00:00 Introduction and Conference Recap

00:25 Processing the Conference Content

01:17 Note-Taking Tips and Tools

02:58 Discussion on Acts 4-6

03:50 Peter and John's Boldness

05:08 Obeying God vs. Man

09:13 Early Church Generosity and Ananias and Sapphira

12:45 Miracles and Signs in the Early Church

16:32 Establishment of Deacons

21:20 Stephen's Wisdom and Arrest

22:10 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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The last edition of the

transformed conference.

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Yep.

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It wraps up today.

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It's been a lot.

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In some ways probably for, for

you, if you've never been to a

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conference like this, it can be.

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Can feel like drinking through a

fire hose, just a lot of material.

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And, uh, and we get that and it's,

it's a lot to, to take that process

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that, and then turn, turn around

and even come tomorrow to church.

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And hear Dr.

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Mohler preached tomorrow at church.

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And so, um, you're going to

get a lot, a lot of material

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and I would just encourage you.

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You're going to have a note packet

with you and take that with you

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this week and spend some time.

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Uh, break it up maybe on, on Monday,

you're going to go over the sessions from

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Friday and then Tuesday, you'll go over

one, go for one a day for the next week.

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And just reflect back over the notes that

you took and the content that you learned.

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Some of the key takeaways there,

that's a way for you to, to process

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some of this because otherwise

you're going to walk away going.

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Okay.

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That was a lot.

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And I think it was really

good, but I feel overwhelmed.

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I don't even know where to

start in applying these things.

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Yeah, you're going to get four.

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Uh, no, no, no five and a quarter

five and a half hours of teaching.

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Over the next, uh, I guess over,

over the course of Friday, Saturday,

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Sunday, that's what you're looking at.

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That's a lot of, a lot of teaching

and we don't have any discussion

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or application questions.

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So you're just going to have to be

responsible to go through it yourself.

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And take advantage of all the

learning that you had highlighting.

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In fact, I'm looking at

our notebook right now.

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I was just not enough space here.

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That's what I'm thinking.

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So maybe bring your own notebook on top

of the look that we're going to give you.

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It's just gonna be great.

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It'll you'll be able to

take some, some notes here.

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Uh, but man, that's why our

churches, we typically bring

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laptops and thick notebooks.

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Uh, because we care about

what we're being taught.

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If it's a, if it's worth someone

spending, you know, 20 hours to study

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and prepare, it's worth my 45 minutes

to take good notes on what they teach.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's a, yeah, that's something

that, that we don't do a lot probably

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here locally, but, um, our church

in California, a lot of people had

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their laptops out because it was.

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To take notes and use

log us at the same time.

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And you know, in fact, I

really wish we had tables.

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I don't like the fact that I can only

put my laptop or my iPad or my computer.

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And my Bible on my physical lab.

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It's just not enough space.

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I don't have enough lap

to put all my things.

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So I'll sit on the back.

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I don't know if you notice this.

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I sit in the back where the

hospitality table set up and I'll

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just take up that whole space.

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I'll get a chair and I'll just set up my

whole station about iPad in front of me.

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I got my Bible.

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I got my notes.

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It is a powerhouse of

workstation awesomeness.

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Yeah.

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I don't think we'll ever do tables though.

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In the worship center, that would

feel a little bit too academic.

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Ah, man, I just give me a table.

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Yeah, there was a guy at, I don't know.

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Was it Avi who made his own?

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His own little like lap station?

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Yeah.

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Cause he felt my pain and I felt he was

apparently so he, I think I wasn't heavy.

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I can't remember.

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It may, it could have been my last church.

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We're oh, you know what, now that I

think about it, it wasn't last year

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because he made as a lap station,

but it hooked on the pew in front.

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So it was self-supporting and he could

put his Bible and everything on it.

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It was, it was fascinating.

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Loved it.

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That's intense.

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It's saying to my heart.

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Well, good for you.

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I'm glad.

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I'm glad.

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Hey, let's jump into

our reading for today.

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Acts four, five, and six.

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So actually after four, I mentioned it

yesterday, chapter three, Peter has been

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preaching a lot and been standing up to

the Jewish leaders a lot and even saying

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things like, Hey, you crucified Jesus.

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And so.

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Uh, needless to say the council's

not a fan, the Sanhedrin, not a

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fan of what Peter is saying here.

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What he's been preaching.

