00:00 Introduction and Conference Recap

00:52 Encouragement to Revisit Conference Content

04:33 Bible Reading: Acts 11 and 12

04:43 Peter's Vision and Explanation

07:03 The Church in Antioch

09:47 Prophecy and Agabus

12:41 Peter's Imprisonment and Miraculous Escape

16:47 Herod Agrippa's Demise

18:09 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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It's our first one recording

after the transform conference.

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Which was, I mean, I think it was great.

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I thought.

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It was more than I expected it to be.

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I thought, ah, That the content was great.

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The messages.

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Uh, I think we're, we're beneficial.

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Hopefully Lord willing.

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And, uh, I.

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It was awesome to see our people.

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Uh, excited about it and had a

great time while we were there.

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One of the most important things that I

saw was that our people were fully engaged

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in service, setting up, tearing down.

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Putting things in their place buying

barbecue or whatever it is that we needed.

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I got to see our people

really turn it on and.

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To do such great work,

which is not uncommon.

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Uh, surprisingly and amazingly,

that's not uncommon for our church.

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So I was very proud of

what our church did.

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And thankful to see so many jump in to

take care of business as it required.

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So good work team.

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Yeah, I agree with that.

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And maybe you're not used to

sitting under so much content

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over such a short period of time.

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Uh, I think it was six by the

time Sunday morning was done.

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I think it was six messages,

six sermons that you heard.

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Um, That's a lot of material taken.

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And so let me just encourage you.

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These, these are going to be available.

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They're available on the

transformed conference.org

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website, which is still live.

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And we'll be.

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And so you can go back

and listen back to them.

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You can watch them again.

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Um, and in process each one

individually, it's, it's a lot to

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try to say, okay, there were six.

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How do I even remember which

point was who's pointing?

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Where did they come from?

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Uh, it's, it's probably a good

idea to go back over the next maybe

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month and maybe take one a week and

go back and, and listen through.

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Um, the sessions are not there just yet,

but they will be, they will be, there are

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in process of being uploaded right now.

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Danny Mayer does all of our

video editing and uploading.

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I talked to him this weekend.

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That's our point.

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So they should be available

there shortly, and you'll be able

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to go back through and listen.

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And.

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Uh, go back over your notes or

maybe you didn't get to take notes

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the first time you can take notes

the second time as you go through.

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But.

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It's a, it's a lot to, to try to

process, to try to follow all of that

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in, in such a short amount of time.

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Yeah.

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And.

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There were so good, even if

you were there processing it

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all and you took great notes.

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Uh, they're going to be worth

going through again soon.

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Just to remind yourself of the

good things that you heard.

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And what was important from it.

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Uh, I certainly plan on doing that.

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I don't know about you, but I plan on

going back through them again, to, to

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derive all the value I can out of them.

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And I'm sure, even though I have my notes,

I'm sure I'll see things like, oh, I

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didn't notice that the first time around.

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Yeah.

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Much like go into your Bible the first

time around you don't see a lot of things.

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In fact, that's something that Mueller

said that I really appreciated.

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Yup.

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Yeah.

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And, uh, you probably noticed that Dr.

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Miller preaches in a different way

that than I preach on a regular basis.

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And, and pastor Mike is more similar to

me in that, that we both have an approach

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where we're going to give you an outline.

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We're going to give you points.

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Uh, Dr.

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Mohler didn't and sometimes it's, it's

different to listen to different people.

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And it's good to listen to

different styles of preaching.

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Maybe you're more used to that.

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Maybe what's new to you is showing up

where a pastor gives you a 0.1 0.2 0.3.

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Um, but it was cool to see

different approaches, different

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styles, all come together and, uh,

and there's things to take away.

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I find it a little bit easier to take

away when points are given, because it's

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like, okay, Hey, pay attention to this.

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I'm telling you, Hey,

here's something that too.

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To listen in to, and both

are doing the same thing.

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Both are executing.

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The passage, both are explaining the text.

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But those points, give you something

to hang the exegetical nuggets

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on and in an outline there to

be able to understand things.

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So, uh, both equally valid, but maybe

you, you sat out there, you found it.

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Okay.

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This is different listening to Dr.

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Mohler because he didn't give you points.

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The content is still really good, but

maybe you do need to listen to, to

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another time through and say, okay, can I?

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And I identify what is key key

point in the whole sermon was.

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And then how did he kind of go through

and explain that or prove that point

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as he walked through the text, but.

