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Acts chapter 27 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Acts chapter 27. Let us pray.
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  Oh Heavenly Father, You're such a good, good Father.
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  Lord, we worship you today in spirit and truth.
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  Lord, we exalt your holy name over this earth, over the
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  universe. God, we exalt your holy name
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  over every single leader in this world.
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  We exalt your holy name over every nation.
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  We exalt your holy name over every principality.
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  Lord, we exalt your holy name over every dominion.
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  We exalt your holy name over every tribe, people, group,
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  tongue. God, we exalt your holy name
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  over every false religion that exists.
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  You are the only one true living God.
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  Every other lowercase G God is an idol, and it is trickery and
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  it is blasphemous, and it is leading many astray.
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  God, so we exalt. Yahweh, Adonai, Elohim, Jehovah,
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  Jireh we exalt. The God of Abraham, Isaac and
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  Jacob. We exalt the Jewish God, We
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  exalt the Israeli God. Over every single nation, every
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  single man, woman, child, God, you reign supreme.
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  The earth is yours and everything in it, the people and
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  all of creation. God is yours and it is yours
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  alone. And you will share your glory
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  with no one, and we shall have no other gods beside you.
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  Father, You are the only uncreated.
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  And so God we get out of our own understanding.
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  We get out of our own moralistic approach.
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  We get out of our own deceitful cleverness God.
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  We get out of our own intellect and IQ.
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  We get out of all of our own degrees and schooling, God and
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  education. We get out of our own wealth,
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  God. We get out of our retirement and
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  401K. We get out of our Social
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  securities God. We get out of our positions.
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  We get out of all of our security, God, we come up under
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  the yoke. Of Jesus or we.
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  Come up under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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  We come under the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  We plead the blood God, we plead a better word in a better way
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  than what this world has offered us God.
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  We want to be sold out for King Jesus.
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  We want to be bond servants for King Jesus.
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  We want to be laid down, lovers of King Jesus, and we want to be
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  found going out into the harvest God and putting our hands to the
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  plow. God and not living distracted,
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  Lord, and not succumbing to the ways of this world, not
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  believing all the lies of the enemy God, that more is more.
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  God. We give up everything for you.
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  We sell everything for you, King, Jesus and Lord, we are
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  waiting and we are expecting that you are going to speak to
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  us mightily and boldly today through the reading of your
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  Scripture. God, let it come alive today as
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  it never has before. Lord, let it become part of our
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  DNA. God, I pray that your word will
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  become part of who we are. God, it'll become the very first
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  thought on our mind and the very last thing on our mind as we go
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  to bed. Father, I pray that even as we
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  dream and as we sleep, God, you speak to us in dreams and
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  visions. Gods and visitations.
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  Lord, come God, and visit us. The man in white Father appear
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  to where the gospel is being pushed out God to many where
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  it's hostile to you the way God to your way God to the Hebrew
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  God, I pray that you'll appear to many in those lands Father,
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  and bring the captives home. Break all of the chains, Lord,
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  in the name of Jesus, I pray God against the Wiles of the enemy.
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  God, I pray against the accuser of the brethren.
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  God, I pray against all the demonic haunts.
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  God, I pray against all violence and greed and malice, God, and
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  discord and dissension. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  for peace to reign supreme. God, I pray that you'll be
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  glorified in the highest today. We love you, King Jesus, we
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  worship you, and it's in your holy and precious and powerful
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  name that I pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. And when it was determined that
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  we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other
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  prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus's band.
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  All right, so here we go. You can see Doctor Luke is on
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  board. He is the one pinning these
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  words inspired by the Holy Spirit.
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  And he says we meaning that they have given Paul lots of liberty
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  and they have allowed some of his companions to sail along
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  with him. And this would have been a cargo
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  ship. This would have not been a fast
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  sailing ship that was easily navigated through rough winds
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  and rough weather. This would have been a very
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  heavy ship that was bringing grain from Egypt down into Rome.
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  And you would have seen 200 plus people on this ship.
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  And there would have been lots of prisoners who would have had
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  to appear in the Coliseum, would have had to appear in the arena
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  as punishment for their crimes. And here look at how Paul takes
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  center stage on the ship. And because he was a man of
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  integrity and because he spoke the truth and because he
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  practiced hospitality, the men here could not help but to
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  listen to him as he becomes the centerpiece of the this voyage.
