Class 1 from this series was used in GCT Episode 265.<\/p>\n
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\nbrother Alfred Norris speaking
\non the subject Apostles, their <\/p>\n
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\nActs and their works.
\nWe left the Apostle Paul <\/p>\n
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\nyesterday just about the extreme
\nend, geographically, of the <\/p>\n
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\noutward part of the second
\nmissionary journey, right down <\/p>\n
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\nin the bottom end of Greece,
\nwhat they call Hellas in those <\/p>\n
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\ndays in Athens.
\nHe then went on to Corinth, and <\/p>\n
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\nthe early part of Acts chapter
\n18 is devoted to his experiences<\/p>\n
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\nin Corinth, and after quite a
\nconsiderable stay there, which <\/p>\n
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\nis summarized very briefly, he
\nleft from Sankria the port of <\/p>\n
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\nCorinth, on his way back to the
\nPromised Land. <\/p>\n
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\nA very peculiar event is
\nreported with only a sentence <\/p>\n
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\nthere in the 18th chapter of the
\nActs, which was that he set sail<\/p>\n
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\nfor Syria having shone his head
\nin Sankria because he had a vow.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd one puzzle that is not yet
\nfully resolved in my own mind <\/p>\n
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\nabout Paul and the law is that
\nhe would have taken a vow, <\/p>\n
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\napparently a Mosaic Law vow, at
\nthat stage in his career and why<\/p>\n
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\nhe would do so.
\nIt looks as though it must have <\/p>\n
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\nbeen a short term Nazirite vow
\nthat he must during that period <\/p>\n
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\nhave abstained from alcoholic
\ndrinks and allowed his hair to <\/p>\n
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\ngrow long.
\nAnd that that period had <\/p>\n
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\nprobably by now come to an end
\nthan he had had shown his head <\/p>\n
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\nto signify its ending.
\nUnder Old Testament terms you <\/p>\n
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\nwould have done that at the door
\nof the Tabernacle, and then the <\/p>\n
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\nhare would have been burnt as an
\noffering. <\/p>\n
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\nBut apparently the custom had
\ngrown up with Jewish vows that <\/p>\n
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\nif you were living in the
\nDispersion or in faraway parts, <\/p>\n
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\nyou might share off your head
\nwherever you were and then <\/p>\n
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\npreserve it and take it with you
\nto Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Paul’s journey by sea from
\nSankari to Syria presumably had <\/p>\n
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\nat least as part of its object
\ndoing that. <\/p>\n
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\nBut of course that by no means
\nexplains why he had a bow in the<\/p>\n
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\n1st place, what it was intended
\nto demonstrate, whether it was <\/p>\n
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\nfor the public to see, whether
\nit was a private matter between <\/p>\n
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\nhimself and his God.
\nI think it must have been the <\/p>\n
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\nlatter of these.
\nAnd what particular matter was <\/p>\n
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\ninvolved in taking it something?
\nThere were great perils. <\/p>\n
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\nIn which he was involved in
\nCorinth, because of the extreme <\/p>\n
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\nenmity of the Jews.
\nAnd it’s true as a fact that <\/p>\n
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\nthere were such enmities,
\nbecause God had God said to him <\/p>\n
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\nthat the Lord Jesus said to him.
\nFear not, Paul, for I am with <\/p>\n
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\nthee.
\nI have much people in this city,<\/p>\n
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\nand no man shall set on me to
\nharm thee. <\/p>\n
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\nNo that comes just after the
\nperiod in Athens as well. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it could be the two are
\nlinked. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I don’t know the answer.
\nSay that I have a suspicion that<\/p>\n
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\nI was not concerned with what
\nhad already happened. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was concerned with what was
\ngoing to happen. <\/p>\n
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\nThe immediate result, anyway,
\nwas that Paul set sail for <\/p>\n
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\nSyria.
\nHe arrived in the north and went<\/p>\n
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\nimmediately up and saluted the
\nchurch and then went down to <\/p>\n
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\nAntioch.
\nNow if you can picture this, if <\/p>\n
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\nsomebody arrives at Caesarea and
\nthen goes up in One Direction, <\/p>\n
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\nhe goes down in the other
\ndirection. <\/p>\n
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\nNow all our maps are the right
\nway up, of course, and so you go<\/p>\n
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\nup when you go further north.
\nEverybody in the Southern <\/p>\n
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\nHemisphere got this the wrong
\nway round, but that’s what it is<\/p>\n
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\nto us.
\nHowever, in in the United <\/p>\n
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\nKingdom, we don’t look at things
\nlike that. <\/p>\n
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\nYou go up to London and
\neverywhere away from them is <\/p>\n
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\ngoing down South.
\nNearly all our railway stations,<\/p>\n
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\nfor example, our depots, have
\ngot two platforms. <\/p>\n
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\nOne is the up platform that
\ntakes you into London, the other<\/p>\n
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\nis the down platform that takes
\nyou away. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think that in Pauline time
\nthey have the same kind of <\/p>\n
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\nthing.
\nYou went up to Jerusalem, you <\/p>\n
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\ncame down away from it.
\nAlthough therefore the record <\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t say that he went up to
\nJerusalem and saluted the <\/p>\n
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\nchurch, it does say he went up
\nand saluted the church and then <\/p>\n
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\nhe went down to Antioch.
\nSo I presume that since anywhere<\/p>\n
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\nfrom Caesarea would be
\nnorthwards to Antioch, his up <\/p>\n
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\nwas going southwards.
\nSo Jerusalem seems to be the <\/p>\n
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\nlikely place.
\nSo his visit to Jerusalem is so <\/p>\n
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\nbriefly reported, he just went
\nthere and came back again. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s all the record says.
\nAnd I suspect that there’s a <\/p>\n
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\ndeep mystery as yet unresolved
\nin that that Paul had some <\/p>\n
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\nparticular task he wanted to do
\nin Jerusalem and didn’t get it <\/p>\n
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\ndone, and it had to be deferred
\nuntil another day. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, in so unceremonious a way
\nis the end of the second <\/p>\n
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\nmissionary journey signalled and
\nthe third missionary journey <\/p>\n
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\nbegun.
\nHe lands at Caesarea, goes up to<\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem, goes back to Antioch,
\nand stays there for some time. <\/p>\n
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\nThen he sets off on the next
\njourney. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, the next journey, to a
\nvery large extent, takes him <\/p>\n
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\nover familiar ground.
\nIt takes him through to the West<\/p>\n
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\nas far as Athens and Corinth
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\nGreece, where those cities were.
\nAnd then, But as early as <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 19, something rather
\npeculiar seems to be happening <\/p>\n
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\nand I want you just to look at
\nthat verse and then see what it <\/p>\n
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\nmight signify to you.
\nActs chapter 19, verse 21, Paul <\/p>\n
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\nis in Ephesus by this time.
\nNow after these things were <\/p>\n
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\nended, Paul purposed in the
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\nthrough Macedonia and Acaya to
\ngo to Jerusalem, saying after I <\/p>\n
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\nhave been there I must also see
\nRome. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he sent into Macedonia two of
\nthem that ministered unto him <\/p>\n
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\nTimotheus and Erastus.
\nBut he himself stayed in Asia <\/p>\n
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\nfor a while.
\nNow the situation as you will <\/p>\n
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\nsee geographically is this.
\nPaul has left Antioch gone round<\/p>\n
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\nthe corner through Asia Minor.
\nHe has arrived in the western <\/p>\n
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\npart of Asia Minor near the
\nwestern coast at Ephesus. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then he makes a long term
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\nHe says I must go to Macedonia
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\nand then to South Greece as we
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\nI must go to those places, and
\nafter that I must go to <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem.
\nAnd then I must also see Rome. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it would seem that uttermost
\nin his mind was Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nHe purposed in the Spirit when
\nhe had been through Macedonia <\/p>\n
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\nand the Kaya to go to Jerusalem
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\nThat’s it.
\nHere I must also see Rome. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that hurried journey to
\nJerusalem at the end of the <\/p>\n
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\nsecond missionary journey was to
\nbe followed by what looked like <\/p>\n
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\na long term planned visit to
\nJerusalem again sometime during <\/p>\n
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\nthe third missionary journey,
\nsomething which was particularly<\/p>\n
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\nimportant to Paul.
\nHe had a very keen desire to get<\/p>\n
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\nto Jerusalem, for what reason we
\nhaven’t yet discovered, but he <\/p>\n
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\nvery badly wanted to get there.
\nVery good. <\/p>\n
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\nThen he continued in his
\njourney. <\/p>\n
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\nHaving sent Timotheus and
\nErastus to prepare the way, he <\/p>\n
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\nwent down through Macedonia
\nagain, once more found himself <\/p>\n
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\nin the neighbourhood of Greece,
\nof Corinth and Athens, and was <\/p>\n
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\nabout to go back, apparently
\ndirect to Jerusalem, or at least<\/p>\n
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\ndirect to Israel by sea once
\nmore, when he discovered a plot <\/p>\n
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\nwhich had been laid by the Jews
\nagainst him. <\/p>\n
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\nIn consequence, he had to revise
\nhis travel plans and divert his <\/p>\n
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\nway.
\nAnd he went back the way he’d <\/p>\n
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\ncome, going northwards through
\nMacedonia and Dakaya, and then <\/p>\n
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\noverland at least part of the
\nway until he came to the West <\/p>\n
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\nCoast of Asia Minor.
\nFrom there he sailed from Troas <\/p>\n
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\nover to Israel again.
\nWell, one can say very little <\/p>\n
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\nabout this plot of the Jews.
\nThere were so many of them. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were always doing it.
\nPaul’s life, as I think I said <\/p>\n
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\nat an earlier stage of this
\ntalk, was just not worth <\/p>\n
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\nanything as far as the Jews were
\nconcerned. <\/p>\n
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\nAs soon as he became a renegade
\nto their faith and accepted the <\/p>\n
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\nChristian faith everywhere he
\nwent, Jews who knew about him <\/p>\n
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\nwere lying in wait for him, or
\nfollowed him and hounded him <\/p>\n
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\nout, or turned the populace
\nagainst him, and there was <\/p>\n
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\nnothing that Paul could do to
\nget himself safety. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd those words of the Lord
\nJesus in the second journey <\/p>\n
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\nwhich I have quoted Fear not,
\nPaul, for I am with thee, and no<\/p>\n
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\nman shall set on thee to harm.
\nThee revealed how perilously <\/p>\n
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\nPaul was walking the tightrope
\nof life, with the cousins of <\/p>\n
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\ndeath extending beneath him on
\neither side. <\/p>\n
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\nPaul was a man in danger with a
\nprice on his head, but I really <\/p>\n
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\nmean with the price on his head
\nbecause I’m quite sure that they<\/p>\n
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\nwould have paid good money to
\nget both Paul killed. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he goes back on his way to
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nNow there is so much that is
\nworthwhile discussing on that <\/p>\n
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\nroute that one is tempted to
\nstop and do it, particularly <\/p>\n
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\nthat marvellous speech to the
\nelders of Ephesus when he <\/p>\n
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\nsummoned them to Belitas to hear
\nhim speak. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the moment, for the moment,
\nI want to concentrate upon the <\/p>\n
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\nfact that he did summon the
\nelders of Ephesus at all. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s going down the coast of
\nAsia Minor from Troas. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen he gets to Mellitus.
