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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Sunday, February 2, 2025
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Paul’s Roman Citizenship Bible Verse:Acts 22:22-29 (ESV) "up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live.” And as they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air, the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by flogging, to find out why they were shouting against him like this. But when they had stretched him out for the whips, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, “Is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?” When the centurion heard this, he went to the tribune and said to him, “What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.” So the tribune came and said to him, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” And he said, “Yes.” The tribune answered, “I bought this citizenship for a large sum.” Paul said, “But I am a citizen by birth.” So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him immediately, and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him. " Message:
Paul has just been saved from an angry mob in Jerusalem, by the commander of the Roman garrison, and has made a speech to the mob in his defense. The word Paul has said, in the first sentence, is “Gentiles”; he tells the crowd that God commissioned him to save the Gentiles, and the crowd erupts again. It is a loaded word: a false rumor that Paul was taking Gentiles inside the Temple was what had caused the crowd to attack Paul in the first place.
The glimpse of Roman legal procedure is interesting. Just as in every colonized land in history, Romans are treated differently from colonized peoples. The centurion assumes Paul is like most Jews, simply an inhabitant of Judea, no doubt because he speaks Aramaic and Greek. We learn that binding and flogging a citizen without due cause is not allowed under Roman law — but for anyone else, it’s fine.
This is all very strange to us today, isn’t it? The Jews protest by throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air. And if that is not odd enough, the legal system (for non-citizens) is to flog the accused, in order to examine the truth of the accusations. We would not even allow flogging of a person convicted of a crime, today; but they thought so little of a non-citizen, they will flog him as a means of finding out whether he is innocent or guilty.
Meditation : Prayer : Finally, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let me think about these things. What I have learned and received, let me do; and the God of peace be with us all.......Amen |
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