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Acts chapter 22 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Acts chapter 23. Let us pray our Father who is in
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  heaven, holy is your name, Lord. I pray that we'll keep your
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  name, Holy Lord. I pray that we will not
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  blasphemy your holy name, God. Let it be set apart, Father.
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  Let it be unspeakable. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that we will see that Your name is life and power, and it
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  is only by Your name that we are sustained and held together.
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  God, you have wrought many miracles by Your name, and it is
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  Your name you placed within us, Father, and we edify that name.
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  God, we exalt that holy name over all nations and all people
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  groups. We are praying for your Kingdom
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  come. Lord, I pray that we can walk in
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  dominion today. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus so we can take back enemy territory.
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  God, pray in the name of Jesus Christ that your Kingdom is what
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  exudes and is exalted. I pray that it is your Kingdom
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  that shines forth throughout all people groups throughout all
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  generations. God, we pray for many people to
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  come into your Kingdom, or we pray for your will today.
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  God, we do not pray for our selfish will, but your will.
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  God, we get in line with your will.
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  God, we just want what you want. Father, we just want to go where
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  you're telling us to go. We just want to be wherever it
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  is that you are God. And if you will not go with us,
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  we do not want to go. God, we just want your will for
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  today, your Kingdom and your name.
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  God, it's all about you. Y'all way from everlasting, the
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  God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, God the Father and God the Son
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  and God the Holy Ghost. We love you.
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  Give us this day Our Daily Bread.
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  Give us our sustenance today. Give us the Rhema, Give us the
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  spoken word, Give us the bread of life.
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  God, we just want to dine and Sup with you today.
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  God, we push down all of our physical constraints.
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  Lord, we eat and we feast upon the manna.
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  We eat and we feast upon the flesh of Jesus Christ, or we
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  remember all of the things that He did for us.
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  We remember the cross, we remember the lashes, we remember
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  the crown thorns. God, we remember the
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  resurrection. We thank you for life eternal,
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  God, keep filling us with this daily bread, but we don't worry
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  about tomorrow. We take no thought for tomorrow,
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  God. We have vision for today, Lord,
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  from you. Thank you Jesus.
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  Forgive us, Lord, for all of the shortcomings in the trespasses.
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  Forgive us, God, of all the times that we got it wrong, all
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  the times that we turned our backs on you and made it about
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  pleasure, flesh, carnal desires got, all the times that we have
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  wronged you Lord, and broken your heart, Lord, all the times
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  that we have chose this world and loved this world more than
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  we loved your word. God forgive us of all of our
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  trespasses. Help us, Lord, not to hold on to
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  bitterness and unforgiveness. Lord, help us not to be plagued
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  with our own sinful desire to find our identity and all of the
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  things that have happened to us in our life.
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  God, help us not to be plagued by anxiety and depression and
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  unforgiveness. Father, I pray right now.
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  God, we extend 70 * 7 forgiveness unto our brothers
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  and sisters who have wronged us. Lord, help us to turn the other
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  cheek. Lord, help us to know when it is
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  that you tell us to not say a word, Lord, but just to sit and
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  listen. God, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, you'll protect us from the evil one.
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  Protect us from all of the systems of this world.
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  Protect us, God, from all the fear that keeps trying to creep
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  in, all the anxiety that keeps trying to keep creep in.
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  God, I pray against the suicidal spirit.
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  God, I pray against depression. Lord, I pray against anger and
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  rage. Lord, I pray against deception
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  in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, I pray that we can walk on
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  heavenly heights. Lord, let us be seated with you
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  in heavenly places. God the Spirit and the Bride
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  say, come. Lord, we are crying out.
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  We are desirous for you. Lord, keep us from all of the
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  traps that are laid before us of the Fowler.
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  God, I pray that we'll be able to circumvent all of the snares
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  and the traps laid in the forest.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll be glorified and
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  honored everywhere that we go. Today, let us season our words
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  with these spoken words with the Rhema.
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  God, let us be found sharing our testimony with others and
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  raising the banner up over our lives.
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  Our faith, God, increase our faith.
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  Today, let us rightly divide the word.
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  Lord, help us to see you in every single situation today.
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  God, I pray that we'll run the race well and finish well.
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  God, I pray for the good news to be spoken of on every continent,
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  in every people group, in every language.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus for truth to be revealed in all
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  situations. God will stand on the truth, the
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  chief cornerstone. Jesus Christ is the truth, Lord,
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  and I pray against the fiery darts of the enemy, Lord, I pray
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  that you'll protect our hearts, Lord, as we live the right way,
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  Lord, and we put on Jesus's righteousness.
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  Lord, we love you. God, we remember all the things
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  that you've done for us. We love you, King Jesus, and
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  it's in your holy name that we pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one man, Brothers, fathers, hear you my
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  defense, which I make now unto you.
