00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:05 The Importance of Marriage in the Church

00:18 Biblical Foundations of Marriage

01:05 Marriage and the Gospel

01:33 Honoring Marriage in the Church

01:45 Preparing for Marriage

02:04 Continuous Improvement in Marriage

03:15 Starting the Book of Acts

06:02 The Ascension and the Kingdom

10:53 The Day of Pentecost

11:34 Understanding the Gift of Tongues

15:16 The Gift of Tongues and Its Significance

17:00 Peter's Transformational Sermon

19:07 The Importance of Counting Converts

19:47 Repentance and Baptism Explained

23:10 The Healing of the Lame Man

24:35 Faith and Signs in the Modern Context

27:13 Concluding Prayer and Reflections

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy Lord's Day to you all.

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Yep.

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Sunday, we are picking up with

marriage for the next two weeks.

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That sounds fun.

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So, and totally uncontroversial, run

of the mill stuff that no one's gonna

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struggle with, even a little bit.

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Well.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And, we talked about it at the very

outset of our study of First Peter,

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but the idea of us being the church

in Excel, not the church on vacation.

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And that has to do with our marriages too.

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We're gonna be called to a different role

in marriage than the world is called to.

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And that's a good thing.

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And even as we're addressing marriage

this week and next week if you're

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part of our church family and you're

sitting there going, okay, but I'm not

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married, so why does this matter to me?

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I think it matters immensely.

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For many reasons.

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Number one, our husbands and wives need

you praying for them and for their ability

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to follow what God has called them to, uh,

be obedient to his word in these rules.

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The second thing is if you think about the

young men, the young women in our midst

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who are not yet married, because they're

not of marriageable age, it's important

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for them to know what to look for in

a spouse and what that should be and

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who they should be looking for in that.

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The other thing too is that marriage

is meant to image the gospel.

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So to be praying that our marriages

in the church would really

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showcase the Gospel of Christ.

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And then the final thing is

that we as a church are better

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when we have strong marriages.

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So regardless of where you're at,

whether you're married or not.

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God has marriage in your

future or maybe he doesn't.

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This is a series that, kind of

a subseries within a series that

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matters still for us because, the

church needs strong marriages.

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Two additional comments to that.

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Hebrews 13 says that marriage is

to be held in honor among all.

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Yeah.

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It's not just the married, it's

the single, it's everybody who has

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anything to do with church life.

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Marriage is meant to be held

in honor among all, that's

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Hebrews chapter 13, verse four.

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And on top of that, there also

is the likelihood that most of

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you who are listening, if not

already married, will be married.

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Yeah.

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And the likelihood if we're gonna go by

averages here is that you're gonna be.

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Longer married than you are single.

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You'll have most of your life to

be married and maybe remarried

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if the Lord desires to take one

of you sooner than you expect.

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So it's prudent for you to always be

sharpening your skills in this department.

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And the thing is, none of us has arrived.

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And no matter how great a spouse you

are, pastor pj, I'm sure you have

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even a little bit more to grow in.

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My guess, just a little bit.

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I mean, not much, just a little bit.

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Obviously there's a lot less for

the rest of us, but you should

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always be seeking to improve if not.

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If not only for the love of your

spouse, but actually for the love of

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the Lord, for love and the glory of God.

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We always wanna be improving in this area,

and the Lord knows we need reminders.

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You might know it, but unless you're

doing it, you really don't know it.

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Absolutely.

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I tell my kids that all the time.

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You might know what I'm saying,

but if you're not doing it, you

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really don't know what I'm saying.

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So this is a great opportunity for us.

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This is a good time to bring

in a friend who maybe needs a.

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Some help to learn what marriage is

and what it's supposed to look like.

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This is gonna be the word of God.

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This is not Pastor PJ's best

thoughts about God and marriage.

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It's not his best advice

about these things.

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It is God's word about the institution

of husband and wife, and perhaps

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the most foundational institution

to all that we know in society.

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You could say that marriage is the

foundation of family, is the foundation

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of community, is the foundation of the

city, the states, the nation, et cetera.

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So I think this is a very important

sermon that you should not miss.

