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 Welcome and thank you for joining this message by David Entry at Carish Church.

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! In this season of Great Awakening, may God pour out His Spirit through His Word, refreshing your heart and awakening you to His will.

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 Acts chapter 28. I would like to read from verse 23. I'm reading from the King James Version.

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 And when they had appointed Him a day, there came many to Him into His lodging, to whom He expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.

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 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.

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 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed after that portal, spoken one word, well spoken of the Holy Spirit by Esaias, the prophets, unto our fathers, saying,

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 Go unto these people, and saying, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.

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 For the heart of these people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed.

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 Lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and should be converted, and I shall heal them.

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 Be it not therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.

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 And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning amongst themselves.

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 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came unto him, preaching the kingdom of God,

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 and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 With all confidence, no man forbidding him.

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 Here ends the reading of God's word.

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 Amen.

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 Shall we please pray?

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 Father, we thank you.

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 We give you praise for giving us the privilege to be here.

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 As we hear your word, we pray that we will hear from you.

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 As we hear your word, we pray that the heavens will be opened upon us.

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 As we hear your word, we pray that you give us listening ears.

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 Heal our hearts.

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 Heal our soul.

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 Let us encounter Jesus.

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 Reveal Christ to us.

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 And use us for your glory.

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 In Jesus' name.

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 And all shall say.

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 Amen.

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 Amen and amen.

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 Amen.

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 Now, when you look at our previous sessions, we saw how Paul has been in prison, and he appeared, or he summoned the leaders of the Jews so he could make a case before them.

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 He spoke to them.

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 Not just so he could make a case, but so he could send the gospel to them.

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 And last week, we ended by him.

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 When they didn't want to receive, he said that, well, Isaiah prophesied about you.

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 And Isaiah said that these people have ears, but they will not hear.

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 They have eyes.

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 They will not see.

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 Lest I will heal them.

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 Because that's the condition of the fallen hearts.

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 The fallen hearts, which is very importantly, never is willing to receive God.

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 The fallen hearts, which is, runs from God.

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 So a typical example is in Luke chapter 5, where Jesus told them.

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 They said, we've told all night, but we didn't catch any fish.

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 He said, catch your net on the other side.

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 And the Bible said, when they did that, they took in so much fish.

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 And then, when Peter, a Jewish businessman, saw the breakthrough, a normal Jewish man will come into an agreement with you.

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 That you don't have to just say in your house, when I'm going for fishing, show me where to cast my net.

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 And 70% of the profit will be to you.

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 A Jewish man will want to.

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 But rather, Peter fell on his feet.

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 And he said, depart from me.

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 When he realized that he was dealing with deity, the fallen heart normally runs away from God.

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 The natural disposition of the fallen heart.

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 So the Bible says that none seek God.

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 Romans chapter 3.

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 None seek after God.

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 None.

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 I said, there's none who understands.

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 None who seeks after God.

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 Naturally, within ourselves, we will not seek after God.

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 Don't want to see someone being religious.

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 It's not because they are seeking after God.

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 But sometimes, there is this need for God within us.

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 We will use other things to massage it or to fulfill the needs.

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 But the true God, naturally, we will not seek after him.

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 That is why when Jesus came, it was the religious leaders who killed him.

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 The more religious they were, the more ungodly they were becoming.

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 They stayed away from God.

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 So the point I'm making here is that naturally, the fallen man does not draw closer to God.

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 We run away from God when God shows up.

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 Adam and Eve did that in the garden.

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 Genesis chapter 3 from verse 10, 11.

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 Adam, where are you?

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 I heard your voice in the garden and I hid myself.

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 So Jesus posted this way in the book of John chapter 6.

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 Chapter 6, I think verse 44, said,

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 No one can come to me.

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 Okay.

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 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me does what?

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 Not that way.

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 That's what?

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 Draws.

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 Draws.

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 It's like, you know what?

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 They put a rope on your waist and they are pulling you.

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 Most of you, all of us, we are drawn to Christ.

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 Naturally, our face was away from Christ.

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 We are living our life going.

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 But for some reason, the gospel came and something began to draw.

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 You think about yourself.

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 You've been in church on a Sunday morning like you.

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 No, no.

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 It wasn't your natural forte.

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 So no one comes to him except God draws us.

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 So the people, when they listen, the reason I'm saying that is people don't get converted by good arguments.

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 Because there is no intellectual pathway to God.

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 Can I repeat that?

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 Please.

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 Don't think it is our glorious, wonderful submission.

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 You can be the best lawyer and you can preach the gospel and not win anybody.

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 Because people coming to Christ is not a result of intellectual discourse, even though salvation does not sidestep your intelligence.

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 So you can say I'm saved.

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 I can't think.

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 I don't even know why I'm saved.

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 But you must know why you are saved.

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 Salvation must be reasonable.

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 Must have a foundation of understanding.

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 A context of reasoning.

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 That's why the gospel, the preaching of the gospel is not just left to emotive behavior.

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 Your emotion.

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 How I feel.

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 No, no, no.

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 It's not about how you feel.

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 What you know.

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 You cannot be saved without knowing.

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 Because the gospel has noticia.

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 Data.

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 It's a data.

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 It's content.

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 It's news to be told.

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 And you believe, watch this.

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 You believe the news in order to be saved.

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 So it is believing in a certain information that gets us saved.

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 But that information has the breath on it.

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 When it's time for God to draw you.

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 It's called the Holy Spirit.

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 See, the Holy Spirit bears witness to the preaching of God's word.

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 So don't let us think the fact that what we are saying is reasonable can change somebody.

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 Some time ago, somebody asked.

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 I work with a very strong Jewish guy.

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 It's very religious.

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 And I really want to explain this as to.

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 And sometimes they are not interested.

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 What are the things that I should say to the Jew?

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 I said nothing but the gospel.

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 The gospel that saves the armed robber.

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 Or the, you know, wild person who are religious.

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 El Chippo.

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 El Chapo.

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 That same gospel.

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 Okay, okay.

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 Watch this.

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 There is no special gospel for the good person.

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 Yes, sir.

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 And then a gospel for the bad person.

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 There is no special gospel for the religious.

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 And a gospel for the criminal.

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 There is no special gospel.

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 The gospel that can save the criminal in the prison is the same gospel that can save the professor.

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 Hallelujah.

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 The emeritus.

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 Yeah.

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 The same gospel that can save the king.

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 And the same gospel that can save the servant in the palace.

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 The same.

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 The same content.

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 So it's for all.

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 It's very interesting.

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 The same content for all.

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 That is why it's not my job.

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 And it's not our job to amend the gospel.

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 Don't spray perfume on it.

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 Leave it the way it is.

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 It might be smelly for some people.

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 But the same smelly thing is perfume.

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 Oh, I feel like printing.

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 Hallelujah.

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 The Bible in Romans chapter 1 calls it the gospel of God.

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 It's not my gospel.

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 No pastor has a gospel.

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 You can say my gospel when you have personalized the gospel of God.

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 And that gospel is concerning his son.

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 Not your job.

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 Not your breakthrough.

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 Not your prosperity.

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 Not your healing.

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 The gospel.

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 Oh, I feel like preaching now.

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 The gospel is there.

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 It's there.

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 Concerning.

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 Concerning his son.

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 So when you preach and they can't hear about Christ, you have not preached the gospel.

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 You haven't preached the gospel.

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 And for your information, if you strayed into church and like what is going on in church,

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 without knowing who Christ is, you are not saved.

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 You are not saved.

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 The crudest way to put it, the raw way to put it, you are still going to hell.

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 These are important things.

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 Listen, I keep saying it, and I can't wait for the Bible to say this one I'm about to say.

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 It is not my preaching that makes the gospel work.

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 It is the gospel in my preaching that makes my preaching work.

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 How this lousy preaching I'm doing.

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 What can it do for you?

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 What can it do?

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 It is the gospel inside it.

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 The gospel inside it.

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 So Paul explained the gospel to them.

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 But Paul, the greatest apostle ever, the greatest theologian ever, the greatest preacher ever,

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 next to you after, in the church, of the church, greatest apostle, greatest theologian,

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 greatest preacher, greatest missionary ever.

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 Preach.

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 And he was a lawyer by training.

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 He said, concerning the law, when he was, before he became born again, he was blameless.

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 So he had this impeccable track record, and now he's in Christ.

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 He preached to some people, they won't believe.

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 I'm telling you, you don't have hope.

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 If Paul could preach, and some people would not believe, then why are we preaching?

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 Because he says, the gospel can make people stumble.

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 He said, Christ, Christ is a stumbling block.

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 Not just a stumbling block.

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 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 23.

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 He's an offense.

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 He's an offense.

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 What we are preaching will offend some people.

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 It will offend bad people, good people, religious people, nice people, intelligent people, foolish people.

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 I mean, the whole spectrum.

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 The whole spectrum.

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 He said to the Jews, it's a stumbling block.

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 What are you?

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 Christ, the stone of stumbling.

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 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 8.

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 Isaiah chapter 14.

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 He said, a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.

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 That's what we are preaching.

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 You know.

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 So, this should make you understand that.

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 It doesn't matter how much you explain.

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 Paul did some explanation.

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 Some people, okay, but God didn't call them, so it's not their fault.

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 No, it's their fault.

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 Because they block their ears.

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 They chose.

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 When the gospel comes to you, it's your choice.

