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- 0:03This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
- 0:08Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
- 0:12County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
- 0:16continues teaching through God's Word.
- 0:37They remembered the words of the Lord.
- 0:39They did exactly that. They just forgot about it and
- 0:42moved on. And it says they were filled
- 0:45with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
- 0:47So when your heart and mind submits to the issues in our
- 0:52life, whether we like them or not, and we say, Lord, I'm not
- 0:55real happy with this right now, but I trust you and what you're
- 0:59doing in my life. And my heart wants to be soft
- 1:03towards you and I want to be open and willing to accept what
- 1:06it is you're doing in my life. But I want to praise you in it.
- 1:10Have you ever found yourself in a spot where you're completely
- 1:13stumped on what to do next? Navigating a trial?
- 1:17Yeah, that's definitely no walk in the park.
- 1:20It takes up all your thoughts, doesn't it?
- 1:22So how often do you let go of those anxious thoughts and
- 1:25simply hand everything over to God?
- 1:29In today's message, Pastor Clark is here to remind you to put
- 1:32your trust in God for all things.
- 1:35Rest assured, everything God brings into your life is meant
- 1:38for your benefit. Just have faith in Him now.
- 1:42Here's Pastor Clark in Acts chapter 14 as he begins his
- 1:46message called persecution. We are in the book of the Acts
- 1:51studying about the work of the Holy Spirit in the body of the
- 1:55church. That work of the Holy Spirit
- 1:57continues today as we live in our own lives in the church,
- 2:01serving the Lord. And we have to understand that
- 2:05part of being a Christian is also dealing with adversity and
- 2:09trials, right? I mean, that's part of how God
- 2:11purifies us and helps us to grow in a closer relationship with
- 2:16him. Sometimes we go through times of
- 2:19dark valleys and we go through despondency or depression, or we
- 2:23go through times of hopelessness, but we find that
- 2:27in those times, that's when we cry out through the Lord the
- 2:29most, and we need Him the most. And so God uses these things to
- 2:33purify us and refine us. And when we get through them, we
- 2:36begin to understand, Wow, if this wouldn't have happened in
- 2:40my life, I wouldn't know the Lord the way I know Him now.
- 2:42And so He loves us being couraged no matter what.
- 2:45You might be caring today, what you might be struggling with,
- 2:48what you might be going through, God is not abandon you.
- 2:51He's with you. And His word is a lamp unto our
- 2:55feet, a light unto our path. So let's pray as we get prepared
- 2:58for this teaching today. Lord, we know and we understand,
- 3:03Father, the challenges that we go through.
- 3:06You teach us, Lord, how to learn about You, but also how to
- 3:10depend on You and to trust in You in ways that we wouldn't
- 3:14have learned if we hadn't been put in a position where we
- 3:18desperately needed You, Lord, and all of us have been in those
- 3:21places. And so, Lord, we are here today
- 3:24to receive from you what your Holy Spirit has for your church.
- 3:29And we pray the same for churches all over the world
- 3:32today where believers are gathering in the Word of God.
- 3:35Lord, that you would minister through the servants who stand
- 3:39behind the pulpit. We're ordinary people.
- 3:43We're broken ourselves. We are also fallen, Lord, yet
- 3:47you have redeemed us. And Lord, even though we still
- 3:50struggle, we're tempted, we still sin.
- 3:53You choose to perfect the Saints through the work of the
- 3:57ministry, through the teaching of the Word, You're changing us
- 4:00all into your image and likeness.
- 4:02We're all works in process. We're so thankful for Your
- 4:05mercy, Your patience with each of us.
- 4:07Lord, none of us have arrived. None of us have it all together,
- 4:10only you have it together. And that's why we come to learn
- 4:14from you and about you, because as our eyes are upon you, we
- 4:18change and we become more like you.
- 4:20So Lord, we just ask now for your favor on your word and
- 4:23blessing on your people that Lord today you would give them
- 4:26what it is they've come for. I can't give it to them, but you
- 4:30can by your Holy Spirit through the word.
- 4:32So Lord, our trust is in you and we pray these things in Jesus
- 4:35name, Amen. So the title of the message
- 4:38today is persecution. Has anybody ever felt like
- 4:41they've been persecuted to have gone persecution?
- 4:44We all have. If we're we're Christians, the
- 4:46Bible says all that live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer what
- 4:51persecution? And I think when we first come
- 4:55to Christ and we're new believers, we skip over that.
