24 November ACTS 23

It’s going to be all right. Everything is going to turn out for the best

Acts 23:11-15(MSG) That night the Master appeared to Paul: “It’s going to be all right. Everything is going to turn out for the best. You’ve been a good witness for me here in Jerusalem. Now you’re going to be my witness in Rome!” Next day the Jews worked up a plot against Paul. They took a solemn oath that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed him. Over forty of them ritually bound themselves to this murder pact and presented themselves to the high priests and religious leaders. “We’ve bound ourselves by a solemn oath to eat nothing until we have killed Paul. But we need your help. Send a request from the council to the captain to bring Paul back so that you can investigate the charges in more detail. We’ll do the rest. Before he gets anywhere near you, we’ll have killed him. You won’t be involved.”

In the passage we read that Jews worked a plot against Paul. They took an oath that they would kill him. Amazingly God appears to Paul with these words: It’s going to be all right. Everything is going to turn out for the best. What encouraging word? Paul received a guarantee, irrespective of the plans and plot of the enemy against him, everything will turn out for the best.

In the next passage we see how Paul’s life is saved from the Jewish mob, by hand of God, Claudius writing a letter to Felix, explaining how he has saved Paul and placed him under the jurisdiction of Felix.

Acts 23:25-30(MSG) Then he wrote this letter: From Claudius Lysias, to the Most Honorable Governor Felix: Greetings! I rescued this man from a Jewish mob. They had seized him and were about to kill him when I learned that he was a Roman citizen. So I sent in my soldiers. Wanting to know what he had done wrong, I had him brought before their council. It turned out to be a squabble turned vicious over some of their religious differences, but nothing remotely criminal. The next thing I knew, they had cooked up a plot to murder him. I decided that for his own safety I’d better get him out of here in a hurry. So I’m sending him to you. I’m informing his accusers that he’s now under your jurisdiction.

Like with Paul, the enemy, Satan, is always cooking up a plan against us. That is his work and calling to steal, destroy and kill.

John 10:10(AMP) The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance .

But the good news is that: It’s going to be all right. Everything is going to turn out for the best. Jesus came that you may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance, to the full, till it overflows.

Genesis 50:20(AMP) As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present outcome, that many people would be kept alive .

Genesis 50:19-21(MSG) Joseph replied, “Don’t be afraid. Do I act for God? Don’t you see, you planned evil against me but God used those same plans for my good, as you see all around you right now—life for many people. Easy now, you have nothing to fear; I’ll take care of you and your children.” He reassured them, speaking with them heart-to-heart.

Today, remember, it does not matter what the enemy has plotted against you, It’s going to be all right. Everything is going to turn out for the best.