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A Prayer for VZ County & "A Simple Presentation into The Book of ACTS" - Chapter 15, Part 1(b) - Bro. John "Ernie" Perez

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WEBVTT 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:22.000 Thank you so much for joining me on the journey today. 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:40.399 Hey, welcome to Simple Discipleship Unfiltered. 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:41.679 I'm your host, Sister Diana. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:44.640 So good to have y'all joining us today. 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:46.560 We have everybody around the table. 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:59.119 We had just finished up with a simple presentation of the Book of Acts on chapter 15, part one, and we're going to label that 15.1A, and we're going into chapter 151B. 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:01.520 And so we've got everybody around the table. 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:03.039 We're not going to do introductions. 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:05.040 We're just going to start right into the lesson. 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:06.560 We're going to start the video. 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:08.799 Brother Edico, right ahead. 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:09.519 All right. 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:11.840 So we're going to continue. 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:34.400 There was this convocation, for lack of a better word, in Acts 15, where the brethren from Antioch went to Jerusalem to consult with the apostles and elders about this question of these Pharisees who had become brothers, wanting all the Gentiles who had come into the faith to keep the law of Moses. 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:39.760 And Peter had gone and testified about what God did through him. 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:53.920 And I want you to see as you read through this that Peter did not rely upon his own doctrinal understanding to make his point. 00:01:54.959 --> 00:02:04.079 Instead, he relied upon the experience he had with God, which can be, as you read through the scripture, verified doctrinally. 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:08.080 But he put forth this is what God did. 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:11.520 And all of you know this testimony. 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:13.599 You know it. 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:17.759 So if we're here to discuss this issue, we got to consider that. 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:21.120 So we're going to read verses 12 through 18 now. 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:38.479 Then all the multitude kept silence and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them. 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:47.599 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me. 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:59.039 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name. 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:05.439 And to this agree the words of the prophet, as it is written. 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:29.680 After this I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down, and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up, that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things? 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:37.120 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:38.000 All right. 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:42.879 So Peter's comments had silenced the whole multitude. 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:46.400 Everybody in the room was quiet. 00:03:47.360 --> 00:04:00.639 And when he got through talking about what happened when he was in Joppa and the people came from Cornelius' house, and everything unfolded, and all those people were baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:02.159 He gets, you know, this. 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:03.680 This is my testimony. 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:05.199 You've all heard about it. 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:15.759 He provided the perfect introduction or segue for Paul and Barnabas to give a report of all their work for the Lord. 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:23.680 This report included all the miracles God did through their ministries. 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:25.680 Look again at verse 12. 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:33.839 All the multitude kept silence and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders. 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:37.839 So there wasn't just one or two. 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:41.680 But we have the key ones. 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:46.879 We have the most visible ones, the most prominent ones, but we don't have them all. 00:04:47.040 --> 00:05:02.399 Just like you know, when John wrote about Jesus, if everything that Jesus began both to do and teach had been written down, now all the books in all the world could hold everything that he had done. 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:07.839 So these brethren were walking in the success of Jesus Christ. 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:20.800 This report included all the miracles God did through their ministries, including a very great success, soul-winning success among the Gentiles. 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:23.920 It went beyond the synagogue. 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:33.519 So it went beyond the proselytes, who were Gentiles that became Jews according to the law of Moses, into strictly Gentiles also. 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:48.639 So after Paul and Barnabas finished their reports of church planting and church growth, James, the pastor of the church at Jerusalem, begins to speak. 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:57.120 Scholars believe this James is the brother of the Lord Jesus and the pastor of the church in Jerusalem. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:07.199 Notice how he takes authority over all the apostles and elders and ministries represented in this gathering. 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:13.199 If the Holy Ghost didn't give him that authority, why did everybody be quiet? 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:19.759 We don't read about a sergeant of arms, we don't read about Robert's rules of order. 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:30.879 But James, when he spoke, evidently they were coming to one mind and one accord, and they understood. 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:39.920 Oh, the Spirit of God is speaking to us, and they quieted down, and they were receiving what he had to say.