- 4:57We don't. Maybe that's for someone else.
- 4:58That's not for me. But none of us get through it
- 5:01without dealing with adversity and persecution.
- 5:04The Apostle Paul and Barnabas are on their first missionary
- 5:07journey. This is basically the inception
- 5:10of the Great Commission, where Jesus said to go into all the
- 5:12world and preach the gospel to every living creature, baptizing
- 5:17them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, teaching
- 5:20them to observe all things whatsoever.
- 5:22I've commanded you, and lo, I'm with you always, even unto the
- 5:25end of the age. That's the Great Commission.
- 5:27So they have been in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria.
- 5:31Now they're spreading out into the other regions of the world.
- 5:34And because of what they've done, that gospel has gone
- 5:38throughout the earth. And we're recipients of the
- 5:40seeds that were initially planted in these early stages of
- 5:43the New Testament church. And so it talks about in my
- 5:47Bible, the heading, and I'm going to finish up verse 13.
- 5:50Just read it. Blessing and conflict at
- 5:53Antioch. So persecution comes in a form
- 5:55of people who hate Jesus, hate the gospel, hate the word of
- 5:59God, hate holiness, hate righteousness, hate repentance.
- 6:03They just want to live as pagans, right?
- 6:05And many of us, all of us, probably at one time, we were
- 6:08all lost in our sins before Christ saved us.
- 6:11We lived that way too. We didn't want to hear anything
- 6:14about this kind of stuff we're talking about today.
- 6:17Then the Lord saves us. He softens our hearts, and he
- 6:20gives us a desire to want to go this way, right?
- 6:22To follow the path of Christ. So we pick up persecution and
- 6:27adversity because we live for Christ.
- 6:29We try to represent him and sometimes we pick up persecution
- 6:33and adversity from employers or even in families.
- 6:37Sometimes we go through it even in a church.
- 6:39Lord, we're sometimes God allows things the enemy works and tries
- 6:44to divide the church and to scatter the sheep and just get
- 6:47people to stop falling the Lords, you know, because of
- 6:50relationship issues or whatever, you know.
- 6:52So when we study the word, we have to understand that we are
- 6:56all sinners still. Things have happened to us in
- 7:00all of our lives that we don't think has been fair or we don't
- 7:03like. And so we get bitter at times.
- 7:06We get hard. We get in a place of being
- 7:08unwilling to forgive. We get bitter.
- 7:11And that's not what the Lord's like.
- 7:13When he died on that cross, He had his arms out and we all knew
- 7:17what we were doing. But he says, Father, forgive
- 7:19them so they know not what they do.
- 7:22So as we study this today and you think about your own trials,
- 7:26your own persecution, the things that have happened to you that
- 7:29you don't think's fair, if anybody has hurt you, if
- 7:32anybody's offended you, if anybody's injured you in some
- 7:36way, allow the Lord to give you grace to forgive.
- 7:39Because we can't be followers of Jesus if we don't forgive.
- 7:44It tells us in the Lord's Prayer forgive us our trespasses as He
- 7:49forgives us our trespasses. Then later on in John it says if
- 7:53we don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will our
- 7:56heavenly Father forgive us of ours.
- 7:58That's shocking, isn't it? You can.
- 8:00So I prayed the prayer. I asked Jesus to come into my
- 8:03heart. That's all well and good, but if
- 8:05we're not forgiving people, there's a disconnect, right?
- 8:08So we want to be a Church of mercy and forgiveness in our own
- 8:11lives toward one another and toward those in the world.
- 8:14So it says in verse 42. So when the Jews went out of the
- 8:17synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be
- 8:21preached to them the next Sabbath.
- 8:22So certain people heard the gospel, they were excited, they
- 8:26believed, and obviously there were people there that wouldn't
- 8:29believe, just like there may be here today.
- 8:31So when the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and
- 8:34devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to
- 8:38them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
- 8:41And so we're here today by the grace of God, we are faithful to
- 8:46be in the Word. We show up for no other reason
- 8:50but that we're all testifying together when we're together,
- 8:53that we're continuing in the grace of God, no matter what we
- 8:56might be dealing with. On the next Sabbath, almost the
- 8:59whole city came together to hear the word of God.
