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  Acts chapter one. Let us pray.
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  Oh Heavenly Father, you're good God.
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  Thank you Jesus, thank you God Almighty for all the things that
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  you do. Thank you Father for waking us
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  up. Thank you, Father for clean
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  drinking water. Thank you God for clothing and
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  food. Thank you God for the love
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  shared amongst our brothers and sisters.
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  Thank you God for the church at large.
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  Thank you God that you have boots on the ground charging the
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  hill. God, we're taking back enemy
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  territory today. Father, I pray as we put on the
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  full armor of God today, let us stand in the gap.
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  Let us repair the breaches. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that we'll go to where there is the most enemy fire, God, that
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  will go into the trenches, that will go into the darkness, God,
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  and take back and snatch people the firebrands out of the fire.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that we can stand on truth.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus we can live righteously
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  and live the right way and do things that are right in your
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  sight. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that we can run the race well and finish the race well.
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  I pray that the gospel goes out to the ends of the world.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus for the peace that only
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  comes from a relationship with you through Jesus Christ.
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  Lord, I pray that we will remember our salvation story.
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  Lord, we'll remember our testimony.
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  We'll overcome by the power, Lord of our testimony, by the
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  blood of the Lamb. Lord will trample across
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  serpents. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus will crush the head of the opposition.
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  Yes, Lord, you are more powerful.
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  You are the most powerful. You are the most High.
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  You are El Elyon. God, you are I deny, El Shaddai.
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  You are our everything. You're the banner, God, You're
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  the provider, you're the healer, Lord, you are ABBA and God, we
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  grab a hold of the hem of your garment.
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  We lay our head on your chest, Lord, knowing that you are the
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  Lion of Judah and you're roaring loudly over this generation.
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  God, I pray that we can lift up our shield of faith.
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  Let us raise our faith higher than our circumstances, higher
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  than our emotions, higher than our feelings, higher than what
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  the world is trying to sell us. God, we will stand firm on the
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  faith, Lord, knowing that you are the author and the perfector
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  of our faith and that you are leading US home.
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  God, I pray that we'll use this word, we'll rightly divide this
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  word, God, and that we'll be able to do war with darkness, do
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  war with the satanic occult, the New age, and all of the things
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  that are coming in. Father, I pray that we will find
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  those that you will help us to find and to snatch them out of
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  the coming flood, out of the coming fire.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus, God, that you will help
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  us to identify those who are yours, God, those who you love.
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  Father, I pray that you'll help us.
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  Lord, give us the mind of Christ, Give us the eyes of
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  Christ. God, let us see this world the
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  way that you do. Let us know, Lord, that you are
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  moving mightily in our midst, Lord, and we love you.
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  King Jesus, I pray as we open up your word today that you will
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  give us your sound mind, that you'll give us your wisdom, that
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  you'll give us your precepts upon precepts and lines upon
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  lines, and that you'll be well. Please, King Jesus, Holy Spirit,
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  I decrease as you increase. Give us discernment for this
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  hour, God, and help us to take the whole word to the whole
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  world. Help us to know what it is that
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  you want to say to today, for this day, for such a time as
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  this. Give us Our Daily Bread.
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  Protect us from the enemy. Father, I pray as we lift you up
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  higher than anything and everyone and all of the power in
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  the world. God, you are the king of the
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  universe. We love you, King Jesus, and
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  it's in your name we pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one, the
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  former treatise Have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus
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  began both to do and teach. So here we can see Doctor Luke
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  again on the scene, and we know that his Gospel, the Gospel of
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  Luke, he was writing to Theophilus.
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  Perhaps Theophilus was someone in Rome who had a high physician
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  who would have been able to give a good judgement or a good word
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  for Paul. Perhaps Doctor Luke here is
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  scrutinizing all the fine details.
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  He's coming through all of the records.
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  He's writing a very reliable source, and he is showing
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  Theophilus this lover of God. He's showing Theophilus that
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  Paul is innocent and should be exonerated, and he's there on
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  false charges. That is a thought that we can
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  ponder as we read through the book of Acts, as it was a
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  continuation of the book of Luke.
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  And so let's keep going. We know that Luke is very detail
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  oriented as a physician and he is going to show Theophilus
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  here. How all the things about the way
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  early Christianity is good and wholesome and innocent and there
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  is nothing to fear, and that Theophilus should put his faith
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  in the Lord Jesus Christ and as everyone should, and we're only
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  delusional and blinded and reprobate when we choose not to.
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  Friends, we've chosen. The way of Cain we've chosen
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  the, the way, the destruction, we've chosen hell.
