Jesus Famous With Nate Holdridge

“Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.” (Acts 19:18–20 ESV). Over a million dollars worth chucked into the fire. New Ephesian converts took their magic books and paraphernalia, demonic stuff that it was, and destroyed it all. Someone took the time to count up the street value — 50K in pieces of silver, worth over a million in modern times. What was truly impressive, however, was not the evaluation of all they disposed of in those ancient fires, but the victory Christ had won in their hearts. People who had previously been all wrapped up in witchcraft, set free by the blood of Jesus. His love had melted away their excuses and won their hearts. Individual by individual, people of Ephes