WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:01.919 Well, today we're going to find out that the apostle 2 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:03.600 Paul gets the ultimate compliment. 3 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:05.360 He gets called a Greek god. 4 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:08.480 Paul and Barnabas. I think they must have haunt a 5 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:10.839 lot in the gyms. Yes, so that's what we're talking 6 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:14.240 about today. He's Chris, I'm Jeff, and we're the Bible guys. 7 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.199 So Jeff, yes, today we're going to do this thing 8 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:31.359 where I don't know if you've ever seen Jimmy Fallon, 9 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:33.960 I have the Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show does 10 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.320 this thing where somebody wears headphones and they play loud 11 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:40.359 music and then the other person whispers a phrase. Okay, 12 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:43.560 so if the podcast listeners are only listening and not watching, 13 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:45.359 they'll be able to hear our responses. 14 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:47.359 Those who watch can actually they can. 15 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:48.240 See play out. 16 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:48.840 Okay. 17 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:53.039 So this is very creatively entitled the Whisper Challenge, the 18 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:54.960 Whisper Challenge. Okay, And I don't know what it is 19 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:56.960 that you're going to say, No, you do not, of course. 20 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:58.719 Right, Okay, of course, so I have to swap up 21 00:00:58.719 --> 00:00:59.840 my headphones. 22 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:00.920 Yep, swapping on his headphones. 23 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.920 He's gonna put things on directly connected with Now I 24 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:05.760 get these tell me. 25 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:07.560 And then you're going to turn on some music or something. 26 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:09.519 Is it? 27 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:09.799 Boy? 28 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:10.680 It's too loud? 29 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:12.280 Okay? 30 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:12.879 Is that better? 31 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:16.040 You got turned up? But a little more? Okay, okay, 32 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:16.760 I can't hear anything. 33 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:18.040 I can't hear anything. Okay, here we go. 34 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:18.560 I can't hear you. 35 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:19.079 Here's the phrase. 36 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:20.239 Look at you ready? 37 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:27.040 Yeah, leave the gun, take the canoley. 38 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:34.760 It looked like you said, leave the gun beside the toilet. Close. Okay, 39 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:43.400 leave the gun, take the cannoli, leave the gun beside 40 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:45.920 the toy. 41 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:49.879 Oh, leave the gun, take the conoley. 42 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:53.000 Oh, I don't know. It looks like you've changed something 43 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:57.040 about a cold steak. I don't know. 44 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:02.159 No, no, no, no. It is the famous line from the Godfather. 45 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:05.079 Leave the gun, take the canoli. 46 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:08.520 Leave the gun. Take from the Godfather. Yes, okay, okay, 47 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:12.120 I got one for you, so go ahead. Oh yeah, yeah, great, okay, yeah. 48 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:16.479 So it's kind of loudly. I couldn't hear. That's funny. 49 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:19.159 It's so hard to see what you're saying. Okay, are 50 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:19.560 you ready? 51 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:21.840 Oh wow, that that is loud. 52 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:27.360 Okay, okay, the truth. You can't handle the truth. 53 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:34.000 What the heck? Do more motion with your lips? 54 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:36.159 The truth. You can't handle the truth. 55 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:41.240 The truth is astronomical. 56 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:45.360 No, try it again. That was your first try. Try again, 57 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:48.639 the truth. You can't handle the truth. 58 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:51.120 You can't handle the truth. 59 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:56.000 Oh there you go, get it? Yeah you got it. 60 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:56.240 Yeah. 61 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:58.439 Wow, that's I. 62 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.319 Said the truth. You can't handle the truth. 63 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:01.439 That's you said. 64 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:04.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that wasn't the lie. 65 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:08.280 Yeah I know, but but it looked like you said 66 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:09.120 the truth first. 67 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:11.879 Yes, and then I picked up you said you can't 68 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:15.199 handle the truth. The actual quote is I. 69 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:18.199 Want the truth. You can't handle the truth. That's right. 70 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:19.400 That's what the that's what the line. 71 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:21.520 So I said the truth. I didn't say I want 72 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:23.800 the I said the truth. You can't handle the truth. 73 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:24.560 That's awesome. 