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Acts chapter 20 versus 26 and 27.

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all

for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole council of God.

Oh there is so much the whole council of God.

There is so much just encapsulated in these two short verses.

I mean point out just a couple of things that will lead us into praying. I mean this is Paul speaking to the elders, the pastors of the church at Ephesus and he's saying that he is

innocent of the blood of all. Why? Because he has declared the whole council of God to them.

So the implication is clear he would be guilty in a sense if he had not been faithful to proclaim the whole

council of God to them. So think about that, certainly for pastors, like we are, I am as a pastor responsible before God

for declaring so the people he's entrusted

me to pastor the whole council of God. If I am silent with the word of

God and any part of it, then I am not being faithful before God and I will be found guilty of not serving the people God

is entrusted to me well.

And I don't think this picture just applies to pastors. That's obviously the group that Paul is speaking to here, but I think we see in other places in scripture as well.

How we have a responsibility, all of us who have the word of God, not to keep that to ourselves,

but to share that with others.

In the picture we see back in Ezekiel and watchmen on the wall.

Like if a watchman knows danger is coming and says nothing,

then the watchman is guilty in a sense for what happens when an attack comes on a city he could have warned

people that this was coming and if he does warn people he is innocent in that sense and so this is

where I just want to encourage all of us yes pastors and then beyond like we have the word of God that says, judgment is coming upon sinners,

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