Acts 26:19
So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
BSB
ASV
Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
KJV
Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
From that time - Having received power to obey, I was not disobedient - I did obey, I used that power, Gal. i, 16. So that even this grace whereby St. Paul was influenced was not irresistible.
Heavenly visions have a commanding power over earthly counsels, and it is at our peril if we be disobedient to them; yet if Paul had conferred with flesh and blood, and been swayed by his secular interest, he would have done as Jonah did, gone any where rather than upon this errand; but God opened his ear, and he was not rebellious.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Jeremiah 20:9If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of…
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My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
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Jonah 1:3Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went…
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Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
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Isaiah 50:5The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.
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But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.