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Um, yeah, he's, you know, we got to have

dinner with him on Saturday night, which

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was just super nice and a great time.

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But after dinner, what I really

appreciated and I want you to know no,

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this church, he asked me the question.

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He said, PJ.

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What is it going to help your church?

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I want to serve your church.

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I want to help your church.

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I want to be a blessing to your

people, uh, on Sunday morning.

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And so he didn't bring something to you

Sunday morning, just because, you know,

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oh, well, I've got this one in the can.

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It's going to be easy.

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Let me just do this.

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He was thinking intentionally about

our body here at compass, and he wanted

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to do that and bring that sermon to

us, to encourage us and challenge us.

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And so hopefully that encourages you.

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Uh, he loved being with you guys.

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He mentioned multiple times to me.

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You've got great people.

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They're so friendly and so warm.

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And one thing that he really

loved those of you who brought

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your family up to meet him.

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He, that was one of his highlights.

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This weekend was getting to meet all of

the kids and take pictures with families.

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That was something that he mentioned

a couple of times to me this weekend.

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So good job church.

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Great job on the conference

and being the body of Christ.

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Let's jump into our, uh,

our reading for today.

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Acts chapter 11 and 12 acts 11 and 12.

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We are.

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Uh, yeah, November 20th.

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It is Wednesday.

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And so we are jumping in here.

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Uh, acts chapter 11, we find in verses

one through three, that there's still

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some tensions that are existing between

Jew and Gentile, because they're really

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still trying to figure it all out.

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Uh, it says there that the brothers

throughout Judea heard that the

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Gentiles had received the word.

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So.

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Uh, Peter went up to the, to Jerusalem

and the circumcision party read.

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Believing Jews.

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Uh, there, they end up

criticizing Peter for having

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gone to the Gentiles because why?

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Well, Well, they weren't getting the same.

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Progressive revelation is,

is literally unfolding before

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our eyes in the book of acts.

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And they don't, they're not

privy to everything that we

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are because we're reading this.

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And so Peter has to stop down and

explain to them, and that's what

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he does in verses four through 18.

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He has to stop down and explain

everything about Cornelius that we just

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read yesterday and everything about the

vision that he received at the animals

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and what God was communicating to them.

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And for Peter, if you'll look at

verse 17, even that the key piece of

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evidence for Peter that convincing

moment was when he says this.

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If God gave them the same gift

would meaning that the holy spirit.

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W as when we believed in the

Lord Jesus Christ, who was I,

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that I could stand in God's way.

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And so that was that moment for

Peter, that, that everything kind of

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came together, but he's explaining

things because remember they weren't

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receiving the same revelation

that Peter was in the same time.

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And so God has tasked Peter with

explaining things more fully.

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This is going to return again

and acts chapter 15 later on

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when we continue in the book.

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Yeah.

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Notice in the second part

of chapter, a verse 18.

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Uh, they respond this way.

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Uh, they said they

glorified God saying then.

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To the Gentiles.

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Also, God has granted

repentance that leads to life.

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Now, this is assumed in chapter

10, verses 43 and 48, but here

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it's stated explicitly salvation.

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Isn't a separate from repentance.

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Repentance is critical to the reception

or the responsiveness to the gospel.

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So notice here, it's an important phrase.

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God has granted repentance

that leads to life.

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We could impact that a little more,

but just know that's a meaty phrase

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that ought to get your attention.

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Yeah, it does.

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It does for sure.

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Yeah.

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I had a professor in seminary that while

I was at Dallas, not masters, but a Dallas

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who said repentance doesn't need to be

part of the presentation of the gospel.

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And so what do we do with verses

like this, that say it's a

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repentance that leads to life.

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Repentance has to be a key factor in that.

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Um, it has to be part of

the gospel presentation.

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It's assumed.

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Yeah.

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It's not even explicitly stated.

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It's assumed which ought to

tell you the nature of it.

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The gospel presentation as it stood.

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Yep.

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Well from here, we end up in Antioch.

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Now there's going to be multiple.

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Um, multiple Antioch's that we're going

to cover there's Antioch here in Syria,

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and then there's Antioch to Cydia.

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Uh, we're going to read about in a

little bit here, but, uh, here in verses

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19 through 30, that the, again, notice

in verses 19 through 20 here in the

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opening here, the default was for the

Jewish believers to pursue other Jews.

