PAUL SPEAKS TO THE EPHESIAN ELDERS  COMMENDED TO GOD.

JEWS REJECT, GENTILES ACCEPT, THE GOSPEL

THE BIBLE BOOK OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES OF JESUS.

  “Ye Shall Be My Witnesses”

The Outline of the Book of Acts

PAUL’S THREE MISSIONARY JOURNEYS
With Silas, through Asia Minor to Greece, Returning to Antioch by way of Jerusalem. Assisted by a Number of Disciples, through Asia Minor and Greece.

56. Why did Paul’s departure cause special grief?

Acts 20:28-38

Paul Speaks to the Ephesian Elders

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said,

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.
And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him,
Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.

Comments by
F.B.Meyer
on
Acts 20:28-38

56. Why did Paul’s departure cause special grief?

COMMENDED TO GOD

Notice the change of the Revised Version in Act_20:28. The elder, whether presbyter or bishop, is not put over the flock; he is in it like the rest, needing redemption through the same precious blood. Notice also that remarkable expression, the Church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood, Act_20:28. It clearly indicates Paul’s view of the deity of our Lord.
The prediction of Act_20:30 was but too soon fulfilled, 1Ti_1:19-20. Tears are thrice mentioned in this short passage: tears of suffering, Act_20:19; of pastoral anxiety, Act_20:31; and of personal affection, Act_20:37.
The master builder was withdrawn before the edifice was completed, but he knew that God would continue, through other hands, to complete what he had begun, Act_20:32. We are in the company of God’s heirs. Let us meditate on the word of His grace, as fellow-heirs with Christ and all His saints; let us enter into possession of our inheritance. In Act_20:35 we have the only saying of our Lord in the New Testament which is not preserved in the Gospels. The blessedness applies to our Lord as well as to ourselves. Let us not think that he is tired of our requests. Every time we ask for anything that He can give us, we add to His blessedness, as well as to our own.

By Pastor Jeff Arthur
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Paul’s Farewell To Ephesians

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