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  So we left off last chapter where Paul was brought in to the
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  Sanhedrin. He was brought in to speak to
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  all of his Jewish cohorts and now he's about to preach to them
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  about Jesus Christ being their long-awaited Messiah and they
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  need not wait on another to. And when they heard that he
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  spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silent
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  and he said so. They were amazed that this man
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  was brought before them, and not only did he speak Greek, but he
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  was able to speak Aramaic here. This was a learned man, and
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  God's about to use all of his background to paint a
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  masterpiece. 3 I am truly a man, which am a Jew, born in Tarsus,
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  a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of
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  Gamaliel. And he taught according to the
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  perfect manner of the law of the fathers and was zealous toward
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  God, as you all are this day. Paul is saying I was once like
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  you, I persecuted the way and I killed the early church.
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  And he's saying I have had an encounter.
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  He's about to paint this picture of this encounter with the risen
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  Lord Jesus Christ. And he came to the saving
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  knowledge that Jesus is the Messiah, and he wants them to
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  have that same confidence. Four And I persecuted this way
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  unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men
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  and women. So you can see here, not only
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  did he arrest the early church, and not only did he throw them
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  in prison, but even to death, he persecuted them.
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  Five, As also the high priest does bear me witness, and all
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  the estate of the elders, from whom also I received letters
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  unto the brothers, and went to Damascus to bring them, which
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  were there bound unto Jerusalem for to be punished.
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  So he had permission from the high priest to go and arrest the
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  early church right before he had his divine encounter with Jesus
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  on the road to Damascus. 6 And it came to pass that as I made
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  my journey, and was come near unto Damascus, about noon,
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  suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round and about
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  me. So this is that Shekinah, glory
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  of Jesus Christ exuding from him. 7 And I fell unto the
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  ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why do you
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  persecute me? 8 And I answered, Who are you,
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  Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus
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  of Nazareth, whom you persecute. So you can see here that Paul
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  was persecuting not just the early Christians, but he was
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  persecuting Jesus Christ himself.
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  And Jesus intervened and told him it was hard to kick against
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  the goads, it was hard to kick against the pricks.
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  And the more that he tried, the more that he would be
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  confounded. And that is what you are going
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  to find in this day, in this hour, friends, is any time
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  somebody tries to oppose God, it is only going to lead to their
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  demise. And yes, there are many
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  mausoleums and museums of buildings where the presence of
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  God left a long time ago. And for those people that are in
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  those buildings, it is just a bunch of tradition and it is
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  just a bunch of ceremony. And the Lord God Almighty is in
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  the highways, in the hedges and the byways, and He's snatching
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  those out of the fire. And we need to be found doing
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  the Lord's work, friends. And it might look different from
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  all the ways that you were taught. 9 And they that were
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  with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid, but they heard
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  not the voice of him that spoke to me.
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  This is the importance of having a personal relationship with the
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  Lord Jesus Christ. We cannot just go along with
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  others who have had this divine encounter and think that we're
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  going to ride in on the coattails of them.
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  It doesn't work that way. We must cultivate a relationship
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  with God Almighty through His Son Jesus Christ.
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  It is the only way. Tan and I said, What shall I do,
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  Lord? And the Lord said unto me,
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  Arise, go into Damascus, and there it shall be told of you
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  all the things which are appointed for you to do.
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  So Jesus personally walked Paul through his earthly ministry
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  that he would perform, and he showed him that he would have to
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  appear before kings. And we're going to see how Paul
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  was bulletproof all the way up until he was not.
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  And it's the same for you and for me.
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  God knows every single moment of every single day that we're
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  going to be on this earth, friends.
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  Nothing is a surprise to him, and He has much work for us to
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  do. Once you give your life to the
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  Lord Jesus Christ and you receive the free gift of
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  salvation, there is much work to do afterwards.
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  We're not saved by work so that any man should boast our
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  salvation is a free gift that cost him everything.
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  But once you come into the fold, Jesus Christ is going to
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  sanctify you, and He's going to use your lifetime to get you
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  ready for all of eternity. 11 And when I could not see, for
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  the glory of the light, being led by the hand of them that
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  were with me, I came into Damascus. 12 And one Ananias, A
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  devout man, according to the law, having a good report of all
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  the Jews which dwelt there, 13 came unto me, and stood and said
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  unto me, Brother Saul, receive your sight.
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  And the same hour I looked up on him.
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  So he went from Saul of Tarsus to brother Paul.
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  And here God is going to have his will and have his way.
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  And Paul's going to go on to write over a third of our New
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  Testament. And we are eternally grateful
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  and blessed for all of the things that Paul pinned down for
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  us, inspired by the Holy Spirit. And here we can see that this
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  divine plan of God being worked out and it was perfect and
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  pleasing unto God. And Paul had enough fortitude
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  and wherewithal to be able to come to his senses to understand
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  that he could not fight against God.