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 Even though God is the one, those of us who chose, we cannot say, it is just us.

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 It says, it's the grace of God, lest any man should boast.

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 No man can boast.

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 Because it's not us.

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 God, who is at work.

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 Work in you.

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 Both to will and to do.

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 So, you cannot, you cannot claim credit.

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 When Peter said, Matthew chapter 16, Jesus said, who would Ruben say I am?

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 Son of God.

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 You are the son.

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 Jesus said, blessed are you, someone by Jonah.

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 But I won't give you the credit.

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 He said, this has been given to you, not just by your training, your education, your smartness, your intelligence.

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 But it was given to you by the spirit of God, my father in heaven.

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 Do you understand what I'm going to say?

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 And so, those of us who have come to accept God or accept Jesus, who are, let me put it a better way, biblical way.

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 I prefer that one than accept.

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 Who are in Christ?

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 You check if you find any religion anywhere in the world who claim their followers are inside the leader.

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 It's only we, Christians, we are in Christ.

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 Hallelujah.

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 Therefore, if any man be in Christ.

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 Hallelujah.

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 We are in Christ and Christ is in us.

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 He said, Galatians chapter 2 verse 20, I'm crucified in Christ.

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 Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but what?

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 Christ in us.

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 We are the only group of people who are inside our Savior.

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 I'm in Christ.

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 Sometimes when things are rough for you, people say, how are you going to tell me I'm in Christ?

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 Not in crisis.

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 Oh, I feel like preaching.

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 I'm in Christ.

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 I'm in Christ.

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 If you are not in Christ, it doesn't matter how well things are going for you.

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 You're actually in crisis.

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 So, Paul spoke to them.

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 He spoke to them.

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 Some didn't believe.

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 Others believed.

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 And those who didn't believe, told them that, no wonder Isaiah said this about you.

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 And Isaiah prophesied.

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 So, this is not new.

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 Prophesied that some will not believe.

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 And anyway, they left.

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 And they left.

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 And then, let's go to the next verse.

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 I think I want to.

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 But this is interesting.

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 After the people have left, then Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house.

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 Wow.

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 Where was he getting the money?

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 I know you are thinking.

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 Yeah.

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 Yeah.

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 What did he do?

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 Somebody said rent advance.

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 He paid two years advance.

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 Sometimes, it takes scripture to explain scripture.

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 Okay.

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 It takes scripture to explain scripture.

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 Don't forget, I talked to you about analogia scriptura.

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 It's a Latin word.

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 That means that scripture speaks with one voice.

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 So, he's saying something here, but you can actually get a bit more insight from another text.

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 Because scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, one voice.

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 Nothing contradicts itself.

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 Scripture speaks with one voice.

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 Really.

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 So, how did he get money?

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 Just some of the things that people were caring for him.

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 So, he wrote to the Philippian church that you sent once and again for my need.

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 In Philippians chapter 4, verse 15, 16, 17.

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 Particularly 17.

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 He says, it's not because I need some gift from you.

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 You know, but I'm just saying it to you.

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 Because when I was in prison, you sent not once and for all.

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 Those of you who give once and for all.

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 He said.

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 I'm not proclaiming anything.

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 It's in the text.

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 The text is saying it.

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 Yeah.

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 He said.

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 He sent.

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 You sent once and again for my necessity.

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 Okay.

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 So, the things I needed.

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 He was saying.

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 This letter was written when he was in prison in Rome.

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 His first prison man.

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 That two years.

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 That's where someone was getting some of the money for his rent.

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 Because.

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 For his.

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 His necessity is there.

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 Which includes rent.

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 Includes his food.

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 Yeah.

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 Clothing and everything.

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 Including his iPad.

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 And stuff.

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 So.

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 All lines of scriptures.

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 And everything.

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 He said.

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 He sent.

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 Once and again.

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 For my necessity.

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 And he wrote about.

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 Epaphroditus.

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 In 2 Timothy chapter 1.

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 From verse 13, 14, 15.

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 That this guy was so good towards him.

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 That when he came to Rome.

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 He did not rest.

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 He searched for Paul.

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 Everywhere.

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 Until he found Paul.

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 And he cared for Paul.

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 He said.

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 The Lord grant mercy.

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 The household of Onesiphorus.

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 Sorry.

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 For he often refreshed me.

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 And was not ashamed of my change.

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 Look at the next verse.

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 But when he arrived in Rome.

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 He sought me out.

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 Very zealously.

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 And found me.

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 Because.

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 When he said he refreshed me.

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 He's talking about.

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 He cared for me.

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 Look at the next verse.

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 So.

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 May God have mercy on him.

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 And the Lord grant him that.

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 On the day he'll find mercy.

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 Because.

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 He ministered to me.

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 At Ephesus.

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 And.

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 Not just that.

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 He continues to also do that.

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 So.

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 People were caring for Paul.

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 People were giving to Paul.

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 That is why.

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 In 1 Corinthians.

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 He was writing things like.

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 If I've sown spiritual things to you.

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 What is wrong.

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 If I reap your natural things.

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 1 Corinthians chapter.

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 9 verse 11.

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 If we have sown spiritual things to you.

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 What is wrong for a.

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 Material.

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 Use the word.

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 Material things.

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 And then.

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 In 2 Corinthians.

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 He told the Corinthians church that.

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 You know.

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 I don't want to really take from you.

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 Because you should learn from.

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 Chapter 8.

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 Learn from those in Macedonia.

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 That even.

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 Above all their.

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 Poverty.

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 They were willing to give.

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 Way and beyond.

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 And some of them.

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 Gave to his necessities.

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 So in 2 Corinthians chapter.

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 13.

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 He said.

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 I'm coming.

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 But I don't want to be a burden.

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 On to you.

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 I don't want to take from you.

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 He said.

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 Others are supporting me.

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 So he was getting support.

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 From good people.

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 I just said it.

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 So you can.

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 You can decide.

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 Define.

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 Who good people.

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 Might be.

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 Anyway.

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 So.

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 Paul.

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 Lived there.

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 In his own rented house.

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 For.

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 Two.

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 And.

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 Two.

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 Two years.

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 And he received all those.

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 Who came to you.

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 So when they came.

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 He would serve them.

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 Drinking water.

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 I know he would serve them.

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 Cook.

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 That's just a joke.

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 The verse 31.

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 I need you to take notice of something.

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 When they came.

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 That's all he was doing.

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 People were coming to him.

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 And he was preaching.

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 The kingdom of God.

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 And teaching.

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 The things.

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 Which concern.

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 This is so sweet.

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 That's a proper pastor.

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 Proper preacher.

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 His main.

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 Focus.

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 And his main message.

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 Is concerning Jesus Christ.

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 The things that concern.

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 The Lord Jesus Christ.

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 And he was doing that.

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 With.

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 Confidence.

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 And no one forbidding him.

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 What's the next verse?

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 What's the next verse?

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 No next verse?

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 Ah.

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 But how can you finish a text like that?

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 You can tell.

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 It looks like they didn't finish it.

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 This is the end of Acts.

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 So what's all the points?

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 We are going.

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 And this happened.

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 This happened.

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 Jesus started by saying.

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 Go and preach the gospel.

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 This happened.

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 This happened.

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 This happened.

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 And then Paul was arrested.

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 He was beaten.

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 He was sent to Rome.

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 And in Rome.

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 So what happened?

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 Was he.

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 Was he acquitted?

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 Was he released?

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 What happened to Paul?

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 And he said for two years.

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 It would have been interesting.

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 If he said.

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 He lived there permanently.

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 He said for two years.

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 So after the two years.

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 What happened?

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 What next?

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 That's Acts chapter 29.

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 So okay.

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 Where is Acts chapter 29?

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 I know you don't know where it is.

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 Today I came to show you.

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 Where Acts chapter 29 is.

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 I feel like preaching.

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 Show me, sir.

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 I came to show you where to find Acts 29.

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 Because from the way Acts 28, 31 ended.

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 It seems to suggest that it doesn't end yet.

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 If you follow the trajectory of the argument or submission.

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 It tells you that it's not finished.

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 So, where on earth is Acts 29?

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 Where on earth?

00:22:03.899 --> 00:22:05.299
 Where on earth is Acts 29?

00:22:05.420 --> 00:22:05.980
 Where is it?

00:22:06.059 --> 00:22:06.440
 Where is it?

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 Right here.

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 They didn't finish because their gospel is not finished.

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 Watch this.

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 Their gospel is not about Paul.

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 It's not Paul's story.

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 We are not here to study history lessons on Paul.

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 No!

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 So, whatever happened to him is none of our business.

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 Whatever we do, after we've been told, is now our turn.

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 He said, Hebrews chapter 12,

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 Therefore, being seen, you are surrounded.

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 Since you are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses,

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 Everybody say witnesses.

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 Witnesses.

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 Matis, that's the Greek word.

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 Witnesses, or matus, depending on what translation you are using.

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 Witnesses.

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 We are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.

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 Where are they?

00:23:09.019 --> 00:23:09.819
 Acts chapter 1.

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 Acts chapter 2.

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 Acts chapter 3.

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 Acts chapter 4.

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 We see so many people inside.

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 And people who backslide.

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 People who didn't backslide.

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 People who embrace the gospel.

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 People who embrace the gospel.

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 People who die for the gospel.

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 All these are witnesses.

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 Because in Acts chapter 1, verse 8,

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 Jesus said,

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 He shall receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you,

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 And ye shall be my witnesses.

