Full Transcript for "A Simple Presentation into The Book of ACTS" - Chapter 13, Part 4 - Bro. John "Ernie" Perez

take it away. 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:31.199 Yes, ma'am. 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:33.759 All right. 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.080 So we're going to try to close out this today. 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:43.759 Acts chapter 13, verse 42 through 52. 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:48.879 And we thank you for your patience. 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:52.800 I hope you've been enjoying the study as much as I have. 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:56.879 All right, let's go ahead and read our scripture. 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:06.639 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them next Sabbath. 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:22.240 Now, when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuading them to continue in the grace of God. 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:29.360 And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:43.919 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against these things, which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. 00:03:44.400 --> 00:04:07.120 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you, but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:20.160 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:31.120 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord, and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:35.680 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region. 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:51.839 But the Jews stirred up devout and honorable women and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coast. 00:04:52.800 --> 00:05:02.639 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium. 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:09.439 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost. 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:10.399 All right. 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:17.040 So we'll go back and read verses 42 and 43, and I'll give you my little running commentary. 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:22.879 And we'll hope that the Lord opens up the eyes of our understandings. 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:24.000 Everybody say amen. 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:24.959 Amen. 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:40.079 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:57.839 Now, when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:12.720 So, as you recall, Paul had been invited to speak in the synagogue, and he had completed, telling them all about Jesus and who Jesus is and what Jesus had done and how this would be applied to their lives. 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:24.160 And as Paul completed his message, the Jews that we could say they had left the synagogue, but I really see them hanging out. 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:31.279 And the Gentiles who were proselytes or aspiring proselytes. 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:42.240 These are the Gentiles who, as we've talked about many times, had become Jewish by faith and embraced the law of Moses, circumcision. 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:47.920 Now, they were wanting Paul to commit to speaking again on the next Sabbath. 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.360 So there was evidently some conversation going on. 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:54.160 Can you come back next week? 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:01.839 Can you bring us this word again or add to it? 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:06.639 Because Sabbath, weekly Sabbath was a routine. 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:12.000 Now, after the crowd had completely dispersed. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:13.519 Verse 43. 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:17.519 Now, when the congregation was broken up, now they're just leaving. 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:32.879 Many of the Jews, as well as the Gentiles, you have to remember many times in the context of what you're reading, sometimes the Gentiles means proselytes, sometimes it means Gentiles in general. 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:35.439 Here we're dealing with proselytes again. 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:46.560 Followed Paul and Barnabas and were encouraged to continue to pursue the grace of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:52.399 So it's kind of like after the meeting, they're taking advantage of those who said, I'm interested. 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:54.639 This has stirred up my heart. 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:58.560 And we don't know what kind of extra conversation they had. 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:02.399 We just know that they were encouraging them. 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:05.439 What you have heard is the truth. 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:11.439 You need to embrace it, you need to grow in it, you need to sink your teeth in this thing. 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:21.439 Now, I'm going to read verse 44, and then we're going to talk just a little bit more. 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:28.639 And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city to hear the word of God. 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:45.360 The next Sabbath, the crowd that came to the synagogue was so large that Luke writes, almost the whole city turned out to hear the word preached by Paul. 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:50.480 Of course, afterwards discussed by Paul and Barnabas with everyone who would listen. 00:08:50.720 --> 00:09:01.679 Now the whole city indicates to me that many of the Gentiles who came were not proselytes, but they were still included in the crowd. 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:18.559 So the Jews and the Jews who were

proselytes were already so enthused by the gospel that they had recruited enough people to come that Luke said almost the whole city. 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:26.159 Sometimes it only takes a small spark to start a real wildfire. 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:32.399 And it seems that this was the spark that was needed. 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:36.480 Now notice that the Jews were filled with envy. 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:39.600 Verse 45. 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:52.559 Where does this envy come from? 00:09:53.039 --> 00:10:00.399 This is because Paul preached Jesus as being the fulfillment of the law and the prophets. 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.240 So in their minds, they're beginning to understand. 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:18.720 If the law is fulfilled, then the Levitical system and temple worship are no longer needed, and they want to hold on to the law of Moses. 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:22.320 They want to hold on to the Levitical priesthood. 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.399 They don't want those things to change. 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:30.080 And Paul is now not attacking those things, saying they're useless. 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:36.320 He's saying their purpose has been fulfilled in Jesus Christ. 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:38.080 They don't want to have that. 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:49.279 Also, if Jesus is the son of David that was prophesied, there is no longer a need for an earthly king of Israel. 00:10:50.960 --> 00:11:01.519 Now, for hundreds of years, they've been hanging their hope that a descendant of David would sit on the throne in Jerusalem. 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.639 But isn't it something to notice? 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:09.600 That's never preached in the book of Acts. 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:17.039 As a matter of fact, if we'll turn briefly, let's turn to Acts chapter one. 