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 --> 00:00:25.519 some of our greatest hits. 11 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:28.399 All right, well, today we're gonna wrap it up. Wrap 12 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:29.239 it up, everybody. 13 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:32.640 Paul runs into some more trouble in Corinth and then 14 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:33.840 he heads home. 15 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:35.920 Well, he wraps up his second missionary journeys. 16 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:40.079 Wrap it up, he wraps up the scenes. You okay, Hey, 17 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:42.479 sorry about that. It's getting along, isn't it. He's Chris, 18 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:43.679 I'm Jeff. We're the Bible. 19 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:59.799 Guys, So Jeff. People sometimes email us, yes, and so 20 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:01.520 this this is an episode, or this is a segment 21 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:05.799 called mail bags where somebody has requested that we tell 22 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:07.879 a story. Oh so this is from Cliff k. 23 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:09.920 They have a question for us. 24 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:12.439 Yeah, and he says, tell about a time in your 25 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:15.280 past when you've done something very dangerous or scary that 26 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:17.079 happened to you and you look back at that moment 27 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.480 and think I should have died or been seriously injured. 28 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:21.439 I didn't have a scratch on me. 29 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:22.760 Oh wow. Yeah. 30 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:24.640 Yeah. And by the way, if you have any other 31 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:30.560 mail bag questions, please email them too info at thebibleguys 32 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:34.840 dot com. We would absolutely love to use your question 33 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:36.920 if we want to in future segments. 34 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:40.200 Yeah. Well, hey, that's a great question, by the way. 35 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:40.719 Yeah. 36 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:43.439 Now, in all fairness, I've had a lot of things 37 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:46.239 where I did have a scratch on me. I had 38 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:48.840 to have I think I've had twenty one different times 39 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:50.439 I had to go to the hospital for stitches. 40 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:51.120 Wow. 41 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:52.840 So yeah, So I've had a lot of stitches in 42 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:57.599 my life. But a time when we had do you 43 00:01:57.640 --> 00:01:57.920 have one? 44 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:00.879 Do you have one? Yeah? I do so well, I 45 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:03.719 mean I've had several, trust me. But the one that 46 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:07.719 I wanted to tell was very miraculous in that we 47 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:10.319 were going bike riding. We were doing blessing of the bikes, 48 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:14.520 and at our church we had primarily two campuses doing 49 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:15.039 this like. 50 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:16.400 A huffey or a swin. 51 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:22.759 No, Jeffy, we have actual Harley's motorcycle. Yes, And so 52 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:27.080 we had sort of partnered with George Dylan Uez over 53 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:30.120 at wolver and Harley on grash it in Clinton Township 54 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:34.159 in the area in which we you know, live and anyway, 55 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:36.439 so we had all these bikes and in the other 56 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.120 campus with Dave Wilson, he had maybe a couple hundred 57 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:41.439 bikes and we had, you know, a couple hundred bikes 58 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:43.280 at ours. And so we had this blessing of the 59 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:44.639 bikes where we go out and we sort of pray, 60 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:47.120 pray for the bikes and we get together. We did 61 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:50.599 this big, big party over the other campus. Anyway, The 62 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:52.759 bottom line is this is that we had like five 63 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:56.120 hundred bikes that year, right, and we all went out 64 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:58.800 and rode in packs. In fact, that was the message 65 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:01.080 name of the message that day. We were in a 66 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:03.639 series called Drive and we were talking about riding in packs, 67 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:06.599 which is about community. And so we were actually riding 68 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.120 in a pack. And I had never ridden in a pack, 69 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:11.520 and I was actually had a chopper. So a guy 70 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:15.560 that actually attends Heritage now he's a good friend, he 71 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:18.759 actually donated his chopper to me. Oh, he said, he said, 72 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:22.439 here it is, and that's the time that I got destroyed. 73 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.960 I totaled his chopper, which was now mine. Okay, but 74 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:28.360 he runs the cameras by the way on Sunday mornings. 