WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.200 Hey, everybody, we're the Bibble guys, and if you're just 2 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:05.280 tuning in recently, just know that we are showing a 3 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:07.120 little bit of reruns for a few months, and then 4 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:09.839 we'll be back bigger and better than ever on August 5 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:13.519 thirty first, because behind the scenes, we're taking a hiatus 6 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:14.720 to do some very important things. 7 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:18.399 Yeah, we're building building out a new studio and we've 8 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:21.399 got some new structure. Super excited about it. So August 9 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:24.359 thirty first, brand new content. But in the meantime, enjoy 10 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:25.640 some of our greatest hits. 11 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:29.079 So today we're talking about the apostle Peter calling a 12 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:30.600 bunch of people a bunch of names. 13 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:31.280 Wow. 14 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:37.679 So he's Chris, I'm Jeff, and we're the Dayta Bible guys. 15 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:53.439 So listen, here's what we want to do today. We 16 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:56.000 would love to invite our listeners, huh, to be a 17 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:58.520 part of what we're calling a mail bag segment. 18 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.200 Mail bag segment, although not we're going to read mail 19 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.280 from our listener. 20 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:07.079 Yeah, but from our listener the one. But we don't 21 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:10.280 want physical mails, right, This isn't from the nineteen eighties, 22 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:13.480 this is this would be email, right, So the email 23 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:15.200 is going to be listed right here on the screen 24 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:18.840 and it's info at bibbleayes dot com. 25 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:19.280 That's right. 26 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:21.840 And so when you email in and here's what we 27 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:23.599 want you to do. We want you to ask us 28 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.599 about us. So this is more like I get to 29 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:27.680 know you kind of a thing. 30 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:31.640 So in the past, the enigma that is Chris Tarba. Yes, 31 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:33.519 if you just start peeling back the laber. 32 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:35.079 If anybody cares about such things. 33 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:37.640 Wow, but it's your mom and my mom. There's the 34 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:38.280 two listeners. 35 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:41.159 Well, here was the idea behind the brainstorm behind these 36 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:44.680 meetings is that in the past we started off podcasts 37 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:46.280 just by asking each other random questions. 38 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:47.159 Yeah, that was the fun. 39 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:49.640 Yeah, that was just goofy. So the question is this, 40 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:52.200 if you if someone else could ask a question, what 41 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:54.599 would they ask? Oh yeah, right, or what would they 42 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:57.040 want to know? So I'll give you an example. 43 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:01.040 So you look up to well, I mean people, yeah. 44 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:02.719 Yeah, so somebody I don't know. Let's just take that 45 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:05.760 somebody I don't know. So I was thinking about this. 46 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:09.879 I was thinking about Aerosmith Steven Tyler. One of the 47 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:12.439 things that I would ask him is about his voice. 48 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:17.159 Did you know that the very popular and most popular 49 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:20.240 song they sing dream on right. Did you know that 50 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:25.759 was the very first time that Steven Tyler used his 51 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:30.319 high voice ever, And everybody told him, well, according to 52 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:34.400 his interviews, is that everybody told him that don't use 53 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:37.319 that voice. It wasn't didn't It didn't sound like his 54 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:39.719 normal voice. So that's why at the beginning of the 55 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:42.360 song he actually sings pretty low register. If you listen 56 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:45.080 to all his recent hits, he stays up in that 57 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:48.360 speech kind of a thing. Well, that's the reason why 58 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:51.039 that song sounds so different. When he starts, he starts 59 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.400 in low register. Then he went up and he used 60 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:55.840 it and became such a hit. It became his sort 61 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:59.560 of trait, his sgnature. And he lived in that well, 62 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:02.520 so and saw him in concert. And this guy's at 63 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:06.319 the Palace in Detroit, and he was probably sixty six 64 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:06.840 years old. 65 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:07.400 Wow. 66 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:11.479 And I was actually with a friend of mine, Brian 67 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:15.479 bell Knapp, who had like front row center tickets, kid 68 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:18.240 you not, And so he was literally standing right next 69 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:19.840 to me as close as you are to me. 70 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.439 We're sorry for saying your name, Brian. We don't know 71 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:24.240 if you want to be associated with Chris or not, but. 72 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:26.879 Yes he does. Yeah, he's my good friend. 