Speak to the people. 7/19/15

Day198 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

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Acts 21:18-40

18 The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present. 19 Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
20 When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. 21 They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs. 22 What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come, 23 so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have made a vow. 24 Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. 25 As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.”
26 The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them.

Paul Arrested
27 When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, 28 shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.” 29 (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)
30 The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut. 31 While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar. 32 He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
33 The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done. 34 Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. 35 When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers. 36 The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Get rid of him!”

Paul Speaks to the Crowd
37 As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?”
“Do you speak Greek?” he replied. 38 “Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness some time ago?”
39 Paul answered, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people.”
40 After receiving the commander’s permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic[a]:

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July 19th “Sins” and “sin” 

“For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh.” ROMANS 8:3
When 2 Corinthians 5:21 declares that Christ was made sin, this includes the sin spoken of in Romans 8:3 — sin in the flesh. When Christ died, He died for this thing called sin. Sin is a living, moving thing resident in our flesh. “Sin” is different from “sins” that we have committed. Sin dwelling in our flesh is that thing that feels “wrong” in us — that thing that wants to think on its own, that wants to be depressed, that wants to get angry, that wants to lust, that wants to live with its drives and compulsions. Sin moves, it reacts, it gets hurt.
Sin in us is something that involuntarily happens by virtue of our being in the flesh. For example, you do not choose to wake up depressed. Before you even decide how you want to be, you are already depressed. That means sin in the flesh is a living kind of feeling that we coexist with and that is present alongside our organic union with Christ. It shows up in different ways. Sin in the flesh is the greatest factor in a believer’s life for receiving all kinds of condemnation, accusation, and categorization from the devil. Be- cause of the ugly manifestations of sin in the flesh — things that surface and show up in our thoughts and our emotions — there is a tug-of-war inside of us. Paul briefly describes this conflict in Galatians 5:17. While something for God is operating in us, simultaneously something else is operating that wants to sin. Sin plans to sin. It has already planned to do its next thing.

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