Weekend, June 22, 2024
Assured Praying
By no means cease praying. (1 Thessalonians 5:17 NLT)
Herod Agrippa was the consummate profession politician. The principle factor for him was staying in energy. So, he had James arrested, after which he executed him. He noticed that curried favor together with his constituents, so he deliberate to execute Peter as properly.
Now, this wasn’t the identical Herod that we examine in Matthew’s Gospel. The New Testomony mentions a number of folks named Herod, so we would assume they’re all the identical particular person. However they’re totally different folks with the identical identify, all from the identical household.
Herod the Nice was in energy on the time of Christ’s beginning. He was often called Herod the Nice due to his nice architectural abilities, and he was the one who rebuilt the second temple in addition to different edifices, a few of that are nonetheless standing to this present day.
He additionally was identified for his tyranny and cruelty. He had members of his family executed as a result of he thought they could be a risk to his throne. Thus, when the sensible males got here from the East on the lookout for the One who was born King of the Jews, there wasn’t a worse factor somebody might have mentioned to a paranoid tyrant like Herod.
This is similar Herod who had all the infant boys killed in Bethlehem, pondering one among them could be the Messiah.
He had a son often called Herod Antipas, who had John the Baptist put to dying. After Jesus was arrested, He was introduced earlier than this depraved ruler, and Jesus didn’t communicate a single phrase to him.
His son was Herod Agrippa, the one who had James murdered. After he had Peter imprisoned, Herod Agrippa needed to take each precaution in order that Peter wouldn’t escape. Acts 12:4 tells us, “Then he imprisoned him, inserting him underneath the guard of 4 squads of 4 troopers every. Herod meant to carry Peter out for public trial after the Passover” (NLT).
Why was Herod Agrippa so involved about Peter escaping? As a result of Peter had been in jail earlier than and received out (see Acts 5:17-29). An angel delivered Peter on that event. And an angel would ship him once more.
In the meantime, what did the church do? Acts 12:5 says, “However whereas Peter was in jail, the church prayed very earnestly for him” (NLT). Although all different doorways remained closed, one was nonetheless open: the door of prayer.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones mentioned, “Of the entire blessings of Christian salvation none is bigger than this, that we now have entry to God in prayer.”
A lot of our prayer has no energy in it as a result of there isn’t any coronary heart in it. If we put so little coronary heart into our prayers, then we will’t anticipate God to place a lot coronary heart into answering them. The early church believed that God answered prayer.
The Bible says, “And we’re assured that he hears us at any time when we ask for something that pleases him” (1 John 5:14 NLT). God solutions the requests that He evokes. Are you praying based on God’s will? As Phillips Brooks mentioned, “Nothing lies outdoors the attain of prayer besides that which lies outdoors the desire of God.”
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