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“When the Gospel Disrupts the City: Jealousy, Riots, and the Power of Truth” Acts 17:5–9 · His Hop Radio Podcast

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Speaker 3: Let's pray for stronger obedience. I'm praying this for myself. Amen,
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Speaker 3: a stronger obedience to the word. Hallelujah. All right, all right.
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Speaker 3: So in the previous episode, we saw Paul the Apostle
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Speaker 3: reasoning from the scriptures and proving that Jesus is the Christ.
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Speaker 3: Some people believed, but as we are about to see,
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Speaker 3: not everyone was happy about it at all. When the
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Speaker 3: Gospel begins to transform life, sometimes it also exposes jealousy.
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Speaker 3: It also exposes pride and opposition in the hearts of others.
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Speaker 3: Is that's why it's so important to guard our hearts.
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Speaker 3: Belove it. It is so important for us to guard
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Speaker 3: our hearts. The Bible said that out of our hearts
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Speaker 3: are the issues of life and man. And so I
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Speaker 3: feel for these people. I mean, it's one thing not
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Speaker 3: to believe, but they were envious and jealous because the
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Speaker 3: Gospel was prosperous. These people were fighting against God, and
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Speaker 3: they allowed jealousy and envy to enter into their hearts,
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Speaker 3: and they missed the kingdom. So I'm gonna try something
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Speaker 3: a little different today. I'm gonna read our passage of scripture,
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Speaker 3: and then I'm gonna go ahead and come back and
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Speaker 3: break it down. Actually, this is what I started out doing.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go back to it. It's not something new,
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Speaker 3: but because of time restraints, I kind of was skipping
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Speaker 3: through scripture. But anyway, let's go ahead and read it
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Speaker 3: verse five through verse nine. But the Jews, who are
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Speaker 3: not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the evil men
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Speaker 3: from the marketplace. Now, hold on, before we go further,
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Speaker 3: I do want to cover a little background of the
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Speaker 3: previous episode that Paul his customer was to go to
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Speaker 3: the synagogues right to share the gospel, and that opened
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Speaker 3: my eyes to something where we want to go out
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Speaker 3: until evangelize. Yes, sometimes we go out to the street,
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Speaker 3: we pass out flyers, we get people who pass by,
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Speaker 3: We try to speak as much as we can, But
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Speaker 3: why not go to where the people gather already. That's
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Speaker 3: what Paul did. He went to the synagogues where people
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Speaker 3: were already got and with the scripture. Now, I mean, yes,
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Speaker 3: we can be invited to church, But how about college campuses,
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Speaker 3: how about schools? How about places where people gather. Let's
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Speaker 3: pray about that that these places will open up so
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Speaker 3: that we could go and share and preach the word.
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Speaker 3: And also in the previous chapter, we saw that a
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Speaker 3: lot of influential people, a lot of noble people, a
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Speaker 3: lot of women, powerful women, and people in society accepted
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Speaker 3: the gospel. So the gospel was making traction right the gospel.
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Speaker 3: A lot of Jews believed as well. Sometimes we, you know,
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Speaker 3: might hear negative things about the Jews because they pursued Paul,
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Speaker 3: but there were a lot of Jews who did believe Amen.
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Speaker 3: So this is a response to all of that. So
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Speaker 3: in verse five, but the Jews, who were not persuaded,
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Speaker 3: becoming envious, took some of the evil men from the
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Speaker 3: marketplace and gathering a mob, set all the city in
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Speaker 3: an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason. And now
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Speaker 3: this is the first time I believe Jason is mentioned
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Speaker 3: in scripture. He's going to play a huge part in
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Speaker 3: this story today. And sought to bring them out in
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Speaker 3: the peak to the people. When they did not find them,
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Speaker 3: they dragged Jason and some of the brethren to the
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Speaker 3: rulers of the city, crying out, these who have turned
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Speaker 3: the world upside down have come here too. Jason has
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Speaker 3: harbored them, and they are all acting contrary to the
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Speaker 3: decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus, hallelujah.
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Speaker 3: And they troubled the crowd and the rulers of this
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Speaker 3: city when they heard these things. So when they had
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Speaker 3: taken the security from Jason and the rest, they let
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Speaker 3: them go. Amen. All right, well, let's break this down
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Speaker 3: because this is good, all right, Verse five. But the Jews,
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Speaker 3: who were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the
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Speaker 3: evil men from the marketplace and gathering a mob, set
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Speaker 3: all the city in an uproar. Wow. Now, the issue
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Speaker 3: wasn't that Paul lacked evidence. The real issue was jealousy
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Speaker 3: a man, Paul had the evidence that he needed to
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Speaker 3: prove that Jesus was the Messiah. But these men were envious.
