WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.799 Well, in this episode, Paul and Barnabas split up and 2 00:00:02.839 --> 00:00:03.839 they say bye bye. 3 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:07.839 And they're going to double their impact in ministry. 4 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:10.640 Bye bye bye, bye bye bye. 5 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:13.279 We're about ready to split up. He's Chris, I'm Jeff, 6 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:27.199 and we're the Bible guys. So, Chris, we had a 7 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:29.600 little bit of a controversy last week, was it last 8 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:32.399 week of the last one? Yeah? Yeah, you made the 9 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:38.880 horrific disclosure, which which quite honestly, we're still shocked by that. 10 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:40.759 You actually like candy corn. 11 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:41.399 Yeah, I like it. 12 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:47.159 Yeah, that is I mean. Anyways, Steve, one of our listeners, 13 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:49.719 he left a message on Facebook and said, candy corn 14 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:53.000 with a bunch of exclamation points. Chris, please just know 15 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:59.960 my inner child just died. So Steve, I agree with you, 16 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:04.319 this is a horrific disclosure. Yes, but Cheryl, in all fairness, 17 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.239 Cheryl said I always have candy corn during the month 18 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:10.959 of October, so it's kind of split a little bit. 19 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:13.159 Yeah, a little bit between Steve and Cherylett is Yeah. 20 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:15.319 Well, I mean we only got two messages on this. 21 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:17.519 I had a lot of people talk about it in 22 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:20.879 the hallway and stuff. Just shocked by your candy corn disclosure. 23 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:25.079 But so let's do this. Let's remember when we did 24 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:27.120 kind of the draft and we drafted our favorite fast 25 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:29.439 food or yes, we talked about cities we want to 26 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:33.560 travel through. Whatever. So let's do a draft on our 27 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:35.560 top how many? How many do you want to draft? 28 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:39.760 Five top five candies for this season? 29 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:41.319 So we have to do rock paper scissors? 30 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:43.560 Okay, okay, we're gonna do rock paper serisors. 31 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:45.319 Ready, one, two, three? Shoot. 32 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:48.560 So for those of you who want to know, he 33 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:51.319 went paper, I went scissors, got him, So I get 34 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:56.000 the draft first. Yes, the single greatest common candy, so 35 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:58.200 we're doing common candy. Is that we're doing like normal 36 00:01:58.280 --> 00:01:58.799 kind of candy. 37 00:01:58.959 --> 00:01:59.719 You said candy. 38 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:05.239 Single greatest candy is receas receas peanut butter cups. 39 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.560 Wow, okay, that's your first draft. Snicker bars. 40 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.800 Oh that's my really close second. Okay, so I'm receis 41 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:16.759 your snickers, uh kit cat, it would be number three. 42 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:19.560 Yeah, I'm gonna draft. I'm gonna go a little off 43 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:24.159 chart here because my my very favorite besides Snickers is pay. 44 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:25.120 Day pay Day. 45 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:26.919 Oh yeah yeah, pay day yep. 46 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:29.319 I think I think you should be required to have 47 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:31.240 candy corn on there because you're already on the record. 48 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:33.840 No, no, I said I liked it. I didn't say 49 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:34.680 it was my top five. 50 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:37.919 I know, but that's what caused us. Okay, so I 51 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:42.080 have I have receas, you have Snickers, I have kit Cats, 52 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:47.039 you have pay Days. Okay. Number three for me would 53 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:51.439 be I love jelly Belly jelly beans. Wow, love them. 54 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:55.439 Okay, Yes, I'm gonna draft nerd ropes. 55 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:58.360 Nerd ropes, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Have you had 56 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:00.240 those little nerd byte ones. They're kind of like nerd 57 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.240 ropes only yeah. Okay, Okay, that's good. I'm going to 58 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:06.919 go back to the chocolate thing, because you know, Jesus 59 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:10.000 loves chocolate. I love Hershey's with almonds. 60 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:10.719 It's on the Bible. 61 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:12.319 Hers She's with almends. I'm pretty sure it is. I'll 62 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:14.039 find it. Hers Shey's with amens. 63 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:15.319 Okay, Hershey's with almons. 64 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:17.000 It's so good. 65 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:19.159 Oh I could never eat a Hershey. 66 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:20.080 Burrow with almost good. They're all for me. 67 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:24.120 Couldn't do it. I'm gonna go with twigs. 68 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:29.560 Oh man, So I should have done twigs. I love twigs. 69 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:31.800 I dig through the bag, you know when you have 70 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:34.479 like the big Halloween candy bag, I dig through and 71 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:36.759 look for twigs. Why wouldn't I have picked twigs? 