Acts 20:25-27 And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.… I. "ALL THE COUNSEL OF GOD." A subject so vast and yet so simple! One which "angels desire to look into." Yet the gospel can be uttered in a single breath, and one short sentence which a child might speak would express the Divine counsel. II. "NOT SHUNNED TO DECLARE." How declared? 1. By the unreserved, full, faithful exposition of it in the public preaching of God's Word. No trimming — no suppression of any portion of it. 2. By seeking personal contact, and speaking to individual men and women "from house to house." 3. By setting it forth with the pen. What multitudes Paul has reached in this way! So did Luther and Calvin. 4. By showing it forth in the life. I have good faith in this method; sometimes it is the sole one at our command. III. "PURE FROM THE BLOOD OF ALL MEN." The apostle had in mind, perhaps, that thirty-third chapter of Ezekiel, and those words so terrible which seem almost to chill the very marrow as we read them, or hear them read: "So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shall hear the word at My mouth, and warn them from Me...if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand." (F. Goodall, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. |
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