74 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:25.719 That's good, good job. 75 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:26.599 Yeah, thanks man. 76 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:26.840 Yeah. 77 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:28.360 I was just trying to think of something that was 78 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:30.840 in your wheelhouse. And you know, I read the Bible 79 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:32.719 a lot, but you watch a lot of movies, and 80 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:35.240 so I thought maybe you would know movie references. 81 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:36.319 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. 82 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:39.639 And I can go on all day about things that 83 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:43.639 we do to consume our time. If it's not the Bible, 84 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:48.680 then it's evil right probably, or something right right right? 85 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:53.439 Or football. Those are the things that please the Lord. Okay, 86 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:54.439 please the Lord. 87 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:59.759 So we are continuing with Paul and the story in 88 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:02.000 the of Acts and the spread of the Gospel. And 89 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:05.560 so now Paul and Barnabas are traveling, and if you remember, 90 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:10.680 they had been in a town, and they had spoken 91 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:15.319 specifically first there at Antioch and Pasidia to the Jews 92 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.519 and in the synagogues, and some people believe, some didn't. 93 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:20.360 They kind of rejected them. And so then they took 94 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:22.600 the Gospel of the Gentiles, and then that became the 95 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:24.800 pattern from that point on. They come in, they go 96 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:26.439 to a synagogue, and then they go out in the 97 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:28.759 streets and preach to everybody else. So that's what's going 98 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:30.480 to be happening here. We're going to read kind of 99 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.600 a long passage, but it's very interesting. So just follow 100 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:35.800 a long We're and read Acts chapter fourteen, reading from 101 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:39.000 the New Living Translation, said the same thing happened in Iconium. 102 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:41.560 Paul and Barnabas went to the Jewish synagogue and preached 103 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:43.560 with such power that a great number of both Jews 104 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:46.600 and Greeks became believers. Some of the Jews, however, spurned 105 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:48.920 God's message and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against 106 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:52.040 Paul and Barnabas, But the Apostles stayed there a long time, 107 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:54.680 preaching boldly about the grace of the Lord, and the 108 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:57.040 Lord proved their message was true by giving them power 109 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:00.160 to do miraculous signs and wonders. But the people the 110 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.040 town were divided in their opinion about them. Some sided 111 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:06.600 with the Jews and some with the Apostles. Then a 112 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:09.279 mob of Gentiles and Jews, along with their leaders, decided 113 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:12.240 to attack and stone them. When the Apostles learned of it, 114 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.959 they fled to the regional Lyaconia, to the town of 115 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:18.160 Lystra and Derby and the surrounding area, and there they 116 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:21.120 preached the good news. While they were at Listra, Paul 117 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:24.560 and Barnabas came upon a man with crippled feet. He'd 118 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:27.240 been that way from birth, so he had never walked. 119 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:30.319 He was sitting and listening as Paul preached. Looking straight 120 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:33.000 at him, Paul realized he had faith to be healed, 121 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:36.439 So Paul called to him in a loud voice, stand up, 122 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:39.079 and the man jumped to his feet and started walking. 123 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:42.519 When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted 124 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:45.720 in their local dialect. These men are gods in human form, 125 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:48.639 and they decided that Barnabas was their Greek god Zeus, 126 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:52.319 and that Paul was Hermes, since he was the chief speaker. Now, 127 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:54.720 the temple of Zeus was located just outside the town, 128 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.040 so the priests of the temple and the crowd brought 129 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:59.720 bulls and wreaths of flowers to the town gates, and 130 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:02.000 they prepared to offer sacrifices the apostles. 131 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:02.639 But when the. 132 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:06.480 Apostles Barnabas and Paul heard what was happening, they tore 133 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:10.360 their clothing in dismay and ran out among the people, shouting, friends, 134 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:13.040 why are you doing this. We are merely human beings, 135 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:15.240 just like you. We've come to bring you the good 136 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:17.800 news that you should turn from these worthless things and 137 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:20.240 turn to the living God who made heaven and earth, 138 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:23.079 the sea and everything in them. In the past, he 139 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:25.480 permitted all the nations to go their own ways, but 140 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:28.079 he never left them without evidence of himself and his goodness. 