00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:27 Current Events and Thanksgiving Plans

02:19 Discussion on Acts Chapter 9

03:32 Saul's Conversion and Early Ministry

09:03 Barnabas and Saul's Acceptance

10:19 Peter's Miracles and Ministry

12:32 Cornelius' Vision and Peter's Revelation

16:24 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to Tuesday's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Yep.

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It's not a, it's not Monday.

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I think you're on mute, pastor Ron.

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I think, uh, I am on mute.

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No I'm here now.

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I was like, he said something.

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He, you said you are always right.

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I think is what you said.

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That's exactly what I said.

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You should expect nothing less.

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Well, I thought, but, uh, yeah.

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Anyways, welcome to the

podcast, pastor Robert.

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We're glad to have you.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, it's got to be here all the time.

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Yeah.

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Um, Yeah, Tuesday.

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Uh, and we are, uh, in acts

chapter nine, chapter 10.

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So we've got a lot

coming up, but, um, Yeah.

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W what's that what's new.

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What's the latest pastor out.

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Did you hear about this, this situation in

Pennsylvania with the Senate runoff, the

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Democrat wanted to, to recount and they're

unsigned ballots and all kinds of stuff.

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Now I did not.

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I mean, even when things are going well,

there's always going to be something

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out there that you're like, yeah.

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Except.

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Except for this.

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There's always something.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There is for sure.

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So, uh, but Hey, it's a, it's a good week.

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Good.

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We confront us.

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Thanksgiving is next week.

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I think right.

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Yes.

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Yeah, next Thursday.

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So if you don't have your

Turkey, get your Turkey.

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Um, what are your plans for Thanksgiving?

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Pastor Ron.

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Don't have any firm plans yet,

but I I'm excited to enjoy some

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time with friends and family.

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Um, but mostly, mostly some friends.

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I mean, church, church, family, I guess,

which I would call, I would call family.

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Uh, church, family and friends.

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Yep.

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We've got some downtime plan.

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So we're going to.

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Uh, we're going to try

to make the most of that.

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That's great man.

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Yeah, that's excellent.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, we're laying low kind

of doing the family thing as well.

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And he, and, uh, just spending some time.

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Uh, relaxing.

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I hear there's a football game

going on, uh, on Thanksgiving day.

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Oh, cool.

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Some of the men in the

church and some ladies too.

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I had some ladies come up to me

say, Hey, can we play football too?

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And there was rumors of

potentially a co-ed well, no

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ladies pickup game, getting.

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Okay.

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Yeah, dude.

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You know, You mentioned football

and you realize all of a sudden

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there's some ladies that are

they're intense about stuff.

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And, uh, they're, they're excited

to take it out there and play on.

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Good for them.

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Yeah.

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Um, but should it be good time?

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And I enjoy Thanksgiving.

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My kids are off school for

the week, which will be.

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A nice, a nice time at home with family.

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Oh yeah.

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Yes.

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Some of my favorite time.

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Yes, sir.

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It plus food, man, my wife

makes homemade cinnamon rolls.

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Thanks even morning.

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Yum.

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Yes, please.

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Um, All right.

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Let's jump in.

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Acts chapter nine, acts chapter 10.

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Let's do it actually after

nine here comes Saul again.

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Uh, Saul, still breathing, threats and

murder against the disciples of the Lord.

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And so we left them off at the

beginning of chapter eight.

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Hey, nothing's changed.

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He's still persecuting

the church and so much.

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So he's, he's going to the synagogues

here and he's asking for letters.

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Uh, to from the high priest, rather

to the synagogues in Damascus, so at

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different areas so that he can begin

to persecute the Jewish people there.

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And the Christians are not the Jewish

people, the Christians there, and in

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any people belonging to notice the

way is what they're calling this.

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They're not calling it

Christianity at this point.

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They're not calling it

Jews Judaism at this point.

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It's, it's a sect.

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It's the way.

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Uh, and so he wants to destroy them.

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And so he leaves with that in mind,

he is on a mission to hurt people.

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He's on a mission to persecute the church.

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And remember, like I said, yesterday,

Philippians chapter three, he tells

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us, he thought he was doing good.

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He thought he was doing

right by God by doing this.

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And so we look at this

and we go, this is evil.

