Sermon on Paul, Priscilla, Aquila and Apollos from Acts 18. For more information please check out the blog. thoughtsfromeb.wordpress.com

1. Acts 18:18-28
Paul, Priscilla, Aquila and
Apollos

2. http://www.ccel.org/bible/phillips/CN092MAPS1.htm

3. Being different
• Paul shaved his hair because of a vow (Acts
18:18)
• Paul had spent 18 months in Corinth, a city
with a reputation
• Although he preached to gentiles he was still a
Pharisee (Acts 23:6)

4. Being different
• Many believe Luke is referring to a Nazirite
vow (Numbers 6:1-21)
• The Nazirite was separate to the Lord
• Believers are called to be different. How
different are we?

5. Being a people
• Paul had wanted to go to Ephesus for two
years (Acts 16:6-7)
• When he finally arrives he finds a favourable
reception (Acts 18:20)
• Why did he leave to go to Jerusalem and
Antioch?
• His vow was fulfilled in Jerusalem
• Antioch was his home church
• He had been sent out from Antioch

6. Being a people
• He had reported back after the first journey
• Now he returns and spends some months there
before setting out on another journey
• It seems Paul valued his home church
• “Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to
redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for
himself a people that are his very own, eager to
do what is good” (Titus 2:14)

7. Serving one another
• It is fifteen hundred miles from Antioch to
Ephesus
• Revisiting churches
• Places where he had suffered
• Strengthening all the disciples
• Paul cared passionately for the churches
(Philippians 4:1)

8. Teaching one another
• Apollos was an educated man
• He was ‘mighty in the scriptures’
• He understood something about Jesus
• Priscilla and Aquila invested time in Apollos
• Apollos was humble enough to be taught
• He set released into service

9. Growing up into him
• Apollos was a great help to the church in
Corinth
• The order of his message gives us some clues
about its content "that the Messiah is Jesus"
• “What I mean is this: One of you says, “I
follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”;
another, “I follow Cephas’”; still another, “I
follow Christ.” (1 Corinthians 1:12)

10. Growing up into him
• “What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul?
Only servants, through whom you came to
believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his
task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered
it, but God made it grow.” (1 Corinthians 3:5-
6)