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THE tour of the Roman world consumed most of the twenty-eighth and the entire twenty-ninth year of Jesus' life on earth. He left Jerusalem on a Sunday morning, April 26, A.D. 22. On this [[Mediterranean]] tour Jesus spent about half of each day teaching and acting as an interpreter during business conferences and social contacts. The remainder of each day he devoted to making those close personal contacts that characterized his activities during the years that preceded his public ministry.

THE tour of the Roman world consumed most of the twenty-eighth and the entire twenty-ninth year of Jesus' life on earth. He left Jerusalem on a Sunday morning, April 26, A.D. 22. On this [[Mediterranean]] tour Jesus spent about half of each day teaching and acting as an interpreter during business conferences and social contacts. The remainder of each day he devoted to making those close personal contacts that characterized his activities during the years that preceded his public ministry.

====At Joppa -- Discourse On Jonah====

====At Joppa -- Discourse On Jonah====

    

    

*"My friend, we are all Jonahs with lives to live in accordance with the will of God. At all times when we seek to escape the present duty of living by running away to far-off enticements, we thereby put ourselves in the immediate control of those influences that are not directed by the powers of truth and the forces of righteousness. The flight from duty is the sacrifice of truth. The escape from the service of light and life can only result in those distressing conflicts with the difficult whales of selfishness that lead eventually to darkness and death, unless such God-forsaking Jonahs shall turn their hearts, even when in the very depths of despair, to seek after God and his goodness. When such disheartened souls sincerely seek for God -- hunger for truth and thirst for righteousness  -- there is nothing that can hold them in further captivity. No matter into what great depths they may have fallen, when they seek the light with a whole heart, the spirit of the Lord God of heaven will deliver them from their captivity. The evil circumstances of life will spew them out upon the dry land of fresh opportunities for renewed service and wiser living."

*"My friend, we are all Jonahs with lives to live in accordance with the will of God. At all times when we seek to escape the present duty of living by running away to far-off enticements, we thereby put ourselves in the immediate control of those influences that are not directed by the powers of truth and the forces of righteousness. The flight from duty is the sacrifice of truth. The escape from the service of light and life can only result in those distressing conflicts with the difficult whales of selfishness that lead eventually to darkness and death, unless such God-forsaking Jonahs shall turn their hearts, even when in the very depths of despair, to seek after God and his goodness. When such disheartened souls sincerely seek for God -- hunger for truth and thirst for righteousness  -- there is nothing that can hold them in further captivity. No matter into what great depths they may have fallen, when they seek the light with a whole heart, the spirit of the Lord God of heaven will deliver them from their captivity. The evil circumstances of life will spew them out upon the dry land of fresh opportunities for renewed service and wiser living."

====Discussion of Good and Evil====

====Discussion of Good and Evil====

    

    

*"Your Father in heaven, by endowing you with the power to choose between truth and error, created the potential negative of the positive way of light and life. But such errors of evil are really nonexistent until such a time as an intelligent creature wills their existence by mischoosing the way of life. Then are such evils later exalted into sin by the knowing and deliberate choice of such a willful and rebellious creature. This is why our Father in heaven permits the good and the evil to go along together until the end of life, just as nature allows the wheat and the tares to grow side by side until the harvest."

*"Your Father in heaven, by endowing you with the power to choose between truth and error, created the potential negative of the positive way of light and life. But such errors of evil are really nonexistent until such a time as an intelligent creature wills their existence by mischoosing the way of life. Then are such evils later exalted into sin by the knowing and deliberate choice of such a willful and rebellious creature. This is why our Father in heaven permits the good and the evil to go along together until the end of life, just as nature allows the wheat and the tares to grow side by side until the harvest."

====At Caesarea====

====At Caesarea====

====The Greek Worker and the Roman Foreman====

====The Greek Worker and the Roman Foreman====

One of the young men who worked with Jesus one day on the steering paddle became interested in the words which he dropped from hour to hour as they toiled in the shipyard. When Jesus intimated that the Father in heaven was interested in the welfare of his children on earth, this young Greek, Anaxand, said:

One of the young men who worked with Jesus one day on the steering paddle became interested in the words which he dropped from hour to hour as they toiled in the shipyard. When Jesus intimated that the Father in heaven was interested in the welfare of his children on earth, this young Greek, Anaxand, said:

*"Human wills that are fully occupied with passing only upon temporal decisions having to do with the material problems of animal existence are doomed to perish in time. Those who make wholehearted moral decisions and unqualified spiritual choices are thus progressively identified with the indwelling and divine spirit. Thereby are they increasingly transformed into the values of eternal survival -- unending progression of divine service.”

*"Human wills that are fully occupied with passing only upon temporal decisions having to do with the material problems of animal existence are doomed to perish in time. Those who make wholehearted moral decisions and unqualified spiritual choices are thus progressively identified with the indwelling and divine spirit. Thereby are they increasingly transformed into the values of eternal survival -- unending progression of divine service.”

====At Alexandria====

====At Alexandria====

*"You are an admiring pupil, but these teachers are not minded that you and I should instruct them. The pride of un-spiritualized learning is a treacherous thing in human experience. The true teacher maintains his intellectual integrity by ever remaining a learner."

*"You are an admiring pupil, but these teachers are not minded that you and I should instruct them. The pride of un-spiritualized learning is a treacherous thing in human experience. The true teacher maintains his intellectual integrity by ever remaining a learner."

====On The Island Of Crete====

====On The Island Of Crete====

   

   

*"This day, my son, you are to be reborn, re-established as a man of faith, courage, and devoted service to man, for God's sake. When you become so readjusted to life within yourself, you become likewise readjusted to the universe. You have been born again -- born of the spirit -- and henceforth will your whole life become one of victorious accomplishment. Trouble will invigorate you, disappointment will spur you on, difficulties will challenge you, and obstacles will stimulate you. Arise, young man! Say farewell to the life of cringing fear and fleeing cowardice. Hasten back to duty and live your life in the flesh as a son of God, a mortal dedicated to the ennobling service of man on earth and destined to the superb and eternal service of God in eternity."

*"This day, my son, you are to be reborn, re-established as a man of faith, courage, and devoted service to man, for God's sake. When you become so readjusted to life within yourself, you become likewise readjusted to the universe. You have been born again -- born of the spirit -- and henceforth will your whole life become one of victorious accomplishment. Trouble will invigorate you, disappointment will spur you on, difficulties will challenge you, and obstacles will stimulate you. Arise, young man! Say farewell to the life of cringing fear and fleeing cowardice. Hasten back to duty and live your life in the flesh as a son of God, a mortal dedicated to the ennobling service of man on earth and destined to the superb and eternal service of God in eternity."

====On The Way To Naples And Rome====

====On The Way To Naples And Rome====