# Paul's Trip to Iconium - The Book of Acts

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 18 Apr 2024, 11 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 199. On this episode, we follow Paul and Barnabas as they journey through Iconium to Lystra, performing miracles and facing opposition. Discover how they handle being mistaken for gods and how they survive a violent stoning. Join them as they return to Antioch to share the incredible news of their mission’s impact. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: When they had arrived and had gathered the assembly together,
[0:03] Speaker 1: they reported all the things that God had done with
[0:06] Speaker 1: them and that he had opened the door of faith
[0:09] Speaker 1: to the nations. They stayed there with the disciples for
[0:12] Speaker 1: a long time. Dear God, thank you for the church.
[0:19] Speaker 1: You have given us a family and people that can
[0:22] Speaker 1: encourage us, love us, and comfort us when we are
[0:25] Speaker 1: having a hard day. Just like the disciples helped Paul
[0:30] Speaker 1: open our eyes to see our brothers and sisters in
[0:33] Speaker 1: Christ who need to be encouraged today, thank you for
[0:36] Speaker 1: giving us people to lean on. In Jesus' name, amen.
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[1:15] Speaker 3: Paul's Trip to Iconium In our last story, Paul and
[1:20] Speaker 3: Barnabas began their missionary journey. In this story... Paul and
[1:25] Speaker 3: Barnabas will continue to preach and heal, but Paul will
[1:29] Speaker 3: be dragged out of the city in Lystra and stoned,
[1:33] Speaker 3: as inspired by Acts.
[1:39] Speaker 1: Welcome back. This is Julianne Thompson guest hosting for Julia
[1:43] Speaker 1: Jeffress Sadler with a new episode of the Kids Bible
[1:46] Speaker 1: in a Year podcast. Today's story may be a little
[1:50] Speaker 1: hard to hear. Paul has been so faithful and strong
[1:54] Speaker 1: in preaching the gospel. But today, things are getting hard.
[1:58] Speaker 1: Let's listen in and see how God shows up and
[2:01] Speaker 1: the way Paul's friends help him back on his feet.
[2:07] Speaker 3: After Paul and Barnabas arrived in Iconium, they went to
[2:10] Speaker 3: the temple as usual where they spoke to the Jews
[2:13] Speaker 3: and the Gentiles. And a great number of them became believers.
[2:18] Speaker 3: There were some Jews who did not believe. and began
[2:21] Speaker 3: to tell the other Gentiles lies and pit them against
[2:25] Speaker 3: the believers. In response, Paul and Barnabas continued preaching the
[2:29] Speaker 3: word of the Lord, and God gave them the power
[2:32] Speaker 3: to perform miracles and healings. People in the city began
[2:36] Speaker 3: to form different opinions, which created division between the people
[2:40] Speaker 3: who believed the Jews and the people who believed the apostles.
[2:45] Speaker 3: The Jews and Gentiles came together, and plotted to beat
[2:49] Speaker 3: up the apostles and their following. So they ran to
[2:52] Speaker 3: Lystra and Derbe and continued to proclaim the message of
[2:56] Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. While in Lystra, Paul and Barnabas encountered a
[3:01] Speaker 3: man who was not able to walk and could not
[3:04] Speaker 3: do so since he was born. The man listened to
[3:08] Speaker 3: Paul's message that he was giving to the people, and
[3:10] Speaker 3: Paul looked into his eyes and said, Get up to
[3:14] Speaker 3: your feet. With those very words, The man began to walk.
[3:19] Speaker 3: The crowd was amazed at what Paul had just done.
[3:22] Speaker 3: And in their own language, they said, The gods have
[3:26] Speaker 3: taken human form. How did this happen? They gave Paul
[3:31] Speaker 3: and Barnabas names of their gods. To Paul, they gave
[3:34] Speaker 3: the name Hermes. And to Barnabas, they gave the name Zeus.
[3:39] Speaker 3: When word got to Paul and Barnabas that the people
[3:42] Speaker 3: had called them gods, They ripped their clothes and rebuked
[3:46] Speaker 3: the people, saying, Why are you giving us names of
[3:49] Speaker 3: your gods? We are not gods. We are men with
[3:52] Speaker 3: human flesh just like you. We bring this message by
[3:56] Speaker 3: the power of the one true God creator of all.
[3:59] Speaker 3: God has shown you mercy and provided you with what
[4:03] Speaker 3: you need. He filled your storehouses with plenty and brought
[4:07] Speaker 3: joy to your souls. The crowd still made attempts to
[4:11] Speaker 3: make sacrifices to them, believing that Hermes and Zeus were speaking.
[4:17] Speaker 3: The Jews who were against Paul and Barnabas found their
[4:20] Speaker 3: way to Lystra and began to convince the crowd to
[4:23] Speaker 3: follow their ideas. They slowly won the crowd, and then
[4:29] Speaker 3: they proceeded to stone Paul. They drug his dead-looking body
[4:33] Speaker 3: to the outskirts of the city, thinking they had killed him.
