WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.759 Hey, Jeff, do you know this one just right back? 2 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:03.399 Can you hear it? 3 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:03.720 You? 4 00:00:03.879 --> 00:00:08.359 Let's Gilligan started from this traffic board to board this 5 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:09.279 tiny shipped. 6 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:10.640 Wow, very good. 7 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:12.119 Oh I got, I got the whole thing. 8 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:13.039 I imagine you do. 9 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:15.679 I would imagine. I'm not going to do it. That's 10 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:19.199 right with Gilligan the skipper. Okay, forget it, I'm not 11 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:21.280 gonna do it. But that's what we're doing today. We're 12 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:23.440 talking about Paul being stranded on the island. 13 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:25.519 Okay, through on the island now. So he's Chris and 14 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:27.839 I'm Jeff, and hopefully he doesn't sing anymore. We're the 15 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:42.280 Bible guys. I love gilligan Sland. 16 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:44.679 Oh I love that. It was so good. It was 17 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:46.840 so good. Yeah. And that's how you know you're old 18 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:49.200 because most of my memories of Gillian's Island are black 19 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:49.560 and white. 20 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:52.039 Oh yeah, me too, Yeah, yeah for sure. And I 21 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:53.640 was in love with Marianne. 22 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:57.079 Oh yeah, who wasn't the whole world was first crush. 23 00:00:57.200 --> 00:00:58.759 My first crushed as a little kid was Mary. 24 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:03.399 Oh for celebrity crush or first Chruss in general. Yeah, 25 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:06.040 I get news for you, but it's not gonna happen 26 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.640 well that's okay. Yeah, that's okay. You went out. So 27 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:14.680 today this is the segment today. Jeff is that it's 28 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.680 called Bible verse or not. So here are five Bible 29 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:22.760 verses or inspirational quotes. Have Jeff, guess if it is 30 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:27.120 an inspirational or a Bible verse. Yeah, these are pretty tricky. 31 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:29.400 I have to warn you in advance, like you have 32 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:31.239 to really think through. So here we go. 33 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:33.799 So, so what are my two options. It's either a 34 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:36.079 Bible verse, a quote, or a quote. And it's a 35 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:38.359 bonus if you tell us where where books from? Yeah? 36 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:38.719 Probably not. 37 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:43.359 Okay, here we got ready, h God will meet all 38 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:44.079 your needs. 39 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:45.319 That's a Bible verse. 40 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:46.959 Where do you think it's from? 41 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:48.000 Paul wrote it? 42 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:53.239 Yep, you're right. It's in Philippians. Okay, So how about this, 43 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:54.640 This too shall pass? 44 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:01.560 So many times the Bible says and it came to pass, 45 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:04.200 This too shall pass. I'm gonna says a quote. 46 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:07.879 It is an inspirational quote. Yes, okay, number three, you're 47 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:10.680 doing good. You're doing good the job. Here we go. 48 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:12.080 That's a tough one. 49 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.960 God is the most glorified in us when we are 50 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:17.240 most satisfied in him. 51 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:18.719 Oh, that's a quote. 52 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:19.840 You know who said it? 53 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:20.240 Piper? 54 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:23.400 Yes, it's John Piper, good child. Where do you go? 55 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:27.560 How about this one? Don't be too proud to enjoy 56 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:29.000 the company of ordinary people? 57 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.439 Uh? Paul said that it's a Bible course. Where do 58 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:37.400 you think it's from the Romans? It is Chapter twelve, yep. 59 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:40.759 And then the last one is don't forget to show 60 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:45.159 hospitality to strangers. You could be entertaining angels without realize. 61 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:48.319 That's a Bible right, yeah, yeah, yeah, you remember where 62 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:55.080 it's from, Uh, entertaining angels unaware? I can't remember. 63 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:55.800 It's Hebrews. 64 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:56.560 Hebrews. 65 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:59.240 He was thirteen. Hey man, you get five out of five, 66 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:00.680 five out of five, good job, all right. 67 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:02.199 I was really intimidated by this. 68 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.439 Well you nailed it them, You nailed it. You You 69 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.599 even quoted John Pipper. You knew that you said the quote. Yeah, 70 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:08.560 so that must have been easy. 71 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:10.560 And you know if I had answered, I would have 72 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:11.280 said Hebrews. 