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“From Persecutor to Preacher | Acts 21:37 – 22:21” · His Hop Radio Podcast

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Speaker 2: And today we are in the Book of Acts. We're
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Speaker 2: actually gonna close out chapter twenty two. This is a
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Speaker 2: powerful portion of scripture. This is one of the most
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Speaker 2: powerful testimonies you're gonna hear from Paul the apostle Paul
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Speaker 2: is in the midst of it. Paul went to Jerusalem,
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Speaker 2: and he was warned time and time again that chains
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Speaker 2: are away get him there, that he was going to
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Speaker 2: be bound. And so our last episode we saw the
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Speaker 2: prophecy fulfilled. Paul is now bound in chains. He was
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Speaker 2: mobbed by an angry horde, right, an angry mob of
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Speaker 2: Jews wanted to kill him. Now these are the Jews
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Speaker 2: that he escaped early earlier with his life. They chased
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Speaker 2: him in Asia and now back here in Jerusalem. Paul
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Speaker 2: wanted to fulfill some of the traditions, and he wanted
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Speaker 2: to bring peace. He wanted to bring unity. Paul always
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Speaker 2: had a heart for his Jewish people, even though he
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Speaker 2: was sent to the Gentiles. But Paul had a heart
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Speaker 2: for all people. And we also should have a heart
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Speaker 2: for all people. Amen. And so we see now Paul
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Speaker 2: is rescued by the Romans and they're leading them off
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Speaker 2: to the Derecks. God protected Paul because Paul still had
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Speaker 2: more to do. Paul had to go and testify in Rome. Now,
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Speaker 2: my opinion, you can do your own study, was that
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Speaker 2: it was God's will all the time to take them
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Speaker 2: to Rome, and maybe Paul took it upon himself to
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Speaker 2: go to Jerusalem. I don't know. I haven't really read
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Speaker 2: it or I haven't seen it in scripture where Paul
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Speaker 2: was instructed to go to Jerusalem to keep these feasts
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Speaker 2: in these different traditions. But Paul has such a heart
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Speaker 2: he wanted to go to Jerusalem and testify. And we
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Speaker 2: see the events that unfold. Like I say, that's my opinion.
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Speaker 2: I could be wrong. If I am. You can post
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Speaker 2: in a life chat where is a scripture right here
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Speaker 2: in this portion of his story where he was instructed
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Speaker 2: by God to go to Jerusalem. Show me where that
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Speaker 2: scriptures at, and I will stand corrected. But I think
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Speaker 2: God's will was for him to go to Rome. All right,
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Speaker 2: So let's pray help me. Father. We thank you, Oh God,
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Speaker 2: for your word. We thank you for this time and
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Speaker 2: opportunity to get into your word together. Thank you Lord
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Speaker 2: that we woke up, that we get to see another
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Speaker 2: sun rise in sunset, Oh God. And Lord, we ask
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Speaker 2: o God, Oh Lord, before we lay our head on
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Speaker 2: the pillow tonight, God, that we will get right with
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Speaker 2: you God, that our goal, our passion, and our desires
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Speaker 2: will change. Our desire will not be for this world
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Speaker 2: not to pursue after riches, not our careers. Not everything
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Speaker 2: in this world is temporary and passing away. Oh God,
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Speaker 2: Let our desires be to have a deeper relationship with you. God. Yes, Lord,
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Speaker 2: let that be our goal, to be right with you,
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Speaker 2: Oh God. If there's anything in us that is not
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Speaker 2: like you, take it out, Lord the Holy Spirit, we
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Speaker 2: give you the permission to do so in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Speaker 2: All right, we're picking it up in verse thirty seven,
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Speaker 2: where Paul is going to address his mom. Then, as
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Speaker 2: Paul was about to lead, was excuse me. Then, as
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Speaker 2: Paul was about to be led into the barracks, he
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Speaker 2: said to the commander, may I speak by the way
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Speaker 2: I'm coming at you from the new King James, He replied,
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Speaker 2: can you speak Greek? Now? This is Paul's ability to
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Speaker 2: connect with the Greeks and to connect with the Jews.
