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Living Waters of Grace 12.16.25 · 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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  Our goal is to love people, to have opportunity to share the
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  gospel with people that think differently than we do, right?
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  To have patience with people and to listen to them and not to put
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  them down, but to be able to dialogue with people so that
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  they might have an opportunity to hear the truth and come to
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  the knowledge of the truth and then repent, right?
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  Because there was a time in our lives that we didn't believe
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  this stuff. As Christians, there's a fine
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  line between living in the world and living of the world.
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  Jesus lived this dichotomy perfectly.
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  He loved sinners, dined with tax collectors, prayed for his
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  enemies, and was kind to a Roman centurion, all while living a
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  sinless life. We may not be able to achieve
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  perfection, but today Pastor Clark encourages us to be active
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  in the lives of non believers. They need to see Jesus and hear
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  the gospel through US. Everyone is yearning for the
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  hope that only Jesus can offer now.
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  Here's Pastor Clark in the book of Acts Chapter 28 with today's
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  edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  I get strength of being with you guys and I can leave here today
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  and be encouraged that we're not alone.
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  We are not the minority of the world says we are.
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  We are really a majority in the sense of God's Kingdom
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  eventually going to be coming on earth as it already is in
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  heaven. So we have every reason to be
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  joyful and happy people, right? And not be down and discouraged
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  and complaining about the condition of the world.
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  Jesus said in the world you will have tribulation, but be of good
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  cheer. I have overcome the world.
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  He has Amen. He's overcome the world and we
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  can be overcomers, walking by faith, staying in the word,
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  being prayerful people and looking for opportunities in
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  this life to speak into the laws of people who are hopeless or
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  may be searching for an answer. And so now when he came to Rome,
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  he eventually gets to Rome. The centurion delivered the
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  prisoners to the captain of the guards.
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  So all these people that survived this incident and
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  Lennon and Malta are now in Rome and every one of them are
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  accounted for. And Paul was permitted to dwell
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  by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
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  So again, God's favor. Paul wasn't a vicious murderer
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  or someone who had committed some horrific crime.
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  He committed no crime. So he's able to live in his own
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  house, but he's chained to someone six hours and God takes
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  a break. Someone else chained to him for
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  six hours. This is just how he's permitted
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  to dwell. And so the soldier says, guarded
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  him. And it came to pass after three
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  days, verse 17, that Paul called the leaders of the Jews
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  together. So when they had come together,
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  he said to the men and brethren, though I've done nothing against
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  our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as
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  a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, who
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  when they had examined me, wanted to let me go because
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  there was no cause for putting me to death.
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  So he's emphasizing again that he's not guilty of anything, and
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  he's with these Jewish people that really don't know a lot
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  about anything yet in regard to the gospel.
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  All they know is by hearsay. There's this sect called The
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  Way, which is the move of what is now known as Christianity,
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  Christians. So Paul's expecting them to have
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  all these complaints about who he is.
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  And when the Jews spoke against it, I was compelled to appeal to
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  Caesar. Not that I had anything of which
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  to accuse my nation. So Paul made it clear I was
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  never against the nation of Israel, and I never said
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  anything derogatory about the Kingdom of the city, the plan of
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  God. For this reason, therefore, I've
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  called for you to see you and speak with you, because for the
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  hope of Israel, I'm bound with this chain.
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  Now the hope of Israel is the Messiah who is to come, the
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  Messiah, Lord Jesus. Today the hope of Israel still
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  is a Messiah. But unfortunately majority of
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  Jewish people don't believe that Jesus is a Messiah.
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  They're waiting for Messiah who will come, who will come as a
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  conquering king to rule and reign in Jerusalem and and put
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  everything in this world in place.
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  The way we know prophetically it will be put in place when Jesus
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  comes the second time and he's he lands on the feet of the
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  Mount of Olives and he sets up and establishes Kingdom for the
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  millennial reign of 1000 years that will come to pass at that
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  point in time when Jesus comes again the second time, they'll
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  be this technology. We already have it now we're
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  we're going to be able to see through TV and media and
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  iPhones, whatever. What's that object coming from
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  the middle of the universe? What's that bright light moving
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  and and this crowd of looks like an army with him.
