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Living Waters of Grace 09.25.25 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  We all have a tendency at times to ask God question, but why are
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  you allowing this Lord or what's the purpose in this or how can
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  anything good come out of this? We, we struggle at times with,
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  with God's sovereign hand and, and his work in our lives.
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  We have to understand there's always a bigger picture behind
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  everything that happens in our lives.
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  The Bible tells us and we all memorize the verse that all
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  things work together for good, right?
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  All things that means the bad things.
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  There's a famous Carrie Underwood song called Jesus Take
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  the Wheel, which is told from the perspective of a woman who
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  miraculously survives a car crash.
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  But in today's message, Pastor Clark teaches you that trusting
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  Jesus doesn't require you to give him the wheel temporarily.
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  Instead, you're supposed to fully surrender your life to
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  him, even though you don't know where the road will lead.
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  But fear not, God's Word teaches that He works everything out for
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  the good of those who serve Him. Now here's Pastor Clark in the
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  book of Acts Chapter 4 with today's edition of Living Waters
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  of Grace. So we are in the book of the
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  Acts going through this book verse by verse study.
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  Can we are in chapter 4 and this is verse 23 where the apostles
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  had this gotten released from the incarceration from the
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  authorities and the empire there that were trying to control them
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  and not allow them to share their faith in the streets.
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  They got delivered from this abuse and persecution.
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  And now they're going back to report to the rest of the group
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  that they are in communion with the body of Christ to pray for
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  boldness. So we'll pick it up here in
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  verse 23. And being let go, they went to
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  their own companions and reported all that the chief
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  priests and elders had said to them.
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  And so when they heard that, they raised their voice to God
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  with 1 accord and said, Lord, you are God who made heaven and
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  earth and the sea and all that is in them.
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  So right away they're worshipping God for His
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  sovereign power and His ability to understand that God's always
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  in control no matter what is happening.
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  They were going through some difficult times, being
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  challenged by sharing their faith in the streets, and they
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  were being told they couldn't do this anymore.
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  And so instead of complaining about the authorities or asking
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  God's vengeance upon the government, they went right to
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  the Lord to praise Him. First of all, that in spite of
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  everything that's happening in their lives right now, they know
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  they're in the center of God's will and they know that He's in
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  charge. Nothing's happening outside of
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  God's awareness and His wisdom, and we have to keep that in mind
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  when we go through difficult times in life and challenges
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  that we don't understand. We have to realize that God is
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  not abandoned us. He's always there with us and
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  for us. He cares for us, He loves us,
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  and he promises He'll never leave us or forsake us.
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  And in those times of the dark nights of the soul that we all
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  have, we have to get before the Lord and say, Lord, I believe,
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  help my unbelief. Help me to stay faithful, not to
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  to go backwards, but to trust in You even though I don't
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  understand what is occurring right now.
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  Jeremiah, the prophet in the Old Testament was told to go preach
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  the word and he went to people that didn't want to hear what he
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  was saying. And because of that, they
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  eventually put him in prison. And he was upset with God
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  saying, I don't want to do this anymore.
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  I'm done, I'm resigning. I didn't sign up for this kind
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  of stuff. And the Lord let him Stew in his
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  own frustration. And eventually Jeremiah said, I
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  cannot but help to preach the word because it's like fire in
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  my bones. And so no matter what he wanted
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  to do, no matter what he wanted to stop the one or run or
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  whatever, he just had this constant urge in his heart to
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  share the truth of who God is with people.
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  And that's I'm sure the case with all of us.
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  We have that same Holy Spirit in us.
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  So they're worshipping God. And it's a good prayer dialogue
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  here to sort of think about when we go to the Lord to pray, how
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  do we start? Do we right away ask him about
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  things or tell him our troubles, or do we worship him for who he
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  is and how great he is? Because whenever you start a
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  prayer like this of God being the creator of everything that
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  exists, you begin to see how big God is as opposed to how small
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  you might think he is. When you got the big problem in
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  front of your eyes, you can't overcome and you're letting it
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  bring you down and and give you a depression and discouragement.
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  Well, here they're worshipping God together communally with one
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  heart and one, one mind. And they referred to David's
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  prayer and, and Psalm 2 as they're beginning to talk about
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  the the greatness of God. And David recognized the
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  greatness of God in his life and in his ministry.