72 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:37.120 Yeah? 73 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:38.199 Now which one do you like? Do you like the 74 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:39.919 left or the right twigs? 75 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:43.080 I like both of them? Question mark? 76 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:45.800 Yeah, well, because you know in the packaging they have packages. 77 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:47.960 You can just buy whole package of right sized right 78 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.639 side of twixes or a whole package left side TwixT. 79 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.039 You know you're not very committed to twigs, then let 80 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:56.319 me just tell you. Okay, And so here's my last one. 81 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:57.280 This is my last draft. 82 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:57.639 Yep. 83 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:03.599 Okay. So in Europe Cadbury has so here in the 84 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:06.960 US it would called be called dairy milk, and I 85 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:10.520 love the dairy milk candy bars with macadamia nuts in them. 86 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:14.280 Oh well, yeah, okay, and I'm gonna go with Twizzlers. 87 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:17.120 Twizzlers. Okay, No, you can't have Twizzlers. 88 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:20.959 Yeah? Well, I love twitters during movies. For years and 89 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:23.480 years and years, I would actually get Twizzlers going to 90 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:23.879 a movie. 91 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:27.720 Yeah yeah, I like to get Uh Oh, can I 92 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:28.480 get a bonus one? 93 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.000 Nope? What were you going to say? What did you 94 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:31.439 miss out on? 95 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:32.639 Jeff Peanut M and M's. 96 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:35.000 Yeah yeah, I had that on my list. 97 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:36.560 Oh man, I totally blew it. 98 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:39.879 Yeah, yeah, but I chose I chose Twizzers instead of that. 99 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:42.480 All right, well, hey that was good. If you have 100 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:44.759 the monchies, now, we don't blame you. They stop on 101 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:45.879 the way to work con grab some. 102 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:48.480 Hey, I bet you somebody will. Somebody'll be like, I 103 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:50.680 have to have a Snickers. 104 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:53.519 Right, and then they'll be like, oh, those guys, if 105 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:58.800 it weren't for those kids. Okay. So if you remember 106 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:03.040 yesterday we were having this conversation, there was a Pharisee 107 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:06.360 guy who he was a legalist. Then there's the other side, 108 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:08.199 and you made this comment, we don't want to be, 109 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:12.240 you know, legalists because legalism kills right and so does liberalism. 110 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:15.839 Liberalism kills So we don't want to be legalists. We 111 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:18.560 don't want to be liberals. We want to be Biblicists. 112 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.120 What does the Bible say and what is the experience 113 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:23.160 that we have in the Holy Spirit? That is the 114 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:26.160 proof of the fact that the Bible is true? Right, 115 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:29.160 change lives really is what that is. That's what we're 116 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:32.800 all about. We're Biblicists and this is what they really established. 117 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:35.920 So James, if you remember yesterday, James kind of buttoned 118 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:39.480 it up. Paul and Barnabas and Peter and all these apostles, 119 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:42.040 they're having this debate. But then James, he was the 120 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:44.240 leader of the church in Jerusalem, he says, okay, here's 121 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:47.079 my decision, and they write this really great letter and 122 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:49.959 they send it to the churches in Galatia, which are 123 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:53.319 up in the modern day Turkey today, which by the way, 124 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:55.040 we had a couple of different people say I wish 125 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:57.959 you put maps up, So we'll have it edited and 126 00:05:58.000 --> 00:05:59.439 we'll put in a little map from the back of 127 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:03.920 the Discover or the Life Application Study Bible that shows 128 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:07.120 the different tours of Paul and Barnabas. But if you 129 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:09.600 have a paper Bible right now, we're gonna do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 130 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:11.360 they'll put it up in the thing right now. 131 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:14.160 Oh right, are we to talk about it right there? Ah? 132 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:17.680 Right, so the people can see it. But if you 133 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.680 ever get a hold of a Life Application Study Bible, 134 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:23.519 in the back, there's maps. They show the journeys of Jesus, 135 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:26.639 they show the journeys of Paul, They show how you know, 136 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:30.160 the journey around Jerusalem in the week that Jesus died. 137 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:33.279 They show all of the stuff of the movements of 138 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:37.040 Abraham and David. They're really cool if you're a map 139 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:38.680 kind of person. They're in