73 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:17.520 Yeah, yeah, just to add that in there, just as 74 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:19.439 if as if you didn't nail everything. I just want 75 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:21.039 to make you but you I. 76 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:22.879 Also n it was Hebrews, but I wanted to give 77 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:23.199 you one. 78 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:24.199 Yeah, I'm joking. 79 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:25.240 I couldn't remember. 80 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:28.479 Yeah, he was thirteen, by the way, So so good job, 81 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:29.319 where do you go? 82 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:29.599 Good? 83 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:30.520 Well, thank you? 84 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:33.199 That was fun, Thank you, Desiree. Yeah, it was a 85 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:36.120 little intimidating. It's scary because you know, when you're a 86 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.039 Bible guy, I know it because you've had these two right, Yes, 87 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:41.400 you're thinking, yes, they're going to make us look so bad. 88 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:44.080 So I'm not going to do it now because I'm 89 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:47.400 not sure I could do it. But like the Twelve Disciples, right, 90 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:50.240 because you know sometimes they shifted around after Judas and 91 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:50.759 everything else. 92 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:51.360 Uh. 93 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.639 One time I was playing trivial Pursuit back in the 94 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:56.280 day and they said name the twelve Disciples, and every 95 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:58.879 every the room was like, oh man, sor I got 96 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:01.240 this question. But to get it, oh, you know, I'm 97 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:03.599 in Babba College and they're like, they're like, okay, he's 98 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.479 obviously gonna get his pie, you know, and and I 99 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:08.639 and I named him. I think I got ten something 100 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:09.319 like this, and I'm. 101 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:11.879 Like, oh, you know, learned the song. I think I 102 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:15.360 forget no Disciples Jesus called to help him. 103 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:16.959 No, I don't know that. I didn't grow up in 104 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:19.879 some the show. Oh wow, yeah, yeah, so so yeah, 105 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:21.399 so I did. I didn't know Peter. 106 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.720 Andrew who James's brother John Philip Thomas, Matthew James, the 107 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:26.680 son of Elis. You don't you know that song that 108 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:33.439 doesn't rhyme, It doesn't have to rhymes. You're just storing 109 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:35.279 it in the part of your brain that sings instead 110 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:35.839 of remembers. 111 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:36.519 That's why. 112 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:37.839 Isn't that weird? 113 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:38.360 Uh? 114 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:41.800 How your brain works like that? Music really matters? It 115 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:44.079 really does. Music puts uh. You know? So I have 116 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:45.839 a music background, music degree, and this has nothing to 117 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:49.480 do with the passage today, but this is why, you know. 118 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:51.800 I caution young people the kind of music you take in, 119 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.399 because music puts stuff in your brain and stores it 120 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:58.480 in ways that your regular memory doesn't work, right, it 121 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:02.879 doesn't do, and so it embeds concepts and ideas and 122 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:07.639 philosophies in areas of your mind that you will never 123 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:12.279 ever forget. Yeah right. I watched the thing recently, a 124 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:16.959 very famous singer struggling with Alzheimer's. He's coming towards the 125 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:20.519 end of his life and it has a hard time 126 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:23.720 with family and friends. But as soon as the band 127 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:25.399 struck up, he knew every lyric. 128 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:28.199 Right, this is with Lady the Jazz Lady Gaga. 129 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:32.319 Yeah, yea yeah, Tony Bennett. Yeah, and he's able to 130 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:34.120 pull out every song. It's because it's stored in a 131 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.079 different part of your brain and your brain processes that, 132 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:40.160 so art is really really has way more impact than 133 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:41.319 just oh it's a cool tune. 134 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.560 Right, Hey, just so you know real quick. So I 135 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.399 was in Brazil about three or four years ago and 136 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:50.519 our lead pastor said, hey, can anybody name all sixty 137 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:51.920 six books of the Bible in order? Oh? 138 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:53.079 Yeah, And when I. 139 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:55.680 Was in college, I remember the very first day of college. 