00:00 Happy Thanksgiving!

00:16 Don't Get Injured This Thanksgiving

00:42 Learn from Pastor PJ

02:02 Thanksgiving Traditions and Celebrations

02:29 Technical Tips for Watching Thanksgiving Football

03:28 Acts 18

9:20 Acts 19

15:09 Pray It Up

Happy Thanksgiving edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Everybody, man, you're

doing a great job already.

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Just opening up the DBR, doing your Bible,

reading what a great way to start the day.

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If that's the way you're starting it.

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Yeah.

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If you're listening to this on Friday,

cause you didn't do it on Thursday.

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That doesn't apply to you.

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It's acceptable.

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You still get partial credit?

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Yeah.

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No, it was, uh, hopefully you're,

you're having a great day today.

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If you went out and played

football, I, as pastor rod has, has

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suggested, we hope nobody got hurt.

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I met really, I'm nervous about it

telling you I'm nervous because we need

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everybody there on Sunday to help us.

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Set things up.

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Right.

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And we, we care about you too.

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Don't want you in pain.

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On Thanksgiving.

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No.

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Probably most offices are closed.

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You know, doctor's offices are closing.

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On Thanksgiving.

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So yeah, urgent cares are open.

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They're more than willing to take

your money out and I'm sure they will.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I, uh, I learned early on that as.

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There's ramifications for playing sports.

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Um, As a pastor because it compensates.

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I sent it for the code.

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Softball team and tripped over

first base and broke my shoulder.

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So.

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Yep.

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I remember a pastor, Mike

wasn't too happy about that.

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No, no.

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I think he got a, a bit

of a weapon a little bit.

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I mean, you showed up in the hospital,

um, and scolded you, he did it.

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What are you doing?

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He did.

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You're not.

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You're not 18 years old again.

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Right.

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Yeah, something like that.

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You've got a stewardship.

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Yeah, no, that's true.

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I a.

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So my old baseball injury, softball

injury, it flares up sometimes.

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Um, And I have never run

to first base since then.

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That's the last time I did.

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No the last time he did it.

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Yep.

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And you learned your lesson?

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I did.

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I did.

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But Hey, if you play

football today, Enjoy.

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Well, it says something it's like

a, would a DAC or one of these

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guys, would they play a pickup?

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Football game with

another group of people.

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Probably not.

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Right.

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Probably not either too

valuable to do that.

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That's going to be our,

uh, our excuse for too.

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Able to play football guys.

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You're just too, too high value person.

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Well, I mean his contract.

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It's a little bit different

than, than, well, we.

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We get about the same, right.

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That's about what we get.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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Give or take yeah.

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Um, I think when he sneezes,

he makes what we make.

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I think so.

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Uh, Joe's going to be on him.

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I'm going after heaven, the rewards,

and I'm confident God's going to

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be more generous with us there.

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And then than any organization

can be with the athletes here.

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And now that's true, which is

something to be thankful for.

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Speaking of being thankful.

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I'm very thankful.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So hopefully your turkeys

on whatever it may be.

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We, uh, we're smoking a Turkey this year.

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And so we've got that on the.

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The Trager and we've got the

fixings with it that are, are

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going to be around the table.

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So we're, uh, we're excited.

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I like Thanksgiving.

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Thanksgiving is a good day.

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Get the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade.

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Oh yeah, you got football.

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Who's football playing today.

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Uh, the Cowboys and the giants.

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Oh, cool.

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Yeah.

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What channel is that going to be on?

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Uh, usually it's on Fox.

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I believe.

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All right.

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Yeah.

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On Thanksgiving.

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Can I stream it somewhere?

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I'd like to strain it?

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Um, I don't have cable.

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That's a good question.

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If you, so if you don't have cable,

if you get a, uh, antenna over the air

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antenna, which you can get for like 30

bucks at best buy 40 bucks at best buy.

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You can pick up local channels for free.

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Oh.

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So with streaming news during

weather and things like that,

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sometimes it's a good thing.

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It connects.

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Um, I'm going to do that.

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Yeah.

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And actually the picture is better

than HTMI cables and everything else.

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No kid.

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Why is that?

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He was in the traffic signal.

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Yeah.

