317 - They Have A Zeal For God, But Not According To Knowledge

Overview - They Have A Zeal For God, But Not According To Knowledge. Acts 22:1-22. In our sermon today we continue to look at the interaction between Paul and the Jews in Jerusalem who were zealous for the law of Moses. Last week we read that they saw Paul in the Synagogue and attacked him and tried to kill him because they heard that he taught people against the law of Moses, but he was rescued by a Roman commander. Today we finish his interaction with them, as God gives him the opportunity to give them his testimony of how he had an encounter with the Saviour Jesus Christ, and how Jesus changed Paul’s mind in regard to the law of Moses. Paul was teaching that the law of Moses wasn’t that important, now that Jesus Christ had come, because he realized that Jesus Christ’s death was enough to pay the high price for sin. God had showed Paul that no work of righteousness was going to save anyone from their sins, and grant anyone eternal life, and Paul was bound by his love for mankind to preach the truth because wanted them to be saved and born-again. These Jews in Jerusalem worshiped and had a zeal for God that was NOT according to the knowledge that God had given through Jesus Christ, and Paul was trying to set them straight on this matter and bring them into this light. How do they respond to Paul’s testimony? Do they receive the fact Jesus Christ is enough for salvation? Do they give up trying to be righteous before God by the keeping of the law of Moses? Come and take a listen to the end of the interaction between Paul and the zealous Jews of Jerusalem, and, may God richly bless you as you diligently seek Him. Pastor Ed Spagnoli