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“Provoked Spirit: Standing for Truth in a Culture of Idols” (Acts 17:16–21) · His Hop Radio Podcast

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Speaker 1: through first sixteen to twenty one, where the culture is wild,
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Speaker 1: idols are everywhere, and truth is on trial on this episode.
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Speaker 1: this episode, we're gonna look at a wild culture idols
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Speaker 1: in when the truth is on trial. Now, if you've
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Speaker 1: been following with me in the Book of Acts, the
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Speaker 1: last episode, we saw that Paul went to the Briha.
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Speaker 1: Now these are some of my favorite Christians, right, the Brians,
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Speaker 1: because they didn't just take Paul's word, They actually searched
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Speaker 1: the scriptures to see if it were so. But the
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Speaker 1: sad part about it is they are the exception and
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Speaker 1: not the rule. This should have been the response of
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Speaker 1: all the churches, all of the synagogues, every single person
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Speaker 1: that Paul came in contact with. They would have just
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Speaker 1: searched the scriptures. I believe that they would have all
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Speaker 1: if they were reasonable, people would have received Christ as
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Speaker 1: their lord and master. And they could see right in
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Speaker 1: the Bible that, as Jesus said himself, volume of the
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Speaker 1: book was written of him, he is the Bible. He
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Speaker 1: is the Way, the truth, and the life. And this
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Speaker 1: is what they missed. They came one step short. We
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Speaker 1: don't want to do that, beloved. We want to accept
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Speaker 1: Christ for who he is and everything that he has
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Speaker 1: done for us ay Man.
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Speaker 2: And so.
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Speaker 1: In chapter seventeen, Paul is by himself. Now, remember as
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Speaker 1: they escorted Paul out of the city because the Jews
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Speaker 1: that did not believe pursued him there from other towns,
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Speaker 1: other cities. And I think it's amazing that these Jews
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Speaker 1: were able to stir up a crowd every time they
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Speaker 1: went somewhere, like I don't know how they did it,
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Speaker 1: but they were able to get a gang formed out
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Speaker 1: of a new city they just went into to go
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Speaker 1: after the apostle. So Paul left, Timothy and Silas were
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Speaker 1: left behind to do the work of the ministry. Now
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Speaker 1: Paul is by himself, but he has called for his
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Speaker 1: disciples to gather. Again. We talked about that, So this
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Speaker 1: is where we pick up in the story verse sixteen. Now,
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Speaker 1: while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was
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Speaker 1: provoked within him when he saw that the city was
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Speaker 1: given over to idols. Wow. Now that is a heart
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Speaker 1: of long passion. That is a heart for the lost.
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Speaker 1: And I know that I've been in places where my
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Speaker 1: spirit was overwhelmed. My heart grieved for the deception that
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Speaker 1: the people were under, and I can relate to that.
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Speaker 1: But we'll get to that when we break everything down seventeen. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews, and with
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Speaker 1: the gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those
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Speaker 1: who happened to be there. Then certain Epicureans and Stoic
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Speaker 1: philosophers encountered him, and some said, what does this babbler
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Speaker 1: want to say? Others said, he seems to be a
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Speaker 1: proclaimer of foreign gods, because he preached to them Jesus
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Speaker 1: and the resurrection. And they took him and brought him
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Speaker 1: to the Aerrogappas, saying, may we know what this new
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Speaker 1: doctrine is of which you speak? For you are bringing
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Speaker 1: some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to
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Speaker 1: know what these things mean. For all the Athens and
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Speaker 1: the foreigners who were there spent their time and nothing
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Speaker 1: else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Wow,
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Speaker 1: that is interesting. I wonder how they didn't get paid
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Speaker 1: for that. They were just sitting there, just trying to
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Speaker 1: hear some new thing. That's pretty interesting, all right, Verse sixteen. Now,
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Speaker 1: while Paul waited for them at Athens, the spirit was
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Speaker 1: provoked within him when he saw that the city was
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Speaker 1: given over to idols. Amen. Athens was a center of philosophy, culture,
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Speaker 1: and intellectualism, right, but spiritually dead. Despite all their wisdom,
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Speaker 1: they were lost in idolatry. That's why it's important to
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Speaker 1: have a relationship with Jesus. I just gain knowledge, not
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Speaker 1: just to gain understanding, but to apply it. Amen. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Greek word breakdown provoked par x yn eto, meaning
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Speaker 1: to be stirred sharply, or to be irritated or deeply distressed.