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Speaker 2: Paul was multi lingual, and so Paul had the ability
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Speaker 2: to minister internationally. Remember he's the apostle to the Gentiles,
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Speaker 2: and so the commander was surprised that he spoke Greek
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Speaker 2: and Paul was able to relate to him. Verse thirty seven,
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Speaker 2: Are you not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred
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Speaker 2: up a rebellion and led the four thousand assassins out
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Speaker 2: into the wilderness. So this commander is trying to understand
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Speaker 2: this situation, trying to figure it out. That reminds us
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Speaker 2: of ponscious pilot right. He was like, what has this
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Speaker 2: man done? Like why are the people reacting this way?
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Speaker 2: So this also gives a bit of history that other
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Speaker 2: people rose up throughout history trying to become the Messiah.
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Speaker 2: There were false messiahs, and the Jesus warned that there
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Speaker 2: will be many christ that will rise up today deceiving people.
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Speaker 2: How many remember David koresh Right in that situation. So
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Speaker 2: this is nothing new. This has happened before thirty nine.
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Speaker 2: But Paul said, I am a Jew from Tartarus in Cilicia,
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Speaker 2: a citizen of no mean city, and I implore you
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Speaker 2: permit me to speak to the people. So here's Paul.
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Speaker 2: He gives his citizenship. Like I said, Paul was very
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Speaker 2: culturally intact and in touch. Paul was able to minister
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Speaker 2: to anybody in the ancient world, Amen, verse forty. So
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Speaker 2: when he had given him permission, Paul stood on the
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Speaker 2: stairs in motioned with his hand and the people to
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Speaker 2: the people, and when there was a great silence, he
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Speaker 2: spoke to them and Hebrew in the Hebrew language. Now
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Speaker 2: he begins to speak in Hebrew, which is his native language,
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Speaker 2: and the commander was not able to understand his speech
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Speaker 2: at this time, but Paul was very He's a leader, right,
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Speaker 2: he is speaking to a mob that just tried to
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Speaker 2: kill him, and he was able to silence them. And
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Speaker 2: so at this point he has their attention and he's
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Speaker 2: able to connect to them because he's speaking their language. Loved,
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Speaker 2: we need to be able to connect to our community.
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Speaker 2: We need to ask a Holy Spirit to put their
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Speaker 2: language in our mouth. We need to listen intently because
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Speaker 2: when we go out to minister pass out tracks, or
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Speaker 2: to witness for Christ, or to invite people to our events,
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Speaker 2: to minister the peeceeople, we need to be able to
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Speaker 2: connect with them right where there are. And the Holy
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Speaker 2: Spirit will let us know if we take time to listen.
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Speaker 2: When people begin to speak, listen to their heart, and
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Speaker 2: what you're looking for is where have they been hurt?
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Speaker 2: They're going to come from their hurt. Remember that the
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Speaker 2: human race was perfect until we fell in the garden
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Speaker 2: and when we fell. That's when human hurt came into existence.
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Speaker 2: Remember he said, through pain and sorrow the woman will
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Speaker 2: bear children, and by the sweat of a brow the
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Speaker 2: man will eat bread. This is pain entering into the
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Speaker 2: human race. And a lot of people get caught on drugs,
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Speaker 2: they get caught up with alcohol, they get caught up
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Speaker 2: in violence, they get caught up in these situations because
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Speaker 2: of their pain. They don't know what to do with it.
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Speaker 2: That gives saying the opportunity to set up stronghold. That's
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Speaker 2: why God always say to forgive right. You got to
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Speaker 2: speak and minister to their pain. They will let you
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Speaker 2: know what it is just by them speaking to you.
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Speaker 2: They don't know what it is. I mean, well, of
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Speaker 2: course they'll know what's hurting them, and you know, they'll
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Speaker 2: try to numb it. They'll try to escape reality because
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Speaker 2: of pain. But God gives us the courage to face
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Speaker 2: our pain and to heal us through Christ. Jesus say, man,
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Speaker 2: that is our message.