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  And he said in Psalm 2, why did the nation's rage and the people
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  plot vain things? The kings of the earth took
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  their stand and the rulers were gathered together against the
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  Lord and against His Christ. And so since the beginning of
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  time, the day when the Lord will completely eliminate the
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  influence of Satan on this planet, on this earth, in this
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  universe. And what a day that will be.
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  But this is the testimony of what it's like to be a people of
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  God living in a world without God.
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  Look at the nations. Look how they raised.
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  Look at all the ungodliness that's being legislated and the
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  mandates that are being put upon different countries that have
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  nothing to do with the greatness of who God is.
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  Man wants to take control and he wants to run this world.
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  And the more we try to run the world without the grace of God
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  and the Holy Spirit, the more we destroy this world and destroy
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  one another. The writer continues here for
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  Truly in verse 27 against your holy servant Jesus, whom you
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  anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the
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  people of Israel were gathered together to do whatever your
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  hand and your purpose determined before to be done.
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  So he's listing here Luke these different characters that were
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  responsible for putting Christ on the cross along with our sin,
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  obviously putting him on the cross.
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  And the big picture is here that God used all these players that
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  are mentioned here to be part of the fulfillment of his plan to
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  accomplish the prophetical plan that Christ would be crucified
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  and that the world would come against him.
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  And so they were just in communion, basically not even
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  unaware of it, that they were supporting and fulfilling the
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  plan of God even with their evilness.
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  And He said that they did whatever his hand, your hand,
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  your purpose determined before to be done.
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  We, we think lots of times in life about certain things that
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  occur and why they happen the way they do.
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  And we all have a tendency at times to ask God question, But
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  why are you allowing this Lord? Or what's the purpose in this or
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  how can anything good come out of this?
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  We, we struggle at times with, with God's sovereign hand in, in
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  his work in our lives. We have to understand there's
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  always a bigger picture behind everything that happens in our
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  lives. The Bible tells us and we all
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  memorize the verse that all things work together for good
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  right all things That means the bad things, the heartbreaking
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  things, the challenging things, everything all things work
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  together for good to those who love God and are called
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  according to his purpose. Then the next verse says for
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  those he did for know he did predestined to become conformed
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  to the image and likeness of his son.
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  So the challenges of life and the heartache of life at times
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  is making us a little more like Jesus.
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  Jesus is the representative to us of how we are to live this
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  life. We, we need to understand and
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  experience a little bit of what he had gone through and what he
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  went through for us so that we can begin to be humbled and
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  begin to be interested in others more so than we maybe think
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  about ourselves. And so he says now verse 29, to
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  begin to petition Lord, look on their threats and grant to your
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  servants that with all boldness they may speak your word.
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  So this was what they were praying for.
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  Lord, look at how they're trying to stop us from preaching your
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  word. Look how the culture today is
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  trying to undermine the authority of God and the world
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  and the church and the Word, how in some parts of the world
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  people are being persecuted and proclaiming this book, the
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  Bible, as being the word of God and the truth of God.
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  Lord, give us this grace. And Lord's aware of all these
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  threats. He's aware of what we need.
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  And we need to have boldness, all of us.
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  And they needed boldness in this time to speak your word.
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  So all of us at times we get nervous when we have a chance to
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  share the Lord with people. Holy Spirit's got our chest sort
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  of going and we know, Hey, I this is the Lord wants me to, to
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  say something here. And sometimes we don't listen
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  and we regret that. But there's always obviously
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  other opportunities. But whenever he begins to work
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  with us, we can't do this in our own strength to proclaim the the
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  goodness in the word of God. We need the power of the Holy
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  Spirit, all of us, to be able to follow through and give the
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  message in the power of God. And so they're praying for
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  boldness that they may speak the word.
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  They were just threatened and told you will not speak this
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  man's name, Jesus again to anybody.
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  And they understood the consequences when they were
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  being told that by those in authority.
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  But then Peter said, well, we can't but help but the proclaim
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  what it is that he's done and who he is.
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  And, and they were obviously not going to listen to the edict of
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  the governing authorities at the time.
