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If you are a Christ follower you will face trials and sometimes you will face trails because of the Gospel.
Last week we looked at how to respond to a hostile world by looking at Paul respond to the Hostile situation he was in.
Paul tells his story of how he came to Christ.
While bound in chains and standing before the crowd of Jews who have just attacked him..
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As we look at our country we see many people hurting.
We see many who are going through trials.
It seem like in ministry you go through seasons as a church where you go from one trial to another.
This year so far it seems our church members are going from one trial to the next.
So how do we handle trails and adversities in a hostile world?
When Paul told them that God had called him to go to the gentiles we pick up in verse 22
Let’s see how Paul handles this Trail.
Today we are going to see Paul
Seems like Paul is going through a trial.
It seems he is at a low point.
We pick up in verse 22 and it does not seem it is getting in better.
The Jews raised their voices.
The Jews raised their voices after Paul says God called up to go to the Gentiles.
The Jews raised their voices.
Shouted Away with such a fellow from the earth
Shouted he should be allowed to live.
Threw their cloaks and flinged dust into the air.
They couldn’t stone him so they took their cloaks off and flug dust in the air as a symbol you are dead to us.
He is going through this trial because of the gospel.
Examples of this: Tim Teabowed was criticized because he would not have sex with his girlfriend before marriage.
So she left him and the news media made it into a big thing.
As I have said the gospel is offensive.
In light of the gospel and the change that Jesus made in Paul’s life he was commanded to go to the Gentiles and share the gospel.
In light of the gospel and the change that Jesus made in Paul’s life he was commanded to go to the Gentiles and share the gospel.
This was not a rejection of Paul as much as it was a rejection of the gospel to the Gentiles.
The Commander still has not figured out what the commotion was all about.
At the uprising the Commander of the guard orders for Paul to be brought into the barracks and be examined by flogging.
Flogging is where they take a cat of 9 tails that has lead and nails and they would beat someone up to 40 lashes.
Flogging is where they take a cat of 9 tails that has lead and nails and they would beat someone up to 40 lashes.
In flogging a lot of times the person would not be recognizable when finished.
They could be dis-embowed.
This is the same flogging that Christ recieved in Matthew 27:26
They want to flog Paul to see if he will confess
Through our trials and pain a hostile world will watch to see how we handle it.
They want to examine Paul by flogging.
Those like Demetry in the book Insanity of God
Those like Demetry in the book Insanity of God
Second, in our trials and pain we are like Christ.
Romand
The pain and suffering.
The trial that you are going through is for your good if you are called according to His purpose.
Your pain and suffering, Your trail is not for nothing it service as a purpose.
Your pain and your suffering according to verse 29 makes us more like Christ.
Sometimes we are most like Christ when we are at our weakest.
On the other side of this trial I would say I would never want to go through that trail again.
But yes, because of that trial I am more like Christ.
I am more loving, more compassionate, more humble.
On the other side of this trial I would say I would never want to go through that trail again.
But yes, because of that trial I am more like Christ.
I am more loving, more compassionate, more humble.
On this
Sometimes we are most like Christ when we are at our weakest.
Paul is tied up about to be flogged by this man who is an expert in pain.
Think Jack Baur back in the day on the show 24.
Paul looks at him and in verse 26 Paul ask is it lawful for you to flog a Roman citizen who has not had a trial.
This Centurian went to the Commander of the guard and asked what he had done.
Because if he had flogged Paul the Centurian could have been put to death.
Acts 22:27-
The Commander comes to Paul ask about his citizenship and then brags about how he bought his Roman Citizenship.
You could become a Roman citizen but it cost a great deal of money.
You could in those days bribe officals and through the bribe become a Roman.
The Commander i
He assumes Paul is lying or has bribed someone as well.
Paul looks and tells him that he is a citizen by birth.
His father was a Roman citizen.
Upon learning this knowledge they where afraid because they had bound him
Verse 30 shows us the Commander curiosity of why the Jews where accusing him.
He is still trying to figure out who this guy is.
As one preacher said I picture his wife saying how are things going at work.
And this Commander goes off and says I can’t figure who this guy named Paul is.
The Jews want to kill him, I almost flogged him and then he tells me he is a Roman Citizen by birth.
So he calls a meeting, with the chief priest and all the council (Saddduccess and Pharisees) with Paul
Acts 23:
In this meeting, Paul still refers to them with respect Brothers
He tells them he has lived his life in good conscience.
Paul is referring to his life after he met Jesus on the Damascus Road.
He looks at the Sanhedrin, his brothers and says I can say you I have a clean conscience.
I lived a life worthy of my calling.
Paul in Philiipians 1:27 encourages the church to live a life worthy of Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Paul in Philiipians 1:27 encourages the church to live a life worthy of Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Can you say as Paul that you are living a life of good conscience.
That you are living a life worthy of the gospel of jesus Christ.
That you are living a life worthy of Jesus coming and paying the price for your sins.
I am not talking about being a good person.
I am talking about how is your love affiar with Jesus.
How are you loving your neighbor?
The high Priest Ananias commands that he be stroke on the mouth
This was illegal.
The stirke on the mouth was a hard blow to the head.
It is the same language they used when they attacked Paul in the temple and when they hit Jesus as recorded in the gospel of Matthew
Historians describe Ananias as Hot-tempered, profane, greedy
Thrid, in our trials we should not respond immediately or make rash decisions.
Calls the high priest whitewashed wall.
He was saying what is one the outside does not match what is on the inside.
He was saying you may look clean on the outside but the inside is unclean.
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