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A set of sermons, I should say.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I meant to that.

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I would echo all of that.

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Well, hey, let's get

into our reading today.

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We are starting a new book and

we're not gonna read this one

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all the way straight through.

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This is gonna be similar to, if you

remember, and you've been tracking with

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us from back in the Old Testament, which

if you have, and you're still with us.

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Well done.

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Good job.

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Finished Strong.

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We're closing in on the finish line

here, but if you remember back in

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our times of, second Kings and

Chronicles, we would jump into the

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prophets sometimes and jump back.

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And the reason being is because

there were other books being written

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concurrently with these things.

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The Book of Acts is gonna be like.

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That for us.

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We're gonna get a running start with

the first handful of chapters here,

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maybe through I think chapter 15 or so.

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And then we're gonna begin to mix

in some other books because we're

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gonna be dealing with the different

missionary journeys of Paul.

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And Paul was writing some of the

epistles during those missionary

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journeys, as well as some other books

that we'll encounter along the way.

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So, Axe is gonna be one of those

where we're in it and then we're out

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of it, and then we're back in it again.

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But we get this running start and it's

picked up and it's written by Theophilus.

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So we were talking about Luther and

fourth, Theophilus fourth, the thank you.

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By Luke.

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And when we were in Luke, I asked the

question if we thought Luke knew that

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he was gonna write this, and you said

you think he does, and you said, when we

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get to Acts, I'll talk more about that.

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So what's your thoughts on his knowledge

that he was going to write volume two?

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So I would point to

two pieces of evidence.

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And the first being a

historical piece of evidence.

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And the truth of the matter is that due

to scroll length, they had to truncate

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what they were gonna write into multiple

sections in order to make it fit.

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So I'm gonna say historically, that's

how they treated longer volumes of work.

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They would separate into two

volumes in order to make it more

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accessible on the scrolling.

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So that's gonna be my first argument.

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The second argument is textual.

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So one historical, one

textual, and I think.

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I can make a decent case from Luke chapter

one where he's doing this introduction

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and he's writing two Theophilus, and

he says here, it seemed good to me also

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having followed all things closely from

some time past, read an orderly account

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for you most excellent Theophilus,

that you may have certainty concerning

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the things that you've been taught.

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So given the fact that Luke is

trying to present him a whole case,

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it makes sense to me that he'd

have a whole lot to say besides the

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life and ministry of Jesus Christ.

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Because he's saying if we're trying

to help you feel certainty about the

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things that you've been taught, let me

give you the whole picture, starting

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from the beginning of the church

now to a spread so it makes sense

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to me, but logically and textually

that he would say This is part one.

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And then at the beginning of

acts, in his prologue, he says.

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In the first book, O Theophilus,

I've dealt with all that

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Jesus began to do and teach.

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So it seems like he's saying, I had

the intention of writing to you.

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Here's the front end part one, and

here's now part two, the continuation

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and the spread of the gospel.

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So I think Luke being who he

is as a scholar of scholars,

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he's an intelligent man.

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He's thoughtful, he's careful

to write what's clear and

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true and scroll length end.

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Textual support.

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I mean, it's weak, but it is there.

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I would say he had the

intention of doing this.

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Yeah, I think that's fair

and yeah, I'm with you.

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All those things.

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Amen.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Well, as he opens up, he opens up with

the ascension and we talked about that.

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And at the end of Luke 24, he kind of tax

on the ascension to the end of the gospel.

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But here he's gonna go

into it in more depth.

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And he talks about the post-resurrection

of appearances of Jesus.

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He was there for 40 days and he was

preaching about the kingdom at that

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time too, which is what leads the

disciples to ask him the question.

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There when they come together in verse

six, when they say, Lord, are you gonna

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restore the kingdom at this point?

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If you'll recall, Luke 24, you had the

two disciples on the road to Emmaus.

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They were so disappointed because

they thought Jesus was gonna restore

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the kingdom before his death.

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Well, now that he's resurrected,

surely now is the time he's

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gonna restore the kingdom.

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He's been preaching about the kingdom too.

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That's the expectation.