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Speaker 1: So Paul the apostle was provoked Paul was not entertained
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Speaker 1: by the culture at all. He was troubled by their culture. Amen,
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Speaker 1: there's something wrong when we can get entertainment from our
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Speaker 1: culture today knowing that souls are being lost and the
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Speaker 1: enemy is dragging people's straight to hell. And I'm talking
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Speaker 1: specifically for the rap culture. I'm talking about mainstream rap,
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Speaker 1: even the gospel rappers that sell out. We even know
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Speaker 1: today that there's a lot of rappers that are actually
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Speaker 1: performing satanic rituals right in the midst of their own concerts.
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Speaker 1: You've seen this played out. Does that entertain us? Do
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Speaker 1: you find entertainment in the music today? Or does it
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Speaker 1: trouble your spirit? That's a question we need to ask.
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Speaker 1: And you know, even worldly people, ungodly people are starting
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Speaker 1: to turn away from the genre because they're seeing the
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Speaker 1: effects of it. Now today we scroll past send today,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people laugh at it, and the enemy
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Speaker 1: of the enemy is to normalize it. But when Paul,
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Speaker 1: when he saw what was going on, he was stirred up.
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Speaker 1: So the sin still bother you or have you grown
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Speaker 1: numb to it? Are you able to watch people hurting?
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Speaker 1: Are you able to watch people have sex on TV?
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Speaker 1: Watch pornography? And it doesn't convict your heart or bother you.
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Speaker 1: Are you able to do the things that you fought
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Speaker 1: against when you first got saved?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Are you still able to take that drink or hang
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Speaker 1: around those drug addicts or drug dealers? Are you able
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Speaker 1: to just sit back and watch your own children be
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Speaker 1: destroyed by then? Or does that provoke you? And does
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Speaker 1: it stir you up? We need to ask the Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit to do this work in us and to maintain
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Speaker 1: it and not grow numb, all right, Verse seventeen. Therefore
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Speaker 1: he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews, and with
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Speaker 1: the gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those
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Speaker 1: who happened to be there. Now Paul met people where
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Speaker 1: they were religious and scholar spaces. He went to the
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Speaker 1: synagogues as that was his custom, and now we see
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Speaker 1: him in the marketplaces. Now. He didn't hide in the church.
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Speaker 1: He went to the streets with the gospel. He didn't
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Speaker 1: hide in the four walls. He was just a church
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Speaker 1: go wher only I don't know. I think there's something
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Speaker 1: wrong when you have a lot of activities in church.
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Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, I'm not the judge and
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Speaker 1: I'm not to say that we shouldn't have a lot
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Speaker 1: of activities in church. As a matter of fact, staying
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Speaker 1: busy helps to keep us out of trouble. But the
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Speaker 1: question is at what point do you impact your community?
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Speaker 1: At what point do you go out? Like even with
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Speaker 1: his Hot we do go out, we do concerts, we
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Speaker 1: do events, But I'm even questioning our events, like how
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Speaker 1: many people are really touched? How many people are we
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Speaker 1: truly discipling when we do a concert or do an event. Now,
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Speaker 1: I believe that it's idol. I do believe it's important,
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Speaker 1: But where is the one on one We need to
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Speaker 1: knock on doors. We need to go talk to our neighbors.
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Speaker 1: We need to go where the people are, to the marketplace, Walmart, right,
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Speaker 1: we need to go to the stores and we need
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Speaker 1: to talk to people. Right. Your mission field isn't just
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Speaker 1: Sunday service. Your mission field is on the job. It's
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Speaker 1: on social media, your neighbor. Truth must go public And yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is not a lot of negative things we find
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Speaker 1: on social media. But I believe through social media we
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Speaker 1: have been able to evangelize in the reach more people.
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Speaker 2: With that tool.
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Speaker 1: Anything I believe in, especially here at his home, I
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Speaker 1: believe that if we take anything that the devil's perverted
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Speaker 1: and give it back to God, that God can get
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Speaker 1: the glory from it Amen, Verse eighteen. Then certain epicurean
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Speaker 1: in Stoic philosophers encountered him. Now, Epicureans equals pleasure is
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Speaker 1: the goal. If you break down these words, break down
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Speaker 1: these names. Epicurean means pleasure is the goal. Stoic means
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Speaker 1: surpasses emotion or endure life. I know at our church,
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Speaker 1: our pastor, he doesn't like people who just sit stoic
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Speaker 1: and they don't engage God in worship, surpasses emotion, like
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Speaker 1: they're just there. Both of these thoughts and philosophies, these
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Speaker 1: systems miss Christ altogether. Right, you can say it sounds familiar,
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Speaker 1: and today we can say that do what feels good.
