(MUSIC)
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>>GOOD MORNING,
FRIENDS, AND WELCOME AGAIN TO
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SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
HOUR. A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR
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FRIENDS JOINING US ALL
AROUND THE WORLD AND ACROSS THE
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COUNTRY. THANK YOU
FOR BEING A PART OF
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THIS INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDY.
I'D ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME THE
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GRANITE BAY CHURCH MEMBERS
AND THOSE VISITING WITH US THIS
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MORNING. GOOD TO
SEE YOU IN CHURCH TODAY.
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THANK YOU FOR COMING AND
JOINING US AS WE STUDY TOGETHER.
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NOW AS YOU'LL REMEMBER, WE'RE
STILL WORKING ON OUR LESSON
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QUARTERLY DEALING
WITH BIBLICAL MISSIONARIES.
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AND TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES
ON LESSON #11 ENTITLED PAUL:
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BACKGROUND AND CALL .
WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THIS STUDY
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IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS, BUT
BEFORE WE DO I'D LIKE TO LET YOU
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KNOW ABOUT A FREE
OFFER THAT WE HAVE.
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IT'S A BOOK ENTITLED SATAN'S
CONFUSING COUNTERFEITS AND WE'LL
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BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS TO
ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS.
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THE NUMBER TO CALL
IS 866-788-3966 - THAT'S
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866-STUDY-MORE AND YOU
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AGAIN, THAT NUMBER IS
866-788-3966 - ASK FOR OFFER
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#191 - SATAN'S CONFUSING
COUNTERFEITS AND WE'LL BE HAPPY
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TO SEND THIS TO
ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS.
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WELL BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR STUDY
THIS MORNING, AS USUAL, WE'D
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LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS
TO COME AND JOIN ME HERE ON
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STAGE AND WE'RE GOING TO LIFT
OUR VOICES IN PRAISE FOR ALL OF
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THE GOOD THINGS
THAT GOD HAS DONE FOR US.
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(MUSIC)
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>>WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS
TO BE ABLE TO SING TOGETHER
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WEEK AFTER WEEK OUT OF OUR
HYMNALS AND LEARN NEW SONGS AND
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SHARE TOGETHER THE OLD.
HYMN #335 IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO
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START TODAY - WHAT A WONDERFUL
SAVIOR - IS JESUS MY LORD.
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WE WILL SING THE FIRST, THE
SECOND, AND THE LAST VERSES.
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(MUSIC) >>CHRIST HAS FOR SIN
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ATONEMENT MADE, WHAT A WONDERFUL
SAVIOR! WE ARE REDEEMED!
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THE PRICE IS PAID!
WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOR!
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WHAT A WONDERFUL
SAVIOR IS JESUS, MY JESUS!
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WHAT A WONDERFUL
SAVIOR IS JESUS, MY LORD!
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I PRAISE HIM FOR THE CLEANSING
BLOOD, WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOR!
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THAT RECONCILED MY SOUL TO
GOD; WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOR!
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WHAT A WONDERFUL
SAVIOR IS JESUS, MY JESUS!
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WHAT A WONDERFUL
SAVIOR IS JESUS, MY LORD!
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HE GIVES ME OVERCOMING
POWER, WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOR!
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AND TRIUMPH IN EACH TRYING
HOUR; WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOR!
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WHAT A WONDERFUL
SAVIOR IS JESUS, MY JESUS!
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WHAT A WONDERFUL
SAVIOR IS JESUS, MY LORD!
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>>AND NOW, IF YOU'LL TURN TO
HYMN #340 - JESUS SAVES - AND I
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KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT SING THIS
HYMN WITHOUT SMILING, SO LIFT
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YOUR VOICES IN PRAISE AND
ADORATION TO OUR SAVIOR - HYMN
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#340, VERSES ONE,
TWO, AND FOUR. (MUSIC)
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>>WE HAVE HEARD A JOYFUL
SOUND, JESUS SAVES, JESUS
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SAVES; SPREAD THE GLADNESS
ALL AROUND, JESUS SAVES, JESUS
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SAVES; BEAR THE NEWS TO EVERY
LAND, CLIMB THE STEEPS AND CROSS
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THE WAVES, ONWARD, 'TIS OUR
LORD'S COMMAND, JESUS SAVES,
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JESUS SAVES. WAFT
IT ON THE ROLLING TIDE,
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JESUS SAVES, JESUS SAVES; TELL
TO SINNERS, FAR AND WIDE, JESUS
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SAVES, JESUS SAVES;
SING, YE ISLANDS OF THE SEA.
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ECHO BACK, YE OCEAN CAVES,
EARTH SHALL KEEP HER JUBILEE,
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JESUS SAVES, JESUS SAVES.
GIVE THE WINDS A MIGHTY VOICE,
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JESUS SAVES, JESUS SAVES; LET
THE NATIONS NOW REJOICE, JESUS
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SAVES, JESUS SAVES; SHOUT
SALVATION FULL AND FREE, HIGHEST
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HILLS AND DEEPEST CAVES,
THIS OUR SONG OF VICTORY,
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JESUS SAVES, JESUS SAVES.
>>AT THIS TIME I TURN THE TIME
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OVER TO PASTOR ROSS AND
HE WILL LEAD US IN PRAYER.
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>>LET US BOW OUR
HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE
AGAIN WE ARE GRATEFUL TO BE ABLE
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TO GATHER TOGETHER IN YOUR HOUSE
ON THIS YOUR SPECIAL DAY, TO
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TURN OUR ATTENTION TO YOUR WORD
AND ALLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
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GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND MINDS
AS WE SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.
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FATHER, GUIDE US INTO A DEEPER
AND FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF OUR
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MISSION AS MISSIONARIES SHARING
THE GOSPEL WITH THE WORLD, FOR
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WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME,
AMEN. OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE
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BROUGHT TO US BY OUR SENIOR
PASTOR, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>THANK YOU PASTOR
ROSS AND OUR SINGERS.
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AND I WANT TO WELCOME ALL OF OUR
FRIENDS WHO ARE WORSHIPING AND
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STUDYING WITH US
TODAY HERE AT GRANITE BAY.
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WE ARE GETTING INTO THE FIRST
PART OF A LESSON DEALING WITH
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PAUL AS A MISSIONARY.
IT'S LESSON #11 BUT, YOU KNOW,
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PAUL IS SUCH A BIGGER-THAN-LIFE
CHARACTER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
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THAT THEY NEEDED TO DEDICATE AT
LEAST TWO LESSONS TO STUDY ABOUT
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PAUL. AND SO WE
HAVE A MEMORY VERSE
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AND THE LESSON IS CALLED
PAUL: BACKGROUND AND CALL .
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IT TELLS A LITTLE OF
THE BACKGROUND OF PAUL AND
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THE ORIGINAL CALL OF PAUL -
THAT SORT OF RHYMES, DOESN'T IT?
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AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO DO OUR
MEMORY VERSE WHICH IS ACTS 9,
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VERSE 15 - ACTS 9:15 - IF YOU'VE
GOT YOUR BIBLES THERE, I INVITE
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YOU TO SAY THIS ALONG WITH ME.
ACTUALLY WE'RE DOING VERSES 15
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AND 16. ACTS 9 VERSES
15 AND 16. ARE YOU READY?
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"BUT THE LORD SAID TO HIM, 'GO,
FOR HE IS A CHOSEN VESSEL OF
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MINE TO BEAR MY NAME
BEFORE GENTILES, KINGS, AND THE
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CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. FOR
I WILL SHOW HIM HOW MANY
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THINGS HE MUST SUFFER FOR
MY NAME'S SAKE.'" THESE ARE THE
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WORDS OF THE LORD SPEAKING TO
ANANIAS WHEN HE WAS TOLD TO GO
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AND TO BAPTIZE PAUL, WHO
ACTUALLY WAS SAUL AT THAT POINT.
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AND SO, IN OUR FIRST SECTION
HERE, WE'RE JUST GOING TO DO A
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LITTLE INTRODUCTION AND LEARN
WHAT WE CAN ABOUT THIS VERY
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INTERESTING PROMINENT
CHARACTER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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WE KNOW HIM BETTER AS 'PAUL'.
BEFORE OUR STUDY'S OVER TODAY,
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HIS NAME CHANGES AND WE'LL TALK
ABOUT WHEN THAT HAPPENED AND
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WHY. FIRST HE'S
KNOWN AS SAUL OF TARSUS.
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TARSUS WAS A CITY IN SICILY THAT
WAS PART OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND
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IT TELLS US THAT PAUL WAS
THE SON OF A PHARISEE BUT HE WAS
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BORN WITH ROMAN CITIZENSHIP,
WHICH IS VERY UNUSUAL AND IT
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ENDED UP BEING A BLESSING.
IT PROBABLY SAVED HIS LIFE AT
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SOME TIME IN THE PAST. IT
TELLS US HE'S FROM THE TRIBE
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OF BENJAMIN. NOW,
AFTER THE BABYLONIAN
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CAPTIVITY, YOU REALLY ONLY
FIND THREE PRINCIPLE TRIBES THAT
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APPEAR FROM JUDEA,
BENJAMIN, AND THE LEVITES.
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THERE MAY HAVE BEEN SOME FROM
SOME OF THE OTHER TRIBES, BUT
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BACK DURING THE TIME OF
HEZEKIAH, WHEN THE TEN TRIBES
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WERE CARRIED OFF CAPTIVE,
THEY PRETTY MUCH INTERMARRIED
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AND DISPERSED
AMONG THE ASSYRIANS.
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NOW YOU GO TO SYRIA TODAY -
THERE USED TO BE A LOT MORE, BUT
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THEY'VE SORT OF BEEN DRIVEN OUT
BY PERSECUTION - YOU MIGHT FIND
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SOME REMNANTS OF
THE ORIGINAL TEN TRIBES.
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BUT BENJAMIN, ONE OF THE SMALLER
TRIBES, IT CAME BACK FROM THE
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BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY AND
PAUL WAS FROM THAT TRIBE.
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THE WORD 'PAUL' MEANS - OR
THE WORD 'SAUL', RATHER, MEANS
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'ASKED FOR' AND PAUL, ON THE
OTHER HAND, IS DERIVED FROM A
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LATIN WORD. IT
MEANS 'LITTLE; DIMINUTIVE;
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OR DWARFISH' AND WE DON'T KNOW
IF PAUL ASSUMED THIS SECOND NAME
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BECAUSE HE BELIEVED THAT HE WAS
LITTLE IN THE EYES OF GOD BUT,
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YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE LEGENDS
THAT IS REPEATED BY SOME OF THE
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EARLY CHURCH FATHERS IS THAT
PAUL WAS NOT OF GREAT STATURE,
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UNLIKE SAUL OF - KING SAUL -
WHO WAS HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE
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EVERYBODY ELSE. NOW
THERE'S A COUPLE OF VERSES
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THAT SORT OF -
HE INTIMATES THAT.
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LET ME JUST CHECK AND SEE
- WHO HAS 2 CORINTHIANS 10:1?
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ALRIGHT, YOU'LL READ
THAT HERE IN JUST A MOMENT.
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I'M GOING TO READ ACTS 23, VERSE
6, "BUT WHEN PAUL PERCEIVED THAT
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ONE PART" - OF THIS GATHERING -
THE SANHEDRIN - "WERE SADDUCEES
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AND THE OTHER PHARISEES, HE
CRIED OUT IN THE COUNCIL, 'MEN
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AND BRETHREN, I AM A
PHARISEE, THE SON OF A PHARISEE;
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CONCERNING THE HOPE AND
RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD I AM
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BEING JUDGED!'" THAT
WAS A VERY CLEVER THING
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FOR HIM TO SAY AT THAT POINT
BECAUSE IT HELPED PREVENT HIM
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FROM BEING TOTALLY
CONDEMNED DURING THAT COUNCIL.
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THE PHARISEES STOOD UP FOR HIM.
BUT WHAT DOES IT TELL US ABOUT
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PAUL'S FATHER?
HE WAS A PHARISEE.
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SO HE'S A PHARISEE, HE'S THE SON
OF A PHARISEE, HE GROWS UP AT
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THE FEET OF GAMALIEL, WHO
IS A VERY DEVOUT JEWISH LEADER.
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HE APPEARS IN THE BOOK OF ACTS
AT ONE POINT. BUT WHY DON'T YOU
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GO AHEAD - READ FOR US 2
CORINTHIANS 10:1, HAFDIS?
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>>"NOW I, PAUL, MYSELF
AM PLEADING WITH YOU BY THE
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MEEKNESS AND GENTLENESS OF
CHRIST - WHO IN PRESENCE AM
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LOWLY AMONG YOU, BUT BEING
ABSENT AM BOLD TOWARD YOU."
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>>PAUL WAS VERY
STRONG IN HIS LETTERS.
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GOOD THING HE DID A LOT
OF WRITING, BUT HE SAID IN
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PRESENCE HE WAS
VERY MEEK AND LOWLY.
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SOME HAVE WONDERED IF IT MEANT
THAT HIS APPEARANCE WAS LOWLY.
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IN 2 CORINTHIANS 10:10 HE SAYS,
"'FOR HIS LETTERS,' THEY SAY,
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'ARE WEIGHTY AND POWERFUL, BUT
HIS BODILY PRESENCE IS WEAK, AND
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HIS SPEECH CONTEMPTIBLE.'" SOME
HAVE POSTULATED FROM THAT, THAT
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IT MEANT THAT PAUL MAYBE HAD A
VOICE THAT WAS SOFT OR THAT WAS
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HIGH PITCHED OR SOMETHING BUT
- AND HE MAY NOT HAVE HAD THE
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BOOMING VOICE OF GEORGE
WHITFIELD AND MAY HAVE BEEN
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SMALL IN APPEARANCE BECAUSE,
AGAIN, THAT'S WHAT THE WORD
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'PAUL' ITSELF MEANS. ALRIGHT,
LET'S GET INTO PAUL ON MONDAY.
