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 It was an ad in Christianity Today.

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 Christianity Today is an American journal.

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 and the ad at the back was Shoes of the Fisherman.

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 They were sandals that leave the greatest impression.

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! $19.95 per pair.

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 And the idea is that you walk along the beach

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 and you leave a message in the sand.

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 So on one sandal there is a kind of raised impression of the name Jesus.

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 And on the other sandal is a raised impression with the word loves you.

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 So as you walk up and down the beach

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 you put one foot down and you put the other foot down

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 and you walk up and down the beach all day

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 and everyone on the beach gets the message

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 Jesus loves you.

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 And the text that went along with this

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 in the British one in Christianity Today was

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 How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news?

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 And the challenge of it was

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 it was possible to get more corny

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 what kind of impression do you want to leave?

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 Now it's really tacky isn't it?

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 Really tacky.

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 But actually it's a very good question.

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 What kind of impression do you want to leave?

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 And here is the Apostle Paul in this chapter

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 and he's in the hands of the authorities

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 he's on trial for his life

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 and the Jews have tried to assassinate him

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 they've tried to ambush him a few times

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 and the Romans have taken him into protective custody

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 for his own good

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 and they don't know what to do with him

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 so they pass the parcel with him.

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 They shunned him from one to the other

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 before finally sending him up to Rome

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 first it's Felix 24

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 then it's Festus

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 and then Festus brings in King Agrippa

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 who comes up to Caesarea

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 on a kind of courtesy call

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 and then they ship him off to Rome

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 to appear before the Emperor Nero

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 they're great names aren't they?

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 Felix the cat

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 Nero the dog

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 they were the great names of those days

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 weren't they?

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 Felix and Nero

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 we call our dogs

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 and cats

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 and we call our sons Paul

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 it just shows you doesn't it?

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 there's a great reversal

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 that's happened since

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 the New Testament

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 the names of the day

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 were Nero

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 he was Emperor in Rome

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 Felix was the Governor of Palestine

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 he was the worst Governor they ever had

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 Felix was eventually summoned to Rome

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 and was given a sack

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 and now Festus

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 now Festus is the guy who takes over

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 Uncle Festus

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 and anyway

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 Paul makes quite an impression

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 doesn't he?

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 before these people

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 Felix trembles

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 we saw in the last chapter

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 Agrippa says later on

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 I am almost persuaded

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 to become a Christian

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 whether he's being sarcastic or not

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 I'm not really sure

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 but Paul made quite an impression upon him

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 and this guy Festus loses his cool

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 he blows his stack

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 as I say he shouts at Paul

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 just look over the page

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 look at chapter 26 and verse 24

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 and as he was saying these things

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 as he was saying these things

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 in his defence

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 Festus said to the loud voice

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 Paul you are out of your mind

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 your great learning

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 is driving you out of your mind

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 you're going insane

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 now we're going to stay in chapter 25

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 but I think you'll agree

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 I wanted to talk to David Bansel

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 whether you'd be able to

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 just shout at him

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 in that way

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 in the courtroom

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 but it's pretty

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 it's pretty out of order

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 isn't it?

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 in a court of law

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 the judge should not be shouting

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 at the man in the dark

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 and saying

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 you're mad

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 you're mad

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 you're an idiot

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 Paul made quite an impression

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 in these circles

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 as he's shunted

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 from pillar to post

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 and there are three sorts of people

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 in verse 25

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 there's three attitudes of heart

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 that I think are quite clear

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 in Acts 25

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 attitudes towards the gospel

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 the first thing is

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 there is the hard heartedness

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 of the Jewish leaders

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 and I want you to be asking yourself

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 as we look at this chapter

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 what is the attitude of my heart?

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 you may think this evening

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 you can't possibly be hard hearted

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 I can't possibly be hard hearted

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 I wouldn't be in church would I?

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 but let me tell you this

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 it's very easy to be brought up

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 in a good church

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 and sit in a church

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 week by week

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 and to be as heart hearted

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 as you like

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 I know that I was like that

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 I was proud

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 and I was hard hearted

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 as a teenager

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 and we look at our hard heartedness

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 the closed mindedness

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 of these Jewish leaders

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 then secondly

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 we see the half heartedness

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 and the double mindedness

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 the half heartedness

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 of firstness

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 and then thirdly

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 the whole heartedness

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 of the Apostle Paul

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 so let's see the hard heartedness

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 of the Jewish leaders

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 and the key word here

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 is the word against

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 keeps cropping up

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 it comes up

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 it comes up twelve times

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 in this chapter

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 these men are against Paul

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 and they are against

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 everything that he stands for

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 let me show you that

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 very quickly

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 let me look at verses 1 and 2

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 that were three days

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 after Festus had arrived

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 in the province

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 he went up to Jerusalem

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 from Caesarea

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 and the chief priests

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 and the principal men

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 of the Jews

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 laid out their case

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 against Paul

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 and they urged him

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 asking us a favour

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 against Paul

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 they can't wait

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 to get their hands on him

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 can they?

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 you might have thought

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 they'd have forgotten about him

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 it's been two years

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 we found out that

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 from the reading

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 at the end of 24

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 it's been two years

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 in the last verse

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 when two years had elapsed

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 Phoenix was succeeded

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 by Porcius Festus

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 and desiring to do the Jews

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 a favour

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 Phoenix left Paul

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 in prison

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 so Paul was been

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 rotting in prison

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 for two years

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 and you might have thought

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 that was about time

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 for the Jews

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 to forget about him

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 but Festus

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 has not even had time

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 to unpack his suitcases

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 and they're knocking

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 at the door

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 look at verse 3

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 asking us a favour

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 urgently requesting

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 Festus

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 to have Paul

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 transfer to Jerusalem

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 they're coming for Paul

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 they carry out

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 this vendetta

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 against him

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 and the tense

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 of the verb

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 in verse 3

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 is they keep on

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 asking

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 asking as a favour

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 against him

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 against Paul

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 continually asking

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 they won't take no

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 for an answer

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 and when you look

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 at verse 3

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 you see what's

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 motivating them

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 isn't just a

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 simply

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 a concern

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 for law and order

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 what are they wanting

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 at the end of verse 3

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 because they were

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 planning an ambush

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 to kill him on the way

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 they want this man dead

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 and they don't care

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 how it happens

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 whether it's legally

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 through a court of law

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 or whether it's

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 illegally

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 through assassination

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 they want Paul

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 silenced

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 and when Festus

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 refuses to bring

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 Paul to Jerusalem

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 do you notice

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 verse 4

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 he invites them

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 to Caesarea

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 they don't waste

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 any time at all

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 verse 4

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 as soon as Festus

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 gets back to Jerusalem

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 the very next day

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 they are there

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 aren't they

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 they're there again

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 banging on the door

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 9 o'clock in the morning

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 the very next day

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 they can't even wait

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 for the child

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 to start to mob him

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 they surround him

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 they gang up on him

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 and any charge

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 will do as long

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 as it'll stick

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 can't you see

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 that what you've got here

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 is indiscriminate

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 deep seated

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 implacable

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 hostility

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 there's nothing

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 reasonable about it

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 oh look at verse 15

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 verse 15

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 they ask for the

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 death sentence

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 and when I was at Jerusalem

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 the chief priests

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 and the elders of the laws

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 laid out their case

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 against him

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 asking for a sentence

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 of condemnation

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 against him

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 but look at the way

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 in which they ask

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 him to be condemned

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 I would have thought

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 if you believe

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 in the death penalty

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 it's a very horrible

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 thing isn't it

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 you would be very

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 serious about that

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 but look at verse 24

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 Agrippa gives us

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 a bit more information

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 and Fester said

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 King Agrippa

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 and all who are

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 present with us

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 you see this man

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 about whom the whole

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 Jewish people petitioned

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 me both in Jerusalem

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 are here

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 shouting that he ought

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 not to live

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 any longer

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 do you see the scene

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 here

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 they're being for blood

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 aren't they

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 Paul the prisoner

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 is cool

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 calm and collected

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 and everyone else

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 is angry

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 everyone else

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 is shouting at him

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 his accusers

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 are shouting at him

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 and the judge

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 is shouting at him

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 Paul you're on your mind

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 you are insane

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 and the question is

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 why is it

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 why such anger

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 why such hostility

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 why such unreasonable

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 implacable

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 hatred towards Paul

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 and the message

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 that he preaches

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 what lies behind it

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 why are they so desperate

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 to silence him

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 why do they want him dead

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 it's a strange thing

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 but I think it's this

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 it's psychologically proven

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 isn't it

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 that often people

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 will accuse others

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 unfairly

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 and passionately

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 of the very things

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 that they themselves

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 are guilty of

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 won't they

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 in fact

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 the more unreasonable

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 and the more angry

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 they are

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 the more likely

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 they are to be guilty

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 of the very thing

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 that they are accusing

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 other people of

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 it's a phenomenon

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 it's well recognised

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 isn't it

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 by psychologists

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 so we live

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 don't we

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 in the days

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 I think it's beginning

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 to die out a little bit

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 but we live

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 in the last five years

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 in the days

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 of angry atheists

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 don't we

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 have you met them

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 the Dawkins Delusion

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 isn't it

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 oh goodness knows

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 how many million copies

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 there's dozens of those

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 books aren't there

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 if you go into the bookstore

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 Christopher Hitchens

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 book

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 God Isn't Great

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 some of us saw a really

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 good video with

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 Douglas Wilson

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 and Christopher Hitchens

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 have you still got it Chris

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 probably somebody's borrowed it

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 and not given it back

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 it's a really good video

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 but I came across

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 this really interesting

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 article when I was looking

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 for that DVD this week

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 about Professor Sir Anthony

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 Flew

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 does anybody know him

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 Stuart

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 that's encouraging

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 Sir Anthony Flew

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 was one of the biggest names

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 in philosophy of his day

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 he was behind

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 logical positivism

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 which you all know

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 what that is

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 but he was for years

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 and years

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 most of his career

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 he was known as

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 the world's most

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 outspoken atheist

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 and then he became

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 a Christian believer

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 let me read you

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 what the article said

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 one of the 20th

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 most renowned atheists

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 and influential philosophers

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 has accused Richard Dawkins

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 of the God delusion

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 theme

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 of being a secularist

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 bigot

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 and an amateur

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 in his use of

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 academic scholarship

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 he goes on to say this

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 Professor Anthony Flew

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 now 85

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 three years ago

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 was for decades

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 one of the world's

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 foremost philosophical

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 authorities

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 his work was studied

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 by hundreds of

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 thousands of students

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 it was his intelligence

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 combined with his

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 profound atheist views

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 that led him to be

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 one of the most

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 foremost opponents

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 proponents of Christianity

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 in the western world

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 his blistering attack

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 on Richard Dawkins

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 the Oxford Don

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 comes just months

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 after he shook

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 the academic world

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 by publishing the reasons

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 that he

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 the world's most

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 notorious atheist

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 had changed his mind

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 he's written a book

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 called

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 There Is A God

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 and this is what he says

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 about Dawkins

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 while he acknowledges

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 the remarkable achievements

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 of the God delusion

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 in selling over a million copies

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 he declares

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 which is much more remarkable

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 is that the contents

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 or rather the lack

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 of contents of this book

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 shows Dawkins himself

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 to have become

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 what he and his fellow

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 secularists typically

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 believe to be

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 an impossibility

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 namely

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 a secularist bigot

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 secularist bigot

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 you know what a bigot is?