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  We're going to see that materialize as we read through
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  this chapter verse 2 and entering into a ship of
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  adoramatim. We launched meaning to sail by
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  the coast of Asia, one aristocrats of Macedonian of
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  Thessalonica being with us three and the next day we touched at
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  Sidon and Julius courteously entreated Paul and gave him
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  liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
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  So you can see here that Paul had such providential God
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  honoring privilege that he was able to move about as if he was
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  a free man, because deep down they knew that Paul was not
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  guilty of anything, and it was for envy that they had handed
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  him over. 4 And when he had launched from there, we sailed
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  under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. 5 And when we had
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  sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamplia, we came to Myra, a
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  city of Lithia. 6 And there the centurion found a ship of
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  Alexandria sailing into Italy, and he put us in it.
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  This would have been the the large cargo ship friends filled
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  with things to take to Rome, and when we had sailed slowly many
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  days and scarce would come over against Nydius, the wind not
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  suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salomone.
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  So you need to understand that Paul had already been on many
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  missionary journeys and he had sailed many waters, and by this
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  time he would have been able to see that there was a repetition
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  of what is to come. Paul would have been able to
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  gauge the weather and gauge the seasons and gauge the waves.
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  In here by divine interpretation and because of common sense,
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  Paul is going to warn them against trying to push on A and
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  hardly passing. It came unto a place which is
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  called the Fair Havens, near whereunto was the city of Lycia.
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  So here this Fair Havens was not a very pleasant place to try to
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  winter over, and it would have been a small town that these men
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  probably were not willing to try and stay at until it was time to
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  sail again. 9 Now, when much time was spent, and when sailing
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  was now dangerous because the fast was now already passed,
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  Paul admonished them. Paul is marking all of what is
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  happening by relation to the Jewish calendar, and he's saying
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  that the Day of Atonement has already passed this fast that
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  they would have taken. And he's saying that anyone
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  should know and anyone could know that it is not time to take
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  to the waters. So he's going to admonish them
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  in. And he said to them, sirs, I
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  perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage not
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  only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.
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  So Paul here is trying to get them to come to their senses to
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  realize that this is not an opportune time to try and sail
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  about in this hunk of a ship that would have had just two
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  rudders in the back. And it was not a traditional
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  kind of ship that was easily navigable in rough choppy waters
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  with Gale wind strength. 9 Nevertheless, the centurion
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  believed the master and the owner of the ship more than
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  those things which were spoken by Paul.
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  Paul was just a lowly prisoner here and so they wrongfully so,
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  went to people in higher positions.
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  And what a a word for us friends.
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  God uses the lowly things to humble the proud and the wise
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  and this is the way of God. God can teach us some of the
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  most remarkable lessons by those that are so-called underneath
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  us, because there is a great equalizer in this life, and it
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  is death, and it is our eternal destination.
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  And the least shall be the greatest, and the last shall be
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  the first, And the first shall be the last, and the greatest
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  shall be the least. And God's economy is not like
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  the one that we try to establish.
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  And they should have gone to this lowly prisoner and listen
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  to him, but instead they went to those that were in power and
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  they came up shorthanded and empty, friends.
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  And that is a word for you and for me.
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  It is by the counsel of many righteous people that we come to
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  know what is the will of the Lord.
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  We should not just be rogue agents out here on an island
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  unto ourselves. We need to be in community.
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  We need to have discipline and be discipled and be disciplining
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  and discipling others. And it is a whole cycle,
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  Friends. 12 And because the haven was not commodious to
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  winter in the more part advised to depart from there also, if by
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  any means they might attain to Phoenix and there to Winter,
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  which is a haven of Crete and lies toward the southwest and
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  northwest. So this would have been about 40
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  miles from where they were sitting.
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  And these men did not want to try to winter over in this
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  little podunk small town, and they wanted to go somewhere that
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  would have been a little bit more advantageous and a little
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  bit more hospitable for their wintering over.
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  And Paul was trying to tell them it was not the time and that
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  they should stay put. But let's see what happens. 13
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  And when the South wind blew softly, supposing that they had
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  obtained their purpose, losing from there they sailed close by
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  Crete. 14 But not long after there arose against it a
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  tempestuous wind called Eurocyclon.
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  So this was a Nor'easter. This would have been almost
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  hurricane string force, and this was why Paul had tried to tell
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  them not to sail out in this big hunk of a ship. 15 and when the
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  ship was caught, it could not bear up into the wind.
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  We let her drive. That's all you could have done
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  in that moment. There was no fighting against
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  this wind, so they just let it take course. 16 And running
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  under a certain island, which is called Clauda, we had much work
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  to come by the boat. 17 which when they had taken up, they
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  used helps under girding the ship and fearing lest they
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  should fall into the quicksands, strike sail, and so were driven.