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Speaker 1: That's the epicurean mindset. Do what thou will. That's the
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Speaker 1: only commandment in the Satanic Bible. He doesn't have ten commands.
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Speaker 1: He has one command. Whatever feels good, Do whatever you
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Speaker 1: want to do. And beloved, remember the flesh is at
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Speaker 1: enmity with the spirit. We can't allow our flesh to
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Speaker 1: do it what ever it wants to do. We gotta
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Speaker 1: treat the flesh like an enemy. God's remedy for our
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Speaker 1: flesh is death. Pick up our cross daily and stoic.
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Speaker 1: The stoic mindset is just survive. Don't feel, don't feel anything,
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Speaker 1: don't feel any emotions, just survive, Just sit there and
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Speaker 1: just be there. But Paul, he brought something different. He
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Speaker 1: talked about resurrection power through Jesus, and so this really
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Speaker 1: got their attention nineteen or twenty says, and they took
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Speaker 1: him and brought him to Darrow Pugas. Hopefully I'm pronouncing
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Speaker 1: that right.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Aropugus is what they call mars Heel. I know that
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Speaker 1: we're all familiar with the term. The sermon on mars Heell.
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Speaker 1: This was where new ideas were tested and judged. And
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Speaker 1: it's just amazing. Description said they had nothing else to
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Speaker 1: do but to sit there and test and judge new ideas.
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Speaker 1: Now Paul wasn't canceled. He was challenged at this point.
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Speaker 1: Now check this out. When you carry the truth, when
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Speaker 1: you are a keeper of the truth, and when you
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Speaker 1: make the truth public like Paul the Apostle did, you
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Speaker 1: can expect questions. People are gonna throw questions at you.
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Speaker 1: Don't trip and just be honest. Let them know, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I don't know this, but I will go and get
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Speaker 1: the answer. And most of the times, Holy Spirit, if
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Speaker 1: you tune in to the Holy Spirit, he will give
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Speaker 1: you the answer. And if you're in your word study
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Speaker 1: to show thyself approve, you can dig in your resources
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Speaker 1: and give them scripture references. You can also expect resistance.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who are going to
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Speaker 1: have a problem with truth because they love their deception.
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Speaker 1: Remember Jesus says that Satan is the father of lies,
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Speaker 1: and he also said that Satan was your father to
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Speaker 1: a group of people when they were confronting him. He says,
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Speaker 1: you want to do the will of your father, the devil.
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Speaker 1: The lust that he has is what you want to do.
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Speaker 1: And so there are a lot of children that belong
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Speaker 1: to Satan that will resist the truth. Remember, beloved, we
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Speaker 1: live in a fallen world. This is not our home,
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Speaker 1: this is not a playground. There are demonic people running
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Speaker 1: around on this planet resisting every chance they get the truth.
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Speaker 1: But remember, greater is he that is in us and
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Speaker 1: he that is in the world. Don't trip. And also
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Speaker 1: you can expect scrutiny. People will scrutinize you. And I've
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Speaker 1: gone through all three of these things. I'm a witness.
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Speaker 1: But once again, don't trip, don't shrink back. You gotta
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Speaker 1: stand firm with the truth. Amen, you cannot compromise it
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Speaker 1: at all. Verse twenty one. They spent their time in
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Speaker 1: nothing else but either to tell or to hear some
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Speaker 1: new things. Now, how do they get away with that?
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Speaker 1: Like I can understand it today because we have a
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Speaker 1: government that will you know, they call it a bureaucracy, righty, Well,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe Trump has cleaned a lot of
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Speaker 1: this stuff out. But when they went through and they
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Speaker 1: looked at all the government spending, they were saying that
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Speaker 1: there are people that were there that all they did
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Speaker 1: was just set around and tried to prove animals commutate
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Speaker 1: and and or they just sit there and think they're
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Speaker 1: just sitting there all day, just thinking about stuff and
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Speaker 1: not doing nothing like getting paid for that. So I
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Speaker 1: wonder how how did they do this back in the
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Speaker 1: ancient days? Did they have a bureaucracy there where they
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Speaker 1: were working for the government and they spent time and
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Speaker 1: nothing else, Like how do they get paid? How do
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Speaker 1: they take care of their families? I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if I'm speaking because I'm jealous or what,
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Speaker 1: But that just curious to me. Anyway. They were addicted
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Speaker 1: to novelty, not truth. Now, if we talk to today's culture,
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Speaker 1: you would say that they were trends. They were addicted
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Speaker 1: to what was trending, what was the trending thing of
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Speaker 1: the day, what was new or just viral content, right,
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Speaker 1: Or they just wanted new revelations. They wanted to be
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Speaker 1: up on something new or something different. The truth is
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Speaker 1: not new, Truth is eternal. And man, when you said
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Speaker 1: that again, truth is not new. Truth is eternal, and
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Speaker 1: we can get caught up on that. We can get
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Speaker 1: caught up on what's the latest, especially in the age
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Speaker 1: of Ai. The Bible says that knowledge will increase in
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Speaker 1: the last days, and man, knowledge, there's so much knowledge
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Speaker 1: out there. I mean, we get we're getting bombarded with
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Speaker 1: knowledge left and right. We're getting numb to it, we're
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Speaker 1: getting worn out with it. But just learning something new
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Speaker 1: or getting some new gadget it wears out after a while.
