Paul receives warnings in every town that he will be imprisoned and possibly killed.\u00a0 The people do not want Paul to go because of the danger.\u00a0 Verse 14 concludes with the main understanding, \u201cThe will of the Lord be done\u201d.\u00a0 The will of God is the best place we can be.\u00a0 The will of God may not always be the safest but it is where we should be.\u00a0 This is a hard concept for us to digest mentally.\u00a0 We always think the best place is where we are safe, where we can make the most money, where\u00a0our family is, or some other reason.\u00a0 But the best place is where God wants you.\u00a0 God has a will for your life to bring many to Christ and to bring Him much glory, live in His will.<\/p>\n
There is another topic brought up from this chapter and that is Phillip\u2019s daughters who prophesied.\u00a0 Many want to make this into some super verse that cancels out what women are allowed to do and not to do in other parts of scripture.\u00a0 We do not know anything else other than they were virgins who seemed to be set apart for a special ministry.\u00a0 Note that in the very next verse Agabus comes down and prophesies of Paul\u2019s imprisonment.\u00a0 We first saw this prophet in Acts\u00a011:28.\u00a0 Why did this male prophet come in even when there were 4 other prophets?\u00a0 There are more questions than answers about these daughters of Philip.<\/p>\n
What do we do with the rest of this chapter?\u00a0 There are Christian Jews still holding to the Law of Moses?\u00a0 Now the interesting fact to remember is the Church decided that the Gentiles did not have to follow the Jewish tradition.\u00a0 Second, that the Jewish traditions where allowed because it was ordered by God.\u00a0 There were more OT scriptures than the NT, for it was still being written. Every transition takes time and there where thousands of Jews coming to Christ that still wanted to keep the law and festivals.\u00a0 The early church, which slowly moved away from these, fulfilled events in Christ.\u00a0 However as long as it were a celebration of the Old Testament and not a requirement of salvation the early church allowed it.\u00a0\u00a0 Much of this will be done away with when God allows the taking of Jerusalem in a few years.<\/p>\n
Reading scripture is the most important daily exercise we can do.\u00a0 Remembering to connect scripture with other portions of scripture is extremely important as well.\u00a0 Sometimes God just speaks facts and events for the purpose of us knowing what happened.\u00a0 Strive to daily keep all scripture in context.\u00a0 Thanks for reading along!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}