(MUSIC)
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>>GOOD MORNING,
FRIENDS, AND WELCOME AGAIN TO
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SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO OUR
FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE
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COUNTRY, AROUND THE WORLD, AND
ALSO A SPECIAL WELCOME TO OUR
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ONLINE MEMBERS WHO ARE JOINING
US EVERY WEEK STUDYING TOGETHER.
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I'D ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME THE
GRANITE BAY CHURCH MEMBERS AND
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ALSO A VERY SPECIAL GROUP OF
INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE JOINED US
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FOR THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS.
WE HAVE THE AFCOE PROGRAM THAT
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IS STARTING HERE AT
THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH.
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A NUMBER OF OUR AFCOE
STUDENTS ARE HERE TODAY.
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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO YOU.
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I KNOW SOME OF YOU HAVE TRAVELED
SOME LONG DISTANCES TO BE HERE -
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ALL THE WAY FROM SOUTH AFRICA
AND, I UNDERSTAND, MADAGASCAR -
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SO WELCOME. GOOD
TO HAVE YOU HERE.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET INTO
OUR LESSON FOR TODAY, WHICH IS
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LESSON #10 - PHILIP AS A
MISSIONARY - I'D LIKE TO LET OUR
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VIEWERS KNOW ABOUT A
FREE OFFER THAT WE HAVE.
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IT IS ENTITLED THE
SAVIOR AND THE SERPENT .
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WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS BOOK
TO ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS.
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THE NUMBER TO CALL IS
866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR
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OFFER #798. THAT
NUMBER, AGAIN, IS
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866-788-3966.
ASK FOR OFFER #798.
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THE BOOK, AGAIN, IS ENTITLED
THE SAVIOR AND THE SERPENT .
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WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS
TO ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS.
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THIS MORNING I'D LIKE TO INVITE
DARRIN DEE TO COME JOIN ME HERE
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ON STAGE. WE JUST RECENTLY - THE
GRANITE BAY CHURCH JUST RECENTLY
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CAME BACK FROM A MEXICO MISSION
TRIP IN ENSENADA AND WE'RE GOING
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TO TRY AND SHOW A VIDEO
HERE IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS,
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BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT
I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS.
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DARRIN, YOU'RE INVOLVED IN
HELPING TO ORGANIZE AND LEAD OUT
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WITH THE MISSION TRIP DOWN
THERE. WHAT WERE YOU FOLKS DOING
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IN MEXICO? >>WELL,
PRAISE GOD, WE HAD AN
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OPPORTUNITY TO
GO DOWN TO ENSENADA.
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IT WAS OUR FIRST INTERNATIONAL
MISSION TRIP AS A CHURCH.
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WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO
DO A VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL, A
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CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, AS
WELL AS A MEDICAL/DENTAL CLINIC.
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>>NOW, LATER ON TODAY, FOR THOSE
OF YOU WHO ARE HERE AND ALSO FOR
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OUR FRIENDS WANTING TO JOIN US,
WE WILL BE STREAMING OUR MISSION
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REPORT PROGRAM AT 2:00 THIS
AFTERNOON PACIFIC TIME AND WE'LL
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HAVE A MUCH MORE DETAILED
REPORT WITH SOME GREAT STORIES.
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BUT YOU WANT TO SHARE WITH US
JUST SOMETHING THAT STOOD OUT IN
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YOUR MIND AS A RESULT
OF THIS MISSION ACTIVITY.
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>>YOU KNOW, WHAT STOOD OUT
IN MY MIND WAS THE BONDING THAT
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HAPPENED AS A RESULT OF THIS
MISSION TRIP BETWEEN THE CHURCH
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MEMBERS. THERE
WERE A LOT OF NEW CHURCH
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MEMBERS WHO WENT ALONG OR SOME
WHO'VE BEEN AROUND AND WE JUST
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HAVEN'T HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO
GET A CHANCE TO MEET AND GET TO
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KNOW BETTER BECAUSE WE'RE
GROWING SO RAPIDLY AND WE REALLY
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GOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND TIME
TOGETHER AND GROW TOGETHER AND I
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THINK WE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT
OURSELVES INDIVIDUALLY ALSO.
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AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE GOT
A CHANCE TO SEE THE INCREDIBLE
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BLESSINGS THAT THE LORD PROVIDED
ON OURSELF, ON OUR GROUP, AND,
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HOPEFULLY, HAD AN OPPORTUNITY
TO SEE - SHINE - HAVE JESUS
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SHINE THROUGH US TO THE
PEOPLE DOWN THERE THAT WE WERE
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MINISTERING TO.
>>AMEN. ABSOLUTELY.
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I'VE HEARD A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT THE REPORT SO FAR AND I'M
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LOOKING VERY FORWARD TO THE
FULL REPORT THIS AFTERNOON -
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AGAIN, 2:00. THOSE OF YOU
WHO CAN BE HERE, COME JOIN US.
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AT THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO SEE
IF WE CAN SHOW YOU JUST A SHORT
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LITTLE VIDEO CLIP OF SOME OF
THE THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING A
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COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WITH
OUR MISSION TRIP IN MEXICO.
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(MUSIC) >>SO THE
GRANITE BAY CHURCH WAS
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REALLY EXCITED BECAUSE WE
HAD CONDUCTED TWO PRIOR MISSION
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TRIPS AND WE
WANTED TO DO ANOTHER ONE.
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SO THAT'S WHEN WE DECIDED
TO CONSIDER AN INTERNATIONAL
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MISSION TRIP. AND
SO WE CONTACTED THE
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CONFERENCE THAT OVERSAW THE
ENSENADA TERRITORY AND WE CAME
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OUT AND LOOKED AND WHEN WE GOT
HERE WE SAW THAT, IMMEDIATELY,
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THE TERRITORY WAS
RIPE FOR A MISSION TRIP.
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>>WE JUST COME DOWN HERE TO
REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY IN
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HOPES THAT WE CAN
UPLIFT EVERYBODY AROUND.
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IT'S JUST BEEN A PLEASURE
TO HAVE MY WHOLE CREW HERE AND
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EVERYBODY AND ALL THE FRIENDS
FROM OUR LOCAL AREA BACK HOME.
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>>DEFINITELY THE COMMUNITY
HAS BEEN VERY RESPONSIVE.
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THEY ARE VERY HAPPY, THEY ARE
VERY BLESSED BY BEING HERE AND
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THEY WERE THANKFUL THAT WE WERE
ABLE TO COME AND HELP THEM OUT.
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>>SO HERE WE ARE COMMUNICATING
WITH THEM JUST WITH THE LANGUAGE
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OF LOVE, SO TO SPEAK, SO THAT
WE CAN DO WHAT'S BEST FOR THESE
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CHILDREN AND REACH THEM.
AND, REALLY, OUR WHOLE FOCUS AND
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OUR GOAL HERE IS FOR
THESE CHILDREN TO SEE JESUS
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IN ALL OF THIS. (MUSIC)
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>>AMEN. WELL THERE'S JUST
A LITTLE TASTE OF THE MISSION
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REPORT. YOU'LL HAVE MORE THIS
AFTERNOON - 2:00 WE'LL BE GIVING
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YOU A MUCH MORE IN-DEPTH
EXPERIENCE OF WHAT HAPPENED DOWN
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THERE. JUST SOME WONDERFUL
TESTIMONIES. WELL, AT THIS TIME,
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WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN OUR STUDY
OF LESSON #10. IT'S ENTITLED
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PHILIP AS A MISSIONARY . BUT
BEFORE I INVITE PASTOR DOUG TO
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COME FORWARD, LET'S
BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE
THANK YOU THAT WE HAVE THIS
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OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY THE BIBLE.
WE INVITE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
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COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND
OUR MINDS AS WE LOOK AT THESE
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GREAT BIBLE CHARACTERS AND HOW
THEY HAD A PASSION FOR SHARING
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THE GOSPEL WITH OTHERS. MAY WE
ALSO BE INSPIRED TO DO WHAT WE
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CAN, TO SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH
OTHERS. BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER,
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FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME,
AMEN. I'D LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR
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DOUG TO COME FORWARD AND
LEAD US IN OUR STUDY TODAY.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR
ROSS, APPRECIATE THAT.
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IT WAS VERY EXCITING BEING
ON THAT MISSION TRIP AND JUST
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SEEING HOW ALL THE DIFFERENT
COMPONENTS OF MINISTRY CAME
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TOGETHER. THERE WAS
PUBLISHING MINISTRY HAPPENING.
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THERE WAS MEDICAL
MINISTRY THAT WAS HAPPENING.
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THERE WAS CHILDREN'S
MINISTRY THAT WAS HAPPENING.
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THERE WAS
EVANGELISM THAT WAS HAPPENING.
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AND THERE WAS CONSTRUCTION -
TWO BY FOUR MINISTRY - THAT WAS
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HAPPENING. AND SO,
ALL OF THAT TOGETHER, IT
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REALLY HAD A WONDERFUL
IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY.
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I WANT TO WELCOME AGAIN - TO
OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE PART OF OUR
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CLASS THAT ARE WATCHING AND THE
MEMBERS - THE NEW AFCOE CLASS -
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WELCOME TO THE GRANITE BAY
CHURCH. AND WE'RE CONTINUING OUR
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STUDY DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT
OF BIBLICAL MISSIONARIES.
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TODAY, IN PARTICULAR,
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PHILIP.
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NOW WE'LL EXPLAIN WHICH PHILIP
IN JUST A MOMENT, BECAUSE THAT'S
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ACTUALLY PART OF THE LESSON, BUT
WE START WITH A MEMORY VERSE AND
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THE MEMORY VERSE IS
FROM ACTS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 8.
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IF YOU HAVE YOUR LESSON YOU
CAN READ IT OUT OF YOUR LESSON.
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ACTS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 8 AND
WE READ, "BUT YOU WILL RECEIVE
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POWER" - NOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED
TO SAY THAT WITH ME. READY?
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"BUT YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER WHEN
THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES ON YOU AND
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YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES
IN JERUSALEM, IN ALL JUDEA, IN
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SAMARIA, AND UNTO
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH."
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AND I THINK IT SAYS IN THE KING
JAMES, 'THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF
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THE EARTH.' SO THIS IS REALLY
TALKING ABOUT MISSION WORK AND,
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IN PARTICULAR, THE MISSION WORK
THAT GOD DID THROUGH PHILIP.
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NOW THERE ARE SEVERAL GREAT
COMMISSION STATEMENTS THAT YOU
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FIND IN THE BIBLE. THESE ARE THE
STATEMENTS THAT REALLY IDENTIFY
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WHAT IS THE MISSION
STATEMENT FOR CHRISTIANS.
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YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT CHRISTIAN
ORGANIZATIONS SIT SOMETIMES FOR
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HOURS AND DAYS AND THEY PROCESS
WHAT IS THEIR MISSION STATEMENT
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AND SOMETIMES YOU HAVE SLOGANS.
YOU'VE GOT - LIKE WHEN YOU THINK
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OF NIKE, WHAT WAS
THEIR SLOGAN? >>JUST DO IT.
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>>JUST DO IT. SEE?
YOU GUYS KNOW THAT.
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AND DIFFERENT CORPORATIONS HAVE
THEIR SLOGAN AND THEY'VE GOT
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THEIR MISSION STATEMENT,
WHICH IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
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WE HAVE ONE AT AMAZING FACTS,
BUT I ALWAYS SAID, 'HOW CAN WE
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POSSIBLY IMPROVE ON
THE ONE JESUS GAVE US?'
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AND IT'S REALLY MATTHEW CHAPTER
28 - MATTER OF FACT, SOME OF YOU
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ARE GOING TO READ A
COUPLE OF THESE FOR ME.
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WHO HAS MARK 16? YOU'LL
DO THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
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MATTHEW 28:18, "AND JESUS CAME
AND SPOKE TO THEM, SAYING, 'ALL
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AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN
TO ME IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH.
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GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES
OF ALL THE NATIONS, BAPTIZING
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THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY
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SPIRIT, TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE
ALL THINGS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED
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YOU; AND LO, I AM WITH YOU
ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE
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AGE.'" JUST A FEW MINUTES BEFORE
I CAME IN HERE TO TEACH, I WAS
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VISITING WITH ONE OF OUR
ASSOCIATE PASTORS OUT IN THE
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FOYER AND HE SAID, 'THERE'S AN
INDIVIDUAL THAT'S INTERESTED IN
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BAPTISM AND WANTS TO KNOW
IF YOU'D BAPTIZE HIM.' AND I
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THOUGHT, 'WHY
WOULDN'T I?' AND I SAID.
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'IF THAT'S NOT PART OF THE JOB
DESCRIPTION OF A PASTOR, WHAT
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IS?' AND, YOU KNOW,
THAT'S OUR MARCHING ORDERS.
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'GO THEREFORE, TEACH AND
BAPTIZE.' AND SO - BUT YOU'LL
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FIND THESE MISSION STATEMENTS
OF JESUS SEVERAL PLACES.
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WE READ ONE TO YOU JUST A MOMENT
AGO IN ACTS CHAPTER 1 - THAT WAS
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OUR MEMORY VERSE.
NOW THERE'S ANOTHER ONE.
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GO AHEAD, READ PLEASE ACTS -
I'M SORRY, MARK 16:15 AND 16.
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>>AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'GO INTO
ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE
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GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.
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HE WHO BELIEVES AND IS BAPTIZED
WILL BE SAVED; BUT HE WHO DOES
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NOT BELIEVE WILL BE CONDEMNED.'"
>>NOTICE IT SAYS, 'HE WHO
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BELIEVES AND IS BAPTIZED WILL
BE SAVED BUT HE THAT DOES NOT
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BELIEVE WILL BE CONDEMNED.' SO
THERE MAY BE SOME WHO ARE SAVED
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THAT WERE NOT BAPTIZED BECAUSE
THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE ARE
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CONDEMNED. BUT HE
WANTS US TO BELIEVE AND
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BE BAPTIZED AND, ALSO, IT
SAYS 'GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND
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PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY
CREATURE.' ALL THE WORLD - EVERY
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CREATURE. NOW
DOES THAT MEAN WE'RE
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SUPPOSED TO PREACH TO
THE VEGETABLES AND THE BIRDS?
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IT'S TALKING ABOUT
EVERY HUMAN CREATURE.
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YOU FIND ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF ONE
OF THE MISSION STATEMENTS - LUKE
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24 - LUKE 24:46, "AND HE SAID TO
THEM" - THIS IS AFTER JESUS ROSE
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- "'THUS IT IS WRITTEN, AND THUS
IS WAS NECESSARY FOR THE CHRIST
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TO SUFFER AND TO RISE FROM
THE DEAD THE THIRD DAY, AND THAT
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REPENTANCE AND REMISSION OF SINS
SHOULD BE PREACHED IN HIS NAME
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TO ALL NATIONS,
BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM.