\nHe could very easily have <\/p>\n
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\ndiverted his steps to Ephesus,
\nand that was what they wanted <\/p>\n
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\nhim to do.
\nBut he couldn’t do it. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was in too big a hurry.
\nHe was wanting to get back to <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem.
\nHe wanted to be there by the <\/p>\n
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\ntime of the feast, and he’d
\nalready wasted valuable time by <\/p>\n
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\ngoing overland instead of going
\nby sea. <\/p>\n
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\nSo instead of going to Ephesus,
\nhe sent for the elders of the <\/p>\n
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\nchurch, and they came, and they
\nmet him at Melitas. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he preached them this
\nsplendid sermon, telling them <\/p>\n
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\nindeed that his own devotion to
\nGod was taking him nearer to the<\/p>\n
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\npoint where grievous things
\nmight happen to him, and then <\/p>\n
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\nbidding farewell of them in the
\nterms I know that you shall see <\/p>\n
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\nmy face no more.
\nSo when he said goodbye to them,<\/p>\n
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\nthey fell on the ground, and
\nthey wept most of all. <\/p>\n
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\nFor this saying you shall see my
\nfails no more. <\/p>\n
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\nPaul had a sense of an impending
\nfate about him when he left the <\/p>\n
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\nneighbourhood of Asia Minor and
\nwent back to Palestine. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was aware that the crisis was
\ncoming out of which he might <\/p>\n
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\nnot, not to say, would not, but
\nmight not emerge. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat that was we can hardly say
\nyet, but let’s look at the <\/p>\n
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\nevidence that there was such a
\nthing. <\/p>\n
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\nActs chapter 20, verse three
\nverse to to connection. <\/p>\n
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\nBut when in Macedonia he had
\ngone through those parts and had<\/p>\n
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\ngiven them much exaggeration, he
\ncame into Greece and there about<\/p>\n
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\n3 months, and when the Jews laid
\nwait for him as he was about to <\/p>\n
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\nsail into Syria, he purposed to
\nreturn into Macedonia, and that <\/p>\n
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\naccompanied him into Asia.
\nSir Parta of Berea and the <\/p>\n
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\nThessalonians, Aristarchus and
\nSecundus and Gaius of Derby and <\/p>\n
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\nTimotheus and of Asia, Tachykos
\nand Trophimus. <\/p>\n
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\nThese going before Tarit for us
\nat Troas. <\/p>\n
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\nSee the picture.
\nPaul is leaving the southern <\/p>\n
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\npart of Greece by the direct
\nroute. <\/p>\n
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\nThese men go straight across at
\nTrias. <\/p>\n
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\nPaul goes round the corner to
\navoid this plot by the Jews and <\/p>\n
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\nmeets up with them when he gets
\nto Trias. <\/p>\n
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\nFrom there he goes South and he
\ncomes to Mellitus and in the <\/p>\n
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\ncourse of what he says to the
\nelders of Ephesus. <\/p>\n
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\nThere we read these words Acts,
\nchapter 20, the introductory <\/p>\n
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\nwords and then part of the
\nspeech verse 16. <\/p>\n
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\nFor Paul had determined to sail
\nby Ephesus, because he would not<\/p>\n
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\nspend the time in Asia.
\nFor he hasted, if it were <\/p>\n
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\npossible for him to be at
\nJerusalem, the feast of <\/p>\n
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\nPentecost, the day of Pentecost.
\nAnd from Melissa he sent to <\/p>\n
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\nEphesus, and called to him the
\nelders of the church. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when they were come to him,
\nhe said to them, Ye know from <\/p>\n
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\nthe first day that I came into
\nAsia, after what manner I have <\/p>\n
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\nbeen with you at all seasons,
\nserving the Lord, with all <\/p>\n
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\nhumility of mind, and with many
\ntears and temptations, which <\/p>\n
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\nbefell me by the lying in wait
\nof the Jews, the same old theme <\/p>\n
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\nagain, the lying in wait of the
\nJews. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was there all the time.
\nHe was constantly menaced by it,<\/p>\n
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\nand I kept back nothing that was
\nprofitable unto you, but have <\/p>\n
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\nshowed you, and taught you
\npublicly, and from house to <\/p>\n
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\nhouse, testifying both to the
\nJews and also to the Greeks, <\/p>\n
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\nrepentance toward God, and faith
\ntoward our Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nJust pause for a moment there
\nwhen Paul detailed the <\/p>\n
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\nafflictions we he had suffered
\nin the second letter to the <\/p>\n
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\nCorinthians, which would have
\nbeen written somewhere round <\/p>\n
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\nabout this time just a little
\nbit earlier. <\/p>\n
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\nHe included amongst those cares
\nand tribulations, that beside <\/p>\n
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\nthis which cometh upon me daily,
\nthe care of all the churches <\/p>\n
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\ndaily notice well, daily.
\nYou might think he was caring <\/p>\n
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\nfor the church where he happened
\nto be living at the time, but he<\/p>\n
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\nputs it more stronger than that
\nand says the care of all the <\/p>\n
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\nchurches comes upon me daily.
\nPaul was a man who had a roving <\/p>\n
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\nCommission and a list of people
\ndepending upon his help, so long<\/p>\n
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\nthat one would think he could
\nhave spent all of every day <\/p>\n
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\nsimply reading out their names.
\nAnd yet Paul was so very much a <\/p>\n
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\nfriend to each individual in the
\ncommunities he went to, however <\/p>\n
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\nlarge they were, however far
\naway they were, however short a <\/p>\n
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\ntime he’d spent there.
\nThat, he said. <\/p>\n
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\nI thank God for you all making
\nmention of you in my prayers, <\/p>\n
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\nsometimes making mention by
\nname. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m a little bit ashamed,
\nactually, when I read that kind <\/p>\n
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\nof word from the lips of the
\nApostle Paul. <\/p>\n
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\nI think, for example, of Brother
\nAD Norris of whole England <\/p>\n
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\ncoming to the Texas
\nChristadelphian Bible School, <\/p>\n
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\nand he talks to an audience like
\nthat, assembled now, and he <\/p>\n
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\nlearns to know some of you by
\nname, but with the kind of <\/p>\n
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\nforgetter he’s got.
\nHe forgets even some of those <\/p>\n
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\nwhen he goes away, another when
\nhe meets them again. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re just paces and he’s
\ncatches and heads. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I wish they’d told me their
\nname before I have to get wrong.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd the intimate connection
\nthere ought to be, even with a <\/p>\n
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\nrelatively small company like
\nthis, is by no means easy to <\/p>\n
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\nsecure.
\nYou make it easy, you’re <\/p>\n
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\nsplendid, and it’s a lovely
\nthing to have. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I’m aware of my own faults
\nnow. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Apostle Paul went thousands
\nof miles over many years, met <\/p>\n
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\nthousands and more of brothers
\nand sisters, and he seems to <\/p>\n
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\nhave been able to store in his
\nsanctified memory the <\/p>\n
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\nrecollection of all of them in
\nneed. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when he went on his knees
\nbefore God in prayer, he didn’t <\/p>\n
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\noffer some generalities such as
\nyou and I might offer in ours. <\/p>\n
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\nHe brought before God the
\nparticular problems of all the <\/p>\n
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\npeople he was concerned with,
\nsometimes name by name, and knew<\/p>\n
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\nall about them, and pleaded for
\nGod’s special mercy for their <\/p>\n
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\nparticular needs.
\nSometimes when we see this great<\/p>\n
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\npreacher going around and think
\nof him as getting on with the <\/p>\n
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\nmechanical job of witnessing to
\nthe Word, we don’t see how human<\/p>\n
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\nwas his preaching, how close and
\nintimate, and how loving his <\/p>\n
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\nrelationships.
\nBut they were and the number of <\/p>\n
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\nnames he gives at the end of
\nnearly all his letters greet <\/p>\n
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\nthis and that.
\nRemember that person. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, there’s a slight problem in
\nthat household. <\/p>\n
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\nGive particular attention to
\nthose people, because they <\/p>\n
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\nworked very hard for the Lord.
\nAll of that reveals that Paul’s <\/p>\n
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\nwas by no means a mechanical
\nwork when he did what he did in <\/p>\n
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\nthe churches that he met.
\nSo that was part of his care of <\/p>\n
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\nall the churches.
\nA loving thing to know, no <\/p>\n
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\ndoubt.
\nPerhaps he wouldn’t well have <\/p>\n
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\nbeen without it.
\nBut care there must have been in<\/p>\n
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\nabundance.
\nAnd now now I have kept back <\/p>\n
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\nnothing that was profitable unto
\nyou, but have showed you, and <\/p>\n
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\ntaught you publicly, and from
\nhouse to house, testifying both <\/p>\n
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\nto the Jews and to the Greeks,
\nrepentance toward God and faith <\/p>\n
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\ntoward our Lord Jesus Christ.
\nAnd now behold, I go bound in <\/p>\n
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\nthe Spirit unto Jerusalem, not
\nknowing the things that shall <\/p>\n
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\nbefall me.
\nThere, Bound in the Spirit, he <\/p>\n
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\ngoes to Jerusalem.
\nBound in what Spirit? <\/p>\n
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\nBound by the decision of the
\nHoly Spirit or bound by some <\/p>\n
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\ncompulsion of his own Spirit.
\nWell, the word can certainly be <\/p>\n
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\nused in the latter way.
\nIt sometimes is. <\/p>\n
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\nPaul was moved in spirits that
\nhappens and couldn’t keep quiet,<\/p>\n
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\nso he preached diary of pagas to
\nthe Athenians there. <\/p>\n
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\nOn other occasions too, Paul’s
\nspirit waxes strong within him <\/p>\n
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\nand something compels him to go
\non and do something. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I have no doubt that that
\nmust be what it means in this <\/p>\n
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\nverse, because the next verse
\ntalks about the Holy Spirit <\/p>\n
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\nquite differently and says, say
\nthat the Holy Spirit witness of <\/p>\n
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\nin every city, saying that bonds
\nand afflictions are by me. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we learned in chapter 19,
\nverse 15 that Paul had decided <\/p>\n
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\nthat having gone through
\nMacedonia and Achaia he would go<\/p>\n
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\nto Jerusalem.
\nAnd after that he wrote. <\/p>\n
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\nWe learned that he was in a
\nhurry to get away from the <\/p>\n
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\nneighbourhood of Ephesus because
\nhe wanted to be at Jerusalem at <\/p>\n
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\na certain time.
\nIt is addressed to the elders. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen they come to see him he
\ntells them he can’t spend long <\/p>\n
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\nbecause he must get on his way
\nto Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nHe goes bound in the Spirit.
\nThere he can’t resist the <\/p>\n
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\nimpulse to go.
\nAnd yet when he gets there he is<\/p>\n
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\ntold by the Holy Spirit bonds
\nand afflictions abide him, the <\/p>\n
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\nHoly Spirit witnesseth in every
\ncity. <\/p>\n
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\nCan you picture that picture?
\nPaul makes his decision, <\/p>\n
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\nEphesus, and by word of prophet,
\nor by vision of the night, the <\/p>\n
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\nmessage comes to him.
\nIf you do that, bonds and <\/p>\n
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\nafflictions abide you.
