Chaos doesn't discriminate. Whether Bedlam erupts on the international stage or heartache strikes through a midnight phone call,

none of us escapes these unsettling moments of mayhem. Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall presents a calming message about God's unseen hand,

orchestrating our peace and protection.

It's part of our in-depth biographical study on the life of Paul.

So for anyone whose world, whether global or personal, has been shattered overnight,

Chuck describes the pathway to unshakable peace.

Picking up the message in Acts 22, Chuck titled his message,

Thinking as Paul thought.

Jesus said to me, go for I will send you far away to the nations.

Ethne is the word translated here, Gentiles.

He uses the G word, boom, I mean the lid blows off.

That's all they needed to hear.

This man is now messing around with Gentiles.

Notice verse 22. They listened to him up to this statement, and then they raised their voices and said, away with such a fellow from the earth.

And he should not be allowed to live. So the commander goes back out and gets Paul and brings him in, he thinking, this is going

to get out of hand. And the commander says, if they can't find out the facts, I'm going to find

them out for myself. Dear guy, the commander ordered, verse 24, ordered him to be brought to the barracks,

stating that he should be examined by scourging, scourging so that he might find out the reason why they were shouting against

him this way when they stretched him out with fong. So he's on the stretcher, literally. And Paul

says to the man who's standing by, is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?

Wait, wait, he didn't know he was

a Roman. So, well, the centurion heard this. He went to the commander and says, what in the world are we doing?

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