the back of those kind 140 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:43.360 of study bibles. So anyways, they send this letter back 141 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:48.360 to Galicia, and then Paul and Barnabas they split up. 142 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:50.439 But Paul decides he's going to go back to that 143 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:54.000 same region now, and that's what's happening here. So we're 144 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.040 going to pick up in verse fifteen or chapter fifteen, 145 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:00.240 verse thirty six, it says after some time, Paul said 146 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.360 to Barnabas, let's go back and visit each city where 147 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:04.480 we previously preached the word of the Lord, to see 148 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:06.839 how the new believers are doing. And Barnabas agreed. He 149 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:10.680 wanted to take along john Mark, but Paul disagreed strongly, 150 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:13.560 since john Mark had deserted them in Pamphilia and had 151 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:16.160 not continued with them in their work. Their disagreement was 152 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:19.720 so sharp that they separated. Barnabas took john Mark with 153 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:23.160 him sailed for Cyprus, and Paul chose Silas, and as 154 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:26.319 he left, the believers entrusted him to the Lord's gracious care. 155 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:30.680 Then he traveled throughout Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches there. 156 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:34.439 Paul went first to Derby and then the Lystra, where 157 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:37.680 there was a young disciple named Timothy. At Timothy becomes 158 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:40.759 a very important player here Shortly his mother was a 159 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:43.439 Jewish believer, but his father was a Greek. Timothy was 160 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.240 well thought of by the believers in Lystra and Iconium, 161 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:49.079 so Paul wanted him to join them on their journey. 162 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.199 In deference to the Jews of the area, he arranged 163 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.639 for Timothy to be circumcised before they left, for everyone 164 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:55.879 knew that his father was a Greek. Then they went 165 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:58.120 from town to town, instructing the believers to follow the 166 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:01.720 decisions made by the apostles in Jerusalem. So the churches 167 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.879 were strengthened in their faith and grew larger every day. Next, 168 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:07.519 Paul and Silas traveled through the area of Phrygia and 169 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:10.480 Galatia because the Holy Spirit had prevented them from preaching 170 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:12.920 the Word in the province of Asia at that time. Then, 171 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.079 coming to the borders of Misia, they headed north for 172 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:21.000 the province of Bithynia. All of this is in Turkey basically, right, 173 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:23.399 So you're talking county after county after county, really is 174 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:26.839 what they're doing. So instead they went through Masia to 175 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:29.519 the seaport of Troas. That night, Paul had a vision 176 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.200 a man from Macedonia in northern Greece was standing there, 177 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:36.159 pleading with him come over to Macedonia and help us. 178 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:40.320 So we decided to leave from Macedonia at once, having 179 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:43.279 concluded that God was calling us to preach the good 180 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:47.519 news there. We boarded a boat at Troaz and sailed 181 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:50.320 straight across to the island of Samothrace, and the next 182 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.120 day we landed in Mineapolis. From there we reached Philippi, 183 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:55.240 a major city of that district of Macedonia and a 184 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:58.600 Roman colony, and we stayed there several days. On the Sabbath, 185 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:00.879 we went a little way outside city to a river 186 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:03.000 bank where we thought people would be meeting for prayer, 187 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:04.840 and we sat down to speak with some women who 188 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:08.039 had gathered there. One of them was Lydia from Thaia Tyra, 189 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:11.840 a merchant of expensive purple cloth who worshiped God. As 190 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:14.120 she listened to us, the Lord opened her heart and 191 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:17.080 she accepted what Paul was saying. She was baptized along 192 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:19.320 with other members of her household, and she asked us 193 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:20.759 to be her guests. If you agree that I'm a 194 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:22.759 true believer in the Lord. She said, come and stay 195 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:26.879 at my home, and she urged us until we all agreed. 196 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:31.840 So this is interesting. This is the first time, you know, leaving, 197 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:37.879 because have you ever been in what's now Istanbul? No, okay, 198 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:42.600 so Constantinople. Istanbul is there's a river that goes from 199 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:47.639 the Black Sea and cuts through the city of Istanbul. 200 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:49.559 Sits on both sides of the river, but when you 201 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:53.080 cross that river, one side is Asia, the other side 202 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:56.879 is Europe. So Chad Asman, he's our executive pastor, a heriitchurch. 