Path to pain

Introduction

Acts 19:8-41.

Acts 20.

Acts 21:1-14.

Text: Acts 21:12-22:21.

Game of Risk…Offense vs. Defense

1. The Purpose (vv. 10-14)

Reference:

Acts 20:22–24 ““And now, behold, bound by the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me. “But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.”

Acts 21:4 “After looking up the disciples, we stayed there seven days; and they kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.”

2. The Plan (vv. 20b-26)

vv. 15-20a - Arrived in Jeruslem; with James and the elders.

Reference:

Acts 15:19–20 ““Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles, but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.”

1 Corinthians 9:22–23 “To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some. I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.”

Acts 16:3 “Paul wanted this man to go with him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.”

3. The Persicution (vv. 27-36)

Reference:

Luke 23:4 NASB95

Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man.”

Luke 23:13–15 NASB95

Pilate summoned the chief priests and the rulers and the people, and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one who incites the people to rebellion, and behold, having examined Him before you, I have found no guilt in this man regarding the charges which you make against Him. “No, nor has Herod, for he sent Him back to us; and behold, nothing deserving death has been done by Him.

John 15:20 NASB95

“Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

4. The Plea (22:1-21)

Testimony...

Before meeting Jesus (vv. 3-5)

When you met Jesus (vv. 6-16)

Life after Jesus (vv. 17-21)

Conclusion