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Living Waters of Grace 11.17.25 · 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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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  There is this truth in the Bible called election.
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  And so God has already ordained people that are going to get
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  saved based upon hearing the gospel.
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  So the the cool thing is when you and I go out, people are
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  already planned, planned by God to believe, right?
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  And you and I just have the easy responsibility to tell people
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  the truth. And people believe.
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  It's not anything we did other than just giving them the
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  gospel, because that's how people believe when they hear
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  the truth. But God's already chosen them to
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  become believers. It's scary to witness to people
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  about the gospel. After all, we know that not
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  everyone is going to be receptive to our message.
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  Some may be apathetic, but there's always a chance that
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  someone could respond with anger or hostility to the good news.
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  But Pastor Clark reminds us today that when we witness to
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  people, we're not just planting seeds.
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  In some cases, we're watering the ground so that the seeds
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  that God has already planted can flourish and his presence can
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  bloom in their hearts. Now here's Pastor Clark in the
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  book of Acts Chapter 18 with today's edition of Living Waters
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  of Grace. We are in the book of Acts, Acts
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  chapter 18, and as we study this book, I don't know about you,
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  but I find that I experienced sort of a, a deeper relationship
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  and friendship with the people that I'm studying about or
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  reading about. I've known the Apostle Paul ever
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  since I first got saved back when I was 20 years old.
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  And I, I know so much about his life and his ways and his
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  passion, his ministry, his, his perseverance that I, I, I sense,
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  and I'm sure you do that. I actually, I'm a Co laborer
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  with him in this day that we live as you are too.
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  We're all missionaries. We're all in the ministry
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  together. And so as we study these
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  teachings in the book of the Acts, it's the history of the
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  church and how it started and how the Lord used certain people
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  to spread the gospel and how people became believers as a
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  result of these men and women who gave of themselves for the
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  sake of others. And when we study this, I, I'm
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  challenged myself to think about the depths of love and humility
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  and yieldedness that Paul and and the others that we read
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  about had. And as I am being worked on by
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  the Lord, as you are too, I find that my will is becoming more
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  his will and less my will. When I was younger as a
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  Christian, I always blew through the red lights and I always
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  wanted my will first. I'm sure you did too.
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  And I've learned through life that that doesn't work.
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  God's will is the perfect will and it's the best will to
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  follow. And whenever God begins you to
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  give you a check in your spirit where you are yielding to
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  wanting his will and not your will be done.
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  Boy, that's that's amazing work of God's Spirit, isn't it, to
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  give us that sense. Oh Lord, what do you think about
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  this? What do you want?
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  What do you want me to do? What do you want me to use my
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  resources for my gifts and my talents, my abilities.
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  And it's more blessed to give than receive.
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  And I think of my own life. Well, what can I give to the
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  Lord? He's given me and you so much
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  more than what we could ever ask or think right or deserve.
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  And what could we give him? Will we give him our lives?
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  We give him maybe a deeper consecration, a more willing
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  heart to surrender and and want his will above our own will.
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  And that would really honor him. So as we study this this
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  chapter, we'll see a man and others are mentioned in here
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  that live their lives for the sake of God's will.
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  And may we all be blessed by what we here today and learn.
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  Father God, we commit ourselves to you today and we're just so
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  grateful that we can come together as a community of
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  believers that love you and love one another.
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  And Lord, we truly are here today that we might learn how to
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  follow you in a deeper way. Thank you for the example of the
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  apostles and, and those who served both the men and godly
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  women that we read about today. And it's just amazing, God, how
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  you established your church, how you went before everyone, before
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  they even began to do these things.
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  And you had a plan before the foundation of the earth to save
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  Lord, to deliver, to set free, to transform.
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  And we're still doing that today and the days that we live.
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  And so, Lord, we just thank you and we praise you for who you
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  are. Ask Lord your blessing and favor
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  upon your word, and may it touch every heart that you brought
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  here today. And those who are listening
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  online or on the radio, however they connect with this church,
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  Father bless them. We pray in Jesus name, Amen.
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  So we'll look here at verses one through 3 as we begin this
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  chapter. After these things, Paul
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  departed from Athens and went to Corinth.
