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Living Waters of Grace 11.26.25 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Waffer, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, County
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  of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  And if we are salt and light, we will have an impact on the lives
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  of people that don't know Jesus. So you know, to become a
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  pro-life becomes a work of the spirit in someones heart.
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  Well, maybe they were pro-choice before, and all of a sudden
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  their worldview changes. I can't kill babies.
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  I can't kill creations of God anymore.
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  And I'm not going to be that way, right?
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  So all of a sudden the votes change and the commitment of the
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  people and you know, and the world doesn't seem like it's
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  going to hell and in handbasket. You might think you're just one
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  person and there's no way you could make a difference in your
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  school, but if you organize a time of prayer on campus, I bet
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  others will come alongside you. If you take a stand against some
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  agenda at work, you better believe some others likely will
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  too. Sometimes it just takes a person
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  who has a little courage to help others remember that they can be
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  brave in that situation, too. Pastor Clark teaches today about
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  Paul and others in Ephesus who took a stand.
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  Now here's Pastor Clark in the book of Acts Chapter 19 with
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  today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  Well, as a result of this happening in the community in
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  the city of Ephesus, there was less people buying these things.
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  So if you made good living by making these things, maybe
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  you're selling, you know, 1000 a week or something.
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  And all of a sudden you look at your numbers and now they're 600
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  a week and then they're 400 a week and then they're three.
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  You know, you're, you're starting to get bothered, right?
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  Because you know that what's happening in the city now is
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  impacting your livelihood. So this is the purpose of why
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  Demetrius is beginning to get this crowd together, because he
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  made these silver shrines of Diana and it brought a lot of
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  money to the Craftsman who were involved in it.
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  It says in verse 24 he called them together with the workers
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  of similar occupations. So he's getting all the people
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  in the union together to tell them about what's going on and
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  why the numbers are down and why the revenue is a lot less than
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  what it once was, because they probably didn't really quite
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  grasp the impact that Christianity was having in the
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  city of Ephesus. So he calls them together and he
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  says, man, you know that we have our prosperity by this trade.
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  This is how we make our livelihood.
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  Moreover, you see in here that not only at Ephesus, but
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  throughout almost all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned
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  away many people saying that they are not gods which are made
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  with hands. Now, Paul never once picketed in
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  front of the temple of Diana. There's no indication that he
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  was there with signs and, and, and telling everybody, don't go
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  in there and don't do this. Don't do that.
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  He was just teaching the word. And whenever you teach the word,
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  it has an impact on lives. It, it changes your thought
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  process, it changes your worldview.
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  It changes what your priorities are and what you invest and
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  spend your money on you. If you're doing things that
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  aren't right, the Holy Spirit convicts you and speaks to your
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  heart inwardly and says, you know this isn't cool.
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  You know, you know, you really need to let this go.
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  You need to move away from this, this idol or whatever it might
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  be. And idolatry is fashioned in
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  many ways today. We don't have shrines and
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  temples of, of some ridiculous Pagan deity around our necks.
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  At least I hope we don't. But idolatry's in the form of a
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  lot of other things. It can be our material wealth.
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  It can be something we own that we love and that every time we
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  see it, we just smile and say that's mine, you know, and I'm
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  going to give ours a day to whatever I think is important.
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  That's mine. And so we begin to become
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  consumed and controlled by metal and, and, and leather and tires.
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  And those cars are the biggest idols for all of us.
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  When you first get it, you know, you're excited and there's
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  nothing wrong with having a nice car, but it can really overcome
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  you, can't it? Especially when someone wrecks
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  into it. You just bought it.
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  Like it happened to me. I'm in Philadelphia and someone
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  knocks my mirror on my Sienna and I'm like, you got to be
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  kidding me. You know, I was just like, I
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  just got this thing. Well, Lord, said Clark, it's
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  just a piece of metal and it's a means to an end.
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  It's how you make your livelihood.
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  It's how you stay safe and drive around.
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  But I, I had to, I had to sort of like repent a little bit.
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  John's an auto body guy. He likes it when we wreck.
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  That's good for your, your prosperity.