\nHe goes round the corners of <\/p>\n
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\nPhilippi, and by word of the
\nspirit or by dream by night <\/p>\n
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\nsomething says to him, If you go
\non with your plans, bonds and <\/p>\n
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\nafflictions abide you, and he
\ngoes to Thessalonica, and Berea,<\/p>\n
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\nand Athens, and Corinth, and at
\neach city bonds and afflictions <\/p>\n
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\nabide you if you go to
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was thoroughly warned in
\nevery city. <\/p>\n
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\nI think that makes it probable
\nthat it was by the word of <\/p>\n
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\nprophets, because the other kind
\nof message could have come <\/p>\n
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\nwherever he went in his bed at
\nnight in the course of <\/p>\n
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\ntravelling.
\nBut now he was in every city. <\/p>\n
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\nPerhaps wherever he met a
\nchurch, there he met a prophet. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that prophet made the point
\nof coming to him and saying, <\/p>\n
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\nPaul, if you go on with this
\nplan of yours, bonds and <\/p>\n
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\nafflictions abide you.
\nAnd still he went on. <\/p>\n
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\nStill he hurried, and still the
\nmessages came, and he was so <\/p>\n
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\nfull of foreboding about what
\nwould happen if he went to <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem, where he was
\ndetermined to go, that he told <\/p>\n
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\nthe men of Ephesus when he met
\nthem at militias. <\/p>\n
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\nI know you will see my face no
\nmore. <\/p>\n
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\nSo on he went when he had taken
\nhis leave of them, cured from <\/p>\n
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\nhis death.
\nThe man who fell down during <\/p>\n
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\nPaul’s long speech and left the
\nchurch is full of love for him, <\/p>\n
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\nas he was full of love for them,
\nand went on his way and landed <\/p>\n
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\nat Tyre, store the record
\nshares. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd after saluting the brethren
\nthere, they went further <\/p>\n
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\nsouthwards until they came to
\nCaesarea again. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then the episode in Caesarea
\nnext deserves our attention. <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 21, verse 7.
\nAnd when we had finished our <\/p>\n
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\nvoyage from Tyre, we came to
\nPtolemais, and saluted the <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren and the board with them
\none day. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the next day we that were of
\nPaul’s company Luke, you can <\/p>\n
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\nsee, is there now We that were
\nof Paul’s company departed and <\/p>\n
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\ncame unto Caesarea, and we
\nentered into the House of Philip<\/p>\n
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\nthe Evangelist, which was one of
\nthe seven, and abode with him. <\/p>\n
337
\n00:18:03,360 –> 00:18:05,760
\nNow the same man had four
\ndaughters, virgins, which did <\/p>\n
338
\n00:18:05,760 –> 00:18:08,400
\nprophecy.
\nAnd as we tell you, there are <\/p>\n
339
\n00:18:08,400 –> 00:18:11,200
\nmany days there came down from
\nJudea a certain prophet named <\/p>\n
340
\n00:18:11,200 –> 00:18:13,880
\nAgabus.
\nAnd when he was come to us, he <\/p>\n
341
\n00:18:13,880 –> 00:18:17,280
\ntook Paul’s girdle and bound his
\nown hands and feet, and said, <\/p>\n
342
\n00:18:17,440 –> 00:18:21,480
\nThus set the Holy Spirit.
\nSo shall the Jews at Jerusalem <\/p>\n
343
\n00:18:21,480 –> 00:18:24,680
\nbind the men that owneth this
\ngirdle, and shall deliver him <\/p>\n
344
\n00:18:24,680 –> 00:18:29,000
\ninto the hands of the Gentiles.
\nSame story continues. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:18:29,560 –> 00:18:36,040
\nHe goes from Troas to Tyre to
\nTolemais to Caesarea, and the <\/p>\n
346
\n00:18:36,040 –> 00:18:39,640
\ntail is taken up by Agabus.
\nIf you go to Jerusalem, the Jews<\/p>\n
347
\n00:18:39,640 –> 00:18:42,120
\nwill bind you as thoroughly as I
\nhave bound feet with your <\/p>\n
348
\n00:18:42,120 –> 00:18:44,160
\ngirdle.
\nThat will be the fate that you <\/p>\n
349
\n00:18:44,200 –> 00:18:51,080
\nmust accept and endure if you go
\nto Jerusalem, and strangely not <\/p>\n
350
\n00:18:51,080 –> 00:18:53,320
\nstrange that they should beseech
\nhim that he wouldn’t go, you’d <\/p>\n
351
\n00:18:53,320 –> 00:18:55,920
\nexpect that which they did
\nimmediately afterwards. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:18:56,320 –> 00:18:59,400
\nAnd when we heard these things,
\nboth we and they of that place <\/p>\n
353
\n00:18:59,400 –> 00:19:03,440
\nbesought him not to go to
\nJerusalem, But strangely, that <\/p>\n
354
\n00:19:03,440 –> 00:19:06,080
\nin spite of Paul’s determination
\nthat he was going anyhow. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:19:06,400 –> 00:19:09,680
\nVerse 13 What mean you to weep
\nand to break my heart? <\/p>\n
356
\n00:19:09,960 –> 00:19:12,680
\nFor I’m ready not to be bound
\nonly, but also to die at <\/p>\n
357
\n00:19:12,680 –> 00:19:14,520
\nJerusalem for the name of the
\nLord Jesus. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:19:15,240 –> 00:19:17,880
\nAnd when he would not be
\npersuaded, we ceased saying the <\/p>\n
359
\n00:19:17,880 –> 00:19:21,200
\nwill of the Lord be done.
\nThe strange thing is that the <\/p>\n
360
\n00:19:21,200 –> 00:19:24,880
\nrecord tells us that, verse 10,
\nhe tarried there many days. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:19:26,200 –> 00:19:28,360
\nHe’d been in a big hurry to get
\naway from Greece. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:19:29,640 –> 00:19:31,640
\nHe was going to race against
\ntime. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:19:31,640 –> 00:19:34,800
\nSo the record seemed to read
\nthat he might get to Jerusalem <\/p>\n
364
\n00:19:34,800 –> 00:19:36,440
\nin time for the day of
\nPentecost. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:19:37,280 –> 00:19:39,600
\nHe got a long way around, which
\nmade the hurry all the more <\/p>\n
366
\n00:19:39,600 –> 00:19:42,080
\nurgent.
\nNobody gets to see the rear. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:19:42,080 –> 00:19:46,280
\nHe tarries there many days.
\nI wonder why that would be. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:19:48,520 –> 00:19:51,280
\nI feel that it is likely to be
\nthat he was subject to a great <\/p>\n
369
\n00:19:51,280 –> 00:19:55,080
\ndeal of pressure at Caesarea.
\nIf you’ll find yourself <\/p>\n
370
\n00:19:55,080 –> 00:19:59,080
\nsurrounded by four daughters,
\nvirgins which do prophecy, and <\/p>\n
371
\n00:19:59,080 –> 00:20:00,880
\nthey’re giving the same message
\nyou’ve been getting in every <\/p>\n
372
\n00:20:00,880 –> 00:20:02,920
\ncity up to now, you don’t have
\nto easy a time of it. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:20:04,160 –> 00:20:06,760
\nAnd if each of those prophetic
\nwomen came to him at regular <\/p>\n
374
\n00:20:06,760 –> 00:20:08,880
\nintervals and said, Paul don’t
\ngo to Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:20:09,080 –> 00:20:11,760
\nIf you do bonds and Afflictions
\nabide you, and sought to reason <\/p>\n
376
\n00:20:11,760 –> 00:20:14,680
\nhim out of his going, it might
\nhave been very, very hard to get<\/p>\n
377
\n00:20:14,680 –> 00:20:17,800
\naway.
\nAnd when it looked as though he <\/p>\n
378
\n00:20:17,800 –> 00:20:20,560
\nwas not going to be persuaded,
\nand by the gesture of the Holy <\/p>\n
379
\n00:20:20,560 –> 00:20:24,000
\nSpirit, even bigger guns were
\nbought, brought to bear upon his<\/p>\n
380
\n00:20:24,000 –> 00:20:25,960
\ndetermination.
\nAnd Agabus came along. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:20:25,960 –> 00:20:28,880
\nAnd he said, this is what will
\nhappen if you go to Jerusalem <\/p>\n
382
\n00:20:29,200 –> 00:20:31,560
\nand by implication stop.
\nWell, there’s time. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:20:31,560 –> 00:20:34,960
\nAnd when all the disciples had
\ntheir tearful entreaties, don’t <\/p>\n
384
\n00:20:34,960 –> 00:20:37,720
\ngo what mean?
\nIs a weep and break my heart. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:20:38,280 –> 00:20:41,120
\nIt seems as though Paul had had
\nto fight his way through the <\/p>\n
386
\n00:20:41,120 –> 00:20:43,360
\nopposition to keep on with his
\njourneys to Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:20:45,120 –> 00:20:47,240
\nI mean not told that he missed
\nthe day of Pentecost, but it <\/p>\n
388
\n00:20:47,240 –> 00:20:50,440
\nseemed very likely that he did,
\nhaving stayed in Caesarea for <\/p>\n
389
\n00:20:50,440 –> 00:20:53,600
\nmany days, but he got to
\nJerusalem at some time anyhow. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:20:55,760 –> 00:20:58,360
\nNow when he got there, you know
\nroughly the course of what <\/p>\n
391
\n00:20:58,360 –> 00:21:01,600
\nhappened.
\nFirst of all, he meets delegates<\/p>\n
392
\n00:21:01,600 –> 00:21:03,800
\nfrom the Church there, which
\ntell him that there are quite a <\/p>\n
393
\n00:21:03,800 –> 00:21:07,080
\nlot of people suspicious that
\nPaul is not being faithful to <\/p>\n
394
\n00:21:07,080 –> 00:21:10,160
\nthe law as they require it, and
\nis telling people to break the <\/p>\n
395
\n00:21:10,160 –> 00:21:13,720
\nlaw and not to circumcise their
\nchildren, which he did say, the <\/p>\n
396
\n00:21:13,720 –> 00:21:17,520
\nGentiles, of course.
\nSecondly, there’s that suggested<\/p>\n
397
\n00:21:17,520 –> 00:21:20,120
\nplan of theirs, that what he
\nought to do in order to clear <\/p>\n
398
\n00:21:20,120 –> 00:21:23,360
\nhimself of this charge is to
\ntake two men who were reaching <\/p>\n
399
\n00:21:23,360 –> 00:21:26,760
\nthe end of their vows and pay
\ntheir terminal fees, as it were,<\/p>\n
400
\n00:21:26,840 –> 00:21:29,960
\nwhich is a common act of vow
\nsponsors in those days. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:21:30,200 –> 00:21:32,520
\nAnd then everybody would know he
\nwas being a good Jew as far as <\/p>\n
402
\n00:21:32,520 –> 00:21:34,160
\nhis own personal life was
\nconcerned. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:21:34,400 –> 00:21:37,560
\nAnd Paul accepted that advice
\nand went with them into the <\/p>\n
404
\n00:21:37,560 –> 00:21:39,720
\nTemple.
\nAnd there the trouble arose. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:21:40,520 –> 00:21:43,200
\nThe Jews assembled round him.
\nThey made a false accusation <\/p>\n
406
\n00:21:43,440 –> 00:21:45,880
\nthat he had brought into the
\nforbidden places, trop him as a <\/p>\n
407
\n00:21:45,880 –> 00:21:49,480
\ngentile, which he hadn’t.