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WE HAVE A WHOLE LOT TO COVER IN
THIS LESSON SO I'M NOT GOING TO
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WASTE ANY TIME. AND
IN A MOMENT, SOMEONE WILL
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READ ACTS 22:4 -
YOU'LL HAVE THAT? OKAY.
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IT TELLS US ABOUT PAUL THE MAN
AND IT SAYS THAT JESUS TOLD US
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IN JOHN 16:2, HE SAID,
"THEY WILL PUT YOU OUT OF THE
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SYNAGOGUES; YES, THE TIME IS
COMING THAT WHOEVER KILLS YOU
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WILL THINK THAT HE
OFFERS GOD SERVICE."
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DID THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN, WHERE
THERE WOULD BE A DEATH SENTENCE
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ON THE BELIEVERS?
THAT SOME WOULD KILL YOU?
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AND SOME WOULD KILL CHRISTIANS
AND REALLY THINK THEY WERE DOING
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THE RIGHT THING. >>PAUL THOUGHT.
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>>AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.
AND YOU CAN READ THAT THERE IN -
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YOU LOOK IN THE
EXAMPLES OF PAUL.
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FOR INSTANCE, LOOK IN ACTS 9
- WE'RE GOING TO READ THIS VERSE
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AGAIN LATER - ACTS 9:1 AND
2, "THEN SAUL, STILL BREATHING
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THREATS AND MURDER AGAINST
THE DISCIPLES OF THE LORD," -
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WAS HE SINCERE? -
"WENT TO THE HIGH PRIEST AND
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ASKED LETTERS FROM HIM TO THE
SYNAGOGUES OF DAMASCUS, SO THAT
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IF HE FOUND ANY WHO WERE OF THE
WAY, WHETHER MEN OR WOMEN, HE
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MIGHT BRING THEM
BOUND TO JERUSALEM."
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NOW THERE ARE THREE ACCOUNTS
THAT ARE FOUND OF PAUL'S
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CONVERSION, AND IN ALL OF THOSE
HE ADMITS THAT HE WAS GUILTY OF
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MURDER. HE NEVER FORGOT THAT.
IT WAS VERY HARD FOR HIM TO DEAL
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WITH, BUT HE KNOWS THAT
HE DID IT UNINTENTIONALLY.
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GO AHEAD AND
READ FOR US ACTS 22:4.
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>>"I PERSECUTED THIS WAY TO THE
DEATH, BINDING AND DELIVERING
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INTO PRISONS
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN."
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>>SO WE KNOW ABOUT THE DEATH
OF STEPHEN, THAT COMES UP LATER,
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BUT WAS IT JUST STEPHEN? >>NO.
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>>OR WAS HE DOING IT TO OTHERS?
THERE'S NO EXACT NUMBER GIVEN
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BUT IT SAYS THAT FOLLOWING
THE PERSECUTION OF STEPHEN -
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FOLLOWING THE MARTYRDOM OF
STEPHEN - A GREAT PERSECUTION
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AROSE IN JERUSALEM SO BAD
THAT THE DISCIPLES HAD TO LEAVE.
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WHO DO YOU THINK WAS AT
THE FOREFRONT OF THAT GREAT
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PERSECUTION? WHO WAS
GOING TO THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS?
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MATTER OF FACT, EVEN IN
DAMASCUS, WHEN GOD COMES TO
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ANANIAS AND SAID, 'LOOK, I WANT
YOU TO GO LAY HANDS ON PAUL AND
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PRAY FOR HIM AND BAPTIZE HIM.'
HE SAID, 'NOT PAUL, HE IS THE
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RING LEADER OF THE PERSECUTORS.
HE'S PART OF THE SS.
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HE'S PART OF THE GESTAPO THAT IS
KILLING THE CHRISTIANS.' I KNOW
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THAT'S REALLY - JEWISH GESTAPO
IS SORT OF A PARADOX, ISN'T IT?
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BUT HE WAS THE ONE WHO WAS
THE RINGLEADER OF THOSE WHO WERE
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KILLING THE CHRISTIANS BACK AT
THAT TIME AND SO HE WAS GUILTY
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OF MURDER. I JUST
WANT YOU TO KNOW HOW
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RADICALLY HE WAS TRANSFORMED.
AND THEN HE GIVES HIS TESTIMONY
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IN ACTS 26, VERSE 10. AND
PAUL SAYS, "...AND WHEN THEY
00:15:08.27\00:15:12.67
WERE PUT TO DEATH, I
CAST MY VOTE AGAINST THEM."
00:15:12.71\00:15:16.41
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN SOME OF
THE SCENARIOS WHERE, IN THE
00:15:16.44\00:15:19.61
COLISEUM, THE GLADIATORS
WERE FIGHTING AND IF ONE GOT THE
00:15:19.65\00:15:22.62
UPPER HAND AND HE WAS ABLE TO
GIVE THE COUP DE GRAS AND KILLS
00:15:22.65\00:15:26.05
HIS VICTIM, HE'D
LOOK UP TO THE STANDS.
00:15:26.09\00:15:28.69
AND IF THE EMPEROR WENT
LIKE THAT, WHAT DID THAT MEAN?
00:15:28.72\00:15:31.99
LET HIM GO. NO,
THAT MEANT LET HIM GO.
00:15:32.03\00:15:34.36
THAT MEANT - >>TO KILL HIM.
00:15:34.40\00:15:38.23
>>TO DO HIM IN. PAUL
IS SAYING - WHEN THEY WERE
00:15:38.27\00:15:40.27
BEING TRIED PAUL
WOULD SAY, 'KILL THEM.'
00:15:40.30\00:15:44.21
AND HE SAID, 'I GAVE CONSENT.
I GAVE MY VOTE AGAINST THEM.'
00:15:44.24\00:15:49.24
YEAH, HE STRUGGLED WITH THIS.
PHILIPPIANS 3, VERSES 6 AND 8.
00:15:49.28\00:15:56.52
PAUL GOES ON, HE SAYS,
"CONCERNING ZEAL, PERSECUTING
00:15:56.55\00:16:00.46
THE CHURCH; CONCERNING THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS IN THE
00:16:00.49\00:16:03.22
LAW, BLAMELESS...YET INDEED I
ALSO COUNT ALL THINGS LOSS FOR
00:16:03.26\00:16:07.66
THE EXCELLENCE OF THE KNOWLEDGE
OF CHRIST JESUS MY LORD, FOR
00:16:07.66\00:16:12.10
WHOM I HAVE SUFFERED THE LOSS
OF ALL THINGS, AND COUNT THEM AS
00:16:12.13\00:16:14.94
RUBBISH, THAT I
MAY GAIN CHRIST."
00:16:14.97\00:16:17.14
SO WHAT MORE ARE WE
LEARNING ABOUT PAUL THE MAN?
00:16:17.17\00:16:20.91
WHEN HE DID SOMETHING -
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS IN
00:16:20.94\00:16:24.38
ECCLESIASTES, 'WHATEVER YOUR
HAND FINDS TO DO, DO IT WITH ALL
00:16:24.41\00:16:28.38
THY MIGHT, FOR THERE IS NO
KNOWLEDGE OR WISDOM OR DEVICE IN
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THE GRAVE WHERE YOU ARE GOING.'
PAUL WAS THAT MAN. WHATEVER HE
00:16:32.15\00:16:34.82
DID, HE DID WITH ZEAL.
HE WAS INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH.
00:16:34.86\00:16:39.26
NOW, WHILE PAUL WAS KILLING
CHRISTIANS, DID HE MEAN TO DO
00:16:39.29\00:16:43.50
THE WRONG THING OR DID HE THINK
HE WAS DOING THE RIGHT THING?
00:16:43.53\00:16:46.97
HE BELIEVED HE WAS
DOING THE RIGHT THING.
00:16:47.00\00:16:50.47
YOU CAN READ IN GALATIANS -
YEAH, IN GALATIANS - NO, NO, I'M
00:16:50.51\00:16:58.41
ACTUALLY GOING TO GO TO 1
TIMOTHY 1:13, "ALTHOUGH I WAS
00:16:58.45\00:17:00.98
FORMERLY A BLASPHEMER, A
PERSECUTOR, AND AN INSOLENT
00:17:01.02\00:17:05.39
MAN; BUT I OBTAINED MERCY
BECAUSE I DID IT IGNORANTLY IN
00:17:05.42\00:17:07.62
UNBELIEF." HE'S
VERY CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
00:17:07.66\00:17:12.16
AGAIN, IN ACTS 3:17, "YET NOW,
BRETHREN, I KNOW THAT YOU DID IT
00:17:12.19\00:17:16.20
IN IGNORANCE, AS
DID ALSO YOUR RULERS."
00:17:16.23\00:17:19.07
PAUL SAID CONCERNING
THOSE WHO CRUCIFIED JESUS.
00:17:19.10\00:17:22.40
ACTS 17:30, TRULY THESE TIMES
OF IGNORANCE GOD OVERLOOKED, BUT
00:17:22.44\00:17:28.91
NOW COMMANDS ALL MEN
EVERYWHERE TO REPENT."
00:17:28.94\00:17:32.15
AND SO THE LORD IS UNDERSTANDING
WHEN WE DO THINGS IN IGNORANCE.
00:17:32.18\00:17:36.42
AND PAUL WAS VERY
SINCERE, BUT HE WAS WRONG.
00:17:36.45\00:17:38.95
GO AHEAD, READ FOR
US 1 CORINTHIANS 15:9.
00:17:38.99\00:17:43.06
>>"FOR I AM THE LEAST OF THE
APOSTLES, WHO AM NOT WORTHY TO
00:17:43.09\00:17:47.40
BE CALLED AN APOSTLE, BECAUSE
I PERSECUTED THE CHURCH OF GOD."
00:17:47.46\00:17:51.23
THIS IS SOMETHING
THAT ALWAYS WEIGHED ON HIM.
00:17:51.27\00:17:54.57
PAUL COULD NEVER FORGET - NOW
WHEN WE GET TO THE CONVERSION OF
00:17:54.60\00:17:58.27
PAUL, YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW THAT HE
REALLY REPENTED OF WHAT HE DID.
00:17:58.31\00:18:03.51
I'LL SAY MORE ABOUT THAT, BUT HE
COULD NEVER FORGET THE PICTURE
00:18:03.55\00:18:05.61
OF STEPHEN'S FACE ILLUMINATED,
PRAYING, SAYING, 'I SEE JESUS AT
00:18:05.65\00:18:09.75
THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER'
AND PRAYING FOR FORGIVENESS OF
00:18:09.78\00:18:13.82
THOSE THAT WERE KILLING
THEM. REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID?
00:18:13.86\00:18:17.09
'FATHER, THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY
DO.' STEPHEN DIED SAYING, 'LAY
00:18:17.13\00:18:21.40
NOT THIS SIN TO THEIR CHARGE.'
AND THAT MADE A DEEP IMPRESSION
00:18:21.43\00:18:27.20
ON SAUL, LATER KNOWN AS PAUL.
1 TIMOTHY 1:16, "HOWEVER, FOR
00:18:27.24\00:18:32.41
THIS REASON I OBTAINED MERCY,
THAT IN ME FIRST JESUS CHRIST
00:18:32.44\00:18:36.91
MIGHT SHOW ALL LONGSUFFERING, AS
A PATTERN TO THOSE WHO ARE GOING
00:18:36.95\00:18:39.88
TO BELIEVE ON HIM
FOR EVERLASTING LIFE."
00:18:39.91\00:18:42.68
PAUL SAYS, 'I KNOW GOD IS MAKING
AN EXAMPLE OF ME FOR OTHERS THAT
00:18:42.72\00:18:46.32
MAY BE CONVERTED,
BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T KNOW.
00:18:46.35\00:18:48.59
IN GALATIANS 1:13 AND 14,
"FOR YOU HAVE HEARD OF MY FORMER
00:18:48.62\00:18:52.73
CONDUCT IN JUDAISM, HOW I
PERSECUTED THE CHURCH OF GOD
00:18:52.76\00:18:55.63
BEYOND MEASURE" - IT
WAS UNMEASUREABLE AND TRIED
00:18:55.66\00:19:00.04
TO DESTROY IT. AND I
ADVANCED IN JUDAISM BEYOND
00:19:00.07\00:19:04.41
MANY OF MY CONTEMPORARIES
IN MY OWN NATION, BEING MORE
00:19:04.44\00:19:08.04
EXCEEDINGLY ZEALOUS FOR
THE TRADITIONS OF MY FATHERS."
00:19:08.08\00:19:11.01
SO PAUL - IS IT CLEAR HE WAS
A HARD-CORE, GUNG-HO PHARISEE -
00:19:11.05\00:19:18.05
VERY SINCERE - HE HATED THE
CHRISTIANS, HE EXCEEDED ALL THE
00:19:18.09\00:19:22.32
OTHERS IN HIS COUNTRY?
THAT'S WHY HE WAS PROMOTED BY
00:19:22.36\00:19:25.43
THE SANHEDRIN AND HE WAS GIVEN
THE HONORED TASK OF LEADING THE
00:19:25.46\00:19:29.40
ASSAULT ON CHRISTIANS.
AND SO THAT'S WHY IT MAKES THE
00:19:29.43\00:19:32.40
CONVERSION OF PAUL ALL THAT MORE
DRAMATIC AND WE'RE GOING TO GET
00:19:32.43\00:19:36.17
INTO THAT TODAY. THE
NEXT SECTION IS FROM SAUL TO
00:19:36.20\00:19:40.98
PAUL - THIS IS UNDER TUESDAY.
I HEARD ABOUT A MAN THAT HE
00:19:41.01\00:19:44.45
OWNED A NEWSPAPER IN A BIG CITY.
