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Living Waters of Grace 11.27.25 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  We learned through church history and what the early
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  church did that we need to remember his death often, not
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  once a month or once a quarter or twice a year.
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  Jesus said as often as you drink the cup and you eat the spread,
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  you remember my death till I come again.
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  So it celebrates him. It thrills him when he looks at
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  the church as wow, they still remember what I did for them.
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  There are certain holidays we celebrate yearly to help us
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  remember important people and important points in our history.
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  There are days dedicated to individuals such as Martin
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  Luther King, Junior George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.
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  There are national holidays like veteran's day and Memorial Day.
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  Don't forget the religious holidays like Christmas and
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  Easter. In his message today, Pastor
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  Clark urges you to remember often the sacrifice that Jesus
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  made for you on the cross. Now here's Pastor Clark in Acts
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  chapter 20 with today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  Good to see everybody smiling faces.
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  Here we are in the book of Acts this morning.
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  If you have your Bibles, turn to Acts chapter 20.
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  We welcome all those who are here.
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  If you're new and visiting, we welcome you.
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  We're glad you're here. Also, those who are streaming
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  and watching on YouTube and Facebook, glad you're here as
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  well. So we look at the chapter 20
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  this morning and it says after the uproar had ceased, Paul
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  called the disciples to himself and embraced them and departed
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  to go to Macedonia. I was finished up in Acts 19,
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  and that was when Paul was in Ephesus, and Ephesus was a
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  really Pagan city, a godless city, and yet there was a
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  revival going on there, a lot of people coming to know Jesus
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  because of the ministry and the teaching of the Word of God.
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  Paul spent about three years in this city teaching daily in the
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  school of Tyranus, about 6 hours a day, six days a week.
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  So anybody that had the opportunity to be there with
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  Paul had really gotten grounded in the Word and really impacted
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  a lot of the Jewish people as well as the Gentiles were coming
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  faith in Christ And the people that were selling trinkets and
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  various items of idolatry were losing their income because more
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  and more people were becoming believers and they weren't
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  buying this junk anymore. It didn't mean anything anymore.
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  And so they were upset and they were accusing Paul of anarchy
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  and the government and destroying the economy and all
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  kind of other things. Paul disallowed the process to
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  go on and he took the accusations and there was a
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  defense and someone unlikely stood up on behalf of Paul
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  saying he hasn't broken any laws.
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  If you guys have an issue, you need to deal with this in a a
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  legal way, not a riotous way. And so it it's sort of died of
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  its own energy. And then Paul was leaving the
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  city because it began to become dangerous there for him to
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  actually do ministry. And so after this all happened,
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  we're in verse 20 now, and this all went down.
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  Paul very much loved the people he ministered to and ministered
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  with and he called them to himself and, and he embraced
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  them. And I noticed when we get
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  together, a lot of us are huggers.
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  Some of us aren't. Some of us give each other fist
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  bumps. Some of us say, don't touch me.
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  You know, we're all in different levels, right?
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  But this idea of embrace, usually embrace people you just
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  are really excited to be with or see or love or appreciate.
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  And that that happened. And Paul was definitely a guy
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  that loved to embrace people. He loved the people that he
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  served the Lord with. And so now he's going to go to
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  Macedonia. And Macedonia is a city in, in
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  Greece, outside of Greece, outside the confines of the
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  central city of Greece. When I was in Thessaloniki,
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  Macedonia was about an hour and a half away.
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  Northwest or northeast. I believe that's where a Phillip
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  and Lynn Jackson serve the Lord in Macedonia.
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  We support them as missionaries. They'll be back here to give us
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  an update sometime in May, I believe.
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  And, and that when he had gone over that region, he encouraged
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  them with many words. He came to Greece and stayed
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  three months. Paul was an encourager.
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  So all the churches that he had planted and been around and been
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  involved with, he always was praying for the people and
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  interested in how they were doing.
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  And so he wanted to go visit these churches and and bring
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  encouragement. Paul was a minister of
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  encouragement. And that's what we want to be
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  here for you guys to encourage you.
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  We all need to be encouraged in the things of God and he
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  encouraged it says with many words.
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  These these weren't short times when he was with him.
