WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.200 Hey, everybody, we're the Bible 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 --> 00:00:25.559 some of our greatest hits. 11 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:29.120 So, Jeff, if I were to go, okay, go ahead 12 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:32.600 and preach, could you preach under threat of death? 13 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.000 I hope? So yeah, I think everybody needs to be 14 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:38.280 ready to preach. Prayer died at any minute and any minute. 15 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:41.240 Well, it says here in my Bible that Paul preaches 16 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:42.759 under Roman guard. 17 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:45.280 Oh okay, Well he's Chris and I'm Jeff, and we're 18 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:59.159 the Bible guys. Okay, Chris, So I've got a good 19 00:00:59.159 --> 00:00:59.799 one for you today. 20 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:00.320 All right. 21 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:05.680 Our segment is It's in your wheelhouse. So we're back 22 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:10.719 with more badly described films that Cres has to guess. So, 23 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:12.920 just to be clear, you have to name the movie. 24 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:15.040 Yeah, you're describing it poorly, and I have to figure 25 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:15.359 out what. 26 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.599 I'm giving you a bad bad woman explanation. Although I 27 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:21.959 think these are pretty good. I think these are good. 28 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:24.959 Here you go. The first one, a depressed office worker 29 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:30.719 joins a cult and destabilizes the government. Oh wow, a. 30 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.959 Depressed office worker joins a cult. 31 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:41.280 And distin I have no idea. It's the matrix, I think. 32 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:45.719 I think, my goodness, are you kidding me? By the way, 33 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:47.040 I think that that's poorly written. 34 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:50.079 I think that's the hardest one. That is pretty It's 35 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:52.359 a great description, now now that you know what we're 36 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:52.920 talking about. 37 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:55.959 Not the government anyways, depressed, what is it? 38 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:56.400 What is it that? 39 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:57.040 The other way? 40 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:57.519 The cult? 41 00:01:57.640 --> 00:01:59.760 It wasn't a call. It was actually the It was 42 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:02.719 a actually like the truth, the only truth that there was. 43 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:04.760 Yeah, but it was against the rules. 44 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:07.480 Was okay, that was a poorly poorly. 45 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:10.560 This one's better. This one's better. After the death of 46 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:15.000 her parents, a young socialite causes millions and property damage. 47 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:18.319 After the death of her parents. 48 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:21.400 This is right up your alley. What is it? After 49 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:24.400 the death of her parents, a young socialite causes millions 50 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:29.280 and property damage. I have no idea. She just has 51 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:29.840 to let it go. 52 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:43.080 Oh you're talking about you're talking about Elsa. 53 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:42.879 Because that's what she does. Okay, Hey I. 54 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:44.960 Kind of frown on that description too. 55 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:46.879 Wow, well these are poorly described. 56 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:50.560 I know, like it made it sound like she did 57 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:53.360 that because the death of her parents death of her 58 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:56.000 parents was like years and years and years before that happened. 59 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:59.240 Okay, anyway, go ahead, and Emo teen can't live up 60 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:01.719 to his grandfather there's legacy and takes it out on 61 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:03.319 his dad. 62 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:08.680 An Emo team team. Oh, Emo teen. 63 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:11.199 Can't live up to his father's legacy and takes it 64 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:14.439 out on his dad. 65 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:17.759 I don't want to waste too much dead time thinking 66 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:18.879 about it, so I have to say I don't know. 67 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:21.319 Yeah, Star Wars The Force Awakens. 68 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:34.560 I'm sorry. Em Well, emo emo doesn't mean emotional. Emo 69 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:36.360 means like a certain like. 70 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:40.960 A golf shirt. Shut. But that's okay, Okay, I don't 71 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:41.199 like that. 72 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:45.360 Yeah, what made Chris mad? Let's go to that. 73 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:48.840 Okay, Yeah, how about here is number four? Immigrant adoptee 74 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:53.080 is repatriated to country of birth, experiences culture, culture, shock, 75 00:03:53.120 --> 00:04:00.439 and prejudice one more time. Immigrant adoptee has repatriated to 76 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:04.639 his country of birth, experiences culture shock and prejudice, and 77 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:09.439 he also meets his dad and sings to him. I 78 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:15.960 have no idea elf. That's a good description. I thought, 79 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:20.759 that's a good one. And okay, here you'll get this one. 80 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:24.680 You'll get this one. Adopted kid's older brother won't let 81 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:25.720 him hold the hammer. 