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  Later on, they say there's times in life where we have to obey
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  God rather than man right. And we're probably living in
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  days like that ourselves as a a country.
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  We have to understand our rights as citizens and our rights as
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  Christians. But our allegiance is really to
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  one who created everything. It's not to any governing
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  authority. We, we obey those who have
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  authority over us. We pray for them, that kind of
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  stuff. But whenever that authority
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  circumvents the will of God, that's when all of us in our own
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  conscience have to decide what are we going to do?
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  Are we going to listen to God or are we going to fear man?
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  And that's something that we are all, I'm sure, thinking about
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  more in the days that we're living.
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  And so then they also prayed that your word will have the
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  power, obviously to change the lives, but by stretching out
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  your hand to heal, it wasn't them praying.
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  God give us the power to heal or create miracles, all this stuff.
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  They always understood the apostles, that any miraculous
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  power that was manifest was not manifest by anybody's human
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  ability or the will of man. They were asking God to stretch
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  out his hand. Jesus is the great healer.
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  He's Jehovah Rapha, He's the great physician.
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  He has the power to heal, still heals and he's able to stretch
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  out his hand to heal. And that signs and wonders may
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  be done through the name of your holy servant, Jesus.
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  So in the early church, the amount of miracles that were
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  occurring on any given day were just unbelievable.
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  This is a common occurrence, signs and wonders miracles.
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  And then so as a result of that, it got activity, it got people
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  interested. Now a lot, not everybody that
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  came to to experience miracles or to see miracles became
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  followers of the Lord. Many of them just wanted the
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  hype and the excitement, but they had no interest in
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  repenting and living after the ways of God.
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  But nonetheless, the Lord used this Apostolic authority in the
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  beginning stages of the church to shape the church.
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  And so then they continue there here in verse 32.
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  And, and I'm thinking about like your life and mine, like this
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  past week. Did you have an opportunity to
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  share your faith with anybody? Did you have a chance to pray
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  with someone, to do a random act of kindness for someone in the
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  name of Jesus? Were you praying specifically
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  for a situation to come to pass in someone else's life that you
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  were burdened for that? Did you make a phone call to let
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  someone know you were thinking of them or caring about them?
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  These are all acts of power and boldness to come from the heart
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  of God who dwells in US through us as the people of God that we
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  might be instruments in his hands to be the hands and feet
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  of Jesus in this world of, of, of struggle and and challenge.
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  Cindy called me this week all excited.
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  She says you wouldn't guess you believe what the Lord did for
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  me. I, I visited this lady in the
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  development of an older woman where my mom lives and she's
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  having to like move out of her house and get rid of all her
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  belongings and she has to move into one of the skilled nursing
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  facilities. And she's, you know, you know,
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  overwhelmed that she has to do this in her life.
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  And she's looking at all the stuff and the memories and when
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  her husband was alive and all the beautiful experiences they
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  had. And her heart was sad that, you
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  know, she didn't, she knew she couldn't take everything with
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  her. And so Cindy said, why don't you
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  look at the things that are most important to give you the most
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  happy memories and just take those things.
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  And so they were talking and then the Lord just put on
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  Cindy's heart to ask the lady if she could pray for her.
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  And the woman said yes. And Cindy was so blessed that
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  she was able to be in that place providentially by God and a
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  situation that she wasn't even planning on doing.
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  The Lord just put on her heart to stop at this home and, and
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  then the Lord opened the door for her to minister Jesus to
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  this woman. And, and, and so the woman was
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  blessed and she was touched and, and tears and that kind of
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  stuff. But but Cindy was really blessed
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  and, and, and I, I was blessed and I have a, a wife, obviously,
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  who cares about people and, and wants to be used by the Lord,
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  right? That's, that's awesome, right?
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  And we all want to be that way. And it's all the work of the
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  Holy Spirit. He's the one that sets these
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  opportunities up. So they're they're talking about
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  this work of God and then it says in verse 31, and when they
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  had prayed, they were praying together with one heart and one
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  mind where they were assembled together.
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  It was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and
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  they spoke the word of God with boldness.
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  So I don't know how many people were here at this time, but it
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  was the apostles and the church beginning stages of the people
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  in the church. I'm sure a good number of people
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  assembled there. It wasn't evidence that this,
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  the apostles were filled, but the whole church was filled with
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  the Holy Spirit. It wasn't another Pentecost.
