00:00 Introduction

01:16 Acts 15

01:41 The Jerusalem Council and Gentile Believers

07:13 Paul and Barnabas' Missionary Journey

08:29 Paul and Timothy's Ministry

14:01 The Philippian Jailer and Household Baptism

16:45 Paul's Roman Citizenship and Release

18:34 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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It's a Saturday.

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What's up.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hopefully you're enjoying

the weather, man.

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The weather has been perfect.

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This is the time of year

to live in Texas right now.

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But only this time, the rest of the time.

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I mean.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Th this is the time of year when you

can have your windows open, though.

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Which is a game changer.

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Yeah, my wife reminded me the other day.

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She was like, we lived in Southern

California where we could have our, we.

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The sliding glass door in our bedroom.

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And we could leave that open

all day, most of the year.

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And it was amazing.

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Yeah, especially at night because

it would cool off at night.

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Out here it's during the summer.

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It's just more like darkie.

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It's just right.

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Yeah, we keep our, keep our stuff close

even then, because there's, there's,

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you know, there's lots of debris.

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We're next to a concrete processing plant

and another plant across the outer loop.

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So even with that, there's some of

that stuff that we keep track of.

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So we have, we have those

air filters in our house.

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Uh, to help.

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To purify some of the air.

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I'm sure we're still getting a lot

of that stuff, no matter what, but.

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We keep our windows

closed most of the time.

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Yeah, but we still go outside.

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So we get some, some outdoor time.

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We found that we were getting some

of that in our office the other day.

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We walked in and there was a black

charcoal pieces all over the, the

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furniture on the floor and stuff.

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I found out that there was a vent

to the outside, just open up and.

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The brief was coming in and filling up our

filters and our filters were like, here's

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all the charcoal that you guys need in

your office now, but we got to fixed it.

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Thankfully.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey, let's jump in.

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Uh, actually for 15 and 16, actually

for 15 and 16 in, and this is where

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again, the chronological plan comes in.

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So helpfully, because in

acts 15, we're turning now.

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Uh, to Jerusalem and Paul and Barnabas

have been out on their missionary journey.

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They finished up their missionary journey.

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And in the context they're in and

throughout that time in Antioch and

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other places, They were sharing the

gospel with unbelievers, with Gentiles,

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and these Gentiles were coming to

faith in these Gentiles who were

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responding and becoming Christians.

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Well, They were left with

the question of what do we do

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with the Gentiles and the law?

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How do we handle this?

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How do we address this?

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And we're going to get to Galatians.

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Uh, in the coming days here

and in Galatians, that's kind

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of what Paul's writing about.

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He's running about that same thing.

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Hey, what do we do with

the Gentiles in the law?

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And they didn't know in what may

seem so obvious to us where we sit.

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You know, some, almost 2000 years

later was brand new to them.

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The law was such an integral

part of what it meant to be a

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Jew in the first century Israel.

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And so here you have these non Jews coming

to faith in Jesus who didn't know anything

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about the law, they weren't circumcised.

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They didn't have the 10 commandments.

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They didn't know.

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And the question from the

Jews was w what should we do?

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And yes, there were some nefarious groups

that were going out, trying to impose.

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Uh, the, the law upon these early

Christians when, when they shouldn't have,

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and, and Paul's going to write against

them specifically in Galatians, but here,

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this is just them trying to figure it out.

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They're there real time.

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The book of acts is unfolding.

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Here's the early church, and

this is what's happening in.

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Luke's giving us all these details.

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As they're really just trying

to get to the bottom of how

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do we, how do we do this?

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How do we follow Jesus?

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What's our new relationship to the

law and that's what's going on here.

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In acts chapter 15.

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Uh, as it opens up in verses two

through three, um, the, the issue

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is big enough that it posed a threat

to the whole unity of the church.

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Um, If not handled appropriately, this

may have led to the first degree schism.

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And we see that there, it says

after Paul and Barnabas had no small

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dissension in debate with them.

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Paul and Barnabas and some of the

others were appointed to go up to

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Jerusalem and the apostles and the

elders to bring about this question.

