Latest / His Hop Radio Podcast / “Joy in Persecution — The Gospel Advances Despite Opposition” : Acts 13:50–52 (NKJV)
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- 2:10Speaker 1: now we are talking about the early Church and discover
- 2:15Speaker 1: how the Holy Spirit still moves today. Hey man, the
- 2:19Speaker 1: Book of Acts the Acts of the Holy Spirit. Now,
- 2:23Speaker 1: last episode, we saw crowds gathering to hear the gospel.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Today we see something powerful. Opposition intensifies. Paul and Barnabas
- 2:35Speaker 1: are forced out of the city, yet the believers are
- 2:39Speaker 1: filled with joy at the same time, and that teaches
- 2:45Speaker 1: us something critical. On this episode, our position cannot stop
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- 4:31Speaker 1: let it go out to God, and let every year
- 4:34Speaker 1: you're here, Old God, what the spirit of saying in
- 4:38Speaker 1: Jesus' name? Amen? All right, Looking acts chapter thirteen. You
- 4:51Speaker 1: got your bibles, you know, pass any highlighters and we're
- 4:57Speaker 1: gonna pick it up in verse fifty and already went
- 5:02Speaker 1: through the background. Opposition is intensifying. They are preaching the word,
- 5:07Speaker 1: so let's pick it up. But the Jews stirred up
- 5:10Speaker 1: the devout and prominent women and the chief men of
- 5:15Speaker 1: the city raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and
- 5:21Speaker 1: expelled them from their region. Amen, I'll check this out.
- 5:29Speaker 1: The opposition it came from religious jealousy. It wasn't because
- 5:35Speaker 1: of truth. It wasn't because they were teaching false doctrine.
- 5:39Speaker 1: It was because they were jealous. Jealousy can be a monster,
- 5:45Speaker 1: and man, we gotta guard our heart against that. Now,
- 5:48Speaker 1: when the leaders couldn't defeat the message, they used political
- 5:53Speaker 1: and social influence. Love it. That's actually applies to us today.
- 6:01Speaker 1: The Gospel is still being persecuted and opposed, and we
- 6:07Speaker 1: see political and influential people all banded together against it.
- 6:15Speaker 1: We need to pray against that. Amen. Now, the enemy
- 6:18Speaker 1: often uses influence, reputation, and power structures to silence the truth,
- 6:27Speaker 1: and we get testified to that today. We see that
- 6:32Speaker 1: as clear as day right now. Now, when people reject truth,
- 6:36Speaker 1: they often try to remove the messenger. So don't trip
- 6:42Speaker 1: if they're trying to exclude you or I isolate you
- 6:46Speaker 1: because of the Gospel. Amen, God's got it. Now. Look
- 6:52Speaker 1: at what's happening though. The Gospel is spreading Hallelujah, and
- 6:58Speaker 1: lives are being changed. Gentiles are rejoicing in the midst
- 7:05Speaker 1: of this persecution. That religious leaders get jealous because of that.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Instead of celebrating salvation, they start manipulating city leaders. Now
- 7:17Speaker 1: that is demonic. They stir up influential people and suddenly
- 7:24Speaker 1: pulling Barnabas are forced out. Now. Notice something, they didn't
- 7:30Speaker 1: debate scripture. They didn't try to prove Paul wrong. They
- 7:36Speaker 1: simply try to silence him. That still happens today. Beloved,
- 7:42Speaker 1: Truth threatens comfortable religion. Truth will always threaten power structure.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Truth will always break the bonds of the enemy. Amen. Now,
- 7:57Speaker 1: sometimes obedience to God gets you re moved. Sometimes obedience
- 8:03Speaker 1: to God gets us rejected or mistreated. Remember, the Holy
- 8:08Speaker 1: Spirit while they were praying, told the church to separate
- 8:14Speaker 1: Park and Paul and Barnabas so that they can do
- 8:18Speaker 1: the work that I've called them to. And look at
- 8:22Speaker 1: what they've run into. This is often when opposition comes up,
- 8:30Speaker 1: it often means that we are on the right track.
