Let's face it, it's not
always easy to understand
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everything you
read in the Bible.
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With over 700,000
words contained in 66 books,
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the Bible can
generate a lot of questions.
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Friends, are you
afraid of heights?
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If so, you might want
to look away right now.
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One of the most
famous attractions
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in the San Francisco Bay area
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is the iconic
Golden Gate Bridge.
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While this world
famous bridge was named
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as one of the seven
wonders of the modern world.
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Few people know the
story of the brave men
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who were involved
in its construction
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and also known as the
Half Way to Hell Club.
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Designed by a group
of visionary engineers
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at 4,200 feet from end to
end, the Golden Gate Bridge
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was at one time the longest
suspension bridge in the world.
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During its
construction from 1933 to 1937,
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the Golden Gate Bridge
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had one of the best
safety construction records
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of any project during that time.
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Keep in mind,
they would factor in
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and calculate
that one man would die
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for every million
dollars that was spent.
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So with a budget of $35 million,
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they knew that loss of
life would be unacceptable.
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This is why the chief
engineer Joseph B Strauss
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was absolutely adamant
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about using the most
rigorous safety precautions
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that it ever been
used in bridge building.
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He had a local manufacturer
of safety equipment,
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designed special headgear
that he insisted be worn
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on every job.
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This became the prototype
for the modern hard hat
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worn for the first time ever,
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but the safety
precautions went even farther.
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Strauss provided a
special hand and face cream
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to protect their skin
from the cold biting wind
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and glare free
goggles to protect their eyes.
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In addition, they
also ate a special diet
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to help ward off dizziness
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when they were
working at those epic heights.
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But the most
conspicuous safety precaution
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was a gigantic net
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that was
suspended from end to end
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under the entire
construction area
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of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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In fact, during construction,
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this net saved
the lives of 19 men
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who later became known as
the Half Way to Hell Club.
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Now you need to keep in mind,
these were some of the most
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dangerous
construction conditions
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you can imagine.
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The wind was constantly blowing.
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They were walking around on iron
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that sometimes had
ice from the freezing fog.
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In places, they were over
700 feet above the icy waters.
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Yet, the men coming
from all walks of life
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were willing to take these risks
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because it was
during The Great Depression
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and they would get
paid up to $11 a day
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which was a fortune back then.
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One of the other
benefits of the net
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was they discovered that the men
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were much more courageous
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even though they were walking
high on those slippery surfaces
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because they knew
there was a mechanism
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to protect them
if they should fall,
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this gave them the confidence
and the courage to press on
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and get the bridge
built in record time.
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You know, friends, as Christians
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we have a great work to do.
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The Bible tells us that we
get to participate with Jesus
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in building a bridge that
connects heaven and earth,
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and there are
dangers along the way.
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The devil would like
to paralyze us with fear
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that we might
fall or make a mistake,
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but we know that Jesus has
provided a safety net for us
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and we don't have to be afraid.
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We can press on with confidence
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because the promise is
in the Book of Jude 24,
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he is able to
keep us from falling.
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But sometimes we make mistakes,
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still don't be
discouraged, friends,
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if you read in 1
John 2:1, the Bible says,
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"If we fall, if we sin,
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we have an advocate with
the Father Jesus Christ."
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So let's press on
together and build that bridge
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with Christ.
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Hello, and welcome
to yet another edition
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of the Sabbath
School Study Hour.
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My name is Shawn Brummund,
and it is always my pleasure
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to be able to introduce
one of my favorite studies
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which is the
Sabbath School Study Hour.
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I want to extend a
special welcome to all those
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who are watching
not only across America
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but from the different
countries across the world,
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we are just so thankful
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that you have
decided to join us,
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and I know that you are
going to be blessed and enriched
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because of the study
that we'll be looking at here
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today in the Granite Bay
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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right here in
Sacramento, California,
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United States of America.
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I am going to
be introducing here
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our special book
that we've been looking at
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for the last several weeks now
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as we're
finishing up this quarterly
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by the end of September,
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and it's
entitled the Book of Acts.
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Now today we're going to be
looking at a very special study
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and a very special topic.
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Powerful topic in
which Paul is finding himself
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on his third
and final missionary
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tour or trip as we
might want to call it,
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and so there's just a
whole lot of powerful things
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that are happening there,
and I look forward to studying
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and finding what we
will discover together.
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Before we invite our
singers out together though,
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I want to offer you our special
free gift that we always offer
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every Sabbath School Study Hour,
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and this what is
entitled Three Steps to Heaven,
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Three Steps to Heaven.
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Now if you've
never read this book,
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I want to strongly recommend
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that you take
advantage of that offer
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and that you phone
into 1-866-788-3966.
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Again, that's 1-866-Study-More.
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Now for those of you
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who are more digitally oriented,
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and you would
like to have a copy
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of that particular gift offer,
we do offer it through text.
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And so you can
actually receive that
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in digital
download on your phone,
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all you need to do is
text the code "SH068".
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Again, that's "SH068",
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and you text that
to the number 40544,
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and we'll be happy to be able
to offer that to you digitally.
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Now one of the thing,
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if you don't
have a physical copy
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of this particular quarterly
that we're going through
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not only today
but in the next month
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or so as we continue
to study the Book of Acts,
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we want to offer that
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with a digital download as well.
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Again, you can go on
your phone, your laptop,
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and other digital devices
and simply go to study.aftv,
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that's for AmazingFactsTV.org.
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Again, that's study.aftv.org,
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and you can
download a digital copy
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of the Book of Acts
and the quarterly study
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that we're looking at.
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Now if you're
one of those people
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that likes to have a paper copy,
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that we always encourage
you to find your closest local
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
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and as you go to visit
them on a Saturday morning,
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you'll find
different services taking place
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and 99% of the time they'll have
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a extra quarterly copy
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that they'll be able
to give to you for free.
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And so again,
we're just so happy
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that you've come to join us,
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and we're going to
invite our singers out
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as they lead us
in songs of praise.
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He leadeth me, O blessed thought
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O words with
heav'nly comfort fraught
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Whate'er I do, where'er I be
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Still 'tis God's
hand that leadeth me
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He leadeth me, He leadeth me
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By His own hand He leadeth me
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His faithful foll'wer I would be
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For by His hand He leadeth me
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Sometimes 'mid
scenes of deepest gloom
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Sometimes where
Eden's bowers bloom
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By waters still,
o'er troubled sea
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Still 'tis His
hand that leadeth me
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He leadeth me, He leadeth me
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By His own hand He leadeth me
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His faithful foll'wer I would be
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For by His hand He leadeth me
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And when my
task on earth is done
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When by Thy
grace the vict'ry's won
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E'en death's cold
wave I will not flee
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Since God
through Jordan leadeth me
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He leadeth me, He leadeth me
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By His own hand He leadeth me
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His faithful foll'wer I would be
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For by His hand He leadeth me
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At this time, Pastor Brummund
will have our opening prayer.
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Father in heaven,
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we are so thankful
to be able to stop,
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and to be able to talk
to You, and to know that
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Your Spirit will come to us
when we ask You to be with us,
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and to teach us, and
to enlighten us in the way
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that You know that we need.
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God, we thank You so
much for Your Book of Acts
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that You have given
to us in Your Holy Bible.
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We pray God in heaven
that You'll enlighten us,
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that You'll
strengthen our faith,
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and to help us to understand
Your plan for our life
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that much better.
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Please be with
Pastor Doug as he speaks,
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and be with his
heart, and with his mind,
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today as well.
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In Jesus' name we
pray these things, God.
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Amen.
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Our lesson for
today is lesson number 10,
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it's the Third
Missionary Journey of Paul,
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we have a memory verse.
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And the memory
verse is from Acts 20:24.
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And I would appreciate
if you can say it with me,
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Acts 20:24 here, and your lesson
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is from the New
Revised Standard Version.
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You ready?
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"I do not count my
life of any value to myself,
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if only I may finish
my course and the ministry
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that I received
from the Lord Jesus,
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to testify to the
good news of God's grace."
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You know if we stop right here,
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if you were to
memorize that verse,
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and made it sort of
a motto for your life,
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the lesson would not be in vain.
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For Paul to say, "I
don't count my life,
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the only thing that matters
is that I might be faithful
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and that I could
tell others the gospel."
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That's what he's saying here.
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Wouldn't that be a
great place to come
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to in your Christian experience
where you could have that?
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That experience where
he said, "Not I but Christ,
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I'm crucified with Christ,
the only thing that matters
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is that I'm faithful to do
whatever God wants me to do
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and reflecting the gospel."
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That's a great scripture
reading for us to memorize.
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All right, now we're on
Paul's third missionary journey,
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and maybe I'll begin...
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And I should tell you
what our assignment is today.
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We're going to do
our best to try to cover
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Acts 18:24
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through Acts 21:15.
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You heard the
story about the hunters
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that were out in
the woods hunting.
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And one had a
rifle, one had a shotgun,
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and they came to
the edge of the woods
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where it opened up
into a great meadow,
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and they looked down
into the meadow below
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and there were 10 deer.
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And the hunter that
had the shotgun said,
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"Don't move if I shoot
now, I can hit them all."
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And his friend said,
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"You probably will hit them all,
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but we won't
take anything home."
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He said, "If you
could hold still,
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let me shoot, I'll hit
one, and we'll take it home."
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Of course, you'll
understand the difference
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between a shotgun
that sprays everywhere
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and a rifle that has one bullet.
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Well, you know, what
the challenge is for me
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as a Sabbath school
teacher is people say,
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Karen talked to me
about it this morning,
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they say,
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"You're not
covering the whole lesson."
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And I say, "Well,
there's so much to cover
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that I just have
to do a fly over,
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and it's like firing a
little buckshot at everything,
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you know, you kind of
hit a little bit everything,
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but you don't take anything home
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or I got to slow down
trying cover something well."
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So which way do
you want it, friends,
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rifle or shotgun today?
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Rifle. You want rifle.
