Now, if we continue what we started yesterday, please look at Acts 20: 7 ~ 12 of the Bible. On the first day of the seventh week, when we met to break bread, Paul talked with them until midnight because he wanted to leave the next day. There are many lights and candles in the building where we met. There was a young man named Youtuigu who sat on the windowsill and fell asleep drowsily. Paul talked for a long time. The young man fell asleep and fell from the third floor. Get him. He's dead. Paul went down, fell on him, hugged him and said, "Don't be alarmed, his soul is still in him." Paul went up again, broke bread, ate, talked for a long time until dawn, and then left. It is a great comfort that someone brought the boy back alive. We are really touched when we read this passage for the third time. The apostle Paul not only has the ability to preach, but also has the ability to pray. He has the ability to survive. Where does the ability to live come from, from love, from God! Hallelujah!
3. The ability to love
When Judas fell and died, the Bible told us that Paul was not indifferent, he was not indifferent, he was good, and many people just liked it, fast and good. At this moment, a great event happened. Someone must have taken action to protect him and died! The Bible says so!
Because it is late at night, there is no electric light. The Bible says there are many lights and candles. At that time, earth lamps were basically used, made of very thin clay and oil-soaked rushes. This kind of light is very dim. Paul has an eye disease. It is a thorn that God put on him! If it is brightly lit, Paul will definitely remind Utrecht to sit on the stool. If he falls asleep, he will definitely remind the believers to take him down, because Paul has a heart for his father!
But now the dead child is in front of Paul, and he is still lying here! How did Paul do it? Brothers and sisters, lie down and hug him, okay? Facing a dead man? I tell you the truth, I can't do it, believers can't do it, preachers can't do it, and priests can't do it! But Paul did it. What a great love! Then comfort the people present at that time, don't panic! There is really no fear in love! Just as Moses raised his staff at the red sea and looked up to God, the first prayer was the same. Don't be afraid! What a wonderful love it is! What confidence! How energetic!
After that, he went up to break bread and talked until dawn. He loves those believers who are eager for truth, and he also loves Jude Gu, who is helpless! The Bible never mentions the parents of the children! Maybe the parents of the child are long gone? Orphans? So nobody taught him the rules! (Sitting on the windowsill) Children don't know what love is? His parents didn't come to see him so late, and he didn't want to go home so late? Maybe no home, no home!
Paul completely believes in the Lord, loves the Lord and loves the church! When such an important event happened, he was so calm, so quiet and so calm! It can be seen how powerful the vitality in his body is! Love can't be submerged, love is stronger than death! His love affected another person, his love infected another person, and his love changed another person!
When Paul was about to leave at dawn, someone took the boy alive. The man took the boy to his house and took care of him all night! Wow! The child has a home! Grateful! Hallelujah!
God is our heavenly father, brothers and sisters are our family, and the church is our spiritual home! God makes lonely people have homes! Grateful! We were once displaced, but the heavenly father found us back and lived safely in God's house! He loves us, always takes care of us, and takes care of us everywhere! Hallelujah! May our beloved children have the same ability to love as Paul! Come out alive!
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Amen!
Lord loves infinitely, let's live out love!