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  Acts chapter 28 Let us pray oh Lord our God, here we are again
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  Lord, we are desirous of a touch today.
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  God, we want to feel your presence.
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  Lord, by faith we acknowledge you are here in this room, and
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  by faith we know that the train of your robe fills the temple,
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  and we cry out holy, holy, holy. We cover our eyes, God, because
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  you dwell in inapproachable light.
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  God the Spirit and the Bride says, come.
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  Lord, we worship you in spirit and truth.
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  God, we stand on the truth today.
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  We stand on Jesus Christ himself today.
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  We plead the blood today. God, we speak a better word
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  today over all of our emotions and circumstances.
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  God protect our families. Lord, I pray that you will help
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  us to come in. God, to the throne room to come
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  in to the holiest of holy places.
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  Father, we want to see you high and lifted up, exalted over
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  every nation. God, you are the King of the
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  universe. God, we love you.
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  Jesus, we're asking you, Holy Spirit, to teach us the minds of
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  Christ. Teach us the ways of our Lord
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  Jesus Christ. Teach us, Father, and help us to
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  see you, Father. Help us to know that you're
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  near. Help us to know that you're
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  fighting our battles and you are for us.
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  Therefore, no one can be against us in Jesus Christ.
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  We love you, Holy Spirit. Give us sound doctrine and
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  theology. Help us to know that we are
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  rightly dividing the word. Help us to know that you are
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  well pleased. Father, be here with us.
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  Show up and show off and do mighty things.
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  God rescue those that are in the pit of despair.
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  Do the same thing for them that you did for us.
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  God, reveal your glory. Father, glory Hallelujah.
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  We love you King Jesus, hide me and hide my words and hide my
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  thoughts. I decrease as you increase.
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  Jesus Christ. We are your disciples.
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  You are our long-awaited Messiah.
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  You are all powerful and all knowing and you are everywhere
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  all at once Father. So we just bow down low in
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  reverence. We lay prostate at your feet,
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  Father, and give you all of our adoration.
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  We give you all of our attention.
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  We give you all of our affection.
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  Help us to live sold out lives for you.
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  Help us not to be distracted and help us to put our hand to the
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  plow and help us to love you more.
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  God, take us to new heights with you.
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  Let us be seated with you in heavenly places.
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  God, take us to new depths of your love and your mercy and
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  your joy. Father, we love you, King Jesus,
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  and it's in your holy and precious and powerful name that
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  I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And when they were escaped, then
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  they knew that the island was called Malita, also known as
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  Malta. And here they have been tossed
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  to and fro by all the wind and the waves, and they have been
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  driven onward by Gale force winds.
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  They had been in a hurricane in Nor'easter, and the clouds were
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  covering the stars and the sun, and they could not have any kind
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  of recognition of where they were at.
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  But little did they know that miraculously, God had planted
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  them right on a port island where there was already another
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  ship awaiting to take them to Rome.
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  And God's provision and Providence will always come to
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  fruition. And there is no lack in the
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  Father's house. When one ship is wrecked, you're
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  ushered on to another one that is ready and waiting for you.
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  And we can see here that the Angel of the Lord had already
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  told Paul that all the men would be safe.
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  And here they are, 276 souls miraculously saved from the
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  storm. And these locals at this time,
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  I'm sure they were bewildered at this sight of these men who were
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  coming in on the boards that were broken off of the ship.
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  They were floating in and swimming to shore.
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  And I'm sure that all of these men were weakened and they were
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  all confused about where they were at and what they were
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  looking at. And we see that these men, these
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  Islanders, they showed great hospitality, verse 2.
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  And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness, for they
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  kindled a fire and received us everyone, because of the present
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  rain and because of the cold. So you can see here these
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  miserable, depressing situation that they find themselves in.
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  And these locals here, they're coming and they are receiving
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  them, every single one of them, letting them warm themselves by
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  the fire. 3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and
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  laid them on the fire, there came a Viper out of the heat and
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  fastened on his hand. Look at the servant heart of
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  Paul. Here he is just coming off of a
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  shipwreck, being at sea and not being able to even know where
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  they're at. And then he immediately gets to
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  work and we can see that his heart is of a servant's heart.
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  And that is how you know that someone is linked up with Jesus
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  Christ. They're not they're not just
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  sitting on their blessed assurance friends.
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  They show their faith by their works.
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  And we can also see here in verse three that even whenever
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  you are in God's providential plan, bad things can happen to
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  you. But we must shake off this
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  Viper. For and when the barbarian saw
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  the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among
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  themselves, no doubt this man is a murderer, whom though he had
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  escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffered him not to live.