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  That's the Lord Jesus coming back with his Saints, and he's
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  going to land. And the Bible says every eye
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  shall see him. And the Jews in Jerusalem, it
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  says when they see him, they will see him is the one whom
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  they've pierced. And at that point in time,
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  they'll realize that Christ is a Messiah.
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  And a lot of people will come to be born again at that time, to
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  come to be saved at the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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  So Paul's reasoning with them and to explain to them this, I'm
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  bound because I'm telling you guys that Jesus Christ is the
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  Messiah, the hope of Israel. Then they said to him, this is
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  interesting. We neither receive letters from
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  Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brethren came and
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  reported or spoken evil of you. So everything that was made to
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  be like a big deal when he was in Jerusalem and they wanted to
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  kill him and martyr to him, martyr him.
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  Now he's in the situation where no one's got any complaints.
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  Isn't that amazing? They can't even accuse him of
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  anything. And sometimes you think in life
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  when stuff happens that in the moment is is really overwhelming
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  maybe, and you don't know how to maneuver and how to deal with
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  it. Give it some time, because in
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  time things aren't going to be quite as bleak or as difficult
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  as they might seem right now. Time heals, and we see God's
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  perspective differently after we have a chance to reflect on
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  something we're really counting on that maybe didn't come to
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  pass and we're discouraged. And then all of a sudden we see
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  days, weeks, months, years later.
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  Oh, now I see. That was good that that didn't
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  turn out the way I was hoping it would turn out.
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  God, you had a better plan, didn't he?
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  God's plan is always better than what our plan is.
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  So Paul was anticipating this uproar, this upheaval and there
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  is none. But they did have a question
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  verse 22. But we desire to hear from you
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  what you think for concerning this sect.
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  We know that it is spoken against everywhere.
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  It's still being spoken about against everywhere.
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  I'm I'm appalled, they're shocked.
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  I shouldn't be, but how there's people in our own country that
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  say that we are as Christians, we're white supremacists, we're
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  dangerous to the to the society, we're Zionists.
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  I mean, put all these various terms on on us that aren't even
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  true. Instead of the same way Jesus
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  said by this people will know you're my disciples by the love
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  you have for one another. And that's what I sense when I'm
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  with now you got extreme groups everywhere.
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  I get it. A true believer is not someone
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  who's interested in anarchy or turning over governments or
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  persecuting people that don't believe the same way we do.
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  Our goal is to love people, to have opportunity to share the
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  gospel with people that think differently than we do, right?
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  To have patience with people and to listen to them and not to put
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  them down, but to be able to dialogue with people so that
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  they might have an opportunity to hear the truth and come to
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  the knowledge of the truth and then repent, right?
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  Because there was a time in our lives that we didn't believe
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  this stuff, that we thought that people that did what we did,
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  where I thought they were fanatics, I thought it was some
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  kind of cult. I grew up in a Presbyterian
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  Church of frozen, frozen chosen, right.
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  We, we didn't, we went, but we didn't talk about what we, why
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  we went or what we believe. And then I'm not putting
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  Presbyterian Church down, just different culture.
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  And so whenever I graduated from high school and I wanted to go
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  party and, you know, get in trouble and misbehave, right,
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  like a typical 18 year old. And I hope you young ladies are
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  graduated and aren't thinking that way.
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  But if you are, guaranteed God will catch up with you.
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  I get off the bus in Norfolk, West Virginia.
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  I leave Irwin which is 100% white.
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  I'm in the bus and me and my buddy are the only white people
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  on the bus. I realize there's a whole
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  different culture group that I never even knew anything about.
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  Didn't have any prejudice. I just never was around black
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  people before and I found out they're just like me, just like
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  you. And so we get off the bus and
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  we're a minority and we're invited to a Christian coffee
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  house. And I didn't know it was a
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  Christian coffee house. These people just were real
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  nice. Hey, we got some food.
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  You want to come over and have something to eat?
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  And I only had like about 6 bucks in my pocket.
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  I figured well, if I stuff myself, I might not have to
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  worry about the what I have to buy later on for dinner.
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  So I got in there and these people were sitting there, right
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  here, down here. And they're they're sitting
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  there all clean cut and have Bibles on the table.
