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Awesome.

Great job on names that you didn't have a chance to practice at a time.

Okay, let's not walk through this story.

So first off, here's a map.

This is the kind of story that is really helpful to have a map for it started in cesarina down on the bottom right.

Paul took a ship he's a prisoner so as a prisoner he's put on a ship that sails to Myra they get on a different ship in Myra which is green and passenger ship a large ship and it gets caught in a northeaster and blown way off course and they end up ship-wrecking.

On the island of Malta.

So that's where the story that were reading today starts and obviously the rest of the book of Acts is that last little journey up to Rome drop in that a couple of points in the story.

So, first of all, next slide is verse 1. Whoops.

There we go.

150 on sure, we found out that the island was called Malta.

So I did a little research and I found out that Malta became famous overtime for milkshakes.

Called malteds.

I think of jokes all the time, most of them don't make the cut, that one was pretty good.

It's the one that's all I got.

There's nothing more than a chance for me to tell a joke and most of the students left but I've been practicing my corny jokes because I've been told teenagers love corny jokes.

So I'm planning to tell them all week.

Right.

Am I, right?

No, I'm not right.

That it's gone and they said to each other, this man must be a murderer for though.

He has escaped from the sea, the goddess justice has not allowed him to live but after waiting a long time and saying nothing unusual happen to him, they change their minds and said he was a god.

What I see in that little paragraph are two things.

Paul is so calm.

At least as the stories told he's calm.

We have watched him become a person of amazing Faith, because he's gone through so many things.

So after all that, he's gone through this snake hanging on his hand, I guess is at least he knows one thing, he's going to roam, God has told him that so he's not, he he knows that and he shakes it off.

So we see calm Paul.

The other thing we see are human beings hungry for knowledge of God.

These people have not heard the god of the Bible.

They haven't heard about Jesus, but there they have a sense about Justice and they have a sense about the power of God to save you.

And yeah, they just remind me of a quote that I think is attributed to Augustine which is that every human being has a god sized hole and we're all trying to fill that hole we stuff all this inappropriate stuff in our, the whole of our hearts to try to fill it, but the hole was designed to be filled and fitted by The God Who created us.

And I think we see that.

All right, let's go on.

Verse 14.

And so we came to Rome.

I told us along the way that if we studied the book of Acts we were going to get the whole New Testament of the Bible.

Sort of laid out for us.

We would get resources from our study of the book of Acts that would inform any other part of the New Testament that we might read.

So, one of the books of the New Testament is the book called Romans, and it seems that Paul wrote his letter to the Romans, when he was in Ephesus.

So if you were around for that, we read that part of the story when Paul was in Ephesus, and Romans is written to a group of people that Paul's never met and it's just meaningful to us.

If, if you studied the book 2, Realize you read the book of Romans.

Oh yeah, I know that story.

So let's just read the introduction to the Book of Romans.

Here's a few verses to All In Rome where are loved by God and called to be his holy people.

So this is Paul writing.

What we call the book of Romans in the New Testament, Grace, and peace to you from God, our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported All Over The World.

God, whom I serve in my spirit and preaching the gospel of his son, is my witness, how constantly I remember you in my prayers at all times.

And I pray that now At Last by God's will, the way may be open for me to come to you.

I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong.

That is that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.

I don't want you to be unaware brothers and sisters that.

I plan many times to come to you but have been prevented from doing so until now in order that I might have a harvest among you just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

I'm obligated both to Greeks and non-greeks both to the wise and the foolish.

That's why I am so eager to preach the gospel.

Also to you who are in Rome.

For, I'm not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes first to the Juventus, the Gentile, for, in the gospel.

The righteousness of God is revealed a righteousness that is by faith From First to Last.

Just as it is written, the righteous will live by faith.

If you read the book of Acts now you're reading the book of Romans you read that little section before I would have just got.

Yeah, there's some kind of backstory there but I don't necessarily know it.

Now you can say I know that I know that back story.

I know that person I know his longing to go there and Having studied the book of Acts, there's some coming alive to the New Testament of the Bible that I'm expecting for you first of 26 and 27, go to this people and say you will be ever hearing, but never understanding you will be ever seeing but never perceiving for this people's heart has become calloused.

They hardly hear with their ears and they have closed their eyes, otherwise they might see what their eyes hear with their ears understand with their hearts and turn and I would heal them.

This is God, this is a quotation from Isaiah.

So Paul is quoting it at the end of his talk with the Jews who came to visit him in Rome and this is Paul giving voice to the frustration of God, about the deliberate unbelief of his own people.

The Jewish people, not all of them deliberately Did not believe some of them believe, but many of them would not believe in God is expressing his frustration and his condemnation but notice that God's longing and God's willingness never stops.

He continues.

What he's longing for is that they would see in that their eyes will be open at their ears would hear.

And that they would turn and that they would receive healing.

Okay?

And then, this is the last words out of Paul's mouth in the book of Acts.

Therefore, I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles and they will listen.

Why would a person write this story and choose those to be the last words out of the mouth of Paul?

Because this is not the end of the story.

This really the ending introduces, a new phase of the Gospel spreading to the world.

What's going to happen next is is Paul, is present, in Rome.

He's not bringing the first Christians are, because there are Christians there already that probably goes all the way back to Pentecost Sunday.

That story in the book of Acts, be strengthening the Christians who are there, because he understands that there's going to be an explosion of the Gospel around the world that's going to be focused in Rome.

Okay, that's enough for kind of scanning.

What's in the text?

I would like to just talk about a few things because this is our last day in the Book of Romans.

So the first thing is, if you want to summarize the whole book, I said Romance the whole book of Acts, this would be the best way to summarize the book of Acts.

What's the book of Acts about?

If somebody asks you you could say well actually there's one verse that's got the whole book summarized 1:8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my Witnesses in Jerusalem and in Judea, and Samaria.

And to the very ends of the Earth.

That's the story that we were just completing and the ends of the Earth aren't really reached even when Paul makes it to roam.

So the story.

Continues God meets the deliberate unbelief of many Jews with persistent invitation to them by his messenger.

So we see Paul.

He he's been going from City to City.

He always goes to the synagogue first to reason with Jewish people that Jesus is the Messiah.

And there's always somebody who believes, but there are often numerous Jewish people, who don't believe and you, we wouldn't blame him at all.

If he just said, I'm not doing that anymore.

But here he is, in Rome.

The last place we see him visiting and he does it again.

He invites Jewish people to come.

Why is he doing that?

Because he's reflecting this persistent Heart Of God.

God's heart is broken that his own people that are not receiving his son, but he's not slamming the door on them, he's continuing to speak to them.