73 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:29.080 Okay, So anyway, you do that all the time, you 74 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:30.719 say people's names. I'm like, I hope they don't mind 75 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:31.479 was saying their names. 76 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:35.400 Yeah, well I know Brian, So anyway I know people too. 77 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:37.199 Go ahead. 78 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:39.759 In other words, he's not gonna mind. So anyway, Steven 79 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:42.560 Tyler is as close to me as you are, and 80 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:45.280 he's singing dream On and he has his microphone look 81 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:49.319 in his handheld, yeah, giving him a rose. He had 82 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:52.360 a huge microphone stand right, ok, like scarves on it, 83 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:54.599 and he's singing dream On and he's holding it out 84 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.599 like this out of the stage and it's literally right 85 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:01.000 above me. So I'm looking up and he's But here's 86 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:04.599 my point. My point is he's sixty six and he 87 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:07.159 still hits every single note. So one of the things 88 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:09.439 I would ask him, what is your voice? What is 89 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:11.360 your what is your training? What's your regimen? What are 90 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.439 your rules? How do you do that right? Because I'm 91 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:17.680 very concerned about my voice sometimes I don't, you know, 92 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:20.759 treat it well, my vocal courts, and so I would 93 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:21.240 ask him that. 94 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:26.720 Well, okay, so if you are thinking Chris Starbaugh is 95 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.399 a lot like Stephen Tyler, and you want to learn 96 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.480 everything you can learn about how connect those like Tyler? 97 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:36.120 Like wants to learn about Tyler, then send an email 98 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:39.040 to info at the Bible guys dot com. 99 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:40.879 That's not what I meant And yeah, yeah. 100 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.680 Yeah, So you just want to learn interesting things about 101 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:44.279 Chris Arbo? 102 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.399 So, right, what would you ask to somebody? Oh? 103 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:50.319 You know what, I so, I'm terrible at that. I 104 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:52.480 don't really think through those kinds of questions very often. 105 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:56.040 But I was with a guy here recently who has 106 00:04:56.120 --> 00:05:01.079 established like fourteen different ETFs and uh, you know, he 107 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:06.040 struck the gavel like seven times at the Dow Jones thing. 108 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:10.279 Really great investor, been very successful investing, and I just 109 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:14.000 couldn't get enough of asking questions and talking to him 110 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:17.040 about investing and stuff like that. I'm not good at it. 111 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:20.439 I'm not you know, I'm not an expert investor. But 112 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:23.680 I'm just very intrigued by the kind of courage and 113 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.680 the strategy behind that. So I asked him a bunch 114 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:28.680 of questions that it was really interesting. So I was 115 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:30.600 just interested into finding out how does he do what 116 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:33.199 he does right? And I think that's what you're asking, right, 117 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:38.959 is send in funny questions. Anything funny questions, fun questions, Hey, 118 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:39.800 why do you do this? 119 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:40.800 How do you think about this? 120 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:42.279 Or could it be serious as well? 121 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:42.519 Yeah? 122 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.759 Yeah, and mail bag kind of questions. So we already 123 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:48.759 have the stump the pastor serious Bible questions, so this 124 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.920 would be different from that. Right, So, if you want 125 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:54.399 to do the stump the pastor, send in in your 126 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:58.839 in your the subject the subject line stump the pastor, 127 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:00.879 and that would be like a tough by question. But 128 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:03.160 if you just wanted to ask a fun, goofy question, 129 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:05.040 ask a mailbags question. 130 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:07.879 Yeah, in the subject we get to know your question. