A Life of Integrity (19 of 22)
Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 24
We're coming to the end of our series we've entitled ''Unstoppable.'' In these last chapters in Acts, we're chronicling the final days of the Apostle Paul. He has spent many years establishing and strengthening churches that would eventually have huge opportunities to share the good news of Jesus Christ, which would massively change people's lives in the first century.
Now Paul was entering Jerusalem, having been compelled by the Spirit to go there. He brought gifts he had collected from the Gentile churches to help the needs of the Jerusalem church due to a famine in that region. But upon his arrival, nothing went the way he had hoped it would. Rather, a mob sought to kill him, which caused the Romans to arrest him and put him through a series of trials.
The first trial was before the religious leaders of the Sanhedrin. When that didn't produce the desired results, he was taken to the higher Roman court, which is what we'll be reading about today in Acts 24. The Roman governor Felix was given the task of reviewing the reports and deciding if Paul was innocent or guilty and what his future would be.
These court cases will take us through the next couple chapters, and eventually Paul will make his way to Rome. Jesus Himself told Paul, when he was in jail in Jerusalem, that he would definitely stand on trial before kings and rulers and that he should not be afraid. As we'll see, Paul did indeed stand boldly before Felix. He demonstrated to us what it means to live with integrity, able to stand before his accusers with confidence. Integrity sometimes stands confident in its innocence, but it also allows us to humbly confess our sins when that's what we need to do. Integrity also seeks to make things right if we have wronged someone. But when we're falsely accused, integrity stands tall-which is what Paul demonstrated for us in today's passage.
Well, winter is almost ove ...
Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 24
We're coming to the end of our series we've entitled ''Unstoppable.'' In these last chapters in Acts, we're chronicling the final days of the Apostle Paul. He has spent many years establishing and strengthening churches that would eventually have huge opportunities to share the good news of Jesus Christ, which would massively change people's lives in the first century.
Now Paul was entering Jerusalem, having been compelled by the Spirit to go there. He brought gifts he had collected from the Gentile churches to help the needs of the Jerusalem church due to a famine in that region. But upon his arrival, nothing went the way he had hoped it would. Rather, a mob sought to kill him, which caused the Romans to arrest him and put him through a series of trials.
The first trial was before the religious leaders of the Sanhedrin. When that didn't produce the desired results, he was taken to the higher Roman court, which is what we'll be reading about today in Acts 24. The Roman governor Felix was given the task of reviewing the reports and deciding if Paul was innocent or guilty and what his future would be.
These court cases will take us through the next couple chapters, and eventually Paul will make his way to Rome. Jesus Himself told Paul, when he was in jail in Jerusalem, that he would definitely stand on trial before kings and rulers and that he should not be afraid. As we'll see, Paul did indeed stand boldly before Felix. He demonstrated to us what it means to live with integrity, able to stand before his accusers with confidence. Integrity sometimes stands confident in its innocence, but it also allows us to humbly confess our sins when that's what we need to do. Integrity also seeks to make things right if we have wronged someone. But when we're falsely accused, integrity stands tall-which is what Paul demonstrated for us in today's passage.
Well, winter is almost ove ...
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