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  He spent some real quality time teaching and and encouraging him
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  in the in the Scriptures of the Old Testament scriptures and I'm
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  sure some of the letters he had already been in process of
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  writing and also the Gospels of the history.
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  They had certain fragments of the Bible at this time.
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  It wasn't completed like ours, but there was enough truth to
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  give to the people to help them in their walk with the Lord.
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  And so he's in this region of Greece now, and this is actually
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  the city of Corinth. It says he stayed here three
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  months. And Corinth is another city that
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  had a lot of unbelief and paganism and ungodliness in it.
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  There was churches there. Churches have been planted by
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  Paul, but there was many people that were still lost and
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  confused and even believers who got mixed up and some bad
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  teaching at time. Paul felt compelled that he
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  needed to be there for about 3 months.
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  This is actually the city where he wrote the book of Romans.
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  And Romans will be the next book I'll be teaching on when we get
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  through the book of the Acts. So you can feel free to read
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  ahead of an amazing, amazing book, the book of Romans.
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  And it says when the Jews, this is where the Jews hassled Paul,
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  they plotted against him. He was about to sail to Syria
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  and he decided to return through Macedonia and Sofitor Berea
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  accompanied him to Asia. Also aristocrats and Segundus of
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  the Thessalonians and Gaius and Derby of Derby and Timothy and
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  Ticchias and Trompheus of Asia. These men going ahead waited for
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  us at Troas. So these are men you might have
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  remembered Pastor Lewis mentioning in his teaching in
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  Second Timothy. These were servants of the Lord
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  in these various churches that Paul had planted.
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  And ministry is always team related.
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  It's not singular. It's not dependent on one
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  person. Ministry is dependent on all of
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  us, men, women, boys and girls that know the Lord Jesus, kids.
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  Everybody's involved in the ministry of the Lord, but Paul
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  understood the importance of working alongside men who were
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  called by God to be leaders in the local churches.
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  Paul didn't do this stuff himself.
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  It would be impossible to do it himself any more than Lewis Rye.
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  You know, we can't do this without you guys and your
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  ministries, your help, your prayers, your giving, your
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  service, whatever it is you do here does your encouragement
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  along with George and, and John as elders and, and Tom and Nick
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  and Brad as, as deacons and, and all the other teachers, men and
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  women in the body. It's just thrilling.
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  So when Paul is, is making this journey right now, there's two
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  issues going on. He's he's teaching the people
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  and encouraging them there. You never get done teaching and
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  encouraging. This is something that has to be
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  done basically daily. I don't know about you, but I
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  need to be encouraged in the Lord every day of my life.
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  I really do. And and I believe you do too.
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  And so this is the the focus. But they were also collecting an
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  offering in these various cities.
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  They were going because the church in Jerusalem was under a
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  lot of persecution at the time and poverty and they needed
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  help. So not anywhere they teaching,
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  but they were trying to find ways that they could help the
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  this is the brothers and sisters in in Jerusalem.
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  And so all these guys that are mentioned here are, are leaders
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  in the various regions that they had been positioned in by Paul
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  when the churches were planted. After Paul planted the churches,
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  the men who were put in charge then were responsible to ordain
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  and, and and raise up other leaders to help so the church
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  would keep growing. And so he sent these guys out
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  and he told him they would catch up later.
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  Intro ass. But we sailed away from Philippi
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  after the Days of Unleavened Bread.
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  This was Passover. Paul wanted to get back to
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  Jerusalem to celebrate Passover, but it wasn't going to be
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  possible. And in five days he joined them
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  at trust where we stayed seven days.
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  So I'm sure it was a wonderful time to be with his fellow Co
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  laborers in the Lord. When I go to these pastors
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  conferences, I see guys I've known for 27 years.
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  We're all much older now than we were when we first started in
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  the ministry, but it's just neat to see brothers keep on keeping
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  on And you catch up. How's the work going?
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  How's the how's the believers doing?
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  And you share about the churches and what the Lord's doing and
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  how he's encouraging people. And it's just a wonderful
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  opportunity to fellowship. And this is this is what Paul
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  was doing with these folks at this particular time.
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  And then in verse 7, it tells us that he's ministering A Troas.
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  And Troas is a city in the region of of Greece and Turkey
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  on the Aegean Sea. Beautiful place still exists
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  there. And he's he's going to again
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  minister here. And it says now on the first day
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  of the week when the disciples came together to break bread.
