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“Faith Under Fire: Standing Strong When Culture Pushes Back” Text: Acts 16:20–24 (NKJV) · His Hop Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 1: walking verse by versus the Book of Acts. Our last
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  Speaker 1: episode we saw Paul cast a demon out of a
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  Speaker 1: slave girl who was being exploited for profit. But today's
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  Speaker 1: passage passage, excuse me, shows what happens when freedom threatens
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  Speaker 1: the system that profits from bondage. This is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a good one. There are so many systems in our
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  Speaker 1: society today that profit off of bondage. The first thing
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  Speaker 1: that comes to mind is the sex trafficking industry. It
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  Speaker 1: is so sad, It is so horrible that an industry
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  Speaker 1: like this can thrive. No one should give this type
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  Speaker 1: of industry one penny. But I believe that the corruption
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  Speaker 1: goes up so far like it will blow our minds,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But the Lord knows. Hallelujah, He sees, and
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  Speaker 1: it's sad. And this young girl is getting exploited for profits.
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  Speaker 1: She's got a whole demon in her and they can
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  Speaker 1: care less about her soul this as long as she
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  Speaker 1: is making them some money. Man. So we're gonna pick
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  Speaker 1: it up in Acts, chapter sixteen, verse twenty through twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: coming at you from the new King James so verse twenty.
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  Speaker 1: And they brought them to the magistrates and said, these men,
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  Speaker 1: being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city. Now after the demon
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  Speaker 1: was cast out of this poor slave girls or mean
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  Speaker 1: slave girl, not plural, this poor slave girl. They lost
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  Speaker 1: their income and that's all they cared about. And the
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  Speaker 1: response they accused Paul and Silas for one, they bring
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  Speaker 1: accusation against them. Now, notice the wording here, they troubled
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  Speaker 1: our city, right, they said that they troubled them. The
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  Speaker 1: real issue was economic loss, but they disguise it as
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  Speaker 1: a social problem. You know how subtle that is. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the enemy is a liar, the Bible says, when he lies,
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  Speaker 1: he's speaking his his native language. I mean, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: say these men cost us money, they took away our
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  Speaker 1: ability to profit. Instead, they said, these men disturbed our peace,
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  Speaker 1: the peace of the community. So, family, this is what happens, right,
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  Speaker 1: when truth disrupt systems of exploitation of people exploiting others,
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  Speaker 1: the truth teller becomes the target, right, the truth teller
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  Speaker 1: when we speak the truth of God's word, and God's
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  Speaker 1: word is going to threaten corrupted system. Then they come
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  Speaker 1: after the person who is speaking the truth. The Gospel
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  Speaker 1: exposes injustice, and sometimes the world responds with accusation instead
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  Speaker 1: of repentance. Right, this should cause us to repent, but
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  Speaker 1: instead the world will turn against the very message that
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  Speaker 1: it was meant to help them or to help us.
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  Speaker 1: Say man, all right, verse twenty one. And they teach
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  Speaker 1: customs which are not out lawful for us, being Romans,
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  Speaker 1: to receive or even to observe. Right now, the accusation
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  Speaker 1: shifts here a little bit. First it was disturbing the peace.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's breaking Roman law. You see how that works.
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  Speaker 1: Roman colonies like Philippi were extremely proud of the Roman identity.
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  Speaker 1: Now accusing someone of violating Roman custom was a powerful
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  Speaker 1: way to stir up public anger. Right, they knew what
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  Speaker 1: they were doing. This was very calculated. They wanted this
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  Speaker 1: type of response. Now here's a strategy. Stir of fear,
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  Speaker 1: then appeal to the culture, then turn the crowd to
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Doesn't sound like our media today, It sounds
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  Speaker 1: like the mainstream news industry right now. This tactic hasn't
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  Speaker 1: changed in over two thousand years. Right, the enemy is
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  Speaker 1: still using the same playbook. When people reject the message
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  Speaker 1: of Christ, they often frame it as a cultural threat.
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  Speaker 1: And we can even see that today. We can even
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  Speaker 1: see that Christianity is against the law in many countries.
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  Speaker 1: And I pray that it will not happen here in
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  Speaker 1: the United States. But I'm afraid that day will come.
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  Speaker 1: But if you really know, and if you're really studying,
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  Speaker 1: look into it. The Gospel is not anti cultural. The
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  Speaker 1: Gospel is pro transformation. Don't forget that we are pro transformation.
