With Great Opposition Comes Great Opportunities -(Acts 13:4-8)
Jesus also used this illustration while talking about FAITH!  He said if your OBSTICLE is a Mountain, you can say to it "Be thou removed to yonder place, and it shall be done unto you."!

I. When you GO SAILING (verse 4)
-"they sailed to Cyprus"
II. When you are GOD-SHARING (verse 5)
-"preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews"
III. When you GET SPECIFIC (verse 6-8)
"found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet"
-"the sorcerer withstood them"

*(Props that are Reminders of GREAT OPPOSITION)
INTRO:  In my 43 years on earth I have come to realize this principle.  I have ridden the wave of FAMILY OPPOSITIONS (my ministry, choice of a wife, multiple divorces of parents), FINANCIAL OPPOSITIONS ($2.00 per hour with a house payment, power shut of cause I couldn't pay my $16 bill, no phone for nearly 2 years, $50 vehicles, etc.), FLESHLY OPPOSITIONS are probably the toughest...overcoming your own lusts!  FAITHFUL OPPOSITION ,when you must do something because it is RIGHT...and others either won't follow, or they refuse to understand your actions!  Often trouble comes from those who are suppose to be saved! (Glendale Springs wasn't the end of the world for me!)(Nebo was waiting!)
You may be in the very midst of your GREATEST TRIAL right now...but those things are what God uses to guide you to GREATNESS in his sight!
MOSES was opposed by Pharoah, David by Goliath, Joseph by his brothers, ...even Jesus by the Jews and Romans....but GREAT OPPORTUNITY, and GREAT THINGS came out of those bitter encounters!  Job faced the most dreadful human experiences ALL AT ONCE...but when God was finished, he had twice what he had before!!!