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So there you go over the air and

you can get local channels, so you

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can get Fox on there and you can

watch the Cowboys or whatever else.

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During baseball season could

watch the world series.

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We have come full circle because

we used to have bunny ears.

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Yep.

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And then you're like,

oh, let's go to cable.

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And cable had the great

picture and all that.

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And now you're back to money years ago.

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Well, it's the antennas are far

more sophisticated these days.

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It's not like you don't have

to wrap foil around them in.

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Yeah, almost looks like the Elon Musk.

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Like.

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Starlink kind of thing.

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And so there's different kinds you

can get in radius and everything,

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but yeah, they're not super expensive

and you can get free channels.

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That's fantastic.

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Yeah.

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I'm going to do that.

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You should do it.

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I'm going to do that.

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Yup.

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Well, let's jump into acts 18 and 19.

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Let's do it.

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R X 18.

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So we are back.

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We were in testimonials network,

jumping back in and Paul remember

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had gone to Athens and he was

there and we had left him off.

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He had had the.

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The whole conversation

on the area, alpacas.

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And pointed to the statute, unknown

God, while he's leaving Athens now.

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And he's going to Corinth.

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And he comes to court, then he finds

two people that are going to show up.

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Multiple times in the new Testament

force, the rest of the time.

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And this is Aquilla and Priscilla.

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Uh, equivalent Priscilla are unique

individuals here and what's fascinating

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is this is one of the few times.

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I'd love to get your insight on this,

that we find a Quilla who is that?

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By the way, the mail.

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Uh, find a Quilla listed first.

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A lot of times we'll find

Priscilla and Aquila.

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This is one of the few times

we find a Quilla listed first

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and there's intentionality

with word order in the Greek.

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And so what are some thoughts maybe

you have as to what to make of that?

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Man.

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I struggle with this because I can't,

I can't help, but think that Luke

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front loads her most of the time.

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Because of her position

within the family, perhaps.

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She had the wealthier family and

maybe there was a family business

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involved that he was part of.

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Although not running point,

like perhaps she was, there's

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so many different potentials.

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That it's hard to know for sure.

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What of, what, of any of them,

if any of them they could be.

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But what we do know is that

as a, as a means of, uh, As a

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way of demonstrating status.

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You would say it's like Paul

and Silas are not pawns.

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Yeah.

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Although Paul is that it's also works.

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Uh, Barnabas and Paul or Saul.

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Uh, at first it was Barnabas and Saul, and

then eventually it turned into Paul and

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Barnabas because he became the front man.

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So here you have a very similar

situation where apparently.

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Yeah, Priscilla Prisca.

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Uh, other, uh, another

place has mentioned.

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Uh, it has some kind of status

that was greater than equivalent.

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Now what to make of that.

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I have no clue, but there it is.

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Yeah, I don't, I don't think we can

go as far as some might say, is, is

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suggesting, well, this is evidence of

egalitarianism that you can't say that.

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I'm saying too much, the

text doesn't tell us.

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Right.

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We just don't know.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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I would agree.

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I would agree.

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Well notice in verse five, we get

Silas into the back with Paul.

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So his traveling companions

rejoined him here in verse five.

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Um, they skipped his time in Athens

there, and now they're with him.

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Uh, they're in Corinth.

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And then in verse six, something

interesting happens here because Paul

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goes into the synagogue as he's always

done and he finds more opposition.

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So he shakes out his garments, which

was a symbol of Hamden with you.

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He said your blood beyond your own heads.

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I'm innocent from now on.

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I will go to the Gentiles.

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Now he says this, although

he's still going to.

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Keep going to the synagogue.

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Paul struggles to quit the Jewish people.

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And I get why, I mean, these are

his kinsmen, but the main thrust

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of his ministry from this point on

is going to begin to shift towards

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the Gentiles, which is massive for

this guy who was a former Pharisee.

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As he's saying.

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Okay.

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Um, I'm, I'm leaving off this.

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I'm going to go where

it's more fruitful for me.

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That's why.

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Is the harvest.

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I mean, he's going to the way that

the fields are white and where people

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are going to respond to the gospel,

and he's going to say later, I've

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made it my ambition to preach Christ

where he hasn't been named before.

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And so Paul's after fruit

and he's concluding here.

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He's going to find more fruit with

the Gentiles than with the Jews.

