Acts 21:1-40 - Corps Notes - December 14, 1976
Acts 21:1-40 December 14, 1976 We begin tonight in that section of Acts, were it any other book than the Bible, it wouldn’t be here. The only reason this is in the Word of God is because the Word of God is truth, and it tells the truth about men of God. Had I been God, I’d have never put the David-Bathsheba story in the Old Testament, or a lot of other things. But I’m not God, and God in His Word, when holy men of God spake as they were moved, God put in the Word what he wanted in it. That’s why the 21st chapter and following is in the book of Acts. It is in that section of the Word of God here that, boy I’d give almost anything if I didn’t have to teach it. Every time I work this my heart breaks. I sit and cry in-side; and yet, it’s the Word and it’s the story of life. Acts 21:1 “gotten” - withdrawn “we came with a straight course unto Coos” - on that third missionary journey of Paul, the 3rd stage. You see, in Acts 20 they were at Miletus, weren’t they? Third stage; down below Miletus toward the southwest. It’s spelled on your map “Cos.” In King James, it’s spelled “Coos.” “Rhodes” - I made this note about Rhodes, and you’re gonna have to bear with me because I just got so many things scribbled at so many different places. I’ll just have to pick it up in my mind as I can. Rhodes had one of the ancient wonders of the world. It was a brass image of Apollo. It was 106 feet high, out of solid brass. That day, after they came from Coos, they went by Rhodes, “unto Rhodes,” and they passed between the legs of this statue. It was 106 feet high, and all the ships that passed by had to go between its legs. It reminds me of the Golden Gate in San Francisco, which is not golden. It was a real disappointment the first time I ever saw it. This ancient wonder of the world, according to Josephus, was destroyed in 224 BC. In 1660 AD they sold it and the man who bought it loaded the brass on 900 camels to haul it away. Acts 21:2 “unto” – toward “Phenicia” - of course, would be towa
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Acts 21:1-40 December 14, 1976 We begin tonight in that section of Acts, were it any other book than the Bible, it wouldn’t be here. The only reason this is in the Word of God is because the Word of God is truth, and it tells the truth about men of God. Had I been God, I’d have never put the David-Bathsheba story in the Old Testament, or a lot of other things. But I’m not God, and God in His Word, when holy men of God spake as they were moved, God put in the Word what he wanted in it. That’s why the 21st chapter and following is in the book of Acts. It is in that section of the Word of God here that, boy I’d give almost anything if I didn’t have to teach it. Every time I work this my heart breaks. I sit and cry in-side; and yet, it’s the Word and it’s the story of life. Acts 21:1 “gotten” - withdrawn “we came with a straight course unto Coos” - on that third missionary journey of Paul, t