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That make some of the
teachers that are watching mad
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because they watch my lesson
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before they teach, and they say,
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"You never even got to
Wednesday and Thursday!"
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Well, I'll do my best.
Let's see what happens.
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I just wasted time, didn't I?
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Okay, well...
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It's so hard to decide.
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Let's go...
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And I just want to
read a little introduction
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because we're talking
about his third journey,
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but we sort of need to
wrap up his second journey.
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Go to Acts 18, and you can
go to verse 18, he's in Corinth.
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Now we never did
read this last week.
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So Paul, Acts 18:18.
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"So Paul remained a good while,
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and then he took
leave of the brethren
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and sailed for Syria,
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and Priscilla and
Aquila are with him.
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And he had his hair
cut off in Cenchreae,
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and he had taken a vow."
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This is first of
two times he does that.
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And he comes to Ephesus.
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Now he's in Ephesus,
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we're going to go back
to Ephesus in a minute,
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and he left them there.
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But he himself
entered the synagogue
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and reason with the Jews.
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When they asked him
to stay longer with them,
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he did not consent, he
took leave of them saying,
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"I must by all means
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keep the coming
feast in Jerusalem,
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but I will return
again to you God willing,"
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and he sailed from Ephesus.
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So on this third journey,
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he does go back to
Ephesus straight away.
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And when he had landed
in Caesarea and gone up
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and greeted the church,
he went down to Antioch,
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and after he had
spent some time there,
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he had gone to Jerusalem,
then he goes to Antioch.
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And after he had
spent some time there,
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he departed and he
went over to the region
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of Galatia and
Phrygia, in order to strengthen
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all of the disciples.
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Now it takes a
little detour here,
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and it introduces someone
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who is to become a
champion in the gospel
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by the name of Apollos.
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Now, I'm in Acts 18:24,
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"A certain Jew, named
Apollos, born in Alexandria..."
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I want to give
somebody upfront warning,
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you're going to have a
verse for me in a minute.
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Okay, 1
Corinthians, you have that.
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"A certain Jew name
Apollos, born in Alexandria,
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an eloquent man and
mighty in the scriptures,
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he came to Ephesus."
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Now Paul is in
Ephesus, he's gone back there,
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he also sees Paul there.
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"This man having been instructed
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in the way of the Lord
being fervent in spirit,
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he spoke and he
taught accurately
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the things of the
Lord though he knew
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only the baptism of John."
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Now this concept
of only understanding
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the baptism of
John comes up twice
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in the next few passages.
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You'll also see it in Acts 19.
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Let me just see if I
can give you the picture.
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Who is the
greatest of the prophets
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according to Jesus?
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John the Baptist.
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He was...
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His ministry were
short, but it was powerful.
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The teachings of John,
the call to repentance...
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And what was John's message?
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"Repent for kingdom
of heaven is at hand,
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so that I baptize
you with water..."
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What's the rest of that?
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"But there's another one coming
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who shoes I'm
not worthy to wear.
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He will baptize you with
the Holy Spirit and fire,
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I am the voice of one
preparing the way of the Lord.
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I'm here to announce
the coming of the Messiah.
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There's one who
stands among you."
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So they thought the Messiah
was going to be, you know,
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just some glorious
king, but they remembered,
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"You know, David was one of
us, and he became a great king."
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And then finally
Jesus comes to the Jordan,
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He's baptized,
John the Baptist says,
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"Behold." Now he
says that several times.
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So John introduced
Jesus, John preach repentance,
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Johnson said,
"Prepare the way of the Lord,"
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John said, "I
baptize you with water,
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but there's a
better baptism coming,
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a Holy Spirit fire baptism
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that will come
through the Messiah."
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So a lot of
people were converted,
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this is all of
Judah and Jerusalem
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went out to the Jordan,
they were baptized with John.
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There was a great
awakening that happened
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through the ministry
and the teaching of John.
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The great return to the
Bible, and they'd heard that
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Jesus was introduced,
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but they hadn't really
heard a lot about the teachings
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of the apostles and of Jesus.
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They didn't
have email back then,
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they didn't have
printing presses back then.
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The only way these
things traveled was by foot,
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you know, some
things went by letter
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but these gospels
had not been written yet.
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Okay, so Apollos
believed in John,
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he even believed
that Jesus was a Messiah
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that had been introduced,
but he didn't understand
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a lot of the
teachings about how do you prove
00:18:11.19\00:18:13.89
that Jesus is Messiah, and so...
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But he's an eloquent man,
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and it says he's
taught in the way of the Lord.
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You might be
interested to know the word
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there which says,
he had been instructed
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in the way of the Lord
that comes from where...
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You know what a catechism is?
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We think of catechism
where we think Catholic Church
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is not a bad word, it
actually in the Greek here
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it's katekhizo or something,
but it's very similar,
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it means to be taught.
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Typically, a catechism is
teaching through questions
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and answers which is
not a bad way to teach,
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which is why the Catholic say,
"If you give us your children,
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they'll be Catholics for life."
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Because they teach them
through question and answer,
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and they indoctrinate them.
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Well, that principle, train up
a child in the way he should go
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is true in many respects.
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And that's why we
need to teach the children
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questions and answers,
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get them to
think for themselves,
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get them rooted in the
truth, not in the counterfeit.
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Amen?
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And so anyway that's
the word that was used.
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And so Apollos is
mighty in the scriptures,
00:19:07.38\00:19:10.78
but he knew only
the baptism of John.
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So he began to speak
boldly in the synagogue
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and when Aquila and
Priscilla heard him,
00:19:17.79\00:19:20.09
without embarrassing
him, they took him aside.
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Now if you got
to correct a person,
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do you do it publicly?
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They say, "You know,
00:19:25.93\00:19:27.03
you're mighty in the scriptures,
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you know, we can
tell you love the Lord,
00:19:28.76\00:19:30.27
and God is using
you, but can we share
00:19:30.27\00:19:32.10
a little Bible study with you?
00:19:32.10\00:19:33.94
There's something
maybe you don't know yet
00:19:33.94\00:19:35.84
we'd like to share with you."
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They take him aside,
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they start
talking more about Jesus,
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and the baptism of the Spirit,
and what the different parables
00:19:40.08\00:19:43.28
and teachings of Christ.
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And he embraced it all.
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Because, you
know, John had announced
00:19:47.62\00:19:49.75
that Jesus was the Messiah.
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"And so he
became a mighty preacher
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there in Ephesus,
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and they taught him the
way of God more accurately,
00:19:55.49\00:20:00.53
and when he
desired to cross to Achaia,
00:20:00.53\00:20:02.73
to the brethren, they
wrote, exhorting the disciples
00:20:02.73\00:20:05.87
that they should
receive him, and he arrived,
00:20:05.87\00:20:08.50
and he greatly helped those
who had believed through grace,
00:20:08.50\00:20:12.04
for he
vigorously refuted the Jews,
00:20:12.04\00:20:14.64
publicly showing
from the scriptures
00:20:14.64\00:20:16.71
that Jesus is the Christ."
00:20:16.71\00:20:18.28
So how should we be presenting
the truth, from the scriptures?
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Now did the Jews
believe the scriptures?
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They did.
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So here we are Seventh-day
Adventist Christians,
00:20:25.99\00:20:28.56
the Lord's given us
the three angles' message.
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There are a lot of God's
people in other churches.
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Amen? Amen.
00:20:32.99\00:20:34.76
Some of them are
mighty in the Word,
00:20:34.76\00:20:36.40
but they don't understand
00:20:36.40\00:20:37.90
the whole three angles' message,
00:20:37.90\00:20:39.00
maybe they don't know
00:20:39.00\00:20:40.10
or understand the
state of the dead,
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or they don't understand
00:20:41.60\00:20:42.64
that the
Sabbath is still intact.
00:20:42.64\00:20:44.77
And in love we
ought to go to them,
00:20:44.77\00:20:47.01
and study with them,
00:20:47.01\00:20:48.54
and teach them the Word
of God more perfectly, right?
00:20:48.54\00:20:51.68
From what? The scriptures.
00:20:51.68\00:20:53.88
So there's a great
revival that followed
00:20:53.88\00:20:55.68
because what Apollos did.
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Now Apollos, he end
ups, as far as we can tell,
00:20:56.72\00:20:59.85
he ends up being
recognized in the same capacity
00:20:59.85\00:21:03.12
as an apostle.
00:21:03.12\00:21:05.36
And he really grew strong,
at least he was an evangelist.
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You're going to read a verse
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just to give a
little more insight on that.
00:21:09.83\00:21:12.43
1 Corinthians 3:5, 6.
00:21:12.43\00:21:16.30
"Who then is Paul,
and who is Apollos,
00:21:16.30\00:21:19.64
but ministers
through whom you believed,
00:21:19.64\00:21:21.98
as the Lord gave to each one?
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I planted, Apollos watered,
but God gave the increase."
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Now who is one of
the greatest apostles
00:21:29.38\00:21:32.25
in the New Testament?
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Well, Paul writes almost
50% of the New Testament.
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Paul is one of the
greatest evangelists.
00:21:37.13\00:21:38.69
I mean, we're talking now about
00:21:38.69\00:21:39.86
the third
missionary journey of Paul,
00:21:39.86\00:21:41.33
there was actually four.
00:21:41.33\00:21:42.90
There may have been
others we don't know about.
00:21:42.90\00:21:44.27
We don't know if
he made it to Spain,
00:21:44.27\00:21:45.93
history is unclear about that.
00:21:45.93\00:21:49.14
Incredible
evangelist from town to town,
00:21:49.14\00:21:51.81
raising up
churches right and left.
00:21:51.81\00:21:53.34
You know, our church
struggles to raise up a church.
00:21:53.34\00:21:56.28
I mean, our denomination
at large not so much overseas
00:21:56.28\00:21:59.45
as in North America,
it's getting more difficult.
00:21:59.45\00:22:01.45
We praise God,
this is a church plant.
