June 24 – Come over to Macedonia!

June 24
2 Kings 6:1-7:20
Acts 15:36-16:15
Psalm 142:1-7
Proverbs 17:24-25

2 Kings 6:16 – As an old preacher said, God and you make a majority.

2 Kings 6:17-18 – The LORD takes sight and gives sight.

2 Kings 6:23 – As Psalm 20:7 says, “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.”

2 Kings 6:31 – Famine instead of being seen as a sign of God’s judgment and His need to be appeased, was reason for the king to be mad at the prophet of God and his desire to shoot the messenger.

2 Kings 7:19-20 – Bad things happen to people who question God’s power to provide.

Acts 15:38 – Interesting analysis from John Piper:

This is the foremost instance of Barnabas patience with the failures of others. He is the son of encouragement (Acts 4:36). He wants to give John Mark another chance and he wants to do it now.

Paul disagrees. The disagreement is so deep that it cannot be resolved, and these veterans whose friendship goes back at least 15 years, and who owe each other so much, part company. Neither will yield.

Which one of them was right? Well, Luke is remarkably objective here. He does not seem to take sides. Perhaps one little clue shows that the church inclined to the side of Paul, because in Acts 15:40 it says that Paul and Silas were commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord. It doesn’t say this about the departure of Barnabas and John Mark.

Acts 16:3 – Paul not only taught mentoring (2 Timothy 2:2), he practice it!

Acts 16:9 –  From GotQuestions:

Up to that point in history, the gospel had been limited to Asia, and many historians credit Paul’s heeding the Macedonian Call with the spread of Christianity into Europe and the Western world.

Psalm 142:4-5 – When no man cared for my soul, the LORD is my refuge!

Proverbs 17:25 – Interesting in context of Solomon’s son Rehoboam, that lost the kingdom that his father had built.