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00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:48.000 So we see how James takes authority over all the apostles, elders, and ministries represented in the gathering. 00:06:48.160 --> 00:07:03.040 Remember, I said, you cannot be an apostle, you cannot be a prophet, you cannot be a pastor, you cannot be an evangelist, you cannot be any of these things if you are not first a servant. 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:14.959 If you cannot recognize God's authority working through the church, how are you going to exercise apostolic authority? 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:21.759 And you'll read in the book of Revelation about people who said they were apostles and were not. 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:29.279 Just because a person says, I'm a prophet, I'm an apostle, doesn't make it so. 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:46.800 Now, James took authority over all the apostles and the elders and the ministries there, and he reminds everyone of the work that God did through Simeon, or that is, Simon Peter, the apostle Peter, among the Gentiles. 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:50.879 He is saying, You just heard what Peter said. 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:53.759 This is known among us. 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:56.240 Everybody knows about this incident. 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:58.079 You've heard that. 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:04.399 And he declares this work among the Gentiles was prophesied. 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:11.759 And it's so that all the glory will go to the name of Jesus. 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:23.600 And he chooses one prophecy in particular from the book of Amos, chapter 9, verses 11 and 12. 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:24.639 Do you have that, mama? 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:25.360 Yes. 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:26.079 You do. 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:27.360 Read it, beautiful. 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:52.799 In that day will I rise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof, and I will raise up the ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old, that they may possess the remnant of Edom and of all the heathen that are called by my name, saith the Lord, that doth this. 00:08:53.440 --> 00:09:03.759 So the Edomites and all the other remnants of the world, Gentiles, are going to come to a place where they give God glory. 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:14.480 And he says that this prophecy about the tabernacle of David being rebuilt is fulfilled in how the church is coming together. 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:30.000 So it wasn't a literal tent that was being put up, but it was the spirit of worship and unity that was at the tabernacle of David was happening again in the church of the living God. 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:34.320 He declares by the Holy Ghost, this is that prophecy being fulfilled. 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:46.639 It's done by Peter in Acts chapter 2, pointing to things that David said in the Psalms, pointing to Joel, saying these prophecies are being fulfilled now. 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:50.720 James is doing that again, but he's citing Amos. 00:09:51.120 --> 00:10:05.600 So then James declares that since both Jews and Gentiles recognize Jesus as Lord and Savior, in that God is rebuilding Davidic worship in the church. 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:14.559 In the tabernacle, or that is the tent of David that he built for the Ark of the Covenant, the presence of God was visible to all. 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:16.799 Now listen to me. 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:29.600 In Moses' tabernacle and in Solomon's temple, the presence of God was only visible in the Holy of Holies to the high priest who went in there. 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:32.480 They saw the Shekinah glory once a year. 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:38.720 Now, traveling through the wilderness, they did see God as a pillar of cloud by day and as a pillar of fire by night. 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:46.879 But that special manifestation that happened in the Holy of Holies, only the high priest got to witness. 00:10:47.120 --> 00:11:03.759 But when David goes and gets the Ark of the Covenant and brings it back from the home of Obed-Edom and builds a tent for it in Jerusalem, it's left open where everybody can see it, and he organizes worship. 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:07.279 24-hour worship. 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.279 Seven days a week worship. 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:16.240 And the church has a hard time getting there on Sunday and Wednesday. 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:20.320 Lord help us. 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:34.639 I'm there. 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:36.799 And verse 17, go ahead. 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:40.320 Okay. 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:50.480 So they brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:56.480 Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:03.039 Tabernacle is tent. 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:03.759 Right. 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:05.200 Okay. 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:15.360 So for further reference on the worship that David established, you should have already read 1 Chronicles 15 and 16. 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:22.559 See, there were people who offered wave offerings, there were people who played instruments, there were people who danced. 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:30.960 There was specific joyful worship that went on at the tabernacle of David. 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:35.919 Are we rejoicing when we come together to worship? 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:38.799 Are we rejoicing in the presence of God? 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:39.840 We should be. 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:25.360 That's worship. 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:27.120 That's idolatry. 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:32.080 Listen, when you get involved in these things, you like watching it, you like being a part of it. 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:34.399 Don't let it become worship. 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:35.679 Have a good time. 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:36.639 Have fun. 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:38.639 Don't let it become worship. 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:43.600 Don't hate people because they prefer a different team. 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:45.440
That's not who we are. 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:47.919 That's not a testimony for Christ. 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:53.600 That's a testimony for the team that's there, and it proves that we are half-wits. 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:07.919 Fight and beat somebody to death because the team lost or because they rooted for the wrong score. 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:11.519 They're spending energy in the wrong direction. 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.480 Yeah, and there's nothing wrong with having fun. 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:19.919 But we don't want to get caught up and turning it into idolatry. 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:33.120 Now, for further reference on the worship that David established, you should have read 1 Chronicles chapters 15 through 16 and 20 through 23 through 26. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:38.159 And you've seen how that David established all of this worship. 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:56.399 And now, James, under the anointing of the Holy Ghost, saying, the prophecy that Amos gave about rebuilding the tabernacle of David that everybody might come into the presence of God is being fulfilled in the church of the living God. 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:00.639 And these Gentiles coming in are proving it. 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:01.519 Yeah. 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:06.960 James did all that. 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:09.919 None of the apostles said, sit down, you're the pastor. 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:10.399 Right. 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:12.480 We're the apostles. 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:16.720 None of the elders said, sit down, we're the elders. 