75 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:32.199 So anyway, I got this chopper and we were on 76 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:35.759 We were on some road and we were heading on 77 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.039 M fifty three going south, and the on ramp did 78 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:41.560 like an S. It was like a squiggly S. So 79 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:44.120 I was able to turn left with no problem because 80 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:46.840 it was an intern. But then when the whole pack 81 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:49.240 turned right, they sped up to like seventy miles an hour, 82 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:52.199 and I wanted to keep in step with them. But 83 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:54.400 as I was turning right, I went wide because I 84 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:57.080 was at a chopper right and I hit the gravel. 85 00:03:57.319 --> 00:03:59.520 Oh no, and I went down. 86 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:01.800 And the people behind me said I looked like a 87 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:05.000 piece of sausage. And they said I must have rolled 88 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:08.240 straight like a piece of sages on the cement for 89 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:09.840 thirty to forty times. 90 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:10.439 Wow. 91 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:12.479 Isn't it amazing if you've ever been in a car 92 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:15.199 wreck or something like this, what happens in your brain? 93 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:19.000 Because as I was hitting my helmet and literally hitting 94 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:21.720 it on the pavement, like I was hitting it so hard, 95 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:24.199 and I actually thought, hey, wow, that doesn't hurt when 96 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:26.079 you have a helmet on, and so I ended up 97 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.000 getting up. They called the ambulance. Ambulance guy comes out. 98 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:31.480 He says, how fast are you going? People around me 99 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:33.879 said he was going at least fifty five to sixty 100 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:36.879 And the guy looked at me and I was leathered 101 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:39.360 up at a leather jacket on. I had just jeans on, 102 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:43.399 some boots and just some gloves with you know, the 103 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:46.199 holes in him where my knuckles were, and I only 104 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:48.279 had a half helmet on, only a half one. 105 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:48.839 Wow. 106 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:52.519 My helmet was scratched, and even the leather straps around 107 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:54.480 my ears were scratched, but my ear was untouched. 108 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:55.079 Wow. 109 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.480 So there were scratches on the leather around my ear, 110 00:04:59.160 --> 00:04:59.720 but not on. 111 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:01.040 My ears on your ear. Wow. 112 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:03.680 And the only scratch that I had was one of 113 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:06.600 my knuckles was bleeding. And I went down and the 114 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:08.920 bike was trashed. That'll tell you how bad the reck was. 115 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:12.839 The insurance company trashed the bike. I rolled and the 116 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:16.160 ambulance driver says, I've been doing ambulances for about twenty years. 117 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:20.120 He said, I have never once examined a person who 118 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:22.040 explained to me that they went down on the pavement 119 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.079 at fifty five miles an hour and get up without 120 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:25.560 a scratch. 121 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:26.040 Wow. 122 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:28.000 And then all the people in the pack said, well, 123 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:31.399 it's because he's the preacher. He's got Jesus looking out. 124 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:37.360 God was like, all right, we better protect this guy. Yep, yep, wow. 125 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:38.279 Yeah that was it. 126 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:39.120 That's amazing. 127 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:40.959 I think God took care of me, man, I really do. 128 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:44.279 Yeah, I'm pretty sure though. The question said specifically without 129 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:47.519 a scratch, and I had any scratch scratch, Yeah, yeah, 130 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:49.879 kind of let us down there, Chris. Sorry, but that's 131 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.319 a pretty amazing story though. Yeah. Yeah, I have a 132 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:55.000 million of them too, so I shouldn't take too long. 133 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:59.639 I had. One time we were walking on a trail 134 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.279 along the edge of a cliff, the trail kit it 135 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:05.079 turned out it wasn't a trail, It was just a 136 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:07.800 wide spot on the side of the cliff, and so 137 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:10.000 it kept getting narrow and narrow and narrow, where finally 138 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:12.439 we get down to a point where we're back up 139 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.879 against the cliff and my shoes, my shoes I wear 140 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:18.879 size eleven shoe which makes twelve inches long usually, and 141 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:21.800 my feet were sticking out over the edge of the 142 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:25.120 ledge as we were walking, we just keep scooting across, 143 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:27.759 scooting across. And I was a youth pastor back then, 144 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.360 so stupid. I had a teenage girl next to me, 145 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.920 and she slipped and I just caught her one handed 146 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:38.240 like this, And so now she's hanging down into this valley. 