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Acts chapter 5 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Acts chapter 5, let us pray. God Almighty Lord, here we are.
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  Father, teach us or teach us your eternal paths.
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  Father, we just want more of you today.
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  Lord, as we read your scriptures, as we get into your
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  scriptures, Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus for divine
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  counsel. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, Lord, that we'll have the mind of Christ today.
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  Give us supernatural understanding, increase our
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  faith today. Give us the gift of faith today.
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  God, I pray right now, Lord, that this time we'll be sweet
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  unto you. Lord, I pray that this time is
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  marked by your goodness and grace.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus, you'll be well pleased
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  with the reading of your text. God, hide me and hide my
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  thoughts. Hide my words.
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  Father God, let this be Holy Spirit on this chapter.
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  Father God, I pray as I decrease, let the Holy Spirit
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  break out and increase mightily, Lord, and I just pray for this
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  generation of young people. This is a generation of old
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  people. This is a generation all over
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  the world. God, this generation that we are
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  part of right now. Lord, I pray against all the
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  schemes of the enemy. Lord, bind the enemy from off of
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  people's lives, Lord, and cast the enemy into the judgment that
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  you have awaiting for him. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that we will stand firm till the end over that we will
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  be found doing whatever it is that you're called us into for
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  today. Lord, let us walk in purity.
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  Lord, let us walk in righteousness.
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  God, I pray that we can walk in the bridal identity, God, that
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  we belong to you or and that you are fighting our battles, that
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  you have gone before us. You have prepared a way for us.
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  And so God, I pray that we can be yoked unto you.
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  Your burden is light, Lord, and your yoke is easy.
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  And so, God, I pray that we can see you in every situation all
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  around us, every time, God, no matter if it's financial woes,
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  if it's physical woes, if it is emotional, mental, God, if it's
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  addiction, God, I pray that you will help us to walk through
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  those things. Lord, divorce.
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  God, I pray for the prodigals. God, I pray no matter what
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  plagues us today, Lord, we can find you in the midst of it,
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  Lord. And we emphatically stand with
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  Israel, Lord, and we emphatically desire to bless
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  them, God. We just pray protection around
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  that land, God, protect them. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, Lord, that your will will be done and that they, Lord,
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  will come to see Jesus Christ as their long-awaited Messiah.
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  Father, I pray that we can be found, Lord, blessing and loving
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  upon those people. Lord, that you have called your
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  own Lord and that you have given a very special choosing towards.
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  Lord, we love you. Father, we do stand with Israel
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  God, and we do desire to bless them.
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  Father, I thank you God, that your ways are much higher than
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  our ways, Lord. And I thank you, Father, that
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  you have had an eternal plan before the foundation of the
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  earth. God that you have elected and
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  predestined, Father, all who will be there with you.
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  And so, Lord, we get out of our own way, We get out of our own
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  understanding, Lord, and we just say yes and Amen to all the
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  promises that are contained in this infallible, inerrant word
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  of God. We thank you, Father, that you
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  have called us into new heights. We thank you, Father, that you
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  have given us a greater measure of who you are and your
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  understanding and your faith. God, let us walk in that
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  reality, Lord, that you are bringing everything along
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  exactly the way that you desire it, exactly the way that this
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  word has pinned it down, Father, through the inspiration of the
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  Holy Spirit. God, we thank you for all the
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  men and women who have gone before us, Lord, all of those
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  who are in the hall of faith, Father.
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  And this world was not worthy of them.
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  Father, I'm so thankful, Lord, that we can come to know you and
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  be known by you. Lord bless this time and bless
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  this chapter that we're about to read.
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  God bless this ministry. In the name of Jesus Christ, I
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  pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  But a certain man named Ananias with Sapphira, his wife, sold a
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  possession. So this is in direct connection
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  to chapter 4. Whenever we saw that Barnabas
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  had sold land and had given it to the apostles, and here
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  Ananias and Sapphira, they're trying to follow suit.
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  They saw that he was doted over for his obedience to the early
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  church, and they desired a piece of that pie.
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  But we're going to find that the enemy has crept in and has
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  deceived them into thinking that they can get away with lying to
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  the Holy Spirit. Verse 2 And kept back part of
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  the price, his wife also being Privy to it, and brought a
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  certain part, and laid it at the apostles feet.
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  So there, there's no sin in them keeping back a part of it.
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  They could have just gave 10% unto the apostles here in the
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  early church, but the sin is that they lied that it was the
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  whole Part 3. But Peter said, Ananias, why has
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  Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Ghost to keep back
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  part of the price of the land? So here, Peter, by supernatural
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  knowledge, which is a gift that's available to us when
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  we're following after the Lord, the Lord can give you divine
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  knowledge and divine understanding.