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  And I'm thinking like, what is this?
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  What is this like Jehovah Witness or what is this?
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  I knew that that was weird, you know, So they started, you know,
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  giving us this food and the food wasn't that great.
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  It was like steel Donuts and kool-aid.
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  So it wasn't. And I said to my buddy, they
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  were talking to us and I said, you know, we got to get out of
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  here. These people are weird there.
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  There's something wrong with these people here.
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  And I could tell it was getting to him.
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  He was considering what they were saying about Jesus, but I
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  had no interest. I thought I was OK because I was
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  a Presbyterian, right. So we, we get off the bus and we
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  get get back on the bus and I go down to, to carry on in Virginia
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  Beach because it was you could drink beer at 1832 beer.
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  You had to drink twice as much to get a buzz.
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  But I was OK. And so I, I went there and I, I
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  go into the men's room and, and I got to go to the bathroom and
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  wouldn't you know it, right on top of the toilet lid, there's
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  these Bible tracts about sin, about God, about death.
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  You know, they had the words of Jesus and red and the words of
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  sin and black and Oliver B Green track.
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  If you remember him, save a soul that's near as hell.
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  That's what he'd always say on his radio program.
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  But anyway, I, I just like, I couldn't get away.
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  The Holy Spirit was grabbing me, drawing me, prompting me,
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  speaking to me. And I, I was running.
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  I didn't want to hear. And when you think about people
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  in the culture and people that Paul was going to begin to talk
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  with now, not everybody's going to believe right away.
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  Not everybody's going to be open, are they?
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  And maybe you're here today and you've never heard or never
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  believed and you're still not ready to believe.
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  But God will never give up on working to convince you by life
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  circumstances or through the word of God that you need a
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  Savior. Jesus loves you and he wants to
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  let you know that he died and forgave you of your sins, that
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  you might have eternal life. But anyway, Paul says they asked
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  him about this cult. So when they had appointed him a
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  day, many came to him at his lodging to whom he explained and
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  solemnly testified of the Kingdom of God persuading them
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  concerning Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets
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  from morning to evening. So he gave him a day, Hey, meet
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  me at my place. The place was super PAC.
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  These inquirers came interested about like this sect and and he
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  was teaching them because they didn't have a New Testament at
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  the time. He was teaching them from the
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  prophets in the Old Testament and the Law of Moses.
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  He's an expert in these things. And so he's, it's not a short
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  study like the day, maybe 45 to 50 minutes.
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  Can you imagine being here till night?
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  I'd probably be the only one here.
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  Some of you are sleeping already.
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  You're getting ready for bed and it's not even 9:00 at night yet.
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  You're sleeping here. But you wouldn't last, you know,
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  you wouldn't last that long. So and so some were persuaded by
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  the things which were spoken and some disbelieved.
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  So that's in any audience. Anytime you're sharing, some are
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  going to believe. Praise God.
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  There was a time when you and I believed and we got saved,
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  right? But then there was a time where
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  we heard this and we weren't interested, right?
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  You know, we had to hear it more than one time to believe.
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  And so when they did not agree among themselves, they departed
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  after Paul had said one word. The Holy Spirit spoke rightly
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  through the Isaiah, the prophet to our Father.
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  So, so Paul is there getting ready to leave and all that kind
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  of stuff. Paul brings this verse out from
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  from the book of Isaiah. He's going to speak to them
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  about what God said prophetically regarding how
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  people would respond to what it is that they're hearing.
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  And Jesus used this many times in the Gospels and it was also
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  used in the book of the Acts before prophet Isaiah said, go
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  to this people and say hearing you will hear and shall not
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  understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive.
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  Isn't that interesting people here maybe you're hearing today
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  and you think I'm nuts. That's OK and and you don't
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  understand what what there was this guy flapping his jaws about
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  up there doesn't make sense and seeing you see the worship, you
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  see the cross, you see the dove that represents the Holy Spirit.
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  You see people worshiping God, praising God says seeing you
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  will see and not perceive and that's OK because all of us were
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  that way at one time. Only God can open your eyes
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  believe in to see and understand him and trust for the hearts of
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  this people have grown dull and their ears are hard of ears are
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  hard of hearing what happens in life.