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:19.919 You're just the pastor in the church of Jerusalem. 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:28.799 They recognized when the Holy Ghost moved through him that this was the Spirit of God in action. 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:32.639 What did John tell us? 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:34.320 Try the Spirits. 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:35.200 Yes. 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:40.159 We need to be able to tell that's not Jesus. 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:41.039 Yeah. 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:44.399 We need to know it. 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:54.559 And the only way we can do that is by communicating with God ourselves in prayer and worship and praise and intercession. 00:16:54.799 --> 00:17:13.599 And after you said everything you wanted to say, by being able to sit there and be quiet, after you shouted all over your living room or your office and praised God and talked in tongues, can you sit down and say, Jesus, you're my savior. 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:17.279 If you've got something to say to me, I want to be here for it. 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:21.200 Can you sit there and wait? 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:23.920 What if he doesn't speak today? 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:25.359 We'll do it again tomorrow. 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:26.160 Yeah. 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:27.039 Okay? 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:35.519 If the church is the bride of Christ, the bride and groom exchange communication. 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:44.240 I guarantee if all that happens in my house is that I tell mama what to do and what to think and how to say, and I don't listen to her. 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:45.759 Look at her face. 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.240 This is a relationship. 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:50.960 Yes. 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:54.559 The church is to be in a relationship with Jesus. 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:59.359 The individual saints are to be in a relationship with Jesus. 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:02.960 The gift of the Holy Ghost is given to individuals. 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:03.759 Amen. 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:08.319 And that's when holiness is imparted to you. 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:09.200 Yes. 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:12.960 You can't get up in the morning and put holiness on. 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:13.519 No. 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:17.839 And you don't take it off at night before you get in the shower and go to bed. 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:25.039 It is the character and the nature of Jesus Christ being formed in us. 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:28.480 And a lot of us have a long ways to go for it to be formed. 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:29.359 That's all right. 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:30.720 Just keep walking. 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:33.680 Just keep following Jesus. 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:38.000 Don't pass such harsh judgments on one another. 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:39.759 Work in progress. 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:40.880 Say that again? 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:42.079 A work in progress. 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:43.200 Oh, say it louder. 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:45.200 We are a work in progress. 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:55.920 Peter told the church that you need to grow to the desire the sincere milk of the word that you may be exercised thereby and grow thereby. 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:56.799 Grow what? 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:03.599 Grow into the full measure and stature of the man of God, the woman of God. 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:19.920 If we know that our children must be given time to grow and mature, don't the saints of the living God, since they're born again, don't they start out needing growth and maturity? 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:24.400 We got to be careful how we pass judgments on each other. 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:30.160 So James then declares, this is my translation. 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:34.960 Okay, God saw all this before time began. 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:45.279 And if you understand prophecy, you already know this, or should you should have been able to know it when I said it. 00:19:45.519 --> 00:20:00.319 So he's anticipating that the less listeners, whether they are Jewish converts, proselyte converts, or gentile converts, are in the word of God enough to know that Amos made this prophecy. 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:01.200 Yeah. 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:02.160 Amen. 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:06.319 And there's other prophecies about this. 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:08.559 So let's pause for a minute. 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:12.559 And anybody know what Isaiah had to say about this? 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:14.799 Did you come across that in
your studies? 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:16.880 I did. 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:17.680 I don't remember. 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:19.759 Oh, Anne says she did. 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.519 But I don't remember you don't get to say I don't remember. 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:30.640 So if you have a note or Google it if you want to, but see if you can find it. 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:36.640 Uh where Isaiah talks about the Gentiles, where he prophesies about the Gentiles. 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:39.279 You got that, uh Audia? 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:41.759 I remember reading it. 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:43.119 You remember reading it? 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:43.599 Good. 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:46.079 Anne says she remembers reading it. 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:48.880 I remember things on occasion. 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:51.599 And I'm sure we've read it twice this year. 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:52.960 Yeah, we have, Mala. 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:55.920 We've read it twice this year at least. 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:58.240 And that's not answers. 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:01.359 Well, actually, we're in Isaiah, so yes, we are. 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:03.839 Yeah, we might not have passed it yet. 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:09.200 So who who's who's found it already? 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:10.640 What are we looking at? 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:14.319 Where Isaiah prophesied about the Gentiles. 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:25.920 The rustling of pages in the Bible is not quite the same as the tapping of cell phones. 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:27.359 Yes, I know. 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:28.720 It's a little different. 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:32.480 But you've got these tools now. 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:35.039 Isaiah, well, he says it in several places. 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:35.680 Okay. 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:37.279 What have you got? 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.200 One and the first one is Isaiah 2, verses 2 to 3. 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:42.319 Read it. 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:45.839 I had to go get it because it didn't give me that part. 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:49.119 Oh, just tell me where to find it. 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:49.839 All right. 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:51.680 Okay. 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:53.680 So two, two, and three. 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:54.880 Oh, that's one. 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:57.039 Yeah, one and two are different. 