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0:00Acts chapter 20, verse 1.
0:03After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent
0:05for the disciples, [music] and when he
0:07had exhorted them and taken his leave,
0:10he left to go to Macedonia.
0:13When he had gone through the district
0:15[music] and had given them much
0:17exhortation, he came to Greece.
0:20And there he spent 3 months.
0:23And when a plot was formed [music]
0:25against him by the Jews,
0:27as he was about to set sail for Syria,
0:30>> [music]
0:30>> he decided to return through Macedonia.
0:34And he was accompanied by Sopater of
0:37Berea, [music] the son of Pyrrhus,
0:40and by Aristarchus
0:42and Secundus
0:45of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of
0:48Derby, and [music] Timothy, and
0:50Tychicus, and Trophimus of Asia.
0:55But these had gone on ahead and were
0:58waiting for us at Troas. [music]
1:01There's another us that Luke puts in
1:03that shows that he's in the company,
1:05too, though he does not name himself.
1:07[music]
1:09Um
1:10Luke is an amazing man.
1:12He's with Paul.
1:14Paul will even say in one of his
1:16epistles that when he was on trial,
1:19nobody was with him except Luke. And yet
1:22Luke never features himself at all in
1:25the story.
1:27He doesn't even list himself. He just
1:29uses the word us that says [music] he
1:32was also there. This is not a story
1:34about Luke. It's a story about Jesus,
1:37and he's
1:38telling it through the life of others,
1:40not himself.
1:43"We," Luke says, "we sailed from
1:45Philippi after the days of unleavened
1:48bread
1:48>> [music]
1:49>> and came to them at Troas within 5 days.
1:52And there we stayed 7 days.
1:55On the first day of the week, when we
1:57were gathered together to break bread,
1:59Paul began talking to them, intending to
2:02leave the next day, and he prolonged his
2:05message until midnight.
2:08Paul was preaching a lengthy sermon.
2:11What we're seeing here is that
2:14Paul is moving into a season where
2:17it seems like prior to this there was a
2:21a lapse in the intensity of hatred and
2:23persecution, and now it's picking up.
2:27It's picking up and picking up, and it's
2:29going to culminate when he gets to
2:31Jerusalem. But, that's what Luke is
2:33signaling. Persecution over here,
2:36persecution over there. There was a
2:38season where it didn't feel like that
2:39was happening as much. It's happening a
2:42lot now.
2:44But, Paul preached a long sermon that
2:46day. His message extended until
2:49midnight.
2:51There were many lamps in the upper room
2:54where we were gathered together,
2:56and there was a young man named Eutychus
3:00sitting on the window sill,
3:02sinking into a deep sleep.
3:06And as Paul kept on talking, he,
3:09Eutychus, was overcome by sleep, and
3:13fell down from the third floor, and was
3:16picked up dead.
3:20The moral of the story is don't sleep in
3:22church, or you may die.
3:25But, Paul went down and fell upon him,
3:29and after embracing him, he said,
3:32"Do not be troubled, for his life is in
3:35him."
3:37When he had gone back up, and had broken
3:39bread and eaten, he talked with them a
3:42long while until daybreak, and then
3:45left.
3:46They took away the boy alive, and were
3:49greatly comforted.
3:53Paul preaches a message that goes from
3:56Sabbath morning until midnight and from
3:59midnight
4:01until daybreak.
4:03You just wonder
4:05how much revelation, how much
4:08explanation of the Old Testament, how
4:11much vision for what God was going to do
4:13in the church was pouring out of this
4:16man.
4:18It's amazing. That's almost that's
4:19probably close to 20 hours
4:22of ministry.
4:24But we, going ahead to the ship, set
4:26sail for Assos, intending from there to
4:29take Paul on board.
4:30For so he had arranged it, intending
4:32himself to go by land.
4:35So they're traveling from Troas to
4:37Assos, and that's about a 20-mi journey,
4:41and Paul says, "I'm going to walk that
4:43journey myself. You guys go by boat."
4:46And he takes the 6-to-8-hour walk,
4:50perhaps to think and pray, meditate.
4:53And when he met us at Assos, we took him
4:56on board and came to Mitylene.
4:59Sailing from there, we arrived the
5:01following day opposite Chios.
