Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
The gospel rests on these two pillars alone: faith and repentance. Whoever strays into other matters, no matter how hard he labors, walks in circles and builds nothing. Testifying is no mild word; it means bearing witness in court, removing all excuse of ignorance. The pastor must aim at this double mark or waste his effort entirely.
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Paul sent for these elders not to leave them, but to instruct and encourage them in the work they had undertaken. His life among them, serious, gracious, heavenly, no self-seeking, proved God was truly with him and animated him by a better spirit than his own.
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Commenting on Acts 20:17-35
Paul was bound not by chains but by the Spirit of God, so gripped by Him that neither the bonds awaiting in Jerusalem nor the pleas of friends could turn him back. He did not know what would befall him, but He knew who held him.
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