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Episode 166 - The Rabble Rousers · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: power of the Holy Goosest, continue to speak for the
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  Speaker 1: truth of God. Amen, with boldness and clarity in such
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  Speaker 1: a time as this. Amen. All right, we continue in
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  Speaker 1: our series we've been in for several months now, a
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  Speaker 1: man on God, Government, Church, and state. Amen. And certainly
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  Speaker 1: we have made it quite clear I believe through the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament and New Testament, multilitude of examples where Amen,
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  Speaker 1: God is first and foremost sovereign, reigns and rules over
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of men, and that Amen. We live in
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  Speaker 1: a fallen world where governments are used by individuals. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: by those of like mind that are in government as well. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: In order to a man oppose a man the Church
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God, make no mistake about it. We
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  Speaker 1: live in a fallen world, and we must understand that
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  Speaker 1: certainly is the people of God. But nevertheless, again the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of God stands sure having to seal. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: knows them that are his. God has his church, he
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  Speaker 1: has his people. There is a remnant. God will never
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  Speaker 1: be without a witness. God cannot lie, he cannot fail. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And everything that He is promised and spoken concerning us,
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  Speaker 1: we can rest in it and know that it shall
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  Speaker 1: come to pass. And today we're going to focus on, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: what I call the rabble rousers, the rabble rousers. For
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  Speaker 1: those of you who don't know what a rabble rouser is,
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  Speaker 1: you can certainly look it up for yourself. But in short,
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  Speaker 1: they are trouble makers. Amen. They love riots, they love upheaval, turnoil, mayhem,
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  Speaker 1: you name it, Amen, rabble rousers. We know that there
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  Speaker 1: is no shortage of them when it comes to the Church.
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  Speaker 1: And before we begin, we're going to be in the
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  Speaker 1: Book of the Acts. We're going to look at three
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  Speaker 1: examples there. Just take a quick word of prayer. Let's
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  Speaker 1: take a moment, brother and have a quick word of prayer. Again, Father,
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  Speaker 1: we thank you for your word that is true. We
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  Speaker 1: thank you for this day, we thank you for the
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  Speaker 1: breath of life. We thank you for all to your
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  Speaker 1: benefits towards your people everywhere were God. We prayed that
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  Speaker 1: somewhere someone's eyes, ears, and heart first of all, would
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  Speaker 1: be open there is would be attentive, and their heart
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  Speaker 1: will be changed as only you can do by the
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  Speaker 1: power of your Holy Spirit. We praise you now and
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  Speaker 1: believe in your promises in Jesus' thing, we pray give
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  Speaker 1: thanks in advance. Amen and Amen again, there is no shortage. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Of anti church, anti Jesus, anti Gospel, anti truth. Again,
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  Speaker 1: what I refer to as rabble arousers, Amen, who live
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  Speaker 1: for the opportunity. They cannot even rest. Please make no
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  Speaker 1: mistake about it unless they have done evil. Amen. They
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  Speaker 1: live for the opportunity to oppose and to come against
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  Speaker 1: with everything that they have at their disposal. They've been
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  Speaker 1: the preaching and teaching and dissemination of the Gospel of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. The rabb arousals. They are children of the
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  Speaker 1: wicked one. Amen. And they seek also to stir up others. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And they again love to create mayhem, rioting carnage, violence
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  Speaker 1: if necessary. Amen. And they do this against the Truth,
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  Speaker 1: against the Church against the cause of the Gospel, the
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  Speaker 1: dissemination of the Word of God, because they again are
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  Speaker 1: children of the devil, and they are used by him
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  Speaker 1: a man in order to accomplish what he seeks to do,
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  Speaker 1: even though he knows he only has a short time,
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  Speaker 1: he knows his end, Yet he lives in deception, and
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  Speaker 1: he deceives those who are blinded by him. And history,
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  Speaker 1: of course, his replete with examples of these demon possessed
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  Speaker 1: and driven people who simply again cannot rest, they cannot
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  Speaker 1: sleep a many and they certainly can't coexist with the truth.