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 a bigot is

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 isn't it

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 shout loud

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 the argument's weak

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 the argument is weak

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 shout louder

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 that's what a bigot does

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 and the argument is weak

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 so he just hurls insults

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 did you see Stephen Fry

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 on YouTube

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 the other week

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 just shouting his insults?

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 Christopher Hitchens' book

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 God Isn't Great

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 How Religious Poisons Everything

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 listen to what

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 Christopher Hitchens said

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 about six years ago

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 religion by its very nature

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 compels people

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 to behave cruelly

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 and violently

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 religion

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 educates its children

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 to hate unbelievers

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 and its grown-ups

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 to engage in slaughter

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 and conquest

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 in the name of God's glory

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 religion

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 obliges its true believers

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 to restlessly

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 circle the globe

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 subduing peoples

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 and nations

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 until the whole world

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 bows their knee

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 and that is what

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 people are saying about us

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 that is the kind of opposition

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 that is out there

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 Christians are dangerous

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 at least the fundamentalist

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 ones are

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 real Christians

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 who believe the Bible

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 are dangerous

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 and that is why

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 they are saying

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 because according to Hitchens

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 they hate people

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 who disagree

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 with them

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 they are violent

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 they are troublemakers

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 these fundamentalists

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 are a threat

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 to our stable

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 multicultural society

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 and we're better off

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 without them

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 that is what

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 some people are saying

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 that is what

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 the new atheists

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 are saying

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 although they're not

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 new out there

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 so if you regard yourself

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 as a true Christian

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 you are a violent

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 hate filled

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 murderous

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 fundamentalist

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 and the UK

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 would be a better place

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 without you

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 you feel

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 don't you like

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 saying to these people

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 about a God

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 who doesn't exist

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 you seem to protest

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 too much

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 why are you so angry

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 about a God

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 you don't believe in

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 there's something else

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 going on isn't there

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 what is going on

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 let me tell you

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 what's going on

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 there's a closed mindedness

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 and there's a hard heartedness

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 there

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 so let's move on

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 from the hard heartedness

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 of the Jewish leaders

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 there's nothing new

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 under the sun there

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 but notice secondly

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 the half heartedness

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 of Festus

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 look at that

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 look at verses 9 to 11

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 don't you love

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 the apostle Paul

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 verse 9

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 speaks to the judge

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 verse 9

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 well Festus says

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 if you wish to go up

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 to Jerusalem

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 and there be tried

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 on these charges

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 before me

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 Paul said

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 I'm standing

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 before Caesar's tribunal

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 where I ought to be tried

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 to the dude

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 I've done no wrong

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 as you yourself

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 know very well

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 if then I am a wrongdoer

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 and have committed anything

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 for which I deserve to die

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 I do not seek to escape death

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 but if there's nothing

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 to their charges

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 against me

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 no one can give me up to them

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 I appeal to Caesar

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 it's pretty straight talking

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 to the judge

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 isn't it

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 you can't set me up

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 to Jerusalem

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 I'm not prepared

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 to go to Jerusalem

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 and the point is

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 the interesting thing

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 do you notice

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 Festus has changed

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 his mind

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 verse 4 and 5

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 he refuses

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 three days after

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 taking office

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 he goes up to Jerusalem

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 and the Jews

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 want him to bring

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 Paul to Jerusalem

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 to stand a kind of

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 show trial in Jerusalem

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 and Festus refuses

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 Festus 4 and 5

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 Festus is strong

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 and firm

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 isn't he

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 no

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 but in verse 9

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 he moots the idea

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 with Paul

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 would you like to go up

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 are you willing to go up

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 do you fancy a trip

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 to Jerusalem Paul

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 what was he thinking

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 why the change of mind

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 why this change of policy

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 well because he's thinking

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 by himself

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 he's thinking

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 if I can pull this off

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 it looks very good

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 on TV

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 the clue is there

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 in verse 9

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 isn't it

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 what does he want

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 wants to do the Jews

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 a favour

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 it's not about justice

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 it's not about serving

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 justice

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 it's about serving

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 his career

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 in fact he was

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 a very very good

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 politician

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 he only lasted

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 two years in office

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 then he died

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 but whereas Felix

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 is known as the

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 worst ever governor

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 they ever had

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 Festus is known

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 as one of the best

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 so he was a good

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 guy in lots of ways

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 but he was a

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 double minded man

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 he's not motivated

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 by justice

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 but by self interest

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 what's good for me

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 so whereas the

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 Jewish leaders

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 had closed their

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 minds and hardened

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 their hearts

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 in truth

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 Felix is double

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 minded

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 look at verses

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 18 to 20

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 Felix is talking

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 to Agrippa

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 verse 20

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 verse 18

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 when the accuser

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 stood up

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 they brought no

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 charge in his

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 case of such

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 evils as I

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 suppose

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 rather they had

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 certain points

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 of dispute

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 with him

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 about their

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 own religion

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 a certain

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 Jesus

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 who was dead

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 but Paul

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 asserted to be

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 alive being at a

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 loss throughout

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 how to investigate

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 these questions

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 I asked whether

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 he wanted to go

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 to Jerusalem

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 and he tried

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 there

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 it's an

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 interesting

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 thing isn't

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 it

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 a dead man

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 can't remember

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 the details

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 a dead man

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 Jesus

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 who Paul claimed

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 was alive

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 first I said

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 I was at a

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 loss

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 I didn't know

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 what he was

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 talking about

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 I was quite

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 surprised

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 it wasn't

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 what I was

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 expecting

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 I looked

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 through Roman

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 legislation

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 I couldn't

00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:11.379
 find anything

00:16:11.379 --> 00:16:12.179
 about resurrection

00:16:12.179 --> 00:16:14.600
 I saw

00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:15.139
 something about

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 insurrection

00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:16.240
 and how to

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 deal with that

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 but resurrection

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 I had no

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 experience with

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 that

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 I don't know

00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:19.779
 how to deal

00:16:19.779 --> 00:16:19.980
 with that

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 in a court

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 of law

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 he's out of

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 his depth

00:16:23.580 --> 00:16:24.960
 he's clearly

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 out of his depth

00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:27.259
 he's not really

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 that interesting

00:16:27.939 --> 00:16:28.580
 in fact he's

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 quite dismissive

00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:29.700
 about it

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 it's some

00:16:31.220 --> 00:16:31.679
 dispute

00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:32.539
 some superstition

00:16:32.539 --> 00:16:33.399
 some finer

00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:34.000
 point of

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 doctrine

00:16:34.500 --> 00:16:35.220
 some sect

00:16:35.220 --> 00:16:35.600
 of the Jews

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 about a dead

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 guy Jesus

00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:37.860
 who Paul says

00:16:37.860 --> 00:16:38.360
 is alive

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 shrugs it off

00:16:40.539 --> 00:16:43.240
 but that is

00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:43.539
 the issue

00:16:43.539 --> 00:16:43.899
 isn't it

00:16:43.899 --> 00:16:45.220
 that is the

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 issue

00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:47.899
 first he's put

00:16:47.899 --> 00:16:48.480
 his finger

00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:48.899
 on what the

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 real issue

00:16:49.319 --> 00:16:49.480
 is

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 that is why

00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:50.360
 the Jews

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 are so angry

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 and so murderous

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 why because of

00:16:53.220 --> 00:16:53.639
 the resurrection

00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:54.279
 of Jesus

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 it's because

00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:57.139
 you see the

00:16:57.139 --> 00:16:57.779
 resurrection of

00:16:57.779 --> 00:16:58.879
 Jesus reverses

00:16:58.879 --> 00:16:59.399
 the verdict

00:16:59.399 --> 00:16:59.879
 of history

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 they thought

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 they got rid

00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:01.019
 of him

00:17:01.019 --> 00:17:02.519
 they thought

00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:02.960
 they tossed

00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:03.360
 him on the

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 scrap heap

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 like just

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 one of the

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 other dozens

00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:06.779
 of messiahs

00:17:06.779 --> 00:17:07.319
 so called

00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:07.779
 who popped

00:17:07.779 --> 00:17:08.059
 up

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 there have

00:17:08.660 --> 00:17:09.379
 been so many

00:17:09.379 --> 00:17:09.740
 of them

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 and they got

00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:10.579
 rid of them

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 and they thought

00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:11.740
 that's the end

00:17:11.740 --> 00:17:12.119
 of it

00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:13.779
 and this Jesus

00:17:13.779 --> 00:17:14.779
 whom you crucified

00:17:14.779 --> 00:17:15.619
 God has raised

00:17:15.619 --> 00:17:16.180
 from the dead

00:17:16.180 --> 00:17:16.660
 so where does

00:17:16.660 --> 00:17:17.279
 that leave you

00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:19.079
 no wonder

00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:19.819
 they're so angry

00:17:19.819 --> 00:17:21.920
 and if Jesus

00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:22.660
 is alive you see

00:17:22.660 --> 00:17:23.220
 from the dead

00:17:23.220 --> 00:17:23.960
 then to live

00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:24.740
 though he's dead

00:17:24.740 --> 00:17:25.639
 well then

00:17:25.639 --> 00:17:26.500
 who's the fool

00:17:26.500 --> 00:17:29.259
 so if it

00:17:29.259 --> 00:17:29.779
 really happened

00:17:29.779 --> 00:17:30.299
 and this is

00:17:30.299 --> 00:17:30.799
 just about

00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:31.779
 30 years

00:17:31.779 --> 00:17:32.380
 after the

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 event

00:17:32.980 --> 00:17:34.940
 if it really

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 happened that

00:17:35.380 --> 00:17:35.819
 this man

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 Jesus died

00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:37.920
 and Paul says

00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:38.480
 he came back

00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:39.000
 from the dead

00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:39.460
 and is alive

00:17:39.460 --> 00:17:40.140
 you just can't

00:17:40.140 --> 00:17:40.900
 shrug that off

00:17:40.900 --> 00:17:43.460
 you can't

00:17:43.460 --> 00:17:43.980
 shrug it off

00:17:43.980 --> 00:17:44.599
 as some

00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:45.539
 finer point of

00:17:45.539 --> 00:17:45.880
 doctrine

00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:47.359
 some philosophical

