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You arewelcome

StoneCreek

www.rossvillechurch.com

781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741

January 2, 2013

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Pure Heart Music Ministries will be with us January 13, 2013 to

lead in worship at 11:00 AM

Gospel Baptist Tabernacle

781 Salem Road, Flintstone, GA 30741

www.rossvillechurch.com

www. .pureheartmusicministries.org

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Paul’s nephew revealed to the chief captain a conspiracy to kill his

Uncle Paul.

The Roman captain believed him and took immediate action. Acts 23

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Acts 23:23 And the chief captain called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred sold-iers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night; 24 And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.

470 men

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25And he wrote a letter after this manner: 26 Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting. 27 This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.

The exact truth was that he rescued Paul, was about to flog him, and then found out he was a

Roman.

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28 And when I would have known the cause where-fore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council: 29 Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

A dispute over the Jewish religion was very important to the Jewish religious leaders,

But meant nothing to the Romans.

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30 And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent him straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.

He may have thought that the Jews would drop the whole matter if they had to travel so far,

But he didn’t know their zeal about this.

They had rejected Jesus as their Messiah,and killed Him.

They meant to kill all who preached in His Name.

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31 Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.

The dangerous part of the trip was the 35 miles from

Jerusalem to Antipatris.

From there to Caesarea it was less likely that they would have any trouble.

35 miles

27 miles

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32 On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle: 33 Who, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.

The worst danger over, the horsemen could travel much faster without the other 400 men.

They arrived in Caesarea and presented the Apostle Paul along with the letter from

Claudius Lysias to Felix the Roman governor.

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34 And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province Paul was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia; 35 I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.

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Acts 24:1 (TLB) Five days later Ananias the High Priest arrived with some of the Jewish leaders and the lawyer Tertullus, to make their accusations against Paul.

The High Priest Ananias with his entourage traveled the 62 miles to Caesarea

To bring their charges against Paul before the Roman governor Felix.

Jesus had said that it would be like this:

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John 15 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

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John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do unto you for My Name's sake, because they know not Him that sent Me.

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If a Christian is not being persecuted, but is accepted by the lost world,

He ain’t doing it right.

He is compromising.Loving the world.

He is sinning with them.

We must walk straight in the Path that God has ordered for our lives.