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  Speaker 1: They have no tolerance whatsoever for the Word of God,
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  Speaker 1: for truth. They don't want people to be liberated and
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  Speaker 1: live in freedom. Amen. Again, this is what the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: is all about. This is why Jesus came to set
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  Speaker 1: the captive free, a man to liberate those who are
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  Speaker 1: in prison and bondage a man to sin. And these,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, they love the rabb arousers. They
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  Speaker 1: love bondage, they love lawlessness, and they love exerting control
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  Speaker 1: and their power and influence over others. The r the
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  Speaker 1: rabbi arousers are threatened by the Gospel message, and they
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  Speaker 1: always they e the they always have been, and they
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  Speaker 1: always will be. And and and I wanna point out
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  Speaker 1: again if I as I've already mentioned beforehand, Uh, they
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  Speaker 1: always use the same uh strategy as it were, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: in seeking to uh stop the preaching and dissemination of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Uh. They are angry. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they are hostile, they are violent, they are jealous with
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  Speaker 1: envy and malice. We can see that. It's send the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: and we've seen it throughout history. They certainly are combative, restless, murderous.
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  Speaker 1: And again, all of this is because they are of
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  Speaker 1: their father, the devil, and the deeds of their father.
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  Speaker 1: They will do. This is what Jesus said to the
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  Speaker 1: Jews who were in stritent opposition against him. Amen, you
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  Speaker 1: are of your father, the devil, and the deeds of
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  Speaker 1: your father. You will do kill, steal, destroy, That's what
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  Speaker 1: they do. They are murderous, they are destructive. Amen, And
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  Speaker 1: they will stop at nothing in their opposition. Amen to
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of Jesus Christ. All right, We're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: and look at three examples of this in the Book
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  Speaker 1: of the Acts, chapter seventeen, Chapter eighteen, Chapter nineteen. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: this is during the Apostle pauls a man preaching and
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  Speaker 1: teaching of the Gospel, as he sought to a man
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  Speaker 1: do exactly what a man the Lord had commissioned him
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  Speaker 1: to do. And of course you know the history of
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  Speaker 1: the Apostle paulis testimony how he himself was once one
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  Speaker 1: of those who opposed the Gospel. He did it in
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  Speaker 1: ignorance and in unbelief. That's his testimony. Amen. But the
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  Speaker 1: Lord arrested him, and now he has become a man,
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  Speaker 1: one who is hunt, one who is a man sought out,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, by those again who are the rabb
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  Speaker 1: arousers and the haters, and those who loved bondaging, love
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  Speaker 1: to have the power and control and the influence over others.
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  Speaker 1: And so the apostle Paul has become enemy number one.
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  Speaker 1: He at once again was enemy number one to the church.
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  Speaker 1: But now God has changed his journey, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: to now being a friend of God, a friend of
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  Speaker 1: the Church, apostle to the gentiles, going everywhere, preaching the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel to jew and gentile, to anyone who would hear.
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  Speaker 1: And so let's take it up in Acts chapter seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: beginning the verse number one and when they had passed
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  Speaker 1: through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonaika, where it
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  Speaker 1: was a synagogue of the Jews. In Paul, as his
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  Speaker 1: manner was, us, went in unto them, and three Sabbath
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  Speaker 1: days reasoned with them out of the scriptures. Paul went
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  Speaker 1: to the Jewish synagogues. This was customary for him, and
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  Speaker 1: he would a man talk with them, speak with them,
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  Speaker 1: debate with them, have conversations. However, it all went down.
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  Speaker 1: But the Bible tells us in version number three, opening
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  Speaker 1: and alleging that Christ must need amen, have suffered and
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  Speaker 1: risen again from the dead, and that this Jesus whom
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  Speaker 1: I preach unto you, is Christ, the Messiah. They were
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  Speaker 1: looking for, the one they were supposedly in anticipation of.