5:04And the next day we crossed over to
5:06Samos, and the day following we came to
5:08Miletus.
5:10For Paul had decided to sail past
5:12Ephesus so that he would not have to
5:14spend time in Asia, for he was hurrying
5:17to be in Jerusalem if possible on the
5:20day of Pentecost.
5:23So Paul has already told the
5:25church in the previous chapter that God
5:28is calling him in the spirit to
5:31Jerusalem and to Rome.
5:33He doesn't know exactly how God's going
5:36to get him there.
5:38But
5:39Luke gives us this detail that Paul
5:41didn't want to stop in Ephesus and spend
5:44time with the church because he was
5:46feeling an urgency to get to Jerusalem
5:50if possible by the feast of Pentecost.
5:54And
5:56it feels like he took this inland walk,
5:59this 20-mi walk,
6:02because he's contemplating
6:05what's coming in Jerusalem. Seems like
6:07that's why Luke wants us to know these
6:09details.
6:11From Miletus,
6:13he sent to Ephesus and called to him the
6:16elders of the church.
6:18So, he doesn't go to Ephesus. He says,
6:20"Instead, have the elders meet me in
6:23Miletus."
6:24And when they had come to him, he said
6:26to them,
6:28"You yourselves know
6:30from the first day that I set foot in
6:32Asia
6:34how I was with you the whole time,
6:36serving the Lord with all humility
6:39and with tears and with trials which
6:42came upon me through the plots of the
6:45Jews.
6:46How I did not shrink from declaring to
6:49you anything that was profitable
6:52and teaching you publicly and from house
6:55to house,
6:57solemnly testifying to both Jews and
7:00Greeks of repentance toward God
7:03and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
7:07And now, behold,
7:09bound in spirit,
7:11I am on my way to Jerusalem,
7:13not knowing what will happen to me
7:15there,
7:17except that the Holy Spirit solemnly
7:21testifies to me in every city saying
7:24that bonds and affliction await me.
7:29But I do not consider my life of any
7:32account as dear to myself,
7:35so that I may finish my course
7:39and the ministry which I received from
7:41the Lord Jesus
7:42to testify solemnly of the gospel of the
7:46grace of God.
7:48And now behold, I know that all of you
7:51among whom I went about preaching the
7:53kingdom will no longer see my face.
7:57Therefore, I testify to you this day
8:00that I am innocent of the blood of all
8:02men
8:03for I did not shrink from declaring to
8:06you the whole purpose of God.
8:11Be on guard for yourselves and for the
8:14flock among which the Holy Spirit has
8:17made you overseers to shepherd the
8:20church of God which he purchased with
8:23his own blood.
8:25I know that after my departure savage
8:28wolves will come in among you not
8:31sparing the flock.
8:33And from among your own selves men will
8:35arise speaking perverse things to draw
8:38away the disciples after them.
8:41Therefore, be on the alert remembering
8:45that night and day for a period of 3
8:47years I did not cease to admonish each
8:51one with tears.
8:54And now
8:56I commend you to God and to the word
9:01of his grace
9:03which is able to build you up and to
9:06give you the inheritance among all those
9:09who are sanctified.
9:12I have coveted no one's silver or gold
9:15or clothes.
9:16You yourselves know that these hands
9:19ministered to my own needs and to the
9:22men who were with me. In everything I
9:24showed you that by working hard in this
9:27manner you must help the weak and
9:30remember the words of the Lord Jesus
9:33that he himself said, "It is more
9:35blessed to give than to receive.
9:39When he had said these things,
9:41he, Paul, knelt down and prayed with
9:45all.
9:46And they began to weep aloud and
9:48embraced Paul and repeatedly kissed him,
9:52grieving especially over the word which
9:55he had spoken, that they would not see
9:57his face again.
10:00And they were accompanying him to the
10:02ship.
10:06This is Paul's farewell address
10:09to the Ephesians church. He's going to
10:11write them letters.
10:13But this address
10:16is him saying, "I'm about to go to
10:18Jerusalem and I don't know what's
10:20coming, but the Holy Spirit is warning
10:22me in every city
10:24that they're going to put me in chains
10:26and I'm going to face persecution."