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Uh, they didn't see this

as a brand new religion.

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And we have to remember that.

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We think about Christianity is

Christianity and Judaism is Judaism.

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And we, we separate those things.

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That's really kind of coming to a head

here in Antioch because they, the Jews

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that is, they thought, you know what,

we're just Jews, the found the Messiah.

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And so they weren't thinking they

were doing anything brand new.

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They were thinking that they were

realizing the fullness of Jewish

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expectation that Jesus is the Messiah.

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And so that's why they, their

default is to go to the Jews and

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say, Hey, listen, we found Jesus,

but you'll notice in verse 20.

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And it says there were some of

the them men of Cyprus since Irene

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who aren't coming to Antioch,

spoke to the Hellenistic, also

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preaching the Lord Jesus, and the

hand of the Lord was with them.

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And so now we see it bleeding out into

more than just the Jewish people here.

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Over verses 23 through 26.

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There's there's such an explosion of

faith in response to the gospel here

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in Antioch, that the leaders of the

church send Barnabas to help with

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the new converts being made among the

Gentiles specifically there in Antioch.

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And so under his leadership things.

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Keep growing.

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And, uh, he, at this point says,

man, I need more help myself.

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So he goes to Tarsus to get

Saul, to come and help him.

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And so we know there in verse 26

that finally people are saying

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it's growing so much that.

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That they have to, they have

to identify this some way.

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And so it's outsiders that

first look at the church the way

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as it was called at the time.

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And they first call them

Christians at that point.

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Not that they took that

name to themselves, but that

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was what the outsider said.

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We have to separate them from what's what.

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True Judaism in their mind.

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Although they would have

said their true Judaism.

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And so they gave him this name,

Christians, and that's what

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stuck around even to this day.

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Which wasn't a compliment.

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Necessarily it was, I think probably

intended to say, well, this group of

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people are Christian Little Christs.

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Uh, so even though it has at least a

negative connotation today, we wear

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that as a badge of pride and we ought

to people when they call us Christians.

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And that's part of what I find so

troublesome is that in today's versions

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of Christianity, everything that.

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Says Jesus is assumed to be Christian.

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And I think we would do well to

make some distinctions that are

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helpful for us to understand.

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And that real Christian, uh,

understands the, the real

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scriptures and the real gospel.

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And follow the real Christ.

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Uh, so today it's a little more

complicated because someone being

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called a Christian doesn't automatically

mean that they are, we ought to make

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distinctions that are helpful, but this

initially starts as something that they

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were just all of these people over here.

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And these Christians.

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Uh, but this is a good thing.

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It's a great moniker.

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We ought to wear that badge with

pride and not be ashamed of that name.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 11 verses 27 through 30.

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We've got an interesting thing happened

because we've got this guy named agonists

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that shows up in agribusiness called a

prophet, and he prophesies specifically,

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um, about a famine that's coming.

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And so the church under the leadership of

Barnabas and Saul pooled their resources

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to send aid there to those in need.

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So.

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Prophecy was something still

going on during this time,

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during this early church period.

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Um, I don't know.

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Pescara.

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How do we understand this?

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Should we differentiate this from

prophecy in the form of what Isaiah and

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Jeremiah and Micah and those were doing?

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Or do we look at this and say

he was a prophet the same way.

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This is inspired word of God

coming through activists here.

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If you're weighing Grudem, you might

make a distinction in the new Testament.

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Prophecies, stylings, uh, Grudem

has a book all about this,

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about new Testament prophecy.

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He would not be considered a

charismatic in the strictest sense.

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Uh, but he has a continuation list.

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And so he would look at this and say,

this is a different kind of prophecy,

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that there is even a potentiality for

prophecies to have some kind of error

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mixed within them, which is why they're

told to test the prophecies, uh, to, to

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test all things and to discard what's

evil to call fast to what's good.

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I think the best reading of

this texture would be to assume

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though, that agonist is a prophet.

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Like any other prophet,

the scriptures call him.

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Now, this is Luke's testimony to

Theopolis about who these people were.

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And so we're going to look at this

and we're going to read this in the

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natural way that any other Jewish

Christian would have read it.

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And this that he's a prophet.

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He foretells by the spirit.

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That's another key indicator there

that he's a legitimate prophet.

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That there'd be a great

famine all over the world.

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And by the way, when we think about the

world, you have to understand the world

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in the ancient, near Eastern mindset here.

