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 --> 00:00:13.480 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 --> 00:00:25.440 some of our greatest hits. 11 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:29.679 So Jeff, Yes, the subtitle in My Bible says they're 12 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:30.839 making plans to kill Paul. 13 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:31.239 Yes. 14 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:34.039 So the thing that comes to my mind is these 15 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.079 things must be done delicately. 16 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:37.880 I don't know movie that is. 17 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:39.240 That's the Wizard of Oz. 18 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:40.200 Wizard of Oz. 19 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:43.560 Yeah, when she said, he said, she says how to 20 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:46.640 do It's not my concerned. These things must be done delicates. 21 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:49.320 Okay, I was trying to figure out how I've seen 22 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:50.039 The Wizard of Oz. 23 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:51.880 Yeah, oh it is an old movie. 24 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:53.759 Yeah, yeah, no, it's a good movie. I like it. 25 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:57.399 So he's Chris and I'm Jason with the Bible guys, 26 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:12.120 get off with it. Mh, you forgot forgot? I forgot that. 27 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.200 We get buddy, that's so great. 28 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:18.840 So hey, uh, we just want to remind everybody to 29 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.439 like us or subscribe comment in the in the section 30 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:25.239 uh you know, and and if you're on YouTube, there's 31 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:28.280 a section of comment. We love feedback. Or by the way, 32 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:30.799 we haven't said this in a while. Uh, email us 33 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:35.239 at any time at info at the Bible guys dot com, 34 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:38.239 uh to ask us questions like that we can use 35 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:41.319 for a segment called mail bags or stump the pastor. 36 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:42.159 Right'll be fun. 37 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:45.560 We love all that stuff. So hey, we are going 38 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.680 to do a little segment called Who's most Likely? So 39 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:49.599 these are the instructions. 40 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:50.280 That's the fun one. 41 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.560 Uh oh, it says you'll use the Jeff and Chris faces. 42 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:57.280 We don't have those though. 43 00:01:57.640 --> 00:01:59.480 Okay, well we'll just raise it. Bring you know what, 44 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:01.920 We'll raise hands dead gummet oh. 45 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:04.879 Josh has them. Oh, this is fun. This has never 46 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:05.719 been done before. 47 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:11.400 If you're watching the video, assistant, yeah, come on, buddy, if. 48 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.560 You're watching this, uh, as opposed to listening to the podcast, 49 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.039 we're actually gonna hold up signs. 50 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:16.800 Okay. 51 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:21.479 That one says Jeff, and one says Chris. Yeah, okay, okay, 52 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.680 So here's here, here's the question. Number one, who's most 53 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:27.759 we're gonna put him down like this ready? Who's most 54 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:32.280 likely to end up on Broadway? You answer, Chris, that'd 55 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:32.400 be me. 56 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:33.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 57 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:35.319 Whether or not it'd be good or not, that's all 58 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:38.199 a different story. Just more likely than us. 59 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:39.439 You're the showman though, yeah. 60 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:45.080 Number two. Who's most likely to spill a secret? Oh? 61 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:45.479 Gee? 62 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:47.439 Uh? 63 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:52.080 One? Two? Three goat, I'll fall on it. 64 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:54.759 I'll fall on it, I'll follow the sword. I don't know. 65 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:56.439 I think we're both storytellers, so we. 66 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:00.240 To truth be told. I just didn't want to put 67 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:02.599 I didn't want to put you up, but I should 68 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:06.800 I should I should have I should have done it? Okay. 69 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:10.759 Number three? Who is most likely to sleep through their 70 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:11.560 alarm clock? 71 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:16.240 Oh? This is definitely These. 72 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:19.199 Are definitely Yeah, there's no question there all right. Number four, 73 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:22.479 who's most likely to forget to text back? 74 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:23.199 Oh? 75 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:26.439 That's me, that's definitely yeah, that's me. Yeah. Just so 76 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:28.240 you'll know, I am an excellent. 77 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:29.560 Texture, you're an excellent texter. 