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So being sent on the way to.

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By the church, they pass

through Phoenicia and Samaria.

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Uh, describing in detail, the

conversion of the Gentiles brought

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Graigewood all the brothers.

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So th this is people are

choosing sides on this.

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Yes, we need to do this.

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No, we don't need to do this.

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Yes.

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A Gentile convert needs to do this part.

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No, they don't need to do this part.

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And so this had to be handled well,

otherwise this post a threat to the

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entirety, in fact, that the very

existence of the church as a whole now.

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We know the rest of the story, so we

know it's going to be resolved, but

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at this point, this is a big deal.

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This is a massive deal for them.

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In verses eight through 11, when the

issue is brought before the council.

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Uh, Peter stands up and testifies to

God's saving of the Gentiles under his

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ministry, just as he had saved the Jews.

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And he'd given them the same

spirit that he'd given to the Jews.

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And then he concluded this, this, uh,

testimony in front of the council here.

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Uh, by exposing the, the main issue,

which was why put a yoke, which is the

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law on the Gentiles that even the Jews

could not bear up under the, in that God

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himself had, had not given them to bear.

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In other words, Paul is going

to say this in Galatians.

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He's going to say, why would I restore

a rebuild that which was torn down?

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Uh, and, and that's what

Peter's point is here.

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He's saying, look, the law was

never meant to, to justify.

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None of us could bear up under this.

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And so why would we require

something of these Gentile

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converts that even we ourselves.

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Uh, can't bear up under, uh,

in, in, in our own efforts here.

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And so Peter gives that testimony.

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And then in verses 12 through

21 here in chapter 15, Uh, Paul.

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In Barnabas, both give more.

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Uh, testimony of their own

experiences and, and James is the

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one that issues, the final decision.

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James being the head of the church,

we just read the book of James.

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And so again, this is why this Chronicle

chronological plane is so helpful.

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The half-brother of Jesus.

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He stands up and he cites

Amos nine, 11, and 12.

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Amos nine, 11 and 12 says in that day

I will raise up the booth of David that

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has fallen and repairs breaches and raise

up its ruins and rebuild the days of

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old that they may possess the remnant of

Edam in all the here's the word nations,

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goyim, Gentiles, who are called by my

name declares, the Lord who does this.

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And so James is saying, look, this is in

fulfillment of what God has been saying.

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He's going to do the whole time.

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So he rejected the notion that the

Gentile believers needed to be saddled

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with the law of Moses and suggested

instead that they should be instructed

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and what they need to do abstain

from things that previously had been

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part of their, their culture maybe.

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And so that's kind of the, the, the

Jerusalem council in a nutshell.

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So one of the reasons why we just

read James yesterday is because the

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belief is that James would not have

ignored this conversation in his book.

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Had this have taken place

before he had written.

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So the reason we read all of James is

because we believe James can be for

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this event, even though we're read

chronologically, you probably could have

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deduced that, but it's important because

here James, one of the, the leaders, if

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not the defacto leader in the Jerusalem

church, Uh, it seems to carry the kind

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of weight that not even Peter has here.

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He's he gives it a final definitive word.

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And James slash Jacob really is

the one who says all these things.

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He closes the subject.

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He says, this is my judgment.

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This is what I think we should do.

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They listen to him.

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But again, it's not mentioned in his book.

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And if this happened before he

wrote his book, it seems like he

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might've said something about this.

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Uh, there are some questions though.

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Uh, talk about why he says, so

we understand abstain from things

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polluted by idols, sexual morality.

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Obviously.

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What about the things that have

been strangled and from blood?

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Oh, this clearly is not new Testament law.

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That seems like it's alluding

to old Testament law.

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So what's that about?

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Yeah, I think.

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With the blood side, probably

the connection to idol

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worship and some of the other.

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Uh, you know, ceremonial

cultural issues there.

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Um, things strangled.

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I'm not sure.

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I don't know that I've ever

looked into that specifically

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to, to land on, on that one.

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So I'd love to get your, uh,

your thoughts, what you've

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you've come across in that.

