The CommunionFire Commentary On The Book Of ACTS Chapter Twenty

10/25/2016

And as they were breaking bread he fell out of the window and died, after Paul declared him alive by the same Spirit hat raised Christ from the dead - he walked back upstais and finished communion...

TWENTY Names of God Bible from Bible Gateway

Jesus confirms Paul's preaching during Comunion raising Euticus from the dead
KEY VERSE: Verse 7 and 11 Commnion is the Living Bread
KEY VERSE: Verses 9-10 Jesus Still Raises the Dead...
Paul's final message to the graduates: Verse 35b More blessed to give...
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Color Code
The Ongoing Ministry of Jesus in around and through the Church
Yellow/gold = Seeing Jesus continued ministry
Teal/blue = Seeing the action of the Holy Spirit to reveal Jesus
Burgundy/red = Seeing the ongoing and evolving mission/witness of the Church to the Testimony of Jesus

1 When the uproar was over, Paul sent for the disciples, encouraged them, said goodbye, and left for Macedonia.

2 He went through that region and spoke many words of encouragement to the people.

Then he went to Greece 3 and stayed there for three months.

Paul in Troas

When Paul was going to board a ship for Syria, he found out that the Jews were plotting to kill him. So he decided to go back through Macedonia.

4 Sopater (son of Pyrrhus) from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia accompanied Paul. 5 All these men went ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.

6 After the Festival of Unleavened Bread, we boarded a ship at Philippi.

Five days later we joined them in Troas and stayed there for seven days.

7 On Sunday we met to break bread.

Paul was discussing Scripture with the people. Since he intended to leave the next day, he kept talking until midnight.

8 (Many lamps were lit in the upstairs room where we were meeting.)

9 A young man named Eutychus was sitting in a window. As Paul was talking on and on, Eutychus was gradually falling asleep. Finally, overcome by sleep, he fell from the third story and

was dead when they picked him up.

10 Paul went to him, took him into his arms, and said, “Don’t worry! He’s alive!”

11 Then Eutychus went upstairs again, broke the bread, and ate.

Paul talked with the people for a long time, until sunrise, and then left. 12 The people took the boy home. They were greatly relieved that he was alive.

Paul’s Trip to Miletus

13 We went ahead to the ship and sailed for the city of Assos. At Assos, we were going to pick up Paul. He had made these arrangements, since he had planned to walk overland to Assos. 14 When Paul met us in Assos, we took him on board and went to the city of Mitylene.

15 We sailed from there. On the following day we approached the island of Chios. The next day we went by the island of Samos, and on the next day we arrived at the city of Miletus. 16 Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia. He was in a hurry to get to Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost, if that was possible.

Paul Meets with the Spiritual Leaders from Ephesus

17 From Miletus Paul sent messengers to the city of Ephesus and called the spiritual leaders[a] of the church to meet with him in Miletus.

18 When they were with him, he said to them,

“You know how I spent all my time with you from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia. 19 I humbly served the Lord, often with tears in my eyes. I served the Lord during the difficult times I went through when the Jews plotted against me."

20 "I didn’t avoid telling you anything that would help you, and I didn’t avoid teaching you publicly and from house to house. 21 I warned Jews and Greeks to change the way they think and act and to believe in our Lord Yeshua."

22 “I am determined to go to Jerusalem now. I don’t know what will happen to me there. 23 However, the Holy Spirit warns me in every city that imprisonment and suffering are waiting for me.

24 But I don’t place any value on my own life. I want to finish the race I’m running. I want to carry out the mission I received from the Lord Yeshua—the mission of testifying to the Good News of God’s kindness.[b]

25 “Now I know that none of you whom I told about the kingdom of God will see me again. 26 Therefore, I declare to you today that I am not responsible for the spiritual death of any of you.

27 I didn’t avoid telling you the whole plan of God. 28 Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as bishops[c] to be shepherds for God’s church which he acquired with his own blood.

29 I know that fierce wolves will come to you after I leave, and they won’t spare the flock. 30 Some of your own men will come forward and say things that distort the truth.

They will do this to lure disciples into following them.

31 So be alert! Remember that I instructed each of you for three years, day and night, at times with tears in my eyes.

32 “I am now entrusting you to God and to his message that tells how kind he is. That message can help you grow and can give you the inheritance that is shared by all of God’s holy people.

33 “I never wanted anyone’s silver, gold, or clothes. 34 You know that I worked to support myself and those who were with me. 35 I have given you an example that by working hard like this we should help the weak.

We should remember the words that the Lord Yeshua said, ‘Giving gifts is more satisfying than receiving them.’”

36 When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down and prayed with all of them. 37 Everyone cried a lot as they put their arms around Paul and kissed him. 38 The thought of not seeing Paul again hurt them most of all. Then they took Paul to the ship.

Footnotes:

Acts 20:17 Or “pastors,” or “elders.”
Acts 20:24 Or “grace.”
Acts 20:28 English equivalent difficult.

