We're going to have many adversaries when we start a church, I guarantee you tomorrow
someone's going to be talking smack about us starting a church up there.
I guarantee it.
I don't bet, but I would bet.
No, I wouldn't bet, but I'm telling you that's what's going to happen tomorrow.
Some clown will be on the internet saying, I can't believe they're starting a church
over there.
Bunch of rebels.
There are rebels because they don't want to go to your church?
Maybe you should be a better leader.
Maybe you should have been what you were supposed to be doing instead of starting stupid
fights for no particular reason.
And talk and trash about pastors, which you have no business doing.
So even though there's a great door open in Canada and effectual, we also know that
there will be many adversaries.
So turn over to Acts chapter 19, I want to show you a story, a very famous story in
the Bible about the apostle Paul.
Who's talking here?
The apostle Paul.
Is he saying that there's going to be many adversaries?
Yes he is.
Acts 19 verse 21 says, after these things were ended, Paul purposed in the Spirit when
he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia to go to Jerusalem, saying, after I've
been there, I must also see Rome.
So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus,
but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
At the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought
no small gain unto the craftsman, whom he called together with the workmen of like
occupation and said, Sirs, you know that by this craft we have our wealth.
Moreover you see and hear, and not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia,
this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods,
which are made with hands.
He's doing his job, right?
But what happens when you start doing your job?
People start getting saved.
People's occupations, like making false idols, start to go away.
And people are going to get mad about that kind of stuff.
You know, when you start ripping face on the homos, they're going to get mad about
it.
Number two over there is going to get mad about it eventually, because it's not just
about reaching people with the gospel, it's about reaching people with sound doctrine
also.
So because Paul, he wasn't just preaching the gospel, he said that these people, these
things aren't gods.
These shrines aren't gods.
God is the only God.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the only God, amen?
Verse 27 says so, that not only this our craft is in danger to be said it not, but
also the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised and her magnificence,
magnificence, magnificence, good night, should be destroyed, whom all Asia and
the world worshipeth.
And when they heard these things, they were full of wrath and cried out saying,
The great is Diana of the Ephesians.
And if you know that I don't have time to go through the whole story, but they eventually
chant that for hours on end hours.
And you know, Paul was in danger of his life here.
Why?
Because he was turning people away from false idols, doing a good thing.
But they don't take it as a good thing.
So there's going to be enemies along the way.