00:21:57.279 --> 00:21:58.000 Yeah, they are. 00:21:58.160 --> 00:21:58.480 Okay. 00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:02.720 Now it's Shall come to pass in the latter days. 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:03.839 Latter days. 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:05.119 All right, sister. 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:07.920 That the mountain of the Lord's house. 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:09.359 Come on now. 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:09.920 Yeah. 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:16.799 Shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills. 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.240 And all nations shall flow to it. 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:21.440 All nations. 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:22.400 All nations. 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:25.119 So the church is the establishment. 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:27.279 That mountain wasn't physical. 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:28.160 Right. 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:29.200 Right. 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:33.759 Sometimes you have to look at prophecy after you get past it. 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:38.160 You know, when Jesus is about to be crucified and he tells them in the gospel of St. 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:40.160 John, they're going to take me, I'm going to die. 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:43.839 Then he says, He doesn't say it's going to happen in the next six hours. 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:44.160 No. 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:46.559 He doesn't say it's going to happen in the next week. 00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:47.920 It's just going to happen. 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:55.519 And then he says, I've told you before that when it has come to pass, you might believe. 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:01.920 Prophetic utterances are to make us be encouraged. 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:06.640 When they come to pass, encouraged in God's faithfulness. 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:08.400 You had one you wanted to read. 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:10.960 Yeah, Isaiah 9 1 and 2. 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:12.240 Go ahead and read it. 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:14.400 Isaiah 9 1 and 2. 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:17.279 See, you weren't there. 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:19.759 Oh, but I found it though. 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:48.960 Nevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Neptali, and afterward did more to grievously afflict her by the way of the sea beyond Jordan in Galilee of the nations. 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:55.039 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light. 00:24:05.359 --> 00:24:07.279 Did the Gentiles walk in darkness? 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:07.680 Yes. 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:10.640 Yeah, but the light's gonna shine on them. 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:11.599 Yes, Audio. 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:20.480 Isaiah 60 3 says, The Gentiles shall come to your light and the kings to the brightness of your rising. 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:23.279 Mama's got one. 00:24:23.359 --> 00:24:24.000 Go ahead, Mama. 00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:25.519 66 and 18. 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:27.680 Isaiah 66 and 18. 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:30.079 And I know their works and their thoughts. 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:36.559 It shall come that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory. 00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:40.960 All nations and tongues shall come and see his glory. 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:42.160 Amen. 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:43.119 Yeah. 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:45.119 You got another one, Ed? 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:48.480 Yeah, 42, 1 through 6. 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:49.759 Go ahead and read them. 00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:57.359 Behold, my servants whom I uphold, my elect one in whom my soul delights. 00:24:57.920 --> 00:24:58.160 Come on. 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:02.720 I have put my
spirit upon him. 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:05.839 He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:07.759 Justice to thank you, Jesus. 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:15.119 He will not cry out, nor raise his voice, nor cause his voice to be heard in the streets. 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:21.359 A bruised reed he will not break, and smoking flax he will not quench. 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:24.480 He will bring forth justice for truth. 00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:34.079 He will not fail nor be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth, and the coastlands shall wait for his law. 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:35.200 In the earth? 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:36.079 In the earth. 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:37.519 And in all the coastlands? 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:38.400 Coastlands. 00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:39.759 That means all nations. 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:40.720 How about that? 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:42.240 Salvation. 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:43.119 Oh, salvation. 00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:48.480 It was always God's intention for humanity to have salvation. 00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:54.079 And Israel was chosen to be the conduit by which Jesus Christ would come to the world. 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:54.960 Yes. 00:25:55.200 --> 00:26:07.119 Thus says God the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it. 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:08.000 Thank you, God. 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:11.119 And spirit to those who walk on it. 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:16.240 I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness and will hold your hand. 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:22.960 I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the Gentiles. 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:25.680 As a light to the Gentiles. 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:31.440 God didn't pick Abraham because he hated Gentiles. 00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:40.000 He picked Abraham to make sure there was a path for his will and his word to come to all the world. 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:40.880 Yes. 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:48.240 And that's why we read, but if if a Gentile wanted to partake of the feast, he could do it. 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:51.839 He'd be circumcised and considered a native. 00:26:52.880 --> 00:27:02.720 Rather, just Rahab and and and Ruth the Moabite were considered native Israelites after they came to God. 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:07.039 So much so that they were in the lineage of Jesus Christ. 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:07.519 Right? 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:08.720 Yes. 00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:11.359 So who is the Israel of God? 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:16.720 The Israel of God is both Jews and Gentiles who believe in Jesus. 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:18.640 The Israel of God. 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:24.480 So I don't want you to think that God has looked at the Jews and say, I'm not going to have anything to do with you anymore. 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:30.720 The whole purpose of Christ's coming is so that the world could be saved. 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:32.960 For God so loved the world. 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:43.440 And if there's anything left prophetically that needs to be fulfilled for those who are bloodline children of Abraham, God will not miss it. 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:48.400 He keeps his word, he is a God of integrity. 00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:55.839 But let me encourage you, as much great things as you may see happening in Israel, go ahead and rejoice in that. 00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:59.839 But it's more important that your name is written in the Lamb's book of life. 