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Living Waters of Grace 11.18.25 · 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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  When you're challenged with the will of God, you have the
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  opportunity to, as I started the message day to step back for a
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  minute and say I'm not real sure what I should do here as opposed
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  to this blowing through the the red light.
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  It's good to stop and test your plan and say, Lord, is this your
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  plan? Is this what you want me to do?
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  Or is this what I want to do? And if you give the Lord the
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  chance to answer your prayer, He will clearly show you His will.
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  It can be difficult to discern what God's will is for your
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  life. Sometimes you become anxious
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  that what you think is God's voice is actually just your own
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  subconscious telling you what you want to hear.
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  But Pastor Clark encourages you today to take the time to slow
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  down. When you have those moments of
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  anxiety, God will speak to you through His Word, and the wisdom
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  you gain from being a faithful student will help you learn how
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  to distinguish His will from your own human desires.
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  Now here's Pastor Clark in Acts chapter 18 with today's edition
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  of Living Waters of Grace. There was an assurance that keep
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  doing what you're doing this, maybe down the road you're going
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  to have some issues, and he did. But this wasn't the time that
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  his life is going to be taken. He had opportunity now to be
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  bold and to proclaim Christ in the midst of the culture that
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  wasn't really open to what he had to say.
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  No one's going to hurt him. And so he needed to hear that,
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  I'm sure, in Corinth, because it was a barbaric, godless city.
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  And he was pretty much by himself outside of Priscilla and
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  Aquila at the time in regard to doing this ministry.
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  And I love what it says here. He's encouraging Paul for I have
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  many people in the 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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  a 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 run
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  down 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 than
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  Corinth. 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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  I I prefer Cephas Peters preaching.
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  And Paul had to teach him, hey, it's not what these guys are
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  doing, It's what the spirits doing.
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  All they're doing is watering, watering the word into your
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  heart so only God can give the increase.
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  So he said, you know, you don't have favorites, you don't play
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  this kind of political game. There's a lot of things in the
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  in the city of Corinth, even after the church established
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  that needed to be dealt with. And then it says in verse 12 on
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  Galileo, Galileo was his name was proconsul of Archaea.
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  The Jews with 1 accord rose up against Paul and brought him to
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  the judgment seeing saying this fellow persuades men to worship
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  God contrary to the law. Once again, these rebel rousers,
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  these Jewish people is continually causing problems in
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  the in the city are causing problems again trying to set
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  Paul up and lying about the what it is he's doing.
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  And so when Paul was about to open his mouth, and this is
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  interesting too, I got to give a defense if I'm slandered, if I'm
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  accused of something I didn't do.
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  And the first thing you want to do is clarify to people who are
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  judging or accusing you, especially if it's a legal
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  issue. This is what my testimony is.
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  This is what the truth is. Well, he didn't even have to say
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  anything. He was getting ready to speak
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  this pro consul leader. And this would be in the center
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  of the city, a high platform where people would bring
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  grievances to this judge and he would have to make a ruling.
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  And so Gallio said to the Jews, if it were a matter of
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  wrongdoing or wicked crimes of Jews, there would be reason why
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  I should bear with you. So in other words, he's not
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  going to even take this seriously because this is a
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  conflict between these Jewish people and Paul.
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  But if it's a question of words and names and your own law, look
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  to it yourselves, for I do not want to be a judge of such
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  matters. And he drove them from the
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  judgement seat. So he didn't didn't even listen
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  to them. Now, what's interesting, if he
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  would have made this a criminal case and Paul wouldn't have been
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  able to preach there anymore, the whole gospel in the ministry
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  would have been shut down. But obviously the Lord prevented
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  that from happening. And then verse 17, all the
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  Greeks took Sophanes. This is a guy that took over the
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  synagogue after Christmas, got saved the roller of the
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  synagogue and they beat him before the judgment seat.
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  But Galileo took no notice of these things.
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  So these people are so vindictive and so hateful and
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  they're they're not Jewish people, obviously they're
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  they're Greeks. They take this new leader of the
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  synagogue and they literally beat him.
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  What's interesting is that this sophones eventually came a
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  believer too. And it's talked about in the
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  book of Corinthians how he also was baptized.
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  We see now Paul, he's done in Corinth.
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  This is after the 18 month duration in verse 18.
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  So Paul remained a good while, and then he took leave of the
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  brethren and sailed for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila were
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  with him. Priscilla and Aquila.
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  And it's like in our church, there's couples and families
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  here that Lewis and I couldn't do what we do apart from your
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  support, your prayers, your love, your concern, your care.
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  There's no way we could do this without encouragement from the
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  body of Christ. And Paul had this blessed
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  encouragement, not only from the churches he planted, but from
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  this special couple, Priscilla and her husband Aquila.