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 131 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:09.879 So we took a long time on that, but just 132 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:11.439 kind of establish it. We'd like to have this be 133 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:13.959 a segment, So send it to us. Send us those 134 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:15.720 things and I think it'll be fun. Take the time. 135 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:16.480 Okay. 136 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:20.720 So we are in Acts chapter four, and this is 137 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:24.519 a continuation of the previous story where Peter and John 138 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:28.040 heal this guy that has been crippled for a long 139 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:30.920 time and then there's a big crowd and so they 140 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.079 get up and they begin to preach the gospel during 141 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:36.639 this crowd. So then in verse in chapter four, the 142 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:39.759 authorities get involved with this, going, Hey, this shouldn't be 143 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:42.560 going on. So here's where we are. In verse one, 144 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:44.920 we're reading from the New Living Translation. It says while 145 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:47.399 Peter and John were speaking to the people, they were 146 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:49.759 confronted by the priests, the captain of the Temple Guard, 147 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:52.800 and some of the Sadducees. These leaders were very disturbed 148 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:54.600 that Peter and John were teaching the people that through 149 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.839 Jesus there is a resurrection of the dead. Sadducees didn't 150 00:06:57.879 --> 00:06:58.759 believe in the resurrection. 151 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:00.319 So you joke. 152 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:01.720 Yeah, they were sad. 153 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:02.839 You see, that's why they were sad. 154 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:03.600 You see, that's right. 155 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:05.519 So it's very good. 156 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:08.000 Remember I said, I said, you knew a lot of 157 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.839 lame jokes. They arrested them and since it was already evening, 158 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.279 put them in jail until morning. But many of the 159 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:16.480 people who had heard their message believed it. So the 160 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:18.920 number of men who believe now totaled about five thousand. 161 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:21.480 The next day, the council of all the rulers and 162 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:24.800 elders and teachers of religious law met in Jerusalem. Annes, 163 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:28.319 the High Priest, was there, along with Caiaphas, John Alexander, 164 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:31.920 and other relatives of the high priests. They brought in 165 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:34.560 the two disciples and demanded, by what power or in 166 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:37.360 whose name have you done this? Then Peter, filled with 167 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:39.879 the Holy Spirit, said to them, rulers and elders of 168 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:42.439 our people, are we being questioned today because we've done 169 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:44.879 a good deed for a crippled man? Do you want 170 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:47.920 to know how he was healed? Let me clearly state 171 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:50.319 to all of you, into all the people of Israel, 172 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:53.480 that was healed by the powerful name of Jesus Christ 173 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:56.639 the Nazarene, the man you crucified, but whom God raised 174 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:59.160 from the dead. For Jesus is the one referred to 175 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:01.199 in the scriptures where it says the stone that you 176 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:05.000 builders rejected has now become the cornerstone. And he makes 177 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:08.079 a very clear statement. He said, there is salvation in 178 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:11.319 no one else. God has given no other name under 179 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:15.000 heaven by which we must be saved for now. The 180 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:17.000 members of the council were amazed when they saw the 181 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:19.399 boldness of Peter and John, for they could see that 182 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:22.439 they were ordinary men with no special training in the scriptures. 183 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:25.680 They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus. 184 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:27.839 But since they could see the man who had been 185 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.480 healed standing right there among them, there was nothing the 186 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:34.000 council could say, so they ordered Peter and John out 187 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:37.120 of the council chamber and conferred among themselves. What should 188 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:38.960 we do with these men, they asked each other. We 189 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.480 can't deny that they've performed a miraculous sign, and everybody 190 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:43.799 in Jerusalem knows about it. But to keep them from 191 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.919 spreading their propaganda any further, we must warn them not 192 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:49.919 to speak to anyone in Jesus name again. So they 193 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:52.960 called the apostles back in and commanded them never again 194 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:55.159 to speak or teach in the name of Jesus. But 195 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:57.960 Peter and John replied, do you think God wants us 196 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:01.720 to obey you rather than him? Cannot stop telling about 197 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.279 everything we've seen and heard. The council then threatened them further, 198 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:07.600 but they finally let them go because they didn't know 199 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:10.519 how to punish them without starting a riot, for everyone 200 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:13.120 was praising God for this miraculous sign, the healing of 201 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:15.720 a man who'd been laying for more than forty years. 202 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:18.919 You know, I think this story fits my personality. Yeah, 203 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:22.799 it does every time that I hear this story. And 204 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:24.879 by the way, we covered this way back in February. 