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  Now the first day of the week was Sunday.
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  This was considered the Lord's day.
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  The Jews represented worship on the Sabbath, which is Saturday.
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  The Bible tells us in the Old Testament to remember the
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  Sabbath day and keep it holy. But we're, we're not Jewish
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  people, so we don't focus on Saturday.
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  But really every day you should be worshipping the Lord.
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  I mean, you know, it's a, you pick one day or the other.
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  I mean, I don't know about you, but I need to worship God Monday
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  through Sunday, right? But Sunday is when we've
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  gathered together and the early church began to move away from
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  the traditions of Judaism and they began to meet on Sunday,
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  the 1st day of the week. And we're not under the old
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  cover, nor are we under Jewish law.
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  But the Jewish people that worship on the Sabbath, praise
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  God. You know, there's a certain
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  church groups that believe that they need to continually worship
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  on the Sabbath. I'm not going to get in
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  arguments about that. I'm just glad they worship the
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  Lord, right? And they're meeting together,
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  worshiping the Lord. And so anyway, this is what
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  they're doing now. They're getting together, read
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  carefully to break bread. And that is translated from the
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  word Eucharisto, which is the Eucharist, the celebration of
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  the Lord's Supper. They took the supper every time
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  they gathered, and that's why we do it here.
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  We learn through church history and what the early church did
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  that we need to remember his death often, not once a month or
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  once a quarter or twice a year. Jesus said as often as you drink
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  the cup and you eat the spread, you remember my death till I
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  come again. So it celebrates him.
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  It thrills him when he looks at the church as wow, they still
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  remember what I did for them. They're not forgetting.
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  It still means something to them.
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  They know this has changed their life and it continually changes
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  their life. It's powerful to celebrate this
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  celebration of what the Lord's done through his death, burial
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  and resurrection. And then it says Paul, ready to
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  depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message
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  until midnight. So it reminds me what was going
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  on in Asbury. They didn't just worship for a
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  couple hours. They were going 24/7 down there.
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  It's interesting if you read about that.
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  It was so amazing. Thousands of people traveling
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  around the world to this be there and experience this
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  encounter with God like this. There was no idea like I got to
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  stop and eat or I got to stop and study.
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  It got to be so intense that the professor in the present college
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  finally had to shut it down. Not so you can't shut a move of
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  God down, but like they just said, like you guys got to get
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  back to school, you got to get your degree, you got to go to
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  classes, finals or next week. And so they, the last service
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  was Thursday night. But but whenever the Holy
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  Spirit's moving, you know, usually not looking at the clock
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  or worrying about what time it is or what you got to do later,
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  you're just so enthralled with the presence of God and what it
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  is you're receiving that you lose track of time.
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  And so this is interesting here, Paul's preaching and, and he's
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  going into until midnight and there were many lamps in the
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  upper room. Now, back in those days, the
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  church didn't meet in buildings like this.
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  They usually met in houses until later on when they were able to
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  get real estate and property and that kind of stuff.
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  And they congregated in larger groups.
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  But this was in an upper room of a house, and they had these oil
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  lamps burning. And oil lamps can put off sort
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  of like a noxious toxic smell and give you a headache if you
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  don't have a window open or something like that.
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  And so there was a lot of lamps in there to have lights so the
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  people could read and see and that kind of stuff.
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  And, and in a window, said a certain young man named Uticus.
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  Now Uticus, a young man translated, was probably
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  anywhere from 7 to 14 years old who was sinking into a deep
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  sleep. So everybody was so focused on
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  Paul. I don't know whose parents this
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  young man belong to, but you think I would say get away from
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  that window. That's not safe to be sitting on
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  that window ledge. But he's sitting there and
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  people aren't paying attention and he's getting sleepy and
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  sleepier and sleepier until the until the point that he's
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  overcome by the sleep. And some of you sometimes are
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  sleeping in here, but at least you're sitting down, right?
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  And you're not going to fall anywhere.
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  That's a that's a good thing. But this guy, this young man, he
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  was overcome by this sleep and Paul kept speaking and he fell
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  down from the third story that's really high and was taken up
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  dead. So basically he fell and he
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  died, OK. But Paul went down and fell on
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  him and embrace him said do not trouble yourselves for his life
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  is in him. And now when he had come up, he
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  had broken bread and eaten and taken a long while, even till
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  Daybreak he departed and they brought the young man in alive
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  and they were not a little comforted.