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  Speaker 1: Now verse twenty two. Then the multitude rose up together
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  Speaker 1: against them, and the magistrates tore off their clothes and
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  Speaker 1: commanded them to be beaten with rods. Wow, now check
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  Speaker 1: this out. They're getting their clothes torn off. Possibly they
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  Speaker 1: could even be naked at this point, humiliated and shamed.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're about to get whipped and beat for the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: How many of us are willing to endure that for
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  Speaker 1: the guys gospel, for our relationship with Christ. This is
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  Speaker 1: still going on, Beloved. Just because we don't see it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's not happening. That situation it escalated quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, we see a mob form
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  Speaker 1: just because of these accusations from these men, then the
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  Speaker 1: authorities order a beating. Now, notice there is no trial,
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  Speaker 1: There is no investigation at least when we read about
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  Speaker 1: the crucifixion of Christ, even though it wasn't you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was an illegal trial. But there was an attempt
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  Speaker 1: of a trial and an attempt of the investigation. But
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  Speaker 1: these men, they just got straight beat They're just punishment now,
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  Speaker 1: Paul and Silas where they were Roman cystems, which made
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  Speaker 1: this punishment illegal. They didn't even stop to figure it
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  Speaker 1: out or to find out who these men were. But
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  Speaker 1: in the heat, in the heart of the mob pressure,
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  Speaker 1: justice was ignored as that mob. Be careful of that
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  Speaker 1: mob mentality. Man. Now, truth sometimes puts believers in different situations, right,
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  Speaker 1: But persecution does not mean God has abandoned you. God
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  Speaker 1: has not abandoned us just because there's persecution. We've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this before. Sometimes times persecution is confirmation that you're
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  Speaker 1: walking in obedience. Amen, I mean, we need to worry.
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  Speaker 1: And when people like us, if everything is so smooth
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  Speaker 1: when we need to be concerned. Amen. Sometimes persecution, like
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  Speaker 1: it said, it can be a confirmation. Now, Paul and
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  Speaker 1: Silace didn't suffer for wrongdoing and suffered for doing the
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  Speaker 1: right thing. How many of us have suffered for doing
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  Speaker 1: what is right? It happens, beloved, Amen, verse twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw
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  Speaker 1: them into prison, commanding the jailers to keep them securely.
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  Speaker 1: Now the phrase many stripes mean a brutal beating. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: it was a brutal beating that they took. Roman rides
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  Speaker 1: were not symbolic punishments. They caused serious physical damage. And
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  Speaker 1: now after being beaten, Paul and Silas are thrown into prison.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't even get a chance to heal. It's like
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  Speaker 1: just I'm gonna beat you down, then I'm gonna put
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  Speaker 1: you into prison. The early Church never promised believers a
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  Speaker 1: life of comfort. Don't forget that, Beloved, They promise faithfulness
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of hardship. Think about this, Beloved, Paul
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  Speaker 1: cast a demon out of a girl. A woman was
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  Speaker 1: freed from spiritual bondage. But instead of celebration, Paul ends
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  Speaker 1: up in prison. Sometimes obedience leads to unexpected suffering. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But God always has a bigger story to unfold, even
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of all this all right, verse twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Having received such a charge, he put them into the
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  Speaker 1: inner prison and fastening their feet in the stocks. This
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  Speaker 1: is the worst part of the prison. The inner prison, dark, cold, isolated.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like the jail that we know of today.
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  Speaker 1: In jail, you can have a TV, you can have
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  Speaker 1: a bed to sleep in, you can have your creature comforts.
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  Speaker 1: But not in those days. Their feet were locked into stocks,
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  Speaker 1: which stretched the legs painfully. Apart, man, just think about
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  Speaker 1: what they went through, Think about what they did, just
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  Speaker 1: so that we can have the gospel that we have
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  Speaker 1: today that these men were faithfully and doing these things.
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  Speaker 1: Stocks were designed not just for confinement, but for torture,
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  Speaker 1: torture through force positioning. It was still a form of torture.
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  Speaker 1: Paul and Silas were injured, bleeding, and immobilized. These are
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  Speaker 1: the men that started churches. These are the men who
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  Speaker 1: are traveling and saving souls. Right, These are the men
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  Speaker 1: that God was working through powerfully. So imagine this scene,
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  Speaker 1: beaten down, shackled in a dark prison. Let me say
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  Speaker 1: that again, they were beat down, they were still bleeding.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're shackled in their inside a dark prison. Yet
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  Speaker 1: what happens next in the story. Is there a response
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  Speaker 1: to this? First, let me ask you, what would be
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  Speaker 1: your response to this? Some of y'all or some of us,
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  Speaker 1: we'd be willing to quit the ministry like God really
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  Speaker 1: will be questioning the call of God in our lives,
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  Speaker 1: especially the way they preach in church today. They preach
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  Speaker 1: you can get your new house, a new car, that
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be blessed because you are a child
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  Speaker 1: of God. Everything is supposed to be easy. I don't
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  Speaker 1: see Paul the apostle preaching that what happens next, loved
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  Speaker 1: is amazing. They praise, They begin to praise God, and see,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna break that down. The next episode we'll see
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  Speaker 1: one of the most powerful worship moments in the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel exposes injustice, expect resistance. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: I would not expose injustice without the Gospel is bad
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  Speaker 1: enough when people do it on their own. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: expose the injustice that is in the world. Amen. Cultural
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  Speaker 1: pressure often disguises spiritual opposition. All right, cultural pressure often
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  Speaker 1: disguises spiritual opposition. We can say that this is not
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  Speaker 1: our culture, or we can say this or that or
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  Speaker 1: the other. But if we're fighting against the truth, you
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  Speaker 1: are in opposition to the kingdom. Also, doing the right
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  Speaker 1: thing doesn't guarantee easy circumstances. Sometimes doing the right thing
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  Speaker 1: is a very thing that will get us in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: But we need to pray and we need to ask
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  Speaker 1: Guy's help in these areas. Amen, we need to do
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  Speaker 1: the right thing anyway. And also God can work powerfully
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  Speaker 1: even in the darkest places. God can work powerfully. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: being beaten, still bleeding, being thrown in the worst, darkest
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  Speaker 1: part of the prison. It probably smells. It's probably rats
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  Speaker 1: and your shackle. I got much respect for these minute, guy,
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  Speaker 1: today's trivia champion. The question is what city where Paul
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  Speaker 1: Is signed silas in prison in during Acts chapter sixteen?