IT WAS VERY PROMINENT AND HE WAS
00:19:44.48\00:19:48.98
STARTING TO CONSIDER RETIREMENT
AND HE HAD THREE SONS.
00:19:49.02\00:19:51.82
HE WASN'T SURE WHICH OF HIS SONS
HE SHOULD MAKE LEAD EDITOR OF
00:19:51.85\00:19:54.96
HIS NEWSPAPER - THEY ALL WORKED
FOR THE PAPER - AND HE GATHERED
00:19:54.99\00:19:59.53
HIS SONS TOGETHER AND HE SAID,
'TO BE A GOOD NEWSMAN, YOU HAVE
00:19:59.56\00:20:02.96
TO UNDERSTAND THAT
HEADLINES ARE EVERYTHING.
00:20:03.00\00:20:06.43
PEOPLE BUY THE PAPER
BECAUSE OF THE HEADLINES.
00:20:06.47\00:20:09.37
YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO HAVE
THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS GRIPPING
00:20:09.40\00:20:12.81
HEADLINES AND SAY IT IN THE
FEWEST WORDS.' AND SO HE SAID TO
00:20:12.84\00:20:18.98
HIS THREE SONS, 'I WANT YOU
TO DREAM UP THE BEST POSSIBLE
00:20:19.01\00:20:22.05
HEADLINE AND WHICHEVER ONE
OF YOU COMES UP WITH THE BEST
00:20:22.08\00:20:24.75
HEADLINE, YOU GET TO BE THE
CHIEF EDITOR OF THE PAPER.' SO
00:20:24.79\00:20:29.29
THE FIRST SON, HE CAME UP WITH
THE HEADLINE, REAGAN BECOMES
00:20:29.32\00:20:35.13
COMMUNIST . AND THE
SECOND ONE CAME UP WITH
00:20:35.16\00:20:41.00
THE HEADLINE BILL CLINTON JOINS
MONASTERY - (LAUGHTER) - BUT THE
00:20:41.04\00:20:46.51
PAPER WENT TO THE THIRD SON AND
HE JUST USED TWO WORDS AND HE
00:20:46.54\00:20:49.31
SAID POPE ELOPES - (LAUGHTER).
NOW THEY ALL PICKED HEADLINES OF
00:20:49.34\00:20:57.15
THINGS THAT YOU WOULD
NEVER EXPECT TO HAPPEN.
00:20:57.19\00:21:01.66
IF YOU LIVED BACK IN THE DAYS
OF PAUL, THE LAST THING IN THE
00:21:01.69\00:21:05.29
WORLD ANYBODY WOULD HAVE
EXPECTED IS THAT PAUL CONVERTS
00:21:05.33\00:21:10.17
TO CHRISTIANITY, BECAUSE HE WAS
THE POSTER CHILD OF THE ENEMY OF
00:21:10.20\00:21:15.67
CHRISTIANITY. AND SO, THAT'S
WHERE IT - WE TAKE UP OUR STORY.
00:21:15.70\00:21:21.24
MATTER OF FACT, GO AHEAD
AND TURN IN YOUR BIBLES - WE'RE
00:21:21.28\00:21:23.41
GOING TO READ ACTS
9, VERSES 3 THROUGH 9.
00:21:23.45\00:21:25.98
WE ALREADY READ PAUL BREATHING
MURDER AND THREATS AGAINST THE
00:21:26.01\00:21:31.02
DISCIPLES. YOU
REALIZE THAT ACTS CHAPTER 8
00:21:31.05\00:21:34.42
SAYS IN THAT TIME A
GREAT PERSECUTION AROSE.
00:21:34.46\00:21:36.73
PAUL WAS THE LEADER
OF THAT PERSECUTION.
00:21:36.76\00:21:38.49
NOW YOU GET TO ACTS 9. WE
DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT WENT
00:21:38.53\00:21:41.36
ON BUT IT MAY HAVE BEEN
FOR SOME TIME. HE GOT LETTERS.
00:21:41.40\00:21:46.53
HE GOT, ACTUALLY, ARREST
WARRANTS TO GO TO FOREIGN CITIES
00:21:46.57\00:21:50.14
- NOT EVEN JEWISH TERRITORY
- TO ARREST CHRISTIANS.
00:21:50.17\00:21:52.84
"AS HE JOURNEYED HE CAME NEAR
DAMASCUS, AND SUDDENLY A LIGHT
00:21:52.87\00:21:56.51
SHONE AROUND HIM FROM HEAVEN.
00:21:56.54\00:22:00.78
THEN HE FELL TO THE GROUND, AND
HE HEARD A VOICE SAYING TO HIM,
00:22:00.82\00:22:05.32
'SAUL, SAUL," - NOW WHAT ARE
SOME OTHER TIMES IN THE BIBLE
00:22:05.35\00:22:11.23
THAT BIBLE CHARACTERS HAVE
HEARD THE NAME CALLED TWICE?
00:22:11.26\00:22:15.76
>>SAMUEL.
>>SAMUEL, ABRAHAM, SAUL.
00:22:15.80\00:22:23.71
ONE TIME A LADY REMINDED ME THAT
THERE ARE NO LADIES IN THE BIBLE
00:22:23.74\00:22:28.48
THAT ARE EVER CALLED TWICE
BECAUSE THEY GET IT THE FIRST
00:22:28.51\00:22:31.11
TIME. (LAUGHTER) IT'S
ALWAYS THE MAN THAT'S GOT
00:22:31.15\00:22:34.08
TO SAY THEIR NAME TWICE.
NO, ACTUALLY, JESUS SAID,
00:22:34.12\00:22:36.69
'MARTHA, MARTHA,'
SO THAT'S NOT TRUE.
00:22:36.72\00:22:38.52
OKAY, ANYWAY, SO HE
SAYS, "'SAUL, SAUL, WHY ARE YOU
00:22:38.55\00:22:45.19
PERSECUTING ME?' AND
HE SAID, 'WHO ARE YOU,
00:22:45.23\00:22:49.03
LORD?'" WELL,
HE'S KIND OF SAYING WHO
00:22:49.06\00:22:51.37
HE IS, BUT HE
DOESN'T UNDERSTAND.
00:22:51.40\00:22:54.17
IT'S ALMOST LIKE MOSES
SAID, 'WHAT IS YOUR NAME?'
00:22:54.20\00:22:58.47
WHEN JEHOVAH APPEARED TO
HIM. AND HE SAID, "I AM JESUS."
00:22:58.51\00:23:03.78
NOW PAUL WAS SO THUNDERSTRUCK
BY THAT STATEMENT, IT MUST HAVE
00:23:03.81\00:23:07.25
BEEN LIKE THE FACE OF THE
BROTHERS OF JOSEPH WHEN JOSEPH
00:23:07.28\00:23:11.92
REVEALED HIMSELF TO THEM AND HE
SAID, 'I AM JOSEPH.' AND I - YOU
00:23:11.95\00:23:18.16
KNOW, WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN,
THAT'S A VIDEO I WANT TO SEE.
00:23:18.19\00:23:20.20
IF THE ANGELS CAN SHOW YOU,
LIKE, A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO
00:23:20.23\00:23:22.53
OF WHAT HAPPENED HERE ON
EARTH - I WANT TO SEE THAT ONE.
00:23:22.56\00:23:25.57
I WANT TO SEE THE FACES
OF JOSEPH'S BROTHERS WHEN HE
00:23:25.60\00:23:27.94
FINALLY SAYS, 'I'M JOSEPH.' IT
WOULD BE FUN TO SEE THE FACE OF
00:23:27.97\00:23:31.31
PAUL AT THIS POINT, WHEN
JESUS SAYS, 'I AM JESUS, WHO YOU
00:23:31.34\00:23:37.58
PERSECUTE.' CAN YOU EVER - HAVE
YOU EVER HAD TO ADMIT YOU'RE
00:23:37.61\00:23:41.98
WRONG BEFORE? HAVE
YOU EVER BEEN THAT WRONG,
00:23:42.02\00:23:44.72
THAT YOU SUDDENLY FIND OUT
THAT YOU'RE KILLING - YOU THINK
00:23:44.75\00:23:50.86
YOU'RE SERVING GOD
BUT YOU'RE KILLING HIM?
00:23:50.89\00:23:53.73
YOU'RE KILLING HIS SERVANTS AND
'INASMUCH AS YOU'VE DONE IT TO
00:23:53.76\00:23:56.90
THE LEAST OF THESE YOU'VE DONE
IT TO ME.' AND SO HE MUST HAVE
00:23:56.93\00:24:02.04
HAD AN EXPRESSION OF TERRIBLE
CONSTERNATION AND AGHAST.
00:24:02.07\00:24:08.68
HE SAID, 'I AM JESUS, WHO YOU' -
AND YOU NOTICE - WHY DID GOD SAY
00:24:08.71\00:24:14.62
TO ABRAHAM, WHEN HE
SAID, 'WHO ARE YOU?'
00:24:14.65\00:24:16.99
HE SAID, 'I AM THAT I AM.'
WHAT DOES JESUS SAY TO SAUL?
00:24:17.02\00:24:20.02
'I AM - I AM THE SAME GOD THAT
SPOKE TO MOSES.' "I AM JESUS,
00:24:20.06\00:24:27.30
WHOM YOU ARE PERSECUTING.
IT IS HARD FOR YOU TO KICK
00:24:27.30\00:24:30.87
AGAINST THE GOADS." KING
JAMES SAYS, 'KICK AGAINST
00:24:30.90\00:24:33.67
THE PRICKS.' THEY USED TO USE
THIS, LIKE, PITCHFORK KIND OF
00:24:33.70\00:24:35.84
STICK, IT HAD ONE OR TWO POINTS
ON IT TO PROD CATTLE ALONG.
00:24:35.87\00:24:39.44
WHEN THEY STARTED TO EAT ON
THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND YOU'RE
00:24:39.47\00:24:42.34
TRYING TO GET THEM TO GO
SOMEWHERE, YOU'D GOAD THEM.
00:24:42.38\00:24:44.48
OR IF THEY WERE
PULLING A CART YOU'D POKE THEM.
00:24:44.51\00:24:46.65
THEY'VE GOT VERY TOUGH HIDE -
A BULL OR OXEN - AND, YOU KNOW,
00:24:46.68\00:24:51.05
RUBBING - YOU CAN WHIP THEM
AND THEY CAN'T HARDLY FEEL IT.
00:24:51.09\00:24:53.39
YOU CAN SMACK THEM
AND IT'S NOT LIKE A HORSE.
00:24:53.42\00:24:55.26
BUT SO YOU HAVE TO GOAD THEM.
00:24:55.29\00:24:57.26
AND IT HURTS IF A
PERSON RUNS INTO A GOAD.
00:24:57.29\00:25:00.06
AND IF YOU'RE KICKING AGAINST
A GOAD, YOU JUST HURT YOURSELF.
00:25:00.10\00:25:04.03
THE MAN WHO IS DRIVING THE OXEN
IS TRYING TO DIRECT IT AND WHEN
00:25:04.07\00:25:09.07
THE OXEN KICK AGAINST THE GOADS,
THEY JUST BLOODY THEMSELVES.
00:25:09.10\00:25:12.77
AND SO GOD HAS BEEN TRYING
TO GUIDE PAUL AND PAUL IS GOING
00:25:12.81\00:25:16.81
AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT.
THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS BEEN TELLING
00:25:16.85\00:25:20.02
HIM THAT GOD WAS WITH
STEPHEN AND THE OTHERS.
00:25:20.05\00:25:23.35
SO JESUS IS SAYING, 'YOU'RE
JUST HURTING YOURSELF.' "SO HE,
00:25:23.39\00:25:28.92
TREMBLING" - HE FINALLY
SURRENDERS TO THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:25:28.96\00:25:32.26
AND THIS OBVIOUS POWER OF GOD,
"HE, TREMBLING AND ASTONISHED,"
00:25:32.29\00:25:36.13
- HE'S FALLEN TO THE GROUND
AT THE SIGHT OF SEEING THE LORD.
00:25:36.16\00:25:39.57
NOW SOME WONDER IF HE
ACTUALLY WAS ON A HORSE AND
00:25:39.60\00:25:41.67
WAS KNOCKED TO THE GROUND FROM
THE HORSE, OR IF HE WAS WALKING
00:25:41.70\00:25:45.51
AND HE SAYS, "LORD,
WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?"
00:25:45.54\00:25:50.21
NOW, WHEN WE ARE CONVERTED,
THAT'S THE FIRST THING WE NEED
00:25:50.25\00:25:53.72
TO DO IS SURRENDER TO THE WILL
OF GOD AND SAY, 'WHAT IS YOUR
00:25:53.75\00:25:56.08
WILL? I AM
WILLING TO DO YOUR WILL.'
00:25:56.12\00:25:58.25
"THEN THE LORD SAID TO HIM,
'ARISE AND GO INTO THE CITY, AND
00:25:58.29\00:26:03.59
YOU WILL BE TOLD WHAT YOU MUST
DO.'" YOU NOTICE HE DOESN'T TELL
00:26:03.63\00:26:06.90
HIM EVERYTHING HE'S GOING TO
DO? HE TELLS HIM THE NEXT STEP.
00:26:06.93\00:26:10.87
AND GOD WILL NOT ALWAYS LAY OUT
FOR YOU EVERYTHING HE WANTS YOU
00:26:10.90\00:26:13.74
TO DO, BUT HE
TELLS THE NEXT STEP.
00:26:13.77\00:26:15.67
AND HE SAYS IT "WILL
BE TOLD WHAT YOU MUST DO."
00:26:15.70\00:26:18.47
GOD COULD HAVE TOLD HIM.
ANGELS COULD HAVE TOLD HIM.