140 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:58.839 First day, he said, come come tomorrow memorizing all sixty 141 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.680 six books, and oh, it was actually two days because 142 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:03.879 it was Monday, Wednesday, Friday class. And everybody was like, 143 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:07.000 oh ha, because all these people are like Christians from birth, 144 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:09.279 you know, and so everybody knew it. And I felt like, I, 145 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:11.240 you know, I just started reading the Bible. So I 146 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:13.199 went home and made up a song. And it was 147 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:18.199 one little, two little, three little Indians. Right. It was Genesis, Sex, Slavidicus, Numbers, Dronomy, 148 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:21.000 and Joshua Judges, ruth Yea saying first Sying Chronicles first 149 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:23.000 in Kings first and second no, it was first thing 150 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:26.639 Samuel for sin Kings, first and second chronicles and and anyway. 151 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:28.120 So I so I went through the whole thing right 152 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:32.639 as raight name, I esther Joe. And by the way, proverb, psalms, proverbs, 153 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.839 because that's the song of song it so anyway, the 154 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:38.519 point is is that like I sang the song and 155 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:41.160 I can remember it and uh. And then he ended 156 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:43.800 up saying, he said, out of everybody I've asked, he said, 157 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:45.800 I've been asking all weekend. I didn't know this, he said, 158 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.199 I asked over fifty people. All these guys are pastors. 159 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:50.399 Not a single person could do it. Oh, he goes, 160 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:51.160 but you did it. 161 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:52.240 Wow, I was the only. 162 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:53.759 One they could do. How long ago was that? Like 163 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:54.600 four or five years ago? 164 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:54.920 Oh? 165 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:55.160 Wow? 166 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:55.439 Wow? 167 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:56.480 Yeah, yeah, good for you. 168 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:59.079 Yeah, four or five years ago. You just learned all 169 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:00.600 all sixty six book to the Bible. 170 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:02.519 No, no, no, years ago. 171 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:05.279 You used a song that you learned in college. 172 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:06.600 I taught myself in college. 173 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:07.360 I see, I see. 174 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:08.800 I didn't explain that very well. 175 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:11.079 I thought you were saying you just memorized this. 176 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:13.839 No, no, no, no. I was able to quote it to 177 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:15.839 him a couple of years ago. In Brazil because I 178 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:17.439 still remember that Goofy song. 179 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:18.040 Thirty years ago. 180 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:20.040 From thirty years ago, y y, yeah, it's crazy. 181 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:22.920 Okay, I'm tracking now a little slow today, No no, no, 182 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:25.879 I might not said it on So that's fantastic. So 183 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:28.319 that was a little free aside, right, talking about the 184 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:30.199 importance of music and the kind of music we take 185 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:32.639 in This is why the Bible says that we're supposed 186 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:36.120 to encourage one another with songs, hymns and spiritual songs. Right, 187 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:39.160 It's because we want to be filled with God's spirit 188 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:41.360 and that's a different side of our brain. That's what 189 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:44.199 music does. So anyways, a whole other thing. So we 190 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.759 are wrapping up. We're kind of on the final lap. Now. 191 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:49.680 We are on the final lap of the Book of Acts. 192 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:51.759 We're in the last chapter twenty eight. 193 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:53.360 Yeah. This has been a great series. 194 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:55.079 I've loved it, man, it's been fantastic. 195 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:57.639 Yeah. Yeah. It really is the choice to go through 196 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:02.079 acts chronologically and then to pause during the Book of Acts, 197 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:04.519 to break off and then you know, like when when 198 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:07.279 Paul was writing the Book of Romans, somewhere chronological in 199 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:09.519 the Book of Acts, we broke off and covered all 200 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:11.920 of Romans, and then we came back and we covered 201 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:14.240 several books in this in this series. 