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  And here Peter, who is filled with the Holy Ghost, he can see
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  through this deception, and he calls Ananias out and let's see
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  what happens. For while it remained, was it
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  not your own? And after it was sold, was it
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  not in your own power? Why has you, why have you
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  conceived this thing in your heart that you have not lied to
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  men, but to God? So that is the fallacy that you
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  find here. That is how Ananias faulted
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  grievously is because he lied to the Holy Ghost, he lied to God,
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  and we're going to see what happens. 5 And Ananias hearing
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  these words, fell down and gave up the ghost.
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  Great fear came on all them that heard these things.
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  Perhaps old Ananias here died of a heart attack.
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  This news, this uncovering was too much for him and he was
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  overwhelmed in the moment and didn't even know what to say and
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  said nothing but fell dead. And you can see how the Holy
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  Spirit is so rich, this Shekinah glory falling down upon the
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  early church, and there is no deception that can remain.
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  There only has to be purity. This is the spirit of revival,
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  friends, whenever every sin, every unconfessed sin is dealt
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  with is brought out it, this is the dealing of sin and secret
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  sins that needs to be brought out for the revival to break out
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  within the church. This is that spirit right here.
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  You can see it and no unclean thing can remain.
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  And the devils shriek as they are cast into the judgment that
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  God has a waiting for them. You can see all of these
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  manifestations of God's goodness and grace and mercy breaking out
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  within the church, and evil things cannot remain. 6 And the
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  young man arose, wound him up, and carried him out and buried
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  him. So Sapphira has not even heard
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  of any of this. She's off doing whatever she was
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  doing, and here he they've already buried Ananias. 7 And it
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  was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not
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  knowing what was done, came in eight Peter answered unto her,
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  Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.
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  And she said, Yeah, for so much. 9 Then Peter said unto her, How
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  is it that you have agreed together to tempt the spirit of
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  the Lord? Behold, the feet of them which
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  have buried your husband are at the door, and shall carry you
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  out. So here, through divine
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  knowledge, Peter knows that she's about to fall dead,
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  perhaps of a heart attack as well.
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  And this is the richness and the purity of the early church.
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  This is such a divine interaction.
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  It demands for them to remain pure as the church is being
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  birthed out of this very special moment.
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  And Peter here, you can see he's taking the reins of being the
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  leader of the early church, which is exactly what Jesus
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  Christ prophesied about when he called him.
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  No longer, Simon, but he called him the Rock, and he said that
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  he would build his church upon him and the gates of hell would
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  not prevail. And that is what you're finding
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  out right here, that the gates of hell through Ananias and
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  Sapphira will not prevail upon this early church.
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  And it's the same truth and the same promise that you and I have
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  for today. And we cannot be afraid of
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  losing our life for our faith. We cannot be afraid of losing
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  our toys for our faith. We cannot be afraid of losing
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  our reputation and pride for our faith friends.
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  We need to stand firm to the end, and that is the only way
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  that we're going to find the peace that we're desperately
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  after. It's not by amassing more houses
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  and cars. It's not by amassing more wealth
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  and vacations. It's not by amassing more.
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  It is by completely being spilled out so that we can be
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  filled with the Holy Ghost. That is the only peace and
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  contentment and joy that we will ever find, and it is the
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  abundant life is whenever we are connected to the vine, and we
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  produce much fruit, and we know that the Lord is well pleased
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  with us. 10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and
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  yielded up the ghost. And the young men came in and
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  found her dead, and carrying her forth, buried her by her
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  husband. 11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as
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  many as heard these things. You know, God controls the very
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  breath in your lungs, He controls the very heartbeat in
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  your chest, and He knows every hair on your head and He knows
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  every single hour that you're going to spend on this earth and
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  who by worrying can add a single day to their life.
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  We just let today take care of today and we go to the cross of
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  Christ today. We don't worry about all of our
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  shortcomings of yesterday and we're not anxious about if we're
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  going to fail tomorrow. But for today, for this day, we
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  will serve the Lord. For this day we will surrender
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  our whole self unto the Lord. For this day we will give it all
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  up for him. And that is the call that Jesus
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  placed on every single blood bought, born again believer is
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  that we need to take him at His word.
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  And we need a literal single minded obedience unto all of
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  Jesus's words, all the words that are contained in the Bible.
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  That is what we need desperately.
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  We need to ask the Lord for the gift of faith so that we can see
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  these words as they are meant to be seen.