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 My matis, which is translated,

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 Eventually became translated in some parts as matis.

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 That's the original word, matis.

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 Matis, or matus.

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 Maturiah.

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 So matus is a mati.

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 The original, the word didn't actually mean someone who has just died.

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 It originally meant someone who is in the witness box

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 To give an account, a witness to something he has experienced.

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 Something she or he, he or she has encountered.

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 Something, you don't go and stand in the witness box

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 And they say, did you see that guy slap him?

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 He said, which guy?

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 The guy.

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 He said, no, I don't know him.

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 I've never seen him.

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 So why are you here?

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 We have to kick you out of the witness box and bring.

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 Is it possible that people are preaching without being witnesses?

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 Is it possible that you can't even go out doing outreach,

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 But you're not a witness for Jesus?

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 Both in your words and your works.

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 Witnesses.

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 But being an effective witness of Christ

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 Is based on the Holy Spirit.

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 Not your experience.

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 Not just your experience.

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 Not just your background.

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 Not just your education.

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 Even though sometimes all those things can come in handy.

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 They can come in handy.

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 But they are not necessarily needed.

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 They are not the foundation.

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 Or they are not the main purpose for our submission.

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 It's Christ.

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 We are supposed to be witnesses.

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 Watch this.

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 Not just go witnessing.

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 There's a difference between witnessing and being a witness.

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 We are supposed to be witnesses.

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 Even when you are asleep.

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 A police officer, when he's asleep, is he a police officer?

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 Yes.

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 When he's in uniform, is he a police officer?

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 Yes.

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 How about when he's not in uniform, is he a police officer?

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 Yes.

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 It's just what he is.

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 It just is.

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 A medical doctor doesn't have to be in the hospital.

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 Or maybe when you get to the hospital, then you become a doctor.

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 But there's nothing doctored about you.

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 Yes.

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 But he is.

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 Yes.

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 A medical doctor is.

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 A witness is not only someone witnessing.

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 When they are talking.

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 A witness is a life.

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 I'm going somewhere with what I'm trying to say.

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 So, Jesus Christ in Acts chapter 1 said that ye shall be witnesses unto me.

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 Then it starts from Jerusalem.

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 Do you know who wrote the book of Acts?

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 I told you.

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 Luke.

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 Okay.

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 Luke, the doctor.

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 Luke, the physician.

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 But Acts was not the only book he wrote.

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 In fact, Acts is almost like the second Luke.

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 So, there was a first Luke.

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 And then the second Luke.

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 Or like the way of first Corinthians, second Corinthians.

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 That's what I mean.

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 Okay.

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 I'm not talking about looking at something twice.

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 So, the first Luke.

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 Primarily.

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 Watch this.

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 Is the gospel according to Luke.

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 Which focused on Jesus' mission from Galilee to Jerusalem.

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 So, the gospel according to Luke.

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 Primarily focused from.

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 The journey plan was from Galilee to Jerusalem.

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 And then the second book of Luke.

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 Was from Jerusalem to the uttermost parts of the world.

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 Now, the first book was just about Jesus' natural living.

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 Human life.

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 The second Luke.

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 Was about Jesus' supernatural living in the church.

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 The body of Christ.

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 Okay.

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 The body of Christ.

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 That's why the second Luke never finished.

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 Because the book has not been closed.

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 The story of the church hasn't ended.

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 They've done their own.

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 Seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witness.

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 Now, it's our turn.

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 Let us run.

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 So, 1 Corinthians chapter 9, verse 25.

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 Paul says, I so run.

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 I think the next verse.

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 Everyone who completes.

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 Look at the next verse.

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 He says, therefore, I run thus.

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 Let's look at New American Sanabeshi.

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 Therefore, I run in such a way.

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 There's a way to run.

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 The Christian life is a race.

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 Run by grace.

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 We have to.

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 As soon as you are saved.

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 What do you have to do?

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 Start running.

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 You are not running for your dear life.

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 You are running for your dear mission.

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 Watch this.

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 Paul said in Acts.

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 That therefore, none of these things move me.

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 Neither count I myself dear to my.

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 Acts chapter 20, verse 23.

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 Neither count my life dear to myself.

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 That I am my finished what?

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 Am I finished what?

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 It's a race.

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 So, in 2 Timothy chapter 4, verse 7.

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 It said, I fought a good fight.

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 I have.

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 So, Paul finished his own.

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 Now it's your turn and my turn.

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 So, he says that, see, we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.

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 Let us run with perseverance, with patience.

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 Let's keep running that we will obtain.

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 And the way you should run is by looking unto Jesus.

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 So, now coming back to the book of Acts.

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 We saw all the witnesses and the testimonies about these people in the book of Acts.

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 We saw them, including the chief one, Paul.

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 And I'm going to tell you in a moment why so much focus was put on Paul.

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 Paul is not Jesus.

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 So, why was so much emphasis placed on him?

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 So much so that right from Acts chapter 13, it looks like it's all about Paul.

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 To the end that the book finishes with Paul.

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 Paul spent in two years.

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 Why, Paul?

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 But first of all, we have all these witnesses who have modeled race, running their race,

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 who we are supposed to look at and continue the race.

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 That is the essence of Acts chapter 29.

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 The Acts chapter 29 is to continue from where those in Acts chapter 1 to 28 left off.

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 So, we are supposed to continue.

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 We are in Acts chapter 29.

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 I know some of us are not aware, but your life is being written as a book.

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 Amen.

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 probably effectively on stage.

00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:35.220
 We're fulfilling it much more effectively

00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:36.799
 before we showed up on the stage.

00:30:37.859 --> 00:30:40.359
 So being on the stage is just a continuation of,

00:30:40.619 --> 00:30:42.279
 so the stage doesn't change us.

00:30:43.339 --> 00:30:46.579
 But if you are waiting to appear on stage

00:30:46.579 --> 00:30:49.879
 before you start fulfilling your destiny,

00:30:49.879 --> 00:30:51.720
 by the time you appear before God,

00:30:52.019 --> 00:30:53.259
 you are being outstaged.

00:30:53.259 --> 00:30:59.980
 So now, we saw all of them.

00:31:00.059 --> 00:31:01.259
 So what about Paul?

00:31:01.839 --> 00:31:04.700
 When you look at the, as I referred to recently,

00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:08.259
 when you look at the content of what was happening

00:31:08.259 --> 00:31:15.339
 from practically Acts chapter 21 down to 28,

00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:18.160
 it looks like just the history of what happened to Paul.

00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:21.359
 No new doctrine was being chained out.

00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:24.399
 He wasn't teaching how we should live the Christian life.

00:31:24.459 --> 00:31:26.500
 No, there was no, really no new doctrine.

00:31:26.919 --> 00:31:30.519
 But it was just telling about how a person lived his life.

00:31:32.719 --> 00:31:35.059
 He lived his life so much,

00:31:35.179 --> 00:31:37.359
 which I taught, I think, a few weeks ago,

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 that in Philippians 1.20,

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 that Christ will be magnified in my body, right?

00:31:44.619 --> 00:31:46.839
 That Christ will be magnified in my body

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 whether I'm dying or living.

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 That's a witness.

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 Whether I have a job or I don't have a job,

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 it's not conditional.

00:31:55.320 --> 00:31:57.920
 So because I lost my job, I'm not going to church.

00:31:58.360 --> 00:31:58.960
 You are not serious.

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 You are not a serious Christian.

00:32:04.600 --> 00:32:04.820
 Yeah.

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 Because something happened to me,

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 I'm not, I've, I've, I've, I've.

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 Especially those who say,

00:32:10.259 --> 00:32:11.340
 God didn't answer my prayer.

00:32:11.340 --> 00:32:11.759
 Yeah.

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 Let us not serve God only in good times.

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 Let us not serve God only when we seem to have experienced an answer to our prayer.

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 Because what we are praying for God to bail us out of

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 might even be the means for the fulfilling of our destiny and our blessings.

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 Because God is a sovereign God.

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 And that's what it's called, the providence of God.

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 The ironic providence.

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 You are praying and not happy because you've lost a job.

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 But meanwhile, God is not answering your prayer for the new job

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 because probably he's teaching you how to learn to depend on him

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 without income for a period of time.

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 Paul said, I've learned, Philippians chapter 1, verse 12,

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 how to abase.

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 I feel like preaching, you know.

00:33:04.180 --> 00:33:04.880
 I've learned.

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 So Paul in Philippians was saying,

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 now Philippians, don't forget,

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 Philippians was a letter prison epistle.

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 So he wrote this book when he was in prison.

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 And he wrote it to the church.

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 He said, I've learned how to abase and how to abound.

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 God, that Christ will be magnified in my body,

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 whether by death or by life.

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 Now, that's the definition of a true witness.

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 And so if we are going to be true witnesses of Jesus Christ,

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 then we shouldn't be convenient witnesses.

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 We should be witnesses for real.

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 That's what Acts chapter 29 is about.

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 Acts chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, all through 28

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 was written so that somebody can understand

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 what it means to be a witness.

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 That is why towards the end of Acts,

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 the last seven chapters,

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 we're focused so much about the history of a man

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 who is going for Christ.

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 Not about doctrine, but about a man.

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 So that is why focus was put on Paul,

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 the way he was sold out.

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 Can you imagine chapter 21, I think the verse 11,

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 he said, why are you crying to break my heart?

