Once again, it may help in your reading to look at the map in the back of your regular Bible so you can follow the journey to Rome. V. 1-6 Time and again, the Lord protected the Apostle Paul. Name at least 2 times in your life when the Lord really protected you.
Pause to thank the Lord…right now! Okay? V. 15 When Paul arrived in Rome, there were Christian believers waiting for him with open arms! How that must have encouraged Paul! Consider – I, too, have experienced encouragement of fellow believers! Once again notice Paul’s witness to the Jew first and then to the Gentiles. Paul’s faithful ministry of the message of the Lord Jesus in Rome – in spite of imprisonment, and distortion of his message, and opposition, and persecution. V. 30 & 31 summarize rather well Paul’s ministry in Rome. Also notice the book of Acts ends rather abruptly. Wasn’t there more to report about Paul’s ministry? We must assume that the writer (Luke, the physician) ends it as he does because he has told the story up-to-date.
Donald E. Pardun
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