203 00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:59.440 He and I had a like a twelve hour thirteen 204 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:02.399 hour layover in Istanbul. So we took an uber and 205 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:04.960 we ran downtown. We went and saw the Hajjia Sophia 206 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.039 and the blue moss and all those things. But we 207 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.639 walked across the bridge and so at one point there's 208 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:11.519 a line there, so you have one foot in Asia 209 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:16.399 and one foot in Europe, and so there's two there's 210 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:18.279 a lower portion of the bridge, upper portion of bridge, 211 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:19.519 and all these guys are fishing off the top of 212 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:21.919 the bridge. Of goofy story. There's all these restaurants in 213 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:23.919 the lower part. So we're walking along there, but I 214 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:26.200 see all these fishing lines, so Catfriie's not just grabbing 215 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:27.879 the fishing line like that. Then these guys got you 216 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:29.320 hear all the yelling up above, and they get all 217 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:31.360 excited thinking, you know, there was a fish on the 218 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:33.120 line and it was just me walking all the way 219 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:36.159 down the thing pulling thing. So that's the line. That's 220 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:39.039 the line between Asia and Europe. So up to this point, 221 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:42.200 all of the Gospel had been held on the Asia side. 222 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:44.039 Can I just pause and say how terrible that is? 223 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:49.639 I don't know, man, I'm not a good person. So so, 224 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:52.799 but this is the beginning. Now when they leave and 225 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:55.519 they go over to you know, he talks about Troas, 226 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:58.080 and then from Troas up into Samuel Thrace, and then 227 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.720 they go into Macedonia. Once they make it into Macedonia, 228 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:05.000 that's the first time the Gospel gets into Europe. Right 229 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.639 there what would we consider modern day Europe or in 230 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:11.000 the continent of Europe. And Lydia looks like she's maybe 231 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:13.919 one of the very first converts in Europe. So it's 232 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:14.360 kind of cool. 233 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:16.960 Yeah, it is very cool. And one of the things 234 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:20.000 that I'm noticing here just there's a pattern, and just 235 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:22.360 in that small portion that we read. So they go 236 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:25.279 to one place, and then there's a young man who 237 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:28.240 stands out that's really well accepted among the believers, and 238 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:31.240 his name is Timothy. And then they go to another place, 239 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:33.879 and then there's a woman who stands out. Her name 240 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:37.399 is Lydia. And it's so interesting how you know, God 241 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.559 brings people in your life and you just said a 242 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:42.679 moment ago that Timothy is going to become a major player. 243 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.639 Well obviously at this point they don't know that. But 244 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:49.440 because they encourage him to get circumcised, that means that. 245 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:50.440 Which is kind of surprising. 246 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:53.240 What's Paul doing. 247 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:57.559 So we can have a mental assent and still kind 248 00:11:57.559 --> 00:11:59.679 of cave in a little bit to you know, public 249 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:00.399 opinion and everyone. 250 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:03.559 But but you know what, the reasons aren't listed, so 251 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:05.120 it could be that maybe. 252 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.080 Well the least the reason is he said it's just 253 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:09.279 to avoid conflict. That's what he said. He said, So 254 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:11.679 they went ahead and did it just to avoid any conflict. 255 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:13.559 Yeah, yeah, so. 256 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:16.039 He made a choice too, He made a choice to 257 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:20.240 submit to popular culture for the purpose of effectiveness. Okay, 258 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:21.320 if this is the reason why you're not going to 259 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:23.320 hear us talk all right, we'll just do it right, 260 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:25.639 And there's some there's a little bit of nobility in 261 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.879 that that he has already said it means nothing anymore, 262 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:33.639 but we'll do it so we can avoid having any 263 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:35.679 other reason why you won't listen to the gospel. Right. 