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  And it says here he had his hair cut off at Sancrea, for he had
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  taken a vow. The vow was a Nazarite vow.
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  Paul was Jewish and he still had a affinity and a love for his
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  Jewish history and Jewish tradition.
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  He would never ask a Gentile to follow any kind of Jewish
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  tradition, and these traditions weren't going to mess up the
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  gospel of grace or salvation. This had to do with a personal
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  consecration that Paul sense perhaps being in corn for 18
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  months. He probably was somewhat
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  defiled. He felt he had been exposed to
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  some godless things and some situations.
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  He wasn't intentionally sinning or anything, but I'm sure he had
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  to be tempted at times and he just wanted to get deeper with
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  the Lord. So this vow was a promise before
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  God of deeper sanctification, and it would be done by cutting
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  his hair and taking a vow of not partaking of the Grapevine for
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  30 days. And John the Baptist and Samson,
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  of course, took these Nazarite vows for the rest of their life.
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  But Paul felt compelled that he wanted to do this.
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  And This is why he took the vow and why he had his hair cut off,
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  it says. And he came to Ephesus and left
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  them there. So he, he goes down to Ephesus,
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  stops there briefly. Of course, we know there's a
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  church in Ephesus. There's a book called Ephesians.
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  We've studied that. We'll get there again.
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  But he himself again enters in the synagogue and reason with
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  the Jews. So wherever Paul went, the first
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  stop was not Chick-fil-A, right? That's where we go Chick-fil-A,
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  right? So Paul is, you know, finish
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  this Nazarite vow. He goes into the synagogue and
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  he's preaching the gospel again. When they asked him to stay a
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  longer time with them, he did not consent but took leave of
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  them, saying, I must by all means keep this coming feast in
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  Jerusalem, but I'll return again to you, God willing.
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  And he sailed from Ephesus. What's interesting was Paul
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  wanted to go to Ephesus a couple years before this time and he
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  was forbid he wasn't able to go. It wasn't God's will.
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  And now he has the ability to pass through and he's going to
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  go back and have a powerful ministry and in the city of
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  Ephesus and Priscilla and Aquila will be working there as well.
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  When you think about God's will, you have a plan.
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  I have a plan. I want to do this.
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  I want to go there, I want to buy this.
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  I want to work here. I want to whatever and whenever
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  God's got control of your life, you can't, and I'm thankful for
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  this. God knows where you're at
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  spiritually. And when you're tested to
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  challenge the will of God and you go opposite of will of God,
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  then there's conflict. Things don't work out like you
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  were hoping they would or wanted them to work out.
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  When you're challenged with the will of God, you have the
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  opportunity to, as I started the message day, to step back for a
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  minute and say, I'm not real sure what I should do here as
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  opposed to this blowing through the the red light.
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  It's good to stop and test your plan and say, Lord, is this your
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  plan? Is this what you want me to do?
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  Or is this what I want to do? And if you give the Lord the
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  chance to answer your prayer, He will clearly show you His will.
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  But we don't many times have the patience to wait upon the Lord
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  for His will. Now some things are maybe Gray.
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  Well, should I do AB or C? Well, God doesn't see problems
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  with any of those. Is there a perfect will?
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  Yeah, there's always a perfect will, but there's a prevenient
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  will, I guess, or a will that he preferred B.
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  But you take A, he's still going to work in your life and bless
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  you and, and help you. But it's good to to want to know
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  the perfect will of God. So Paul, instead of just saying
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  whenever he couldn't go to Ephesus before I'm going anyway,
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  I'm going to do this. And he didn't.
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  And now we see in God's sovereignty that he eventually
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  got to this place he wanted to be.
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  Then stay day long this time, but he's going to get a chance
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  to go back. And when he had landed at
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  Caesarea, he gone up and greeted the church.
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  He's in Jerusalem, he's meeting everybody, giving him updates of
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  his three-year missionary journey, where he's been, what's
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  happened. And then he goes down to his
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  home church, Antioch, where he was sent out from this
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  tremendous time, I'm sure to be able to give everybody an
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  update. And after he had spent some time
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  there, he departed and went over to the region of Galatia and
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  Phrygia in order to strengthening of all the
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  disciples. So a 1500 mile journey now from
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  Antioch to these other regions that he's going to be doing
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  ministry in places like Iconium and Tarsus and Derby and Lystra
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  and Antioch. And he's wanting to see, are
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  these people going deeper in Christ?
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  Where are they at spiritually in regard to their passion for the
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  ministry and the gospel? I sense, you know, that the Holy
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  Spirit visits us every time we gather.