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AND YOU ARE WITNESSES OF THESE
THINGS.'" SO IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE
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PREACHED TO ALL
NATIONS BEGINNING IN JERUSALEM.
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AND THEN YOU GO TO JOHN
20 - JOHN'S IS NOT AS CLEAR.
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THE - YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT THE
ONE FROM MATTHEW, MARK, JOHN,
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ACTS - THEY ALL HAVE A MISSION
STATEMENT THERE, BUT JOHN PUTS
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IT THIS WAY - JESUS
SAID - JOHN 20, VERSE 21,
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"SO JESUS SAID TO
THEM AGAIN, 'PEACE TO YOU!
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AS THE FATHER HAS SENT ME, I
ALSO SEND YOU.' AND WHEN HE SAID
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THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM, AND
SAID TO THEM, 'RECEIVE THE HOLY
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SPIRIT.'" AND SO
THIS IS OUR MISSION.
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HE SAYS, 'I AM SENDING YOU
AS THE FATHER SENT ME.' NOW, YOU
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KNOW, DID YOU CATCH ANYTHING
INTERESTING IN COMMON ABOUT ALL
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FIVE OF THESE
STATEMENTS THAT WE JUST READ?
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MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, JOHN, AND
ACTS - THESE GREAT COMMISSION
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STATEMENTS?
WHEN WERE THEY GIVEN?
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BEFORE OR AFTER
THE RESURRECTION?
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>>AFTER. >>ALL OF
THESE ARE GIVEN AFTER
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THE RESURRECTION, BEFORE THE
ASCENSION - DURING THAT 40-DAY
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PERIOD. IT WAS A
LOT CLEARER TO THEM.
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AND SOMETHING ELSE THAT AT LEAST
TWO OR THREE OF THEM MENTIONED,
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IN PARTICULAR - DOES GOD TELL
THEM NOT ONLY WHAT TO DO - DOES
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HE TELL THEM
WHERE TO START? >>YES.
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>>HE SAYS START
WHERE? >>JERUSALEM.
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>>JERUSALEM, WHICH HAPPENED TO
BE - WHERE WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT
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POURED OUT?
'THERE WERE DWELLING IN
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JERUSALEM AT THAT TIME, DEVOUT
JEWS OUT OF EVERY NATION UNDER
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HEAVEN.' YOU
KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
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GOD WANTS YOU TO BEGIN WHERE
YOU ARE. HE WANTS YOU TO BEGIN -
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SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'I
WANT TO BE A MISSIONARY.
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I'M GOING TO GO TO SOME FOREIGN
COUNTRY AND DO MISSION WORK.'
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO
GO TO ENSENADA, MEXICO.
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EVERYBODY, WHEN YOU COME TO
JESUS YOU WANT TO - 'WHO IS MY
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NEIGHBOR?' WHOEVER
YOU ENCOUNTER THAT DAY
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IS YOUR NEIGHBOR, IS WHAT JESUS
BASICALLY SAID IN THE PARABLE OF
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THE GOOD SAMARITAN. SO
WE'RE ALL TO START WHERE WE ARE.
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ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO
PHILIP THE EVANGELIST -
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THAT WOULD BE OUR
FIRST DAY IN OUR STUDY.
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AND YOU CAN READ IN YOUR LESSON,
THE WORD 'PHILIP' - IT MEANS 'A
00:12:22.40\00:12:25.84
LOVER OF HORSES' AND IT COMES
FROM A COUPLE OF GREEK WORDS:
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'PHILIPPOS', WHICH MEANS 'LOVE'.
YOU KNOW, THE WORD 'PHILEO' IS
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ONE OF THE WORDS FOR LOVE -
PHILADELPHIA - THAT'S WHERE THE
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POPE'S GOING IN SEPTEMBER
- THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE.
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PHILADELPHIA WAS ONE OF THE
CHURCHES THAT YOU FIND IN THE
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MESSAGES TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES.
'PHILEO' AND 'HIPPOS' - NOW, IF
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SOMEONE CALLED YOU A
HIPPO, WOULD YOU TAKE THAT AS A
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COMPLIMENT?
BECAUSE YOU THINK OF A
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HIPPOPOTAMUS, BUT A HIPPOPOTAMUS
IN GREEK IS A WATER HORSE AND SO
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PHILIPPOS WAS A LOVER OF HORSES
- HIPPO IS HORSE IN GREEK AND SO
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THAT'S WHERE
THE NAME COMES FROM.
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THERE WERE SEVERAL VERY FAMOUS
GREEK KINGS BY THE NAME OF
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PHILIP, ONE OF THEM BEING THE
FATHER - PHILIP OF MACEDON WAS
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THE FATHER OF
ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
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I THINK, TECHNICALLY, HE WAS
PHILIP THE SECOND OF MACEDON AND
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SO IT WAS A VERY COMMON NAME.
SO I SAY ALL THAT BECAUSE IN THE
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NEW TESTAMENT YOU'RE GOING TO
FIND THREE OR FOUR PHILIPS - ONE
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WAS A REALLY BAD
GUY, HEROD PHILIP.
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YOU REMEMBER HEROD ANTIPAS
TOOK HIS BROTHER'S WIFE WHO WAS
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PHILIP - HE WAS IN CHARGE
OF THE COUNTRY TO THE NORTH.
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HAD A COUPLE OF GOOD PHILIPS
AND ONE OF THEM WAS AN APOSTLE.
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HE WAS FROM BETHSAIDA.
HE WAS THE ONE WHO WENT TO
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NATHANIEL AND SAID, 'WE HAVE
FOUND THE MESSIAH.' AND YOU ALSO
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FIND HIM REFERENCED A COUPLE
OF TIMES IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN,
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PHILIP THE APOSTLE. OUR
STUDY TODAY ABOUT PHILIP THE
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EVANGELIST IS NOT PHILIP THE
APOSTLE AND SO - AND LET ME JUST
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GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF
REASONS WHY WE KNOW THAT.
00:14:06.17\00:14:08.11
SO THE FIRST PHILIP IS PHILIP
OF BETHSAIDA AND YOU FIND HIM IN
00:14:08.14\00:14:12.11
JOHN 1, VERSE 43; JOHN 12, VERSE
20, AND IT SAYS, 'HE WAS OF
00:14:12.15\00:14:18.25
BETHSAIDA, THE CITY OF ANDREW
AND PETER.' THE SECOND PHILIP IS
00:14:18.29\00:14:21.66
THE ONE THAT YOU FIND
WHO IS ORDAINED AS A DEACON.
00:14:21.69\00:14:25.59
HE FIRST APPEARS THERE IN ACTS
CHAPTER 6 AND THEY CALL HIM A
00:14:25.63\00:14:30.10
SERVANT - I THINK IN THE LESSON
IT CALLS HIM A WAITER, BUT I
00:14:30.13\00:14:33.40
THINK THEY DID MORE THAN JUST
SERVE TABLES OR DISTRIBUTE THE
00:14:33.44\00:14:36.30
BREAD. AND HOW DO WE KNOW, WHEN
WE READ IN ACTS CHAPTER 6 AND IT
00:14:36.34\00:14:42.91
SAYS, 'NOW PHILIP WENT DOWN TO
SAMARIA' - HOW DO WE KNOW THAT
00:14:42.94\00:14:45.45
THAT'S NOT PHILIP THE APOSTLE?
BECAUSE IT TELLS US ABOUT THE
00:14:45.48\00:14:50.05
DEACONS AND THEN
SUDDENLY IT TALKS ABOUT PHILIP.
00:14:50.09\00:14:52.79
ONE REASON - WELL LET ME GIVE
YOU THREE REASONS I THINK WE
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KNOW THAT WE'RE SPECIFICALLY
GOING TO BE STUDYING ABOUT A
00:14:55.82\00:14:58.33
PHILIP AND IT'S NOT PHILIP THE
APOSTLE. IT'S PHILIP THE DEACON.
00:14:58.36\00:15:02.36
FOR ONE THING, YOU READ IN
CHAPTER 6, AFTER IT TALKS ABOUT
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PICKING THE DEACONS, IT
TELLS THEN ABOUT THE EXPLOITS OF
00:15:06.57\00:15:10.27
STEPHEN AND HOW HE'S MARTYRED -
IT GOES INTO THE LIFE OF ONE OF
00:15:10.31\00:15:14.14
THE DEACONS. THEN YOU
GO INTO CHAPTER - WELL,
00:15:14.18\00:15:17.38
CHAPTER 7 IS PART OF STEPHEN'S
SERMON - THEN THE NEXT THING IT
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TALKS ABOUT IS NOW, PHILIP.
WHY DOES IT BRING HIM INTO THE
00:15:20.22\00:15:22.92
STORY? PHILIP THE DEACON.
LUKE IS TELLING WHAT THOSE WHO
00:15:22.95\00:15:25.05
WERE ORDAINED AS DEACONS
- WHAT THEY ARE DOING NOW.
00:15:25.09\00:15:29.49
THEY ENDED UP DOING A
LOT MORE THAN SERVING TABLES.
00:15:29.52\00:15:31.26
ONE IS THE FIRST
MARTYR IN THE CHURCH.
00:15:31.29\00:15:32.99
HE WAS A PREACHER -
FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:15:33.03\00:15:34.83
HIS DEATH MARKS THE END - HE'S
MORE THAN A DEACON - HIS DEATH
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MARKS THE END OF THE ERA OF
THE 490-YEAR PROPHECY - VERY
00:15:38.47\00:15:42.34
IMPORTANT - THEN ONE OF THE
DEACONS MARKS THE BEGINNING OF
00:15:42.37\00:15:46.44
AN ERA OF EVANGELISM. AND
ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW IT'S
00:15:46.47\00:15:50.65
NOT PHILIP THE APOSTLE - LET
ME GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF VERSES
00:15:50.68\00:15:53.28
HERE. IF YOU LOOK IN ACTS
CHAPTER 8, VERSE 1, AFTER THE
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DEATH OF STEPHEN, "...AT
THAT TIME THERE WAS A GREAT
00:15:58.65\00:16:02.89
PERSECUTION AGAINST THE CHURCH
WHICH WAS AT JERUSALEM; AND THEY
00:16:02.92\00:16:06.90
WERE ALL SCATTERED ABROAD
THROUGHOUT THE REGIONS OF JUDEA
00:16:06.93\00:16:10.83
AND SAMARIA, EXCEPT
THE" - WHO? - "THE APOSTLES."
00:16:10.87\00:16:14.90
PHILIP WAS ONE OF THE APOSTLES.
HE STAYED IN JERUSALEM.
00:16:14.94\00:16:18.44
SO WHEN IT SAYS 'PHILIP WENT
DOWN TO SAMARIA', IT'S TELLING
00:16:18.47\00:16:22.11
WHICH ONES WENT TO
SAMARIA - IT'S NOT THE APOSTLE.
00:16:22.14\00:16:23.95
AND IF THAT'S NOT ENOUGH
EVIDENCE FOR YOU, GO TO ACTS
00:16:23.98\00:16:26.51
8:14, "NOW WHEN THE APOSTLES
WHICH WERE AT JERUSALEM HEARD
00:16:26.55\00:16:31.45
THAT SAMARIA HAD RECEIVED THE
WORD OF GOD," - THIS IS UNDER
00:16:31.49\00:16:35.82
THE PREACHING OF PHILIP - "THEY
SENT UNTO THEM PETER AND JOHN:"
00:16:35.86\00:16:38.86
SO THE APOSTLES WERE
WHERE? THEY WERE IN JERUSALEM.
00:16:38.89\00:16:41.10
THEY STAYED. SEE,
THEY PICKED THESE SEVEN
00:16:41.13\00:16:44.63
DEACONS TO HELP DISTRIBUTE FOOD
DURING TIMES OF PEACE, WHEN THE
00:16:44.67\00:16:47.64
CHURCH WAS
EXPLODING WITH GROWTH.
00:16:47.67\00:16:49.04
THIS IS DURING THAT THREE AND
A HALF YEARS AFTER CHRIST DIED.
00:16:49.07\00:16:51.17
BUT WHEN THE GREAT PERSECUTION
AROSE, AFTER THE STONING OF
00:16:51.21\00:16:55.81
STEPHEN, THE CHURCH SCATTERED
EVERYWHERE, INCLUDING THE
00:16:55.84\00:16:59.15
DEACONS. IT WAS
NOT SAFE FOR THEM TO DO
00:16:59.18\00:17:01.32
WHAT THEY HAD DONE BEFORE.
THEY DIDN'T NEED THEM TO SERVE
00:17:01.35\00:17:04.42
TABLES SO THEY WENT OUT
PREACHING; BUT THE APOSTLES
00:17:04.45\00:17:07.82
STAYED IN JERUSALEM. SO
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PHILIP.
00:17:07.86\00:17:10.59
I JUST WANTED TO
MAKE A STRONG CASE.
00:17:10.63\00:17:12.13
SOMETHING ELSE INTERESTING
YOU'RE GOING TO FIND, AND THIS
00:17:12.16\00:17:15.90
IS IN YOUR LESSON FROM
SKETCHES FROM THE LIFE OF PAUL .
00:17:15.93\00:17:19.33
PHILIP, WHO BECAME AN
EVANGELIST, ALSO BECAME A GOOD
00:17:19.37\00:17:22.84
FRIEND OF PAUL AFTER
THE CONVERSION OF PAUL.
00:17:22.87\00:17:26.11
IT'S INTERESTING, PAUL
KILLS PHILIP'S GOOD FRIEND AND
00:17:26.14\00:17:31.81
ASSOCIATE DEACON NAMED STEPHEN.
THEY THEN BECOME FRIENDS SHORTLY
00:17:31.85\00:17:36.38
AFTER THE CONVERSION.
HOW THOROUGHLY MUST THEY HAVE
00:17:36.42\00:17:39.25
BEEN CHRISTIANS TO FORGIVE
SOMEONE WHO HAD KILLED A FRIEND.
00:17:39.29\00:17:42.29
NOT ONLY THAT,
THEY BECOME VERY CLOSE.
00:17:42.32\00:17:45.23
I WANT TO READ YOU A QUOTE FROM
PAGE 204 - SKETCHES FROM THE
00:17:45.26\00:17:50.03
LIFE OF PAUL - BY THE
WAY, THAT'S A GREAT BOOK.