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But Jesus is gonna say there's other

things in play here, and this is

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where we get the theme of the book

of Acts, and that's in verse eight.

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You will receive power when the

Holy Spirit has come upon you.

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And you'll be my witnesses

in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria,

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into the ends of the earth.

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And if you read the book of acts, if

you pay attention to the geographical

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locales, especially in these opening

chapters, you're gonna see that

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God really works things together

to cause this mission to get the

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gospel out far and wide to happen.

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And even in a way that isn't necessarily

the best way that these followers of

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Jesus would've chosen through persecution

even but this is what's happening As he,

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commissions them and then he's caught up

into the clouds and the angels say he's

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gonna come in the same way, which is

an illusion, I think, to Daniel Chapter

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seven, which talks about the son of man

coming again in power with the clouds.

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Remind us again why the

kingdom idea is important here.

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Christians, clearly, we're looking

forward to the future kingdom.

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Yeah.

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The new heavens and new earth where Jesus

rules and reigns, and so we can understand

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what kingdom means in that perspective.

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What did they think it meant?

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They were anticipating the restoration

of the kingdom as it was under David.

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So the Davidic Kingdom 2.0.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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And that would mean then the conquering

of the Romans, or at least the

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throwing off of the Roman oppression

as they understood it, establishing

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the Davidic king in Jerusalem, right?

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Where he would rule and reign

and expand their territory beyond

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what Solomon himself experienced.

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Is that kind of the idea here?

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Totally.

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And they expected that this would be

a divine person who would do this.

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Is that fair?

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Or is there any debate on that?

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Yeah, there's enough in the Old

Testament to point to the fact that

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they probably should have expected.

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Even Psalm chapter two, when it

says, why do the nation's rage?

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And the Lord scoffs, today,

I have installed my son.

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And so there's enough in the Old

Testament, in other prophecies as well.

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Even I believe it's seven or nine.

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I always get those two confused.

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The government will be on his shoulders.

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He'll be called wonderful

counselor, mighty God.

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So.

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If they're paying attention to old

Testament prophecy, they should

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have expected a divine Davidic king.

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The Lord said to my Lord, Jesus

even uses that to point to the fact

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that how could David call one of

his offspring, his Lord, unless the

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implication is he's greater than David.

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How can he be greater than David?

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Well, if he's, God is greater than David,

but whether or not they all did expect the

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divine Messiah is a different question.

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And I guess to add to that, Jesus

doesn't say we're not doing the kingdom.

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He says, we're not doing that yet.

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Right.

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It is not for you to know the times

or the seasons, he says in verse

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seven, so it's not that there's

no kingdom to be experienced, it's

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that they're not gonna get it when

they thought they were gonna get it.

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Right.

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And that's the, that's

a big shakeup for them.

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That's a perspective changer because

they weren't expecting two advents.

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For you and I, this is obvious,

it's as plain as a nose in our

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face, but that's because we grew

up being taught this for them.

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This is a earth shattering idea.

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What you're coming.

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Back.

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You're not gonna do it.

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So wait, the first time you're

coming, you're coming to die.

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And then you're coming back to Conquer.

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Right?

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How does this work?

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And even then as Dispensationalist,

we don't believe he's coming

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back to Conquer necessarily.

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At least not yet.

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He's coming back to take his

people right in a rapture.

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That's what we call the rapture.

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We're gonna get there soon

enough and First Thessalonians.

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But all this to say what we take for

granted was not taken for granted by them.

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For sure.

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And.

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The rapture is not the same thing

as his second coming, right?

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Yes.

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'cause he's not coming back

to Earth at that point.

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We're being caught up to be with him.

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He is coming back for us, but not

in the way that he will come back.

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Right.

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In his second advent.

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Right.

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Which I thank you for clarifying that.

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That could be confusing.

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I don't mean he is coming back, as in,

it's an official coming back to Perusia.

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This is him coming back to take his

people, which means he's coming back

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to earth but not touching ground.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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'cause that touching ground is that

Mount of Olives that Zacharia talks

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about and, so forth and so on.

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So, amen.

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Yeah.

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The rest in chapter one, we need

a new disciple or a new apostle

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because we don't have Judas anymore.

