gather around I have anice story to tell you guys just pay attentionso today's story is about Paul in Malta after a storm the ship Paul was on wasshipwrecked close to an island all the passengers of the wrecked ship reachedthe shore and made a huge bonfire it was cold
and raining some local people whofound them there helped them in finding wood and food as Paul was putting somesticks of wood into the fire a poisonous snake crawled onto his hand and beat himpeople were really worried because they expected Paul to fall down and pain butnothing happened to
Paul he just shook off the snake and went on workingas nothing had happened the people gathered thought that Paul was Goddressed as a man soon Paul was invited to the house of thegovernor of the town his name was Publius and his father had been very illwith fever Publius
welcomed Paul and his twofriends warmly into his house Paul saw Publius his father and went to his roomand sat down beside him he prayed to the Lord and placed his hands on Publicisfather he was immediately healed Publius thanked Paul for healing hisfather and the news of this miracle
spread quickly in the whole islandpeople started going to Paul to get healed and hear him preach Paul stayed inMalta for three months at the end of his stay as he got ready for his journeytowards Rome the people of Malta brought all the need of things on board a
bittheir final goodbyes Paul sailed once more in an Alexandrian merchant ship A snake bit him and nothing happend wow i really like the story all right kids in this storyPaul reaches Rome after living in Malta for a couple of years the Apostle Pauland his friends sailed from Malta
to Syracuse and Sicily and stayed there forthree days then they sailed up the coast of raging on the tip of Italy the shipsoon picked up a suddenly wind and sail took Puccio Lee but Paul and his friendsstayed for a week after leaving putiyoli they went along the Appian
Way to Romethe news of Paul's arrival had reached the Christian community in Rome theygathered there to greet him with a warm welcome in Rome Paul was kept underhouse arrest for two years but during that time he met many visitors who camefrom far and near who kept in touch
with all the churches he had helped set up headvised his many friends and wrote all about his journeysand long letters to different churches some of them have survived till now and can be seen in the New Testament Wow sound like a lesson on geography i was totally confused
all the names haha don't worry I hope you learned something fromit i dd let's begin then Paul the Apostle had been sent to Rome to meetCaesar he had been in rome for only three days and he called all the seniorJews to where he was staying he spoke to
the group that had gatheredfriends I have called you here to tell you why I'm here I have done nothingthat is against your religion and yet I was arrested in Jerusalem and handedto the Romans to be killed they themselves couldn't find any caseagainst me and they did not set
him free but because the Jewish people don'tagree I was forced to appeal to Caesar right now I want to make it clear toeveryone that I am a prisoner for the wrong reasons the people replied they haven't got any letters from Judea they would liketo hear it personally from
him about the path he followed so they could decidefor themselves whether he was right or wrongso the next day they met again this time the people had increased in number Paulbegan by telling them why he had chosen to follow Christianity he told them allabout Jesus the elders discussed
and argued about him all day finally it wastime to leave some believed Paul but most still didn't as they were leavingPaul said to them I only wish that you could understand then God will send asalvation to the people and I'm sure they will keep it i can't wait
to hear what happens nextall in good time let me begin then today's story is about the runaway slaveduring his stay in Rome Paul met a runaway slave during those days richRomans would usually keep many slaves for small jobs in the house if they ranaway as a punishment they
could be injured branded or even killed to savehim from this Paul kept the poor scared slave with him his name was honesthonest he would help Paul with many things and Paul taught him all aboutJesus soon honesamus became a Christian honesamus had been livingthe Paul for a long time
but he knew he had to go back and facethe punishment one day it so happened that Paul knew his master his name wasfilament and he had been converted to Christianity by Paul as soon as Paul gotto know this he wrote a letter to Philemonsaying Dear Philemon I have
recently met someone he happens to be your slaveyou might thought him a useless one but I assure you he's not I request you towelcome him back like you would welcome me though I would like to keep him Iwait for your answer meanwhile accept him as a brother ashe's
a Christian now and I will pay back any money he owesyou he ended his letter he silently hoped that once his prison stay ended hecould visit Philemon again Paul is so sweet almost as much as Peter yes hewas so did you like the story We loved it great