264 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:39.879 It's like it's like it's you know that I have 265 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:42.080 a good friend who is the chaplain of the Detroit 266 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:44.320 Lions for thirty five years. You know who this is? 267 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.639 Yes, right, and so I believe I believe by his 268 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.679 own testimony, he's the losingest chaplain in the history of 269 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:50.559 the NFL. 270 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:53.679 Yeah, so anyway, what ends up patching? But when John 271 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:56.159 Kitten is on the Lions, you know, because it's a 272 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:58.679 non paying position, people don't know that it's a non 273 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:02.120 paying position. And there's there's dozens of hours per week 274 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:06.279 that are required to even be a part of this anyway, 275 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:08.399 So one time John Kitten is like, so you don't 276 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:10.360 get paid. You've been doing this for thirty years. So 277 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:12.840 he went around the locker room and he literally took 278 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.240 his baseball cap. Did every tall you this, yeah, And 279 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:17.360 he actually said, hey, we're going to pass the hat. 280 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:19.840 You guys throwing some money. We're going to get this 281 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:23.519 chaplain a gift. So they did. They all threw in 282 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:28.799 some money, and they ended up buying him a Yukon Denale, 283 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:32.440 a brand new Yukon Denale. So it was just you know, 284 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:34.720 this fifty thousand dollars gift from by the way, just 285 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:38.039 from passing the hat. Right, if you passed the happy 286 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:39.440 to me and you get four. 287 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:42.240 Days, you're barely going to pay for lass, right. 288 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:44.879 So anyway, so they end up giving him this. We anyway, 289 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:47.279 here's what Dave did. Oh, I said his name, Dave, 290 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.320 Dave Wilson. So here's what Dave did. 291 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:50.879 You said his first name, then you just went and 292 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:51.720 offered his last name. 293 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:53.879 Well everybody knows, okay, everybody. 294 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:56.039 Knows he's happy. He's happy that everybody knows. Yes. 295 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:59.600 So so anyway, here's what he did. So it's exactly 296 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:01.960 what you just. So Timothy says, hey, I'm going to 297 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:05.440 do this just to avoid controversy. He get a license 298 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.519 plate and he made sure that on this license plate 299 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:12.279 it says gift to us, right, because he wanted everybody 300 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:14.639 to know. He didn't wanted to be a stumbling block, right, 301 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:17.840 because you know, a lot of pastors. They drive fancy cars, 302 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:20.360 you know, and and you know they get accused of 303 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.639 like taking money here and besley money, get paid too much, 304 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:25.840 or abusing money. But Dave's like this is too nice. 305 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.240 He's like, this is literally too nice, and so he 306 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:29.840 goes out of his way to get this license plate. 307 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:31.919 I said, dude, why do you have this license plate? 308 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:34.519 Because I want everybody to know, right, I don't want 309 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:37.000 to be a stumbling buck to anybody. And really that's 310 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:40.240 what it reminded me of. It reminded me of you know, Timothy. 311 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.960 Well, how many times have we done this? Working with 312 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:46.519 a tribe out in Kenya. They have a very strong 313 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.879 opinion about shorts on men. Boys wear shorts. Men don't 314 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:50.440 wear shorts. 315 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:50.720 Wow. 316 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:53.720 So you know, if you're going to go into a 317 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:55.759 village and share the gospel and you're wearing you know, 318 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:57.559 it's hot. We're out in the middle of it. It's 319 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.600 basically the Riff Valley, the Northern Rift Valley is like 320 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:01.799 a desert one hundred and five hundred and fifteen degrees 321 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:02.200 every day. 322 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:03.679 I remember the first time they told me you have 323 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:05.399 to wear pants, I said, I'm sorry, excuse me? 324 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:10.440 Yeah, right, So for us you know, there's no law 325 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:12.600 in the Bible as long as we're modest, there's no 326 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:15.519 law in the Bible about you know, wearing shorts or whatever. 327 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:20.240 But for them, their culture, they can't see past the shorts. Okay, Well, 328 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:22.440 then we get there and find out these guys wear skirts. 329 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:26.720 Remember remember they just were They wrap a robe around themselves. 330 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:28.759 So for some reason shorts weren't allowed. 