“And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.”
Acts 20:9 KJV
Sitting in an open window listening was a young man named Eutychus. As Paul’s sermon dragged on, Eutychus became drowsy and fell into a deep slumber. Sound asleep, he fell three stories to his death below. Eutychus means ‘lucky’ or ‘fortunate’. ‘Lucky’ died because of his fall and was lifeless when Paul reached this pre-teen boy. Eutychus became a picture of some believers today who, because they view themselves as ‘well off’, sit carelessly where they shouldn’t, growing drowsy, falling asleep, and enduring a disastrous fall. But God has grace and power to raise even the foolish ones back to life. When Paul had raised Eutychus back from the dead, he went back upstairs and served communion, ate a meal with the disciples there, finished his teaching until dawn. This miracle filled them all with enormous joy. Let’s move in the power of God, healing and raising the dead, so that everyone knows that we serve a living God, Who hears and answers our prayers. Amen!
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