God Delivers

Read Acts 23:12-22


OK, so there is this group of Jews that want to kill Paul. They want to kill him SO BAD that they're not going to eat anything until they kill Paul. These weren't your ordinary Jews, these were super-Jews. They were pretty zealous. And they wanted to kill Paul in cold blood. Just straight up ambush him, stab him a couple times, leave him to die, and then go eat their food.

So we've painted the picture of their side. But what they didn't know was that Paul's nephew heard all of this, he told Paul, and then he told the tribune. So the plot of forty zealous Jews is ruined by one little boy. We don't even know his name! See, God worked in a powerful way as he usually does. Isn't it beautiful, though? Just because his nephew got the scoop, these forty Jews weren't able to kill Paul and then they starved to death. Just kidding, because by law, in the event a vow was impossible to complete, everybody under it were released from the terms of the oath. That's another beautiful thing, no casualties on either side.

Alright, so this was just a little Bible story that we've probably never heard of, but we can still take a lot from it. We see that God's hand was in all of this. He saved Paul so he could die another day. You know, I've actually been in a few car crashes myself. And God delivered me from all of them. If that's not God's power, I don't know what is, because one of them was a high speed crash. My name isn't even Paul and I don't even go on missionary trips around the area, but I believe in God's saving power.

Friday: Pray for the Church (Big C)
Pray for our brothers and sisters who are going through severe persecution.