- 9:02Wouldn't that be awesome, you know, for next Sunday that there
- 9:05wouldn't be enough room for people to come in here because
- 9:07the whole city is beginning to hear about the grace of God at
- 9:10Calvary Chapel. That would be a prayer that we
- 9:13should all have. All these people were excited
- 9:15about salvation and what the Lord can do.
- 9:18But it says that when the Jews saw the multitudes and these
- 9:22were the people that were still not believing, they were filled
- 9:25with envy. They had never seen so many
- 9:27people in the synagogue before. And they weren't coming for the
- 9:30law. They were coming for the grace
- 9:32of God that was setting them free from all their sin and
- 9:36their bondage and contradicting and blaspheming.
- 9:39They oppose the thing spoken by Paul, so there's always
- 9:42adversity and push back to the message of God's grace and
- 9:45forgiveness. They're jealous of the impact
- 9:49that the Word is making on these people because of the grace of
- 9:52God. And they're also slandering the
- 9:55preachers, the teachers, the apostles, anybody that has
- 9:58anything to do with communicating these things they
- 10:01are adamantly opposed to. And that's what's happening in
- 10:04our culture today. The world we live in, in the
- 10:07arena that we are all experiencing, we know there's a
- 10:11real push back toward Christianity in our country and
- 10:15in the rest of the world. And so it says they blaspheme.
- 10:18They opposed the things spoken by Paul.
- 10:23Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said it was necessary that
- 10:27the word of God should be spoken to you first, but since you
- 10:31reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life.
- 10:35I love how Paul really puts it in her face, well, if you guys
- 10:38don't want this and you don't want to have everlasting life,
- 10:41OK, what am I going to do for you, right.
- 10:43And he said, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
- 10:47For so the Lord has commanded us.
- 10:49I have set you as a light to the Gentiles that you should be for
- 10:53salvation to the ends of the earth.
- 10:55So that the gospel initially came to the Jewish people.
- 10:58Jesus said his own did not receive him.
- 11:02He came to his own. They didn't receive.
- 11:04And so the whole goal of God from the beginning of time was
- 11:07to take the gospel to every people group in the world, every
- 11:11tribe, tongue and nation. There's no discrimination with
- 11:16the Lord in regard to the good news of the gospel.
- 11:19It's for all people and all places, everywhere.
- 11:22And so they are rejecting this. But the Gentiles and some of
- 11:26these Jewish people are believing.
- 11:28So the Lord has commanded us. I've set you as a light to the
- 11:31Gentiles that you should be for salvation to the ends of the
- 11:34earth. Now when the Gentiles heard
- 11:37this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord,
- 11:40and as many as had been appointed to eternal life
- 11:43believe. This is a fascinating verse
- 11:46because God, in his all knowingness, his omniscience,
- 11:51understands that there's going to be a people that are called
- 11:56out by Him that will believe even before we're created.
- 11:59That's a mystery of God's sovereignty, His election.
- 12:03Why is it we're chosen here today?
- 12:05Why is it that we've believed? Why is it that we've come to
- 12:08faith in Christ where we heard the Word and it resonated with
- 12:11us and we came out of death unto life because of the Holy Spirit
- 12:16making us capable of believing the gospel?
- 12:20There's so many people that still don't believe.
- 12:22Why? In the mind of God, he wants the
- 12:27gospel to go to everyone. We don't know who's going to
- 12:30believe who isn't, and sometimes people don't believe until their
- 12:33deathbed. So you never stop praying, you
- 12:36never stop preaching, you never stop giving the gospel.
- 12:39You're always wanting to share the Lord with people.
- 12:43And so and then it says in the word of the Lord was being
- 12:46spread throughout all the region.
- 12:48But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and
- 12:52the chief men of the city, and they raised up persecution
- 12:55against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from the region.
- 12:59But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and came
- 13:01to Iconium, and the disciples were filled with joy and with
- 13:05the Holy Spirit. So Paul is dealing with
- 13:08adversity as as we do. Something happens in your life
- 13:12as a believer, and you might be tempted to quit.
- 13:15Pastors are tempted to quit all the time because of some of the
- 13:18pressures they deal with or whatever, but we're called to
- 13:22persevere. And if we're really the Lord's,
- 13:25there's this doctrine called the perseverance of the Saints.
- 13:28If we're really saved, we don't give up, do we?