00:17:50.07\00:17:52.50
"IT WAS THE VIOLENT PERSECUTION
OF SAUL, THE PHARISEE, THAT HAD
00:17:52.53\00:17:57.54
SCATTERED THE CHURCH AT
JERUSALEM AND DESTROYED THE
00:17:57.57\00:18:00.31
EFFECTIVENESS OF THE
ORGANIZATION OF THE SEVEN
00:18:00.34\00:18:02.54
DEACONS. THEIR WORK
IN JERUSALEM WAS OVER
00:18:02.58\00:18:04.51
AT THAT POINT," - THAT'S
WHY THEY WENT OUT PREACHING -
00:18:04.55\00:18:06.72
"AND RESULTED IN HIS
PURSUING THE SAME CALLING TO
00:18:06.75\00:18:09.35
WHICH PAUL LATER GAVE HIS LIFE.
PRECIOUS HOURS WERE THESE THAT
00:18:09.38\00:18:12.59
PAUL AND PHILIP SPENT
IN EACH OTHER'S SOCIETY.
00:18:12.62\00:18:15.76
THRILLING WERE THE MEMORIES THAT
THEY RECALL OF THE DAYS WHEN THE
00:18:15.79\00:18:19.59
LIGHT, WHICH HAD SHOWN ON
THE FACE OF STEPHEN, UPTURNED TO
00:18:19.63\00:18:22.23
HEAVEN, AS HE HAD SUFFERED
MARTYRDOM, FLASHING ITS GLORY
00:18:22.26\00:18:26.17
UPON SAUL THE PERSECUTOR,
BRINGING HIM A HELPLESS
00:18:26.20\00:18:29.24
SUPPLIANT AT THE FEET OF JESUS."
00:18:29.27\00:18:31.27
SO IT TALKS ABOUT THIS
FRIENDSHIP OF PHILIP AND PAUL.
00:18:31.31\00:18:35.01
NOW, YOU KNOW WHERE
YOU SEE THAT AGAIN LATER?
00:18:35.04\00:18:36.78
IN THE LAST PART OF YOUR LESSON
WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 'PHILIP THE
00:18:36.81\00:18:39.75
HOST' - AND YOU
KNOW WHO HE'S HOSTING?
00:18:39.78\00:18:42.48
HE'S HOSTING PAUL IN HIS HOUSE.
SO THEY HAD BECOME GOOD FRIENDS.
00:18:42.52\00:18:46.96
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO AHEAD
AND TALK ABOUT THAT SECTION
00:18:46.99\00:18:49.69
WAITING ON TABLES . SO TURN
IN YOUR BIBLE TO ACTS CHAPTER 2.
00:18:49.72\00:18:53.26
WE'VE GOT A LOT TO
COVER IN OUR STUDY TODAY.
00:18:53.29\00:18:58.27
ACTS CHAPTER 2 AND IT TELLS WHAT
BROUGHT ABOUT THE NEED - NO, I'M
00:18:58.30\00:19:03.00
SORRY - WELL, YEAH, YEAH.
WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT WE
00:19:03.04\00:19:07.28
NEED - ACTS CHAPTER 2 -
SOMEBODY'S GOING TO READ FOR ME,
00:19:07.31\00:19:10.35
IN A MOMENT, ACTS 4:34 -
YOU'LL DO THAT, OKAY, HAFDIS.
00:19:10.38\00:19:14.18
SO I'M GOING TO READ ACTS 2,
VERSE 43, "THEN FEAR CAME UPON
00:19:14.22\00:19:17.72
EVERY SOUL, AND MANY WONDERS
AND SIGNS WERE DONE THROUGH THE
00:19:17.75\00:19:20.76
APOSTLES." WE'D
EXPECT THE SIGNS AND
00:19:20.79\00:19:23.32
WONDERS THROUGH THE
APOSTLES - MAKE A NOTE OF THAT.
00:19:23.36\00:19:25.89
"NOW ALL WHO BELIEVED WERE
TOGETHER, AND HAD ALL THINGS IN
00:19:25.93\00:19:29.70
COMMON, AND SOLD THEIR
POSSESSIONS AND GOODS, AND
00:19:29.73\00:19:32.80
DIVIDED THEM AMONG
ALL, AS ANYONE HAD NEED."
00:19:32.83\00:19:36.71
YOU KNOW, PERIODICALLY WE GET A
PHONE CALL AT THE RADIO PROGRAM
00:19:36.74\00:19:41.18
- MAYBE EVEN ONCE A MONTH WE GET
A CALL. SOMEONE WILL CALL ON THE
00:19:41.21\00:19:45.48
BIBLE QUESTION, THEY'LL SAY,
"WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT
00:19:45.51\00:19:48.22
CHRISTIANS, IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT, PAYING TITHE?"
00:19:48.25\00:19:51.22
AND "WE KNOW THEY HAD TITHE IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT, BUT WE'RE NOT
00:19:51.25\00:19:53.25
UNDER THE LAW ANYMORE,
SO DO WE HAVE TO PAY TITHE?"
00:19:53.29\00:19:55.99
AND IT'S LIKE THEY'RE THINKING,
'WELL, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT UNDER
00:19:56.02\00:19:59.43
THE LAW, WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY
ABOUT GIVING TEN PERCENT.' I
00:19:59.46\00:20:02.10
SAY, 'I AGREE.' I SAY, 'WE'RE
UNDER THE NEW TESTAMENT: WE'RE
00:20:02.13\00:20:06.00
TO SELL EVERYTHING WE
HAVE AND TO LAY IT AT THE FEET.
00:20:06.03\00:20:10.44
BUT IF THAT'S TOO MUCH FOR YOU,
YOU SHOULD AT LEAST DO TITHE.'
00:20:10.47\00:20:13.27
AND SO I SAY, 'DO YOU
WANT THE NEW TESTAMENT?'
00:20:13.31\00:20:17.51
I MEAN, 'TITHE' I TELL THEM, 'IS
KINDERGARTEN FOR THE CHRISTIAN.
00:20:17.55\00:20:20.72
IT'S A VERY SIMPLE TEN PERCENT
OF YOUR INCREASE.' I SAID, 'BUT
00:20:20.75\00:20:23.92
IF YOU'RE A SPIRIT-FILLED NEW
TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN, LET ME READ
00:20:23.95\00:20:26.19
WHAT THEY DID. SO
WHICH DO YOU WANT?'
00:20:26.22\00:20:28.86
THEY SAY, 'WELL, TITHE SOUNDS
PRETTY GOOD.' AND SO, WE SEND
00:20:28.89\00:20:33.96
THEM THE LESSON ON TITHE
THAT AMAZING FACTS CARRIES.
00:20:34.00\00:20:37.33
BUT LISTEN TO THE DEDICATION:
IT SAYS, "NO MAN SAID THAT OUGHT
00:20:37.37\00:20:41.27
THAT HE HAD WAS HIS OWN BUT
THEY HAD ALL THINGS IN COMMON."
00:20:41.30\00:20:43.64
ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE A
CHRISTIAN FORM OF COMMUNISM.
00:20:43.67\00:20:45.61
"AND THEY" - DON'T QUOTE ME
ON THAT - "AND THEY SOLD THEIR
00:20:45.64\00:20:50.31
POSSESSIONS AND GOODS AND
DIVIDED THEM AMONG ALL AS ANY
00:20:50.35\00:20:52.98
HAD NEED." NOW THEY
DIDN'T DO IT THROUGH
00:20:53.01\00:20:55.32
COMPULSION, THEY
DID IT VOLUNTARILY.
00:20:55.35\00:20:57.35
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
SOCIALISM - "SO CONTINUING DAILY
00:20:57.39\00:21:02.99
WITH ONE ACCORD IN THE TEMPLE,
BREAKING BREAD FROM HOUSE TO
00:21:03.02\00:21:05.59
HOUSE, THEY ATE THEIR FOOD
WITH GLADNESS AND SIMPLICITY OF
00:21:05.63\00:21:07.73
HEART, PRAISING GOD AND HAVING
FAVOR WITH ALL THE PEOPLE."
00:21:07.76\00:21:11.37
UNTIL THE PERSECUTION STARTED,
EVERYBODY WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE
00:21:11.40\00:21:14.14
CHRISTIANS. "AND
THE LORD WAS ADDING THE
00:21:14.17\00:21:16.17
CHURCH DAILY SUCH AS WERE BEING
SAVED." GO AHEAD, READ FOR US
00:21:16.20\00:21:20.04
ACTS 4 - I THINK IT'S 34 AND 35.
>>"NOR WAS THERE ANYONE AMONG
00:21:20.08\00:21:25.75
THEM WHO LACKED; FOR ALL
WHO WERE POSSESSORS OF LANDS OR
00:21:25.78\00:21:29.48
HOUSES SOLD THEM, AND BROUGHT
THE PROCEEDS OF THE THINGS THAT
00:21:29.52\00:21:34.19
WERE SOLD, AND LAID THEM AT
THE APOSTLES' FEET; AND THEY
00:21:34.22\00:21:38.26
DISTRIBUTED TO EACH
AS ANYONE HAD NEED."
00:21:38.29\00:21:42.40
>>YOU KNOW, I'VE READ SOMEWHERE
THAT THE SAME OUTPOURING OF THE
00:21:42.43\00:21:48.54
SPIRIT THAT LED TO THIS COMPLETE
SACRIFICIAL SPIRIT AMONG
00:21:48.57\00:21:54.14
CHRISTIANS, WILL BE REPLICATED
AGAIN BEFORE JESUS RETURNS.
00:21:54.18\00:21:59.01
AND YOU WONDER, WILL THE
OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT LEAD TO
00:21:59.05\00:22:03.59
THAT SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE OR WILL
A WILLING SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE
00:22:03.62\00:22:09.19
LEAD TO THE
OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT? IT
00:22:09.22\00:22:12.36
SEEMS LIKE HERE AND ACTS
CHAPTER 2 THE SPIRIT WAS POURED
00:22:12.39\00:22:15.06
OUT AND THEN THEY HAD THAT
SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE, BUT IT'S
00:22:15.10\00:22:18.03
GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN.
WE PROBABLY OUGHT TO START
00:22:18.07\00:22:22.34
PRACTICING NOW WHAT IT MEANS
TO DENY OURSELF FOR THE CAUSE OF
00:22:22.37\00:22:26.07
GOD. I WAS
READING LAST NIGHT, A BOOK
00:22:26.11\00:22:28.71
ABOUT URIAH SMITH AND HOW
SACRIFICIAL THE PEOPLE WERE IN
00:22:28.74\00:22:31.91
THE BIRTH OF OUR
PARTICULAR CHURCH.
00:22:31.95\00:22:34.28
WHEN THEY NEEDED A PRINTING
PRESS, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WOULD
00:22:34.32\00:22:37.15
SELL THEIR POSSESSIONS TO GIVE
MONEY TO BUY A PRESS TO GET THE
00:22:37.19\00:22:40.02
WORD OUT TO OTHERS. I
MEAN, THERE'S A GREAT SPIRIT
00:22:40.06\00:22:41.76
OF SACRIFICE. THEY
OBVIOUSLY HAD THAT BACK
00:22:41.79\00:22:44.19
THEN. WE NEED IT AGAIN.
00:22:44.23\00:22:46.26
AND LOOK AT HOW THE
CHURCH GREW WHEN THEY HAD THAT.
00:22:46.29\00:22:49.96
GOD BLESSED THEIR
EFFORTS IN COOPERATING WITH HIM.
00:22:50.00\00:22:52.47
ACTS 6:1 - NOW WE'RE GOING
TO TALK ABOUT WHERE THE ACTUAL
00:22:52.50\00:22:56.67
DEACONS WERE PICKED - ACTS 6:1
- NOW IN THOSE DAYS, WHEN THE
00:22:56.71\00:23:00.81
NUMBER OF THE DISCIPLES - WHEN
THE NUMBER OF THE DISCIPLES WAS
00:23:00.84\00:23:05.38
MULTIPLYING, THERE AROSE A
COMPLAINT AGAINST THE HEBREWS BY
00:23:05.41\00:23:09.42
THE HELLENISTS," - THAT'S
THE JEWS BY THE GENTILES AND, IN
00:23:09.45\00:23:12.92
PARTICULAR, THE GREEK GENTILES
- "BECAUSE THEIR WIDOWS WERE
00:23:12.95\00:23:15.56
NEGLECTED IN THE
DAILY DISTRIBUTION."
00:23:15.59\00:23:18.39
THERE WERE SOME POOR AND, YOU
KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS, 'DO NOT
00:23:18.43\00:23:21.16
NEGLECT THE WIDOWS AND
THE ORPHANS' AND SOME OF THIS
00:23:21.20\00:23:23.20
COLLECTIVE OFFERING THAT THEY -
THEY GATHERED - THIS SACRIFICE -
00:23:23.23\00:23:26.60
IT NOT ONLY WENT TO HELP SUSTAIN
THE APOSTLES AS THEY WERE
00:23:26.63\00:23:30.24
PREACHING AND TEACHING, BUT IT
WENT TO HELP THE POOR IN THEIR
00:23:30.27\00:23:33.74
GROUP. YOU
REMEMBER JESUS ASSIGNED
00:23:33.78\00:23:37.28
JUDAS THE JOB OF BEING TREASURER
AND HE HAD THE BAG FOR THE POOR.
00:23:37.31\00:23:41.52
IT WASN'T JUST FOR THEM BUT
JESUS' GROUP WAS ACTUALLY GIVING
00:23:41.55\00:23:45.25
TO THE POOR. SO NOW,
YOU KNOW, IT ISN'T VERY
00:23:45.29\00:23:50.33
LONG, IT TALKS ABOUT THEM ALL
HAVING WONDERFUL LOVE FOR EACH
00:23:50.36\00:23:53.16
OTHER AND THEN THERE'S GRUMBLING
BECAUSE THERE'S SOME NEGLECT
00:23:53.19\00:23:55.10
THAT'S HAPPENING THERE.
"THEN THE TWELVE SUMMONED THE
00:23:55.13\00:24:01.14
MULTITUDE" - AND SAID, 'LOOK, WE
CAN'T - WE CAN'T BE ARBITRATING
00:24:01.17\00:24:04.07
THE POTLUCKS. WE'VE GOT, YOU
KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO REACH THE
00:24:04.11\00:24:09.81
WORLD.' - AND HE SAID, "IT
IS NOT DESIRABLE THAT WE SHOULD
00:24:09.84\00:24:13.52
LEAVE THE WORD OF
GOD AND SERVE TABLES."
00:24:13.55\00:24:16.18
THIS IS NOT A GOOD USE
OF OUR CALLING AND TIME.
00:24:16.22\00:24:18.35
"THEREFORE, BRETHREN, SEEK OUT
FROM AMONG YOU SEVEN MEN OF GOOD
00:24:18.39\00:24:22.32
REPUTATION, FULL OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT AND WISDOM, WHOM WE MAY
00:24:22.36\00:24:27.13
APPOINT OVER THIS BUSINESS."