\nAnd on that charge they took him<\/p>\n
408
\n00:21:49,480 –> 00:21:52,160
\nout, and were in the post
\nprocess of setting a lynching <\/p>\n
409
\n00:21:52,160 –> 00:21:55,720
\noperation in motion, when news
\ncame to the ears of Claudius <\/p>\n
410
\n00:21:55,720 –> 00:21:58,680
\nLycius, the Roman governor.
\nAnd he was delivered from them, <\/p>\n
411
\n00:21:59,000 –> 00:22:02,160
\nallowed to make a speech upon
\nthe steps, and then confined in <\/p>\n
412
\n00:22:02,160 –> 00:22:04,080
\nprison till they could decide
\nwhat to do with him. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:22:05,320 –> 00:22:08,160
\nThey were about to scourge him,
\nand Paul used his Roman <\/p>\n
414
\n00:22:08,160 –> 00:22:09,840
\ncitizenship as the reason why
\nthey shouldn’t. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:22:09,840 –> 00:22:13,320
\nSo they didn’t.
\nHe had appeared before the Jews,<\/p>\n
416
\n00:22:13,320 –> 00:22:15,920
\nand they weren’t at all pleased
\nwith what they heard, Cried out <\/p>\n
417
\n00:22:15,920 –> 00:22:17,880
\nthat this man should be taken
\naway from the earth, but it was <\/p>\n
418
\n00:22:17,880 –> 00:22:21,000
\nnot fit that he should live.
\nThen they made a plot against <\/p>\n
419
\n00:22:21,000 –> 00:22:23,160
\nhim, and certain men bound
\nthemselves with an oath, but <\/p>\n
420
\n00:22:23,160 –> 00:22:25,440
\nthey would not eat or drink till
\nthey had killed Paul. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:22:25,600 –> 00:22:28,760
\nAnd I often wonder what happened
\nto them, because some relation <\/p>\n
422
\n00:22:28,760 –> 00:22:31,640
\nto Paul came and made the
\ncaptain aware of the fact that <\/p>\n
423
\n00:22:31,640 –> 00:22:34,640
\nthis plot was there, and he was
\nsent away under a very heavy <\/p>\n
424
\n00:22:34,640 –> 00:22:37,440
\narmed guard until he came to
\nCaesarea, and there he was put <\/p>\n
425
\n00:22:37,440 –> 00:22:40,240
\nin prison there.
\nThere you will know, he stood <\/p>\n
426
\n00:22:40,240 –> 00:22:42,920
\ntrial before Festus, who had
\nwanted him to go to Jerusalem, <\/p>\n
427
\n00:22:43,320 –> 00:22:45,920
\nand then before Felix had
\nfollowed Festus, and then as a <\/p>\n
428
\n00:22:45,920 –> 00:22:50,680
\nkind of public, informal holiday
\nhearing before King Agrippa, and<\/p>\n
429
\n00:22:50,680 –> 00:22:53,640
\nduring the course of all those
\nthings he said, Because it seems<\/p>\n
430
\n00:22:53,640 –> 00:22:56,520
\nI can’t rely upon justice here.
\nAs a Roman citizen, I use my <\/p>\n
431
\n00:22:56,520 –> 00:22:59,240
\nlast line of defence, and I
\nappeal unto Caesar. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:23:00,680 –> 00:23:04,360
\nThere’s always what strikes me
\nas being a rather strange form <\/p>\n
433
\n00:23:04,360 –> 00:23:06,480
\nof speech used in connection
\nwith appeal to Caesar. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:23:07,320 –> 00:23:09,160
\nHe appeals to Caesar.
\nAnd the Roman governor says, <\/p>\n
435
\n00:23:09,280 –> 00:23:12,200
\nhast thou appealed unto Caesar?
\nUnto Caesar thou shalt go with <\/p>\n
436
\n00:23:12,200 –> 00:23:15,240
\nall due pomp and solemnity.
\nAnd then when King Agrifa comes <\/p>\n
437
\n00:23:15,240 –> 00:23:17,880
\nalong, the Roman governor says,
\nI’d like you to hear this man <\/p>\n
438
\n00:23:17,880 –> 00:23:21,520
\nbecause he’s appealed to Caesar
\nand it seemed to be unreasonable<\/p>\n
439
\n00:23:22,120 –> 00:23:25,160
\nto send a man unto Caesar and
\nnot with all to signify the <\/p>\n
440
\n00:23:25,160 –> 00:23:27,680
\ncharges laid against him.
\nI should have thought it was <\/p>\n
441
\n00:23:27,680 –> 00:23:30,120
\ntoo, wouldn’t you?
\nHe didn’t appear to know what he<\/p>\n
442
\n00:23:30,120 –> 00:23:33,520
\nought to say, and he’d got to
\nfind out this not unreasonable <\/p>\n
443
\n00:23:33,520 –> 00:23:35,760
\nthing of signifying the charges
\nthat were against him. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:23:36,880 –> 00:23:38,280
\nAnyway, that’s jumping the
\nstory. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:23:38,280 –> 00:23:40,120
\nWe will just finish the acts
\nrecord, though. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:23:40,320 –> 00:23:43,440
\nHe does, as you know, go through
\nvarious trials and tribulations <\/p>\n
447
\n00:23:43,440 –> 00:23:46,600
\nat shipwreck until he lands at
\nMalta and then finally finds <\/p>\n
448
\n00:23:46,600 –> 00:23:49,640
\nhimself in Rome, where he is
\nallowed to meet with friends, <\/p>\n
449
\n00:23:49,640 –> 00:23:52,760
\nwhere he has soldiers that keep
\nhim, where his own hired house <\/p>\n
450
\n00:23:52,760 –> 00:23:54,240
\nis his home and he’s well
\ntreated. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:23:54,480 –> 00:23:55,760
\nAnd there he stays for two
\nyears. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:23:55,760 –> 00:23:57,840
\nAnd that’s doesn’t say what
\nhappened after that. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:23:58,800 –> 00:24:01,320
\nBut the common belief, and I
\nthink the right one, is that <\/p>\n
454
\n00:24:01,560 –> 00:24:04,840
\nsince Roman law required that
\ncharges must be pressed and the <\/p>\n
455
\n00:24:04,840 –> 00:24:08,200
\ntrial be held within two years
\nof the accusation, since nobody <\/p>\n
456
\n00:24:08,200 –> 00:24:10,640
\ncame and offered that
\naccusation, he was released to <\/p>\n
457
\n00:24:10,640 –> 00:24:13,280
\ndo the rest of the work.
\nWe’ve spoken about and write his<\/p>\n
458
\n00:24:13,280 –> 00:24:16,800
\nlast letters to Timothy and
\nTitus and once again find <\/p>\n
459
\n00:24:16,800 –> 00:24:19,640
\nhimself imprisoned in near those
\ndays and suffer execution. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:24:21,400 –> 00:24:24,800
\nBut we go back to the point
\nwhere he’s shown an intense <\/p>\n
461
\n00:24:24,800 –> 00:24:28,200
\ndetermination to go to Jerusalem
\nand he’s got there and it’s not <\/p>\n
462
\n00:24:28,200 –> 00:24:32,040
\ndone him any good.
\nWhen he gets to Jerusalem, he <\/p>\n
463
\n00:24:32,040 –> 00:24:35,480
\nmakes one speech in which in a
\nsense it almost reveals that he <\/p>\n
464
\n00:24:35,480 –> 00:24:37,720
\nought to have known that it
\nwouldn’t have done any good. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:24:38,200 –> 00:24:46,200
\nSo if we turn to the speech of
\nPaul in Acts Chapter 22, Paul is<\/p>\n
466
\n00:24:46,200 –> 00:24:48,920
\nthere describing his conversion,
\nwhich had taken place these many<\/p>\n
467
\n00:24:48,920 –> 00:24:56,680
\nyears before, and in verse 14
\nrecords the speech of Ananias to<\/p>\n
468
\n00:24:56,680 –> 00:25:01,400
\nhim before he was baptized.
\nAnd Ananias said, The God of our<\/p>\n
469
\n00:25:01,400 –> 00:25:04,320
\nFathers have chosen thee, that
\nthou shouldest know his will, <\/p>\n
470
\n00:25:05,280 –> 00:25:07,880
\nand see that just one and
\nshouldest hear the voice of his <\/p>\n
471
\n00:25:07,880 –> 00:25:10,200
\nmouth.
\nFor thou shall be his witness <\/p>\n
472
\n00:25:10,200 –> 00:25:12,400
\nunto all men of what thou hast
\nseen and heard. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:25:13,280 –> 00:25:17,280
\nAnd now why, Tarius, thou arise,
\nand be baptized, and wash away <\/p>\n
474
\n00:25:17,280 –> 00:25:19,640
\nthy sins, calling on the name of
\nthe Lord. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:25:20,720 –> 00:25:23,400
\nAnd it came to pass, because
\nwhen I was come again to <\/p>\n
476
\n00:25:23,400 –> 00:25:26,360
\nJerusalem, and while I prayed in
\nthe temple, I fell into a <\/p>\n
477
\n00:25:26,360 –> 00:25:29,520
\ntrance, and saw him saying unto
\nme, Make haste and get thee <\/p>\n
478
\n00:25:29,520 –> 00:25:32,440
\nquickly out of Jerusalem,
\nbecause they will not precede <\/p>\n
479
\n00:25:32,440 –> 00:25:35,680
\nthy testimony concerning me,
\nwhich accounts for the haste <\/p>\n
480
\n00:25:35,680 –> 00:25:38,440
\nwith which Paul was sent away
\nfrom Jerusalem at the end of <\/p>\n
481
\n00:25:38,440 –> 00:25:40,200
\nActs Chapter 9, which we read
\nearlier. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:25:40,880 –> 00:25:44,800
\nAnd I said, Lord, they know that
\nI imprisoned and beat in every <\/p>\n
483
\n00:25:44,800 –> 00:25:46,560
\nsynagogue them that believed on
\nthee. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:25:47,320 –> 00:25:50,360
\nAnd when the blood of Steve and
\nthy holy martyr was shed, I also<\/p>\n
485
\n00:25:50,360 –> 00:25:53,200
\nwas standing by and consenting
\nunto his death, and kept the <\/p>\n
486
\n00:25:53,200 –> 00:25:58,320
\nraiment of them that slew him.
\nAnd he said, Depart, For I will <\/p>\n
487
\n00:25:58,320 –> 00:26:00,360
\nsend thee 5 heads unto the
\nGentiles. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:26:02,200 –> 00:26:04,600
\nBut if we can reconstruct that
\nreasoning that took place <\/p>\n
489
\n00:26:04,600 –> 00:26:07,440
\nbetween Paul and his Lord at
\nthat time, it would seem that <\/p>\n
490
\n00:26:07,440 –> 00:26:10,480
\nJesus is saying, Paul, you’re
\nout of place in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:26:11,320 –> 00:26:14,320
\nYou won’t do any good here.
\nYou’ve got to get away and go <\/p>\n
492
\n00:26:14,320 –> 00:26:15,720
\nsomewhere where you will do some
\ngood. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:26:15,720 –> 00:26:19,080
\nSo depart out of Jerusalem.
\nHere they will not receive thy <\/p>\n
494
\n00:26:19,080 –> 00:26:21,320
\ntestimony concerning me, Paul
\nsays. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:26:21,320 –> 00:26:23,320
\nBut Lord, if only they’ll
\nlisten. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:26:24,200 –> 00:26:26,160
\nI used to be the ringleader of
\npersecution. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:26:26,440 –> 00:26:28,960
\nI was the one who gave my voice
\nagainst Stephen when he was <\/p>\n
498
\n00:26:28,960 –> 00:26:30,720
\nmartyred.