82 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:31.160 Oh yeah, well, okay four obviously. Yeah, that one. That 83 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:34.600 one's pretty easy there. It's the only one that even 84 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:39.079 came close to being actually actually Elf was out. Yeah, 85 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:41.360 I would actually say was accurate. 86 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:43.800 It was clever, Yeah, it was clever. Yeah. The other 87 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:46.639 ones were just flat out just well frozen. They needed 88 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.319 one more indicator there because that was all accurate too. No, 89 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:52.759 she does tons of damage, yeah, of course. 90 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:56.120 But they connected the dots. They said, because her parents died, 91 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:56.480 is what it. 92 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:58.839 Made after that. I just said after the death of 93 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.360 her parents, right, which is not because. 94 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:05.439 After the death of the parents' comma she did these things, right, right, Okay, 95 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.680 here's the reality. Her parents died when she was young. 96 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:11.879 Years and years later, she discovers something about herself and 97 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:12.680 then causes money. 98 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:17.480 So after it doesn't mean because right after the moon landing, 99 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:21.759 Jeff and Chris did a podcast. Those aren't the same, right, 100 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:23.800 So it's not because of the moon landing. Jeff and 101 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:25.839 Chris do the Okay podcast. 102 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:30.800 I know being an avid reader, and I know what 103 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:36.079 I know. You know that that is not correct because 104 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:38.199 it could be technically correct. 105 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:39.079 But it's written is correct. 106 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:41.160 It's written to lead you down a pathway. 107 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:44.680 I think that's the idea of written movie descriptions. 108 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:47.120 No, I would disagree. I would think that it would 109 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:49.399 have to be accurate to actually help you guess. 110 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:53.000 Well, it is accurate, but did her actions happen after 111 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:53.759 her parents died? 112 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:54.759 Oh, we're going to go back. 113 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:00.600 Our listeners are like, I'm tuning out. 114 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:01.920 Yeah, yeah, let's move on. 115 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.079 Hey, somebody recently just gave us a good suggestion that said, 116 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:06.920 why don't we put a hyperlink right at the end 117 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:11.519 of the game so people can skip to the after this. 118 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:13.920 So we're sorry, Thank you for the three people who 119 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:17.800 are still listening. Chris just isn't very good at remembering 120 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:21.959 the names of movies. I guess so acts Chapter twenty eight, 121 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:25.800 verse seventeen. I take offense to that, and I'm sorry. 122 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:27.720 I didn't mean the offense. Will you please forgive me? 123 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:30.360 I will I just want to hang out on my 124 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:30.920 anger a little. 125 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.319 Save that for the next what made Chris mad this week? 126 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:36.480 So we're wrapping up. I mean, this is the end 127 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:39.600 of Acts, chapter of the Book of Acts, yep, right here. 128 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:42.519 And then tomorrow we're moving into the Book of Finalman. 129 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:44.759 We're going to start cleaning up some of the last 130 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:46.879 few books that he wrote. Most of these last books 131 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:50.360 are fairly short. But today we're wrapping up. It says 132 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:54.399 three days after Paul's arrival to Rome, he called together 133 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:56.680 the local Jewish leaders. He said to them, brothers, I 134 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:59.160 was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Roman government, 135 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:01.279 even though I'd done nothing against our people or the 136 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:04.399 customs of our ancestors. The Romans tried me and wanted 137 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:06.120 to release me because they found no cause for the 138 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:09.360 death sentence. But when the Jewish leaders protested this decision, 139 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.079 I felt it necessary to appeal to Caesar, even though 140 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.319 I had no desire to press charges against my own people. 