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:28.320 I want to remind you of how things went as Jesus was about to ascend. 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.639 All right, so I'm turning to Acts one. 00:11:42.000 --> 00:12:02.240 In verse six, when they, that is, the disciples, when they therefore were come together, they ask of him, they're asking Jesus, the risen Christ, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:07.279 And we don't find that restoration anywhere in the book of Acts. 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:11.120 But it's a prophecy that has to be fulfilled. 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:17.279 They're not understanding the kingdom of God is not made of a natural throne. 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:19.120 They're not understanding this. 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:21.200 2 Samuel chapter 7. 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:27.440 Each time the prophecy comes forth using the word forever, that's messianic. 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:36.639 And that has nothing to do with the overthrow of the Roman Empire, that has nothing to do with establishing a new throne. 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:51.120 Verse 7, and he said unto them, Jesus said, It is not for you to know the times and seasons which

the Father had put in his own power, but then he accentuates what is important. 00:12:52.480 --> 00:13:06.000 But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:20.320 So the ushering in of the kingdom God means that we're being filled with the Holy Ghost and functioning in the Spirit and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:23.759 Okay, let me go back to Acts 13. 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:34.639 And I had read from verse 45. 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.759 Notice the Jews were filled with envy. 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:40.320 This is because of what Paul preached. 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:43.919 Now remember, the Jews were made up of Sadducees and Pharisees. 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:46.080 Then there's a group called Essenes. 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:56.159 And these groups came into existence because Israel and Judah went into captivity. 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:26.080 And then as there was competition in history between the Samaritans and the Jews to curry favor from Cyrus, they began to develop sex amongst themselves and how they interpreted prophecy, how they interpreted Levitical law, how they interpreted what the rebuilding of the temple would mean. 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:29.679 And from those groups, we get the Sadducees. 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:34.879 The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection. 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:39.759 We get the Pharisees who did believe in the resurrection. 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:44.080 They did believe in angels appearing and embraced many miracles. 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:47.120 The Sadducees frowned on such things. 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:52.960 And their interpretation of Scripture, as far as they were concerned, ruled out those things. 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:56.480 Isn't that how Christianity is divided up now? 00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:57.679 Yep. 00:14:58.000 --> 00:14:58.399 Yes. 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:03.039 Human tendencies have not changed. 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:18.879 This is why Paul warns in 1 Corinthians 10 that we must pay attention to what was written before, because it's for our example upon whom the ends of the world have come. 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:28.480 Then there was even another group formed called the Essenes, who had separated themselves both from Pharisees and Sadducees. 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:37.840 They probably had a few of them in there, but they were looking for the soon coming of the Son of David to set on the throne. 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:43.919 All this happens because the Babylonians conquered. 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:50.159 The Medes, then the Persians, then the Greeks conquered. 00:15:50.879 --> 00:16:02.879 And the Jews in Jerusalem were constantly having to wrap their heads around the prophecies concerning the son of David have got to come true. 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:11.519 And they kept looking for them to be fulfilled in a human king who would set on the throne. 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:17.279 Remember, David had the temple built, right? 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:18.320 He commissioned it. 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:20.480 He drew up all the plans for it. 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:22.879 Solomon supervised it. 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:42.960 But the temple was a result of David going and getting the Ark of the Covenant, bringing it from the house of Obed Edom, and setting it up in his own tent in the city of David, that part of Jerusalem that he conquered himself and was living in, made it his hometown, as it were. 00:16:43.759 --> 00:17:10.400 Now, because of all this, their society is being constantly shaped and reshaped, and they're having to make adjustments, such as I remembered when I first came into the faith, people saying JFK was the Antichrist, and he's gonna come back to life. 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:15.359 Now you know what I said as a brand new Holy Ghost-filled Christian? 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:17.279 Oh wow. 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:25.440 It took me a little growth in scripture to find out that that's not that's not what we're dealing with here. 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:45.839 I I remember a president of our Bible college talking to us about uh a powerful preacher, Brother Gidros, who had an evangelist come and he was preaching that when the Jews take Jerusalem, Jesus is gonna come. 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:47.440 That's gonna mark the rapture. 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:54.880 He understood all of prophecy that, well, he knew that would be the final sign, and the church would be raptured. 00:17:55.039 --> 00:18:13.200 Well, then the Six-Day War happened, and the Jews took Jerusalem, and Brother Gidro said that that evangelist called him at like two o'clock in the morning whenever he got the news, and he he answered the phone and he he knew it was a crisis of some sort. 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:22.160 And the guy says, The Jews took Jerusalem, the Jews took Jerusalem, Brother Gidrow says, Great. 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:25.119 He says, You know what that means. 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:32.000 It's early 30s, so he says, What does it mean? 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:38.240 He says, The rapture took place, Brother Gidrow says, I'm still here. 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:39.200 Yep. 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:48.240 We, you know, listen, we want to understand the word of God, and we have all sorts of contemplations about what's going to happen. 00:18:48.960 --> 00:19:02.319 But as we think about these things and as we think about prophecy, let's look to the pattern that is fulfilled already in scripture to help us indicate where we are now. 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:04.400 We know the Lord is coming. 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:05.599 Everybody say amen. 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:06.480 Amen. 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:12.240 And we know it's the times and the seasons, but no man knows the day or the hour. 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:18.559 And when the disciples asked Jesus,