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And so lots are cast.

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I think we talked about

this a little bit last year.

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Roland Yeah.

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Matthias has chosen, in accordance with

that and they commissioned him to be with

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them and they number him among the 12.

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Paul is also considered an apostle.

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I think we kicked this around as well.

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Or not.

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He's an apostle, right?

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Whether or not Matthias

was truly an apostle.

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He's numbered with the apostles,

is what it says in the text.

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Does that mean that he was commissioned

as an official apostle or not?

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I guess is up for debate, but

Matthias is there to take Judas.

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Acts chapter two is a lot going on here.

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Day of Pentecost.

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Now it's important we think of Day of

Pentecost as the events of Acts chapter

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two, but Pentecost itself was not,

that it was the 50th, day after the

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Passover, and this was the day of the

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first fruits.

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So this has Old Testament roots to it.

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This is not about the birth of the church.

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We associate it with that because

it took place on Pentecost.

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And you should.

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And you should.

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Yes.

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But it had significance

to the Jews even prior.

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Prior to that.

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Yes.

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Yes, that's right.

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Yeah.

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This is a big deal for us.

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Acts chapter two is the

birthday of the church.

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This is when we are formally

constituted by the Lord through

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the giving of his spirit.

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So this is a massively

significant chapter for us.

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It's one of those things that

you should remember in your mind

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when you think about the church.

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The church was born.

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Acts Chapter two, de of Pentecost.

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Let's talk about the tongues though.

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Yeah.

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And this is the fun one.

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I come from a background where tongues

meant something different than I think

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you and I presently understand it, right?

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So let's explain what they

are and what they're not.

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Right.

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Let's start with what they're not.

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People will, appeal to tongues

as ecstatic utterances that are.

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Unintelligible.

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By and large though, the

instructions in scripture are

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given to have an interpreter there.

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But anyways, sometimes people will talk

about it as a private prayer language,

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something that's for them and God.

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But what we see, at least here

in Acts chapter two, and we can

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point to the text, which I think

is what's most helpful for us.

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So, acts two, six, it says, each

one was hearing them in his own.

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Language Acts two, eight in his

own native language, acts two 11.

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We hear them telling in our own tongues.

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So the tongues here specifically in

Acts two, and I think we'll see this

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elsewhere too, were known languages.

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And so the miracle was that the apostles

were preaching, Peter was preaching and

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he wasn't preaching just like you and I

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can't speak in 10 different

languages at the same time.

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Peter couldn't do that either.

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And yet the miracle, the God thing one,

was that God was enabling everybody

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there to hear the message from Peter in

a way that was in their own language.

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Wait, this is different than

I think what I understood.

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Okay.

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Let's pause and rewind

on that for a second.

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Okay.

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Are you saying that when

Peter speaking Aramaic?

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Yes.

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You and I would hear English and my

friend Pablo would hear Spanish, right.

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And my friend.

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Non Pablo would hear

Greek or whatever else.

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Right.

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So is the gift of tongues then a

speaking gift or a hearing gift?

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'cause it sounds like you're

suggesting this is more of a hearing

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gift than it is a speaking gift.

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I think here appears to be more of a

hearing gift because Peter's the one

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speaking, and yet they're all hearing.

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In their own language.

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Okay.

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That's, that's I, I, wow.

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Okay.

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That's cool.

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I totally understood this differently.

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Here's how I understood it.

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Speaking in tongues, because it

is a speaking gift, I would say.

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They're all speaking different tongues.

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The language that they had no prior

training or understanding in, they're

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using that language to testify to

the glory of God at some point.

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Peter speaks his normal language and he's

speaking in Aramaic and he's preaching,

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and everyone's hearing him speak.

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His Aramaic tongue.

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But there's enough people among the

disciples who are speaking in those

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tongues that people around are hearing

their dialect and their native language,

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and they're responding to that.

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So I would have to say, I think at

least that's the way I've understood

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it, unless it's primarily a hearing.

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Which I have entertained.

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I have entertained that thought.

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I just thought that would not

make sense to call it speaking in

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tongues if it's primarily a gift of

you're hearing something as opposed

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to you're speaking something.