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  Speaker 1: So what city were they imprisoned in? Amen? And like
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  Speaker 1: I said, there's a bonus question, who were the two
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  Speaker 1: missionaries that were in prison? So what city are they
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  Speaker 1: imprisoned in? And who were the two missionaries that were
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  Speaker 1: in prison? All right? All right, we're giving our community
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  Speaker 1: the project at Valley High School is going well. We're
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  Speaker 1: narrow path. Amen, all right? As I close out today's episode,
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  Speaker 1: Act sixteen reminds us that obedience sometimes leads to difficult places, right,
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  Speaker 1: but prison is never the end of the story at all.
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  Speaker 1: God can turn a prison cell into a revival. Meaning
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  Speaker 1: as we're going to see this in the next episode,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna see this amazing response to this circumstance. But
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  Speaker 1: the question is how do we react? How do you
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  Speaker 1: react in an unfavorable circumstance. How many of us would
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  Speaker 1: have backslid? I mean, let's be honest with ourselves, how
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  Speaker 1: many of us would have turned away from God if
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  Speaker 1: we got beat like that, he's thrown into prison like that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, let's be real, how many of us would
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  Speaker 1: be mad and upset that God, mad and upset at
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  Speaker 1: the people, mad and upset at the girl. Probably would
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  Speaker 1: have hated this girl because of the outcome. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we really need to fix that. We really need to
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  Speaker 1: consider this, because beloved, this is the standard. What we're
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  Speaker 1: reading right now is what God requires of us. There's
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  Speaker 1: no wiggle room. This could be the difference between whether
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  Speaker 1: or not you're truly in the faith or not. This
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  Speaker 1: could tell us what road are we on? The broad
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  Speaker 1: road that leads to destruction. The Bible says forgive? Is
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  Speaker 1: there unforgiveness and bitterness in our hearts? The Bible says
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  Speaker 1: vengeance is mine? How would we pay? I am so
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  Speaker 1: happy I allow the Lord to fight my battles and man,
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  Speaker 1: because I would have self destructed a long time ago
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  Speaker 1: if I would have been fighting in my own strength. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And not saying I'm perfect, but just really think about it,
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  Speaker 1: do some self examining, and just be honest. God just
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  Speaker 1: want us to be honest, right I mean, I'm being
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  Speaker 1: honest with myself right now. You know, it would have
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  Speaker 1: been a struggle. I don't like to get whipped. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like to be in prison. I don't like chains
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  Speaker 1: around me. You know what I mean, being thrown in
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  Speaker 1: a nasty cell. I mean, I don't like it at all.
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  Speaker 1: But can I stink in the spirit long enough to
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  Speaker 1: see God move? Let's pray, Father, we repent right now.
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  Speaker 1: We ask forgive us. You know our hearts, You know
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  Speaker 1: us better than we know ourselves. Forgive us for quitting
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  Speaker 1: on You. Forgive us for the bitterness and the anger
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  Speaker 1: that is in our hearts even now, the people that
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  Speaker 1: we need to forgive the circumstances that we can plan about,
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  Speaker 1: the circumstances that we so often are negative about. That
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  Speaker 1: we failed to worship, We failed to praise you, we
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  Speaker 1: failed to be faithful to You when we go through it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: wash us by the blood of the Lamb, Oh God,
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  Speaker 1: and give us a new heart and a new mind,
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  Speaker 1: a new attitude about the trials that we face. Help
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  Speaker 1: us to walk in joy peace, Help us to worship
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  Speaker 1: You no matter what. Give us the same spirit that
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  Speaker 1: Paul and Silas had as they went through their trial.
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  Speaker 1: And we asked this Lord in Jesus' name, Amen, Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Remember stay rooted in the word, stay bold in your faith, Amen,
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