Will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:21.839 He said, That's not your business. 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:25.279 Your business is to be a witness. 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:27.839 Your business is to spread the gospel. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:30.240 Now know this, not in your notes, forgive me. 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:38.400 But didn't Jesus say, when this gospel is preached to the whole world, then the end shall come? 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:39.359 Yes. 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:43.119 So it's wise to look at what's happening. 00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:45.519 It's good to think about it. 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:51.680 But let's don't thrust ourselves into places where we don't have good foundation. 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:59.680 Lest we find ourselves contradicting the Lord and breaking our own hearts. 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:05.119 You know, like the fellow who said the Jews took Jerusalem. 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:07.039 The rapture happened. 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:09.279 So what he thought he was left behind. 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:13.759 And he called Brother Gidros must thought he he too didn't make it. 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:16.799 I'll just call him and we'll commiserate together. 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:30.000 So let's let's see if we can work our way through scripture with an eye for illumination and revelation. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:41.119 But when we hear these things, let's take them with a grain of salt and say, Jesus, I want to be a part of everything that's happening. 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:43.920 Open the eyes of my understanding. 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:46.319 Give me illumination. 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:48.319 Give me revelation. 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:50.880 Speak to me, God. 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:55.200 Now, the Jews upset. 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:59.599 There's going to come out of this a real division. 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:05.920 They've already got the Sadducees and the Pharisees and the divisions there. 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:20.880 Did you know that the Sadducees co-opted the leadership that belonged to the descendant of David? 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:46.559 During the Maccabean Revolt, sometime after the successful Maccabean Revolt, they decided, since we're not having the same type of prophets as we've been seeing in the past, who were doing a multitude of writing, before the Messiah can come, somebody needs to be able to say who is that prophet and who is the Messiah, and who better than us? 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:59.759 And via their education and what they considered their personal spiritual integrity, they decided. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:12.640 Will be the political leadership of Israel also until a prophet arises, until the Messiah comes, because we'll recognize him and we'll let you know he's here. 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:21.680 Now, when David was king, he ran the society secularly. 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:26.720 But who took care of the spiritual aspects of Israel? 00:22:28.400 --> 00:22:29.119

The priests. 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:32.799 The priests, the Levites, the prophets. 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:35.599 But the Sadducees have taken this over. 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:45.200 This is why when John the Baptist came, they couldn't accept him because if they accepted him, that means the end of their affluence and influence. 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:53.599 They couldn't accept Jesus because if they accepted him, that meant the end of their prestige and their ruling power. 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:59.599 And now the Romans were dealing with them and securing them in their leadership. 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:23.440 All this has gone on before we get to Acts 13, before we get to Paul and Barnabas on their missionary journey, but they're beginning in synagogues, and so the residue of this is affecting newborn believers, especially people who come to believe that were Sadducees and were Pharisees. 00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:26.640 And I'm sure some of them were Essenes. 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:38.799 Now, how much of the faith of the Jews was invested in their belief that Messiah would restore again the kingdom to Israel? 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:41.200 We just read about that in Acts 1 and 6. 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:44.000 The disciples were looking for it. 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:55.519 They were looking for the Son of David to come and overthrow the Roman Empire and make Israel a nation again. 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:00.880 But in the fulfillment of prophecy in the book of Acts, where does that happen? 00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:02.160 It doesn't. 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:04.319 It doesn't happen. 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:08.000 But the gospel is still spreading like wildfire. 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:12.960 And many more Gentiles than Jews, but Jews are also being saved. 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:15.920 Some even Sadducees and Pharisees. 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:23.440 As you read through the book of Acts and you keep reading about Caiaphas being a high priest, he was a Sadducee. 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:33.839 No wonder he couldn't let go of the lie that he paid the guards to spread about Jesus' resurrection. 00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:40.880 He believed that lie so hard that it lasted throughout the book of Acts. 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:43.440 And some people still believe it today. 00:24:43.680 --> 00:24:51.440 So to embrace the gospel then denies their interpretation of the purposes of Messiah. 00:24:51.839 --> 00:25:01.599 It says to them that the inheritance of the land of Canaan is not the heart of God's desire for the nation of Israel. 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:08.079 Now don't get confused and say that, well, then God's not going to do anything in Israel. 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:11.359 If you look, there's something always happening there. 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:15.279 They've been restored after how many thousands of years? 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:20.880 Somewhere in the plan of God is something going on for the promises made to Abraham. 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:32.720 It may

