Acts chapter 21. Acts chapter 21. So the Apostle Paul has been used by the Lord to spread the good

news of Jesus Christ throughout much of the known world during the first century AD. The Bible records

that Paul took three different missionary journeys in the book of Acts

to various places, again, mostly through parts of the Middle East, a little part of Asia and Europe,

to advance the good news of Jesus Christ.

If you calculate all the miles that he traveled in the course of those three missionary journeys,

it's a little more than 10,000 miles.

Now, imagine this, first century A.D., no mass transportation.

So this is by foot or by sea.

Paul travels more than 10,000 miles,

advancing the good news of the gospel through the known world at that particular time.

At the end of Paul's third missionary journey, he travels to Jerusalem, even though

he has been warned by the Holy Spirit personally, and friends who have heard from the

Holy Spirit have also warned him that if he goes to Jerusalem, he's going to experience

tribulation and hardship.

But he's not moved by that. In fact,

I'll just refer back to Acts 20, verses 22 and 23, where he says, and see now, I go bound

in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, except that

the Holy Spirit testifies in every city saying that chains and tribulations await me.

So Paul knows.

He's like, this is par for the course.

I know the Holy Spirit has already warned me, but I must go.

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