{"id":2227,"date":"2024-01-30T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2024-01-17T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T23:28:41","slug":"1-30-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/1-30-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Twenty-Three | The Book of Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading mb-0\">Acts 23<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" class=\"stk-highlight\">Devotion<\/span>al by Shauna Wallace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\" class=\"stk-highlight\">Read Acts 23<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-block-ugb-container ugb-container ugb-b058165 ugb-container--v2 ugb-container--design-basic ugb-main-block\"><style>.ugb-b058165-wrapper.ugb-container__wrapper{border-radius:12px !important;background-color:rgba(240,240,240,1) !important}.ugb-b058165-wrapper.ugb-container__wrapper:before{background-color:#f0f0f0 !important}.ugb-b058165-content-wrapper > h1,.ugb-b058165-content-wrapper > h2,.ugb-b058165-content-wrapper > h3,.ugb-b058165-content-wrapper > h4,.ugb-b058165-content-wrapper > h5,.ugb-b058165-content-wrapper > h6{color:#222222}.ugb-b058165-content-wrapper > p,.ugb-b058165-content-wrapper > ol li,.ugb-b058165-content-wrapper > ul li{color:#222222}@media screen and (min-width:768px){.ugb-b058165-content-wrapper.ugb-container__content-wrapper{width:100% !important}}<\/style><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-container__wrapper ugb-b058165-wrapper ugb--shadow-3\"><div class=\"ugb-container__side\"><div class=\"ugb-container__content-wrapper ugb-b058165-content-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Acts 23<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>23&nbsp;<\/strong>And looking intently at the council, Paul said, \u201cBrothers,&nbsp;I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day.\u201d&nbsp;<sup>2&nbsp;<\/sup>And the high priest&nbsp;Ananias commanded those who stood by him&nbsp;to strike him on the mouth.&nbsp;<sup>3&nbsp;<\/sup>Then Paul said to him, \u201cGod is going to strike you, you&nbsp;whitewashed&nbsp;wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet&nbsp;contrary to the law you&nbsp;order me to be struck?\u201d&nbsp;<sup>4&nbsp;<\/sup>Those who stood by said, \u201cWould you revile&nbsp;God&#8217;s high priest?\u201d&nbsp;<sup>5&nbsp;<\/sup>And Paul said,&nbsp;\u201cI did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written,&nbsp;\u2018You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>6&nbsp;<\/sup>Now when Paul perceived that one part were&nbsp;Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, \u201cBrothers,&nbsp;I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is&nbsp;with respect to the&nbsp;hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.\u201d&nbsp;<sup>7&nbsp;<\/sup>And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.&nbsp;<sup>8&nbsp;<\/sup>For the Sadducees&nbsp;say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.&nbsp;<sup>9&nbsp;<\/sup>Then a great clamor arose, and some of&nbsp;the scribes of the Pharisees&#8217; party stood up and contended sharply,&nbsp;\u201cWe find nothing wrong in this man. What&nbsp;if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?\u201d&nbsp;<sup>10&nbsp;<\/sup>And when the dissension became violent, the tribune, afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from among them by force and bring him into&nbsp;the barracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>11&nbsp;<\/sup>The following night&nbsp;the Lord stood by him and said,&nbsp;\u201cTake courage, for&nbsp;as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must&nbsp;testify also in Rome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Plot to Kill Paul<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>12&nbsp;<\/sup>When it was day,&nbsp;the Jews made a plot and&nbsp;bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.&nbsp;<sup>13&nbsp;<\/sup>There were more than forty who made this conspiracy.&nbsp;<sup>14&nbsp;<\/sup>They went to the chief priests and elders and said, \u201cWe have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.&nbsp;<sup>15&nbsp;<\/sup>Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>16&nbsp;<\/sup>Now the son of Paul&#8217;s sister heard of their ambush, so he went and entered&nbsp;the barracks and told Paul.&nbsp;<sup>17&nbsp;<\/sup>Paul called one of the centurions and said, \u201cTake this young man to the tribune, for he has something to tell him.\u201d&nbsp;<sup>18&nbsp;<\/sup>So he took him and brought him to the tribune and said, \u201cPaul&nbsp;the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you.\u201d&nbsp;<sup>19&nbsp;<\/sup>The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, \u201cWhat is it that you have to tell me?\u201d&nbsp;<sup>20&nbsp;<\/sup>And he said,&nbsp;\u201cThe Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about him.&nbsp;<sup>21&nbsp;<\/sup>But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who&nbsp;have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.\u201d&nbsp;<sup>22&nbsp;<\/sup>So the tribune dismissed the young man, charging him, \u201cTell no one that you have informed me of these things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Paul Sent to Felix the Governor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>23\u00a0<\/sup>Then he called two of the centurions and said, \u201cGet ready two hundred soldiers, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea at the third hour of the night.\u00a0<sup>24\u00a0<\/sup>Also provide mounts for Paul to ride and bring him safely to\u00a0Felix\u00a0the governor.