00:26:18.51\00:26:21.21
BUT THE LORD IS
GOING TO NOW USE PEOPLE.
00:26:21.24\00:26:23.08
GOD USES PEOPLE TO REACH
PEOPLE. GOD USED THE CHURCH.
00:26:23.11\00:26:27.05
GOD WANTED PAUL - SAUL - TO
RESPECT THAT THE CHURCH WAS THE
00:26:27.08\00:26:32.55
VEHICLE THROUGH WHICH HE WAS
GOING TO BE PREACHING THE TRUTH.
00:26:32.59\00:26:36.19
AND HE SAID, 'LOOK, THIS CHURCH
THAT YOU'VE BEEN PERSECUTING,
00:26:36.22\00:26:38.23
I'M GOING TO SEND
SOMEONE FROM THE CHURCH.
00:26:38.26\00:26:40.70
THEY'RE GOING TO TEACH
YOU WHAT YOU SHOULD DO.
00:26:40.73\00:26:42.96
IT'S VERY INTERESTING. AND
SO, PAUL, WHO THOUGHT HE HAD
00:26:43.00\00:26:47.34
GREAT LIGHT, HE REALIZES
THAT HE WAS IN GREAT DARKNESS.
00:26:47.37\00:26:50.54
AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, "AND
THE MEN WHO JOURNEYED" - I'M IN
00:26:50.57\00:26:54.98
VERSE 7 - "AND THE MEN
WHO JOURNEYED WITH HIM STOOD
00:26:55.01\00:26:57.21
SPEECHLESS, HEARING A
VOICE BUT SEEING NO ONE."
00:26:57.25\00:27:01.95
NOW THEY JUST - THEY SAW THE
LIGHT - "THEN SAUL AROSE FROM
00:27:01.98\00:27:08.52
THE GROUND, AND WHEN HIS
EYES WERE OPENED" - THE BLINDING
00:27:08.56\00:27:12.46
LIGHT - HE PROBABLY WAS COWERING
AND CLOSING HIS EYES AND HIDING
00:27:12.49\00:27:15.40
HIS FACE, LIKE THE APOSTLES ON
THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION -
00:27:15.43\00:27:18.30
OPENING HIS EYES "...HE
SAW NO ONE. BUT THEY LED HIM BY
00:27:18.33\00:27:23.07
THE HAND AND BROUGHT HIM INTO
DAMASCUS." THAT BLINDING LIGHT
00:27:23.10\00:27:25.61
THAT HE SAW PROBABLY
DID SOME PERMANENT DAMAGE.
00:27:25.64\00:27:29.81
AND, AT FIRST, HE WAS
BLINDED - COULDN'T SEE AT ALL.
00:27:29.84\00:27:33.38
AFTER THREE DAYS OF
FASTING, REPENTING AND PRAYING,
00:27:33.42\00:27:37.95
ULTIMATELY ANANIAS COMES AND
LAYS HANDS ON HIM AND PRAYS FOR
00:27:37.99\00:27:41.62
HIM AND SOMETHING LIKE
SCALES FELL FROM HIS EYES.
00:27:41.66\00:27:44.03
IT'S ALMOST LIKE THERE WAS A
BURNT LAYER THAT CAME OFF OF HIS
00:27:44.06\00:27:46.13
EYES AND HE COULD SEE BUT
HE NEVER SAW PERFECTLY AGAIN.
00:27:46.16\00:27:49.66
AND I THINK THAT WAS THE
THORN IN PAUL'S SIDE. HE WAS
00:27:49.70\00:27:53.57
HANDICAPPED FOR THE REST OF
HIS LIFE THROUGH THIS ENCOUNTER
00:27:53.60\00:27:57.17
WITH JESUS. ONE
REASON WE THINK THAT PAUL
00:27:57.21\00:28:00.14
HAD EYESIGHT PROBLEMS IS BECAUSE
WHEN HE WAS BEING TRIED, HE
00:28:00.18\00:28:05.05
DIDN'T KNOW THE HIGH PRIEST THAT
WAS ONLY A FEW FEET AWAY SITTING
00:28:05.08\00:28:08.72
ON THE BENCH. HE
DIDN'T RECOGNIZE WHO IT WAS.
00:28:08.75\00:28:11.69
PAUL HAD OTHER PEOPLE WRITE
LETTERS FOR HIM AND HE WOULD
00:28:11.72\00:28:15.72
SIGN THE LETTER. AND,
ONCE OR TWICE, WHEN HE DID
00:28:15.76\00:28:17.79
WRITE A LETTER, BECAUSE HE
DIDN'T HAVE A SECRETARY AT HAND,
00:28:17.83\00:28:20.50
HE SAID, 'LOOK AT WHAT LARGE
CHARACTERS I'M USING TO WRITE
00:28:20.53\00:28:23.80
YOU.' YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE,
WHEN THEY CAN'T SEE, THEY'VE GOT
00:28:23.83\00:28:25.97
TO WRITE REAL BIG.
ANYBODY EVER SEE THOSE PHONES
00:28:26.00\00:28:27.97
FOR OLD PEOPLE THAT CAN'T SEE?
EACH LETTER IS LIKE THAT BIG.
00:28:28.00\00:28:30.94
AND SO - AND PAUL NEVER TRAVELED
ALONE BECAUSE HE KIND OF NEEDED
00:28:30.97\00:28:36.48
SOMEONE TO HELP GUIDE HIM
AROUND BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE
00:28:36.51\00:28:38.78
LENSCRAFTERS BACK THEN AND IF
YOU HAD BAD EYESIGHT, YOU JUST
00:28:38.81\00:28:43.22
KIND OF HAD TO LIVE WITH IT
OR YOU HAD SOMEBODY THAT WENT
00:28:43.25\00:28:45.92
AROUND WITH YOU AND KEPT
YOU FROM WALKING OFF THE ROAD.
00:28:45.95\00:28:48.22
SO PAUL PRAYED THAT HE
MIGHT BE PERMANENTLY HEALED.
00:28:48.26\00:28:51.66
THREE TIMES HE PRAYED ABOUT THIS
THORN IN HIS SIDE AND GOD SAID,
00:28:51.69\00:28:54.83
'MY STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN
WEAKNESS.' SO MANY BELIEVE THAT
00:28:54.86\00:28:58.63
THIS WAS THE THORN THAT PAUL
STRUGGLED WITH - IS JUST BAD
00:28:58.67\00:29:02.67
EYESIGHT. AFTER
JACOB WRESTLED WITH THE
00:29:02.70\00:29:05.74
ANGEL, JESUS, DID HE
LIMP THE REST OF HIS LIFE?
00:29:05.77\00:29:08.88
>>YES. >>AND AFTER PAUL HAD HIS
00:29:08.91\00:29:10.95
ENCOUNTER WITH
JESUS, HE NEVER FORGOT IT.
00:29:10.98\00:29:13.45
EVERY DAY HE LOOKED OUT ON A
WORLD THAT REMINDED HIM THAT HE
00:29:13.48\00:29:16.55
THOUGHT HE HAD GREAT LIGHT
BUT HE WAS ACTUALLY IN DARKNESS.
00:29:16.58\00:29:21.19
AND THAT'S OUR
NEXT VERSE, I THINK.
00:29:21.22\00:29:22.66
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
FOR US IN - DID WE DO THAT YET?
00:29:22.69\00:29:24.89
2 CORINTHIANS 4:6? NO. GO AHEAD.
00:29:24.93\00:29:27.03
>>FOR IT IS THE GOD WHO
COMMANDED LIGHT TO SHINE OUT OF
00:29:27.03\00:29:31.00
DARKNESS, WHO HAS SHONE IN OUR
HEARTS TO GIVE THE LIGHT OF THE
00:29:31.03\00:29:33.67
KNOWLEDGE OF THE GLORY OF
GOD IN THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST.
00:29:33.70\00:29:35.84
>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
AND HE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO DO
00:29:35.87\00:29:39.54
THAT IN SOUTH AFRICAN FOR US.
PAUL THOUGHT HE HAD GREAT LIGHT.
00:29:39.57\00:29:44.58
HE THOUGHT THAT HE
WAS LEADING THE BLIND.
00:29:44.61\00:29:47.62
WHAT DOES JESUS SAY ABOUT THAT?
MATTHEW 15:14, "LET THEM ALONE.
00:29:47.65\00:29:51.99
THEY ARE BLIND LEADERS OF THE
BLIND AND IF THE BLIND LEADS THE
00:29:52.02\00:29:55.22
BLIND, BOTH WILL
FALL INTO A DITCH."
00:29:55.26\00:29:57.69
JESUS WENT ON TO SAY IN JOHN
9:41, "...IF YOU WERE BLIND, YOU
00:29:57.73\00:30:02.36
WOULD HAVE NO SIN; BUT NOW YOU
SAY, 'WE SEE.' THEREFORE YOUR
00:30:02.40\00:30:05.03
SIN REMAINS." NOW PAUL
WAS LEADING THESE OTHER
00:30:05.07\00:30:07.60
PEOPLE TO
DAMASCUS TO ARREST JEWS.
00:30:07.64\00:30:10.47
HE THOUGHT HE WAS - HE HAD GREAT
LIGHT - AND HE THOUGHT THAT THE
00:30:10.51\00:30:13.61
CHRISTIANS WERE IN DARKNESS.
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER HE RUNS INTO
00:30:13.64\00:30:16.34
JESUS? WHO'S LEADING
WHO? SUDDENLY, HE CAN'T SEE.
00:30:16.38\00:30:19.68
AND WHO IS IT THAT HAS TO
COME AND PRAY THAT HIS EYES ARE
00:30:19.71\00:30:23.59
OPENED? THE CHRISTIANS.
00:30:23.62\00:30:25.59
YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN INTERESTING
STORY ABOUT WHEN SAUL BECOMES
00:30:25.62\00:30:31.69
PAUL, HE HAS A SHOWDOWN WITH A
FALSE TEACHER - A SORCERER - AND
00:30:31.73\00:30:41.00
PAUL PRAYS THAT HE WOULD BE
STRUCK WITH BLINDNESS - THE VERY
00:30:41.04\00:30:44.64
THING THAT HAPPENED TO
HIM. HIS NAME WAS ELYMAS, THE
00:30:44.67\00:30:49.14
SORCERER. AND,
MATTER OF FACT, I'M KIND OF
00:30:49.18\00:30:52.18
GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF BUT THAT
MAY BE WHERE PAUL ACTUALLY GETS
00:30:52.21\00:30:55.58
HIS NAME CHANGED AND
PART OF THE REASON FOR THAT.
00:30:55.62\00:31:00.32
SO - HAVE YOU EVER BEEN REALLY
WRONG BEFORE AND THEN HAD TO
00:31:00.36\00:31:05.53
REALIZE AND ADMIT
THAT YOU WERE WRONG?
00:31:05.56\00:31:08.26
IT'S KIND OF EMBARRASSING,
ISN'T IT? IS IT HUMBLING?
00:31:08.30\00:31:15.44
>>YEAH. >>I USED
TO MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE
00:31:15.47\00:31:18.77
THAT BELIEVED IN CREATION. I
THOUGHT THEY WERE SO IGNORANT.
00:31:18.81\00:31:21.44
I WAS ABSOLUTELY SINCERE.
00:31:21.48\00:31:23.28
I MEAN, AFTER ALL, I WENT
TO SCHOOL AND SEVERAL OF MY
00:31:23.31\00:31:25.58
TEACHERS TAUGHT THIS AND
SCIENTISTS BELIEVED IT AND I SAW
00:31:25.61\00:31:27.45
PROGRAMS ABOUT IT ON TV AND THE
IDEA THAT PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT
00:31:27.48\00:31:31.72
GOD JUST SPOKE THINGS INTO
EXISTENCE - I JUST FELT SORRY
00:31:31.75\00:31:34.22
FOR THEM. I REALLY DID.
I WAS ABSOLUTELY SINCERE.
00:31:34.26\00:31:36.29
I FELT THAT THEY WERE SO
IGNORANT, I WONDERED HOW THEY
00:31:36.32\00:31:39.16
COULD BE SO BLINDED AND WHEN
I BEGAN TO FINALLY EXAMINE THE
00:31:39.19\00:31:42.80
EVIDENCE - NOT EVEN TALKING
ABOUT THE BIBLE - THE BIBLE
00:31:42.83\00:31:45.73
HELPED - BUT WHEN I BEGAN
TO LOOK AT THE 'SCIENTIFIC'
00:31:45.77\00:31:48.54
EVIDENCE, I FELT SO BAD THAT
I HAD MISLED SO MANY PEOPLE AND
00:31:48.57\00:31:51.27
MADE FUN OF PEOPLE AND
HUMILIATED PEOPLE AND CALLED
00:31:51.31\00:31:53.44
THEM IGNORANT. I
REALIZED I WAS WRONG AND
00:31:53.48\00:31:56.28
THERE'S A NUMBER OF OTHER TIMES
I'VE HAD TO REALIZE I'M WRONG.
00:31:56.31\00:32:00.45
PAUL HAD TO REALIZE AND ADMIT HE
WAS VERY WRONG ABOUT THIS AND IT
00:32:00.48\00:32:05.85
WAS QUITE A STRUGGLE. IT
GOES ON TO SAY THAT THOSE WHO
00:32:05.89\00:32:10.93
WERE LEADING HIM BROUGHT HIM,
THEN, TO DAMASCUS. "SAUL AROSE
00:32:10.96\00:32:14.60
AND WHEN HIS EYES WERE OPENED
HE SAW NO ONE; BUT THEY LED HIM
00:32:14.63\00:32:17.07
BY THE HAND AND BROUGHT HIM TO
DAMASCUS. AND HE WAS THREE DAYS
00:32:17.10\00:32:22.14
WITHOUT SIGHT AND HE
NEITHER ATE NOR DRANK."