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:00.400 Yes. 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:01.279 Amen. 00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:10.480 I think if we look at Isaiah 56, the whole chapter. 00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:11.440 Well, the whole chapter. 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:12.960 Yeah, but six through what? 00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:16.240 Six through eight are pretty specific. 00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:17.279 Read it again. 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:21.279 Also, the sons of the foreigner. 00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:28.240 The sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the Lord to serve him. 00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:29.680 That's us. 00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:34.240 And to love the name of the Lord to be his servants. 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:36.960 We're throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament. 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:37.519 Yes. 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:43.599 Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath and holds fast my covenant. 00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:44.319 Come on. 00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:51.519 Even them I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. 00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:57.920 Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar. 00:28:58.319 --> 00:28:59.440 Thank you, Jesus. 00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:05.680 For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations. 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:10.400 Isn't that what Jesus said when he drove them out of the temple? 00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:10.880 Yes. 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:13.440 This place was to be a house of prayer. 00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:15.920 You've made it a den of thieves. 00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:19.599 All right, so let's talk about this lesson some more, okay? 00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:22.319 Oh, I'm sorry, you gone, huh? 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:24.000 You need to read you need to read some more. 00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:24.559 Go ahead. 00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:29.119 The Lord God who gathers the outcasts of Israel. 00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:32.720 Oh, so Israel had some people that dropped their watermelon. 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:33.519 There you go. 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:43.920 Oh, Israel says, Yet I will gather to him others besides those who are gathered to him. 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:51.200 The church of the living God is of every tribe, every tongue, every nation. 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:55.839 They're rich, they're poor, they're uneducated, they're highly educated. 00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:56.480 Right. 00:29:57.279 --> 00:29:59.519 Because it's
whosoever will. 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:16.160 So in today's lesson, and in Acts chapter 15, 1 through 18, so Joyce, what was uh maybe one or two things that you noticed right off that you had a question or a comment regarding? 00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:25.039 How James called Peter Simeon. 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:27.599 And because he was Simon Peter. 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:33.279 He was Simon Peter, but you got Peter, which is Roman. 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:43.359 Greek, Greek, Greek, but you also have Simeon, which is Hebrew, Hebrew, and then you have Simon, which probably one of them is Hebrew and one of them is Aramaic. 00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:44.480 I didn't do a deep dive. 00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:46.960 I didn't either, but that came out. 00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:47.519 Okay. 00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:52.960 So I thought it was a misspelling, but then as I read and stuff, it wasn't. 00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:53.599 Okay. 00:30:54.319 --> 00:31:18.160 But then also too about the circumcision, it took me personally until I was studying, you know, the way you gave it, but it took me till verse five to realize that the Pharisees is the ones that caused the first split in the church. 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:26.880 And it wasn't because they didn't love God, it was because they couldn't see the fulfillment of the law of Moses in Christ. 00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:36.000 Yeah, they were still stuck in the old covenant, yes, where Jesus has said, I am have bringing a new covenant. 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:43.359 And that's what and that's where that's where the Pharisees and the new Jews. 00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:49.839 If you're not if you're not careful, if we're not careful, we can become modern day Pharisees. 00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:54.960 I heard a testimony in church one time, it grieved my heart. 00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:01.200 A lady stood up to testify, and she said, I I was doing the laundry at the laundromat. 00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:01.599 Yes. 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:02.799 She's an older woman. 00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:10.960 And she said, and this this other lady was in there, this young lady, and she was wearing her hot pants and her halter. 00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:17.519 And she walked up to me and she said, I believe you have the Holy Ghost, or something of that sense. 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:23.359 And she said, Yes, she said, I just received the Holy Ghost last night, and she was so excited. 00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:27.119 And then the lady says, But I told her, No, you didn't. 00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:34.240 You can't come in here wearing hot pants and a halter and say you received the Holy Ghost. 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:35.200 I received. 00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:36.319 Now, wait a minute. 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:39.359 Aren't we all babes in Christ when we get started? 00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:40.000 Yes. 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:44.960 I I remember Brother Johnson, our pastor, we call him Pappy. 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:52.079 He was preaching on Sunday morning, and we came from an organization where they have a lot of dress codes, okay? 00:32:52.480 --> 00:33:00.400 But he he was preaching from the pulpit and he said, Don't you discourage anyone from coming in this church? 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:02.240 He said, You welcome everyone. 00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:05.359 He's I don't care if they come in here in hot pants. 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:10.640 Yeah, they're here, and we're gonna worship God and we're gonna love them and we're gonna bless them. 00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:13.759 And Brother Manuel didn't speak real good English. 00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:21.759 So he's we're visiting with him and his wife one day, and he says, Brother Johnson, but godly, he's all right. 00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:27.359 He's saying, I can come to church in my shorts, says, No, no, manual. 00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:29.519 That wasn't it. 00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:31.519 That's not what he was saying. 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:36.240 You know, it makes me think of when I went to church as a child. 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:54.319 Yeah, we had the Baptist church, and and I'm not saying this to ridicule Baptist, but you know, we went into church every Sunday when I was little, and we would never come to church wearing a pair of pants, much less a pair of blue jeans. 00:33:55.039 --> 00:34:00.000 Well, culturally things can be unacceptable, but culturally does it mean biblically. 00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:11.599 And and I look now and I think if I walked into that church that I went to as a child today, what would they think of me? 00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:21.920 And I mean, I don't go to church looking provocative or anything, but just the fact that most of the time when I go to church, I wear jeans and a nice shirt or a t-shirt that says something about Jesus. 