Acts 21:20 (KJV) The Sort That Change the World

 

Acts 21:20 (KJV)

And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:

I’ve heard estimates of perhaps fifty thousand believers in Jerusalem prior to Acts eight. Whether this is accurate or not, I have no way of knowing. By Acts twenty-one the believers had scattered out of Jerusalem and Paul was there specifically to bring to the poor saints an offering to relieve their distress. Upon Paul’s arrival he is informed of “how many thousands of Jews … which believe”.

There is no way of knowing how many thousands there were. Later in the chapter, vs thirty-eight, we will hear of four thousand “murderers.” Apparently four thousand was not that great a number.

What strikes me is that: 

• There were thousands of Jews without number which believed, yet they still required an offering from the Gentile world
• There were thousands of Jews without number which believed, yet they couldn’t protect Paul in the Temple
• There were thousands of Jews without number which believed, but they were so unsound doctrinally that Paul was compelled to offer a vow

Large numbers of professing believers is not the answer to our world’s trouble. Better to have a very small number who are sound in faith and wholly surrendered to Christ.

These are the sort that turn the world upside down.

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Acts 21:20 (KJV) The Sort That Change the World