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This is wicked.

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Yes.

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But in Saul's understanding, he

thought, man, this was even on a

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wicked is suggesting that this,

this rabbi was the son of God.

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And that, that, that he's the fulfillment

of the Messiah that's blasphemous.

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And so Saul is looking to put

an end to this because he's

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not yet saved the scales.

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Quite literally not yet been removed from

his eyes, but they're going to be here.

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And so on the way he's, he's, uh, blinded

by this light, he's knocked off of his,

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his horse and those that are with him.

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And he hears this voice saying, Saul,

Saul, why are you persecuting me?

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And I think that's worth note as well.

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Verse four.

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Jesus is so identified with the church.

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Why?

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Because the church is the bride of Christ.

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If you're married and you think about

minutes, somebody attacked your wife.

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That's not just an attack on your wife.

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That's an attack on you as well.

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And so, because of your love for her.

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And the oneness that.

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The two of you share together,

you're going to stand up

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and say, this is not right.

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So Jesus is showing us his connection

with his bride, the church he says

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to Saul, why are you persecuting me

by persecuting my bride, the church.

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And then saw has this encounter.

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He's blinded temporarily.

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Until he goes to Damascus to

the place called straight.

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The road called street and

he finds a man named Anna.

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Niaz not the Antonius the died.

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Cause that would be weird,

different in a nice.

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And in an ice is met

by the loader as well.

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He says, Hey, you're

going to pray for him.

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He's going to restore a site.

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I love the interchange because in an ISIS.

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In verse 13, he says,

ah, hold on a second.

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God.

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I don't know if you've heard the rumors,

but uh, this guy is not a good dude.

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Are you sure?

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And God's response to, in an ice and men,

would this come true in Saul's ministry?

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When he says, I will show him how

much he must suffer for the sake of

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my name and that was going to be true.

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So you think of the thorn in his

flesh, you think of second Corinthians

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11 in the resume of suffering this

all hat, but, um, God brings Saul

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here and Saul, uh, literally has the

scales fall off of his eyes so that

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he can see and, uh, and Saul is saved

and God grabs the least person that.

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You would think, and he takes him to

make him his chosen instrument to do

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a lot of good for them in the inverse.

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What's really interesting.

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Here is a name that I didn't

notice until I came across it.

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This time around verse 11, says

the Lord said to him, rise and

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go to the street called straight.

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And at the house of Judas, look

for a man of Tarsus named Saul.

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Who's Judas.

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We don't know who that guy is.

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Judas, not as scary, not

as scary at for sure.

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But who's do this.

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I mean, I don't know who he is.

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I I've, I was trying to look and see.

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Is there anyone who has any definitive

information on, and of course there's

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not, there's nothing about this guy.

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Uh, but it's all has friends.

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And this is who he went

to stay with in Damascus.

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And Anna nice is told, basically go into

the lion's den and go tame that line.

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I got, I've got plans for that line.

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And surprisingly, one of the things that,

uh, the Lord notes here in, in this,

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uh, in this text is that he's praying.

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That Saul at this point is praying.

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And I love that because it shows

it the genuineness of Paul's.

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Of Paul's spiritual pursuit of the Lord,

even though it was misguided, it is wrong.

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In fact, later on, Paul's going

to say they have a form of

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godliness, but denying its power.

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And he knows this because

he was one of them.

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He was one of the people that.

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We're zealous for the

law zealous for the Lord.

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And yet it was entirely.

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Those sincere misguided in his pursuit.

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So I love this, this depiction.

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I love whoever Judas is.

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I find this guy fascinating because

I don't know anything about him,

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but I love this little, uh, this

little vignette of Saul's life.

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Yeah.

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I would agree, man.

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Yeah.

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Eh, from here.

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What's funny as well as.

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So got it.

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It's all had been going to Damascus

for one purpose and God sent him

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to Damascus for a different purpose

rather than persecuting the church.

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Saul goes into the synagogues now

in Damascus, right after this.

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And you've perhaps heard of, uh,

somebody being a new Calvinist

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bit as cage stage where they go

out and they're, they're just.

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So passionate about being a

Calvinist, that they, they lose all

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sense of decorum and they just go

after whoever is opposed to them.

