_ST. PAUL AND THE RESURRECTION_ ‘Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?’ Acts 26:8 St. Paul’s appeal to Cæsar placed Festus in a difficulty. How could he draw up the indictment? The arrival of King Agrippa II. with his sister Bernice on their congrat... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN_ ‘I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying … It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.’ Acts 26:14 So far as we know, those words were the first with which the silence of the Unseen was broken on earth since the Lord, rising from amidst the Eleven, on the hill-top... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE HEAVENLY VISION_ ‘Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.’ Acts 26:19 St. Paul was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, and so it grew and expanded before his spiritual eyes until it left nothing outside its range, until it offered to him that unity afte... [ Continue Reading ]
_STEADFASTNESS_ ‘Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day.’ Acts 26:22 Continuance—steadfastness—what an important question it is! Let us spend a little time in looking at— I. ITS NATURE.—What sort of continuance do we want? In what directions have we to continue? (_a_)... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALMOST PERSUADED_ ‘Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.’ Acts 26:28 Who and what was the man who used these remarkable words? He was no infidel, no scoffer at religion, no despiser of God’s Word, no inattentive listener to the truths of the Gospel. Far otherwise. He had been brought up i... [ Continue Reading ]