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Uh, it seems like it's a way to

not offend the Jewish people.

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Uh, as, uh, I mean, uh, Um, mangled body.

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And not that there's necessarily

inherently anything wrong with

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that, but it's a way to say,

look, we don't want to offend.

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Unnecessarily.

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Uh, the Jewish heritage

that we're receiving from.

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So I think that's really

the tenor of these things.

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Obviously some of this

is law, sexual morality.

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Don't don't do that.

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Don't.

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I don't engage with idolatry, but the

idea, the gist and my estimation is

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that he's trying to say, look, don't

cause unnecessary offense, which I think

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is a good thing for us to take today.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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It is.

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Yeah.

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And that, that does make sense here.

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And so what happens then in, in verses

23 through 35 is, is the, uh, the.

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The council there, dispassionate Paul

and Barnabas back with this letter.

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And so they take the letter back

to the Gentile believers and they

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share that with them and say,

look, this is what we're doing.

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And I got to imagine since one

of the stipulations was not in

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circumcise all your mails to.

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It's probably a lot of relief

and celebration going on in any

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Antioquia when they came back with

that, that letter at that point.

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Um, From here they go out on

their second missionary journey.

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So versus a 36 through 41, really the

S the second journey is going to be ax.

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Uh, 1536 all the way through acts 1822.

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And here is where we revisit

the issue of John mark.

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Uh, end of chapter 15, Paul and Barnabas

separate, even though they split because.

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Barnabas and wants to take John mark.

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And Paul says, no.

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Paul says this guy abandoned us on

our first missionary journey and I

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can't trust him on the second one.

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I can't trust that.

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He's going to stick with

us on the second one now.

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They're going to reconcile in the

future, and we're going to see

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that in future Pauline epistles.

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But for right now.

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John John mark.

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And Paul had a severed relationship

that led to a several relationship

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with Paul and Barnabas.

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It's just a reminder that mint sin still

exists in the church and I'm not calling

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out one of the other, but just the

brokenness of human relationships can.

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Can creep into the church, such that.

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The situation with John mark, John

Mark's decision to, to leave in the

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first missionary journey now leads to

a separation and a split up of Paul.

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And Barbus even in this point.

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I mean, that's, that's, that's hard

to, to, to deal with here because

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Paul and Barnabas had a good thing

going, they were doing well now.

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Things are going to be okay.

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God is going to use this still because

Barnabas is going to go on with John

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mark and he's going to do things.

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And then Paul's going to leave and pick

up a guy named Silas, who we first find

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out about there in acts chapter 15.

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Back in the previous section

being sent with, uh, with Paul

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and Barnabas and the letter.

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So Silas is there.

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Silas is going to be a key player

in the second missionary journey.

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And then as chapter 16, turns the page,

we right away get introduced to another

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key player that Paul is going to pick

up because he doesn't have Barnabas

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and he doesn't have John mark anymore.

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And that is Timothy and we know

Timothy well, because Timothy

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is going to receive two letters.

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Timothy is going to become a

pastor in the early church.

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He's going to plant churches for Paul.

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So Timothy shows up here in

verses one through five while

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Paul's there visiting Derby.

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Uh, Paul and Silas pick them up and,

and Timothy is a young man here who.

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Uh, was brought up in the faith and

he was, uh, was known as, uh, the son

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of a Jewish woman who was a believer.

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And we're going to find out in

Paul's letters to Timothy, just what

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influence his mom and even his grandma

had on his life's a lady's Timothy

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is a result of faithful, godly women

instructing this, uh, this young

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man and pointing them to Jesus.

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So.

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He picks him up.

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And he does something

interesting Pescara thoughts.

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We just talked about.

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The law doesn't apply.

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And yet in 16, three, Uh, politics,

Timothy and has him circumcised so that

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he can take them with him on his journey.

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What gives here?

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How has this not contradictory?

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Yeah.

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I think the motivation behind the

circumcision is really at the heart of

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this whole thing in Galatians chapter

two or Paul prohibits this idea.

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It's not because he's saying.

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Uh, it's not for the same

reason that he's doing it here.

