Acts 28
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Come to my senses
Come to my senses
Prior to the area of this chapter that we are talking about today, Paul was bitten by a viper and did not die and was thought to be a god.
These islanders were willing to worship, they were just focusing their worship in any direction that made sense in the moment.
Maybe today you have something or someone in your life that is taking the place of the Big G God
Money, property, prestige, work, girlfriend, boyfriend, .
Paul also healed many on the island despite their idolatry worship and soon headed for Rome.
Lets pray
1.Don’t let others disbelief derail your commitment
Paul did his work consistently, despite how the people around him did their work.
23 They arranged to meet Paul on a certain day, and came in even larger numbers to the place where he was staying. He witnessed to them from morning till evening, explaining about the kingdom of God, and from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets he tried to persuade them about Jesus. 24 Some were convinced by what he said, but others would not believe.
2. Our senses can drive our destruction or our healing
25 They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your ancestors when he said through Isaiah the prophet:
26 “ ‘Go to this people and say,
26 “ ‘Go to this people and say,
“You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
27 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
2. Our senses can drive our destruction or our healing
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’
What we focus on with our eyes and ears directly effects our hearts
3. Stay battle ready and engaged in the fight
3. Stay battle ready and engaged in the fight
IF our choice is Jesus, and maintaining our spiritual condition, We will be ready to battle the powers that seek to destroy us, including our own mind and heart.
28 “Therefore I want you to know that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!” [29]
30 For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him. 31 He proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ—with all boldness and without hindrance!
Paul was chained to a soldier for the two years he waited for trial. Al we can be sure heard the gospel.
God created the opportunity and Paul commited all of his senses to Jesus
The New International Version. (2011). (). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
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B. Hearing
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D. Touch
E. Taste
If I wait until I can touch or taste it, It may be to late
Lets look at vs 26 again
26 “ ‘Go to this people and say,
“You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
These people let the opposition get to close by not filtering their hearing and sight through Jesus
Are you ready tonight to refocus yourself. Intentional is uncomfortable, yet worth the risk.
Remember He is the strong tower in the battle, not away from the battle!!
The date of Paul's death is believed to have occurred after the Great Fire of Romein July 64, but before the last year of Nero's reign, in 68.[3]
It is described in a number of sources:
I Clement (95–96 AD) suggests that both Paul and Peter were martyred.[88]There is an early tradition found in the writing of Ignatius, probably around 110 AD, that Paul was martyred.[89]Dionysius of Corinth, in a letter to the Romans (166–174 AD), stated that Paul and Peter were martyred in Italy.[90] Eusebius also cites the Dionysius passage.[91]The Acts of Paul, an apocryphal work written around 160, describes the martyrdom of Paul. According to the Acts of Paul, Nero condemned Paul to death by decapitation.[92]Tertullian in his Prescription Against Heretics (200 AD) writes that Paul had a similar death to that of John the Baptist, who was beheaded.[93]Eusebius of Caesarea in his Church History (320 AD) testifies that Paul was beheaded in Rome and Peter crucified. He wrote that the tombs of these two apostles, with their inscriptions, were extant in his time; and quotes as his authority a holy man of the name of Caius.[94]Lactantius wrote that Nero "crucified Peter, and slew Paul" (318 AD).[95]Jerome in his De Viris Illustribus (On Illustrious Men) (392 AD) states that Paul was beheaded at Rome.[96]John Chrysostom (c. 349–407) wrote that Nero knew Paul personally and had him killed.[97]Sulpicius Severus says Nero killed Peter and Paul. (403 AD)[98]
A legend later[when?] developed that his martyrdom occurred at the Aquae Salviae, on the Via Laurentina. According to this legend, after Paul was decapitated, his severed head rebounded three times, giving rise to a source of water each time that it touched the ground, which is how the place earned the name "San Paolo alle Tre Fontane" ("St Paul at the Three Fountains").[99][100] Also according to legend, Paul's body was buried outside the walls of Rome, at the second mile on the Via Ostiensis, on the estate owned by a Christian woman named Lucina. It was here, in the fourth century, that the Emperor Constantine the Great built a first church. Then, between the fourth and fifth centuries it was considerably enlarged by the Emperors Valentinian I, Valentinian II, Theodosius I, and Arcadius. The present-day Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Wallswas built there in 1800.[99]