What it looks like when the Church is led by the Holy Spirit

MACEDONIA
Mission of encouragement begins

GREECE for 3 Months

Plot to kill him exposed, so walked back to MACEDONIA

7 Men Accompanied Paul:
Sopater from BEREA
(Name = 'of a safe father, sound parentage, father who saves')
Sosipater is honored as Saint Sosipater by the Eastern Orthodox Church with a feast day on 29 April. perhaps the relative of St. Paul seen in Acts 16. Sosipater, ordained bishop of Iconium by the Apostle Paul, his relative. With St. Jason, he converted the king of Corfu. Reference to in Romans 16:21

#58 List of 70 Apostles
http://www.communionfire.com/jesus/the-communionfire-commentary-on-the-book-of-acts-chapter-six

Aristarchus of MACEDONIA and
(Name = 'best leader')
Aristarchus is described as Paul's "fellow prisoner" and "fellow laborer" in Colossians 4:10 and Philemon 1:24, respectively. In Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic tradition, Aristarchus is identified as one of the Seventy Apostles and bishop of Apamea. He is commemorated as a saint and martyr on January 4, April 14, and September 27.
See #10 List of 70 Apostles http://www.communionfire.com/jesus/the-communionfire-commentary-on-the-book-of-acts-chapter-six

Secundus of MACEDONIA
(Name="second")
A Christian from THESSALONICA

Gaius from DERBE
(name=
Gaius, bishop of Ephesus. Reference to in Acts 19:29; 20:4; Romans 16:23; 1 Corinthians 1:14; 3 John 1:1
STRONGS NT 1050: Γάϊος
Γάϊος Gaius or Caius; the name of a Christian:
1. of Derbe: Acts 20:4.
2. of Macedonia: Acts 19:29.
3. of Corinth, Paul's host during his (second) sojourn there: Romans 16:23; 1 Corinthians 1:14.
4. of a Christian, to whom the third Epistle of John was addressed: 3 John 1:1. (B. D. American edition under the word ; Farrar, Early Days of Christianity, ii. 506.)
See #28 List of 70 Apostles
http://www.communionfire.com/jesus/the-communionfire-commentary-on-the-book-of-acts-chapter-six

Timothy of LYSTRA,
(Name="Honors God; Honored by God")
Pauls calls him 'son' Timothy. He
was an early Christian evangelist and the first first-century Christian bishop of Ephesus, who tradition says died around the year AD 97. He accompanied St. Paul often, and both 1 and 2 Timothy are addressed to him. He was ordained bishop of Ephesus by St. Paul. He died a martyr. Reference to in Acts 16:1; 17:14, 15; 18:5; 19:22; 20:4; Romans 16:21; 1 and 2 Timothy
See #65 List of 70 Apostles
http://www.communionfire.com/jesus/the-communionfire-commentary-on-the-book-of-acts-chapter-six

Tychicus of EPHESUS, and
(Name=Fortuitous, hits the mark)
Succeeded Sosthenes, as bishop in the city of Caesarea.” Orthodox Study Bible. He delivered St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians and Colossians. Reference to in Acts 20:4; Ephesians 6:21; Colossians 4:7; 2 Timothy 4:12; Titus 3:12
See #68 List of 70 Apostles
http://www.communionfire.com/jesus/the-communionfire-commentary-on-the-book-of-acts-chapter-six

Trophimus of EPHESUS (Minor)
(Name= nourishment, support)
Trophimus, disciple of St. Paul, and martyred under Nero. Reference to in Acts 20:4; 21:29; 2 Timothy 4:20 They waited for Him in Troas

After Feast of unleavened Bread
They boarded a ship in PHILIPPI

After 5 days arrived and spent 7 days in TROAS

COMMUNION and COMMUNIONFIRE in TROAS

Paul shares by the Spirit until midnight
Eutychus falls asleep and falls out the 3rd story window and dies

Paul stops Communion, raises Eutychus from the dead and then goes back to having Communion as does Eutychus back on the 3rd floor

Paul Continues to share until Sunrise.

Paul leaves and walks overland
to ATOS and

boarded the ship and salied 3 days

to MYTELINE

to CHIOS

passing the island of SAMOS

and arrived thenext day in MILETUS

Sent word to EPHESUS to invite the Christian leadership to MILETUS for a final gathering.

Remember Acts 19 When The Holy Spirit
Received at Ephesus

…6 And when Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.

7 There were about twelve men in all.

8 Then Paul went into the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.

9 But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

10 This continued for two years, so that everyone who lived in the province of Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.

11 God did extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul,

12 so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.

These were among those who spent 2 years with Paul in the school of Tyrranus - perhaps the first Christian leadership graduation, so to speak... with a graduation message.

He tells them about his example and what it will be like in the days ahead.

They pray together and they cry - because they loved him and knew they would not see him again.