Friday, August 25, 2017

Not Fit to Live!

Acts 25:24-27 
24 And Festus said: “King Agrippa and all the men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom the whole assembly of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out that he was not fit to live any longer. 25 But when I found that he had committed nothing deserving of death, and that he himself had appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him. 26 I have nothing certain to write to my lord concerning him. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the examination has taken place I may have something to write. 27 For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to specify the charges against him.”

The Jews presented their case to the Roman authorities as Paul not being fit to live.  The law found no cause for death, and Paul refused to be put back in judgment at Jerusalem due to the plots against him.  So, on the way to Rome for trial, he now is to be questioned by King Agrippa.  Festus the governor brought him to the king because he did not want to send Paul to Rome without any charges against him.  So God used the legal system and worldly citizenship rights to keep Paul alive to testify to the truth which Pilate questioned before Jesus at His trial.

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