\nSurely they will see that I <\/p>\n
499
\n00:26:30,720 –> 00:26:32,880
\nwouldn’t have changed from that
\nfor a very good reason. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:26:33,000 –> 00:26:35,080
\nAnd I’m not the very best person
\nto reason with them. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:26:35,080 –> 00:26:37,760
\nSay I used to be one of you and
\nnow I’ve been converted. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:26:37,760 –> 00:26:41,720
\nThis is why you must see the
\nreasonable reasonableness of it.<\/p>\n
503
\n00:26:41,720 –> 00:26:43,440
\nWhy don’t you come and join me
\nnow? <\/p>\n
504
\n00:26:43,440 –> 00:26:45,880
\nI suppose in what Paul was
\npleading before the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
505
\n00:26:45,880 –> 00:26:50,160
\nChrist, And Jesus, as was his
\nauthoritative right, brought the<\/p>\n
506
\n00:26:50,160 –> 00:26:52,280
\ndiscussion to an end and said
\nthat’s enough of that. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:26:52,320 –> 00:26:56,600
\nGet out, Depart.
\nI will send thee far hence even <\/p>\n
508
\n00:26:56,600 –> 00:27:01,680
\nunto the Gentiles.
\nWell, Paul got out, and he went <\/p>\n
509
\n00:27:01,680 –> 00:27:05,440
\nto the Gentiles and he returned
\nto Jerusalem, but only into the <\/p>\n
510
\n00:27:05,440 –> 00:27:08,120
\ndisciples company at the end of
\nthe first missionary journey, <\/p>\n
511
\n00:27:08,480 –> 00:27:11,680
\nChapter 15.
\nAnd briefly, so briefly, that we<\/p>\n
512
\n00:27:11,680 –> 00:27:14,280
\nhave no record of what was done
\nat the end of the second <\/p>\n
513
\n00:27:14,280 –> 00:27:16,640
\nmissionary journey.
\nActs chapter 18. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:27:16,640 –> 00:27:20,680
\nAnd now he is there again.
\nAnd the Lord Jesus proved so <\/p>\n
515
\n00:27:20,680 –> 00:27:23,280
\nright.
\nFor Paul has not had the <\/p>\n
516
\n00:27:23,280 –> 00:27:26,280
\ntestimony received.
\nHe has tried it, and he’s been <\/p>\n
517
\n00:27:26,280 –> 00:27:28,000
\nseized almost before he can open
\nhis mouth. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:27:28,960 –> 00:27:31,600
\nAnd his speeches he makes are
\nfrom the dark, from the from the<\/p>\n
519
\n00:27:31,600 –> 00:27:34,360
\nwitness stand.
\nHe is there as a criminal on <\/p>\n
520
\n00:27:34,360 –> 00:27:38,280
\ntrial, and when he does report
\nthe words which the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
521
\n00:27:38,280 –> 00:27:42,520
\nChrist spoke to him when he said
\ndepart the first time from <\/p>\n
522
\n00:27:42,520 –> 00:27:45,480
\nJerusalem, for they will not
\nreceive thy testimony concerning<\/p>\n
523
\n00:27:45,480 –> 00:27:47,840
\nme.
\nIt is as though he said, leave <\/p>\n
524
\n00:27:47,840 –> 00:27:50,800
\nJerusalem, because there’s no
\ngood disdain there, no good in <\/p>\n
525
\n00:27:50,800 –> 00:27:52,680
\ncoming back to preach, no
\nefforts. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:27:52,680 –> 00:27:54,920
\nYou try to reach my name here
\nwill do any good. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:27:55,120 –> 00:27:58,520
\nAnd when he says it to the Jews
\nin Acts chapter 22, it is as <\/p>\n
528
\n00:27:58,520 –> 00:28:01,000
\nthough he said.
\nAnd now I see how right he was. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:28:02,760 –> 00:28:05,080
\nAnd when he goes on to the point
\nwhere he says, and the Lord <\/p>\n
530
\n00:28:05,080 –> 00:28:08,360
\nsaid, go from Jerusalem and
\npreach to the Gentiles, then in <\/p>\n
531
\n00:28:08,360 –> 00:28:11,760
\nscreaming their hate at him,
\nthey make plain why most of all <\/p>\n
532
\n00:28:11,760 –> 00:28:14,560
\nthey dislike him.
\nThey heard him with some degree <\/p>\n
533
\n00:28:14,560 –> 00:28:17,880
\nof quietness till that point.
\nAnd then they said, oh, why with<\/p>\n
534
\n00:28:17,880 –> 00:28:21,320
\nsuch a fellow from the earth it
\nis not fit that he should live? <\/p>\n
535
\n00:28:21,560 –> 00:28:24,600
\nAnd they cried out and cast off
\ntheir clothes and threw dust <\/p>\n
536
\n00:28:24,600 –> 00:28:27,600
\ninto the air.
\nAnd the chief captain commanded <\/p>\n
537
\n00:28:27,600 –> 00:28:30,160
\nhim to be brought into the
\ncastle, and beard that he should<\/p>\n
538
\n00:28:30,160 –> 00:28:36,280
\nbe examined by scourging.
\nNow piece together these things.<\/p>\n
539
\n00:28:37,480 –> 00:28:39,960
\nPaul knew from the very
\nbeginning that to attempt to <\/p>\n
540
\n00:28:39,960 –> 00:28:41,760
\npreach in Jerusalem would be
\nfruitless. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:28:41,760 –> 00:28:46,800
\nJesus had said so.
\nYet Paul, possibly during the <\/p>\n
542
\n00:28:46,800 –> 00:28:51,520
\nsecond missionary journey when
\nhe was at Corinth and Sankari, <\/p>\n
543
\n00:28:52,320 –> 00:28:56,200
\nhad made some kind of a vow
\nwhich led him immediately to go <\/p>\n
544
\n00:28:56,200 –> 00:28:58,400
\nback to Jerusalem.
\nAnd there seems to be some <\/p>\n
545
\n00:28:58,400 –> 00:29:02,360
\nunspecified link between the
\ntwo, but whatever it was did not<\/p>\n
546
\n00:29:02,360 –> 00:29:05,920
\ncome to completion.
\nThen, having gone on his third <\/p>\n
547
\n00:29:05,920 –> 00:29:08,720
\nmissionary journey, he’s on the
\nway outwards still when he <\/p>\n
548
\n00:29:08,720 –> 00:29:12,360
\npurposed in the Spirit to make
\nwhat looks like a whistle stop <\/p>\n
549
\n00:29:12,360 –> 00:29:17,040
\ntour of Macedonia and Acaya, and
\nthen go to Jerusalem, from which<\/p>\n
550
\n00:29:17,320 –> 00:29:22,360
\nhe says I must also see Rome.
\nWhen he goes on to Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:29:22,360 –> 00:29:26,080
\nWherever he goes, he says, I am
\nbound in the Spirit and I’m <\/p>\n
552
\n00:29:26,080 –> 00:29:29,880
\ngoing, but admits in every city
\nthe Holy Spirit says, if you do,<\/p>\n
553
\n00:29:29,880 –> 00:29:34,800
\nbonds and afflictions abide you.
\nWhen he gets to see Zaria, in <\/p>\n
554
\n00:29:34,800 –> 00:29:37,320
\naddition to the possible efforts
\nof Philip’s four daughters, who <\/p>\n
555
\n00:29:37,320 –> 00:29:40,760
\nwere prophetesses, there’s the
\nundoubted effort of Agabus, who <\/p>\n
556
\n00:29:40,760 –> 00:29:43,280
\nwith the binding of the feet
\nwith the girdle, says that’s <\/p>\n
557
\n00:29:43,280 –> 00:29:46,520
\nwhat will happen if you will go
\nto Jerusalem and he gets there. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:29:46,520 –> 00:29:47,840
\nAnd all the prophets proved
\nright. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:29:49,000 –> 00:29:51,160
\nHe’s not allowed to witness at
\nliberty at all. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:29:52,040 –> 00:29:55,200
\nThey intend, if they can, to use
\nevery possible means, fair, <\/p>\n
561
\n00:29:55,200 –> 00:29:57,600
\nfairly fair, or very foul, to
\nget rid of him. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:29:58,200 –> 00:30:01,360
\nAnd from that place he goes to
\nRome to stand on trial before <\/p>\n
563
\n00:30:01,360 –> 00:30:03,560
\nCaesar if the witnesses arrive
\non time. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:30:05,440 –> 00:30:08,680
\nNow how do we reconcile together
\n2 interesting things? <\/p>\n
565
\n00:30:08,680 –> 00:30:11,960
\nOne is that Paul determined to
\ngo to Jerusalem and nothing <\/p>\n
566
\n00:30:11,960 –> 00:30:15,920
\nwould stop him.
\nAnd the other is that the Holy <\/p>\n
567
\n00:30:15,920 –> 00:30:18,880
\nSpirit, by whatever means, was
\nrepeatedly used to tell him that<\/p>\n
568
\n00:30:18,880 –> 00:30:22,080
\nit would be useless and in fact
\nthat he shouldn’t go. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:30:23,800 –> 00:30:28,080
\nWell, how do you reconcile them?
\nPaul was a very faithful <\/p>\n
570
\n00:30:28,080 –> 00:30:33,320
\napostle, very devoted to his
\nLord, who would have done <\/p>\n
571
\n00:30:33,320 –> 00:30:37,520
\nnothing to contravene the
\ncommandments of the Lord unless <\/p>\n
572
\n00:30:37,520 –> 00:30:40,240
\nit were for some absolutely
\noverwhelming reason. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:30:41,800 –> 00:30:45,600
\nYet Paul determined to go to
\nJerusalem in spite of everything<\/p>\n
574
\n00:30:46,720 –> 00:30:49,160
\nand in spite of constant
\nwitnesses that to go there would<\/p>\n
575
\n00:30:49,160 –> 00:30:51,840
\nbe useless.
\nHow do we reconcile those two <\/p>\n
576
\n00:30:52,120 –> 00:30:54,840
\nthat the Lord said don’t go and
\nPaul said I’m going? <\/p>\n
577
\n00:30:57,320 –> 00:31:01,040
\nWell, I think there is a way,
\nand I think we find that way in <\/p>\n
578
\n00:31:01,040 –> 00:31:03,720
\nhis letters of the Romans, which
\nwould have been written during <\/p>\n
579
\n00:31:03,720 –> 00:31:06,920
\nthat third missionary journey at
\nthe point where this crisis was <\/p>\n
580
\n00:31:06,920 –> 00:31:10,120
\nstrung upon him, whether he will
\ngo to Jerusalem or not. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:31:10,680 –> 00:31:24,080
\nRomans Chapter 9
\nI say the truth in Christ. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:31:25,240 –> 00:31:29,920
\nI lie not my conscience, also,
\nbearing me witness in the Holy <\/p>\n
583
\n00:31:29,920 –> 00:31:34,200
\nSpirit, that I have great
\nheaviness and continual sorrow <\/p>\n
584
\n00:31:34,200 –> 00:31:38,120
\nin my heart.
\nFor I could wish that myself <\/p>\n
585
\n00:31:38,120 –> 00:31:42,040
\nwere a cursed from Christ.
