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Today we finish the book of Acts.
This is our 58th sermon out of this book.
Don’t you hate it when you come to the end of a book or moive and everything is not tied up in a pretty little bow and there are things left un-finished.
We like everything to be tied up in a nice little bow.
I hate that feeling wondering what happened.
Why couldn’t the author just finish the story.
We have been leading up to Paul going to Rome to be presented before Caesar.
However as you will see today we never get that far in the story before the book ends.
We love the idea that everything is resolved and we know how it all turns out.
Some of us hate things where their is the clift hanger and things lef
Paul is in chains, but we will not see any resolution from these chains.
As one scholar put it Dr.
Luke may have done this because the book of Acts is not primarly a story about Paul. it is primarly a story about Him using individuals and churches to advace the gospel of Jesus Christ.
After being at sea for some time.
After going through a major storm and giving up hope.
I could only imagine what it must have been like for their feet to hit the soul and feel the sand.
As a youth pastor I carried my youth group to Carowinds.
There was this ride I believed called the dropzone.
It is where they raise you up the side of this tower about 100 ft in the air and then they release you to just drop.
Before you know it your heart is up in your throat.
When I got off that ride I got on my knees and kissed the ground.
Being on solid ground had never felt any better.
I am sure this is what these guys felt like.
The natives built them a fire.
Could you imagine what that fire would have felt like to them after being on the open water in the winter.
When the Bible uses the word Native here.
They are not talking about savages or uncultured people groups.
They are referring to these group of people not being Greek oriented.
Notice what Paul was doing in verse 3. Picking up wood for the fire.
It shows us that no job was below Paul.
He was a servant.
I hate to say this but we live in a nation where people think many jobs are beneath them.
You have young adults who come out of college and won’t settle for anything other than their dream job right away.
They look to a older generation with jealousy because of they have not realizing they had to work to get their.
In our churches today you have people who won’t pick up the sticks.
They want to pass the buck to someone else.
A toilet is clogged and instead of the church member unclogging the toilet they call the matience guy.
A pieace of trash is in the pew they don’t pick it up they wait for the cleaning crew to do it.
A person needs to be told about Jesus so instead of them doing it they call the pastor.
We have babies they need to be held, but many think that should be someone elses job.
The Church today needs some more Paul’s who will pick up sticks
We need some more Pauls at THBC.
Notice Paul was willing to do whatever it took.
He had a servants attitude.
In our churches today we need more servants rather than those who come to be served.
Can I get a witness.
William Barclay said this:
“It is only the little man that refuses the little task.”
The natives beleived in Karma.
They believed that since Paul was bitten by a snake then it was punishment and that he had to be a murder.
We say things like this all the time.
They got what they deserved because they had done this or that.
We say things like What comes around, goes around.
The problem with these statements and Karma in general is that they are anti-gospel and go against a Soverign God.
If we all got what we deserved we would get Gods wrath.
We would get a devil hell.
But God in his love for us showed us grace a mercy
This is not us getting what we deserve.
This is Christ getting what we deserve.
Also as Christ followers we don’t believe in coincidences.
We don’t believe in luck or happen stance.
God wills all things or he allows all things.
For God is in complete control.
God is the one that allowed the snake to bit Paul.
And it will be God that does not let Paul die from the snake bit.
Notice that the natives of the land went from thinking Paul was a murder to thinking Paul was a God in verse 6
Because God had showed Paul mercy and grace and Paul had lived through the snake bite.
There next assumption about Paul is that Paul must be a God.
This is not the first time in the book of Acts a man of God was thought to be a God.
In Cornelius bows at Peter feet worshipping him because he assumed he was a God.
In in Lystra the people bowed to Barnabas and Paul because they thought the Gods had come down.
Even though the scripture does not tell us, in knowing Paul he is going to take this opportunity to point people to Jesus.
Because that is what Paul is all about.
Notice the hospitatlity of the natives to Paul.
Paul did not avoid the lost.
Paul instead recieved them and ministered to them.
In many of our churches the lost are not welcomed and we avoid hanging out with the lost.
Because Paul was willing to hang out with the lost it gave him opporunities for him to minister to them and ultimalty share the gospel.
We must be on the mission that God has called us to be on.
And that mission is not for us to hide in the 4 walls of the church but for us to go and minister to the lost and share Jesus with them.
We must be willing to go to the lost person house.
Paul did and stayed three days with him.
The mans father was sick Paul healed him.
Word traveld and people from all over the island came for Paul to heal them.
Because of this the people honored them and gave them whatever they needed.
The Lord had provided for Paul.
They had landed on the sure with nothing.
They had been lost at sea and they ship wrecked because their ship ran a ground and then in their moment of need the Lord provided for them.
In our moments of need the Lord will provide for us as well.
All we must do is trust him.
Some times God provides for us in the most unusal way and places.
These natives will care for Paul and meet his needs.
Sometimes God will use the least likley person to provide what you need.
Sometimes God will use the lost person to provide what you need.
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Paul was on the island for three months.
I am sure in those 3 months Paul spent time sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ.
As Paul and his companions where heading toward Rome he ran into friends who where believers.
After pentecost the Jews from all nations returned home as they returned they would have shared the gospel and their would have been believers along the way to Rome.
We see in verse 16 they finally make it to Rome upon entering Rome Paul was greeted by fellowChrist followers who had made their way to meet him.
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