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  It wears you down. It caused you to be cynical the
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  older you get. That's why they say, you know,
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  get saved when you're young, when your heart's open and
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  you're not jaded by life and, and many times unfortunate by
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  Christians or churches, whatever that you are hearing and you
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  want to hear what Jesus is saying and you want to know.
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  But the the longer you wait and the Jewish people were putting
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  this off and still are putting it off.
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  It's really hard to penetrate the heart of someone whose heart
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  is like stone. Of course God can penetrate any
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  heart, but it's not making it easier for you and your, your,
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  your doll spirit. You have no sense spiritually.
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  And their eyes, they have closed.
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  Some of your eyes have are closed here today.
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  Why are your eyes closed? Didn't you get enough sleep last
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  night? You know, they didn't even want
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  to deal with us. Let's say should see with their
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  eyes and hear with their ears. Let's say should understand with
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  our hearts and turns that I should heal them.
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  And so tragic. The Lord's got his arms out.
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  You won't come unto me. Come unto me.
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  He's calling us to come to Him. He wants us to, to follow him,
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  to know him, to trust him, to believe in him.
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  He wants to gather it's like chicks, like a mother hen,
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  because he wants to protect us and bless us and keep us from
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  destroying our lives with sin. He knows what sin does to people
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  he had to die for. He knew their hatred, the
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  murder, the rape, the all the different things that happened
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  in life, the the thievery, the the, the extortion, the, the,
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  you know, the stealing, all the things that human beings are
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  capable of. He sees what's happening to the
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  world as it goes on. It's becoming more and more
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  godless, more and more Antichrist, more and more anti
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  scripture, more and more self-centered men being lovers
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  of themselves rather than lovers of God.
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  Materialism is the idol that we all struggle with.
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  Nothing wrong with having stuff, but when the stuff begins to
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  control you and consume you and that's all you think about, then
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  you got a different God than the God of the Bible.
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  And so he, he wants people to turn to him, let's say, should
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  understand with their hearts and turns that I should heal them.
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  And whenever you come to Jesus Christ and you put your faith in
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  him and you ask him to forgive you, he will give you a brand
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  new life. And seriously, he'll radically
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  change your way of thinking, your internal mechanism of how
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  you dialogue with other people in the world.
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  Your, your, your focus would be now more on eternal values and
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  what will last forever as opposed to things that are
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  perishing and are going to end and die.
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  You have no more guilt. He takes your guilt, he takes
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  the condemnation you have on your life because of the things
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  you've done. You wish you wouldn't have done
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  that you if you had a chance to do it over again, you, you
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  wouldn't do. He cleans all that up.
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  He washes, he gives you a clean slate so that you can now have a
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  relationship with God and have peace in your life and not chaos
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  and this guilt ridden and depression and all the different
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  terrible things that are consequences of of turning away
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  from God. I mean God's plans good, but the
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  plan of this world is is unfortunately perishing.
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  Therefore let it be known to you verse 28 that the salvation of
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  God has been sent to the Gentiles and they will hear it.
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  So Paul was called to be the apostle to the Gentiles even
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  though he was Jewish, he loved the Jews and any chance he had a
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  chance, he would preach the gospel to the Jews, but he knew
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  they weren't going to be open to it like the Gentiles.
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  And because of that, the gospel then went into the Roman Empire
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  and then eventually to all the rest of the world.
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  And the majority of the church is made-up of Gentiles today,
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  people like us. Aren't you glad that the Lord
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  had a plan for the gospel to be for the whole world and not this
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  one people group? He loves the whole world.
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  For God so loved the world, the whole world, that He gave His
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  only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
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  should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  And later on down that gospel, he says God did not send his Son
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  into the world to condemn the world, but that the world
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  through him might be saved. That's how we have to be with
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  the world and people in it that don't believe, that don't
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  understand, to give them grace, to give them space, to give them
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  time to process, to think, to reflect, not to condemn, not to
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  guilt, not to judge, not to hate.
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  We're to be known as people that are merciful and patient and
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  gracious because God has been that way to us.