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  Speaker 1: Paul said, he has come. He's the one that you crucified. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: He's the one that died on the cross. He is
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  Speaker 1: that Messiah. And the Bible tells us version of before.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them believed and consorted with Paul and Silas,
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  Speaker 1: and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of
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  Speaker 1: the chief women not a few. But watch what happens.
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  Speaker 1: See again the rabbit arousers don't like this. They don't
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  Speaker 1: like when people are liberated, when people are freed by
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel. Amen. And so they're gonna amen, do what
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  Speaker 1: they can to oppose the Gospel. Am. Watch what happens
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  Speaker 1: verse number five. But the Jews which believed not moved
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  Speaker 1: with envy. I told you they're jealous. They have jealousy
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  Speaker 1: in their heart. They have malice in their heart, and
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  Speaker 1: they hate that they are no longer in power, no
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  Speaker 1: longer in control. A man of the minds and hearts
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  Speaker 1: of people. They've been a man well, you can call
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  Speaker 1: it marginalized if you will. From their perspective, they've been marginalized.
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  Speaker 1: They're losing converts, they're losing church members, as it were.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Bible says, those Jews who did not
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  Speaker 1: believe they were envious, and they took unto them certain
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  Speaker 1: lewd fellows of the Baser sort. In other words, ne'er
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  Speaker 1: do wells. If you don't know what that is, look
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  Speaker 1: that up. So the rabbit arousers have now recruited some
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  Speaker 1: near do wells. Amen. And the Bible says they gathered
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  Speaker 1: a company, set all the city on an uproar, assaulted
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  Speaker 1: the house of Jason and Salt to bring them out
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  Speaker 1: to the people. There they are there, you go, there,
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  Speaker 1: you go, amen, the Bible says. And when they found
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  Speaker 1: them not they were looking for Paul in Silas chiefly Amen.
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  Speaker 1: For the most part. They that's who they were really after,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says. When they didn't find them, they drew
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  Speaker 1: Jason and certain brethren onto the rulers of the city.
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  Speaker 1: Now to see what they do. This again, same pattern,
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  Speaker 1: going now to the government, going to the rulers, going
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  Speaker 1: to the officials. They want to take it. They want
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  Speaker 1: to see if they could. They were just completely outlawing.
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  Speaker 1: It is in certain places and ry in America where
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  Speaker 1: we have the freedom, they would absolutely outlaw the preaching
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  Speaker 1: of the Gospel. They would burn and ban every Bible.
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  Speaker 1: They would do everything in their power if they could
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  Speaker 1: a man to stop the truth of God from being
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  Speaker 1: a man disseminated. And so they are looking for Paul
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  Speaker 1: and Silas a man. And so they assaulted the house
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  Speaker 1: of Jason, a man. And when they didn't find them,
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  Speaker 1: they dragged a certain other of the brethren unto the
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  Speaker 1: rulers the government of the city, crying out these that
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  Speaker 1: have turned the world upside down have come here. Also
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  Speaker 1: Jason has received them. And they all are acting what
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says in contrary to the decrees of Caesar.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, they are against Roman law. Caesar is God.