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  Whenever we will not give in to the Lord Jesus Christ, when he
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  comes knocking at the door, we must open and allow him in and
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  allow him to dine and Sup with us.
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  Verse 2 Until the day in which he was taken up.
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  After that, He through the Holy Ghost had given commandments
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  unto the apostles whom he had chosen.
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  These were the 12 disciples, friends, and we know that Judas
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  has hung himself and we know that his hanging was a failed
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  attempt because he fell headlong and his intro spilled out.
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  And we're going to hear about that three to whom also he
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  showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible
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  proofs, being seen of them 40 days and Speaking of the things
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  pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
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  So what you must know on verse 3 is that Jesus came and he
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  reiterated all the things that he had already spoken.
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  These were no new teachings of Jesus during these 40 days in
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  his glorious resurrected form. This was Jesus just telling them
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  all of the simple gospel, the simple truth, the ways that we
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  must come to the Father, the only way which is himself.
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  It's Jesus Christ and he's telling them that and being
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  assembled together with them, commanded them that they should
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  not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the
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  Father, which he said, you have heard of me.
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  So Jesus told him to go back to Jerusalem, go back to the upper
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  room to wait on the Holy Ghost, the outpouring of Pentecost.
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  We know that he's already breathed on them.
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  We know that he back in the last part of the book of John, we
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  know that Jesus appeared to them and breathed on them and gave
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  them the ability to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ and to
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  forgive the sins and not to forgive the sins.
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  And that was through salvation, friends.
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  And here he's telling them to wait on the day of Pentecost,
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  when there would be a great outpouring upon the masses. 5
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  For John truly baptized with water.
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  But you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days
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  from here. So he was telling them to wait
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  on him. And he is worth waiting on,
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  friends. And the Holy Ghost is the down
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  payment. And when you are filled with the
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  Holy Ghost, you are experiencing just in part what is available
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  to you whenever we get there in our resurrected bodies, in our
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  resurrected form, for all of eternity.
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  And when we've been there 10,000 years, bright and shining as the
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  sun, we'll have no less days to sing His praise then when we
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  first begun. Are you willing to risk it?
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  Are you willing to trade eternity for a measly meager 100
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  years? Time and life is much more than
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  the material gain and the wealth and the power and all the little
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  toys and trinkets that we set our eyes upon here.
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  Let's sell out for the King of Kings.
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  Let's not be found wanting. You say that you are rich and
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  you have no need, but he says that he finds you wanting. 6
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  When they therefore were come together, they asked of him,
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  saying, Lord, will you at this time restore again the Kingdom
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  to Israel? Here they are hyper focused,
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  hyper fixated upon the second Advent, and they are wanting
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  Jesus in his resurrected form now to go in and overthrow Rome
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  and overthrow the tyranny there and the land.
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  And they're wanting their little geographical piece of land on
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  planet earth to be free from all of the outside rule.
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  And here you need to understand that the Jews are God's chosen
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  people, and it's still true to this very day.
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  It has not changed. They are his chosen people and
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  there's nothing we can do about it.
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  We can complain and we can gripe and we can try to explain it
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  away, but far be it for Christians to be the ones to
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  tear down their Jewish brothers and sisters, the ones that God
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  has a very peculiar love for. Far be it from us to think that
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  God is done with those people He loves, the nation Israel.
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  He is for the nation Israel. They are His chosen people and
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  we are the wild branches grafted in to the natural.
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  They are the natural friends and we should count it as joy that
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  somehow, in some way, us Gentiles have been grafted in to
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  the natural. But what you need to understand
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  is there is a movement and an opposition against that nation
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  and God is going to restore that nation to back to their original
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  land that was given to them, their promised land as they were
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  being LED out of the wilderness. And the borders will all be back
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  to where they were. And it'll be during the thousand
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  year reign of Christ on planet earth.
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  And all the nations will flow in to Jerusalem to learn about
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  Jesus Christ. He will be the supreme leader
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  for the entire globe for 1000 years.
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  And we would do well as we are waiting to make sure that we
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  bless the Jews, we don't curse them, friends.
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  And we need to know that there is a very interesting fact when
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  it comes to the seven-year tribulation, that 3 1/2 years of
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  the peace is going to be just for that little nation, Israel,
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  so they can rebuild their temple.
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  And then the Antichrist will rise up and demand to be
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  worshipped in that very temple. And it's all playing out all
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  around us that we need to have the lens of the word of God.
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  There's so much garbage that is circling these days.