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He's saying circumcision as a means

of justification is, is inappropriate.

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It's not good.

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It's not fitting.

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That's not the basis of our right.

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Standing with God.

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However, when it comes to

circumcision for the sake of not

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causing offense and not adding an

unnecessary obstacle to the gospel.

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Uh, it's fascinating that he's

saying, yeah, let's do this.

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This makes it's, it's the right

thing for the right reason.

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And that's really the whole shebang

there when it comes to the things

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that we do or don't do as Christians.

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Part of the question has

to be, why am I doing this?

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If I'm doing it as a means to earn or

Curry favor with God and a salvific sense.

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Through a means of justification.

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And then it's wrong.

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But a lot of the things that we

would tell people not to do to earn

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their justification, we would say

definitely do for your sanctification.

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Uh, as we're going to tell

people, like, don't go to church

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too, to be right with God.

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But if you're trying to be sanctified,

you better go to church, go to church.

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Uh, if we're telling people, look, don't

read your Bible to be right with God.

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We're going to tell Christians, Hey,

read your Bible, stay close to the Lord.

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Draw near to him.

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Pray, memorized scripture.

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We can talk about a million different

things that we're going to tell

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Christians they should do as Christians.

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What the motive being.

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I want to love my neighbor.

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I want to love my God.

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I want to love my church that are

totally inappropriate when it comes

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to, should I do this as a means of.

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Earning my position before God.

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And of course the answer

is no, absolutely not.

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So that's what you see here is

something that we all need to learn.

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Well, it's inappropriate for

salvation is not inappropriate

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when it comes to sanctification,

at least in this particular sense.

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And that's, that's so good.

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And we're actually going to talk

about that on Sunday, because Jesus

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is going to tell his disciples.

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I am the vine abide in me.

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And so one of the points that we're going

to make on Sunday is he says, I am the

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vine it's, uh, it's our standing with God.

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The, the root of our fruit has

to be a relationship with Jesus.

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He doesn't say, you know,

going to church is divine.

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He doesn't say reading

our Bible is the vine.

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He doesn't say that, you know,

Knowing doctrine and theology is,

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is the vine, are those things good?

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Yes.

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A hundred percent.

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Those things are good.

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And we wouldn't say avoid

any of those things.

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We would say you need those things.

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That's part of your significant

sanctification and your

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growth in Christ likeness.

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But your standing before

God, that's about Jesus.

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That.

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That's connected to him.

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And so, yeah, you're right.

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It still does apply to us today

with our pursuit of sanctification.

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For sure.

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Verses six through 10.

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Then this is an interesting situation

because here we see that the holy

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Spirit's instrumentality in guiding

and directing this missionary journey.

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Um, Paul, it says he was forbidden by the

holy spirit to speak the word in Asia.

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Why.

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I don't, I don't know.

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I'm not sure.

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We may find out eventually in eternity,

but we're not given a reason here other

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than it was abundantly clear to Paul.

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Don't go to Asia.

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Okay.

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So where do you want me to go?

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Well, he provides this vision, which

is this Macedonian call, which is a man

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of Macedonia, which is the region of

Philippi, which we're going to see here.

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And Amanda standing there saying,

come over to Macedonia and help us.

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And so policies, the vision understands

it to be the voice of God directing him.

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And so he goes, and he ends up there

in Macedonia, which is Philippi.

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And he's gonna meet two individuals there.

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He's going to meet Lydia.

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And he's also gonna meet the, what

was going to meet a lot more than two

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individuals, but two main individuals,

Lydia in the Philippian jailer.

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And those are going to be two of

the people that when he writes the

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book of Philippians, I mean, these

are some of the people that he has

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in mind as he writes that letter.

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So the first person up is Lydia and

she's found there in Philippi, which

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was a leading city, Roman colony,

significant port there, or region there.

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Uh, in, in the region of Macedonia in

verses 16 through 14, Paul comes upon

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her and she's kind of leading a local

Bible study there on the Sabbath.

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And so the Lord opens Lydia's heart.

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Again, his sovereignty here.

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To hear and believe the things

said by Saul or by Paul rather.