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  So here they had this false religion, this goddess of
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  justice, and they thought that justice must be served, and that
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  Paul had done something wrong. And we know from Paul's own
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  words that he was a murderer and he had caused the early
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  Christians to blasphemy. And we know that he had them
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  locked up and thrown into prison.
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  And he rightly deserved death like every single one of us.
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  But because he belonged to the Lord Jesus Christ and he was
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  covered in the blood of Jesus Christ, we can see here that
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  this Viper has no claim on him. Death has no hold on him,
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  friends, and that is our inheritance as well.
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  You need to know that whenever the wily serpent comes against
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  you, we just shake him off. In the name of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. We crush the head of the enemy,
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  Friends, he has no claim. He has no hold on us.
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  He is defanged. He has no venom.
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  Friends, it's all a lie. Don't believe the lies that he
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  tries to propagate to you. We claim the name of the Lord
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  Jesus Christ high and above every single venomous snake
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  coming against us. Praise God, Hallelujah.
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  And they're thinking that Paul is about to die.
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  Five. And he shook off the beast into
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  the fire and felt no harm. That's our inheritance.
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  Friends shake him off when he tries to latch on.
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  Shake him off and remind him of his end.
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  He is writhing and he knows that his time is short.
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  And all we must do when he tries to remind us of our past is we
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  remind him of his future, and he is going to be thrown into the
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  lake of fire, never to return again.
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  Friends 6 Howbeit, they looked when they he should have swollen
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  and fallen down dead suddenly. But after they had looked a
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  great while and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds
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  and said he was a God. How preposterous is this?
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  This is ridiculous. How men try to attribute to
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  other men either condemnation because of something that they
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  must have done to deserve that, or they exalt them to a place of
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  a God which is blasphemous, friends.
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  And This is why we cannot have the fear of man.
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  This is why we must not try to value ourselves off of what
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  others think about us. It will always lead to one side
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  of the ditch or the other. And the devil doesn't care which
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  side that we wreck on. We can wreck on the side of
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  condemnation where we buy into all the lies of the enemy about
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  our future, or we can wreck on the side of accepting worship
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  and being eaten up by worms. But either way, we need to stiff
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  arm what man thinks about us. And we need to be supremely
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  preoccupied with what does God say about us.
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  And it is written from Genesis to Revelation what God says
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  about you. St. says that you are blood
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  bought, born again, and you're going to bust heaven wide open
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  and he is well pleased with you and none of your sins will ever
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  be counted against you. And when we have that reality,
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  we're will obey him because he says to us, there is nothing
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  that you could ever do to make you to make me love you any
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  less, and there is nothing that you could ever do to make me
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  love you anymore. And when we come under the blood
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  of Jesus Christ and we plead the blood of Jesus Christ, we are
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  justified. And it is as if we have never
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  sinned because God gives us his justification.
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  He gives us Jesus's righteousness, friends, and we
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  are innocent before God with the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  And when we have that reality, it will cause us to obey.
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  It will cause us to walk in the light because He's in the light.
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  It will cause us to be holy because He is holy.
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  Friends, shake off the devil and don't receive false worship, and
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  don't buy into the condemnation. Anyone that is in Christ.
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  There is no more condemnation for that man.
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  Condemnation is from the evil. 1 Seven in the same quarters were
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  possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was
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  Publius, who received us and lodged us three days
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  courteously. They went from a shipwreck, lost
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  without hope, to Publius's house being received courteously and
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  lodging there and having all of the delicacies that were
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  available to them given to them. And isn't this just like the
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  Lord? He takes us into the third world
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  countries, the dirt huts, and He allows us to be content with
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  little. And then God takes us into the
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  most luxurious settings. And that is the way of the
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  Christian. And we cannot turn our backs on
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  those that have little, and we cannot also think that those
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  that have much we should not keep company with.
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  We need to know that the way of God is for all people, and he
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  has people in every camp. There's Joseph of Arimathea, and
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  then there's Lazarus, and there's the beggar there eating
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  the crumbs under the table. And you need to know that God is
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  in every single land, people, group, continent, and there is a
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  representative from all tribe in the Kingdom of God.
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  And we must not think of ourselves as better than those
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  that have little or less than those that have much.
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  With God there is a great equalizing, and we can see that
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  He desires for us to take care of our brothers and sisters, and
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  to take care of the widows and the orphans in their time of
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  distress. And you can see that God's
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  economy is not the economy of this world, Friends.