00:32:22.17\00:32:26.98
NOW THERE'S PLENTY OF PEOPLE
IN THE BIBLE THAT FASTED THREE
00:32:27.01\00:32:29.44
DAYS, BUT A SEVERE FAST - WHAT
THEY CALL A RADICAL FAST - IS A
00:32:29.48\00:32:34.25
FAST WHERE YOU NOT ONLY
DON'T EAT BUT YOU DON'T DRINK.
00:32:34.28\00:32:37.55
YOU DON'T DRINK
ANYTHING - NO WATER.
00:32:37.59\00:32:39.19
HAVE YOU EVER GONE 24
HOURS WITHOUT ANY LIQUID?
00:32:39.22\00:32:41.39
AND EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU HAVE
TO GO TO THE DOCTOR FOR SOME
00:32:41.42\00:32:44.56
BLOOD TEST OR MEDICAL PROCEDURE
AND THEY SAY, 'DON'T DRINK
00:32:44.59\00:32:47.03
ANYTHING UNTIL YOU COME IN.'
AND THAT'S SO HARD FOR ME - THE
00:32:47.10\00:32:54.10
FIRST THING I DO IS I HEAT UP
WATER AND DRINK IN THE MORNING.
00:32:54.14\00:32:56.50
AND YOU START
GETTING THIRSTY AFTER A DAY.
00:32:56.54\00:33:00.78
THEN YOUR SECOND DAY - HAVE
YOU EVER GONE 24 HOURS WITHOUT
00:33:00.81\00:33:04.48
DRINKING ANYTHING? AND
YOU GO INTO YOUR SECOND DAY?
00:33:04.51\00:33:07.32
THEY HAD A FAMILY - HUSBAND
AND WIFE - THEY WERE TRAVELING
00:33:07.35\00:33:12.85
ACROSS THE WHITE SANDS DESERT
THIS WEEK IN - NEAR ALAMAGORDO,
00:33:12.89\00:33:17.39
NEW MEXICO - A FRENCH FAMILY.
THEY DIDN'T REALIZE HOW FAR IT
00:33:17.43\00:33:21.63
WAS AND THEY
DIDN'T TAKE ENOUGH WATER.
00:33:21.66\00:33:23.30
THEY WERE HIKING THE TRAIL -
MINI HIKE, BUT IT WAS OVER 100
00:33:23.33\00:33:26.00
DEGREES THAT DAY. THEY
GOT DISORIENTED, THEY GOT
00:33:26.03\00:33:28.54
SEPARATED, AND THE PARENTS,
REALIZING THEY WERE RUNNING OUT
00:33:28.57\00:33:31.44
OF WATER, THEY GAVE
THEIR WATER TO THEIR SON.
00:33:31.47\00:33:33.38
WHEN THEY FINALLY FOUND THEM,
THE MOTHER AND FATHER HAD DIED
00:33:33.41\00:33:35.68
FROM A LACK OF THIRST -
LACK OF WATER - ONE DAY.
00:33:35.71\00:33:39.31
HOW MANY OF YOU READ THAT
STORY? IT HAPPENED THIS WEEK.
00:33:39.35\00:33:41.88
ONE DAY - UNDER THE RIGHT
CONDITIONS YOU CAN DIE FROM
00:33:41.92\00:33:45.02
EXPOSURE. THE BOY WAS TERRIBLY
DEHYDRATED BUT HE SURVIVED.
00:33:45.05\00:33:49.12
AND THREE DAYS - NO
WATER - IS A RADICAL FAST.
00:33:49.16\00:33:55.73
NOW THERE'S A FEW TIMES
THAT'S HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE.
00:33:55.76\00:33:57.53
IT HAPPENS HERE WITH PAUL.
YOU CAN READ IN THE BOOK OF
00:33:57.57\00:34:00.77
JONAH THAT WHEN JONAH PREACHED
IN NINEVEH, THEIR REPENTANCE WAS
00:34:00.80\00:34:05.57
SO THOROUGH, THE KING ISSUED
A PROCLAMATION: 'LET NEITHER MAN
00:34:05.61\00:34:10.08
NOR BEAST, HERD NOR
FLOCK, TASTE ANYTHING.
00:34:10.11\00:34:14.02
DO NOT LET THEM EAT OR DRINK
WATER.' IT DOESN'T SAY HOW LONG
00:34:14.05\00:34:18.42
IT WAS BUT THEY
HAD A SEVERE FAST.
00:34:18.45\00:34:20.16
AND THEN WITH ESTHER WHEN THE
WHOLE JEWISH NATION WAS FACING
00:34:20.19\00:34:23.32
ANNIHILATION, SHE SENT A MESSAGE
TO MORDECAI AND SAID, 'GO TO THE
00:34:23.36\00:34:29.43
JEWS WHO ARE PRESENT IN
SHUSHAN AND FAST FOR ME.
00:34:29.46\00:34:32.20
NEITHER EAT NOR DRINK FOR THREE
DAYS.' NOW, THAT'S NOT A HEALTH
00:34:32.23\00:34:35.87
FAST, YOU REALIZE, THAT'S A LIFE
OR DEATH FAST - WHEN YOU DON'T
00:34:35.90\00:34:39.51
EAT OR DRINK - AND SO PAUL, WHEN
HE DOES NOT EAT OR DRINK FOR
00:34:39.54\00:34:44.28
THREE DAYS, HE WAS READY TO DIE.
HE WAS SO MORTIFIED HE JUST -
00:34:44.31\00:34:48.38
HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN SOME REALLY
BAD NEWS AND YOU JUST CAN'T EAT?
00:34:48.42\00:34:52.79
SOMETIMES YOU CAN BE IN SUCH
A STATE OF DEPRESSION - THAT YOU
00:34:52.82\00:34:58.13
GET SUCH BAD NEWS YOU CAN'T EAT
OR DRINK. YOU DON'T EVEN WANT TO
00:34:58.16\00:35:00.73
TAKE CARE OF ANY OF YOUR BODY.
AND THAT'S WHAT PAUL IS DOING.
00:35:00.76\00:35:07.37
HE IS - HE'S THINKING ABOUT THE
BLOOD THAT'S ON HIS HANDS - OF
00:35:07.40\00:35:10.57
THESE INNOCENT GODLY
PEOPLE THAT HE KILLED.
00:35:10.61\00:35:12.57
HE'S THINKING THAT HE HAS BEEN
FIGHTING AGAINST THE JEHOVAH
00:35:12.61\00:35:15.51
THAT ISRAEL WAS RAISED UP
TO SERVE AND PROCLAIM THAT HERE
00:35:15.54\00:35:19.38
THEY HAVE KILLED THEIR MESSIAH
AND HE WAS - EVEN AFTER THAT HE
00:35:19.41\00:35:23.65
WENT ON - TOOK IT TO THE
NEXT LEVEL - AND HE KILLED THE
00:35:23.69\00:35:26.65
MESSIAH'S FOLLOWERS. SO
PAUL IS REALLY OVERCOME WITH
00:35:26.69\00:35:30.73
SEVERE REPENTANCE NOW.
THE IMPRESSION OF WHAT HE SAW
00:35:30.76\00:35:38.03
WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GUILTY
OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS IS DEEPLY,
00:35:38.07\00:35:41.77
PERMANENTLY ON HIS MIND.
NOW WHO QUALIFIES AS AN APOSTLE?
00:35:41.80\00:35:48.34
DO ANY PEOPLE TODAY
SAY THEY ARE APOSTLES?
00:35:48.38\00:35:52.05
YES, NOT IN OUR CHURCH.
WE TYPICALLY DON'T DO THAT.
00:35:52.08\00:35:56.32
BUT EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU'LL
HEAR ON THE RADIO THERE'S AN
00:35:56.35\00:36:00.66
APOSTLE THIS AND APOSTLE THAT.
BUT YOU KNOW WHY WE DON'T SAY
00:36:00.69\00:36:04.53
THAT WE HAVE APOSTLES TODAY?
EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD THESE
00:36:04.56\00:36:07.66
ORDERS OF THE CHURCH - WE HAVE
CHURCH LEADERS THAT MAY FILL
00:36:07.73\00:36:10.03
SIMILAR CAPACITIES - THE
APOSTLES WERE THE ONES WHO
00:36:10.07\00:36:13.80
ACTUALLY, PERSONALLY SAW JESUS
AND THAT HE SPOKE TO PERSONALLY.
00:36:13.84\00:36:19.04
AND THE LAST ONE THAT FIT IN
THAT CATEGORY THAT WE KNOW OF.
00:36:19.07\00:36:23.18
NOW AFTER THE TIME OF SAUL THERE
WERE PEOPLE LIKE APOLLOS WHO WAS
00:36:23.21\00:36:27.22
LATER REFERRED TO AS AN APOSTLE,
BUT SAUL - OR PAUL - WAS THE
00:36:27.25\00:36:31.82
LAST ONE THAT JESUS
CALLED TO BE AN APOSTLE.
00:36:31.85\00:36:34.76
SOME HAVE WONDERED WHEN THE
APOSTLES TOOK - WHEN THEY CALLED
00:36:34.79\00:36:39.36
MATTHIAS, MAYBE HE
WASN'T THE RIGHT CHOICE.
00:36:39.39\00:36:42.53
AND AT THE TIME OF PAUL'S
CONVERSION, SOME OF THE OTHER
00:36:42.56\00:36:48.14
APOSTLES MAY HAVE DIED.
WE BELIEVE THE FIRST ONE WHO
00:36:48.17\00:36:50.07
DIED WAS JAMES SO THAT THE OTHER
ELEVEN WERE STILL ALIVE AND HE
00:36:50.11\00:36:53.78
MAY HAVE BEEN JESUS'
OFFICIAL REPLACEMENT FOR JUDAS.
00:36:53.81\00:36:57.01
I'VE HEARD THESE DIFFERENT
ARGUMENTS, BUT THIS IS THE LAST
00:36:57.05\00:37:00.42
TIME CHRIST APPEARED.
CAN YOU TELL ME - WELL, JESUS
00:37:00.45\00:37:02.75
APPEARS TO THE APOSTLE JOHN,
BUT THEY HAD ALREADY MET BEFORE.
00:37:02.78\00:37:05.75
THAT WAS NOT A NEW APPEARANCE.
THERE'S NO OTHER INDIVIDUAL THAT
00:37:05.79\00:37:10.36
IT'S RECORDED THAT CHRIST
APPEARS TO INDIVIDUALLY LIKE
00:37:10.39\00:37:12.79
THIS AND SO THIS IS A
VERY DRAMATIC EXPERIENCE.
00:37:12.83\00:37:16.70
SO LET'S JUST READ ON A LITTLE
FURTHER WITH HIS CONVERSION,
00:37:16.73\00:37:19.13
BRING OUT A FEW MORE POINTS
AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT HIS
00:37:19.17\00:37:22.57
MISSION WORD. AND IT
SAYS - SO THEN HE COMES -
00:37:22.60\00:37:26.37
HE'S THREE DAYS WITHOUT
SIGHT - HE DOESN'T EAT OR DRINK.
00:37:26.41\00:37:28.74
NOW LET'S GO TO ANOTHER PART OF
DAMASCUS - VERSE 10 I'M IN ACTS
00:37:28.78\00:37:32.95
9, VERSE 10 - "NOW THERE WAS
A CERTAIN DISCIPLE AT DAMASCUS
00:37:32.98\00:37:35.92
NAMED ANANIAS;" - NOW WHEN YOU
READ IN ACTS CHAPTER 5, THERE'S
00:37:35.95\00:37:40.12
ANOTHER ANANIAS. IS HE
A GOOD ONE OR A BAD ONE?
00:37:40.16\00:37:41.89
>>BAD. >>CHAPTER 5
- BAD ONE - CHAPTER
00:37:41.92\00:37:43.96
9 - GOOD ONE. IT WAS A
COMMON NAME BACK IN THE BIBLE.
00:37:43.99\00:37:48.20
SO - JUST LIKE YOU'RE GOING
TO FIND, YOU KNOW, YOU FIND THE
00:37:48.23\00:37:53.27
NAME JESUS SEVERAL TIMES IN
THE BIBLE. YOU'RE GOING TO FIND
00:37:53.30\00:37:56.77
THE NAME JUDAS - THERE'S A
GOOD JUDAS AND A BAD JUDAS.
00:37:56.81\00:37:58.97
AND SO, IT WAS A COMMON NAME -
DISCIPLE NAMED ANANIAS; "AND TO
00:37:59.01\00:38:04.51
HIM THE LORD SAID IN A VISION,
'ANANIAS.' AND HE SAID, 'HERE I
00:38:04.55\00:38:07.78
AM, LORD.' SO THE LORD SAID TO
HIM, 'ARISE AND GO TO THE STREET
00:38:07.82\00:38:11.02
CALLED STRAIGHT, AND INQUIRE
AT THE HOUSE OF JUDAS FOR ONE
00:38:11.05\00:38:14.29
CALLED SAUL OF TARSUS, FOR
BEHOLD, HE IS PRAYING.'" - DOES
00:38:14.32\00:38:19.73
GOD SEE US WHEN WE'RE PRAYING?
- "AND IN A VISION HE HAS SEEN A
00:38:19.76\00:38:23.63
MAN NAMED ANANIAS" - GOD HAS
ACTUALLY REVEALED TO PAUL THAT
00:38:23.67\00:38:28.00
SOMEONE NAMED ANANIAS IS GOING
TO COME - "COMING IN AND PUTTING
00:38:28.04\00:38:31.01
HIS HAND ON HIM, SO THAT
HE MIGHT RECEIVE HIS SIGHT."
00:38:31.04\00:38:34.08
DID THEY HEAL BY
LAYING ON OF HANDS SOMETIMES?