00:22:01.45\00:22:04.55
And God willing as
we continue to grow,
00:22:04.55\00:22:06.79
we can plant churches
in Folsom and other places.
00:22:06.79\00:22:09.12
Amen?
00:22:09.12\00:22:10.76
But Paul was a mighty...
00:22:10.76\00:22:12.09
So when they start
comparing to the Corinthians,
00:22:12.09\00:22:14.50
two of the greatest evangelists,
00:22:14.50\00:22:17.27
just the fact that you
would be listed with Paul
00:22:17.27\00:22:20.87
really says a lot about Apollos.
00:22:20.87\00:22:23.47
They saw the great
work that had been done
00:22:23.47\00:22:25.44
by Apollos in Corinth and
other places, and he was...
00:22:25.44\00:22:29.34
And you'll find his
name mentioned many times
00:22:29.34\00:22:31.18
through the writings of Paul,
00:22:31.18\00:22:32.85
he ended up
becoming just a real.
00:22:32.85\00:22:34.55
I mean, you got Billy
Sunday, you got Dwight Moody,
00:22:34.55\00:22:36.82
you got Billy Graham.
00:22:36.82\00:22:37.85
You know, this is a few
really great evangelists
00:22:37.85\00:22:40.22
we think of in
the English world.
00:22:40.22\00:22:43.73
Apollos ends up
becoming one of them.
00:22:43.73\00:22:45.29
So I just wanted
you to understand
00:22:45.29\00:22:46.39
the statue of this
man, and how powerful,
00:22:46.39\00:22:48.80
and eloquent he really was.
00:22:48.80\00:22:50.33
Acts 19, trying to continue,
00:22:50.33\00:22:53.47
not just do the
whole shotgun thing.
00:22:53.47\00:22:55.94
"And it happened, while
Apollos was at Corinth."
00:22:55.94\00:22:57.97
And Apollos was doing a
great revival at Corinth.
00:22:57.97\00:23:00.84
"That Paul, having
passed through the upper coast,
00:23:00.84\00:23:03.14
he comes to Ephesus.
00:23:03.14\00:23:04.51
And finding some
disciples, he says to them,
00:23:04.51\00:23:07.65
'Did you receive the Holy Spirit
00:23:07.65\00:23:08.95
when you believed?'
00:23:08.95\00:23:10.32
So they said to him,
00:23:10.32\00:23:11.52
We've not heard whether
there is any Holy Spirit.'
00:23:11.52\00:23:13.89
" You know, every
Jew and even the gentiles
00:23:13.89\00:23:17.83
understood there was a spirit,
00:23:17.83\00:23:19.26
so they're speaking a little bit
00:23:19.26\00:23:22.13
in exaggeration here,
hyperbole you might say.
00:23:22.13\00:23:25.37
And they said,
00:23:25.37\00:23:26.37
"Well, no there's
been no teaching on this,
00:23:26.37\00:23:27.54
what are you talking about?"
00:23:27.54\00:23:28.64
"He says,
00:23:28.64\00:23:29.70
'Into what then
were you baptized?' "
00:23:29.70\00:23:32.01
Remember, there's both baptisms,
00:23:32.01\00:23:33.41
Jesus said,
00:23:33.41\00:23:34.71
"Unless you are
born of the water,"
00:23:34.71\00:23:37.05
John's baptism,
"and the Spirit,"
00:23:37.05\00:23:39.58
Jesus' baptism, "you
cannot enter the kingdom."
00:23:39.58\00:23:43.65
You need both baptisms, right?
00:23:43.65\00:23:46.05
And they said,
"Well, we've heard about
00:23:46.05\00:23:47.09
the baptism or
repentance of John,
00:23:47.09\00:23:48.92
but what is this the Holy Spirit
00:23:48.92\00:23:50.63
being poured out?"
00:23:50.63\00:23:51.69
They didn't know
much about Jesus.
00:23:51.69\00:23:54.20
"Paul said,
'Indeed John baptized
00:23:54.20\00:23:55.80
with a baptism of repentance
00:23:55.80\00:23:57.33
saying that the
people should believe on Him
00:23:57.33\00:23:59.93
who would come after
him, that is on Jesus,"'
00:23:59.93\00:24:02.07
who John announced.
00:24:02.07\00:24:03.94
"When they heard
this, they were baptized
00:24:03.94\00:24:06.24
in the name of the Lord Jesus."
00:24:06.24\00:24:07.84
And I want to pause right here.
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People often ask, "Pastor Doug,
00:24:09.38\00:24:11.51
is there ever a
time for rebaptism?
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Is it ever
appropriate to be rebaptized?
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I was baptized as a child."
00:24:17.32\00:24:19.35
You know,
00:24:19.35\00:24:20.46
maybe they were
baptized as a baby,
00:24:20.46\00:24:21.82
you should be rebaptized
00:24:21.82\00:24:22.92
because the Bible
doesn't support infant baptism
00:24:22.92\00:24:25.83
because before you're baptized,
00:24:25.83\00:24:27.13
you need to believe
with all your heart,
00:24:27.13\00:24:29.56
baby can't really do
that, you need to be repenting,
00:24:29.56\00:24:32.40
baby, what's he
gonna repent off,
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and you need to be taught,
it's hard to teach a baby.
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And so when you
look at the criteria
00:24:39.81\00:24:41.31
of what is needed for baptism,
babies shouldn't be baptized.
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But when a child gets
old enough to understand
00:24:45.51\00:24:47.35
the claims of the gospel,
to believe, to be taught,
00:24:47.35\00:24:50.49
they have their own
personal relationship
00:24:50.49\00:24:52.15
with Jesus,
00:24:52.15\00:24:53.25
this may happen
at different times.
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People say, "How
old should a child be
00:24:55.29\00:24:57.36
before they're baptized?"
00:24:57.36\00:24:59.29
I've seen children that
maybe were nine years old
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that were ready
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because they just had a
spiritual maturity about them
00:25:03.00\00:25:04.77
and a personal
relationship with Jesus.
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You go to Europe,
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I know we have
some of our friends here
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from Eastern
Europe, and they say,
00:25:10.54\00:25:12.24
"Sixteen, twenty-one,
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we don't baptize
until they get older."
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Is that right?
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Yeah, I see some nods there.
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And so it varies.
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Someone...
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James White was once
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taking some children to
the river to be baptized
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during a camp
meeting, and they said,
00:25:26.35\00:25:28.12
"Elder White,
00:25:28.12\00:25:29.46
don't you think those children
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are a little young for baptism?"
00:25:30.56\00:25:33.09
And he said, "Well,
let me ask you a question,
00:25:33.09\00:25:34.40
do you think these children
are old enough to be lost."
00:25:34.40\00:25:36.56
They said, "Yes."
00:25:36.56\00:25:37.97
He said,
00:25:37.97\00:25:39.03
"Then they're old
enough to be saved."
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So the idea is they need
to be able to understand,
00:25:41.30\00:25:45.01
you know,
what's right and wrong.
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And what that exact
age of accountability is...
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You've got to be
careful about fixing a point,
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you know, as a sort of a
rough meter you might say,
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"How old was Jesus
when he was bar mitzvah,
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and he went to the temple?"
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He was 12.
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So that's sort of a ballpark.
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But some are ready
earlier, some are ready later.
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If a person has a
mental deficiency,
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they may never be
ready, you know what I mean?
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And so it's just...
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You understand.
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So there is a
time for rebaptism.
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Three reasons you
should be rebaptized.
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One is you and I
baptized biblically,
00:26:17.51\00:26:20.94
I baptized as a baby.
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Two, if you were baptized
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and you've
backslidden in a big way,
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baptism's like marriage...
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You know, if
you're married to someone
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and you divorce them legally,
you got to get remarried.
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Now that doesn't mean
00:26:35.62\00:26:36.83
if married
people have an argument,
00:26:36.83\00:26:38.09
they've got to get remarried.
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Some people say, "Pastor Doug,
00:26:40.10\00:26:41.56
I slipped and fell, I
should be rebaptized."
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Not necessarily
because some of you
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get baptized every week.
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And so, you know, you say,
"Well, what's the appropriate?"
00:26:48.10\00:26:51.44
You know, if a person
turns their back on the Lord,
00:26:51.44\00:26:53.34
they turn from the church,
and they go out in the world,
00:26:53.34\00:26:56.61
if they're returning,
00:26:56.61\00:26:58.85
there might be a
need for rebaptism.
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And a person comes to me,
and they're getting rebaptized
00:27:02.78\00:27:04.89
for the fifth time,
there's something wrong,
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they don't understand it.
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And then the third
reason for rebaptism
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falls in the category of Acts 19
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where these
Ephesian believers...
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There was just
the whole truth...
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They were baptized by immersion,
00:27:16.60\00:27:18.03
correct baptism,
00:27:18.03\00:27:20.90
but John the Baptist,
right ministry did it,
00:27:20.90\00:27:24.84
but there's so much
they didn't understand.
00:27:24.84\00:27:28.31
And when they finally learned
all this truth about Jesus
00:27:28.31\00:27:30.78
that they had missed,
00:27:30.78\00:27:32.11
they were baptized
into the entire truth.
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I remember hearing
about a Baptist minister
00:27:34.42\00:27:37.55
went to an evangelistic meeting
00:27:37.55\00:27:38.82
and then after
hearing the entire series,
00:27:38.82\00:27:41.82
he accepted the Sabbath
truth, and he went to the pastor
00:27:41.82\00:27:43.96
and said, "You know, I
think, I should be rebaptized."
00:27:43.96\00:27:45.79
Pastor said,
"Now you're Baptist."
00:27:45.79\00:27:47.23
He said, "Right."
00:27:47.23\00:27:48.30
He says, "You
baptized by immersion."
00:27:48.30\00:27:49.36
"Right."
00:27:49.36\00:27:50.53
He said, "Well, you technically
were baptized correctly,
00:27:50.53\00:27:54.54
you could join the
church by profession of faith."