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:30.639 And I just don't think personally, I mean, you don't come to church dressed like you're going to the club. 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:30.960 No. 00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:39.920 But but some do you think you should come clean, clean, you should wear clean clothes, have bathed, because why? 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:41.119 You respect Jesus. 00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:43.519 And you're trying to be a witness. 00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:47.519 So the way mama and I came up, dress respectfully. 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:49.760 We always dressed up to go to church. 00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:50.239 Yeah. 00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:54.880 We were taught that if you're gonna go meet the president, you dress accordingly. 00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:57.199 Yeah, just ask Slolinsky. 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:00.559 Wrong president. 00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:08.400 But my my thing is, God's not gonna look at you and say, You're not wearing the right style of shoes, so you can't come worship. 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:11.039 Yeah, you're not not riding the right suit or whatever. 00:35:11.119 --> 00:35:18.079 Yeah, but there should be an attitude in our hearts and minds that say, I've come to respect you, Lord. 00:35:18.320
--> 00:35:18.800 Yeah, yeah. 00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:24.480 Come come to church with the attitude, I want people to see Jesus in me. 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:29.519 Well, okay, can it? 00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:30.320 Come back. 00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:36.400 Come back. 00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:38.559 What was it you had to say? 00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:39.039 Come on in. 00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:40.079 I didn't have anything to say. 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:42.159 No, you had something because you were standing there looking. 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:43.360 I was helping Diana. 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.519 You were standing there looking in here. 00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:49.280 You don't preach to us? 00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:51.519 Are you sure? 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:52.639 Okay. 00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:58.320 I had uh I've been everybody looks on Facebook, right? 00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:01.440 I kind of I troll and scroll. 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:14.159 A lot of people I have seen are they would ask different churches, you know, what you know, how what's what's the drink? 00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:16.079 Yeah, what what can I wear? 00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:27.039 And a lot of them, of course, they're non-denominational churches, but I think you're probably going more to, but there are they're saying, We're whatever you're comfortable in. 00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:28.800 We just want you to come to church. 00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:30.320 That that and you know what? 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:44.320 I think that's important, but once you start understanding I'm filled with the Holy Ghost and I'm being a witness, it's time for you to leave your dirty jeans and your stained-up clothes at home and wear something that's clean. 00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:45.840 Well, I kind of didn't make it. 00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:48.000 Me and Mama, it came up like that. 00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:49.679 Judges. 00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:53.840 Yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna buy you clothes to wear to church. 00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:57.440 There have been times when street people have come in. 00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:09.360 I I went to this church one Sunday, and this man came, he was homeless, and he saw the church door was open and he came in. 00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:15.840 Yeah, and nobody went, ugh, you know, or anything like that. 00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:17.679 Everybody welcomed him. 00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:23.679 I mean, I was so I was so thrilled, and then said, Hey, we're all going to lunch, please come with us. 00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:33.679 I mean, you know, I think it's important that when people come in, especially if they're not members and you don't know them, that regardless of what they're wearing, yeah. 00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:41.599 You pick on what they're wearing, they look at it, look like you welcome them and you show them we're glad you're here. 00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:43.199 And do you know Jesus? 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:48.960 Let me share a testimony with you because you never know if it's gonna be the undercut the boss. 00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:57.280 So we we had a VHS years ago of the uh Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. 00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:07.760 Oh and this guy was giving his testimony, David Griffin, and and he was wearing a pair of slacks and a real nice t-shirt. 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:15.760 Okay, you but he said the first time I came to this church, I heard all the singing, I heard all the worship. 00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:21.840 He said I was homeless, you know, I sleep in a cardboard box, etc. 00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:23.119 He said, I came in. 00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:27.599 He said, I really didn't know do I belong here because I knew I was filthy. 00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:31.920 My clothes were filthy, he said, and I stumped like Uran. 00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:37.679 He said, and then I thought, I need to go to the altar, I need this experience. 00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:42.159 And then he said, How can I present myself like this? 00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:52.719 But there was such a spirit in church, such a spirit of love and compassion, that he felt the freedom to go down to the altar. 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:58.639 He said, knowing I stink like urine, I'm dirty, I'm nasty, I'm filthy, but God made me. 00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:05.760 He said, and now I have ministry here, I'm on the security team, and I have a place to live again. 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:19.840 What you see, what you saw when God saved me is not where I am today. 00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:36.719 We can't look at people and anticipate because of how you're dressed or the way you wear makeup or because of how much you like your jewelry, or because you prefer boots or whatever. 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:40.719 You can't look at them and say you don't belong here. 00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:47.199 But as we grow in our relationship with God, we ought to come to the house of worship. 00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:55.280 There ought to be enough in us to say, I'm wearing something clean and neat, because I've come to worship God. 00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:02.719 And when I see, when guests come in here and they see me, they can't always know my spirit. 00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:16.719 But if they can see I'm carrying a respectful attitude and that I want to be friendly to them, you know, if you didn't use deodorant for six weeks and you try to greet a visitor, they might you might not go off too well. 00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:17.840 You know. 00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:23.280 Whereas the visitor who comes in like that, hopefully they're just welcomed in. 00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:28.159 But the child of God who's been walking with Jesus for two or three years should have learned. 00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:28.880 Yeah. 00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:29.519 Yeah. 00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:32.880 I need to appreciate the gift of God that is life. 00:40:33.119 --> 00:40:33.599 Right. 00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:36.400 I better be quiet, huh? 00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:39.679 No, it's it's a matter of transformation, you know.