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  But you know, I had to think like, well, you know, it's just
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  a car, right? But things can control our
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  hearts at times, can't they? How about our houses?
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  Nothing wrong with having nice houses, but when they begin to
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  have problems, how can it begin to make us depressed or upset or
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  uptight? Or, you know, it's, it's
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  interesting. I love sports.
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  Many of you do too. But if my whole life was like,
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  well, you know, I'm not going to go to church today because I'll
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  miss the kickoff. And, and I actually did that
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  when I was younger. The Steelers were kicking off at
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  like 12, man, I was, I was the first one out the door at 11:30.
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  Cindy, come on, we got to go. Where are we going?
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  What's the game? It's starting at 9.
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  You know, that pastor's going to go on and on and on.
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  Let's get out of here. One pastor, he like tortured us.
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  He'd have an older call, especially in a a big stealer
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  day. And I knew, man, we were going
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  to miss like at least 1/2 an hour to have the game.
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  But anyway, you know, you don't where your treasure is, your
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  heart is, I'm not like, you know, no guilt trips here.
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  But if there's anything in your life that is above God, then get
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  it right and say, Lord, forgive me and put it in right position
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  so that I'm not worshiping whatever that is above you.
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  That's always the issue of whether something becomes an
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  idol or not an idol in your heart.
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  So these guys are really upset about this issue.
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  And he says their prosperity is being affected.
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  And this has happened throughout Asia.
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  So it's so exciting to know that this school that Paul was
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  teaching in over 2 years, people like you and me and hopefully
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  like we're going out into the world that a culture sharing our
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  faces, we have opportunity that maybe the city of Greensburg
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  would change a little bit, right?
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  Maybe there'd be a few less nightclubs or no casinos aren't
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  going to shut down because they generated a lot of money for it
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  upstate. And, you know, so everybody has
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  reasons why they do what they do.
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  But I mean, there's this element of a salt and light that impacts
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  and and pushes back darkness. So I talked a little bit last
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  week that we can't be apathetic, complacent or indifferent as
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  Christians because the power of God is in US.
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  And if we are salt and light, we will have an impact on the lives
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  of people that don't know Jesus. So you know, to become pro-life
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  becomes a work of the spirit in someone S heart.
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  Well, maybe they were pro-choice before and all of a sudden their
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  worldview changes. I can't kill babies.
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  I can't kill creations of God anymore and I'm not going to be
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  that way right. So all the sudden the votes
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  change and the commitment of the people and you know, and the
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  world doesn't seem like it's going to hell on in handbasket.
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  We begin to get excited because things can be changed, whether
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  it's through people who are running that have godly or the
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  votes change or whatever. The the most important thing to
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  understand is that you and I right now in 2023 are
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  responsible for what's happening in the world.
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  Whether we stand up for truth or we zip our mouths and not say
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  anything right, we're going to be held accountable by the Lord
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  one day in the judgement seat of Christ where we're judged for
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  our works, not for our sin, that we live our lives fully for the
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  purposes of why Christ saved us. Were we ashamed of the gospel or
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  we we're bold to preach the gospel?
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  Do we care enough about people and love them enough to want to
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  tell them about what the Lord's done for us?
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  Or we just didn't want to get involved in a conflict or an
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  argument. I mean, that's the challenge all
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  the time. Well, they won't listen.
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  Well, how do you know they won't listen?
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  And even if they act like they don't listen, maybe they are
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  listening and they're thinking about what you said and they're
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  giving it some thought and consideration and maybe believe
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  later on. And so now the, the, the crowds
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  are growing and this area that they went to, this arena held
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  about 25,000 people. This wasn't a small move or mob
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  issue. This was a big deal, and this
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  guy's saying that Paul is the one who's responsible for all
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  this. Well, he isn't.
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  It's God who's responsible for this.
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  They could kill Paul, but the work of the of the Kingdom of
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  God will go on and it has gone on without Paul, without you,
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  without me. God always raises up new people
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  to continue to, to proclaim the word.
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  So verse 27. So not only is this trade of
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  ours in danger of falling into disrepute, but also the temple
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  of the great goddess Diana may be despised and her magnificence
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  destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worship.
