A Series on Acts - #144 Paul Speaks Before Felix

Speaker Notes

from The Litany

From lightning and tempest; from earthquake, fire, and
flood; from plague, pestilence, and famine;

Good Lord, deliver us.

From all oppression, conspiracy and rebellion; from
violence, battle and murder, and from dying suddenly
and unprepared;

Good Lord, deliver us.

In all time of our tribulation; in all time of our prosperity;
in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment,

Good Lord, deliver us. Amen.

Acts 24:10-16

10 When the governor motioned for him to speak, Paul replied: “I know that for a number of years you have been a judge over this nation; so I gladly make my defense. 11 You can easily verify that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship. 12 My accusers did not find me arguing with anyone at the temple, or stirring up a crowd in the synagogues or anywhere else in the city. 13 And they cannot prove to you the charges they are now making against me. 14 However, I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets, 15 and I have the same hope in God as these men themselves have, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked. 16 So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.

“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

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