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Living Waters of Grace 12.09.25 · 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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  When we stand before the Lord, we won't be standing in the
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  judgement seat in the sense of the judgement of sinners,
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  because we've been forgiven of our sins.
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  We've been declared just. But all the people who have not
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  received Jesus Christ since the beginning of time up until now
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  and and in the future are unjust.
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  They have no purpose or sense of ability to stand before the
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  Judge, the Creator, and say they're innocent.
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  Have you ever been sent to the principal's office?
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  Or maybe your mom yelled at you using your full name.
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  Your hands probably began to sweat and your stomach turned
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  inside out. But if in these scenarios you
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  were innocent of any wrongdoing, all your anxiety disappeared.
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  Today, Pastor Clark encourages you that this is exactly how it
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  will be when you stand before Jesus as a believer.
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  You'll be found innocent because your sins were already forgiven
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  through the sacrifice. You'll have nothing to fear now.
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  Here's Pastor Clark in Acts chapter 24 with today's edition
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  of Living Waters of Grace. We are in the book of the.
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  Acts Acts chapter 24 If you have your Bibles, open your Bibles to
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  Acts 24. And as we study.
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  This section of Scripture in Acts, I want you to sort of put
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  yourself in the time that Paul was living, he was living in
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  very difficult times in regard to countries being open to
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  Christianity and also governments being led by a
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  ruthless leaders and godless leaders and Pagan leaders.
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  Nothing new under the sun, is there?
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  We face a lot of similar things right now, but.
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  Not as bad as what? He was going through there at
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  that time. Or what Christians go through
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  like in China or Pakistan or other countries that are really
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  against Christianity and against freedom of religion, freedom of
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  speech. So we have to learn, I think,
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  how to maneuver living in times like this without getting
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  frustrated or mad or angry or depressed or.
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  Discouraged because God always. Works in the midst of situations
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  that seem impossible, what might seem unfair to us at times
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  politically or as Christians. From God's perspective, he can
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  get us through those things. He wants us to look to Him for
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  wisdom and for ability to know how to get the proper counsel to
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  get represented in ways that we need to be represented so we can
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  have fair trials. That as we know, Paul's trials
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  were far from fair and the trials of Jesus Christ himself
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  were not fair. But yet God orchestrated these
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  trials way ahead of time, even though they seem unfair to us.
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  When we read these scriptures and wonder how in the world
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  things got so messed up and so unfair, and how apostles and
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  prophets and Jesus himself were mistreated and eventually
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  martyred and crucified and killed.
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  God still had his way and still was glorified, and they still.
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  Speak through the scriptures. That we have today, so I think
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  you know the time. That we're living in.
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  Right now when I study the Bible and I, I read the Bible and I, I
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  endeavor to teach the Bible. I want it to be real.
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  And something that you can sort of hook yourself to and find
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  some solace and some counsel and some wisdom.
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  No matter what it is we might be going through in America right
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  now, it is far better than what Paul was going through in
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  Jerusalem, as well as Macedonia and eventually the Roman Empire.
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  The governors and the leaders of that time weren't interested in
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  anything other than themselves and their own wealth and their
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  own success. They weren't.
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  Interested in this movement called the Way Christianity?
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  But nonetheless, this movement that started out very small has
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  captured the world and captured the earth, and it is by far the
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  number one. Religion in the world.
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  Christianity and always has been and always will be, in spite of
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  people trying to put it out or to cause it not to expand.
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  Matter of fact, the more it's persecuted, the more it does
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  expand. The more people come against you
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  in regard to your faith and don't want to hear it, the more
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  you have a desire to tell them, right?
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  Because we love people. We want them to know what it is
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  we know just because they say they don't want to hear it or
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  they don't want us to talk about it isn't going to silence any of
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  us isn't. So let's pray as we get into
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  this today. Father God, we thank you for
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  your word. We thank you for the testimony
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  of Paul got himself in some tough situations by going to
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  Jerusalem, but nonetheless. You used it for your glory.
