Acts 20:7-12\u00a0<\/b>–\u00a0On the first day of the week\u00a0we came together to break bread.\u00a0Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.\u00a08\u00a0There were many lamps in the upstairs room\u00a0where we were meeting.\u00a09\u00a0Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead.\u00a010\u00a0Paul went down, threw himself on the young man\u00a0and put his arms around him. \u201cDon\u2019t be alarmed,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s alive!\u201d\u00a011\u00a0Then he went upstairs again and broke bread\u00a0and ate. After talking until daylight, he left.\u00a012\u00a0The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201c<\/span>On the first day of the week\u00a0we came together to break bread.\u00a0Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 We can relate to the fact that when we are with loved ones and may not see them for a long time, or maybe not again in this life, we will try to fit in all the time together and all the conversation in before the separation.\u00a0\u00a0 Paul had much to teach these believers and so he intended to speak to them as much as he could.\u00a0 So he spoke into the night, for hours.<\/p>\n \u201cThere were many lamps in the upstairs room\u00a0where we were meeting.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 There were several reason for many lamps, the obvious is to keep the room bright.\u00a0 Some say that when the early brothers and sisters met that the purposely keep their rooms lit to see the falseness of early rumors against them.\u00a0 One rumor was that with all the talk of love from Christians, the pagans many times thought the Christians were promiscuous and even incestuous (Titus 1:15<\/b>). \u00a0\u00a0Another rumor that came from evil and ignorant minds was that the Christians were cannibals.\u00a0 They thought that because during their communion they would express they were eating the body of Christ and drinking His blood.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t understand the symbolic nature, or perhaps, they just wanted to malign.<\/p>\n Notice that Luke includes himself as being present at the meeting by stating \u201cwe were meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSeated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 Eutychus, whose name meant \u201cfortunate\u201d was at this marathon meeting.\u00a0\u00a0 He is called a young man which could mean he was a teenager, but that term could also have referred to a \u201cyounger\u201d man of twenty to forty years of age.\u00a0 Eutychus was fighting the sleep that was coming over him, but like a fit combatant will have a strategy of outlasting his less fit opponent, sleep was wearing him down.\u00a0 At this time his name may have seemed empty, but we need only read on.<\/p>\n Besides the long sermon, there were likely more factors contributing to his weariness.\u00a0 Sunday, which they met on, was the first day of the week and likely a work day.\u00a0 So Eutychus likely was tired from a day of working.\u00a0 Also the many candles, a warm room and a lot of people warming the room likely made the room a little oxygen deprived and also quite \u201ccozy.\u201d\u00a0 Eutychus may have opted to be by the window to catch some fresh air.\u00a0 To his credit, he was working at fighting off sleep. \u00a0But even Luke described Paul as talking \u201con and on!<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n Soon Eutychus succumbed tapped out to sleep and was sleeping soundly.\u00a0 I guess he didn\u2019t snore causing anyone to nudge him.\u00a0 The window where he was on the third story.\u00a0\u00a0 It is thought that his fall from the window to the ground was at least a twenty foot fall, and perhaps more.\u00a0 When he hit the ground he was dead.\u00a0 Family and friends, Dr. Luke, as we previously observed, was there. \u00a0He examined the young man and declared him dead.\u00a0 Folks, in that time, people, whether a doctor or not, had seen many dead people. \u00a0\u00a0They not only viewed him, but touched him as they picked him up. \u00a0If they said he was dead, he was dead.\u00a0 Besides, since the Holy Scripture says he was dead, then he was dead.<\/p>\n \u201cPaul went down, threw himself on the young man\u00a0and put his arms around him. \u201cDon\u2019t be alarmed,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s alive!\u201d<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 A man of God praying and the dead being raised is not unique to Paul.\u00a0 We know that Peter prayed and Tabitha was raised from the dead (Acts 9:36-42<\/b>).\u00a0 In the Old Testament the prophet Elijah prayed and a woman\u2019s son was raised from the dead (1 Kings 17:17-24<\/b>), and the prophet Elisha prayed for the child of a Shunammite woman and that child was raised from the dead (2 Kings 4:18-37<\/b>).\u00a0 God has timing and a reason for doing great miracles like these.\u00a0 It is verify that the disciple of Jesus, or the Old Testament prophet, is a true representative of God who speaks true words from God.\u00a0 The disciple and prophet then point the amazed to look at God and be amazed at him, the rightful recipient of their amazement praise.<\/p>\n \u201cThen he went upstairs again and broke bread\u00a0and ate. After talking until daylight, he left.<\/i>\u00a0 Paul seems to have taken this all in stride.\u00a0 And why not.\u00a0 It had to be a prayer of faith and so the return to life of Eutychus was not something that alarmed or surprised Paul.\u00a0 In fact, Paul expected God to do it.\u00a0 We must truly live in faith and believe that for God nothing is impossible (Luke 1:37<\/b>).<\/p>\n So Paul preached for hours and hours, he went on and on, then he prayed and the dead one was raised up, and then he figured it was time to eat and went upstairs to eat.\u00a0 Preaching and raising the dead can also raise up quite an appetite.<\/p>\n Family, when we pray, let us remember who we pray to and the unlimited power He has (Matthew 6:8-10<\/b>).\u00a0 In cognizance of these two things we ask in faith and know beyond all doubt that God will hear and He will answer (James 1:6<\/b>).\u00a0 He always does.\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0 His goodness to us and love for us never cease to amaze!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God<\/i>.<\/p>\n Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Acts 20:7-12\u00a0–\u00a0On the first day of the week\u00a0we came together to break bread.\u00a0Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.\u00a08\u00a0There were many lamps in the upstairs room\u00a0where we were meeting.\u00a09\u00a0Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[82,1700,2148,106,101,94,1874,17,105],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-acts","tag-james","tag-kings","tag-luke","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-psalm","tag-titus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1972,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/1972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}