YOU KNOW, PART OF VERY - IT'S A
00:24:27.13\00:24:32.13
CRUCIAL PART OF MANAGEMENT
IF YOU WANT TO GROW A BUSINESS.
00:24:32.17\00:24:35.24
A BUSINESS OR COMPANY IS OFTEN
BIRTHED BY A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE,
00:24:35.27\00:24:40.04
SOMETIMES IN A GARAGE,
AND THEY'RE DOING EVERYTHING.
00:24:40.08\00:24:42.04
AND THEN AS IT GROWS AND THEY
WANT TO INCREASE MARKETS, SALES,
00:24:42.08\00:24:45.95
AND MANUFACTURING - ALL THESE
THINGS - IF THEY TRY TO KEEP
00:24:45.98\00:24:49.45
DOING IT ALL THEMSELVES, THEY'RE
GOING TO GET BOGGED DOWN.
00:24:49.48\00:24:53.15
AND I KNOW, WHEN I FIRST JOINED
AMAZING FACTS OVER TWENTY YEARS
00:24:53.19\00:24:56.96
AGO, I CAME TO AMAZING FACTS
FROM BEING A PASTOR OF A SMALL
00:24:56.99\00:25:01.86
CHURCH AND THOSE THAT ARE
LISTENING THAT HAVE BEEN PASTORS
00:25:01.90\00:25:05.50
OF SMALL CHURCHES, YOU KIND OF
NEED TO COVER EVERYTHING IF IT'S
00:25:05.53\00:25:09.84
A REAL SMALL CHURCH.
I MEAN YOU GET USED TO -
00:25:09.87\00:25:11.71
I MEAN, YOU'RE SPECIAL MUSIC,
CRADLE ROLL - YOU'RE DOING A
00:25:11.74\00:25:13.84
LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING - AND
YOU TAKE THAT MENTALITY INTO A
00:25:13.88\00:25:17.88
GROWING CHURCH, LIKE WHEN I
CAME TO CENTRAL OR WHEN I GOT
00:25:17.91\00:25:21.25
INVOLVED WITH AMAZING FACTS -
AND PEOPLE HAD TO PULL ME ASIDE
00:25:21.28\00:25:23.95
AND SAY, 'DOUG, YOU'VE GOT TO
DELEGATE THESE THINGS BECAUSE,
00:25:23.99\00:25:28.89
FOR ONE THING, YOU'RE
GOING TO BURN YOURSELF OUT.
00:25:28.92\00:25:30.76
FOR ANOTHER THING, IT'S
JUST NOT GOING TO HELP THE
00:25:30.79\00:25:33.56
ORGANIZATION TO GROW AND YOU'VE
GOT TO STOP MICRO-MANAGING AND
00:25:33.60\00:25:38.97
LET IT GO. YOU
KNOW, LET OTHER PEOPLE -
00:25:39.00\00:25:41.97
EMPOWER OTHER PEOPLE - AND THEN
WHEN YOU DO THAT, YOU JUST SEE
00:25:42.00\00:25:45.41
HOW - HOW IT GROWS. AND
THAT'S WHAT THE APOSTLES
00:25:45.44\00:25:48.84
WERE SAYING, 'LOOK, WE NEED TO
- WE NEED TO DELEGATE.' DIDN'T
00:25:48.88\00:25:52.25
MOSES HAVE TO DO THAT? DO
YOU REMEMBER WHEN JETHRO CAME
00:25:52.28\00:25:56.95
AND AFTER HE - THEY CAME WITH
THE PEOPLE OUT AND THEY GOT THE
00:25:56.99\00:26:00.42
TEN COMMANDMENTS?
FINALLY JETHRO MEETS UP WITH
00:26:00.46\00:26:02.19
THEM IN THE WILDERNESS AND HE
SEES HIS SON-IN-LAW. JETHRO MUST
00:26:02.22\00:26:05.36
HAVE BEEN AN OLD MAN TOO,
BECAUSE MOSES IS OVER 80 NOW.
00:26:05.39\00:26:08.00
HE SEES HIS SON-IN-LAW SITTING
FROM SUNUP TIL SUNDOWN BEING A
00:26:08.03\00:26:12.67
JUDGE - A MEDIATOR - AND
DISPUTING ALL THESE - CAN YOU
00:26:12.70\00:26:18.31
IMAGINE HAVING TWO
MILLION PEOPLE WITH CATTLE?
00:26:18.34\00:26:21.74
YOU REMEMBER THE ARGUMENTS
BETWEEN ABRAHAM AND LOT AND THE
00:26:21.78\00:26:25.78
ARGUMENTS BETWEEN ISAAC
AND JACOB AND THEIR CATTLE?
00:26:25.81\00:26:28.88
AND CAN YOU IMAGINE TWO MILLION
PEOPLE WITH CATTLE AND ALL THE
00:26:28.92\00:26:32.29
DIFFERENT DISPUTES AND FAMILY
PROBLEMS THEY WERE HAVING AND
00:26:32.32\00:26:34.92
MOSES - YOU COULD JUST SEE HIM
AT THE END OF THE DAY JUST WORN
00:26:34.96\00:26:37.56
OUT AND JETHRO SAID,
'YOU'VE GOT TO DELEGATE.
00:26:37.59\00:26:40.40
YOU CAN'T DO THIS.' PART OF
CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION IS TO
00:26:40.43\00:26:43.83
EMPOWER OTHER PEOPLE
WITH DIFFERENT GIFTS TO DO THE
00:26:43.87\00:26:46.77
DIFFERENT RESPONSIBILITIES
AND ESPECIALLY SO THAT THE
00:26:46.80\00:26:51.11
PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD
AND PRAYER ARE NOT NEGLECTED.
00:26:51.14\00:26:57.95
THAT'S WHAT PETER SAID, 'IT IS
NOT MEET THAT WE LEAVE THE WORD
00:26:57.98\00:27:01.22
OF GOD.' AND YOU KNOW HOW
MANY TIMES EVANGELISM HAS BEEN
00:27:01.25\00:27:05.12
STALLED BECAUSE THE CHURCH GETS
SO BOGGED DOWN WITH INTERNAL
00:27:05.15\00:27:07.79
MANAGEMENT?
THEY HAVE NO TIME FOR
00:27:07.82\00:27:09.72
EVANGELISM. THEY HAVE NO
TIME FOR PRAYER. AND THESE ARE
00:27:09.76\00:27:13.13
PRIORITIES, PETER SAYS.
"THEREFORE BRETHREN, SEEK OUT
00:27:13.16\00:27:17.03
FROM AMONG YOU SEVEN MEN OF GOOD
REPUTATION, FULL OF THE HOLY
00:27:17.07\00:27:20.30
SPIRIT AND WISDOM, THAT WE MIGHT
APPOINT OVER THIS BUSINESS."
00:27:20.34\00:27:24.77
NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK THE
CHANCES ARE - THESE ARE THE SAME
00:27:24.81\00:27:27.14
THINGS THAT PETER SAYS WHEN HE
SAID, 'WE NEED TO REPLACE JUDAS'
00:27:27.18\00:27:28.98
IN ACTS CHAPTER 1. FIND
SOMEONE WHO WENT WITH JESUS
00:27:29.01\00:27:31.58
FROM THE BEGINNING. IT
WASN'T ONE OF THE TWELVE
00:27:31.61\00:27:33.92
APOSTLES, BUT HE WAS A REGULAR
DISCIPLE. AND THEY PICKED ONE
00:27:33.95\00:27:37.32
FROM" - MATHIAS -
"FROM AMONG THOSE TWO MEN."
00:27:37.35\00:27:40.22
NOW, AGAIN, HE SAYS, 'PICK SEVEN
WHO ARE FULL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,
00:27:40.26\00:27:43.39
THEY'RE WELL-GROUNDED.' THESE
MAY BE - THESE SEVEN THAT WERE
00:27:43.43\00:27:47.13
CHOSEN MAY HAVE ALSO BEEN IN THE
UPPER ROOM WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:27:47.20\00:27:50.20
WAS POURED OUT. IT DOESN'T
NAME THEM ALL SO WE DON'T KNOW.
00:27:50.23\00:27:52.90
AND THEN IT NAMES THEM - TWO
THAT STAND OUT TO US ARE STEPHEN
00:27:52.93\00:27:58.61
AND PHILIP AND IT
SAYS THEY SET THEM ASIDE.
00:27:58.64\00:28:03.11
VERSE 6, "WHOM THEY SET BEFORE
THE APOSTLES AND WHEN THEY
00:28:03.14\00:28:07.25
PRAYED THEY LAID HANDS ON THEM."
THAT MEANS THAT THEY GAVE THEM
00:28:07.28\00:28:10.39
SOME AUTHORITY. THEY
ESPECIALLY APPOINTED THEM
00:28:10.42\00:28:13.46
TO A WORK AND ASKED FOR GOD'S
SPIRIT TO BE PUT UPON THEM.
00:28:13.49\00:28:17.89
AND WHEN THEY DID THIS
ORGANIZATION, YOU KNOW WHAT THE
00:28:17.93\00:28:20.63
RESULT WAS? VERSE 7,
"THE WORD OF GOD SPREAD," -
00:28:20.66\00:28:23.40
WHY? BECAUSE THE APOSTLES WERE
OUT PREACHING THE WORD AGAIN,
00:28:23.43\00:28:25.80
THEY WEREN'T SERVING TABLES.
00:28:25.83\00:28:27.57
"THEN THE WORD OF GOD SPREAD,
AND THE NUMBER OF THE DISCIPLES
00:28:27.60\00:28:31.01
MULTIPLIED GREATLY IN JERUSALEM,
AND A GREAT MANY OF THE PRIESTS
00:28:31.04\00:28:34.54
WERE OBEDIENT TO THE FAITH."
AND SO, IN THE TIME OF CHRIST,
00:28:34.58\00:28:40.45
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HEADLINES.
AND SO NOT ONLY WERE THE PEOPLE
00:28:40.48\00:28:43.28
SPREADING, BUT
EVEN IN THE PRIESTHOOD.
00:28:43.32\00:28:45.49
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY
GREAT PERSECUTION AROSE?
00:28:45.52\00:28:47.42
WHEN EVEN AMONG THE
PRIESTS, THEY BEGAN TO CONVERT.
00:28:47.46\00:28:50.76
THERE WERE PHARISEES AND
THERE WERE SCRIBES THAT WERE
00:28:50.79\00:28:53.53
CONVERTING - EVEN SADDUCEES,
WHICH WERE THE HARDEST - THEY
00:28:53.56\00:28:56.06
WERE THE LIBERALS - THEY DIDN'T
BELIEVE IN THE SPIRIT OR ANGELS.
00:28:56.10\00:28:58.60
EVEN SOME OF THEM
PROBABLY CONVERTED.
00:28:58.63\00:29:00.90
AND THE DEVIL WAS SO THREATENED
- THEN YOU READ ABOUT A GREAT
00:29:00.94\00:29:04.54
PERSECUTION ARISING.
STEPHEN IS OUT PREACHING.
00:29:04.57\00:29:07.18
HE'S FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
- HE DOES EVANGELISM - HE'S
00:29:07.21\00:29:09.31
DOING MISSION WORK.
THAT'S A GOOD LESSON FOR US.
00:29:09.34\00:29:12.15
EVEN BEFORE THE PERSECUTION
AROSE, DID DEACONS ONLY SERVE
00:29:12.18\00:29:16.15
TABLES? YOU KNOW,
IN OUR CHURCHES TODAY,
00:29:16.18\00:29:19.52
WHEN WE PICK DEACONS -
I'M SPEAKING GENERALLY.
00:29:19.55\00:29:23.22
THIS CHURCH IS AN EXCEPTION.
WE THINK, 'WHO HAS THE GIFT OF
00:29:23.26\00:29:27.13
LAWN MOWING?' 'WHO
HAS THE GIFT OF CARRYING
00:29:27.13\00:29:30.63
CHAIRS - SETTING UP
AND TAKING DOWN CHAIRS?'
00:29:30.67\00:29:33.80
BUT WHILE THEY DID THOSE THINGS,
YOU NOTICE THE DEACONS WERE VERY
00:29:33.84\00:29:37.44
INVOLVED IN MISSION WORK.
ELDERS, WHEN WE OFTEN PICK
00:29:37.47\00:29:41.34
ELDERS IN OUR
CHURCHES, WHAT DO WE THINK?
00:29:41.38\00:29:43.31
'WE NEED MORE PEOPLE TO SAY THE
PRAYER FOR THE OFFERING.' 'WE
00:29:43.35\00:29:46.85
NEED MORE PEOPLE TO SAY THE
PRAYER.' BUT, BIBLICALLY, ELDERS
00:29:46.88\00:29:51.35
WERE REALLY THE PASTORS.
THEY WERE - THEY WERE PREACHING.
00:29:51.39\00:29:55.36
THEY WERE TEACHING.
THEY WERE NURTURING.
00:29:55.39\00:29:57.09
THEY WERE GIVING BIBLE STUDIES.
00:29:57.13\00:29:58.29
THEY WERE CONDUCTING
THE SACRED ORDINANCES.
00:29:58.33\00:30:01.03
MATTER OF FACT, WE JUST GOT
DONE WITH THE GENERAL CONFERENCE
00:30:01.06\00:30:04.07
MEETING AND ONE THING THAT
EVERYBODY VOTED WAS, WITHOUT
00:30:04.10\00:30:06.43
GOING INTO THE GENDER ISSUE,
EVERYONE VOTED A STATEMENT OF
00:30:06.47\00:30:10.67
THEOLOGY ON ORDINATION
THAT SAID THERE IS BIBLICALLY NO
00:30:10.71\00:30:14.98
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PASTOR
AND ELDER. BIBLICALLY, THEY WERE
00:30:15.01\00:30:20.42
DOING THE SAME THING.
AND SO THE DEACONS WERE DOING
00:30:20.45\00:30:23.82
EVANGELISM BACK THEN, WHICH
MAKES US WONDER, 'WHAT ABOUT
00:30:23.85\00:30:27.82
REGULAR MEMBERS? SHOULDN'T EVERY
MEMBER HAVE A PASSION FOR SOUL
00:30:27.86\00:30:30.56
WINNING?' >>AMEN.
00:30:30.59\00:30:32.89
>>ALRIGHT, SO STEPHEN GOES OUT
AND HE'S TEACHING AND PREACHING.
