Latest / Scripture Unscripted / Acts chapter 13

Transcript

Acts chapter 13 · Scripture Unscripted

• 0:01
  Acts chapter 13. Let us pray, oh Heavenly Father,
• 0:09
  our Lord Almighty who reigns on high, God, we get out of our own
• 0:15
  way, God. We laid down prostate, Lord,
• 0:19
  like dead man at your feet, Lord, we are desirous for a
• 0:23
  touch from you. Lord, we are desirous to see you
• 0:27
  and to see your glory, Father. Let our faces shine like Moses.
• 0:32
  Lord, I pray that we won't just stay on top of this mountain,
• 0:36
  Lord, but that we will go and be your hands and feet, Lord, and
• 0:40
  lock eyes with you and God. Put our hand to the plow, Lord,
• 0:45
  not get distracted. Lord, I pray against the schemes
• 0:48
  of the enemy. Lord, I pray that this time
• 0:51
  we'll be holy, Lord, because you are in the midst, Lord, You are
• 0:56
  on every page. And so, God, as we open up your
• 1:00
  word today and as we study it, Lord, and as it's spoken aloud,
• 1:05
  let it reverberate through the rafters and into the community
• 1:09
  and into the world at large, God, every continent, every
• 1:15
  people group and every language. God, I pray that your word would
• 1:18
  go out to the masses, Lord. And I pray that you'll call your
• 1:22
  people home, the ones that are called by your name, Jesus
• 1:28
  Christ. I pray that you will hearken
• 1:31
  unto them, Lord, and I pray that they will have enough
• 1:35
  wherewithal to come in to the fold.
• 1:39
  Lord, we strap up today. Lord, we armor up today.
• 1:44
  God, we pray up today. Lord, fill us with the Holy
• 1:48
  Spirit today. Overflowing.
• 1:50
  Lord, I pray that as we go out today that people will see you
• 1:56
  all over us. Let us have you seasoned in our
• 2:01
  conversation, Lord, let it be your attitude that we carry with
• 2:07
  us everywhere that we go, Lord, and let us seek out the least of
• 2:11
  these, Lord, to bless on your behalf.
• 2:14
  And God, I pray that you'll continue to help us run this
• 2:19
  race to love you more, to understand these words.
• 2:23
  Holy Spirit, give us discernment.
• 2:25
  Holy Spirit, teach us, discipline us, correct us in the
• 2:29
  name of Jesus. I pray for a sound mind.
• 2:32
  I pray for sound doctrine. I pray, Holy Spirit, that you'll
• 2:35
  hide me and hide my words, hide my thoughts.
• 2:38
  And let this be all about what you want to say to this
• 2:42
  generation for such a time as this.
• 2:45
  Lord, we get out of the way and we let you have center stage of
• 2:49
  our lives, of every facet, every area.
• 2:53
  God, for our lifetime, our finances, our family, our
• 2:57
  workplaces. God, our wants and desires, our
• 3:01
  passions. Lord, we lay them down.
• 3:04
  And Lord, we count the cost and we find that you are worthy.
• 3:09
  Worthy, Worthy is the Lamb, and just to be attached to you is
• 3:19
  the abundance that we were looking for.
• 3:23
  It was the filling and the fulfillment that we desperately
• 3:28
  needed and longed for. And so God, we have tasted and
• 3:33
  we have seen of your goodness and Lord, you have satisfied us,
• 3:38
  but we are longing for more. We love you, King Jesus, we
• 3:45
  worship you, King Jesus, and it's in your holy and precious
• 3:50
  name that I pray. Amen.
• 3:55
  Well, let's start in verse one. Now there were in the church
• 4:03
  that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers as
• 4:07
  Barnabas, Simeon that was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene and
• 4:12
  Manaean, which was brought up with Herod the Tetrarch and
• 4:17
  Saul. So here you see this list of
• 4:21
  heavyweight champions. These were the ones who were
• 4:25
  taking the early church and going and spreading it like
• 4:30
  wildfire. They were in tune with God's
• 4:32
  heart and mind and you can see here that this friend of Herod
• 4:37
  the Tetrarch who had John beheaded and who was cosigner to
• 4:44
  Jesus death. And here you can see that his
• 4:50
  constituent, someone that he grew up with, he actually turned
• 4:55
  out to be a mighty man of God. And then you see Herod and how
• 5:03
  despicable his life was. So you can see that they grew up
• 5:07
  in the same arena, but however, one turned out to be foul, and
• 5:12
  the other one turned out to be a superhero for the faith. 2 And
• 5:19
  as they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said,
• 5:23
  Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have
• 5:27
  called them. So here is a an amazing little
• 5:31
  snippet that we need to focus on.