00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:40.639 Say it again. 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:41.760 Yeah, transformation. 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:51.760 Transform when John writes, as many as believed in his name, to them gave him the power to become. 00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:55.039 Doesn't say he instantly changed them. 00:40:55.199 --> 00:40:58.159 He said he gave them the power to become. 00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:02.000 How does the caterpillar become a butterfly? 00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:04.800 It's a process, a struggle too. 00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:06.320 And that's a struggle. 00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:17.519 I mean, being a Christian, you can't grow if you don't process from where you start to grow up. 00:41:18.239 --> 00:41:20.559 Well, I mean, the thing is, you should be. 00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:24.320 I mean, you should there should be a transformation taking place. 00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:25.679 You should be in the words. 00:41:26.159 --> 00:41:26.880 It should be ongoing. 00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:36.880 You know, if you say you're saved and there is no transformation takes place, that's where we need to question the salvation. 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:47.119 Years ago, when when when our boys were like five and six, six and seven, we moved to this place and went to church. 00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:56.800 And I was a minister, but I sat in the back because the custom was minister sat on the pulpit, but I wanted to sit in church with my wife, and we were guests there. 00:41:57.039 --> 00:41:59.039 So we sat in the back. 00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:03.760 And then this lady came and sat in front of us. 00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:04.719 She was a member. 00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:11.840 And and your nose started to run, and your eyes started to water, you know. 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:15.519 And and I told mama, I'm gonna sit with you. 00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:16.480 It's all good. 00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:19.440 And then the pastor recognized me, said, Aren't you, brother? 00:42:19.599 --> 00:42:22.159 I said, Yes, he said, come up here and sit on the platform. 00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:23.920 Normally I would have said, No, thank you. 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:26.719 I'm sitting with my wife, but I felt I'm delivered. 00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:32.079 I got oh, I gotta, and the boys kept saying, Phew, what stakes, mommy? 00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:33.760 You say, Oh, that's things. 00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:35.920 Please be quiet. 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:38.719 You know, we didn't know that she was a member then. 00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:40.880 We found out that she was a member. 00:42:41.199 --> 00:42:45.360 But listen, we're supposed to appreciate the life God has given us. 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:50.719 Yeah, yes, and whatever damages our testimony needs to change. 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:55.119 That's where learning to bathe comes in. 00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:56.239 Yeah, you know. 00:42:56.400 --> 00:43:03.679 I I come home so often from Walmart or Brookshires or whatever errands mama has sent me on. 00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:12.079 I come home, and the first thing I do when I tell her, I see her, I say, I am so glad that you are my wife. 00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:14.800 You don't know what I cannot unsee. 00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:23.679 Diana will say, go to Walmart to do that, and I'll say, Do I have to go in? 00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:30.320 But my my point is we have to react to those people that they need Jeans. 00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:32.320 We have to see that. 00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:49.760 But you see, the craziest things, and when I see people come into church, and I and I know it's a fad now, and holy genes are very expensive, but because of the way we came up in church, I see those holy jeans, and I'm like, Lord Jesus put a button on my lip. 00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:54.480 It's like when I see a guy wearing those saggy pants. 00:43:55.519 --> 00:43:56.800 Yeah, I just want to go up. 00:43:57.119 --> 00:43:58.400 I saw I really did one day. 00:43:58.480 --> 00:43:59.760 I saw this guy stopped at CV. 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:00.400 Yes. 00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:02.079 And I was getting ready to get out. 00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:07.519 And this guy's trying to get out the door, hold his stuff, and hold his pants up. 00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:21.199 As we come to Christ, we need we need to set examples for people so that when they look at us, they say, I want to be like that. 00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:24.639 Mama and I tend to dress up sometimes to match. 00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:35.760 And she asked me when I was first going out with her, I'd pick her up for church, you know, and she asked me one day, Don't you have a suit? 00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:38.559 I said, I got two of 'em. 00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:39.840 She said, You do? 00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:42.320 I said, Yeah, I got one for weddings and one for funerals. 00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:50.960 Well, you know, she said, So the next Sunday, a pastor always wore a suit, and my father-in-law usually wore a sports coat, at least. 00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:55.119 And and and I noticed a lot of the men, yeah, they do. 00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:57.599 They wear sports coats and or suits. 00:44:57.920 --> 00:44:59.599 So I wore a suit. 00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:02.480 Nobody told me you better wear a suit. 00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:03.519 Yeah. 00:45:03.840 --> 00:45:04.159 Okay. 00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:13.840 So I I went to the door and she came to the door, and she stood there looking at me, and she almost bruised her chin on the doorstep. 00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:19.679 What had you been wearing? 00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:20.400 I just have to know. 00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:21.599 Bell bottoms. 00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:27.440 I had these huge bell bottoms, and I had some psychedelic fringe that I had to sew them around the bottom. 00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:30.800 And leather and leather sandals. 00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:33.039 No, no, no, no, not sandals. 00:45:33.119 --> 00:45:38.480 I had some pigskin leather tennis shoes that looked a little bit like
