Passage of the Day - January 7, 2011

Acts 18:9-17

 ⁹And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent;

 ¹⁰for I am with you, and no man will attack you in order to harm you, for I have many people in this city."

 ¹¹And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

 ¹²But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

 ¹³saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

 ¹⁴But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you;

 ¹⁵but if there are questions about words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves; I am unwilling to be a judge of these matters."

 ¹⁶And he drove them away from the judgment seat.

 ¹⁷And they all took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.

When the followers of Christ did something with one accord, they succeeded.  When those who rejected Christ rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat with one accord, to use the current vernacular, it resulted in an epic fail.  Unity is only useful when the unity includes the Father’s will, the Son’s kingdom, and the Holy Spirit’s wisdom.

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