S. S. Times Acts 20:1-12 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called to him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.… Note here, the apostle — I. HELPING IN THE WAY (ver. 2; Acts 2:40; Colossians 1:28; 1 Thessalonians 2:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:1). II. THREATENED IN THE WAY (ver. 3; Acts 9:23; Acts 23:11; 2 Corinthians 11:26; Acts 16:19). III. ACCOMPANIED IN THE WAY (ver. 4; Acts 19:29; Acts 16:1; Ephesians 6:21; Acts 21:29). IV. PROSPERED IN THE WAY (ver. 6; Acts 16:8; 2 Timothy 4:13). LESSONS: 1. Paul found time, in the course of his travels, for much exhortation to Christian service and encouragement to Christian work. 2. Paul was a great traveller, but he never planned his tours with the idea of amusing himself, or of improving his health, or of seeing the greatest possible number of interesting ruins. 3. Paul was a traveller, but the only one of his journeys that he talked a great deal about was of his coming to the Lord Jesus Christ. 4. Paul was a great preacher, and a proof of the fact is the fierce opposition he so frequently met from Jews and Gentiles. That fierceness is a measure of the work he was doing. 5. Paul was wise enough to change his plans, when persistence in them would have brought disaster. The wise Christian will always go by land through Macedonia if it would be incurring needless danger for him to go by sea to Syria. (S. S. Times.) Parallel Verses KJV: And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia. |
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