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Speaker 3: The religious leaders saw people responding to the gospel, and
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Speaker 3: instead of rejoicing over it, they became threatened. Now, if
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Speaker 3: you're not careful, beloved, this is something that we see
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Speaker 3: today as well. There's a pharceutic or should I say,
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Speaker 3: a religious spirit out there today that would hate on
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Speaker 3: you and hate on us just because we want to
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Speaker 3: just share the pure gospel. We just want to share
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Speaker 3: the Word with each other. Amen. When truth exposes pride, right,
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Speaker 3: and that's what the word will do, It'll expose our
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Speaker 3: people sometimes respond with anger instead of just being humble.
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Speaker 3: Instead of humility, people will get angry when they're exposed.
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Speaker 3: And noticed what they did. They gathered troublemakers from the marketplace.
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Speaker 3: Now this is interesting. In other words, they created a mob. Now,
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Speaker 3: the gospel didn't start the riot. Jealousy did. Right. Paul
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Speaker 3: was not out there instigating a riot. Paul was not
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Speaker 3: out there bringing a division in their community. He didn't
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Speaker 3: come in there, you know, gang banging and set tripping. No,
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Speaker 3: these men were jealous. Now, why do you think, now
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Speaker 3: this is wrong? Why would you go to trouble making
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Speaker 3: men to resolve a problem or an issue. Why didn't
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Speaker 3: they just go to the authorities right then and there? Right,
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Speaker 3: if they truly thought that there was injustice, and they
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Speaker 3: truly thought there is wrongdoing, right, they re read it.
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Speaker 3: They accused them of not following Caesar's decrees. Right, why
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Speaker 3: not go to the authorities to handle it. They went
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Speaker 3: to trouble makers. This shows their heart and their intent.
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Speaker 3: It's almost like going to inmates in prison. You know,
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Speaker 3: you know some people just got out on parole, or
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Speaker 3: you know, we know those individuals who are involved in
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Speaker 3: these questionable activities, right, we know people who have ties
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Speaker 3: ties with the mob, or they got ties with you know,
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Speaker 3: the Riyan Brotherhood, or ties with the Crypts or the
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Speaker 3: Bloods or the or the Grilla Nation, or whoever may be,
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Speaker 3: you know what I mean, And we go to them.
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Speaker 3: That is our first response. I mean, there's something wrong
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Speaker 3: right there, right out of the gate. And these are
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Speaker 3: supposed to be religious men. These are supposed to be
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Speaker 3: men of the word verse six. But when they did
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Speaker 3: not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to
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Speaker 3: the rulers of the city, crying out, these who have
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Speaker 3: turned the world upside down have come here. Man, How
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Speaker 3: would I love to be accused of that turning the
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Speaker 3: world upside down? They actually turned the world right side up. Amen.
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Speaker 3: Now they said that the Christians had turned the world
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Speaker 3: upside down. The apostles, right, think about the phrase turning
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Speaker 3: the world upside down? What were the apostles doing. They
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Speaker 3: were preaching truth, they were exposing sin, and they were
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Speaker 3: declaring Jesus as Lord. And that message challenged the power
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Speaker 3: structure of the time. That message still challenges the power
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Speaker 3: structure of today. The Gospel always disrupts systems built on
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Speaker 3: darkness and deception. Let me say that again. The Gospel
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Speaker 3: will always disrupt systems that are built on darkness and destruction.
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Speaker 3: We need to be turning this world of down once again,
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Speaker 3: like the apostles did it. Hallelujah. Need to add that
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Speaker 3: to our prayer list. Lord, help me to turn our community,
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Speaker 3: help us to turn our community upside down, hallelujah. Verse seven,
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Speaker 3: Jason had harbored them, and those are all acting contrary
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Speaker 3: to the decree of Caesar, saying there is another king Jesus, Amen,
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Speaker 3: just like I said, Like, why didn't they go to
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Speaker 3: the authorities in the first place? And they went to
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Speaker 3: go get gang bangers to help them. Now, this accusation
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Speaker 3: was only political talking about Caesar, right, the mob accused
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Speaker 3: the apostles of declaring an another king besides Caesar. This
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Speaker 3: was a serious charge in the Roman Empire. But let's
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Speaker 3: notice the irony in this. Yes, the apostles believe Jesus
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Speaker 3: as king, but Jesus wasn't starting a political rebellion. His
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Speaker 3: kingdom is spiritual. However, the Gospel still threatens earthly systems
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Speaker 3: because it caused people to submit to Christ authority first
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Speaker 3: before any other authority in the land. We submit to
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Speaker 3: Christ first before we submit to any political figure or
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Speaker 3: the laws of the land. Actually, we have the right
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Speaker 3: to re dell against our government if they are calling
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Speaker 3: us to disobey God and sin against Scripture Amen, verse a.
