaching is trying to make
people turn their backs to moses laws so what should we do now we have an idea
we have some men who are going to the temple to get their heads shaved
and be part of the purification ceremony pay for them to have their head shaved then everyone will
know that the rumors are false and that you encourage people to obey the laws of moses
paul agreed to their plan and he went through the purification process the next day but there were
some jews from asia who saw him in the temple and immediately started a riot against him they
grabbed him and yelled at him saying this is the man who teaches people to go against moses laws
he even speaks against the temple gradually the entire city joined in the riot against paul
the people dragged him out of the temple trying to kill him but the roman commander arrested paul and
put him in chains when he heard the news of the riot he asked the people about paul and what he
had done people were shouting out different things about him and the commander was confused he had no
clear idea as to what paul might have done the crowd pointed to paul and continued shouting
kill him kill him paul asked the commander if he would get permission to speak to the crowd
the commander let him the crowd went quiet when they saw paul come forward to speak
paul said i am a jew and i have learned the jewish laws and customs
i have obeyed them and i am eager to honor god just as you are there was a time when
i persecuted the believers of jesus i even went to damascus to stop them from preaching against
jesus but jesus himself spoke to me on that journey i now know that he is the real son of god
i was chosen by god to spread his message to the entire world one day i had a vision of god in the
temple he told me to leave jerusalem because the people here would not believe my message
i argued with him but he still told me to leave jerusalem he asked me to go far away and preached
to the gentiles when the crowd heard paul say the words gentile they went crazy and began shouting
kill him kill him the commander brought paul inside and ordered that he be beaten
as the soldiers were beginning to beat him paul asked if it was legal to treat a roman citizen
in this way you are a roman citizen the commander asked yes i am i am a citizen by birth paul said
so they untied him and did not beat him that was a really enjoyable story holy
yes it was the holy tales today's story is called the jonah and the whale
long long time ago there lived a man called jonah jonah was a prophet who lived in israel one day
god appeared to jonah jonah i want you to go to the city of nineveh and warn the people there
tell them that i am going to destroy all of them and their city if they do not stop disobeying me
jonah was not very happy with the job god asked him to do nineveh was a city full of bad people
and jonah knew that he was very scared to go there so instead of going to nineveh
he decided to go the other way which would take him far far away from nineveh
he hoped god would pick someone else to do this particular job of warning the people there
jonah got onto a ship which was going to the farthest city he could find he was
feeling really tired so jonah went down to the bottom of the ship to take a quiet nap
god was very angry with jonah for he had disobeyed him he knew exactly where jonah was
and caused an enormous storm to come up sailors on the ship were afraid that the storm would sink
their ship they started throwing everything into the sea to lighten their ship the storm got worse
they started praying to god to save them jonah knew what the problem was and he also knew
that there was only one thing to do god would not stop the storm until jonah did not do the job
god asked him to do so jonah asked the sailors to throw him into the sea
he knew god was there with him to protect him
the sailors did what jonah asked them to do and immediately the storm quietened and all was calm
the sailors were astonished they had no idea what was happening
in the sea jonah sank deeper and deeper
but god had different plans for him he did not want jonah to drown he only wanted him
to obey his orders so god sent a huge fish to swallow jonah to take him down to the sea
jonah felt very scared he prayed to god for forgiveness for disobeying him
finally after three days being inside the dark stinky belly of the fish the fish rose up to
the top of the sea and spit jonah out onto the shore jonah then went to the city of nineveh
and told them to stop doing all the bad work that they were doing as this was making god very angry
people of the city believed jonah and god saved them oh my my how did jonah even manage to live
inside the stinky belly off the fish for three whole days that's because god was there to protect
him so did you kids enjoy the story oh yes we loved it thank you for the wonderful story holy
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