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I not going to say salt's cage stage

here, but he's certainly passionate.

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And so he goes into the synagogues right

away and he's like, Hey, wait a minute.

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Let me tell you what's going on.

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And he says, I need to tell you about

Jesus in verse 22, salt increased all the

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more and strength and confounded the Jews.

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Why?

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Because Saul was a Pharisee on the rise.

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So I'll knew his stuff well.

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And so if, if the Jews were

going to go up against him, Man.

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They didn't know what

they were up against.

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And so he's there and he becomes

immediately one of God's best

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instruments for the gospel, because

he's able to go to the Jews and

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reason with them and show them how.

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Uh, the old Testament

was pointing to Jesus.

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Well, they don't like that.

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And so there's a, uh, a threat against

his life detached in verses 23 through 25.

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And so the, uh, the disciples there

take salt, notice his disciples.

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So he's already massing followers here.

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His disciples take him and

they, they get him out.

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They, they, Laura met through an

opening in the wall, Loring them

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in a basket so that he could flee.

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And, uh, because it wasn't his time.

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It wasn't the right

time for him to, to die.

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Now, eventually Saul will die

for his faith, but it's not yet,

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God's got way more to do with him.

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And so he's not going to be there yet.

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Notice the plot.

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Of conspiracy.

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Conspiracies.

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That's all.

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That's all.

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I'm going to say.

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It's going to drop that right there.

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Okay.

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Alright, conspiracy.

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Versus the 20, 60, 31, then

Saul comes to Jerusalem and a,

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again, another somewhat humorous.

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Situation here because they're

having to kind of get over this.

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It says they were all afraid

of him for, they did not

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believe that he was a disciple.

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They're there going, wait a minute.

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Can we really, can we trust this

is, this is this believable.

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Uh, but Barnabas takes him.

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And there's that beginning of the

relationship there between Paul and

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Barnabas, which is going to be a

close connection in his ministry.

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Uh, talks about what happened

and he goes all over Jerusalem.

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He's preaching boldly in the name of the

Lord disputes against the Hellenistic.

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And, and again, what happens?

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They want to kill him.

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And so, uh, remember when, when

God said I'm going to show him

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how much he must suffer for my

name's sake, right off the bat.

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Here's two conspiracies.

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There you go.

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Pastor rod two conspiracies that

are hatched against Paul to try to

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take him out, to try to kill them.

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And so the brothers learned about

this that bring them down to Cesarea

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and they sent him off to Tarsus.

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Uh, and so the church all throughout

Judy and chameleon or Galilee and

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Samira were, were being built up.

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And so this is, this is just awesome.

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Uh, God takes one of the leading

threats against his church off

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the scene and says, I'm going to

use you for good and not for evil.

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Joseph, AKA Barnabas.

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It doesn't get enough credit, man.

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I just love this guy.

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Yeah.

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He sells his house to bless the saints.

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And then he takes a guy this raw talent

in the, in the life of Paul and says,

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I'm going to, I'll be friend to you.

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He took him, brought him to the

apostles and declared to them how

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on the road he had seen the Lord.

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So Barnabas puts his own reputation

on the line for this guy.

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Um, who ends up being a great gamble?

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It was no gamble at all,

obviously, but Barnabas, Joseph.

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Who is so good at

encouraging, they rename.

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And they nicknamed him into

son of encouragement that he

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and his life testifies to how

fruitful it is to do that.

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He takes Paul.

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And introduces him to

the app systolic band.

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They graft him in, they adopt him, they

give him the right hand of fellowship

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and eventually they're going to send

them off on a missionary excursion.

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So this Barnabas guy, man, I, you

should, you should want to be Barnabas.

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Yeah.

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Son of encouragement.

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If someone nicknames you, son of

encouragement, you're doing it.

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Right, right.

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In fact young people.

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A young marrieds, listening to this,

having the babies still, uh, can

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we get a Barnabas in the church?

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I love.

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Or just a barn.

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Yeah, I mean, Barney maybe

is a little bit purple.

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Dinosaur, ESC.

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But, you know, Uh, but a part of

this that'd be, that'd be amazing.

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That'd be amazing.

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Yeah, that'd be cool.

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Barnabas, Daniel, I'm

not putting pressure.