- 8:36Speaker 1: So rejection does not mean failure. And I'm a live
- 8:41Speaker 1: and proof of that. Because I had to close down
- 8:45Speaker 1: Club His Hop, my team and a lot of people
- 8:49Speaker 1: in the community. They decided to reject me. But sometimes
- 8:55Speaker 1: rejection means you're exactly where God wants you to be.
- 8:59Speaker 1: A man. Amen, I'll be the first to admit that
- 9:06Speaker 1: I need some more work. Hallelujah alright Verse fifty one.
- 9:12Speaker 1: But they shook off the dust from their feet against
- 9:15Speaker 1: them and came to Lyconium. Now, shaking dust off the
- 9:23Speaker 1: feet was a Jewish gesture meaning we leave responsibly without you.
- 9:35Speaker 1: It meant we have delivered truth. What you do with
- 9:39Speaker 1: it is now on you. And that's all we can
- 9:44Speaker 1: do is ministers, belove it. That's all we can do
- 9:49Speaker 1: as people of God when we go out to minister,
- 9:52Speaker 1: when we go out to reach people, we can't trip.
- 9:55Speaker 1: If they don't receive a message, we can't force conversion.
- 10:00Speaker 1: But as long as they hear the truth, their blood
- 10:03Speaker 1: is not on our hands. They didn't fight, they didn't argue,
- 10:07Speaker 1: They just moved. Amen. Paul and barnum Is didn't stay bitter,
- 10:13Speaker 1: They didn't argue online. They didn't go on social media
- 10:17Speaker 1: right and post a comment. They simply said, message delivered.
- 10:24Speaker 1: Responsibility is yours, and they kept moving. Sometimes we waste
- 10:30Speaker 1: energy trying to convince people who have already chosen resistance.
- 10:37Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit reminds us go where our hearts are open. Yes,
- 10:42Speaker 1: we can waste a lot of time on people who've
- 10:47Speaker 1: closed their hearts and minds to the Gospel. We need
- 10:50Speaker 1: to reach the people whose hearts are open. Some people
- 10:54Speaker 1: reject truth not because they don't understand it, but because
- 10:58Speaker 1: they just simply don't want it. Our job is obedience. Amen.
- 11:09Speaker 1: We don't have to persuade people. God did not give
- 11:13Speaker 1: us the ministry of persuasion, give us the ministry of reconciliation.
- 11:19Speaker 1: We're trying to reconcile people back onto God. Amen. And
- 11:25Speaker 1: so yeah, don't trip. Verse fifty two. And the disciples
- 11:33Speaker 1: were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Thank you Holy Spirit. Fill us up again, hallelujah. Now
- 11:45Speaker 1: the missionaries were forced out, but the believers they left
- 11:50Speaker 1: behind were thriving. Persecution did not crush the church at all.
- 11:57Speaker 1: It strengthens it joy from the Holy Spirit, not comfortable circumstances.
- 12:06Speaker 1: Love it. As much as I would hate to see
- 12:08Speaker 1: this happen, but I know it's coming. One day the
- 12:14Speaker 1: church in the United States will be persecuted, but it's
- 12:20Speaker 1: going to make the church stronger. I would hate to
- 12:24Speaker 1: have a weak enemic church and go to hell. That
- 12:28Speaker 1: have a strong church that is being persecuted, and go
- 12:33Speaker 1: to heaven. You know what I mean? Now, Paul and
- 12:38Speaker 1: Barnabas they leave, Yet the believers, they remain filled with
- 12:43Speaker 1: joy and filled with the Holy Ghost. They were not
- 12:48Speaker 1: filled with fear, They were not filled with panic, they
- 12:52Speaker 1: were not filled with defeat. They were filled with joy.
- 12:58Speaker 1: And that should say something to us, something about us,
- 13:02Speaker 1: our makeup, the way we're structured. We can be filled
- 13:05Speaker 1: up either with good or with evil. Remember Judas is
- 13:10Speaker 1: Scariot when he went out to betrayed Christ. The Bible
- 13:14Speaker 1: says that Satan entered his heart. You see, we need
- 13:20Speaker 1: to be the gatekeepers. We can control what enters our hearts,
- 13:26Speaker 1: what we think about, what we ponder on on our minds.
