Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
We will finish our look at chapter 22 this evening. I wasn’t struck with any outstanding theology in these verses, so we won’t have six or eight messages. And even though there is some interesting biographical material, we’ve looked at some of it already. For the sake...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I have in my hand here a $10 bill. If I gave this $10 dollars to a 6-month-old child, what do you think that he’d do with it? He’d probably try to eat it, wouldn’t he? If I gave this money to a 3-year-old, he might treasure & save it place because it was a gift...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
One of the problems that we have as Christians is getting the world to hear what we have to say. Obviously, Paul had the same problem when he stood before this Jewish Sanhedrin. It is the nature of man to reject, ignore and hate any revelation of the one True and...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I wish I could say that I know exactly what Paul was trying to accomplish when he cried out, “Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.” It could be that he was using the old...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
We all know that Christendom is divided into hundreds and hundreds of denominations, sects and cults. This is one of the problems that true believers have to face: The diversity of opinion within Christendom is one of the excuses that the lost man throws at us when we...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
As I said on Wednesday, there were at least four sects, or groups, among the Jews in Paul’s day. There were the Zealots, who molded their theology into ideas about national revolution. These people were ready to try to overthrow the Roman government and establish the...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Festering in the background of all Paul’s troubles there in Jerusalem are a couple of nagging questions. First, should Paul have been in this predicament in the first place? As we have said, some people think that all of the predictions that Paul was heading into...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Some of my earliest memories of television, when I was about ten-years-old, involve the old cartoons. Do you remember how so many of them incorporated classical music? For example, one of them had a number of little cartoon men building a sky-scraper to the music of...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Have you, in anger, ever called someone a fool? If whether or not you have called someone a “fool” determines your true spiritual condition, will you spend eternity in Heaven or Hell? If there were no other factors involved, but your anger or your hatred,...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
This evening, I would like to try to glean just a few more grapes from this spiritual vine. For the most part they will be merely a handful odds and ends – true gleanings. They revolve around this nameless young man. As Bro. Asmundson mentioned to me yesterday, First...