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  Speaker 1: We have God other than this God. They are supposedly
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  Speaker 1: preaching and teaching about a man, and Caesar, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is God. Amen. And so these are preaching and teaching
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  Speaker 1: some Jesus or some other doctrine that is in a man,
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  Speaker 1: violation to the law of the land, in other words,
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  Speaker 1: saying that there is another king, one Jesus. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: Pilot crucified Jesus, what did he put over the head
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus on that cross? What did he write in
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  Speaker 1: that inscription? This is Jesus, King of the Jews. So
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  Speaker 1: he is king. He was born king, He wasn't made king.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't a man proclaimed by man, crowned by man
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  Speaker 1: as king. He was and is the eternal king of
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  Speaker 1: kings and Lord of Lord. So not only is the
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  Speaker 1: king king of the Jews, but he's the king of
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  Speaker 1: all kings. And so now they are trying to stir
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  Speaker 1: up the people, get the law, get the government, get
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  Speaker 1: the rulers, a man on their side, saying that these
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  Speaker 1: preaching the gospel have violated the law, saying that there
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  Speaker 1: is another king, Jesus. And the Bible says verse eight,
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  Speaker 1: they trouble the people and the rulers of the city
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  Speaker 1: when they heard these things, and when they had taken
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  Speaker 1: security of Jason. In other words, now Jason has been
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  Speaker 1: arrested and the other they let them go, and the
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  Speaker 1: Brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night, unto
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  Speaker 1: Berea who coming there, that went into the synagogue of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews. So Paul and Silas were able to escape
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  Speaker 1: from that particular situation. But it's not over because they
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  Speaker 1: don't stop. Amen. So the Bible says, after these things
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  Speaker 1: in chapter eighteen, if you will, all departed from Athens,
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  Speaker 1: and he came to Corinth, and the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: in verse number four, he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: This was again what he customarily did, and persuaded the
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  Speaker 1: Jews and the Greeks. And when Silas and Tumothius would
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  Speaker 1: come from Macedonia, brother, the Bible says, Paul was pressed
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  Speaker 1: in the spirit testified to the Jews that Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: Christ they opposed themselves. They blasphemed, and Bible says when
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  Speaker 1: they did this, Paul shook his raiment and said, unto them,
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  Speaker 1: your blood is now up on your own heads a man,
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  Speaker 1: I am clean. From henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.
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  Speaker 1: And he parted from there and entered into a certain
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  Speaker 1: man's house named Justice, a man a man who was
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  Speaker 1: a worshiper of God, the Bible tells us. And his
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  Speaker 1: house was joined to the synagogue, and Crispus, who was
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  Speaker 1: the chief ruler of the synagogue. He also, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us in verse eight, was a believer with all
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  Speaker 1: of his house, and many of the Corinthians. They heard
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel and believed. And we're baptized. Oh watch, watch
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  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. And before it all comes down. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us here that the Lord appears to Paul.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know, there are times we're gonna all
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  Speaker 1: need encouragement. We're gonna need boldness, We're gonna need assurance.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna need to know that God is with us,
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  Speaker 1: and God is for us, and that He has not
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  Speaker 1: left us nor forsaken us. Because there are gonna be
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  Speaker 1: times we're gonna feel that way. We're gonna feel like
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  Speaker 1: we're forsaken. We're gonna feel like we have been left alone,
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  Speaker 1: and God is not present with us. Amen. But the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us here in version of A nine, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord speaks to Paul in the night by a vision.
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  Speaker 1: And listen what he tells it. And why is it
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  Speaker 1: necessary for God to do this again? Those times, those
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  Speaker 1: seasons will come, Amen, when the enemy has come in
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  Speaker 1: a man, when the enemy is attacking and assaulting, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna need to be encouraged. Amen. And so the Lord
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  Speaker 1: comes to Paul and says, be not afraid, but speak
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  Speaker 1: and hold not your peace, for I am with you.
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  Speaker 1: No man shall set on you to hurt you. Look
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  Speaker 1: what the Lord says, For I have much people in
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  Speaker 1: this city, in the city of Corinth. The Lord says,
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  Speaker 1: I love that. By the way, Oh I alwaysh I
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  Speaker 1: had time for that. God already knows, Amen, those whom
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  Speaker 1: he will save and deliver, who will hear and obey
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  Speaker 1: the gospel. And he gives Paul the assurance, I've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people in this city. So don't stop preaching,
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  Speaker 1: don't stop teaching, don't be afraid I'm not gonna allow
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  Speaker 1: anyone to hurt you while you're here. And so the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, he continued there a year and six months,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen months, a year and a half, a man teaching
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  Speaker 1: the word of God among them. And the Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us go down to verse twelve, when Gallio is the
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  Speaker 1: deputy of a kayah. The Jews made in insurrection with
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  Speaker 1: one accord against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat.