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  Sometimes He allows us to have blessings so that we can bless
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  others, and sometimes He allows us to experience the little so
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  that we will be grateful for all that we have.
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  Lord, don't give us too little that we might steal, and don't
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  give us too much that we will forget about You.
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  Give us just enough for this day.
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  Give us Our Daily Bread. Father A.
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  And it came to pass that the father of Publius lay sick of a
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  fever and of a bloody flux, to whom Paul entered in and prayed
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  and laid his hands on him and healed him.
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  This is a miraculous healing of this fever, this flux that was
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  probably from the Malta fever that is recorded, and it was
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  from people who were drinking the goat's milk that had these
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  microorganisms that gave them a sickness that lasted somewhere
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  around four months. And this father of Publius is
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  suffering from all of this dysentery and Paul comes in much
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  like Jesus Christ whenever he healed Peter's mother-in-law.
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  Here Paul comes in and he lays hands and he prays and the man
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  is miraculously healed. Thank God Almighty for the
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  miraculous. 9. So when this was done, others
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  also which had diseases in the island came and were healed.
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  So we know that Doctor Luke is on the scene here.
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  And perhaps Doctor Luke was giving out very common sense
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  remedies to all those showing up, telling them not to drink of
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  this milk. But we can also see how God uses
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  modern medicine and the miraculous in tandem.
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  And sometimes God leaves us in our infirmities so that we can
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  be a witness to the hospital staff.
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  Sometimes he leaves us in our infirmity so that we can
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  experience glory sooner than others.
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  And we just need to know at the very end of the day that to live
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  is Christ and to die is gain. And we need not fear death.
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  We need not fear the chosen chariot that God uses to carry
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  us home by and by friends now. And so when this was done,
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  others also, which had diseases in the island, came and were
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  healed. So it's all in tandem, Friends
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  10, who also honored us with many honors.
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  And when we had departed, they laded us with such things as
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  were necessary. So they were heavy laden with
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  everything that they could ever need for this journey.
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  All of the things, the food, the nourishment, all of the water,
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  all of the preparations. They had miraculously landed on
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  a port island with a boat waiting for them on the other
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  side. 11 And after three months we departed in a ship of
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  Alexandria which had wintered in the Isle, whose sign was Castor
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  Pollux. So we can see here God's
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  Providence. God has already had a ship that
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  had wintered there that He knew would take Paul on to Rome. 13
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  And from there we fetched a compass and came to regime, And
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  after one day the South wind blew, and we came the next day
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  to Patuli 14, where we found brothers, and were desired to
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  stay with them seven days, and so we went toward Rome.
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  So here they were being not only strengthened in the physical by
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  all the things that they were laden with for their journey,
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  all the provisions that the people of Malta gave to them,
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  but they were also strengthened in their spirit.
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  This is just like God. God knows that we need the
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  physical healings. He knows that we need the
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  physical nourishment. He knows that our bodies need
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  all of the nutrients. However, he also knows that that
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  is the segue into the physical realm and that we need to be
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  spiritually nourished much more than any of our physical
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  nourishment. And that is what Jesus told his
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  disciples when he was hanging out at the well with the
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  Samaritan woman, speaking with her.
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  And then they came back and said, Master, eat.
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  And he says, I have food that you know nothing about.
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  Our physical health is of utmost importance and it is over our
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  physical health. The spiritual supersedes the
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  physical friends. 15 And from there when the brothers heard of
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  us, they came to meet us as far as Appi Forum and the Three
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  Taverns, whom when Paul saw, he thanked God and took courage.
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  These brothers came 40 something miles to meet him.
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  They had come there and there was a great delegation, as if
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  Paul was some kind of super important person.
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  He had written them a letter when he was in Corinth and he
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  was very popular and he was almost at a celebrity status
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  with these brothers, enough so that they took the time to walk
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  40 something miles to greet him. Friends.
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  He had this delegation of royalty.
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  As he's stepping off the ship, all of these people were there
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  to greet him. What an amazing scene that we
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  can see. 16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered
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  the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was suffered
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  to dwell by himself with the soldier that kept him.
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  So we can see Paul arriving at Rome.
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  We can see that this centurion would have been much relieved
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  that all these shipwrecked, seasick prisoners were delivered
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  safely. And Paul said it would be so
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  because the Angel revealed it to him.
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  And you can see here that God's at work and Paul has this circle
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  of influence. They knew that it was out of
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  envy that they handed Paul over and that he had done nothing
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  wrong, nothing that was deserving of death.