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I did great namesake.

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Part of this set of

encouragement after this.

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The attention shifts.

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So the scene is going

to go from, from solid.

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And it's going to be Paul

over here to, uh, to Peter.

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And so Peter is healing people

at verses 32 through 35.

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This man named a nice.

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Um, he had been bedridden for eight years.

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Paralyzed.

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Peter says, Hey, Jesus Christ

says to you, rise, make your bed.

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And immediately he rose.

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And all the residents of Lydia insurance

saw him and they turned to the Lord again.

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Notice the response that the

miracle helps support the

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message, it validates the message.

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Should they see the miracle?

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They turn to the Lord there in verse 35.

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Uh, let's talk about Tabitha or Dorcas.

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Pastor rod, I think last year we

did this, but I want to give this

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one to you because your daughter.

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Is not named Dorcas.

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I named her after, after Dorcas,

but I gave her the, the, the other

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name that she goes by Tabitha.

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Um, and that's because I want my daughter

to be that what she says here in verse

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36, that her testimony or her life,

her life's work was this testimony.

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She was full of good

works and acts of charity.

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She was very conscious about naming my

daughter Lexus is what I want to see.

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And this woman was so renowned and

silver appreciate and respected that.

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Everywhere.

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As soon as she died, people were

like, man, you got to come and

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do something about this, Peter.

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Uh, because they heard it,

they heard that he was nearby.

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And so they're begging him to come.

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They want, they want him to see the

good works that she's done and say,

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look how valuable this woman is.

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She deserves to stay alive.

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Please let her come back.

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And I'm surprised that they even thought.

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To say this too.

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To Peter.

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As if he had some kind of like, Hey,

of course, I'll raise it from the 10.

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Can I, can I order a number one and

give me a milkshake on the side.

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This is what it feels like.

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We're ordering up a resurrection, right?

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I'm sorry, I'm shocked that they

do this, but I love the fact that

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he says, okay, let's do that.

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Yep.

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So Peter put them all outside.

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He prays in any, any, he

doesn't do anything special.

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He prays to the Lord and

he says, Tabitha arise.

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God responds.

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She wakes up and she, she gets to work.

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I mean, she.

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Yeah, he presents her

alive and I love this.

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It became known throughout all

Joppa, many believed in the Lord.

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He stayed in Joppa for many

days at one Simon, a Tanner.

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So he restores the life of this

woman who is known for her acts

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of charity, her good works.

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And would that be true for all of us?

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Yeah, that's awesome.

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Yeah.

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I think even last time we went through

this, he pointed out the fact that they

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were gathered around her bed, showing

all the good things that she had made.

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Even testifying to you, her creativity

and her, her skill with wood, making

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these tunics and other things.

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I'm saying, Hey, we, we, we love

her and we love what she did for us.

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Jefferson Peter and Cornelius here.

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Uh, so it opens with a vision that

Cornelius has and Cornelius has

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a vision that God appears to him.

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Corny.

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This is a God fear.

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Okay.

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So w we talked about in our

study of the gospel of John.

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When Jesus cleansed the temple,

one of the problems was multiple,

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but one of the problems were.

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The fact that the money changers.

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And the animal sellers, they were set up

in the court of the Gentiles, the court

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of the Gentiles would have been as far as

corny you is, could get when he wanted to

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go and worship God, he couldn't get beyond

that because being a Gentile, he was

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excluded from the interior of the temple.

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And so his worship had to take

place, separated his worship that

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had to take place on the outside.

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And so.

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Hearing the, the cows and the

chickens and everything else there.

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Uh, in, in all the chaos and then the.

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The chaos of the money being exchanged.

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That's one of the reasons why, why Jesus

stepped in and said, this is so wrong.

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So you have Cornelius, he's a God.

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Fearer, he's a Gentile who knows

enough about the God of Israel.

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That he's, he's seeking

him and he's seeking him.

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Not in the sense of, of, we know that Paul

is going to later say, no one seeks God.

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And so this is not a seeker seeking him

in the sense of I'm moving towards God so

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that God will respond to move towards me.

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Uh, but, but he wants to know.

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And that's part of God's drawing.

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I would say more so than it is

anything inherent within Cornelius.

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I think this is God

drawing Cornelius to him.