147 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:40.920 It was probably we were sixty feet up, seventy feet up, 148 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.160 which yeah, yeah, so I've got her by one hand, 149 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.199 and there's a teenage boy next to where she had 150 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:49.959 been standing, and so I started swinging her and finally 151 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:51.639 swung her back up high enough that he could get 152 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:53.480 her hand. We got her back up on the cliff, 153 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:55.839 but we had nowhere to go. We had to finish, 154 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:57.920 and finally it widened back out at the other end. 155 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:01.519 But you know, we were on a on a cliff 156 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:03.879 face that was probably only about eight inches wide at 157 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:06.360 one point. And yeah, it's really stupid. I don't know 158 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:08.480 why parents let their teenagers be in my youth group. 159 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.920 Well, to be honest, we're so alike in so many ways. 160 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:15.879 That sounds sort of like me too as a youth passager. 161 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:19.600 But I'll be honest, you're sort of wins. 162 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:21.920 Yeah, that was a crazy one. Well, the fact that 163 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:25.000 she lives through it, you know, it was scary. 164 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.079 Like that's like my child almost died in your care 165 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:27.560 kind of thing. 166 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:28.839 Yeah. 167 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:31.120 By the way, I've had those, I've actually had them. 168 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:33.360 Well, we have now ahered age. We have very strict 169 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:35.399 rules about our youth pastors because you and I both 170 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:38.199 know what not to do right right, right, So now 171 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:40.480 they can't have to get away with anything not that. 172 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:42.079 But twenty five years later things have changed. 173 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:43.079 Oh yeah, yeah, very much. 174 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:43.199 So. 175 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:47.040 Yeah, so here we are if you remember. Now we 176 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:49.920 finished up in Acts chapter eighteen, in the middle of 177 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:52.839 the chapter where Paul is in Corinth. He's there a 178 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:56.639 year and a half in Corinth, and it's a difficult, 179 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:59.959 wicked city, really wild city, but there's a bunch of 180 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:02.079 people come into faith in Corinth. It becomes a prominent 181 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:07.439 church church. And he writes back to the church in Galatia, 182 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.560 which is all it's several churches there right in Galatia. 183 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.759 And then he writes back to the church there in 184 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:18.399 thessalon Nika. And those are the books we've read up 185 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:21.279 to this point. And now we're coming back to the 186 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:24.199 end of his time in Corinth, and so we're going 187 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:27.160 to pick up there. Up until this point, he hadn't 188 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.240 really faced a lot of persecution in Corinth. 189 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:32.600 So just to be clear, we were starting this series 190 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:34.799 in the Book of Acts. We broke off, did a 191 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:36.840 few books, and now we're back in the Book of 192 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:37.639 Acts chapter eighteen. 193 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:39.080 Yeah, we're just going through the Book of Acts in 194 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.480 the order that it happens. And then when Paul writes 195 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:44.639 a book or writes a letter, if we pause in 196 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:46.759 the Book of Acts at that point, read that letter, 197 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:49.720 and then we come back to doing it's happening in 198 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:54.320 chronological order. Yep. So here we go. Whet. But when 199 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:58.919 Gallio became governor of Akaya, some Jews rose up together 200 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.480 against Paul and brought him before the governor for judgment. 201 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:04.320 They accused Paul of persuading people to worship God in 202 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:07.320 ways that are contrary to our law. But just as 203 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:09.759 Paul started to make his defense, Gallio turned to Paul's 204 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:12.120 accusers and said, listen, you Jews. If this were a 205 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:15.279 case involving some wrongdoing or a serious crime, I would 206 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:16.960 have a reason to accept your case. But since it's 207 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:20.320 merely a question of words and names and your Jewish law, 208 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:23.440 take care of it. Yourselves. I refuse to judge such matters, 209 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:26.000 and he threw them out of the courtroom. The crowd 210 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:29.399 then grabbed Sasthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat 211 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:32.759 him right there in the courtroom, but Gallio paid no attention. 