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  He lives in us. He's omnipresent and He's
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  searching the audience here today, like, where are you with
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  Christ today? Where's the pastor?
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  Where's the worship people? Where all the people serving
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  here? Where are we with the Lord?
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  Are we here going through the motions?
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  Are we here to have God exercise our hearts and to take us deeper
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  and challenge our thoughts and give us more clarity on His will
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  and His purposes for our lives? Maybe He's calling us to
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  ministry, some kind of ministry here in the church, and we've
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  been holding back. We don't know why, we just do
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  sometimes all these kind of things are happening in in the
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  room whenever we hear the word and, and God's at work in the
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  word and through the word. And I don't have the radar
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  ability to know exactly what it is he wants to say to you today.
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  But the Holy Spirit does and he knows how to take something that
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  maybe I didn't even really cover.
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  And he's going to talk to you specifically about something he
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  wants you to deal with personally.
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  And he challenges your heart. He causes you to think about
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  some things maybe you haven't thought about for a while or
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  maybe never thought about. And that's how awesome our God
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  is. And I'm so thankful that, you
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  know, when I come here to preach, I have a limited ability
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  in regard to what it is I do. But God has unlimited ability.
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  And so if we allow him to speak between the lines, if you may,
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  or in the silence when nothing's being said, then we begin to
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  hear something from God. God spoke to me today at
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  Calvary. He showed me this.
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  I need to pray about that. I think this is what he's
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  calling me to. This is what I sense His will
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  might be giving God the opportunity to work in the midst
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  of the time of worship and the and the teaching of the Word.
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  And then we, we moved on into this last section here as he's
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  out there checking out the churches, seeing how people are
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  doing, you know, just thinking too, what if Paul showed up here
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  today, if you could and came up here and, and I sat down, what
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  would he ask us? What would he say to us?
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  What would he think about the ministry here?
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  That's something to think about. I know he would be interested in
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  your growth. Are you maturing?
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  Are you becoming more holy? Are you loving God more?
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  Are you learning to love people more?
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  Are you having an influence on people in your life for the
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  gospel and for the sake of Christ?
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  And if we weren't, he wouldn't condemn us or anything.
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  He just encouraged us and exhort us that we need to get right
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  with God get get closer to the Lord surrender more so in verse
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  24. Now a certain Jew named Apollos
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  and of course Apollos is mentioned in the book of
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  Corinthians. I'm a poem of Apollos.
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  I'm a Cephas born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in
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  the Scriptures came to Ephesus. Now there's no indication of
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  where this guy came from or he wasn't coming from another
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  church or whatever. He he obviously was a lover of
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  God and, and called by God and compelled by God that he's just
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  going to go out and, and preach. This man had been instructed in
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  the way of the Lord and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and
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  taught accurately the things of the Lord, though he knew only
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  the baptism of John. So he was a disciple of John the
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  Baptist. He knew who Jesus was, what he
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  did, what he accomplished, He's Messiah.
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  But he didn't understand a whole lot about the church, the plan
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  of God for the church, let alone the work of the Holy Spirit.
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  He had some holes in his ability to teach, but he was very, very
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  gifted and he had a real zeal and a very inspirational kind of
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  speaker of the people would respond to.
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  And he was taught in the ways of the Lord throughout the
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  teachings of the Old Testament at the time, fervent in spirit,
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  meaning he was on fire for God. And he didn't teach anything
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  inaccurate. It says he taught accurately the
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  things of the Lord, taught accurately the things that he
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  knew. But the one pitfall was he only
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  knew of the baptism of John. So he began to speak boldly in
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  the synagogue and when Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they
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  took him aside and explained to him the way of God more
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  accurately. So it'd be like me or Lewis
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  here. We're done preaching and a
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  couple mature couple, godly couple deep couple wants to have
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  coffee with this Afrin said. Boy, that was a really blessed
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  message that you you brought. We wanted to share with you some
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  other things. I don't know if you ever knew
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  about this or thought about this or heard about this.
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  And, and he was a humble guy because he didn't act like, who
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  are you to talk to me, right? And it was a woman and a man
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  that's not a man, a godly woman and a godly man ministering to
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  this fellow Apollos. And so they, they took him aside
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  and they explained to him more accurately or more detailed the
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  things that he needed to know about so he could be a better
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  servant in the ministry. I'm so thankful I, I, I have
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  many influential people in this church that have helped me get
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  better at what I do. And Louis feels the same way
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  that we're growing in our ministries.
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  We're learning more about how to serve God with you guys.
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  We're, we're in process as well. And there's blind spots.
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  We have sometimes the things we didn't see or know.
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  And so you know, someone has a conversation or whatever, and it
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  helps us to to be more of a blessing and no pride, no ego in
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  in, in what it is we do. And we need God's help more than
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  ever. And what it is we're called to
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  do, especially in these very, very challenging days of of
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  ministry in the world that we live in today.