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So Peter and John are arrested

by the Jews and they're, they're

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brought before the council.

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Now this is when we're talking about

the council, the Sanhedrin, the makeup

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of the Sadducees and the Pharisees.

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Uh, they were the ruling authority,

the ruling body there in Jerusalem.

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And so they're brought before them

here and Annas and Caiaphas are there.

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Uh, these are the two that

Jesus appeared before.

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Jesus first appeared before anus and then

was sent to Caiaphas the high priest.

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And they're there and

they interrogate them.

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They basically say, Hey, about this

guy that you healed, because remember

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Peter had healed the lame man.

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What gives and so, uh, Peter filled

with the holy spirit answered boldly.

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It, it mentions that he was filled

with the holy spirit and that's

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something that we'll get into when

we get further into the epistles.

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Uh, but there's a difference between

having the holy spirit as believers

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and being filled with the holy spirit.

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Uh, and so here, Peter is in

this moment filled with the holy

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spirit and speaks in answers.

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And with a boldness, that

again is, is transformative.

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Why?

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Because of his encounter

with the resurrected savior.

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And he says, look, this man whom

you're you're talking about is not

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healed by us, but by the name of

Jesus, by the way, whom you crucified.

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And whom God raised from the dead.

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He even quotes Psalm 1 18 22

there and applies it to the,

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the leaders at your you're.

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The ones that are stumbling

over the cornerstone.

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The one that is Jesus.

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And so at the end of the day, the leaders

feel powerless to do much because the

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undeniable power of the miracle itself.

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And so they tell them,

Hey, stop preaching.

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Um, you have to stop.

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We're going to let you go, but

you have to stop preaching.

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And they reply with a verse that was

everybody's favorite verse during COVID.

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And that is verses 19 through 20,

whether it's right in the sight of

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God to listen to you rather than to

God, you must judge for, we cannot

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but speak of what we've seen in heard.

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And so later on, he's even

going to say, Hey, Like we have

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to abate God rather than men.

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And so I think it's maybe

worth kicking around.

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When do we employ that PR?

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What are your thoughts when

we say, okay, We need to.

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Obey God, rather than men, or, you know,

whether it's right in the side of gather,

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listen to you, rather than the him, you

judge, what is it right for the church

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to stand up and say, yeah, forget it.

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We're going to do what we're

going to do when we don't like it.

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And we're feeling inconvenienced.

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Awesome.

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That's the only time you pull it out.

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Yeah, or maybe better said when there is

a clear violation of what scripture says.

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And as I look back on the time

of COVID, I am more convinced.

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Hindsight is 2020.

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That it was an unlawful.

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Um, unjust.

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Uh, demand to the church

to close her doors.

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I think, I mean, there's so many things

that went wrong and things that we just

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really did not have the information about.

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So looking at scripture and understanding

what the rule of law is to do.

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I would say that's a Christian at that

point in time could have been convicted by

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their own conscience of say, I'm going to

meet with my church, even though legally.

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Um, and no, no, no, not legally.

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Even though federally and

locally at the state level.

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There were injunctions against the church

that, where you're not supposed to meet.

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I think we were bound by Christ law

to say that we should meet, uh, the

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law is there for the good of man

for the good of the, of the people.

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And when good is not defined, according

to God's good, then I think it's now bad.

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And therefore we have the opportunity

to say, we're not going to do that.

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It's not an entirely clear answer.

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And I think there's times when we're

going to have to say, this is worth

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us fighting against and other times

where we say, okay, we're just going to

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swallow this because this isn't going

to rise to the level of our pushback.

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So as much as I want to give out,

like this is always the case,

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and this is always not the case.

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I don't know that I could say that

with it, with a strong degree of

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awareness, because there's so many

areas where I'd say, well, That's

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a, you know, that that's an area

where we could say, okay, it's not.

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It's not, it's a, it's a

great, it's a great situation.

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What would you say on that?

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Yeah, I think I agree with you.

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Um, we ended up moving outside,

but we kept meeting for the

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majority of the time during COVID.

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Uh, we had the ability to do

that in Southern California.

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The weather was, was such that

we were able to do that, but,

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um, I would agree with you.

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I, you know, I mean, you look at China and

the underground church that exists there,

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you look at the church and in persecuted

areas of the world where it has to meet.

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You know,

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So in subversion in, yeah.

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Anyways, you know what I mean?