00:27:54.54\00:27:57.47
He said, "Well, I was
baptized into nine commandments,
00:27:57.47\00:27:59.74
I want to get
baptized into all ten.
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And so that would
be this kind of case.
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Now there's something
else that happened here
00:28:04.58\00:28:06.28
when they rebaptized.
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Read on.
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It says here that
Paul rebaptized them,
00:28:08.72\00:28:12.59
I'm in verse 5, "In
the name of the Lord,
00:28:12.59\00:28:17.03
and he laid hands on them
00:28:17.03\00:28:18.59
and the Holy
Spirit came upon them,
00:28:18.59\00:28:21.40
and they spoke with
tongues, and they prophesied."
00:28:21.40\00:28:24.57
Now that does not
mean they babbled.
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What does the
word prophesied mean
00:28:26.63\00:28:28.44
when Paul uses the word?
00:28:28.44\00:28:30.71
It means to preach.
00:28:30.71\00:28:33.81
It means teaching the
Word, preaching the Word.
00:28:33.81\00:28:35.68
Prophesying does not...
00:28:35.68\00:28:36.85
Sometimes we think
of a prophet like Elijah
00:28:36.85\00:28:38.71
or somebody
foretelling the future.
00:28:38.71\00:28:40.62
John the Baptist
was a great prophet,
00:28:40.62\00:28:42.58
isn't that right?
00:28:42.58\00:28:44.15
Tell me a, you know...
00:28:44.15\00:28:46.19
I guess the only
prophecy John the Baptist made
00:28:46.19\00:28:48.02
was about Jesus as
one coming after me,
00:28:48.02\00:28:50.06
but John didn't
really foretell the future.
00:28:50.06\00:28:53.23
He was a teacher of repentance.
00:28:53.23\00:28:56.03
The Bible says
Philip had four daughters
00:28:56.03\00:28:58.37
that did prophesied.
00:28:58.37\00:28:59.87
That doesn't
mean they went around
00:28:59.87\00:29:01.00
foretelling the future.
00:29:01.00\00:29:02.07
It means the four
daughters of this evangelist
00:29:02.07\00:29:04.41
were also doing evangelism.
00:29:04.41\00:29:06.31
They were teaching.
00:29:06.31\00:29:07.74
And so when these men
were speaking in tongues,
00:29:07.74\00:29:12.01
what were they saying?
00:29:12.01\00:29:13.31
They were prophesying.
00:29:13.31\00:29:14.38
They were teaching
in other languages.
00:29:14.38\00:29:16.72
Whenever you have the speaking
of tongues in the Bible,
00:29:16.72\00:29:18.89
there's three examples.
00:29:18.89\00:29:20.16
I told you this
before but some, I'm sure,
00:29:20.16\00:29:21.76
were not here.
00:29:21.76\00:29:23.26
Acts 2, what's the other one?
00:29:23.26\00:29:26.03
Acts 10 and Acts 19.
00:29:26.03\00:29:28.53
This is the last
example of speaking in tongues
00:29:28.53\00:29:31.77
in the Bible.
00:29:31.77\00:29:33.17
I'm not talking about
where Paul talks about speaking
00:29:33.17\00:29:35.17
in tongues in 1 Corinthians 14.
00:29:35.17\00:29:37.67
The example of speaking
in tongues is three examples.
00:29:37.67\00:29:40.61
All three examples,
00:29:40.61\00:29:41.81
there are multiple
language groups present.
00:29:41.81\00:29:45.01
Purpose for tongues is that
00:29:45.01\00:29:46.68
you might communicate the gospel
00:29:46.68\00:29:48.35
in the languages
of people present
00:29:48.35\00:29:50.05
that they may not understand.
00:29:50.05\00:29:51.55
These are Ephesians believers
Paul and others with him
00:29:51.55\00:29:54.92
spoke different languages.
00:29:54.92\00:29:56.52
They heard what
they were saying.
00:29:56.52\00:29:57.99
What were they
saying? They were prophesying.
00:29:57.99\00:29:59.76
They were teaching
in these other tongues.
00:29:59.76\00:30:02.26
And around Ephesus,
there were many languages
00:30:02.26\00:30:04.37
that were spoken
in the Roman Empire
00:30:04.37\00:30:06.30
or local tribal languages.
00:30:06.30\00:30:07.77
There was Latin,
there was a Greek,
00:30:07.77\00:30:09.27
and Paul spoke Hebrew.
00:30:09.27\00:30:10.84
So is that clear? Okay.
00:30:10.84\00:30:13.88
Anyway, and
it's also interesting
00:30:13.88\00:30:16.31
that tells us there
were 12 of them in all.
00:30:16.31\00:30:19.81
Now do you think he
mentions that by accident?
00:30:19.81\00:30:24.12
Or is this just sort of
one of the Bible ways of saying
00:30:24.12\00:30:26.99
the gospel now is going
from 12 Jewish apostles,
00:30:26.99\00:30:31.59
the Holy Spirit
is now being poured
00:30:31.59\00:30:33.06
on 12 gentile apostles?
00:30:33.06\00:30:36.70
See what's happening?
00:30:36.70\00:30:37.87
They are being
baptized with the Holy Spirit,
00:30:37.87\00:30:40.20
just like at Pentecost,
00:30:40.20\00:30:41.37
you got the 12 in the upper room
00:30:41.37\00:30:44.41
that are preaching
about 120 in the upper room,
00:30:44.41\00:30:46.01
but you have 12 apostles,
and there's another 12.
00:30:46.01\00:30:49.11
And the God is kind
of saying the church now
00:30:49.11\00:30:51.95
is exploding among the gentiles.
00:30:51.95\00:30:53.95
It's not just for the Jews.
00:30:53.95\00:30:56.42
All right.
00:30:56.42\00:30:57.52
Now another interesting story,
00:30:57.52\00:30:58.95
I just don't want
to rush past this.
00:30:58.95\00:31:00.69
Acts 19:13,
00:31:00.69\00:31:03.59
"Then some of the
itinerant Jewish exorcists..."
00:31:03.59\00:31:08.66
Any exorcists present?
00:31:08.66\00:31:10.17
There was a
movie a few years ago
00:31:13.70\00:31:14.97
that became very
popular called "The Exorcist"
00:31:14.97\00:31:18.44
about, you know,
00:31:18.44\00:31:19.47
Catholic priests that specialize
00:31:19.47\00:31:20.91
in casting out devils.
00:31:20.91\00:31:22.71
And for a while,
00:31:22.71\00:31:23.81
there were some
Protestant churches
00:31:23.81\00:31:25.18
that became
involved, and we get those
00:31:25.18\00:31:27.35
who specialize in
casting out demons.
00:31:27.35\00:31:30.12
I always find
that's a dubious practice
00:31:30.12\00:31:32.69
that anyone who is
a minister that says,
00:31:32.69\00:31:35.62
"That's my special gift
'cause I cast out devils."
00:31:35.62\00:31:38.76
I don't think you ever
ought to go looking for it.
00:31:38.76\00:31:41.23
Jesus did say the
disciples, the Holy Spirit
00:31:41.23\00:31:43.83
will come upon you,
00:31:43.83\00:31:44.93
and you will be
able to cast out devils,
00:31:44.93\00:31:47.67
but I don't think you
ever hang out your shingle
00:31:47.67\00:31:49.40
and say, "You
know, demons or us,
00:31:49.40\00:31:51.24
we cast out devils
or anything like that."
00:31:51.24\00:31:54.21
So here are these
young men are going out,
00:31:54.21\00:31:55.74
they are Jewish exorcist,
00:31:55.74\00:31:56.85
"Took it upon themselves
00:31:56.85\00:31:58.01
to call on the
name of the Lord Jesus
00:31:58.01\00:31:59.61
over those who had evil spirits,
00:31:59.61\00:32:01.28
and they would say,
00:32:01.28\00:32:02.55
"We exorcise you by
Jesus who Paul preaches."
00:32:02.55\00:32:06.42
That's sort of like, you know,
00:32:06.42\00:32:07.49
a second-hand
exorcism, I suppose.
00:32:07.49\00:32:10.36
"And there were
seven sons of Sceva,
00:32:10.36\00:32:12.26
a Jewish chief
priest, who did so."
00:32:12.26\00:32:15.66
Another interesting
number, how many sons?
00:32:15.66\00:32:18.43
Just went from 12 to 7.
00:32:18.43\00:32:20.34
These things have
spiritual significance.
00:32:20.34\00:32:23.94
And these are from
the Jewish priests.
00:32:23.94\00:32:26.34
"And the evil
spirits answered and said,
00:32:26.34\00:32:27.94
'Jesus I know and Paul
I know, but who are you?'
00:32:27.94\00:32:32.21
And the man in
whom the evil spirit
00:32:32.21\00:32:34.28
was leapt on them
and overpowered them
00:32:34.28\00:32:37.12
and prevailed against them,
00:32:37.12\00:32:38.85
so they fled out of the
house naked and wounded."
00:32:38.85\00:32:42.72
That's very interesting.
00:32:42.72\00:32:44.99
You've got these seven
sons of a Jewish priest
00:32:44.99\00:32:47.30
who are trying
to cast out devils,
00:32:47.30\00:32:48.70
and it's like
they're using the old method.
00:32:48.70\00:32:51.20
And the devil say,
00:32:51.20\00:32:52.60
"You know, you can't
just call out Jesus' name,
00:32:52.60\00:32:55.94
like you're saying
open sesame or abracadabra
00:32:55.94\00:32:58.17
and some magic word."
00:32:58.17\00:33:00.21
You ever heard people do that?
00:33:00.21\00:33:02.24
They think if they just
call up the name of Jesus
00:33:02.24\00:33:05.31
without knowing
Christ or what it means
00:33:05.31\00:33:06.88
to praying His
name in His character
00:33:06.88\00:33:09.65
or having a
relationship with Him,
00:33:09.65\00:33:10.99
that there's some
magic in the word.
