Acts 28:23

There were many got together to Paul. Though he was a prisoner and could not come out to them, yet they were willing to come to him to his lodging. And the confinement he was now under, if duly considered, instead of prejudicing them against his doctrine, ought to confirm it to them; for it was a sign not only that he believed it, but that he thought it worth suffering for.

), the issue of which was that God was glorified, many were edified, the rest left inexcusable, and the apostles justified in preaching the gospel to the Gentiles,

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And when they had appointed him a day,....

WHEREVER Paul is, he has but one errand and whenever Paul preaches, he has but one subject. Once at Athens, when he addressed the Areopagus, he seemed to wander a little from his main point and no special good followed, but this experience bound him all the faster to the Cross, for he afterwards said to the Corinthians, "I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified." The Cross of Christ was his one theme. He henceforth hammered on the head of this one nail.

WHEREVER Paul is, he has but one errand and whenever Paul preaches, he has but one subject. Once at Athens, when he addressed the Areopagus, he seemed to wander a little from his main point and no special good followed, but this experience bound him all the faster to the Cross, for he afterwards said to the Corinthians, "I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified." The Cross of Christ was his one theme. He henceforth hammered on the head of this one nail. Whatever faculty, ability and power he had, he turned its whole current into this one channel and cried, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world." Brethren, we have not strength enough for a dozen things. We have not even strength enough for two. What little vigor we have, let us use it all in one direction—let us say, "For me to live is Christ." You could not have dropped into Paul's lodging at any time during the two years that he was at Rome before the emperor liberated him, without hearing him preach of the "things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. Every arrow in his quiver was aimed at the one target and he knew how to hit the white of it each time. "This one thing I do," he said. His motto was—All for Jesus, and for Jesus only. This one topic the Apostle brought forward in different ways. When addressing the chief men of the Jews in Rome, observe that he expounded, testified and persuaded. These three methods were necessary among the people of those days and they are the wisest that can be adopted to bring men to Christ even now. We must expound., set forth, explain, make clear the Gospel. We must tell men what the Word of God means in the plainest possible language, for they need to know what it is that the Revelation from Heaven has really declared.

To whom he expounded - the kingdom of God - To whom he showed that the reign of the Messiah was to be a spiritual reign; and that Jesus, whom the Jewish rulers had lately crucified, was the true Messiah, who should rule in this spiritual kingdom. These two points were probably those on which he expatiated from morning to evening, proving both out of the law and out of the prophets. How easily Jesus, as the Messiah, and his spiritual kingdom, might be proved from the law of Moses, any person may be satisfied, by consulting the notes written on those books. As to the prophets, their predictions are so clear, and their prophecies so obviously fulfilled in the person, preaching, miracles, passion, and death of Jesus Christ, that it is utterly impossible, with any show of reason, to apply them to any other.