202 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:18.079 And then you know, when we finish this up tomorrow 203 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:23.879 or yeah, on the last episode, the next thing that 204 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:25.759 happens is he writes a few more letters, but he's 205 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:28.319 in Rome. It's just the Book of Acts ends with 206 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.240 him getting there, right, and then there's several more books 207 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:32.480 to cover, so it'll be good. 208 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:34.919 By the way, it's important to add on that the 209 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:38.000 reason why the Book of Acts seems to end abruptly 210 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:40.879 is because it's not actually following the life of Paul. 211 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:43.279 It's following the spread of the Gospel, that's right. And 212 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:45.360 so it's it is it is. You know, we're going 213 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:47.120 to arrive at the point here as we're wrapping up 214 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:49.679 the story to sort of you know, put the building 215 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:52.039 blocks together and say that, you know, the Gospel has 216 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:54.039 been spread far and wide, and then from there it's 217 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.960 just gonna you know, take over like a plague. And 218 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:58.720 and so it doesn't continue to follow the life of 219 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.440 Paul because Acts not a life of Paul book. 220 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.279 That's right. So let's pick up at chapter twenty eight. 221 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:08.159 We'll just read verse one through sixteen or so, and 222 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:11.840 it kind of unpacks what happens after the shipwreck says 223 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:13.919 Once we were safe on shore, we learned that we 224 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:15.639 were on the island of Malta. The people of the 225 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:17.960 island were very kind to us. It was cold and rainy, 226 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:20.159 so they built a fire on the shore to welcome us. 227 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:23.320 As Paul gathered an armful of sticks and was laying 228 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:25.639 them on the fire, a poisonous snake, driven out by 229 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:28.000 the heat, bit him on the hand. The people of 230 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:30.080 the island saw it hanging from his hand and said 231 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.200 to each other a murderer, no doubt. Though he escaped 232 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.960 the sea, justice will not permit him to live. But 233 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.960 Paul shook off the snake into the fire and was unharmed. 234 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:42.159 The people waited for him to swell up or suddenly 235 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:44.240 dropped dead. But when they had waited for a long 236 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:46.720 time and saw that he wasn't harmed, they changed their 237 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:49.720 minds and decided he was a god. Near the shore 238 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:52.600 where we landed was in a state belonging to Publius, 239 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:55.879 the chief official of the island. He welcomed us and 240 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:58.960 treated us kindly for three days. As it happened, Publius's 241 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:02.360 father was ill with fever and dysentery. Paul went in 242 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:04.519 and prayed for him, and laying his hands on him, 243 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:06.759 he healed him. Then all the other sick people on 244 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:08.960 the island came and were healed. As a result, we 245 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.600 were showered with honors, and when the time came to sail, 246 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:15.519 Peop supplied us with everything we would need for the trip. 247 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:18.080 It was three months after the shipwreck that we set 248 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:21.279 sail on another ship that had wintered at the island, 249 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:25.120 and Alexandrian ship with the Twin Gods as its figurehead. 250 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.759 Our first stop was Syracuse, where we stayed three days. 251 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:32.080 From there we sailed across to Reggium. A day later, 252 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:35.000 a south wind began blowing, so the following day we 253 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:38.720 sailed up the coast to put Putioli. There we found 254 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:42.039 ourselves some believers who invited us to spend a week 255 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.799 with them, and so we came to Rome, and the 256 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.120 brothers and sisters in Rome had heard we were coming, 257 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:49.799 and they came to meet us at the Forum on 258 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:53.519 the Appian Way. Others joined us at the three taverns. 259 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:56.360 When Paul saw them, he was encouraged and thanked God. 260 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.200 When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to have 261 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:02.159 his own private lawsjudging though he was guarded by a soldier. 262 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:04.559 There you go, man. 263 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:06.639 So three months they spent on the island. 264 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:07.960 A month, yeah, and that's something. 