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  Now this guy could care less about her.
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  He wasn't a follower of this ridiculous deity, but he knew
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  she this concept and this worship, this false religion
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  made a lot of money for them. And so now he's trying to get
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  these people who are devoted to Diana to be upset, saying that
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  the testimony of the power of her influence in the nation's at
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  the time is going to be a greatly diminished.
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  So these people in verse 28 now when they heard this, they were
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  full of wrath and cried out saying great is Diana the
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  Ephesians. So the whole city was filled
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  with confusion and rushed into the theater with 1 accord,
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  having seized gay eyes and our Tarkas, Macedonians, Paul's
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  travel Companions. So it's a, it's a mob scene.
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  It's dangerous. No one's standing to reason.
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  If you've ever been in an environment where there's been a
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  riot, it's it takes on a life of its own.
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  And all the sudden people who are in the midst of the crowd
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  all the sudden become infected. And next thing you know, they're
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  on board with whatever the ridiculous thing is that
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  someone's upset about. That's what happened at the mob
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  rule. Whenever Jesus was Pilate and
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  they asked Pilate asked who should we release Jesus or
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  Barabbas? And they all yelled Barabbas.
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  And then they started yelling at crucify him, crucify him.
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  And all the people that were yelling crucify him probably
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  didn't even want him to be crucified, but they were caught
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  up in that atmosphere. It's demonic and it begins to
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  take people over. It's like what happened on
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  January 6th, right? There was people there that just
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  wanted to have a, a reason to stand up for thing they felt was
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  important. And next thing you know, people
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  are breaking barriers down, going into the buildings of
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  government and all of a sudden, you know, guns and all.
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  I mean, it was, it was anarchy, lawlessness.
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  This is what's happening in our nation right now.
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  Lawlessness. That's what happened with these
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  police officers, lawlessness, beating and brutalizing this
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  young man. This is going on right now.
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  And we need to pray by the power of the Holy Spirit that the Lord
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  would circumvent this and put a protective, protective hedge
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  around all of us, the churches, the people of God, and that the
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  law enforcement officials would be people who are standing for
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  justice and not injustice. The consequences of what people
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  do need to be dealt with it. You just can't be behave this
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  way. It's barbaric.
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  And this is what's happening here though they grab this,
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  these two guys that serve with Paul, thank God they weren't
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  martyred or killed. Paul's travel companions.
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  And when Paul found out about this in verse 30, he wanted to
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  go into the people and the disciples will not allow him.
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  Then some of the officials of Asia, these people weren't even
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  believers, but they respected Paul, who were.
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  His friends sent to him pleading that he would not venture into
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  the theater. Paul would have went in there.
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  He would have probably been martyred at that time wasn't his
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  time to be killed yet. So he didn't go in.
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  So therefore some therefore cried one thing and some another
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  for the assembly was confused. This mass confusion.
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  There's no no truth in this stuff going on and most of them
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  did not know why they had come together.
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  Isn't it amazing, amazing you're there and you're with all these
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  people and then you look to your spouse or your friend.
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  What are we doing here? Why are we here?
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  I'm sure that's probably the thought of some of the people on
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  the January 6th are probably like, this has turned into
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  something insane and ungodly and unjust and illegal, and they
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  drew Alexander out of the multitude.
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  Now, Alexander was a Jewish guy and the Jews were the ones that
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  really caused the persecution against the Christians at the
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  time. It wasn't so much the Roman
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  Empire. They tolerated different moves
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  of whatever religion. But in this instance here,
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  Alexander's motioning with his hand, he wanted to act like he
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  could control and get everybody calmed down.
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  He wanted to make his defense to the people, but when they found
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  out that he was a Jew, all with one voice cried out for about
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  two hours. Great as Diana of the Ephesians.
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  So again, nothing is making sense.
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  This is going on for two hours. This this mass mass confusion.
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  Now I don't know if you've ever been in a riot.
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  I hope you're not and never are in a riot, but it, it begins to
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  become very, very dangerous. And we, we see the aftermath of
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  some of these things in the streets of our country going on
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  right now up in the Oregon and San Francisco and, and some of
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  these other places. I mean, these cities have become
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  destroyed. They're not safe to walk in.
