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“Almost Persuaded | Paul’s Testimony Before King Agrippa” Acts 26:1–32 (NKJV)May 7 6:27 · His Hop Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 2: in Jesus' name. Amen and Amen. All right, So I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to dive into it now. Paul is still on trial.
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  Speaker 2: Paul has been in prison for two years, but he
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  Speaker 2: made the most of his time. That is when he
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  Speaker 2: wrote most of his letters to the churches. They can't
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  Speaker 2: stop the move of God even behind bars. Amen. Paul
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  Speaker 2: had favor even from the officers and the Roman soldiers.
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  Speaker 2: They gave them liberties to get visits and people brought provisions,
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  Speaker 2: and so Paul was cared for. God's hand was still
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  Speaker 2: on him, and God's will was for him to go
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  Speaker 2: to Rome. And so Paul appealed to Rome because they
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  Speaker 2: were trying to play political games and send them to Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 2: But we know that at least of two plots where
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  Speaker 2: they were trying to assassinate him on the way, that
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  Speaker 2: he would never make it there. So we see Guy's hands,
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  Speaker 2: God's protection, God's wisdom and his strategy on how he
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  Speaker 2: protects his children and how he performs his purposes. So
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  Speaker 2: let's pick it up in verse one through five now
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  Speaker 2: with Festus. Oh yeah, by the way, King Agrippa came
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  Speaker 2: to visit Festus, and King Agrippa heard the situation about
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  Speaker 2: Paul as Festus shared it to him, and so King
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  Speaker 2: Agrippa said, he wants to hear Paul for himself. So
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  Speaker 2: now there's another situation there in another court sett him
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  Speaker 2: and they accused Paul once again. And now Paul gets
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  Speaker 2: a chance to defend himself. And that's where we find
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  Speaker 2: ourselves in scripture. Now with Festus had come to the
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  Speaker 2: province after three days and went up from Cessarea to Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 2: Then the high priests and the achieved men of the
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  Speaker 2: Jews informed him against Paul, and they petitioned him. Wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, I am I in Hold up, y'all, I'm
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  Speaker 2: in the wrong chapter. Hold on all right, all right,
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  Speaker 2: I got the right chapter. Now let's go Acts chapter
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  Speaker 2: twenty six one through three. Then the Grippa said to Paul,
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  Speaker 2: you are permitted to speak for yourself. So Paul stretched
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  Speaker 2: out his hand and answered for himself. I think myself happy,
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  Speaker 2: King Agrippa, because today I shall answer for myself before
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  Speaker 2: you concerning all the things which I am accused by
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  Speaker 2: the Jews, especially because you you are an expert in
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  Speaker 2: all customs and questions which have to do with the Jews. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: I beg you to hear me patiently. And man, now
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  Speaker 2: this is amazing. He actually has an opportunity to speak
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  Speaker 2: to someone that can relate to him, who had the customs,
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  Speaker 2: and he understood the laws of the Jews and all
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  Speaker 2: of their prophecies. Now respectfully, he addresses Agrippa. Now Paul
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  Speaker 2: saw this hearing as an opportunity, not as just a
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  Speaker 2: mere trial, but an opportunity to advance and further the
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  Speaker 2: Gospel of Christ. Now, Paul, he was not intimidated at
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  Speaker 2: this point. He saw this movement differently. What looked like
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  Speaker 2: a courtroom becomes a platform. Now that's important. Sometimes God
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  Speaker 2: allows pressure because he's opening a microphone. Hey, man, that
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  Speaker 2: sounds like his hot nation, doesn't it. Sometimes God allows
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  Speaker 2: the pressure, even in the midst of it. He gives
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  Speaker 2: us that platform. Now verse four through eight. My manner
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  Speaker 2: of life from my youth, which was kept from the
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  Speaker 2: beginning among my own nation at Jerusalem. All the Jews
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  Speaker 2: know they knew me from the first if they were
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  Speaker 2: willing to testify that according to the strictest sect of
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  Speaker 2: our religion, I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand
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  Speaker 2: and am judged for the hope of the promise made
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  Speaker 2: by God to our fathers, to the promise, to this promise,
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  Speaker 2: our twelve tribes earnestly serving God, night and day, hope
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  Speaker 2: to attain for this hope. For this hope's sake, King Agrippa,
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  Speaker 2: I am accused by the Jews. Why should it be
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  Speaker 2: thought incredible by you that God raised the dead? Amen,
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  Speaker 2: let us break it down Verse four, my manner of
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  Speaker 2: life from my youth all the Jews know. Now, Paul
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  Speaker 2: reminded Agrippa that he once lived as a strict Pharisee. Now,
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  Speaker 2: his conversion was not emotional and stability. It was transformed
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  Speaker 2: by Christ himself. He was converted by Christ hisself. Paul
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  Speaker 2: basically says, you know who I used to be. This
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  Speaker 2: matters because real testimony includes both who you were and
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  Speaker 2: who Jesus made you today. Transformation is evidence of God's power.
