In the first of five trials recorded in the final chapters of Acts, the Apostle Paul faces the angry mob in the temple courts.
The accusation implicit in the riot is that Paul, and Christianity, are anti-temple and anti-Jew. Paul mounts a defence that is ultimately cut short. In his defence he offers up multiple witnesses who can corroborate his story of having persecuted the church until he met Jesus of Nazareth on the road to Damascus, and later, while praying in the temple, was commissioned by God as the Apostle to the Gentiles.
As the sermon concludes, we examine evidence from the book of Ephesians for how the argument of Paul would have continued if the mob had not interrupted him. The reality is that Christianity is not 'anti-temple' nor 'anti-Jew', but finds in Christ the fulness of both temple and Jewish promise and prophecy.
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