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And that was in fact true.

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And that wasn't very

fruitful with the Gentiles.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, well verses nine and 10, um, the,

the Lord shows up to Paul one night.

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It says in a vision, it says don't

be afraid, but go on speaking.

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Don't be silent.

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I'm with you.

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No, one's going to attack you or harm you.

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So there in Corinth.

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He gets this message from the Lord

saying, Hey, keep doing what you're doing.

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I'm going to protect you while

you're here, because remember all

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the opposition he's faced so far.

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So here, Paul has a.

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Pretty good guarantee.

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One that she can kind of take to the bank.

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In fact, verses 11 through 17,

after this, the Jews try to oppose

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him, but God is true to his word.

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And in the Roman, proconsul that the

official there dismisses any charges,

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they try to bring against Paul.

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And so they're not able to do anything.

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They can't do anything about Paul.

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Paul has the freedom to, to serve into,

into preach Christ there in Corinth,

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because God had come and said, Hey, I'm

in a, I'm gonna support you right now.

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Uh, verses 18 through 22, then

we get the conclusion of the

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second missionary journey.

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So he's returning back

to Antioch in Syria.

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And he's going to get

there by way of emphasis.

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He's going to come back to

emphasis and I think Jerusalem.

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PR your thoughts?

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1822.

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He says, after going up, he came back

down and so some commentaries are read

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said typically, when he talks about going

up, we're talking about Jerusalem there.

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A hundred percent.

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So it seems like he gave a

report to Jerusalem, probably

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James and the church there.

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And then also he went back to a sending

church in Antioch and, and reported

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to them what the Lord had been doing

with him on the second journey there.

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Right.

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So keep in mind here, as you're

tracking through your Bible, verse

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22 is really the end of the second

missionary journey, but you get to

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Paul's third missionary journey.

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It seems like in the next

breath, you just, you breathe

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out, you take a breath in.

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He's like, okay, I'm back at it now.

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So second and third missionary journey.

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There's not a lot of fanfare here in

your Bible, if you're looking at the ESV,

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but that's what we understand happening.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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Yeah, it kicks off there

in chapter 18, verse 23.

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It's going to go all the way through

chapter 21, verse 16 and mainly this

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third missionary journey is going

to focus on the region of Ephesus.

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Uh, emphasis you'll you'll hear the

book Ephesians written to the churches

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in this area there you'll, you'll pick

up on that just by the name there.

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But verses 24 through 28, we kind of

shift back to Priscilla and Aquila and

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find that they've encountered a guy

there in emphasis whose name is Apollos.

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A Apollos is another name.

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That's going to show up multiple times.

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Some people even believe that this

is the guy that wrote Hebrews.

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That has been a suggestion.

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That's been posited.

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I don't necessarily agree

with that, but it's a thought.

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Um, Paul is going to refer to

a policy in first Corinthians.

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He's going to talk about.

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Hey some say I'm a Paul others

have, have a policy book.

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At this point in time, a

policy is wet behind the ears.

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He knows enough to be dangerous,

but enough also to be heretical

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probably at this point.

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And so Priscilla and

Aquila recognizes zeal.

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They pull them aside.

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They kind of give him a crash course in

the gospel, and then they, they, they turn

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them up and they release him back out.

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They send them to a Kao, which

is the region of Corinth.

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At that point from there.

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In emphasis.

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So that's one of the reasons why Paul

in first Corinthians is going to say,

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Hey, some of you say you're of a policy

because a policy is sent by Priscilla

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and Aquila back to that region to begin

training and preaching the gospel there.

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Yeah.

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Be slow to preach, man.

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Uh, don't don't.

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If God's calling you to do that, I know

God puts it on a lot of people's hearts.

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That's a good thing.

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First Timothy chapter three says

if anyone desires that to noble

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thing to noble thing to want that.

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Uh, but take it, take a lesson here

from Priscilla and Aquila slash

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Apellis and take, take some time to

learn, take some time to study and

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to grow in your understanding before

you start getting behind a pulpit

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and wanting to preach, it's a good

desire, but make sure that desire is

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under control and prepared for yeah.

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Yep.

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All right.

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We're 10 minutes in.

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We've only got one chapter left.

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All right.

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So here we get we're

we're doing okay on time.