00:30:32.93\00:30:35.00
THAT LEADS US TO OUR NEXT
SECTION, PHILIP IN SAMARIA AND
00:30:35.03\00:30:40.74
SO WE'RE GOING TO GO TO CHAPTER
8 AT THIS POINT AND I WANT TO
00:30:40.77\00:30:46.71
JUST READ TO YOU - OH, WE'LL
START WITH VERSE 5 - IT TALKS
00:30:46.74\00:30:51.75
ABOUT THE - DEATH OF STEPHEN
THAT SAUL, LATER KNOWN AS PAUL,
00:30:51.78\00:30:56.22
WAS MAKING HAVOC OF THE CHURCH
- GREAT PERSECUTION AROSE - AND
00:30:56.25\00:31:00.06
THEN READ VERSE 4 - ACTS 8,
VERSE 4, IT SAYS, "THEREFORE
00:31:00.09\00:31:03.86
THOSE WHO WERE SCATTERED WENT
EVERYWHERE PREACHING THE WORD."
00:31:03.89\00:31:07.03
NOW, YOU NOTICE
WHAT PERSECUTION DOES?
00:31:07.03\00:31:08.63
WAS IT ALL BAD,
WHAT PERSECUTION DID?
00:31:08.66\00:31:10.47
SEE, NOW JESUS SAID, 'I WANT YOU
TO GO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN ALL
00:31:10.50\00:31:14.14
THE WORLD' -
BEGINNING WHERE? IN JERUSALEM.
00:31:14.17\00:31:17.17
THEY DID THAT, THE HOLY SPIRIT
WAS POURED OUT, AND THEN HE SAID
00:31:17.21\00:31:20.04
'I WANT YOU TO GO TO
JERUSALEM.' WHAT WAS NEXT?
00:31:20.08\00:31:22.11
>>SAMARIA AND JUDEA.
>>SAMARIA. JUDEA. THE UTTERMOST
00:31:22.14\00:31:25.98
PARTS OF THE EARTH. AND SO WHAT
DO WE READ? BY THE WAY, THEY
00:31:26.01\00:31:30.85
WENT IN JUDEA EVEN BEFORE.
AND IT SAYS IN - IF YOU LOOK IN
00:31:30.89\00:31:36.26
VERSE 5 - "THEN PHILIP"
- NOW WHICH PHILIP IS THIS?
00:31:36.29\00:31:39.76
WELL, WE JUST FOUND OUT
ABOUT ONE OF THE DEACONS NAMED
00:31:39.79\00:31:42.40
STEPHEN, THIS IS THE
OTHER DEACON NAMED PHILIP.
00:31:42.43\00:31:44.17
"THEN PHILIP WENT DOWN TO THE
CITY OF SAMARIA" - WELL, WE KNOW
00:31:44.20\00:31:47.57
IT'S PHILIP BECAUSE IT SAYS 'THE
APOSTLES ABODE IN JERUSALEM.'
00:31:47.60\00:31:50.87
"AND THE MULTITUDES WITH ONE
ACCORD HEEDED THE THINGS SPOKEN
00:31:50.91\00:31:56.78
BY PHILIP, HEARING AND SEEING
THE MIRACLES WHICH HE DID."
00:31:56.81\00:32:02.08
NOW THIS IS A DEACON PERFORMING
MIRACLES - "FOR UNCLEAN SPIRITS,
00:32:02.12\00:32:06.69
CRYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, CAME
OUT OF MANY WHO WERE POSSESSED;
00:32:06.72\00:32:10.66
AND MANY WHO WERE
PARALYZED AND LAME WERE HEALED.
00:32:10.69\00:32:13.19
AND THERE WAS
GREAT JOY IN THAT CITY."
00:32:13.23\00:32:15.66
NOW DON'T LOSE YOUR PLACE IN
ACTS - I WANT YOU TO GO TO MARK
00:32:15.70\00:32:18.57
16 - MARK 16 AND I FORGET WHAT
VERSE, BUT I'LL TELL YOU IN JUST
00:32:18.60\00:32:23.91
A MINUTE - MARK 16 - OKAY, IF
YOU LOOK IN MARK 16, VERSE 17,
00:32:23.94\00:32:30.11
"AND THESE SIGNS WILL
FOLLOW THOSE WHO ARE APOSTLES" -
00:32:30.15\00:32:36.62
IS THAT WHAT IT SAYS?
00:32:36.65\00:32:39.25
IT SAYS, "THESE SIGNS
WILL FOLLOW THOSE WHO BELIEVE."
00:32:39.29\00:32:42.46
ANY BELIEVERS HERE? >>AMEN.
00:32:42.49\00:32:44.96
>>"THESE SIGNS WILL
FOLLOW THOSE WHO BELIEVE.
00:32:44.99\00:32:47.86
IN MY NAME THEY WILL CAST OUT
DEMONS; THEY WILL SPEAK WITH NEW
00:32:47.86\00:32:50.97
TONGUES; THEY WILL TAKE UP
SERPENTS;" - THAT DOESN'T MEAN
00:32:51.00\00:32:54.30
LIKE THE SNAKE HANDLERS - YOU GO
ON A SNAKE SAFARI AND YOU PICK
00:32:54.34\00:32:56.91
UP SNAKES TO PROVE
YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:32:56.94\00:32:58.67
WHAT THAT'S TALKING ABOUT
IS WHEN PAUL WAS BITTEN BY A
00:32:58.71\00:33:02.28
SERPENT IN ACTS, IT SAYS HE TOOK
THE BEAST UP - WHEN HE LIFTED UP
00:33:02.31\00:33:06.51
HIS ARM IT WAS HANGING OFF
HIM, BUT IT DIDN'T HURT HIM.
00:33:06.55\00:33:08.58
IT'S JUST SAYING, 'IF YOU'RE
BITTEN BY A SERPENT.' THEY USED
00:33:08.62\00:33:11.99
TO ACTUALLY PUT SNAKES - THE
WAY THAT THEY WOULD TRY AND KILL
00:33:12.02\00:33:15.16
PEOPLE BACK THEN -
THEY DIDN'T HAVE GUNS.
00:33:15.19\00:33:16.96
THEY DIDN'T HAVE ASSASSINS AND
SNIPERS - THEY POISONED PEOPLE.
00:33:16.99\00:33:19.93
THEY MIGHT PUT A SERPENT IN
YOUR BED OR SOMETHING - IN YOUR
00:33:19.96\00:33:23.70
SLEEPING BAG - TO BITE YOU
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND IT
00:33:23.73\00:33:27.60
SAYS, 'IF YOU'RE BITTEN WITH
SERPENTS, THEY WON'T HURT YOU.
00:33:27.64\00:33:30.44
IF YOU DRINK ANY DEADLY THING
IT WILL BY NO MEANS HURT YOU.
00:33:30.47\00:33:34.84
YOU'LL LAY YOUR HANDS ON THE
SICK AND THEY WILL RECOVER.' NOW
00:33:34.88\00:33:37.98
SOME PEOPLE HAVE DISMISSED THIS
PART OF MARK, BUT YOU LOOK IN
00:33:38.01\00:33:41.58
ACTS AND IT'S SHOWING
THE FULFILLMENT OF IT.
00:33:41.62\00:33:43.49
THESE ARE THE SIGNS AND WONDERS
THAT WERE FOLLOWING PHILIP, NOT
00:33:43.52\00:33:46.39
JUST APOSTLES - THEM
THAT BELIEVE, JESUS SAID.
00:33:46.42\00:33:49.62
NOW WE DON'T SEE A LOT OF THIS
TODAY, BUT THIS HAPPENED AFTER
00:33:49.66\00:33:52.43
THE OUTPOURING
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:33:52.46\00:33:54.10
WHEN GOD POURS OUT HIS SPIRIT
AGAIN, WILL WE, ONCE AGAIN, SEE
00:33:54.10\00:33:57.50
BIBLICAL SIGNS AND
WONDERS AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE?
00:33:57.53\00:34:00.57
>>YES. >>I BELIEVE IT.
00:34:00.60\00:34:02.14
WELL, WE NEED TO BE DOING
NOW WHAT THE APOSTLES DID THEN,
00:34:02.17\00:34:04.31
BEFORE THE HOLY
SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT.
00:34:04.34\00:34:07.41
YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID?
THEY WERE OF ONE ACCORD AND THEY
00:34:07.44\00:34:09.68
PRAYED AND THEY FASTED AND THEY
STUDIED THE WORD. AND AS THEY
00:34:09.71\00:34:13.18
PREPARED THEIR HEARTS, WHEN THE
HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT, THEY
00:34:13.21\00:34:17.19
WERE READY TO RECEIVE IT AND
THEN SIGNS AND WONDERS FOLLOWED.
00:34:17.22\00:34:20.09
ALRIGHT, WE'RE BACK IN ACTS
CHAPTER 8, "AND THERE WAS GREAT
00:34:20.12\00:34:25.93
JOY IN THAT CITY." IT
SAYS HE WENT DOWN TO SAMARIA.
00:34:25.96\00:34:29.43
NOW WHEN IT SAYS HE WENT TO
SAMARIA, YOU KNOW, THERE REALLY
00:34:29.46\00:34:32.27
WAS NO CITY NAMED SAMARIA
AT THAT TIME. SAMARIA WAS THE
00:34:32.30\00:34:35.80
CAPITOL OF THE TEN
TRIBES OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM.
00:34:35.84\00:34:39.81
DURING THE TIME OF THE APOSTLES,
SAMARIA, WHAT WE CALL SAMARIA IS
00:34:39.84\00:34:44.85
- YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THINGS
HAPPENED - AHAB WAS THE KING OF
00:34:44.88\00:34:47.78
SAMARIA - IT WAS DESTROYED
BY HYRCANUS, ONE OF THE JEWISH
00:34:47.82\00:34:51.95
KINGS LONG BEFORE THE TIME
OF PHILIP, BUT HEROD THE GREAT
00:34:51.99\00:34:57.23
REBUILT IT AND HE GAVE IT THE
NAME OF SEBASTE. BUT THE JEWS,
00:34:57.26\00:35:03.53
STILL OUT OF REBELLION, CALLED
IT SAMARIA BECAUSE IT WAS THE
00:35:03.57\00:35:06.63
PLACE OF THEIR FORMER
HEADQUARTERS FOR THE NORTHERN
00:35:06.67\00:35:09.50
KINGDOM BUT, TECHNICALLY, THAT
WAS NOT THE NAME OF IT ANYMORE.
00:35:09.54\00:35:12.71
OKAY, MOVING ALONG - AND IT'S
TELLING YOU EVERYTHING'S GOING
00:35:12.74\00:35:16.28
WONDERFUL BUT THEN YOU READ IN
VERSE 9 - I'M IN ACTS CHAPTER 8,
00:35:16.31\00:35:20.45
VERSE 9, BUT - NOW, WHEN YOU'RE
HEARING A STORY ABOUT WONDERFUL
00:35:20.48\00:35:24.35
THINGS HAPPENING - DEVILS CAST
OUT, PEOPLE HEALED, GREAT JOY,
00:35:24.39\00:35:27.42
BUT - WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?
THAT THREE-LETTER WORD - WHAT'S
00:35:27.46\00:35:31.09
GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT?
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PROBLEM.
00:35:31.13\00:35:33.96
BUT - DOES THE DEVIL JUST STAND
BACK WHEN GOD'S POURING OUT THE
00:35:34.00\00:35:38.50
SPIRIT? DEVILS ARE BEING CAST
OUT, PEOPLE ARE BEING HEALED.
00:35:38.53\00:35:40.90
THE WORD IS BEING PREACHED - YOU
CAN ALMOST ALWAYS WAIT FOR IT.
00:35:40.94\00:35:44.81
THE DEVIL'S GOING TO TRY
AND STOP IT. IT DOESN'T LAST FOR
00:35:44.84\00:35:48.34
LONG AND HE TRIES TO STOP
IT. "BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN
00:35:48.38\00:35:51.71
CALLED SIMON, WHO PREVIOUSLY
PRACTICED SORCERY IN THE CITY" -
00:35:51.75\00:35:56.85
IS SORCERY BIBLICALLY A
GOOD THING OR A BAD THING?
00:35:56.89\00:35:59.29
- "AND ASTONISHED THE PEOPLE
OF SAMARIA, CLAIMING THAT HE WAS
00:35:59.32\00:36:02.52
SOMEONE GREAT," - MIGHT HAVE
BEEN CLAIMING THAT HE WAS LIKE
00:36:02.56\00:36:05.89
ONE OF THESE MESSIANIC
INCARNATIONS - THERE WERE MANY
00:36:05.93\00:36:10.27
POPPING UP DURING THAT TIME,
THAT'S WHY THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE
00:36:10.30\00:36:13.34
IN JESUS - OR SOME DIDN'T - "TO
WHOM THEY ALL GAVE HEED, FROM
00:36:13.37\00:36:18.47
THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST,
SAYING, 'THIS MAN IS THE GREAT
00:36:18.51\00:36:20.78
POWER OF GOD.' AND THEY HEEDED
HIM BECAUSE HE HAD ASTONISHED
00:36:20.81\00:36:24.05
THEM WITH HIS
SORCERIES FOR A LONG TIME.
00:36:24.08\00:36:28.22
BUT WHEN THEY BELIEVED
PHILIP AS HE PREACHED THE THINGS
00:36:28.25\00:36:31.69
CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF GOD
AND THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST,
00:36:31.72\00:36:34.56
BOTH MEN AND
WOMEN WERE BAPTIZED.
00:36:34.59\00:36:35.86
THEN SIMON HIMSELF ALSO
BELIEVED; AND WHEN HE WAS
00:36:35.89\00:36:38.73
BAPTIZED" - HE BELIEVED AND WAS
BAPTIZED BUT HE HAD NOT GIVEN UP
00:36:38.76\00:36:41.83
HIS OLD WAYS COMPLETELY - "AND
HE CONTINUED WITH PHILIP," -
00:36:41.86\00:36:45.27
HE STARTS
FOLLOWING PHILIP AROUND.
00:36:45.30\00:36:47.30
HE WANTS TO KNOW - NOW HE HAD
BEEN USING SORCERY AND MAGIC AND
00:36:47.34\00:36:50.51
TRICKS TO DECEIVE THE PEOPLE AND
HE'S WANTING TO KNOW - HE SEES
00:36:50.54\00:36:54.34
PHILIP CASTING OUT DEVILS
AND DOING THESE WONDERS AND
00:36:54.38\00:36:56.14
MIRACLES. HE'S
GOING, 'HOW'S HE DOING IT?
00:36:56.18\00:36:58.71
I'VE GOT TO FIGURE THIS OUT.
WHERE'S HIS POWER COMING FROM.
00:36:58.75\00:37:01.65
IF I COULD ONLY HAVE THAT POWER.
I'VE BEEN USING MAGIC AND TRICKS
00:37:01.68\00:37:05.02
AND SLIGHT OF HAND.
HE'S GOT THE REAL THING.