141 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:30.639 For instance, he sends you rein and good crops, and 142 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:33.839 gives you food and joyful hearts. But even with these words, 143 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.160 Paul and Barnabas could scarcely restrain the people from sacrificing 144 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:40.920 to them. Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium 145 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:42.759 and won the crowds to their side, and they stoned 146 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:45.319 Paul and dragged him out of town, thinking he was dead, 147 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:48.279 But as the believers gathered around him, he got up 148 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:50.759 and went back into town. The next day he left 149 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:54.000 with Barnabas for Derby. After preaching the good news in Derby, 150 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.600 making many disciples, Paul and Barnabas returned to Lystra, Iconium 151 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:01.120 and Antiocho, Pasidia, where they strengthen the blue. They encouraged 152 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:03.720 them to continue in the faith, reminding them that we 153 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:06.160 must suffer many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God. 154 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:09.560 Paul and Barnabas also appointed elders in every church. With 155 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.160 prayer and fasting, they turned the elders over to the 156 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:14.040 care of the Lord in whom they had put their trust. 157 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:18.079 Then they traveled back through Pasidia to Pamphylia. They preached 158 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:22.279 the word in Perga, and they went down to Atalia. Finally, 159 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:24.759 they returned by ship to Antioch Assyria, where their journey 160 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:27.279 had begun. The believers there had entrusted them to the 161 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:29.360 grace of God to do the work that they had 162 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.439 now completed. Upon arriving in Antioch, they called the church 163 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:35.360 together and reported everything God had done through them and 164 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:36.879 how he had opened the door of faith to the 165 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:39.680 gentiles too. And they stayed there with the believers for 166 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.920 a long time. So that's kind of cool. So just 167 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:45.480 to be clear, all of these towns that they're mentioning 168 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:49.519 our ancient towns in what would be now modern day Turkey, 169 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:51.439 the central portion of modern day Turkey. 170 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:54.800 So yeah, and there's a lot happening here. So the 171 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.439 first observation is is that Saul is no longer called Saul. 172 00:07:58.920 --> 00:07:59.839 It's only Paul, and that. 173 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:02.639 Only Paul at this point. And it's not Barnabas and Paul, 174 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:04.199 it's it's Paul and Barnabas. 175 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:05.000 Yeah. 176 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.279 So it's it's very obvious that their fame has been growing. Uh, 177 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:11.680 you know, they've been gaining momentum in their ministry. 178 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:12.319 Uh. 179 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:16.040 And obviously Paul's confidence, you know, the more time that 180 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:19.319 separates him from his past, the more empowered. 181 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:22.079 And I'm sure he probably feels yeah. 182 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.600 And then uh, and then it says that, you know, 183 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.000 first of all, it says they hear of a stoning. 184 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:31.120 Now some people you know, who grew up like me. 185 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:31.720 You may hear. 186 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:34.759 Stoning and think of something else, But stoning is actually. 187 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:37.759 Paul and Barney has got stoned. But not but not 188 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:41.000 but not the way that we're that's correct, not the 189 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:41.960 way you think of it. 190 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:46.600 Well, Woodstock thinks, right, So it's it's more so they 191 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:48.919 would take rocks and they would I mean, it was 192 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:49.840 the easiest. 193 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:49.840 Way, right. 194 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:50.879 It was a form of execution. 195 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:51.879 It was a form of execution. 196 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:53.720 They would bring people out and they would take rocks 197 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:55.559 and they would just throw them and they try to 198 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.519 you know, I don't want to say it, but like 199 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:01.480 to hit him in the head. Yeah, And so that's 200 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:01.960 that was it. 201 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:04.080 So it would be you know, and they're not just 202 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:07.519 taking little rocks, they're taking big, big chunks of rocks. 