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  There's only one Pentecost. There's only one Calvary.
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  But it was a replication, if you may, of the influence and the
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  power of God being able to continually give the church and
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  the believers the power to do the work of the ministry.
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  And so, you know, we pray here, God, fill us with your spirit.
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  Fill us today as we're studying your word, Phyllis, as we
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  worship Phyllis, so that we go out of this place today
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  different than when we came and that we all have our antennas up
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  to want to be used by the Lord in a specific way, right?
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  To be used by God, to be able to have the Lord put aside our
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  obsessions and our compulsive natures at times of why I got to
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  do all this stuff first, you know, and then maybe I'll have
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  time to do some stuff that the Lord might be interested in.
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  So that's the opposite, right? The Bible says seek first the
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  Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
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  Seek first His will, His plan, His purposes, and everything
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  else you have need of will be added unto you.
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  And so they were filled, and we'll read throughout the book
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  of the Acts this tremendous work of God, the Holy Spirit filling
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  them with His power. I get up sometimes in the
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  morning and sometimes I don't feel like getting up.
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  I don't want to go anywhere. I don't want to do anything.
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  That is going to be bummed out some days, right?
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  And then I say, Lord, come on, I need power, I need strength, I
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  need your, your love, your ability.
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  You know, you got to get me in gear here because if you don't,
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  I'm not going anywhere, right? And the Lord does that.
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  He's faithful to fill us. He's he's faithful to refresh us
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  and to renew us. And, and we got to be reminded
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  of the fact that we need the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  He's been given to us to give us the strength to live the
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  Christian life and to do our jobs and to do our marriages and
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  do our family life and all the things that we, we deal with in
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  life. Everything has to be done in and
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  through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  And I'm amazed at how often and we have a tendency to try to do
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  stuff on our own strength. These guys were faced with a
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  challenge. They knew they needed to pray.
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  They got the people praying together with them and then they
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  petitioned God to do what they needed him to do in order for
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  them to be able to speak the word of God with boldness.
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  So then we continue in verse 32. This is when they began to share
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  all things. Now when we study Acts, a lot of
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  churches nowadays, they talk about wanting to get back to the
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  early church. Well, there's certain principles
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  of the early church that are eternal, if you may, the
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  teaching of the word, meeting in the apostles, doctrine,
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  fellowship, prayers and the breaking of bread, which is the
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  Lord's Supper and the Lord adds daily to the church such as
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  those who are being saved. But this instance of what they
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  did here in the beginning stages here was not something that we
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  see carried on in the pastoral epistles.
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  This is a one time experience. Some ideas that some folks had
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  that they thought they could share everything and and
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  breakdown their assets so that everybody would have enough to
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  be able to to take care of everything that was happening.
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  The problem was at this time that that there were so many
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  people in Jerusalem because of Pentecost, that there was a lot
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  of people who had left their homes and their families
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  temporarily and their jobs. And so they were there in this
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  phenomena of this early church, this excitement.
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  So there was a lot of people that needed shelter, they needed
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  food, they needed provision. So they figure, let's pour our
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  assets together so we can take care of all the needs of the
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  people. Well, eventually this thing
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  stopped because first of all, they ran out of money.
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  Everybody needs to work in order to continually fuel the bills,
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  pay the bills that take care of the needs of the of the church,
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  that kind of stuff. So this wasn't written down as a
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  gospel mandate that this is what the church was to do.
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  If you want to know about giving and and participating in
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  community. Second Corinthians chapter 8
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  talks about why we give. We don't give out of compulsion.
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  We give willingly, cheerfully, as God has caused us to purpose
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  in our hearts or God loves a cheerful giver.
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  It wasn't like, you know, bring everything that you own to the
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  Calvary Chapel altar. And we, we, we figure out what
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  we do with it. You know, we take a portion of
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  what it is that God blesses us with.
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  We sow it into his Kingdom. He says, if we sow liberally,
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  we'll reap liberally. If we so sparingly, we'll reap
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  sparingly. So we have this desire in our
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  hearts as the Holy Spirit works in the church to give into the
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  work of the ministry. But anyway, these guys, what
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  they decided to do at this time says the multitude of those who
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  believe we're one heart and one soul.