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  But equivalent Priscilla, again, I can't emphasize enough couples
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  in the church, younger couples, older couples, allow God to use
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  your ministry together as couples.
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  A husband and a wife team in ministry is powerful.
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  I believe that Priscilla was a little bit more, not the head of
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  the home, but she was more influential, I think in some
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  degrees in the church. Maybe she had more time or
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  whatever just gifting upon her. But it's evident in the
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  Scriptures that God uses deep women of God, doesn't he?
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  He does not to teach as a pastor, not to teach men per SE
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  in a public setting, but to share the truth of the Word of
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  God. My wife, Cindy, she's the most
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  influential woman in my life spiritually.
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  I need her counsel even when I don't feel like hearing it, need
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  her encouragement, need her criticism.
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  Whatever it is that God wants to pour through her, I need to be
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  open to. And I've learned after 51 years
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  to realize that God speaks through her life in a mighty
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  way. We move on here.
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  And when he had desired to cross to IKEA, the brother wrote,
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  exhorting the disciples to receive him.
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  So in other words, there's a letter of accommodation here
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  that's going to go with Apollo's.
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  Hey, this guy's a good teacher. He's sound, he's faithful.
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  He's not a heretic. You can trust him.
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  Invite him with open arms into your church.
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  It says he greatly helped those who had believed through grace.
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  And that's how we believe the gospel.
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  It's all through grace, right? By grace, we've been saved
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  through faith, and that is not of ourselves.
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  It's a gift of God, not of works.
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  And no one can boast the gospel of grace, right?
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  We're praying this morning. Lord, help us to be gracious
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  people. Help us to give grace.
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  Help us to receive grace. Help us to teach grace and to
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  preach grace so that the people that here and are part of this
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  ministry can grow and abound in the grace of God.
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  For it says in verse 28 he vigorously refuted the Jews
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  publicly showing from the scriptures that Jesus is the
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  Christ. And I, I believe we need to be
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  vigorous in our proclamation of the gospel, not milk toast or
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  watering things down because we're afraid of offending
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  people. Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
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  the living God. There's no other name under
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  heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
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  Jesus Christ is the only way. He is the way, He is the truth.
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  He is the life. No man comes to the Father but
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  through him. You mean to tell me you can't go
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  to heaven unless you have Jesus? That's exactly what we're
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  saying, right? Well, isn't that bigoted?
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  There Isn't that, you know, single minded or arrogant or you
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  know, whatever, Hey, we're just telling you what the Bible says.
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  We're telling you what the truth is.
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  We're telling you what the gospel is.
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  It's all about Jesus Christ and him crucified, his death, his
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  burial, his resurrection. So this is what this man
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  Apollo's did. He vigorously refuted the
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  rejection and the negativity of the Jewish people when they
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  tried to deny that Jesus was a Messiah.
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  He didn't let up and he showed them not from his own wisdom or
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  his own ability. He showed them from the
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  scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.
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  Amen. And that's what we do.
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  We show people right one another through the scriptures that
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  Jesus is the Christ. Father God, we thank you Lord,
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  we pray now that you would take this word that we studied and
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  seal it into our hearts. Is there any bitterness or
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  unforgiveness or self centeredness or lust or idols or
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  whatever, Lord, that shouldn't be there as a child of God?
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  Lord, forgive us and wash those things out if they're there.
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  And Father, if there's anyone here today that's never come to
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  faith in Jesus Christ, that the day you would knock on their
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  hearts, Father, and show them that you died for them and that
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  you rose again from the dead, that they might have everlasting
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  life. And the day would be the day
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  that they would believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
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  the living God. Thanks for joining us on this
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  journey through Acts. On today's edition of Living
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  Waters of Grace, Pastor Clark shares that one of the most
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  remarkable things about the book of Acts is how it shows the
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  disciples transformation. The followers of Jesus we meet
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  here are very different from the often confused and fearful
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  disciples in the Gospels. After Jesus's death and
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  resurrection, and especially through the power of the Holy
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  Spirit, the apostles experienced a profound change in their
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  hearts and boldness. Their faith became unwavering,
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  and they moved forward with courage to spread the gospel
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  despite opposition and hardship. Acts reminds us that the same
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  Spirit who empowered them is at work in US today, shaping our
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  hearts and giving us strength to live boldly for Christ.
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  Living Waters of Grace is a ministry of Calvary Chapel
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  Westmoreland. If you're in the Greensburg, PA
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  area, we invite you to join us this Sunday at 10:30 AM at 400 E
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  TuneIn again soon for another edition of Living Waters of
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