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This is not the whole world.

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Um, As such as we understand it today, but

the, the whole world, as they understood

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it, that's part of what it looks like

to be a good biblical interpreter there.

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And so all over the world during the

days of Claudius, which I put them in

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the ballpark of 41, 50, 4, 80, somewhere

in that ballpark, and there are several.

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There are several famines.

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It could have been referring to.

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But we look at agonist and

say, this, this happened.

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He predicted it because

he was a prophet of God.

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And so we're going to

take him at his word.

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We don't make a distinction between old

Testament, prophecy and new Testament.

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Prophecy.

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If you take on.

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The title of profit, we're going to

hold you to the prophetical standard.

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And if you prophesize something

that does not come to pass.

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We're going to say that

you're a false prophet.

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We're not going to give deal testaments,

doning, but we will say you probably

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don't have the gift that you think you do.

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In fact, we could feel quite confident.

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You do not.

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Yeah.

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You know, agribusiness is going to show

back up later on in acts chapter 21.

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And there it's going to be interesting

because it says a prophet named

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name Agadez came down from Judea and

coming to us, he takes Paul's bound.

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Belle and binds his hands and feet.

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And there it says, thus.

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Agnes himself says, thus

says the holy spirit.

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And then he, he goes on any, he says, this

is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind.

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The man that I think is a different level.

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That's claiming a different level of

authority than just saying, Hey, this

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is what's going to happen in the future.

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When he says, thus says the holy

spirit, that's saying here's

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scripture and pay attention to

what I'm about to say that I don't.

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Yeah.

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I don't think that's going on

in any way, shape or form today.

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In fact, we're confident.

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It's not as far as continued

revelation from God.

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Um, Acts chapter 12.

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Actually after 12, you've got Herod

Agrippa, uh, who shows up on the scene

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and inherit a grip is not a good guy,

by the way, this is a grip of the

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first there's multiple a grip by.

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Uh, I guess a grip is a grip of CS.

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Uh, in the Bible and this is

Herod a grip of the first.

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And so he comes on the scene.

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He arrests James.

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Now this is not James, the leader of

the Jerusalem church, but this is James.

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Uh, son of Zebedee, the brother of John.

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And he executes him.

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He ends up killing him and

there's a positive responses.

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So he goes and get to Peter.

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And what we have to understand here is

when he arrests Peter, his intention is

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to do to Peter, what he'd done to James.

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So here a grip of arrest, Peter

in prisons, him and he is ready.

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He's going to execute Peter because

he says again, he, it, he found

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that it pleased the Jews and

he wanted to do the same thing.

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So.

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Overnight while Peter is in prison.

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It's important for us to note

that context, because we have to

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look at for six on the same night,

the night he was to be killed.

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Before he's brought out.

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What is Peter doing?

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Peter is asleep.

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And I think that shows us the

Peter's confidence in his identity.

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His confidence in his future with Christ

has confidence in God's sovereignty.

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He sleeping on the night of his

execution and he's not, he's not dumb.

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He knows why he's in prison

and what the intention is here.

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But he's asleep there.

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Well, here comes this angel and has

to Rouse him from his sleep even.

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And so we get some up.

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And he frees him and Peter doesn't

even believe that it's real.

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At first he thinks that this

is all a vision until finally

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he's let out of the gate there.

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And he comes to a census

and realizes what happened.

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And so he goes and shows up at

this house where some of the

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other disciples are gathered.

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And it's a funny story

because the servant girl.

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Here's Peter's voice from outside and

she goes, And just leave them outside.

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Because she's just overwhelmed.

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She's going no way.

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Peter's here.

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She goes back, tells the people and

the people eventually don't believe

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initially don't believe her, but

eventually do come around and let them in.

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But a cool story of God's deliverance here

in the opening part of acts chapter 12.

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So you'll notice here that he also says,

or they say, uh, She was insisting.

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It was him.

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They kept saying, it's

his angel, it's his angel.

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Um, well, meanwhile, Peter's out.

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Uh, outside knocking, asking to be.

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At in.

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Um, and so one thing you might be

tempted to ask is, do I have an angel?

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Do we have guardian angels?

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And is everyone assigned one?

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Um, and the short answer is we don't know.

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No, no, there may be, there may not be

a, we don't have any clear indication

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of that, but we do know that there is

an angelic coset is here to serve us.

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There are ministering spirits.

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Hebrew says.