\nFor my brethren, my kinsmen <\/p>\n
586
\n00:31:42,040 –> 00:31:45,920
\naccording to the flesh, who are
\nIsraelites, to whom pertaineth <\/p>\n
587
\n00:31:45,920 –> 00:31:50,520
\nthe adoption and the glory and
\nthe covenant, and the giving of <\/p>\n
588
\n00:31:50,520 –> 00:31:56,200
\nthe law and the service of God,
\nand the promises, whose are the <\/p>\n
589
\n00:31:56,200 –> 00:31:59,000
\nfathers, and of whom, as
\nconcerning the flesh, Christ <\/p>\n
590
\n00:31:59,000 –> 00:32:03,600
\ncame, who is over all God
\nblessed forever. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:32:05,160 –> 00:32:09,960
\nAmen.
\nListen to the confession of that<\/p>\n
592
\n00:32:09,960 –> 00:32:13,680
\nman.
\nI say the truth in Christ. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:32:15,920 –> 00:32:18,400
\nWhoever would have thought that
\nPaul wouldn’t say the truth? <\/p>\n
594
\n00:32:20,040 –> 00:32:23,240
\nUsually that doesn’t need
\nsaying, not for a man you know <\/p>\n
595
\n00:32:23,240 –> 00:32:27,400
\nto be honourable.
\nIf I say well as a matter of <\/p>\n
596
\n00:32:27,400 –> 00:32:29,680
\nfact, you begin to wonder
\nwhether I am speaking the truth,<\/p>\n
597
\n00:32:29,680 –> 00:32:34,400
\nbecause my my very confirmations
\nor truthfully and so forth tend <\/p>\n
598
\n00:32:34,400 –> 00:32:36,680
\nto suggest that if I’m speaking
\nthe truth, no I wasn’t last <\/p>\n
599
\n00:32:36,680 –> 00:32:40,320
\ntime.
\nOur sealing of things with <\/p>\n
600
\n00:32:40,320 –> 00:32:44,080
\naffirmations tends to cast in
\ndoubt whether our normal how it <\/p>\n
601
\n00:32:44,080 –> 00:32:48,320
\nis to speak the truth, which is
\nno doubt one of the very good <\/p>\n
602
\n00:32:48,320 –> 00:32:51,520
\nreasons why the Lord told us not
\nto swear by Jerusalem, or by <\/p>\n
603
\n00:32:51,840 –> 00:32:54,280
\nGod’s throne, or by our hair, or
\nwhatever it might be. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:32:54,280 –> 00:32:57,040
\nBecause we couldn’t change any
\nof that but to let our gay be <\/p>\n
605
\n00:32:57,040 –> 00:33:00,720
\ngay and our nay be nay warning
\nus that whatsoever came of that <\/p>\n
606
\n00:33:01,400 –> 00:33:05,920
\nexceeded that came of evil.
\nThat’s why one takes so little <\/p>\n
607
\n00:33:05,920 –> 00:33:08,800
\nnotice when men take the book in
\ntheir hand and swear by almighty<\/p>\n
608
\n00:33:08,800 –> 00:33:11,160
\nGod that they will speak the
\ntruth, the whole truth, and <\/p>\n
609
\n00:33:11,160 –> 00:33:13,640
\nnothing but the truth, when we
\nknow very well that at least a <\/p>\n
610
\n00:33:13,640 –> 00:33:15,880
\ncriminal on the witness stand is
\nnot going to speak the truth if <\/p>\n
611
\n00:33:15,880 –> 00:33:20,280
\nhe was guilty.
\nSo when the Apostle Paul says I <\/p>\n
612
\n00:33:20,280 –> 00:33:22,760
\nsay the truth in Christ, there
\nmust be some very special reason<\/p>\n
613
\n00:33:22,760 –> 00:33:25,160
\nfor it.
\nHe wouldn’t normally have needed<\/p>\n
614
\n00:33:25,160 –> 00:33:28,000
\nto emphasize that, but now he
\nwants there to be no <\/p>\n
615
\n00:33:28,000 –> 00:33:30,840
\nmisunderstanding.
\nI am telling you the truth, he <\/p>\n
616
\n00:33:30,840 –> 00:33:36,880
\nsays.
\nBut he says in Christ, and <\/p>\n
617
\n00:33:36,880 –> 00:33:39,760
\nalthough in the ordinary way the
\ncounselor Scripture both from <\/p>\n
618
\n00:33:39,800 –> 00:33:44,680
\nJesus and from James, is that we
\ndon’t take oaths yet to say the <\/p>\n
619
\n00:33:44,680 –> 00:33:47,400
\ntruth in Christ is surely to
\nsay, I say the truth with the <\/p>\n
620
\n00:33:47,400 –> 00:33:51,000
\nLord Jesus Christ as witness.
\nHe knows I’m telling the truth. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:33:51,120 –> 00:33:53,800
\nI stake my reputation on what
\nJesus hears me say. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:33:54,280 –> 00:33:58,640
\nI say the truth in Christ and
\nthen double if you emphasize it.<\/p>\n
623
\n00:33:58,760 –> 00:34:02,880
\nI lie not.
\nSo what I’m telling you now, <\/p>\n
624
\n00:34:02,880 –> 00:34:06,880
\nsays Paul, is solemn, literal,
\nhard fact. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:34:06,880 –> 00:34:09,480
\nThere’s not a word of
\nexaggeration or invention about <\/p>\n
626
\n00:34:09,480 –> 00:34:11,920
\nit.
\nMy conscience also bearing me <\/p>\n
627
\n00:34:11,920 –> 00:34:15,400
\nwitness in the Holy Spirit.
\nKnowing that God’s spirit is <\/p>\n
628
\n00:34:15,400 –> 00:34:18,719
\neverywhere and that by that he
\nhears and every word that I <\/p>\n
629
\n00:34:18,719 –> 00:34:22,280
\nspeak and knows every intent of
\nmy heart, I say my conscience is<\/p>\n
630
\n00:34:22,280 –> 00:34:25,040
\nclear in this matter.
\nWhat I say is 100% right. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:34:25,280 –> 00:34:29,719
\nThis is the truth.
\nAnd what is the truth? <\/p>\n
632
\n00:34:31,320 –> 00:34:38,120
\nThat I have great heaviness and
\ncontinual sorrow in my heart? <\/p>\n
633
\n00:34:40,360 –> 00:34:42,520
\nHaving read the verses to
\nfollow, we know that it is <\/p>\n
634
\n00:34:42,520 –> 00:34:46,679
\nconcerning the condition of his
\nown people that Paul has great <\/p>\n
635
\n00:34:46,679 –> 00:34:48,920
\nheaviness and continual sorrow
\nin his heart. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:34:50,520 –> 00:34:55,000
\nHe went about from hour to hour,
\nfrom day-to-day, from week to <\/p>\n
637
\n00:34:55,000 –> 00:34:58,120
\nweek.
\nNight by night he went to bed <\/p>\n
638
\n00:34:58,120 –> 00:35:01,760
\nwith an ache in his heart,
\nsomething that couldn’t be <\/p>\n
639
\n00:35:01,760 –> 00:35:05,120
\nhealed.
\nAlways I hungover him, that <\/p>\n
640
\n00:35:05,120 –> 00:35:09,240
\nheaviness, but something that
\ngrieved him and could not be <\/p>\n
641
\n00:35:09,240 –> 00:35:12,960
\ncured.
\nI have great heaviness and <\/p>\n
642
\n00:35:12,960 –> 00:35:18,640
\ncontinual sorrow in my heart.
\nNot a moment’s beast did this <\/p>\n
643
\n00:35:18,640 –> 00:35:23,160
\nman have from something that
\nafflicted him so grievously. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:35:24,760 –> 00:35:30,680
\nAnd it was all about his fellow
\nJews, all about that misguided <\/p>\n
645
\n00:35:30,680 –> 00:35:33,880
\nbody of people whose privileges
\nwere so great and who were <\/p>\n
646
\n00:35:33,880 –> 00:35:40,320
\nthrowing them away, whose were
\nthe fathers and the promises and<\/p>\n
647
\n00:35:40,320 –> 00:35:44,160
\nthe covenants, from whom
\nconcerning the best Christ came,<\/p>\n
648
\n00:35:44,720 –> 00:35:46,960
\nwho is over all.
\nAnd God be blessed to sending <\/p>\n
649
\n00:35:46,960 –> 00:35:49,040
\nhim with one of the
\ncharacteristic doxologist that <\/p>\n
650
\n00:35:49,040 –> 00:35:53,400
\nPaul does indulge in.
\nI’m grieved that my people don’t<\/p>\n
651
\n00:35:54,040 –> 00:35:57,240
\npursuit of the pool.
\nThere the starting point <\/p>\n
652
\n00:35:57,240 –> 00:36:03,000
\nadvantages in being the heirs of
\nall that and instead throw it <\/p>\n
653
\n00:36:03,000 –> 00:36:06,360
\naway.
\nBeing ignorant of God’s <\/p>\n
654
\n00:36:06,360 –> 00:36:08,760
\nrighteousness and going about to
\nestablish their own <\/p>\n
655
\n00:36:08,760 –> 00:36:12,480
\nrighteousness, they have not
\nsubmitted themselves unto the <\/p>\n
656
\n00:36:12,480 –> 00:36:17,080
\nrighteousness of God.
\nI’ve no peace in my mind as long<\/p>\n
657
\n00:36:17,080 –> 00:36:24,080
\nas that persists.
\nWell then, if Paul has no peace <\/p>\n
658
\n00:36:24,080 –> 00:36:28,480
\nin his mind, as long as that
\npersists, and if nothing could <\/p>\n
659
\n00:36:28,480 –> 00:36:32,440
\ncure the ache of being grieved
\nover the rejection of Christ by <\/p>\n
660
\n00:36:32,440 –> 00:36:37,440
\nhis people, what could he do?
\nHe said There’s nothing I <\/p>\n
661
\n00:36:37,440 –> 00:36:41,400
\nwouldn’t do.
\nI do everything possible, <\/p>\n
662
\n00:36:43,000 –> 00:36:50,120
\neverything permissible, and he
\nalmost seems to say even more if<\/p>\n
663
\n00:36:50,120 –> 00:36:52,960
\nonly I had the opportunity of
\ngetting that message through to <\/p>\n
664
\n00:36:52,960 –> 00:36:58,000
\nthem, I could wish myself a
\ncursed from Christ for my <\/p>\n
665
\n00:36:58,000 –> 00:37:01,880
\nbrethren who throw aside such
\nprivileges. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:37:04,040 –> 00:37:08,080
\nNow that when Paul tells you he
\nis speaking the truth in Christ,<\/p>\n
667
\n00:37:08,360 –> 00:37:11,440
\nlying not his conscience is
\nclear in the Holy Spirit must <\/p>\n
668
\n00:37:11,440 –> 00:37:13,840
\nmean that he could wish himself
\na curse from Christ. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:37:14,560 –> 00:37:18,000
\nThat’s what he’s saying.
