Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Then One Came


Acts 5:25 KJV
Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.

I think we reason away the will of God too much.

The Apostles had been thrown into prison for preaching Christ. Overnight the angel of the Lord miraculously delivered them but told them to immediately go back to the Temple and preach
The same message they had preached that got them thrown into jail
To the same crowd
At the same place.
The inevitable happened; they were caught and taken before the magistrates again.


A person could have reasoned that it would have been wiser to
Preach in a house somewhere, or to
Maybe lay low for a week or so, or at least to
Split up better so they could not all be taken at once and they would not have been so obvious.

God obviously knew that they would be captured again and that they would be charged not to preach Jesus anymore and that their lives would be jeopardized before the high priest. But God's concern was that they preach Christ, not that they
Avoid suffering shame
Avoid jail time or even
Avoid death


We reason away the will of God too much.

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