212 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:36.240 Paul stayed in Corinth for some time after that, then 213 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.639 said goodbye to the brothers and sisters and went to 214 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:43.279 nearby Centuria. There he shaved his head according to Jewish custom, 215 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:45.919 marking the end of a vow. Then he sent sale 216 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:49.200 for Syria, taking Priscilla and Aquila with him. They stopped 217 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:52.639 first at the port of Ephesus, where Paul left others behind, 218 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:54.759 and while he was there he went to the synagogue 219 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:57.200 to reason with the Jews. They asked him to stay longer, 220 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:59.039 but he declined, and as he left, however, he said, 221 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:01.679 I will come back later, God willing, and then he 222 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:04.080 set sail for Ephesus. The next stop was at the 223 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:06.840 port of Cessareea. From there he went up and visited 224 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:08.960 the Church of Jerusalem, and then went back to Antioch. 225 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:11.559 After spending some time at Antioch, Paul went back through 226 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:16.159 Galicia and Phrygia, visiting and strengthening all the believers. Meanwhile, 227 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:18.679 A Jew named Apollos, an eloquent speaker who knew the 228 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:22.399 scriptures well, had arrived in Ephesus from Alexandria in Egypt. 229 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:24.519 He'd been taught the way of the Lord, and he 230 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:29.120 taught others about Jesus with an enthusiastic spirit and with accuracy. However, 231 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.399 he knew only about John's baptism. When Priscilla and Aquilla 232 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:34.679 heard him preaching boldly in the synagogue, they took him 233 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:37.399 aside and explained the way of God even more accurately. 234 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:40.399 Apollos had been thinking about going to Achaia, and the 235 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:43.399 brothers and sisters in Ephesus encouraged him to go. They 236 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.840 wrote to the believers in Achaia asking them to welcome him, 237 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:47.600 and when he arrived there, he proved to be of 238 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:50.480 great benefit to those who, by God's grace, had believed. 239 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.120 He refuted the Jews with powerful arguments in public debate. 240 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:57.279 Using the scriptures. He explained to them that Jesus was 241 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:01.799 the Messiah. So you think that's where we end, isn't it. 242 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:03.919 Yeah, it is. And so we're really just like we 243 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.399 said at the beginning, we're wrapping up because Paul's wrapping 244 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:08.840 up his second missionary journey. He's about to go on 245 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:12.240 his third one. We'll get into that tomorrow actually, And 246 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:16.279 so as he's doing this, he's experiencing more opposition in Corinth. 247 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:21.000 And that's just so odd the circumstances there. They just 248 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:24.039 started beating some leader of the synagogue right there in 249 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:26.320 the courtroom. It's like, thanks for that piece of information. 250 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:28.519 We don't know what that feud was all about, but 251 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:30.799 basically it must have had something to do with the 252 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:33.039 fact that they had no legs to stand on when 253 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:36.159 accusing Paul, right right, because it was something about synagogues 254 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:38.639 in worship, and all of a sudden the synagogue guy 255 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:39.240 got beat up. 256 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:41.679 Well, these are the Greeks, right, So these are Greeks. 257 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.080 And it seems like, so do you remember Crispus became 258 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:46.519 a Christian the first time Paul was They remember, yep, 259 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:48.360 And he was the head of the synagogue. So then 260 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:51.000 it looks like Soth the niece was the new leader. 261 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:55.600 And it seems like what happened was they bring an 262 00:11:55.840 --> 00:12:01.519 unreasonable lawsuit against Paul, and Sastthenes was the leader of 263 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:04.840 that group bringing this lawsuit. And when Gallio went, no, 264 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.320 this is stupid, and he threw it out of court. 265 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:09.799 It looks like the Greeks got mad at the Jews 266 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:12.360 and roughed him up. Right, Hey, don't bring these stupid 267 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:14.399 things into our court. That's what he's doing. That's what's 268 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:17.200 happening there is it seems to be crazy, you know. 269 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:19.840 That's the consequence of bringing frivolous lawsuits back in those 270 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:21.480 days as opposed to now. 271 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:24.039 Right right right funny. 