141 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:17.279 I asked you to come here today so we could 142 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:19.319 get acquainted, and so I could explain to you when 143 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:22.480 I'm bound that I'm bound with this chain because I 144 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:25.560 believe that the hope of Israel. The Messiah has already come. 145 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:29.040 They replied, We've had no letters from Judea or reports 146 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:31.360 against you from anyone who's come here, but we want 147 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:32.920 to hear what you believe, for the only thing we 148 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.480 know about this movement is that its denounced everywhere. So 149 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:38.560 a time was set, and on that day a large 150 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:41.199 number of people came to Paul's lodging. He explained and 151 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:43.920 testified about the Kingdom of God, tried to persuade them 152 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:47.519 about Jesus from the scriptures, using the Law of Moses 153 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:49.920 and the books of the prophets. He spoke to them 154 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.079 from morning until evening. Some were persuaded by the things 155 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:55.399 he said, but others did not believe. After they had 156 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:58.120 argued back and forth among themselves, they left with this 157 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:00.839 final word from Paul. The whole Holy Spirit was right 158 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:04.040 when he said to your ancestors, through Isaiah the Prophet, 159 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:06.079 go and say to this people, when you hear what 160 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:08.759 I say, you will not understand. When you see what 161 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:11.399 I do, you will not comprehend. For the hearts of 162 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:14.199 these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and 163 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.879 they've closed their eyes so their eyes cannot see, and 164 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:19.199 their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand. They 165 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:22.439 cannot turn to me and let me heal them. So 166 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:24.439 I want you to know that this salvation from God 167 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:27.079 has also been offered to the Gentiles, and they will 168 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:29.720 accept it. For the next two years, Paul lived in 169 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:33.399 Rome at his own expense. He welcomed all who visited him, 170 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:36.519 boldly proclaiming the Kingdom of God and teaching about the 171 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:39.039 Lord Jesus Christ, and no one tried to stop it. 172 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:43.039 There you go, there it is, and so it wraps 173 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:45.200 up the book of an accident. Again we mentioned yesterday 174 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:47.600 kind of an abrupt ending. Yeah right, we mentioned we 175 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:50.120 mentioned that it was abrupt, and it's because it's not 176 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:52.200 a book that's supposed to fall the life of Paul. 177 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:54.799 It's a book that actually talks about the spread of 178 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:55.360 the Gospel. 179 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:56.279 So we see it. 180 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:58.519 You know, it take place in Jerusalem, and we you know, 181 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.200 all the way from Act Shept two and a Pentecost, 182 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:02.960 you know, the breaking out. 183 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:04.559 Of the Holy Spirit to here it is. 184 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:08.279 Years and years later. Paul has gone everywhere. He's gone 185 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:14.879 on three missionary journeys, and actually tradition says that actually 186 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:17.159 he might have gone on a fourth missionary journey after this. 187 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:18.559 Yeah, Yeah, there's several reasons. 188 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:22.320 Yeah. And in fact, I have some notes on my 189 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:26.240 study Bible that actually indicate as to why there may 190 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.120 be a fourth missionary journey. And here's what it says. 191 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:32.519 Tradition says that Paul was released after those two years 192 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:34.519 out of house arrest in Rome and that he left 193 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:37.519 in a fourth missionary journey. Some reasons for this tradition 194 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:41.000 are as follows. Number one, Luke does not give us 195 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:44.440 an account of Paul's trial before Caesar, and Luke was 196 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:51.159 a detailed chronicler. Number two, the prosecution had two years 197 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:54.240 to bring the case to trial, and time of may 198 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:57.039 may have run out. Number three. In his letter to 199 00:09:57.080 --> 00:10:01.080 the Philippians, written during his imprisonment in Rome, Paul implied 200 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:04.320 that he would soon be released and do further traveling. 201 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:08.360 Number four, Paul mentioned several places where he intended to 202 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:11.200 take the good news, but never visited those places in 203 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:14.759 his first three missionary journeys. And then finally, number five, 204 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:21.039 the early Christian literature talks plainly about other travels of Paul. Yeah, 205 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:24.240 so those are some pretty good reasons, yeah, to assume 206 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:25.960 that Paul had a fourth missionary journey. 