• 5:35
  They were ministering to the Lord and they were fasting and
• 5:41
  then that produced the Holy Ghost direction.
• 5:47
  Imagine that, friends. Imagine if we got out of our
• 5:51
  routine, if we got out of the humdrum rat race of life and we
• 5:57
  actually sat in the presence of the Lord.
• 5:59
  We actually denied ourselves of all the sumptuous meals that we
• 6:05
  partake in on a daily. And what if we were to actually
• 6:11
  push back against the flesh and be filled with the Holy Ghost?
• 6:16
  And he would be pleased to give you direction and minister unto
• 6:20
  the Lord. Worship Jesus Christ and watch
• 6:24
  how you start receiving the unrevealed will of God for your
• 6:29
  life. And here you can see that the
• 6:32
  Holy Ghost was very clear and telling them who would go.
• 6:37
  So this is the very first missionary journey. 3 And when
• 6:44
  they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they
• 6:48
  sent them away. So they were again, they were
• 6:54
  disciples, and they were disciplining themselves to fast
• 6:59
  and to pray. And then here the church was
• 7:03
  pleased to send them out on mission.
• 7:07
  Some people go out on mission without being sent, and here you
• 7:11
  can see that they were actually endorsed by the church, and they
• 7:17
  were full of the Holy Ghost. For so they, being sent forth by
• 7:22
  the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia, and from there they
• 7:26
  sailed to Cyprus. 5 And when they were at Salamis, they
• 7:31
  prayed the word of God in the synagogues.
• 7:33
  They preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and
• 7:38
  they also had John to their minister.
• 7:41
  So this is not the apostle John, this is John Mark.
• 7:45
  We're going to see him and how he is interwoven throughout Acts
• 7:51
  here. And we actually saw a little
• 7:54
  snippet of him at the end of John there, but now he's
• 7:57
  starting to become a prominent figure here in the book of Acts.
• 8:03
  And you can see that it was their custom to go into the
• 8:07
  synagogues, and because they were Jewish, they were welcomed
• 8:13
  in and they would ask if they had any words for the
• 8:17
  congregation there. 6 And when they had gone through the Isle
• 8:23
  of Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew
• 8:29
  named Bar Jesus. So that Bar Jesus means son of
• 8:34
  Jesus. And we're going to see what Paul
• 8:37
  and Barnabas and John Mark think about this Bar Jesus, 7 which
• 8:44
  was with the deputy of their country, Sergius Paulus, a
• 8:49
  prudent man who called for Barnabas and Saul and desired to
• 8:53
  hear the word of God. If you are a prudent man, then
• 8:57
  you should desire the word of God.
• 9:00
  And a lot of us do not have a spiritual appetite.
• 9:04
  We do not have an appetite for the word of God.
• 9:08
  We are being dumbed down with all of these short videos and
• 9:15
  all of these little sound bite snippets.
• 9:18
  We're being dumbed down. And there's going to come a time
• 9:21
  in a day where people will not put up with sound doctrine.
• 9:24
  And you can see it all shaping up today.
• 9:27
  And this Sergius Paulus is a real person and there has been
• 9:39
  artifacts that have been found with his name on it to prove
• 9:44
  this story. And that is the authenticity of
• 9:47
  the word of God that you cannot disprove and dis credit it
• 9:52
  because archaeology has unearthed and proven this word
• 9:56
  to be true. And anyone who comes to the Word
• 9:59
  of God honestly, and anyone who lays down their hostility and
• 10:05
  they're willing to come in and at least have an open mind, 10
• 10:11
  times out of 10 they will be turned around and find out that
• 10:16
  Jesus is Lord. And the Sergius Paulus, he was
• 10:21
  desirous to hear from the word of God. 8 But a Lymus the
• 10:25
  sorcerer, for so is his name by interpretation, which stood by
• 10:31
  them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
• 10:35
  So here they were not even willing to call all the Lymus
• 10:40
  the sorcerer by the name bar Jesus because he was no son of
• 10:45
  Jesus. He was a son of the devil, which
• 10:48
  you're going to see see here in just a minute. 9 Then Saul, who
• 10:53
  also is called Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on
• 10:57
  him, 10 and said, O full of all subtly and mischief, you child
• 11:03
  of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not
• 11:08
  cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
• 11:11
  Here Paul is calling this sorcerer out and he's saying How
• 11:16
  long will you keep perverting the truth of God?