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  Not as a scholastic approach, not in academia, friends.
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  It is not about head knowledge. It's not about knowing the
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  scriptures, memorizing the scriptures.
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  It's about increasing your faith and having that child like faith
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  that's going to lead us home and this great fear that came upon
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  the early church. We need that fear of the Lord
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  today, friends. We need to work out our
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  salvation with fear and trembling today, friends. 12 And
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  by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders
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  wrought among the people, and they were all with 1 accord in
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  Solomon's porch. So you can see here, verse 12 is
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  a miraculous unity that we desperately need today. 13 And
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  of the rest, there's no man join himself to them, but the people
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  magnified them. 14 And believers were the more added to the Lord
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  multitudes, both of men and women.
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  So this early church is growing in multitudes and people are
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  coming out of there Judaism, and they're coming into belief in
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  Jesus Christ as their Lord. You can see the Hellenists,
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  which were the Jews that were steeped in Greek tradition, and
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  you can see that the Jews of this day, they were steeped in
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  all of their Jewish traditions. And you can see this unity of
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  everyone coming together. Gentiles are going to come in as
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  well, and it's all being foreshadowed right here in this
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  early church. 15 In so much that they brought forth the sick into
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  the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least
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  the shadow of Peter passing by might over shadow some of them.
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  There was no power in Peter's shadow, but it was the faith
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  that these people possessed. It was like the woman who had
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  the emission of blood that for 12 years that came to the Lord
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  and it was by her faith. It wasn't just by touching the
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  hem of His garment. It was her faith that made her
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  whole. It was her faith that healed her
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  and that is the same here as Peter goes through.
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  They are placing their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and being
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  healed. 16 There came also a multitude out of the cities
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  round and about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks and them
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  that were vexed with unclean spirits, and they were healed
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  everyone. So we can see here the Spirit of
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  the Lord has broke out. We can see here, this is a sweet
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  spirit that is available to us today if we will cultivate the
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  environment that the Holy Ghost can come in and the Holy Ghost
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  can get a hold of us and we can confess and repent and empty
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  ourselves and receive the fullness that he has for us.
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  I pray for revival, a global revival to break out.
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  I pray that the masses come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
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  and that discipleship happens. Everyone was healed. 17 Then the
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  high priest rose up, and all that were with him, which is the
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  sect of the Sadducees, and were filled with indignation, 18 and
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  laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common
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  prison. So here we go again.
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  You can see that they are envious.
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  They know at this point that they are preaching Jesus to the
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  masses, and there are many that are going over to the Christian
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  way, and they are losing ground and it seems as if the whole
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  world is going after Jesus Christ and they are indignant,
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  and so they arrest them again. 19 But the Angel of the Lord by
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  night opened the prison doors and brought them forth, and
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  said, 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the
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  words of this life. That is what you find when you
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  come to the Lord Jesus Christ is life and life abundant.
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  And that is what they are commanded here by the Angel to
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  go and to pronounce to everyone and to do it publicly, not to do
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  it privately, but to be on full display.
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  And that is what you find here and this miraculous opening of
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  the prison doors and letting them out.
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  And I believe that in the days of persecution, in the days of
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  the Tribulation, we're going to see these miraculous signs
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  again, and you're going to see how Christ supernaturally
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  provides. And you cannot annihilate the
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  way. You cannot annihilate the truth.
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  It will always rise to the surface, it will always come to
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  the light, and it is God's business to make sure that what
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  is done in the dark is talked about from the rooftop. 21 And
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  when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in
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  the morning and taught, But the high priest came, and they that
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  were with him, and called the council together, and all the
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  Senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison
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  to have them brought. So imagine this little scene
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  here, friends. They were arrested for preaching
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  the name of Jesus Christ. And then the Angel comes and
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  lets them out ever so politely and gently, makes no commotion,
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  and they are commanded to go into the temple and to continue
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  on the words that God has given them.
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  And then this high council, all the Supreme Court has convened
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  to talk about what they want to do with these leaders of the
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  way. Let's see what happens. 22 But
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  when the officers came and found them not in the prison, they
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  returned and told 23 saying the prison truly found.
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  We shut with all safety to keep her standing outside before the
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  doors. But when we opened, we found no
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  man within. So you can see this miraculous
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  letting out of these men, and then you can see how they are
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  sent for, but they cannot be found.
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  What an amazing passage in the Bible of the power of God and
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  what He can do. Not that He always will do.