272 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:29.159 So so they have one thing I want to point 273 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:31.799 out one of the amazing things I think we can 274 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:34.159 learn from Paul. And I think that at our church 275 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:36.960 we've tried to do this. I've tried to build our 276 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:42.240 team in this way. Paul doesn't do ministry alone. All 277 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:44.919 of Paul's ministry is always in the context of a team. 278 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:48.679 And so you see many times where Paul is heading 279 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:51.080 in a direction and they're just writing about Paul, or 280 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.840 writing about Paul and Silas, or writing about Paul and Barnabas, 281 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:56.080 or sometimes Luke says it was us, we were doing 282 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:59.960 it together. But there's lots of times where Paul peels 283 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.480 off from the group. So there's a group that stays here. 284 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:08.720 You've got Priscilla and Aquilla stay when Paul and the 285 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:10.879 others split off and go another direction. And one of 286 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:14.399 the benefits of a team. Going in a team is 287 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:17.919 you can multiply your effectiveness. You can kind of divide 288 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:22.879 and conquer opportunities together. There's so much wisdom and being 289 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:25.519 on a team rather than thinking you are the leader 290 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:28.120 and everybody just needs to listen to you, right, and 291 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:30.320 so there's a lot of value. It's one of the 292 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:32.000 reasons why, you know, people make fun of it a 293 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:34.600 little bit, and it is kind of a standard thing now. 294 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:37.080 But if I get up and introduce myself Sunday, I 295 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:40.240 was the host on the service, but I didn't preach. 296 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:42.639 I got hi, I'm Jeff. I'm one of the pastors here. 297 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:46.440 Move on. It's because my role, my title is I'm 298 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:48.879 the lead pastor, the senior pastor of the church. But 299 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:51.519 I don't want people to think Jeff's the pastor at 300 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:53.559 the church. I'm just one of the pastors. I have 301 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:56.960 a role here, but that doesn't make me any more 302 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.159 important than any of the other people who have roles 303 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:03.000 or whatever. We're better when we all leverage our abilities 304 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.360 in the context of a team. And that's the same 305 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:08.080 thing for everybody who's volunteering you don't have to just 306 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:11.080 step in and take over a ministry or expect to 307 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:13.399 be the boss all the time. It might be better 308 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:15.840 and you may make get way more done in God's 309 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:18.559 kingdom if you just function well in the context of 310 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:18.879 a team. 311 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:21.799 Yeah. I love that, and I love the fact that 312 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:25.279 you know, not only are you, you know, encouraged to 313 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:27.000 be a part of a team. That's what you just said. Yeah, 314 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:30.200 but you also said it was effective to peel off 315 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:32.720 and sort of double your effectiveness. You know, if that 316 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:35.120 reminds me of a small group, a small group who 317 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:37.519 gets together at a church and they grow so much 318 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.559 to where they should branch off and they should each 319 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:44.000 become leaders and take more younger people of the faith 320 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:47.879 in their groups and divide and conquer and double their effectiveness. 321 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:52.360 And this is what happens precisely with Paul packs up 322 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:54.000 and he's got several things he needs to do. He 323 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:56.879 finishes his vow. Of the vow appears to be this 324 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:59.639 second journey that he takes. He finishes his vow, and 325 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:02.639 then he buttoning up some business. He goes to Ephesus 326 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:04.120 for a while, and then he shoots back down to 327 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:07.399 Jerusalem and Antioch and then back he pops back into 328 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.200 Galatia in Frigia one more time. So he's buttoning up 329 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:17.360 some business. But Priscilla and Aquilla stay, Yeah, and they 330 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:20.240 wound up having a huge impact in discipling Apollos. 331 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.039 Yeah. Now this is so great because Apollos he is, 332 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:27.559 he's sort of famous. He's very famous, yeah at that time. 333 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:31.480 And uh, and yet he takes instruction from Aquila and Priscilla, 334 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.360 and he is in humility, he's willing to learn. And 335 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:39.200 so think about this. So he's famous in preaching the gospel. 