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  Speaker 1: The judgment seat was the judgment seat to the government,
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  Speaker 1: to the government officials. Now here they again the same pattern.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna always try to get the government on their side.
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  Speaker 1: Watch what happens. So they bring Paul to the judgment seat,
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  Speaker 1: and they said, this fellow persuades men to worship God,
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  Speaker 1: contrary to the law. They're the same old or it's like, look,
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  Speaker 1: they brought up those false witnesses against Jesus and said
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  Speaker 1: that he said with this, that and the other, blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. I mean the same same old,
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  Speaker 1: same old, same old same. The devil has no new tricks,
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  Speaker 1: he has nothing, He has nothing in his arsenal, but
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  Speaker 1: the same repetitive a man tricks and schemes and am old.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing, nothing new fire. He's firing the same bullets
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  Speaker 1: over and over again, the same, the same darths. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't from what he does, because amen, he has
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  Speaker 1: nothing that will work. And so he seeks to intimidate,
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  Speaker 1: he seeks to threaten. And if you can't do that,
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  Speaker 1: if violence comes and murder will come. But that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: We still win. We have one, we have the victory.
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  Speaker 1: And so here they are of the same old verbiage.
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  Speaker 1: If you will, this fellow is persuading men to worship
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  Speaker 1: God contrary to the law. What law, It's so vague,
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  Speaker 1: the charges are vague. And so Paul is about to
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  Speaker 1: defend himself. What happens? Why I love this, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: So Paul is about to defend himself, Gallio, brother, he's
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  Speaker 1: the government official. And by the way, let me say this.
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  Speaker 1: There are gonna be times, and it's in the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: this New Word of God. There are many examples that
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  Speaker 1: I know throughout this series so far kind of focused
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  Speaker 1: on those who have been in government and those who
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  Speaker 1: have been in rulers, places of leadership and rulers of
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  Speaker 1: the of this world. If you will, government, high places
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  Speaker 1: who have been in opposition, who have opposed, who have
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  Speaker 1: themselves sought to again destroy the truth, the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: the movement of this Amen redemption story. But in many cases,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll point some of them out as we go forward. Here,
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  Speaker 1: God has used individuals in government Amen. And not only
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  Speaker 1: has he used certain individuals in government, first and foremost,
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  Speaker 1: he's used individuals in government who are not even saved,
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  Speaker 1: who are not Christians, who are not believers. He's used
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  Speaker 1: even them Amen to defend his people, to help his
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  Speaker 1: people Amen, to help the cause of the Gospel. And
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  Speaker 1: in some cases it wasn't something they intended to do.
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  Speaker 1: But as we're going to see here in this particular
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  Speaker 1: instance here Gallio, who is a government official, is going
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  Speaker 1: to side with Paul. It's going not again that he
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  Speaker 1: is a believer. But God would use anyone that he
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  Speaker 1: so chooses to amen, to amen again for his purpose
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  Speaker 1: not to be thwarted at all. Because God has already spoken,
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  Speaker 1: He's already decreed, and what he and again what he's
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  Speaker 1: already promised to do, is going to happen. And He'll
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  Speaker 1: use any vessel a man saved or unsaved, a man
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  Speaker 1: in order that his word will be performed and not
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  Speaker 1: returned to him void. So in this particular case, Paul
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  Speaker 1: is about to open his mouth, I said Paul. I
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  Speaker 1: wish I could see Oh, I wish I could see it.
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  Speaker 1: Paul is about to speak and try to defend himself.