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 I'm not only ready to suffer for Jesus,

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 but I'm ready to actually die for his name.

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 That's his position.

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 That's 13.

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 I'm ready to die, not only to suffer,

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 but to die for this whole thing.

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 So stop the fact that troubles are ahead of me.

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 It shouldn't break your heart.

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 Because it's not breaking my heart.

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 I want to do it excitedly.

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 That's one.

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 So focus on the life of Paul.

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 But secondly, which is more important,

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 the reason why Paul,

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 but why should Paul pray in prison?

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 Somebody who is so willing to go anywhere,

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 any land to preach the gospel.

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 He was rather kept in prison.

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 And how many Paul can travel to come to him in prison?

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 When he was two years under house arrest.

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 For your information, remember,

00:34:50.779 --> 00:34:52.420
 he was for two years in Caesarea.

00:34:52.980 --> 00:34:53.460
 Okay.

00:34:53.860 --> 00:34:55.799
 In Caesarea, after he was arrested,

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 he was kept in two years in Caesarea.

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 And after Festus died,

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 when he couldn't be acquitted.

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 Okay.

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 After the death of Festus.

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 He said, but after two years,

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 Precious Festus succeeded Felix.

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 And Felix, wanting to do the Jews a favor,

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 left Paul bound.

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 So two years, he was still bound.

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 And then when Festus came, Agrippa came,

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 they listened to him.

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 That's when Paul said, I appeal to Caesar.

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 So he said, then Caesar, you must go.

00:35:19.940 --> 00:35:20.619
 Chapter 23.

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 So Paul ended up on his journey to Caesar.

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 And remember the shipwreck and months and all.

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 So give and take about a year.

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 So two years and about a year.

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 Then another two years in prison.

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 So he was in custody for about five years.

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 He couldn't, he wasn't free to travel.

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 What was he doing around that time?

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 As I told you, he was churning out something

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 that benefited Christians beyond where he was.

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 And not just beyond where he was

00:35:48.180 --> 00:35:50.200
 within that season, but generations.

00:35:50.820 --> 00:35:53.220
 How would we have heard the book of Ephesians?

00:35:54.420 --> 00:35:57.380
 Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon

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 were all written when he was in that two years.

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 Were all written when he was in prison for that two years.

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 And look, how would you even understand

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 understand how Christ should be glorified in the church

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 if you don't go to Ephesians?

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 Ephesians teaches us how Christ should be glorified in the church.

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 Philippians teaches us how we should rejoice

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 even in the face of troubles and suffering.

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 How we should live in Christ and rejoice in Christ.

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 Colossians teaches us how Christ is the excellent one,

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 preeminent one, the supreme one.

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 If you add anything to Christ,

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 you lose everything.

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 Christ plus nothing equals to everything.

00:36:35.700 --> 00:36:38.360
 Christ plus other things equals to nothing.

00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:40.519
 You can find that in Colossians.

00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:41.980
 And Paul was right.

00:36:42.220 --> 00:36:44.500
 He wasn't just defending right sin matters

00:36:44.500 --> 00:36:46.860
 to separate the law from grace.

00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:49.360
 That one was early on in his missions.

00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:50.840
 But when he was in prison,

00:36:51.099 --> 00:36:53.579
 he changed out deep in Philemon.

00:36:53.940 --> 00:36:55.660
 The book of Philemon teaches us

00:36:55.660 --> 00:36:58.880
 how Christ is our supreme intercessor.

00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:01.380
 He's interceding on our behalf.

00:37:01.700 --> 00:37:03.740
 Paul said, I'm interceding on the behalf

00:37:03.740 --> 00:37:06.019
 of the runaway slave Onesimus.

00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:08.280
 Philemon, receive him on my behalf.

00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:09.039
 Receive him.

00:37:09.240 --> 00:37:11.920
 It gives us a beautiful picture about how Christ,

00:37:12.240 --> 00:37:13.539
 even when you became born again,

00:37:13.820 --> 00:37:15.500
 the things that you couldn't do right

00:37:15.500 --> 00:37:16.760
 or you didn't do right,

00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:19.220
 the little sins or big sins

00:37:19.220 --> 00:37:20.680
 and whatever you went wrong

00:37:20.680 --> 00:37:21.960
 after you became born again,

00:37:22.220 --> 00:37:25.220
 still there's an advocate before the presence of God

00:37:25.220 --> 00:37:26.500
 interceding on your behalf.

00:37:26.500 --> 00:37:28.940
 So in 1 John 2, verse 1,

00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:29.599
 it says that,

00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:31.019
 I'm writing this to little children,

00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:32.300
 that you sin not.

00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:35.039
 But if anyone sins,

00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:37.039
 that means Christians can sin.

00:37:38.219 --> 00:37:39.559
 I didn't say Christians should sin.

00:37:40.860 --> 00:37:42.119
 Why can Christians sin?

00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:43.000
 Because they are human beings.

00:37:43.659 --> 00:37:44.579
 Don't be so disappointed

00:37:44.579 --> 00:37:46.539
 because you know you're a Christian and they sinned.

00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:48.219
 And you call yourself a Christian.

00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:49.440
 Leave that for the unbelievers.

00:37:50.219 --> 00:37:51.159
 But we internally,

00:37:51.380 --> 00:37:52.460
 we know that in fact,

00:37:52.460 --> 00:37:55.199
 if everybody in church is very holy and pure,

00:37:55.780 --> 00:37:57.400
 you know that at least you are the exception.

00:38:00.619 --> 00:38:01.360
 Oh, come on.

00:38:01.420 --> 00:38:03.500
 Don't behave like you don't know I'm talking about you.

00:38:05.179 --> 00:38:06.320
 Everybody is good,

00:38:06.579 --> 00:38:07.559
 but you.

00:38:08.900 --> 00:38:09.539
 But you.

00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:11.679
 Girl, you are spoiling the church.

00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:14.780
 Boy, you are spoiling the church.

00:38:14.780 --> 00:38:16.080
 But the good news is,

00:38:16.380 --> 00:38:19.060
 the others are potentially actually also spoiling it.

00:38:20.019 --> 00:38:20.440
 So then,

00:38:20.560 --> 00:38:22.600
 if we are combination and amalgamation,

00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:25.280
 a conglomerate of sinners,

00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:29.300
 we have been saved by grace

00:38:29.300 --> 00:38:31.440
 and still stink at times.

00:38:33.380 --> 00:38:34.600
 That's the mystery behind

00:38:34.600 --> 00:38:36.240
 Lazarus coming out of the tomb.

00:38:37.140 --> 00:38:38.280
 He came, he was alive,

00:38:38.640 --> 00:38:39.900
 but he was bound

00:38:39.900 --> 00:38:41.200
 and still stinks.

00:38:42.200 --> 00:38:42.720
 Alive,

00:38:43.100 --> 00:38:43.980
 but still stinks.

00:38:43.980 --> 00:38:45.699
 That's the revelation behind

00:38:45.699 --> 00:38:46.820
 Samuel Eustace,

00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:48.039
 a peccator.

00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:49.920
 At the same time,

00:38:50.099 --> 00:38:50.380
 just,

00:38:50.740 --> 00:38:52.240
 but not clean enough.

00:38:53.099 --> 00:38:55.219
 We are so just and pure before God

00:38:55.219 --> 00:38:55.840
 as a believer

00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:58.420
 because your righteousness before God

00:38:58.420 --> 00:39:00.740
 is not based on your right behavior,

00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:02.639
 but it's based on his righteousness.

00:39:03.099 --> 00:39:03.900
 Christ's righteousness.

00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:06.240
 That's what gives us an acceptance before God.

00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:08.039
 So we can stand before God

00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:10.300
 even though in ourselves,

00:39:11.059 --> 00:39:11.719
 we still feel,

00:39:11.900 --> 00:39:12.400
 I'm not good.

00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:13.720
 I'm not good,

00:39:13.720 --> 00:39:16.440
 but stand dressed in Israel,

00:39:17.019 --> 00:39:17.720
 righteousness alone,

00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:21.380
 for let's stand before the throne.

00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:22.700
 So he said,

00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:24.280
 I've written these things to you

00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:25.660
 that you sin not.

00:39:26.760 --> 00:39:27.220
 It's there.

00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:28.099
 You see,

00:39:28.460 --> 00:39:29.139
 you sin not.

00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:30.619
 I know you missed that one.

00:39:32.619 --> 00:39:33.860
 Can we all read it out to God?

00:39:33.900 --> 00:39:34.340
 Let's go.

00:39:34.340 --> 00:39:35.980
 I have your children.

00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:38.400
 Please take right back to you

00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:39.840
 that you sin not.

00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:41.700
 And if they do not sin,

00:39:41.920 --> 00:39:43.000
 we are not good.

00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:43.519
 Do you see that?

00:39:43.900 --> 00:39:44.059
 Yeah,

00:39:44.059 --> 00:39:44.280
 Father.

00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:45.780
 Jesus Christ,

00:39:45.860 --> 00:39:46.240
 our righteous.

00:39:46.860 --> 00:39:47.680
 So he says that,

00:39:47.900 --> 00:39:48.440
 first of all,

00:39:48.539 --> 00:39:48.940
 don't sin.

00:39:49.160 --> 00:39:49.539
 Tell somebody,

00:39:49.660 --> 00:39:49.900
 don't.

00:39:50.740 --> 00:39:51.539
 I didn't say,

00:39:51.620 --> 00:39:52.140
 say don't sin.