00:37:05.05\00:37:08.49
WOW, WHAT I WOULDN'T GIVE FOR
THE REAL THING.' AND HE THOUGHT
00:37:08.52\00:37:11.99
MAYBE IT WAS LIKE SOMETHING, YOU
KNOW, YOU TRADE WITH MAGICIANS -
00:37:12.03\00:37:14.96
YOU PAY THEM A LITTLE BIT AND
THEY SAY, 'ALRIGHT, I'LL SHOW
00:37:15.00\00:37:17.53
YOU WHAT THE SECRET IS.' AND HE
SAW THE MIRACLES THAT WERE DONE
00:37:17.57\00:37:22.90
- NOTICE - "NOW WHEN THE
APOSTLES WHO WERE AT JERUSALEM
00:37:22.94\00:37:26.01
HEARD THAT SAMARIA HAD RECEIVED
THE WORD OF GOD, THEY SENT PETER
00:37:26.04\00:37:28.61
AND JOHN TO THEM."
THAT'S ONE REASON WE KNOW THAT
00:37:28.64\00:37:30.75
PHILIP, WHO'S PREACHING AS A
DEACON - BECAUSE WHEN THEY'RE
00:37:30.78\00:37:34.15
WANTING THEM TO BE BAPTIZED - IF
PHILIP WAS AN APOSTLE, HE WOULD
00:37:34.18\00:37:37.92
HAVE JUST DONE IT, BUT - OR BE
FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT, RATHER -
00:37:37.95\00:37:40.72
HE WOULD HAVE DONE IT BUT
THEY'RE SENDING NOW FOR TWO OF
00:37:40.76\00:37:42.99
THE CHIEF REPRESENTATIVES
TO PRAY THE SAMARITANS.
00:37:43.02\00:37:44.96
YOU REALIZE THIS
WAS A DIFFICULT STEP.
00:37:44.99\00:37:47.50
THEY WERE STRUGGLING ABOUT
TAKING THE GENTILES - THE JEWS
00:37:47.56\00:37:50.53
TO THE GENTILES - TAKING
THE GOSPEL TO THE GENTILES.
00:37:50.57\00:37:53.03
SAMARITANS, YOU KNOW, THEY
AT LEAST BELIEVED THE BOOKS OF
00:37:53.07\00:37:56.17
MOSES, SO FOR THEM TO RECEIVE
THE HOLY SPIRIT THEY SAID, 'WE'D
00:37:56.20\00:37:58.74
BETTER SEND FOR PETER AND JOHN.
THEY WANTED SOME AUTHORITY.
00:37:58.77\00:38:01.61
SO PHILIP WAS STILL JUST THE
DEACON. AND WHEN THEY "PRAYED
00:38:01.64\00:38:06.38
FOR THEM THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE
THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR AS YET HE
00:38:06.41\00:38:09.48
HAD FALLEN UPON NONE OF THEM.
THEY HAD ONLY BEEN BAPTIZED IN
00:38:09.52\00:38:12.32
THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS.
THEN THEY LAID HANDS ON THEM,
00:38:12.35\00:38:16.32
AND THEY
RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:38:16.36\00:38:18.46
AND WHEN SIMON SAW THAT THROUGH
THE LAYING ON OF THE APOSTLES'
00:38:18.49\00:38:21.23
HANDS THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS GIVEN,
HE OFFERED THEM MONEY, SAYING,
00:38:21.26\00:38:25.07
'GIVE ME THIS POWER ALSO, THAT
ANYONE ON WHOM I LAY HANDS MAY
00:38:25.10\00:38:28.57
RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.'" NOW
THE CHURCH COULD HAVE GONE THE
00:38:28.60\00:38:32.37
WRONG DIRECTION RIGHT THEN - TO
THINK THAT YOU COULD BUY OR SELL
00:38:32.41\00:38:36.04
- YOU REMEMBER WHEN NAAMAN
TRIED TO PAY FOR HIS HEALING AND
00:38:36.08\00:38:38.65
ELISHA SAID, 'I WON'T TAKE A
PENNY.' AND WHEN GEHAZI THOUGHT
00:38:38.68\00:38:42.62
THAT WAS A BAD DECISION HE SAID,
'YEAH, WE'LL TAKE SOMETHING FOR
00:38:42.65\00:38:45.09
IT.' HE GOT LEPROSY.
00:38:45.12\00:38:46.82
YOU CANNOT PAY FOR THE
GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:38:46.86\00:38:49.92
JOSEPH'S BROTHERS TRIED
TO PAY FOR THE GIFT OF FOOD.
00:38:49.96\00:38:52.73
HE PUT IT BACK IN THE BAGS.
HE WOULDN'T TAKE THE MONEY.
00:38:52.76\00:38:55.43
YOU CANNOT PAY
FOR THE GIFT OF GOD.
00:38:55.46\00:38:57.53
THAT'S A PRINCIPLE THROUGH THE
BIBLE. "BUT PETER SAID TO HIM,
00:38:57.57\00:39:01.17
'YOUR MONEY PERISH WITH YOU,'" -
IN HEBREW - OR GREEK, ACTUALLY,
00:39:01.20\00:39:05.64
IT'S A PRETTY STRONG TERM -
"BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THAT THE
00:39:05.67\00:39:09.24
GIFT OF GOD COULD BE
PURCHASED WITH MONEY!
00:39:09.28\00:39:11.98
YOU HAVE NEITHER PART NOR
PORTION IN THIS MATTER, FOR YOUR
00:39:12.01\00:39:15.38
HEART IS NOT RIGHT
IN THE SIGHT OF GOD."
00:39:15.42\00:39:17.29
YOU CAN'T GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT
TO ANYONE BECAUSE YOU STILL
00:39:17.32\00:39:19.39
DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE
BASICS. YOU THINK IT CAN BE
00:39:19.42\00:39:21.46
BOUGHT. "REPENT THEREFORE OF
THIS YOUR WICKEDNESS, AND PRAY
00:39:21.49\00:39:25.23
GOD IF PERHAPS THE THOUGHT OF
YOUR HEART MAY BE FORGIVEN YOU."
00:39:25.26\00:39:29.30
CAN THOUGHTS BE SINS? IT
SAYS 'EVEN THE THOUGHT OF
00:39:29.33\00:39:33.10
YOUR HEART' - PRAY
THAT YOU BE FORGIVEN FOR
00:39:33.13\00:39:34.67
EVEN THINKING THIS - "FOR
I SEE THAT YOU ARE POISONED
00:39:34.70\00:39:37.97
BY BITTERNESS AND
BOUND BY INIQUITY."
00:39:38.01\00:39:40.31
AND SIMON, WHEN HE HEARD
PETER COME DOWN, YOU KNOW,
00:39:40.34\00:39:43.08
PETER DIDN'T
MINCE WORDS, DID HE?
00:39:43.11\00:39:44.55
NOT TOO MANY PASTORS TALK
LIKE THAT ANYMORE, DO THEY?
00:39:44.58\00:39:47.82
YOU HEAR PAUL - THE HOLY
SPIRIT COMES ON HIM AND HE TELLS
00:39:47.85\00:39:51.02
ANOTHER SIMON,
'YOU CHILD OF THE DEVIL.
00:39:51.05\00:39:53.59
HOW LONG WILL YOU PERVERT
THE WAYS OF GOD?' AND THAT MAN'S
00:39:53.62\00:39:57.03
STRUCK WITH BLINDNESS.
WE NEED MORE BOLDNESS.
00:39:57.06\00:40:00.46
"THEN SIMON ANSWERED AND SAID,
'PRAY TO THE LORD FOR ME, THAT
00:40:00.50\00:40:04.27
NONE OF THE THINGS WHICH YOU
HAVE SPOKEN MAY COME UPON ME."
00:40:04.30\00:40:06.70
HE REPENTS AND WE NEVER
FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED WITH HIM.
00:40:06.74\00:40:09.84
LET'S HOPE THAT HE REPENTED AND
HE BECAME A HUMBLE APOSTLE AND
00:40:09.87\00:40:12.37
HE UNDERSTOOD THE TRUTH - OR
A HUMBLE DISCIPLE, RATHER, AND
00:40:12.41\00:40:15.41
UNDERSTOOD THE TRUTH. BUT
HE WAS USING WHAT? SORCERY.
00:40:15.44\00:40:18.08
NOW, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT A VERSE
ON THAT. HOW DOES THE BIBLE
00:40:18.11\00:40:22.38
FEEL - SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
DEUTERONOMY 18:10 - CAN WE GET
00:40:22.42\00:40:26.82
READY FOR THAT
RIGHT AWAY? GO AHEAD.
00:40:26.86\00:40:28.36
>>"THERE SHALL NOT BE FOUND
AMONG YOU ANYONE WHO MAKES HIS
00:40:28.39\00:40:31.99
SON OR HIS DAUGHTER PASS THROUGH
THE FIRE OR ONE WHO PRACTICES
00:40:32.03\00:40:34.73
WITCHCRAFT, OR A SOOTHSAYER, OR
ONE WHO INTERPRETS OMENS, OR A
00:40:34.76\00:40:39.57
SORCERER." >>HOW
MANY OF YOU HAVE MET
00:40:39.60\00:40:41.90
PEOPLE OUT THERE
IN OUR SECULAR WORLD,
00:40:41.94\00:40:44.77
THAT SORT OF CO-MINGLE A LITTLE
BIT OF CHRISTIANITY WITH A
00:40:44.81\00:40:48.84
LITTLE BIT OF WITCHCRAFT
AND SORCERY AND THEY JUST
00:40:48.88\00:40:51.88
SORT OF THINK THAT THEY'RE
ALL POWERS AND THAT THEY'RE ALL
00:40:51.91\00:40:54.18
GOOD. YOU EVER RUN INTO
THAT? YEAH, I DO - IT'S AMAZING.
00:40:54.22\00:40:58.89
ALRIGHT, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO
HASTEN ALONG BECAUSE WE NEED TO
00:40:58.92\00:41:01.69
MAKE SURE AND GET THE ETHIOPIAN
BAPTIZED BEFORE WE'RE DONE.
00:41:01.72\00:41:06.16
AND SO YOU GO TO ACTS
CHAPTER 8 AND YOU CAN READ -
00:41:06.19\00:41:09.40
GO TO VERSE 26. SO
AFTER THIS GREAT REVIVAL THAT
00:41:09.43\00:41:13.64
TAKES PLACE, "NOW AN ANGEL
OF THE LORD SPOKE TO PHILIP,
00:41:13.67\00:41:17.91
SAYING, 'ARISE AND GO TOWARD THE
SOUTH ALONG THE ROAD WHICH GOES
00:41:17.94\00:41:22.68
DOWN FROM JERUSALEM TO
GAZA.' THIS IS DESERT."
00:41:22.71\00:41:24.91
WHY WOULD THE ANGEL
TELL YOU TO GO TO THE DESERT?
00:41:24.95\00:41:28.82
HAS GOD OFTEN LED HIS
PEOPLE IN THE DESERT BEFORE?
00:41:28.85\00:41:31.89
TO SAVE THEM OR SAVE
SOMEONE ELSE? AND, YOU KNOW,
00:41:31.92\00:41:35.66
ELIJAH WENT TO THE DESERT,
JESUS WENT TO THE DESERT.
00:41:35.69\00:41:38.36
GO DOWN AND WITHOUT QUESTIONING,
LIKE ABRAHAM, HE TELLS HIM TO GO
00:41:38.39\00:41:43.43
AND HE SAYS, 'I'LL
GO.' "SO HE AROSE AND WENT."
00:41:43.47\00:41:48.80
- BUT LORD, I'M HAVING SUCH A
GREAT EVANGELISTIC EXPERIENCE IN
00:41:48.84\00:41:51.31
SAMARIA, WHY LEAVE THIS?
HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO GO.
00:41:51.34\00:41:54.48
YOU MAY NOT
UNDERSTAND WHY BUT JUST GO.'
00:41:54.51\00:41:57.01
"SO HE AROSE AND WENT. AND
BEHOLD, A MAN OF ETHIOPIA, A
00:41:57.05\00:42:00.82
EUNUCH OF GREAT AUTHORITY
UNDER CANDICE THE QUEEN OF THE
00:42:00.85\00:42:04.72
ETHIOPIANS, WHO HAD CHARGE OF
ALL HER TREASURY, AND HAD COME
00:42:04.75\00:42:08.66
TO JERUSALEM TO
WORSHIP, WAS RETURNING.
00:42:08.69\00:42:11.79
AND SITTING IN HIS CHARIOT, HE
WAS READING ISAIAH THE PROPHET."
00:42:11.83\00:42:15.06
- OH, YOU EVER RUN INTO ONE OF
THOSE VERY UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES?
00:42:15.10\00:42:18.83
NOW THIS IS INTERESTING BECAUSE
YOU'LL FIND ONE OF THE BIGGEST
00:42:18.87\00:42:24.77
BATTLES THAT WAS EVER FOUGHT IN
THE BIBLE, WAS A BATTLE FOUGHT
00:42:24.81\00:42:28.14
BETWEEN THE JEWS AND THE
ETHIOPIANS, DID YOU KNOW THAT?
00:42:28.18\00:42:31.55
YOU CAN LOOK IN 2 CHRONICLES
14:9, "THEN ZERAH THE ETHIOPIAN
00:42:31.58\00:42:37.15
CAME OUT AGAINST THEM WITH AN
ARMY OF A MILLION MEN AND THREE
00:42:37.19\00:42:42.69
HUNDRED CHARIOTS," - IT'S
THE LARGEST ARMY NUMBERED IN THE
00:42:42.72\00:42:45.93
BIBLE - AND GOD MIRACULOUSLY
GAVE THE KING OF ISRAEL - THE
00:42:45.96\00:42:49.90
KING OF JUDAH VICTORY IN
THAT BATTLE. BUT THERE WAS SOME
00:42:49.93\00:42:53.10
LONG-STANDING STRUGGLES BETWEEN
ETHIOPIA AND THE JEWISH NATION.
00:42:53.13\00:42:58.47
YOU REMEMBER WHY WAS
MIRIAM UPSET WITH MOSES?
00:42:58.51\00:43:01.81
BECAUSE HE HAD
MARRIED THAT ETHIOPIAN.
00:43:01.84\00:43:06.48
AND SO NOW, GOD IS TELLING ONE
OF HIS EVANGELISTS, 'I WANT YOU
00:43:06.51\00:43:11.85
TO GO AND TALK TO
THIS ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH.'