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  So to remind you of back in Kings and Chronicles, when
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  Elijah and Elijah fell on the, the body of the young child and
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  different ways they did it and the child came to life.
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  You know, you wonder, you know, Paul knew the Old Testament.
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  Maybe he's thinking, well, I'll try this.
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  You never know what the Lord might do, right?
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  And I thought about all the times I might have had the
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  opportunity to do that. If I would have, people would
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  have thought I was crazy. But what if, what if the Lord?
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  I mean, the Lord can do anything.
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  Can he? Can he raise the dead?
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  I mean, he can. He'd surely raised us from the
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  dead spiritually. We were all dead in trespasses
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  and sins. The Bible says, and you hath he
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  quickened and made alive who were dead in Christ.
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  And so, you know, the move of the of the Spirit of God is
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  incredible. And I'm sure people were
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  shocked. They were probably saying, well,
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  he probably just had a concussion.
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  He really didn't die. No, this is this.
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  He was physically dead and and the Lord did a miracle here, but
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  it wasn't a lot of fanfare. Paul did it very humbly and he
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  went back up and they continued had a meal together.
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  They broke the bread. They had the Lord's Supper and
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  it says they talked along, wow, even till Daybreak.
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  So this was a real powerful spiritual time that they were
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  experiencing together. And then he went ahead in verse
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  13 to the ship and sailed the Assos they're intending to take
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  Paul on board for. So he had given orders intending
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  himself to go on foot. So Paul was apprehensive and he
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  was warned. Don't go on that boat.
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  There's a lot of Jewish people that don't like you.
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  And they wanted to take him out. They thought maybe he might be
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  murdered on that ship. And so he said he would walk and
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  catch them later on. And he, he, he walked down, they
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  went on the boat and he went and met them at Assos.
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  And then they got another boat and he took him on board there
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  and came to Methylene and we sailed from there.
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  And the next day came opposite chaos.
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  The following day we ride at Samos and stayed at Troglium.
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  The next day we came to Melita. So if you look on your map,
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  these are all regions around Greece and Turkey at the time,
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  actual cities that existed. Some of their names have
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  changed. Now Melitis is about 30 miles
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  South of Ephesus. And Paul has a desire to meet
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  his elders, the people who are leading the churches in in
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  Ephesus. And these are home churches.
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  So you had multiple elders, and Paul had decided to sail pass
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  Ephesus. He knew that if he would have
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  gone to Ephesus again, he had just been there for three years,
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  He wouldn't be able to have time to get back to Jerusalem for
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  Pentecost, which is 50 days after Passover.
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  He'd already missed Passover, and now his focus is to get back
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  to Jerusalem so that he would have not have to spend time in
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  Asia, for he was hurrying to be at Jerusalem, if possible, in
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  the day of Pentecost. These events of history, even
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  back then of people remembering the significance of Passover and
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  also Pentecost, and it's something not to forget.
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  And so Paul's now going to exhort these elders.
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  Paul had the gift of prophecy and he prayed that we would have
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  the gift of prophecy as as pastors not for telling the
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  future per SE, but the ability to build the church up edify,
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  exhort Exhort is worn people and to comfort people and then the
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  ministry of the teaching of the word.
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  The most important thing is to have the gift of prophecy so
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  that these three things are occurring simultaneously.
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  Unaware to the speaker that the Holy Spirit is using the word to
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  build you up in your faith, to draw you closer to Jesus, to
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  warn you if you're in places in your life that you shouldn't be
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  spiritually and you would repent and get right with God.
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  And then to comfort you if you're struggling and you're
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  burdened and you're overwhelmed and you're really ready to throw
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  the towel. And that somehow the Holy Spirit
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  would remind you that the Lord is with you and you know he,
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  he'll never leave you or forsake you.
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  And so it says from elitist, he sent to Ephesus and called for
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  the elders of the church. So he asked them to travel down
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  and, and when they had come to him, he said to them, and this
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  is a very, very powerful section of the Bible here because you're
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  going to hear from Paul's own heart his commitment to the
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  ministry, the gospel, and to the people and to the servants of
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  the Lord. You know, from the first day
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  that I came to Asia and what manner I always lived among you.
