Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Paul, although still unjustly detained, was privileged to live in a home, rather than the prison in Rome. From there he preached the LORD Jesus Christ to those who freely visited him, including a company of Jews. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, gave a personal testimony of working with a senior woman who is saving her own life simply by making lifestyle changes. The saying that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks is often applied to humans. That is the attitude in the medical community and is the reason they tend to overmedicate seniors. “It is a lie,” says Pastor Flemons. The gospel can help anyone at any age change. Seniors can and do choose to die of old age, rather than from the common diseases that kill. Seniors are not necessarily set in their ways.
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – September 24 – 30
Worship Sunday – In Rome; Monday – Caesar’s Household; Tuesday – Written From Rome; Wednesday – At Liberty; Thursday – The Final Arrest; Friday – Paul Before Nero; Saturday, the Sabbath – Paul’s Last Letter [All topics per The Acts of Apostles by Ellen G. White.]
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Words of Encouragement
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
James 1:6 (first part) Bet let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For Heaven’s Sake…
“Since they themselves desired it, Paul bade them set a day when he could present to them the truths of the gospel. At the time appointed, many came together, ‘to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.’ He related his own experience, and presented arguments from the Old Testament Scriptures with simplicity, sincerity, and power. AA 451.2
“The apostle showed that religion does not consist in rites and ceremonies, creeds and theories. If it did, the natural man could understand it by investigation, as he understands worldly things. Paul taught that religion is a practical, saving energy, a principle wholly from God, a personal experience of God’s renewing power upon the soul. AA 451.3
“He showed how Moses had pointed Israel forward to Christ as that Prophet whom they were to hear; how all the prophets had testified of Him as God’s great remedy for sin, the guiltless One who was to bear the sins of the guilty. He did not find fault with their observance of forms and ceremonies, but showed that while they maintained the ritual service with great exactness, they were rejecting Him who was the antitype of all that system. AA 451.4
“Paul declared that in his unconverted state he had known Christ, not by personal acquaintance, but merely by the conception which he, in common with others, cherished concerning the character and work of the Messiah to come. He had rejected Jesus of Nazareth as an impostor because He did not fulfill this conception. But now Paul’s views of Christ and His mission were far more spiritual and exalted, for he had been converted. The apostle asserted that he did not present to them Christ after the flesh. Herod had seen Christ in the days of His humanity; Annas had seen Him; Pilate and the priests and rulers had seen Him; the Roman soldiers had seen Him. But they had not seen Him with the eye of faith; they had not seen Him as the glorified Redeemer. To apprehend Christ by faith, to have a spiritual knowledge of Him, was more to be desired than a personal acquaintance with Him as He appeared on the earth. The communion with Christ which Paul now enjoyed was more intimate, more enduring, than a mere earthly and human companionship. AA 452.1
“As Paul spoke of what he knew, and testified of what he had seen, concerning Jesus of Nazareth as the hope of Israel, those who were honestly seeking for truth were convinced. Upon some minds, at least, his words made an impression that was never effaced. But others stubbornly refused to accept the plain testimony of the Scriptures, even when presented to them by one who had the special illumination of the Holy Spirit. They could not refute his arguments, but they refused to accept his conclusions. AA 452.2
“Many months passed by after Paul’s arrival in Rome, before the Jews of Jerusalem appeared in person to present their accusations against the prisoner. They had been repeatedly thwarted in their designs; and now that Paul was to be tried before the highest tribunal of the Roman Empire, they had no desire to risk another defeat. Lysias, Felix, Festus, and Agrippa had all declared their belief in his innocence. His enemies could hope for success only in seeking by intrigue to influence the emperor in their favor. Delay would further their object, as it would afford them time to perfect and execute their plans, and so they waited for a while before preferring their charges in person against the apostle. AA 453.1
“In the providence of God this delay resulted in the furtherance of the gospel. Through the favor of those who had Paul in charge, he was permitted to dwell in a commodious house, where he could meet freely with his friends and also present the truth daily to those who came to hear. Thus for two years he continued his labors, ‘preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, [] [with] all confidence, no man forbidding him.'” AA 453.2
(This study is based on Acts 28:11-31, the Epistle to Philemon, and chapter 43, “In Rome” in The Acts of the Apostles (AA), by Ellen G. White.)