265 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:10.879 Yeah, and then he finally found another ship. So so 266 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:14.519 think about this is his stay on Malta was only 267 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:16.840 three months, and I say only I mean that's a 268 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:19.559 long time to stay on the island of course for 269 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:22.200 us today, but back then, you know, people used to 270 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:25.200 camp for the winter. Remember that's that's actually why they 271 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:28.639 were searching, you know, the next city, because they didn't 272 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:30.120 want to stay in this one place and they wanted 273 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:32.000 to go to the next place where they found themselves 274 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:34.600 fourteen days. So here's what we know. They set sail 275 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:37.320 in October, which means by the time they got shipwrecked 276 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:40.759 in Malta, it was dead winter, right, So the three 277 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:44.000 months that they stayed on the island were winter, right, 278 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:46.720 So which means makes sense. Then you know, think about 279 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:49.879 like him starting a fire. This isn't like necessarily the 280 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:53.639 scene on Castaway. This is you know, probably something quite cold, 281 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:55.320 and then the snake comes out. 282 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:57.840 I mean, it's still the Mediterranean, but for them where 283 00:11:57.879 --> 00:12:01.279 they're accustomed to higher temperatures, and higher humidity. Now in 284 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:03.559 the winter, it can get pretty chilly. I was in 285 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:07.000 Sicily a while back, and it was during the wintertime 286 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:10.240 and at night it would get down into the low forties, 287 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:15.039 you know, pretty chilly. So you're not thinking frozen tundra, 288 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.559 you know, three feet of snow, but it's pretty chilly, 289 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:22.480 and you know, so they're not worrying about frostbite, but maybe, 290 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:25.240 you know, some of the other weather related issues could 291 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:29.159 be a problem. They get sick very easily, and so yeah, 292 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:30.600 for them, it'd be very, very cold. 293 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.320 So so Paul builds a fire, and so think about this. 294 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:36.360 So here's my point. My point is three months compared 295 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:40.279 to places where Paul has stayed for years, three months 296 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:43.480 is actually a pretty short stay for Paul, you know, 297 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:46.799 extended stay at least. And think about what happens in 298 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.720 that short time on that small island. They witness him 299 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:54.799 being immune to a poisonous snake, decide that he's a 300 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:57.639 god with a little g and then he heals somebody 301 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:00.279 with dysentery and the fever, and then other peop people 302 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:02.759 come out from the woodwork asking to be healed, and 303 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:06.519 then he starts healing. It's part of me thinks that 304 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:09.240 this is the first time I think it's recorded this way. 305 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:12.240 I think it's the first time that that Paul's captors 306 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:16.639 have seen Paul in action doing miracles, doing miracles like that. Yeah, 307 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.320 probably right, So and so think about this, So Paul 308 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:21.840 remember a time? Yeah, so Paul. So Paul starts to 309 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:24.320 heal people, and and and and the guys who are 310 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.720 about to kill him probably thought to themselves, we didn't 311 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:31.320 know who we had here, Like, who is this guy? 312 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:34.519 Because when you know, when somebody does, you know, first 313 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:37.279 of all, he's claiming to have insight from God already. 314 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:40.840 Don't worry, nobody's gonna die, not die, your head on 315 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:42.840 your head. And then all two hundred and seventy six 316 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:44.120 people live right. 317 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:46.600 Right, and then and then and then so they're sort of, 318 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:49.159 you know, respecting him. You know, they're being persuaded to 319 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:51.360 eat bread because he says, hey, everybody needs to eat 320 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.039 everything else. And now he's doing miracles. And I have 321 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.440 to believe that his captors, and there's one of the 322 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:58.879 reasons why Julius is we're about to discover gives an 323 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:02.200 incredible leeway because he goes into like an airbnb, right, 324 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:04.240 he just goes into a house that he's rented for 325 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:07.440 two years, and Julius gives them incredible leeway. And it's 326 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:12.000 probably because of this experience on Malta. And think about 327 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:15.559 the island of Malta after Paul leaves, so Paul zooms in, 328 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:19.279 stays there for three months, leaves and every Malta is healed, 329 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:22.240 right because it's a small island, very small island. 330 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:25.080 And they just kept bringing him sick people to you. 331 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:26.679 And it says that he healed them. 332 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:27.000 Yeah. 333 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:31.840 I mean, you know, listen when Jesus commissioned the Disciples, 334 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.559 remember when he sent them out two by two and 335 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:36.200 he sent them out and he said, you're going to 336 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.519 do great miracles like I have done. I was just 337 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:41.559 watching the Chosen. Have you seen any of the Chosen? 