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  So after these things, we talked about the ministry of Paul on
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  Mars Hill when he was proclaiming the gospel to a
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  Pagan people that knew nothing about the truth of the living
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  God. They had a statue that was there
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  in honor of the unknown God. And Paul was making it clear to
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  the people in Greece that there is a God that you can know and
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  that he's real and he's living. He's not a statue and he's the
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  Lord Jesus Christ. So he continues on this vein of
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  preaching and he's left Athens and he's now in Corinth.
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  And Corinth is a isthmus South of Athens.
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  And it's a little peninsula. Basically it comes off the, the
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  nation and it's only about two to five miles wide.
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  So what would happen is that travellers on the two sides of
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  the seaports and boats and ships would come to Corinth to, you
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  know, transport their, their goods.
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  And it was a big, big city in regard to commerce.
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  Unfortunately, what Corinth is known for is its blatant
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  immorality and ungodliness. They had a temple there called
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  the Temple of Aphrodite, who was the fertility goddess building
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  on the top of the hill there that thousand prostitutes would
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  come down every night to engage in their occupation, to be
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  tempting the men in the seaport at the time.
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  And the money that would come in through the prostitution would
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  support the prostitutes as well as continually fuel the power
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  and the energy of that godless temple that people were
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  worshipping at. And because of this issue of of
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  Corinth in the the immorality and godliness, it's interesting
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  that Paul wrote the book of Romans from the city of Corinth
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  in the 1st chapter. Chapter 1 talks about all the
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  ungodliness of sexual morality and perversion and homosexuality
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  and lesbianism and on and on and on.
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  The filth and the godless heart and mind of the people that
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  lived in the city. And so this is where Paul is
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  right now. Initially he's here by himself.
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  And it says, and he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born
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  in Taunt Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with
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  his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the
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  Jews to depart from Rome. And he came to them, this
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  couple, interesting Priscilla and Aquila, husband and wife
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  team that loved the Lord, knew the Lord and were very
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  influential in ministering with Paul.
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  They're mentioned in numerous times and in the New Testament
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  in the book of Corinthians and their ministry with Paul.
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  It is evident here as we study that they were believers and
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  they were in that city providentially to we'll see in a
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  minute here, to work with Paul in the ministry there.
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  They had to leave Rome because Rome had a hatred for Jews.
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  And so the edict was by the leader at the time that all
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  Jewish people had to to get out of Rome.
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  And so they ended up in Corinth providentially and it says and
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  he came to them. So Paul finds out where they
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  are. Doesn't give a lot of details on
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  how he knew them, but one thing they had in common for sure
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  beside their faith was that they because he was of the same trade
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  he stayed with them and worked for by occupation.
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  They were tent makers and tent makers, they were primarily
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  involved with working with leather goods, and that's how
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  they made their livelihood. Paul at times was supported by
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  the churches when he was on his missionary journeys.
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  And at times he would work with his hands and earn extra income
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  so that he would not be a burden to anybody.
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  And so this is where he's at right now.
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  And it says in verse 4. And he reasoned in the synagogue
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  every Sabbath and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.
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  What's remarkable about the calling of God on Paul's life,
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  being a Jew versus being a Gentile, was that he had access
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  to the most influential places of spirituality, places where
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  they would want to talk about God, they would want to worship
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  him, they would want to know him.
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  It wasn't like he went into a city and civil war.
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  How do I get started here with telling people about who Jesus
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  is? He had the privilege, because he
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  was Jewish, to go into the synagogue.
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  And so he would have respect and honor, and he would be able to
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  go in and begin to discuss the gospel and Jesus being the true
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  Messiah. And he did this in every
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  synagogue and every city that he had visited.
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  That's where he always started. And his goal was to persuade
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  people by the power of the Holy Spirit to believe that Jesus is
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  truly the Messiah. And so it says in verse 5 when
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  Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia.
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  Now, if you remember, he told them in chapter 17, hey, when
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  you get done, quickly come and catch up with me.
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  They had eventually come from where they were.
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  Timothy was working in one of the church plants, as was Silas.
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  And Paul is, I'm sure, really grateful that they're there now.
