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The Window View
Contributed by Ronnie Smith on Jul 8, 2005 (message contributor)
Summary: Paul had been in revival for 6 days. · This was the 7th and they broke the bread and Paul started preaching. · After preaching all day it was now midnight and the lamps were burning and Paul was just getting warmed up.
Acts 20: (New International Version) 7On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight. 8There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting. 9Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. 10Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. "Don’t be alarmed," he said. "He’s alive!" 11Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left. 12The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.
· Paul had been in revival for 6 days.
· This was the 7th and they broke the bread and Paul started preaching.
· After preaching all day it was now midnight and the lamps were burning and Paul was just getting warmed up.
· Eutychus at one time had been a hard working slave.
· But when the good news about Jesus Christ came into Troas, the master who had owned Eutychus set him free. Eutychus was now a freed man.
How could this happen?
· We’re not talking about a boring non-anointed amateur who received his training from a Cracker Jack box.
· This was Paul!
· The writer of 22 books in the Bible.
· The man who had an eye opening experience like nobody every saw.
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The reason this man fell out is because he was more out then he was in.
If he had been more in then out he wouldn’t have fallen 3 stories.
Acts 13:22And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will.
1I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
1Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart,
Psalm 119: 2Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
Psalm 119:10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
58I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
69The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
145I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
1I will praise thee with my whole heart:
Psalm 5110Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Luke 16: 13No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
James 1: 8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Samson had a choice of being the man God wanted him to be or lay in the lap of Delilah.
Jonah had a choice.
1A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