not have to do with marking the return of Jesus Christ, but it does have to do with opening up the hearts of Israel for the gospel. 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:55.039 Now, here we clearly see the ministry of the Holy Ghost through God's apostles is already preparing the hearts of Jewish believers for a life of worship beyond the temple at Jerusalem and beyond the Levitical priesthood. 00:25:55.200 --> 00:25:58.400 Jesus had prophesied the temple was coming down. 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:05.119 They didn't understand the prophecy, they didn't embrace it, but Titus brought it to pass. 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:09.839 And that was once again the end of Levitical worship. 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:20.079 When the temple at Jerusalem went down and went to Babylon, synagogues were birthed because they had to change their approach to God because there was no way to sacrifice. 00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:23.119 There was no priest to intercede for them. 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:28.799 There was no, quote, fit man that would bring the sacrifice. 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:41.839 So they hung their hopes on Daniel's prophecy and Jeremiah's prophecy, 70 years, you're going to be restored. 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:56.640 Israel, though, did not initially believe Jeremiah or the other prophets who spoke of the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. 00:26:57.279 --> 00:26:59.279 They were not remotely inclined. 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:04.559 Do you remember Hananiah, the prophet, who prophesied against Jeremiah? 00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:08.720 And said, We're going to wipe those Babylonians out. 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:13.039 Jeremiah said, I wish that was true. 00:27:13.599 --> 00:27:15.599 But we're going into captivity. 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:18.480 Now let's look at Jeremiah 31. 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:22.720 Let's turn there. 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:38.160 Jeremiah 31. 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:41.759 Read verses 31 through 34. 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:49.839 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:50.559 Pause. 00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:51.839 Then I will do what? 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:53.759 Make a new covenant. 00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:56.160 Jeremiah prophesied. 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:00.480 God says he's going to make a new covenant with you. 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:01.920 Go ahead. 00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:10.880 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:14.559 This will be a different covenant that was made through Moses. 00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:17.759 Go ahead. 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:20.240 Which my covenant they break. 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:26.000 Although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord, but this shall be the covenant. 00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:28.799 They broke the covenant. 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:34.480 If you nullify the covenant, what happens to those partaking of the covenant? 00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:36.079 They don't receive anything. 00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:38.079 They don't receive anything. 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:46.960 Go back when you get time and read the book of Hosea and see what God is saying about such things. 00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:48.960 All right, finish reading to 34. 00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:53.519 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. 00:28:53.759 --> 00:29:04.400 After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inner parts and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:12.079 No longer a mosaic covenant which includes a Levitical priesthood. 00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:25.359 So when Paul starts preaching like this, that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of David, the risen king, but he didn't set up an earthly kingdom. 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:35.279 This undermines all of their theology, all of their hope for what was the future of Israel. 00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:50.640 Not understanding that once Adam was lost, the first prophecy to Eve about the head of the serpent being crushed is speaking to the redemption of humanity and the crushing of Satan and sin. 00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:58.960 And this is what the gospel in the book of Acts demonstrates. 00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:06.160 Turn to the book of Ezekiel and go to Ezekiel chapter 11. 00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:19.759 And then, Audia, would you read verses 19 and 20? 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:36.160 Then I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit in spirit within them and take the stone heart out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh. 00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:48.640 So God's purpose is to make us new, to make Israel into new men, into new women, into new worshipers of God, understanding his spirit. 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:57.440 It wasn't necessarily to build the nation of Israel to have it a dominion again on earth. 00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:02.480 It was going to be a spiritual kingdom. 00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:06.960 How many times did Jesus teach parables about the kingdom of God? 00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:17.680 And which of those parables did he say was an example of the son of David rising to the throne and overthrowing Roman Empire? 00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:20.319 None. 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:35.599 But they were sold on that. 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:42.960 You know, there's many people that read the scripture that are sold on things that simply aren't true. 00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:50.079 Like I've told you many times about the fellow who looked at me and said, I can die in adultery, and I know I'm going to heaven. 00:31:51.599 --> 00:32:01.759 Look, we we might be making a mistake when Jesus comes, but that's different than deciding I'm going to live a lifestyle of sin and it's not going to matter. 00:32:03.119 --> 00:32:08.000 Because our God is a consuming fire and sin will never enter there. 00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:13.519

So our God's heart is full of love. 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:22.960 But if we don't accept that love and mercy now, we will end up before the judgment seat of Christ. 00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:28.960 And his judgment will be just as great as his mercy. 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:29.759 Yes. 00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:37.839 Now, there is later if you want to read from, or if you want to get there now, Mama, you're quick on the draw. 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:41.599 Ezekiel 36, 26 and 27. 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:59.279 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:01.279 Here is the promise again. 00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:02.799 This is reiterating. 00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:05.039 Ezekiel's giving it to us twice. 00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:06.960 Jeremiah giving it to us. 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:10.720 God's going to give you a covenant that's going to be totally different. 00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:15.519 It's going to have to do with changing the kind of human being you are. 00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:40.400 When your life, for hundreds of years, your ancestors have hoped and interpreted messianic prophecy to mean we're going to have a king like Solomon who's going to sit on the throne and he's going to rule all of the lands of Israel, and we're going to be renowned in the world just like Solomon was. 00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:51.440 Are you ready to give it up after generations and generations of hope? 00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:58.480 Let's look at Isaiah 6. 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:02.960 Read verses 9 and 10, Mama. 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:17.280 And he said, Go and tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not, and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:31.599 Make the heart of this people fat and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert and be healed. 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:38.239 What prevented them from converting to Jesus Christ and having their souls healed? 00:34:38.960 --> 00:35:03.119 They're holding on to traditional interpretations of the law and of the prophecy and of the Messiah that had nothing to do with the will of God, but it had everything to do with their hopes and dreams of having a nation once again, with a king on the throne, and all of Canaan being their property and their domain. 00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.679 Read Matthew 13, 14 through 16. 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:17.760 Matthew what? 00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:19.360 Thirteen. 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:22.960 Fourteen through sixteen. 00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:26.480 Okay. 00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:40.639 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive. 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:10.079 This is why they were dull of hearing. 00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:11.840 This

