When You Are Immortal

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

John Piper, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Solid Joys, Devotional, 163859, Joy, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality, Daily Devotional, Jesus

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🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Christ said Paul was going to Rome. And that was that. No ambush can stand against the promise of Christ.

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0:00.0	February 18, when you are immortal.
0:05.9	When was day?
0:07.2	The Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they
0:13.0	had killed Paul, X-23-12.
0:18.9	What about those hungry fellows who promised not to eat till they had ambushed Paul?
0:24.5	We read about them in X-23-12.
0:28.6	When was day?
0:30.1	The Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they
0:36.3	had killed Paul.
0:39.1	It didn't work.
0:41.4	Why?
0:44.1	Because a string of unlikely events happened.
0:49.3	A boy overheard the plot.
0:53.2	The boy was the son of Paul's sister.
0:57.5	The boy had the courage to go to the Roman centurion guarding Paul.
1:02.8	The centurion took him seriously and brought him to the Tribune.
1:08.0	The Tribune believed him and prepared 200 soldiers with 70 horsemen and 200 spearmen to take
1:15.5	Paul to safety.
1:17.7	Every one of those events was highly unlikely, strange, but that's what happened.
1:27.0	That hit those hungry men lying in ambush overlooked.
1:34.3	They failed to reckon with what happened to Paul just before they made their plot.
1:40.8	The Lord appeared to Paul in prison and said, take courage.
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