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  And doesn't that sound familiar? And when we're following hard
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  after the Lord Jesus Christ, don't be surprised if our lives
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  mirror and model the ministry of Jesus.
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  He was despised and rejected. He was misunderstood and
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  persecuted. And don't be surprised when you
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  and I find ourselves in that same predicament.
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  And here you can see that He was given the luxury of having his
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  own space. With one caveat, he had to be
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  kept under guard and there was a rotating guard of a soldier and
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  they would come in and they would stay with him for six
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  hours at a time and he always had a new soldier to share the
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  gospel of Jesus Christ. We can see here that what the
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  world would call a failure, God is using.
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  And he used this time in Paul's life for him to write many of
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  the letters that are in the Canon of Scripture that were in
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  divinely inspired by the word of God, divinely inspired by the
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  Holy Spirit. And you could see that God's
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  ways are not our ways. And he had to sit Paul down to
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  pen these letters. And we are eternally blessed by
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  this time that Paul got here in Rome. 17 And it came to pass
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  that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews
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  together. And when they were come
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  together, he said unto them, Men, brothers, though I have
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  committed nothing against the people or customs of our
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  fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the
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  hands of the Romans. So you can see here that it was
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  Paul's custom to go to the Jew 1st, and then to the Gentile.
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  And you can see here that this is God's plan for the ages.
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  And Jesus Christ talked about this when he gave the parable of
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  the king and the banquet, when he invited the nobility and they
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  refused him. And then he said, go out into
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  the highways and the hedges. And you can see here that the
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  Jews rejected their Messiah. And because of that rejection,
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  you and I are coming in to eternity.
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  We're coming in to salvation because of their disobedience.
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  But God in full circle, he's going to call the Jews unto
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  himself and they are going to, during the millennial reign of
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  Jesus Christ, they are going to acknowledge that they murdered
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  the Messiah and they're going to come to the saving knowledge of
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  Jesus Christ as their Messiah, their long-awaited Messiah.
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  And it is a beautiful plan. It is a divine mystery.
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  And this calls for wisdom. 18 Who, when they had examined me,
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  would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in
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  me. He had not done anything worthy
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  of imprisonment, much less execution. 19 But when the Jews
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  spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal unto
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  Caesar, not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
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  So here he's saying that he was about to be taken against his
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  own will back to Jerusalem, where they were going to ambush
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  him and murder him and not give him a fair trial.
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  So as a Roman citizen, he had the right to appeal to Caesar,
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  and he was not speaking against them.
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  He was not trying to break them down.
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  He knew that all of this was a divine plan of God and that he
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  had a first class ticket to Rome on Rome's budget that he did not
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  even have to try to pay for himself.
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  It was paid for by the government for him to do the
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  Lord's work. And don't be surprised when that
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  is the case in your life, friends.
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  If it is God's will, it is His bill and we do not need to worry
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  how we're going to pay for something that God has called us
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  to. All we need to do is have the
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  faith to take the next step. 24 this cause, therefore, have I
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  called for you to see you and to speak with you, because that for
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  the hope of Israel. I am bound with this chain.
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  So he's saying that this hope of Israel is Jesus Christ, and that
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  is why he is in chains, because he is preaching the good news of
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  the Lord Jesus Christ, which is not worthy of death.
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  There's no law against it. And he is showing them through
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  the law and the prophets that all of the scriptures were
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  fulfilled in Jesus Christ. And you can see here that is
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  Paul's heart, and he wants to share this hope for Israel to
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  the Jews in Rome. 21 And they said unto him, We neither
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  received letters out of Judea concerning you, neither any of
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  the brothers that came showed or spoke any harm of you.
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  So the accusers back in Jerusalem didn't even think it
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  was worthy of their time. They would have been completely
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  embarrassing of their own selves to send some kind of delegation,
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  some kind of letter, some kind of messenger to Rome to try and
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  accuse Paul of something. And they knew that it was all
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  out of envy. And so they left it all alone.
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  And we can see here that these leading Jews in Rome have not
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  even heard of any of the accusations that Paul is accused
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  of. 22 But we desire to hear of you what you think.
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  For as concerning this sect, we know that everywhere it is
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  spoken against. So the fame of Jesus Christ has
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  gone out into the whole known world, and the Jews of that time
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  were speaking against the sect of the Nazarenes.
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  And you can see here that this is what Paul is propagating.
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  He is coming in and he is showing them the good news of
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  the Lord Jesus Christ. And they had only heard
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  negative. And so they were wanting to
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  know. They were interested to know
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  what Paul knew so that they can make a decision on their own. 23
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  And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him
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  into his lodging, to whom he expounded and testified the
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  Kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of
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  the law of Moses and out of the prophets.
