Walk This Way

At John the Baptist’s circumcision and naming (when he was 8 days old), his father prophesied that he would guide their feet in ‘the way of peace’ (Luke 1:79). John the Baptist came to Israel in ‘the way of righteousness’ (Matt 21:32), crying for them to prepare ‘the way of the Lord’ (Mark 1:3).

They knew that Jesus was true and that He taught ‘the way of God’ in truth (Matt 22:16). Jesus told Thomas that HE was ‘the way’ (John 14:6).

Apollos, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, was instructed in ‘the way of the Lord’ and fervent in the spirit. He spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord (Acts 18:24-25).

Peter wrote of ‘the way of truth’ (2 Pet 2:2), and ‘the way of righteousness’ (2 Pet 2:21).

Before Saul was saved, he hunted Jesus’ disciples to capture them as prisoners. He looked for any and all people of ‘this way’:

Acts 9:1-2 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

After Saul became known as Paul, when he recounted his Damascus Road experience to the people in the Hebrew tongue (Acts 21:39-40), he acknowledged that he had believers in Christ, regardless of gender, jailed and even killed for their faith, walking ‘this way’:

Acts 22:3-5 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

At Paul’s appearance before the governor, Ananias the high priest and the elders, with a certain orator named Tertussus, accused him:

Acts 24:5-6 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
6 Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.

When Paul was allowed to answer for himself, he cheerfully testified, beginning 12 days earlier, when he went up to Jerusalem to worship:

Acts 24:12-16 And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

Paul wasted the church of God before he believed (Gal 1:13). Now he walked ‘the way’ they did, and he was on the receiving end of the persecution.

This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
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