00:33:10.99\00:33:12.92
The Bible doesn't teach that.
00:33:12.92\00:33:14.72
There's authority
in the name of God.
00:33:14.72\00:33:16.39
It's especially in
the character of God.
00:33:16.39\00:33:19.46
And so if you're just
calling out this name,
00:33:19.46\00:33:22.30
they have no relationship,
did not surrendered to Jesus,
00:33:22.30\00:33:24.60
and the demons say,
"Oh, yeah, we know Paul,
00:33:24.60\00:33:27.97
and we know
Jesus, but who are you?"
00:33:27.97\00:33:32.31
And the devil is one
demon possessed man overpowers
00:33:32.31\00:33:36.54
seven young men,
beats him up, wounds them,
00:33:36.54\00:33:40.68
strips them,
and they flee naked.
00:33:40.68\00:33:44.02
Now this is, again,
00:33:44.02\00:33:45.12
filled with
spiritual significance
00:33:45.12\00:33:46.49
because what
happened to Adam and Eve
00:33:46.49\00:33:50.09
after they
wrestled with the devil?
00:33:50.09\00:33:52.63
Did they end up
wounded and naked,
00:33:52.63\00:33:54.73
spiritually wounded and naked?
00:33:54.73\00:33:57.57
What did the
devil do to that man
00:33:57.57\00:33:59.03
in Acts 5 that was
filled with a legion of demons?
00:33:59.03\00:34:02.94
Was he wounding himself a naked?
00:34:02.94\00:34:07.61
And you can find
just through the Bible
00:34:07.61\00:34:10.25
when that man
fell among thieves,
00:34:10.25\00:34:12.65
the devil was the
thief in that story,
00:34:12.65\00:34:14.65
the Good Samaritan
story, they stripped him.
00:34:14.65\00:34:18.49
The devil strips us
of all righteousness
00:34:18.49\00:34:21.76
and he wounds us with sin,
00:34:21.76\00:34:24.69
and it's through
Christ coming along,
00:34:24.69\00:34:26.33
He heals us and He
binds up our wounds.
00:34:26.33\00:34:28.40
And so, it also I
think is significant,
00:34:28.40\00:34:30.57
it says these are
seven sons of a priest.
00:34:30.57\00:34:34.27
It's like they're
trying to pour the new wine
00:34:34.27\00:34:37.01
in old wine skins of Judaism,
and there was no power there.
00:34:37.01\00:34:41.41
They had a form of
religion without power.
00:34:41.41\00:34:43.91
There are a lot
of churches out there
00:34:43.91\00:34:45.05
that are taking
the name of Jesus,
00:34:45.05\00:34:46.41
and they don't know Jesus.
00:34:46.41\00:34:48.95
Hey, you've read that prophecy
in Isaiah 4 where it says,
00:34:48.95\00:34:54.36
"In that day, seven women
will take hold of one man,
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saying, 'We will
eat our own bread,
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and we will
wear our own apparel,
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only let us be
called by your name
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to take away our reproach."
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Kind of like a picture of a lot
of churches and the last name,
00:35:05.10\00:35:07.17
they want to use
the name of Jesus,
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but they don't want the
righteousness of Christ,
00:35:09.44\00:35:11.34
they don't want the
teachings of Christ,
00:35:11.34\00:35:12.74
they got their own
bread, their own Bible,
00:35:12.74\00:35:14.74
they got their own apparel,
their own righteousness,
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but they want His name
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that describes a lot of
churches in the last days.
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All right, so they're not
able to cast off the devil.
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One more thing,
there's so much here.
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I just, you know...
00:35:27.09\00:35:28.12
I just want you to
share my frustration.
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It's just hard to
rush through this stuff.
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It's so rich.
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The devil said, "Paul, I know."
00:35:37.33\00:35:41.24
But he said to
these seven young men,
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"Who are you?"
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Are there some workers
for God that the devil knows?
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Why does the devil know...
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Why did the devil
know who Paul was?
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Paul was just
invading his territory.
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Now the devil,
is he all-knowing?
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Now God knows
everybody, doesn't He?
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But the devil and his demons,
they don't know everybody.
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They're not omniscient.
They don't know everything.
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But there are some
that the devil knows.
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The devil knows the ones
that are taking his people.
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And Paul was a real
threat to the devil.
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And, now how many of
you would like to pray
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that the devil
knows who you are?
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You don't want to
raise your hand, do you?
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You kind of, do you say,
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"Yeah, I want to
cause the devil trouble,
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but I don't want
his special attention,
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but I do want the
Lord to be pleased,
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but I don't
want the devil to..."
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You don't know how do I this.
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All right, moving
on, go to Acts 19:21
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and someone's going to read
for me a minute in Romans 5.
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And it says,
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"These things
were accomplished..."
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Well, actually, let
me see, I want to read...
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Yeah.
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okay, Acts 19:21,
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so it says, "These
things were accomplished
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that Paul
purposed in the Spirit,
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he had passed
through Macedonia and Acacia
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to go to Jerusalem saying,
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'After I've been
there, I must also see Rome."'
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And so it doesn't say exactly
why he's going to Rome here
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in Acts 19, but we
find out in Romans,
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and in 1 Corinthians
16 why he's going to Rome.
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If you look in 1
Corinthians 16:1,
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"Now concerning the
collection for the saints
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as I've given orders to
the churches of Galatia,
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so you must also do, on
the first day of the week,
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let each one of you
lay by him something,
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in storing up as
God may prosper him
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that there be no
collections when I come."
00:37:37.05\00:37:38.85
This is not a church offering.
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He says that you don't
have an offering when I come,
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and I'll come to
you whatever you give,
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you might
approve by your letters,
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I will send and bear
your gifts to Jerusalem.
00:37:46.96\00:37:49.43
They were
bringing a special gift
00:37:49.43\00:37:51.93
from Ephesus down to
Jerusalem if it is fitting.
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Go and read your verse for us.
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Romans 15: 25-26,
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"But now I am going to Jerusalem
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to minister to the saints,
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for it be pleased those
from Macedonia and Achaia
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to make a certain contribution
for the poor among the saints
00:38:08.72\00:38:12.22
who are in Jerusalem."
00:38:12.22\00:38:14.42
So it's pretty clear,
they're bringing a gift down.
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Now during this third journey,
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and I think we've got
a map up on the screen.
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I'm going to pop
up there real quick.
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And I know some of the towns
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are going to be
small in your map,
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so I'll just
give it to you here.
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This journey sort of
begins in the Antioch,
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and he makes his
way through Tarsus,
00:38:30.87\00:38:32.54
which is where Paul
used to live, Derbe,
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Lystra, Iconium, Pisidia.
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He stops in Laodicea,
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and then he goes
directly to Ephesus.
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He promised them he'd come back.
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He spends time there in Ephesus.
00:38:42.88\00:38:46.12
Makes his way up
through Smyrna, Pergamus,
00:38:46.12\00:38:48.79
goes to Chios,
crosses over into Macedonia,
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and that's where he spends
time in Philippi, Thessalonica,
00:38:52.63\00:38:57.03
Berea, circles down,
goes to visit Corinth again,
00:38:57.03\00:39:01.54
goes around Athens,
has an adventure there,
00:39:01.54\00:39:04.21
and ends up making his way back.
00:39:04.21\00:39:06.31
He's bringing a
gift to the believers
00:39:06.31\00:39:08.54
back in Jerusalem,
00:39:08.54\00:39:09.81
goes back down through Mitylene,
00:39:09.81\00:39:15.35
Miletus, Chios,
Patra, and stops in Tyre,
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makes his way
back up to Jerusalem.
00:39:21.32\00:39:23.36
So this is a big circuitous trip
00:39:23.36\00:39:25.96
he takes going
through Macedonia,
00:39:25.96\00:39:28.30
spends significant time
in Ephesus on that trip.
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Anyway, they have
some problems in Ephesus.
00:39:32.67\00:39:35.50
You go to Acts 19:21.
00:39:35.50\00:39:40.14
"When these
things were accomplished,
00:39:40.14\00:39:41.84
Paul purposed in the Spirit
00:39:41.84\00:39:43.14
that when he had passed
through Macedonia and Acacia
00:39:43.14\00:39:46.65
to go to Jerusalem saying,
00:39:46.65\00:39:48.45
'After I've been
there, I must see Rome.' "
00:39:48.45\00:39:49.88
We just read that.
00:39:49.88\00:39:51.15
So he sent into Macedonia
00:39:51.15\00:39:52.62
two of those who
ministered to him,
00:39:52.62\00:39:55.02
Timothy and Erastus,
00:39:55.02\00:39:56.83
but he himself
stayed in Asia for a time.
00:39:56.83\00:40:00.96
And about that time,
there arose a great commotion
00:40:00.96\00:40:04.13
about the way, for certain man
named Demetrius, a silversmith,
00:40:04.13\00:40:08.10
who made silver
shrines of Diana,
00:40:08.10\00:40:11.11
he brought no small
profit to the craftsman,
00:40:11.11\00:40:13.14
he called them
together with the workers
00:40:13.14\00:40:14.84
of a similar
occupation and said, 'Men...'"
00:40:14.84\00:40:17.28
They had a union
meeting is what it was.
00:40:17.28\00:40:19.51
"You know that we
have our prosperity
00:40:19.51\00:40:20.92
by this trade.
00:40:20.92\00:40:22.02
Moreover, you see and
hear that not only at Ephesus
00:40:22.02\00:40:24.92
but throughout almost
all of Asia, this Paul...'"
00:40:24.92\00:40:28.59
Not only did the
devil know who he was
00:40:28.59\00:40:30.83
but all the silversmiths.
00:40:30.83\00:40:32.49
They were making
and selling idols
00:40:32.49\00:40:33.86
throughout Asia knew he was.
00:40:33.86\00:40:35.66
"Throughout almost all
of Asia, Paul has persuaded
00:40:35.66\00:40:39.20
and turned many away
saying that they are not gods
00:40:39.20\00:40:43.81
which are made with hands.'"
