All right, Acts Chapter 27 is where we're going to be today.

If you have your Bibles, if you would go to Acts Chapter 27.

If you didn't bring a paper Bible, you can always pull a Bible up on your electronic device.

Let me give you a little background before I read from Chapter 27 of Acts.

The last two chapters of this book, chapters 27 and 28, describe the voyage that Paul takes

on the Mediterranean Sea from Cessaria, Israel, to Rome, Italy.

Now, this is not a carnival cruise vacation.

He is being transported as a prisoner from Cessaria in Israel to Rome in Italy.

Paul has been falsely accused by Jews in Jerusalem that he is preaching heresy and particularly against Judaism, slandering Judaism.

And so Paul has had to give his defense before a religious court in Jerusalem.

Then he gets transported as a prisoner up to Cesarea, 70 miles north of Jerusalem on the coast

of the Mediterranean, and there he has to give his

defense in a Roman civil court before two different governors, and that's where we left off

last week.

The reason why many Jews are outraged at Paul, and the reason why they accuse him of slandering

Judaism, is because Paul is going around preaching that salvation is through faith

in Jesus Christ, not by simply obeying the law, which is true except to those who don't

believe that.

And to the angry Jews who don't believe that, who think that he is slandering Judaism,

they want to do everything they can to

stop the message and to kill the messenger. In fact, that's really the reason why Paul ends up

in a Roman prison because the Roman guard takes him prisoner as a way of protecting his life

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