00:38:34.11\00:38:36.78
"THEN ANANIAS ANSWERED," -
HE KIND OF REMONSTRATES WITH THE
00:38:36.81\00:38:41.45
LORD - HE SAYS, "...I HAVE HEARD
FROM MANY ABOUT THIS MAN, HOW
00:38:41.48\00:38:44.65
MUCH HARM HE HAS
DONE TO YOUR SAINTS..."
00:38:44.69\00:38:46.89
- 'LORD, MAYBE YOU'RE NOT
AWARE - LET ME FILL YOU IN.
00:38:46.92\00:38:49.86
YOU'RE GOING TO BE GLAD
YOU ASKED ME ABOUT THIS, LORD.
00:38:49.89\00:38:52.39
THERE'S SOMETHING
I NEED TO TELL YOU.
00:38:52.43\00:38:54.13
THIS IS THE GUY' - I MEAN,
DOES GOD NOT KNOW ANYTHING?
00:38:54.20\00:38:56.97
SOMETIMES WE THINK
WE'RE FILLING GOD IN.
00:38:57.00\00:38:58.90
HE SAYS, "LORD, I HAVE HEARD
FROM MANY ABOUT THIS MAN, HOW
00:38:58.93\00:39:02.64
MUCH HARM HE HAS DONE TO
YOUR SAINTS IN JERUSALEM."
00:39:02.67\00:39:04.97
- AND HE'S HERE - WORD'S ALREADY
REACHED US - HE'S HERE BECAUSE
00:39:05.01\00:39:08.08
HE'S GOT: "AUTHORITY FROM
THE CHIEF PRIEST TO BIND ALL WHO
00:39:08.11\00:39:11.15
CALL ON YOUR NAME.'" YOU DON'T
WANT TO - YOU DON'T WANT US TO
00:39:11.18\00:39:14.02
GO AND HEAL HIM?' -
"BUT THE LORD SAID TO HIM,
00:39:14.05\00:39:17.95
'GO, FOR HE IS A
CHOSEN VESSEL OF MINE..."
00:39:17.99\00:39:21.52
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN GOD TAKES
THE SHEET DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND
00:39:21.56\00:39:24.06
SAYS, 'PETER, ARISE AND EAT.'
AND PETER SAYS, 'NO, LORD, NOT
00:39:24.09\00:39:25.89
SO.' SOMETIMES THEY
WONDERED, 'IS IT A TEST?'
00:39:25.93\00:39:29.36
"GO, FOR HE IS A CHOSEN VESSEL
OF MINE TO BEAR MY NAME BEFORE
00:39:29.40\00:39:37.27
GENTILES, KINGS, AND
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL."
00:39:37.31\00:39:43.81
- SO NOT ONLY GENTILES BUT JEWS.
NOW, WHEN IS PETER CALLED TO BE
00:39:43.85\00:39:49.35
AN APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES?
(INAUDIBLE) CHAPTER 10 - NEXT
00:39:49.38\00:39:54.32
CHAPTER, RIGHT? WHEN
HE GOES TO CORNELIUS.
00:39:54.36\00:39:56.36
HERE, IN CHAPTER 9, IT'S ALREADY
BEING ANNOUNCED BY JESUS THAT HE
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RECOGNIZES PAUL IS GOING TO HAVE
A GREAT WORK AMONG THE GENTILES.
00:40:00.70\00:40:04.00
ALTHOUGH HE DOESN'T START
THERE, THAT ENDS UP BECOMING HIS
00:40:04.03\00:40:06.74
PROMINENT MISSION - "FOR I WILL
SHOW HIM HOW MANY THINGS HE MUST
00:40:06.77\00:40:10.67
SUFFER FOR MY NAME'S SAKE."
DOES GOD SOMETIMES SHOW APOSTLES
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AHEAD OF TIME THAT THEY
WILL SUFFER? HAS HE SHOWN US?
00:40:14.88\00:40:19.88
DID JESUS SAY ALL THAT LIVE
GODLY WILL SUFFER PERSECUTION?
00:40:19.91\00:40:23.49
DOES THAT INCLUDE
ANYONE HERE? THAT DEPENDS.
00:40:23.52\00:40:28.22
DO YOU PLAN ON LIVING GODLY?
ALL WHO LIVE GODLY WILL SUFFER
00:40:28.26\00:40:32.23
PERSECUTION. JESUS SAID,
'IF THEY PERSECUTED ME, THEY'LL
00:40:32.26\00:40:34.40
PERSECUTE YOU.' WHAT DID JESUS
SAY TO PETER? 'WHEN YOU WERE
00:40:34.46\00:40:37.87
YOUNG YOU GIRDED YOURSELF AND
WENT WHERE YOU WANTED, BUT WHEN
00:40:37.90\00:40:40.74
YOU ARE OLD ANOTHER WILL GIRD
YOU AND YOU WILL STRETCH FORTH
00:40:40.77\00:40:43.07
YOUR HANDS' - SIGNIFYING THAT HE
WAS GOING TO DIE BY CRUCIFIXION.
00:40:43.10\00:40:47.04
SO SOMETIMES THE LORD LET'S THEM
KNOW AHEAD OF TIME WHAT THEY
00:40:47.08\00:40:52.21
HAVE TO EXPERIENCE SO
THAT THEY CAN BRACE THEMSELVES.
00:40:52.25\00:40:54.78
NOW, IT'S NOT SO
YOU CAN LIVE IN FEAR.
00:40:54.82\00:40:56.95
"FOR I WILL SHOW HIM HOW MANY
THINGS HE MUST SUFFER FOR MY
00:40:56.99\00:40:59.69
NAME'S SAKE." WAS
PAUL WILLING TO SUFFER?
00:40:59.72\00:41:03.26
MATTER OF FACT, PAUL
WAS ALMOST EAGER TO SUFFER.
00:41:03.29\00:41:06.46
DID JESUS SAY, 'REJOICE
IF YOU'RE PERSECUTED FOR
00:41:06.49\00:41:10.93
RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE - REJOICE
AND BE EXCEEDINGLY GLAD'?
00:41:10.97\00:41:13.70
SO FOR THE CHRISTIAN, WHEN GOD
SAYS YOU MIGHT SUFFER FOR HIS
00:41:13.74\00:41:16.81
SAKE, IS THAT BAD
NEWS OR IS THAT AN HONOR?
00:41:16.84\00:41:19.47
WHEN THE DISCIPLES WERE WHIPPED
IN ACTS CHAPTER 5 AND THEY WENT
00:41:19.51\00:41:23.58
OUT OF THE
PRESENCE OF THE PRIESTS.
00:41:23.61\00:41:25.95
IT SAYS 'THEY REJOICED.' IT SAID
THEY WERE WORTHY TO SUFFER FOR
00:41:25.98\00:41:29.02
CHRIST'S SAKE. WE
TYPICALLY - I DON'T KNOW
00:41:29.05\00:41:31.49
ABOUT YOU, BUT I DON'T,
YOU KNOW, GO LOOKING FOR
00:41:31.52\00:41:33.52
OPPORTUNITIES TO
BE FLOGGED FOR CHRIST.
00:41:33.56\00:41:36.42
I MEAN, IF IT HAPPENS, PRAISE
THE LORD, BUT NOBODY REALLY
00:41:36.46\00:41:40.30
WANTS IT - BUT PAUL SORT OF DID
BECAUSE HE WAS GUILTY OF KILLING
00:41:40.33\00:41:45.97
SO MANY CHRISTIANS HE ALMOST
FELT LIKE IT WAS SOME KIND OF
00:41:46.00\00:41:50.77
SELF-ATONEMENT. IF HE COULD JUST
SUFFER FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, THAT
00:41:50.81\00:41:54.44
WOULD BE A PRIVILEGE FOR PAUL.
SO ANANIAS, TRUE TO WHAT JESUS
00:41:54.48\00:41:58.65
SAID, HE WENT HIS WAY -
HE GOES DOWN STRAIGHT STREET.
00:41:58.68\00:42:01.32
ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT PAUL
IS CONVERTED ON STRAIGHT STREET?
00:42:01.35\00:42:03.82
STRAIGHT IS THE WAY - ACTUALLY
IT'S A DIFFERENT WORD - STRAIGHT
00:42:03.85\00:42:09.42
IS THE GATE AND NARROW IS THE
WAY THAT LEADS TO LIFE - THAT
00:42:09.46\00:42:12.43
WORD STRAIGHT MEANS 'DIFFICULT'
- "AND ANANIAS WENT HIS WAY AND
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ENTERED THE HOUSE; AND
LAYING HIS HANDS ON HIM HE SAID,
00:42:16.00\00:42:19.43
'BROTHER SAUL, THE LORD JESUS,
WHO APPEARED TO YOU ON THE ROAD
00:42:19.47\00:42:23.14
AS YOU CAME, HAS SENT ME THAT
YOU MAY RECEIVE YOUR SIGHT AND
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BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.'
IMMEDIATELY THERE FELL FROM HIS
00:42:25.91\00:42:29.98
EYES SOMETHING LIKE SCALES," -
THESE THIN LAYERS THAT HAD BEEN
00:42:30.01\00:42:33.31
BURNT BY THE VISION OF CHRIST
FINALLY BLINKED OFF AND HE COULD
00:42:33.35\00:42:38.52
SEE - AND HE RECEIVED HIS SIGHT
AT ONCE; AND HE AROSE AND WAS
00:42:38.55\00:42:42.52
BAPTIZED." NOW WAIT A SECOND.
00:42:42.56\00:42:44.46
HE GOT BAPTIZED RIGHT
AFTER HIS FIRST BIBLE STUDY.
00:42:44.49\00:42:46.13
IS THAT A GOOD
POLICY FOR EVANGELISTS?
00:42:46.16\00:42:49.20
NO, BUT IF YOU'RE STUDYING WITH
SOMEBODY THAT ALREADY KNOWS THE
00:42:49.23\00:42:54.44
HEALTH MESSAGE, THEY ALREADY
KNOW THE STATE OF THE DEAD, THEY
00:42:54.47\00:42:59.84
ALREADY HAVE THEIR STUDY ON THE
TRUTH OF THE SCRIPTURE, THERE
00:42:59.87\00:43:03.51
WEREN'T TOO MANY THINGS YOU
COULD STUDY WITH PAUL HE DIDN'T
00:43:03.55\00:43:06.31
ALREADY KNOW. ALL HE
NEEDED TO KNOW WAS THE
00:43:06.35\00:43:08.05
STUDY ABOUT JESUS
BEING THE MESSIAH, RIGHT?
00:43:08.08\00:43:11.82
YOU COULDN'T GIVE HIM THE STUDY
ON REVELATION BECAUSE IT HADN'T
00:43:11.85\00:43:16.12
BEEN WRITTEN YET
- BEFORE BAPTISM.
00:43:16.16\00:43:19.53
YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO
TAKE THEM THROUGH SOME OF THE
00:43:19.56\00:43:21.06
PROPHECIES IN REVELATION
- THEY WEREN'T WRITTEN YET.
00:43:21.10\00:43:23.33
HE ALREADY UNDERSTOOD NOW THE
STUDY IN DANIEL, THAT JESUS WAS
00:43:23.37\00:43:27.44
THE MESSIAH - SO
WE THINK THEY DID.
00:43:27.47\00:43:31.17
BUT SO HE WAS READY FOR BAPTISM.
IT SAYS, 'ARISE AND BE BAPTIZED'
00:43:31.21\00:43:37.35
- AND HE LAYS HANDS ON HIM SO
THAT HE MIGHT BE FILLED WITH THE
00:43:37.38\00:43:39.51
HOLY SPIRIT. NOW
THIS IS SOMETHING I'M JUST
00:43:39.55\00:43:41.75
GOING TO SPEND A MOMENT ON
BECAUSE IT'S A PET PEEVE OF
00:43:41.78\00:43:45.52
MINE, BECAUSE I THINK
IT'S BIBLICAL, BUT WE PUT A BIG
00:43:45.55\00:43:50.76
EMPHASIS ON WATER BAPTISM IN OUR
CHURCH - AND WE SHOULD BECAUSE
00:43:50.79\00:43:54.73
JESUS SAID, 'UNLESS YOU'RE BORN
OF THE WATER YOU CAN'T ENTER THE
00:43:54.73\00:43:57.70
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.' BUT
JESUS SAID MORE THAN THAT.
00:43:57.73\00:43:59.63
HE SAID, UNLESS YOU'RE BORN OF
THE WATER AND THE SPIRIT.' YOU
00:43:59.67\00:44:02.97
KNOW, WHEN PHILIP WENT DOWN -
AND WE STUDIED THIS LAST WEEK -
00:44:03.00\00:44:05.47
AND HE BAPTIZED IN SAMARIA, THEY
THEN ASKED FOR JOHN AND PETER TO
00:44:05.51\00:44:10.28
COME AND LAY HANDS ON THEM
THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE THE HOLY
00:44:10.31\00:44:12.78
SPIRIT. SO THEY
PRAYED AFTER THEIR WATER
00:44:12.81\00:44:17.02
BAPTISM, THAT THEY
MIGHT HAVE SPIRIT BAPTISM.
00:44:17.05\00:44:19.19
HERE HE PRAYS THAT HE MIGHT HAVE
WATER AND SPIRIT BAPTISM FOR
00:44:19.22\00:44:24.53
PAUL. JESUS WAS
BAPTIZED IN THE WATER
00:44:24.56\00:44:27.00
AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
CAME DOWN AT THE SAME TIME.
00:44:27.03\00:44:29.16
PAUL, IN ACTS 19, WHEN
HE PREACHES TO THE EPHESIAN
00:44:29.20\00:44:32.20
BELIEVERS - THEY'D BEEN BAPTIZED
BY JOHN THE BAPTIST - HE
00:44:32.23\00:44:35.00
REBAPTIZES THEM, LAYS HANDS ON
THEM AND THEY RECEIVE THE HOLY
00:44:35.04\00:44:37.54
SPIRIT AND SPEAK IN TONGUES.