is why they couldn't see. 00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:37.360 Ephesians 1, 15 through 23, Paul writing to the Ephesian church. 00:36:37.840 --> 00:37:02.559 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of the spirit of what? 00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:03.199 Wisdom. 00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:05.840 Wisdom and the revelation. 00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:14.480 We as saints of God should walk in the wisdom of the Word of God, the wisdom of the Holy Ghost, and in the revelation of the Word of God. 00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:16.239 How does that happen? 00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:25.280 By us being committed enough to the Lord that we learn that prayer is not just talking and asking, it's listening and receiving also. 00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:28.480 There's no room for revelation. 00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:45.199 This is it in a society, in a church that says, if you don't hear it from the evangelist, if you don't hear it from the prophet, if you don't hear it from the apostle, if you don't hear it from the pastor or the teacher, then you can't know it. 00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:51.039 Well then then why is the Holy Ghost shed abroad in our hearts? 00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:57.199 But to lead us and guide us into all truth and righteousness. 00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:05.920 And if if we're just going to depend on those ministries for our salvation, suddenly we're not depending on Christ. 00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:17.519 We depend upon them to help us, to lead us, to guide us, to put us in a direction where we're having good study habits and good prayer habits, and we're cultivating understanding of the Word of God. 00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:25.039 But they cannot come home with you and sit down with you every day when you pray and then impart God's revelation to you. 00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:28.000 There's too many of us and not enough of them. 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:30.639 Amen. 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:31.519 Amen. 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:35.679 So then it is up to us to cling to the Lord. 00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:51.599 This kind of teaching through the book of Acts is to bring the individual to a relationship with Christ that results in a born-again experience and a walk that when Paul and Silas and Barnabas are gone, their faith continues. 00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:08.000 When I'm not here, I can't view myself as the oracle of God to you, and you not here from God yourself. 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:29.360 You know, this is what I think the Anglican Church and other uh Orthodox churches, they they refer to the head of their churches, their organizations, whether it's Greek Orthodox, Roman Orthodox, Catholic Church, Anglican Church, they'll refer to them as the vicar of Christ. 00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:31.519 That is the body of Christ. 00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:34.239 The church is the body of Christ. 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:38.480 It is the church. 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:50.800 If we decide that these people are going to be solely responsible for our spiritual health, we will all be spiritually malnourished. 00:39:54.239 --> 00:40:00.239 The baby nurses from the mother because that's where the nourishment comes from. 00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:13.760 We go to God and desire the sincere milk of the word, as the apostle Peter wrote, that we may be exercised thereby and grow thereby. 00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:19.440 That means when Pete's not there, you're studying the Word of God and you're still growing. 00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:29.920 Do not think of yourself as unable to receive illumination, unable to receive revelation. 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:50.400 And know this when those things come to you, if it's true, if you've got a real revelation, if it was more than spaghetti and too much garlic overnight, if it was the Spirit of God, his word will confirm it for you. 00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:54.960 And in the mouth of two or three witnesses, truths are established. 00:40:55.199 --> 00:40:57.199 That's a scriptural principle, right? 00:40:57.360 --> 00:40:58.000 Yes. 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:15.280 So if you think you've heard from God like that, you need to share it with people, preferably people who know the Lord better than you, so that you can talk about it and you can see: is this really a revelation from the can the Lord confirm this for me? 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:19.920 Or is this maybe it's just a moment of spiritual growth, illumination? 00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:24.880 Whatever it is, you want to own it for what it is and grow in it. 00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:37.519 So we we see that in Acts, we see the eyes of both Jewish and Gentile believers are enlightened by the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:46.320 And they can't be enlightened only when the synagogue because when they go home, there's much persecution many times. 00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:52.159 When they're thrown in jail, there may not be any apostles and prophets there. 00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:57.840 They must be able to continue in their faith. 00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:09.039 That comes from learning that prayer is two-way communication with God, and you grow in your understanding of the word. 00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:16.719 I used to think, and I remember when it finally dawned on me how stupid I sounded. 00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:27.920 I used to think that when the scripture talked about the bride of Christ, that we would see a literal woman, you know, because of the woman in the book of Revelation. 00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:35.039 But finally I'm reading in the scripture that, oh, this is the church, and I'm thinking to myself, what kind of idiot am I? 00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:42.559 I was not an idiot, I was young in the Lord and young in the word. 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:47.679 You've got to give yourself a chance to grow in the word of God.

