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SAA Notes
Providential meetings are a great blessing. Hospitality encourages people like Paul in their ministries, furthers the Gospel in unforseen ways, and cultivates growing strength and blessing in the hospitable. Paul needed encouragement as he faced opposition.
SJA Notes
* God of Light, please teach us of Your mercy and grace today.
“And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.”
Paul was both disciplined (regularity without fail) and courageous (carrying on with the real threat of violence) in going about the work of God’s kingdom.
We see here that Paul worked to reason with both Jews and Greeks. Both the lineage and Abraham and those not of Abraham’s physical descendants.
Paul’s ministry reflected the truth of God’s purpose. God’s promise to Abraham.
That through him all nations of the earth would be blessed.
This is the message of Jesus!
We can have blessing instead of curse, we can be friends with our Maker instead of enemies, we can be freed from the crushing weight of sin and the penalty of judgement for our sin.
Hallelujah, what a Saviour!
* Holy God,
Thank You for the witness of Paul as we read here in Acts.
Please help us minister in the same way, showing no partiality, but calling all to repentance and belief in You.
Amen.