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Does that make sense?

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Yeah, no, totally.

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Yeah, that's the way I understood it.

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Oh, wow.

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I, I, that's funny.

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Yeah.

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This is not the first

time we've covered this.

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That's true.

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And yet, and yet here we

learn new things all the time.

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Yeah.

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Y Yeah.

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Either way we can say that this is God's

super intending this, the circumstances,

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and we would both agree that it's

not speaking in an ecstatic tongue.

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Right.

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Some people will say it's speaking

gibberish and all those things.

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I don't appreciate that language.

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I know what we're trying to communicate,

but let's just be fair here.

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We're suggesting that the ecstatic.

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Tongues that are often experienced

or suggested in charismatic circles.

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I don't think we see that here

because they're intelligible.

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And I think that's the

biggest thing here, right?

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It's intelligible to somebody such that

there can be interpretations given,

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which we'll get to later when we get

to some of Paul's commentary on it.

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But I would agree this is a supernatural

gift that God gives to the church to, to

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do what, what is the purpose of this sign?

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Yeah.

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It's to get the gospel out as far and

wide as possible, as fast as possible.

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Because you had a metropolitan

conglomeration of a lot of different

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people, as the text says there from

many different regions, and again,

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acts one, eight, God's mission here

for the church is to get the gospel out

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beyond Jerusalem, beyond Judea, beyond

Samaritan, to the ends of the earth.

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This is one of the ways he's gonna do that

if he can turn converts from all these

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different people that are gathered here.

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So the gift of tongues was such that.

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They didn't need to go

through an interpreter.

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They didn't need to go through the

translation of the texts and the scrolls.

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They could do that.

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People were hearing it and they

were getting saved that way.

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So this is what we would

call a sign gift, right?

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Uh, we, we sometimes will use

the terminology gifted to us by

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our sending pastor of a GT one

God thing, level one, right?

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What does this sign?

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Signify, I'm trying to use that word

to connect the dots here for you guys.

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Sign gift signify.

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What is it signify?

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Well, I think it's in part what we're

gonna see develop later in the book of

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Acts, and that is that the gospel is

not just for the Jewish people anymore.

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That the gospel is for the Gentiles,

the gospel's for the world.

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And so we're see that with Cornelius

and we're gonna see that with some

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others in the Book of Acts as well.

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We've also talked about this being,

one of God's signature moves.

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This is something that only God can do.

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Therefore, this is one way that God

was able to cut through the noise of

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the competing truth claims of the day.

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They could say, look, how could we

do this otherwise, if this is not

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God giving us the ability to do this,

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how could we operate?

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So this is important, because a lot of

people today will say, well, the sign

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gifts are still necessary because there

are also today competing truth claims.

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And if God would just do a sign, then

it would make it a lot easier to believe

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some of the truth claims of scripture.

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How might we respond to that?

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I think we point to what we've already

seen that that's not always the case.

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In fact, we're gonna meet a guy in just

a little while here, Simon, the magician,

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who sees some pretty amazing things.

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Yeah.

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And yet it appears he doesn't actually

believe he has a spurious faith there.

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Mm.

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You go back to John chapter two,

you've got Jesus turning the water

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to wine, and then you've got Jesus

turning over the tables in the temple.

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And it said many believed in him, but

Jesus didn't believe in their belief.

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Because he knew what

was in the heart of men.

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In other words, he knew that

their faith was more in the

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external than it was the internal.

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They weren't trusting in Jesus.

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They were trusting in what Jesus could do.

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So it's not just the signs that are

necessary for faith, but it's God changing

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the heart that's necessary for it.

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That's right.

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In the rest of Acts, chapter two, Peter

preaches a transformational sermon.

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And I say that because of the

impact on the audience, but also the

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evidence of the impact in Peter too.

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Peter was the one that had denied.

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Jesus.

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We just talked, I think, one of

our last few episodes about the

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restoration of Peter, and here we

see that restoration bearing fruit.

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This is a transformed Peter.

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This is a different guy.

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The boldness that he has, not just

here, but throughout the book of Acts.

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He is a different man.

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Not perfect, not perfect by

any stretch of the imagination.

