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God is King Acts 24:1 – 26:32

God is King Acts 24:1 – 26:32. Paul confronts the two major power blocs, Jerusalem and Rome God shows himself to be the King above all kings. Summary of Events. Paul completed three missionary journeys Jerusalem Council ruled circumcision unnecessary for salvation ( ch 15)

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God is King Acts 24:1 – 26:32

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  1. God is KingActs 24:1 – 26:32 • Paul confronts the two major power blocs, Jerusalem and Rome • God shows himself to be the King above all kings

  2. Summary of Events • Paul completed three missionary journeys • Jerusalem Council ruled circumcision unnecessary for salvation ( ch 15) • Jews perceived disregard for the Law • Jewish hostility ignited (21:27-36) • Holy Spirit led Paul to Jerusalem • Paul’s arrest and trial prophesied ( ch 21)

  3. Summary of Events Paul faced five trials before traveling to Rome: • In Jerusalem, before Jewish crowd (22) • In Jerusalem, before the Sanhedrin (23) • In Caesarea, before Governor Felix (24) • In Caesarea, before Governor Festus (25) • In Caesarea, before King Agrippa II (26)

  4. Paul’s Defense Strategy • Convictions • Conversion • Commission

  5. Paul’s defense strategy • Convictionsbefore conversion: • Pharisee • fervent for the Law • persecutor of Christians +Religious continuity with Judaism

  6. Paul’s defense strategy • Conversion • belief in resurrection of both the righteous & wicked +Theological discontinuity • Commission • mission to Gentiles +Ethnic discontinuity

  7. Paradoxes • The most powerful are the most powerless • Those in control merely serve God’s purpose • In God’s kingdom, crisis is opportunity

  8. Questions the God-King Asks • Do you believe? • (26:27-29) • Is your life changed? • (24:24-26; 26:20; 2 Cor 5:17; Gal 5:22) • Are you moving up to the next level, from conversion to commission? • (26:15-18)

  9. God sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers … “To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One. - Isaiah 40:22, 25

  10. HISTORY IS CROWDED WITH MEN WHO WOULD BE GODS…

  11. BUT ONLY ONE GOD WHO WOULD BE MAN

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