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  Speaker 2: Do not be ashamed or afraid to share your testimony.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody needs to hear it. That's why I'm starting a
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  Speaker 2: whole new podcast, and it's going to be nothing but testimonies,
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  Speaker 2: the testimonies of artists, the testimonies of whoever God is touched.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to open up this platform because testimonies are powerful.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says we overcome. We have overcame the enemy
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  Speaker 2: by the blood of the Lamb and by the word
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  Speaker 2: of our testimony. Amen. Now it's amazing to me that
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  Speaker 2: Paul was not a man of He was not slothful
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  Speaker 2: or lazy. Paul is a man who strived for excellence.
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  Speaker 2: He was of the strictest sect. And Paul said himself
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  Speaker 2: that he was a Pharisee of Pharisees. When Paul did something,
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  Speaker 2: he did it to the extreme. God picked the right
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  Speaker 2: person to do this task. Amen, alright. Verse nine. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: I myself thought I must do many things contrary to
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  Speaker 2: the name of Jesus of Nazareth. This I also did
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  Speaker 2: in Jerusalem and many other saints. I shut up in prison,
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  Speaker 2: having received authority from the chief priest, And when they
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  Speaker 2: were put to death, I cast my vote against them.
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  Speaker 2: Now that is that's got a way on his conscience.
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  Speaker 2: He saw brothers and sisters put to death, and he
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  Speaker 2: said he cast it his vote against them. And I
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  Speaker 2: punish him often in every synagogue and compel them to blaspheme.
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  Speaker 2: Now he punished. Now, pay attention to this because this
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  Speaker 2: is coming to a city near you. Sad to say,
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  Speaker 2: probably sooner than later. This is gonna be brothers and
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  Speaker 2: sisters who are going to have to put their life
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  Speaker 2: on the line, actually give up their life for their faith.
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  Speaker 2: It's already happened. Paul the Apostle did it himself. So
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  Speaker 2: what makes us think that we will not experience this
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  Speaker 2: just because we live in America. America has turned their
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  Speaker 2: back against God a long time ago. But this is
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  Speaker 2: what's heartbreaking to me, that he drove some to blaspheming. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I remember the Bible tells us that if you deny
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  Speaker 2: me before Man, I will deny you before my father.
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  Speaker 2: It's possible that many have renounced their faith in Christ
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  Speaker 2: because of the punishment, he said. And I punished them
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  Speaker 2: often in every syne good and compelled them to buas mean.
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  Speaker 2: Their punishment was horrendous back then look at the passion
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  Speaker 2: of the Christ. And that's just that doesn't touch the
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  Speaker 2: surface of what really took place. Who I just had
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  Speaker 2: to pause there, and being exceedingly enraged against them, I
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  Speaker 2: persecuted them even to foreign cities. Man Paul was on
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  Speaker 2: a mission. He was chasing them like he's did to
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  Speaker 2: them what the Jews were doing to him, So he
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  Speaker 2: can't really understand he had that same spirit chasing the
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  Speaker 2: Saints as the Jews had for him him. Even now
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  Speaker 2: now look at Paul's honesty before salvation. Paul sincerely believed
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  Speaker 2: that he was serving God while he was persecuting the Christians.