205 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:27.679 That was a very long time ago. But every time 206 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:30.519 I hear this story, I get rebbed up, I get 207 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.240 charged up. It makes me want to charge all the 208 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.360 square gun. It makes me want to Like, as long 209 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:38.679 as i know that I'm doing what's right and I'm 210 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:41.399 standing up for what is right, then I'm not afraid 211 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:43.960 to say anything. And you know, listen, I've been through 212 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:46.559 my series of events, even in the last couple of years, 213 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:49.279 where I've said some very tough things to some people 214 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:52.120 who you know, had leverage over me, and I was 215 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.399 never afraid to say them, which is part of my problem. Yeah, 216 00:09:55.480 --> 00:10:00.240 well there is that, But if you know it's right 217 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:02.600 and you do it in a way that is like 218 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:08.720 obviously here Peter is just being bold. He's not being disrespectful, right, 219 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.559 So he's not being he's not he's not he's didn't 220 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:14.039 call them a bunch of names or anything. What he's 221 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:17.440 really doing is is he's saying, hey, listen, we're not careful, 222 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.080 we're not going to calculate our answers, we're not going 223 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:23.559 to fear you politically, even though this were probably some 224 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:27.000 of the same council members that put Jesus to death, right, 225 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:29.360 so now he's looking at them from the same thing 226 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:33.159 about this from the same people that Peter ran from. 227 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:36.399 You know, just when Jesus was crucified just a few 228 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:39.039 chapters ago. In terms of timeline, right. 229 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:41.039 Now, he's looking at them directly. 230 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:44.240 Months later, months later, it's a few months. 231 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:47.879 He's caught in their crosshairs. Now it's him, but after 232 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:49.399 everything he's experienced, these. 233 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:52.159 Guys could get Jesus killed. They can certainly get Peter killed. 234 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:55.480 Yes, And so he looks at them and says, we're 235 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:57.879 not even careful. Let me. I love it because he 236 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:01.919 says this, let me be clear, I'm gonna speak slow 237 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.240 so all of you can understand what I'm about to say. 238 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:05.279 I'm gonna enunciate. 239 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:08.559 And then when they threaten him further, then he says, 240 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:12.159 do you actually think that God wants us to obey 241 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:14.360 you rather than him? We're not going to do it. 242 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:17.679 So just before you let us go, I'm announcing to 243 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:21.240 you we're not going to do it. It's amazing to me. 244 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:22.720 Well, let's say set the stage here. 245 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:25.919 So it says that while they're preaching there, they're preaching 246 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:29.799 that message that we talked about yesterday. While they're preaching 247 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:33.200 this message, they're confronted by the priests. These would have 248 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:36.480 been probably these priests would have been probably relatives of 249 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:39.000 the high priest. That's that's how that all worked anyways. 250 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:41.720 And then the captain of the Temple guard, the captain 251 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.200 of the Temple guard would have been the most powerful 252 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:52.039 military quasi military guy engaged with the priests and the Pharisees, 253 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:55.080 the Saducees, and then it was also the Sadducees. So 254 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:57.840 the Sadducees, you remember, there were two different sects. There 255 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:03.320 were the Pharisees, and the Pharisees were very religious and 256 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:08.240 very wholly acting in their life. The Sadducees were very secular, 257 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:11.360 very worldly, very Romanesque in the way that they live 258 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:14.840 their lives. And they were the ones who had compromised 259 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:18.519 and stood to gain financially from the Roman government by 260 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:21.120 cooperating with them. So they had They were a small group, 261 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:23.360 but they were very powerful, and they didn't believe in 262 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:26.440 the resurrection. So it's incredibly embarrassing that they were part 263 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.320 of getting Jesus killed. They knew he resurrected from the dead, 264 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:31.279 they just didn't believe in it. It wasn't part of their system. 265 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:35.200 And so it's this group that goes, hey, you can't 266 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:37.200 talk about the resurrection. If they were just talking about Jesus, 267 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.879 they wouldn't have cared. But they're talking about we saw 268 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:42.639 him rise from the dead. That's what was in chapter three. 