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  He was able to. Witness the kings and priests
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  and leaders and many many people got to hear the gospel and to
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  consider it. In these different trials that
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  he went through 6 different times, he gave a defense.
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  So Lord help. Us to learn some things here
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  today. Even when we're unjustly treated
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  or. When?
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  People slander us or try to. Put us in positions that aren't
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  comfortable. Lord, we can learn how Paul
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  lived his life in the midst. Of persecution and trial, even
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  in our day that we live. Today, Father, none of us know
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  when we might be. Given the.
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  Difficulty at work because of our testimony or our witness.
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  Sometimes people don't don't want us to be in the company
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  anymore when they find that we have a moral values and we have
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  convictions and we have things that we stand on and are not
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  negotiable. We won't change our testimony,
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  we won't stop our belief in Jesus Christ, and we surely
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  won't silence Lord our witness. So Lord help us in these.
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  Days to be this as bold as Paul. Was but to be wise and to be
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  loving and to be gracious. And we pray all these things in
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  Jesus name, Amen. So starting in chapter 24, Paul
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  is being accused of rebellion, sedition, they're.
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  Saying lies that he's an insurrectionist.
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  And he wants to. Turn the whole country upside
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  down and bring. False religions in all.
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  These things are being. Discussed and so he begins to
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  after five days of where we were last week, it says.
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  Now after five days, Ananias, a high priest, came down with the
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  elders in a certain order named Tertilius.
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  These gave evidence to the governor against.
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  Paul. So this was a.
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  Setup. There was things that they
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  wanted to. Bring across to this leader at
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  the time, Ananias. And the charges?
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  Were that Paul's. Influence was causing trouble.
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  In the Jewish religion, the second incident that they were
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  accusing him of was this illegal religion.
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  That he was developing or posturing and they called him a
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  seditionist. And third, he was called and
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  said that he had. Profaned the temple in Jerusalem
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  as something that was not. Religious from the Jewish point
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  of view. And so he's endeavoring Paul and
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  his ministry always to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ and every
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  conversation and every trial and every challenge.
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  His only. Focus is to get.
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  The gospel out because you. Realize when you have people
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  that don't want to hear what you have to hear, they need to hear
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  it right. You just can't like, accept
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  their. Ignorance or their posturing
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  against you in regard to your faith in Jesus Christ.
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  You have to continually have this heart to want to get the
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  message. Across at least to.
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  The point that people can be. Able to make a decision whether
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  they want to believe or they don't want to believe, but a
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  lot. Of people don't even have the
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  ability to make the decision because they don't even know
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  what people believe lots of times, right?
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  So it's really important to be able to communicate to people.
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  Why you're a Christian. Why you follow Jesus Christ and
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  what He's done for you, that is something that most people don't
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  really know anything about today.
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  And so they're going to give this testimony against Paul to
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  the governor in verse 2. And when he was called upon,
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  Tertilius began his accusation. This guy's a real smooth talking
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  attorney. He knows how to flatter, and he
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  thinks he's going to. Get on the good side of Ananias.
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  He says, seeing that through you we enjoy great peace and
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  prosperity is being brought to this nation by your foresight.
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  We accept it always and in all places, most noble Felix, with
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  all thankfulness. Nevertheless, not to be tedious
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  to you any further, I beg you to hear, by your courtesy, a few
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  words from us. This guy's a smooth talker.
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  He sets it up. To the flatter Felix, for we
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  have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among all
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  the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of
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  the Nazarites. He even tried to profane the
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  Temple, and we seized. Him.
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  And wanted to judge him according to our law.
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  But the commander Lyceus came by, and with great violence took
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  him out of our hands, commanding his accusers to come to you.
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  By examining him yourself, you may ascertain all these things
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  which we accuse him. And the Jews also ascended,
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  maintaining that. These things were so.
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  So everything is posturing here from a Jewish.
