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Living Waters of Grace 09.24.25 · 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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  What would cause you or me to be willing to go through
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  persecution or to have a uncomfortable conversation or
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  relationship with someone who doesn't like us because we want
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  to tell them about Jesus? The only thing that would cause
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  you or me or these guys to do what it is they're doing is that
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  they are full of the Spirit and that Holy Spirit attributes are
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  Lovejoy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, temperance,
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  and self-control. Sharing Jesus despite resistance
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  is like planting seeds in rocky soil, trusting they'll grow
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  anyway. In today's message, Pastor Clark
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  reveals how your willingness to face persecution or tough
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  conversations comes from being filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  The Spirit empowers you. Without the Spirit, you'd
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  hesitate. His presence makes you
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  courageous. You are equipped to endure for
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  His sake. Are you relying on the Holy
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  Spirit's power to share Jesus even when it's uncomfortable or
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  difficult? Now here's Pastor Clark in the
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  book of Acts Chapter 3 with today's edition of Living Waters
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  of Grace. So Moses spoke about the Messiah
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  who was to come. The nation of Israel has gone
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  through tremendous heartache, burned in ovens, all kind of
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  things going on. And it isn't over yet.
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  The, the, the army of the north, Russia in the last days will be
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  that country that will descend upon them to try to destroy
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  them. And you used to think, boy, I, I
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  don't know. It doesn't seem possible.
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  Russia seems like a very calm country, right?
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  Sort of picking up some of the ideologies of capitalism and
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  free enterprise and religious freedom and all that, and then
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  all of a sudden this rogue leader in Russia has become a
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  tyrant, right? Do you think it's possible that
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  if he does this to Ukraine, he could do this to Israel?
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  The intentions prophetically are directed that way.
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  And in time this will all be unfolded.
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  I don't know if it's going to be in our lifetime, another 100
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  years, whatever 1000, but it is prophetically in the Bible
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  regarding what will happen in that last period of the
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  seven-year tribulation, in the last 3 1/2 years.
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  So Moses is being referenced by Peter.
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  Peter knows the prophets and knows the Old Testament Torah in
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  the Scriptures. This is this is how they preach.
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  They preach from the Old Testament.
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  Now as New Covenant believers, we preach the gospel primarily
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  from the New Testament. We can use the Old Testament,
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  but the New Covenant's far better than the Old Covenant.
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  The Old Covenant we learn historically of how God worked
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  through his nation Israel, unfortunately, almost to no
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  avail. The nation of Israel, in spite
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  of having all these blessings and promises, they've still
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  refused to believe for the most part that Jesus is the Messiah.
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  And so Peter's telling them that Moses told you guys that Jesus
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  is the Christ, the Messiah. You're to hear from him.
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  Verse 24. Yes.
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  And all the prophets from Samuel and those who follow, as many as
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  have spoken have also foretold these days that this wasn't
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  Moses, there was others. You are sons of the prophets and
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  of the covenant which God made with our fathers saying to
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  Abraham, and in your seed all the families of the earth shall
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  be blessed to you first. God having raised up his
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  servant, Jesus sent him to bless you and turning away everyone of
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  you from your iniquities. And so the gospel is the same
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  today as it was in the days of the book of the Acts.
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  It's still empowered by the the work of the Holy Spirit and it
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  convicts people and it causes them to see their need of Jesus.
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  But for some reason right now, and you can study this later, we
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  went through it extensively when we went through the book of
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  Romans. You can read Romans chapter 9:10
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  and 11:00 and it'll sort of encapsulate all this plan that
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  God has for Israel while they're blind, in part so that the the
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  gospel would come to us and we would receive it, and that
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  eventually Israel and the Jewish people would become jealous of
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  us because we've become partakers of this covenant that
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  God gave to Abraham. They've sort of cut themselves
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  off from the covenant temporarily because of their
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  unbelief, but God promises in the 11th chapter of Romans the
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  answer the question from Paul was, was God through with
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  Israel? No, he isn't.
