To Testify The Gospel Of The Grace Of God. Series

Acts 21 v 27 - 40 To Testify the Gospel of the Grace of God.

Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

The Church, The Charge (vow), The Choice, The Challenge (to obey)

The Check -

The Time - 27 when the seven days were almost ended,

The Test - the Jews which were of Asia,

The Trouble - when they saw him in the temple,

stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,

The Chant -

The Cry - 28 crying out, Men of Israel, help:

The Criticism - This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place:

The Crime - and further brought Greeks also into the temple,

and hath polluted this holy place. 29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

The Crisis - 30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together:

and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple:

and forthwith the doors were shut.

Death was planned, purposed, proclaimed, and pursued.

The Channel -

The Intention - 31 And as they went about to kill him,

The Attention - tidings came unto the chief captain of the band,

that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

The Intervention - 32 Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.

The Chain -

The Rescue - 33 Then the chief captain came near, and took him,

The Response - and commanded him to be bound with two chains;

The Request - and demanded who he was, and what he had done.

The Reply - 34 And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult,

he commanded him to be carried into the castle.

The Rage - 35 And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people. 36 For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.

It was -

Vicious - 31 they went about to kill him

Vast - 31 all Jerusalem

Vocal - 31 was in an uproar.

Vague - 34 And some cried one thing, some another,

Violent - 35 borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people

Vindictive - 36 the multitude of the people followed after, crying,

Away with him.

The Chance -

To Explain - 37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?

To Disclaim - 38 Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

To Reclaim - 39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.

To Proclaim - 40 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people.

To Acclaim - And when there was made a great silence,

he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,