July 24, 2010

Acts 25
First Lysias, then Felix, then Festus, then King Agrippa, Paul is beginning to rack up a veritable “Who’s Who” of people to whom he has given his defense. Every time the only thing that surfaces is that Paul believes in a certain dead man named Jesus whom Paul asserts to be alive. In this Jesus is glorified, when the only evil that people can speak of us it that we believe in the resurrection of Jesus. What was Paul guilty of? Healing the sick, raising the dead but His greatest crime was believing in the resurrection and preaching it. May His tribe increase! Soon Paul will have opportunity to speak the glory of Christ to Caesar. Who was this Agrippa? This Agrippa was the son of Herod Agrippa I and great-grandson of Herod the Great. Herod Agrippa I was the one who persecuted the Christians in Jerusalem (Acts 12:1–23) during his reign in Judea from A.D. 41 until his death in A.D. 44. You remember the guy. God struck him with worms because he did not give God glory. Agrippa 1 died. If I were Agrippa II, I think I would give Paul a serious hearing. Guess we’ll find out tomorrow. Indeed we serve a glorious King! Speak His glory to someone today!
--Pastor John