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  They're not safe to live in. They're not safe to be in
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  because we have allowed, for whatever crazy reason, the
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  extremism against the police. I'd hate to be a police officer
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  right now having to deal, you know, based upon what's just
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  happened because everybody's going to think cops are horrible
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  and and and dangerous to be around instead of realizing that
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  God raised him up to protect us from injustice.
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  And so things are really out of control.
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  Lewis has been teaching in Timothy about in the last days
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  there will be lawlessness. We see it, we're experiencing it
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  and what is it that we're going to do about it?
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  But pray and be a light and be salt in the midst of a crooked
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  and perverse generation who were supposed to shine his lights.
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  So then we see God in His mercy and His sovereignty in verse 35.
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  And when the city clerk, it quieted the crowd.
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  This guy is sort of like a mayor, but obviously an
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  anointing upon him to be able to bring some sanity.
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  And they begin to listen for some reason to him, men of
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  Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of
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  the Ephesians is temple, guardian of the great goddess
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  Diana and of the image which fell down from Zeus?
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  So he, he goes to their mythology, calms them down
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  because the majority of the people, this is how they're
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  wired. This is what they think about
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  their city. This is the reputation.
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  Everything's still intact. He's saying, therefore, since
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  these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do
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  nothing rashly. So in other words, don't behave
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  this way. You're worked up about about
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  nothing. Nothing's changing right now in
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  in Ephesus in regard to our Pagan ways.
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  For you brought these men here who are neither robbers of
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  temples nor blasphemers, blasphemers of your goddess.
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  And what a testimony these guys, Paul and his associates and
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  those who serve with them had done nothing to diminish the
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  emphasis of these people in regard to what it was they
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  thought was important. Paul wasn't bad mouthing the
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  goddess. That wasn't.
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  We can learn something here, I think today from how we deal
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  with the culture. You're not going to win any
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  battles by, you know, hating and having signs defaming gay people
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  or pro-choice people and these kind of things.
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  That has no impact. All it does is inflamed people.
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  I mean, I've driven down Route 30 by Barnes Noble and I've seen
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  the most horrific signs of babies who are being aborted as
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  you almost want to wreck your car.
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  It's horrible. See it?
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  I don't want to think about that.
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  I know what's going on. But but but by doing that, what
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  what is that doing to people right by you think the people
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  that think it's OK to kill babies and good signs are going
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  to bother them, just going to make them mad and hate us more.
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  There's a way of reaching people in regard to these senseless
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  philosophies and ideologies and worldviews that people have, and
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  it's the preaching of the gospel.
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  It's not condemning the pro-choice people.
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  It's loving them enough to help them get free from the blindness
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  that the devil has allowed to be on their eyes, that they don't
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  understand who Jesus is. They're used to people fighting
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  them, they're used to the people picketing and arguing, but
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  they're not used to people caring about them and loving
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  them. And we can't love people like
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  that apart from Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit,
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  right? We can't, we can't give people
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  grace without God's grace in our hearts first.
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  We have a tendency to be angry as Christians, and it's very
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  unattractive to the lost. And they think they're getting
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  their way because the matter we get, and the more upset we get,
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  the more they invalidate our testimony and the more weak we
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  become because we're trying to win a battle on the energy and
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  the power of our human flesh and ability to try to legislate
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  righteousness. You can't legislate
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  righteousness as much as we would like to.
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  Only God can restore righteousness and it comes
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  through the cross and every one of us here today, for the most
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  part, I'm sure, had to come through the cross to become, we
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  all had to come through the cross to become righteous.
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  When we become righteous, not self-righteous, but righteous in
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  good position with God, the things that he's concerned about
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  or cares about, we should care about too.
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  For God so loved the world. That's everybody in it.
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  That's the murderers, extortioners, the rapists, the
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  immoral, the extortioners, the thieves.
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  God so loved the world, the people in this world, that he
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  gave of his only begotten Son, that whoever and that's all
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  those people along with us, whosoever would believe in him,
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  would not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  And I love what it says later. God did not send his Son into
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  the world to condemn the world. We've been doing, I'm not
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  talking about you, but the rank and foul.