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Uh, for, for our purpose, for our sake.

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And so God utilizes the angelic host.

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However many there are to serve

us in myriad ways that we don't

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fully understand that we can't see.

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Certainly if we saw them, we'd be able

to understand what they're doing, but.

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There are different levels of

angelic beings and they're different

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territories where they serve.

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We know, at least that's, that

much is true in the book of Daniel.

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We see that there are princes or at least

they're called princes they're demonic

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opposition that have territorial based.

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Um, fortresses, I guess you could

call it spiritual fortresses,

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spiritual territories, where they

take care of business as it were.

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And so here you have people

believing, at least at this time.

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That he has an angel and I guess

the angel looks like him or

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the angel is representing him.

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Who knows exactly what they're

thinking in their minds here.

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But the short answer to do I have an

angel is God's angel protecting me.

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We don't know.

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But we do know God's protecting you.

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And even if you use the medium or

the meat, not the medium has like the

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psychic, but if it uses the intermediate

intermediary, the angel, God is still

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gonna protect you one way or another.

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It doesn't need an angel, but it's

interesting that he does use them.

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It is interesting.

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I think there's a,

another scripture verse.

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Implying that children have angels.

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Um, Um, consulting my concordance, Google.

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Um, Which is always a super helpful.

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Uh, wait, uh, to look for a Bible verse.

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Uh, Matthew 18, 10 through 14.

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Um, be careful.

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Don't think these little children

are not worth are worth nothing.

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This is, uh, another translation.

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I tell you that they have angels in heaven

who are always with my father in heaven.

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So there's another.

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Uh, instance there and

that's Jesus speaking there.

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Uh, can we build a doctrine of guardian

angels based on two passages in scripture?

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Probably not with, with any solid

foundation, but can we write it off?

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No, we can't write it off either.

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It's a good point.

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There.

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Yeah.

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Oh, well, the chapter ends

in verses 20 through 25 with

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the demise of Herod Agrippa.

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And it's not a pretty one.

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He's angry with the

people of Tyre and Sidon.

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They come to him, he goes out there

and puts on his Royal robes and

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he gives him a phenomenal speech.

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I mean, he just gives the

speech of all speeches.

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And the people end up, uh, claiming

this is the voice of a God, not a man.

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And so he's receiving the praise of men

and there's, there's probably many reasons

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why the judgment comes, but one of them

at least is he doesn't deflect the glory.

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He's.

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Uh, he's receiving it and acknowledging

it and it's puffing him up and it

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says in verse 23, immediately, an

angel of the Lord struck him down.

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By the way, notice the

articles are important.

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It doesn't say the angel of the

Lord, an angel of the Lord that.

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That's different.

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But an angel of the Lord struck him down.

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And because he did not give God the

glory, he was eaten by worms and

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breathed his last that's a pretty

ignominious demise for somebody who was.

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Was pretty, yeah, pretty high up

in the pecking order in the Roman.

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Uh, Roman hierarchy there.

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And so.

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I'd get, I mean, what's our takeaway.

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I think our takeaway is we need humility.

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Um, that's an important trait.

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It's an important trait.

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Even for an unbeliever here,

there's a limit to how much God is

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going to let an unbeliever boast.

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In his presence, let alone how much.

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The believer should be humble in

the sight of the Lord and make

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sure that we are deflecting.

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Uh, deflecting.

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Glory and making sure God gets the praise.

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Well, there you go, actually.

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Chapters 11 and 12.

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That's our DVR for today.

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And we will be back tomorrow.

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So let's pray.

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And then we'll wrap up.

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God, thanks for this.

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This passage, we do want to

be men and women of humility.

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We want to make sure that you

get the glory and you even say

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in scripture to let another man

praise you and not your own lips.

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And so we want to be careful not

to, uh, to boast in ourselves,

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but to boast in the Lord.

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So give us plenty of reasons.

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I prayed it to do that, and

cause to do that in the.

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The, uh, even mental discipline

and wherewithal to, to make sure

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that we're using our words to give

you the glory that you're doing.

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And so we pray that you would

be honored glorified through

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our body, through our church.

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And we, again, thank you.

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As we reflect back on this last

weekend and just for a great weekend

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together as a church family, we look.

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Forward to many, many more.

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We pray this all in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Are y'all keeping your Bibles

and tune in for another episode

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tomorrow of the daily Bible podcast.

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Please come back now.

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Bye.