- 13:30We just keep on keeping on because God is in US, the Spirit
- 13:34of God's in US, and he gives us a capacity to not give up even
- 13:37when we're thinking about it, you know?
- 13:39And so this beauty of this wisdom of God is that in spite
- 13:44of John Mark leaving them in the ministry prior to this, that was
- 13:49a set back. Now they're going in and they're
- 13:51excited that people are believing and getting saved, but
- 13:53now they're going to get stoned. People are going to try to kill
- 13:56them. They just keep keeping on.
- 13:59And the wisdom of this, you know, the Lord said to the
- 14:02disciples when they were out on the road that if you get hassled
- 14:05or people don't listen to you and they don't receive you, he
- 14:09said shake the dust off your feet, meaning don't let it
- 14:12bother you. Don't let it bring you down.
- 14:14Don't let it discourage you. Just keep your eyes on the Lord
- 14:17and what He's told you to do, and He'll leave you to some
- 14:20other people that will eventually want to hear.
- 14:23And so as they did that, they remembered the words of the
- 14:26Lord. They did exactly that.
- 14:28They just forgot about it and moved on.
- 14:31And it says they were filled with joy and with the Holy
- 14:34Spirit. So when your heart and mind
- 14:37submits to the issues in our life, whether we like them or
- 14:40not, and we say, Lord, I'm not real happy with this right now,
- 14:45but I trust you and what you're doing in my life.
- 14:49And my heart wants to be soft towards you.
- 14:52And I want to be open and willing to accept what it is
- 14:54you're doing in my life. And I want to praise you in it.
- 14:58Count it all joy when you fall into diverse trials and
- 15:01temptations. The Bible says that the trying
- 15:03of your faith works. Patience.
- 15:05I want to be and I'm sure you do too.
- 15:07The kind of person that I'm not complaining or I'm not groaning
- 15:11and moaning, that I accept God's sovereign hand in my life and
- 15:15say, God, you have a plan in this and I want to praise you
- 15:19because in the power of praise there is deliverance.
- 15:22And you're passing the test when you praise God for what it is
- 15:25you're going through. If you're moaning and groaning,
- 15:27the Lord says, OK, we got to go through this for a while now
- 15:30you're still not getting it, are you?
- 15:32You're still not praising me in spite of the storm.
- 15:35And so these guys are in the midst of it, but they are filled
- 15:38because their hearts are open to God and they're filled with joy
- 15:42by the power of the Holy Spirit. Now in verse 14, the journey
- 15:45starts in these other regions. Now it happened in Iconium and
- 15:50this is the area of Galatia at the time, it's the Roman Empire.
- 15:53A lot of pagans in these countries are going to no church
- 15:56yet until the gospel gets there and Paul and Barnabas are used
- 16:00by the Lord to see people become believers and churches are
- 16:03established. They went together to the
- 16:05synagogue. So the beauty of this thing is
- 16:08they had a place to go to get people to hear when they
- 16:10couldn't find a synagogue. They preached in the streets.
- 16:13But because of Paul and Barnabas being Jewish people, they were
- 16:18accepted in the system of Judaism because they had
- 16:21knowledge of the Old Testament. So they were given the
- 16:24opportunity to speak. I'm sure after they spoke, the
- 16:27Jews were upset. Like we should never let these
- 16:29guys say anything. It's ruining our ministry,
- 16:31right? People are leaving and following
- 16:33them. But that's what happens, right?
- 16:35So they, they spoke to a great multitude, both of the Jews and
- 16:38the Greeks believed, but the unbelieving Jews stirred up the
- 16:41gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brother.
- 16:44This is the work of the devil. Whenever you're anywhere where
- 16:48the truth of God is going forth, people can say things about
- 16:52whoever the teacher is. They can say, well, they're
- 16:55hypocrites, or they're this or they're that.
- 16:58If we're honest, we all have areas of hypocrisy in our life,
- 17:01right? Is anybody perfect here today?
- 17:05If you tell me guys, you're perfect, I'll just ask your wife
- 17:09or I'll ask your husband, right? But you know, this is the
- 17:12patience of God, right? And he chooses to use weak and
- 17:15foolish things that confound the what God never looks at the
- 17:18vessel and says, well, boy, I'm going to pick you because like
- 17:20you're like no one I've ever created.
- 17:22And boy, people are going to be blown away with your homiletic
- 17:25skills and your preaching ability.