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  And Paul is now compelled by the Spirit because he's encouraged
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  by these two guys. They're giving him a report of
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  how the church is doing where they were serving.
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  And it's like when missionaries come here and they come here
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  whenever they're on furlough to give us updates as to what's
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  happening in the field and what's what's going on with the
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  church and people coming to faith in Christ.
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  And we support these missionaries.
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  And it's exciting for us to be a part of that because the the
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  fruit of their laborers is accounted to your account in
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  heaven because we're part of what God's doing in these other
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  foreign countries through our prayers and through our
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  offerings that we use to help support them.
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  So when they come and give a report, it really edifies us.
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  It builds us up, it excites us, us to know that God is working
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  not only here, but he's working all around the world.
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  And so they're a blessing to Paul giving these updates.
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  So he's now filled with God's Spirit, excited about what it is
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  he has an opportunity to do. And he testifies to the Jews
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  here that Jesus is the Christ. But when they opposed him and
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  blasphemed, he shook his garments and said to them, Your
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  blood be upon your own heads. I am clean.
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  From now on I will go to the Gentiles.
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  So not every time in every place that Paul went any more than you
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  or I. When we share our faith with
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  family, loved ones, Co workers, neighbors, whatever are we
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  receive well, many times we're rejected.
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  Many times people don't want to hear what it is we have to say.
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  And obviously we're not alone. The apostle himself encountered
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  these kind of experiences of opposition and rejection lots of
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  times whenever these things happen, it really didn't seem to
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  disturb him. He didn't say a whole lot.
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  But in this particular instance, it seemed to get him really
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  upset. So he he rebuked them when they
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  opposed him and said you blasphemy.
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  Blasphemy is a lot of people say, well, what's blasphemy?
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  It's abandoning God. It's speaking evil of God.
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  It's not believing in God, it's rejecting the gospel of Jesus
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  Christ. There's only one sin that people
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  can't be forgiven of, and that's blaspheme of the Holy Spirit.
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  And sometimes Christians will say, I don't know.
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  I think one time I blasphemed the Holy Spirit.
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  Well, we all did it one time before we came to faith in
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  Christ. We rejected him, we denied him.
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  We may be cursed about him or didn't believe, but then when we
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  became believers, it's impossible to blasphemy the Holy
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  Spirit. Blaspheme of the Holy Spirit is
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  rejection of the Gospel. And so Paul is exhorting them
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  and warning them and telling them that they're blaspheming
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  this truth of Christ being Messiah.
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  So he's physically showing this attitude of disappointment and
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  he shakes his garment, saying them, your blood be on your own
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  heads. I'm clean.
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  In other words, I gave you the truth.
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  I'm not going to be held responsible or accountable for
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  not speaking the truth. And that's sort of an
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  interesting verse because I think it's a challenge for all
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  of us that we are not going to be held responsible for not
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  telling someone about Jesus that the Lord spoke to you and me
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  about witnessing to Sometimes we get afraid of witnessing or
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  we're getting embarrassed. We don't want to share our
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  faith. It's just our pride or whatever
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  should never be embarrassed about sharing the gospel.
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  But sometimes that happens to us.
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  You know, sometimes God, you know when I sometimes all the
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  time, God sets up opportunities for us to be able to witness.
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  Not everybody you meet, you're going to have an opportunity to
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  maybe talk about the Lord, but sometimes, you know, real clear
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  that you got a connection with someone that God wants you to
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  tell them about what Jesus did for you.
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  And you want to be free from the responsibility of being judged
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  for not being faithful to share the gospel.
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  And that really was a heavy burden on Paul.
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  He never, ever wanted to be in a place or situation where he
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  would be judged for not doing what it was that he was called
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  to do. And I think that's a good
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  challenge for all of us that we would not be responsible for not
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  telling someone what they need to know to at least have a
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  chance to to believe. And then he says, from now on,
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  I'll go to the Gentiles. So Paul was the apostle to the
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  Gentiles. That was his call in ordination
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  from God's plan before he was even saved.
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  He was chosen to be an apostle in his mother's womb.
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  The Bible tells us for now on, he's going to focus on the
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  Gentiles. But he still has a heart for the
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  Jewish people. He's Jewish.