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  Speaker 1: But watch what happens. When Paul was about to speak,
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  Speaker 1: Gallio said to the Jews, if it were a matter
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  Speaker 1: of Rome, if this was a matter of wicked lewdness,
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  Speaker 1: oh ye, Jews, reason would that I should bear with you.
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  Speaker 1: But if this is a question about words, if you're
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  Speaker 1: coming to me talking about words, if you're coming to
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  Speaker 1: me talking about names, or if this is about your law,
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  Speaker 1: Gallio says, then you look to it. Don't bring him
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  Speaker 1: to me. Don't bring this mess to me. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about it. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to hear about your law, your words. This Jesus, that
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about this violation. This is not about our law.
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  Speaker 1: This is not about Roman law. This is not about Listen.
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  Speaker 1: This is about you and what you want. See. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: God has people in place who can see right through
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  Speaker 1: and by the way, Pilot knew, the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: this Pilot knew that the Jews were envious of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Pilot could see right through them. He knew exactly what
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  Speaker 1: they were doing. He knew what it was all about him.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he tried to wiggle his way out of it. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But nevertheless, again God has people in places, Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we don't have to say anything. Sometimes we don't
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  Speaker 1: have to do anything. A man. God will use whomever
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  Speaker 1: he is already ordained and put in place, Amen, to
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  Speaker 1: defend his word, his way, his church, his people. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So Gallio says, here, listen. If it's a question of
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  Speaker 1: words and names and your law, then you look to it.
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  Speaker 1: I am not going to be a judge of such matters.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says he drove them from the judgment seat.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to Act Ship nineteen. Very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Look at it. One more example. Here, I man again
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  Speaker 1: of those who again are rabb arousers, who are seeking
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  Speaker 1: to a man hinder the gospel. Again, this is the
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  Speaker 1: apostle Paul verse twenty one. Will drop down there, Pulish.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, when he had passed through Macedonia Akaiah
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  Speaker 1: to go to Jerusalem, he says, after I've been there,
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  Speaker 1: I must also see Rome, and he was sent into Macedonia.
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  Speaker 1: Two of them were minister to him, Timotheus and Erastus.
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  Speaker 1: But he himself, the Bible says, stayed in Asia for
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  Speaker 1: a season. And the Bible says the same time there
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  Speaker 1: rose no small stir about that way. I wonder where
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  Speaker 1: that comes from. Where's this rising up against the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: against the church, against the preaching of the Gospel. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder where that's coming from. The Bible says, there's a
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  Speaker 1: certain man named Demetrius brother. He's a silversmith, and he made,
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  Speaker 1: along with his craftsman, silver shrines for Diana. This is
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  Speaker 1: the temple that's the Heathens. Okay, the temple of Diana,
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  Speaker 1: the temple of Uh. I think I forget the Uh.
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  Speaker 1: There's a Greek name, and there's a Roman name, Uh
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  Speaker 1: for for the Greek goddess Amen. In other words, they
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  Speaker 1: had a temple, and they sold all these little shrines,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bible says they made a lot of money
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  Speaker 1: with this, And the Bible says, of course, he brought
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  Speaker 1: no small gain into the craftsmen, whom when he called
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  Speaker 1: together with the workmen of like occupation, he said, sirs,
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  Speaker 1: you know that by this craft we have our wealth.
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  Speaker 1: More were you seeing hear that? Not alone at Ephesus,
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  Speaker 1: but almost throughout all Asia. This Paul, what is Paul,
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  Speaker 1: is a nemesis. This Paul is a problem. Guys. He
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  Speaker 1: has persuaded and turned away much people saying that they
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  Speaker 1: be no gods which are made with hands. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: they were making all these little idle gods that they
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  Speaker 1: were selling to people. Amen, And they make merchandise of
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  Speaker 1: the people with this foolishness. And Paul is now preaching
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  Speaker 1: the gospel. People are being converted. People are no longer
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  Speaker 1: in need of these idols that they no longer worship.