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Speaker 1: And so.
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Speaker 2: Paul addresses them in verse twenty two. So we just
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Speaker 2: closed out another chapter. Hallelujah. We celebrate every chapter. We're
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Speaker 2: coming to the end of the Book of Acts. This
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Speaker 2: is amazing I'm excited to see where the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 2: will lead us next to our next book. If you
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Speaker 2: go through our archives, we've already been through Revelation. We've
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Speaker 2: been through a couple of books already, and we're making
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Speaker 2: our journey through the Book of Acts together. So chapter
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Speaker 2: twenty two says, brethren and fathers, hear my defense before
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Speaker 2: you now, So now Paul gets a chance to speak.
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Speaker 2: It is very frustrating when people make assumptions, when people
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Speaker 2: will not take time out to listen to you, and
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Speaker 2: when people just come up with their own conclusions, right
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Speaker 2: like this mob did. They came up with assumptions that
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Speaker 2: he brought a gentile into the temple. They were saying
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Speaker 2: that he was preaching against the people and the nation.
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Speaker 2: Their whole issue is the fact that he ministered to
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Speaker 2: the gentiles, and they thought that he was speaking against
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Speaker 2: the law of Moses. But if they listen, if they
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Speaker 2: took time out to get the facts and get the information.
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Speaker 2: I talk to my wife all the time, and when
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Speaker 2: we have discussions, she wants the facts. She's very analytical.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes I call her a lawyer. I'm like, you're so
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Speaker 2: passionate about the facts, Like you don't listen to the
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Speaker 2: heart of the matter, like I'm bleeding over here, but
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Speaker 2: you want all the facts anyway, that's an inside joke,
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Speaker 2: but it's good to get that right. Sometimes she tells me,
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Speaker 2: stop being so emotional, and let's get down to the facts.
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Speaker 2: And so here is a good example of getting the
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Speaker 2: facts out of a situation and not just assume. And
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Speaker 2: I like the fact that he addressed them respectfully. He
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Speaker 2: didn't lash out or out of frustration. He didn't yell
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Speaker 2: at him. Oh you slow to believe you stiff neck
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Speaker 2: Jewish people. You know you tried to kill me and
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Speaker 2: all you know, he didn't come at him, right, He
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Speaker 2: still addressed him respectfully. How many of us could be
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Speaker 2: able to do that? How can you, after you get
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Speaker 2: into a fight with somebody still speak to them in
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Speaker 2: a respectful manner after you got into that fight, all right?
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Speaker 2: Usually fights starts because of disrespect. But anyway, I'm going
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Speaker 2: down a rabbit trail. Let's get to the scripture. Brotherren
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Speaker 2: and fathers hear my defense before you, And when they
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Speaker 2: heard that he spoke to them in Hebrew language, they
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Speaker 2: kept all the more silent and man like I said,
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Speaker 2: Paul had the ability to connect with people. Then he said,
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Speaker 2: I am indeed a Jew born in Tarsus of Cilicia,
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Speaker 2: but bought up in the city at the feet of Gamel,
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Speaker 2: taught according to the strictest of the Father's law, and
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Speaker 2: it was zealous towards God, as you all are today.
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Speaker 2: Now gimel yell if I'm pronouncing his zame right, was famous,
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Speaker 2: and he was known as a great teacher. And if
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Speaker 2: you look him up, he has writings, ancient writings in
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Speaker 2: history during his time, during this time of things happening
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Speaker 2: in Jerusalem. And his only complaint they said about Paul
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Speaker 2: was he did not have enough books to feed him.
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Speaker 2: Paul was hungry for knowledge. Paul was hungry, and this
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Speaker 2: was before he got saved. He was zealous for God.