269 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:45.600 And so now they're coming back going, whoa, dial it 270 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.120 back here, guys, you're teaching some other god other than 271 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:52.480 the Roman gods, and you're teaching this resurrection idea. You 272 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.879 can't do that anymore, and so he goes. So when 273 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.360 they're confronting them, Peter goes, are we in trouble for 274 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:00.759 doing a good thing? Is that we hear guys? 275 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:01.120 Right? 276 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:03.480 Which is such a cool way to confront them. Are 277 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:05.559 we here because we healed a crippled guy? Is that 278 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:08.559 the issue? Of course, that's not the issue. What you're 279 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:10.600 wanting to know is how did we do it? 280 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:10.840 Well? 281 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:12.840 Let me be as clear as I can. It was 282 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:14.519 the mighty power, the name of Jesus Christ. 283 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:15.120 That's right. 284 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:16.000 Yeah. 285 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:21.159 Yeah. So the great thing is here is that it 286 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:24.039 indicates that the reason why they let them go is 287 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:26.759 because there was power in the people. Yeah, And it 288 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:29.120 says they didn't know how to punish them without causing 289 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:31.720 a riot. Right, And so if you think about it, 290 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.519 the irony of Peter and John not wanting to play 291 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:39.600 politics at all, right, and and ye, at the same time, 292 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:42.120 the reason why they were let go is because the 293 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:45.919 council were now the ones behind the politics. They're the 294 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:47.080 ones afraid of the politics. 295 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:47.279 Right. 296 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:51.120 So I think it's just really ironic and almost like 297 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:54.080 a sense of like the tides have turned because Jesus 298 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:55.799 has risen from the grave and all of a sudden, 299 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:58.679 now the power is sort of given back to Peter 300 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:01.399 and John in this moment. Any I think it's very cool. 301 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:04.039 So they say, he's the man that you crucified, but 302 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:06.440 God raised from the dead. So they keep driving this 303 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:08.080 even though they're being told not to talk about it. 304 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:11.679 They drive that issue in verse ten, and then by 305 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:14.480 verse twelve he says there is salvation. 306 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:15.360 And no one else. 307 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:18.480 God has given no other name under heaven by which 308 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:20.399 we must be saved for a lot of people. That 309 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:24.240 seems really narrow minded, right, But this comes from and 310 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:28.039 he's only just quoting Jesus from John chapter fourteen, verse six. 311 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:30.120 For Jesus, I'm the way the truth in life. No 312 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:33.000 one comes to the Father. I am the way, the 313 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:35.440 truth and the life. No one comes to the Father 314 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:41.720 except through me, right and he now Peter is essentially 315 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.840 saying the same thing. Jesus is the only way. And 316 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:47.360 for a lot of people who want to be, you know, 317 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:49.639 very open minded, they would say that's a very close 318 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.639 minded thing. But Christianity didn't establish this. Peter wasn't the 319 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:56.159 one who establishes. Jesus is the one who declared it. 320 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:58.639 So either Jesus is who he says he is or 321 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:02.480 he's not right. But Jesus said I'm the only way, which, 322 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:05.279 by the way, there's another time when Jesus said broad 323 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:08.919 is the way to Hell, narrow is the gate to Heaven, right, right, 324 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:10.519 And what he's saying is He's the only way. 325 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:13.240 Yeah. So I think I said this with Wesley back 326 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.000 when we did podcasts the other week with him, but 327 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:20.039 I took this actually from Andy Stanley. He says that 328 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:22.600 people think that Christianity is narrow minded, but when you 329 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:26.879 consider all of the other world religions, he said, Christianity 330 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:29.879 is the is the only world religion that can claim 331 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:33.879 these three things. Number One, everyone is invited. That's not 332 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:35.919 the case with a lot of other world religions. Right. 333 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:40.879 Number Two, everyone can meet the requirements everyone and then 334 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:43.960 number three, everyone gets in the exact same way. So 335 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.559 it's not based on performance, it's not based on anything else. 336 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:52.039 So no other religion and system that you can find 337 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:55.240 anywhere else that people buy into can claim those three things. 