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  So they were worried about running into the rocks and
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  running aground and the ship being beat all the pieces and
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  falling apart. 18 and when and we being exceedingly tossed with
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  a Tempest. The next day they lightened the
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  ship. You can imagine these sailors
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  having seasickness and being afraid for their lives as the
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  waves grew larger than the ship. You can see how all of these men
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  were trying desperately. They were grasping at straws.
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  They're trying to lighten the load 19 and the third day we
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  cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
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  They're even tossing overboard the things needed to sail
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  correctly. Their tackle they are tossing
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  overboard 20 and when neither sun nor stars in many days
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  appeared and no small Tempest lay on us, all hope that we
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  should be saved was then taken away.
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  They needed the sun, and they needed the stars to try to
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  navigate. And there was no sun or stars
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  because the clouds covered them over day and night.
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  They could not tell where they were.
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  They were lost without hope, friends, and they'd given up all
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  hope friends. 21 But after long abstinence, Paul stood forth in
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  the midst of them and said, Sirs, you should have listened
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  to me and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this
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  harm and loss. So he's saying, I told you so.
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  Paul couldn't help himself. He just told him the way that it
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  was. Paul was not one to hold back on
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  his words. He rebuked the Apostle Peter for
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  trying to succumb to the Jewish customs.
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  Paul was a heavyweight hitter. He held no punches.
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  And he told you like it was. And he said, I tried to tell
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  y'all, 22. And now I exhort you to be of
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  good cheer, for there shall be no loss of any man's life among
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  you, but of the ship. So he's saying you're going to
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  lose this boat, but there's not going to be 1 soul lost.
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  Not one person is going to die. We're all going to be safe.
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  And this was a promise from the Angel, promise from God. 23 four
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  there stood by me this night the Angel of God, whose I am and
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  whom I serve. Praise God.
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  Hallelujah. This Angel appears to Paul and
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  you can see this divine encounter, You can see this
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  divine protection, you can see that God is desirous for Paul to
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  stand before Rome and to give the account of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ to all those that are there.
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  And so he is protecting him all along the way.
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  And these people on a byproduct are going to be saved.
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  And they're going to know that Paul's word is accurately from
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  God because it is going to come to fruition and fulfillment
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  exactly the way that he said that it would.
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  The ship would be lost, but the people would be saved. 24
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  saying, Fear not, Paul, you must be brought before Caesar and Lo.
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  God has given you all them that sail with you.
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  Praise God. When we're in the company of a
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  St. There is a natural overflow of
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  the abundance of the grace of God, and the Spirit of the Lord
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  is in that place. And people prophecy and speak in
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  tongues and miracles break out, and the Holy Spirit is there and
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  freedom abounds. Praise God. 25 Wherefore serves
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  be of good cheer, for I believe God that it shall be, even as it
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  was told me. That is faith in a nutshell.
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  That is what faith looks like. It is believing God in the
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  middle of circumstances that are unbelievable.
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  It is believing God's promise in the midst of the chaos.
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  We must increase our faith as the world goes by the wayside,
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  and Jesus Christ told us it would be so.
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  Paul is going to pin later on in Timothy how the world is going
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  to look. And as the world looks more and
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  more like the way that he said that it would, we must believe
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  the promises that he is working mightily all around us, even
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  though all of our senses tell us otherwise.
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  Increase your faith today, friends.
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  And that is what Paul has done. He says, I believe God, even
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  though it sure doesn't look that way right now. 26 Howbeit we
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  must be cast upon a certain island.
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  So God did not tell him the name of the island.
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  He just said it would be an island. 27 But when the 14th
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  night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria
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  about midnight, the shipment deemed that they drew near to
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  some country. Perhaps it was the Breakers of
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  the waves that gave away that they were near some kind of
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  land. And here you can see it's been 2
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  weeks that they've been tossed to and fro this seasickness and
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  their inability to eat anything. 28 and sounded and found it 20
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  fathoms. And when they had gone a little
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  further, they sounded again and found it 15 fathoms.
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  So they were letting down their anchors to see how close the the
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  bottom of the sea was, and they found it to be 90 feet.
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  Then they found it to be 60 feet.
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  And then they perceived that they were nearer and nearer
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  close to land. Friends, they were just being
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  driven along. 29 Then, fearing lest we should have fallen upon
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  rocks, they cast 4 anchors out of the stern and wished for the
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  day. What a what a thought, friends,
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  They throw their anchors overboard, and throw caution to
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  the wind, and they're going on a hope and a prayer.
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  They wished for the day, they wish for the day that they were
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  back on safe ground. Two weeks here.
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  They're driven along uncontrollable at the mercies of
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  nature. 30 And as the ship men were about to flee out of the
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  ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea under color,
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  as though they would have cast anchors out of the four ship.