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Um, subterfuge, uh, you know, undermining

secrets in, and they're doing that

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because it's, it's worth it to do that.

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Even though the government says

this is illegal because we know

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that the Bible says it's right and

it's good for the church to gather.

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So.

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Anytime the government steps in, it

says it's it's in some ways, similar

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to a husband and wife situation.

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We're going to submit to the authorities,

unless the authorities say, Hey, you

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have to disobey what God has commanded.

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And in those instances, we're

going to say, no, we're going

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to obey God rather than you.

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And that's what's going on

here with the Sanhedrin.

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They're telling.

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The disciples to do exactly.

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What God told them, told them not to do.

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God told them don't be silent, but go

out and be my witnesses in the scene.

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Hedron sing, don't be as witnesses.

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And so that's why they're

saying we can't obey you.

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We have to take out.

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Versus 23 through 31 that they

understanding what's happening

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in the mounting opposition.

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Th they worship and also seek a

boldness in pray that God will

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make them bold and courageous in

the face of mounting opposition.

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Um, and so they're there.

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They're aware now that, Hey, this is not

going to be an easy road and they are

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asking that God would make them Bolton.

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Um, notice also, by the way, just speaking

to God's sovereignty verses 27 through

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28 for, in this city in Jerusalem were

gathered together against Jesus, your

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holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed

both Herod and Pontius pilot, along with

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the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel

to do whatever your hand and your plan.

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Had predestined to take place.

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So therein, we see something of

God's sovereignty, even predestining

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in ordaining, the events that

led to the crucifixion of Christ.

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That's an amazing, amazing testimony to

God's sovereignty over the affairs of men.

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That is one that that is, is difficult

to wrap our minds around God.

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Ordained and predestined sinful

acts to take place in order to

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lead to the crucifixion of Jesus.

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Um, Yeah.

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And, and yet did not sin in the process.

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And that is, is, uh, that's

a difficult one to two.

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Uh, rationalize and explain.

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Um, but the scripture says it.

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And so at the end of the day, we

believe even beyond our understanding,

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sometimes we believe better than we know.

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Uh, and, and we just trust God in

those situations that this is what

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scripture says, we're going to trust

that that that's the way it works.

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Uh, versus 32 through 37, then we

get into the early, early church.

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Part two is what I call this.

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And this really sets the stage for what

comes next, because he's talking about

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Luke is how the early church were, were

just generous and they were sharing things

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with each other and they were committed

to the cause and they were bought into

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the vision and they were all United

together and they were even selling.

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Their own things to, to give to what

God was doing through the church.

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And so the, the end of chapter four

sets up what happens in chapter five.

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So chapter five opens up with two

individuals in a niacin Safira.

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And so they do as, as the other

sedan, they sell their property

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to give it to the church.

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The difference being, they decide

together to hold back some of what,

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uh, they had sold for themselves.

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And so they bring it to the apostles and

they say, Hey, look, here's our profit.

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And the problem comes not in

the gift, but in their lying.

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Because they're asked, is this the full

amount that you sold your home for?

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And they could have said no, we,

we held some back and here's why.

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Uh, but instead they said, yes, that's it.

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That's everything.

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And.

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Immediately they're called out on this,

and this is a significant theological

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development because Peter says to Anna

Niaz, why has Satan filled your heart?

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To lie to the holy spirit and

to keep back for yourself, part

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of the proceeds of the land.

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And then at the end of verse

four, he says, you have

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lied, not to man, but to God.

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And so there's a clear testimony

and depiction and statement.

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Of the holy Spirit's deity here in

this instance with Anna niacin Safira

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anyways, Safira comes up afterwards.

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Same thing happens to her.

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She lies as well.

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She, they both are struck dead and

they're carried out in a pasture

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on the end of this encounter.

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It says a great fear fell upon the church.

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And so what do you think God was doing

in this interaction more broadly,

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speaking than just punishing in an ISN?

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Safire what was he

teaching the church here?

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There's probably several things

and most readily what comes to

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mind is the fact that God wants

his people to tremble before him.

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There is a healthy and good sense

in which the church looks to her

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God and says, Uh, you are God, and

you've been so kind to call us sons

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and daughters, but you're still God.

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Uh, I I'm just a, you know, a pebble

on the beach, uh, on, on sands.

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Thousands of thousands of beaches.

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And yet God decides to give us his

attention and his care and his concern.

