The Accusations Presented" (Acts 25:6-7a)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/7/2018 10:42 AM

 

My Worship Time                                             Focus:  The Accusations Presented

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                           Reference:  Acts 25:6-7a

 

          Message of the verses:  “6 After he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought. 7 After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him.”

 

          We can see that Festus, unlike Felix was true to his word and so after eight or ten days he went down to Caesarea, which is about a 65 mile trip so I am not sure if he took it in one day or perhaps two days.  After this long trip of sixty-five miles Festus brought Paul to him while he was on his seat on the tribunal, something I suppose has something to do with judgment.  John MacArthur calls it (the bema, of judgment seat).  Paul speaks of this in his letter to the Corinthians where he talks about believers coming to the judgment seat of Christ, which is not a seat where, from my understanding, sin is brought up.  I look at the Judgment seat of Christ as a place where believers are judged for what they did for the Lord while on earth.  I have mentioned in many earlier SD’s that in my view of Ephesians 2:10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them,” that God has given each believer works to do which he says that He “prepared beforehand” and my belief is that if we do these works through the power of the Holy Spirit, then we will be rewarded at the “Bema, or Judgment seat of Christ.

 

          We see that after the defendant had arrived then “the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him.”  If anyone is following the Supreme Court hearings for a man who is as well qualified as any man ever who has served on the court, then you will get a picture of what these Jews did against Paul.  A bunch of emptied headed wind bags would be a good description of both hearings.  The unsubstantiated charges that the Jews brought against Paul were no more likely to convince Festus than they had Felix.

 

          Spiritual meaning for my life today:  Trust the Lord in all cases like Paul was during this hearing, for even though you know you have done nothing wrong, what can happen to you is still in the hands of the Lord.  Think of what happened to Jesus as what happened to Him was entirely wrong, but perfectly in the will of the Lord.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  Trust the Lord to give me victory over my IBS as we do things on our vacation today that will stretch me.

 

Answer to yesterday’s Bible question:  “The whole creation” (Romans 8:22).

 

Today’s Bible question:  “According to Revelation 19:11 what is Christ’s name?”

 

Answer in our next SD

 

9/7/2018 11:08 AM