00:43:11.89\00:43:13.86
NOW WHETHER HE WAS TECHNICALLY
A EUNUCH OR NOT IS HARD TO KNOW
00:43:13.89\00:43:18.46
BECAUSE THE WORD EUNUCH WAS USED
BOTH TO DESCRIBE THOSE WHO HAD
00:43:18.49\00:43:22.40
GONE THROUGH THAT MEDICAL
PROCEDURE TO MAKE SURE THEY
00:43:22.43\00:43:25.47
WOULD NOT BOTHER THE KING'S
HAREM, LIKE DANIEL WAS MADE A
00:43:25.50\00:43:28.70
EUNUCH, BUT THE EUNUCH ALSO WAS
A BROAD TERM THAT WAS TALKING
00:43:28.74\00:43:32.34
ABOUT PEOPLE WHO WORKED IN
THE PALACE IN ADMINISTRATIVE
00:43:32.37\00:43:35.21
CAPACITY. AND SO
IT'S PROBABLE THAT THIS
00:43:35.24\00:43:39.61
FELLOW FELL IN THAT CATEGORY
BECAUSE, BIBLICALLY, A EUNUCH
00:43:39.65\00:43:43.79
WAS NOT ALLOWED IN THE
TEMPLE. DID YOU KNOW THAT?
00:43:43.82\00:43:46.82
AND THIS MAN HAS JUST COME
FROM WORSHIPING AT THE TEMPLE IN
00:43:46.86\00:43:49.86
JERUSALEM. SO HE WAS PROBABLY AN
ADMINISTRATOR. HE'S A TREASURER.
00:43:49.89\00:43:54.00
HE'S GOT GREAT RESOURCES AT
HIS DISPOSAL AND HE'S ON HIS WAY
00:43:54.00\00:43:58.23
BACK HOME. HE'S A BELIEVER IN
THE TRUE GOD. YOU KNOW, ALL THE
00:43:58.27\00:44:02.20
WAY FROM THE TIME OF SOLOMON
WHEN THE QUEEN OF SHEBA - THAT
00:44:02.24\00:44:04.97
COUNTRY WAS THE SAME COUNTRY
AS ETHIOPIA - HAD GONE BACK DOWN
00:44:05.01\00:44:07.88
THERE WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
TRUE GOD. HER WHOLE QUEST WAS TO
00:44:07.91\00:44:10.68
FIND OUT ABOUT THE WISDOM OF
SOLOMON, WHICH WAS THE FEAR OF
00:44:10.71\00:44:13.21
THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING
OF WISDOM. SHE TOOK IT BACK.
00:44:13.25\00:44:16.18
MANY WERE CONVERTED, AND THAT'S
WHEN THE KNOWLEDGE OF JEHOVAH
00:44:16.22\00:44:20.26
WAS DOWN THERE. THE
SCRIPTURES WERE DOWN THERE.
00:44:20.29\00:44:22.89
THE TRUTH, IN ETHIOPIA, GOES
BACK TO 800 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST.
00:44:22.92\00:44:28.86
AND SO, HE'S COMING TO WORSHIP,
BUT THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT JESUS.
00:44:28.90\00:44:33.44
SO THAT'S WHY THE ANGEL SAID,
'LOOK, WE NEED SOMEONE TO TAKE
00:44:33.47\00:44:37.27
THE MESSAGE DOWN THERE.
HE'S ALREADY ON HIS WAY.
00:44:37.31\00:44:39.21
IF YOU COULD PREACH TO HIM AND
GIVE HIM A BIBLE STUDY BEFORE HE
00:44:39.24\00:44:41.31
GOES, HE'LL TAKE IT WITH HIM.
PERFECT - PERFECT OPPORTUNITY.
00:44:41.34\00:44:46.41
SO AT A 50-MILE TRIP
THE ANGEL TOOK HIM ON.
00:44:46.45\00:44:50.25
SO HE AROSE AND - HE ARISES
AND HE GOES. MATTER OF FACT,
00:44:50.29\00:44:55.29
SOMEONE, I THINK, HAS A VERSE
IN PSALM 68:31 THAT FORETOLD -
00:44:55.32\00:45:00.46
WHO - DID ANYONE GET THAT ONE?
YOU'LL HAVE THAT - WE'LL HAVE
00:45:00.50\00:45:02.96
YOU READ THAT IN
JUST A SECOND HERE.
00:45:03.00\00:45:04.87
AND SO IT SAYS THAT PHILIP GOES
DOWN AND HE SEES HIM READING.
00:45:04.90\00:45:11.07
HE'S READING FROM
THE PROPHET ISAIAH.
00:45:11.11\00:45:12.51
"'DO YOU UNDERSTAND
WHAT YOU'RE READING?'
00:45:12.54\00:45:14.58
AND HE SAID, 'HOW CAN I
UNLESS SOMEONE GUIDES ME?'
00:45:14.61\00:45:18.38
AND HE ASKED PHILIP TO COME
UP AND SIT WITH HIM" - IN THE
00:45:18.41\00:45:21.42
CHARIOT. THIS IS
THE FIRST EXAMPLE OF
00:45:21.45\00:45:23.35
PICKING UP
HITCHHIKERS IN THE BIBLE.
00:45:23.39\00:45:25.29
THAT'S WHY I DO
THAT - TO WITNESS.
00:45:25.32\00:45:28.36
"THE PLACE IN THE SCRIPTURE
WHICH HE READ WAS THIS:" - HAVE
00:45:28.39\00:45:32.06
YOU EVER HAD ONE OF THOSE
AMAZING EXPERIENCES WHERE YOU
00:45:32.09\00:45:35.13
READ SOMETHING IN THE MORNING
AND YOU FIND IT'S THE VERY THING
00:45:35.16\00:45:37.93
YOU NEED TO GIVE
SOMEONE LATER IN THE DAY?
00:45:37.97\00:45:40.47
OR HAVE YOU EVER SAT DOWN NEXT
TO SOMEONE AND YOU'RE GIVING A
00:45:40.50\00:45:43.14
BIBLE STUDY BUT YOU DON'T KNOW
WHERE EVERYTHING IS IN THE BIBLE
00:45:43.17\00:45:45.34
BUT YOU OPEN YOUR BIBLE TO
THE VERY SPOT THAT THEY'RE -
00:45:45.37\00:45:47.94
THEY'RE NEEDING TO HEAR.
I'VE HAD HUNDREDS OF EXPERIENCES
00:45:47.98\00:45:50.25
LIKE THAT. WHAT A
PERFECT PLACE FOR A
00:45:50.28\00:45:53.25
JEWISH BELIEVER TO BE READING IN
HIS BIBLE THE MESSIAH'S PROPHECY
00:45:53.28\00:45:58.02
THAT YOU FIND IN ISAIAH 53
WHEN YOU RUN INTO YOUR FIRST
00:45:58.05\00:46:01.46
CHRISTIAN. BOY,
TALK ABOUT TIMING.
00:46:01.49\00:46:04.29
THERE WAS NO OTHER PLACE IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT THAT WAS BETTER
00:46:04.33\00:46:07.30
SUITED TO BEGIN A BIBLE STUDY
TO INTRODUCE JESUS THAN THOSE
00:46:07.36\00:46:10.60
VERSES. AND SO HE'S
READING THAT BECAUSE
00:46:10.63\00:46:14.27
HE WANTS TO TAKE THE GOSPEL DOWN
TO ETHIOPIA. AND SO HE READ,
00:46:14.30\00:46:18.77
"HE WAS LED AS A SHEEP TO THE
SLAUGHTER; AND AS A LAMB BEFORE
00:46:18.81\00:46:21.78
ITS SHEARER IS SILENT,
SO HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH."
00:46:21.81\00:46:23.41
AND THE EUNUCH SAYS TO PHILIP,
'I ASK YOU, OF WHOM DOES THE
00:46:23.45\00:46:27.48
PROPHET SAY THIS, OF
HIMSELF OR OF SOME OTHER MAN?'
00:46:27.52\00:46:29.68
THEN PHILIP OPENED HIS MOUTH,"
- WHAT A GREAT QUESTION! -
00:46:29.72\00:46:32.69
"AND BEGINNING AT
THIS SCRIPTURE," -
00:46:32.72\00:46:34.86
STARTS WHERE HE IS - HE
"PREACHED JESUS TO HIM."
00:46:34.89\00:46:37.46
HOW LONG THAT WENT - IT MIGHT
HAVE BEEN HOURS RIDING ALONG.
00:46:37.49\00:46:39.89
SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY HE SAYS,
'OH MAN," - HIS HEART IS BURNING
00:46:39.93\00:46:44.77
WITHIN HIM - HE SAYS, 'I BELIEVE
IT. I WANT TO BE BAPTIZED IN THE
00:46:44.80\00:46:47.64
NAME OF JESUS.' HE
SAYS, "IF YOU BELIEVE WITH
00:46:47.67\00:46:49.50
ALL YOUR HEART, YOU MAY."
THEY GO BY A BODY OF WATER - WE
00:46:49.54\00:46:52.27
DON'T KNOW IF THERE WAS A POND,
AN OASIS - THEY COULD HAVE BEEN
00:46:52.31\00:46:54.64
POINTING - THE ROAD FROM GAZA
DOWN TO ETHIOPIA WENT BY THE
00:46:54.68\00:46:56.95
MEDITERRANEAN - THEY
COULD HAVE POINTED TO THE OCEAN.
00:46:56.98\00:46:59.21
IT MIGHT BE ONE OF THE CASES IN
THE BIBLE FOR SALTWATER BAPTISM.
00:46:59.25\00:47:01.88
AND HE SAID, "HERE IS
WATER. WHAT HINDERS ME?"
00:47:01.92\00:47:06.05
HE SAID, "IF YOU BELIEVE
WITH ALL YOUR HEART" - PHILIP
00:47:06.09\00:47:08.32
BAPTIZES HIM, HE COMES UP OUT OF
THE WATER, THE MAN'S REJOICING
00:47:08.36\00:47:11.16
AND - POOF! - PHILIP IS GONE.
THIS IS A CASE IN THE BIBLE OF A
00:47:11.19\00:47:14.63
HUMAN BEING BEAMED, FOR LACK OF
ANOTHER WORD, FROM ONE PLACE TO
00:47:14.66\00:47:18.73
ANOTHER. PHILIP
SUDDENLY FINDS HIMSELF
00:47:18.77\00:47:20.37
WALKING ON THE
ROAD UP TO CAESAREA.
00:47:20.40\00:47:22.27
GOD TOLD HIM TO GO DOWN AND
BECAUSE HE WENT THAT LONG WAY
00:47:22.30\00:47:26.84
INTO A DESERT, AT THE WORD
OF GOD, GOD SAID, 'LOOK, I'M NOT
00:47:26.88\00:47:29.91
GOING TO MAKE YOU
WALK THE WHOLE WAY BACK.
00:47:29.94\00:47:32.05
I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A
LIFT.' WASN'T THAT NICE?
00:47:32.08\00:47:35.55
GOD'LL MAKE YOUR - IT'S LIKE
WHEN JESUS GOT IN THE BOAT WHEN
00:47:35.58\00:47:38.69
THE DISCIPLES WERE ROWING
DURING THAT ONE WIND STORM.
00:47:38.72\00:47:41.32
IT SAYS, 'WHEN HE GOT IN
THE BOAT THEY WERE AT THE
00:47:41.36\00:47:43.93
DESTINATION
WHERE THEY WERE GOING.
00:47:43.96\00:47:46.19
HE BEAMED THEM HALFWAY
ACROSS THE OCEAN TO THE SHORE.
00:47:46.23\00:47:48.90
HE DOESN'T ALWAYS DO THAT
FOR MISSIONARIES, BUT THIS MAN,
00:47:48.93\00:47:53.64
KNOWING THAT - WHEN PHILIP
DISAPPEARED, WHAT DID IT DO FOR
00:47:53.67\00:47:56.81
THE FAITH OF THE ETHIOPIAN?
HE THOUGHT PHILIP WAS AN ANGEL.
00:47:56.84\00:47:59.74
HE SAID - AND HE WAS SO EXCITED.
SO GOD NOT ONLY DID IT FOR
00:47:59.77\00:48:03.68
PHILIP, HE DID IT FOR THE
ETHIOPIAN SO HE'D GO, 'IT WAS A
00:48:03.71\00:48:06.21
MESSAGE FROM GOD.' AND HE WENT
ON HIS WAY REJOICING AND HE TOOK
00:48:06.25\00:48:10.79
THE GOSPEL TO
ETHIOPIA. THIS WAS FORETOLD.
00:48:10.82\00:48:13.79
GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US PSALM 68:31.
00:48:13.82\00:48:15.96
>>"PRINCES SHALL COME OUT
OF EGYPT; ETHIOPIA SHALL SOON
00:48:15.99\00:48:21.73
STRETCH OUT HER HANDS UNTO GOD."
>>THIS VERY EVENT, THAT THE
00:48:21.76\00:48:29.20
ETHIOPIANS WOULD ALSO
COME TO GOD, WAS FORETOLD.
00:48:29.24\00:48:32.91
DO YOU KNOW THAT AS LATE AS 700
AD, THE PEOPLE IN ETHIOPIA WERE
00:48:32.94\00:48:39.25
STILL BELIEVING IN GOD.
MATTER OF FACT, THEY WERE
00:48:39.28\00:48:42.45
KEEPING THE - WELL THEY STILL
DO TODAY - WHAT I MEANT WAS THEY
00:48:42.48\00:48:44.95
WERE KEEPING THE
SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH.
00:48:44.99\00:48:46.65
YEAH, I'VE GOT IT HERE - "IN
1604 JESUITS WENT TO ETHIOPIA
00:48:46.69\00:48:51.86
PROHIBITING SUBJECTS OF
THE CATHOLIC REALM, UPON THE
00:48:51.89\00:48:56.87
SEVEREST PENALTY, FROM
OBSERVING SATURDAY ANY LONGER."
00:48:56.90\00:49:00.87
THAT'S A QUOTE FROM GEDDES'
CHURCH HISTORY OF ETHIOPIA .
00:49:00.90\00:49:04.44
IT'S ALSO IN GIBBON'S DECLINE
AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE .
00:49:04.47\00:49:07.74
SO UP TO 1,604 YEARS
AFTER CHRIST, THEY WERE STILL
00:49:07.78\00:49:12.11
SABBATH-KEEPING CHRISTIANS
IN ETHIOPIA AND THERE ARE STILL
00:49:12.15\00:49:14.75
SOME TODAY. BUT THE
CHURCH BEGAN TO FORBID
00:49:14.78\00:49:17.62
THEM TO DO IT AT THAT
POINT. WHERE DID THAT PRIMITIVE
00:49:17.65\00:49:21.39
CHRISTIANITY, HOW
DID IT REACH ETHIOPIA?
00:49:21.42\00:49:23.93
THE FIRST POINT OF CONTACT WAS
THAT TREASURER WHO BROUGHT IT
00:49:23.96\00:49:28.80
AND SHARED IT WITH THE
QUEEN, CANDICE, AND IT BEGAN TO
00:49:28.83\00:49:31.40
SPREAD AMONG THE
PEOPLE DOWN THERE.