336 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:42.879 He's talking about John the Baptist's message, which is there's 337 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:45.559 gonna come a Messiah. And it says that he only 338 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:48.519 knew the message of John the Baptist. He's only he 339 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.480 only heard about John's baptism. That's what that means about 340 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:55.600 John the Baptist baptism. And then and then Equilla and 341 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:57.679 Priscilla are the ones that have to say, hey, by 342 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:00.480 the way, the one who John was talking about has 343 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.759 already come. He's died, he rose from the grave, and 344 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:06.480 his name was Jesus Christ. And so they update him 345 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:09.679 and it says about the way of God even more accurately, 346 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:13.360 and by the way. The Way is the movement of Christianity. 347 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:14.799 It's called the Way. 348 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.360 They didn't call themselves Christians. That's right, that's right. 349 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:20.679 And so she's talking about the Gospel. Basically, she's talking 350 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:25.320 about the fulfillment of John the Baptist's message. And so anyway, 351 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:29.320 all that to say, Apollos should be given a lot 352 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:31.639 of credit here because he's teachable. 353 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:32.799 Oh so teachable. 354 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:35.559 Yeah, And so think about all the times that you know, 355 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:39.279 we are unwilling to hear from somebody who corrects us, 356 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.360 either in our character or maybe not even corrects us, 357 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.240 but even challenges us. Says I have a thought, Hey, 358 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:46.919 maybe you're being this way too much or this way 359 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:50.159 too much. And if we consider ourselves superior or more 360 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:54.799 important or more intelligent, so many times we're not teachable. 361 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:58.720 We have pride, and we fluff people off. And yet 362 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:02.159 here this is a great mom Biopoulos always be willing 363 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:04.079 to hear and to be teached taught. 364 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:06.799 Yeah, so it says he's from Alexandria. Alexandria was the 365 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:10.640 second most important city in the entire Roman Empire in 366 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:14.480 northern Egypt. Have you been to Alexandria? I have not, 367 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:19.319 So it's right on the Mediterranean. See Cleopatra and Mark 368 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:24.720 Anthony were based out of their different leaders of Egypt 369 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:29.279 had built some of their you know, made that their 370 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:32.799 capital city at various times, and it's just spectacularly beautiful. 371 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.359 There was a huge university there, there was a large 372 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:38.759 library there. So the city was full of intellectuals and 373 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:42.039 scholars and orders and debaters. And this is where he 374 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:45.720 came from. And he has tremendous speaking skills. He's already famous. 375 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:48.359 This is a guy who's already famous in the in 376 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:51.799 the Christian world, but perhaps maybe just within the Roman 377 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:54.559 world in general. And he's out preaching and sharing the 378 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:57.279 good news of Jesus and all these things. And then 379 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:01.359 these secondary people, so we all know who Paul is. 380 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:03.880 He's a big dog. Everybody knows Paul. Paul's writing these letters, 381 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.039 you do all these things. Who's Priscilla and Aquilla? Right? 382 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:09.759 And then, by the way, remember the first time we 383 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:13.640 see them, it's Aquilla and his wife Priscilla, and almost 384 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:17.079 I think it's every time afterwards, it's always Priscilla and Aquilla. 385 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:22.720 So she apparently takes some leadership responsibility and helping disciple 386 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.759 and clarify the teaching a scripture with Apollos. This is huge. 387 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:30.160 So Apollos could have been who are these people? Who 388 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:32.799 was she to talk to me about scripture this way? 389 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:35.119 Or about God's ways this way? He could have been 390 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:37.079 do you know who I am? He could have you know, 391 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:40.359 he probably was at the book table, signing books, taking 392 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:44.039 shots with people. Right, he's got his radio program, he's 393 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:46.880 got his books, he's on TV. He's a famous preacher. 394 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.119 And these people come and say, hey, so we really 395 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:51.799 enjoyed your message, and they pull him aside. 396 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:52.119 Right. 397 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:53.799 They don't do a public they don't shame me publicly, 398 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:55.599 but they say, hey, there's a few things we want 399 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:58.799 to clarify and maybe we can help you, and he 400 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:03.839 humbly accepts it. Now he becomes so popular the Corinthian Church. 401 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:10.279