207 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:29.120 Yeah, it's I think it's I think I'm fifty to 208 00:10:29.159 --> 00:10:32.799 fifty on it, you know, fifty percent says no, I 209 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:34.840 think this is the end, right, and he just hangs 210 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:37.679 out in Rome for a long period of time. But then, 211 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:40.919 you know, the thing that sways it for me isn't 212 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.200 his claims of his desire to go to Spain or 213 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.679 you know, as he mentions in Romans or whatever, or 214 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.360 those things. The thing that is the thing that makes 215 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:53.720 me pause is the fact that the writers, the early 216 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.519 Church historians and writers reference other travels by Paul that 217 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:03.519 appear to be a fourth travel missionary journey after this 218 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:06.480 first stay in Rome. And there's some ancient writers that 219 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:10.159 seem to imply that there were two arrests in Rome. Okay, 220 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:12.799 you know, so I'm willing to do that that, by 221 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:15.720 the way, there's some value in that. It's we forget 222 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:19.279 that Christianity's rooted in time with people, and that they 223 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:22.720 Christianity's always gone from person to person to person. So 224 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:25.840 it didn't end with Paul or John or James or 225 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:28.720 you know. So Paul had Timothy who was one of 226 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:30.960 his disciples, and Aaron Ais and a couple of the 227 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:34.519 other early church fathers that would connect back to some 228 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:39.159 of the teachings and direction of Paul. John, for instance, 229 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:42.320 the last Disciple or the last apostle that died, he 230 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:44.879 was probably over one hundred years old. He had Justin 231 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:48.240 Martyr and a couple of other early preachers that were 232 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:52.200 his disciples. Right, So, disciples make disciples, that's what disciples do. 233 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:56.519 You know, Dogs have puppies, cats have kittens. Disciples have disciples, right, 234 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:57.240 that that's. 235 00:11:57.039 --> 00:11:57.320 What we do. 236 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:01.759 So as reproducing Christians, Christianity's always reproduced itself, and it's 237 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:06.440 in the next generation disciples, that next generation, after John, 238 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:11.120 after Paul, after James, from there until what we would 239 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.559 call the Council in Nicea, which is a couple hundred 240 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:18.919 years after Jesus. They're called the anti Nicene writers or 241 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:22.799 anti Nicene fathers. These are the guys that were trying 242 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:28.000 to work out Christianity in the tradition of what Jesus 243 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:31.120 and John and Mark and Paul and all these guys 244 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:35.039 had kind of established. And from their writings we can 245 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:39.720 reassemble a tremendous amount of ancient church history and it's 246 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:43.240 very very interesting stuff, very complex. Even early on there 247 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:46.759 was a lot of division about about certain theologies and things, 248 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:49.440 but there was tremendous unity about Jesus Christ as the 249 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:52.600 one way to heaven, right, and so that Antonicine Fathers 250 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:54.240 is a good place to read, and that would be 251 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:56.360 kind of one of the indicators maybe is that they 252 00:12:57.279 --> 00:12:59.840 some of them indicate that perhaps there was a fourth 253 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:01.799 missionary journey. 254 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:06.159 Yeah, that's great, and you know, it's it's also great 255 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:09.559 to know that it says that you know, he's here, 256 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:13.919 he's preaching, and it says that he was basically given 257 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:16.919 freedom to live in Rome at his own expense. He 258 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:20.080 welcomed all who visited him, no one tried to stop him. 259 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:23.360 He was boldly proclaiming the Kingdom of God. And yet 260 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:25.919 at the same time, it tells us that he's still 261 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.200 under guard, right, So, you know, it's it's not comfortable 262 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:32.799 to know, I'm sure that he doesn't have his freedom, 263 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:35.080 that he can't go where he wants to go, and 264 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:37.440 that he's sort of stuck here in this area, and 265 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:40.679 yet still he continues to just live his life like 266 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:41.759 God wants him to. 267 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:45.080 It's frustrating, Yeah, it's it's it probably was. 268 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.799 And even though again he expressed desires to go elsewhere 269 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:49.279 and travel. 270 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:50.559 So here's my point. 