[4:37] Speaker 3: But the disciples came and gathered around him, and he
[4:40] Speaker 3: got back up. The very next morning, Paul and Barnabas
[4:44] Speaker 3: got up and left for their next stop, Derbe. At Derbe,
[4:49] Speaker 3: they both preached, and many people became believers. Once they
[4:53] Speaker 3: had completed their work, they went back to Lystra and
[4:56] Speaker 3: the other areas they were in previously. They went to
[5:00] Speaker 3: encourage the followers they had gathered in those areas to
[5:03] Speaker 3: stay strong in the faith and not lose heart through
[5:08] Speaker 3: the trials they were going to face. They then assigned
[5:11] Speaker 3: elders and leaders to each of the churches and dedicated
[5:14] Speaker 3: them to the Lord through prayer and fasting. After all this,
[5:19] Speaker 3: they went to Pamphylia, then to Perga to preach, and
[5:24] Speaker 3: then went to Adelia. After they arrived in Adelia, they
[5:30] Speaker 3: sailed back to Antioch, where all this began. They came
[5:35] Speaker 3: back to the place from where they were launched into
[5:38] Speaker 3: missionary work by God. When they got off the boat,
[5:41] Speaker 3: they called for a meeting of the church to tell
[5:43] Speaker 3: them everything God had done on their journey. They reported
[5:47] Speaker 3: the conversions of many Gentiles and decided to stay in
[5:50] Speaker 3: Antioch with the disciples for a long time.
[5:58] Speaker 1: Don't you just love that last part? They stayed with
[6:02] Speaker 1: the disciples for a long time. Boy, did they need that. Well,
[6:08] Speaker 1: as we open, Paul and Barnabas arrive in Iconium, head
[6:11] Speaker 1: straight to the temple, and begin preaching the gospel to
[6:14] Speaker 1: both Jews and Gentiles. And as we heard in the story,
[6:18] Speaker 1: many believed. But some of the Jews were not happy.
[6:21] Speaker 1: They caused lots of problems and told lies about Paul.
[6:25] Speaker 1: But do you think that stopped Paul and Barnabas? Of
[6:28] Speaker 1: course not. They kept on preaching and even stayed there
[6:32] Speaker 1: a long time to help the new believers understand their message.
[6:37] Speaker 1: and to encourage them to stand strong. When Paul and
[6:41] Speaker 1: Barnabas heard about a plot to stone them, they left
[6:44] Speaker 1: for two other cities in the area, Lystra and Derbe.
[6:49] Speaker 1: As we heard, after Paul healed a man who couldn't walk,
[6:52] Speaker 1: people in the town of Lystra decided that Paul and
[6:55] Speaker 1: Barnabas were gods in human form. They even wanted to
[6:59] Speaker 1: worship them and make sacrifices to them. Sometimes when God
[7:04] Speaker 1: uses you to do great things, it can be easy
[7:07] Speaker 1: for people to think that you are the reason great
[7:10] Speaker 1: things are happening. It's easy to take all the credit
[7:14] Speaker 1: and the glory and say, yeah, I guess I'm pretty great.
[7:18] Speaker 1: But as we heard in today's story, that's not what
[7:22] Speaker 1: Paul and Barnabas did. In fact, the last thing that
[7:26] Speaker 1: they wanted to do was take credit for what God
[7:28] Speaker 1: was accomplishing through them. They told the people that they
[7:32] Speaker 1: were simple men. The only power that they had was
[7:37] Speaker 1: from the Holy Spirit of the one true God. It
[7:41] Speaker 1: was nothing in them. It was all God. But sadly,
[7:46] Speaker 1: things seemed to go downhill from there. The Jews that
[7:50] Speaker 1: were against Paul and Silas found them in Lystra, threw
[7:54] Speaker 1: lots of stones at Paul, and tried to kill him.
[7:57] Speaker 1: He was hurt. Badly. They drug him out of the
[8:02] Speaker 1: city and left him there to die. This is hard
[8:05] Speaker 1: to hear. It's tough to understand why God allows certain
[8:09] Speaker 1: things to happen. Paul was now suffering in a whole
[8:12] Speaker 1: new way, beaten and bleeding, but never alone. God took
[8:18] Speaker 1: care of Paul and sent some disciples to help him
[8:21] Speaker 1: and comfort him. And somehow, I think we know how,
[8:25] Speaker 1: he got right back up and continued his missionary journey.
[8:29] Speaker 1: this time to take place in Derby. Again, many who
[8:34] Speaker 1: heard the message there believed. And after that, Paul and
[8:37] Speaker 1: Barnabas went back to the places they had visited to
[8:40] Speaker 1: encourage believers to be strong and keep following Jesus, no
[8:45] Speaker 1: matter what. They eventually sailed back to Antioch, their home
[8:49] Speaker 1: church who sent them out to begin with. Oh, the
[8:52] Speaker 1: stories they had to tell. I love how the Bible
[8:56] Speaker 1: tells us that after they shared all their stories, they
[9:00] Speaker 1: stayed there with the disciples for a long time. You see,
[9:05] Speaker 1: it's important to get out into the world and do
[9:07] Speaker 1: what God is calling you to do. It's good to
[9:10] Speaker 1: share his love with others and work hard at the
[9:12] Speaker 1: job he's given you. But sometimes you need to be
[9:16] Speaker 1: with the people you know who love God and who
[9:19] Speaker 1: follow him. We need to be encouraged by each other
[9:22] Speaker 1: and reminded of why we do this. We need friendship, connection,
[9:27] Speaker 1: and love from those who are in God's family. Surely
[9:30] Speaker 1: that's what Paul and Barnabas needed. And as usual, God provided.
[9:36] Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. And come back next time to
[9:38] Speaker 1: hear how a big argument about what makes us saved. Hint,
[9:43] Speaker 1: it's not the law. And learn about a new world
[9:45] Speaker 1: called doctrine. I hope the example of Paul and Barnabas
[9:50] Speaker 1: encourages you today to keep on going. Even when things
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[9:54] Speaker 1: go bad, God was with them and he's with you.
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