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Speaker 2: So Paul was very exceptional. He was at the top
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Speaker 2: of his class. And man, I pray that we will
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Speaker 2: have that same hunger Amen for God's word. Right, that
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Speaker 2: seems zeal and he can relate and he's connecting with
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Speaker 2: the people right here verse four, I persecuted this way
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Speaker 2: to the death. Now, referring to this way is what
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Speaker 2: they referred it to before they called it Christianity. Christian
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Speaker 2: is actually a derogatory term that was given to them
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Speaker 2: by the Romans, but they called it this way. And
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Speaker 2: so Paul is being honest about his past. He's being transparent.
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Speaker 2: And if you heard my last episode, I was very
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Speaker 2: transparent as well about my ministry and the things that
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Speaker 2: you know, I'm not so proud of, you know as well.
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Speaker 2: So Paul wasn't so proud of this fact. But he's
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Speaker 2: saying I persecuted his way, binding and delivering into prison
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Speaker 2: both men and women, as also the High priest bears
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Speaker 2: me witness, and all the counsel of elders from whom
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Speaker 2: I also received letters to the brethren and went to
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Speaker 2: Damastics to bring in chains, even those who were in
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Speaker 2: Jerusalem to be punished. So Paul can relate. Paul was
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Speaker 2: in their shoes. Paul was in their positions, as you
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Speaker 2: can remember. Paul was there when Stephan, the first martyr
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Speaker 2: of the New Testament Church, was killed. Paul gave his permission,
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Speaker 2: and they laid their coats at his feet Verse six.
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Speaker 2: Now it happened as I journeyed and came near Damascus
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Speaker 2: at about noon. Suddenly a great light from heaven shone
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Speaker 2: around me, and I fell to the ground. And heard
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Speaker 2: a voice saying to me, Saul, saw, why are you
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Speaker 2: persecuting me? So I answered, why, who are you? Lord?
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Speaker 2: And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth,
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Speaker 2: whom you are persecuting. Now notice that Jesus takes persecution personally.
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Speaker 2: Now be careful, beloved, how we entreat one another. If
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Speaker 2: you disrespect a brother, you are disrespecting the Lord. If
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Speaker 2: we choose to be angry and frustrated, and we choose
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Speaker 2: to yell and call people stupid or out there, name
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Speaker 2: or fight, and that's all we do and act out
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Speaker 2: in this way. First of all, so the flesh. And secondly,
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Speaker 2: Jesus takes it personal, especially in marriage, because you married
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Speaker 2: his daughter, you married his son. Jesus takes it personal.
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Speaker 2: Read about who we are in the Bible and who
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Speaker 2: God calls us. He calls us his bride, He calls
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Speaker 2: us the apple of his eye. He calls us peculiar treasure.
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Speaker 2: We are a treasure to him. He died on the cross,
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Speaker 2: and he paid the price to redeem your wife, or
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Speaker 2: your husband, or even your children. So we have to
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Speaker 2: give an account, even our brothers and sisters, and the Lord,
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Speaker 2: and even sinners. The Bible says, if you don't warn
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Speaker 2: the sinners of their wickedness, their blood is on your hands.
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Speaker 2: Lord loves us, and that's why he wants us to
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Speaker 2: love our neighbor as ourself. Amen. And so Saul was
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Speaker 2: persecuting Jesus himself and didn't even know it, and God
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Speaker 2: stops him in his tracks verse nine. And those who
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Speaker 2: were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid,
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Speaker 2: but they did not hear the voice of him who
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Speaker 2: spoke to me. So I said, what shall I do? Lord?
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Speaker 2: And the Lord said to me, arise and go to Damascus.
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Speaker 2: Go into Damascus. There you will be told all things
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Speaker 2: which are appointed for you to do. Hallelujah. So this
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Speaker 2: is Paul's conversion. We call it the road conversion of
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Speaker 2: Paul the Apostle. He was stopped in his tracks, so
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Speaker 2: he was able to connect and relate with the people,
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Speaker 2: understand where they're coming from. But now he shares his
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Speaker 2: personal testimony. And I want to say something about that.