00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:48.079
 discussion

00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:49.200
 Paul insists

00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:50.240
 he is on record

00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:50.579
 isn't he

00:17:50.579 --> 00:17:51.099
 saying in

00:17:51.099 --> 00:17:51.460
 Corinthians

00:17:51.460 --> 00:17:52.220
 that if you

00:17:52.220 --> 00:17:52.759
 disprove the

00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:53.240
 resurrection

00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:55.480
 you dismantle

00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:56.120
 Christianity

00:17:56.120 --> 00:17:58.240
 because if

00:17:58.240 --> 00:17:58.920
 Christ is not

00:17:58.920 --> 00:17:59.420
 risen your

00:17:59.420 --> 00:18:00.220
 faith is in

00:18:00.220 --> 00:18:00.660
 vain your

00:18:00.660 --> 00:18:01.240
 preaching is

00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:01.799
 futile

00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:02.920
 if Jesus

00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:04.259
 died and

00:18:04.259 --> 00:18:04.819
 did not

00:18:04.819 --> 00:18:05.620
 rise then

00:18:05.620 --> 00:18:06.000
 the apostle

00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:06.420
 Paul says

00:18:06.420 --> 00:18:07.180
 I'm a fool

00:18:07.180 --> 00:18:07.579
 and so are

00:18:07.579 --> 00:18:07.860
 you for

00:18:07.860 --> 00:18:08.180
 being here

00:18:08.180 --> 00:18:08.599
 tonight

00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:11.000
 and Paul

00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:11.279
 is saying

00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:11.759
 I'm prepared

00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:12.160
 to admit

00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:12.539
 that

00:18:12.539 --> 00:18:14.779
 but if he

00:18:14.779 --> 00:18:15.980
 died and

00:18:15.980 --> 00:18:16.559
 then he did

00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:17.019
 come back

00:18:17.019 --> 00:18:17.500
 from the dead

00:18:17.500 --> 00:18:17.940
 then who's

00:18:17.940 --> 00:18:18.360
 the fool

00:18:18.360 --> 00:18:18.660
 now

00:18:18.660 --> 00:18:19.259
 Festus

00:18:19.259 --> 00:18:21.099
 and you

00:18:21.099 --> 00:18:21.480
 notice in

00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:22.140
 verse 26

00:18:22.140 --> 00:18:23.160
 of chapter 26

00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:23.779
 he says to

00:18:23.779 --> 00:18:24.300
 Festus and

00:18:24.300 --> 00:18:24.620
 Agrippa

00:18:24.620 --> 00:18:25.019
 this was

00:18:25.019 --> 00:18:25.620
 not done

00:18:25.620 --> 00:18:26.279
 this was

00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:26.720
 something that

00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:27.100
 was not

00:18:27.100 --> 00:18:27.420
 done in

00:18:27.420 --> 00:18:27.940
 a corner

00:18:27.940 --> 00:18:30.180
 this is

00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:30.420
 something

00:18:30.420 --> 00:18:30.880
 Festus said

00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:31.080
 can be

00:18:31.080 --> 00:18:31.740
 investigated

00:18:31.740 --> 00:18:34.040
 here is

00:18:34.040 --> 00:18:34.340
 something that

00:18:34.340 --> 00:18:34.920
 is on public

00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:35.279
 record

00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:35.940
 just 30

00:18:35.940 --> 00:18:36.460
 years down

00:18:36.460 --> 00:18:36.860
 the track

00:18:36.860 --> 00:18:37.200
 from when

00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:37.680
 it happened

00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:38.500
 and it's

00:18:38.500 --> 00:18:38.900
 the best

00:18:38.900 --> 00:18:39.340
 attested

00:18:39.340 --> 00:18:39.880
 fact in

00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:40.100
 human

00:18:40.100 --> 00:18:40.519
 history

00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:42.160
 Chuck

00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:42.600
 Coulson

00:18:42.600 --> 00:18:44.400
 he was

00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:44.759
 involved in

00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:45.620
 the Watergate

00:18:45.620 --> 00:18:46.300
 scandal and

00:18:46.300 --> 00:18:46.820
 he became a

00:18:46.820 --> 00:18:47.440
 Christian while

00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:47.700
 he was

00:18:47.700 --> 00:18:48.140
 serving in

00:18:48.140 --> 00:18:48.480
 prison

00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:50.200
 he was in

00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:50.460
 the White

00:18:50.460 --> 00:18:50.620
 House

00:18:50.620 --> 00:18:50.840
 this is

00:18:50.840 --> 00:18:51.040
 what he

00:18:51.040 --> 00:18:51.259
 said

00:18:51.259 --> 00:18:51.880
 commentating

00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:52.900
 on the 40

00:18:52.900 --> 00:18:53.340
 years

00:18:53.340 --> 00:18:53.840
 Christ's

00:18:53.840 --> 00:18:54.200
 disciples

00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:54.760
 never

00:18:54.760 --> 00:18:55.140
 backed

00:18:55.140 --> 00:18:55.400
 down

00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:55.660
 on their

00:18:55.660 --> 00:18:55.980
 witness

00:18:55.980 --> 00:18:56.300
 to the

00:18:56.300 --> 00:18:56.800
 resurrection

00:18:56.800 --> 00:18:57.680
 even to

00:18:57.680 --> 00:18:58.040
 the point

00:18:58.040 --> 00:18:58.720
 of martyrdom

00:18:58.720 --> 00:18:59.660
 he said

00:18:59.660 --> 00:19:01.040
 speaking about

00:19:01.040 --> 00:19:01.520
 the Watergate

00:19:01.520 --> 00:19:01.860
 scandal

00:19:01.860 --> 00:19:02.480
 we couldn't

00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:03.040
 hold our

00:19:03.040 --> 00:19:03.800
 stories together

00:19:03.800 --> 00:19:04.300
 for three

00:19:04.300 --> 00:19:04.820
 weeks under

00:19:04.820 --> 00:19:05.220
 that kind

00:19:05.220 --> 00:19:05.620
 of pressure

00:19:05.620 --> 00:19:06.980
 he said

00:19:06.980 --> 00:19:07.540
 I was around

00:19:07.540 --> 00:19:07.820
 the most

00:19:07.820 --> 00:19:08.640
 powerful men

00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:09.140
 in the world

00:19:09.140 --> 00:19:09.500
 but we

00:19:09.500 --> 00:19:09.880
 couldn't

00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:10.380
 hold the

00:19:10.380 --> 00:19:10.760
 lie

00:19:10.760 --> 00:19:12.320
 and if the

00:19:12.320 --> 00:19:12.780
 resurrection

00:19:12.780 --> 00:19:13.880
 wasn't true

00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:14.620
 those disciples

00:19:14.620 --> 00:19:15.300
 could never

00:19:15.300 --> 00:19:15.760
 have held

00:19:15.760 --> 00:19:16.040
 out

00:19:16.040 --> 00:19:16.900
 someone would

00:19:16.900 --> 00:19:17.220
 have dug

00:19:17.220 --> 00:19:17.520
 up the

00:19:17.520 --> 00:19:18.020
 tapes or

00:19:18.020 --> 00:19:18.400
 something

00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:19.400
 or maybe

00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.080
 something

00:19:22.080 --> 00:19:22.460
 else

00:19:22.460 --> 00:19:24.019
 maybe you're

00:19:24.019 --> 00:19:24.540
 a fan of

00:19:24.540 --> 00:19:25.080
 the Simpsons

00:19:25.080 --> 00:19:26.300
 I was told

00:19:26.300 --> 00:19:26.759
 this afternoon

00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:27.100
 I shouldn't

00:19:27.100 --> 00:19:27.440
 talk about

00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:27.940
 the Simpsons

00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:28.519
 but I want

00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:28.940
 to use this

00:19:28.940 --> 00:19:29.400
 illustration

00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:31.040
 those of you

00:19:31.040 --> 00:19:31.480
 who watch

00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:31.880
 the Simpsons

00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:32.259
 and I'm not

00:19:32.259 --> 00:19:32.920
 recommending it

00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:33.900
 you might know

00:19:33.900 --> 00:19:34.420
 of Lionel

00:19:34.420 --> 00:19:34.780
 Hatz

00:19:34.780 --> 00:19:35.620
 Lionel Hatz

00:19:35.620 --> 00:19:35.960
 is the

00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:36.340
 lawyer

00:19:36.340 --> 00:19:37.100
 in the

00:19:37.100 --> 00:19:37.680
 Simpsons

00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:39.980
 and Lionel

00:19:39.980 --> 00:19:40.380
 Hatz is

00:19:40.380 --> 00:19:40.840
 based on a

00:19:40.840 --> 00:19:41.340
 real life

00:19:41.340 --> 00:19:41.640
 lawyer

00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:42.800
 who is a

00:19:42.800 --> 00:19:43.180
 very different

00:19:43.180 --> 00:19:43.620
 character

00:19:43.620 --> 00:19:44.340
 to the guy

00:19:44.340 --> 00:19:44.500
 in the

00:19:44.500 --> 00:19:44.860
 Simpsons

00:19:44.860 --> 00:19:45.720
 Lionel Hatz

00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:46.200
 is based

00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:46.480
 on

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 Sir Lionel

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 who according

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 to the

00:19:49.320 --> 00:19:49.560
 Guinness

00:19:49.560 --> 00:19:49.880
 Book of

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 Records

00:19:50.300 --> 00:19:51.200
 is the

00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:51.880
 most successful

00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:52.780
 lawyer ever

00:19:52.780 --> 00:19:54.180
 he's apparently

00:19:54.180 --> 00:19:55.720
 245 consecutive

00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:56.800
 murder acquittals

