{"id":2011,"date":"2020-01-13T08:12:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T16:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2020-01-13T08:12:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T16:12:59","slug":"devotion-acts-2127-36-esoteric-but-sure-victory-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2011","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Acts 21:27-36 Esoteric, But Sure Victory Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acts 21:27-36\u00a0<\/b>–\u00a0When 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,<\/i><\/span>\u00a028\u00a0shouting, \u201cFellow 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.\u201d<\/span>\u00a029\u00a0(They had previously seen Trophimus\u00a0the Ephesian\u00a0in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)\u00a0 30\u00a0The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul,\u00a0they dragged him\u00a0from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.<\/span>\u00a031\u00a0While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar.<\/span>\u00a032\u00a0He 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.\u00a0 33\u00a0The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound\u00a0with two\u00a0chains.\u00a0Then he asked who he was and what he had done.<\/span>\u00a034\u00a0Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another,\u00a0and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks.<\/span>\u00a035\u00a0When Paul reached the steps,\u00a0the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers.<\/span>\u00a036\u00a0The crowd that followed kept shouting, \u201cGet rid of him!\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen 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<\/i><\/span>.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 The idea of the Jerusalem leaders to have Paul sponsor the four young men in their vows and thereby assuage those who would oppose him did not seem to work out as planned, at least not their plans.\u00a0 Paul, as he had been previously prophesied over, was surrounded and seized by a crowd unified with the cause to beat him and even to kill him.\u00a0 Paul had been warned about dangers that awaited him in Jerusalem.\u00a0\u00a0 It did not take very long, a little over a week, for them to sweep over him like a wild grass fire.\u00a0 Paul had earlier (V13<\/b>) stated that he was willing to be bound, and even to die for the sake of the Gospel and surely it would have been easy for him to wonder if he was about to be killed.\u00a0 Oh the strength of the faith in Jesus that Paul had!\u00a0 How do may we become so strong in the faith?\u00a0 Well Paul was first a man who had all his life studied the scriptures.\u00a0 Then he had a personal encounter with Jesus.\u00a0 Then he spent much time with Jesus in fellowship, meditation and prayer in which the Holy Spirit rooted and grew his faith.\u00a0 It is the same journey we are called to.\u00a0 The Holy Spirit calls us, someone gives us the Word to take root within us, we have a personal encounter with Jesus, we yield to the leading of the Holy Spirit and then, all of our lives, we hunger and thirst for more fellowship with Jesus. \u00a0What previously seemed so intangible, that is communing with Jesus, knowing His voice and being aware of His very presence with us, moves from being intangible to a very tangible reality.\u00a0 \u00a0Hebrews 11:1<\/b>\u00a0\u201cNow faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.\u201d\u00a0 Faith in what at first can seem so nebulous, so hard to grasp, grows into a very real and mighty source of life and strength, a very real refuge.\u00a0 When God comes within us He then remakes us and helps us to understand what the worldly mind cannot.\u00a0 Jesus said the most important part of our relationship with God is to love Him with all that we are (Mark 12:30<\/b>).\u00a0 We know that when we are madly in love with someone, we always want to be around that someone.\u00a0 It\u2019s kinda like that, only better.\u00a0 Paul was madly in love with God, and as a result spent a lot of time with God, and that resulted in knowing God in increasing measure.\u00a0 And Family, those who know God also trust and love Him.\u00a0 That is why Paul had such great faith. \u00a0It was a faith not in someone he have heard of, or knew of, but in someone he very personally knew and \u201chung out\u201d with every moment he could.\u00a0 And it is how we grow our faith.\u00a0 Spend time with the Holy Spirit, let Him reveal the Word of God to us, love and talk to Jesus everyday throughout the day.\u00a0 God has given us this great honor.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take advantage of the great offer that is available to us only through the death and resurrection of Jesus.\u00a0 Available to us only as servants of the living Messiah Jesus.\u00a0 Thank you Jesus!\u00a0 Praise and glory to God!\u00a0 Oh how blessed we are!<\/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 21:27-36\u00a0–\u00a0When 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,\u00a028\u00a0shouting, \u201cFellow 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…<\/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":[82,104,93,94,1874,17],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-acts","tag-hebrews","tag-mark","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","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=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}