Study #63: Paul raised Eutychus from the dead while preaching in Troas in Asia Minor (Acts 20:2

Study #63: Paul raised Eutychus from the dead while preaching in Troas in Asia Minor (Acts 20:2 - 12)

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Acts, Chapter 2.3: The Gentiles of Ephesus violently opposed the efforts of Paul to teach the Word (18:23 - 20:38)

§Unique Introduction: Aquila, Priscilla, and Paul guided disciples of John the Baptist to a better understanding of the Gospel (18:23 - 19:7)

¶Opposite Aquila and Priscilla guided Apollos, a disciple of John the Baptist, to a better understanding of the Way of God (18:23 - 28)

¶Opposite Paul guided twelve disciples of John the Baptist to a better understanding of the Gospel, including baptism (19:1 - 7)

§Complement Body: The silversmiths in Ephesus instigated a riot against Paul and his preaching against idolatry (19:8 - 20:12)

¶Opposite Paul worked for two years to train his converts in Ephesus in the Word of God (19:8 - 12)

¶Opposite The failed exorcism by the sons of Sceva resulted in a great revival in Ephesus (19:13 - 20)

¶Complement While Paul was staying in Ephesus, the silversmiths instigated a riot against him (19:21 - 28)

¶Complement The mob of angry idolaters praised their idol Diana loudly and enthusiastically (19:29 - 20:1)

¶Unique Paul raised Eutychus from the dead while preaching in Troas in Asia Minor (20:2 - 12)

§Complement Conclusion: Paul preached a final message of warning to the elders of his church at Ephesus and said goodbye (20:13 - 38)

¶Complement In Miletus, Paul preached a message of warning to the elders of his church at Ephesus (20:13 - 31)

¶Complement Paul said goodbye to the elders of his church at Ephesus (20:32 - 38)

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We continue our study of the Book of Acts, Chapter 2.3 with the fifth paragraph in the Body Section, which has the Golden Ratio design of “OO-CCU”; or two opposites, two complements, and one unique.

¶Unique Paul raised Eutychus from the dead while preaching in Troas in Asia Minor (20:2 - 12)

Opposite And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece; and he stayed there three months.

Opposite And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia. And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus: these going before waited for us at Troas. And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread; and we came to them to Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.

Complement And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached to them, ready to leave the next day; and he continued his speech until midnight.

Complement And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, having fallen into a deep sleep; and as Paul was long preaching, he sank down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him, said, “Trouble not yourselves: for his life is in him.”

Unique Therefore when he came up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even until break of day, so he departed. And they brought the young man alive; and were not a little comforted.

Comments: The Apostle Paul was preparing to return to Jerusalem at the end of his third missionary journey, so he had a special meeting with his church members in the city of Troas in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). And in this meeting was a young man named Eutychus, who fell asleep during his sermon while he was sitting in a third-floor window. He fell to the floor and died; but Paul went down to him and embraced him, and raised him from the dead! Not by his own power, of course, but by the healing power of Jesus Christ, who used him to do this great miracle.

Now there are several important things that we need to understand from this event in the Book of Acts.

1) Paul was not like modern-day “healers” and charismatic charlatans, who go about having “healing meetings”, in which the Gospel of Jesus Christ is barely mentioned (if ever), and the focus is on raising money by the basketful, and supposedly casting out demons, making the lame walk, and healing the sick. The Apostle Paul never did that, because he was a man of God, who was more concerned for the souls of men and women, boys and girls, rather than their money.

Instead, Paul preached the Gospel and explained the Scriptures for about twelve hours, from sunset on Saturday night (the first day of the week by Jewish reckoning) until Sunday morning at daybreak. What a sermon that must have been! Can you imagine a church meeting today where everyone sits and listens to the pastor preach for 12 hours? I can’t.

When Eutychus died, Paul went down and raised him from the dead; but this was not a normal thing with Paul. In other words, his meeting was centered around the Word of God: not healing or raising people from the dead!

Modern-day charlatans are not interested in the Gospel and getting people saved; they only care about getting the money out of the pockets of the people who come to their meetings into their own pockets! Don’t be fooled when they quote a few passages of Scripture, because they are trying to make you believe that they care about God and your souls. But this is not true. The best course of action is to not go to any of their “healing meetings” or watch them on TV.

Instead, you should find a Bible-centered, Fundamental, Gospel-preaching, Independent Baptist church to attend, and be faithful there every week. If you have been born again, join this kind of church and support it with your tithes and offerings: not the charismatic fraudsters who only want to pick your pockets.

2) This second point will doubtless make some people very angry, but I must tell you the truth, my friends. Please realize that I am not trying to purposefully make anyone angry; but sometimes, we need to hear the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help us God. I pray that the truth will be received with humbleness and repentance by those who need to hear it.

The Bible says that “upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread”: this means that they celebrated the Table of the Lord, or Communion. They broke bread, the Bible says; that means that they did not do as the Roman Catholic religion does with the Mass wafer, where they pass out whole wafers of bread that are never broken; so clearly the Mass is not Scriptural! The symbols of the body of Christ are broken pieces of bread, not whole wafers! No Christian should have any part in a Catholic Mass.