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  There are so many people who are trying to pretend as if the Jews
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  as a whole, from the lineage of Abraham, have been done away
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  with in our yesterday's news. And far be it from us to fall
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  for that propaganda and that trickery and the deception of
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  the enemy. We need to know that God is
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  still standing with the Jews, and we should be found standing
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  with them as well. And here these disciples are
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  wanting to know when is all of that going to happen and what
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  does Jesus tell them? And he tells us the same thing
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  Jesus says. 7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know
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  the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own
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  power. So it's not for us to try to
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  speculate. We just need to be found doing
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  the work of God today and prophecy and eschatology is not
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  just to satisfy the curious mind.
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  We need to be practical in our approach with Jesus Christ.
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  We need to be found putting our hand to the plow, friends.
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  We need to be found going out into the harvest and snatching
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  those that are dying and that are self destructing and self
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  mutilating. We need to make sure that we're
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  going out there into the highways and the hedges and
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  inviting everyone in, friends, regardless of race, regardless
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  of nationality, regardless of their religion, regardless of
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  their skin tone, regardless of their language, regardless of
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  any of our prejudiceness. We need to go out and we need to
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  make sure that we're inviting every man, woman, and child into
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  the Kingdom of God. Let's get off of our blessed
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  assurance and let's run this race and finish well, Friends.
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  A But you shall receive power after that.
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  The Holy Ghost has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses
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  unto me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and
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  unto the uttermost parts of the earth.
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  So we need to know that all of these little areas represent the
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  whole world. But for these apostles, these
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  messengers, the disciples, this would have been a hard saying
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  because Jerusalem, they had just murdered their Messiah.
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  And Judea and Samaria were hated because they were half breeds.
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  And so you need to know that this they were they were from
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  Galilee and Judea was a part that they had all separated
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  from. And so Jesus is telling them,
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  he's saying, get rid of all of your presuppositions and
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  notions, get rid of all of the hatred in your heart, and go out
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  and invite the whole world into the Kingdom.
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  And what you're going to find is because the Jews are his
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  peculiar chosen people, they have a very special place in the
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  Kingdom of God. Their names are written on the
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  foundations of New Jerusalem. 9 And when he had spoken these
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  things while they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received
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  Him out of their sight. This was the ascension, the
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  bodily ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven.
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  And He was the first born, and He was the second Adam.
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  And here you can understand that Jesus Christ was appearing to
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  them for 40 days. How amazing is it?
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  You see so many instances in the word of God of these 40 days,
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  this time period. And we know that this is how
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  he's going to come back. 10 And while they look steadfastly
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  towards heaven, as he went up, behold, 2 men stood by them in
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  white apparel. We know these are angels, some
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  have speculated it could be Moses and Elijah, but we know
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  that they are there to help, to give the disciples the
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  discernment and to help us for all time's sake to understand
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  that Jesus will return in the same way and he's going to
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  return to the Mount of Olives and go into the Eastgate.
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  Friends 11 Which also said, You men of Galilee, why stand you
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  gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which is taken
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  up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you
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  have seen Him go into heaven. What a promise for us.
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  And the whole world will see him coming back with the Saints and
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  all the angels. 12 They then returned they unto Jerusalem
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  from the mount called Olives, which is from Jerusalem, a
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  Sabbath day's journey. So here you can see that Jesus
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  is coming back in his second advent the same way he left. 13
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  And when they were come in, they went up into the upper room,
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  where abode both Peter and James, and John, and Andrew,
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  Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of
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  Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the brother of James.
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  So here you can understand that they were obedient to Christ's
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  words when he told him to go back into Jerusalem and wait on
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  the Holy Ghost. And you can see here, look at
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  all these beautiful names here. 14 These are all continued with
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  1 accord in prayer and supplication, with the women in
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  Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
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  So verse 14, for the first time you can see all the disciples of
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  1 accord of one mind moving together as a unit. 15 And in
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  those days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and
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  said the number of names together were about 120.
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  So here they are, 120 disciples, the apostles in their midst, and
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  Peter decides that he's going to be the leader.
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  And that's not surprising. He was very impulsive in a lot
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  of his ways. But we can thank Peter, because
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  here we see the church capital C being birthed out of Peter's
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  obedience. To take the lead and take the
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  reins in the absence of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  What did he say to them? 16 Men, brothers, this Scripture
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  must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the
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  mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, which was
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  guide to them that took Jesus. We know this Judas Iscariot is
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  the son of perdition. 17 for he was numbered with us, and had
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  obtained part of this ministry. 18 Now this man purchased a
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  field with the reward of iniquity, and falling headlong,
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  he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
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  So Judas is trying to hang himself.
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  Perhaps the rope snaps, he falls headlong, and his guts spill out
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  on the ground. What's going to happen?