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  Sometimes we must go to the cross to give Him the most
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  amount of glory, but the least shall be 1st and the 1st shall
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  be least. And we need to know that it is a
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  different economy in heaven, and those that give up their life
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  for the Lord Jesus Christ will be honored by Him. 24 Now when
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  the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief
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  priest heard these things, they doubted of them, where unto this
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  would grow. 25 Then came one, and told them, saying, Behold,
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  the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and
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  teaching the people. What great boldness you can see
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  here, You can see that the early Church is being birthed by the
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  miraculous, by God himself. The early church is being
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  founded by Yahweh Himself. And there's nothing that these
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  men, these evil, wicked men can do about it.
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  And they are so steeped in their own greed that they refused to
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  come to the Lord honestly and to see that the miracle that was
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  wrought and the miracles that were being wrought in the land
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  were of God Almighty, the one that they claimed to try and
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  protect the history of. But what they had realized, that
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  they had left him long ago in the presence of God, was now
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  with the early church, and they would do well as the natural to
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  be grafted back into the natural friends.
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  And that is their call. That is Israel's call for today
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  is to acknowledge Jesus Christ as their Savior and for the
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  natural to be grafted back into the natural tree.
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  Praise God, Hallelujah 26 Then went the captain with the
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  officers, and brought them without violence, for they
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  feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
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  So here you can see that the early church has won so many
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  over, just like Jesus Christ did, that these religious
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  leaders have the fear of man on them, and they feared men more
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  than they feared God. God forbid for us to ever fear
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  man more than we fear God. We must let go of the fear of
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  man. Friends 27 And when they had
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  brought them, they set them before the council, and the high
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  priest asked them. This is Caiaphas again, the same
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  one who illegally arrested Jesus by night, illegally held counsel
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  by night, and then put on a mock trial in the morning to try to
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  cover his tracks, and then tried to get Rome to do their dirty
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  work by killing and murdering and brutally beating our
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  Messiah, our Lord. And here he is again up to the
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  same devilish antics, 28 saying, Did not we straightly command
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  you that you should not teach in this name?
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  And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and
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  intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
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  Look how he deliberately evades naming the name that is above
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  all names, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the only name that has
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  any power to save. Look at how he deliberately does
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  not speak it. What a coward. 29 Then Peter and
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  the other apostles answered and said we ought to obey God rather
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  than men. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ, we
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  love you, Father. Underline it, circle it,
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  highlight it, write it in the margins, write it in your
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  journal. We must obey God more than we
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  obey the government. We must obey God more than we
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  obey the laws of the land. We must obey God more than we
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  obey our own natural instincts and our own morals.
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  We must obey God more than we obey any of the lies of the
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  enemy who tries so desperately to get us to send ourselves to
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  hell. We must get yoked up with the
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  Lord Jesus Christ. We must have His burden that is
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  light, and we must follow Him to the cross.
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  Friends, that is our call. Die to yourself, die to all your
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  selfish vanity, die to the ways of this world.
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  Friends, we've got to put the old man to death, and we must
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  put on the regenerate man, and we must walk in the light.
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  Friends, we must walk in the newness.
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  If any man is in Christ, he is a new creation.
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  Praise God, we must obey God rather than men. 30 The God of
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  our fathers raced up Jesus, whom you slew and hung on a tree.
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  There's a lot there in that little passage.
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  We know that cursed is anyone who's hung on a tree.
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  We know that it pleased God to crush the suffering servant,
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  Jesus Christ. We know that they because of
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  their ignorance and their unwilling to come to Jesus
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  honestly, they murdered him. 31 Him has God exalted with his
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  right hand to be a Prince and a savior.
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  For to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins, that is
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  Israel's call, is to repent for murdering Jesus and to come in
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  to the reality that Jesus is their Messiah. 32 And we are his
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  witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom
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  God has given to them that obey him.
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  So here we see the apostles claiming their witness status,
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  that is their call as the apostles whose names are written
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  on the foundations of the New Jerusalem.
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  And you can see here that the Holy Ghost is with them.
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  He's not in the temple. He is not in all of their law.
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  The Holy Ghost is with the early church, and the Holy Ghost is
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  here with us. And the Holy Ghost is the down
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  payment that secures us for all of eternity.
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  And whenever we get there, our names are going to be written in
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  the Lamb's book of Life, and we're going to be covered by the
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  blood of Jesus Christ. And he shows us in part now, but
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  we will see in the fullness. 33 When they heard that, they were
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  cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
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  They are evil in this wicked action.
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  Here they are not trying to just get them to shut up, but now
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  they have took counsel to do the very thing to them that they did
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  to Jesus Christ. And this is what happens
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  whenever we are given over to the devil and given over to our
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  own selfish ambitions. This is what will happen.