331 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:31.600 Yeah, no shorts, but the boys wear shorts but not 332 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:33.840 the men. So we're staying there wearing long pants, which 333 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:37.480 was totally acceptable. That's okay. So this is kind of 334 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:39.799 that deal now, you know, for Timothy it was kind 335 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:42.960 of a permanent decision. That's a pretty big deal. And 336 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:46.039 you know, it was a surgical procedure versus just changing 337 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:49.360 your pants. But the idea being, I don't want anything 338 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:52.039 to get between me and my effectiveness and ministry. So 339 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:55.679 this was this was not a concession for the purpose 340 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.360 of changing his doctrine in order to be able to 341 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.679 go to Heaven. This was a concession so that he 342 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.279 could be more effective in sharing the Gospel. Right, so 343 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:06.519 he was willing to put away his freedoms for the 344 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:10.960 benefit of others instead of what the Judaizers were trying 345 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:16.120 to do was get people to convert theologically to their 346 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:19.320 opinion and then you could become a Christian. And that 347 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:21.600 is not what Timothy was doing here. Timothy was just 348 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:25.000 making a strategic decision that was purely for effectiveness in ministry. 349 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:28.440 Yeah. Right, Yeah, It's just like you know, you're going 350 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:31.639 to get your master's degree, not necessarily because it's going 351 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:33.639 to teach anything if you know a lot. 352 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:36.080 Not necessarily because you can get paid more at the church, right. 353 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:38.840 Right, right, It's just because some people won't listen to 354 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:40.879 you unless you have a doctorate or a master's whatever. 355 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:43.960 So there's a lot of things happening like that in culture. 356 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.879 But the bottom line is is I believe that Timothy's 357 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:50.200 motives here were just like what you said, that he 358 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:52.559 wants to be effective and nothing is a stumbling block. 359 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.440 But isn't it a surprise here that before the Timothy moment, 360 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.799 Paul and Barnabas get in such a disagreement that they 361 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.600 lit up. Yeah, listen, let. 362 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:04.359 Me finish my thought. Let me finish my thought about 363 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:08.039 Lydia and Timothy real quick, and then let's talk about this. 364 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:09.160 I thought you were done with that. 365 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:12.599 You just talk we just we just we went off 366 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:16.119 about Timothy circumcisi. I was just going to say that 367 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:18.839 God brings people in our lives and so God will 368 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:20.720 raise up And even though that Paul didn't know that 369 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:22.920 Timothy was going to be a major player, obviously he 370 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.559 saw something in him because he was. He went on 371 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:28.599 the journey with him to set him up for effective ministry. 372 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:31.440 And so I just think that whenever God places people 373 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:34.839 in your lives, uh, you know, just just know that 374 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.640 this here is a reminder that you never know how 375 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:41.039 important they may end up being. And you never know 376 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:43.160 who's going to stick with you. You never know who's 377 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:46.559 going to be really important in your life. And so 378 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:48.519 God will bring people in your lives all the time. 379 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.400 Just recognize them as potential people that God actually brought in. 380 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:54.559 Yeah. So, and I think it's kind of cool here 381 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:57.160 because Barnabas takes John Mark, who's still a young leader, 382 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:01.519 and Paul immediately picks up Timothy, who's a young leader. 383 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:05.359 Both these guys now they're doubling their potential impacts. Well, 384 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:07.039 he picks up Silas, but then he picks up Timothy. 385 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:10.119 In chapter sixteen, he says, we want you to come 386 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:12.759 with us, right, So I think that that's really interesting. 387 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:15.960 There's also another thing, just a subtle thing. You'll notice 388 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:19.240 now the writer is talking about us and we. Prior 389 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:21.720 to this, none of that has happened. But from here on, 390 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:26.680 so the writer is Luke, and apparently in this season 391 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:29.920 Luke joins the team. So he has been writing about 392 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:32.920 what has happened historically. Now he's writing about us and 393 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:35.319 we from this point on, which is kind of neat, right. So, 394 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:37.519 and from this point on all the way till the end, 395 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:40.400 for Paul, Luke stays with Paul almost the whole time. 396 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:43.039 There's a time when Paul says, you know, everybody else 397 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:46.519 has left me, only Luke is with me, right. So Luke, 398 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:48.680 now you'll notice the rest of the writing is us 399 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:49.960 and we rather than they. 400 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:52.519 Yeah, it's kind of I don't think I ever caught 401 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:56.319