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! Acts 27
!! Acts 27
!!! Tape #8116
*Pastor Chuck Smith*
Let’s turn now to the Book of Acts, chapter twenty seven.
Paul, realizing that he is getting the run around in the Roman courts, exercised his prerogative as a Roman citizen and appealed his case directly to Caesar.
/And when it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to one named Julius, a centurion of the Augustan Regiment.
/That is that he was one of the personal guards of Caesar.
And at that point that was Caesar Nero.
So he was one of the elite and one of the elite of the elite!
Being a centurion meant that he was over a hundred or so men.
The centurions were hand picked men.
And they were all of them very fine men.
Whenever we meet a centurion in the Scripture, he is always cast in a very good and positive light.
You remember in the gospel (Matthew 8:5-13) how that there was a centurion there in Capernaum whose servant was sick.
And the people came and told Jesus and said he was a good man.
He helped them build their synagogue.
Jesus said I will come and heal the servant.
As Jesus was on the way, other messengers came and said, Lord, our master said it is not necessary for You to come.
He understands authority.
For he is a man under authority and he has under him men.
He can say to one go, and he goes.
And to another come, and he comes.
Lord, all you have to do is just to say the word and my servant will be healed.
Jesus said I have not found so great a faith, not in all of Israel.
It was the centurion standing by the cross that said, surely this was the Son of God.
It was a centurion in Caesarea, Cornelius, to whom the gospel first came to the Gentile world as Peter was sent to the house of Cornelius.
And there the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the Roman centurion Cornelius.
And now Julius, but he is one of Caesar’s personal guards.
No doubt a very seasoned and brave soldier.
And so there came an instant bond between Julius and Paul because it was one brave soldier meeting another.
And they had a mutual respect for each other.
Paul had a respect for Julius and Julius, no doubt, developed a tremendous respect for Paul.
A soldier of the cross of Jesus Christ.
/2//So, entering a ship of Adramyttium, we put to sea, meaning to sail along the coasts of Asia.
Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, was with us.
/Aristarchus was one of Paul’s traveling companions.
No doubt waiting on Paul and helping Paul.
Back in the nineteenth chapter of Acts we met Aristarchus when there was that uprising in Ephesus because of Demetrius the silversmith, who got together other men from the same crafts.
They said this Paul is ruining our business because they made little silver goddesses, which were representations of their goddess, Diana.
And Paul was teaching them that these little silver things weren’t gods.
And so their business was declining.
So they began to raise an uproar.
And they grabbed hold of Aristarchus and Gaius, Paul’s traveling companions and they brought them into the arena.
That is where we were first introduced to Aristarchus.
But later on, he accompanied Paul to Rome.
But then when Paul is in prison, in Rome, writing his letters, he brings Aristarchus into the end of the letters as he says, Aristarchus sends his greetings and so forth.
And so he remained with Paul there in Rome.
No doubt attending still to Paul’s needs there in Rome.
So a companion of Paul.
A traveling companion, one who was from Thessalonica, perhaps converted on Paul’s first trip to Thessalonica.
/3//And the next day we landed at Sidon. /From Caesarea to Sidon is a short distance.
Actually from Caesarea to Sidon is only about thirty five miles or so.
So they touched the next day in Sidon.
/And Julius /(that is the Roman centurion) /treated Paul kindly and gave him liberty to go to his friends and receive care. /There in Sidon a body of believers.
Paul was given the liberty by Julius to go and visit with the Christians there to be refreshed and strengthened.
/4//When we had put to sea from there, we sailed under the shelter of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
/Now their intention was to sail up the coast remaining close to the coast, because it’s much smoother water than getting out into the more open sea.
So they were not able to fulfill their intentions.
They sailed sort of directly across, but that put them on the southern side of Cyprus rather than sailing around the eastern and then on the northern side of the island where they are more or less protected.
The winds would not allow that so they were going more or less directly across, passing under Cyprus as they were on their way to Myra.
/ 5And when we had sailed over the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
/Now the winds were contrary, he says.
We have a hard time imagining the slowness of the journey.
From the time that Paul left for Italy, which was August, he did not arrive in Italy until the first part of March.
So he was almost six months on this journey.
It’s hard for us to fathom that because, you know, we get on these modern steamships or whatever and we travel at eighteen or twenty one knots per hour.
Well they were lucky to make nine knots a day.
And when the wind was contrary, it was even worse.
And it was slow going.
So a long time at sea.
So it was a long time getting over to Myra from the area of Caesarea.
/6//There the centurion found an Alexandrian /(that would be Alexandria, Egypt) /ship sailing to Italy, and he put us on board.
/Now the us is Paul and Aristarchus and Luke, who is the writer.
Notice Luke is using the personal pronoun indicating that Luke is also traveling with Paul.
/7//When we had sailed slowly many days, and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus, the wind not permitting us to proceed, we sailed under the shelter of Crete off Salmone.
/Now you will find this is at the eastern end of the island of Crete.
It isn’t very far from Myra but because of the wind they were a long time just making it.
That very short distance.
/ 8Passing it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.
/This is on the south side of the island of Crete.
About mid way along the island, the Fair Havens./
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/9//Now when much time had been spent, and sailing was now dangerous because the Fast was already over, /The Fast referred to here is the Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
In this particular year it came in the middle of October.
Now they would not consider sailing past the month of November.
They just would find good winter quarters and they would stay in port through the winter months.
It wasn’t until the latter part of March that they would venture out on the Mediterranean again.
And so it’s already past the middle of October.
The time for sailing is over.
It’s time to find a port.
And just prepare yourself for winter.
And so the sailing was now dangerous because the Fast was already past.
/Paul advised them, 10saying, "Men, I perceive that this voyage will end with disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and ship, but also our lives."
/It’s precarious to sail now.
I advise against it.
It’s interesting that Paul was so respected that he was brought into the decision making processes of Julius.
/ 11Nevertheless the centurion was more persuaded by the helmsman and the owner of the ship than by the things spoken by Paul.
12And because the harbor was not suitable to winter in, /It wasn’t the most ideal port for winter, especially because it wasn’t near any major city.
The closest was Lasea.
It was not really that attractive to sailors to stay in this little city.
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