\u201d\u00a0<sup>25\u00a0<\/sup>And he wrote a letter to this effect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>26&nbsp;<\/sup>\u201cClaudius Lysias, to&nbsp;his Excellency the governor Felix,&nbsp;greetings.&nbsp;<sup>27&nbsp;<\/sup>This man was seized by the Jews and&nbsp;was about to be killed by them&nbsp;when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him,&nbsp;having learned that he was a Roman citizen.&nbsp;<sup>28&nbsp;<\/sup>And&nbsp;desiring to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their council.&nbsp;<sup>29&nbsp;<\/sup>I found that he was being accused&nbsp;about questions of their law, but&nbsp;charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.&nbsp;<sup>30&nbsp;<\/sup>And when it was disclosed to me&nbsp;that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once,&nbsp;ordering his accusers also to state before you what they have against him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>31&nbsp;<\/sup>So the soldiers, according to their instructions, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.&nbsp;<sup>32&nbsp;<\/sup>And on the next day they returned to&nbsp;the barracks, letting the horsemen go on with him.&nbsp;<sup>33&nbsp;<\/sup>When they had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him.&nbsp;<sup>34&nbsp;<\/sup>On reading the letter, he asked what&nbsp;province he was from. And when he learned&nbsp;that he was from Cilicia,&nbsp;<sup>35&nbsp;<\/sup>he said, \u201cI will give you a hearing&nbsp;when your accusers arrive.\u201d And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod&#8217;s&nbsp;praetorium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2;font-size:12px\">Scripture quotations are from the ESV\u00ae Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version\u00ae), copyright \u00a9 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\" class=\"stk-highlight\">Devotional<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth about Jesus always has and always will enrage God\u2019s enemies and divide people, just as Jesus warned when he dispersed his disciples as \u201csheep in the midst of wolves\u201d (Mattew 10:16 ESV). He predicted persecution and hatred, like Paul faced in Acts 23, because he did \u201cnot come to bring peace, but a sword\u201d (verse 34 ESV). This was not a sword of slaughter and destruction, but a \u201cliving and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart\u201d (Hebrews 4:12 ESV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Jesus uses our witness and his Word to illuminate those \u201c[who love] the darkness rather than the light\u201d (John 3:19 ESV), we may find ourselves on trial \u201cwith respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead\u201d (Acts 23:6 ESV). In some countries, as in Paul\u2019s day, followers of Jesus lost family, possessions, land, livelihood, and their very lives. Their testimonies and Paul\u2019s experience when God supernaturally intervened to advance him toward his assigned destination humbles and inspires me to \u201ctake courage\u201d (Acts 23:11 ESV)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are the light of the world. When we encounter dissention, division, conflict, and conspiracies to kill the gospel message and silence those who proclaim it, we can trust God to convert enemy schemes into open doors for the gospel to go further than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In what way(s) do you need to take courage today?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ugb-divider ugb-divider ugb-f0575d6 ugb-divider--v2 ugb-divider--design-basic ugb-main-block\"><style>.ugb-f0575d6 hr.ugb-divider__hr{background-color:#dddddd !important;height:1px !important;width:50% !important;margin-left:auto !important;margin-right:auto !important}.ugb-f0575d6 .ugb-inner-block{text-align:center}<\/style><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><hr class=\"ugb-divider__hr\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth about Jesus always has and always will enrage God\u2019s enemies and divide people, just as Jesus warned when he dispersed his disciples as \u201csheep in the midst of wolves\u201d (Mattew 10:16 ESV). He predicted persecution and hatred, like Paul faced in Acts 23, because he did \u201cnot come to bring peace, but a sword\u201d (verse 34 ESV). This was not a sword of slaughter and destruction, but a \u201cliving and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart\u201d (Hebrews 4:12 ESV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10],"tags":[31,32],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acts","category-devotional","tag-acts","tag-acts-2024"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Acts-BG.jpg",1080,581,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Acts-BG-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Acts-BG-300x161.jpg",300,161,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Acts-BG-768x413.jpg",768,413,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Acts-BG-1024x551.jpg",900,484,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Acts-BG.jpg",1080,581,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Acts-BG.jpg",1080,581,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Acts-BG.jpg",1080,581,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>The truth about Jesus always has and always will enrage God\u2019s enemies and divide people, just as Jesus warned when he dispersed his disciples as \u201csheep in the midst of wolves\u201d (Mattew 10:16 ESV). 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