00:19:56.800 --> 00:19:57.160
 which is

00:19:57.160 --> 00:19:58.320
 pretty impressive

00:19:58.320 --> 00:19:58.840
 isn't it

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 but he became

00:20:00.280 --> 00:20:00.620
 a Christian

00:20:00.620 --> 00:20:01.000
 at the age

00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:01.759
 of 64

00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:03.320
 and what

00:20:03.320 --> 00:20:04.060
 persuaded him

00:20:04.060 --> 00:20:04.460
 to change

00:20:04.460 --> 00:20:04.960
 his mind

00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:06.740
 was this

00:20:06.740 --> 00:20:07.700
 dead guy

00:20:07.700 --> 00:20:08.700
 called Jesus

00:20:08.700 --> 00:20:10.080
 who Paul

00:20:10.080 --> 00:20:10.500
 said was

00:20:10.500 --> 00:20:10.960
 alive

00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:12.380
 listen to

00:20:12.380 --> 00:20:12.600
 what the

00:20:12.600 --> 00:20:12.940
 world's

00:20:12.940 --> 00:20:13.540
 most successful

00:20:13.540 --> 00:20:14.400
 lawyer says

00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:15.100
 he says

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 I spent

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 more than

00:20:15.840 --> 00:20:16.720
 40 years

00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:17.799
 42 years

00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:18.019
 as a

00:20:18.019 --> 00:20:18.400
 defence

00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:18.759
 lawyer

00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:19.500
 appearing

00:20:19.500 --> 00:20:19.960
 in many

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 parts of

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 the world

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 I can say

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 unequivocally

00:20:23.019 --> 00:20:24.039
 that the

00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:24.759
 evidence for

00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:25.440
 the resurrection

00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:26.019
 of Jesus

00:20:26.019 --> 00:20:26.839
 is so

00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:27.660
 overwhelming

00:20:27.660 --> 00:20:28.120
 that there

00:20:28.120 --> 00:20:28.720
 is no

00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:29.559
 room for

00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:30.000
 doubt

00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.079
 you see

00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:32.480
 this is

00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:32.860
 bomb in

00:20:32.860 --> 00:20:33.360
 the building

00:20:33.360 --> 00:20:33.880
 stuff

00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:34.400
 isn't it

00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:36.120
 isn't it

00:20:36.120 --> 00:20:37.440
 let me

00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:38.160
 explain that

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 to you

00:20:38.539 --> 00:20:39.960
 if I

00:20:39.960 --> 00:20:40.319
 said to

00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:40.759
 you tonight

00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:42.299
 there's a

00:20:42.299 --> 00:20:42.700
 bomb in

00:20:42.700 --> 00:20:43.140
 the building

00:20:43.140 --> 00:20:45.600
 you're

00:20:45.600 --> 00:20:45.860
 obviously

00:20:45.860 --> 00:20:46.420
 not convinced

00:20:46.420 --> 00:20:46.740
 you

00:20:46.740 --> 00:20:47.500
 because

00:20:47.500 --> 00:20:47.620
 he's

00:20:47.620 --> 00:20:47.800
 still

00:20:47.800 --> 00:20:48.080
 sitting

00:20:48.080 --> 00:20:48.360
 here

00:20:48.360 --> 00:20:50.600
 but if

00:20:50.600 --> 00:20:50.700
 I

00:20:50.700 --> 00:20:50.840
 said

00:20:50.840 --> 00:20:50.980
 there's

00:20:50.980 --> 00:20:51.100
 a

00:20:51.100 --> 00:20:51.279
 bomb

00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:51.400
 in

00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:51.480
 the

00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:51.820
 building

00:20:51.820 --> 00:20:52.519
 there's

00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:52.660
 a

00:20:52.660 --> 00:20:52.900
 bomb

00:20:52.900 --> 00:20:53.039
 in

00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:53.140
 the

00:20:53.140 --> 00:20:53.460
 building

00:20:53.460 --> 00:20:54.640
 and the

00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:54.980
 flashing

00:20:54.980 --> 00:20:55.460
 lights

00:20:55.460 --> 00:20:56.380
 you start

00:20:56.380 --> 00:20:56.620
 to see

00:20:56.620 --> 00:20:56.860
 blue

00:20:56.860 --> 00:20:57.240
 flashing

00:20:57.240 --> 00:20:57.660
 lights

00:20:57.660 --> 00:20:58.420
 and you

00:20:58.420 --> 00:20:58.740
 hear a

00:20:58.740 --> 00:20:59.259
 helicopter

00:20:59.259 --> 00:21:00.080
 overhead

00:21:00.080 --> 00:21:01.580
 and you

00:21:01.580 --> 00:21:02.180
 start to hear

00:21:02.180 --> 00:21:02.860
 silence

00:21:02.860 --> 00:21:03.420
 coming up

00:21:03.420 --> 00:21:03.900
 great and

00:21:03.900 --> 00:21:04.320
 green

00:21:04.320 --> 00:21:04.960
 and then

00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:05.360
 some of

00:21:05.360 --> 00:21:05.740
 the bomb

00:21:05.740 --> 00:21:06.259
 disposal

00:21:06.259 --> 00:21:07.259
 rush through

00:21:07.259 --> 00:21:07.779
 those double

00:21:07.779 --> 00:21:08.300
 doors of

00:21:08.300 --> 00:21:08.820
 the back

00:21:08.820 --> 00:21:09.600
 and they

00:21:09.600 --> 00:21:09.920
 shout

00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:10.640
 there's a

00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:10.980
 bomb

00:21:10.980 --> 00:21:11.300
 in the

00:21:11.300 --> 00:21:11.600
 building

00:21:11.600 --> 00:21:12.300
 you will

00:21:12.300 --> 00:21:12.740
 not be

00:21:12.740 --> 00:21:13.080
 sitting here

00:21:13.080 --> 00:21:13.480
 for five

00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:13.800
 minutes

00:21:13.800 --> 00:21:14.039
 will you

00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:14.259
 go for

00:21:14.259 --> 00:21:14.600
 five

00:21:14.600 --> 00:21:15.259
 seconds

00:21:15.259 --> 00:21:16.259
 you'd

00:21:16.259 --> 00:21:16.579
 evacuate

00:21:16.579 --> 00:21:16.839
 the

00:21:16.839 --> 00:21:17.039
 building

00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:17.619
 straight

00:21:17.619 --> 00:21:17.980
 away

00:21:17.980 --> 00:21:19.220
 and the

00:21:19.220 --> 00:21:19.599
 resurrection

00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:20.359
 is that

00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:20.960
 kind

00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:21.480
 of

00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:22.119
 message

00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:23.859
 it is

00:21:23.859 --> 00:21:24.420
 not some

00:21:24.420 --> 00:21:25.299
 point of

00:21:25.299 --> 00:21:25.859
 doctrine

00:21:25.859 --> 00:21:26.559
 that the

00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:27.059
 Jews are

00:21:27.059 --> 00:21:27.460
 debating

00:21:27.460 --> 00:21:28.480
 some guy

00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:29.339
 Paul says

00:21:29.339 --> 00:21:29.879
 he's dead

00:21:29.879 --> 00:21:30.500
 but now he

00:21:30.500 --> 00:21:31.200
 says it's a lie

00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:32.460
 it is bomb

00:21:32.460 --> 00:21:32.740
 in the

00:21:32.740 --> 00:21:33.080
 building

00:21:33.080 --> 00:21:33.480
 kind of

00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:33.880
 stuff

00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:35.819
 and if

00:21:35.819 --> 00:21:36.259
 this man

00:21:36.259 --> 00:21:36.600
 called

00:21:36.600 --> 00:21:36.880
 Jesus

00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:37.620
 died

00:21:37.620 --> 00:21:38.120
 and came

00:21:38.120 --> 00:21:38.640
 back from

00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:39.100
 the dead

00:21:39.100 --> 00:21:39.420
 if the

00:21:39.420 --> 00:21:39.680
 tomb

00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:40.160
 was empty

00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:40.720
 in Jerusalem

00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:41.539
 if this

00:21:41.539 --> 00:21:41.960
 thing that

00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:42.539
 was not

00:21:42.539 --> 00:21:42.960
 dead in

00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:43.400
 a corner

00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:44.120
 if this

00:21:44.120 --> 00:21:44.539
 thing can

00:21:44.539 --> 00:21:45.140
 be proven

00:21:45.140 --> 00:21:45.880
 it's

00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:46.299
 bomb

00:21:46.299 --> 00:21:46.720
 in the

00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:47.059
 building

00:21:47.059 --> 00:21:47.440
 kind of

00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:47.840
 stuff

00:21:47.840 --> 00:21:48.740
 and you

00:21:48.740 --> 00:21:49.340
 cannot

00:21:49.340 --> 00:21:50.440
 go on

00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:50.980
 thinking about

00:21:50.980 --> 00:21:51.500
 your career

00:21:51.500 --> 00:21:52.180
 festus

00:21:52.180 --> 00:21:53.580
 if you only

00:21:53.580 --> 00:21:53.900
 knew it

00:21:53.900 --> 00:21:54.319
 actually you've

00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:54.620
 got two

00:21:54.620 --> 00:21:55.259
 years left

00:21:55.259 --> 00:21:55.539
 in your

00:21:55.539 --> 00:21:55.799
 career

00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:56.140
 anyway

00:21:56.140 --> 00:21:56.799
 you just

00:21:56.799 --> 00:21:57.420
 can't shrug

00:21:57.420 --> 00:21:58.000
 it off

00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:59.420
 if there

00:21:59.420 --> 00:22:00.160
 really is a

00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:00.539
 bomb in

00:22:00.539 --> 00:22:01.019
 the building

00:22:01.019 --> 00:22:01.380
 then it's

00:22:01.380 --> 00:22:02.079
 madness not

00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:02.339
 to do

00:22:02.339 --> 00:22:02.539
 anything

00:22:02.539 --> 00:22:03.059
 about it

00:22:03.059 --> 00:22:04.460
 and if

00:22:04.460 --> 00:22:04.720
 Jesus

00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:05.339
 really did

00:22:05.339 --> 00:22:05.859
 rise from

00:22:05.859 --> 00:22:06.460
 the dead

00:22:06.460 --> 00:22:07.339
 that is

00:22:07.339 --> 00:22:07.599
 what the

00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:08.200
 Bible teaches

00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:08.519
 and it's

00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:09.079
 the heart

00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:09.640
 of Paul's

00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:09.940
 gospel

00:22:09.940 --> 00:22:10.400
 then that

00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:10.839
 means the

00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:11.259
 end of

00:22:11.259 --> 00:22:12.099
 the world

00:22:12.099 --> 00:22:13.140
 has come

00:22:13.140 --> 00:22:13.420
 round

00:22:13.420 --> 00:22:13.740
 that we're

00:22:13.740 --> 00:22:14.180
 now living

00:22:14.180 --> 00:22:14.440
 in the

00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:15.220
 last days

00:22:15.220 --> 00:22:17.039
 that's what

00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:17.559
 the resurrection

00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:18.279
 signifies

00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:18.759
 that's what

00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:19.299
 the Jews

00:22:19.299 --> 00:22:19.619
 believed

00:22:19.619 --> 00:22:20.180
 the resurrection

00:22:20.180 --> 00:22:20.640
 meant

00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:21.240
 that is

00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:21.700
 what Paul

00:22:21.700 --> 00:22:22.119
 had in

00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:22.460
 common

00:22:22.460 --> 00:22:22.940
 with these

00:22:22.940 --> 00:22:23.279
 Jewish

00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:23.819
 leaders

00:22:23.819 --> 00:22:25.559
 they believed

00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:26.000
 that at the

00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:26.599
 end of the

00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:26.960
 age

00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:27.500
 there would

00:22:27.500 --> 00:22:27.660
 be

00:22:27.660 --> 00:22:27.980
 resurrection

00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:28.700
 of the

00:22:28.700 --> 00:22:29.099
 dead

00:22:29.099 --> 00:22:29.740
 and in

00:22:29.740 --> 00:22:30.000
 Jesus

00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:30.400
 that has

00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:30.799
 happened

00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:32.660
 and so

00:22:32.660 --> 00:22:33.279
 you can't

00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:33.720
 just shrug

00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:34.140
 your shoulders

00:22:34.140 --> 00:22:34.380
 and say

00:22:34.380 --> 00:22:34.839
 oh that's

00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:35.200
 interesting

00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:35.579
 isn't it

00:22:35.579 --> 00:22:37.579
 it's boring

00:22:37.579 --> 00:22:38.099
 the building

00:22:38.099 --> 00:22:38.579
 stuff

00:22:38.579 --> 00:22:40.519
 and you

00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:40.940
 cannot

00:22:40.940 --> 00:22:41.559
 continue

00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:42.019
 to be a

00:22:42.019 --> 00:22:42.279
 Jewish

00:22:42.279 --> 00:22:42.559
 leader

00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:42.859
 and not