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  Speaker 2: This is heavy. This is Paul thought he was right.
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  Speaker 2: Religious passion without truth can become very dangerous. Beloved, he
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  Speaker 2: persecuted believers thinking he was honoring God. Can you imagine that?
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine people going up, shooting up churches, shooting
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  Speaker 2: children in school, thinking that they're right, thinking that they're
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  Speaker 2: doing God a service, flying planes into buildings. This is
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  Speaker 2: why discernment truly matters. All right, Let's give verse twelve.
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  Speaker 2: While this while thus occupied, as I journeyed to Namaskets
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  Speaker 2: with authority and commission from the Chief Priest at midday,
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  Speaker 2: o king along the road, I saw a light from heaven,
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  Speaker 2: brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who
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  Speaker 2: journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to
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  Speaker 2: the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and
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  Speaker 2: saying in the Hebrew tongue, saw, saw, why are you
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  Speaker 2: persecuting me. It is hard for you to kick against
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  Speaker 2: the golds. So I said, who are you Lord? And
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  Speaker 2: he said, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But
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  Speaker 2: rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared
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  Speaker 2: to you for this purpose, to make you a minister
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  Speaker 2: and a witness, both of the things which you have
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  Speaker 2: seen and of the things which I will yet reveal
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  Speaker 2: to you. I will deliver you from the Jews, the
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  Speaker 2: Jewish people, which He has faithfully done up to this point,
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  Speaker 2: as well as from the Gentiles, which He has faithfully done,
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  Speaker 2: to whom I now send you to open their eyes
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  Speaker 2: in order to turn from their darkness to light and
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  Speaker 2: from the power of Satan to God. Hallelujah. I need
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  Speaker 2: to highlight that that is good news, beloved it. This
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  Speaker 2: is why Christ came to open our eyes from darkness
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  Speaker 2: and to deliver us from the power of Satan. That
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  Speaker 2: is good news, and man that they may receive forgiveness
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  Speaker 2: of sins and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith.
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  Speaker 2: Now my question to you is are you sanctified by
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  Speaker 2: your faith? If you're not sanctified, then your faith is
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  Speaker 2: null and void. Now, sanctification is a work of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit is not following rules and being strict on
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  Speaker 2: people and on yourself and all that. No, you got
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  Speaker 2: to allow the Holy Spirit to do a work in
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  Speaker 2: your heart. And the only way that can happen is
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  Speaker 2: by you and by me and by us spending time
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  Speaker 2: with God to allow him to do the work time
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  Speaker 2: and prayer time. In his word, We're always going to
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  Speaker 2: go back to that. God is a relational God. He
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  Speaker 2: wants your time and attention and affection, and that's one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that we struggle with the most. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: They call this the Damascus Road encounter, and it was
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  Speaker 2: a supernatural encounter. Jesus personally confronted him. And if you
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  Speaker 2: know my history, you know that I used to go
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  Speaker 2: by the name d Road and I got it from
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  Speaker 2: Damascus Road. Then I changed it to Damascus and then
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  Speaker 2: it went to dj Damascus And now it's mister his hot.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know why I threw that in there,
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  Speaker 2: but Damascus Rosing, Damascus Road encounter. It ain't about me, right,
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  Speaker 2: It's all about the Christy. Amen, Now don't miss this. Though,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus interrupted Paul's direction with a heavenly light, a voice
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  Speaker 2: from heaven, and everything changed in Paul's life, and Jesus asked,
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  Speaker 2: why are you persecuting me? Notice, Jesus took persecution against
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  Speaker 2: believers personally. Let me say that again. Jesus takes persecution
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  Speaker 2: to our brothers and sisters personally. He said, why are
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  Speaker 2: you persecuting me? Wow, So that's actually encouraging when we
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  Speaker 2: find ourselves going through a man. Jesus understands, and he
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  Speaker 2: takes it personally. Now sixteen, but rise and staying on
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  Speaker 2: your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Paul was chosen not only to receive salvation, but to
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  Speaker 2: become a witness to the gentiles. They call Paul the
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  Speaker 2: apostle to the Gentiles. This is calling Jesus said, I
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  Speaker 2: appear to you for this purpose. Your past doesn't cancel
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  Speaker 2: your purpose. You gotta pay attention to that. Even though
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  Speaker 2: Paul had a horrendous pass, even to the point where
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  Speaker 2: he made Christians blaspheme, God still had a plan and
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  Speaker 2: God still had a purpose for our brother. So no
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  Speaker 2: matter what you've done, your background, what you've been involved in,
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  Speaker 2: God still has a purpose for you and for me.