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But there is, as we say, in our

distinctives and there is a right

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sense that we hold God high.

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That we never bring

them down to our level.

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And to think that he's so gracious

and so kind that he won't judge sin

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or at least discipline sin in the

case of believers, which I believe

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in, and I, since a fire probably were.

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Um, as grievous as their sin was.

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As you made mention here, it

wasn't the fact that they,

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they kept part of the proceeds.

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In fact, I think what, what is suggested

in, in the first verse is that he

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laid it down at the parcel speed.

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And suggesting this is all that this

is all that we've made from the house.

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So I don't even think Peter was asking.

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I don't think he was saying, Hey,

did you sell the house for this much?

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I think he just, he took him at his word.

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Um, but then the spirit told him the

spirit told him, Nope, this is a lie.

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This is not true.

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And I don't know how he did that.

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Maybe it was audible.

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Maybe it was just something,

an impression of sorts.

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But the fear was meant

to remind the people.

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You're not, you're not playing with

an invisible God, you're not playing

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with a, with a trifle or an idol.

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This God is deserving of

our reverence of our all.

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He deserves our best because

he's the God of heaven and earth.

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And so we should have this and this

word here, you might look at the word

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and say, what does that fear mean?

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Does it mean reverence?

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And I guess, yes.

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But the word is The Lord, this is

Faubus, and it's a word that you might

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recognize cause you hear the word

phobia, something that you're afraid of.

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So the word here really conveys

what it intends to convey.

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There is a Reverend shul.

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Uh, 10 or to it.

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But there is a healthy and good fear of

God that we should all seek to maintain.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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From here in chapter five, verses

12 through 16, then you get this.

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The stage of a bunch of miracles being

Dennis has many signs and wonders

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were being regularly done so many and

regularly it tells us something about

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this, this dispensation, this time.

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Um, this was unique and even so much

show that people were being carried out.

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So that just the shadow of Peter.

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Uh, might come across them.

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And so what is God doing here again?

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I think God is getting the attention of

the world to say, listen to these people.

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Listen to them, what they have

to say is worth your attention.

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What they have to say is important.

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What they have to say is, is something

that you need to hear and understand.

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There's a 30.

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In what they are saying as well.

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So this is not just the latest.

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You know, crazy person coming

up saying, Hey, we've got this

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new spin on the old Testament.

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This is somebody that's saying, Hey.

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We are telling you where the old

Testament was pointing to and look in

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and you want to see some things to, to

back this up, look here at this person.

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Who's ration from being lamed.

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This person is healed from being sick.

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We're going to cast out demons over

here later in the apostolic ministry.

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They're even healing,

raising people from the dead.

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And so this is a unique season

where many signs and wonders being

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regularly done among the people.

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Again, like we talked about.

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A few episodes ago.

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Uh, we, as cessationists would say the

normative expectation in the church is

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not that we're going to see that, that

we're going to see many signs and wonders

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being regularly done on a Sunday morning,

compose Bible church, north, Texas.

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That's not what we do now.

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That's not what, where we're at.

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Now.

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We appeal to the authority

of the word of God.

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And we stand upon that authority.

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And we say the word of

God is sufficient in that.

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That does not mean that there could

not be exceptions to that in other

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places that God may not intervene.

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In and suspend natural law.

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Uh, a miracle of the first order

where something is, is inexplicable by

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anything else, but to say, God did that.

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He can still do that today.

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We're not denying that.

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We're just saying what's normative.

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What's normative is not to expect many

signs and wonders to be regularly done.

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At the church anymore.

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Uh, in this dispensation.

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From here we move on to

verses 17 through 42.

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And now the, the apostles are not just

going to be brought before the council,

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but now they're, they're arrested.

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They're questioned again.

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Uh, again, the boldness is there.

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They are publicly imprisoned to

humiliate them initially here and

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yet God frees them and then they go

back to preaching and then they're

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rearrested and chameleon intervenes

because they're ready to kill them.

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And in here, chameleon, intervenes,

he says something amazing.

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He says, look, if you.

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Oppose them and therefore God, then

you're, you're going to be found opposing

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God and we need to be careful of that.

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And so chameleons wisdom.

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Wins out here and instead of killing

them, They beat them and release them and

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say, Hey, don't, don't do this anymore.

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And what's amazing is the response of

the, those that were suffering for Jesus.

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They leave.