00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:50.960 So, verse 45. 00:42:51.440 --> 00:43:00.639 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:04.480 The Jews were not as a whole moved to understand the gospel. 00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:20.400 Many were, but not all of them, because they were blinded by the worship of the traditions that they had built and established, which colored their interpretation of prophecy regarding the Messiah and the new covenant. 00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:25.840 And the new covenant in particular, we already read Jeremiah 31, 31 through 34. 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:27.760 You want to read that again, Mama? 00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:51.199 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant they break, although I was a husband unto them, saith the Lord. 00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:53.679 They nullified that covenant. 00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:58.480 But I am establishing a new covenant. 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:09.119 Everything is going to be inside the core of our identity, being changed by the presence of Christ. 00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:26.800 In their refusal to receive the new covenant, the covenant of Jesus Christ, came their tendency to blaspheme and contradict the scripture because no matter what truth was preached to them about Jesus, it didn't line up with their thoughts. 00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:37.440 As Sadducees, as Pharisees, as Esses, it didn't line up with their traditions, which they had used to replace the Word of God. 00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:42.159 As a matter of fact, their traditions improved upon the law of God. 00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:47.760 Listen, if you got a tradition that helps you walk with God, that's good. 00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:51.039 But it cannot improve on the covenant. 00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:57.360 And if it ever comes to the point where your tradition is saving you, it's no longer a value. 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:04.880 It's only a value as long as it helps you keep balance in your relationship with Jesus Christ. 00:45:05.119 --> 00:45:22.880 If your tradition overcomes, keeping your tradition overcomes your love of Jesus, and your testimony for him is bound up in your tradition as opposed to in his spirit working through you, you're on the road to ruin. 00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:29.199 Because there is no savior other than Jesus Christ. 00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:31.039 Verse 46. 00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:40.719 Paul and Barnabas, though, waxed bold and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you. 00:45:41.599 --> 00:45:45.840 You that are Jewish either by being a proselyte or by birth. 00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:56.320 But seeing you put it from you and

judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 00:45:56.480 --> 00:46:00.880 If you will not receive the gospel, these people will. 00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:07.119 And we have got to spread the gospel where it's going to work. 00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:17.920 Subsequently, they announced to the Jews, in particular, the Jews who were rejecting the gospel, we turn to the Gentiles. 00:46:18.559 --> 00:46:19.920 Verse 47. 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:22.400 For so hath the Lord commanded us. 00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:23.840 How did you know that? 00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:33.280 Well, Paul starts quoting a prophecy about the Messiah, and now he's saying it applies to all those who follow the Messiah. 00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:44.079 I have set thee a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth, not just to the nation of Israel. 00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:48.960 Not just to those who embrace the covenant of Moses. 00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:55.280 Look at Isaiah 42 and 6 and read that, Mama. 00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:02.719 Oops, 42 hit the wrong button. 00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:03.119 Okay. 00:47:03.519 --> 00:47:15.360 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles. 00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:17.280 Jesus was given for a covenant. 00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:18.000 What covenant? 00:47:18.079 --> 00:47:18.880 The new covenant. 00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:19.519 To who? 00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:25.119 Not just the Jews, but to include the Gentiles, for a light unto the Gentiles. 00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:29.119 Isaiah 9 and 6. 00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:33.119 Okay, Isaiah 9. 00:47:33.360 --> 00:47:34.400 I'm not going to say. 00:47:35.440 --> 00:47:36.000 Got it. 00:47:36.239 --> 00:47:36.800 Okay, go ahead. 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:37.840 You got an audience? 00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:38.800 9 and 6. 00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:39.599 Yes. 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:56.800 For unto us the child is born, and unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon him, upon his shoulder, and he in his name will be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:00.880 How much fulfillment is in the Son of God. 00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:02.960 He's called the Everlasting Father. 00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:08.880 The Son is called the Everlasting Father. 00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:19.679 Because we're going to see it taught throughout the New Testament that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself. 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:22.239 That Christ claimed to be the I am. 00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:35.280 So here by Revelation, Paul says this Savior was always to be spread to the Gentiles. 00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:41.039 And since you're rejecting it, now's a good time as any for us to start preaching to the Gentiles. 00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:43.280 47. 00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:51.599 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee a light to the Gentiles that thou shouldest be for the salvation of the ends of the earth. 00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:52.480 48. 00:48:52.639 --> 00:49:00.400 And when the Gentiles heard this, this would include proselytes and Gentiles who were not proselytes. 00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:03.920 They were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. 00:49:04.079 --> 00:49:04.400 Why? 00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:14.559 Because these people who said to them, You can never know God unless you do it the way we do it and follow all these rules and regulations are saying Jesus loves you. 00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:24.559 And the revelation of God in Christ is for you as an individual in your life, as a people, as individuals. 00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:30.639 And they glorified the word of the Lord as many as were ordained to eternal life. 00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:35.440 How does the scripture say people were ordained to eternal life? 00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:37.440 That looks like predestination. 00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:43.360 That God decided, you go to heaven, you go to hell, you go to heaven, you go to hell. 00:49:44.239 --> 00:49:50.800 But you gotta remember, time has a beginning and an ending, like a picture you're looking at on the wall. 00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:52.639 But God is eternal. 00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:59.119 So he sees time as one event and says, I see everyone that's gonna have eternal life. 00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:01.599 I see all those who chose eternal life. 00:50:01.679 --> 00:50:04.000 They were ordained to eternal life. 00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:09.280 Now, and the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region. 00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:14.239 That couldn't be done just by Paul and Barnabas. 00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:18.559 Just two men. 00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:24.239 So how did the word get published throughout all the region? 00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:31.280 The people that they spoke to took it to the next person. 00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:37.679 They took it to heart, they received it, they were born again, and they understood. 00:50:38.239 --> 00:50:46.719 I, if I love Jesus, I take this message to the lost world that he died for because he loves them. 00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:59.199 Jewish and gentile believers rejoiced in the gospel and the word, and it spread like wildfire. 00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:03.280 This listen, if you go to church every Sunday, I'm so happy for you. 00:51:03.440 --> 00:51:04.559 And I think you should. 00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:05.360 I try. 00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:06.800 I love to go. 00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:17.840 But the value of what goes on at a Sunday morning worship service or a Sunday evening evangelistic service is how we live Monday through Saturday. 00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:21.920 It's not just enough to get you through the week. 00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:27.920 No, it's how we live Monday through Saturday. 00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:33.039 If we're not walking with Christ every day, then suddenly