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  Perspective they want to do. All they can to implicate Paul
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  as being a false teacher, an insurrectionist, and someone who
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  causes havoc wherever he goes. So this is what is being
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  communicated. So Paul's there in this audience
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  and he's listening to what's being said about him.
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  And in verse 10, he's going to be given the opportunity to.
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  To say some things. Verse 10 Then Paul, after the
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  governor had nodded to him to speak, answered.
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  And as much as I know that you've been for many years a
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  judge of this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for
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  myself, because you may ascertain that it is no more
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  than 12 days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
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  And they neither found me in the Temple disputing with anyone nor
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  inciting the crowd, either in the synagogue or in the city.
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  So right away he's invalidating every lie.
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  That they've said about him, he's not afraid to speak up and
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  speak the. Truth, because the truth is the
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  truth, and they're giving them the opportunity to clarify these
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  accusations. Nor can they prove the things of
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  which they now accuse me. And this is the craziness of
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  setups when people are accusing. People of things not based on
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  factual evidence, it's lies. It's innuendo, it's dismayed up
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  and these things go on to this day, he says.
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  But this I confess to you that according to the way in Capital
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  WAY signifies this new movement. Of Christianity in the.
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  World following Jesus, which they call a sect.
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  So I worship the God of my Father's, believing all things
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  which are written in the law and the prophets.
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  So Christianity didn't. Fall out of thin.
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  Air. It was rooted.
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  In the teachings. Of the Law and the prophets,
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  ever since the book of Genesis, all the way through the
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  Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, all through the
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  Old Testament writings of the Law and the prophets that
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  emphasize the fact that the Messiah would come and then he
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  would be the Savior of the world.
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  And these are all rooted in the scripture.
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  Paul didn't make any of this stuff up.
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  This all came from God's Word, the word that the Jewish.
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  People believed up until this time.
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  Paul, Paul's father, is the same God and.
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  Father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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  Your Father God is the same. God that Abraham.
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  Isaac and Jacob. Followed and believed in.
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  So there's no messing around here with what the Word of God
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  says. So he tells them that these
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  things have been written for everybody to look at and examine
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  and use that the Scriptures to prove whether Paul's a false
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  leader or false teacher. None of them can obviously do
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  that. He says in verse 15, I have hope
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  in God, which they themselves also accept that there will be a
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  resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.
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  And so Paul's preaching now what's the deal here?
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  There is going to eventually be a final resurrection at the end
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  of time where God will judge all people, the just and the unjust.
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  Now for us who are justified by Jesus Christ, when we stand
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  before the Lord, we won't be standing in the judgment seat in
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  the sense of the judgment of sinners, because we've been
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  forgiven of our sins. We've been declared just.
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  But all the people who have not received Jesus Christ since the
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  beginning of time up until now and, and in the future are
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  unjust. They have no purpose or sense of
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  ability to stand before the judge, the Creator, and say
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  they're innocent of committing sin.
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  It's impossible. They're in trouble, they're
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  unjust. They need to be just.
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  They need to be justified. So the only thing that makes you
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  and me different, we're all sinners.
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  Lost people are sinners. Christians are still sinners,
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  right? But we're sinners, saved by
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  grace. And so now when we stand before
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  a holy God, we're not going to walk in arrogantly and say we
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  never sinned or we're not sinners or whatever.
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  We know what we are, right? But we've been accepted by Jesus
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  Christ because of what he's done for us, right?
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  He shed his blood for us. He died for us and we believe in
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  him and we depend upon him and we've been declared just because
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  of our faith in Jesus Christ, not our faith in ourselves.
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  All the unjust, the people living up until this time and
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  the people who are complaining about Paul have no defense
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  before the judge. On that final day.
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  They are considered at this point in time unjust like every
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  other human being on the face of the earth that doesn't have
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  Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior are unjust or
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  unjustified. This being said in verse 16, I
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  myself also strive to have a conscience without offense
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  toward God and men. So not any are we justified by
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  Jesus Christ and we're forgiven, but we're all endeavoring to
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  have a different way and vision of how we live our lives.