338 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:42.080 A few of them? 339 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:45.399 Yeah. Yeah. So I'm just starting chet you know, season three. 340 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:48.240 I decided to wait and then sort of binge watch 341 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:51.120 because I like more binge watching. And I'm just right 342 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:53.720 now at the place quite literally, like my stopping point 343 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:57.679 was like like ten sentences in to him sending them out, 344 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:01.759 and they realistically, you know, added in the dialogue of 345 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:04.200 like how the disciples must have felt and and and 346 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:07.559 one of the disciples, like Simon says, he goes, did 347 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:09.720 I hear you right? Like you're sending us out? Like 348 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:12.279 what are you talking about? Like what do you mean 349 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:14.840 we're going to do miracles? Like what are you talking about? 350 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:17.759 I just remember thinking, like, yeah, that's right. It doesn't 351 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:20.200 say so in the scripture, but can you imagine how 352 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.639 the disciples must have felt when they when they have 353 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.120 been following Jesus. Jesus does these miracles, and then Jesus 354 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:28.399 turns around and says, I'm going to send you had 355 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:30.759 two by two to go in every direction and to 356 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:32.919 perform the same kind of miracles I did. And they're 357 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:37.240 probably thinking I'm not qualified to do that. And here's Paul, 358 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:40.919 who's you know again, he's not one of the original apostles. 359 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:45.440 He comes later on and meets with Jesus several times 360 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:49.360 in person, the resurrected Jesus and then and then here 361 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:51.320 he is, he's he's doing like a Jesus moment. 362 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.559 Here we tend to think that we are not qualified. 363 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.240 Remember I mentioned a couple of days ago, Jack, was 364 00:15:57.240 --> 00:15:57.840 it yesterday? 365 00:15:57.960 --> 00:15:58.200 Jack? 366 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:00.919 The missionary that you used to say every problem is 367 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:02.960 a prayer problem. Yeah, another thing. 368 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:03.480 Yeah. 369 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:06.120 Another thing that he used to say, which was is 370 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:09.399 so powerful. He would say, you're gonna feel like you're 371 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:12.039 not qualified for the miracle God needs to do today. 372 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:13.440 He'd say that all the time. 373 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:14.559 Right, Wow, that's really good. 374 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:18.519 And he would say, because you think pastors and apostles 375 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:21.679 and all these great superstar Christians, and it turns out 376 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:24.679 you're the Christian that's here that God needs to use today. 377 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:26.879 So He's going to use you. And he said the 378 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:30.919 reason why Americans don't see lots of miracles is because 379 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:34.600 we don't live lives that need lots of miracles. Right, 380 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:37.759 And so he said, you think of miracles, you've got 381 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:39.879 to go home. He said, you think miracles happen like 382 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:42.039 Harry Potter. You get your wind, and you've got to 383 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:45.120 go practice how to use your wand right, keep practicing, practicing, 384 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.320 and finally you're qualified to use it. And he said 385 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:49.799 that is not how God. God doesn't do magic. 386 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:51.000 It's a flick in a swish. 387 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:54.279 Yeah, yeah, he said, it's not magic that you have 388 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:58.240 to practice. He said, this is God's power working through 389 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:01.440 God's people to fulfill God's purpose. So God does it, 390 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:04.400 you don't do it, right, So he said, sometimes somebody 391 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:06.880 needs prayer and they need healing, and you don't you 392 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:08.559 feel like, oh, I'm not qualified to pray for this 393 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:11.680 person and to heal them. He says, you're not qualified 394 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:13.559 to heal them. You are qualified to pray for them. 395 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:15.720 You do your part, and God will do his part. 396 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:17.240 If God chooses to heal, heal. 397 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:17.839 Right. 398 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:20.799 So not every single person I've ever prayed for was healed, 399 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.559 but some people are. Right, My job is not to 400 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:26.319 heal them. My job is to pray for them, to 401 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:28.880