\nAnd he’s not lying for his <\/p>\n
670
\n00:37:18,000 –> 00:37:21,960
\nbrethren, who are rejecting such
\na precious heritage. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:37:23,880 –> 00:37:26,720
\nAnd that if we take it as
\nliterally, as Paul puts it, <\/p>\n
672
\n00:37:27,720 –> 00:37:30,280
\nagreeing with him, is he
\noffering no exaggeration that <\/p>\n
673
\n00:37:30,280 –> 00:37:34,800
\nthis is just what he means,
\nmeans that Paul says. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:37:35,240 –> 00:37:40,600
\nIf I had to suffer my own
\nrejection from my Lord in order <\/p>\n
675
\n00:37:40,600 –> 00:37:43,640
\nto do what must be done, to make
\nknown his ways to my people, I <\/p>\n
676
\n00:37:43,640 –> 00:37:49,680
\nwould do it.
\nIn which case, can we not see <\/p>\n
677
\n00:37:49,680 –> 00:37:52,680
\nthat reconciliation between the
\ntwo impossibles? <\/p>\n
678
\n00:37:52,680 –> 00:37:58,120
\nOne, don’t go, Paul reinforced
\nby the witness of the Holy <\/p>\n
679
\n00:37:58,120 –> 00:38:02,720
\nSpirit.
\nAnd two, I’m going. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:38:02,720 –> 00:38:06,400
\nWhatever you say, I will not be
\ndissuaded. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:38:07,560 –> 00:38:10,320
\nI am willing not only to suffer
\nat Jerusalem, but to die. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:38:12,560 –> 00:38:15,040
\nSo the Lord says it’s no use.
\nPaul, I don’t want you to go. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:38:17,000 –> 00:38:18,760
\nAnd Paul says it’s no use, Lord,
\nI can’t help it. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:38:20,760 –> 00:38:23,040
\nAnd he goes, and the Lord is
\nright, of course, absolutely <\/p>\n
685
\n00:38:23,040 –> 00:38:25,280
\nright.
\nBut Paul has at least cleared <\/p>\n
686
\n00:38:25,280 –> 00:38:27,280
\nhis function.
\nSo he says at least 1\/2 of the <\/p>\n
687
\n00:38:27,280 –> 00:38:28,960
\nconscience that was concerns his
\nown people. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:38:30,600 –> 00:38:35,440
\nAnd he’s failed as he was bound
\nto fail in the face of so <\/p>\n
689
\n00:38:35,440 –> 00:38:40,000
\nimplacable an enemy.
\nBut he tried, and his own <\/p>\n
690
\n00:38:40,000 –> 00:38:42,520
\nconviction bound in the Spirit.
\nThat was all he could do. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:38:45,960 –> 00:38:49,000
\nWhen one goes against the
\ninstructions of the Lord for <\/p>\n
692
\n00:38:49,000 –> 00:38:51,640
\nunworthy reasons from
\nselfishness or sloth or <\/p>\n
693
\n00:38:51,640 –> 00:38:55,120
\ncowardice, then one is a
\ndisobedient servant. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:38:56,880 –> 00:39:00,240
\nWhen one finds oneself unable to
\naccept the Lord’s instruction <\/p>\n
695
\n00:39:00,240 –> 00:39:02,480
\nand advice for reasons like
\nPaul’s, what do you call it <\/p>\n
696
\n00:39:02,480 –> 00:39:06,400
\nthen?
\nI don’t know a name for it. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:39:08,240 –> 00:39:10,400
\nIt was certainly not wilful
\ndisobedience. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:39:10,400 –> 00:39:14,920
\nIt was a self sacrifice that he
\ncouldn’t draw back from. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:39:14,920 –> 00:39:18,200
\nIt was done through not if so
\ngood you couldn’t think of a <\/p>\n
700
\n00:39:18,200 –> 00:39:22,560
\nbetter one.
\nAnd all we can do in that <\/p>\n
701
\n00:39:22,560 –> 00:39:26,400
\ncontext is take the Lord Jesus
\ncomment when Paul had done it. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:39:28,280 –> 00:39:29,960
\nThere’s now languishing in
\nprison. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:39:31,720 –> 00:39:38,320
\nThe Lord said to him, Fear not,
\nPaul, for as I have been with <\/p>\n
704
\n00:39:38,320 –> 00:39:40,480
\nthee in Jerusalem, so will I be
\nwith thee in Rome. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:39:43,200 –> 00:39:46,560
\nIt might not be just all is
\nforgotten and forgiven. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:39:47,600 –> 00:39:50,400
\nIt might be.
\nWell, Paul, I know you did your <\/p>\n
707
\n00:39:50,400 –> 00:39:51,880
\nbest.
\nI told you it’d be no use. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:39:51,880 –> 00:39:54,880
\nBut you’re just as dear to me as
\never you were. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:39:56,120 –> 00:39:59,080
\nNow you’ll go to Rome and bear
\nwitness there, though perhaps <\/p>\n
710
\n00:39:59,080 –> 00:40:01,720
\nnot quite as you intended to.
\nBut you’ll go all right. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:40:04,000 –> 00:40:07,000
\nAnd so we have the graciousness
\nof the Lord responding to the <\/p>\n
712
\n00:40:07,040 –> 00:40:10,680
\nurge of this man whose
\nconscience was so keen to help <\/p>\n
713
\n00:40:10,680 –> 00:40:14,360
\nhis people.
\nAnd Paul goes. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:40:14,960 –> 00:40:18,800
\nContentedly with knowing that
\nhis Lord is with him to the next<\/p>\n
715
\n00:40:18,800 –> 00:40:25,080
\nstage of his work.
\nIt has some parallels, perhaps <\/p>\n
716
\n00:40:26,160 –> 00:40:30,880
\nwith another man of God who saw
\nthe same people of God in an <\/p>\n
717
\n00:40:30,880 –> 00:40:33,920
\nearlier generation turning away
\nfrom their God, and who saw the <\/p>\n
718
\n00:40:33,920 –> 00:40:36,360
\ndanger that they might even at
\nthat time be extinguished from <\/p>\n
719
\n00:40:36,360 –> 00:40:38,400
\nGod’s presence and blotted out
\nof his book. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:40:39,960 –> 00:40:42,240
\nWho said, oh Lord, forgive?
\nAnd if not, I beseech they <\/p>\n
721
\n00:40:42,240 –> 00:40:45,960
\nblocked me out of that book.
\nIf you’ll be satisfied with <\/p>\n
722
\n00:40:47,200 –> 00:40:49,560
\ngetting me out of the way and
\nkeeping them, I’d willingly give<\/p>\n
723
\n00:40:49,560 –> 00:40:51,920
\nup my life for them.
\nSo said Moses. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:40:54,040 –> 00:40:57,840
\nPaul seems to have been
\nfollowing Moses example, though <\/p>\n
725
\n00:40:57,840 –> 00:40:59,600
\nGod could accept it from neither
\nof them. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:41:00,600 –> 00:41:05,840
\nAs far as enjoying a curse that
\nothers might be saved, it has <\/p>\n
727
\n00:41:05,840 –> 00:41:09,880
\nsome parallel to perhaps with
\nthat message of Acts chapter six<\/p>\n
728
\n00:41:09,880 –> 00:41:12,720
\nwe should be noticed.
\nIsaiah chapter 6, which you may <\/p>\n
729
\n00:41:12,720 –> 00:41:14,880
\nknow quite well.
\nWhere in the year that King <\/p>\n
730
\n00:41:14,880 –> 00:41:21,640
\nIsaiah died, Isaiah saw the Lord
\nhigh and lifted up in a temple <\/p>\n
731
\n00:41:21,640 –> 00:41:24,760
\nof his vision with his train
\nfilling the temple and heard <\/p>\n
732
\n00:41:24,760 –> 00:41:28,640
\nthose around crying.
\nHoly, holy, holy is the Lord God<\/p>\n
733
\n00:41:28,640 –> 00:41:30,320
\nof hosts.
\nAll the earth is filled with his<\/p>\n
734
\n00:41:30,320 –> 00:41:35,120
\nglory.
\nAnd as he stood there and <\/p>\n
735
\n00:41:35,120 –> 00:41:38,120
\nwatched, or slept there, and saw
\nin his dream the vision of God <\/p>\n
736
\n00:41:38,120 –> 00:41:42,720
\nin his temple a voice was heard
\nsaying, Whom shall I send and <\/p>\n
737
\n00:41:42,720 –> 00:41:47,800
\nwho will go for us?
\nI almost picture this in my own <\/p>\n
738
\n00:41:47,800 –> 00:41:51,200
\nmind as though the prophets
\ndream, leads him into the hall <\/p>\n
739
\n00:41:51,200 –> 00:41:53,880
\nof the empty temple of the Echo
\ngoes around the hall. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:41:53,880 –> 00:41:57,480
\nAnd he has repeated without an
\nanswer coming, Whom shall I <\/p>\n
741
\n00:41:57,480 –> 00:41:58,760
\nsend?
\nAnd who will go for us? <\/p>\n
742
\n00:41:59,040 –> 00:42:00,760
\nWhom shall I send And who will
\ngo for us? <\/p>\n
743
\n00:42:01,000 –> 00:42:02,680
\nWhom shall I send?
\nAnd who will go for us? <\/p>\n
744
\n00:42:02,680 –> 00:42:06,480
\nAnd at last the Prophet wakes
\nup, as it were, and says it must<\/p>\n
745
\n00:42:06,480 –> 00:42:09,200
\nbe calling me.
\nThere’s nobody else around. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:42:10,400 –> 00:42:12,160
\nSo in his dream he says, Here am
\nI send me. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:42:14,760 –> 00:42:18,840
\nYet he’s not fit to be sent, or
\nhe wouldn’t have been but for <\/p>\n
748
\n00:42:18,840 –> 00:42:22,880
\nthe events just before.
\nWhen seeing that great vision of<\/p>\n
749
\n00:42:22,880 –> 00:42:25,200
\nthe glory of God, he did not, as
\nwe might have thought he would <\/p>\n
750
\n00:42:25,200 –> 00:42:29,440
\nhave done, burst into an ecstasy
\nof admiration, but called down <\/p>\n
751
\n00:42:29,440 –> 00:42:30,960
\nwar upon his head for what he’d
\nseen. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:42:31,120 –> 00:42:33,720
\nWoe is me, he says.
\nFor I am a man of unclean lips, <\/p>\n
753
\n00:42:34,080 –> 00:42:36,280
\nand I dwell in the midst of a
\npeople of unclean lips. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:42:36,280 –> 00:42:38,240
\nFor man eyes have seen the King,
\nthe Lord of hosts. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:42:40,320 –> 00:42:42,160
\nI’m less fortunate than they
\nare, he says. <\/p>\n
756
\n00:42:43,080 –> 00:42:45,600
\nThey can go on with all their
\ndaily lives without seeing a <\/p>\n
757
\n00:42:45,600 –> 00:42:47,840
\nsearing vision like this.
\nI’ve had to see it. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:42:47,840 –> 00:42:49,240
\nIt’s terrible.
\nI can’t stand it. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:42:49,800 –> 00:42:53,720
\nWoe is me, for my eyes have seen
\nthe king, the Lord of hosts. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:42:56,040 –> 00:42:59,640
\nAnd then one of the Seraphim
\ncomes with a cold from the altar<\/p>\n
761
\n00:42:59,640 –> 00:43:02,320
\nand touches his lips and
\ncleanses them and empowers him <\/p>\n
762
\n00:43:02,320 –> 00:43:04,120
\nto speak.