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And he gives him this vision

and says, you know what?

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You need to go and you need

to get one called Peter.

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Who's staying at the

house of Simon, a Tanner.

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Whose house is by the sea.

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So very specific directions

verses one through eight there.

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Well, in the meantime, Peter

is on the rooftop of Simon,

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the Tanner there in Joppa.

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And by the way, this is the same

area that, that Jonah was sent out.

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That Jonah was when he went out to

go and preach the gospel in Nineveh

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is he was there in Joppa as well.

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So Peter's there in Joppa.

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Televiv is the modern

area today in Israel.

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And he's up on a rooftop.

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Peter is in and he's praying, and he

has this vision and this vision of

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a sheet that comes down that says,

and it all kinds of unclean animals.

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And it's the beautiful declaration

from God arise, Killarney.

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Right.

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Uh, this is why we know that that

vegetarians are not biblical.

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Um, Because if you want to be a

vegetarian, that's you, that's fine.

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That's between you and God.

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But don't say that it's biblical

because here God gives a

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commit, a rise, kill and eat.

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Peter says, no, it happens multiple times.

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Finally, Peter gets the message.

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That's not about the food as

much as it is about the Gentiles.

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So Peter goes, okay, I get it.

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I get it.

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I get it.

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And then here's Cornelius.

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And God's just orchestrating all of

this stuff together and in Cornelius.

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They knock on the door to get Peter,

Peter goes with them and he then realized

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that what God's doing, he's like,

oh, you want the gospel to go to the

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Gentiles to, so then Peter from here

after preaching the gospel to Cornelius

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and seeing Cornelius comes to faith.

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Man Peter's all about it now.

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And so he wants to take

the gospel to the Gentiles.

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Acts 10 44 through 48.

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I mentioned mentioned it

in an earlier podcast.

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Here, you've got the Gentiles

now, and Peter's going to pray

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for them to receive the spirit.

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Even though that previously they believed.

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Again, it just got demonstrated.

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This is going to the Gentiles, which

for those of us that aren't pastor rod.

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Now we are so thankful that the

gospel goes to the Gentiles.

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I'm thankful for that too.

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Now what a great turning point in

history and redemptive history, this

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kind of change is as radical you and

I can read chapter 10 and acts and

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not realize how important this is.

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Because without this, without

this vindication, from this beer

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to say, yes, I'm doing this.

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This is the direction we're going.

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All you have is a gospel

primarily for the Jewish people.

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And yes.

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We could participate.

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We could, we could be a process of light.

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Uh, but ultimately this is what's

going to redirect the church.

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As we know it at that point in

time, it turns from being a sect.

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Of Jewish nationality to now,

to now being something that is

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global and is meant to go out.

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In fact, I don't know if we mentioned

this at the beginning of acts.

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They're called to go out to Judea

Sumeria and to the ends of the earth.

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That's kind of how the

book of acts is outlined.

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We're now seeing the ends of the

earth beginning to be reached.

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We're seeing the Gentiles take part in

part B participants, full participants.

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And what Jesus is now doing through his

spirit, through the lives of the apostle.

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This is a huge turning point.

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Huge.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Well, that's, that's it for today?

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Acts nine to 10.

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Uh, in, in another two chapters in

the books, let's pray and then we'll

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keep, keep, uh, chugging along.

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We'll be back again tomorrow.

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We do thank you for your word.

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We thank you that the gospel did go

out further than just the, the Jewish

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people, but that we have a gospel

that has impacted us in that if we

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are part of your family, that we have

repented and believed in this gospel.

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And it's all because of your,

your vision was greater than just

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reaching the, the Jewish people.

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And we're thankful for that.

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And so we pray that we be faithful

to continue to take it to the end

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of the year at the end of the year

of being next door across the street

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or in the cubicle next to us at the

office or the driver, the Uber car

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that we're going to be in later on.

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Gotcha.

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I just, I pray that you would help

us to see people as needing the

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gospel all around us and that we

would be faithful to take it to them.

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As we seek to know Christ to

make them known as the church.

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And so we pray that we'd be faithful

to that mission in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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And then.

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R I'll keep you in your Bibles

and turn it against them.

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Offer yet another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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We'll see you then.

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Bye.