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- 0:01Hello. Welcome to the No God Coach
- 0:02Huddle for May 12, 2025. Your two-minute
- 0:05play of the day for applying God's word
- 0:07in your life. So, let's huddle up and
- 0:09hear today's play from Acts 13, which
- 0:12says, "After removing Saul, he made
- 0:14David their king. And God testified
- 0:17concerning him, I have found David, son
- 0:19of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He
- 0:21will do everything I want him to do."
- 0:24From this man's descendants, God has
- 0:26brought to Israel the Savior, Jesus, as
- 0:28he promised. Fellow children of Abraham
- 0:31and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to
- 0:33us that this message of salvation has
- 0:36been sent. The people of Jerusalem and
- 0:38their rulers did not recognize Jesus.
- 0:41Yet in condemning him, they fulfilled
- 0:43the words of the prophets that are read
- 0:45every Sabbath. We tell you the good
- 0:47news. What God promised our ancestors,
- 0:50he has fulfilled for us their children
- 0:52by raising up Jesus. As it is written in
- 0:55the second psalm, "You are my son and
- 0:57today I have become your father. Through
- 1:00him, everyone who believes is set free
- 1:02from every sin, a justification you were
- 1:05not able to perform under the law of
- 1:08Moses." Then Paul and Barnabas answered
- 1:10boldly, "We had to speak the word of God
- 1:13to you first. Since you reject it and do
- 1:15not consider yourselves worthy of
- 1:17eternal life, we now turn to the
- 1:19Gentiles. For this is what the Lord has
- 1:21commanded us. I have made you a light
- 1:24for the Gentiles that you may bring
- 1:26salvation to the ends of the earth."
- 1:28Paul's testimony and preaching continue
- 1:31to proclaim that Jesus is the Messiah,
- 1:34the promised king and savior, that God
- 1:36had made known to Israel through the
- 1:39prophets for their salvation. Their
- 1:41interpretation of those prophecies was
- 1:43not a salvation from death and sin, but
- 1:46from the bondage of foreign rule and
- 1:48dominion. Israel wanted their land back,
- 1:51but God wanted their hearts back. God
- 1:54was promising himself to occupy their
- 1:56hearts and to bring us to a new land on
- 1:58a new earth when all those whom he has
- 2:01chosen have been reconciled to him.
- 2:04Israel rejected Jesus as Messiah and
- 2:07king from the household of David even as
- 2:09they do to this day. It is this Jesus
- 2:12whom Christians believe is the promised
- 2:14savior proven by his resurrection from
- 2:17the dead. The salvation people need is
- 2:19from death. For all die because all have
- 2:22sinned against God. The salvation people
- 2:25need is from eternal condemnation
- 2:27because no one is righteous. All have
- 2:29sinned against God. The salvation people
- 2:32need is one that makes it possible for
- 2:36us to please God because no one is
- 2:38capable of pleasing God through their
- 2:40own good works. This is why all people
- 2:42need a savior. So God came to earth in
- 2:45Jesus to be that savior to die for all
- 2:48people as punishment for the sins of
- 2:50everyone and to appropriate to everyone
- 2:52who comes to him for salvation pardon
- 2:55from sin appropriating to them his
- 2:58perfection that he lived when he lived
- 3:00among us as one of us in Jesus the
- 3:02savior. This gift of God is eternal life
- 3:05forever in his promised land. a
- 3:08recreated heaven and earth where death
- 3:10and rebellion, sin and poverty of any
- 3:12kind no longer exist. The gift of God is
- 3:16not the restoration of earthly
- 3:18prominence, but of his presence,
- 3:20restoring us to a relationship with
- 3:21himself, guaranteeing our presence with
- 3:24him forever. We must be saved from this
- 3:27body of death we are all trapped in
- 3:29because we are all born sinners and we
- 3:31all die. Only one savior exists who
- 3:34lived a perfect life, was crucified for
- 3:36sin, ours, not his, and was raised from
- 3:39the dead, proving his sacrifice was
- 3:42accepted and his promise to us is True.