00:40:43.81\00:40:45.14
Now was that a
special Christian teaching?
00:40:45.14\00:40:46.68
Is that also a Jewish teaching?
00:40:46.68\00:40:49.14
That's Ten
Commandments, don't make idols.
00:40:49.14\00:40:52.25
Paul was just
doing what the Jews
00:40:52.25\00:40:53.45
should have been
doing all those years
00:40:53.45\00:40:55.32
that they were in Asia.
00:40:55.32\00:40:56.85
That's not very popular, is it?
00:40:59.29\00:41:00.72
To go through a culture
and tell them, you know,
00:41:00.72\00:41:02.22
"Those silver
gods you guys make,
00:41:02.22\00:41:04.96
they're not gods."
00:41:04.96\00:41:07.20
I mean, one of the politically
correct thing be to do,
00:41:07.20\00:41:10.60
you know, we don't
want to upset them.
00:41:10.60\00:41:13.07
But Paul was a bold preacher.
00:41:13.07\00:41:14.87
And he was more
concerned about offending God
00:41:14.87\00:41:17.01
than offending man.
00:41:17.01\00:41:18.77
And so he was telling
them those are worthless idols.
00:41:18.77\00:41:21.21
He was saying what Isaiah said.
00:41:21.21\00:41:23.21
And so much so that the
market began to fall out
00:41:23.21\00:41:26.21
in the idol business.
00:41:26.21\00:41:28.35
And Demetrius said,
00:41:28.35\00:41:29.38
"Look, we've got
to have a meeting.
00:41:29.38\00:41:30.49
We're going to rally
and turn this thing around.
00:41:30.49\00:41:32.05
This guy is
wrecking our business."
00:41:32.05\00:41:36.06
"Not only is this
trade of ours in danger
00:41:36.06\00:41:38.09
of falling into disrepute,"
00:41:38.09\00:41:40.03
as it should,
00:41:40.03\00:41:42.16
"And also the temple of
the great goddess Diana,"
00:41:42.16\00:41:44.83
Artemus,
00:41:44.83\00:41:46.00
"May be despised in
her magnificence destroyed
00:41:46.00\00:41:48.97
whom all of Asia
and the world worship."
00:41:48.97\00:41:51.94
That's another example
of hyperbole in the Bible.
00:41:51.94\00:41:54.41
"Now when they heard
this, they were full of wrath
00:41:54.41\00:41:55.88
and cried out."
00:41:55.88\00:41:57.01
And they also have
this big get together,
00:41:57.01\00:41:59.31
and they gather in
the theater, and they say,
00:41:59.31\00:42:01.22
"Great is Diana
of the Ephesians."
00:42:01.22\00:42:02.95
They have a pep rally.
00:42:02.95\00:42:04.29
"So the whole city
was filled with confusion,
00:42:04.29\00:42:06.39
and they rushed in to..."
00:42:06.39\00:42:08.26
"And they seized the
altar with one accord,
00:42:08.26\00:42:09.99
having seized
Gaius and Aristarchus,
00:42:09.99\00:42:12.86
the Macedonians,
Paul's traveling companions.
00:42:12.86\00:42:15.73
And when Paul wanted
to go in to the people,
00:42:15.73\00:42:18.27
the disciples
would not allow him."
00:42:18.27\00:42:21.87
Paul, whenever
he saw crowd, said,
00:42:21.87\00:42:23.44
"Let me add
them. Let me add them.
00:42:23.44\00:42:25.61
Now that's evangelist for you.
00:42:25.61\00:42:26.84
You know, when
they're torturing you,
00:42:26.84\00:42:27.98
he wants to
convert the torturers.
00:42:27.98\00:42:30.88
Evangelists gets hit by
a car, in the ambulance,
00:42:30.88\00:42:33.15
he wants to
convert the paramedics.
00:42:33.15\00:42:36.05
Paul was being torn
limb from limb in the temple
00:42:36.05\00:42:39.25
and the Romans rescued him.
00:42:39.25\00:42:40.59
Paul says to the Romans,
00:42:40.59\00:42:41.62
"Can I preach to
them? I got a crowd."
00:42:41.62\00:42:44.19
And I kind of know the feeling.
00:42:44.19\00:42:45.36
Whenever I see a crowd, I think,
00:42:45.36\00:42:46.49
"Oh, man,
where's the microphone."
00:42:46.49\00:42:48.90
You know, you want to preach.
00:42:48.90\00:42:51.03
And so he wants
to go and they said,
00:42:51.03\00:42:52.13
"Paul, they will
kill you in there.
00:42:52.13\00:42:54.37
They're all mad.
00:42:54.37\00:42:55.94
This whole rally is
00:42:55.94\00:42:57.01
because you are
wrecking their business,
00:42:57.01\00:42:58.64
and you want to
go preach to them?"
00:42:58.64\00:43:00.71
"Yeah, but I want to tell
them why idols are so bad."
00:43:00.71\00:43:02.68
"These are the idol makers.
00:43:02.68\00:43:04.01
You sure you
want to go in there?"
00:43:04.01\00:43:06.25
And they probably were wise
00:43:06.25\00:43:10.05
in telling Paul not to do that.
00:43:10.05\00:43:13.52
And they had this big commotion,
00:43:13.52\00:43:15.09
I don't have
time to read it all.
00:43:15.09\00:43:16.19
For two hours, they're shouting,
00:43:16.19\00:43:17.83
'Great is Diana
of the Ephesians.'"
00:43:17.83\00:43:20.10
And finally, you
get one of the officials
00:43:20.10\00:43:24.10
in the community says...
00:43:24.10\00:43:25.27
He calms everyone down, he
says, "What's going on here?
00:43:25.27\00:43:28.04
What kind of uproar is this?
00:43:28.04\00:43:29.10
This is the
Romanly governed community.
00:43:29.10\00:43:31.51
We have laws.
00:43:31.51\00:43:32.77
If the silversmith have
something against others,
00:43:32.77\00:43:35.64
the courts are open.
00:43:35.64\00:43:36.98
File a claim, they can
do it in an orderly matter.
00:43:36.98\00:43:40.88
See, there's no excuse for
this raucous concourses riot."
00:43:40.88\00:43:45.32
And he speaks very reasonably.
00:43:45.32\00:43:48.59
You know, Romans
had some good laws.
00:43:48.59\00:43:50.63
Matter of affect, even
some of the American laws
00:43:50.63\00:43:53.50
are based on Greco-Roman laws.
00:43:53.50\00:43:56.06
We've got a Senate,
we've got a Congress, right?
00:43:56.06\00:43:58.70
And so, he
settles them all down.
00:43:58.70\00:44:02.64
They had a
representative government,
00:44:02.64\00:44:04.14
they had courts,
00:44:04.14\00:44:05.51
and he dismisses the assembly,
but it turned into a riot
00:44:05.51\00:44:10.88
because of Paul's preaching.
00:44:10.88\00:44:11.95
All right, journeys in Greece.
00:44:11.95\00:44:13.72
We're going to
move on, chapter 20.
00:44:13.72\00:44:16.45
And.
00:44:16.45\00:44:18.22
If you look in...
00:44:18.22\00:44:20.42
We're talking about Troas now.
00:44:20.42\00:44:22.26
Acts 20:7, let's
jump here to Eutychus.
00:44:22.26\00:44:25.56
This is a great story,
00:44:25.56\00:44:28.80
"And now on the
first day of the week,
00:44:28.80\00:44:30.27
when the disciples came
together to break bread..."
00:44:30.27\00:44:32.40
Now what does that mean?
00:44:32.40\00:44:33.87
First day of the
week, that's Sunday, huh?
00:44:33.87\00:44:36.57
Disciples come together
to have a communion service.
00:44:36.57\00:44:39.21
There you got it.
00:44:39.21\00:44:40.44
Saturday has been
changed to Sunday.
00:44:40.44\00:44:43.81
This is the verse I
often hear when people say,
00:44:43.81\00:44:46.92
"We can prove, the
apostles were keeping
00:44:46.92\00:44:48.78
the Sunday as a day of worship."
00:44:48.78\00:44:50.62
Because here you have it,
the disciples came together
00:44:50.62\00:44:52.72
on the first day of
the week to break bread.
00:44:52.72\00:44:54.92
Keep reading.
00:44:54.92\00:44:56.16
I've heard pastors just read
that one spot and they stop.
00:44:56.16\00:44:59.46
"Paul, ready to
depart the next day..."
00:44:59.46\00:45:03.57
It says he continued
his messaged until midnight.
00:45:03.57\00:45:06.00
Now first of all,
let me ask you this,
00:45:06.00\00:45:07.80
during this
meeting, is it day or night?
00:45:07.80\00:45:10.47
Night.
00:45:10.47\00:45:11.54
When does the
day begin biblically?
00:45:11.54\00:45:14.84
When the sun goes down.
00:45:14.84\00:45:16.21
So when it says,
00:45:16.21\00:45:17.31
"They got together on
the first day of the week,
00:45:17.31\00:45:20.12
they have an evening meeting.
00:45:20.12\00:45:21.38
They've been
together all day Sabbath.
00:45:21.38\00:45:23.75
They gather that Sunday evening
00:45:23.75\00:45:25.85
'cause why Paul is
going to leave the next day,
00:45:25.85\00:45:28.69
it's his last
chance to build them up
00:45:28.69\00:45:31.13
before he leaves,
00:45:31.13\00:45:32.19
they're also
going to break bread,
00:45:32.19\00:45:33.50
but isn't that a
communion service?
00:45:33.50\00:45:35.33
No.
00:45:35.33\00:45:36.63
Go ahead and read
for us, Dan, Acts 2:46.
00:45:36.63\00:45:41.24
I know I didn't
give the cameras a chance
00:45:41.24\00:45:43.30
to track in on you but...