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I think acts 19 then acts

19 one through seven.

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Paul comes across these 12 men

who, uh, Luke calls, disciples that

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they had only known the baptism of

John and hadn't received the holy.

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The spirit yet.

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So I guess in a way, maybe there's

some parallels between Apollos and

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these guys, these guys aren't teaching

and preaching, but they've got some

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knowledge, just not enough knowledge.

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It appears here.

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This is difficult because Luke

does call them disciples though.

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They haven't been baptized.

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All they knew is the baptism of John.

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So.

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I think this, if nothing else, this

reminds me, man, ax is not normative for

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our, our understanding of soteriology

or how the holy spirit is given.

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This is a unique time where

the church is exploding.

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These are unique circumstances.

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Uh, case in point this in Romans

eight, nine, Paul's going to say if

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somebody does not have the spirit of

Jesus, they don't belong to Christ.

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And so Paul is going to say right there.

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Look, if you don't have the holy

spirit, you're not a Christian.

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And so here, this hybrid version of

somebody who seems to have profess

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faith in and has believed, but has

not received the holy spirit, this

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is unique to this time in the church.

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That's, that's my thoughts.

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PR are your thoughts on this

opening part here in chapter 19?

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I'd have to agree with that.

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We don't want to expect that people

are going to receive the spirit

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of God in this particular way.

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Uh, in the future.

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Uh, we, we are cessationists by

conviction and we believe that these,

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these signs were done as a means of

demonstrating the, the authenticity

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of the message and the messenger.

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And it was especially important

in this time, time period when

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the church was being established.

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So it makes perfect

sense at that time today.

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We have different tools to work with.

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We have languages that

we can study and learn.

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We have the, we have the book of the whole

Bible, the whole Corpus of scripture from

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Genesis to revelation and most languages.

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Yeah.

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So with that said again, not normative.

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These are the kinds of things where you

can take lessons from them, but they're

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not the kind of thing we should say.

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Okay.

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I'm going to go to church on

Sunday and pastor PJ's preaching.

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I should expect for him to put his hands

upon me and me to receive the holy spirit.

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You receive the holy spirit

when you become a Christian.

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Yeah.

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I'm not going to do that by the way.

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Uh, even if you asked me to,

I probably wouldn't do that.

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I'll I'll pray for you.

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I'll lay hands on you and pray for

you, but, but not to receive the holy

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spirit that's above my pay grade.

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Hmm.

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All right.

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X 19, then 18 or eight through 10.

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We get the transition from Paul again,

away from the Jews to the Gentiles.

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It continues as persecution

forces Paul to leave the synagogue

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for a Gentile venue here.

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So like I said, Paul

struggles to quit the Jews.

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So he's back in the synagogue, the

synagogue opposition is ramping

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up and I think this is God right

now saying, Hey, Paul, I've got

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a different audience for you.

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And so Paul ends up leaving the synagogue.

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He goes into what's called the

hall of Tyrannus here, which

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we don't know a ton about.

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But we do know that it was

a Gentile venue, whatever it

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was, whether it was a place of

aeration and philosophical debate.

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Or a, or a marketplace we're not

entirely clear a hall of education.

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But Paul ends up there and he's preaching

to the God, the gospel to the Gentiles.

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And this goes on for two years so that

all the residents of Asia hear the

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word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

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So, um, he's like you said, he's fruitful.

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With his ministry to the Gentiles

here, Asia minor, by the way.

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Yes.

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Not in China.

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Important.

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Yes.

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Key.

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That's helpful.

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Yeah.

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Uh, all right.

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Verses 11 through 20 God.

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Uh, in, in this passage, we

see again, talking about what's

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normative versus not normative or

prescriptive versus descriptive.

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This is descriptive here.

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Uh, God's doing miracles through

Paul, such that even his, his tissues.

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Are being taken to people and.

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Uh, God is using the contact

with those two to heal people.

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It seems like in Paul's exercising demons.

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And so here comes this, this group

of men called the sons of Skiva and

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they want to be able to do the same

thing, but the problem is there

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they're Jews, they're not Christians.

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Right?

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And so this, I think is what

separates this group from those

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when, when the disciples said, Hey

Lord, these people over here are

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casting out demons in your name.