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  So Paul was not a perfect man any more than any of us are, but
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  he had the call of God on him and his whole desire was to
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  serve the Lord. And it says he served the Lord
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  with all humility, with many tears and trials, which happened
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  to me, but applauding of the Jews.
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  So Paul was a man who did ministry, but it wasn't without
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  conflict. There was difficulty.
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  There was arguments, there was attack, there was slander.
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  He went through all kind of things as a servant of God that
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  he just took and just kept kept on keeping on.
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  He didn't quit, He didn't get down on things.
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  He didn't say, well, this is getting too hard and this is
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  miserable because people they don't like me or they're always
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  plotting against me or whatever. That was just part of the call,
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  part of the ministry. And he hung in there and he was
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  a humble man. He depended on the Lord to
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  sustain him and everything He did.
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  And it says how I kept back nothing that was helpful.
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  In other words, there wasn't anything that there wasn't
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  anything that he he would say, well, boy, I don't know if I
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  should tell them this when the Lord laid on His heart for them
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  to hear something He never like parse the word and say, well,
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  this section of Scripture, I'll tell them, but this thing I'm
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  not going to tell them. No, he was straight up all the
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  time speaking the truth and love and giving them everything that
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  the Lord had given him. He shared all the riches of
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  Christ that the Lord had given him personally with all those he
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  ministered to. He said I kept back nothing that
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  was helpful, but proclaimed it to you and taught you publicly
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  and from house to house testifying to and also the
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  Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus
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  Christ. The message never changed.
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  He consistently went from place to place saying the same thing
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  the same way over and over and over again.
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  And you might say, well, why did he have to just keep talking
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  about repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus
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  Christ? Well, that's the gospel.
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  Everyone needs to hear the importance of needing to repent
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  of their sin, and repentance means changing your mind.
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  You're used to going this way, which is a way toward hell.
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  The highway to hell, the road that leads to destruction, is
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  broad, and many are those on that road heading toward the
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  Cliff where they'll eventually end up in hell.
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  Repentance is I'm not wanting to go there.
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  I got to stop this behavior. I need a Savior.
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  I need someone to help me not do what I keep doing over and over
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  and over again. I need a new life.
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  I need to change. I need a fresh start and that's
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  repentance. Then you're turning to the road
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  that's narrow. The Bible says it leads to life
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  and few there are that find that road.
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  Most people are on the road, the broad road to destruction.
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  There's less people on the narrow Rd. that leads to life,
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  so Paul knew the importance. As any pastor or teacher or
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  Christian should know. We need to let people know they
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  need to repent. Amen.
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  They need to get right with God today, not tomorrow, not next
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  week. Paul also said today is a day of
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  salvation. If you hear his voice, his
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  Spirit speak in your heart, this is the time when you say, Lord,
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  you're right, you got me. I know I need you now.
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  I know I'm a Sinner. Lord, forgive me.
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  Come into my life and save me for my sin and get me on this
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  path that leads to life, repentance toward God.
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  I've offended God of sinned against God and now my faith
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  needs to be and what Jesus Christ has done for me.
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  For Christ took your sin and my sin upon himself upon the cross,
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  and he took the punishment for my sin and your sin, so that I
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  don't have to take it, and you don't have to take it.
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  Thanks for joining us on today's edition of Living Waters of
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  Grace, a ministry of Calvary Chapel, Westmoreland.
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  Today, Pastor Clark is teaching about the book of Acts.
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  And as we learn more about Acts, it becomes clear that the early
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  church didn't miss a single opportunity to share the gospel.
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  In nearly every chapter, you see apostles like Peter and Paul
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  stepping into conversations, crowds, and crises with
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  boldness, ready to proclaim the name of Jesus.
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  Their example challenges us to consider how we might step into
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  gospel moments in our own lives. What doors might God open this
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  week for you to speak truth, offer hope, or live out your
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  faith in a way that points others to Him?
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  The story of Acts reminds us we are part of the same mission.
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  Today, let's live with eyes open and hearts ready to respond.
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  We hope you are challenged by today's message.
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  person this Sunday at 10:30 AM at 400 E Pittsburgh St., Unit
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