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  And so he departs from there, and he enters into the House of
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  a certain man named Justice. His name also is believed to be
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  Gaius, one who worshipped God, whose house was next door to the
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  synagogue. So Paul's able to hang out now
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  right next door to where he was just preaching with this
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  believer, this man named Justice.
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  Then Crispus, this is fascinating.
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  Verse 8, the ruler of the synagogue believed on the Lord
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  with all his household and many of the Corinthians hearing
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  believed and were baptized. So in spite of the rejection and
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  a lot of people not believing, the good news is someone will
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  always end up believing. It's like a numbers deal.
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  The more you tell, the more opportunity you have to see God
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  harvest people and bring them into the Kingdom.
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  And what's really powerful should give you and I confidence
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  there is this truth in the Bible called election.
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  And so God has already ordained people that are going to get
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  saved based upon hearing the gospel.
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  So the, the cool thing is when you and I go out, people are
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  already planned by planned by God to believe, right?
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  And you and I just have the easy responsibility to tell people
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  the truth. And people believe.
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  It's not anything we did other than just giving them the gospel
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  because that's how people believe when they hear the
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  truth. But God's already chosen them to
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  become believers. And so that's why you want to
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  spread the gospel, as Jesus said to every living creature, only
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  God knows who's going to come to him.
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  And it's not our job to decide who's going to come and who
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  isn't. Our job is just to share the
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  truth of the gospel. So here the probably the most
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  unlikely person at the time that you would think would believe is
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  the ruler of the synagogue. He's the big guy, he's the
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  leader, he's the one that's responsible for the services and
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  and this guy becomes a believer. It tells us later in the book of
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  Corinthians that this guy was baptized by Paul along with
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  justice. So this move of God, this
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  wonderful and he believed on the Lord.
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  And not only did he believe, but his whole family ended up
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  believing. And as a result of that, many of
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  the Corinthians hearing believed and were baptized.
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  So in spite of the rejection, in spite of Paul may be getting a
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  little frustrated, God still did what he promised he would do.
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  He would save people from the preaching the gospel.
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  Now in verse 9, now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a
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  vision. Do not be afraid, but speak.
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  Paul had six visions. I've never had a vision.
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  I don't. I've never met anybody that's
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  had a vision. I think it'd be sort of cool to
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  have a vision if it was from God.
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  I don't want a deceptive vision from the Evil 1 or some lying
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  vision, but I'm up for any visions that God wants to give.
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  But it had to be so encouraging to Paul to have the supernatural
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  connection with the Lord that he was chosen to have revelation
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  given to him. That was uncommon pretty much
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  for most people, because he's an apostle, I'm sure, and because
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  he had the weight of the building of the New Testament
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  church in the beginning stages. He needed all the help he could
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  get. And Jesus is telling him here,
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  do not be afraid, but speak Now. Paul's obviously afraid he
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  wouldn't have this vision. He's maybe nervous about
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  something, apprehensive about something.
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  He sees the conflict, he sees the hatred, he's aware of the
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  martyrdom, he's aware of the danger, the stoning, the
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  imprisonment, all the things that can happen if you represent
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  the Lord in a country like this, at a time like this.
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  And the Lord is comforting him. He's saying don't be afraid and
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  do not keep silent. In other words, just keep
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  preaching for I am with you and no one will attack you to hurt
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  you for I have many people in this city.
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  How comforting they had to be. To Paul, it was an assurance
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  that keep doing what you're doing this maybe down the road
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  you're going to have some issues and he did.
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  But this wasn't the time that his life is going to be taken.
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  He had opportunity now to be bold and to proclaim Christ in
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  the midst of the culture that wasn't really open to what he
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  had to say. No one's going to hurt him.
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  And so he needed to hear that, I'm sure, in Corinth, because it
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  was a barbaric, godless city. And he was pretty much by
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  himself outside of Priscilla and Aquila at the time in regard to
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  doing this ministry. And I love what it says here.