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  I think of us many times as Christians, we've been doing too
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  much condemning. He didn't come to condemn the
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  world. He knew like this is what you
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  get when you're lost, when you're a Sinner and you don't
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  have a savior. This is this is your way you
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  live. You can't live any other way but
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  a godless way. God did not send his son into
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  the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him
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  might be saved. And so he's calming these people
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  down and he says. Therefore, since these things
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  cannot be denied, verse 36, you ought to be quiet and do nothing
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  rashly, for you have brought these men here, who are neither
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  robbers or of temples nor blasphemers, your goddess.
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  Therefore, if Demetrius and his fellow Craftsman have a case
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  against anyone, the courts are open and there are pro councils.
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  In other words, you guys are bothered you do this legally by
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  the form of government that we have in the Empire, and let them
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  bring charges against one another.
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  But if you have any other inquiry to make, it shall be
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  determined in a lawful assembly, for we are in danger of being
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  called in question of the day's uproar, there being no reason
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  which we may give to account for this disorderly gathering.
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  He was concerned if the leaders of the Roman Empire saw that he
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  was losing control as one of the responsible parties in this
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  city, then they would lose the freedom they have to conduct
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  their business and their ways according to what they were
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  allowed to do, according to the rules of the empire.
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  And when he had said these things, he dismissed the
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  assembly. There's never any excuse for any
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  disorderly gatherings. And the interesting point as we
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  conclude is that the city of Ephesus is no longer like it was
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  at that time. There is no temple of Diana
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  there. It was destroyed.
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  There's some excavation showing that the place was real.
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  And they got some pillars in a museum in in Britain, One of
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  these tall pillars, columns there was 125 columns, 60 feet
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  high that surrounded this, this edifice, this amazing edifice.
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  But it's no longer there. It's just a memory of history.
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  The idol makers of Diana are no longer making these things.
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  They're gone and Ephesus now is more like a tourist stop.
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  If you're on Bible journeys and that kind of stuff, they'll
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  they'll take you to Ephesus and show you around.
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  We know the Book of Revelation discussed the church in Ephesus
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  that left its first love and you know, these kind of historical
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  things. But Ephesus is no way an
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  influential center of commerce, let alone spirituality.
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  There's only one power that can overcome all this stuff that
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  we're all dealing with in the year that we're living, 2023 and
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  onward. And it's not by picketing, it's
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  not by hating, it's not by revolution.
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  It's by this as Paul proclaimed it in Romans 116.
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  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, For it is the
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  power of God, the salvation for everyone who believes, for the
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  Jew 1st, and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of
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  God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written, the just
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  shall live by faith. So when you go out this week,
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  you live by faith in the truth of the Word of God.
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  You live by 100% confidence, faith in the gospel of Jesus
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  Christ. That this is the answer for
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  conflict. This is the answer for you to
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  speak to people who are lost or who counterintuitive, they think
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  differently than you do because they're lost.
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  And then we love them. We love them enough to share
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  with them and to pray for them and to care for them.
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  So May God give us grace as we lift up Christ in our life daily
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  the best we can with the ability He's given us in the home and
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  the marriage with the kids, the family, the workplace, the
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  community, the neighborhood. And that God, as He is faithful,
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  will turn hearts to himself when His word is proclaimed.
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  Amen. Thank you for listening to this
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  edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  Pastor Clark is teaching us about the book of Acts in this
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  series. Acts is a powerful and unique
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  part of Scripture, not just because it records the spread of
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  the gospel geographically from Jerusalem to the ends of the
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  earth, but also culturally. Acts shows us how the message of
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  Jesus moved beyond its Jewish roots and began to reach the
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  Gentile world. What started with Peter leading
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  a small group in the Upper Room became a global movement with
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  Paul taking the gospel to cities, synagogues, and
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  marketplaces across the Roman Empire.
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  Acts captures this vital transition and reminds us that
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  the good news of Jesus is for all people in every place.
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  May we be inspired to carry that same gospel boldly into our
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  world today. Living Waters of Grace comes to
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