Acts 12:1-25 - "Life & Death"

At the end of the day, we don’t know why God allows some people to live longer than others, or why He allows some people to go on living at all. Our very human tendency is to see such things in light of our desire for immediate justice (at least, in the case of others). Long life seems a fitting reward for the seemingly righteous, and sudden death for the really wicked. But our ways are not God’s ways, and our thoughts are not God’s thoughts. The big idea for today is that God has an eternal, purposeful perspective, and so we must trust Him with issues of life and death. In Acts 12, we have three stories of life and death that are presented in the context of God’s eternal, purposeful perspective: 1. The death of James; 2. The near-death experience of Peter; and 3. The death of Herod Agrippa.