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  We will be so delusional that we think that we're doing God's
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  work by actually killing the ones who were coming in the name
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  of the Lord Jesus Christ. Imagine that. 34 Then stood
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  there up one in the council of Pharisee named Gamaliel, a
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  doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people,
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  and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space.
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  So here, this Gamaliel, this is the school that you're going to
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  see Saul of Tarsus come from. You're going to see this was a
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  very wise man. And here he is going to show
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  them how they are airing and that they are fighting with God.
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  And it will always come to their own demise.
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  It will be heaped on their own head and they are going to have
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  to reap what they are sowing. And if they want to fight
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  against God, there is no man, there's no army, there is no
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  government that can stand before Almighty God.
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  And when they will be dismayed, 10 times out of 10, God spoke
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  everything into existence. He puts all of the metals in the
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  earth that we form, the bombs and the tanks and the weapons.
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  He put the very breath in the lungs that we formed the
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  soldiers. There is no element that can
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  ever overpower God Almighty. It's all His.
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  It's all for Him and to Him and by Him.
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  And we would do well to make sure that we are serving Him and
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  Him alone, that we are not serving sin.
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  We're not serving self, we're not serving Mammon, we're not
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  serving the world. We're not serving any other
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  lowercase G God. We're not trying to outsmart
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  God. We're not coming to God and
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  telling God how to behave. All we need to do is submit to
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  the will of the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved, and he'll
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  lead you home. And they put the apostles out,
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  35 And said unto them, You men of Israel, take heed to
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  yourselves what you intend to do, as touching these men. 36
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  For before these days rose up Theatus, boasting himself to be
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  somebody, to whom a number of men about 400 join themselves
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  who was slain, and all as many as obeyed him were scattered and
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  brought to nothing. 37 After this man rose up Julius of
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  Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away many
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  people after him, he also perished, and all, even as many
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  as obeyed him were dispersed. 38 And now I say unto you, Refrain
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  from these men, and let them alone.
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  For if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to
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  nothing. 39 But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it.
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  And lest happily you be found even to fight against God, there
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  is no winning against God, period.
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  There is no council that could ever come together.
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  There is no amassing of the nations trying to Rage Against
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  the sun that will ever amount to anything other than their own
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  demise. Mark it down, underline it, and
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  highlight it. Anyone who tries to fight
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  against God will lose 10 times out of 10.
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  There is no life, there is no peace, there is no salvation
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  outside of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  We cannot fight against God and ever expect to win. 40 And to
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  him they agree. When they had called the
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  apostles and beat them, they commanded that they should not
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  speak in the name of Jesus and let them go.
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  This was not just a slap on the wrist, this was a flogging.
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  This was them receiving the 39 lashes, and there were some that
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  died from this beating, and let's see how the disciples took
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  it. 41 And they departed from the presence of the council,
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  rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his
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  name. Do you count yourself worthy to
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  suffer shame for his name? We've got to do away with this,
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  playing both sides. We cannot be lukewarm Christians
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  any longer. We cannot try to save our skin
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  and to be saved from eternal damnation.
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  It does not work that way. We need to make sure that no
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  matter what kind of shame comes our way, we willingly receive it
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  all for joy because of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, no
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  matter what that looks like. And it's much easier said than
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  done. 42 And daily in the temple and in every house, they cease
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  not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
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  Friends, think about it. They just got beat and they're
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  right back in the temple. They just got beat and told not
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  to preach this name any longer. And what do they do?
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  They could not help themselves because they were obeying God
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  and not man. What a call for us for this
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  hour, for this day, in the current atmosphere and culture
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  that we find ourselves in. We would do well on all
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  platforms to be found preaching the name of Jesus Christ, not
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  watering down the simple gospel, not giving out cheap grace.
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  We need to be found teaching the entirety of God's counsel.
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  We need to be found making sure that the name Jesus Christ is
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  being preached to the masses. He is the way, the truth, and
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  the life. And no one comes unto the Father
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  except through Jesus Christ. Hope you've been blessed by this
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  chapter. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you, so does God. Let the Holy Ghost take hold of
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  you today. Get rid of all secret sin.
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  Confess it. Confess it unto God Almighty.
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  Turn from those secret sins. Throw your cell phone as far as
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  the east is from the West. If it is causing you to stumble,
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  turn off the television, get off the computer, confess your sins
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  to God Almighty and receive the Holy Ghost, the filling of the
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  Holy Ghost, so that you can walk in obedience today.
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  Love you, see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.