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  And verse 29, as we wind down. And when he had said these
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  words, the Jews departed and had a great dispute among
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  themselves. And I'm sure it was a dispute.
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  Some of them are probably saying, man, I, I never heard
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  that before. Do you?
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  Did you hear what the apostle said?
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  I believe I know Jesus is a Messiah.
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  You're crazy, man. Those people are called that
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  guy's nuts. You know, he, he used to be a
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  Pharisee and he, he must have had a breakdown.
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  And so he's saying stuff and teaching stuff that's not even
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  true. And and so they had this
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  dispute, great dispute among themselves.
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  Then Paul dwelt 2 whole years in his own rented house and
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  received all who came to him preaching the Kingdom of God and
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  teaching the things which concerned the Lord Jesus Christ
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  with all confidence, no one forbidding him.
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  So Paul had this open audience. He wasn't in some dank prison at
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  this time. He had this nice home.
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  He was able to receive people. They believe that Nero did not
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  martyr him at this time. Night is probably 63 AD.
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  He wasn't martyred till 6768 AD. So he was in prison in this
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  house for two years. When they found out that he was
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  not guilty. Then they let him free and
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  supposedly he was there for another couple years.
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  According to tradition, he actually went back to Ephesus.
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  He wrote Ephesus, the book of Colossians, the book of
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  Philippians in the book of Philemon while he was in Rome in
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  that house prison. So thank God he had time to
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  write those books for us. But in second Timothy is pastor
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  Lewis took us through recently. He was eventually in a really
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  cold, dark prison where his life was in jeopardy.
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  And then he said no one stood with him at that time.
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  Everybody was sort of getting away from him because it became
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  obvious he was going to be martyred and he was beheaded.
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  But this guy gave it all for the Lord Jesus.
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  I mean, you know, he, his, his life was the Lord's and all he
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  wanted to do was to be used by the Lord 24/7.
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  Whoever wanted to knock on the door, no matter what time of the
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  day it was. He was there to preach the
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  Kingdom of God and teach the things which concern the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. And he taught with all
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  confidence, totally dependent upon the truth of the word of
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  God, and no one forbid him. And we live in a time right now
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  where we have the opportunity to be able to do what we do without
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  consequences. Thank God.
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  And I pray it'll continually be that way and that we'll have the
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  freedom to to share our faith where people can come and go in
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  churches and worship God around our nation without fear of
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  reprisal and persecution. And we have to take the time
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  that we have right now, all of us with neighbors, friends,
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  relatives, Co workers, to gently sow the seed and share the faith
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  of the gospel. Not pushing it on him, but just
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  talking about Jesus, right? Telling him what he's done, what
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  he continually does, what he's willing to do, what he's willing
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  to do for people that don't believe.
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  And well, all we're doing is throwing seed out there, right?
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  Little by little, day by day, 11 by 1, we got a radio station in
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  Greensburg, 100.3 FM that goes out and preaches this kind of
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  stuff 24/7 through men of God and eventually on 91.7
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  throughout the Pittsburgh area. And the privilege we have and
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  the time that we live is to do what we do right.
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  And this is what we do teach the word, learning everyone of the
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  judgment that's to come and that people can flee judgment and the
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  anger and wrath of God becoming the faith in Jesus Christ.
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  Amen. Thanks for joining us on this
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  journey through Acts. On today's edition of Living
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  Waters of Grace, Pastor Clark shares that one of the most
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  remarkable things about the book of Acts is how it shows the
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  disciples transformation. The followers of Jesus we meet
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  here are very different from the often confused and fearful
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  disciples in the Gospels. After Jesus's death and
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  resurrection, and especially through the power of the Holy
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  Spirit, the apostles experienced a profound change in their
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  hearts and boldness. Their faith became unwavering,
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  and they moved forward with courage to spread the gospel
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  despite opposition and hardship. Acts reminds us that the same
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  Spirit who empowered them is at work in US today, shaping our
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  hearts and giving us strength to live boldly for Christ.
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  Living Waters of Grace is a ministry of Calvary Chapel
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  Westmoreland. If you're in the Greensburg, PA
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  area, we invite you to join us this Sunday at 10:30 AM at 400 E
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