The book of Acts narrates how the apostles battle the enemies of God. They will do so not with political might but with the message of the cross. As difficult as it was for the Jewish people to be under the political thumb of Rome, that paled in comparison to their true state of affairs—being enslaved to sin and the devil. The Jews longed for the coming Messiah, would who deliver them from Rome’s oppression, but what they failed to realize was the extent of sin’s oppression in their own lives.