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Speaker 3: They troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city
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Speaker 3: when they heard these things. Now, these people were troubled.
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Speaker 3: The accusations created fear among the authorities. Roman officials were
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Speaker 3: always cautious about riots and rebellion. They didn't want those
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Speaker 3: things in their sector, in the areas that they were
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Speaker 3: in charge of. Right, the mob intentionally used fear and
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Speaker 3: politics to persuade the leaders. They knew this. They knew
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Speaker 3: what buttons to push, They knew how to manipulate the situation,
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Speaker 3: how to get them to respond the way they wanted
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Speaker 3: them to respond. That is witchcraft, love it. That is
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Speaker 3: manipulation and control. Now this also shows us something important here.
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Speaker 3: Opposition often uses fear and misinformation. We see that so
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Speaker 3: much in the media today, right. We see it on
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Speaker 3: the news, we see it on the Internet. There's a
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Speaker 3: lot of fear monkey out there and misinformation behind it.
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Speaker 3: If we're not grounded in the Word, we will get
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Speaker 3: swept away with the tide that is coming, especially in
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Speaker 3: the days we're living in now. Now, the enemy tries
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Speaker 3: to make truth look dangerous. I think that the tactic
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Speaker 3: of the enemy, the enemy always lies on God. He
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Speaker 3: makes God look as if he's restrictive. We have to
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Speaker 3: live this restrictive life, this miserable life. If we're serving God,
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Speaker 3: which is further from the truth. We live a life
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Speaker 3: of freedom and liberty. Once we accept the Lord in
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Speaker 3: our lives. Amen. The God's word continues to move forward
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Speaker 3: no matter what, no matter what we do, no matter
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Speaker 3: what we say, the Word of God will continue to
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Speaker 3: move forward. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: Verse nine. So when they had taken security from Jason
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Speaker 3: and the rest let them go. Now Jason had to
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Speaker 3: post a financial bond he had to pay to get
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Speaker 3: out of this situation, right, and he had to promise
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Speaker 3: that that disturbance would stop. This allowed the authorities to
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Speaker 3: release them without further punishment. Jason paid a price for
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Speaker 3: supporting the Gospel. Hallelujah. Now hospitality cost him something. Following
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Speaker 3: Christ sometimes involves personal sacrifice. But that hit your spirit, beloved,
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Speaker 3: But God always honors those who stand for the true truth. Now,
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Speaker 3: who knows Jason might have wanted a quiet evening at home.
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Speaker 3: He probably didn't need this or did not expect a
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Speaker 3: riot to divide the whole entire community. All he wanted
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Speaker 3: was the word. All he wanted was to be used
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Speaker 3: by God. And he got involved in his situation that
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Speaker 3: was unfavorable. He got dragged out before the authorities and
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Speaker 3: he had to pay a bill. He had to take security. Right,
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Speaker 3: that means he had to pay and promised that the
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Speaker 3: riot would subside, that everything would be cool. And who
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Speaker 3: knows what the price was, But it was a sacrifice,
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Speaker 3: and I'm pretty sure he was glad to be able
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Speaker 3: to do it. And if you look at him now,
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Speaker 3: his name is written in the Bible for generations for
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Speaker 3: all history to see his involvement and his sacrifice for
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Speaker 3: the Gospel's sake. His hospitality. All he did was allow
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Speaker 3: them to come into his house. Right, this was like
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Speaker 3: a home Bible study or maybe even a church that
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Speaker 3: was planted and getting off the ground. And he just
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Speaker 3: did what the Lydia did in the previous chapter. She
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Speaker 3: allowed in Philippi, she allowed the apostles to come over
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Speaker 3: to her house. And so look at what hospitality can do.
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Speaker 3: You never know when someone opens up their doors. I've
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Speaker 3: been invited to a person's house to start a Bible study.
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Speaker 3: When a person opens up their door and say, hey,
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Speaker 3: come to my home and teach Bible study, you don't
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Speaker 3: know what God is doing. God could be opening a
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Speaker 3: door to start a church, to start at home fellowship.