00:39:52.180 --> 00:39:52.920
 Just say don't.

00:39:55.240 --> 00:39:56.140
 Because you don't know

00:39:56.140 --> 00:39:57.079
 what someone has planned

00:39:57.079 --> 00:39:58.000
 to do after church.

00:39:58.320 --> 00:39:59.100
 Just say don't.

00:39:59.099 --> 00:40:02.500
 Can you preach with me?

00:40:02.579 --> 00:40:03.079
 Look at someone,

00:40:03.199 --> 00:40:03.599
 tell the person,

00:40:03.980 --> 00:40:04.659
 please don't.

00:40:04.940 --> 00:40:06.019
 Please don't.

00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:06.900
 So,

00:40:07.860 --> 00:40:08.460
 I feel like preaching,

00:40:08.539 --> 00:40:08.920
 I feel like preaching,

00:40:09.019 --> 00:40:09.380
 I feel like preaching.

00:40:10.500 --> 00:40:11.199
 He said,

00:40:11.380 --> 00:40:11.819
 he said,

00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:13.299
 I write these things to you

00:40:13.299 --> 00:40:14.099
 that you sin not.

00:40:15.380 --> 00:40:17.619
 Writing is synonymous

00:40:17.619 --> 00:40:18.360
 to preaching.

00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:19.559
 Okay.

00:40:20.219 --> 00:40:21.659
 I preach these things to you

00:40:21.659 --> 00:40:22.639
 so that,

00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:23.480
 say not.

00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:25.059
 Don't say you,

00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:25.519
 say I.

00:40:27.819 --> 00:40:28.539
 We are there,

00:40:28.539 --> 00:40:29.139
 you tell you that now

00:40:29.139 --> 00:40:29.619
 you're telling me

00:40:29.619 --> 00:40:30.159
 I shouldn't say.

00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:31.239
 Talk about yourself.

00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:34.059
 I'm the one preaching to you

00:40:34.059 --> 00:40:35.159
 so you say I sin not.

00:40:36.860 --> 00:40:37.739
 Can we try it again?

00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:39.239
 I preach these things to you

00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:39.840
 so that,

00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:41.279
 I sin not.

00:40:41.460 --> 00:40:42.039
 Tell somebody,

00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:42.460
 don't.

00:40:42.699 --> 00:40:43.039
 No.

00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:45.519
 Alright,

00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:46.519
 because of my time,

00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:47.539
 I have to try.

00:40:48.679 --> 00:40:49.000
 So,

00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:49.960
 so he said,

00:40:50.059 --> 00:40:50.559
 I write these things

00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:51.159
 so that I sin not.

00:40:51.779 --> 00:40:52.139
 However,

00:40:53.619 --> 00:40:53.980
 if,

00:40:54.279 --> 00:40:55.199
 it didn't say when.

00:40:56.840 --> 00:40:57.400
 It cannot be

00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:58.259
 because you are not perfect.

00:40:58.980 --> 00:41:00.599
 If any man,

00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:01.320
 that any man

00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:01.840
 not talking about

00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:02.400
 all human beings,

00:41:02.820 --> 00:41:03.599
 we in the church.

00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:05.500
 If any man sin,

00:41:06.279 --> 00:41:07.900
 we have an advocate,

00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:08.840
 an attorney,

00:41:09.259 --> 00:41:10.420
 someone who stands

00:41:10.420 --> 00:41:11.039
 on our behalf

00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:11.980
 before God.

00:41:12.279 --> 00:41:12.820
 And that is,

00:41:13.139 --> 00:41:14.559
 you see the beauty of it

00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:15.779
 in the book of Philemon.

00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:18.099
 Paul was chaining out

00:41:18.099 --> 00:41:19.679
 so much deep stuff.

00:41:20.219 --> 00:41:20.659
 They are called

00:41:20.659 --> 00:41:21.420
 prison epistles.

00:41:22.279 --> 00:41:23.239
 He chained them out

00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:24.400
 in Ephesians,

00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:25.460
 in Philippians,

00:41:25.460 --> 00:41:26.460
 in Colossians,

00:41:26.800 --> 00:41:27.460
 in Philemon.

00:41:27.820 --> 00:41:28.679
 He was chaining out

00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:29.099
 these things

00:41:29.099 --> 00:41:30.480
 which transcended

00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:31.159
 his days.

00:41:31.860 --> 00:41:33.619
 2,000 years on

00:41:33.619 --> 00:41:34.360
 is still speaking.

00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:35.679
 How would he have

00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:36.099
 been able to?

00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:36.519
 So,

00:41:36.740 --> 00:41:38.099
 God had to separate him

00:41:38.099 --> 00:41:38.920
 from the running around,

00:41:39.619 --> 00:41:40.340
 sat him down

00:41:40.340 --> 00:41:41.360
 so that he can be

00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:42.000
 more beneficial

00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:43.240
 to the body of Christ.

00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:44.719
 somebody who is a witness

00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:45.219
 like this

00:41:45.219 --> 00:41:45.919
 who says,

00:41:46.279 --> 00:41:47.219
 for me to live is Christ,

00:41:47.279 --> 00:41:48.839
 to die is gain.

00:41:49.099 --> 00:41:49.959
 Christ should be magnified

00:41:49.959 --> 00:41:50.439
 in my body,

00:41:50.500 --> 00:41:51.159
 whether by death

00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:51.879
 or by life.

00:41:52.219 --> 00:41:52.579
 God said,

00:41:52.739 --> 00:41:53.259
 we will do it.

00:41:54.739 --> 00:41:54.959
 Now,

00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:55.939
 so,

00:41:56.239 --> 00:41:57.039
 we have underscored

00:41:57.039 --> 00:41:58.039
 why it was Paul

00:41:58.039 --> 00:41:59.699
 and why God also

00:41:59.699 --> 00:42:00.859
 kept Paul in prison.

00:42:01.279 --> 00:42:01.459
 Now,

00:42:01.579 --> 00:42:01.839
 quickly,

00:42:02.459 --> 00:42:03.339
 so what happened to Paul?

00:42:03.779 --> 00:42:04.639
 I know you want to know.

00:42:05.699 --> 00:42:06.379
 According to

00:42:06.379 --> 00:42:07.619
 early church history,

00:42:07.939 --> 00:42:08.879
 Paul was released

00:42:08.879 --> 00:42:09.399
 from prison

00:42:09.399 --> 00:42:11.439
 after two years.

00:42:11.440 --> 00:42:13.360
 He appeared before Nero.

00:42:13.659 --> 00:42:14.920
 Nero was one of the

00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:16.659
 vilest rulers

00:42:16.659 --> 00:42:17.400
 who ever lived.

00:42:17.940 --> 00:42:19.380
 He murdered his own mother

00:42:19.380 --> 00:42:21.340
 and murdered his own wife.

00:42:22.179 --> 00:42:22.480
 Yes,

00:42:22.700 --> 00:42:23.119
 Octavia.

00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:24.519
 He murdered Octavia,

00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:25.039
 his wife.

00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:26.539
 He's a wicked guy.

00:42:27.380 --> 00:42:27.559
 But,

00:42:28.019 --> 00:42:28.700
 Paul appeared,

00:42:28.820 --> 00:42:29.539
 so watch this,

00:42:29.659 --> 00:42:30.400
 this is very interesting.

00:42:30.820 --> 00:42:31.519
 Paul appeared

00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:33.000
 before such a cruel person.

00:42:33.720 --> 00:42:34.559
 And Paul was going,

00:42:34.860 --> 00:42:35.880
 at the time Paul appeared

00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:36.639
 before him,

00:42:37.019 --> 00:42:37.519
 he wasn't,

00:42:37.940 --> 00:42:38.599
 he hadn't gone

00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:39.480
 that extreme.

00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:40.440
 He was beginning

00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:41.240
 to guess Paul's.

00:42:41.900 --> 00:42:42.059
 So,

00:42:42.420 --> 00:42:43.000
 potentially,

00:42:43.300 --> 00:42:44.539
 God sent Paul

00:42:44.539 --> 00:42:46.039
 to go and save that man.

00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:48.159
 Historians believe,

00:42:48.220 --> 00:42:49.079
 and church history believe,

00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:50.200
 that he became,

00:42:51.059 --> 00:42:52.440
 he went far off

00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:53.700
 after Paul.

00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:55.500
 Because he had a message.

00:42:56.420 --> 00:42:57.039
 Paul would have preached

00:42:57.039 --> 00:42:57.740
 a message to him.

00:42:58.000 --> 00:42:59.019
 And he blocked his heart.

00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:00.179
 So God gave him up.

00:43:00.539 --> 00:43:01.260
 That's when he became

00:43:01.260 --> 00:43:01.840
 so vile.

00:43:01.960 --> 00:43:02.800
 He went far.

00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:04.720
 He was around 25 years old.

00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:06.099
 But afterwards,

00:43:06.340 --> 00:43:06.559
 he went,

00:43:06.720 --> 00:43:07.940
 Nero was a very wicked king.

00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:08.980
 In July,

00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:11.000
 AD 64,

00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:12.760
 he burned the whole room down.

00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:13.460
 Rome,

00:43:13.539 --> 00:43:14.420
 as I told you last week,

00:43:14.699 --> 00:43:15.519
 Rome had a population,

00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:16.599
 most of those cities

00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:17.219
 in those days

00:43:17.219 --> 00:43:18.099
 had a population

00:43:18.099 --> 00:43:19.659
 of about 10,000 people.