• 11:21
  And he's and all alignments is trying to get this high official
• 11:26
  not to listen to the word of God because he wants to keep
• 11:30
  usurping his authority over him and manipulating him.
• 11:34
  And that's what we need to be on guard of.
• 11:38
  There are many people have who have used this word for great
• 11:42
  manipulation and we need to know the word of God so when the
• 11:47
  counterfeit comes, we'll recognize it.
• 11:50
  And that is why it's called A2 edged sword because there has
• 11:53
  been much evil done in the name of God.
• 11:56
  And this Alimus the sorcerer, this pseudo bar Jesus is
• 12:02
  despicable, and Paul calls him out. 11 And now behold, the hand
• 12:09
  of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the
• 12:13
  sun for a season. And immediately there fell on
• 12:16
  him a mist and darkness, and he went about seeking someone to
• 12:21
  lead him by the hand. So you can see this man who is
• 12:24
  trying to pervert this high official from hearing the Word
• 12:31
  of God, the authentic, pure Word of God.
• 12:35
  And here God strikes him with blindness, so much so that he
• 12:39
  has to ask somebody to lead him. 12 Then the deputy, when he saw
• 12:47
  what was done, he believed, being astonished at the doctrine
• 12:51
  of the Lord. We should be astonished by the
• 12:53
  doctrine of the Lord. It is life and life abundant.
• 12:57
  And of course he believed when he saw old Elimus be confounded,
• 13:01
  this mighty man that he saw in his eyes as being someone with a
• 13:06
  lot of power. But because he was a prudent
• 13:10
  man, this deputy, he sought the word of the Lord.
• 13:17
  And the word of the Lord never returns void and is profitable.
• 13:21
  And as the word of the Lord washed over him, he came to his
• 13:26
  senses and saw that Jesus is Lord. 13 Now when Paul and his
• 13:35
  company loosed from Paphos, they came to Purga and Pampla, and
• 13:41
  John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.
• 13:44
  We're not told here why John Mark departed from them.
• 13:48
  Perhaps he was homesick. But we're going to find out how
• 13:51
  Paul thought about this little departure later on in the book
• 13:54
  of Acts. Stay tuned till next time. 14
• 13:58
  But when they departed from Purga, they came to Antioch in
• 14:03
  Pisidia and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and
• 14:07
  sat down. So here what you're going to
• 14:09
  have to understand is the son of one of Alexander the Great's
• 14:18
  generals had a fascination of building all kinds of cities by
• 14:24
  the name of his father, Antioch. And Antiochus Epiphanes is a
• 14:31
  descendant of this Antioch. But you need to know that this
• 14:35
  city that is mentioned is not the same city that was Antioch
• 14:40
  in Syria. This is Antioch of Pisidia.
• 14:46
  And here they go into the synagogue, and they're going to
• 14:50
  teach. 15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the
• 14:54
  rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, You men and
• 14:58
  brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people,
• 15:02
  say on. Of course they were invited to
• 15:05
  say on. They were esteemed guests
• 15:07
  because Paul was of the school of Gamaliel.
• 15:11
  He was a Pharisee of the Pharisees, perhaps on the
• 15:14
  Sanhedrin, and they were honored to have them in their midst, but
• 15:18
  they weren't ready for the message. 16 Then Paul stood up
• 15:24
  and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and you
• 15:31
  that fear God give audience. So here for any of you who are
• 15:37
  new to the faith, new to the Bible, this is your first time
• 15:41
  through. I would recommend you always
• 15:44
  start in the book of Matthew because the New Testament from
• 15:48
  Matthew to Revelation is milk for the new believer.
• 15:53
  And then from Genesis to Malachi is meat.
• 15:57
  But you got to get off the bottle before you can start
• 16:00
  chewing the meat. And here Paul is about to give
• 16:04
  us, especially the new believers.