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, THEY
00:44:37.57\00:44:41.14
RECOGNIZED THE
IMPORTANCE OF BOTH BAPTISMS.
00:44:41.18\00:44:42.94
WHEN KAREN AND I WERE IN RUSSIA,
EVERYBODY WANTED ME TO BAPTIZE
00:44:42.98\00:44:47.32
THEM BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS
WANT THE EVANGELIST TO DO IT AND
00:44:47.35\00:44:49.72
THERE'S NO VALUE IN
THE EVANGELIST DOING IT.
00:44:49.75\00:44:51.72
AND IT'S A LITTLE HARDER BECAUSE
THEY HAD LIKE 200 PEOPLE AND YOU
00:44:51.75\00:44:54.52
CAN'T - EFFICIENTLY -
ONE PERSON CAN'T DO THAT.
00:44:54.56\00:44:57.76
SO I SAID 'WHAT I'LL DO, AS THEY
COME UP OUT OF THE POOL, I WILL
00:44:57.79\00:45:01.73
LAY HANDS ON EVERYBODY AND PRAY
FOR THEM.' AND THAT REALLY MADE
00:45:01.76\00:45:04.83
THEM ALL HAPPY
AND IT WAS BIBLICAL.
00:45:04.87\00:45:06.57
AND SO I THINK THAT IT'S
APPROPRIATE, WHEN WE HAVE A
00:45:06.60\00:45:11.11
BAPTISM THAT WE ALSO HAVE A
SERVICE - MAYBE AFTER THEY DRY
00:45:11.14\00:45:13.17
OFF AND CLEAN UP -
THAT WE PRAY FOR THEM.
00:45:13.21\00:45:15.21
EITHER GOING IN OR COMING OUT
- YOU CAN GET THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:45:15.24\00:45:19.15
BEFORE BAPTISM. DIDN'T
THAT HAPPEN TO CORNELIUS?
00:45:19.18\00:45:21.48
AND THEN HE WAS BAPTIZED.
YOU CAN GET THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:45:21.52\00:45:24.55
AFTER BAPTISM. YOU CAN
HAVE IT DURING BAPTISM.
00:45:24.59\00:45:26.86
IT CAN HAPPEN ANY WAY, BUT I
THINK WE OUGHT TO BE TEACHING
00:45:26.89\00:45:30.13
BOTH BAPTISMS. >>AMEN.
00:45:30.16\00:45:32.09
>>I KNOW YOU SOUND PENTECOSTAL
WHEN YOU DO THAT, BUT AS A
00:45:32.13\00:45:35.13
FORMER PENTECOSTAL SAID, 'AMEN.'
(LAUGHTER) BUT IT'S BIBLICAL AND
00:45:35.16\00:45:40.34
YOU MUST HAVE BOTH,
JESUS SAID. YOU MUST HAVE BOTH.
00:45:40.37\00:45:46.24
SO HE LAYS HANDS ON HIM AND
HE RECEIVES THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:45:46.27\00:45:50.48
NOW I WANT TO GET TO SOMETHING
HERE AND - WELL, LET ME JUST
00:45:50.51\00:45:53.78
FINISH THIS - HE RECEIVES FOOD -
PROBABLY DRINK ALSO - "...HE WAS
00:45:53.82\00:45:58.39
STRENGTHENED. THEN
SAUL SPENT SOME DAYS WITH
00:45:58.42\00:46:00.46
THE DISCIPLES..."
- WHAT IS HE DOING?
00:46:00.49\00:46:02.36
STUDYING ALL THE THINGS
HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND - AND
00:46:02.39\00:46:04.93
"IMMEDIATELY HE PREACHED THE
CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUES, THAT
00:46:04.96\00:46:07.66
HE IS THE SON OF GOD." NO
SOONER DOES A PERSON BECOME
00:46:07.66\00:46:10.00
CONVERTED THAN THEY'VE
GOT TO TELL OTHER PEOPLE.
00:46:10.03\00:46:13.07
MATTER OF FACT, HE WAS PREACHING
SO STRONGLY THAT HIS LIFE WAS
00:46:13.10\00:46:16.20
BEING THREATENED AND HE HAD
TO ESCAPE FROM DAMASCUS AND THEY
00:46:16.24\00:46:20.68
SAID HE WASN'T WELCOME
TO PREACH THERE ANYMORE.
00:46:20.71\00:46:24.25
"THEN ALL WHO HEARD" - VERSE 21
- SAID "...'IS THIS NOT HE WHO
00:46:24.28\00:46:28.88
DESTROYED THOSE WHO CALLED ON
THIS NAME IN JERUSALEM, AND HAS
00:46:28.92\00:46:32.92
COME HERE FOR THAT PURPOSE, SO
THAT HE MIGHT BRING THEM BOUND
00:46:32.95\00:46:35.32
TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS?' BUT
SAUL INCREASED ALL THE MORE
00:46:35.36\00:46:38.43
IN STRENGTH, AND CONFOUNDED
THE JEWS WHO DWELT IN DAMASCUS,
00:46:38.46\00:46:41.20
PROVING THAT THIS
JESUS IS THE CHRIST.
00:46:41.23\00:46:45.67
NOW AFTER MANY DAYS...THE
JEWS PLOTTED TO KILL HIM."
00:46:45.70\00:46:48.14
ALRIGHT, LET'S TALK ABOUT
HOW DID HE GET HIS NAME CHANGED?
00:46:48.17\00:46:51.44
JUMP WITH ME - WE'RE STILL UNDER
THE SECTION ABOUT GOING FROM
00:46:51.47\00:46:54.14
SAUL TO PAUL - JUMP
WITH ME TO ACTS 13:6.
00:46:54.18\00:46:57.58
IN A MOMENT SOMEONE'S GOING TO
READ ACTS 22:21 - WHO HAS THAT?
00:46:57.61\00:47:01.35
OKAY, YOU'LL
HAVE A MOMENT THOUGH.
00:47:01.38\00:47:03.49
ACTS 13:6-11 - FOLLOW ME - "NOW
WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH THE"
00:47:03.52\00:47:08.52
- AND WHO WROTE
THE BOOK OF ACTS?
00:47:08.56\00:47:10.46
>>LUKE. >>LUKE.
GOOD FRIEND OF PAUL.
00:47:10.49\00:47:12.46
HE'S A FIRSTHAND WITNESS OF
THIS - "NOW WHEN THEY HAD GONE
00:47:12.49\00:47:16.10
THROUGH THE ISLAND TO PAPHOS,
THEY FOUND A CERTAIN SORCERER, A
00:47:16.13\00:47:18.90
FALSE PROPHET, A JEW
WHOSE NAME WAS BAR-JESUS," -
00:47:18.93\00:47:22.34
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
HIS NAME IS SON OF JESUS,
00:47:22.37\00:47:24.57
BECAUSE JESUS JUST MEANT JOSHUA
- IT WAS A VERY COMMON NAME AND
00:47:24.61\00:47:27.34
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN BAR-YASHUA
- SON OF JOSHUA - VERY COMMON
00:47:27.38\00:47:32.58
NAME - "WHO WAS WITH THE
PROCONSUL, SERGIUS PAULUS," -
00:47:32.61\00:47:37.79
WHAT'S HIS NAME?
SERGIUS PAULUS - HE'S THE LEADER
00:47:37.82\00:47:41.09
- A GOVERNOR -
"AN INTELLIGENT MAN.
00:47:41.12\00:47:43.99
THIS MAN CALLED FOR BARNABAS AND
SAUL" - NOW UP UNTIL THIS POINT
00:47:44.03\00:47:49.13
IN ACTS, EVERY TIME LUKE IS
TALKING ABOUT THE MISSIONARY
00:47:49.16\00:47:53.47
TEAM - THEY WENT OUT TWO BY
TWO - THE MISSIONARY TEAM WAS
00:47:53.50\00:47:56.84
BARNABAS AND SAUL - BARNABAS
AND SAUL - BARNABAS ALWAYS COMES
00:47:56.87\00:48:00.84
FIRST. BUT NOTICE,
AFTER THIS STORY IT SWITCHES.
00:48:00.88\00:48:03.61
PAUL'S NAME CHANGES AND
IT'S PAUL AND BARNABAS IT'S
00:48:03.65\00:48:07.62
INTERESTING. SO
SOMETHING HAPPENED HERE -
00:48:07.65\00:48:11.25
"AND SOUGHT TO
HEAR THE WORD OF GOD."
00:48:11.29\00:48:14.12
SERGIUS PAULUS WANTS
TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD.
00:48:14.16\00:48:15.96
"AN INTELLIGENT MAN" -
HE'S A LEADER - "BUT ELYMAS THE
00:48:15.99\00:48:18.09
SORCERER" - THAT WAS HIS
OTHER NAME - NOW, NOTICE WHAT'S
00:48:18.13\00:48:20.40
HAPPENING: LUKE IS SAYING, 'LET
ME GIVE YOU THE TRANSLATION.
00:48:20.43\00:48:22.73
LUKE, WHO'S WRITING TO
THEOPHILUS SAYS, 'I'M GOING TO
00:48:22.76\00:48:25.97
GIVE IT TO YOU IN THE OTHER
LANGUAGE - ELYMAS - THAT'S HIS
00:48:26.00\00:48:28.64
OTHER NAME - IT WASN'T
JUST BAR-JESUS - HE BEGAN - HE
00:48:28.67\00:48:34.68
WITHSTOOD THEM - HE RESISTED
THEM - SEEKING TO TURN THE
00:48:34.71\00:48:38.25
PROCONSUL AWAY FROM THE FAITH.
AND SOMETHING HAPPENS TO SAUL.
00:48:38.28\00:48:41.82
THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES ON
SAUL WHERE HE DECIDES TO BE THE
00:48:41.85\00:48:45.15
PREACHER. BARNABAS USED TO
PREACH AND SAUL WOULD PRAY.
00:48:45.19\00:48:48.72
NOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN, SAUL
JUST CAN'T CONTAIN HIMSELF - HE
00:48:48.76\00:48:53.36
BECOMES ANGRY - AND SAUL, WHO IS
ALSO CALLED PAUL - AND AFTER HE
00:48:53.40\00:48:58.33
SAYS, 'HE IS ALSO CALLED PAUL'
AND HE GIVES HIS OTHER NAME, HE
00:48:58.37\00:49:01.90
NEVER CALLS HIM SAUL AGAIN.
IT'S JUST AN INTERESTING CHANGE.
00:49:01.94\00:49:05.44
"FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT," -
HIS FACE FLASHES WITH THE SPIRIT
00:49:05.47\00:49:10.11
- "LOOKED INTENTLY AT HIM (THE
FALSE SORCERER) AND SAID, "O
00:49:10.15\00:49:14.28
FULL OF ALL DECEIT AND ALL
FRAUD, YOU SON OF THE DEVIL, YOU
00:49:14.32\00:49:17.45
ENEMY OF ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS, WILL
YOU NOT CEASE PERVERTING THE
00:49:17.49\00:49:21.76
STRAIGHT WAYS OF THE LORD?
AND NOW, INDEED, THE HAND OF THE
00:49:21.79\00:49:24.63
LORD IS UPON YOU, AND YOU SHALL
BE BLIND," - PAUL KNEW WHAT THAT
00:49:24.66\00:49:27.76
WAS LIKE, DIDN'T HE?
"NOT SEEING THE SUN FOR A LONG
00:49:27.83\00:49:30.70
TIME." - HE'S
MERCIFUL - HE'S NOT SAID
00:49:30.73\00:49:33.10
'FOREVER' - YOU'RE GOING TO BE
BLIND FOR A FEW DAYS LIKE I WAS
00:49:33.13\00:49:35.30
BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN
MISLEADING PEOPLE LIKE I WAS.
00:49:35.34\00:49:37.41
MAYBE YOU'LL REPENT LIKE I DID
- "AND IMMEDIATELY A DARK MIST
00:49:37.44\00:49:41.71
FELL ON HIM, AND HE WENT AROUND
SEEKING SOMEONE TO LEAD HIM BY
00:49:41.74\00:49:44.11
THE HAND." WHAT
HAPPENED AFTER SAUL SAW JESUS?
00:49:44.15\00:49:46.28
THEY HAD TO LEAD HIM BY THE
HAND. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:49:46.31\00:49:51.02
FROM HERE ON HE'S NO
LONGER SAUL, HE'S NOW PAUL.
00:49:51.05\00:49:53.39
IT'S NO LONGER BARNABAS AND
SAUL, IT'S PAUL AND BARNABAS.
00:49:53.42\00:49:57.59
HE SORT OF TAKES A LEAD ROLE
BECAUSE A MIRACLE TAKES PLACE
00:49:57.63\00:50:00.46
AND WE DON'T KNOW THAT BARNABAS
WAS PERFORMING VERY MANY
00:50:00.50\00:50:03.30
MIRACLES. SO NOW
WE'RE GOING TO GO TO PAUL
00:50:03.33\00:50:06.70
THE MISSIONARY . AND
IN ROMANS 15, VERSE 9, AND
00:50:06.74\00:50:13.21
IT SAYS, "AND
THAT THE GENTILES MIGHT
00:50:13.24\00:50:17.08
GLORIFY GOD FOR HIS MERCY, AS IT
IS WRITTEN: 'FOR THIS REASON I
00:50:17.11\00:50:21.25
WILL CONFESS TO YOU AMONG
THE GENTILES, AND SING TO YOUR
00:50:21.28\00:50:25.62
NAME.'" AND PAUL, NOW, IS ALSO
QUOTING THE PSALMS, HE'S QUOTING
00:50:25.65\00:50:30.73
THE OLD TESTAMENT ABOUT THIS
MISSION THAT WOULD GO TO THE
00:50:30.76\00:50:33.03
GENTILES BECAUSE THE JEWS WERE
WONDERING WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE.