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And so the, the, the Macedonian

call, when, when God said go

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here, it's because he had a divine

appointment ready for Paul and Lydia.

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And so he preaches the gospel to Lydia.

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And then in verse 15, it says even

her whole household also, it says

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when she was baptized and her whole

household as well, she urged a seeing

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if you've judged me faithful to the

Lord, come to my house and stay.

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Uh, okay.

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Pastor, rod, I was listening to

somebody recently, uh, give it a

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fence for infant baptism and I.

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I was unconvinced.

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Uh, but one of the things they did is

they pointed to this passage and they

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said, look, after she was baptized and

her whole household as well, she urged the

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saying, if you've judged me to be faithful

to the Lord, come to my house and stay.

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So they point to that and say

her whole household was baptized.

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And so this is why there's at least.

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Uh, a possibility that the

scriptures argue for infant baptism.

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And this would be called a

typical argument from silence.

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You're adding much more into the

text and is what then what is said.

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Uh, so the, the arguments.

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A little more fully is certainly in

any ancient near Eastern household.

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There's going to be a variety of ages.

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And certainly there are kids there,

kids and infants and small people

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that really don't have the ability.

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To say yay or nay when it comes

to the reception of Christ.

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And we're going to say the, the text.

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Doesn't tell us that

they're baptizing babies.

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In fact, we're going to come across

another household soon and Silas.

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Uh, well, not Silas, the Philippian

jailer, where you're going to see

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another household that's baptized,

but there's a critical turn.

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And what Paul says that makes it evident.

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He's not talking about children.

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So hold that question and we'll take a

look at this again, in a few moments.

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Speaking of that they go on

from here and there's a, a.

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Uh, a man going through the city

with, with this servant behind her

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and the servant begins to cry out.

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Hey, these people are serving to

the most high God and include the,

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she is possessed by a spirit that

is able to discern these things.

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And so Paul, it says greatly annoyed

terms and cast the demon out of her

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and the, the, the man is going to

lose money because she was telling

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people's fortunes, so to speak.

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And that was demonic in this instance.

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It's not always demonic, though.

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It is always dark.

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I would say.

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Uh, sometimes it's just fraudulent here.

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It was some demonic thing

going on here and that the man

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realizes I've lost my money.

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So he trumped up charges.

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He gets the city in a tizzy

and they arrest Paul and

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they throw him in jail now.

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Uh, Paul and Silas are there

in intimidate in jail and they

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are, they're not disturbed.

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They're like Peter, there are singing.

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And they're they're, they're worshiping

and they're, they're praising the Lord

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and there's a great earthquake in all

the doors are open everyone's bonds

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are unfastened and the jailer wakes

up thinking what everybody else would

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think, oh no, the earthquake happened.

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All my prisoners escaped I'm dead.

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And so in order to spare himself,

the execution from the Romans that

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would surely come at the heels of

this, he went to go take his own life.

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Paul stops him says don't hurt yourself.

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We're all still here,

which speaks to again.

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Just that the power of what God was doing

in the life of Paul and Timothy, because

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in silence, because not only did those

three stay, but they were able to convince

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everybody else, all the other prisoners,

not to go anywhere at this point.

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So the jailer's amazed.

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He recognizes something's going on here.

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Verse 30.

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He says to them, In in

just abject humility.

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He says, SIRS, what must I do to be saved?

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Which is interesting that he

immediately asked that question.

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Which tells us that Paul and Timothy and

Silas had probably been talking to him.

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About why they were there and what

they were doing at that point.

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I don't think he's going to

earthquake happens randomly.

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Oh, look, all the prisoners.

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Are there, SIRS?

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What must I do to be saved?

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He, he knew because they'd been talking

to him why they were there in prison.

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They respond verse 31.

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Believe in the Lord.

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Jesus, you will be saved.

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And here's uh, I think pastor,

rod, what you're saying here.

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This phrase here at the end of

verse 31 at you and your household.

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And then verse 32, they spoke the

word of the Lord to him and to

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all those who were in his house.

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That's right.