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Rejoicing that they were counted worthy to

suffer for Jesus, to suffer for his cause.

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Uh, with the cross being so.

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Uh, near in the rear view mirror for

them to think, man, I, I, I have a taste

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of what my savior went through for me.

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I think that's part of the joy

that they're experiencing here.

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As they go out from the council.

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Yeah, it really cool to both

corporately and individually, they,

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they, they keep on preaching Christ.

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That's the last verse in chapter

five here, they're in the temple.

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That is a corporate gathering.

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There's a lot of people there

from different households

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and they're preaching.

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And then they're like, you know what?

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That's not enough.

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We're going to go house to house.

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Now we're going to visit people and

we're going to talk about Jesus Christ.

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Because it's that important and

that's kind of what we do today.

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I mean, that's the goal.

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It looks a little different.

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We go to churches and yet we also

want to be in houses with people and

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that's where community groups comes in.

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We're not exactly doing the same

thing as preaching, but there's

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certainly teaching happening.

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We want this to propagate and

we want to perpetuate what's.

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What's true.

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And what's necessary.

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And to not consume our times with things

that are helpful and maybe nice, but,

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but not as necessary as what this is.

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So take a lesson from the early church.

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If there's anything that we should

say, man, let's get back to our roots.

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This is it.

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Let's get, let's be filled

with teaching and preaching.

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That is of Christ.

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Jesus.

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That's great.

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Yeah.

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Actually after six, then we get into

a, another unique development here.

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This is all brand new and all of a sudden

the church is realizing we are growing

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so fast and there's a lot of needs that

we can't get to all of these needs.

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And so the Helen is that the Greek,

uh, believers here, they stand up

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and say, Hey, we have a problem.

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Uh, because it seems like the, the Jewish

believers that their widows and everything

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are being taken care of, but our widows

are not, and they're being neglected.

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And what it turns out to be is it

seems like it just was beyond the

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scope and scale of the, the apostle

specifically to be able to see to all

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the needs there that were happening in

this growing rapidly expanding church.

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And so what emerged is a

new office in the church.

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And they said, you know what?

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We need people to be able to, to step

in and, and help us in this regard.

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And these are important things.

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And so, because they're important

things, man, we need people who

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are going to meet a qualification.

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We're not just going to take

anybody here, but we're looking

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for specific kinds of people.

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And so.

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Uh, they establish the

qualifications and then it's.

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So it says to that there in verse

three, therefore brothers pick out from

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among you seven men of good repute.

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If they've got a good reputation,

they're full of the spirit and of wisdom.

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And we're going to take them and we're

going to point them to this duty.

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Now later on in first Timothy chapter

three, we're going to see even more

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what the qualifications of this office

were at the time and still are today.

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But it's important to note that

this is not about the apostle

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saying that's not important.

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What we're doing is important.

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We just need anybody to do these things.

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Uh, this was an important thing that was

going to be done so that the apostles

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could give themselves to the attention,

to the preaching and teaching of the

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word that was what they needed to do.

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They needed to handle

the ministry of the word.

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And so they brought these,

this office that we now.

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Uh, call in the church at large deacons.

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Now, pastor, rod.

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We, if you look at our website,

we don't have deacons as a

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particular title targeting.

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I wouldn't believe in them.

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Well, I, you know, I got that

question this past Sunday, somebody

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said to me, do you have deacons?

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Cause I don't see deacons on your website.

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So.

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Can you help us?

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Do we have deacons at campus Bible church?

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Yes.

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Yes, we do.

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Someone recently brought up the idea, you

know, when we use the term fellowship,

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we actually aren't doing it as the

Bible says, we're we, we mean something

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different when we use the word fellowship.

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And I agree by and large Christians

use the word it differently

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than how scripture uses it.

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And that's one of the reasons why

we chose not to use the term deacon.

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Uh, and why even still, we don't

even use the term elder as much.

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We use the term pastor because by,

by and large, it's pretty clear.

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Um, deacon can be unclear.

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Uh, elder.

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I oversee your Bishop.

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Uh, these can be unclear.

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And so what we try to do is encapsulate

the definition and a word that

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that gives the best sense in 2024.

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Now that might change in five

years or 10 years or five weeks.

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If we, if we need it to.

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We're trying to create terms that

are helpful for people to understand

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what it is that we're doing.

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So we have deacons.

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We have deaconesses.

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Now we call them ministry leaders and

we call them overseers in different

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kinds of We, we put people in place.

