{"id":585,"date":"2011-08-09T19:04:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T00:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:41","slug":"not-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Not Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Acts 24:1-24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> I: Paul on Trial before Felix:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The High Priest came with others.<br \/>\n2. Their burning desire was to see Paul killed.<br \/>\n3. They brought an Orator Tertulles to speak for them.<br \/>\n4. Paul accused of being: &#8220;A Pestilent disturber of the peace, Nazareth sect.&#8221; &#8220;He was on the point of discerning the Temple.&#8221;<br \/>\n5. Paul&#8217;s defense: No flattery of Felix, his personal testimony, his denial of the accusations. He accused the Jews of falling short of Gods Will for them.<br \/>\n6. Felix adjourned the Case.<\/p>\n<p><strong> II: 2 Men on Trial:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Felix &#8220;Happy&#8221; was a freed slave that exercised the authority of a King with the Spirit of a slave. He was cruel and immoral.<br \/>\n2. Felix was a man of Perpetual Compromise.<br \/>\n3. Felix trembled while Paul reasoned with him of goodness, self-control, and judgment to come.<br \/>\n4. Felix was able to resist a disturbed conscience.<br \/>\n5. Felix soon was hardened to Paul&#8217;s preaching.<br \/>\n6. Felix sought money and the Jewish favor.<br \/>\n7. Felix made the fatal mistake of saying to God, &#8220;Not now.&#8221;<br \/>\n8. Felix played with God and Gods servant.<br \/>\n9. Paul put his finger on the Sins of Felix.<br \/>\na. Paul had 2 yrs. to meditate and write.<br \/>\nb. Paul had sweet fellowship with Luke, Aristarchus, and Phillip.<br \/>\n10. Paul was standing before the Roman judge. Felix stood before the Judgments of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong> For 1 life, for 1 death.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts 24:1-24 I: Paul on Trial before Felix: 1. The High Priest came with others. 2. Their burning desire was to see Paul killed. 3. They brought an Orator Tertulles to speak for them. 4. Paul accused of being: &#8220;A Pestilent disturber of the peace, Nazareth sect.&#8221; &#8220;He was on the point of discerning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}