Here's how the study works:
Read the chapter mentioned in the heading several times during the week and share any words, thoughts, verses that stood out to you. Having a week for a chapter creates the opportunity to reread it several times and make additional comments as you feel inclined as well as make comments on other people's insights.
2 comments:
v.26 Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
I mentioned verse when we looked at Acts 25. If Paul had been set free the Jews would have killed him. So this comment is just an attack of the enemy designed to annoy and discourage but otherwise having no real power.
Likewise we need to be discerning and remember that the devil is like a prowling lion - makes a lot of noise but is really toothless!
v.14 We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic,[a] ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
The NCV translates this: You are only hurting yourself by fighting Me.
When we resist God we hurt ourselves. If we trust God we don't have to fight to have our own way or defend ourself. Going against God is an uphill battle but doing things God's way is peace.
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