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  We're conscious of things that aren't Christ like.
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  We're disturbed by behaviors and attitudes and temptations and
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  failings in our lives that don't line up with someone who's been
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  genuinely transformed by Jesus Christ.
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  Those things, if you're a Christian, disturb you.
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  So you want Christ to continually work in your life
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  and to change you and to perfect you and to sanctify you, make
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  you more Christ like. And that's the evidence that
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  you're really a Christian when you become more like Jesus
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  Christ, right? You're not going to just stay
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  like you were before you became a believer.
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  You can't. It's impossible.
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  The Holy Spirit's in you now, and He's living in you and
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  through you to make you more and more like Christ.
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  And that's the awesome. Work of our salvation that this
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  isn't knowing we're going to go to heaven, but our lives are
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  actually changed and are being changed as we speak.
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  And so he talks to them about his history.
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  Now after many years in verse 17, I came to bring alms and
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  offerings to my nation. This is a special offering.
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  It was set up for the personal, executed and poor people in
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  Jerusalem at the time, in the midst of which some Jews from
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  Asia found me purified in the Temple, neither with a mob nor
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  with a tumor. So Paul went in to sponsor 4
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  people who were committing themselves and sacrificing
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  themselves to the will of God and the work of God as Jewish
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  believers in the Temple. Paul was with them, but it was
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  just him and the four. There was no one else.
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  There was no anything going on. It wasn't considered right or
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  kosher or pure from a Jewish perspective.
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  They were lying about him. Now they ought to have been
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  there here before you to object if they had anything against me.
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  Why? In other words, why did they
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  wait so long to bring this up? If it was such a big deal, they
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  should have immediately brought this offence to you.
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  But they of course they did. Verse 20.
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  Or else let those who are here themselves say if they found any
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  wrongdoing in me while I stood before the council.
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  So he's giving them a chance. Go ahead and tell everybody and
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  tell me personally right here in the midst of this audience, any
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  wrongdoing that I've done, unless it is for this one
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  statement which I cried outstanding among them
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  concerning the resurrection of the dead.
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  For I'm being judged by you this day.
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  So as I said last week, you had the Pharisees and you had the
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  Sadducees. The Pharisees were more
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  conservative in their Jewish tradition, and they believed in
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  the Scriptures, all the Scriptures, just not the first
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  five books of the Bible. And they believed in a little
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  resurrection. So when Paul talked about the
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  resurrection, they're like, hey, we believe in the resurrection
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  too. But the Sadducees, the other
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  members of the Sanhedrin, the ruling elders, did not believe
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  in a little resurrection, nor did they believe that we had a
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  spirit or soul and that there was anything after this life.
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  They were adamantly opposed to any teaching and doctrine that
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  would proclaim A literal physical resurrection from the
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  dead. That's what their big biggest
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  uproar was. So Felix in verse 22 when he
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  hears these things, he now has more accurate knowledge of the
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  way he adjourned the proceedings and said when license the
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  commander comes down, I will make a decision on your case.
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  So no decision is no decision right now wisdom.
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  So he commanded the centurion to keep all and let him have
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  liberty and told him not to forbid him any of his friends to
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  provide visiting him. So in other words, he was in a
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  really plush palace in this area of the empire.
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  He was given freedom to eat and to hang out.
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  It was nice atmosphere. He was allowed to have friends
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  come in and hang out with him and visit him.
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  So this really wasn't imprisonment.
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  And if this leader, Felix, thought that Paul was really
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  guilty, he wouldn't have given him all these liberties.
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  So what happens here? Now in verse 24, after some
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  days, Felix comes down with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewish.
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  She was sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in
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  Christ. So she already knows what's
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  going on and what's being communicated to all the people
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  in the land at the time regarding the gospel of Jesus
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  Christ. She's certainly not a believer
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  and she's a very young woman, supposedly around 20 years old,
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  very attractive. This couple together is not a
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  really good team together. God, let's spend anyway.
