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“Entering Rome” & “Hope” Preface! Smoky Row! 1 Acts 28:1-16: To Rome; “Ends” VII: “Entering Rome” & “Hope” Preface! Smoky Row! There’s no way I can answer all the little questions that we might have about this passage. It’s an interesting one, with all sorts of cultural notes that curious people want answered--and we’re curious people. It’s an exciting passage, though, and it comes at an important time in our calendar. We’re in Advent, the time of the year in which we both prepare our hearts for Christmas, remember and appropriately celebrate Jesus’ first arrival, and we think about Jesus’ arrival to come, and consider how we should prepare ourselves for that. So Advent is a big deal. And then, as far as Acts goes, we’re at that moment after Paul and the ship have been saved, when they’re on dry ground, although soaking wet themselves. And Luke will guide us as Paul is guided into Rome, too. I will try to connect today’s passage to our Advent theme of Hope, but I won’t force it. I don’t want to 2 break anything. And because of all that’s happened already in the service, today’s message is a shorty, as they’ll all be all month. Prayer: Where are we? Malta! God’s kept his promise to Paul. Everyone on the ship was saved, even though the ship and everything in it was lost. They wash ashore on some island, just as Paul said they would, and we learn that the island is Malta. Luke calls it “Melita,” so we may see that sometime, but everyone everywhere agrees he’s talking about Malta. Malta is its own country today: One of the smallest in the world, but it’s been conquered by every Empire that’s ever been, because it’s important. Here’s Malta: Insert Map And here’s what happens on Malta to Paul and the rest of them: On Malta: 3 2 The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold. 3 Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. 4 When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.” 5 But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. 6 The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead; but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god. Luke writes this as if Paul doesn’t hear it, doesn’t know the flip-flopping opinions that the inhabitants have about him. Luke doesn’t, at least, show Paul standing up and denying the rumors the way Paul has had to do now and then, and the way king Herod didn’t early in Acts. Luke also shows these Maltese as basically good, basically kind, and that’s significant: Not everyone who has strangers in need show up on their shores or at their doors will welcome them. Paul literally shakes 4 off a snake’s bite that would have killed anyone. There is a chief on the island, in Maltese folklore he’s a prince; in biblical language, he’s just “the first,” maybe a Roman official, but the most powerful person there. His name is Publius. “Poplio.” Publius hosts the ship’s crew--or at least some of them--and Paul heals Publius’ father and goes on to heal everyone else. Maltese history claims that Publius goes on to convert to Christianity, bringing the entire island along with him, and becomes not only a Bishop, but the patron saint of the island. As a result of all this, Malta identifies itself as the first nation to convert to Christianity. Saint Publius has a feast day in both the Catholic and Orthodox churches, and there’s all sorts of history wrapped up in this man. Luke gives us none of that, which doesn’t mean it’s false, but does mean that we won’t keep talking about it. Again, though, Luke presents the Maltese in an incredibly positive light. We read: 7 There was an estate nearby that belonged to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us to his home and showed us generous hospitality for three days. 8 His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and 5 dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him. 9 When this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured. 10 They honored us in many ways; and when we were ready to sail, they furnished us with the supplies we needed. They spend three months on the island, apparently blessing and being blessed by those who live there. And then, when it’s safe to sail again, they do. As Luke’s done throughout Acts, he records each stop along the way. Before we read it, here’s the bouncing: Insert Map Luke writes all this out: Syracuse, Rhegium, Puteoli, & Rome: 11 After three months we put out to sea in a ship that had wintered in the island—it was an Alexandrian ship with the figurehead of the twin gods Castor and Pollux. 12 We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days. 13 From there we set sail and arrived at Rhegium. The 6 next day the south wind came up, and on the following day we reached Puteoli. 14 There we found some brothers and sisters who invited us to spend a week with them. And so we came to Rome. 15 The brothers and sisters there had heard that we were coming, and they traveled as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. At the sight of these people Paul thanked God and was encouraged. 16 When we got to Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him. They move from here to there, to Puteoli, where they find Christians, and the Church welcomes them, and finally to Rome, where this time, the Church comes to find them. And we leave off, both in today’s passage and as we’ll see, Acts itself, with Paul under house arrest in Rome, waiting to appear before Caesar as God has told him he must. Next week we’ll see what Paul does now that he’s in Rome, and if we’ve been paying even the littlest bit of attention to what Paul does whenever he arrives someplace, I’d bet we could guess. So what is today’s passage? 7 What is today’s Passage? On the one hand, it’s just more travelogue, you know? This thing happened in this place, that thing happened there. Except this is the end of it, because Paul finally arrives to where he was going. It’s the last insta story on Paul’s trip to Rome. There’s some nice shots of Paul with Publius’ dad, a bunch of Maltese waving goodbye, the church in Puteoli and avocado toast outside the Three Taverns. Things happen. Paul should die from snakebite, but doesn’t. We’re meant to see the miracle, here: How God continues to protect Paul. We learn just how good the Maltese are, and how spiritual they are, even if we might not agree with the way they ascribe the miracles that they recognize. It’s good stuff, you know? Making friends, experiencing miracles, being welcomed by Christian brothers and sisters, and getting to where they are going. This is good. And I’ve been trying to think about how to connect this passage to hope, the idea of hope, and the only easy way to do it is to remember that all this good stuff-- 8 making friends, experiencing miracles, being welcomed by Christian brothers and sisters, and getting to where they are going--all this good stuff happens on the other side of a very specific hope being realized: the hope of their rescue, their salvation. Recalling Plot: Remember, Luke wrote that “we finally gave up all hope of being saved.” Paul encourages all to “keep up their courage,” and relates a promise from God that they will be saved. But there is a two week gap in the story in which we don’t hear anything at all from anyone. All we know is that throughout it, they were driven by the storm and had eaten nothing. They were waiting, just waiting. And during that time of waiting they were forced to choose between hope and hopelessness, between the certain death some of them believed was coming, and the miraculous rescue Paul promised would arrive. And this is how the story goes: Having given up all hope, lost all hope, enough of them decided to trust God--to trust Paul who trusted God--such that they were saved. Their deep hope for rescue was realized, God made good on His promise. And on the other side 9 of hope all sorts of good things happened: making friends, experiencing miracles, being welcomed by Christian brothers and sisters, and getting to where they were going. Two Things: Activity We talk about hope all the time, as Christians.
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