338 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:58.639 So in that sense, it is the most inviting and 339 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:04.120 inclusive not exclusive invitation of all time. Yeah, so everyone's invited, 340 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:07.240 everyone can meet the requirements. Everyone gets in the exact 341 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:07.679 same way. 342 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:10.559 I was just at the second one of the holiest 343 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:12.879 I think they claim it to be the second holiest 344 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:18.759 Hindu temple in the world in Katmandu, and there was 345 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:21.559 a place where we from that point on, since we 346 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:22.559 weren't Hindus, we weren't. 347 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:24.639 Allowed to go into. Right it was isolated. 348 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:26.480 Oh sorry, you're not Hindu, and we were treated like 349 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:28.840 second class citizens. We weren't allowed to come in in that. 350 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:32.600 I was in Dubai and they let us know, this 351 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:35.440 is the mosque that non Muslims can visit, but you 352 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:38.120 can't visit these other mosques. Right, So there were mosques. 353 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.200 Was very clearly stated it's not for you. You can't 354 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:42.519 come into this mosque. You can go into that one instead. 355 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:46.879 But that just doesn't exist. The concept. Jesus doesn't say, well, 356 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:51.679 I'm for these Jewish people, or I'm for these European people, 357 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:54.679 or I'm only for these Central Asian people. Jesus is 358 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:57.399 available to everybody all the time. He doesn't isolate and 359 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:00.840 treat some like second class citizens and others insiders. 360 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:01.759 It's for everybody. 361 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:03.919 It reminds me of that Billy Graham clip. And he says, 362 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:05.759 Jesus belongs to the world. 363 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:09.079 Yeah, that's right, that's right, nineteen seventy one, Chicago. Yeah 364 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:10.319 so great, Yeah, that was great. 365 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.880 So I was just gonna mention real quick that Peter 366 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:18.119 quotes Psalm one eighteen twenty two when he says, Jesus 367 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:19.920 is the one who referred into the scriptures when it 368 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:24.160 has said the stone that you builders rejected has now 369 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:27.160 become the cornerstone. And so at the very beginning of 370 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:30.880 the podcast, I said, tongue in cheek he calls people names. 371 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:34.000 It's really not name calling. What he's really doing is 372 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.160 is he saying, by the way, you were the you 373 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:39.279 were the enemies, you know, way back in the Psalms, 374 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:41.559 when the scriptures that by the way, you know, and 375 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:44.720 you have memorized, you know, and you realize that there 376 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:48.200 are people who reject the cornerstone. Well, the cornerstone was 377 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:51.720 you know, everybody knows, any builder knows that the cornerstone 378 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:54.799 is the most important piece because it sets the right 379 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:58.039 angle for the entire building right right, and without at. 380 00:17:57.799 --> 00:17:59.680 The score, and brings the two walls together. 381 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:02.279 Yeah, and brings the two walls together, and without that 382 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:05.799 stone being number one, perfect has to be absolutely perfect. 383 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.440 But also it's foundational, and so the cornerstone is the 384 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:13.839 foundation and perfection for our religion. That's who Jesus is. 385 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:17.160 And so you know, for someone to reject the cornerstone 386 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:21.359 would mean you know, it would mean everything, honestly, And 387 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:24.119 that's what Peter's trying to say to the Pharisees. 388 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:27.440 So then when he says there's salvation and no one else, 389 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:32.960 that salvation is available to everybody, but it's only through Jesus, 390 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:37.000 then it says in verse thirteen, the members of the 391 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:39.359 council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter 392 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:41.079 and John, for they could see that they were ordinary 393 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:43.640 men with no special training as Christians. Remember just a 394 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.200 few days ago we were talking about when the Holy 395 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:48.160 Spirit came on them. They're all preaching, all these languages 396 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:50.519 and they're going, these guys are from Galilee. 397 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:53.279 Yeah, yeah, the abilities of Israel. 398 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:57.559 And in this one they're going, there's no special training. 399 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:01.279 Because you got to remember the priests, Sadducees. These guys 400 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:04.599 were elite. They were the best educated in the country, right, 401 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:10.039