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10. After flve days Paul is ow before Felix,
the governor, and Is permitted to speak for
himself In the presence Of his accusers, tho
high priest and others who have como from
Jerusalem to condemn him (verse u. They
accused him OF many things, but all their
accusations were false oversees 5-9), and
thus he had increased fellowship with his
Lord in that they spoke m isc chievous things
OF him, imagined deceits and laid to his
charge things he knew not Of QPs. xxxvili.,
~; Xix, ~. All manner OF fellowship with
God and with Christ should be priced by MS
as gift rs much as to believe on Him
(Pbil. l., 29.
Ills. Paul with few words sweeps away
oil their accusations as utterly untrue and
without foundation. He knew that God
was with him. and he had no fear. He
could calmly face all his accusers, and the
devil himself, their captain. He knew in
his soul that there were more with him than
with them 0I Kings vi, 16) and could say:
"Though my soul IL among lions, men whose
teeth are spears and arrows, and their
tongue n sharp sword, be Thou exalted, o
God. My heart is fixed. I will sing and
give pfaise" Ps lvii., 40.
IA. Here he begins to state the real cause
OF their anger against him. He believed
all things written in the law and in the
prophets, and that made him very trou-
blesome fellow to these religious people,
who did not believe God. minister In
Chicago said the other day that these peo-
pie calling themselves Bible students were
very troublesome, and certainly they must
be to such ministers ne prefer their own
ease, with lots OF cricket and lawn tennis
and hunting and fishing, rather than Bible
study and real work for God.
10. There shall be n resurrection OF the
dead both of the just and OF the unjust"
This was and Is even to this day a trouble.
some doctrine to many, though plainly
taught even In the cherubim story OF Gen,
Ill.,, and very clearly set forth in Dan. XIII,
1-3. Not that just and unjust shall rise at
the same time, for Rev. Xxx, 3, o, says that
n thousand years shall intervene, and to
this there is no contradiction In all Scrip
ture, for the hour Of John ", 2S, will cover
the thousand years as easily as the hour Of
John ", 25, has already covered over 1900
years. Our Lord Jesus made very evil
dent distinction between the two resurrec-
tions when He told n certain one Of rewards
mt the resurrection OF the just Uuke
xiv, 1G.
16. The blessed hope OF the return OF
Christ, the resurrection Of the righteous
and their rewards for service at His COM
ing for His saints is that which purifles us
from the defllements and the entanglements
OF this present evil world and makes us Ia
Dor to be ever acceptable to Him. Every
believer is accepted in Him Gph, L., 81, and
.nas ,u SINUS a uhchnnseu, p". peInuse oi 'nis
things, and trust Him to work in us those
things which are well pleasing In His sight
(Heb. xiii, 2D.
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hin, ,hya ~ rh1 ,h tvP bis ,'nus ny ,h, y"
have been, II any. The secret Of the whole
trouble was that which Paul well under
stood, for he himself was once heartily one
,'atnod ~" y, IS,p pi,uss S .na u .. tfia ''
a,,s .. oests u.s. aau 'he Story u, ms N
~. ~ u ioii ,nI i, usau I,I ~ Nana- ~,
Nati m". 80, ',,;,,.,, 81 aso,,,n,s,',n, 81. w"
vi .h va ~ s.,n.y ~, W. ,yi hnns;
%aS antraiivy soon mU iti,n onI Lnsr ~ tho, !.
was even SO. and that the erucifled Christ
was really risen from the dead and was at
the right hand of God. Israel's true and
only Messiah. Son of David. Son of Abra.
ham.
20. 81 "Toucbinp the resurrection of tho
dead am called in question Inv Won this
day." II was that which set the council in
an uproar Cxxiii.. q. n. and thew knew II.
1t was the resurrection from the dead which
with mower declared Him to be the Son of
God 6Rom. l.. A.. and the full import of the
great fact Ia finely set forth in I Cor. Nv.
There Is no gospel no salvation. no forgive.
ness of sins. no use In preaching. no ground
for faith. no sense I'm baptism or any ordi-
nance of the church n Christ he NOT risen
His life and death we're ali in vain IL He be
not risen. But He il risen and that secures
everything for all who are His or are will
ing to become His by faith In Him.
az. Felix evidently saw more clearly into
the whole business than the high priest and
elders wished that he might and the man
who could now give the most important
Testimony. next in order. was the chief can
tain who had twice rescued him from the
infuriated Jews. There was. therefore.
nothing further to be done till Lysias
should come. The waiting times for the
people of God when the work seems him
dered by the indifYerence or omen opposi.
tion of The enemies of God Is one of the
mysteries, 1t would seem from verse 27
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wav IN Pnmeond NJ poma (~~Y,; c a. vxr;;i Vn uio
l6), and Paul doubtless made the best pos.
sible use OF his liberty for the glory Of God
and to magnify the Lord Jesus, for that