Acts 26:32 KJV
Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
In the last verse of chapter 25 Festus said it seemed unreasonable to send Paul to Caesar without laying out the charges against him. Now Festus and Agrippa agree that he has done nothing worthy of death and should be set at liberty. This indeed is an unreasonable thing to bring before the court of Caesar. Paul is going to go as a prisoner to Rome, his captors knowing him to be a victim and having no real chargeable offenses against him.
But people do unreasonable things. People do things that make no good sense except that they have set a course and generally don't change from it. Any reasonable person knows his sin is dangerous to himself and his family and probably to others as well. But he stays his course. He may have several times when he comes under the conviction that he should turn. He may have many people give testimony that his course is unreasonable. Still he remains on course.
God grant many more would see the need to turn to a course for Christ. And God grant the Christian faith to trust that God's plan is working out regardless of and even through the course of men.
Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
In the last verse of chapter 25 Festus said it seemed unreasonable to send Paul to Caesar without laying out the charges against him. Now Festus and Agrippa agree that he has done nothing worthy of death and should be set at liberty. This indeed is an unreasonable thing to bring before the court of Caesar. Paul is going to go as a prisoner to Rome, his captors knowing him to be a victim and having no real chargeable offenses against him.
But people do unreasonable things. People do things that make no good sense except that they have set a course and generally don't change from it. Any reasonable person knows his sin is dangerous to himself and his family and probably to others as well. But he stays his course. He may have several times when he comes under the conviction that he should turn. He may have many people give testimony that his course is unreasonable. Still he remains on course.
God grant many more would see the need to turn to a course for Christ. And God grant the Christian faith to trust that God's plan is working out regardless of and even through the course of men.
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