00:43:20.059 --> 00:43:20.639
 Rome had about

00:43:20.639 --> 00:43:21.360
 2 million people.

00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:23.199
 And out of the 2 million,

00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:25.119
 only few were rich.

00:43:25.739 --> 00:43:26.679
 More than half

00:43:26.679 --> 00:43:27.780
 were slaves.

00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:29.639
 And out of the half

00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:30.280
 were not slaves,

00:43:30.380 --> 00:43:30.940
 few were rich,

00:43:30.940 --> 00:43:31.840
 and then majority

00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:32.840
 of those who were not rich

00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:33.820
 were struggling,

00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:34.719
 even some of them,

00:43:34.780 --> 00:43:35.340
 to have a house

00:43:35.340 --> 00:43:35.840
 to stay in.

00:43:36.300 --> 00:43:37.059
 They were no slaves,

00:43:37.059 --> 00:43:38.299
 but life was hard.

00:43:38.799 --> 00:43:39.360
 By the time

00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:40.179
 Paul got to Rome,

00:43:40.460 --> 00:43:41.079
 Rome was beginning

00:43:41.079 --> 00:43:41.659
 to decline.

00:43:42.420 --> 00:43:43.599
 And God sent him

00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:45.239
 to the imperial capital

00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:46.619
 to preach the gospel there

00:43:46.619 --> 00:43:47.559
 because Rome

00:43:47.559 --> 00:43:48.679
 was in decline.

00:43:49.739 --> 00:43:50.079
 That's right.

00:43:50.259 --> 00:43:51.400
 So Paul didn't see Rome

00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:52.860
 in the best of his glory.

00:43:53.139 --> 00:43:54.299
 He got there in time

00:43:54.299 --> 00:43:55.259
 before everything

00:43:55.259 --> 00:43:56.659
 went haywire.

00:43:57.279 --> 00:43:57.779
 Paul appeared

00:43:57.779 --> 00:43:58.880
 before Nero.

00:43:59.199 --> 00:43:59.719
 But Nero

00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:00.759
 acquitted him

00:44:00.759 --> 00:44:01.940
 and released him.

00:44:02.279 --> 00:44:03.039
 How do you know?

00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:04.880
 He wrote to Philemon,

00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:06.140
 Philemon 22.

00:44:06.380 --> 00:44:07.119
 He told Philemon,

00:44:07.380 --> 00:44:08.460
 prepare a lodging for me

00:44:08.460 --> 00:44:09.140
 so when I'm released

00:44:09.140 --> 00:44:09.860
 I can come to you.

00:44:10.260 --> 00:44:10.840
 He knew he was going

00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:11.240
 to be released.

00:44:11.700 --> 00:44:12.519
 But meanwhile,

00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:14.539
 also prepare a guest room

00:44:14.539 --> 00:44:14.960
 for me,

00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:16.599
 for I trust that

00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:17.900
 through your prayers

00:44:17.900 --> 00:44:18.740
 I shall be granted

00:44:18.740 --> 00:44:19.380
 to you.

00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:19.840
 I'll be released.

00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:20.340
 That's what it means.

00:44:20.640 --> 00:44:21.519
 Philippians chapter 1

00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:22.559
 verse 25

00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:23.820
 and Philippians chapter 2

00:44:23.820 --> 00:44:24.599
 verse 24

00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:25.900
 all were indicating

00:44:25.900 --> 00:44:26.820
 that Paul

00:44:26.820 --> 00:44:27.860
 was going to be released

00:44:27.860 --> 00:44:29.340
 and he was actually released.

00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:30.880
 Because in Romans

00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:31.740
 chapter 15

00:44:31.740 --> 00:44:32.820
 verse 24,

00:44:33.200 --> 00:44:33.860
 Paul said that

00:44:33.860 --> 00:44:34.820
 I want to go to Rome

00:44:34.820 --> 00:44:35.900
 and go to Spain.

00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:36.780
 He says that

00:44:36.780 --> 00:44:37.700
 whenever I journey

00:44:37.700 --> 00:44:38.320
 to Spain

00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:39.539
 I shall come to you.

00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:40.840
 So Paul was planning

00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:41.580
 to go to Spain

00:44:41.580 --> 00:44:43.260
 for I hope to see you.

00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:43.680
 This is,

00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:44.740
 he was writing to the Romans

00:44:44.740 --> 00:44:45.880
 before he ended up in Rome.

00:44:46.380 --> 00:44:47.600
 So he always wanted

00:44:47.600 --> 00:44:48.400
 to go to Spain.

00:44:48.680 --> 00:44:49.740
 So this is now

00:44:49.740 --> 00:44:51.320
 extra biblical information.

00:44:51.740 --> 00:44:52.840
 Early church fathers

00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:54.600
 or early church history

00:44:54.600 --> 00:44:56.019
 shows that

00:44:56.019 --> 00:44:57.300
 Paul when he was released

00:44:57.300 --> 00:44:58.400
 he went to Spain

00:44:58.400 --> 00:44:59.900
 and then he went to Crete.

00:45:00.220 --> 00:45:01.740
 Because in Titus chapter 1

00:45:01.740 --> 00:45:02.380
 I think verse 3

00:45:02.380 --> 00:45:03.960
 he wrote to Titus

00:45:03.960 --> 00:45:05.099
 and said I left you

00:45:05.099 --> 00:45:06.400
 in Crete for this reason.

00:45:07.019 --> 00:45:07.679
 But when you look

00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:08.679
 at his missionary journey

00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:09.920
 he never went to Crete.

00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:11.320
 So at what point

00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:12.300
 in that did he go to Crete?

00:45:12.679 --> 00:45:13.579
 He went to Crete

00:45:13.579 --> 00:45:15.240
 after his first release.

00:45:15.740 --> 00:45:16.460
 When he was released

00:45:16.460 --> 00:45:17.139
 he went to Crete.

00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:18.159
 He went to Ephesus

00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:19.699
 so he can see Timothy.

00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:21.039
 Went to spend time

00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:21.659
 with Timothy.

00:45:21.980 --> 00:45:22.780
 So he was in Crete.

00:45:23.139 --> 00:45:24.360
 He was in Spain.

00:45:24.599 --> 00:45:25.260
 He was in Crete.

00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:26.260
 He was in Ephesus.

00:45:26.539 --> 00:45:27.619
 He was in Philippi.

00:45:28.659 --> 00:45:29.440
 That's why he said

00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:30.579
 he knew he was coming to them.

00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:31.460
 He said when I will

00:45:31.460 --> 00:45:32.300
 I will see your face

00:45:32.300 --> 00:45:32.980
 very shortly.

00:45:33.139 --> 00:45:34.440
 He said Philippians chapter 1

00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:35.079
 verse 25.

00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:36.199
 He said and being confident

00:45:36.199 --> 00:45:37.179
 of this that I know

00:45:37.179 --> 00:45:38.460
 that I shall remain

00:45:38.460 --> 00:45:39.679
 and continue with you

00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:41.000
 all for your progress.

00:45:41.039 --> 00:45:41.860
 He said if I die

00:45:41.860 --> 00:45:42.199
 it's better

00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:43.240
 but I know I'm staying.

00:45:44.019 --> 00:45:44.960
 Look at chapter 2

00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:45.480
 verse 24.

00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:46.780
 Philippians 2 24.

00:45:47.639 --> 00:45:48.599
 But I trust the Lord

00:45:48.599 --> 00:45:49.460
 that I myself

00:45:49.460 --> 00:45:51.639
 shall also come shortly.

00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:52.740
 So he was

00:45:52.740 --> 00:45:53.619
 and he did

00:45:53.619 --> 00:45:55.220
 according to church historians.

00:45:55.559 --> 00:45:56.860
 So he went to Philippi.

00:45:56.860 --> 00:45:57.800
 He went to Crete.

00:45:57.920 --> 00:45:58.539
 He went to Spain.

00:45:58.880 --> 00:45:59.900
 And then he went to Ephesus.

00:46:00.219 --> 00:46:00.739
 Then finally

00:46:00.739 --> 00:46:02.119
 it's believed that he was

00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:03.960
 arrested again in Troas.

00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:04.739
 Why?

00:46:04.900 --> 00:46:05.779
 Now watch this.

00:46:05.900 --> 00:46:06.539
 This is very important.

00:46:06.659 --> 00:46:07.019
 This is just

00:46:07.019 --> 00:46:08.259
 extra biblical information.

00:46:08.779 --> 00:46:09.639
 Nero was so wicked.

00:46:10.219 --> 00:46:13.380
 In July 64 AD.

00:46:13.559 --> 00:46:13.960
 In July.

00:46:14.659 --> 00:46:15.500
 He felt like Rome

00:46:15.500 --> 00:46:16.199
 was too crowded.

00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:18.059
 He wanted a new city.

00:46:18.539 --> 00:46:19.719
 So he burnt down

00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:20.000
 the city.

00:46:20.259 --> 00:46:21.259
 He burnt.

00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:22.000
 It was wilder

00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:22.679
 than the great fires

00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:23.079
 of London.

00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:24.659
 He burnt down.

00:46:24.739 --> 00:46:25.199
 It's in history.

00:46:25.380 --> 00:46:26.719
 Just chat GPT

00:46:26.719 --> 00:46:27.340
 you'll find out later.

