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October 12, 2022

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Reading along with us in Acts? Here’s today’s reading:

Acts 22 (NIV)

1“Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense.”
2 When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet.
Then Paul said: 3“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. 4 I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison,...........Continue Reading

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  1. To think that after intently listening to Paul’s testimony and complete life changing experience with Christ this crowd would so quickly turn back to rioting and insisting on his death at the the mention that Gentile could be saved just like them!
    They were so bound to their law that they refused to see that God is a God who loves ALL even someone like Paul that once persecuted His people and was now a faithful servant even in the face of death.
    Our own mindsets and hang ups can stop us from sharing the good news of Christ and we need to realize that God can be glorified through the greatest or least of man and loves everyone!

  2. What an amazing testimony Paul has and one wonders how many people in this audience remember him and his activity against Christians. And how compelling if they did. Paul certainly hopes so as he once again orients his message to his audience. And yet how blinded these Jews are to think Paul shouldn’t have the right to live because he believed that God sent him to the gentiles. And the end of the chapter is a little humorous. Paul, the one in chains, has a leg up on the commander because he is a Roman citizen. It is interesting to see what respect that is given, quite possibly in a place where there were not many. And it is an important point here that Paul presses that right, showing us there are times we can do that as well….

  3. Paul gives his testimony to the Jews and in response to his being called to preach to Gentiles they call for his death. He escapes a scourging by proclaiming his Roman citizenship. I can’t help but draw a connection to our own rights enumerated in the Constitution, given to us by God. Of course, the Gospel and God’s word is to be defended above all, but I pray that the Constitution endures as well.

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