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  They're there and they're going to have this conversation.
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  Now is he reasoned about righteousness?
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  See Paul, right away the opportunity.
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  Drusilla is here with Felix again.
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  Neither are my believers. What are you going to do?
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  You're just going to say, hey, let me go free because I'm
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  innocent? No, right away He starts the
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  gospel again. He tells them about the need to
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  be righteous. They're not righteous.
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  They're unrighteous. They're godless.
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  They're sinful Pagan people. So he's communicating what
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  righteousness is versus what unrighteousness is.
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  Then he talks about self-control.
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  They have no self-control. They're just doing what makes
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  them feel good and what makes them happy, which human race has
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  a tendency to do. No issues of self-control.
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  And then not only that, but the judgment that's eventually to
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  come. So it says Felix was afraid, so
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  he's under conviction. He's bothered by what it is that
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  Paul's telling him. Just like you and I should be or
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  anybody should be. The Bible says that the Holy
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  Spirit convicts the world of sin and of righteousness and of
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  judgment because they don't believe in Jesus.
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  So whenever you get to people and you begin to tell them about
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  the gospel and they start getting uncomfortable and all
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  that, that's the evidence of the work of the Holy Spirit.
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  That's what he does. But the only way the Spirit can
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  really convict people of the things that they need to be
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  convicted of is to hear the truth.
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  And the truth only comes by the Word of God.
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  You can have conversations about religion and spiritual stuff all
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  day long, but if you don't give them the pure teaching of the
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  gospel that Christ died for our sins according to the
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  scriptures, that he was buried in the third day he rose again
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  from the dead. You haven't given him anything
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  to think about or anything to be convicted by.
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  Honey, the blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse us from our sins.
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  So Felix is afraid and he says go away for now.
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  When I have convenient time, I will call for you.
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  In other words, like he's bothered.
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  The day's a day of salvation, right?
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  Like if you're an unbeliever and you're like, hey, I, I'm nailed
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  here, man. I got to make a decision.
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  I have to believe this. And if I don't, I'm in trouble.
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  I mean, when you start thinking that way, that's good news
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  because this is the day that you want to be saved, the day that
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  you get it and you're convicted of it and you know you need a
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  savior. You don't want to put it off.
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  Paul says today is a day of salvation.
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  Behold, now is the accepted time.
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  Behold, now is a day of salvation.
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  And in Acts 1730, it says God commands all men everywhere to
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  repent. So this not here in Macedonia or
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  Jerusalem or the Roman Empire. Greensburg, Latrobe, Irwin,
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  Pittsburgh, Ligonier, you know, California, Texas, South
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  Carolina, Pakistan, Africa, Nigeria, Russia, Ukraine.
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  Everybody needs to hear this, right?
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  And we're the ones that are supposed to tell them.
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  And if we're afraid because, well, what if they fire me from
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  my job? Or what if they put me in jail,
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  or what if they make fun of me, or what if they don't like me
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  anymore? Or what if they don't invite me
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  to their house anymore? All these thoughts that get in
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  our head, you know, 'cause us to be afraid of sharing the truth,
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  right? But this is supposed to be told
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  to everyone, everywhere, for all times and all places.
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  Just not hearing acts, but right now we're hearing this stuff.
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  So meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be.
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  Given to him by. Paul.
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  So he's thinking, hey, maybe Paul, give me some money and
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  then I'll let him go. Bribes are illegal.
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  This guy has got problems, right?
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  That he might release him. Therefore he sent for him more
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  often and converse with him. So he keeps having him come
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  back, but not so much to hear the gospel.
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  He's hoping eventually he'll give me some.
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  Cash, right? He wasn't.
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  Looking for money, so Procus Festa succeeded Felix.
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  Felix is done with the deal here.
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  They got a new guy now that's going to come on the scene.
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  And he wants to do Jews a favor. And he leaves Paul bound.
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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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