21 "And He said to me, 'Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"
22 They listened to him up to this statement, and then they raised their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he should not be allowed to live!"
23 And as they were crying out and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air,
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In this passage Paul is giving his testimony to a group of Jewish people who don't believe that Jesus was the Christ. When they hear Paul's claim that God asked him to go share the Gospel of Jesus with non Jews, they were furious. In fact they wanted him dead.
We are blessed to live in a land that is mostly free from open or direct religious oppression, but those who oppose us are just as passionate. Science especially has spent especially the last 100 years finding ways to make believers afraid to publicly voice their opinions. Their hate for God forces them to believe wild tales that even by their calculations are near (if not completely) impossible.
Take courage, we know the end of the story! And we must use our time to tell as many others about Christ as we can. We need to share the Gospel to allow God to work in their lives, and graciously spare them from eternal punishment and separation from God!
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