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Speaker 3: And this is what Jason did. He opened the door
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Speaker 3: to the apostles, and then he had to pay a
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Speaker 3: price to keep the peace into further the gospel. Just
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Speaker 3: think about it. He could have done anything at this point.
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Speaker 3: He could have denied them. He could have said that
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Speaker 3: they were never He could have lied and said they
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Speaker 3: were never here. We don't know who they were. We
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Speaker 3: saw this right with the apostle Peter. He denied Christ
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Speaker 3: three times. I mean, you got a whole city coming
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Speaker 3: after you, but Jason stood his ground. So I definitely
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Speaker 3: want to give honor is due. Shout out. That's a
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Speaker 3: great example for us, hey man, And on that note,
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Speaker 5: Uh ain't God adjudge me for my wrong?
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Speaker 1: So can you pray for it? Is strapping me as
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Speaker 1: I hate that gone? Okay, you pray for it. Rond
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Speaker 1: and don't know when I make it home, So okay,
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Speaker 1: you pray for it.
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Speaker 5: And it's cold world for a lot of loans, so
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Speaker 5: can you pray for it? It's okay, you pray for you.
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Speaker 5: I've been going through some things. Okay, price for it.
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Speaker 5: It's okay, pray for it. I've been trying to write
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Speaker 5: my wrong, so can you pray for it? God give
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Speaker 5: me some mass. Just feel like mode and I can't handle.
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Speaker 5: I'm just trying to meet your standards, but I don't
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Speaker 5: feel I'm falling short everything. You can't be random every day.
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Speaker 5: I'm taking chances. It is a blessing coming soon. I
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Speaker 5: need to hear from the story. I've been through so
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Speaker 5: much of pain. I've seen them change, but I'll remain.
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Speaker 5: It took some time to find my lang. Who would
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Speaker 5: have knew I got a voice that could strap with
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Speaker 5: no remorse? You know where I'm from. They here the
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Speaker 5: dead or they in court. God say, son, I got
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Speaker 5: a plan for you.
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Speaker 1: You with me? Lord?
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Speaker 5: Of course, nobody told me that Susys come with so
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Speaker 5: many problems.
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Speaker 1: I don't really care much for the fam, so leave
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Speaker 1: me out the drama.
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Speaker 5: I got in the game and spread the good word
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Speaker 5: as that.
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Speaker 1: Go say comments. So I can take her wife and
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Speaker 1: kids like they retire my mama. If you want it
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Speaker 1: bad and the go all in. I spent my last dollar.
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Speaker 1: But what I'm saying they best I know. I'm blessed.
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Speaker 1: So I just find my college. I always knew that
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Speaker 1: guy would with me.
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Speaker 5: I feel him sense of toddler something told me he
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Speaker 5: will really just ain't know how to call it.
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Speaker 1: Ain't got to jail me for my wrong. So can't
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Speaker 1: you pray for it? Miss and strapping me?
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Speaker 3: Is?
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Speaker 1: I hate they gone? So can you price for it?
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Speaker 1: Probably don't know when I'll make it home. So can
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Speaker 1: you pray for it? In this cold world? For all
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Speaker 1: the loans? So can you pray for it? So can
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Speaker 1: you price for you? I've been going through some things,
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Speaker 1: so can you pray for you? Okay, price I've been
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Speaker 1: trying to write my wrong.
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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay, thanks, I've been trying to.
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Speaker 1: Write my wrong. Okay.
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Speaker 3: the whole purpose. And hey, I'm learning just as well.
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Speaker 3: I'm not sitting here acting like I got it all together.
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Speaker 3: I'm going through the word just like everyone else, trying
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Speaker 3: to apply this in my life. Amen. Hallelujah is great
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Speaker 3: when we can do this in fellowship. The song was
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Speaker 3: there's wheat and terrors that are growing up. That the
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Speaker 3: terrors look just like the wheat, but the difference is
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Speaker 3: that wheat bow. The weak live a life of obedience,
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Speaker 3: are prideful, they are stiff necked. They will not yield
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Speaker 3: sometimes it could be different things. Now, I know we're
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Speaker 3: not perfect, and I know we all struggle, but there's
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Speaker 3: I'm even asking myself. There's areas where I struggle. I'm like, Lord,
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Speaker 3: you know, am I right? Like? What's going on with me?
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Speaker 3: Am I a tear? Like? A good thing to do
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Speaker 3: a tear? Or am I weak? You know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: Because at the end of harvest, the angels are going
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Speaker 3: And so that's what the challenge is today and the
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