A Big Life (1 of 3)
Series: Step Up: Overcoming Spiritual Inertia
Scott Maze
Acts 23:11-35
Voting Video plays before me. I hope you are planning on voting in the coming weeks because we need to take biblical values into the voting booth. Fall is here and the rain is finally gone! Week of Prayer for Missions is just around the corner.
The intrigue and the theatre are high in our story today. There's conspiracy, the drama of a courtroom, and even forty men taking a vow not to eat until they murder. Tempers are hot amid a plot of assassination all the while a teenager gets to be the hero.
The following night the Lord stood by him and said, ''Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.'' 12 When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 13 There were more than forty who made this conspiracy. 14 They went to the chief priests and elders and said, ''We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul. 15 Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.'' 16 Now the son of Paul's sister heard of their ambush, so he went and entered the barracks and told Paul. 17 Paul called one of the centurions and said, ''Take this young man to the tribune, for he has something to tell him.'' 18 So he took him and brought him to the tribune and said, ''Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you.'' 19 The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, ''What is it that you have to tell me?'' 20 And he said, ''The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about hi ...
Series: Step Up: Overcoming Spiritual Inertia
Scott Maze
Acts 23:11-35
Voting Video plays before me. I hope you are planning on voting in the coming weeks because we need to take biblical values into the voting booth. Fall is here and the rain is finally gone! Week of Prayer for Missions is just around the corner.
The intrigue and the theatre are high in our story today. There's conspiracy, the drama of a courtroom, and even forty men taking a vow not to eat until they murder. Tempers are hot amid a plot of assassination all the while a teenager gets to be the hero.
The following night the Lord stood by him and said, ''Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.'' 12 When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 13 There were more than forty who made this conspiracy. 14 They went to the chief priests and elders and said, ''We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul. 15 Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.'' 16 Now the son of Paul's sister heard of their ambush, so he went and entered the barracks and told Paul. 17 Paul called one of the centurions and said, ''Take this young man to the tribune, for he has something to tell him.'' 18 So he took him and brought him to the tribune and said, ''Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you.'' 19 The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, ''What is it that you have to tell me?'' 20 And he said, ''The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about hi ...
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