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A faithful minister
1 After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia.
2 When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. 3 There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia 4 Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.
5 These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, 6 but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.
7 On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
8 There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
9 And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer.
And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.
10 But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, "Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him."
11 And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.12
And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.
1 After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia.
2 When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. 3 There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.
4 Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.
5 These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, 6 but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.
7 On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
8 There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
9 And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer.
And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.
10 But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, "Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him."
11 And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.12
And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.
Martin Luther once said concerning being a minister these words,
“ Our office is a ministry of grace and salvation.
It subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world.
But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.”
When we were last together Luke told us that Paul was planning three important journeys: to (1) Macedonia and Achaia, to (2) Jerusalem, and (3) then to Rome.
shows us the completion of the first missionary journey and the beginning of the second.
It was Paul’s pattern was to return to the churches he had previously founded and to encourage and strengthen the believers.
Look at , When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.”
It shows tremendous courage that Paul would return to the cities from which he had been driven by such violent opposition just to encourage those who remain, now that’s faithfulness!
Paul’s warning to these Christians to expect many tribulations is echoed through his own account of his persecutions.
, ‘You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and suffering that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured: yet from them all the Lord rescued me.
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Often in Acts new believers are encouraged to persevere in the faith, and the reference to “tribulations” indicates that the Christian’s life is often beset by difficulties.
Only after his three years in Ephesus did he have opportunity to revisit the churches of Macedonia and Achaia, which were established on his second missionary journey.
Luke emphasizes the thoroughness of Paul’s efforts to encourage and warn the churches in our passage today, but most of all
Paul seeks to show us what a faithful minister looks like.
A faithful minister considers the church above all else, encourages it and serves quietly.
A faithful minister constantly faces threats courageously.
A faithful minister commits himself to the growth of his disciples.
A faithful minister compels the people through consistent preaching and compassionate pastoring.
So, you see here that the main theme in this chapter is faithful pastoral care and leadership, with Paul as the model, the very model of a faithful minister.
Let us pray...
A faithful minister considers the church above all else, encourages it and serves quietly.
The first two verses of this passage introduces the spirit of encouragement, the verb parakaleo is used twice.
The repetition of the same Greek word here which is the word “encouragement” in vv.
1-2, suggests that Christians are to be comforted as well as to encouraged, as Jesus once said.
‘In this world you will have tribulation.
But take heart; I have overcome the world
1 a ‘After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them...’
The faithful minister considers the church above all, though there had been a terrible uproar and riot in Ephesus, Paul was faithful and encouraging.
This attack, which was primarily launched against Paul, and even, involved some so-called believers, yet that did not minimize his faithfulness.
Though Paul made a narrow escape; in his spirit he sensed that to continue ministering in Ephesus would only endanger more believers.
1b, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia.
Why?
Because true faithfulness requires putting the church above all else! Paul did not wish to bring any harm whatsoever to the people, so he called them together and embraced them and left for Europe.
But before he left he left us some examples.
The first example of Paul’s ministry of encouragement comes immediately after the ending of the uproar in Ephesus.
Although Paul was in great danger and suffered considerable distress for the sake of Christ, how did he handle it?
Well, Paul did not back up, he did not back down, he viewed what God had allowed to happen, not a setback but as a setup to show His power and His glory.
Paul was so centered on the welfare of others that he sent for the disciples, in order to encourage them!
The verb parakaleo, para means to come along side, and kaleo means to be call.
Paul as a faithful minister understood that he had been called by God to come along side his other servants and serve them through encouragement.
The faithful minister serves quietly, encourages much, so much happened during Paul’s life that we will never know.
Paul served God and the church quietly, without boasting, with publicizing his own efforts.
He was interested in one thing and one thing only which was to bring God the glory and reach people for Christ.
Promoting Christ and not yourself is a mark of a faithful minister.
And because God planted this in the spirit of Paul, he planted it in the spirit of all the servants that he ministered to and developed this trait in the ministers of the early church.
Paul urges all his servants to work to glorify God because God is their only source and the only power behind their ministries.
Let’s look back that the text for a moment.
, When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece.
A good example of Paul serving quietly and encouraging much can be seen in here in these verses.
His ministry in Macedonia lasted almost a year and invoked some outstanding events.
Yet we know nothing about them except what little we can glean for his writing elsewhere in the Bible.
, ‘When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord, my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there.
So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.’
Here Titus was supposed to meet Paul and report back to him in Troas.
But he was not there when Paul arrived.
So, Paul then had to preach Christ’s gospel and minister while waiting for Titus.
Paul apparently suffered some serious illness and had to deal with an awful burden while in Troas, but he continued being a faithful minister.
, For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia.
For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.
9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death.
But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
10 He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us.
On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again”.
9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death.
But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
10 He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us.
On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again”.
But because Paul was a faithful minister by the end of the 4th chapter Paul’s spirit proclaim something totally different.
, But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
So death is at work in us, but life in you.
And then we continues in , So we do not lose heart.
Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.
For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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