BLESSINGS AFTER CONTROVERSY

My Dear Precious Child
    Paul and Silas went to Thessalonica and went to a synagogue of Jews.  Paul entered, as he always did, and began reasoning and arguing about the scriptures with the men.  He explained from the scriptures why it was necessary for Jesus to suffer and rise from the dead.  He proclaimed that Jesus was the Christ, the Messiah.  Some people were induced to believe and associate themselves with Paul sand Silas, as did a great number of Gentile Greeks and women.  However, the unbelieving Pharisaical devout Jews became jealous and went to the city square and incorporated some of the professional loungers there to form a mob,  Becoming more and more in an uproar they attacked the house where Paul and Silas were staying, the house of Jason. 
   When the mob did not find the apostles there, they dragged Jason and some of his friends before the city leaders and cried that those men were turning the world upside down and have come to their town also to spread their venom.   The unbelieving Jews continued to accuse Jason of allowing Paul and Silas in his house to protect them. They accused Paul and Silas of acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar by asserting that there was another king, Jesus Christ.  The leaders let Jason go after receiving security from him.  Jason and his friends sent Paul and Silas on their way to another city where they were more easily received by the unbelieving Jews there.  The Jews in the synagogue welcomed the message with eagerness concerning the attainment of salvation through Jesus Christ.  They searched the scriptures daily to see if what the apostles taught were true.  Many of the Jews became believers along with the Gentiles and women as well as men. (Acts 17:1-12) 
    When the Jews at Thessalonica heard that Paul and Silas were teaching successfully in another city, they came there, too, disturbing the masses of people.  The believers sent Paul off on his way to the sea but Silas and Timothy remained behind.  Paul went to Athens and sent instructions for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible.  They answered his call and departed for Athens.  While Paul was waiting in Athens his spirit was grieved and angered at the number of idols that he observed in Athens so Paul reasoned and argued in the synagogue with the Jews and those who worshiped there, along with teaching in the market place day after day.
    There were philosophers in Athens who were angered by Paul's teachings, accusing him of teaching about some foreign deities because he preached about Jesus Christ and His resurrection. (Acts 17:13-18)  They brought him before the leaders at the auditorium.  Paul stood there and told them that on his occasion to be in their city in the past that he had noticed that they sacrificed to many gods and even to an unknown god.  Paul told them that the God that He worshiped does not live in earthly shrines and neither was He served by human hands, for He gives Life and breath and all things to all people.  Paul said that His God made all things One origin, one blood and one source of all nations and of all men.  He told the leaders of the philosophers that John the Baptist preached repentance and telling people that they should believe in the One who was to come, His being Jesus, and becoming obedient to Me, that I had allotted to them lands and settlements so that they would seek Me and find Me, although I am not far from them.
    Paul continued by extolling My goodness by saying that it is in Jesus Christ that people find Me and have every essence of their being in Me. that I am not a Deity made of gold or silver or stone, fashioned by human hands, or invented or constructed, as was thought was truth in the past by ignorant people.  Paul told them that I had chosen their age in which to reveal Myself through a Man whom I chose for that task, and that I had revealed Him through His resurrection from the dead.  (Acts 17:24-31)
   At Paul's perfect appeal and logic as spoken by My Holy Spirit through Paul concerning the resurrection of the dead by a Man, some scoffed but others believed and wanted to hear more.  Paul left their meeting places because some were on his side, believed and joined him and his entourage of believers.
    My message to each crowd was different for each city because of the religious and political training of each group.  My Holy Spirit knows how to tailor make each appeal so as to authenticate each message by forming it for each individual city or individual or family.  I am Life and I know the needs of every particular human life or group that will satisfy their search for Me.  I make sure that anyone who diligently seeks Me will find Me and then I give the messenger the words of Life for that particular gathering.  I spoke differently to the philosophers than I did to the fishermen or to the religious leaders.   I only speak Truth but each Truth is tailor made for that group of people in order for them to understand that I have the answer to their heartfelt needs.
    Your Father of Grace and Favor