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  And he wants these men in the high council.
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  He wants the Sanhedrin to understand that they need not
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  wait on another Messiah, but Jesus Christ of Nazareth is Him
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  that they have been longing for. If they would just come to Him
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  honestly and put away all of their selfish vanity, all of
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  their selfish greed, and all of their presuppositions and come
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  to Him honestly, they would see that Jesus Christ fulfilled so
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  much of the Old Testament. He is the embodiment of all of
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  the Old Testament. He was born in Bethlehem.
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  He was taken and called out of Egypt.
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  He was reared in Nazareth. He is the branch.
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  He is the suffering servant. You can see that Jesus Christ is
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  their Messiah. There is no other that we should
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  wait upon. 14 And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen
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  you, that you should know his will and see that just one and
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  should hear the voice of his mouth.
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  Jesus Christ is the just one, and we need to hear the voice of
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  his mouth. And every single letter from
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  Genesis to Revelation is the just ones mouth.
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  It is His voice spoken for us on pages.
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  And how eternally blessed are the Jews to be able to house and
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  to be able to preserve the eternal words of God.
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  And we serve the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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  And we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, friends, 15 For you
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  shall be his witness unto all men of what you have seen and
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  heard. So God's going to use all of
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  Paul's background, the school of Gamaliel, his Pharisaical
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  background. He's going to use all of it to
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  paint this masterpiece. And he's been preaching for 20
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  years now about Jesus as the Messiah. 16 And now, why do you
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  tarry, arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on
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  the name of the Lord? That is our mandate.
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  Friends. Have you been dunked in water?
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  Are you washed in the blood? This is what you need to do.
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  Don't tarry. Don't wait.
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  If you've given your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, your very
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  next step of immediate obedience is baptism.
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  Do not wait. If you wait between salvation
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  and baptism, the enemy is going to creep in and torment you.
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  And then it says, wash away your sins as you are baptized.
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  Friends, get rid of all of the things that you've been holding
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  on to. Get rid of all that childhood
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  trauma. Get rid of all the greed and
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  malice. Get rid of all of the things
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  that are entangling and ensnaring you.
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  Friends call on the name of the Lord and be saved. 17 And it
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  came to pass that when I was come again to Jerusalem, even
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  while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance.
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  So here Paul's going to show them that he has been back to
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  Jerusalem prior to this time that he's being held in this
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  court. He was back, and the Lord Jesus
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  was well pleased to reveal to him himself, 18 and saw him
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  saying unto me, Make haste and get you quickly out of
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  Jerusalem, for they will not receive your testimony
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  concerning me. So Jesus knew that Paul had much
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  work to do amongst the Gentiles and that he was going to send
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  them on three missionary journeys to go around all of the
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  known world, and that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ will be
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  proclaimed before he called him back to Jerusalem. 19 And I
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  said, Lord, they know that I am imprisoned, and be in every
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  synagogue them that believed on you. 20 And when the blood of
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  your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and
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  consenting unto his death, and kept the clothing of them that
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  slew him. 21 And he said unto me, Depart, for I will send you
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  far from here unto the Gentiles. So we know predominantly Peter.
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  Was called unto the Jews and Paul predominantly was called
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  unto the Gentiles. And you can see God working
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  mightily amongst these two groups and it's no different
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  today, Friends, there is a distinct difference between the
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  Jews and the Gentiles, the natural and the unnatural,
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  friends. And we cannot say that the Jews
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  and all of their heritage was swallowed up in the church.
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  That is not the correct way to view the Word of God.
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  You must see that God has a divine plan for the Jews, and
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  He's going to bring them into the saving knowledge of the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. As they enter in to the last
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  days, as they enter in to the tribulation, you're going to see
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  them acknowledge that they murdered their Messiah.
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  But in the meantime, and in between time, you and I are
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  eternally blessed by their disobedience, and we are the
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  unnatural grafted in. Friends, praise God for that,
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  that He's calling all nations and all people groups unto
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  Himself, but it does not discount and discredit the
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  peculiar calling of the Jews. And it is a divine mystery that
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  you and I have to get out of our own way and just say yes and
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  Amen to all of God's plans and purposes.
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  And you cannot approach God from a moralistic approach, and you
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  cannot force God into behaving in a way that you deem is
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  correct. God is in heaven and does
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  whatever He pleases, friends, and the best thing we can do is
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  sit in His presence and know that He is the great I am.
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  He is God, friend. Be still and know and work out
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  your salvation with fear and trembling. 22.
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  And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up
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  their voices, and said away with such a fellow from the earth,
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  for it is not fit that he should live.