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I think they were sympathetic to

Jesus that they weren't part of

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his immediate band of followers.

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These guys are Jews

they're opposed to Christ.

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They just want the power and

the glory that they see in Paul.

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So they try casting out these demons and

the demons come back on them and publicly

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humiliate them, uh, to say the least.

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Uh, which leads to a great repentance

from the Jews and Greeks in this

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region, they recognize the validity

of Paul, which again is, is.

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Points to the, our view of cessationist.

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They're they're seeing.

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Okay, God's doing something

unique with this guy.

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I need to listen to this guy and not

listen to the noise from, from the

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other people that are opposing him

because of what they've seen here.

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These kinds of people

still exist by the way.

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Um, we don't call them the sense of Skiva,

but they are people who practice magic.

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Uh, purification, no,

they'll come to your house.

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If you have weird things happening,

they will come and they'll perform

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ceremonies in your living room.

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And.

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They will speak incantations to the

house and to the spirits in the house, at

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least what they understand to be spirits.

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Um, and as you see here, This is real.

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This is not a, uh, This is not phony.

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There's, there's real things that are

happening that your eye can't see.

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And our advice to you would

be not to hire these people.

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Just call us.

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If you have anything weird

happening, call us and we'll,

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we'll come and pray with you.

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We'll come in.

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We'll come and pray with.

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We'll tell you that much, and

we'll give you some advice about

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how to handle that biblically.

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But just notice there are people

like this who still go around and

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put their services in the Craigslist

or the Facebook marketplace.

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And they.

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I would love to come in, uh, with.

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And then you determine like they'll

come and bless your home to protect

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it against spirits like that.

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Uh, bad idea.

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Bad idea.

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Don't do that.

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Call your pastor.

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And let him have helped you with that

a hundred percent agree with that.

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It's it's of the same ilk as

the mediums and the psychics

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and things of that nature too.

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Yeah.

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Um, Yeah, verses 21 through 41, then.

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Message here is look, Satan

hates the gospel being spread.

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And so he stares up here, a single silver

Smith here in the region whose business

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has suffered due to Paul's exposing idols.

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As false and this one, man riles

up the entire city, basically

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against Paul and his companions.

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Uh, it gets to the point of, of a riot.

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And he says in verse 26, you see

in here, not only in Ephesus, but

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in almost all of Asia, again, Asia

minor, this Paul has persuaded and

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turned away a great many people.

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Seeing that gods made

with hands are not God's.

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So Satan had.

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Stirred up the Jews against Paul.

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And so Paul was like, all right,

I'm going to the Gentiles.

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So now what is Satan doing?

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He's stirring up the Gentiles

against Paul as well.

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So this riot.

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Reaches his levels that eventually

reaches the, the, the decision makers.

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And the, the riots quelled here, because

they're, they're worried of, of being

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accused of writing for no reason.

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Like they even realize, okay, we don't

really even have a reason to ride here.

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Um, But we just need to recognize,

recognize here that, that the

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opposition, that Paul is going to face.

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This is signaling.

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It's not just going to come from

the Jews, but it's also now going

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to come from the Gentiles as well.

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Satan's not going to give up just because

Paul's turned from the Jewish people

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and now he's going for the Gentiles.

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All right.

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Well, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with a Thanksgiving

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Father God, we do want to be

thankful, uh, for, for all the good

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things that you've brought to us.

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And as a church, should we have

gotten together today and said,

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Hey, let's everybody stand up

and give reasons to be thankful.

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We could be there all day and into

the night and into the next day.

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And for.

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Weeks upon weeks, God, there are so many

good things that you've done for us.

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And so make us a people.

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Of gratitude, even as we sing this

past Sunday or that song about.

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Uh, praising you and even realizing all

I can do at times is just saying, I'm

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going to worship you because what do we

have that you didn't first give to us?

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And so make us a grateful church.

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Uh, church of gratitude and

help us to celebrate today.

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Well, And to be rejoicing in the greatest

gift that we've received, which is Jesus,

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who is our access, our righteousness.

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And the one who we can plead.

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For, for even coming

before you to parade him.

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And so we thank you.

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We pray these things in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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All right, church, keeping your Bibles

and tune in again tomorrow for another

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edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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See you then folks.

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Yeah.