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  Speaker 2: God can take somebody broken, somebody who's been violent and
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  Speaker 2: lost and turned them into a mighty witness for his namesake.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah nineteen and twenty. Therefore, King Agrippa I was not
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  Speaker 2: disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declare first to those
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  Speaker 2: in Damascus and in Jerusalem and throughout all the region
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  Speaker 2: of Judah, and then to the gentiles, that they should repent,
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  Speaker 2: turn to God and do works benefiting repentance. Man, this
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  Speaker 2: is we're getting some core or even some meat today.
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  Speaker 2: This highlight that this is the gospel message we need
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  Speaker 2: the people to tell. We need to tell people to repent,
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  Speaker 2: turn to God, and produce fruits of repentance. Paul obeyed
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  Speaker 2: immediately after he encountered Christ. True encounters with Jesus produces obedience, Amen.
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  Speaker 2: That is the key. Real encounters will change our behaviors.
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  Speaker 2: Paul didn't just feel something emotionally. He obeyed. Repentance produces fruit.
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  Speaker 2: You should be able to see the effects of a
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  Speaker 2: repented life. You should be able to see a change,
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  Speaker 2: a change of destiny, a change of relationships, a change
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  Speaker 2: of behaviors and habits. There should be evidence of your faith.
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  Speaker 2: People should be able to say, wow, he was wance this,
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  Speaker 2: but look at him now. Amen. God wants to use you, beloved.
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  Speaker 2: It could be even your closest family members whose souls
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  Speaker 2: are depending on you producing that good fruit. Amen. Twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: For this reason the Jews seize me in the temple
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  Speaker 2: and tried to kill me. Therefore obtained help from God.
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  Speaker 2: To this day I stand. Wouldn't seem both to small
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  Speaker 2: and great, seeing no other things than those which the
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  Speaker 2: and Moses said would come, that the Christ would suffer,
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  Speaker 2: that he would be the first to rise from the dead,
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  Speaker 2: and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and also
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  Speaker 2: to the Gentiles. Hallelujah. This is a beautiful, beautiful message here.
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  Speaker 2: The real reason Paul was hated was because he preached
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  Speaker 2: Jesus as the fulfillment of prophecy and the resurrection. Paul
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  Speaker 2: made it plain, this is about Jesus being alive. It
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  Speaker 2: was not about politics, It was not about popularity. It
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  Speaker 2: was about resurrection. The resurrection of Christ is the foundation
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  Speaker 2: of our faith and the foundation of of the Christian message.
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  Speaker 2: All right, verse twenty four. Now, as he thus made
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  Speaker 2: his defense, Fessis said with a loud voice, Paul, you
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  Speaker 2: are beside yourself. Much learning has driven you mad. But
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  Speaker 2: he said, well, hold on, let's park there for a second.
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  Speaker 2: Fessis couldnot comprehend spiritual truth, so he dismissed it as madness.
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  Speaker 2: That is a great example of the colnel mind. Cannot
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  Speaker 2: comprehend the spiritual mind. It's foolishness to him. When people
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  Speaker 2: can't understand spiritual truth, they just call it crazy. Don't
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  Speaker 2: let culture define your faith. Don't let unbelievers look at
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  Speaker 2: you strange and try to classify you or make you
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  Speaker 2: feel some type of way. Amen, all right, twenty five?