- 17:27God's like, forget that. Let me fill you and let me speak
- 17:31through you because I don't want you getting in the way of what
- 17:33it is I want to say. But all the time someone will
- 17:37come to someone and say, you know, with this person, you
- 17:39know, I saw them, you know, say this or they acted this way or
- 17:43whatever. And so people seem to have a
- 17:45tendency to want to judge you instead of judging themselves.
- 17:50And the enemy wants to pull the church down and destroy it and
- 17:53destroy the people that minister in the church through slander
- 17:57and hatred and unbelief and criticism.
- 18:00That's why it says in Ephesians, let all bitterness and wrath and
- 18:04clamor and evil speaking be put away from you, and be kind,
- 18:08tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for
- 18:11Christ's sake hath forgiven you. So this continual, habitual need
- 18:15to forgive, right? And when we forgive, we're to
- 18:17move on and keep going on looking toward the Lord.
- 18:20That's something we can't do without the grace of God in our
- 18:24lives. You have bitterness in your
- 18:26heart. You want to slander people.
- 18:27You, you want to get even with them.
- 18:29You want to be vindictive toward them.
- 18:31You got to like, say, Lord, this is not you.
- 18:34Help me to forgive. Well, how many times do we
- 18:37forgive? Jesus says 70 * 7.
- 18:39That's 490 times for the same offense.
- 18:42That's the picture of you keep forgiven, right?
- 18:45So what happens is they're trying to poison the mind of
- 18:48these people. Therefore, they stayed there a
- 18:51long time, speaking boldly in the Lord.
- 18:54Those guys knew what people were saying.
- 18:56They felt that they experienced it, but they didn't say, you
- 18:59know, get thin skin and then say, well, this isn't fair.
- 19:03We're just trying to do what God wants us to do.
- 19:05We're not going to do this anymore.
- 19:06It's hurting our feelings or whatever.
- 19:08No, they just kept being faithful.
- 19:11It says they spoke boldly in the Lord who was bearing witness to
- 19:14the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by
- 19:18their hands. So this Apostolic authority
- 19:22ability, sometimes God showed up in signs and wonders and they
- 19:26did miracles. Lots of times there was no
- 19:28miracles. It wasn't anything.
- 19:30And Paul in and of himself, it was a special anointing that
- 19:33came at times and in seasons for God to be glorified in the midst
- 19:37of a situation where people would get their attention taken
- 19:40by some miraculous situation. So the multitude of the city in
- 19:44verse 4 was divided, part sided with the Jews and part with the
- 19:48apostles. So like in our world today, you
- 19:51have a group of people who are followers of Christ, and then
- 19:53you have a group of people who are against Christ, right?
- 19:56It's always that way, even sometimes, unfortunately, in
- 19:59churches. And when this issue happened,
- 20:01this violent attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews
- 20:06with their rulers to abuse and stone them.
- 20:09They became aware of it, and they fled the Lystra and Derby
- 20:13cities of Iconia into the surrounding region, and they
- 20:16were reaching the gospel there, so they understood the attempt
- 20:19to take them out, to kill them, basically to assassinate them.
- 20:23They were smart enough to know that they needed to get out of
- 20:26that town and move to next place.
- 20:28But the stoning never stopped. Paul remembers when Stephen was
- 20:32stoned, he was part of that group that had Stephen Stone,
- 20:36the first martyr in the book of the Acts in New Testament
- 20:38church. So now Paul's going to
- 20:39experience some of the same things that those who have gone
- 20:42before him. So now they go to Lystra verse
- 20:468. And in Lystra, a certain man
- 20:49without strength in his feet was sitting a cripple from his
- 20:52mother's womb. So this guy didn't have a
- 20:54temporary paralysis. This didn't happen after he was
- 20:58born. He was born with the inability
- 21:01to walk. He had never walked.
- 21:03This man heard Paul speaking. He heard the gospel.
- 21:06You heard the message, Paul observing him intently.
- 21:09And so you have an audience. You're speaking.
- 21:11I see your eyes, you see mine. Sometimes I get fixated on
- 21:15someone in the room because I sense there's a heavy burden in
- 21:18their lives. There's something going on.
- 21:20I don't know what it is, but the Lord does.