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Speaker 1: Then we're seeking something else new, and it's something that
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Speaker 1: will never never satisfy. The only thing that will satisfy
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Speaker 1: is being rooted and grounded in truth. Hey man, let's
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Speaker 4: Gay from my highest hats, my lowest low.
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Speaker 2: Showed me who you are. Lord.
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Speaker 2: How when you hold my crowd from my hands? Your sir.
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Speaker 1: All right, all right, we are back from the break
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Speaker 1: out right here on the His Hot Radio podcast where
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Speaker 1: we throw that hot heat right at you. We're going
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Speaker 1: through the Book of Acts, chapter seventeen. This is a great,
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Speaker 1: great chapter. They're self challenging chapter as well. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: close out with some closing comments in a few minutes,
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Speaker 1: but right now, some time for the accountability Partner segment.
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Speaker 1: This right here is where we truly want to help people.
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Speaker 1: This is where discipleship happens, where we allow ourselves to
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Speaker 1: be held accountable, where we're honest with ourselves and honest
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Speaker 1: with our brothers and sisters. What are we struggling with?
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Speaker 1: What is your weakness?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: A wise person will do that, because then we will
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Speaker 1: know how to af fordify and we will know. Trust me,
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Speaker 1: there are demonic entities out there that all they do
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Speaker 1: and to study your weaknesses. They study how to get in.
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Speaker 1: Where are the kinks in your armor? Where are the
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Speaker 1: cracks that they can slither through? This is what the
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Speaker 1: enemy does. Twenty four said, He's been doing this for
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Speaker 1: thousands of years, studying us, trying to see a way
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Speaker 1: in so that he can establish legal right over your life.
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Speaker 1: Right because he can't force us, but he can deceive
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Speaker 1: us and trick us and have given him power because
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Speaker 1: he has no power over us because of the cross.
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Speaker 1: And so we should take note of that right. We
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Speaker 1: should study our own weaknesses and then learn how to fortify.
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Speaker 1: I'm speaking to myself right now, a man. We will
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Speaker 1: know better how the enemy will attack and recognize him
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Speaker 1: when he's coming. You know, my thing is, my biggest
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Speaker 1: struggle has always been pornography and sexual im morality. So
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Speaker 1: I have to watch where my eyes go, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. I can't stare too long or look
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Speaker 1: too long, you know. I got to watch my relationships.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's some people that they'll just form a
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Speaker 1: me to bring them lunch every day, or you know,
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Speaker 1: you know how they call it nowadays, your work wife
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Speaker 1: fallen in those traps before, and I've fallen to an
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Speaker 1: adultery and fornication when I was younger. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: a nasty fight. But now I've put up strict boundaries
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Speaker 1: And so you know, because I know, you know, I
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Speaker 1: don't want my flesh to arise or to go back,
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Speaker 1: and I don't want to send against God. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to hurt. I've heard them enough, belove it, and
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Speaker 1: I'll just think about it. I gotta say. When I
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Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. You know I'm not out there,
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Speaker 1: you know, living a compromised life, you know, indulged in
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Speaker 1: his sexual sin. But you know now I want to
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Speaker 1: hate it and be so far from it to where
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Speaker 1: you know, I just I don't even want it to
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Speaker 1: part of being accountable, you know, having someone in our
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Speaker 1: be desensitized to sin. They want it to be normalized.
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Speaker 1: filled with God will be provoked by sin, not entertained
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Speaker 1: by it. Watch out, be careful for what you allow
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Speaker 1: look at it like it's no big deal. It is
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Speaker 1: going to keep millions upon millions out of the Kingdom.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people are going to miss the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: because of that word sin. We should grieve over it.
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Speaker 1: go beyond church walls. We must go to the marketplace,
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Speaker 1: the byways and highways where every people gather is where
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Speaker 1: we need to bring the gospel. Amen. Also, culture offers
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Speaker 1: many philosophies, but only Christ gives truth. There's many philosophies,
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