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Speaker 2: We are not necessarily called to debate, even though there
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Speaker 2: is a ministry called apologetics where a lot of Christians
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Speaker 2: are out there debating the word of God. And I'm
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Speaker 2: not saying that there's anything wrong with that. But we
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Speaker 2: are instructed in the Book of Romans to avoid genealogies
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Speaker 2: and pointless debates that are unfruitful to the hearer. Now,
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Speaker 2: there are times when we will be out ministrying and
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Speaker 2: people want to debate us. They want to debunk the gospel.
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Speaker 2: How many times have you heard that, oh, this is
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Speaker 2: a man made book and you can't trust this book,
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Speaker 2: and there's contradictions, even though they can't show you. This
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Speaker 2: is what they say against us. But no one can
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Speaker 2: argue against your personal testimony. They were not there. They
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Speaker 2: cannot debunk, they cannot be baked. They cannot deny your
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Speaker 2: personal testimony, especially if you've allowed the Holy Spirit to
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Speaker 2: change your life. If you were out there just like Paul,
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Speaker 2: this is a miraculous change. He was out there persecuting,
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Speaker 2: arresting and punishing our brothers and sisters, and the Lord
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Speaker 2: to the now preaching the gospel and starting churches. That
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Speaker 2: is a miraculous change. Only God could have changed a heart,
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Speaker 2: changed a life. Only God could have done this. So
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Speaker 2: what is your testimony? Was that I was a womanizer,
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Speaker 2: I was addicted to porn. Now I'm faithful to my
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Speaker 2: wife and I'm living a life of holiness.
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Speaker 1: Is it?
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Speaker 2: I was an alcoholic or a drug addict, but now
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Speaker 2: I'm sober and I'm raising my family. I'm using that
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Speaker 2: money to take care of my family instead of the drugs.
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Speaker 2: You know, what is your testimony? They cannot fight against that,
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Speaker 2: and Paul is just giving him his testimony. And man,
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Speaker 2: and where we're at, those who are with me? Indeed,
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Speaker 2: and since I could not see the glory that light
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Speaker 2: being led, okay, and those who were with me and
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Speaker 2: he saw the light and were afraid, but they did
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Speaker 2: not hear the voice of him who spoke to me.
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Speaker 2: So I said, what shall I do? Lord? And the
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Speaker 2: Lord said, arise, go to Damascus, and there you will
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Speaker 2: be told. I read this already on be done. And
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Speaker 2: since I could not see for the glory that of
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Speaker 2: that light being led by the hand of those who
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Speaker 2: were with me, I came to Damascus. Now that's his testimony,
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Speaker 2: and it's certain and a naias that devout men according
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Speaker 2: to the law, having a good testimony with all the
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Speaker 2: Jews who dwelt there, came to me and stood and
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Speaker 2: said to me, brother, saw receive your sight. And at
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Speaker 2: that same hour I looked up to him at him.
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Speaker 2: Then he said, God of our fathers, has chosen you
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Speaker 2: that you should know his will. Amen. Now that's important.
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Speaker 2: To know his will. We need to pray that every day,
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Speaker 2: like God, show us your will. Amen. And to see
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Speaker 2: the just one and to hear the voice of his mouth,
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Speaker 2: Now that is powerful. He was able to know his will,
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Speaker 2: to see the just one, and to hear the voice
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Speaker 2: from his very mouth. For you will be a witness
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Speaker 2: to all men of what you have seen and heard. Now,
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Speaker 2: Paul is called to be a witness, and so are we.
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Speaker 2: We are called to be a witness of what we've
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Speaker 2: seen and what we've heard. Amen. The question is what
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Speaker 2: have you seen and heard? Has God shown himself to you?
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Speaker 2: Has God spoken to you? Can you be a witness
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Speaker 2: of what God is saying and doing in your life? Amen?
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Speaker 2: Verse sixteen. And now they are waiting, arise and be baptized,
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Speaker 2: and wash your sins, calling on the name of the Lord, hallelujah.
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Speaker 2: So this is his conversion, his testimony. Now verse seventeen,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna see a turning point right here. Now, it
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Speaker 2: happened when I received excuse me, now, it happened when
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Speaker 2: I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple
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Speaker 2: that I was in a trance and saw him saying,
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Speaker 2: to me, make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly,
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Speaker 2: for they will not receive your testimony concerning me. So Amen.