00:45:43.30\00:45:44.47
Acts 2:46,
00:45:44.47\00:45:46.47
"So continuing daily
with one accord in the temple
00:45:46.47\00:45:49.54
and breaking bread
from house to house,
00:45:49.54\00:45:52.05
they ate their
food with gladness
00:45:52.05\00:45:53.58
and simplicity of heart."
00:45:53.58\00:45:55.48
Breaking bread,
they ate their food,
00:45:55.48\00:45:58.52
not all breaking bread
is a religious ceremony.
00:45:58.52\00:46:00.69
The Bible uses the
word breaking bread,
00:46:00.69\00:46:02.59
talking about eating.
00:46:02.59\00:46:04.16
Jesus broke bread with
the disciples on the road
00:46:04.16\00:46:06.83
to Emmaus, that story.
00:46:06.83\00:46:08.33
They were just eating
together, not every time
00:46:08.33\00:46:10.43
they eat was it a
religious ceremony.
00:46:10.43\00:46:12.53
It just means
they're going to break bread.
00:46:12.53\00:46:14.30
Keep reading here, go
back to the Eutychus story,
00:46:14.30\00:46:17.01
It says, "There were many lamps
with them in the upper chamber
00:46:17.01\00:46:20.31
where they were
gathered together.
00:46:20.31\00:46:22.11
And in the window,
sat a certain young man
00:46:22.11\00:46:24.01
named Eutychus who was
sinking into a deep sleep,
00:46:24.01\00:46:28.22
and he was overcome by sleep
as Paul continued speaking."
00:46:28.22\00:46:31.49
Now that could be either
a sermon about not sleeping
00:46:31.49\00:46:34.09
during church, he
could fall out the window
00:46:34.09\00:46:35.62
or it could be a
lesson to ministers
00:46:35.62\00:46:37.26
not to preach too long
or people will fall asleep
00:46:37.26\00:46:39.69
and fall out the window.
00:46:39.69\00:46:42.40
Either way,
there's a lesson there.
00:46:42.40\00:46:45.17
And Paul went down,
00:46:45.17\00:46:46.60
"He fell out the
window, he's taken up dead."
00:46:46.60\00:46:48.00
He dies.
00:46:48.00\00:46:49.57
"And Paul went
down and fell on him
00:46:49.57\00:46:51.21
and embraced him and said,
00:46:51.21\00:46:52.37
'Do not trouble yourselves
for his life is in him.'"
00:46:52.37\00:46:55.01
Paul embraced him just like
when Elijah to Elisha embraced
00:46:55.01\00:47:00.82
two different times.
00:47:00.82\00:47:01.98
They each embraced a
boy, they touched the boy
00:47:01.98\00:47:04.09
that had died, and
they were resurrected.
00:47:04.09\00:47:06.32
And Paul does...
00:47:06.32\00:47:07.42
He's got the same power
of Elijah and the Elisha.
00:47:07.42\00:47:10.36
And this greatly
encouraged the church there,
00:47:10.36\00:47:13.13
that was in Chios.
00:47:13.13\00:47:14.60
But Paul went
down, he fell on him,
00:47:14.60\00:47:16.77
"And they came up,
and they broke bread."
00:47:16.77\00:47:18.07
Here, they're
breaking bread again.
00:47:18.07\00:47:19.80
They had eaten, and
he talked a long while
00:47:19.80\00:47:21.87
even till
daybreak, and he departed.
00:47:21.87\00:47:24.44
And they brought
the young man alive,
00:47:24.44\00:47:26.07
and they were not
a little comforted."
00:47:26.07\00:47:27.28
It mentions a young man
at the end of the story,
00:47:27.28\00:47:29.41
why is this story in the Bible?
00:47:29.41\00:47:30.98
Is this story there to
tell us, 'This is the story
00:47:30.98\00:47:33.88
where they inaugurate
a new day as a Sabbath."
00:47:33.88\00:47:37.69
It's not at all
what it's saying.
00:47:37.69\00:47:38.75
That's a dishonest
interpretation of the verse.
00:47:38.75\00:47:41.12
It's saying they had
been together all day Sabbath,
00:47:41.12\00:47:43.59
after the first day of
the week began in the evening,
00:47:43.59\00:47:46.39
Paul is making his
final presentation to him,
00:47:46.39\00:47:49.16
it's what we would
call Saturday night.
00:47:49.16\00:47:52.17
They're just coming together
00:47:52.17\00:47:53.34
to have an
evening meal of vespers,
00:47:53.34\00:47:55.94
doesn't say it's
a religious service.
00:47:55.94\00:47:57.34
And you know what?
00:47:57.34\00:47:58.51
It doesn't matter even if
it was a religious service.
00:47:58.51\00:48:00.88
What day of the week
was the first communion?
00:48:00.88\00:48:04.98
Was it Sabbath?
00:48:04.98\00:48:06.41
Was it Friday?
00:48:06.41\00:48:07.55
It's Thursday.
00:48:07.55\00:48:09.02
So is there anything
in the Bible that says
00:48:09.02\00:48:10.95
that if you break bread,
it has to be on the Sabbath?
00:48:10.95\00:48:14.02
No, it could be
any day of the week.
00:48:14.02\00:48:16.02
So to use this verse to
say, "This is the inauguration
00:48:16.02\00:48:18.63
of a new Sabbath,"
00:48:18.63\00:48:20.30
is, I think, a very
weak and it's frankly
00:48:20.30\00:48:22.50
a very dishonest text to use.
00:48:22.50\00:48:24.77
This story is in the
Bible to tell us Eutychus died,
00:48:24.77\00:48:28.04
Paul resurrected him.
00:48:28.04\00:48:29.14
It ends by saying they
were not a little comforted
00:48:29.14\00:48:31.97
that the young boy survived.
00:48:31.97\00:48:33.68
Amen?
00:48:33.68\00:48:34.74
I mean, what a...
00:48:34.74\00:48:35.98
I mean, you think about God
00:48:35.98\00:48:37.08
speaking the
Sabbath from the mountain,
00:48:37.08\00:48:38.91
"Remember the
Sabbath day," and they say,
00:48:38.91\00:48:40.52
"Yeah, this is the place
00:48:40.52\00:48:41.58
where you find Him changing it."
00:48:41.58\00:48:43.95
That'd be a very
mild way to change
00:48:43.95\00:48:46.12
one of the commandments of God,
00:48:46.12\00:48:47.79
sort of a fleeting
reference like this.
00:48:47.79\00:48:50.09
So that's not what
this is talking about.
00:48:50.09\00:48:52.36
All right, I got time
for maybe a little bit more.
00:48:52.36\00:48:55.26
Miletus, Acts 20:15,
00:48:55.26\00:48:58.70
"And we sail from
there, on the next day,
00:48:58.70\00:49:00.40
we came up opposite Chios.
00:49:00.40\00:49:03.77
The following day,
we arrived at Samos
00:49:03.77\00:49:05.91
and stayed at
Trogyllium, and the next day,
00:49:05.91\00:49:08.94
we came to Miletus.
00:49:08.94\00:49:10.21
For Paul had
decided to sail past Ephesus
00:49:10.21\00:49:13.75
so he would not have
to spend time in Asia,
00:49:13.75\00:49:16.05
for he was
hurrying to be at Jerusalem,
00:49:16.05\00:49:18.02
if possible, on
the day of Pentecost.
00:49:18.02\00:49:20.39
He's hastening
back to Jerusalem,
00:49:20.39\00:49:22.46
he wants to be there
00:49:22.46\00:49:23.63
not only because he's
bringing relief to the saints,
00:49:23.63\00:49:26.39
there was a
famine also in Jerusalem.
00:49:26.39\00:49:28.00
There was great poverty,
the saints were struggling,
00:49:28.00\00:49:31.03
he's bringing an
offering with him.
00:49:31.03\00:49:33.27
And he also wants to be
there for obviously Pentecost.
00:49:33.27\00:49:37.54
When was the Holy
Spirit poured out?
00:49:37.54\00:49:40.58
Pentecost. What
happened to Pentecost?
00:49:40.58\00:49:42.78
Devout Jews out of every
nation under heaven were there,
00:49:42.78\00:49:45.95
what a great opportunity
to preach to the devout Jews
00:49:45.95\00:49:48.78
that had come to Jerusalem
for all over the Roman Empire,
00:49:48.78\00:49:51.39
indeed from Africa and
Ethiopia, they'd come up,
00:49:51.39\00:49:54.46
and he's said, "Oh, man,
00:49:54.46\00:49:55.52
it'd be a great time to be there
00:49:55.52\00:49:56.59
and have an
evangelistic meeting."
00:49:56.59\00:49:58.33
So he's trying to get there
to witness and to celebrate
00:49:58.33\00:50:02.50
the Passover as
well as to bring relief.
00:50:02.50\00:50:06.43
And, you know,
00:50:06.43\00:50:08.34
one of the most
beautiful passages,
00:50:08.34\00:50:09.77
Dan, and you need to read this,
00:50:09.77\00:50:11.77
Acts 20:17-37.
00:50:11.77\00:50:16.24
I'll just read this to
you, and I'll close with it.
00:50:16.24\00:50:18.75
He makes his last appeal.
00:50:18.75\00:50:20.22
From Miletus,
he sent to Ephesus,
00:50:20.22\00:50:22.12
and he called for
the elders of the church,
00:50:22.12\00:50:24.52
and when they came to
him, he said, 'You know,
00:50:24.52\00:50:27.16
from the first day
that I came to Asia,
00:50:27.16\00:50:29.06
in what manner I
always lived among you,
00:50:29.06\00:50:31.89
serving the Lord
with all humility
00:50:31.89\00:50:33.43
and many tears and trials,
00:50:33.43\00:50:34.73
which happened to me by
the plotting of the Jews,
00:50:34.73\00:50:36.83
how I kept back
nothing that was helpful
00:50:36.83\00:50:39.47
but proclaimed it to
you, and taught publicly
00:50:39.47\00:50:42.10
and from house to house,
00:50:42.10\00:50:43.67
testifying to the
Jews and the Greeks,
00:50:43.67\00:50:45.61
repentance towards God in faith
towards our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:50:45.61\00:50:49.31
And see, now I go
bound in spirit to Jerusalem
00:50:49.31\00:50:53.18
not knowing the things
that will happen to me there,
00:50:53.18\00:50:55.18
except that the Holy
Spirit testifies in every city,
00:50:55.18\00:50:58.99
saying that chains and
tribulations await me.'"