203 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:12.399 Usually this still happens some in developing portions of the 204 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:17.039 world Afghanistan, Pakistan, some portions of India, Bangladesh. I've heard 205 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:20.200 of stoning's where people still do this kind of thing. Yes, 206 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:21.639 well you know that means of execution. 207 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:23.600 Do you remember the story I told with Pastor Samson 208 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:24.840 with a cup of tea and the sugar. 209 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:26.840 Oh yeah, yeah, that was the ston uh huh yeah. 210 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:29.559 Yeah, So they still do it. It's still a customary thing. 211 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:32.840 It's just because it turns out stones and rocks are everywhere, 212 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:37.679 so they're readily readily handy. So the basically they use 213 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:40.120 the same strategy. They come in, they preach in the synagogues. 214 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:43.200 Some of the Jewish people go, you're right, Jesus is 215 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:45.759 the Jewish Messiah, the one we've been waiting for, and 216 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:50.279 some rejected it. And then there was some murmuring and discussion. 217 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:54.720 Then they go out and they begin to murmuring, it's. 218 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.039 Such a good word. Murmur murmur murmur, it's such a good. 219 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:00.919 Word for exactly what's happening there, right, just this buzz 220 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:07.240 going on, people disagreeing, and then some of the gentiles believe. 221 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.919 But then the whole crowd turns. So it's amazing how 222 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:15.399 quickly people's opinions change. Hey, he's a good guy. No, 223 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:16.919 he's a bad guy. He's a good guy. No, he's 224 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:17.240 a bad guy. 225 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:17.919 Let's kill him. 226 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:21.240 Not only that, they went from he's a good guy too, 227 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:23.960 he's a bad guy, to let's kill him in a 228 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:25.159 very quick period of time. 229 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:26.960 Well, you know what it reminds me if it reminds 230 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:31.000 me of social media, right, I was gonna say, it 231 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:36.000 reminds me of of everybody's opinions about every political campaign ever. 232 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.919 Oh yeah, right, it's just like we're all sheep. And 233 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:41.840 so my buddy has this saying and he says, he says, man. 234 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:44.519 We're all sheep. He's like, he always does this all 235 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:44.840 the time. 236 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.919 And it is true. We form opinions based on almost 237 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:49.519 no facts. 238 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:55.600 Right on twenty five second tiktoks right, change our world views, right, Yeah, And. 239 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:58.519 So anyway, the point is is that there's a fickle crowd. 240 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:01.200 And by the way, you know, it does remind us 241 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:03.799 that not a lot of changes over the years. Yeah, 242 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:06.320 even though thousands of years later so much has changed. 243 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.399 So that first time they hear of the plot to 244 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:12.919 stone them and they leave. And so in this area 245 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.240 there were little regions, almost like counties or maybe even 246 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:19.240 little states, and they just left one region and they 247 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:21.200 go over to another region. It's only like eighteen or 248 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:24.279 twenty miles, but you know, when everybody's walking, that's a 249 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:27.480 long ways. So they get over to what town is it? 250 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:29.879 They're in Lystra and in Derby. These are kind of 251 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:35.919 like sister cities and they're fairly prosperous cities, and they're 252 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:41.519 fairly Greek in their outlook, in their worldview. And so 253 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:44.919 these guys come in and they see while they're preaching, 254 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:47.320 they see this guy who's been crippled for his whole life, 255 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:50.279 and Paul speaks with authority and heals this guy. 256 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:52.600 And I think it's interesting how it says Paul had 257 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:54.759 realized that the man had enough. 258 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:55.679 Faith to be healed. Yeah. 259 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:57.720 Yeah, And so there's a part of me, you know, 260 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:00.399 the movie part of me Cert is like wondering if 261 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:03.360 Paul sensed it like God, because it does say that 262 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:06.080 God gave them the abilities, right sure, it's at the 263 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:08.759 beginning of the chapter it said that God had given 264 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:13.159 them special abilities to do miraculous science. It says giving 265 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:17.000 them power to do miraculous science, and wonders. So there's 266 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:18.960 a part of me that wonders if Paul had this 267 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:23.039 almost supernatural sense, you know. But at the same time, 268 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.480 being a speaker, I know that, you know, if I 269 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:28.399 speak to a crowd, I could tell the people who 270 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:30.399 are with me, you know, and this man might have 271 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:33.759 just been completely agreeing, and you can just tell, like 272 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:36.519 this man is believing everything that I'm saying. 