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And you'll notice here that

way commands in verse 31 is the

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imperative that we had command.

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All people now believe

repentant belief, but re belief.

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Believe.

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So he's talking to the entire household

and saying basically to those who

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have the ability to believe belief.

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You can see this again in verse

34, they rejoiced, he rejoiced

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along with his entire household

that he had believed in God.

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So it stands to reason that those who

responded favorably to the gospel call

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were those who were capable of believing.

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And then consequently, we're baptized.

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So it's really hard to argue here.

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Well, obviously includes babies.

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Babies would have been thrown in there and

dipped, and we would say along with Dr.

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Mohler friend, put that baby down.

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That's not, it's not appropriate.

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There's no babies here.

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A baby can't believe in.

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Therefore a baby can not be baptized.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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Wholeheartedly with that.

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In the morning then after the jailer

cleans them up and, and bandages their

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wounds and other things like this.

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Uh, the, the magistrates, the

city officials come to release

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them and the jailer goes to Paul

and says, Hey, you guys can go.

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But Paul here is going to flex

a little bit and he's going to,

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and this is interesting because

it's not the culture suffers.

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Believers is not necessarily

the call to be a doormat.

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And here Paul appeals to Roman law

to kind of turn the tables a little

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bit on those that had persecuted him.

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Because he says, no, no, we're

Roman citizens and they need

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to own up to what they've done.

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And so for a Roman citizen to be

mistreated the way that Paul and

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Timothy and Silas had been here

was, was a huge, huge problem.

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And so.

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That's why in verse 38, the police

reported these words to the magistrates

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and they were afraid because what they

had done was illegal and they could

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be held accountable to these things.

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So they came.

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They apologized profusely.

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They take them and ask

them to leave the city.

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And when they went out to the prison,

they visit Lydia and then they go on to

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encourage the others and then they depart.

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So, uh, kind of a w for Jesus here

at the end of, of Philippians chapter

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16, or acts chapter 16, rather.

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Uh, in Philippi where they say,

Hey, no, you need to come in

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and escort us out of prison here

and own what you've done to us.

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Which goes to show that there are times

to use the law when it makes sense.

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There are times to utilize your

citizenship when it makes sense.

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And it certainly speaks of stewarding

the stewardship that you have.

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And then Paul, as a Roman.

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Flex because he had the rights that

were afforded him as a Roman citizen.

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We're American citizens now.

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And we just recently flexed

our citizenship by voting.

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Now, granted, it's a bit of a process

in terms of how it applies to.

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Uh, to, to whoever is elected in the

office, but certainly see the point here.

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Paul was not afraid to utilize his

natural citizenship in order to

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support his heavenly citizenship.

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You and I have to think the

same way about that should not

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be thinking only tan poorly.

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Uh, we don't want to get so

invested that we become, you know,

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simply political talking heads.

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That's certainly a danger.

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But do notice here that Paul utilizes his

political leverage when it makes sense.

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And certainly we should be thinking

strategically about using ours in the same

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way, when it makes sense for the kingdom.

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Yeah.

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Let's uh, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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God, we thank you so much for these.

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Uh, these chapters chapter 15,

chapter 16 of the book of acts.

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How we see you moving and

building your church there.

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Even just the direction of Paul

and Silas and Timothy on this

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missionary journey, you redirecting

them away from Asia and over to.

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To the region of Macedonia to

the Philippines to meet Lydia

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and the Philippian jailer as

those of us who are in Christ.

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Think back on our own lives, you

brought people into our lives

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to share the gospel with us.

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You've got people that you're going

to bring into our lives, presently

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that we are now the ones to share

the gospel with them because you

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want the gospel communicated.

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Uh, in such a way.

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And so we were grateful for that.

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We're grateful for your sovereignty.

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Also, as I've said, many times

before, thankful that we don't know.

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Who is, and who is not part of the

elect and that we get to go out

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freely and proclaim the gospel to

as many people as we possibly can.

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So give us that passion, that desire.

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And a fruitfulness in

that endeavor as well.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Hey, keep it in your Bibles and

tune in again tomorrow for another

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edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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Bye.