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  They listened to him as long as he was going along, until he
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  mentioned the word Gentiles. That's you and that's me.
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  And these Jews? Refused to believe that God
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  would call these filthy, unclean Gentiles.
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  Far. Be it from us to look down the
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  nose at the Jews. Friends, there is this eternal
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  play that is happening all around us.
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  And God's goodness and grace is on display as He goes out into
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  the highways and the hedges and the byways.
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  And He calls many unto repentance, and many unto
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  salvation, and many to the remission of sins.
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  And we are eternally blessed by the Jews turning away and not
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  coming into the banquet. But they will.
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  Many times you just read the Scriptures, fall in love with
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  Jesus, fall in love with the Word of God, and you're going to
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  find that God will be well pleased to reveal to you all of
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  the promises contained in this book.
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  And if we'll get out of the culture, if we'll get out of all
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  of the teachings of man, the opinions of man, let every man
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  be a liar and let God give you divine interpretation and divine
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  obedience unto the Scriptures, and you're going to find that
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  he's working out all of these things.
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  For the Jews. And for the Gentiles alike.
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  And these men had it just as wrong as we will if we turn our
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  backs on the Jews. And it is a tactic of the enemy
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  to cause division and discord amongst brethren.
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  And those are the things that God hates, friends. 23 and.
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  As they cried out and cast off their clothes and threw dust
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  into the air, 24 the chief captain commanded him to be
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  brought into the castle, and bowed that he should be examined
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  by scourging, that he might know why they cried so against him.
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  So think about it, these men. These.
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  Roman guards were standing there, and he'd already spoken
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  to them in Greek. And then he turns and speaks to
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  the Sanhedrin in Aramaic, and they're trying to figure it all
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  out. And they just say, OK, we don't
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  understand any of it, but we're going to get it out of them by
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  beating him to death until he tells us what he's done wrong.
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  20. Five.
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  And as they bound him with throngs, Paul said unto the
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  centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man
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  that is a Roman and uncondemned? So this would have struck fear
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  into the hearts of the soldiers because they would have been
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  guilty. Of laying their.
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  Hands and binding a Roman citizen, which is against the
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  law and Paul knew it, but he was wise enough not to call this
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  card yet onto the table. What he did was he waited for
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  the perfect timing and God you can see his divine timeline.
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  You can see that God's divine timing is so much better than
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  ours and if we will just trust God.
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  You can see that every moment of every day of your life is unto
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  God, and you'll not miss out on anything if you'll be sold out
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  to the Lord Jesus Christ. He's going to take you from
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  glory to glory. Hallelujah.
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  Amen. 26 when the. Centurion heard that he went and
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  told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what you do to this
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  man, for he is a Roman. 27 Then the chief captain came and said
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  unto him, Tell me, are you a Roman?
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  And he said, yes, 28 And the chief captain answered with a
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  great sum, I obtained this freedom.
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  And Paul said, But I was Born Free.
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  So this centurion is puzzled and perplexed.
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  He is confused by the fact that this man who.
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  Is a Jew. And despised and rejected by his
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  own people. Could be a Roman citizen.
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  And Paul here just puts him in his place.
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  Says you had to buy it. But I was Born Free.
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  Praise God, Hallelujah. I pray that you have been Born
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  Free. I pray through the regeneration
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  that you've become a new man. You've been Born Free, and you
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  have the liberty and the freedom, friends, to speak the
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  name of Jesus Christ over all people. 29 Then straightway that
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  departed from him, which should have examined him.
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  And the chief captain also was afraid, for he knew that he was
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  a Roman, and because he had bound him.
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  So you can see here that Paul. Let them know.
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  That they were breaking the law and he's already been bound
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  twice. So prior to this event, those
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  men were guilty. In the Roman court.
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  Of law, they would have been guilty also for binding him, and
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  Paul here knows that it's not his time yet. 30 we'll end on.
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  30 On the Morrow, because he would have known the certainty
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  wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his
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  bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their counsel to
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  appear, and brought Paul down and set him before them.
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  So here you can. See.
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  How God is? Orchestrating all of these
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  assemblies so that the name of Jesus Christ can be spoken
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  mightily and boldly by Paul. And he's giving him all the
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  words and he told him all the things that he would have to go
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  through. And he's had great freedom up
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  till this point. He's been able to go out and
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  about and now he's bound and he's going to remain bound all
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  the way till his death. And he was on a divine timeline.
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  And God, it's orchestrating it. How amazing is this word of God
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  that we hold in our hands. It's alive and active and
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  sharper than any 2 edged sword. Friends, I pray that you fall in
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  love with Jesus today. I hope you've been blessed by
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  it. I know, I sure.
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  Have I'm praying for you I love. You.
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  I'll see you. Back here tomorrow, God bless
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  you.