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  Speaker 1: And so Demetrius is now stirring up the craftsman a man,
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  Speaker 1: the union, if you will, of workers to lay man.
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  Speaker 1: We got to do something about this. We're gonna go broke.
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  Speaker 1: We're losing money, we're losing revenue because Paul has persuaded
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  Speaker 1: these people that there are no gods which are made
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  Speaker 1: with hands. So that not only our craft is in
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  Speaker 1: danger to be set at naught, but also that the
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  Speaker 1: temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised and
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  Speaker 1: her magnificence should be destroyed. Whom all Asia and the
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  Speaker 1: world worshiped. And the Bible says, when they heard these things,
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  Speaker 1: they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, great
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  Speaker 1: is Diana of the Ephesians. And the whole city was
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  Speaker 1: filled with confusion. You see, they started a riot. And
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  Speaker 1: so they went and caught Gaius and Aristocras. They were
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  Speaker 1: men of Macedonias. These were Paul's campaigns and travel and
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  Speaker 1: they rushed with one according to the theater, and the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: when Paul would have entered into the people, the disciples
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  Speaker 1: did not allow him to do so. And certain of
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  Speaker 1: the chief of Asia, which were his friends. See, Paul
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  Speaker 1: had some friends in high places as well. God will
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  Speaker 1: always amen, set you up with the right people in
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  Speaker 1: the right places at the right time. And so they
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  Speaker 1: sent to Paul, desiring that he would not adventure himself
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  Speaker 1: into the theater. Paul was one of those who felt like,
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  Speaker 1: I believe a man, he could a man argue if
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  Speaker 1: you will, and I'm not saying in a negative way,
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  Speaker 1: but put forth his defense, Amen, and persuade people. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But amen. His friends said no, no, no, no, Paul, no,
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  Speaker 1: not in this case, it's too hot. It's too heavy
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  Speaker 1: in there. These people are out of control, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to go in there. And the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: some in verse two thirty two brothers. Some therefore cried
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  Speaker 1: one thing one another. The whole assembly was confused, and
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  Speaker 1: most of the people did not even know why they
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  Speaker 1: were there. You see, this is what the devil loves.
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  Speaker 1: Don't even know why they're there. And so they drew
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  Speaker 1: Alexander verse thirty three out of the multitude. The Jews
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  Speaker 1: put him forward, Alexander Beckon with the hand, and was
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  Speaker 1: about to make his defense and to the people. And
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  Speaker 1: when they knew the Bible said that he was a jew,
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  Speaker 1: all with one of voice, with one voice about the
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  Speaker 1: space of two hours. Ladies and gentlemen, this is madness,
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  Speaker 1: cried out, great is Diana of the Ephesians. And so
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  Speaker 1: here comes the town clerk. The government officials are trying
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  Speaker 1: to get everything under control. Where is this coming from?
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  Speaker 1: What is this all about? So the government town clerk enters,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, and when he had appeased the people,
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  Speaker 1: he said, ye, man of Ephesus, what man is there
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  Speaker 1: that knoweth not? How that the city of the Ephesians
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  Speaker 1: is a worship of the great Goddess Diana, and of
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  Speaker 1: the image which fell down from Jupiter. Seeing that these
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  Speaker 1: things cannot be spoken against, you ought to be quiet
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  Speaker 1: and to do nothing rashly. For you have brought here
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  Speaker 1: these men. They are not robbers of churches, nor yet
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  Speaker 1: have they blasphemed your goddess. So therefore, if Demetrius and
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  Speaker 1: the craftsmen that are with him, if they have a
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  Speaker 1: matter against any man, if they have a complaint they
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  Speaker 1: want to file, if they are charges that need to
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  Speaker 1: be leveled. In other words, is what he's saying. He says,
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  Speaker 1: we have law, we have order, we have means, we
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  Speaker 1: have a man, rules and things that we abide by.
