THE KING’S BUSINESS
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how much more occasion for being afraid have those who wrong a child o f God? Our
King and Father will see some day that they are made to smart for it.
LESSON (1 ) Rehearsing the Temple Vision, vs. 17-21. For whose sake was Paul a prisoner? Eph. 4:1. What had Peter gone to the housetop for? 10:9. Who else by a trance 'learned his duty to the Gentile? 10:10; 11:18. Is prayer a resort for instructions? James 1:5; Psa^ 123:2. Why “haste,” “quickly,” 2 Cor. 6 :2 ; 1 Sam. 21 :8 ; Rev. 22:12. Did Peter and Paul want to argue the matter with the Lord? 10:14; 22:19, 20. Will the Lord manifest Himself to those who seek Him? John 14:21. What should satisfy us in every time of doubt ? John 20 :27, 28. Why did Paul think himself just the man for the Judean Jews? 26:4; 22:19,' 20.- Were his thoughts, God’s thoughts? Isa. 55:8, 9; Acts 16:6, 7. Did the Lord argue the matter with Paul ? y. 21 ; Rom. 9 :20. Have we got our orders? Mark 16:15. Were Gentiles more ready than Jews? 13:42, 48 ; 28:28. Why is this so? Rom. 11:8. How long will it continue? Rom. 11:25. How “ far” did God send Paul? Rom. 15:19,24. (2 ) Rejecting the Testimony, vs. 22-24. What word enraged the Jews? vs. 21, 22 . Did it usually do so? 13:50; 14:19; 17:13. What passion inflamed them? 13:45; 17:5; Matt. 23:13. To what did they specially object? Eph. 3:6. ' Did precedents and predictions condemn them? Gen. 11:31-12:1; Joshua 6:25; Ruth 4 :9-12 ; Isa. 49 :6 ; 60:3, etc. Was Paul really unfit for earth? Heb. 11:38:
OUTLINE Who threw dust in the Jews’ eyes? 2 Cor. 4 :4 ; Eph. 2:2. (3 ) Roman Citizenship, vs. 25-29. Did they need to put Paul in “the sweat- box” to get his “confession?” 26:16; 2 Cor. 13:8. What recurred to Paul as they bound him? 20:23 ; 21:11; John 18:12. What encouragement can we find in times o f trial? 2 Tim. 4:1-4. Why did not Paul put his question (v. 25) to the Jews? Were Romans more just than Jews? Rom. 25:16. Did the Jews heed “ I am a Jew?” v. 21, 22. ' - ; - •" ■■TCij ■! Did the Gentiles heed “I am a Roman?” v. -29. Was Cæsar more dread than Jehovah? Eccl. 8:11; Luke 21:20, 26. Did -Paul repudiate earthly citizenship? ,25:10;. Phil. 3:20, R. V. Where else was Paul free-born, (Gal. 4:26, 31) and o f no mean city? Rev. 21:1- 22:14. PRACTICAL POINTS (1) Saul left Jerusalem breathing out slaughter; he comes again, breathing out salvation. (2) Meeting Jesus in the way, and letting Jesus have His way, is the secret o f blessing. (3) Is your face toward Damascus,- or Jerusalem? (4) Have you a commission from “the high priest” " (9 :2 ), or the Great High . Priest? (5) Do not fancy a trance essential to transact business with the Lord. ( 6 ) “Make haste slowly” in your way; ■“make haste—quickly” in His. (7) The evangelist proposes,'but God dis poses. ( 8 ) “Much people” in Corinth (18:9, 10), none in Jerusalem. (9) The devil is still throwing dust.
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