The broken pieces of bread are symbols of the broken body of Jesus on the cross 2,000 years ago; and they symbolize his Finished Work of Atonement on the cross for our sins.

The whole wafer, on the other hand, shows Christ as a continually suffering Savior who has not yet paid for our sins in full. The doctrine of “Transubstantiation” says that the priest has the power to change the mass wafer into the literal body and bones of Christ, and the wine into the literal blood of Christ (see the Council of Trent). You know, abracadabra? Like magic! If true, that would mean that a priest is more powerful than God Himself! Which is impossible.

This doctrine is called “dogma”, because it is not found in the Bible, and only taught by the popes. It is not true; no man can command God to do anything! There is not a single example of any Apostle in the Bible doing what a Roman Catholic priest claims that they can do in the Mass; it never happened.

They will say, “But Jesus said, “This is my body.”” That is true, except that Jesus was still sitting there in front of the Apostles, and He broke the bread in pieces and handed them to the Apostles. Jesus did NOT make a copy of Himself and hand it to the Apostles!

I Corinthians 11:23-26: “For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took BREAD; and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “Take, eat: this is [a symbol of] my body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of me.” After the same manner also he took the cup, after he had eaten, saying, “This cup is [a symbol of] the New Covenant in my blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this BREAD, and drink this cup, you are celebrating the death of the Lord until he comes again.”

It is witchcraft and sorcery to suggest that Jesus made a copy of Himself disguised as a piece of bread! It would also be cannabilism, if true, which is abhorrent to Bible believing Christians and right-thinking people everywhere. No, the bread was symbolic for the Body of Christ, and that is all. It describes perfectly what the Bible says about the first Table of the Lord in the upper room.

I believe also that if the Apostles had actually eaten a copy of the body of Jesus (flesh, bones, and blood), they would have been shocked and dismayed, because that would be human sacrifice that was forbidden by the Law of Moses, and the Apostles were Jews who reverenced the Law:

Genesis 9:4-6 God said, “But flesh with the life thereof, which is its blood, you shall not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for he made man in the image of God.”

Jeremiah 32:35: God said, “And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them; neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.’”

It should be obvious from the Bible narrative of the first Table of the Lord that the Apostles had no such reaction to receiving the bread given them by Jesus: they clearly understood that they were only eating bread that was symbolic of the body of Jesus Christ.

The grape juice was also symbolic for the blood of Christ as well. Consuming the blood of any creature (including humans) was forbidden by God (Genesis 9:4-6); how much more the blood of Jesus Christ, the Holy One of God? By consuming “the fruit of the vine”, not blood, we symbolize the act of receiving the Blood Atonement that Jesus made for our sins on the cross of Calvary. By consuming the bread, we symbolize the act of receiving Jesus Christ as our Savior. Both of these things, for Born again Believers, already happened for us when we repented of our sins and accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Savior. The Table of the Lord, or Communion, is the way that God has ordained for believers to remember what Jesus Christ did for us, and give thanks to Him for his Finished Work on Calvary. Amen.

Jesus said, “Do this in remembrance of me”! Luke 22:19.

You remember someone or something that is not there, correct? If Jesus were physcially with you at the Table of the Lord, then there would be no need to remember. So since Jesus is not physically there in the bread or the grape juice of the Table of the Lord, we are remembering and thanking God for what Jesus did for us on the cross to save us.

Communion is NOT the way of salvation! It is a way to remember (or, a remembrance) of what Jesus did for us in the past, and a way to give thanks; and that is all! If you are not saved yet, you need to be born again BEFORE you participate in Communion; you are not prepared to be a part of that blessed ordinance with the people of God.

Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.” If you want to go to Heaven, you must go through Jesus Christ, or you won’t make it!

You cannot be a child of God until you have been born again; and you cannot be born again until you have repented of your sins and asked Jesus Christ to come into your life to become your Savior. This is done by your prayer of faith in the Finished Work of Christ on the cross, and not by the water of baptism or by church membership or by your good works.

Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace you have been permanently saved through faith; and that faith is not out of yourselves: it is the gift of God; not of our own works, lest any man should boast”

Romans 10:8-13: “But what does it say? “The Word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart”; that is to say, the Word of faith (which we preach), that if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved: for with the heart man believes into righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made into salvation: for the Scripture says, “Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.” For there is no difference between the Jew and the Gentile: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him: for [it is written], “whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved.”

If you want to be saved, and become free from the devil, here is how you do it: if you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that He died on the cross for your sins, and that He rose from the dead on the third day, you may pray this prayer to receive Him as your Savior and be saved:

“Lord Jesus, I know that I have sinned against YOU. I am no good, and you are righteous! You are my only hope for salvation! I believe that you died on the cross for my sins, you were buried, and you rose again from the dead on the third day. I want you to come into my life and be my Lord and Savior. Please come into my heart right now. Forgive me for all my sins, and save my soul. In the mighty Name of Jesus, I pray, Amen!”

If you have turned from your sins and accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and only Savior from sin, please message me through Facebook and let me know that you have done that, so that I can pray for you and rejoice with you in what God has done in your life. Amen.