271 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:52.759 My point is is that a lot of times we 272 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.720 find ourselves in spots where we don't really want to be, 273 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:00.120 and our only goal is to, you know, do what 274 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:02.200 we have to do and then just shine, you know, 275 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:04.559 let the gospel shine. I think of my wife who 276 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:09.679 she took a job and she was working at a 277 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:12.360 place where they were a part of a faith that 278 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:15.639 was not really what we would consider a faith, right, 279 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.080 and they constantly were just pretty oppressive about it, and 280 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.080 she just felt like she was in this spot and 281 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:25.559 she's like, I got to get out of here, like 282 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:27.759 this is this is really awful. And it took her 283 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:29.360 a while to get out of there, and now she 284 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:32.080 started a new job yesterday. So but the point is this, 285 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:34.600 she was in the season of life, you know, where 286 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:36.879 it seemed like she just sort of had to be 287 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.600 somewhere she didn't want to be, and lo and behold, 288 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:43.879 God brought her way this other employee who now she 289 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:47.679 considers like great friends, and she was continuing to and 290 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.240 by the way, they're also pastors, you know, who believe 291 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:54.080 in Christ everything else, and so now they're like really 292 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:56.879 good friends. And so that all came about because Hey, 293 00:14:57.240 --> 00:14:59.799 we're just gonna, you know, be true to who we are. 294 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.919 We're gonna shine, and we're gonna encourage, we're going to 295 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:03.600 do all these things. And they found out that they 296 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:07.039 were pastors just by talking about Jesus. Hey, actually pastors. 297 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:10.639 My husband's a pastor too, right, Because you're just gonna shine, 298 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:13.279 and you're gonna you're gonna be where you're supposed to 299 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:15.320 be and wherever you're at. Man, just shine. 300 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:19.559 Yeah. So the last note in the Book of Acts 301 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:22.279 in the Life Application Study Bible, at the end of 302 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:25.879 that note for verse thirty one says Luke ends Acts 303 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:30.000 with the victorious declaration that the proclamation of the Kingdom 304 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:33.799 of God continued unhindered, just as God demonstrated through Paul. 305 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:38.200 His message is salvation through Christ is unstoppable. Jesus has 306 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:40.360 overcome the world and will one day return his King 307 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:42.440 of kings, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, 308 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:45.080 nothing can stop God from working in and through us. 309 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:45.639 Right. 310 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:49.080 So here is he's he's technically imprisoned, although he's allowed 311 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:51.360 to live in his own home. He funds his own 312 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:54.600 lifestyle at this point, but he's constantly under God. He 313 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:57.480 even mentions the chain. So oftentimes perhaps he's living his 314 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:00.399 days chained, but he's allowed to move around do his thing, 315 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.440 just he's not allowed to escape. And he's still doing ministry, 316 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:07.440 and he's still feeling perhaps a little stifled in his ministry. 317 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:09.480 And yet the Kingdom of God keeps going forward. He 318 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:11.879 keeps sharing the gospel. He'd only been in Rome a 319 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.120 couple of days and starts inviting people who an't even believers. Hey, 320 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:15.720 coming over, I want to talk to you about Jesus, right, 321 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:19.960 And I love that. That That's how this story ends. This, 322 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:23.279 the Book of Acts ends as Paul is just sharing 323 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:27.440 the gospel again, just going on, and God's force is unstoppable. 324 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:30.759 What God is doing with the gospel is unstoppable, and 325 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:32.840 we all get to be a part of it. It's 326 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:33.559 a great privilege. 327 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:37.080 So you know, I've gone to I've traveled to many 328 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:41.240 places on missionary you know trips and missions trips. And 329 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:43.320 there's a big difference between a vision trip and a 330 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:46.320 missions trip. So a vision trip is you go sort 331 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:48.679 of as a leader and you're assessing things, you're checking 332 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:52.559 things out, you're visiting and you know, acquainting yourself. And 333 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:56.039 then a missions trip is where you go and you serve, yeah, 334 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:58.159 some kind of project, you some kind of project or 335 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:03.240 or do something right for the church. And so so anyway, 336 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.119 