10:29But that's not keeping him from going.
10:32His mandate in his spirit to minister to
10:35the church at Jerusalem is stronger than
10:38his self-preservation.
10:41So, he asks the elders of the Ephesians
10:44church to come to him. This is the most
10:46established church in the entire Gentile
10:50world at this time.
10:51>> [clears throat]
10:52>> And he
10:53is preparing them
10:55and he tells them
10:56that they need to remember how he
10:59behaved among them.
11:01He wants them to remember
11:03that
11:04he built them up,
11:06that he showed tenderness,
11:09that his ministry was with weeping and
11:11faithfulness, with all humility.
11:14He wants them to remember that he was
11:16with them amidst trials and plots.
11:20But he says he did not shrink from
11:22declaring anything that was profitable.
11:25And then he tells them
11:27that
11:28he says, "I declare I am innocent of the
11:31blood of all men because I did not
11:34shrink from declaring the full counsel
11:36of God to you.
11:37Paul is saying, "I would be guilty of
11:40the things you're going to face if I
11:42held back the truth that could spare you
11:44from those things.
11:46But I am innocent because I told you the
11:48truth and now you are accountable to
11:51live in it."
11:53And then he tells them to be on their
11:55guard for themselves and for the flock.
11:58He's talking to the elders.
12:00And he says that the Holy Spirit is
12:02warning
12:03that ravenous savage wolves are going to
12:06come into the church.
12:08Now this prophecy from Paul is fulfilled
12:11when the church throws away the truth of
12:13Paul and adopts Greek and pagan
12:17teachings and doctrines about God and
12:19other foolish heresies.
12:22He says savage wolves are wolves are
12:24going to come and then he tells them,
12:26"And some of these wolves are going to
12:27come from among you, the elders."
12:31Therefore, be on the alert remembering
12:34night and day
12:35the period of 3 years where I did not
12:38cease to admonish each of you with
12:40tears.
12:41So part of being alert is remembering
12:44their foundation.
12:46Remembering the manner of ministry that
12:49gave them birth. And the implication is
12:51if you remember that, you won't be
12:54seduced by a new form of ministry that
12:57is not like mine.
13:00And then he says, "I commend you to God
13:03and to the word of his grace."
13:07God's grace is [music] his enabling
13:09power, his strength.
13:12God's grace is his anointing, but it
13:15comes through the word of his grace.
13:19His truth and his grace are one and the
13:21[music] same. So he commends them, that
13:24means he surrenders them
13:27to the word of his grace.
13:30And he tells them
13:32that that [music] word is able to build
13:34you up and give you the inheritance
13:36among those who are being sanctified.
13:39He tells them he had no self-seeking.
13:42[music]
13:43I did not covet any man's goods. I
13:45worked for my own food with my own
13:47hands.
13:49You didn't I didn't need your money. I
13:51didn't take your clothes.
13:53I didn't want to be a burden to you.
13:55And then he quotes Jesus.
13:57And we all quote this. He says, "As the
13:59Lord Jesus himself [music] said, it is
14:02more blessed to give than to receive."
14:04Do you know that doesn't show up in the
14:06Gospels?
14:08Paul knew something that Jesus said that
14:10isn't written down in the Gospels.
14:13But that was a famous [music] saying of
14:15Jesus that we get from Paul that we
14:17wouldn't get from Matthew, Mark, Luke,
14:18and John. It's kind of interesting,
14:20[music] isn't it?
14:22When he had said these things, he knelt
14:23down and prayed with them.
14:25And they began to weep aloud.
14:28There's profound emotion and sorrow.
14:33And the Ephesian church is going to be
14:36faithful for many decades into the
14:38future, but in the end, they're going to
14:40lose out. And the ravenous wolves are
14:43going to win out. [music]
14:44And it's going to be because this
14:46admonition was not heeded as it should.
14:50So, there's sorrow, but there's so much
14:52to learn
14:53in how Paul [music] distinguished
14:55himself from the wolves that would be
14:57coming. And all true ministers must do
15:00[music] the same.
15:02They were grieving,
15:04but he is going to [music] Jerusalem
15:06bound by the Spirit.
15:08And they walked with him all the way to
15:10the ship.
15:30>> Mhm.

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