273 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:37.440 So it could just be that to you. 274 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.039 You know, the Book of Hebrews talks about faith, you know, 275 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.200 the whole book, so much of it's about faith, and 276 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:46.919 it talks about how you have to have faith in God, 277 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:49.480 that he first of all, that he exists, and that 278 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:52.639 he rewards those who you know, have faith in him 279 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:56.039 do good. So it may have been that he could 280 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.879 identify that this guy, of all the people, this guy 281 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.159 had dialed in and went, yes, I do believe in 282 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:03.440 the Creator, and yes, I do believe the Creator can 283 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:06.159 do anything. And so because that's consistent with the messages 284 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:06.679 they're giving. 285 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:08.799 So you're right that either way. 286 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:10.159 It was a sense or he was picking up on 287 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:14.080 this this guy's response, But how much faith does it take? 288 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:17.440 It takes enough faith to say I believe that that's it. 289 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:21.039 Because this guy didn't know all the details in the gospels, 290 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:24.279 he didn't know everything about Jesus Christ. He was identifying 291 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:26.919 with what little faith he did have, and that's how 292 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:28.519 much faith it takes to come to God. 293 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:29.080 Yeah. 294 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:33.519 Well, people actually say all the time, actually they say 295 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:35.519 I have to have more faith. I have to have 296 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:37.919 more faith. And if you look in the scriptures, Jesus 297 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:40.919 said always asked the question where is your faith? 298 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:41.919 Right now? 299 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:45.440 He did marvel twice. He marveled twice about I've never 300 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.399 seen such great faith in Israel. 301 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:47.600 Right. 302 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:49.879 And one, by the way, was from a Jewish or 303 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:52.279 from a Greek pagan, right and you know who you know, 304 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:54.919 remember the man who said, come and just speak the word, 305 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:56.360 and my servant be healed. 306 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:00.000 And then and then the other one was a Roman. Romans, yeah, Romans. 307 00:13:59.919 --> 00:14:03.399 And so Jesus marveled twice about great faith. But he 308 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:06.320 never challenged people and said you must have more faith. 309 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:09.360 He always asked the question, where is your faith? And 310 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:10.639 so people always say. 311 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:13.759 Well that the one father said I believe, help my unbelief, right, 312 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:16.600 and Jesus healed the Mand's son with that statement. 313 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:20.720 Right right right. I believe partly, I believe mostly. 314 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:23.200 And I want to say that I think this is 315 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:27.720 one of the biggest misconceptions in Christianity. People always punish themselves. 316 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:29.960 They say, the reason why I'm not healed is I 317 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:32.879 just have to have more faith. And there are actually teachings, 318 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:37.200 there's denominations out there that that indicate that, like, well, hey, 319 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:40.000 we're doing everything right, you know, we're laying hands, we're praying. 320 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:42.759 The reason why you're not healed is because I guess 321 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:46.159 your faith is not big enough. And so I've I've 322 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:50.480 counseled people over and over and over who cry and 323 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:53.360 they say, I just have to have more faith, And 324 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:55.679 I guess it's my fault that I'm not healed. And 325 00:14:55.960 --> 00:15:00.679 I think to myself, well, that's spiritual abuse, because Jesus said, 326 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.320 you don't have to have bigger faith, you just have 327 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:06.240 to believe in a bigger God, right, because it takes 328 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.000 faith of a mustard seed, which is the smallest of seeds. 329 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.159 And Jesus said, if you have just that much faith, 330 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.600 and he's talking about true faith, he's you know, just 331 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:15.320 your faith doesn't to be bigger. 332 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:16.399 You just need a bigger God. 333 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:16.960 That's right. 