he's not our Sabbath anymore. 00:51:33.199 --> 00:51:34.960 Because in him is our rest. 00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:38.159 And in him we are complete. 00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:41.519 Not in Sunday morning service. 00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:46.800 And don't stop going because it's it's how we encourage one another. 00:51:47.199 --> 00:51:50.159 All us imperfect people get together and say, we can do it. 00:51:50.239 --> 00:51:51.039 We're going to make it. 00:51:51.199 --> 00:51:52.159 We're going to love God. 00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:53.840 We're going to hear from the Word of God. 00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:59.920 But when we leave this place, that's where the testimony, the real testimony, happens. 00:52:01.119 --> 00:52:04.159 Because that's where we meet the unbeliever. 00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:10.000 That's where we introduce them to Jesus. 00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:11.440 Verse 50. 00:52:12.559 --> 00:52:20.079 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, so they started there, and the chief men of the city, so it spread. 00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:23.599 Chief men of the city could even include chief men of the synagogue. 00:52:23.760 --> 00:52:33.599 What they did, they stirred them up and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their coast. 00:52:33.840 --> 00:52:38.719 The unbelieving Jews and the more devout and honorable of them, including the women. 00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:50.000 And they recruited even the leaders of the city, secular leaders, to persecute the believers, in particular Paul and Barnabas, and expel them from their coast. 00:52:50.079 --> 00:52:52.880 So then they were more than run out of town. 00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:02.000 But out of the province, perhaps even what they considered the boundaries of their country and their culture. 00:53:02.159 --> 00:53:04.159 Out, get out, don't come back. 00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:05.760 You'll be tar and feathered. 00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:16.159 Oh, I can't tell you how many Pentecostal preachers were beaten, whipped, their tents burned down around them for preaching, you shall receive the Holy Ghost. 00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:19.039 Here in this country. 00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:28.159 We hear all about Azusa Street, and we think it's great and how revival spread through the Bible belt. 00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:34.000 But I'm gonna tell you, there were plenty of towns where preachers were beaten, horse whipped, and run out of town. 00:53:36.719 --> 00:53:40.079 Because it didn't go according to the way they visualized it. 00:53:40.400 --> 00:54:00.800 Just like the Jews in the days of Jesus, we have so many interpretations of scripture that are not based on what the Spirit of God has sent, but we're too proud and too arrogant to study and trust the Lord to give us revelation. 00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:05.039 You know, my father-in-law had a saying about a PhD. 00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:07.440 He said that could mean post-hole digger. 00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:13.119 Listen, there's nothing wrong with getting all the education you can get. 00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:13.920 Go ahead. 00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:24.239 And if you can go to seminary and study Greek and Aramaic and Hebrew and the Syriac and all the biblical archaeology and the history, do it. 00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:32.239 But if you think that's a substitute for revelation and that qualifies you to be a minister, you're mistaken. 00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:36.639 Only the anointing and the calling of God qualifies us. 00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:42.159 But it doesn't hurt to get all the tools you can get. 00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:48.320 Verse 51. 00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:56.639 But they shook off the dust off their feet against them and came unto Iconium. 00:54:56.719 --> 00:54:59.599 They went to Iconium, they shook off the dust of their feet. 00:54:59.920 --> 00:55:02.880 Oh, look what Paul and Barnabas did. 00:55:03.119 --> 00:55:04.960 It's right out of Matthew. 00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:10.320 Chapter 10, verses 14 and 15. 00:55:10.559 --> 00:55:29.039 For those who would reject the word of God and the messenger of God, that when you leave that house, when you leave that city where they've rejected the message of Jesus Christ, you shake the dust of your feet off for a testimony against that city, that house, that group. 00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:33.119 In other words, you're saying, there's nothing more I can do for you. 00:55:33.599 --> 00:55:37.119 I've got to go on to someone who will listen to the gospel. 00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:47.039 Sometimes you'll run into some people that no matter how many weeks, years you pray for them, they will continually reject God. 00:55:47.199 --> 00:55:50.559 There'll be those who the light will come on after many, many years. 00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:53.840 I'm thinking of Rich Williams after 25 years. 00:55:56.239 --> 00:56:00.400 People who came to Christ after many, many years. 00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:02.000 It does happen. 00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:09.039 But there are also those that, you know, they slam the door in your face and say, You come back here, I'll put a bullet in your head. 00:56:11.519 --> 00:56:14.079 Not everybody's going to be saved. 00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:22.480 And judgment is going to be the greatest bummer of all eternity. 00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:26.880 Verse 52, the last verse. 00:56:27.360 --> 00:56:30.320 And the disciples were filled with joy with the Holy Ghost. 00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:32.159 This is why I put in my note. 00:56:33.679 --> 00:56:36.719 This is what happened to them in my mind. 00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:46.480 When you know that you know, deep down in your know, I have been moving in the will of God. 00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:52.960 It is joy, unspeakable, and full of glory. 00:56:53.599 --> 00:56:55.039 Can you say amen to that? 00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:55.920 Amen. 00:56:56.559 --> 00:56:59.840 So that'll wrap up chapter 13 for us. 00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:14.400 So it'd be a good idea for you before the next lesson to