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  From morning till evening Paul was laying line upon line,
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  precept upon precept. He was using sound doctrine, and
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  he was reasoning with them. He was coming and showing them
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  that Jesus is the fulfillment of all the law and the prophets,
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  and he did it methodically, friends.
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  And Paul was a very learned man from the sect of the Pharisees,
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  and he was very stringent and he knew his Bible.
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  And that is a call for you and for me.
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  We should always be ready to give a reason for the hope that
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  you and I possess. Friends, anytime someone asks us
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  why we are so hopeful, we need to be able to tell them of the
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  good news of the Lord Jesus Christ, that they can have all
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  of their sins forgiven and they can be justified and they can be
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  at one with God. Friends, we need to be able to
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  accurately and articulately tell people of the good news of the
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  Lord Jesus Christ and what He's done for us.
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  Share your salvation story with someone today. 24 And some
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  believe the things which were spoken, and some believe not,
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  and that is the same for us today.
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  God draws the line in the sand, and we must make a decision.
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  And then there is no neutrality. You are either for him or you
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  are against him. And thank God, when we do not
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  blasphemy the Holy Spirit, and we actually allow God to draw us
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  unto himself, and we actually come into the saving knowledge
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  of the Lord Jesus Christ, praise God. 25 And when they had agreed
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  not among themselves, they departed.
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  After that Paul had spoken one word well spoke the Holy Ghost
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  by Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers. 26 Saying, Go unto this
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  people, and say, Hearing You shall hear, and shall not
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  understand, seeing, you shall see and not perceived. 27 For
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  the heart of this people is waxed gross, their ears are dull
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  of hearing, and their eyes have they closed, lest they should
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  see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand
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  with their heart, and should be converted.
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  And I should heal him. What a divine mystery of the
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  Lord, how in a moment's notice He can rend the heavens, and
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  every knee would bow, and every tongue would confess that Jesus
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  is Lord. But He leaves us here in our
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  free will state, so that we will choose Him, and when we do, we
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  bring Him honor and glory. God could cause us
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  instantaneously to worship Him. God could cause us
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  instantaneously to see him, and we would try to hide ourselves
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  because of the glory of God. And Isaiah captured that.
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  And these Jews in Rome, the moment that Paul shared this
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  with them, they were done. They were done listening.
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  It was time to go. They were offended about what
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  Paul said and it is so beautiful when we can point people back to
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  Scripture. This supports Jesus as the
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  Messiah. It is such a beautiful thing
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  when we can see Jesus on every single page from Genesis to
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  Malachi. We see Jesus Christ revealed
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  friends in types and shadows, and that is what Paul has done
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  here. He has showed the Jews that they
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  have now received the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
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  they must make a decision. 29 And when he had said these
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  words, the Jews departed and had great reasoning among
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  themselves. So they were in dispute because
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  some came to the saving knowledge and some refused it.
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  30 And Paul dwelt 2 whole years in his own hired house, and
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  received all that came in unto him.
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  What an amazing time. For two years Paul was chained,
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  but he had great freedom and God was leading many people to come
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  and to learn. And he sat Paul down and he had
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  Paul to pin down the epistles that we hold so high in regard.
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  And he also had Paul there to give a reason for the hope that
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  he possessed. And God increased his ministry
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  in despite of his physical. Disablement to be able to move
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  freely. God continued to grow that
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  ministry exponentially. Friends, we'll end on 31
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  preaching the Kingdom of God and teaching those things which
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  concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence.
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  No man forbidding him. Praise God.
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  Hallelujah. We can see that there was no one
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  who could dispute the teachings of Paul.
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  Paul had been given divine counsel, and no one forbade him
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  to be able to speak the name of Jesus Christ.
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  And we could see here how we have been so incredibly blessed
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  by these teachings of Paul and how God was supremely honored by
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  Paul and he gave Paul the sound doctrine and theology that we
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  hold and possess. How amazing is this hope?
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  You've been blessed by this book of the Bible, the actions of the
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  1st century church. And God asks us a question, and
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  he says, What will you do with the name of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ, now that you have been given the divine wisdom and
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  divine counsel, and you know the Gospels and you know what it is
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  that we ought to do? How will you steward that
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  blessing, friends? And we should bring many to
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  repentance and preach the whole word to the whole world, holding
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  nothing back, not taking anything out, friends, not
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  trying to add anything to it. I hope you've been blessed by
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  it. I know I sure have.
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  I love you. I'm praying for you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.