00:50:33.06\00:50:35.96
GO AHEAD, READ
FOR ME ACTS 22:21.
00:50:36.00\00:50:38.47
>>"THEN HE SAID TO ME, 'DEPART,
FOR I WILL SEND YOU FAR FROM
00:50:38.50\00:50:44.51
HERE TO THE GENTILES.'"
>>NOW THIS IS THE TESTIMONY THAT
00:50:44.54\00:50:49.61
PAUL IS GIVING IN JERUSALEM.
THEY JUST ABOUT TRIED TO KILL
00:50:49.64\00:50:53.68
HIM. PAUL WAS SO ENTHUSIASTIC.
00:50:53.72\00:50:55.45
HE WAS READY TO
DIE FOR THE LORD.
00:50:55.48\00:50:59.05
MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU SAID,
'PAUL, YOU BETTER NOT GO THERE.
00:50:59.09\00:51:02.22
THEY'LL PERSECUTE YOU.' HE WOULD
CHARGE INTO IT. 'PAUL, DON'T GO
00:51:02.26\00:51:05.43
INTO THE ARENA, THERE'S A RIOT
IN THERE.' HE SAID, 'LET ME GO
00:51:05.46\00:51:08.20
PREACH TO THEM.' HE
WANTED TO GO INTO THE ARENA.
00:51:08.23\00:51:10.20
THEY SAID, 'PAUL, DON'T GO
TO JERUSALEM BECAUSE AGABUS THE
00:51:10.23\00:51:13.07
PROPHET SAID 'YOU'RE GOING TO BE
BOUND AND IMPRISONED THERE.' HE
00:51:13.10\00:51:15.60
SAID, 'I'M READY TO BE BOUND AND
DIE FOR JESUS IN JERUSALEM.' AND
00:51:15.64\00:51:18.87
NOW - NOW HE'S ARRESTED IN
JERUSALEM. THE MOB TRIES TO TEAR
00:51:18.91\00:51:22.48
HIM LIMB FROM LIMB. HE
SAYS TO THE SOLDIER, LET ME
00:51:22.51\00:51:25.21
PREACH TO THEM FROM THE STEPS.
SO HE'S PREACHING TO THE CROWD
00:51:25.25\00:51:29.42
AND WHEN HE PREACHES IN
HEBREW THEY ALL GOT QUIET.
00:51:29.45\00:51:31.25
AND THEY LISTEN TO HIM UNTIL HE
GOT TO THE PLACE WHERE HE SAID
00:51:31.29\00:51:36.02
THESE WORDS, 'JESUS SPOKE TO
ME AND SAID, 'DEPART FOR I WILL
00:51:36.06\00:51:39.16
SEND YOU TO THE GENTILES.'
AND WHEN THEY HEARD THAT HE WAS
00:51:39.19\00:51:42.50
GOING TO TAKE THE GOOD NEWS
ABOUT JESUS TO THE GENTILES, THE
00:51:42.53\00:51:45.03
RIOT ERUPTED AGAIN AND THEY
SAID, 'HE IS NOT FIT TO LIVE.'
00:51:45.07\00:51:48.17
BECAUSE THEY WERE REALLY UPSET
THAT THE GOSPEL, NOW, WAS NOT
00:51:48.20\00:51:53.48
JUST GOING TO THE JEWS.
00:51:53.51\00:51:55.81
AFTER THE STONING OF STEPHEN
THE GOSPEL BEGAN TO GO TO THE
00:51:55.84\00:51:58.68
GENTILES WITH CORNELIUS
AND THEN MORE AND MORE.
00:51:58.71\00:52:01.72
WHEN THEIR SYNAGOGUES REJECTED
THEM PAUL SAID, 'LOOK, SEEING
00:52:01.75\00:52:03.99
THAT YOU REJECT THE WORD OF
GOD - YOU'RE UNWORTHY OF ETERNAL
00:52:04.02\00:52:07.09
LIFE - LO, WE TURN TO THE
GENTILES.' HE'D PREACH IN THE
00:52:07.12\00:52:11.16
SYNAGOGUE; SOME OF
THE JEWS WOULD LEAVE.
00:52:11.19\00:52:13.46
THE GENTILES WOULD GET - WOULD
BE VERY INTERESTED BUT SOME OF
00:52:13.50\00:52:16.97
THE JEWS WOULD RESIST.
THE NEXT WEEK HE'D PREACH JUST
00:52:17.00\00:52:19.03
TO THE GENTILES
- THEY'D ALL COME.
00:52:19.07\00:52:21.50
AND SO PAUL GRADUALLY - HIS
MINISTRY WENT MORE AND MORE -
00:52:21.54\00:52:24.37
HE'S THE ONE WHO WROTE THE BOOK
OF ROMANS. HIS MINISTRY GOES
00:52:24.41\00:52:28.14
MORE AND MORE FROM THE JEWS
TO THE GENTILES, BUT HE WAS ALSO
00:52:28.18\00:52:32.41
THE VERY BEST OF THE
ONES DISPUTING WITH THE JEWS.
00:52:32.45\00:52:35.82
AND THEN YOU CAN READ WHERE PAUL
IS SHARING HIS TESTIMONY IN ACTS
00:52:35.85\00:52:40.49
26, VERSE 16, "BUT RISE AND
STAND ON YOUR FEET; FOR I HAVE
00:52:40.52\00:52:47.23
APPEARED TO YOU FOR THIS
PURPOSE, TO MAKE YOU A MINISTER
00:52:47.23\00:52:50.47
AND A WITNESS BOTH OF THE THINGS
WHICH YOU HAVE SEEN AND OF THE
00:52:50.50\00:52:55.30
THINGS WHICH I
WILL YET REVEAL TO YOU."
00:52:55.34\00:52:57.14
- GOD - JESUS REVEALED SEVERAL
THINGS TO HIM ALONG THE WAY - "I
00:52:57.17\00:52:59.71
WILL DELIVER YOU FROM THE JEWISH
PEOPLE, AS WELL AS FROM THE
00:52:59.74\00:53:03.75
GENTILES, TO WHOM I NOW SEND
YOU," - PAUL WAS NOT KILLED BY
00:53:03.78\00:53:07.28
THE JEWS, EVEN THOUGH THEY
TRIED TO KILL HIM SEVERAL TIMES.
00:53:07.32\00:53:09.62
YOU REMEMBER, THE JEWS ACTUALLY
MADE A VOW THAT THEY WOULD NOT
00:53:09.65\00:53:12.25
EAT OR DRINK UNTIL
THEY HAD KILLED PAUL.
00:53:12.29\00:53:13.99
AND THERE WERE ABOUT 40
OF THEM THAT MADE THIS VOW.
00:53:14.02\00:53:17.43
ANOTHER RADICAL EAT AND DRINK
VOW I NEED TO PUT IN MY - EAT
00:53:17.46\00:53:21.03
AND DRINK FAST I NEED TO PUT
IN MY NOTES HERE - "AND I WILL
00:53:21.06\00:53:28.14
DELIVER YOU FROM THE JEWISH
PEOPLE AS WELL AS FROM THE
00:53:28.17\00:53:30.71
GENTILES TO WHOM I NOW SEND YOU
TO OPEN THEIR EYES, IN ORDER" -
00:53:30.74\00:53:34.11
THIS IS A WONDERFUL VERSE -
"TO OPEN THEIR EYES, IN ORDER TO
00:53:34.14\00:53:37.31
TURN THEM FROM DARKNESS TO
LIGHT, AND FROM THE POWER OF
00:53:37.35\00:53:40.22
SATAN TO GOD, THAT THEY MAY
RECEIVE FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND
00:53:40.25\00:53:43.79
AN INHERITANCE AMONG THOSE WHO
ARE SANCTIFIED BY FAITH IN ME.'"
00:53:43.82\00:53:47.62
THEY'RE MADE BY FAITH IN ME.
THIS TALKS ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:53:47.66\00:53:50.19
BY FAITH. THAT
IS A GREAT PASSAGE.
00:53:50.23\00:53:53.46
MATTER OF FACT, I'VE QUOTED THAT
AS A STAND-ALONE VERSE ABOUT
00:53:53.50\00:53:55.90
WHAT THE GOSPEL IS
BEFORE. WHAT IS OUR MISSION?
00:53:55.93\00:53:59.27
WE'RE TO GO - 'I SEND YOU' -
'TO OPEN THEIR EYES' - THROUGH
00:53:59.30\00:54:04.07
PREACHING THE WORD - 'TO TURN
THEM FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT' -
00:54:04.11\00:54:08.24
'FROM THE POWER OF SATAN TO GOD
THAT' - THERE'S TWO POWERS OUT
00:54:08.28\00:54:13.62
THERE - "THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE
FORGIVENESS OF SINS' - GO FROM
00:54:13.65\00:54:16.95
THE DEATH PENALTY - 'AND AN
INHERITANCE' - ETERNAL LIFE -
00:54:16.99\00:54:20.76
'AMONG THOSE WHO ARE SANCTIFIED'
- WERE MADE HOLY - HOW?
00:54:20.79\00:54:25.29
- 'BY FAITH' - IN
WHO? - 'ME.' GOD SAVES US.
00:54:25.33\00:54:29.23
THAT'S A GREAT, GREAT VERSE.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER
00:54:29.26\00:54:31.57
BROKEN THAT DOWN. BUT
THIS IS WHAT THE MINISTRY OF
00:54:31.60\00:54:33.90
PAUL WAS. THIS IS
WHAT THE MISSION OF THE
00:54:33.94\00:54:36.47
CHURCH IS - IS TO
GET THAT WORD OUT.
00:54:36.50\00:54:38.94
AND THIS IS REALLY WHAT GOD HAD
CALLED THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO DO.
00:54:38.97\00:54:41.54
THEY WERE TO BE A LIGHT TO THE
GENTILES AND TO - GOD PUT THE
00:54:41.58\00:54:47.25
JEWISH NATION RIGHT THERE ON THE
INTERSECTION OF THREE CONTINENTS
00:54:47.28\00:54:51.49
SO THAT THEY COULD DO WHAT
HAPPENED DURING THE DAYS OF
00:54:51.52\00:54:54.79
SOLOMON WHEN PEOPLE LIKE THE
QUEEN OF SHEBA AND THESE OTHER
00:54:54.82\00:54:58.23
KINGS WOULD COME TO ISRAEL
AND FIND OUT ABOUT THE TRUE GOD.
00:54:58.26\00:55:01.43
BUT BY THE TIME OF CHRIST,
THEY BEGAN TO THINK, 'WE ARE THE
00:55:01.46\00:55:05.57
CHOSEN ONES. YOU'RE
ALL DEFILED AND IF YOU
00:55:05.60\00:55:08.27
COME TO US WE'LL, YOU KNOW, ONE
BY ONE WE MIGHT SCREEN YOU AND
00:55:08.30\00:55:12.01
WE MIGHT ALLOW A FEW OF YOU
GENTILES - IF WE CAN PROSELYTIZE
00:55:12.04\00:55:15.01
YOU AND YOU QUALIFY, WE'LL LET
YOU JOIN OUR CHURCH.' BUT THEY
00:55:15.04\00:55:18.75
DID NOT GO OUT TRYING
TO GIVE THEIR MESSAGE.
00:55:18.78\00:55:22.15
THEY FELT LIKE THEY WERE
EXCLUSIVE AND PRIVILEGED AND
00:55:22.18\00:55:25.22
THEY WANTED TO KEEP THE CLUB
SMALL. AND IT WAS GOD, THROUGH
00:55:25.25\00:55:30.69
PAUL AND THROUGH PETER, HE SAID,
'NO. WHOSOEVER WILL.' AND THOSE
00:55:30.73\00:55:34.36
THAT BELIEVE, THEY
BECOME ABRAHAM'S SEED.
00:55:34.36\00:55:36.20
ANYWAY, THAT'S PROBABLY A GOOD
PLACE TO FINISH WITH OUR LESSON
00:55:36.23\00:55:39.73
TODAY AND I WANT TO REMIND THOSE
WHO ARE WATCHING, WE DO HAVE A
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FREE OFFER AND IT IS CALLED
SATAN'S CONFUSING COUNTERFEITS .
00:55:43.04\00:55:46.98
SAUL WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO WAS
CONFUSED BY THOSE COUNTERFEITS.
00:55:47.01\00:55:50.18
WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE
COPY OF THIS IF YOU JUST CALL
00:55:50.21\00:55:52.95
866-788-3966 -
THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE.
00:55:52.98\00:55:58.59
WE'LL SEND YOU ONE OF THESE OR
YOU CAN READ IT FOR FREE ONLINE
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AS WELL. GOD BLESS
YOU UNTIL WE STUDY HIS
00:56:00.69\00:56:04.49
WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
>>NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN
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COMING TO JESUS
AND GOING FOR JESUS.
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HAVE YOU GOT PLANS THIS
FALL TO BRING A SOUL TO CHRIST?
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PLAN NOW TO ATTEND WITH YOUR
FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND LEARN
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FROM THE PAST HOW WE CAN
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GO TO THEHEROESOFFAITH.COM
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MAKE AN ETERNAL DIFFERENCE IN
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YOU KNOW THIS BOAT COULD
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PEOPLE? OR A CAR LIKE THIS ONE
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IF YOU HAVE A VEHICLE YOU'RE NOT
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>>CONGRATULATIONS,
YOU'RE RETIRED!
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A TIME TO ENJOY WITH FRIENDS,
FAMILY, AND GOD, BUT SOMETIMES,
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WITH RETIREMENT, COMES
ANXIETY ABOUT FUTURE INCOME AND
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FRUSTRATING LIMITATIONS ON
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