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Speaker 2: Even though they could not refuse or debate or debunk
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Speaker 2: his testimony, people can reject your testimony. People have the
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Speaker 2: choice to either receive it or to accept it. Amen,
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Speaker 2: And they chose not to receive it. In Holy Spirit
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Speaker 2: gave him warning told him to leave quickly Jerusalem. Now
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Speaker 2: I find that interesting because we know that the Mother
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Speaker 2: Church is still there. Paul went to go visit the
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Speaker 2: leaders in James, the brother of Jesus, who is the
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Speaker 2: pastor of the Church of Jerusalem. So there is still
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Speaker 2: the presence of the Church of the Gospel there, but
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Speaker 2: they specifically will not receive Paul's testimony, so he had
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Speaker 2: to go. And this shows you that God intended the
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Speaker 2: whole time to send him to the gentiles Verse nineteen.
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Speaker 2: So I said, Lord, they know that in every synagogue
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Speaker 2: I am prison and beat those who believed in you.
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Speaker 2: And when the blood of your martyr Stephanie was shed,
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Speaker 2: I also was standing by consenting to his death. Now
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Speaker 2: Paul says with his own mouth right here that he
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Speaker 2: stood by consenting to the death of Stephen. That probably
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Speaker 2: stood out in his heart and mind, and man, Paul,
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Speaker 2: probably when he went to heaven, he probably had a
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Speaker 2: great union with Stephen on that day when he went home. Amen.
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Speaker 2: But that made an impact on his life even to
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Speaker 2: this day. Here he brings it up. I was consenting
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Speaker 2: to his death and guarding the clothes of those who
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Speaker 2: were killing him. Then he said to me apart, for
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Speaker 2: I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.
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Speaker 2: A man, it was God's heart and God's will for
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Speaker 2: him to get out of Jerusalem, go far from that
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Speaker 2: place and go to the Gentiles. But for some reason,
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Speaker 2: Paul was determined to come to Jerusalem, where he knew
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Speaker 2: that he would be bound. And Paul wanted to his
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Speaker 2: story with his brethren. After he had a whole experience
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Speaker 2: of fleeing for his life from through Asia and all
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Speaker 2: these other areas, and then now he comes to where
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Speaker 2: they're all at, and he has such a heart and
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Speaker 2: such a love for his kinsmen that he wanted to
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Speaker 2: share the gospel. Amen. He wanted to share the truth,
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Speaker 2: and he was even willing to lay down his life. Amen,
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Speaker 2: and he's sharing that he guarded the clothes of those
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Speaker 2: who murdered Stephan, so he understands. He understands where they're
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Speaker 2: coming from and he can relate. But this is a
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Speaker 2: huge turning point when he says gentile. That was a
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Speaker 2: key word. And we're gonna see in the next episode
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Speaker 2: how the crowd just goes mad after he mentions this.
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Speaker 2: And we're gonna continue this story then, but right now
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Speaker 2: we're gonna take a break.
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Speaker 4: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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Speaker 2: Let's go ready, Jesus is in my set front.
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Speaker 5: I'm about to set it off forgive here. I'm about
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Speaker 5: to go in set apart and moving different. I don't
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Speaker 5: rock with no sea, big boil on me, don't big
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Speaker 5: by Believe in my head, I feel like someone in
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Speaker 5: myn tent is setting up to my left front like,
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Speaker 5: oh he wants some No, he don't put up on him,
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Speaker 5: like to say that I won't. Okay, right here to
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Speaker 5: just with getting seth tone, give me all this. Boy,
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Speaker 5: You're gonna think I work for chevrons, Okay, Oh Joe society,
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Speaker 5: you know I'm down the slide, I think up.
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Speaker 2: My cross date.
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Speaker 5: I'm set apart and set aside like this. Jesus swag
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Speaker 5: on me, so you know I stayed fly like lie
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Speaker 5: dout ether died died.
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Speaker 2: I try to tell man J. S.
