The Epic Life - Bob Hallman

48 - The Plot & the Perfume (Matt 26:1-16)

In this audio clip from a full sermons Pastor Bob Hallman delivered.
 
In chapter 21 all the way through chapter 26 we have the compression of five days all taking place within these within these chapters.
 
On Saturday before the Passover Feast, Jesus came to Jerusalem along with many other pilgrims probably to two and a half to three million people that would crowd into this little town of Jerusalem and they came from all over the region to be able to celebrate the Passover as Jews. Jesus came with them.
 
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47-Vindicated by God (Acts 28:1-31)

Enjoy this audio version of a message Pastor Bob Hallman delivered 4/13/2008 to the church body titled Vindicated by God (Acts 28:1-31)
 
The Apostle Paul was arrested on false charges by the Jews of starting riots in Ephesus and defiling the temple courts.  He was brought before several Roman officials who found him to be innocent of the charges, but because of the fear of the Jews, failed to release Paul, he appealed his case to Caesar and was put on a grain ship heading to Rome.  The ship was caught in hurricane force winds and after a harrowing two weeks on the sea, ran aground on the island of Malta.  This is where we pick up the story. 
 
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The Epic Life
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46-Weathering Life's Storms (Acts 27:1-44)

I find it interesting the number of times we find ships caught in storms in the Bible:
Noah on his way to a new beginning for mankind - Gen 6-9
Jonah on his way to Tarshish - Jonah 1:4-5
The disciples on their way to the other side of the Sea of Galilee - Mark 6:45-52
Why? Because violent storms in our lives often advance the purposes of God:
1. They humble us remind us of our need to rely on God
They free us from earthly entanglements and misguided priorities                                  3. They provide a backdrop for God’s glory, power and deliverance
 
 
4/6/2008

45-Three Men--Two Destinies (Acts 26:1-32)

A review of the purpose of the Luke’s letters – Luke and Acts:
To give an orderly account of Christianity - Luke 1:1-4
To verify the arrival of the promised Holy Spirit
To explain the disciple’s remarkable transformation
To document the birth and growth of the church
To justify the inclusion of the Gentiles
To bridge the gap between the gospels and the epistles
      To present a defense for Paul’s apostleship to Rome
Luke may have been preparing a trial-brief for Paul’s upcoming hearing in Rome. It is quite possible that Theophilus was a Roman official in charge of administering Paul's case before Caesar, and that the gospel and Acts were written to help him understand the facts of Jesus Christ and Paul's role in the history of the church.
Three pictures of three very different men hang before us -- Paul, Festus and Agrippa. They represent three types of individuals of every generation:
Those who are followers of Jesus Christ
Those who are open to the claims of Christ
Those who are Christ-rejecting antagonists of Christ
But no matter the number of people or the number of religions in the world, there are only two destinies: Heaven or Hell!
 
3/30/2008

44-The Buck Stops...? (Acts 25:1-27)

The Buck Stops Here
President Harry Truman made this saying famous in 1945 when he commissioned a plaque for his White House desk that said in bold letters, “The Buck Stops Here!”
The origin of the phrase comes from a slang term from the game of Poker during the frontier days.  The dealer would switch every hand and would be designated by a knife with a buckhorn handle.  If a person preferred to not deal, he would “Pass the Buck”, which came to mean “passing the responsibility on to someone else”.
In his farewell address to the American people given in January 1953, President Truman referred to this concept very specifically when he said, "The President--whoever he is -- has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job!”
 
2/17/2008
 

43-Delayed Deliverance (Acts 24:1-27)

           Paul had been arrested in Jerusalem as a riot was about to break out in the temple courts. He had made two unsuccessful attempts to placate the Jews and to testify to them of Jesus Christ. They refused to listen; and now, after a plot against his life, he has been brought down to the province capital, Caesarea, where his case will be formally heard by the Roman procurator, Governor Felix.

42-Deliverance: One Battle at a Time (Acts 22:30-23:35)

Paul had arrived in Jerusalem with the intent to preach the gospel to the Jews. Before he had the chance, the Asian Jews from Ephesus incited a riot against him. Paul was rescued by a Roman Commander named Claudius Lysius and his forces. Paul requested to speak to the violent crowd and proceeded to share his testimony. Once more, the crowd erupted into a violent riot and attempted to take Paul’s life. Once again Paul was rescued by the Roman Commander who was still mystified as to why the Jews wanted to kill Paul -- a Roman citizen.

41-Paul's Defense (Acts 22:1-29)

Introduction
In our study last week we left Paul as he was being brutally beaten by a mob in Jerusalem who had been falsely informed by the Hellenistic Jews from Ephesus that Paul had rejected the Mosaic Law and had defiled the Temple by bringing in Gentile visitors.
The OT law and the Temple were symbols, a foreshadowing of God’s ultimate work through Christ.  They were “signposts” designed to guide God’s people to the promised Messiah and Savior of the world:
The Law: To serve as a tutor to lead us to Christ - Gal 3:24
The Temple: To serve as a foreshadowing of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit
But based of these two unsubstantiated charges, Paul had been brutally attacked and beaten and was delivered from death only by the intervention of a Roman detachment quartered within Antonia’s Fortress adjacent to the Temple Mount.

40-Falsely Accused (Acts 21:27-40)

 
 
Given 1/13/2008

39-Paul: A Man on a Mission (Acts 21:1-26)

 
 
Given 10/28/2007