Governor Felix must have been intrigued by Paul’s message. After he put Paul under house arrest and after his wife, Drusilla, arrived he called for Paul in order to hear more about faith in Christ.
Paul did not mince words. He spoke of righteousness, self-control, and judgement to come. It doesn’t look like this is what Felix wanted to hear for he sent Paul away with some tragic word, “I will hear more at a more convenient time.”
Before Felix could comprehend the love of God for Him He had to know about why that love was so important. Unrighteousness and lack of self-control are going to result in judgement to come because God is perfect and perfectly holy. He is perfectly righteous and perfectly just. Man’s sin runs totally contrary to that. Man has replaced perfect God control which always sees that is best with imperfect flesh control which is always destructive.
There were more occasions were Paul and Felix talked, but there is no further mention of how the chats went.
Poor Felix sacrificed knowing the God of all-love for the sake of His own convenience. Some will do the same today. They have been putting off dealing with God for the sake of convenience, how tragic if they miss a chance to know Him because it was inconvenient.
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