334 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:22.960 And God selectively does these miracles for a purpose. 335 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:23.480 And then this. 336 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:26.759 Purpose it's to be able to highlight the fact that 337 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:30.159 the message that Paul and Barnabas are bringing you have 338 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:31.320 the power of God behind him. 339 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:31.600 Right. 340 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:33.919 So I'm sure that there were other crippled people in 341 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:35.879 this region that didn't get healed that day, but this 342 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:40.000 guy did. There's different reasons why God chooses not to heal. 343 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:42.440 We still live in a sinful world. We live in 344 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:45.120 a broken world, and a part of that is we 345 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:46.840 live under the curse of Eden. 346 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:48.080 It's not a perfect place. 347 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:50.000 There are a lot of really bad things that we 348 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:53.080 struggle through, not because God hates us, but because that's 349 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:55.360 the consequence of the fact that we live under the 350 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:56.000 curse of Eden. 351 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:57.679 Yeah, and I think I think it's Roman's eighth that 352 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:00.240 tells us that we live under the bondage and they 353 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:02.279 of sin. That's right, right, and it tells us that 354 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:03.720 we live in this broken world. 355 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:06.799 So anyways, they come in, they heal this guy, and 356 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:07.720 then everybody's. 357 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:09.279 Like, oh my gosh, these guys are gods. 358 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.960 And there's right outside this town is the temple to Zeus, 359 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:15.519 and so the preach. 360 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:17.600 By the way. By the way, there's multiple temples of Zeus. 361 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:19.120 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, there's just like. 362 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:22.039 There are mosques or just like there are churches or synagogues. 363 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:25.200 So this isn't the temple that we know of that 364 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:28.919 still stands today right somewhere, you know, with archaeological Okay, 365 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:29.320 go ahead. 366 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.080 So but they had a temple to Zeus there. He 367 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:35.120 was their favorite god. So they decided Barnabas because he's 368 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:36.679 not talking much. He just seems to have a lot 369 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:41.879 of authority. Barnabas must be Zeus, and then Paul, he's 370 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.480 one making all the arguments, so he must be Hermes, 371 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:46.879 and they decided they're going to make sacrifices to him. 372 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:47.159 Yeah. 373 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:49.759 Now Hermes was also the son of Zeus, and he 374 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:53.720 was the Zeus or Zeus's son by Maria, no, by 375 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:58.519 may I whatever. I'm looking at the notes. Maya m 376 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:00.120 A I A. 377 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:01.399 Yeah, that's a weird way. 378 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:01.720 To spell it. 379 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:04.359 And it says that he's also the Hermes is the 380 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:09.160 fertility god and the god that escorts people to Hades, 381 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:11.400 right wherever Hades. 382 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:12.440 Is, yeah, yeah, yeah, the place of the dead. 383 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:13.759 Yeah, the place of the dead. Yeah. 384 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.720 So they're like, oh, wow, we're gonna make a sacrifice. 385 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:19.839 These guys are living, walking guys, which means they were 386 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:23.960 absolutely convinced of the miracle they saw. Convinced absolutely, So 387 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.480 there wasn't any question about this one. This guy had 388 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:30.720 never walked in his whole life. They've seen him forever. Typically, 389 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:33.519 those kind of people would be sitting and begging at 390 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:35.400 the city gates or out in the streets. People would 391 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:37.839 see them all the time. There was no social network, 392 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.960 the social network to help people that were physically disadvantaged 393 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:45.119 would always be just pure charity. So people be begging, 394 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.519 and so they would have known this guy his entire life, right, 395 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:51.000 and then they see this miracle and they genuinely believe 396 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:54.599 it happens. But then Paul gets up and he preaches 397 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:56.880 a different message then the messages we see him preach. 398 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:58.079 To the Jewish people. 399 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:00.559 To the Jewish people, he gives kind of a argument 400 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.960 that Jesus is the Messiah based on Abraham all the 401 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:06.920