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We lay hands on them, so to speak

and we ask them to do the work that's

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described here in acts chapter six.

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And there are people who

meet these qualifications.

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They have a good reputation.

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They're full of the holy spirit

and they're full of wisdom.

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So, yes, we have them.

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We just don't use the same

terminology and it's not because

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we're trying to be contrarian or

that we're just trying to show.

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Like we're Hey, we're

better than the next church.

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We just think this is a helpful way for us

to describe what it is that they're doing.

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Deacon, someone who serves is

what we call a ministry leader.

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And that ministry leader serves

people by organizing and, and

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setting and praying and leading.

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I mean, there's a lot

of things that they do.

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And there's a lot of overlap between them.

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And what the pastors do, but they're

primarily gifted to serve the

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church in the variety that they do.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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A great example of that,

uh, for our church might be.

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A couple of Stephen windy Marston.

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Um, they are over our

hospitality ministry.

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And so you see them each Sunday, they're

there, they're helping by setting

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out the, the donuts and the coffee

and the tea and those things that's

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important because that is the glue that

provides an opportunity for fellowship

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to be taken place after the service.

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But you know what.

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It's a joy to us as pastors to know

when we're showing up on Sunday

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morning, we're not having to, to give

attention to cutting the donuts and

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sending out the coffee and the tea.

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It's not that that's not

important, but because we don't

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have to do that, we can focus on.

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The other things that we need to do,

pastor rod getting ready to, to lead

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worship me, you know, going over my

sermon notes and so forth and so on.

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It's that's an example

of how deacons are there.

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They're present.

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You may not see them because they

don't have a name tag that says deacon,

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you know, deacon, Steve deacon, Suzy.

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Um, but, uh, They're there, they're

there in our midst and they're

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serving the church and just a

practical example on that very note.

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Uh, because Steven, Wendy do that in

verse four here, it says, Peter says

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we're going to devote ourselves to

prayer and to the ministry of the word.

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And that's what we do.

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We show up early.

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Yep.

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Uh, we help set up too, but we

show up early so we can pray.

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And if we're cutting donuts and getting

the coffee and running the Starbucks

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or running to HEB to pick the stuff

up, we wouldn't have time to do that.

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Now.

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I think if you guys had a choice, you're

going to say, we want our pastors to pray.

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So that's why this ministry so important.

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It's not the same.

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We don't use the same title, but

that it is the same ministry.

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Yes, it is.

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Yeah.

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Act six, 10.

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Then notice one of these

deacons, his name is Steven.

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He ends up in a debate with some people

from the synagogue of the freedmen.

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There.

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And it says they could not

withstand the wisdom and the

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spirit with which you speaking.

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And so here you have the

evidence of the fact that man.

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Here's a deacon, but he's, he's able to go

toe to toe he's he's theologically, adept.

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He knows his stuff.

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And he's, he's sharp wooded here and

they're not able to, to overcome it.

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And he's speaking through the spirit here.

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And, and so they ended up plotting

against him and they stirred up the

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people, the elders and the scribes,

and they come and they arrest him.

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And they bring him before the

council and they set up these

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false witnesses against him.

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And in there they're wanting

to end him basically.

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And so, uh, we're going to get

to, to what happens with him in

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tomorrow's episode of the podcast.

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But, um, this is setting the table

and it says they're all gazing at

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him who sat in the council, saw his

face, was like that of an angel.

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So we're going to get the Steven's

testimony in tomorrow's episode, but

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let's pray as we wrap up this episode,

God, we are certainly thankful.

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Uh, for the servants that we have

at our church for the deacons

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and deaconesses that we have at

our church for Steve and windy.

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And, uh, so many others that are, are

such a vital part of what we do and

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how we operate that free us up to.

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To pray and give attention to

the word and, and other things.

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And we are so thankful for that.

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Lord, as, as one of our distinctive

says, we have highly committed

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participants and we need those highly

committed participants to, to see.

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Each Sunday work the way we desire

it to work and to see people serve

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the way we desire them to be served.

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And so we thank you for a

church full of servants.

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We pray that you'd multiply their likes

and that you'd enable us to be even more

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effective at reaching people for Christ.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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All right.

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I'll keep, bring your Bibles and

tune in again tomorrow for another

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edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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We'll see it tomorrow.

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Folks.

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Bye.

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Yeah.