00:49:31.43\00:49:33.03
JUST A MOMENT LEFT WHERE WE CAN
TALK ABOUT THE - THE LAST POINT
00:49:33.07\00:49:37.54
IS PHILIP AS THE
HOST AND A FATHER.
00:49:37.57\00:49:42.18
YOU CAN READ IN ACTS 21
IT TALKS ABOUT PHILIP AGAIN.
00:49:42.21\00:49:46.82
WE'RE JUMPING MUCH
DEEPER INTO THE BOOK OF ACTS.
00:49:46.85\00:49:48.92
NOW TWENTY YEARS HAVE GONE BY.
"AND THE NEXT DAY WE THAT WERE
00:49:48.95\00:49:52.09
OF PAUL'S COMPANY DEPARTED,
AND CAME UNTO CAESAREA."
00:49:52.12\00:49:56.52
NOW THAT, EVIDENTLY,
WAS WHERE PHILIP STAYED.
00:49:56.56\00:49:59.36
REMEMBER, IT SAYS THAT AFTER HE
BAPTIZED THE ETHIOPIAN, HE WAS
00:49:59.39\00:50:02.53
FOUND ON THE ROAD
WALKING TOWARDS CAESAREA.
00:50:02.56\00:50:04.67
I'VE ACTUALLY BEEN TO CAESAREA.
00:50:04.70\00:50:06.80
IT WAS NAMED AFTER THE WIFE OF
CAESAR - OR DEDICATED TO HER BY,
00:50:06.84\00:50:10.54
I THINK, HEROD
THE GREAT DID THAT.
00:50:10.57\00:50:13.04
THERE'S A BIG - IT'S STILL THERE
TODAY - THEY'VE GOT A BIG SEMI
00:50:13.07\00:50:15.21
THEATER YOU CAN STAND OUT IN
THE MIDDLE AND YOU CAN SPEAK AND
00:50:15.24\00:50:19.11
IT'S BUILT WITH SUCH PERFECT
PARABOLIC SHAPE THAT SOMEONE AT
00:50:19.15\00:50:23.59
THE TOP CAN HEAR YOU SPEAK
IN A NORMAL VOICE IN THIS BIG
00:50:23.62\00:50:26.99
AMPHITHEATER. IT'S AN INCREDIBLE
SPOT. SO HE MOVED TO THAT CITY
00:50:27.02\00:50:30.23
AND, EVIDENTLY, TWENTY YEARS
LATER, PHILIP IS STILL THERE.
00:50:30.26\00:50:33.56
HE MET A GAL, EVIDENTLY, GOT
MARRIED, HAD FOUR DAUGHTERS, AND
00:50:33.60\00:50:37.07
HE BEGAN TO BECOME A LEADER
IN THE CHURCH THERE AT THIS PORT
00:50:37.10\00:50:42.54
CITY THAT'S ON THE INTERSECTION
OF THREE CONTINENTS AND SO IT
00:50:42.57\00:50:47.24
WAS A GREAT PLACE FOR HIM
TO SET UP HEADQUARTERS AS AN
00:50:47.28\00:50:49.71
EVANGELIST. AND HE
WAS A GOOD FATHER AND A
00:50:49.74\00:50:51.81
GOOD HOST. IT SAYS,
"WE ENTERED INTO THE
00:50:51.85\00:50:54.02
HOUSE OF PHILIP THE EVANGELIST."
DO WE HAVE TO DOUBT WHO THAT IS?
00:50:54.05\00:50:58.05
HE WAS THE GREAT EVANGELIST,
"WHICH WAS ONE OF THE SEVEN."
00:50:58.09\00:51:02.42
MAKES IT VERY CLEAR
- "AND ABODE WITH HIM."
00:51:02.46\00:51:05.59
NOW THIS MAN, YOU LOOK AT VERSE
9, HE HAD FOUR VIRGIN DAUGHTERS
00:51:05.63\00:51:09.06
WHO PROPHESIED.
THAT'S A FULFILLMENT OF THE
00:51:09.10\00:51:12.13
PROPHECY THAT YOU FIND IN ACTS
- WELL, IT'S IN JOEL CHAPTER 2,
00:51:12.17\00:51:17.07
WHERE IT SAYS 'I'LL POUR
OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH.
00:51:17.11\00:51:19.84
YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS
WILL PROPHESY.' SO IF WE'RE
00:51:19.87\00:51:22.41
WONDERING WHAT IS MEANT BY THAT,
YOU FIND AN EXAMPLE OF THAT IN
00:51:22.44\00:51:25.48
ACTS CHAPTER 2 WHEN THE MEN AND
WOMEN ARE FILLED WITH THE HOLY
00:51:25.51\00:51:29.38
SPIRIT AND THEY'RE SHARING THE
GOSPEL IN OTHER LANGUAGES, YOU
00:51:29.42\00:51:32.49
FIND AN EXAMPLE OF THAT HERE
WHEN THE DAUGHTERS OF PHILIP DID
00:51:32.52\00:51:35.52
ALSO PROPHESY. THEY
ARE SHARING AND THE WORD
00:51:35.56\00:51:39.63
'PROPHESY' DOESN'T ALWAYS
MEAN THAT YOU'RE FORETELLING THE
00:51:39.66\00:51:42.06
FUTURE, IT MEANS THAT YOU
ARE TEACHING, YOU'RE PREACHING,
00:51:42.10\00:51:45.80
YOU'RE PROCLAIMING,
YOU'RE GIVING BIBLE STUDIES.
00:51:45.83\00:51:47.47
WHETHER THEIR PROPHECY WAS
SPECIFICALLY AMONG THE WOMEN IN
00:51:47.50\00:51:49.94
THEIR COMMUNITY, IT DOES NOT
SAY, BUT WHAT KIND OF FATHER DO
00:51:49.97\00:51:54.44
YOU HAVE TO BE TO
HAVE FOUR GIRL PROPHETS?
00:51:54.48\00:51:57.75
YOU'VE GOT TO BE A GOOD FATHER.
HE WAS A GOOD EVANGELIST AND
00:51:57.78\00:52:01.55
WHERE DID HIS
EVANGELISM BEGIN? AT HOME.
00:52:01.58\00:52:04.89
YOU KNOW, WE NEVER GIVE AMRAM
AND JOCHEBED ENOUGH CREDIT.
00:52:04.92\00:52:07.49
AMRAM AND JOCHEBED HAD THREE
KIDS THAT WERE ALL PROPHETS.
00:52:07.52\00:52:10.83
MIRIAM, AARON, AND
MOSES. TWO OF THEM WERE PRIESTS.
00:52:10.86\00:52:16.60
THE BOYS WERE PRIESTS,
BUT ALL THREE WERE PROPHETS.
00:52:16.63\00:52:19.13
AND SO PHILIP AND HIS
WIFE, THEY WERE A GOOD FAMILY.
00:52:19.17\00:52:22.30
THEY DID MISSION WORK
IN THEIR FAMILY AND BEYOND.
00:52:22.34\00:52:24.74
WELL, WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME
FOR OUR STUDY ON PHILIP, BUT I
00:52:24.77\00:52:27.88
THINK WE GOT THROUGH
THE BULK OF THE LESSON.
00:52:27.91\00:52:29.41
AND, FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE
WATCHING, IF YOU DID NOT HEAR AT
00:52:29.44\00:52:32.15
THE BEGINNING, WE HAVE A
FREE OFFER WE'LL MAKE AVAILABLE.
00:52:32.18\00:52:34.28
IT'S A BOOK CALLED THE
SAVIOR AND THE SERPENT .
00:52:34.32\00:52:36.55
IT'S ACTUALLY A VERY ENCOURAGING
BOOK ABOUT THOSE GREAT
00:52:36.58\00:52:38.82
STATEMENTS OF JESUS OF MOSES
BEING LIFTED UP - CHRIST BEING
00:52:38.85\00:52:42.49
LIFTED UP IN THE WILDERNESS -
AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT.
00:52:42.52\00:52:46.39
AND SO WE ENCOURAGE
YOU TO ASK FOR THIS.
00:52:46.43\00:52:49.53
WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU.
YOU CAN EVEN READ IT FOR FREE
00:52:49.56\00:52:51.17
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YOUR FRIENDS. THANK
YOU FOR STUDYING WITH US.
00:52:52.90\00:52:54.94
GOD WILLING WE'LL BE
TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT SABBATH.
00:52:54.97\00:52:57.24
GOD BLESS YOU.
>>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES.
00:52:57.27\00:53:09.82
WELL, MY CONVERSION STORY IS
WHEN I WAS IN THE PHILIPPINES I
00:53:09.85\00:53:16.79
JUST GRADUATED AS A NURSE AND
AFTERWARDS I DID NOT HAVE ANY
00:53:16.83\00:53:22.00
RELIGION AND ONE TIME I FOUND
MYSELF INSIDE A SMALL CHURCH -
00:53:22.03\00:53:27.50
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MANILLA -
AND BEFORE A BIG CROSS AND I WAS
00:53:27.54\00:53:34.38
KNEELING BEFORE AND I COULD HEAR
JESUS TELLING ME TO ENTER THE
00:53:34.41\00:53:39.98
CONVENT, SAVE
MYSELF, AND ALSO MY FAMILY.
00:53:40.02\00:53:44.25
AND I SAID, 'LORD, I WOULD
LIKE TO FOLLOW YOU ALL THE WAY.'
00:53:44.29\00:53:47.16
AT THAT POINT I SEEMED TO BE
HAPPY, EXTERNALLY, BUT BECAUSE
00:53:47.19\00:53:51.86
INSIDE THE CONVENT WE DON'T READ
THE BIBLE - WE DON'T STUDY ABOUT
00:53:51.89\00:53:56.36
THE WORD OF GOD,
WE PRAY THE ROSARIES.
00:53:56.40\00:53:59.80
WE ALSO, AT THE SAME TIME, STUDY
THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS AND ALSO
00:53:59.83\00:54:04.24
OUR FOUNDERS AND THE ENCYCLICALS
OF THE POPE, AND THE VIRGIN
00:54:04.27\00:54:09.04
MARY. AND SO I DO
NOT KNOW THE TRUTH
00:54:09.08\00:54:11.91
AND I HAD THIS TORTURE OF
CONSCIENCE - THE GUILTY FEELINGS
00:54:11.95\00:54:16.35
THAT CANNOT BE RESOLVED. SO
I WOULD CONFESS TO THE PRIEST
00:54:16.38\00:54:19.75
IN THE CONFESSIONAL BOX
SAYING, 'FATHER, FORGIVE ME.
00:54:19.79\00:54:23.69
SINCE MY LAST CONFESSION WAS
LAST WEEK - SINCE THEN I HAVE
00:54:23.73\00:54:28.10
COMMITTED THE FOLLOWING SIN
INCLUDING THE ROOT CAUSE, 'WHY
00:54:28.13\00:54:32.00
AM I FALLING AND FALLING IN THAT
SAME SIN OVER AND OVER AGAIN?'
00:54:32.03\00:54:37.54
AND STILL, FOR 21 LONG YEARS
I STRUGGLE AND I STRUGGLE AND I
00:54:37.57\00:54:42.94
STRUGGLE. I
REALIZED THAT I WAS TOTALLY
00:54:42.98\00:54:46.68
EMPTY. I WAS
TOTALLY HELPLESS AND
00:54:46.72\00:54:49.65
HOPELESS AND SO DEPRESSED AND
SO DESPERATE THAT I WOULD LIKE
00:54:49.68\00:54:55.12
ALREADY TO END MY LIFE. I
WAS WORKING FOR FIVE YEARS AS
00:54:55.16\00:54:59.69
DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAINT
AUGUSTINE COLLEGE OF NURSING IN
00:54:59.73\00:55:04.13
ILOILO CITY, ONE OF THE
ISLANDS OF THE PHILIPPINES.
00:55:04.17\00:55:08.60
AFTER FIVE YEARS I RECEIVED
MY COMMISSION FROM MY PARENTS TO
00:55:08.64\00:55:13.71
HELP MY SISTER WHO IS
BEING A BATTERED WOMAN.
00:55:13.74\00:55:18.11
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I
CAME OVER TO THE UNITED STATES.
00:55:18.15\00:55:23.18
IT IS BECAUSE MY
SISTER NEEDS MY HELP.
00:55:23.22\00:55:27.19
AS I WAS WORKING IN THE HOSPITAL
IN NEW YORK, MY BOSS, SERAPHIN,
00:55:27.22\00:55:31.09
HE WAS SO GRACIOUS ENOUGH
TO GIVE ME AN INVITATION TO THE
00:55:31.13\00:55:35.13
'MILLENIUM OF PROPHECY'.
AS I WAS LISTENING TO PASTOR
00:55:35.16\00:55:38.80
DOUG BATCHELOR'S PRESENTATION,
MY HEART REALLY WAS BEATING SO
00:55:38.83\00:55:43.67
FAST AND MY MIND - I AM ABLE TO
GRASP THE TRUTH THAT THIS IS THE
00:55:43.71\00:55:50.75
TRUTH THAT I'VE BEEN LONGING TO
HEAR ALL MY LIFE - THAT I HAVE
00:55:50.78\00:55:54.62
BEEN SEEKING FOR SO LONG.
MY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH
00:55:54.65\00:55:59.49
JESUS - I CAN SEE
JESUS AS MY PERSONAL SAVIOR.
00:55:59.52\00:56:04.96
HE IS NOT ONLY THE SAVIOR OF
THE WHOLE WORLD, BUT HE IS MY
00:56:04.99\00:56:08.93
PERSONAL SAVIOR. HE WAS
THE ONE WHO DELIVERED ME
00:56:08.96\00:56:13.03
MIGHTILY FROM THE DEPTHS
OF SIN - FROM THE MIREY CLAY.
00:56:13.07\00:56:18.44
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR HAS
BEEN USED BY THE LORD IN MY
00:56:18.47\00:56:22.74
CONVERSION. THE
AMAZING FACTS - I OWE TO
00:56:22.78\00:56:25.95
THEM. THE LORD
REALLY BLESSED THIS
00:56:25.98\00:56:29.42
MINISTRY AND I'M SO PROUD I WAS
ABLE TO ATTEND THIS 'MILLENIUM
00:56:29.45\00:56:34.89
OF PROPHECY'. MY LIFE
HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME.
00:56:34.92\00:56:37.89
IT HAS GIVEN ME THAT PEACE
- THAT JOY THAT NEVER - I HAVE
00:56:37.93\00:56:44.23
NEVER TASTED IN MY LIFE.
NOW I AM SET FREE TO BE ABLE TO
00:56:44.27\00:56:50.31
WORK FOR HIM AND TO FOLLOW HIM.
00:56:50.34\00:57:04.02
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