• 16:07
  He's going to give you in just a very short little snippet, he's
• 16:13
  going to give you the entirety of the history of the Jews.
• 16:18
  He's going to talk about from Genesis to Malachi.
• 16:22
  He's going to paint a picture all the way to Christ.
• 16:25
  So lock in. If you've never read the Old
• 16:28
  Testament, he's going to give you a snapshot of what we will
• 16:34
  be reading when we get to Genesis.
• 16:37
  So let's lock in. Let's pay attention.
• 16:39
  Know that all these places and names have supreme importance.
• 16:47
  Give audience all you that fear God. 17 The God of this people
• 16:54
  of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they
• 16:59
  dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm
• 17:03
  brought he them out of it. 18 and about the time of 40 years
• 17:09
  suffered he their manners in the wilderness. 19 And when he had
• 17:14
  destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their
• 17:18
  land to them by lot. 20 And after that he gave unto them
• 17:23
  Judges about the space of 450 years, until Samuel the prophet.
• 17:30
  21 And afterward they desired a king.
• 17:33
  And God gave unto them Saul the son of Sis, a man of the tribe
• 17:39
  of Benjamin, by the space of 40 years. 22 And when he had
• 17:44
  removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king, to
• 17:49
  whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son
• 17:55
  of Jesse, a man after my own heart, which shall fulfill all
• 18:00
  my will. 23 Of this man's seed has God, according to his
• 18:05
  promise, raised unto Israel a Savior Jesus. 24 when John had
• 18:12
  first preached, before his coming, the baptism of
• 18:15
  repentance to all the people of Israel. 25 And as John fulfilled
• 18:22
  his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am?
• 18:26
  I'm not he. But behold, there comes one
• 18:32
  after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
• 18:38
  26 Men, brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, whosoever
• 18:47
  among you fears God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
• 18:56
  27 For they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers,
• 19:02
  because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets,
• 19:06
  which are read every Sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in
• 19:12
  condemning him. 28 And though they found no cause of death in
• 19:17
  him, yet desired, they pilot that he should be slain. 29 And
• 19:23
  when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took
• 19:27
  him down from the tree and laid him in the tomb. 30 But God
• 19:33
  raised him from the dead. 31 And he was seen many days of them,
• 19:41
  which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are
• 19:46
  his witnesses unto the people. 32 And we declare unto you glad
• 19:53
  tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
• 19:58
  33 God has fulfilled the same unto us, their children, in that
• 20:04
  he has raised up Jesus again, as it is also written in the second
• 20:12
  Psalm. You are my Son, and this day I
• 20:16
  have begotten you. 34 And as concerning that he raised him up
• 20:22
  from the dead, now no more to return to corruption.
• 20:27
  He said, On this wise I will give you the sure mercies of
• 20:32
  David. 35 Wherefore he said also in another Psalm, You will not
• 20:39
  suffer your holy one to see corruption. 36 For David, after
• 20:45
  he had served his own generation, by the will of God,
• 20:49
  fell asleep, and was laid unto his father's, and saw
• 20:56
  corruption. 37 But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.
• 21:04
  38 Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brothers,
• 21:12
  that through this man is preached unto you the
• 21:16
  forgiveness of sins. 39 And by him all that believe are
• 21:23
  justified from all things, from which you could not be justified
• 21:30
  by the law of Moses. 40 Beware, therefore, unless that come upon
• 21:39
  you which is spoken of in the prophets. 41 Behold, you
• 21:44
  despisers, and wonder and perish, for I work a work in
• 21:52
  your days of work, which you shall in no way believe, though
• 21:57
  a man declared unto you. 42 And when the Jews were gone out of
• 22:02
  the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might
• 22:06
  be preached to them the next Sabbath. 43 Now when the
• 22:10
  congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious
• 22:14
  converts followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them,
• 22:19
  persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
• 22:24
  There's a lot there. We could camp out on those
• 22:28
  verses, but He just gave us a snapshot of the history of
• 22:33
  Israel. He is showing them that Jesus
• 22:38
  Christ is the long-awaited Messiah that was prophesied
• 22:43
  about in the Old Testament and they need not wait on another.
• 22:49
  And here you can see the response they were expecting of
• 22:55
  them to come back and preach again.