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Speaker 5: Christ out as your records taking up it for twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty five minutes.
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Speaker 2: So up this shit. Oh he wants some.
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Speaker 5: No, he don't pull up on him with that Bible boy,
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Speaker 5: I say that I won't. I'm like, oh, he want some,
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Speaker 5: so we don't pull up on him with the Word
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Speaker 5: of God.
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Speaker 2: Say that I want. Oh he wants some, know, we
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Speaker 2: don't pull upon him with the sixty sixth Say that
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Speaker 2: I want. Yeah, oh he wants You know, we don't
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Speaker 2: pull upon him like you don't say that.
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Speaker 5: I'm like, damn, oh, Lord, we gotta hit it with
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Speaker 5: the remix.
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Speaker 1: Try to sit it down, y'all. Let me get the
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Speaker 1: reconstrate Christ take the price on them. One day I'll
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Speaker 1: see heavy Gage's hungry for the truth, eating scriptures like
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Speaker 1: a real plate, never trying to trick me, Bud. He's
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Speaker 1: sweeter than the cheese gat.
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Speaker 2: Enemy be plotting. They just want to see my ship break.
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Speaker 4: Thinking in the Lord, so I'm steady when the winds here,
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Speaker 4: finding enough the mountains.
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Speaker 2: And but stuff.
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Speaker 1: I take his pivot on my thinking, Jesus Christ, on
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Speaker 1: my disuits hip, a minim up enemy be lurking by
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Speaker 1: my stes to invisible life is a testing Now he
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Speaker 1: listens on conditioned on your dark night. He's but my life,
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Speaker 1: saying visible sparking dark places, legal life, that to forget
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Speaker 1: the book. I only glowyd father, father White blesses me
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Speaker 1: strapped with the almo in they and.
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Speaker 4: Of me come testing me.
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Speaker 1: Never let a person in my circle that cond damage me.
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Speaker 1: Drop the mel Your blood brothers just a plamish man.
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Speaker 2: Hold on, hold lord, hey, truth, what's that thing you
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Speaker 2: want to be saying? Whatever?
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Speaker 1: I take that Bible off the table bun and put
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Speaker 1: it down the sticky and if you want it, you
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Speaker 1: can get it.
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Speaker 4: My father standing in on business. And you can say
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Speaker 4: that I'm like Daniel because my faith is relentless.
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Speaker 2: I said that living water.
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Speaker 4: I'll be in the storm and call every attention you
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Speaker 4: won't have been worth up on my heart.
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Speaker 1: That said, but the last in the inscription man paying
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Speaker 1: attention and listen, and he gonna give you the vision
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Speaker 1: unless you so in discord and always causing division.
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Speaker 4: A couple of witches got together to try that damage
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Speaker 4: while weakness no hopeless pocus around me, buddy, I keep
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Speaker 4: my eyes on the mission. My father build me for this,
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Speaker 4: his handcraft, that likeness.
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Speaker 1: And then man, y'all see who should have had the
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Speaker 1: mayor of that precision up here?
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Speaker 4: And so there's okay that you don't let me beat
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Speaker 4: these words that you hear. And I wake up every
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Speaker 4: day enjoy and I'm expecting a change. Don't forgiveness with
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Speaker 4: bonus because he lo he know my name. No, no depression.
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Speaker 4: This is blessing down from head and they rain. I
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Speaker 4: sat ups in the houser in order home he can
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Speaker 4: use at the same And I'm like, oh, we want some.
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Speaker 5: No, we don't pull upon him with that Bible boy
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Speaker 5: say that I won't. I'm like, oh, he want some,
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Speaker 5: So we don't pull upon him with the word that
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Speaker 5: guy say that I want, Oh he want some?
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Speaker 2: Know, we don't pull upon him with the sixty six
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Speaker 2: say that I want. Yeah, oh he wants some. You know,
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Speaker 2: we don't pull upon him like you don't say that
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Speaker 2: I want.
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Speaker 4: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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Speaker 2: All right, all right, y'all, we are back from the break.