go back and start reading verse 14, verse 1, and just read through the chapter and we'll break it up as we go through, just like we have previously. 00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:16.880 All right. 00:57:17.119 --> 00:57:17.920 Great study. 00:57:18.079 --> 00:57:19.199 Great study. 00:57:19.519 --> 00:57:24.639 Um, I didn't, I noticed y'all didn't have very many comments this morning. 00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:29.119 Yeah, because I wanted to get as much scripture read as I could, so I apologize. 00:57:29.440 --> 00:57:30.400 You did good, you did good. 00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:39.920 We just had just a couple of minutes left, but I just, you know, it's Rosh Hashanah starts uh at uh six o'clock six their time today. 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:41.840 So it's so explain that. 00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:44.400 Now there's a lot of hearers. 00:57:44.639 --> 00:58:01.199 Well, yeah, no, but here's the thing we we've done podcasts on the seven feasts of Israel and all of that, and so I love how you know one of the things that we always kind of push is that how Jesus has already fulfilled those spring feasts. 00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:01.840 Yes. 00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:03.119 On those days. 00:58:03.280 --> 00:58:03.920 Yes, yeah. 00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:05.840 I mean, exactly on those days. 00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:06.239 Yes. 00:58:06.400 --> 00:58:17.840 And then we go into Rosh Hashanah, which is the Feast of Trumpets, and I just think it's just a beautiful time, you know, that we that we we be ready, you know. 00:58:17.920 --> 00:58:20.159 We uh we want to always be ready. 00:58:20.320 --> 00:58:29.920 I think what we and and Sister Artie and I were talking about it is we don't see ourselves truly as a bride. 00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:40.239 If we saw ourselves like you were talking about the bride of Christ, we would prepare like a bride did on her wedding night before her wedding night. 00:58:40.639 --> 00:58:48.159 We would truly like, I mean, a woman can tell you what goes into all of the everything that she's gonna be. 00:58:48.400 --> 00:58:51.440 I caught my wife just before we were married. 00:58:51.599 --> 00:58:59.199 I caught her sitting at the table, and she had a spiral notebook, you know, eight and a half by eleven for high school. 00:58:59.519 --> 00:59:01.360 And she was writing in it. 00:59:01.440 --> 00:59:01.679 Yeah. 00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:03.199 And I said, What are you doing? 00:59:03.360 --> 00:59:04.400 And she said, I'm writing. 00:59:04.480 --> 00:59:06.800 And she flipped, and she had two or three pages. 00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:07.920 I said, Writing what? 00:59:08.079 --> 00:59:09.599 She said, I'm writing my new name. 00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:11.199 She was writing, Mrs. 00:59:11.519 --> 00:59:13.760 Yeah, John, Ernest. 00:59:14.480 --> 00:59:15.840 Why was she doing that? 00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:23.280 Because she anticipated a change in identity, a change in how we live. 00:59:23.519 --> 00:59:26.800 Now, regarding the seven feasts, let me give you something to think about. 00:59:26.880 --> 00:59:27.519 Yeah. 00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:29.840 And not just the seven feasts. 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:31.840 Let's talk about the festival of lights. 00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:32.639 Yeah. 00:59:33.519 --> 00:59:38.239 There is a teaching that Jesus was conceived on the festival of lights. 00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:39.519 He's the light of the world. 00:59:39.679 --> 00:59:40.719 Yeah, I love that. 00:59:41.039 --> 00:59:41.280 Okay. 00:59:41.440 --> 00:59:45.199 Ah at Passover, unleavened bread, and sheaf of first fruits. 00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:48.000 We already talked about how he fulfilled those. 00:59:48.159 --> 00:59:51.199 And then the Feast of Ingathering and Trumpets. 00:59:51.280 --> 00:59:51.760 Yeah. 00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:59.679 He was born during the Feast of Trumpets and destined to be our atonement. 00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:00.159 Yes. 01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:01.920 And to dwell with us. 01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:02.400 Yeah. 01:00:02.559 --> 01:00:05.119 The tabernacle of God is with men. 01:00:05.760 --> 01:00:11.920 When you read in Revelation, when you read that in Revelation, it says, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he. 01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:15.039 The tabernacle of God is a he. 01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:15.599 Yeah. 01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:16.159 Yeah. 01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:16.960 Yeah. 01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:22.880 Confirming every place that the scripture said God was in Christ. 01:00:24.559 --> 01:00:32.079 That when we get to that city, New Jerusalem, the tabernacle of God is a he. 01:00:32.239 --> 01:00:33.280 Yeah, it's a he. 01:00:34.320 --> 01:00:35.280 I love that. 01:00:35.679 --> 01:00:36.400 I love that. 01:00:36.639 --> 01:00:38.079 Man, that's good stuff. 01:00:38.320 --> 01:00:38.960 Good stuff. 01:00:39.039 --> 01:00:41.039 Well, thank y'all so much for joining us today. 01:00:41.199 --> 01:00:54.159 If you have not already gone back and listened to the beginning of the simple presentation of the book of Acts, I encourage you to go back there and start from the intro and just work your way all the way through it. 01:00:55.039 --> 01:01:03.760 If you enjoy what you're listening to, please like and and follow and share and put it on your pages and let other people learn and glean too. 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:14.960 Because this is a great study into the church and how the church began and and you know how we're to operate and leaning on the Holy Spirit. 01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:16.880 You know, we need the Holy Spirit. 01:01:17.119 --> 01:01:20.800 We need him to lead and guide us into all the truth. 01:01:20.880 --> 01:01:26.400 We need him as the teacher, we need him as the comforter, we need him as all the things that he is. 01:01:26.559 --> 01:01:29.840 We need him to be involved because we carry him. 01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:32.320 You know, we had the conversation Wednesday. 01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:36.639 Why are we carrying someone inside of us that we never even have a conversation with? 01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:46.320 And why did John the Baptist prophesy that the one coming after me will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire? 01:01:46.639 --> 01:01:49.119 He prophesied that to everyone who listened to him. 01:01:49.519 --> 01:01:52.159 And there were people from all over the world living. 01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:52.719 Yeah. 01:01:54.159 --> 01:01:57.760 In what what the Romans called Palestine. 01:01:57.920 --> 01:01:58.159 Yes. 01:01:58.639 --> 01:01:59.039 Judah. 01:01:59.360 --> 01:01:59.760 Judah. 01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:02.880 There were Samaritans. 01:02:03.599 --> 01:02:05.840 There were descendants of the Philistines. 01:02:06.159 --> 01:02:10.480 There were Roman soldiers who were conscripted from many different countries around the world. 01:02:10.639 --> 01:02:13.599 There were merchants who came in caravans. 01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:15.440 All these people are coming through. 01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:17.920 Well, John the Baptist is preaching this. 01:02:19.119 --> 01:02:20.880 There's coming one mightier than I. 01:02:20.960 --> 01:02:25.119 We know it was first to the Jew, but it was never intended solely for them. 01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:29.360 And so John is just preaching it to everyone that will listen. 01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:31.039 Man, that's awesome. 01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:38.320 All right, John, we're going to end with our slogan today to go show some love, show some compassion. 01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:43.840 Give mercy and go be Jesus today. 01:02:45.039 --> 01:02:46.719 Hey STU family. 01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:53.039 If you have enjoyed this podcast today, would you please like, follow, and share our podcast link? 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