• 22:58
  These Gentiles were interested. The Jews go out from there and
• 23:03
  then they try to fan the flame and have them continue on into
• 23:09
  grace. We can't just enter in by grace.
• 23:12
  We need to remain in the grace. We need to offer the grace to
• 23:16
  others. Here you can see this branch.
• 23:19
  You can see this stump of Jesse. You can see that God had an
• 23:27
  eternal plan from the beginning, and it pleased him that Barnabas
• 23:33
  and Paul would be the ones preaching here in Antioch. 44 In
• 23:40
  the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear
• 23:44
  the word of God. 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they
• 23:51
  were filled with envy, and spoke against those things which were
• 23:55
  spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
• 24:00
  By your words you will be condemned, and by your words you
• 24:05
  will be set free. And here you need to know that
• 24:10
  these Jews were motivated by envy.
• 24:13
  They saw the crowds and they were jealous, and they did not
• 24:16
  like that these men were able to draw the entire city to the good
• 24:20
  news of Jesus Christ. And don't be surprised, new
• 24:24
  Believer. Don't be surprised, Old
• 24:27
  Believer, whenever you start making some headway in a group,
• 24:32
  if you don't have naysayers. But we war on our knees.
• 24:36
  We fight against the darkness on our knees.
• 24:39
  We push back against the demonic in our prayer life.
• 24:43
  People are not the problem, it's the Spirit behind them. 46 Then
• 24:52
  Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said it was necessary that the
• 24:57
  word of God should first have been spoken to you.
• 25:00
  But seeing you put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of
• 25:08
  everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
• 25:13
  So you can see here that Paul and Barnabas are preaching in
• 25:17
  the synagogues to the Jews. The Jews reject A Messiah, they
• 25:23
  reject the message. So Paul says, we will turn and
• 25:27
  we will give the good news to the Gentiles.
• 25:31
  And aren't you thankful that Paul was obedient and didn't
• 25:35
  keep trying to beat a dead horse?
• 25:38
  But the Jews will come back around, friends.
• 25:41
  They will come back around. And there's many of them in
• 25:44
  droves coming to the Lord today. And during the tribulation, that
• 25:48
  nation will acknowledge that Jesus is Lord. 47 For so has the
• 25:55
  Lord commanded us, saying, I have set you to be a light of
• 25:59
  the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation unto the ends of
• 26:04
  the earth. So here Paul is putting all the
• 26:07
  pieces to the puzzle together. Jesus has already showed him the
• 26:13
  good news. He's already showed him the
• 26:15
  ministry that he is to have. And Paul here is saying that he
• 26:19
  knows that he is sent to the Gentiles and that God is
• 26:23
  inviting them in. 48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they
• 26:27
  were glad and glorified the word of the Lord, And as many as were
• 26:31
  ordained to eternal life believed so that ordained to
• 26:36
  eternal life. That's this predestination and
• 26:41
  free will all working together. God gives us free will, but he
• 26:46
  already knows what we're going to do, because he's the alpha
• 26:49
  and the Omega. He's the beginning and the end.
• 26:52
  He's already there waiting for us, and he's here with us now.
• 26:59
  49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the
• 27:02
  region. 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable
• 27:07
  women and the chief man of the city, and raised persecution
• 27:12
  against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their
• 27:15
  coasts. 51 But they shook off the dust from their feet and
• 27:20
  came unto Iconium. We'll end on 52.
• 27:24
  And the disciple, the disciples were filled with joy and with
• 27:28
  the Holy Ghost. Counted all is joy when you're
• 27:32
  persecuted and people say all kinds of wrong things about you.
• 27:37
  Counted all is joy, for great is your reward.
• 27:41
  And they persecuted and stoned and killed the prophets.
• 27:46
  They hated Jesus. So don't be surprised when
• 27:49
  you're hated. Count it all as joy.
• 27:51
  And here, Barnabas and Paul, they have the right attitude,
• 27:56
  they have the right mindset. They realize that Jesus Christ
• 28:01
  is to be honored and glorified no matter what humans have to
• 28:06
  say. Even the rocks will cry out.
• 28:08
  Friends, hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
• 28:12
  I know I sure have. Praying for you.
• 28:16
  Love you, see you back here tomorrow.
• 28:20
  God bless you.