this thing's coming up here where, and I've been given 337 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:08.920 the opportunity to go down to the Dominican Republic. I 338 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:11.160 have a good friend who is a college roommate of 339 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:14.559 mine who has just sort of reinvigored his faith, and 340 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.000 about six years ago he went down there and started 341 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:20.480 this thing. And so get this. We get to preach 342 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:25.640 the gospel to entire villages through tennis shoes. So we 343 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:28.640 actually have about two thousand dollars that we're investing in 344 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:31.759 buying brand new shoes, and we're going and he has 345 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:34.599 this system in which he goes and runs. I don't 346 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:36.480 know whether it's a vacation Baba school or not or 347 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:38.839 anything like this, but but I know that I'm gonna come, 348 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:42.720 prepare to preach and just share the gospel with people. 349 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:44.960 And I just think that's really great. I look forward 350 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:47.880 to it because whenever you get the opportunity to, you know, 351 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:51.079 spread the gospel to a group of people who are 352 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:53.480 I think, you know, really receptive. I think that's really 353 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:55.960 receptive down there. I'm just really excited about it. 354 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.640 That's really cool. Yeah, yeah, you know, using whatever tool 355 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.119 you have in your hand to move the gospel forward 356 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:06.160 is useful. For Paul, he used his house rights, so 357 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:08.400 he had he was apparently renting an apartment or some 358 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.400 house or something, and he used his house and said, hey, everybody, 359 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:12.799 come over, I want to tell you about Jesus. And 360 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:15.039 so a lot of times we think, well, I'm not 361 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:17.680 the preacher standing on stage. I'm not the singer standing 362 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:19.920 on stage. We think the church is supposed to be 363 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:24.359 happening inside the building and that it's by experts. But 364 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:27.359 the reality is God has given you certain tools, and 365 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:30.559 all of the tools in your life are not just 366 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:32.960 for you to consume and to benefit from. You do 367 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:37.000 you benefit from them, But therefore God's loaned those to 368 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:40.519 you as an investment in you to move his kingdom forward. 369 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:42.920 And so you use whatever you Hey, if you have 370 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:44.920 access and you know that there's a need tennis shoes 371 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.119 and you have access to tennis shoes, and those tennis 372 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:49.880 shoes get you in front of a crowd and then 373 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:52.079 you're able to share the gospel. Great, you're just using 374 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:54.880 tennis shoes. They want them, they need them. You have 375 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:56.799 the opportunity to give them and share the gospel in 376 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:00.720 a polite and godly way. Good if you have a 377 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:02.920 house like Paul, use your house and bite people over. 378 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:03.920 Start a Bible study. 379 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:05.559 And by the way, it's important to know we're not 380 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:08.640 leveraging the tennis shoes to say, if you listen to 381 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:09.480 the gospel. 382 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:09.839 You get these shoes. 383 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:11.559 No, no, no, we're giving the shoes away first. 384 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:13.599 But it starts a conversation. 385 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:15.440 Yeah, and there they were in writing people stay around 386 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:17.200 if they want so, which is great. 387 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:20.119 Yeah. I used to do back when I was in college. 388 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:23.240 You know, I was a music major, and so I 389 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:26.119 was a trumpet player and best trumpet player you ever heard, 390 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:29.599 by the way, cris Ever and you knew it. Yeah, yeah, 391 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:33.920 that's right. So I had a a brass group, and 392 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:36.880 so we would take the brass group up to the 393 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:40.039 Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago. That's where Billy Sunday got saved, 394 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:43.000 was that at the Pacific Garden Mission and we would 395 00:19:43.319 --> 00:19:45.480 there'd always be a dinner and then we'd host a 396 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.400 service afterwards, and the dinner was free. I feed the 397 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:52.480 homeless guys in the community for free, and no expectations, 398 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:54.559 but then come in if you want to, and we 399 00:19:54.599 --> 00:19:57.000 would make some music and build the room. There'd be 400 00:19:57.000 --> 00:19:58.640 a couple hundred guys, and then we'd stand up and 401 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:00.279