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  Speaker 1: There's a process, in other words, And so he says,
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  Speaker 1: if they have a matter against any man, the law
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  Speaker 1: is open, and they're a deputies, so let them and
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  Speaker 1: plead one another. In other words, you've got a case
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  Speaker 1: you want to bring against these men, then bring it lawfully.
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  Speaker 1: But if you inquire anything concerning other matters, it must
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  Speaker 1: be determined in a lawful manner, for we are in
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  Speaker 1: danger to be called in question. See, they all ultimately
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  Speaker 1: had to answer to Rome, had to answer to Caesar.
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  Speaker 1: Hey so this is government officials say, well, listen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not trying to answer for something. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: why we are here for what we are here for?
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  Speaker 1: And man, what is going on? What is the case?
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  Speaker 1: What is the what is all the confusion? A man,
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  Speaker 1: that's what the devil loves. The Bible tells us God
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  Speaker 1: is not the author of confusion. So if there's confusion,
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  Speaker 1: And then again, most of the people, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know why they were there, rab arousers. Rabb
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  Speaker 1: arousers have stirred up the people against Paul Amen in
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  Speaker 1: order to stop the preaching of the gospel. So the
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  Speaker 1: town clerk says, listen, folks, we are in danger of
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  Speaker 1: being called in question for this day's uproar. That's his
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  Speaker 1: own words. And there is no cause whereby we are
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  Speaker 1: able to give an account of this concourse, of this
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  Speaker 1: madness that's been going on for hours. This must come
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  Speaker 1: to an end. I am not going to be held
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  Speaker 1: and called up to Rome, stand before Caesar, stand before
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  Speaker 1: the upper crust of the Roman government. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a reason. I don't have an explanation I can
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  Speaker 1: explain to them why we got Mayhem going on in
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  Speaker 1: the city, so the Bible says. When he had thus spoken,
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  Speaker 1: he dismissed the assembly. Ah man, oh man, this is again.
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  Speaker 1: This is all because the rabbit a rousers. The rabbit
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  Speaker 1: rousers hate the Gospel. They hate the preaching of the world.
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  Speaker 1: They hate the Gospel. And may I remind you once
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  Speaker 1: again of this promise of Jesus that he made to
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  Speaker 1: us to be made to his church. He said, upon
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  Speaker 1: this rock, I'll build my church. The gates of Hell
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  Speaker 1: shall not prevail against it. Nevertheless, the rabbit arousers will
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  Speaker 1: never stop what they are doing, even though they will
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  Speaker 1: not prevail. Amen. Amen, because we will not be defeated.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot be defeated again. We've already won. Christ has
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  Speaker 1: won for us the victory and again though they will
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  Speaker 1: never cease. Amen in their threatenings, in their violence and
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  Speaker 1: their hostility, and their ambivalence, and their vitriolic hatred, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and attacks against the Church, stirring up like minded people
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  Speaker 1: and politicians even in our day. Amen to join with
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  Speaker 1: them in their foolhearted and precarious behavior. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: it's all against themselves. Also, they are dooming themselves. As
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  Speaker 1: Paul shook off his raiment and said, hey, your blood
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  Speaker 1: is on your own heads. That's what they're doing. They
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  Speaker 1: are judging themselves unworthy of eternal life. Nevertheless, we the
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  Speaker 1: people of God, the Church of the Living God, we
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  Speaker 1: have an eternal assurance, a blessed assurance, Amen, that we
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  Speaker 1: can always Amen, find rest and peace in our Lord
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  Speaker 1: and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Father again, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: your word. Though the rabb arousers will never cease to exist,
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  Speaker 1: we take refuge under the shadow of the wings of
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  Speaker 1: the Almighty, and we know that we are more than conquerors.
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  Speaker 1: We know that we are victorious. God be glorified in
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  Speaker 1: your people. Everywhere. We give thanks and honor and praise
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  Speaker 1: to you in Jesus' name. Amen and Amen.