desert boots. 00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:41.199 And I wore these mock turtleneck shirts. 00:45:41.440 --> 00:45:44.880 And I didn't, yeah, I was just stopped talking. 00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:48.079 I just but you know what my church never did. 00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:53.679 My church never said to me, You are inappropriate. 00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:54.159 Right. 00:45:55.280 --> 00:45:59.280 But I I was loved and I saw the examples that were set. 00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:01.760 Thank God he said, Mama, your way. 00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:05.920 No, listen, show some love. 00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:09.440 Show some compassion, show some mercy. 00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:12.960 And and that little church was merciful. 00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:17.519 Now, you listen, the first time mama went to church, you you're picking on me. 00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:18.719 Well, we didn't know. 00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:20.000 We know about the orange. 00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:22.320 What color was your hair? 00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:23.280 Depended. 00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:24.960 It was probably green. 00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:27.039 Yeah. 00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:31.519 Actually, it was blonde, but I went swimming. 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:41.760 You know what bothers me is I don't have a picture of my wife in a mini skirt and go-go boots, and I missed it. 00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:45.119 I missed it. 00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:46.639 In spiked hair. 00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:47.760 And spiked hair. 00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:48.880 I don't have that. 00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:54.159 But but listen, we who have been walking with Christ. 00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:55.199 Yeah, yeah. 00:46:55.840 --> 00:47:00.400 When we come to church, we ought to think about the occasion, especially. 00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:00.719 Yeah. 00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:05.280 If you're entering into ministry, we are setting examples. 00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:05.760 That's right. 00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:10.639 And it's not like you have to go out and buy$700 clothes and all that. 00:47:11.199 --> 00:47:17.840 Present yourself clean and crisp and you know, have on deodorant. 00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:18.239 That's right. 00:47:18.559 --> 00:47:24.880 If we're gonna wear seven or eight hundred dollar outfits, then we're in the wrong business. 00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:33.199 I've got some suits that I don't know how much they cost, they were, but they were gifts to me. 00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:33.440 Yeah. 00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:34.480 And I know they were expensive. 00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:37.280 And some people gave me some beautiful clothes. 00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:43.679 When we were growing up, if your parents said we're going to the airport, you had to change out of your play clothes. 00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:44.239 Oh, yeah. 00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:45.920 And have your hair in colors. 00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:52.400 And if my mom said to me we're going to the grocery store, I I couldn't be wearing holy jeans. 00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:52.639 Yeah. 00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:53.039 Yeah. 00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:54.800 Or an old dirty t-shirt. 00:47:55.039 --> 00:47:55.119 No. 00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:56.880 I'd have to have a clean t-shirt. 00:47:57.119 --> 00:47:57.280 Yeah. 00:47:57.360 --> 00:47:57.679 Oh, yeah. 00:47:58.159 --> 00:48:00.320 Because you might you're gonna run into somebody at the local. 00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:03.920 My mom never left the house and it wasn't the makeup bar. 00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:07.119 I'm so glad I never had to wear makeup. 00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:10.800 You know, my grandmother wanted her hair done. 00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:11.280 Yeah. 00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:18.800 I remember one time I was in Pennsylvania and my grandmother lived in this little coal mine town, and she wanted to go to the grocery store. 00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:20.559 And I said, Well, I'll take you. 00:48:20.719 --> 00:48:24.400 And she's in there and she's putting on her wig and powdering her face. 00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:26.880 And I come out and I've got on shorts and a t-shirt. 00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:32.719 She went, Okay, she just looked at me and she said, Always wear your spurs. 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:34.559 You might meet a horse. 00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:43.119 Listen, Amy, it it is important the impression that we make on people. 00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:44.559 The first impression. 00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:48.960 You you don't always have to be wearing a formal dress or a suit and tie. 00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.960 But the way we look at it is we're going to see the King of Kings. 00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:59.280 And so if I'm not wearing a suit and tie, if I'm wearing my boots and jeans, my shirt is ironed. 00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:00.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:01.519 My jeans are crisp. 00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:01.920 Yeah. 00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:03.360 My boots are shined. 00:49:03.519 --> 00:49:03.840 Why? 00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:07.920 Jesus is not gonna fry me, but I'm going to see him. 00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:08.480 Yeah. 00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:12.320 And and and so I want to be respectful. 00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:16.880 When I go out with mama, people tease me about what I wear sometimes. 00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:20.159 I said, look, when I'm out with her, I want to look like I'm worthy. 00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:20.960 Yeah, yeah. 00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:28.719 I want people to say that I look like I'm worthy of this woman because she's some kind of special. 00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:30.320 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:31.440 It's good stuff. 00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:32.320 It's good stuff. 00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:33.039 All right, y'all. 00:49:33.119 --> 00:49:33.599 We gotta go. 00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:35.039 Gotta wrap this up. 00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:39.519 Great study on the chapter 15 of the book of Acts for a simple presentation. 00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:40.159 Thank you very much. 00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:43.920 We didn't talk enough about it afterwards, but thank you all for your participation. 00:49:44.239 --> 00:49:44.800 That's all right. 00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:45.360 That's all right. 00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:48.880 All right, so we're gonna end with our slogan as we always do. 00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:58.719 To go show some love, show some compassion, give mercy, and go be Jesus today. 00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:07.760 Hey SDU family, if you have enjoyed this podcast today, would you please like, follow, and share our podcast link? 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