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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. PAUL IS ON HIS WAY TO ROME TO BEAR WITNESS OF JESUS CHRIST.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He is going as a prisoner because of his appeal to Caesar.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. A Roman centurion named Julius, who was of the royal guard, has been given the responsibility to see that Paul gets to Rome.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. There are other prisoners traveling with them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Julius seems to respect Paul and treated him very kindly.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. When they had stopped in Sidon he allowed Paul the freedom to visit with the Christians who were there.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The journey up the coast has been slow because they were sailing into the winds, thus much tacking.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. They finally arrived to the port in Myra where they got on a larger cargo ship that was transporting grain from Egypt to Italy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. They were still having trouble with the winds thus the journey was very slow.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. They finally arrived at a place called fair havens but because it was getting late in the year Paul warned them about trying to go any further.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The captain and owner of the ship with the crew convinced the Centurion that they knew more about the seas than Paul, so they set sail intending to make it to another port on the island of Crete, the harbor called Phenice which was a much better place to spend the winter.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. They had hardly begun the journey before a north easterner began to blow, it was almost of hurricane force.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. They could not bear up to the wind so they decided to just let the wind drive them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. They undergirded the ship with ropes and began to throw overboard the tackling to lighten the ship so that they could ride higher on the water.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. After many days the storm had not abated and they began to give up hope of ever making it out of the storm alive.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. AT THIS POINT PAUL TOOK CHARGE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. We are told that he stood forth in the midst of them and said, "You should have listened to me and not tried to sail from Crete, you would not have suffered this loss. But be of good cheer for though the ship will be wrecked, there will be no loss of life. For last night there stood by me the angel of God, whose I am and who I serve. He told me not to fear for I must stand before Caesar. He said that all that are with me will be saved, there will be no loss of life. I believe God that it will be just as it was told to me. Paul then encouraged them to eat something.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. During the fierce storm none of them had much of an appetite. They had probably all been pretty sea sick.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. But Paul began to eat some hard tack, and he encouraged the others to eat.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THINGS TO NOTE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Paul was in this vicious storm by no cause of his own. Paul had warned them not to sail.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The Lord does not always deliver us from the storms of life. Nor does He promise to do so.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Sometimes we experience severe storms where we realize that we have no control over the situation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. We feel that our life is out of control.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. We are driven by circumstances beyond our control.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. We read that they did not see the sun nor stars for many days. They seemed to be engulfed in darkness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. So with our lives, there are times when we can not see the light, we can not see any purpose for the trials that we are experiencing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Everything seems to be dark around us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. They had given up hope of ever surviving, they thought that surely they would go down with the ship.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The Lord was with Paul in the storm.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Though he did not deliver him from being in the storm, He was with him in the storm, and comforted Him with the assurance that he would survive the storm.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. So with our lives, the Lord does not promise deliverance from the storms.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. None of us are immune from the storms of life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. But the Lord will be with us in the storm.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. He has promised, "I will never leave you or forsake you."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Your work for the Lord is not over. You must be brought before Caesar.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. There are times when because of the storms, we feel that our work for the Lord is over.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. I will never survive this one.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Paul's ministry was not over. The Lord had purposed that Paul give a witness of Jesus Christ to Caesar Nero.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. There was a second must. You must be cast up on a certain island.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. We realize that they are not being driven aimlessly as they thought, but that the Lord through the storm is bringing them to an island where the Lord is going to open the door to Paul for a great ministry.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. We often do not see the purpose behind the storms in our lives.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. I believe that it is interesting that the purpose was not revealed until the next chapter.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. So often this is the actual case in our lives. Everything seems to be darkness, we have not been able to see the light for a long season, we have given up hope. We begin to sink into despair.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The Lord came to Paul and said, "Cheer up." It's not over Paul, there are a couple musts. You must appear before Caesar, and you must be cast up on a certain island.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The next chapter is going to be very exciting as you will be bringing My work, My Word, and My love to hundreds of people as well as to the governor on the Island of Melita.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The next chapter will glorious as you see the Lord at work through your life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Later when Paul wrote his letter to the church in Philippi from his prison cell in Rome, he said to them, "I want you to understand that the things that happened to me have resulted in the furtherance of the gospel. So that by my bonds, Christ has been manifested in all the palace.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. As we had earlier mentioned the Roman centurion Julius who was in charge of getting Paul to Rome, was drawn to Paul in the beginning. But he now had seen Paul in action as the servant of Jesus Christ ministering the healing of Christ to the hundreds on the island of Melita.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Julius as we told you was one of the Palace guards, I believe that he began to witness to others of this man that he had brought to Rome and I expect to meet Julius in heaven.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Through temporal hardships and storms God so often works.</div>
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