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  Speaker 2: But he said, I am not mad, most Noble Felix,
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  Speaker 2: But speak the words of truth and reason. For the
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  Speaker 2: King before whom I also speak freely knows these things.
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  Speaker 2: For I am convinced that none of these things escapes
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  Speaker 2: his attention, since these things was not done in a corner. Man,
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  Speaker 2: this is amazing here now. But he said that I
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  Speaker 2: am not mad, most Noble Felix. Paul reminded them of
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  Speaker 2: the Jewish customs, and he also remained calmed, and he focused.
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  Speaker 2: He even challenged Agrippa directly concerning belief in the prophets.
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  Speaker 2: Paul stayed composed, and then he turned the conversation King Agrippa,
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  Speaker 2: do you believe this got personal. The gospel always becomes personal.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually a man, we all have to make a personal
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  Speaker 2: response to the Gospel of Christ. And then he said,
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  Speaker 2: I am not mad. Let me see, for the King
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  Speaker 2: before whom I also speak freely, knows these things. For
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  Speaker 2: I am convinced that none of these things escaped his attention,
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  Speaker 2: since these things are not done in a corner, King Agrippa,
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty seven. Do you believe the prophets? I know
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  Speaker 2: that you believe. Come on, man, Paul is pushing. Paul
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  Speaker 2: is pushing. I love it. This is a push, and
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  Speaker 2: I know I've done it myself. Believe it. I've done it,
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  Speaker 2: and I remember it like it was yesterday. I have
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  Speaker 2: people that I love dearly, people that I've worked with
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  Speaker 2: over the years, love them like brothers. And I remember
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  Speaker 2: one day I was winnescing hard to one of my
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  Speaker 2: coworkers and I I just knew God was working. I
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  Speaker 2: just knew God was touching his heart, like I knew
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  Speaker 2: that this man was gonna come to Christ. I was
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  Speaker 2: just going for it, and then he didn't. That's pretty tragic.
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  Speaker 2: We can try our best, but the results are not
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  Speaker 2: up to us. All we have to do is witness,
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  Speaker 2: and the blood is not on our hands. And I
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  Speaker 2: love this response in verse twenty six, twenty six and
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight. Wait a minute, I'm at twenty eight now,
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  Speaker 2: ain't all right? Let's read twenty eight. Then Agrippa said
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  Speaker 2: to Paul, you almost persuade me to become a Christian.
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  Speaker 2: That is powerful right here, beloved, that is a powerful witness.
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  Speaker 2: But it's tragic, he said, almost, that's the sad part. Almost.
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  Speaker 2: If Paul said I would to God that not only
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  Speaker 2: you but also all who hear me today might become
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  Speaker 2: both almost and altogether such as I am, except for
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  Speaker 2: these chains, amen, Paul still did not accept those chains.
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  Speaker 2: All right, almost persuaded. Let's take a look at that
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  Speaker 2: close but not surrendered, almost saved but still lost. Don't
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  Speaker 2: stop at conviction. Respond fully to Jesus. Don't just allow
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  Speaker 2: the conviction to fade away. Don't waste a good conviction.
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  Speaker 2: Respond to the work of God in our hearts and lives. Amen, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're about to finish this chapter. Amen. Verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine. If Paul said I would to God that
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  Speaker 2: not only you but also all who hear me might
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  Speaker 2: become both almost altogether, such as I am, except for
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  Speaker 2: these change. When he had said these things, the king
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  Speaker 2: stood up, as well as the governor and Bernice and
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  Speaker 2: those who sat with them. And when they had gone aside,
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  Speaker 2: they talked among themselves, saying, this man has done nothing
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  Speaker 2: deserving of death or chains. Then the Grippa said to Festus,
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  Speaker 2: this man might have been set free if he had
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  Speaker 2: not appealed to Caesar. Wow, now that is deep. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Paul said, I would that to guy, that not only you,
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  Speaker 2: but also all who hear me today might become both
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  Speaker 2: almost all together such as I am. Now that is part.