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When we get to Galatians, we're

gonna see that Paul has to take

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issue with Peter on some things.

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But Peter is definitely willing to put

his life on the line here and ultimately

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will give his life to preach truth.

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And he does that here and he preaches

about Christ and he's bold to, to look

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at the Jewish people and say, you're the

ones that crucified him according to the

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definite plan and for knowledge of God.

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So this is all part of God's plan

that you were carrying out, and yet

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you're responsible for it again.

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God's fully sovereign

man's fully responsible.

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He preaches with such power that so

many of them in the end are going,

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what do we need to do to be saved?

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They're cut to the heart and that's

when he calls for 'em to be saved,

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to put their faith in Christ.

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And it says that 3000 souls

are added to the church that

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day, which is just phenomenal.

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That's awesome.

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Now.

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Peter preached a very short sermon.

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It seems.

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This takes all of a minute to read.

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Yeah.

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What's up with that?

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Are you trying to tell me something?

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I, I, I guess I'm setting you up.

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Yes.

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Did Peter only preach for a minute?

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No, I, I was asking if you were trying

to say something about my preaching.

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No.

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Hey, Peter only preached for

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Come on, put the pieces together, buddy.

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You don't need to preach for 55 minutes.

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Yeah.

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This is what we have recorded.

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I imagine there was more to it.

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There has to be, right?

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Yeah.

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There has to be this, there's no way

every Peter I know just talks incessantly

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for such a long length of time.

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I'm just kidding.

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But no, I guess my point

is only that we have a.

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Snippet of what Peter said.

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I think Luke is compressing

the account and just giving us

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the gist of what Peter said and

acknowledging some of the high points.

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And the point is not to highlight Peter.

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I don't think we're doing

any disservice to Peter.

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We're showing that the spirits is using

the preaching of the word of God to bring

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thousands to saving faith in Christ.

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And we see this, this is shrewd.

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They counted.

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They counted.

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Counted, yeah.

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Did you notice that?

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They counted?

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They counted.

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They've said there's 3000 people

here, which is not a bad thing.

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If you care about people,

you care about those numbers.

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And so it's not inherently bad to

start counting and saying, how many

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people did we baptize this year?

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How many people have been

taken through partners?

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How many people did we bring

through the doors and keep?

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Those are important things because

people are important to God.

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So notice here.

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They counted and that counts.

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Yeah.

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In fact, later on,

they're gonna count again.

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They're gonna say there's

5,000 men later on.

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And so they keep counting.

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That's right.

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It's not just, Hey, day of Pentecost.

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Wow, this is amazing.

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Let's figure out how

many people were here.

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Yeah.

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They're gonna keep counting.

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Jesus counted.

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Jesus counted.

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He was counting how many

people were fed by the bread.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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To make a point.

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Yep.

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All right.

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Well, we get into Acts chapter three.

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Well, okay.

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Real quick.

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Yeah.

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Were you going to highlight

the repentance thing?

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I, well, yeah.

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In baptism?

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So is now a good time?

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Yeah, I think so.

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All right.

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So it says here in verse 38.

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In chapter two, this is a big.

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Problem text for a lot of people.

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Peter said to them, repent and be baptized

every one of you in the name of Jesus

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Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then you'll receive the

gift of the Holy Spirit.

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Please explain.

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Yeah.

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You have to be baptized to be saved.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Chapter three.

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That's only partially, false.

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You have to be baptized by the Holy

Spirit to be saved, which takes

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place at the moment of conversion.

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Hmm.

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That's not, I don't think what

Peter's talking about here, rather

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the concept of an unbaptized convert.

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During the early church

was really an albatross.

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It wasn't really a thing

because it's a big fish, right?

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It's a bird.

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Oh yeah, that's right.

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It's a rare bird.

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We did, we did talk about that.

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Yeah.

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It's a rare bird.

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It's a rare bird.

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Um, because what kind of fish

sounds like albatross then.

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Al Alba Alcore tuna.

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That's what it is.

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It's not a tuna.

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It's not a tuna.

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All right, go ahead Peter.

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Peter was a big tuna, but yeah.