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  19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem, in so
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  much as that field is called in the proper tongue aklidama,
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  which that is to say, the field of blood.
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  So here his little 30 pieces of silver that he threw back at the
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  priest when he said I've betrayed innocent blood.
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  Here he's wrapped up with so much guilt that he goes and has
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  a failed attempt of hanging himself and spills out on the
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  ground. And then they buy the Potter's
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  field, which is good for nothing but shards of pottery. 24 It is
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  written in the book of Psalms. Let his habitation be desolate.
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  Let no man dwell there in and his Bishop break.
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  Let another take. 21 Wherefore of these men, which have company
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  with us all the time, that the Lord Jesus went in and out among
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  us? So here there was 120 of them
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  numbered in the upper room at this moment.
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  And Peter is saying, let's pick somebody who has been with us
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  from the beginning, who has seen Jesus come and go.
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  And this would have been a requirement to be an apostle.
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  You would have had to actually live with the Lord and to
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  actually see his earthly ministry.
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  And they're saying, let's pick someone. 22 Beginning from the
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  baptism of John unto that same day that he was taken up from
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  us, must 1 be ordained to be a witness with us of his
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  resurrection. That is, the purpose of an
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  apostle is to be a witness, which is where we get the word
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  martyr from. They were willing to die for
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  what they had witnessed. When people tried to talk them
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  down off the ledge and tried to get them to make out to be
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  liars, they were willing to die for it.
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  Are you willing to lay down your life for the gospel of Jesus
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  Christ? I pray that you can say that you
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  are. I pray that you count this life
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  as nothing in comparison to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Let's not be cowards and let's not shrink back.
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  Let's not try to save our skin. Let's charge the hill for the
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  king of kings and the Lord of Lords. 23 And they appointed to
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  Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justice, and Matthias.
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  24 And they prayed and said, You, Lord, which knows the
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  hearts of all men, show which of these two that you have chosen.
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  They did well in this moment. They did not rely on their own
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  understanding, but they went to the Lord, knowing that the Lord
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  can control even the dice that land on the table.
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  Do you have that amount of faith, friends?
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  Do you know that He can cause your sandals in your clothing
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  not to wear out for 40 years? Do you understand how the Lord
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  works? Is your faith so increased that
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  you can say to this mountain move and it'll move, Lay hands
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  on people and heal the sick and heal the diseases and cast out
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  all of the afflictions of the demonic over people?
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  Friends, is your faith risen in your life or have you been
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  dumbed down and numbed by the ways of this world, in the ways
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  of Mammon? I pray that you will release all
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  of yourself preservation and you will walk in the spirit, not
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  satisfy the lust of the flesh. It's not by power and not by
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  might, but by the Spirit of God that we can do these things,
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  friends. And they knew that it was the
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  Lord who could choose who He wanted, not who they thought.
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  Not after looks, not after status, but it was that God
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  knows the hearts of men, and He knew who He wanted for their
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  names to be written on the foundations of New Jerusalem. 25
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  that He may take part of this ministry, an apostleship from
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  which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his
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  own place. We know it would have been
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  better for Judas to never have been born.
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  We'll end on 26. And they gave forth their lots,
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  and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the 11
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  apostles. Here we are, the book of Acts.
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  I hope that you had a blast going through Matthew, Mark,
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  Luke, John. That is what all of the book of
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  Acts is pointing back to. And as we move through the New
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  Testament, everything is hinged upon those four books.
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  And you might ask yourself, why in the world did we have 4 books
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  that were pretty much telling the same story over and over and
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  over and over? And as you study it, you're
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  going to see nuances and details that one book leaves out and
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  another one gives us. And they're all congruent and
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  they all match up and they're beautiful.
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  But it is like someone standing on four different St. corners
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  and there is an accident that happens in the middle of the
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  intersection. And each of those four people
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  from those four different vantage points could all tell a
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  different story of what they witnessed, even though it was
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  the same accident. And that is what you will find
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  with the Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is that
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  these four men are giving four different vantage points of the
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  exact same man. And Jesus Christ is worth
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  spending our entire life meditating upon.
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  You will never go wrong with building your life on the chief
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  cornerstone. And as we move through the book
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  of Acts, what you're going to find is this is the Acts of the
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  Holy Spirit moving mightily in the midst of the 1st century
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  church. You're going to see it getting
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  modeled out of what the Lord desires of us in this day, in
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  this hour. So let's lock in, let's pay
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  attention. Buckle up.
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  It's going to be a very high ascension into the clouds.
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  Friends, I pray that you've been blessed by this first chapter
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  here. I know I sure have many times
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  over. I'm praying for you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.