After two years Felix is replaced by Festus and therefore the Jews bring up Paul\u2019s case hoping Festus would kill Paul.\u00a0\u00a0Festus wanted to do the Jews this favor so he calls for Paul and brings him before his court.<\/p>\n
According to verse 3 the Jews wanted Paul to be brought to Jerusalem so they could ambush the prison bus (I guess prison chariot)\u00a0and kill Paul.\u00a0But Festus takes a trip to Paul because that is the region Paul must be judged in because of his Roman citizenship.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Of course Festus finds nothing wrong and therefore wants to send Paul on as requested to Caesar.<\/p>\n
Festus does catch on to the real problem found in verse 19; \u201cone Jesus, which was dead, who Paul affirmed to be alive.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0And this is still our problem today.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus being alive makes Christianity true and every other way a false way.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus being alive means the Jewish prophecies where fulfilled and the Jews should worship Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus being alive makes for a true salvation and forces a choice into the face of everyone, to either believe or stand condemned before a Holy God.\u00a0\u00a0Last week I again saw a bumper sticker of a youth in town that had every religious emblem which states to coexist.\u00a0Coexisting is okay if you believe in a false way or a self-created way.\u00a0\u00a0However, if Jesus is alive, then there is only one way, one truth and one way to find eternal life.\u00a0\u00a0Here stands our problem.\u00a0\u00a0Will you believe God or man?\u00a0\u00a0Will you follow the ways of God or the ways of man?\u00a0\u00a0Will you strive to coexist to please man kind or worship Christ only?<\/p>\n
Many will call this being arrogant.\u00a0\u00a0I do not understand how it is arrogant to surrender to God as creator and to surrender to God\u2019s Word as the final authority.\u00a0\u00a0To me arrogance is saying I have a better way than God, and I reject God\u2019s Word as an authority in my life.\u00a0\u00a0I chose to humble myself before God and His Word.<\/p>\n
Keep reading and surrendering to what you read.\u00a0\u00a0The world will not understand our obedience to this old book preserved by God, but your ways will be eternally prosperous.\u00a0\u00a0Live out your life ready to meet Jesus.<\/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-1235","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\/1235","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=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}