\nAnd then he says, Here am I send<\/p>\n
763
\n00:43:04,120 –> 00:43:06,000
\nme, does it with the fullness of
\nfaith. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:43:06,000 –> 00:43:08,080
\nWe just need to say where do you
\nwant me to go, Lord? <\/p>\n
765
\n00:43:09,000 –> 00:43:10,920
\nBut says here am I.
\nSend me before he knows where to<\/p>\n
766
\n00:43:10,920 –> 00:43:15,080
\ngo, like Abraham leaving his own
\nhome, not knowing whether he <\/p>\n
767
\n00:43:15,080 –> 00:43:18,440
\nwent.
\nAnd then the Lord tells him <\/p>\n
768
\n00:43:18,440 –> 00:43:22,240
\nwhere to go.
\nGo now and tell this people, <\/p>\n
769
\n00:43:23,920 –> 00:43:26,720
\nthese Israelites around you,
\nthese men have unclean lips. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:43:26,720 –> 00:43:31,240
\nGo and tell them.
\nAnd then he says, how long Lord?<\/p>\n
771
\n00:43:32,680 –> 00:43:35,320
\nAnd the Lord says, until the
\ncity has been wasted without an <\/p>\n
772
\n00:43:35,320 –> 00:43:38,440
\ninhabitant, as long as there’s
\nanybody there to tell, just keep<\/p>\n
773
\n00:43:38,440 –> 00:43:40,280
\non preaching rather than anybody
\nto talk to. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:43:40,880 –> 00:43:45,240
\nSo the Lord says to the prophet,
\nand once you’ve seen all that in<\/p>\n
775
\n00:43:45,240 –> 00:43:47,200
\none piece, the two hearts hang
\ntogether, don’t they? <\/p>\n
776
\n00:43:47,640 –> 00:43:50,200
\nEliza has been granted a vision,
\nwhich they haven’t. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:43:50,600 –> 00:43:54,280
\nThat’s painful, as I has been
\ngranted A purification, which <\/p>\n
778
\n00:43:54,280 –> 00:43:55,960
\nthey haven’t.
\nThat’s a very high privilege. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:43:56,600 –> 00:44:00,040
\nSo where is he sent to share the
\nprivilege with them? <\/p>\n
780
\n00:44:00,040 –> 00:44:03,760
\nOf course.
\nGo and tell these people it <\/p>\n
781
\n00:44:03,760 –> 00:44:06,800
\ndidn’t do any good, not
\nnationally at all events. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:44:08,040 –> 00:44:12,000
\nPaul is very like that.
\nA man of unclean lips speaking <\/p>\n
783
\n00:44:12,000 –> 00:44:15,600
\nunclean things against God,
\ncleansed now to and purified to <\/p>\n
784
\n00:44:15,600 –> 00:44:17,320
\nsay right things are peaked
\nright words. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:44:17,440 –> 00:44:22,080
\nAnd he has certainly said here
\nam I send me and now he’s sent <\/p>\n
786
\n00:44:23,120 –> 00:44:25,840
\nand then he chooses to go beyond
\nwhere he has been sent to that <\/p>\n
787
\n00:44:25,840 –> 00:44:29,560
\nsame category of people I know
\nand they don’t. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:44:30,440 –> 00:44:36,520
\nI must tell them, and tell them
\nHe does and it fails. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:44:39,440 –> 00:44:45,640
\nBut what a servant of the Lord.
\nI suppose there is many a person<\/p>\n
790
\n00:44:45,640 –> 00:44:47,400
\nin this room.
\nI suppose there is not a person <\/p>\n
791
\n00:44:47,400 –> 00:44:51,120
\nin this room who hasn’t been in
\nthis position, who for reasons <\/p>\n
792
\n00:44:51,120 –> 00:44:55,240
\nquite unworthy, has refrained
\nfrom obeying the masters general<\/p>\n
793
\n00:44:55,240 –> 00:44:59,160
\ncommands as to what we ought to
\ndo in bearing witness to his <\/p>\n
794
\n00:44:59,160 –> 00:45:02,520
\nname.
\nAnd the reasons we should have <\/p>\n
795
\n00:45:02,520 –> 00:45:04,960
\nled us to pain in our duty have
\nnever been good reasons. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:45:06,560 –> 00:45:10,400
\nThey might have been sloth or
\npreoccupation with the things of<\/p>\n
797
\n00:45:10,400 –> 00:45:15,080
\nthis life, or timidity.
\nI know them all. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:45:17,320 –> 00:45:20,160
\nBut I imagine there is no one in
\nthis room who has ever done as <\/p>\n
799
\n00:45:20,160 –> 00:45:24,920
\nPaul seems to have done, and
\nsaid, Lord, I will go and do all<\/p>\n
800
\n00:45:24,920 –> 00:45:27,160
\nthat you asked me to do.
\nBut there’s one thing I must do,<\/p>\n
801
\n00:45:27,160 –> 00:45:29,600
\neven though you don’t tell me it
\nwill be any good, and you do <\/p>\n
802
\n00:45:29,600 –> 00:45:33,680
\ntell me it won’t.
\nWho steps just a little over the<\/p>\n
803
\n00:45:33,680 –> 00:45:37,080
\nletter of what the Lord tells
\nhim, for the reason that he’d <\/p>\n
804
\n00:45:37,080 –> 00:45:40,160
\nrather lose his life in trying
\nto achieve that impossible end, <\/p>\n
805
\n00:45:41,440 –> 00:45:43,640
\nthan live on with a conscience
\nwhich said you didn’t try it <\/p>\n
806
\n00:45:43,640 –> 00:45:49,280
\nwhen you could have done.
\nAnd the Lord accepted it so <\/p>\n
807
\n00:45:49,280 –> 00:45:53,160
\ngraciously, that when the end of
\nPaul’s life was very near to <\/p>\n
808
\n00:45:53,160 –> 00:45:58,480
\nhim, when he had borne witness
\nin Rome as a prisoner, and then <\/p>\n
809
\n00:45:58,480 –> 00:46:01,160
\nwas released to bear witness
\nagain, a freeman through the <\/p>\n
810
\n00:46:01,160 –> 00:46:04,360
\nworld, and when back in prison
\nonce more, there was to be no <\/p>\n
811
\n00:46:04,360 –> 00:46:07,880
\nrelease.
\nThis time he could utter the <\/p>\n
812
\n00:46:07,880 –> 00:46:10,880
\nwords which are so famous in our
\nmidst that probably everybody <\/p>\n
813
\n00:46:10,880 –> 00:46:16,080
\ncould repeat them.
\nHe said in Militus on his way to<\/p>\n
814
\n00:46:16,080 –> 00:46:19,800
\nJerusalem.
\nIf by any means I might finish <\/p>\n
815
\n00:46:19,800 –> 00:46:25,880
\nmy course with joy, he says in
\nhis second letter to Timothy, <\/p>\n
816
\n00:46:25,880 –> 00:46:30,240
\nimprisoned in Rome.
\nI am now already being offered, <\/p>\n
817
\n00:46:30,240 –> 00:46:32,120
\nand the time of my departure is
\ncome. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:46:33,480 –> 00:46:39,120
\nI have fought a good fight, I
\nhave finished my course, I have <\/p>\n
819
\n00:46:39,120 –> 00:46:43,920
\nkept the faith.
\nHenceforth there is laid up for <\/p>\n
820
\n00:46:43,920 –> 00:46:50,320
\nme the crown of righteousness,
\nwhich the Lord, the righteous <\/p>\n
821
\n00:46:50,320 –> 00:46:57,480
\njudge, shall give me at that
\nday, and not to me only, but <\/p>\n
822
\n00:46:57,480 –> 00:47:00,280
\nalso to all them that love his
\nappearing. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:47:03,480 –> 00:47:07,080
\nPaul died as since the days of
\nhis conversion he had lived, <\/p>\n
824
\n00:47:08,600 –> 00:47:11,720
\ngiving himself, offering his
\nprayers and pinning his hopes on<\/p>\n
825
\n00:47:11,720 –> 00:47:17,320
\nthe salvation of his friends.
\nA crown of ricings for him, of <\/p>\n
826
\n00:47:17,320 –> 00:47:21,480
\ncourse, but for him it would
\nhave been a barren, empty <\/p>\n
827
\n00:47:21,480 –> 00:47:26,040
\ntriumph also for all them that
\nlove his appearing. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:47:28,600 –> 00:47:31,720
\nIt was the greatness and the
\nunselfishness of our Lord first <\/p>\n
829
\n00:47:31,720 –> 00:47:34,120
\nand foremost.
\nAnd that Paul also that they <\/p>\n
830
\n00:47:34,120 –> 00:47:36,320
\nthought of the future in terms
\nof the blessing they could give <\/p>\n
831
\n00:47:36,320 –> 00:47:39,400
\nto others, and the glory they
\ncould give to their God. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:47:40,720 –> 00:47:43,960
\nSo Paul could write to the
\nThessalonians and say, What is <\/p>\n
833
\n00:47:43,960 –> 00:47:47,000
\nmy joy and my glory and my crown
\nof Rejoicing? <\/p>\n
834
\n00:47:47,920 –> 00:47:52,160
\nAre not even he in the presence
\nof our Lord Jesus Christ, as his<\/p>\n
835
\n00:47:52,160 –> 00:47:55,200
\ncoming?
\nHis happiness would be when he <\/p>\n
836
\n00:47:55,200 –> 00:47:59,520
\nsaw many sons come to glory, as
\nwould be the supreme happiness <\/p>\n
837
\n00:47:59,520 –> 00:48:06,640
\nof his greater the Lord.
\nAnd it looks, doesn’t it, as <\/p>\n
838
\n00:48:06,640 –> 00:48:11,560
\nthough the Lord who appeared to
\nSaul on the Damascus road, and <\/p>\n
839
\n00:48:11,560 –> 00:48:14,840
\nthe Lord who appeared to Paul in
\nCorinth, and said, No man shall <\/p>\n
840
\n00:48:14,840 –> 00:48:16,440
\nset a finger on thee to harm
\nthee. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:48:17,640 –> 00:48:20,400
\nThe Lord, who appeared to Paul
\nin prison in Jerusalem, and <\/p>\n
842
\n00:48:20,400 –> 00:48:26,920
\nsaid, Fear not, I am with thee.
\nAs thou hast borne witness in <\/p>\n
843
\n00:48:26,920 –> 00:48:29,560
\nJerusalem, so shalt thou also
\nbear witness in Rome. <\/p>\n
844
\n00:48:30,480 –> 00:48:33,440
\nAnd at some point in words, we
\nhave not come down to a said to <\/p>\n
845
\n00:48:33,440 –> 00:48:37,600
\nPaul facing the headman’s block.
\nFear not, Paul. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:48:39,440 –> 00:48:44,200
\nHenceforth there is laid up for
\nyou a crown of righteousness, <\/p>\n
847
\n00:48:46,080 –> 00:48:49,920
\nmuch as he had said at an
\nearlier state, to a man who had <\/p>\n
848
\n00:48:49,920 –> 00:48:53,960
\nsimilarly confessed his sins.
\nLord, Remember Me when thou <\/p>\n
849
\n00:48:53,960 –> 00:48:57,760
\ncomest into thy Kingdom.
\nThe man had said, and the Lord <\/p>\n
850
\n00:48:57,760 –> 00:49:01,640
\nhad answered very last.
\nSay unto Today, thou shalt be <\/p>\n
851
\n00:49:01,640 –> 00:49:04,520
\nwith me in paradise.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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