26.06.15 “Paul nearly dead in Lystra!?” (Acts 14:11-23)

 

Have you ever been caught in an unruly crowd, perhaps you might even call them a mob? Did that mob suddenly become violent and were you frightened for your life? That happened once to me, and I was nearly trampled to death as a boy. My father saved my life by raising me up on his shoulders! I’ll never forget that experience and it was probably 65 years ago!  I left you yesterday in a very similar mob scene recorded for us in Acts 14, do you remember? By the power of God, Paul had just healed a crippled man in the town of Lystra. The crowd rushed Paul and Barnabas declaring “the gods have come to us in human form” and they quickly gathered animals and wreaths of flowers about to have a pagan worship service in their honor, including sacrifices! Paul and Barnabas rushed into the crowd declaring “What are you doing? We too are only humans like you…” (Acts 14:11-15) Paul boldly and loudly proclaimed the powerful truth about Jesus. But this crowd had seen a miracle, and, in their delirium, agitators took advantage of the situation and stirred up the crowd turning it into an out-of-control mob. 

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Pastor Doug Anderson    “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)

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