00:22:42.859 --> 00:22:43.380
 recognise

00:22:43.380 --> 00:22:43.720
 Jesus

00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:44.039
 as the

00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:44.460
 Messiah

00:22:44.460 --> 00:22:47.140
 you cannot

00:22:47.140 --> 00:22:47.700
 continue to

00:22:47.700 --> 00:22:48.220
 be a career

00:22:48.220 --> 00:22:48.759
 politician

00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:49.500
 like Festus

00:22:49.500 --> 00:22:50.119
 and put

00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:50.700
 your career

00:22:50.700 --> 00:22:51.220
 first

00:22:51.220 --> 00:22:51.920
 as if

00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:52.240
 Jesus

00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:52.599
 had not

00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:53.039
 been raised

00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:53.299
 from the

00:22:53.299 --> 00:22:53.660
 dead

00:22:53.660 --> 00:22:55.339
 as the

00:22:55.339 --> 00:22:55.680
 thirdly

00:22:55.680 --> 00:22:56.000
 quickly

00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:56.660
 at the

00:22:56.660 --> 00:22:57.339
 wholeheartedness

00:22:57.339 --> 00:22:57.879
 of the

00:22:57.879 --> 00:22:58.139
 Apostle

00:22:58.139 --> 00:22:58.339
 Paul

00:22:58.339 --> 00:22:58.459
 it's

00:22:58.459 --> 00:22:58.720
 such a

00:22:58.720 --> 00:22:59.179
 contrast

00:22:59.179 --> 00:22:59.959
 isn't it

00:22:59.959 --> 00:23:00.439
 2 verses

00:23:00.439 --> 00:23:01.119
 24 and

00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:01.740
 25

00:23:01.740 --> 00:23:03.059
 of chapter

00:23:03.059 --> 00:23:03.699
 26

00:23:03.699 --> 00:23:06.079
 it wasn't

00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:06.519
 the first

00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:06.939
 time

00:23:06.939 --> 00:23:07.899
 and it

00:23:07.899 --> 00:23:08.159
 wasn't

00:23:08.159 --> 00:23:08.759
 the last

00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:09.240
 time

00:23:09.240 --> 00:23:10.359
 that

00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:10.779
 Christians

00:23:10.779 --> 00:23:11.279
 were called

00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:11.799
 mad

00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:12.299
 your great

00:23:12.299 --> 00:23:12.699
 learning is

00:23:12.699 --> 00:23:13.220
 driving you out

00:23:13.220 --> 00:23:13.919
 of your mind

00:23:13.919 --> 00:23:14.339
 George

00:23:14.339 --> 00:23:14.759
 Whitfield

00:23:14.759 --> 00:23:15.959
 in June

00:23:15.959 --> 00:23:16.779
 1736

00:23:16.779 --> 00:23:17.339
 he was the

00:23:17.339 --> 00:23:17.619
 great

00:23:17.619 --> 00:23:19.259
 18th century

00:23:19.259 --> 00:23:19.679
 preacher

00:23:19.679 --> 00:23:20.119
 really

00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:21.599
 and he was

00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:22.099
 preaching in

00:23:22.099 --> 00:23:22.519
 the town

00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:23.159
 of Gloucester

00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:24.740
 he preached

00:23:24.740 --> 00:23:25.279
 his first

00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:25.620
 sermon

00:23:25.620 --> 00:23:26.100
 in the first

00:23:26.100 --> 00:23:26.460
 church he

00:23:26.460 --> 00:23:26.960
 ever preached

00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:27.440
 it was such

00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:27.800
 a sermon

00:23:27.800 --> 00:23:28.279
 that apparently

00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:29.200
 15 people

00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:29.720
 were converted

00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:30.460
 on the spot

00:23:30.460 --> 00:23:32.279
 it was reported

00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:32.960
 to the bishop

00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:33.980
 somebody reported

00:23:33.980 --> 00:23:34.580
 to the bishop

00:23:34.580 --> 00:23:35.160
 that George

00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:35.759
 Whitfield had

00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:36.680
 driven 15

00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:37.600
 people mad

00:23:37.600 --> 00:23:39.400
 to which the bishop

00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:39.920
 replied

00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:41.180
 I hope their

00:23:41.180 --> 00:23:42.259
 madness lasts

00:23:42.259 --> 00:23:42.740
 till next

00:23:42.740 --> 00:23:43.100
 Sunday

00:23:43.100 --> 00:23:45.220
 you see when

00:23:45.220 --> 00:23:45.800
 somebody is

00:23:45.800 --> 00:23:46.259
 converted

00:23:46.259 --> 00:23:46.880
 when somebody

00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:47.580
 believes in

00:23:47.580 --> 00:23:47.880
 Jesus

00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:48.580
 when somebody

00:23:48.580 --> 00:23:49.580
 is born again

00:23:49.580 --> 00:23:50.460
 and begins to

00:23:50.460 --> 00:23:51.120
 take their religion

00:23:51.120 --> 00:23:51.660
 seriously

00:23:51.660 --> 00:23:52.300
 you are going

00:23:52.300 --> 00:23:52.920
 to be accused

00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:53.900
 of fanaticism

00:23:53.900 --> 00:23:56.120
 Tim Keller

00:23:56.120 --> 00:23:56.680
 in his brilliant

00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:57.320
 book The Reason

00:23:57.320 --> 00:23:57.820
 for God

00:23:57.820 --> 00:23:58.400
 says people

00:23:58.400 --> 00:23:59.400
 accuse us

00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:00.240
 of fanaticism

00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:00.800
 but the real

00:24:00.800 --> 00:24:01.519
 problem with us

00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:01.980
 as Christians

00:24:01.980 --> 00:24:02.460
 is that we're

00:24:02.460 --> 00:24:03.160
 not fanatical

00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:03.540
 enough

00:24:03.540 --> 00:24:06.040
 and that is

00:24:06.040 --> 00:24:06.360
 the problem

00:24:06.360 --> 00:24:07.000
 because if this

00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:07.519
 dead guy

00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:08.279
 Jesus came

00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:08.800
 back from the

00:24:08.800 --> 00:24:09.540
 dead and he

00:24:09.540 --> 00:24:10.140
 is alive

00:24:10.140 --> 00:24:10.640
 then we ought

00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:11.040
 to be a lot

00:24:11.040 --> 00:24:11.720
 more fanatical

00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:12.340
 aren't we

00:24:12.340 --> 00:24:14.620
 because that

00:24:14.620 --> 00:24:15.100
 signals the

00:24:15.100 --> 00:24:15.380
 end of the

00:24:15.380 --> 00:24:15.680
 world

00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:18.620
 that's the

00:24:18.620 --> 00:24:19.019
 next thing

00:24:19.019 --> 00:24:19.500
 on God's

00:24:19.500 --> 00:24:19.900
 calendar

00:24:19.900 --> 00:24:20.300
 it is

00:24:20.300 --> 00:24:21.000
 judgment day

00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:22.240
 and that

00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:22.519
 is the

00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:22.900
 significance

00:24:22.900 --> 00:24:23.200
 of the

00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:23.680
 resurrection

00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:24.480
 the very

00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:24.960
 fact that

00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:25.279
 it hasn't

00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:25.779
 happened yet

00:24:25.779 --> 00:24:26.099
 is because

00:24:26.099 --> 00:24:26.460
 God is

00:24:26.460 --> 00:24:26.920
 compassionate

00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:28.480
 he doesn't

00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:28.740
 want to be

00:24:28.740 --> 00:24:29.240
 encouraged

00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:29.700
 and he's

00:24:29.700 --> 00:24:30.140
 giving the

00:24:30.140 --> 00:24:30.559
 opportunity

00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:30.940
 for the

00:24:30.940 --> 00:24:31.400
 good news

00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:31.819
 to get to

00:24:31.819 --> 00:24:32.119
 the full

00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:32.539
 corners of

00:24:32.539 --> 00:24:33.039
 the world

00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:35.220
 but the

00:24:35.220 --> 00:24:35.619
 next thing

00:24:35.619 --> 00:24:35.859
 that is

00:24:35.859 --> 00:24:36.200
 going to

00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:36.660
 happen

00:24:36.660 --> 00:24:37.400
 in God's

00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:37.819
 scheme of

00:24:37.819 --> 00:24:38.140
 things is

00:24:38.140 --> 00:24:38.500
 judgment

00:24:38.500 --> 00:24:39.819
 he's served

00:24:39.819 --> 00:24:40.460
 notice on

00:24:40.460 --> 00:24:40.799
 the human

00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:41.400
 race by

00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:42.259
 raising this

00:24:42.259 --> 00:24:42.839
 man Jesus

00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:43.279
 from the

00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:43.599
 dead

00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:44.319
 and Paul

00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:44.819
 says to

00:24:44.819 --> 00:24:45.440
 the Athenians

00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:46.440
 anyone who

00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:46.900
 takes their

00:24:46.900 --> 00:24:47.279
 Christianity

00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:48.000
 seriously

00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:48.380
 is going to

00:24:48.380 --> 00:24:48.859
 be thought of

00:24:48.859 --> 00:24:49.200
 mad

00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:51.480
 remember

00:24:51.480 --> 00:24:51.940
 Jesus

00:24:51.940 --> 00:24:53.059
 Jesus'

00:24:53.220 --> 00:24:53.440
 family

00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:53.799
 thought they

00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:54.220
 were mad

00:24:54.220 --> 00:24:56.720
 let me

00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:57.100
 remind you

00:24:57.100 --> 00:24:57.220
 he's

00:24:57.220 --> 00:24:57.420
 preaching

00:24:57.420 --> 00:24:57.940
 in the

00:24:57.940 --> 00:24:58.220
 house

00:24:58.220 --> 00:25:00.160
 and such

00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:00.559
 a crowd

00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:01.000
 is gathered

00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:01.799
 that him

00:25:01.799 --> 00:25:02.240
 and the

00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:02.620
 disciples

00:25:02.620 --> 00:25:03.059
 aren't even

00:25:03.059 --> 00:25:03.340
 able to

00:25:03.340 --> 00:25:03.580
 eat

00:25:03.580 --> 00:25:03.860
 and then

00:25:03.860 --> 00:25:04.279
 he says

00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:04.600
 when his

00:25:04.600 --> 00:25:05.000
 family

00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:06.880
 heard that

00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:07.640
 that they

00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:08.200
 came to

00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:08.840
 take charge

00:25:08.840 --> 00:25:09.299
 of Jesus

00:25:09.299 --> 00:25:09.799
 because they

00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:10.180
 thought he

00:25:10.180 --> 00:25:10.480
 was going

00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:10.819
 out of his

00:25:10.819 --> 00:25:11.340
 mind

00:25:11.340 --> 00:25:13.240
 isn't that

00:25:13.240 --> 00:25:13.700
 strange

00:25:13.700 --> 00:25:15.380
 here's a

00:25:15.380 --> 00:25:15.640
 man who

00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:15.900
 is so

00:25:15.900 --> 00:25:16.420
 full of

00:25:16.420 --> 00:25:16.799
 the will

00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:17.279
 of God

00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:18.240
 word of

00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:18.400
 God

00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:18.759
 he's so

00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:19.180
 keen to

00:25:19.180 --> 00:25:19.440
 do the

00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:19.759
 will of

00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:19.920
 God

00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:20.120
 so

00:25:20.120 --> 00:25:20.500
 zealous

00:25:20.500 --> 00:25:20.799
 for the

00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:21.100
 glory

00:25:21.100 --> 00:25:21.440
 of God

00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:21.680
 and he

00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:22.140
 misses a

00:25:22.140 --> 00:25:22.360
 meal

00:25:22.360 --> 00:25:22.660
 and they

00:25:22.660 --> 00:25:23.000
 say you're

00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:23.360
 out of your

00:25:23.360 --> 00:25:24.039
 mind

00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:28.340
 he said

00:25:28.340 --> 00:25:28.740
 your work

00:25:28.740 --> 00:25:29.059
 colleagues

00:25:29.059 --> 00:25:29.819
 what did

00:25:29.819 --> 00:25:31.240
 you do

00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:31.960
 last night

00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:33.500
 I went to

00:25:33.500 --> 00:25:33.920
 church and I

00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:34.900
 worshipped God

00:25:34.900 --> 00:25:35.660
 on a Sunday

00:25:35.660 --> 00:25:36.039
 night

00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:37.620
 they think you're