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  He's got this plan for Israel that the nation would be saved
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  in the last days. So there was this great revival
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  in in Israel and many, almost all the population that hadn't
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  been martyred during the tribulation will come to faith
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  in Christ. Matter of fact, it says whenever
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  he returns a second coming, it'll really dawn on them
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  because it says every eye will see him and they'll look up when
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  he's coming and they'll see him whom they appear 1st and it'll
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  it'll 'cause their hearts to be broken and contrite and
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  repentant and believe. So they preach this message.
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  Now I'm thinking about Peter as an individual human being like
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  us. How different he was weeks
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  before this event. What compelled him now to do
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  what it is he's doing here? They're going to face
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  persecution because of this, this message he's proclaiming.
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  Why did he struggle that night when they asked him directly if
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  he knew who Jesus was? Well, the big difference is the
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  empowerment of the Holy Spirit. He's a different man now and I
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  don't think at times we realize how different we are or how
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  different we could be because of this same Holy Spirit that lives
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  in US. Many times we have challenges
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  and I don't, I can't do this or I'm not able to do this.
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  And that's a good recognition in regard to spiritual work.
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  I, I can't do what I'm doing here today apart from the work
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  of the Holy Spirit. There's no way.
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  And I know that in the core of my being, I have one or two
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  alternatives. I come up here in my own
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  strength and I do some study and I try to give you some
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  information and hope that it has some impact.
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  But that's futility because without the Holy Spirit, there
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  will be nothing happening here today in your heart of mine.
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  And so there is a difference between us living life,
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  believing and loving God, trusting God, and also being
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  empowered and filled with the Spirit of God.
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  And as we're studying this book, I hope my prayer is that myself
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  as well as you are investigating more and more of this need to be
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  filled with God's Spirit. He may be putting something on
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  your heart about a ministry or a service or something that you're
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  stalled because you're thinking, I can't commit to this, I can't
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  do this. I don't have the strength, I
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  don't have the ability. I mean, we got all these excuses
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  before God and the Lord already said, well, without me you can't
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  do anything. So why don't you just ask me to
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  do it in you and I'll do it through you?
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  Well, that's a novel idea. I never really thought about
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  that. I never really thought about
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  asking God for help. I thought I had to do it all
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  myself, right? You ever think that way?
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  But we can say, God, I, I, I sense what it is you want and
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  what it is you desire and I'm willing, but you have to give me
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  the grace and fill me with the power to do what it is you've
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  called me to do. And he'll do that for you.
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  He really will. So now they're entering this
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  chapter 4 and they're, they're in the process of getting
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  arrested, Peter and John getting arrested.
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  They're going to be arrested by the same people that came
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  against Christ and had him crucified.
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  Now, I would be somewhat intimidated in saying, boy, this
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  looks somewhat familiar here. These same, some of these same
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  characters that took Jesus and, you know, beat him and, and
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  eventually crucified him. What's going to happen to us
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  now? But they weren't worried about
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  that because they were in power by the Holy Spirit.
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  And you read the writings of the apostle Paul and imprisoned
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  numerous time. He was never crying about, you
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  know, what was happening or afraid of what was going to
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  happen. He distrusted God and, and it's
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  because of the Holy Spirit's influence and power in his life.
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  And so now these guys are going to encounter some persecution.
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  And when you think about persecution, what wouldn't, What
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  would cause you or me to be willing to go through
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  persecution or to have a uncomfortable conversation or
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  relationship with someone who doesn't like us because we want
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  to tell them about Jesus? The only thing that would cause
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  you or me or these guys to do what it is they're doing is that
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  they are full of the Spirit and that Holy Spirit attributes are
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  Lovejoy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, temperance,
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  and self-control. So the love of Jesus was so deep
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  in these guys that they were willing to sacrifice their own
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  lives for the sake of others coming to know Him.
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  They asked Paul at times, you know, one verse in the in the
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  Bible, they they said, well, what what causes you to, to put
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  up with this abuse and rejection and frustration with the
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  churches at times. He said, it's the love of Christ
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  that compels me. The love of Christ is so
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  powerful that it can cause us to overcome the greatest
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  adversities and challenges of life.