00:46:27.340 --> 00:46:28.519
 He burnt down

00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:29.180
 the whole city.

00:46:29.900 --> 00:46:30.559
 And then when people

00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:31.820
 were upset with him

00:46:31.820 --> 00:46:32.980
 he says not me.

00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:33.920
 It's the Christians.

00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:35.760
 So he made the Christians

00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:36.440
 scapegoat.

00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:38.100
 That these are the ones.

00:46:38.260 --> 00:46:40.240
 So he turned public mood

00:46:40.240 --> 00:46:41.380
 against the Christians.

00:46:42.200 --> 00:46:43.200
 The innocent Christians.

00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:43.660
 He said that.

00:46:43.820 --> 00:46:44.600
 So that's when

00:46:44.600 --> 00:46:46.300
 the greatest persecution

00:46:46.300 --> 00:46:46.800
 happened.

00:46:47.380 --> 00:46:48.579
 And they persecuted

00:46:48.579 --> 00:46:49.180
 the Christians.

00:46:49.380 --> 00:46:49.840
 Tortured them.

00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:50.300
 Some of them.

00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:50.800
 He used them.

00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:52.420
 He poured coal on them.

00:46:52.680 --> 00:46:54.260
 And he put them on trees.

00:46:54.260 --> 00:46:55.040
 And he used them

00:46:55.040 --> 00:46:56.660
 as torch lights

00:46:56.660 --> 00:46:57.980
 for his guarding parties.

00:46:58.380 --> 00:46:59.900
 He was so wicked.

00:47:00.380 --> 00:47:01.680
 So it was around that time.

00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:02.440
 So Paul.

00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:03.600
 Historians believe

00:47:03.600 --> 00:47:04.500
 he was released

00:47:04.500 --> 00:47:06.680
 in around 62 to 63 AD.

00:47:07.260 --> 00:47:07.880
 He was released

00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:09.000
 around that time.

00:47:09.220 --> 00:47:09.420
 All right.

00:47:09.760 --> 00:47:10.260
 And then

00:47:10.260 --> 00:47:12.000
 he was re-arrested.

00:47:12.100 --> 00:47:12.640
 Re-captured

00:47:12.640 --> 00:47:14.260
 about three to five years

00:47:14.260 --> 00:47:14.580
 later.

00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:15.260
 In trials.

00:47:15.560 --> 00:47:15.980
 Why was he?

00:47:16.100 --> 00:47:17.200
 Because now persecution

00:47:17.200 --> 00:47:17.500
 started.

00:47:17.740 --> 00:47:18.220
 They were killing

00:47:18.220 --> 00:47:18.740
 the Christians.

00:47:19.420 --> 00:47:21.020
 And so Paul was re-arrested.

00:47:21.019 --> 00:47:22.239
 And that's when

00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:23.360
 he wrote 2 Timothy.

00:47:23.940 --> 00:47:25.119
 So in 2 Timothy

00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:25.980
 if you want to know

00:47:25.980 --> 00:47:27.019
 what happened to Paul

00:47:27.019 --> 00:47:27.880
 you can't finish

00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:28.920
 by looking at 2 Timothy.

00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:30.880
 Paul's life really

00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:32.800
 2 Timothy chapter 4

00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:33.440
 verse 6.

00:47:33.639 --> 00:47:33.940
 He said

00:47:33.940 --> 00:47:35.079
 now my departure has come.

00:47:36.380 --> 00:47:36.619
 He said

00:47:36.619 --> 00:47:38.139
 it says that

00:47:38.139 --> 00:47:38.940
 can we all read

00:47:38.940 --> 00:47:39.639
 the hour from the screen?

00:47:39.699 --> 00:47:40.039
 Is that okay?

00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:41.860
 Let's all read the hour.

00:47:41.900 --> 00:47:42.340
 Let's go.

00:47:42.340 --> 00:47:43.860
 For I am already

00:47:43.860 --> 00:47:44.980
 being poured out

00:47:44.980 --> 00:47:46.259
 as a dream of a dream

00:47:46.259 --> 00:47:47.280
 and the time

00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:48.119
 of my departure

00:47:48.119 --> 00:47:48.840
 has happened.

00:47:49.019 --> 00:47:49.820
 I'm already

00:47:49.820 --> 00:47:50.739
 being poured out.

00:47:50.739 --> 00:47:51.639
 He used two

00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:52.599
 analogies

00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:54.559
 or metaphor

00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:55.779
 figures of speech

00:47:55.779 --> 00:47:57.019
 to express

00:47:57.019 --> 00:47:58.039
 his condition.

00:47:58.339 --> 00:47:58.599
 He said

00:47:58.599 --> 00:47:59.279
 I'm being poured

00:47:59.279 --> 00:48:00.019
 as a dream offering.

00:48:00.319 --> 00:48:00.919
 Making reference

00:48:00.919 --> 00:48:01.699
 to the Old Testament.

00:48:02.399 --> 00:48:03.219
 Because why would

00:48:03.219 --> 00:48:04.019
 Paul be an offering?

00:48:04.699 --> 00:48:05.659
 Christ's offering

00:48:05.659 --> 00:48:06.459
 has satisfied God.

00:48:06.519 --> 00:48:07.219
 So why would he say

00:48:07.219 --> 00:48:08.019
 me too am an offering?

00:48:08.399 --> 00:48:08.559
 No.

00:48:09.179 --> 00:48:09.839
 Those days

00:48:09.839 --> 00:48:11.139
 when you sacrifice

00:48:11.139 --> 00:48:12.199
 whatever offering

00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:12.959
 peace offering

00:48:12.959 --> 00:48:14.139
 grain offering

00:48:14.139 --> 00:48:15.419
 sin offering

00:48:15.419 --> 00:48:16.659
 then they have

00:48:16.659 --> 00:48:17.739
 the blood

00:48:17.739 --> 00:48:18.699
 will also be poured

00:48:18.699 --> 00:48:19.919
 as an oblation

00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:21.539
 on the sacrifice.

00:48:22.260 --> 00:48:23.139
 But what happens

00:48:23.139 --> 00:48:23.500
 is that sometimes

00:48:23.500 --> 00:48:24.059
 when you burn

00:48:24.059 --> 00:48:24.579
 the animal

00:48:24.579 --> 00:48:25.340
 there will be

00:48:25.340 --> 00:48:26.180
 some pieces left.

00:48:26.680 --> 00:48:27.300
 But as for the drink

00:48:27.300 --> 00:48:28.159
 nothing gets left.

00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:29.760
 That's interesting.

00:48:30.139 --> 00:48:30.720
 And so Christ

00:48:30.720 --> 00:48:31.539
 is our actual

00:48:31.539 --> 00:48:31.860
 action.

00:48:31.980 --> 00:48:32.599
 This is important.

00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:33.680
 Christ is our

00:48:33.680 --> 00:48:34.740
 actual offering

00:48:34.740 --> 00:48:35.380
 before God.

00:48:36.380 --> 00:48:37.320
 But Romans

00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:37.920
 chapter 12

00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:38.200
 he said

00:48:38.200 --> 00:48:39.159
 present yourself

00:48:39.159 --> 00:48:40.440
 as a living sacrifice.

00:48:40.740 --> 00:48:41.380
 So what sacrifice

00:48:41.380 --> 00:48:41.760
 again?

00:48:42.300 --> 00:48:43.119
 Our lives

00:48:43.119 --> 00:48:43.820
 our witness

00:48:43.820 --> 00:48:44.400
 in Christ

00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:45.059
 makes us

00:48:45.059 --> 00:48:45.799
 the drink offering

00:48:45.799 --> 00:48:46.940
 upon his sacrifice.

00:48:48.719 --> 00:48:49.599
 Our lives

00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:50.320
 our witness

00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:51.759
 when I say witness

00:48:51.759 --> 00:48:52.000
 you know

00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:52.559
 I'm not talking

00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:53.099
 I'm just talking

00:48:53.099 --> 00:48:53.840
 your life

00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:54.759
 as a witness

00:48:54.759 --> 00:48:55.559
 is like

00:48:55.559 --> 00:48:56.579
 becomes a drink offering.

00:48:56.820 --> 00:48:57.619
 Philippians chapter 2

00:48:57.619 --> 00:48:58.519
 verse 17

00:48:58.519 --> 00:48:59.159
 look at how

00:48:59.159 --> 00:48:59.699
 Paul puts it.

00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:00.980
 Philippians chapter 2

00:49:00.980 --> 00:49:01.360
 verse 17

00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:01.779
 he says that

00:49:01.779 --> 00:49:02.119
 yes

00:49:02.119 --> 00:49:02.920
 and if

00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:04.039
 I am being

00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:05.099
 poured out

00:49:05.099 --> 00:49:06.500
 as a drink offering

00:49:06.500 --> 00:49:07.599
 on the sacrifice

00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:08.239
 and the service

00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:09.159
 of your faith.

00:49:10.279 --> 00:49:10.579
 So

00:49:10.579 --> 00:49:11.880
 my life

00:49:11.880 --> 00:49:12.559
 being poured out

00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:12.980
 is actually

00:49:12.980 --> 00:49:13.739
 building your faith.

00:49:13.739 --> 00:49:15.539
 is actually

00:49:15.539 --> 00:49:16.479
 making you do well.

00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:17.459
 Is actually

00:49:17.459 --> 00:49:18.219
 strengthening you.

