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Devotional: October 17th

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Acts 28:17-31

Paul has hardly arrived in Rome before he calls together the chief people of the Jews. He explains to them the circumstances of his imprisonment. Far from any feeling of rancour towards his people for all the evil he has suffered, he gives them now, as always, the first place in the preaching of the Gospel. Unwearyingly, from morning to night, he expounds the truth to them until they withdraw from him (vv. 25, 29; read Hebrews 10:38-39).

Paul remains for two years a prisoner in Rome. But he could later declare that the circumstances through which he passed "have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel" (Philippians 1:12). It was during this captivity that he wrote several epistles: those to the Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians. We would not have had them if he had been free to visit these assemblies.

These are moreover the epistles which allow us to know a little more of the life story of the great apostle. For here the narrative is interrupted, and the book of the Acts does not have a conclusion. This shows us that the Holy Spirit has not finished His work down here! The work continues in the heart of each believer, as long as the Church is on earth.

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