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  And now as they spoke to the people, the priest, the captain
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  of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them being greatly
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  disturbed. They, these guys are uptight,
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  they're mad. This isn't a calm conversation
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  that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the
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  resurrection of the dead. Though the Sadducees of the of
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  all these leaders were the group that didn't believe in a literal
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  resurrection. They didn't believe in life
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  after death. They didn't believe in the
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  Spirit, and so this was a complete affront to their
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  religion and their theology. And so they took great offense
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  at what this message was about. The Pharisees believed in the
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  resurrection, so they were on a different page than the
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  Sadducees, but nonetheless, they were all against this person,
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  Jesus Christ. They were against them when they
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  crucified him, and now they're against him with his followers.
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  They're greatly disturbed that they taught the people and
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  preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead and
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  they laid hands on them and put them in custody until the next
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  day. So they're they're thrown in
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  jail and they spend the night in jail.
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  But it was already evening. However, many of those who heard
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  the word believed and the number of the men came to about 5000.
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  So as I said in the early part of Acts 3000 came to know the
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  Lord. They hear this message of
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  Peter's preaching. Several thousand more people
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  come to know the Lord. So there's this great, great
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  movement of God's Spirit opening the eyes of many, many Jewish
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  people to believe that Jesus is a Christ.
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  Nonetheless, there's still a lot of people that aren't wanting to
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  believe or, you know, refusing to believe.
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  So Peter addresses the the Sanhedrin.
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  And the Sanhedrin is this group of, you know, political leaders.
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  And they set the precedent for the rules and regulations of how
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  things go down in their religion.
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  The Apostle Paul was a member of the Sanhedrin, obviously, before
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  he became saved and met the Lord Jesus.
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  And we'll study about that down the road in the book of the
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  Acts. And it came to pass on the next
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  day that they're rulers, elders and scribes, as well as Anis,
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  the high priest, Caiaphas, John and Alexander, and many were of
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  the family of the high priest were gathered together in at
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  Jerusalem. So what's interesting is when
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  these people like retired or died, it was like the ultimate
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  nepotism. I mean, they had their family,
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  their kids, their relatives, all controlling what's happening in
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  the in the particular empire at the time.
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  And so some of these guys were familiar and some of them were
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  descendants of the other ones. And when they had set them in
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  the midst, they asked by what power or by what name have you
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  done this? Good question, isn't it?
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  By what power or by what name have you done this?
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  Then Peter filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  And that's important to underline in your Bible.
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  Peter this and get up there and start giving him a rebuttal of
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  his position and giving him a bunch of doctrines and defenses.
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  It says and, and for his for our benefit, to know that the only
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  way he could deal with this group of people that were
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  persecuting them would be to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  And, and you and me. That's we have to remember, like
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  when we're in positions of real difficulty, challenges with
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  people in situations, whether it's work or home or family or
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  neighbors or just life itself. I mean, we got to stop that.
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  God, I can't, I can't maneuver this.
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  I need a fresh empowerment and filling of your Holy Spirit.
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  I don't know how to move forward with this.
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  Well, Peter understood the need to be filled with the Holy
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  Spirit, and he was filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  Numerous teachings throughout the book of the Acts, you'll see
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  continual fresh infillings of God's Spirit.
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  He said rulers of the people and elders of Israel.
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  If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless
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  man, by what means he has been made, well, let it be known to
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  you all and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of
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  Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised
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  from the dead by him, this man stands here before you whole.
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  So it's only through the power of God in the name of Jesus
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  Christ that this blame man who was lame since birth, he was
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  about 40 when he got this healing is standing there before
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  them whole. This is the stone in verse 11
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  which was rejected by you. This is from Psalm 118 by you
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  builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.
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  So they got all this religion, religious activity going on.
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  They got all this stuff they're working with as a as a nation,
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  and they are missing the key ingredient to the effectiveness
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  of their faith and their theology because they used
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  everything that God had provided through the Old Testament, the
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  symbolism, the sacrifices, everything that was in place
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  except the key to making all this work at the time.
