Saturday, April 14, 2012

I Confess


Acts 24:14-15 KJV
But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

This is a wonderful position for the Christian who is in any way persecuted to find himself: having to confess only that they believe what others would call heresy
  • That Jesus Christ is God
  • That Jesus died for our sins and arose with our victory
  • That faith in Christ is the sinner's door into eternal life.

Paul challenged them to find any true accusation either of those present or those throughout Asia where he had ministered the gospel other than this one thing. He did not need to confess of any crime or other wicked deed because there was none.

Not that his case was fairly treated anyway. God had other plans for Paul in Rome, plans that even this imprisonment could further. Christians ought to occupy themselves
  • To have a conscience void of offence
  • To worship God as His Word teaches them, and
  • To have no other accusation that may be laid to their charge

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