- 13:29Speaker 1: On a daily basis, we need to ask God daily
- 13:34Speaker 1: to fill me with the spirit, filled me with joy,
- 13:38Speaker 1: filled me with faith, saying, man, we can be filled
- 13:42Speaker 1: up to where there's no room for evil. Hallelujah. They
- 13:49Speaker 1: were filled with joy. Why because their faith was rooting
- 13:53Speaker 1: in Jesus, not in Paul's performance, right, But the solid
- 14:01Speaker 1: rocket is Jesus. He always gives us a reason to
- 14:04Speaker 1: hope and to worship. Now this proves something very important.
- 14:12Speaker 1: The church doesn't depend on personalities to thrive. The Church
- 14:19Speaker 1: depends on the Holy Spirit. So we can't look to
- 14:23Speaker 1: a charismatic pastor or leader. We got to look towards
- 14:28Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit to empower us and to empower our ministry.
- 14:34Speaker 1: Joy isn't based on comfort. Joy is evidence of the
- 14:39Speaker 1: spirit inside of us. When circumstances shake you, does your
- 14:47Speaker 1: joy remain? Hallelujah? Let me ask that question again, When
- 14:54Speaker 1: circumstances hit you, does your joy remain? Strife kills the anointing.
- 15:02Speaker 1: Beloved God gets grieved on how we treat one another
- 15:07Speaker 1: and for arguing and bic youying all the time, husband
- 15:10Speaker 1: and wife. That grieves the Holy Spirit. Strife kills the anointing.
- 15:16Speaker 1: Beloved God wants us to be joyful. God wants us
- 15:21Speaker 1: to be loving at all times, no matter what. Because
- 15:24Speaker 1: Jesus never changes. Hallelujah. Our position doesn't stop God's work
- 15:32Speaker 1: at all, It spreads it. Paul and Barnavas are expelled,
- 15:37Speaker 1: But now the Gospel moves to new cities. Now the
- 15:41Speaker 1: Gospel is on the move. We can never bind up
- 15:45Speaker 1: the Word of God. Hallelujah. Now the enemy pushes them out,
- 15:50Speaker 1: but God pushes the mission forward a man. God always
- 15:56Speaker 1: has the final say. He has a lie. That's the word,
- 16:02Speaker 1: all right, feeling, Let's go to it break.
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- 16:43Speaker 3: devil peet go sending people platting on the load. There's
- 16:46Speaker 3: the lady like Dona Tree. We're creeping in my heart.
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- 17:01Speaker 4: He's trying to kill my god, my momy, my eyes
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- 17:21Speaker 4: He's trying to kill my.
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- 17:54Speaker 3: many distractions. Will matters next? Will you forwards the action
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- 18:00Speaker 3: picked up pixels on my life, but couldn't pick up
- 18:01Speaker 3: a fraction, And so Jesus and I couldn't believe it.
- 18:05Speaker 3: He demolished what I had really thought. I'm completing Christ
- 18:08Speaker 3: told me pacos restoration.
- 18:09Speaker 2: Felt the free me.
- 18:10Speaker 3: I'm carrying this so we couldn't out my kim.
- 18:15Speaker 4: The devil do man dos o gin my lor. He's
- 18:20Speaker 4: trying to kill my perner. Come I my bear, my
- 18:30Speaker 4: I know your voice for.
- 18:31Speaker 1: My m.
- 18:34Speaker 4: The devil do man dogs of gems on the look.
- 18:39Speaker 4: He's trying to kill my purse, my mother, I know
- 18:50Speaker 4: your voice.
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- 19:28Speaker 1: There's persecution intensifies, but the believers are filled with joy.
- 19:35Speaker 1: They stay faithfully. Man, that is an example for us.
- 19:39Speaker 1: My prayer is if you lost your joy today, that
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- 25:00Speaker 1: Rejection is not the end. Trust me, I'm a man
- 25:05Speaker 1: who lived through that. Hallelujah. Just look up the history
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- 25:32Speaker 1: Lord fill us with joy that doesn't depend on circumstances. Father,
- 25:39Speaker 1: help us stay faithful even when our position arises. O. Lord,
- 25:45Speaker 1: empower us with your spirit to continue spreading your truth.
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