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  And that is Jesus Christ. He's the chief cornerstone.
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  Without him, none of this stuff can work.
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  And then he says something very, very specific here in verse 12.
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  And now today we're living in a day that you and I tell people
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  this stuff and they'll they'll call us bigots, close minded.
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  They'll say there's other, there's got to be other ways.
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  That's not fair. You know what?
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  Why do we need to have? Why do we need Jesus?
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  Can't we do it some other way? They don't understand this whole
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  truth of the Bible and understanding that Christ is the
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  only one that could shed his blood for the remission of sin.
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  The Bible tells us without the shedding of blood, there is no
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  forgiveness of sin. Not your blood, not my blood,
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  not Buddha's blood, not Muhammad's blood, not Krishna's
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  blood. Only the blood of Jesus could
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  cleanse us from sin. So that's why he specifically
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  says, and this is a key verse in the Bible, that you know you
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  should memorize and know when you have conversations with
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  people. Nor is there salvation in any
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  other, for there is no other name under heaven given among
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  men by which we must be saved. Amen.
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  Period, exclamation point, dot it.
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  I mean, that's it. There is no other way of
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  salvation. And Jesus talked about this.
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  He said I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life.
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  No man cometh to the Father but through me, right?
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  There's no other way. And so all of us here today, the
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  majority of us have come to faith in Christ.
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  Thank God by His grace that he saved us, for by grace we've
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  been saved through faith. Amen.
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  And this certainly was not of ourselves.
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  It's a gift of God, not of works.
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  And no one can boast, for we are His workmanship, creating Christ
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  Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained, that we
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  should walk in them. And so this whole focus of
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  ministry that's happening in this world today is rooted and
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  based upon this foundation, this chief cornerstone that Jesus is
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  the Christ, the Son of the living God, and there's
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  salvation and no other name. Now, when they saw the boldness
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  of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated and
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  untrained men, they marveled and they realized that they had been
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  with Jesus. Well, not only had they been
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  with Jesus, they're still with Jesus.
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  And you and me are with Jesus right now, right?
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  He's here with us, present with us.
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  And so this is not a past tense thing here.
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  Would they think it's a past tense thing?
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  And seeing the man who had been healed standing with him, they
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  could say nothing against it, because if they started
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  challenging the reality of this man's miracle, the people would
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  have flipped out. But when they had commanded them
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  to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
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  saying, and what shall we do to these men?
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  For if indeed that a notable miracle has been done through
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  them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, we cannot deny it.
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  But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us
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  severely threaten them that from now on they speak to no man in
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  this name. Can you imagine that?
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  I mean, like, there's no way Peter and John are going to say,
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  oh, OK, we won't talk about this anymore.
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  Like you and me. We're we're, there's no way
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  we're not going to tell someone what Jesus has done for us.
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  I mean, it's like ludicrous. So in verse 18 they called them
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  and commanded them not to speak at all, nor teach in the name of
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  Jesus. But Peter and John answered and
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  said to them, Whether it is right and the sight of God to
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  listen to you more than to God you judge.
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  For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and
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  heard. So when they had further
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  threatened them, they let them go, finding no way of punishing
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  them. So God's favor, grace,
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  protection, he told them in the Gospels, don't worry what you're
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  going to say or how you're going to respond when you're brought
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  before the authorities, you'll be given what it is you need to
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  know to say by the Spirit when that time comes.
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  And obviously this is obviously happening here occurring and so
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  it says they leave and because of the people since they all
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  glorify God for what had been done for the man was over 40
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  years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
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  So you know what, what's the challenge for us today.
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  I just felt let read first Corinthians 13.
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  This is a many devotion because if I don't have God's love in me
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  and you don't have God's love in you.
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  All we are is a clanging gong and a noisy cymbal.
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  We can give information, but we can't see transformation apart
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  from the work of the Spirit of God through the love of God.
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  This is the biggest need in the world today.
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  The love of God, it says, in the last days the love of many will
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  wax cold. In other words, people's hearts
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  will become cold and cold and indifferent.
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  And we don't want that to happen to us.
