Burning The Midnight Oil Series

Acts 20 v 1 - 12 Burning the Midnight Oil

The Church Defended - Paul's Decision

The Time - 1 And after the uproar was ceased,

The Tenderness - Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them

The Tenacity - and departed for to go into Macedonia.

The Church Developed - Paul's Dedication

His Discipline - 2 And when he had gone over those parts,

His Diligence - and had given them much exhortation,

His Destination - he came into Greece,

His Delay - 3 and there abode three months.

His Danger - And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria,

His Detour - he purposed to return through Macedonia.

The Church Directed - Paul's Determination

The Mission - 4 And there accompanied him into Asia

The Men - Their - Make up, Mixture, Ministry, and Motivation.

Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus & Secundus;

and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; & of Asia, Tychicus & Trophimus.

The Meeting - 5 These going before tarried for us at Troas. 6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.

The Church Devoted - Paul's Declaration

The Purpose -

It's Timing - 7 And upon the first day of the week,

It's Testimony - when the disciples came together to break bread,

It's Teaching - Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow

It's Telling - and continued his speech until midnight.

The Period - 8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.

The Problem - 9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft,

and was taken up dead.

The Church Delighted - Paul's Demonstration

The Power - 10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

The Preaching - 11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

The Proof - 12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.