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  So here they're letting go of their little lifeboat and
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  they're trying to save their skin here. 31 Paul said to the
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  Centurion and to the soldiers, except these abide in the ship,
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  you cannot be saved. So Paul took the revelation from
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  the Angel of God to be literal, and he's saying that everyone
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  needed to be saved. And if they were to kill off the
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  prisoners, if these soldiers were to go and to kill the
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  prisoners prematurely before they rent aground and we're all
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  safe, then they themselves would not be saved.
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  And that is what Paul is meaning here.
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  He's saying leave them alone, let them live because God said
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  everyone on the ship would live. And when you are in the
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  proximity of God, it is life and life abundant, friends, even if
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  it is eternal life. Everything he touch comes to
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  life. Friends 32 Then the soldiers cut
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  off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.
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  That's them releasing that little lifeboat. 33 And while
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  the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take meat,
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  saying this day is the 14th day that you have tarried and
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  continued fasting, having taken nothing.
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  So he's saying we have had nothing to eat for 14 days, we
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  weren't able to eat anything. And now here we are about to run
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  aground, take meat, take food, be strengthened, and here we're
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  going to see him taking communion. 34 Wherefore I pray
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  you to take some meat, for this is for your health, and there
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  shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you.
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  He believed the word of God. 35 And when he had thus spoken, he
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  took bread, gave thanks to God in the presence of them all, and
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  when he had broken it, he began to eat.
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  Look at how he Harkins his mind back to the Last Supper, the
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  body being broken. Look at how he gives thanks.
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  This is something that we should do daily, friends, give thanks
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  unto the Lord for everything that we have. 36 Then were they
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  all of good cheer, and they also took some meat. 37 And we were
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  in all in the ship. 203 score and 16 skulls souls. 38 And when
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  they had eaten enough, they lighten the ship and cast out
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  the wheat into the sea. So they're just continuously
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  lightening the ship, which is going to drive them further and
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  further to safety. 39 And when it was day, they knew not the
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  land, but they discovered a certain Creek with a shore into
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  the which they were minded if it were possible to thrust in the
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  ship. So they're trying to get the
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  ship to land here on this island. 40 And when they had
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  taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the
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  sea, and loosed the rudder bands and hoist up to the wind, and
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  made towards shore. They're running a straight
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  course to land. 41 And falling into a place where two seas met,
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  they ran the ship aground, and the four parts struck fast and
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  remained unmovable, but the hind part was broken with the
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  violence of the waves. So this ship had been weakened
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  so much in the tempestuous winds and the roaring sea that as soon
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  as it ran aground it started to break up. 42 in the Soldiers
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  Council was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them
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  should swim out and escape. So there it is.
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  These prisoners are. About.
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  To get their freedom from the ship and the soldiers, thinking
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  they would run away, they want to kill him.
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  But what does Paul say? But the centurion, willing to
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  save Paul, kept them from their purpose and commanded that they,
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  which could swim, should cast themselves first into the sea
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  and get to land. So it was Paul who told them
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  that they all needed to stay together.
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  The Centurion found that Paul had won favor over, and because
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  he did not want to harm Paul, he chose not to harm the soldiers
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  here. 44 we'll. End here and the rest, some on
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  boards, some unbroken pieces of the ship.
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  And so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land, just
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  as God told him that it would be.
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  How amazing is this? Book that we hold in our hands
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  how amazing is the promises of God for us I.
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  Hope that you are. Resting on the promises of God
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  that you do not see the Bible as a book of rules of do's and
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  don'ts. This.
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  Bible is a book. Of promises for us friends.
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  And He promises that He's coming back, and He promises that where
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  He is, we shall be with him. And he promises us an abundant
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  life. And he promises us peace,
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  friends. And he promises us that we will
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  see him and. He told Thomas he.
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  Says, blessed are you because you see and believe, Thomas, but
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  how much more blessed are they that don't see and believe?
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  And that's you. And that's me, friends.
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  And then whenever John the Baptist was in prison and he
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  sent some of his disciples to ask Jesus if he was the Messiah
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  or should they wait for another, What did Jesus say?
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  Jesus said, what did you go out into the wilderness to see?
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  And then he goes on to to say that out of all the prophets,
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  there was none greater than John the Baptist.
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  But the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than John.
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  That's you, that's me. Rest in those promises, friends.
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  He's coming. Back and his.
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  Rewards are with him. Hope you've been blessed.
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  By this chapter I. Know I sure have I'm.
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  Praying for you, I. Love.
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  You, we'll see you. Back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.