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  And that's. Critical in a local ministry.
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  You want to have the same heart and the same mind.
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  Neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was
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  his own, but they had all things in common.
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  So when you think about your assets and what God's entrusted
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  you with, they're really His. And He entrusts those things to
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  you to use accordingly, right? Use them for His Kingdom.
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  You use them for your goals, your pleasure.
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  He gives us the opportunity to use what it is He's entrusted us
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  with. But we have to all be good
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  stewards. We're going to give an account
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  God and how we use what it is He trusted us with.
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  But they had this plan to share things in common.
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  And with great power, the apostles gave witness to the
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  resurrection of the Lord Jesus. So the preaching was happening,
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  the Word of God was going out, the people were coming to know
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  Christ, or at least thinking about coming to Him, and great
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  grace was upon them all. So in the beginning stages of
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  the New Testament church, the grace of God was so abundant.
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  The church was so pure. There was so much love and
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  humility and simplicity. They didn't have a lot of
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  complicated things going on back in those days, or there was no
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  such thing as a praise ban. There was no such thing as
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  technology and computers and Wi-Fi and Internet.
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  I mean, we didn't have all that stuff back then.
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  And yet, believe it or not, God still is able to accomplish his
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  will, right? But they didn't even have a
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  building. They were in the streets in
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  those days. They met in the Solomon's
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  portico, borrowed the porch together as an assembly.
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  But basically, ministry was always happening out in the the
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  streets as the word of God was being proclaimed.
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  But great grace is upon them all.
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  And I think one of the important things to remember in the
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  Christian life and in the local church is that you try to keep
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  things as simple as you can, right?
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  That's really important because soon as they become complicated,
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  then we begin to get in the way of the Spirit of God.
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  We begin to quench the Spirit of God, We begin to grieve the
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  Spirit of God. Paul's heart, when he preached,
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  he said the one thing he was most concerned about as a church
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  began to develop was that the minds of the people would be
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  corrupted from the simplicity that's in Christ Jesus.
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  If our minds get complicated about church and ministry and
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  knowing the simplicity of the Bible, Jesus loves me.
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  This I know for or the Bible tells me.
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  So it doesn't get any better than that, right?
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  And then walking in that reality of God's love and experiencing
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  that on a daily basis, that's where it's at, right?
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  Whenever something begins to become a strain or pressure or
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  you know, passionless, then you know, Chuck Smith used to say
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  when something's on life support, in other words, man's
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  trying to keep it going, pull the plug.
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  It's already dead right? Don't try to make something
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  happen that God isn't in. And we all have a tendency at
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  times to do certain things. And lots of times we we begin to
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  do ministries in our lives. And it doesn't mean just because
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  we don't see anything happening right away that God isn't in it.
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  Sometimes God's testing, our perseverance, our dependence on
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  him, our patience are waiting upon the Lord.
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  The Bible says those who wait upon the Lord, right?
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  Waiting on the Lord is a hard thing to do.
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  They shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings
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  like eagles. They shall run and not be weary.
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  They shall walk and not faint. And you may be waiting on the
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  Lord for something in your life to come to pass.
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  Don't get discouraged and don't get downtrodden.
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  Whenever God gives you a vision and a purpose and a plan, keep
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  on keeping on, and in time you'll see the fruit come forth
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  as He blesses what it is. And He's called you to put your
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  hand too. Don't ever give up.
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  Thank you for listening to this edition of Living Waters of
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  Grace. Pastor Clark is teaching us
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  about the book of Acts in this series.
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  Acts is a powerful and unique part of Scripture, not just
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  because it records the spread of the gospel geographically from
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  Jerusalem to the ends of the earth, but also culturally.
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  Acts shows us how the message of Jesus moved beyond its Jewish
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  roots and began to reach the Gentile world.
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  What started with Peter leading a small group in the Upper Room
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  became a global movement with Paul taking the gospel to
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  cities, synagogues, and marketplaces across the Roman
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  Empire. Acts captures this vital
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  transition and reminds us that the good news of Jesus is for
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  all people in every place. May we be inspired to carry that
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  same gospel boldly into our world today.
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