00:25:37.620 --> 00:25:37.920
 out of your

00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:38.640
 mind

00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:41.660
 bizarrely there

00:25:41.660 --> 00:25:41.900
 are some

00:25:41.900 --> 00:25:42.360
 Christians who

00:25:42.360 --> 00:25:42.720
 say you go to

00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:43.140
 church on

00:25:43.140 --> 00:25:43.680
 Sunday night

00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:44.500
 they think you're

00:25:44.500 --> 00:25:44.759
 out of your

00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:45.120
 mind

00:25:45.120 --> 00:25:50.019
 if Jesus is

00:25:50.019 --> 00:25:50.519
 who he says

00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:50.900
 he is

00:25:50.900 --> 00:25:52.460
 and the

00:25:52.460 --> 00:25:52.880
 resurrection

00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:53.480
 proves his

00:25:53.480 --> 00:25:53.840
 claim for

00:25:53.840 --> 00:25:53.980
 right

00:25:53.980 --> 00:25:54.560
 who's insane

00:25:54.560 --> 00:25:55.380
 who's the

00:25:55.380 --> 00:25:55.620
 fool

00:25:55.620 --> 00:25:58.180
 so there are

00:25:58.180 --> 00:25:58.660
 people out there

00:25:58.660 --> 00:25:59.140
 they think that

00:25:59.140 --> 00:25:59.680
 the height of

00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:00.320
 madness is to

00:26:00.320 --> 00:26:00.940
 miss a meal

00:26:00.940 --> 00:26:01.580
 their God

00:26:01.580 --> 00:26:01.920
 is their

00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:02.420
 belly

00:26:02.420 --> 00:26:03.000
 it's the

00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:03.380
 height of

00:26:03.380 --> 00:26:04.060
 fanaticism

00:26:04.060 --> 00:26:05.420
 nothing more

00:26:05.420 --> 00:26:06.240
 important than

00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:06.740
 filling their

00:26:06.740 --> 00:26:07.860
 stomachs

00:26:07.860 --> 00:26:08.440
 at the proper

00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:08.799
 hour

00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:09.620
 and when they

00:26:09.620 --> 00:26:10.100
 see someone

00:26:10.100 --> 00:26:10.380
 for whom

00:26:10.380 --> 00:26:10.880
 something is

00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:11.460
 more important

00:26:11.460 --> 00:26:11.920
 they say he

00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:12.519
 is mad

00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:12.920
 he's out of

00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:13.380
 his mind

00:26:13.380 --> 00:26:16.360
 this week I

00:26:16.360 --> 00:26:17.100
 re-read briefly

00:26:17.100 --> 00:26:19.060
 a book by

00:26:19.060 --> 00:26:19.840
 Frankie Schaefer

00:26:19.840 --> 00:26:22.660
 his parents

00:26:22.660 --> 00:26:23.060
 Frank and

00:26:23.060 --> 00:26:23.560
 Edith Schaefer

00:26:23.560 --> 00:26:23.880
 started

00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:24.380
 Labrie and

00:26:24.380 --> 00:26:24.760
 they started

00:26:24.760 --> 00:26:25.560
 this denomination

00:26:25.560 --> 00:26:27.400
 and Frankie

00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:27.820
 Schaefer has

00:26:27.820 --> 00:26:28.160
 written a

00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:28.980
 tragic book

00:26:28.980 --> 00:26:29.800
 called Crazy

00:26:29.800 --> 00:26:30.420
 for God

00:26:30.420 --> 00:26:31.140
 and it's so

00:26:31.140 --> 00:26:31.980
 sad because

00:26:31.980 --> 00:26:33.160
 as you read

00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:33.680
 it what you

00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:34.100
 realise is

00:26:34.100 --> 00:26:34.640
 Frankie Schaefer

00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:35.020
 was never

00:26:35.020 --> 00:26:35.520
 converted

00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:37.879
 and what

00:26:37.879 --> 00:26:38.740
 Frankie Schaefer

00:26:38.740 --> 00:26:39.680
 saw in his

00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:40.539
 parents

00:26:40.539 --> 00:26:41.240
 in his

00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:41.819
 family

00:26:41.819 --> 00:26:43.680
 he thinks

00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:44.480
 was madness

00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:46.980
 fanaticism

00:26:46.980 --> 00:26:48.900
 fundamentalism

00:26:48.900 --> 00:26:51.240
 but I want to

00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:51.480
 say to you

00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:52.019
 that is exactly

00:26:52.019 --> 00:26:52.379
 what these

00:26:52.379 --> 00:26:52.740
 people were

00:26:52.740 --> 00:26:53.079
 saying to

00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:53.400
 the apostle

00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:53.920
 Paul

00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:55.759
 in the

00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:56.500
 verses 32

00:26:56.500 --> 00:26:58.000
 of chapter 26

00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:59.420
 the very

00:26:59.420 --> 00:26:59.940
 last verse

00:26:59.940 --> 00:27:01.180
 and Agrippa

00:27:01.180 --> 00:27:01.500
 said to

00:27:01.500 --> 00:27:01.920
 Festus

00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:03.080
 this man

00:27:03.080 --> 00:27:03.279
 could have

00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:03.580
 been set

00:27:03.580 --> 00:27:03.980
 free if

00:27:03.980 --> 00:27:04.100
 he had

00:27:04.100 --> 00:27:04.400
 not appealed

00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:04.840
 to Caesar

00:27:04.840 --> 00:27:06.440
 what kind

00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:06.900
 of nutcase

00:27:06.900 --> 00:27:07.220
 is he

00:27:07.220 --> 00:27:09.539
 he could have

00:27:09.539 --> 00:27:09.740
 been his

00:27:09.740 --> 00:27:10.140
 freedom

00:27:10.140 --> 00:27:11.660
 if he had

00:27:11.660 --> 00:27:12.059
 not appealed

00:27:12.059 --> 00:27:12.539
 to Caesar

00:27:12.539 --> 00:27:13.019
 they cannot

00:27:13.019 --> 00:27:13.680
 understand what

00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:14.100
 was making

00:27:14.100 --> 00:27:14.380
 Paul

00:27:14.380 --> 00:27:14.680
 what was

00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:15.380
 motivating him

00:27:15.380 --> 00:27:15.820
 what was

00:27:15.820 --> 00:27:16.259
 making him

00:27:16.259 --> 00:27:16.600
 tick

00:27:16.600 --> 00:27:18.220
 why would he

00:27:18.220 --> 00:27:18.539
 want to go

00:27:18.539 --> 00:27:18.980
 to Rome

00:27:18.980 --> 00:27:21.099
 of course

00:27:21.099 --> 00:27:21.460
 the reason

00:27:21.460 --> 00:27:21.779
 he wants

00:27:21.779 --> 00:27:22.059
 to go to

00:27:22.059 --> 00:27:22.160
 Rome

00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:22.440
 do you know

00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:22.880
 why the reason

00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:23.160
 he wants

00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:23.420
 to go to

00:27:23.420 --> 00:27:23.519
 Rome

00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:23.660
 is

00:27:23.660 --> 00:27:24.120
 well look

00:27:24.120 --> 00:27:24.299
 with me

00:27:24.299 --> 00:27:24.539
 in Acts

00:27:24.539 --> 00:27:25.019
 23

00:27:25.019 --> 00:27:25.779
 verse 11

00:27:25.779 --> 00:27:27.779
 Acts 23

00:27:27.779 --> 00:27:28.279
 verse 11

00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:30.299
 Jesus told

00:27:30.299 --> 00:27:31.339
 him

00:27:31.339 --> 00:27:34.120
 certainly

00:27:34.120 --> 00:27:35.120
 Acts 23

00:27:35.120 --> 00:27:35.740
 verse 11

00:27:35.740 --> 00:27:38.220
 and since I

00:27:38.220 --> 00:27:38.680
 could not see

00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:39.079
 because of the

00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:39.559
 brightness of that