00:50:58.99\00:51:02.89
Paul said, "I'm
going to Jerusalem
00:51:02.89\00:51:04.23
even though I know
what's going to happen to me."
00:51:04.23\00:51:06.33
Did Jesus say the same thing?
00:51:06.33\00:51:09.06
Did the disciples tried to talk
Paul out of going to Jerusalem?
00:51:09.06\00:51:13.87
But he said, "There's
nothing that can turn me away."
00:51:13.87\00:51:15.94
Did Peter try to talk
Jesus out of going to Jerusalem?
00:51:15.94\00:51:19.77
And Jesus said, "Get behind Me,
00:51:19.77\00:51:21.08
Satan this is
part of God's plan."
00:51:21.08\00:51:23.35
See, Paul knew
God wanted him to go.
00:51:23.35\00:51:25.41
It was through his arrest
00:51:25.41\00:51:26.61
and his
tribulations in Jerusalem,
00:51:26.61\00:51:28.18
he ended up going to Rome,
00:51:28.18\00:51:30.52
a number of miracles
happened along the way.
00:51:30.52\00:51:32.65
There were many converts,
00:51:32.65\00:51:33.79
a whole island of Malta
was converted through Paul.
00:51:33.79\00:51:36.83
He went to Rome,
he ultimately preached
00:51:36.83\00:51:38.33
to Caesar's household.
00:51:38.33\00:51:39.86
He knew that God
wanted this to happen.
00:51:39.86\00:51:41.90
He did more in
prison through his trials...
00:51:41.90\00:51:44.73
Most of the
letters you and I read,
00:51:44.73\00:51:45.93
Paul wrote in jail.
00:51:45.93\00:51:47.74
And so God had
worked out all out.
00:51:47.74\00:51:49.67
Anyway, there's a lot
more I could say about that,
00:51:49.67\00:51:51.34
but I got through
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I'm here in the
beautiful island nation of Fiji.
00:53:07.12\00:53:09.78
It's filled with exotic animals,
00:53:09.78\00:53:12.02
beautiful vegetation,
and spectacular scenery.
00:53:12.02\00:53:15.46
The people here are some
of the nicest in the world,
00:53:15.46\00:53:18.03
but it hasn't
always been that way.
00:53:18.03\00:53:19.96
This was once known
as the cannibal island.
00:53:19.96\00:53:24.17
The Fijian warriors
were some of the fiercest
00:53:24.17\00:53:26.30
in the South
Pacific and greatly feared.
00:53:26.30\00:53:28.40
You can understand why.
00:53:28.40\00:53:29.90
This is one of the
weapons that they used
00:53:29.90\00:53:32.31
for breaking the
neck of their adversaries.
00:53:32.31\00:53:35.14
And long before they
were killing any missionaries,
00:53:35.14\00:53:37.18
they were fighting with
00:53:37.18\00:53:38.28
and killing and
eating each other.
00:53:38.28\00:53:40.32
The fact is you go
00:53:40.32\00:53:41.42
to the different
tourist locations
00:53:41.42\00:53:42.72
on the island,
they'll sell you remakes
00:53:42.72\00:53:45.92
of some of the forks they used
00:53:45.92\00:53:47.59
for eating human brains.
00:53:47.59\00:53:51.06
In fact, there was
one cannibal chief,
00:53:51.06\00:53:53.16
Ratu Udre Udre during the 1800s,
00:53:53.16\00:53:55.90
that is in the
Guinness Book of World Records
00:53:55.90\00:53:57.80
for having killed and
eaten the most victims.
00:53:57.80\00:54:00.84
He brags that every
time he killed someone,
00:54:00.84\00:54:02.44
he set a stone side.
00:54:02.44\00:54:04.17
By the end of his life,
00:54:04.17\00:54:05.31
he had a pretty
big pile of stones.
00:54:05.31\00:54:07.34
It's estimated, he ate somewhere
00:54:07.34\00:54:08.88
in the
neighborhood of 900 people.
00:54:08.88\00:54:11.85
Oh, my.
00:54:11.85\00:54:14.52
You know, the Fijians
were not the only ones
00:54:14.52\00:54:16.25
that had a
monopoly on cannibalism.
00:54:16.25\00:54:18.32
In fact, the Bible says
00:54:18.32\00:54:19.55
that we are all
capable of being cannibals.
00:54:19.55\00:54:22.69
Galatians 5:15 says,
00:54:22.69\00:54:24.39
"If we bite and
devour one another,
00:54:24.39\00:54:26.39
we may end up
consuming one another."
00:54:26.39\00:54:28.40
That's talking about
destroying people's reputation
00:54:28.40\00:54:30.90
by mean gossip.
00:54:30.90\00:54:32.53
One famous
missionary named Pattin,
00:54:32.53\00:54:34.57
when he was preparing to
go to the Cannibal Isles,
00:54:34.57\00:54:37.07
his friends and
family begged him not to go.
00:54:37.07\00:54:39.44
They said, 'You'll be eaten."
00:54:39.44\00:54:40.98
He said, "It doesn't matter
to me if I die and I'm eaten
00:54:40.98\00:54:43.48
by worms or if God wills
that I'm eaten by cannibals
00:54:43.48\00:54:46.45
as long as I'm
doing the will of God."
00:54:46.45\00:54:48.68
Well, he went to
the Cannibal Isles
00:54:48.68\00:54:50.59
and brought many to
Christ and died peacefully
00:54:50.59\00:54:52.95
in his old age.
00:54:52.95\00:54:54.19
Some of the ancient
cannibal cultures believed
00:54:54.19\00:54:56.32
that when you killed
00:54:56.32\00:54:57.36
and when you
devoured your enemy,
00:54:57.36\00:54:58.86
you would
somehow take within you
00:54:58.86\00:55:00.36
their spiritual
strengths or powers.
00:55:00.36\00:55:02.70
But that's really absurd,
00:55:02.70\00:55:04.37
but there is a
kind of cannibalism
00:55:04.37\00:55:06.50
endorsed in scripture.
00:55:06.50\00:55:07.74
That's right.
00:55:07.74\00:55:08.80
Jesus said in John 6:53,
00:55:08.80\00:55:11.67
"Except you eat My
flesh and drink My blood,
00:55:11.67\00:55:14.71
you have no life in you."
00:55:14.71\00:55:16.18
And you don't need
these tools to do it.
00:55:16.18\00:55:18.15
What you need
is to read His Word
00:55:18.15\00:55:20.25
and learn about His life,
00:55:20.25\00:55:21.58
accept by faith His
sacrifice in your place,
00:55:21.58\00:55:24.05
and you can have a new
heart and be a new creature.
00:55:24.05\00:55:26.79
You can even do it right now.
00:55:26.79\00:55:28.66
Did you know
that Noah was present
00:55:36.53\00:55:38.23
at the birth of Abraham?
00:55:38.23\00:55:39.93
Okay, maybe he
wasn't in the room,
00:55:39.93\00:55:42.50
but he was alive and
probably telling stories
00:55:42.50\00:55:45.04
about his floating zoo.
00:55:45.04\00:55:47.08
From the creation of the world
00:55:47.08\00:55:48.64
to the last day
events of Revelation,
00:55:48.64\00:55:51.08
BibleHistory.com
is a free resource
00:55:51.08\00:55:53.58
where you can explore
00:55:53.58\00:55:54.65
major Bible
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00:55:54.65\00:55:57.12
Enhance your
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00:55:57.12\00:55:59.15
and draw closer to
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00:55:59.15\00:56:02.86
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00:56:02.86\00:56:04.96
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00:56:04.96\00:56:06.86
On several occasions,
scientists have demonstrated
00:56:18.57\00:56:21.88
that people, and even creatures,
00:56:21.88\00:56:23.58
can struggle with the depression
00:56:23.58\00:56:25.21
when exposed to
continual darkness.
00:56:25.21\00:56:27.92
This can be seen every
year in the winter months
00:56:27.92\00:56:29.92
in the Arctic regions.
00:56:29.92\00:56:32.62
The beautiful
village of Rjukan, Norway
00:56:32.62\00:56:34.79
is situated in a deep
valley where mountains
00:56:34.79\00:56:37.46
block the sun's rays for
about six months every year.
00:56:37.46\00:56:40.70
This, of course,
keeps the 3,400 residents
00:56:40.70\00:56:43.40
in a state of shade
00:56:43.40\00:56:44.83
and sometimes depressing
darkness throughout the winter.
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Then the town
leaders got a bright idea
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to help illuminate their village
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during the murky months.
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In October, 2013,
Rjukan installed on array
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of three gigantic
550 square foot mirrors
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on the nearby mountain, a
1,000 feet above the town.
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The computer control
and solar-powered mirrors
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track the sun
through the winter months
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and reflect that
giant beam of sunshine
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down to the Town Square
brightening their lives.
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If you visit Rjukan in
the winter months today,
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you can often see the people
gathered or sitting on benches
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around the Town Square bathing
in the reflected sun shining.
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Like those
mirrors on the mountain,
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the Bible says that
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Christians are to
reflect the light of Jesus
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who is the light of the
world into this dark planet.
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Matthew 5:14 says,
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"You are the light of the world.
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A city that is set on
a hill cannot be hidden.
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Nor do we light a lamp
and put it under a basket,
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but on a lampstand,
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and it illuminates
everybody in the house.
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Let your light
so shine before men
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that they may
see your good works
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and glorify your
Father in Heaven."
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So, friends, use today
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to brighten the
life of someone else
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by reflecting Jesus.
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