SATURDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2024
TEXT:
Acts 21:27-36
27.
When the seven days [required to complete the ritual] were almost over, [some]
Jews from [the province of] Asia [Minor], caught sight of him in the temple,
and began to stir up the crowd, and they seized him,
28.
shouting, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches all men
everywhere against our people and the Law and this place. And besides, he has
brought Greeks into the temple and had defiled this holy place.”
29.
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul, and
they assumed that he had brought the man into the temple [beyond the court of
the Gentiles].
30.
Then the whole city was provoked and confused, and the people rushed together.
They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the gates
were closed.
31.
Now while they were trying to kill him, word came to the commander of the
[Roman] garrison that all Jerusalem was in a a state of upheaval.
32.
So he immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down among them. When
the people saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
33.
Then the commander came up and arrested Paul, and ordered that he be bound with
two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.
34.
But some in the crowd were shouting one thing and others something else; and
since he could not determine the facts because of the uproar, he ordered that
Paul be taken to the barracks [in the tower of Antonia].
35.
When Paul got to the steps, he was carried by the soldiers because of the
violence of the mob;
36.
for the majority of the people kept following them, shouting, “Away with him!
[Kill him!]”
(Amplified Version Holy Bible)
TOPIC:
ASSUMPTION
In
today's text, Apostle Paul was misunderstood by the Jews because they assumed
that he was defiling the temple.
The
Jews claimed to know the Law but forgot to realize that Paul was simply
adhering to the Jewish Law outlined in Numbers 6:9 which required him to purify
himself after seven days.
Paul
was wrongly accused of teaching against Jewish Law and bringing Greeks to the
Temple.
If
not properly checked, assumptions can destroy someone's life as it almost did
Paul's.
However,
God has all it takes to rescue anyone who trusts and serves Him, just as He did
to Paul.
QUESTION: Have
you misunderstood someone based on a wrong assumption which almost destroyed
the life, marriage or work of the person?
PRAYER: O
Lord, forgive me for wrongly assuming things about my neighbour without proper
information, in Jesus name. Amen.
Remain
Blessed
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