00:27:39.559 --> 00:27:39.980
 light I was

00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:40.420
 led by the

00:27:40.420 --> 00:27:40.980
 hand by those

00:27:40.980 --> 00:27:41.240
 who were with

00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:41.579
 me and came

00:27:41.579 --> 00:27:42.559
 into Damascus

00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:43.799
 that's not the

00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:44.160
 right verse

00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:45.339
 because I'm in

00:27:45.339 --> 00:27:45.539
 the wrong

00:27:45.539 --> 00:27:46.400
 chapter

00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:47.400
 23 verse 11

00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:48.440
 following night

00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:48.940
 the Lord stood

00:27:48.940 --> 00:27:49.320
 by him and

00:27:49.320 --> 00:27:49.660
 said take

00:27:49.660 --> 00:27:49.940
 courage

00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:50.400
 for as you've

00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:50.940
 testified to

00:27:50.940 --> 00:27:51.460
 the facts about

00:27:51.460 --> 00:27:51.940
 me in Jerusalem

00:27:51.940 --> 00:27:52.519
 so you must

00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:53.360
 testify in Rome

00:27:53.360 --> 00:27:54.180
 so Paul wants

00:27:54.180 --> 00:27:54.700
 to go to Rome

00:27:54.700 --> 00:27:57.920
 Jesus told him

00:27:57.920 --> 00:27:58.380
 you will go to

00:27:58.380 --> 00:27:59.320
 Rome it's the

00:27:59.320 --> 00:27:59.720
 centre of the

00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:00.380
 world and there

00:28:00.380 --> 00:28:00.840
 in Rome you'll

00:28:00.840 --> 00:28:01.380
 appear before

00:28:01.380 --> 00:28:02.280
 Nero and Nero

00:28:02.280 --> 00:28:02.820
 will hear the

00:28:02.820 --> 00:28:04.420
 gospel and not

00:28:04.420 --> 00:28:05.120
 only will Nero

00:28:05.120 --> 00:28:05.740
 hear the gospel

00:28:05.740 --> 00:28:06.960
 but he was

00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:07.540
 apparently never

00:28:07.540 --> 00:28:08.420
 converted but the

00:28:08.420 --> 00:28:09.080
 guard the

00:28:09.080 --> 00:28:09.820
 praetorian guard

00:28:09.820 --> 00:28:10.720
 the crack troops

00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:11.500
 of the empire

00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:12.480
 who were sent

00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.340
 all around the

00:28:13.340 --> 00:28:14.880
 world some of

00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:15.400
 that praetorian

00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:15.820
 guard were

00:28:15.820 --> 00:28:16.740
 converted Paul

00:28:16.740 --> 00:28:17.320
 tells us

00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:17.659
 some of

00:28:17.659 --> 00:28:18.399
 Caesar's own

00:28:18.399 --> 00:28:18.859
 household

00:28:18.859 --> 00:28:19.720
 believed in

00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:20.000
 the Lord

00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:20.279
 Jesus

00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:22.179
 let me try and

00:28:22.179 --> 00:28:22.859
 tie this together

00:28:22.859 --> 00:28:24.779
 I want to ask

00:28:24.779 --> 00:28:25.159
 you tonight

00:28:25.159 --> 00:28:25.700
 what is your

00:28:25.700 --> 00:28:26.599
 attitude to

00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:27.379
 this message

00:28:27.379 --> 00:28:29.740
 what makes

00:28:29.740 --> 00:28:30.220
 you tick

00:28:30.220 --> 00:28:32.480
 what motivates

00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:32.859
 you

00:28:32.859 --> 00:28:34.720
 I've got

00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:36.240
 my grandfather's

00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:36.399
 watch

00:28:36.399 --> 00:28:36.720
 it's an

00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:37.200
 old fashioned

00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:37.639
 watch that

00:28:37.639 --> 00:28:38.119
 ticks

00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:38.599
 it's got a

00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:39.359
 loud tick

00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:41.259
 and the reason

00:28:41.259 --> 00:28:41.700
 it's got a

00:28:41.700 --> 00:28:42.319
 tick is because

00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:42.759
 it's got a

00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:43.700
 main spring

00:28:43.700 --> 00:28:44.220
 in the watch

00:28:44.220 --> 00:28:44.740
 your modern

00:28:44.740 --> 00:28:45.259
 watch doesn't

00:28:45.259 --> 00:28:46.079
 have one

00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:46.799
 but you

00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:47.319
 have a

00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:48.399
 main spring

00:28:48.399 --> 00:28:49.559
 in an old

00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:50.059
 watch that

00:28:50.059 --> 00:28:50.399
 makes it

00:28:50.399 --> 00:28:50.679
 tick

00:28:50.679 --> 00:28:51.539
 you have a

00:28:51.539 --> 00:28:52.359
 main spring

00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:53.439
 inside you

00:28:53.439 --> 00:28:54.199
 which makes

00:28:54.199 --> 00:28:54.819
 you tick

00:28:54.819 --> 00:28:55.439
 as a human

00:28:55.439 --> 00:28:55.819
 being

00:28:55.819 --> 00:28:57.259
 what motivates

00:28:57.259 --> 00:28:57.599
 you

00:28:57.599 --> 00:28:58.119
 what makes

00:28:58.119 --> 00:28:58.539
 you tick

00:28:58.539 --> 00:29:01.599
 what makes

00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:02.039
 you tick

00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:06.220
 what drives

00:29:06.220 --> 00:29:06.500
 you

00:29:06.500 --> 00:29:07.039
 I want you to

00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:07.379
 think about

00:29:07.379 --> 00:29:07.679
 that

00:29:07.679 --> 00:29:08.419
 is it the

00:29:08.419 --> 00:29:08.779
 gospel

00:29:08.779 --> 00:29:10.539
 is it this

00:29:10.539 --> 00:29:11.139
 message of

00:29:11.139 --> 00:29:11.519
 a Jesus

00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:11.839
 who was

00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:12.240
 dead

00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:12.519
 and is

00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:13.059
 alive

00:29:13.059 --> 00:29:13.399
 is that

00:29:13.399 --> 00:29:13.960
 what motivates

00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:14.359
 you

00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:15.960
 and when it

00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:16.279
 comes to

00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:16.779
 this message

00:29:16.779 --> 00:29:17.579
 you can sit

00:29:17.579 --> 00:29:17.960
 in church

00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:18.240
 and you can

00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:18.799
 be hard

00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:19.240
 hearted

00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:19.819
 and closed

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 minded

00:29:20.220 --> 00:29:20.700
 like the

00:29:20.700 --> 00:29:21.379
 Jewish leaders

00:29:21.379 --> 00:29:22.539
 implacably

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 hostile

00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:24.139
 blindly

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 prejudiced

00:29:24.879 --> 00:29:25.759
 my mind

00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:26.180
 is made

00:29:26.180 --> 00:29:26.319
 up

00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:26.920
 don't confuse

00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:27.220
 me with

00:29:27.220 --> 00:29:27.779
 the facts

00:29:27.779 --> 00:29:28.839
 I doubt

00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:29.220
 that is

00:29:29.220 --> 00:29:29.379
 you

00:29:29.379 --> 00:29:29.700
 because you

00:29:29.700 --> 00:29:29.859
 wouldn't

00:29:29.859 --> 00:29:30.460
 be here

00:29:30.460 --> 00:29:32.119
 but there

00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:32.500
 are people

00:29:32.500 --> 00:29:32.899
 like that

00:29:32.899 --> 00:29:33.379
 in churches

00:29:33.379 --> 00:29:33.879
 but it's

00:29:33.879 --> 00:29:34.399
 often more

00:29:34.399 --> 00:29:34.759
 subtle

00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:36.740
 listen to

00:29:36.740 --> 00:29:37.079
 this quote

00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:37.720
 by C.S.

00:29:37.779 --> 00:29:37.980
 Lewis

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 it's from

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 the great

00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:40.500
 divorce

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 the scene

00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:42.259
 is the

00:29:42.259 --> 00:29:42.740
 borders of

00:29:42.740 --> 00:29:43.019
 heaven

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 and there's

00:29:43.420 --> 00:29:44.220
 a lifelong

00:29:44.220 --> 00:29:45.000
 searcher

00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:45.379
 is being

00:29:45.379 --> 00:29:45.839
 invited

00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:46.379
 in

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 this is

00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:47.319
 what he's

00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:47.660
 told

00:29:47.660 --> 00:29:48.980
 I can

00:29:48.980 --> 00:29:49.359
 promise you

00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:49.819
 here is a

00:29:49.819 --> 00:29:50.379
 man who's

00:29:50.379 --> 00:29:50.859
 been searching

00:29:50.859 --> 00:29:51.279
 all his

00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:51.519
 life

00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:51.980
 apparently

00:29:51.980 --> 00:29:53.759
 I can

00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:54.180
 promise you

00:29:54.180 --> 00:29:54.500
 you've got to

00:29:54.500 --> 00:29:54.879
 scope for

00:29:54.879 --> 00:29:55.420
 your talents

00:29:55.420 --> 00:29:56.039
 only for

00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:56.519
 forgiveness

00:29:56.519 --> 00:29:57.220
 for having

00:29:57.220 --> 00:29:57.680
 perverted

00:29:57.680 --> 00:29:57.920
 them

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 no atmosphere

00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:00.119
 of inquiry

00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:01.059
 for I will

00:30:01.059 --> 00:30:01.619
 bring you to

00:30:01.619 --> 00:30:01.940
 the land

00:30:01.940 --> 00:30:02.240
 not of

00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:02.700
 questions

00:30:02.700 --> 00:30:03.059
 but of

00:30:03.059 --> 00:30:03.400
 answers

00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:04.019
 and you

00:30:04.019 --> 00:30:04.480
 will see

00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:04.940
 the face

00:30:04.940 --> 00:30:05.420
 of God

00:30:05.420 --> 00:30:06.279
 ah says

00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:06.700
 the man

00:30:06.700 --> 00:30:07.259
 but we

00:30:07.259 --> 00:30:07.680
 must all

00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:08.120
 interpret

00:30:08.120 --> 00:30:08.779
 those beautiful

00:30:08.779 --> 00:30:09.220
 words

00:30:09.220 --> 00:30:09.480
 that are

00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:10.039
 our way

00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:11.039
 for me

00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:11.380
 there is

00:30:11.380 --> 00:30:11.880
 no such

00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:12.180
 thing

00:30:12.180 --> 00:30:12.460
 as a

00:30:12.460 --> 00:30:12.839
 final

00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:13.299
 answer

00:30:13.299 --> 00:30:14.279
 the free

00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:14.819
 wind of

00:30:14.819 --> 00:30:15.380
 inquiry

00:30:15.380 --> 00:30:16.480
 must always

00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:17.460
 continue to

00:30:17.460 --> 00:30:18.420
 blow through

00:30:18.420 --> 00:30:18.920
 the mind

00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:19.360
 must it

00:30:19.360 --> 00:30:19.680
 not

00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:20.839
 listen says

00:30:20.839 --> 00:30:21.180
 the white

00:30:21.180 --> 00:30:21.579
 spirit

00:30:21.579 --> 00:30:22.259
 once you

00:30:22.259 --> 00:30:22.559
 were a

00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:22.920
 child

00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:23.720
 once you

00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:24.039
 knew what

00:30:24.039 --> 00:30:24.500
 inquiry

00:30:24.500 --> 00:30:25.000
 is for

00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:25.259
 but there

00:30:25.259 --> 00:30:25.519
 was a

00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:25.839
 time

00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:26.120
 when you

00:30:26.120 --> 00:30:26.380
 asked

00:30:26.380 --> 00:30:26.920
 questions

00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:27.400
 because you

00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:27.660
 wanted

00:30:27.660 --> 00:30:28.259
 answers

00:30:28.259 --> 00:30:28.900
 and you

00:30:28.900 --> 00:30:29.380
 were glad

00:30:29.380 --> 00:30:29.700
 when you

00:30:29.700 --> 00:30:30.220
 found them

00:30:30.220 --> 00:30:31.259
 become that

00:30:31.259 --> 00:30:31.720
 child

00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:32.259
 again

00:30:32.259 --> 00:30:33.039
 even now

00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:34.180
 ah but the

00:30:34.180 --> 00:30:34.820
 man says

00:30:34.820 --> 00:30:35.140
 when I

00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:35.580
 became a

00:30:35.580 --> 00:30:35.940
 man I

00:30:35.940 --> 00:30:36.279
 put away

00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:36.680
 childish

00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:37.180
 things

00:30:37.180 --> 00:30:38.779
 no argument

00:30:38.779 --> 00:30:39.720
 no appeal

00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:40.759
 will avail

00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:41.299
 against this

00:30:41.299 --> 00:30:41.880
 infinite

00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:43.160
 elasticity

00:30:43.160 --> 00:30:44.360
 says C.S. Lewis

00:30:44.360 --> 00:30:45.400
 the encounter

00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:46.740
 already fruitless

00:30:46.740 --> 00:30:47.880
 with the gentle

00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:48.500
 surface

00:30:48.500 --> 00:30:50.259
 ends with the

00:30:50.259 --> 00:30:51.019
 gentle surface

00:30:51.019 --> 00:30:51.720
 remembering an

00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:52.120
 appointment

00:30:52.120 --> 00:30:52.920
 making his

00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:53.360
 apologies

00:30:53.360 --> 00:30:55.019
 and hurrying off

00:30:55.019 --> 00:30:55.720
 to his discussion

00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:56.500
 group in hell

00:30:56.500 --> 00:30:57.680
 there is more

00:30:57.680 --> 00:30:58.220
 than one way

00:30:58.220 --> 00:30:58.799
 to harden your

00:30:58.799 --> 00:30:59.180
 heart

00:30:59.180 --> 00:31:00.680
 you don't

00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:00.960
 have to be

00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:01.400
 mad and

00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:01.920
 shouting and

00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:02.279
 angry

00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:06.259
 C.K.