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  He's encouraging Paul. For I have many people in the
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  city. In other words, Paul, there's a
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  lot of people that live here in Corinth that need me, that will
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  come to know who I am because of what it is you're going to tell
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  them. I remember years ago, my brother
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  was a church planner and he had an opportunity to take over a
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  fledgling Baptist Church in Ambridge.
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  It was previously pastored by a transgender, believe it or not,
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  person dressed up in dresses privately.
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  He was a preacher. I have no idea how that
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  happened. So my brother had to go in and
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  try to get this church back on its feet again.
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  And so we were at a pastors conference and we had an
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  opportunity to talk to Chuck. He had finished one of his
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  messages and we went up and I went in to introduce Pastor
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  Chuck and my brother Doug. And Chuck says where where are
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  you serving? And Doug says Ambridge,
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  Pennsylvania. And and then Doug began to tell
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  him what a terrible city it was. It was, you know, really rundown
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  because of steel mills had closed down a lot of drug
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  addiction, alcoholism and poverty.
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  And and I'll never forget what Chuck says.
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  He looked at me. He says couldn't be any worse
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  than corns. And he said the dog, he says,
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  you know why you're there. And Doug just looked at him
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  shell shocked. And Chuck said because many
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  people need me there. So wherever there's a church, no
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  matter how big or how small, it's there.
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  And those cities, because people need Jesus, God placed us here
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  in this city because people need the Lord, they need the word,
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  they need to be taught, they need to be fed.
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  So God has all these plans. And so Paul's encouraged by this
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  vision that the Lord gave him, and it says he continued there a
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  year and six months teaching the word of God among them.
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  This particular town was the place that Paul spent his most
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  time. He's never been in a place this
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  long in regard to ministry, 18 months.
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  So he's discipling, he's teaching, he's educating, he's
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  equipping, he's establishing this church.
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  And of course, we studied First and 2nd Corinthians.
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  You remember a lot of the craziness in that church that
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  carried over from the culture, people getting drunk at the
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  agape feast, sexual immorality in the church.
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  I mean, this whole kind of messes, egos, some saying, well,
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  I prefer Paul's preaching. I prefer Apollo's preaching,
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  preaching. I I prefer Cephas Peters
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  preaching. And Paul had to teach him, hey,
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  it's not what these guys are doing, it's what the spirits
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  doing. All they're doing is watering,
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  watering the word into your heart so only God can give the
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  increase. So he said, you know, you don't
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  have favorites, you don't play this kind of political game,
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  just a lot of things in the in the city of Corinth, even after
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  the church established that needed to be dealt with.
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  And then it says in verse 12 on Galileo, Galileo was his name
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  was pro council of Archaea. The Jews with 1 accord rose up
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  against Paul and brought him to the judgment seeing saying this
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  fellow persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.
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  Once again, these rebel rousers, these Jewish people is
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  continually causing problems in the in the city are causing
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  problems again, trying to set Paul up and lying about what it
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  is he's doing. And so when Paul was about to
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  open his mouth, and this is interesting too, I got to give a
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  defense. If I'm slandered, if I'm accused
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  of something I didn't do, the first thing you want to do is
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  clarify to people who are judging or accusing you,
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  especially if it's a legal issue.
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  This is what my testimony is. This is what the truth is.
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  Well, he didn't even have to say anything.
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  He was getting ready to speak this pro council leader.
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  And this would be in the center of the city, a high platform
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  where people would bring grievances to this judge and he
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  would have to make a ruling. Thanks for joining us on today's
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  edition of Living Waters of Grace, a ministry of Calvary
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  Chapel, Westmoreland. Today, Pastor Clark is teaching
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  about the book of Acts. And as we learn more about Acts,
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  it becomes clear that the early church didn't miss a single
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  opportunity to share the gospel. In nearly every chapter, you see
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  apostles like Peter and Paul stepping into conversations,
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  crowds, and crises with boldness, ready to proclaim the
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  name of Jesus. Their example challenges us to
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  consider how we might step into gospel moments in our own lives.
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  What doors might God open this week for you to speak truth,
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  offer hope, or live out your faith in a way that points
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  others to Him? The story of Acts reminds us we
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  are part of the same mission. Today, let's live with eyes open
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  and hearts ready to respond. We hope you are challenged by
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