00:49:18.739 --> 00:49:19.559
 And I don't mind

00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:21.079
 living as a sacrifice

00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:22.139
 and my life

00:49:22.139 --> 00:49:24.099
 be poured out.

00:49:25.799 --> 00:49:26.659
 And that's how

00:49:26.659 --> 00:49:27.159
 every Christian

00:49:27.159 --> 00:49:27.539
 should live.

00:49:27.879 --> 00:49:28.519
 Acts 29

00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:29.299
 that's where you are.

00:49:30.500 --> 00:49:31.219
 Our life should be

00:49:31.219 --> 00:49:32.399
 when you do something

00:49:32.399 --> 00:49:33.099
 little for the church

00:49:33.099 --> 00:49:33.919
 we have to stop

00:49:33.919 --> 00:49:35.019
 the pastor must announce

00:49:35.019 --> 00:49:36.859
 the pastor must announce

00:49:36.859 --> 00:49:37.500
 because you have done

00:49:37.500 --> 00:49:38.319
 something for the church.

00:49:38.839 --> 00:49:39.899
 Every little thing

00:49:39.899 --> 00:49:40.459
 you have to

00:49:40.459 --> 00:49:41.599
 people are looking

00:49:41.599 --> 00:49:42.459
 for ways

00:49:42.459 --> 00:49:43.659
 to look glorified

00:49:43.659 --> 00:49:44.279
 in church.

00:49:44.819 --> 00:49:45.739
 It's a wrong place

00:49:45.739 --> 00:49:46.440
 to look glorified

00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:48.839
 because there's only one

00:49:48.839 --> 00:49:49.879
 who should look glorified.

00:49:50.379 --> 00:49:51.279
 That's Christ.

00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:52.079
 Christ.

00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:52.699
 Christ.

00:49:52.940 --> 00:49:53.899
 Colossians chapter 1

00:49:53.899 --> 00:49:54.599
 it says that

00:49:54.599 --> 00:49:55.539
 that he might

00:49:55.539 --> 00:49:56.699
 have preeminence

00:49:56.699 --> 00:49:58.299
 1 17 and 18.

00:49:58.639 --> 00:49:59.379
 He is the firstborn

00:49:59.379 --> 00:50:00.339
 amongst many

00:50:00.339 --> 00:50:01.500
 that in the church

00:50:01.500 --> 00:50:02.139
 he might

00:50:02.139 --> 00:50:03.879
 and he is the head

00:50:03.879 --> 00:50:04.719
 of the body

00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:06.219
 which is the church

00:50:06.219 --> 00:50:06.819
 who is

00:50:06.819 --> 00:50:07.639
 the beginning

00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:08.579
 the firstborn

00:50:08.579 --> 00:50:09.099
 from the dead

00:50:09.099 --> 00:50:09.619
 that

00:50:09.619 --> 00:50:11.699
 in all things

00:50:11.699 --> 00:50:12.539
 all things

00:50:12.539 --> 00:50:13.159
 Christ

00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:14.339
 may have

00:50:14.339 --> 00:50:15.239
 he's the one

00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:15.659
 who should be

00:50:15.659 --> 00:50:16.639
 preeminent one

00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:18.859
 preeminent one

00:50:18.859 --> 00:50:20.119
 he's preeminence

00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:21.339
 hallelujah

00:50:21.339 --> 00:50:22.460
 and so

00:50:22.460 --> 00:50:23.839
 so Paul

00:50:23.839 --> 00:50:24.799
 was a drink

00:50:24.799 --> 00:50:25.259
 offering

00:50:25.259 --> 00:50:26.079
 he said that

00:50:26.079 --> 00:50:27.079
 my life is being poured

00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:28.559
 out as a drink offering

00:50:28.559 --> 00:50:29.480
 and then secondly

00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:30.939
 not just a drink offering

00:50:30.939 --> 00:50:31.739
 and then he said

00:50:31.739 --> 00:50:32.019
 that

00:50:32.019 --> 00:50:32.980
 phraseology

00:50:32.980 --> 00:50:34.039
 to depict

00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:34.659
 his death

00:50:34.659 --> 00:50:35.419
 he said

00:50:35.419 --> 00:50:36.139
 the time of

00:50:36.139 --> 00:50:36.859
 my departure

00:50:36.859 --> 00:50:37.579
 has come

00:50:37.579 --> 00:50:40.259
 his departure

00:50:40.259 --> 00:50:41.259
 was not immediate

00:50:41.259 --> 00:50:42.779
 but it was imminent

00:50:42.779 --> 00:50:45.340
 it was imminent

00:50:45.340 --> 00:50:46.039
 from the text

00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:47.239
 the time has come

00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:48.599
 because if it was immediate

00:50:48.599 --> 00:50:49.319
 he wouldn't have

00:50:49.319 --> 00:50:50.239
 asked the same text

00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:50.860
 he wouldn't have

00:50:50.860 --> 00:50:51.759
 asked him

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 to bring the cloak

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 in the verse 13

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 he wouldn't have

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 asked to send

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 John Mark

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 for his profitable

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 to me

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 he wouldn't have

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 asked to bring

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 the parchment

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 and the cloak

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 in the verse

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 I think 20

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 21

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 he says that

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 come before winter

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 so he knew

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 that he's not dying

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 immediately

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 but the time has come

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 it does

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 he never got

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 released again

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 and he was beheaded

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 by Nero

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 Nero got him beheaded

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 then Nero finished him

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 watch this

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 why

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 Peter was crucified

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 they were going

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 to crucify him

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 he said

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 no I'm not worthy

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 to die like my

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 this is not in the Bible

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 extra biblical information

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 I'm not worthy

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 to die like my master

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 so crucify me

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 my master died like this

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 crucify me upside down

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 so Peter

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 according to church history

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 Peter was crucified

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 upside down

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 why was Paul not crucified

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 because he was Roman citizen

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 it's against Roman law

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 to crucify Roman citizen

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 it's only people

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 who are known Romans

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 who are crucified

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 Roman citizen

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 capital punishment

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 is beheaded

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 they chop off his head

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 and he was

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 he was happy

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 to live for Jesus

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 because he has finished

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 his job

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 so in

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 look at the text again

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 2 Timothy

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 I'm finishing on this

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 can you imagine

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 I'm finishing Acts

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 on 2 Timothy

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 2 Timothy

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 chapter 4

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 verse 6

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 and 7

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 he said

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 let's already

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 I like it when we already

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 loudly

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 it's okay

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 so I can finish quickly

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 let's go I'm done

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 as a drink of

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 and the time

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 of my departure

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 is at hand

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 let's go

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 I have fought

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 a good fight

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 I have finished the race

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 I have kept the faith

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 hallelujah

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 don't let any truth

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 happen in your life

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 that will make you

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 not keep the faith

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 nothing should happen

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 in your life

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 if you are a true witness

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 if you live in Acts 29

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 you don't lose the faith

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 because something

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 happened to you

00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:47.539
 you don't lose the faith

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 you keep the faith

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 you run your race

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 you stay focused

00:52:50.879 --> 00:52:51.599
 and keep doing

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 what you know

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 you got to do

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 and not just that

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 you fight

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 a good fight

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 listen

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 being a Christian

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 is a fight

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 we are not only

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 called to believe

00:53:02.260 --> 00:53:02.960
 in the gospel

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 we are called

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 also to

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 preach the gospel

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 not only to preach

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 we are also called

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 to fight

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 content for the faith

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 he said

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 I fought a good fight

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 of faith

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 he fought for the faith

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 fight for the faith

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 of your family

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 fight for the faith

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 of your marriage

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 now in your house

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 don't say anyway

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 it doesn't matter

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 what the Bible

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 is saying

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 I'm tired

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 no

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 fight to keep

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 the faith

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 fight

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 it's a fight

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 fight

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 to keep your purity

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 that's a serious fight

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 isn't it

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 all of us

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 all of us

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 yeah it's true

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 it's life and death

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 because some of us

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 you are sitting here

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 you are worried

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 about your lifestyle

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 sometimes your lifestyle

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 makes it look like

00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:52.460
 you are not a Christian

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 thank God

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 you are not saved

00:53:55.340 --> 00:53:56.059
 by your lifestyle

00:53:56.059 --> 00:53:58.860
 many people have been

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 preaching about

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 your lifestyle

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 your lifestyle

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 Paul never focuses

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 on your lifestyle

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 he focuses on

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 your death style

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 he said

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 I'm being poured out

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 my life is gone for him

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 when you focus

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 on your death style

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 it will help you live

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 a glorious lifestyle

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 I've fought a good fight

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 I've kept

00:54:22.340 --> 00:54:23.000
 I've finished

00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:23.780
 my race

00:54:23.780 --> 00:54:24.860
 I've kept

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 the faith

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 therefore there's

00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:27.780
 laid out for me

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 a crown

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 that crown has

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 his name on it

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 a crown

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 of righteousness

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 which the Lord

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 the righteous

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 will give

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 to me

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 on that day

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 I taught you

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 that Paul had

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 only two days

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 on his calendar

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 today

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 and that day

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 only two days

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 on that day

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 and not only me alone

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 others like you and I

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 those who live

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 in Acts 29

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 who continue

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 acts

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 will also be given

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 a crown of glory

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 did you receive

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 something today?

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 let's give Jesus praise

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 Hallelujah

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 We're so glad

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 you joined us

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 for this message

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 by David H.E.

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