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Speaker 2: This is your boy, mister His Hop. You are listening
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Speaker 2: to His Hop Radio podcast going through the Book of Acts.
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Speaker 2: We're seeing Paul in a crazy situation right here, fighting
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Speaker 2: for his life, defending the gospel, sharing his testimony, and
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Speaker 2: we're gonna pick it back up on the next episode.
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Speaker 2: All right, well, now it's time for the Accountability Partner segment.
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Speaker 2: This is where we hold each other accountable, where we
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Speaker 2: encourage one another, where we pray for one another and
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Speaker 2: strengthen each other in our walk. And so as we
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Speaker 2: hear a powerful testimony from Paul, the challenge today is
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Speaker 2: ask your partner, am I bold enough to share my testimony?
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Speaker 2: And man, and the challenge is to tell your story
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Speaker 2: this week. Tell your testimony. Your testimony has power. As
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Speaker 2: a matter of fact, our podcast on the video side,
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Speaker 2: on YouTube and all other platforms, we are going to
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Speaker 2: invite everyone to come and share their testimony. Right. We
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Speaker 2: just want to hear your testimony, hear your story. We
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Speaker 2: believe that you know, when the Lord comes rapture his church,
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Speaker 2: people are gonna search. People are gonna be frantically searching
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Speaker 2: right for the gospel. They're gonna come across these testimonies.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people are going to get saved. Amen.
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Speaker 2: So we want to leave some breadcrumbs behind. So I
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Speaker 2: definitely Corinth, I'm gonna get you on their Zone three.
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Speaker 2: I want to get you on there and share your testimony,
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Speaker 2: it's trivia time, so head on over to the live chats,
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Speaker 2: and yes, yesterday's winner was, of course none other than
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Speaker 2: Zone three. Now shout out to a brother print because
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Speaker 2: he gave some competition in there. And so let me see,
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Speaker 2: let me look it up in the live chat. The
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Speaker 2: question is what calls the accusation against Paul? Right? They
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Speaker 2: were the Jews were upset and they accused Paul. And
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Speaker 2: the questions where was it evidence? Was the evidence they
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Speaker 2: presented or was it a vision? Was it assumption? Or
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Speaker 2: was it a prophecy a man? And so let me see,
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Speaker 2: Oh well, actually all right, Zone three said, the way
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Speaker 2: you gave that, I guess I kind of gave the
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Speaker 2: answer by the way I did yesterday, so I'm not
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Speaker 2: gonna give the answer today. Well, Zone three said, assumptions
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Speaker 2: is what calls him to persecute? And then what did
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Speaker 2: Krent said? The church should have sang? Okay, I thought okay,
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Speaker 2: and for some reason I can't find it. But I'm
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Speaker 2: just searching through the life chat all right, So zone
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Speaker 2: got it. He's the trivia champ from yesterday. Let's see
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Speaker 2: he was the trivia champ today. The question is what
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Speaker 2: linguage did Paul speak to the crowd? What language did
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Speaker 2: Paul speak to the crowd? It was a Greek, Latin, Hebrew,
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Speaker 2: or Aramic. Those are the four answers you could choose
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Speaker 2: from the first one gets the bragging rights for hey,
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Speaker 2: all right, now time for our community shoutouts. May eighth
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Speaker 2: is today. We're gonna be at the Boulevard mall. Meet
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Speaker 2: us up there. We're gonna make some noise for Jesus
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Speaker 2: up in the spot. I'm trying to see if my
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Speaker 2: if that time frame fits you. I'm gonna reach out
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Speaker 2: to go to the local mall and minister, so please
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Speaker 2: keep it in prayer. If you can't make it, that
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Speaker 2: God would be glorified and that we will make a
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Speaker 2: past does not disqualify you at all. Paul the Apostle
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Speaker 2: used to persecute the church. Paul the Apostle is sharing
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Speaker 2: his testimony and he's connecting and he's relating to the people.
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Speaker 2: Your past qualifies your testimony. Paul went from persecutor to future.
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Speaker 2: That is the power of God and that is what
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