00:31:06.320 --> 00:31:06.840
 Chaston said

00:31:06.840 --> 00:31:07.160
 an open

00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:07.680
 mind is

00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:07.900
 like an

00:31:07.900 --> 00:31:08.480
 open mouth

00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:10.320
 you open

00:31:10.320 --> 00:31:11.500
 it in

00:31:11.500 --> 00:31:11.880
 order to

00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:12.259
 shut it

00:31:12.259 --> 00:31:12.740
 on food

00:31:12.740 --> 00:31:13.019
 and on

00:31:13.019 --> 00:31:13.500
 the truth

00:31:13.500 --> 00:31:15.240
 you feed

00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:15.720
 your mind

00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:16.140
 in exactly

00:31:16.140 --> 00:31:16.480
 the same

00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:16.740
 way as

00:31:16.740 --> 00:31:16.980
 you feed

00:31:16.980 --> 00:31:17.440
 your body

00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:19.680
 and there

00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:19.940
 are people

00:31:19.940 --> 00:31:20.320
 who sit

00:31:20.320 --> 00:31:20.880
 in church

00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:21.140
 and they

00:31:21.140 --> 00:31:21.480
 will come

00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:21.880
 to church

00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:22.380
 and apparently

00:31:22.380 --> 00:31:22.660
 they will

00:31:22.660 --> 00:31:23.100
 be seeking

00:31:23.100 --> 00:31:23.500
 for the

00:31:23.500 --> 00:31:23.820
 truth

00:31:23.820 --> 00:31:24.200
 and they're

00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:24.580
 willing to

00:31:24.580 --> 00:31:25.279
 discuss it

00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:25.620
 but they

00:31:25.620 --> 00:31:26.539
 never shut

00:31:26.539 --> 00:31:27.240
 their mind

00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:27.620
 on the

00:31:27.620 --> 00:31:27.940
 truth

00:31:27.940 --> 00:31:28.860
 there was

00:31:28.860 --> 00:31:29.340
 a man

00:31:29.340 --> 00:31:29.700
 called

00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:30.059
 Jesus

00:31:30.059 --> 00:31:31.120
 who died

00:31:31.120 --> 00:31:32.080
 and rose

00:31:32.080 --> 00:31:32.460
 again

00:31:32.460 --> 00:31:32.920
 that is

00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:33.100
 not

00:31:33.100 --> 00:31:33.680
 philosophy

00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:35.039
 that is

00:31:35.039 --> 00:31:35.299
 not a

00:31:35.299 --> 00:31:35.620
 religious

00:31:35.620 --> 00:31:36.240
 belief

00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:36.580
 that is

00:31:36.580 --> 00:31:37.120
 a fact

00:31:37.120 --> 00:31:37.759
 of history

00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:38.559
 and it

00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:38.880
 happened

00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:39.620
 in time

00:31:39.620 --> 00:31:40.019
 and in

00:31:40.019 --> 00:31:40.440
 space

00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:40.860
 and there

00:31:40.860 --> 00:31:40.980
 were

00:31:40.980 --> 00:31:41.440
 witnesses

00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:42.240
 and it

00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:42.500
 is one

00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:42.660
 of the

00:31:42.660 --> 00:31:42.840
 most

00:31:42.840 --> 00:31:43.320
 important

00:31:43.320 --> 00:31:43.799
 facts

00:31:43.799 --> 00:31:44.440
 in history

00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:45.259
 fasten

00:31:45.259 --> 00:31:45.920
 your mind

00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:46.340
 on that

00:31:46.340 --> 00:31:46.740
 have you

00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:48.840
 that is

00:31:48.840 --> 00:31:49.240
 the crux

00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:49.519
 isn't it

00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:49.940
 either it's

00:31:49.940 --> 00:31:50.259
 true or

00:31:50.259 --> 00:31:50.720
 it's not

00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:52.480
 are you

00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:53.299
 hard-hearted

00:31:53.299 --> 00:31:54.860
 closed-minded

00:31:54.860 --> 00:31:55.200
 when it

00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:55.559
 comes to

00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:55.940
 the facts

00:31:55.940 --> 00:31:56.180
 of the

00:31:56.180 --> 00:31:56.460
 gospel

00:31:56.460 --> 00:31:56.680
 are you

00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:57.220
 half-hearted

00:31:57.220 --> 00:31:57.480
 like

00:31:57.480 --> 00:31:58.200
 festus

00:31:58.200 --> 00:31:59.400
 you're

00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:00.039
 here but

00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:00.500
 your mind

00:32:00.500 --> 00:32:00.920
 is somewhere

00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:01.339
 else

00:32:01.339 --> 00:32:02.279
 I know

00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:02.819
 that's because

00:32:02.819 --> 00:32:03.259
 the preaching

00:32:03.259 --> 00:32:03.799
 is boring

00:32:03.799 --> 00:32:04.360
 sometimes

00:32:04.360 --> 00:32:05.839
 perhaps today

00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:06.279
 you're thinking

00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:06.620
 about your

00:32:06.620 --> 00:32:06.980
 week

00:32:06.980 --> 00:32:07.740
 your job

00:32:07.740 --> 00:32:08.480
 your relationship

00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:09.620
 your friends

00:32:09.620 --> 00:32:10.660
 and this stuff

00:32:10.660 --> 00:32:11.000
 is at the

00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:11.539
 back of your

00:32:11.539 --> 00:32:12.140
 mind

00:32:12.140 --> 00:32:13.079
 and it just

00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:13.660
 washes over

00:32:13.660 --> 00:32:14.120
 you

00:32:14.120 --> 00:32:15.700
 about Jesus

00:32:15.700 --> 00:32:16.620
 being dead

00:32:16.620 --> 00:32:17.420
 and then alive

00:32:17.420 --> 00:32:17.700
 again

00:32:17.700 --> 00:32:18.039
 you've maybe

00:32:18.039 --> 00:32:18.900
 always believed

00:32:18.900 --> 00:32:19.279
 that

00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:19.920
 I suppose

00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:20.259
 it's at the

00:32:20.259 --> 00:32:20.700
 back of your

00:32:20.700 --> 00:32:21.440
 mind

00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:23.940
 but if it's

00:32:23.940 --> 00:32:24.240
 not at the

00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:24.759
 forefront of your

00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:24.940
 mind

00:32:24.940 --> 00:32:25.339
 there's something

00:32:25.339 --> 00:32:25.880
 wrong isn't

00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:26.100
 there

00:32:26.099 --> 00:32:27.879
 if the

00:32:27.879 --> 00:32:28.259
 resurrection

00:32:28.259 --> 00:32:28.679
 of Jesus

00:32:28.679 --> 00:32:28.980
 Christ

00:32:28.980 --> 00:32:29.379
 does not

00:32:29.379 --> 00:32:30.199
 dominate us

00:32:30.199 --> 00:32:30.459
 there is

00:32:30.459 --> 00:32:30.699
 something

00:32:30.699 --> 00:32:31.159
 wrong with

00:32:31.159 --> 00:32:31.459
 us

00:32:31.459 --> 00:32:33.219
 if your

00:32:33.219 --> 00:32:33.779
 career is

00:32:33.779 --> 00:32:34.439
 dominating you

00:32:34.439 --> 00:32:34.679
 or your

00:32:34.679 --> 00:32:35.179
 family

00:32:35.179 --> 00:32:35.579
 or making

00:32:35.579 --> 00:32:36.119
 money

00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:36.759
 if that is

00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:37.240
 what wakes

00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:37.599
 you up

00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:37.819
 on a

00:32:37.819 --> 00:32:38.039
 Monday

00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:38.579
 morning

00:32:38.579 --> 00:32:39.879
 and not

00:32:39.879 --> 00:32:40.359
 the fact

00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:40.959
 that Jesus

00:32:40.959 --> 00:32:41.919
 is alive

00:32:41.919 --> 00:32:42.439
 from the

00:32:42.439 --> 00:32:42.959
 dead

00:32:42.959 --> 00:32:44.619
 well then

00:32:44.619 --> 00:32:44.819
 you're

00:32:44.819 --> 00:32:45.359
 half-hearted

00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:45.839
 aren't you

00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:48.379
 when it

00:32:48.379 --> 00:32:48.720
 comes to

00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:48.819
 the

00:32:48.819 --> 00:32:49.099
 gospel

00:32:49.099 --> 00:32:49.399
 when it

00:32:49.399 --> 00:32:49.759
 comes to

00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:49.899
 the

00:32:49.899 --> 00:32:50.359
 resurrection

00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:50.639
 of

00:32:50.639 --> 00:32:50.959
 Jesus

00:32:50.959 --> 00:32:51.679
 let me

00:32:51.679 --> 00:32:52.059
 ask you

00:32:52.059 --> 00:32:52.299
 tonight

00:32:52.299 --> 00:32:52.639
 are you

00:32:52.639 --> 00:32:53.319
 half-hearted

00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:53.799
 or fully

00:32:53.799 --> 00:32:54.379
 persuaded

00:32:54.379 --> 00:32:56.199
 how are you

00:32:56.199 --> 00:32:56.559
 committed

00:32:56.559 --> 00:32:57.259
 to it like

00:32:57.259 --> 00:32:57.459
 Paul

00:32:57.459 --> 00:32:57.799
 has anybody

00:32:57.799 --> 00:32:58.259
 ever called

00:32:58.259 --> 00:32:58.459
 you a

00:32:58.459 --> 00:32:58.899
 fanatic

00:32:58.899 --> 00:33:00.939
 do people

00:33:00.939 --> 00:33:01.399
 think you're

00:33:01.399 --> 00:33:01.819
 mad

00:33:01.819 --> 00:33:03.819
 what makes

00:33:03.819 --> 00:33:04.059
 you

00:33:04.059 --> 00:33:05.639
 tick

00:33:05.639 --> 00:33:07.319
 what is

00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:07.679
 driving

00:33:07.679 --> 00:33:08.000
 you

00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.339
 somebody

00:33:10.339 --> 00:33:10.720
 said this

00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:11.059
 week about

00:33:11.059 --> 00:33:11.519
 IPC

00:33:11.519 --> 00:33:11.839
 they were in

00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:12.259
 a conversation

00:33:12.259 --> 00:33:12.720
 with somebody

00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:13.220
 else and they

00:33:13.220 --> 00:33:13.779
 say sometimes

00:33:13.779 --> 00:33:14.299
 I think that

00:33:14.299 --> 00:33:14.779
 church is a

00:33:14.779 --> 00:33:15.139
 cult

00:33:15.140 --> 00:33:16.540
 and that

00:33:16.540 --> 00:33:17.160
 conversation

00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:17.780
 was reported

00:33:17.780 --> 00:33:18.320
 back to me

00:33:18.320 --> 00:33:18.840
 I was

00:33:18.840 --> 00:33:19.520
 hopping

00:33:19.520 --> 00:33:20.220
 mad

00:33:20.220 --> 00:33:22.360
 and then I

00:33:22.360 --> 00:33:22.820
 remembered

00:33:22.820 --> 00:33:24.120
 the same

00:33:24.120 --> 00:33:24.520
 allegation

00:33:24.520 --> 00:33:24.860
 we made

00:33:24.860 --> 00:33:25.220
 against the

00:33:25.220 --> 00:33:25.460
 apostle

00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:25.860
 Paul

00:33:25.860 --> 00:33:27.960
 what's

00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:28.580
 driving you

00:33:28.580 --> 00:33:30.620
 blind

00:33:30.620 --> 00:33:31.240
 prejudice

00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:32.940
 hatred

00:33:32.940 --> 00:33:33.280
 for the

00:33:33.280 --> 00:33:33.560
 truth

00:33:33.560 --> 00:33:34.140
 hostility

00:33:34.140 --> 00:33:35.080
 self-interest

00:33:35.080 --> 00:33:36.680
 or

00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:36.980
 Jesus

00:33:36.980 --> 00:33:37.460
 alive

00:33:37.460 --> 00:33:37.759
 from the

00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:38.000
 dead

00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:38.200
 of

00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:38.520
 Christ

00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:39.519
!

00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:39.519


00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:41.660
 love you

00:33:41.660 --> 00:33:41.660


00:33:41.660 --> 00:33:41.920
 I

00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:43.599
 love you

00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:43.920
 to be

00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:43.920


00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:44.220
 honest