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  And this is a good chapter to read once in a while to just
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  think about where you are. And you can put your name in the
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  different descriptions of what love is and see how you think
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  you might be doing. And if it's you're, you're
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  struggling you, you got to ask the Holy Spirit to fill you so
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  that this love can come through. Though I speak with the tongues
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  of men and of angels, but have not love, I've become the
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  sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
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  And though I've had the gift of prophecy and understanding all
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  mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that
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  I could remove mountains, but have not love, I'm nothing.
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  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I
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  give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me
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  nothing. Love suffers long and is kind.
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  Love does not envy. Love does not parade itself, is
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  not puffed up, does not behave rudely.
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  Love does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil,
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  does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth, bears
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  all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all
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  things. Love never fails.
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  But whether there are prophecies, they will fail.
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  Whether there are tongues, they will cease.
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  Whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
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  For we know in part, and we prophecy in part.
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  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in
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  part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a
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  child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.
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  But when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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  For now we see in a mere dimly, but then face to face.
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  Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am
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  known. And now abide Faith, hope, and
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  love, these three. But the greatest of these is
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  love. Father, we come before you,
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  Lord, humbled by your scriptures.
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  Today as we study the book of the Acts and we see how merciful
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  you were and how powerful you work through human lives, how
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  you want to work through each of our lives.
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  And use us, Father, with this wonderful message that can
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  change lives and give people the hope and the promise of eternal
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  life, Lord. There's a need in this world
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  today for the gospel more than I think any time I've ever lived.
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  I just see the the insanity that's happening in this world,
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  Lord. And you're the only answer,
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  Christ. You are the answer.
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  And your word can change people, it can change lives, it can
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  change cultures and civilizations.
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  It can change governments. It can change authorities and
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  leaders. Lord, we don't have to live
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  hopeless lives. We can live with this hope of
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  the gospel and then look for opportunities to share it and
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  also to pray for others, to be given opportunities to stand
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  before kings and Princess, to proclaim the need of Christ, the
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  Prince of peace. And Lord, we ask by your grace,
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  Lord, that you would favor us and impart to us a greater
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  manifestation of this love that you have for this world.
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  Pour it into us so it can be poured out of us, that we would
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  have patience with people that we would have a desire to love
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  even when we're not loved, Lord, and to give it all for you,
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  Lord, as you've given it for us. Lord, we know this is a prayer
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  that you will answer if our hearts are open to having more
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  of you and less of us. So Lord, please do that in US
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  and do it in this church. Lord, we can be a stronger
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  influence for you in this community and wherever we go,
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  wherever we work, wherever we live, we thank you, Father.
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  We're so glad you joined us today on this edition of Living
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  Waters of Grace. Pastor Clark is teaching through
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  the Book of Acts, which is the only book that chronicles the
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  history of the early church immediately after Jesus's
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  ascension. It gives us a front row seat to
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  how the Gospel began to move outwards, starting in Jerusalem
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  and reaching into the heart of the Roman Empire.
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  In just three decades, a small group of frightened ordinary
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  believers became a bold, spirit empowered movement that
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  transformed the known world. Acts is not just a history
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  lesson, it's a reminder of what God can do when His people are
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  surrendered, obedient, and filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  Their perseverance still inspires us today.
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  May we follow their example and live faithfully for Christ in
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  our own time. We hope today's message
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  encouraged you. Living Waters of Grace is a
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  ministry of Calvary Chapel, Westmoreland.
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  If you're in the Greensburg, PA area, we'd love to have you join
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  us in person. Our Sunday service begins at
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  10:30 AM at 400 E Pittsburgh St., Unit 6B.
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  Be sure to visit calvarychapelonline.com to
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  confirm times and learn more. If you are in the Greensburg
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  area, you can listen to Grace FM on the new 91.7 frequency.
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  Please pray about supporting this outreach.
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  Gifts can be sent to Grace FMPO, Box 716, Greensburg, PA 15601.
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  Thank you for tuning in and spending this time in God's
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  Word. Be sure to join us again for
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  Living Waters of Grace.