Purpose to Deflect Praise to God

Acts 14: 8-18

vs 8: God’s plan included the presence of suffering
The man was born crippled.

vs 9: God’s plan includes faith from hearing
Paul realized the crippled man had faith to be healed.

vs 10: God’s plan includes apostolic healings
Paul told the man to stand up and the man was healed.

vs 11-13: God’s plan does not include making men their gods
The people in the city thought that Paul and Barnabas were gods that had come down from heaven

vs 14-15: God’s plan makes Him alone worthy of praise
Paul and Barnabas stopped them from their worshiping them and Paul points them to the True God

vs 16-18: God’s plan is longsuffering towards unbelievers
Paul and Barnabas witnessed to the unsaved. God gave this listeners time to repent.