- 21:22And I just say, Lord, you know, speak to them, whatever it is
- 21:25you need to say to them. And sometimes I see people who
- 21:27are eager to want to follow Jesus deeper and I pray and I
- 21:31say, Lord, help cultivate that in their lives.
- 21:34Help them to sense that and want to follow you.
- 21:37And if I can be of any help, show me how myself or the elders
- 21:40can be of help and the others in the church that are wanting to
- 21:43serve people. So he's looking intently and he
- 21:45sees that he had faith to be healed.
- 21:48He's looking at this man and he says he has faith to be healed.
- 21:52Now this is interesting because God does all things according to
- 21:56counsel of his own will. And some of these faith
- 21:59churches, they'll teach, well, the reason you're not healed is
- 22:01you don't have enough faith, right?
- 22:03You hear that? But there's this element too,
- 22:05that when we come to God, we have to pray believing, and
- 22:10that's where we struggle. I believe, Lord, help my
- 22:14unbelief. But God honors belief, simple
- 22:17belief. And so this man is hungry for
- 22:23the Lord, but he also has something happening in his
- 22:27spirit that Paul recognized that this guy can believe God for
- 22:32anything right now in his life. And that's rare.
- 22:36That doesn't happen all the time, but he senses that
- 22:41something can happen here. The Holy Spirit obviously was
- 22:44speaking to Paul about this. So Paul, think about this.
- 22:48I mean, sometimes like people came for healing.
- 22:51They didn't get healed. Other times they got healed.
- 22:53And I'm sure at times Paul's like, God, I don't know how this
- 22:56works. Why can't it work all the time,
- 22:58you know? But it doesn't.
- 22:59And probably the reason it doesn't is, is that we would
- 23:02think we had something to do with it, right?
- 23:05Do you ever pray and really believe and you see God do
- 23:07something and touch someone and you're like, wow, you know, I'm
- 23:10going to do this all the time. And then the next time you pray
- 23:12and it doesn't happen and you're like, why did it happen the one
- 23:15time and why didn't it happen the other time?
- 23:18That's the mystery of God and his plan, his sovereign plan.
- 23:21So he says to this guy, and this would take some real faith on
- 23:24Paul's part. Stand up straight on your feet.
- 23:28And he leaped and he walked. Now, what if Paul would have
- 23:31said, stand up straight on your feet and then nothing happened?
- 23:35That would be somewhat like embarrassing, I guess.
- 23:39And they say, well, why did you say that?
- 23:40I don't know why I said that. I just was hoping or maybe, but
- 23:45somehow, you know, again, God's sovereignty, there was such an
- 23:48complete evidence that something miraculous was going to happen
- 23:52here, that God did something miraculous.
- 23:56Thanks for joining us on this journey through Acts.
- 23:59On today's edition of Living Waters of Grace, Pastor Clark
- 24:03shares that one of the most remarkable things about the book
- 24:06of Acts is how it shows the disciples transformation.
- 24:10The followers of Jesus we meet here are very different from the
- 24:14often confused and fearful disciples in the Gospels.
- 24:19After Jesus's death and resurrection, and especially
- 24:22through the power of the Holy Spirit, the apostles experienced
- 24:26a profound change in their hearts and boldness.
- 24:30Their faith became unwavering, and they move forward with
- 24:34courage to spread the gospel despite opposition and hardship.
- 24:39Acts reminds us that the same Spirit who empowered them is at
- 24:43work in US today, shaping our hearts and giving us strength to
- 24:47live boldly for Christ. Living Waters of Grace is a
- 24:51ministry of Calvary Chapel Westmoreland.
- 24:54If you're in the Greensburg, PA area, we invite you to join us
- 24:57this Sunday at 10:30 AM at 400 E Pittsburgh St.
- 25:02Unit 6B. Visit calvarychapelonline.com
- 25:07For more information where you can also join our e-mail list,
- 25:11submit prayer requests, give online and download our mobile
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- 25:18area, you can listen to Grace FM on the new 91.7 frequency.
- 25:23Pray about helping support the new station that will reach
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- 25:30716, Greensburg, PA 15601. If you can join us in person,
- 25:37you can subscribe to the Calvary Chapel Westmoreland YouTube
- 25:39channel so you'll be alerted when new material becomes
- 25:43available. We're so grateful that you
- 25:45joined us today in Acts. TuneIn again soon for another
- 25:49edition of Living Waters of Grace.