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Journey to Jerusalem
Why was Paul being Stubborn?
When Peter and John were warned by the Jewish Council to stop preaching in the name of Jesus their answer was.
When Jesus told Peter what was going to happen to him.
Specifically that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer.
Peter said God forbid it.
So, when everyone was warning Paul not to go to Jerusalem, Paul is faced with a choice to listen to them, or listen to the Holy Spirit.
In Acts 19 it says that Paul was purposed in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem.
Last week,
So when everyone is telling Paul not to go, and he is not heeding their warning, we have to remember, Paul’s calling.
While Paul was persecuting the Christians, the Lord said to Ananias to go and lay hands on Paul and heal his sight.
Ananias didn’t know that Paul encountered Jesus on the road to Damascus.
Everyone warning Paul thought they were giving Paul good advise.
What they were doing was fulfilling prophecy.
Paul wasn’t being stubborn, he was being obedient.
The Holy Spirit was telling everyone around Paul that if he goes to Jerusalem, he will suffer.
BUT, the Holy Spirit was telling Paul; Go to Jerusalem and you will suffer.
HONEST QUESTION!!!
If you give someone advise, and they don’t take it, do you get angry?
Or
If you give someone advise with a warning and you are proven right, are you an, “I told you so” person?
We will look at Paul’s arrest in Jerusalem next week, but I wonder how many people were, “I told him!”
This illustrates the kind of cultural shift Christ ushered in and why it caused so much controversy.
Three basic cultures:
Theonomous
Heteronous
Autonomous
Theonomous: Right and wrong are dictated by God.
Heteronomous: dictated by others (a few at the top)
Autonomous: dictated by self.
Jews and early Christians were both a Theonomous culture.
They both believed they were bound to live obedient to God.
But who dictated what God’s law was?
Who was his spokesperson?
In the Garden it was God himself.
Then the fathers:
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Moses
Judges
Kings - Prophets advised the Kings
Priests (High Priests)
Theonomous culture lived out in a Heteronomous way.
That doesn’t mean God leaves us void of leadership.
Holy spirit
2. The Word - Jesus confirmed the OT.
and we have the cannon of the NT.
Letters from the early believers that were used as teaching in the same generation as those that saw Christ.
3. Deacons and overseers.
The Bible is our Standard.
Do you know the WORD?
Understand the context.
Today’s culture.
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