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  Speaker 2: Now that provokes a question within me. Can you stand
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  Speaker 2: up and say to a large group of people that
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  Speaker 2: I wish that you would become such as I am?
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  Speaker 2: Are you living that life of Christ? Would you want
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  Speaker 2: your son or daughter to become such as you are?
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  Speaker 2: Would you want your wife family to become such as
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  Speaker 2: you are? Would you want your community to become such
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  Speaker 2: as you are? Paul was such a dynamic character to
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  Speaker 2: be able to say that. And I grew up in
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  Speaker 2: the era where the parents wanted the children to do
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  Speaker 2: better than they did. But what does that say about
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  Speaker 2: the parents? How come we can say we want you
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  Speaker 2: to do such as we've done. And I'm not talking
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  Speaker 2: about the overbearing parents who want to control their children.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about your achievements in the Kingdom of God,
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  Speaker 2: your example of how to be a goly man, a
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  Speaker 2: godly husband and father, a godly woman, a goily wife
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  Speaker 2: and mother. And that's what the Word of God. That's
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  Speaker 2: where God is trying to get us to be. He's
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  Speaker 2: trying to get us to the point where we can say,
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  Speaker 2: such as I am Amen, hallelujah. That's another T shirt. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Paul's heart remains evangelistic. Maybe that's why I feel a
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  Speaker 2: connection to him, because I believe that I've been called
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  Speaker 2: to be an evangelist. Even in chains, he wanted everyone saved, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Paul wasn't bitter. He didn't say, I hope you all
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  Speaker 2: suffer like me. I hope you all get what you deserve.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't say that. No, he wanted him to be saved.
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  Speaker 2: That's a christ Like love to love even your foes
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  Speaker 2: and your enemies. Then the leaders admitted, this man has
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  Speaker 2: done nothing deserving death or chains. Truth once again stands firm. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to a break.
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  Speaker 4: to that guy, it'll get bad. To hone you bel
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  Speaker 1: y'all speak to me about me so toxic, he won't
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  Speaker 1: shut up, so hurt on me when I do fail
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  Speaker 1: like I don't see when I do well, if anybody
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  Speaker 1: could beat this detail till then I'm gonna trust God
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  Speaker 1: even if I gotta walk through Hell. I'm finna win
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  Speaker 1: rop me. I'm up and I'm popping again. And if
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  Speaker 1: I still begin, then I'm gonna repent, not gonna pretend
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  Speaker 2: To it not to go.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes we don't, but he's still doing the impossible
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  Speaker 1: when those life is not without obstacles, even if your
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  Speaker 4: And know, yeah, this guy know you feel it'll get bad.
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  Speaker 1: To that guy.
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  Speaker 2: You feel it, don't get mad.
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  Speaker 1: When my ends ain't trying to meet. The gotta be
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  Speaker 1: my econ of me. The truth allowed become honesty, and
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  Speaker 1: all I can see tries a lot to me. And
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  Speaker 1: these days I don't know who to trust. Only ever
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  Speaker 1: think about moving up. I really want to be the
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  Speaker 1: one you could trust and make it to the top,
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  Speaker 1: and I screw it up. Everybody assumes the fight would
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  Speaker 1: they and they would. It'd be like night and day,
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  Speaker 1: and they survive. They think to fight the same, to
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  Speaker 1: they surprise, the fight is not the same, and they
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  Speaker 1: would die. But it's so easy to say what you
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  Speaker 2: You're probably wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You might like a song, but I ain't tried them.
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  Speaker 1: We all do it quick to judge, assume the weight
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  Speaker 1: pick it up till I try, and it won't move
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: it int your budge. We all are going through different
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  Speaker 1: stuff and not giving up. When it rains the poors,
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  Speaker 1: we don't stay in doors. We go straight to war.
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