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Yeah, it's rare, because the

cost of following Jesus was so

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high, and so when somebody came to

faith in Christ to identify what the

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church was the next natural step to

take, and so there wasn't a delay.

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Whereas today, we will encourage

people, Hey, you know what?

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You made a profession in faith.

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That's great.

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We're gonna encourage you let's

wait for a minute because we wanna

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make sure that your faith is in the

savior, not the act of baptism.

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We don't want you to stand before

Jesus someday and say, well, pastor Rod

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baptized me, or Pastor PJ baptized me.

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So that's why I get to get into

heaven, because that's not it.

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So when Peter says, repent and be

baptized, this is, I think it's a ton.

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metonymy Is that the word where meeny?

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Yeah.

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Meeny.

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Thank you.

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Where the singular represents the whole.

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And here there's two parts.

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There's repent and be Baptized,

but I think it's referring to the

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whole act of conversion here, which

was kind of packaged together.

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Saving faith is what saves

us, period, end of story.

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And the rest of the New Testament

makes that abundantly clear.

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And so we understand as we read this,

that Peter had that in mind as well.

620

Okay, so then a few verses later, he

says, the promise is for you and for your

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children and for all who are far off.

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Everyone whom the Lord.

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Our God calls to himself.

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Lots of people will use that passage as

a proof text or as a piece of evidence

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for why they should baptize babies.

626

Can you comment on whether you

think that argument has any weight?

627

Yeah.

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I think the promise is the

promise of forgiveness of sins for

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faith in Christ, but you have to

put your faith in Christ for the

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forgiveness of sins to be extended.

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So, the promise is for you and your

children in the sense that they are.

632

Those that are qualified to hear

the gospel and to receive the

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call, to repent and believe in

Christ, just as anyone else's.

634

But this is not necessarily to connect

this back to say, the promise of

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baptism is for you and your children.

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Because that's not the

connection there in the text.

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That's doesn't fit contextually here, nor

does it fit contextually with the rest

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of, what we know of the New Testament.

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It's also not hard to say too

that Peter himself qualifies it.

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In other words, it is for children as

you're saying, but he says in verse

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39, the second half, everyone whom

the Lord our God calls to himself.

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So it's not necessarily

every child ever, right.

643

It's whoever the Lord calls to himself.

644

Right.

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And it's not unheard of that you

have young people who are saved.

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You know, young ages who for sure as

young as single digits can put their true

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faith in Christ and have a true salvation.

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And so we would say that's, it's

a good text, but it's not a good

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proof text for baptizing babies.

650

I agree.

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This is a text that says Everyone whom

the Lord calls, it's not including

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every single child in every family.

653

Agree.

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Yep.

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A hundred percent.

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Acts chapter three.

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We have a situation here with Peter and

John as they are approaching the temple.

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The church was gathering still at

the Temple Mount at this point.

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This is not, you didn't have

First Baptist Church, Jerusalem.

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And so they're still going

up to the temple for worship

661

and other things like this.

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And so on the way up there,

they encounter this man who's

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lame, who's asking for alms.

664

And Peter says, I don't have

anything money wise to give

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you, but this is what I have.

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And he heals the man.

667

And this is another one

of those sign gifts.

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And so we pointed this and said,

well, should we expect this today?

669

And we would say no.

670

Why?

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Because again, the message was new

and so it needed the validation.

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So this was validating the message and

the messenger for those that were around

673

to go, okay, we need to listen to this

guy, because what he did is unique.

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And I think that's even more so.

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Evidence and in support of the fact that

this was unique to this time because

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people were amazed at this at this time.

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They were recognizing, this is unique.

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This doesn't happen.

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People don't just go

around healing people.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so we should listen to what this guy

has to say because of what he's just done.

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We stand and we preach the word of God

that we have contained in the scriptures.

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And that's the authority that we have

and the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the

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way the Spirit is in operation today.

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Is, the source of the conviction

and the enlightenment and the opening

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up the eyes of the lost as well.

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So Peter is gonna do this and then

turn and seize the platform to preach,

688

which again points to the fact that

this was to set up and validate the

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message as well as the messenger.

