Tag: Acts

Acts 24 – 25 Paul was held under a type of house arrest after his first hearing before Felix. He was free to do anything and see anyone so long as he didn’t leave until the chief captain from Jerusalem sou ups asti I’ve to give testimony. It is exciting for Christians since that time…

Acts 23 When the captain learned that there were at last 40 jess planning to ambush and kill Paul he sent Paul I’m the company of 470 soldiers to Cesarea to see Felix. He explained that Paul had been accused and that he knew of no accusation against Paul that would warrant imprisoning or killing…

Acts 22 In his last public sermon in Jerusalem Paul recounts his conversion to the people. Paul was a student of Gamaliel. The same man who told the Pharisees to be way how they responded to the apostles. He counseled them that if their message was from God it couldn’t be stopped and if it…

Acts 21 If Luke was the author of the book of acts then it sounds like he accompanied Paul on his final journey. That might be the reason that he knew so much about what Paul did. It also might indicate that he became an apostle before he died. After he is bound by the…

Acts 20 Paul may have felt responsible for the young man who feel asleep and tumbled to his death while Paul was preaching for hours. He was as much comforted as others when the boy was refused from the dead through his priesthood ministration. I get the feeling that Paul was the widest traveled of…

Acts 19 The story of the exorcists is interesting. They tried to channel the power to cast out evil spirits by acknowledging that the teaching came from Paul and the source of power was Jesus. That they were unsuccessful demonstrated the importance of authority being duly given. The equivalent today might be if an investigator…

Acts 18 In Corinth Paul finally abandoned preaching to the Jews. They were always the ones to get the most angry at his preaching (although some of them always began to believe) so he turned his attention fully to the gentiles. It appears the Lord convinced Paul to continue working with the Jews with a…

Acts 17 Everywhere Paul goes there is division. The pattern is consistent: Paul peaches, some of the people believe among both Jews and Greeks, the leaders among the unbelieving Jews get angry and seek to do harm to Paul and anyone preaching with him. Sometimes they bring false charges of sedition to their Roman rulers…

Acts 16 It would be easy to ask why Paul would remove a spirit that spoke in his favour. The answer is that by removing the spirit he freed the woman from being used by others. The end result was that he was out in prison by those who had been using her. It seems…

Acts 14 – 15 This clearly indicates that Paul and Barnabas were apostles. The question is, did the wooer use the term apostle to indicate ordination to a specific priesthood office or did it simply indicate someone who bore a witness of Christy to the world (which is certainly the calling of apostleship but can…