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Substantially the difference between

us and the first century audience.

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What would you say to someone who

says, well, I still want that proof.

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I would love to see someone healed.

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I would love for someone to

speak in tongues to me, and I

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don't know, something like that.

695

If someone were to ask the Lord or one

of his messengers, his emissaries to say,

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Hey, I, I believe what you're saying and.

697

I, I think, I think I wanna do what

you're asking me to do, but how do

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I know for a fact that this is true?

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Could God give me a sign?

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Does God do that?

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Should we expect God to give signs today?

702

Can we ask God to show us something

miraculous and supernatural?

703

Can we ask?

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Yes.

705

Should we expect it?

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I think that's a different question.

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I would say probably

we shouldn't expect it.

708

Yeah.

709

It has happened.

710

We've all heard the stories of somebody

that says, I was at rock bottom and

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I said, God, if you are real, you're

gonna have to make yourself known to me.

712

Yeah.

713

Then this happened.

714

Mm-hmm.

715

So it's not that God never does things to

cause that to happen, but the normative.

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Operation is he uses the preached

word and the written word in his

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spirit to open blind eyes and

give them to faith, the belief.

718

And that's what he was doing, Peter

didn't have a New Testament pocket

719

edition that he could hand to the

person that he was preaching to and

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say, Hey, turn to first Peter with me

and let's read from the text together.

721

Yeah.

722

We have that availability today,

and so the spirit is able to use the

723

written word to be able to bring that

change, even when that's not taking

724

place on a Sunday morning in the pew.

725

In fact, it'd be interesting to know,

but my guess is there's probably

726

more conversions that are taking

place outside of the context of

727

a Sunday morning than there are.

728

In the context of the church.

729

Yeah.

730

One of the dangers about signs and wonders

is that Jesus promises they're gonna make

731

a comeback, and the comeback is during

a time where there's a lot of confusion

732

and there's deliberate false teachers

who are trying to deceive you into

733

believing the thing that they're pedaling.

734

Right?

735

So signs and wonders are awesome, right?

736

When they're done.

737

In the right place for the right

reasons under God's right leadership.

738

But again, Jesus is promising us that

there's gonna come a time when false signs

739

and wonders are gonna be done to deceive

even the elect if it were possible.

740

Right?

741

So I would ask cautiously if

that is you, but I would also

742

say, look at what Thomas did.

743

He said, I, I need these things.

744

And God didn't necessarily

spank him for that.

745

He met him where he was.

746

And I think we're never gonna get

certainty when we ask for the evidence,

747

certainty in the sense of concrete.

748

I can validate this in

a scientific laboratory.

749

I can repeat the experiment.

750

God doesn't meet us like that.

751

He asks us for faith, but

it is not foolish faith.

752

It's a faith built on the foundation

of truth, and that truth is

753

sufficient enough for us to believe.

754

In fact, Peter says, we have everything

we need for life and for godliness.

755

And that would include faith to believe.

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So if you're struggling with your

faith, ask the Lord to show you,

757

but ask him to show you through His

word, through the means that he's

758

ordained his word and his church.

759

I would say, all of those things

together that he's provided for you.

760

And I think the Lord will answer.

761

Yeah.

762

Well, he, let's pray and then we'll

be done with a little bit of a longer

763

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

764

No, we need to point it out.

765

We don't need to say that they know.

766

God, we are so grateful for your

word written that we have in our

767

hands and the ability to read it.

768

Your spirit that opens

our eyes to understand it.

769

Yes.

770

That gives us the faith to believe to

begin with, but then also continues

771

to enlighten us and sanctify us

and make us more like Christ as we

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give ourselves a word to its study.

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Just pray that we would be a church

that is known for our love, for the

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word, and make us that church, Lord,

even as we finish up this year and as

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we look towards a new year right around

the corner, we want to be a church that

776

loves your word and that studies it and.

777

Devours it and internalizes it,

memorizes it Lord, and is known by it.

778

And so we pray that that

would be true of us.

779

In Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep our new Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

784

See you.

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Bye.

786

Bernard: Well, thank you for

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PJ: Yeah.

795

I would agree with

everything that you said