78 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:31.280 I text with the best of them. Gill. 79 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:32.360 That should be on your resume. 80 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:35.719 Yes, well I don't mean I don't mean with my 81 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.520 thumbs like efficiency, I mean just respond y. Yeah. And 82 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:43.599 then finally, who's most likely to break a world record? 83 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:46.919 I think that can go either way. 84 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:48.360 Yeah, I'm gonna pick it. 85 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:50.759 I'm gonna give you the credit that I'm gonna give 86 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:56.000 you the credit. Yeah, only because I think that people 87 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:00.360 who are uh interested in that are well read and 88 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:03.280 they're fascinated by things, and I think that you could 89 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:05.960 find yourself in a position where, you know what it 90 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:07.960 reminds me of. I went to Catalyst one time in 91 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:12.360 Atlanta and there's like sixteen thousand people in this arena 92 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:16.040 and they wanted to they wanted to do something with 93 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:18.800 sixteen thousand people. They said, the records, they said, yeah. 94 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:22.000 So they said, we looked and we realized that we 95 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.680 only need fourteen thousand people to break the world record 96 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:29.600 of the largest pillow fight. Oh. So they bought little 97 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:33.000 pillows for everybody and they said, ready go, and every 98 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:35.040 stood up and just started whacking each other on these 99 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:37.240 on the head with these pillows. And they're like, they're like, 100 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:39.319 that's it. We beach broke a world record. 101 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:41.519 Well, then you were part of breaking a world record. Yes, 102 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:43.360 so then why did you vote for me? You broke 103 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:44.439 a world record already. 104 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:48.040 Well it it wasn't for me. It wasn't me. 105 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:52.079 Well you did though, one of sixteen thousand people. 106 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:54.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's funny. 107 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:55.480 Okay, they're fun. 108 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.680 Yeah, those are very fun. Okay. So anyway, I just 109 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:05.519 want to say my Broadway thing, the Showman piece. I 110 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.040 love going to see Broadway. 111 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:09.160 But you do too, Yeah yeah, yeah, you go to 112 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:10.800 a lot more Broadway than I do. But my wife 113 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:11.959 and I enjoyed. 114 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:13.839 And and I quote and sing Broadway. 115 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.680 Yes you do. He just sings and dances all through 116 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.639 the office all the time. That'd be you. You'd be the 117 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:20.319 greatest showman. 118 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:24.519 So, by the way, one of my favorite movies ever, it. 119 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:26.360 Was because zach Efron's in it. 120 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.800 This again you were waiting for that, you were throwing 121 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:32.439 a little bit. 122 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:38.959 Yeah, if you miss the zach Efron thing, you need 123 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:41.680 to go back digging in. That's that's a call back there, 124 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:44.759 that's for our loyal followers written listeners right there. 125 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.800 Daily back and like it would have been like almost a. 126 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:51.399 Year ago, more than a year ago. Yeah, So anyways, 127 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:54.480 we should pick up and go that was a fun 128 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:59.399 one to see, for sure. So this plan to kill 129 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.480 Paul where in Acts chapter twenty three, he's been arrested, 130 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:05.519 he's getting handed off from the Roman guys. They're going 131 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:06.800 to beat him, and then they find out he's a 132 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:09.600 citizen and they send him to the High Council, the 133 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:12.720 Jewish High Council. Jewics High Council can't solve this thing, 134 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:14.839 So then it says here the next morning, a group 135 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:16.920 of Jews got together and bound themselves with an oath 136 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:20.040 not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul, 137 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:21.279 which is just. 138 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:24.959 What an opening statement. Wow, Hey, listen, nobody's even going 139 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:26.959 to have their next meal until this dead. 140 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:31.120 That's right, that's right. There were more than forty of 141 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:33.800 them in the conspiracy. They went to the leading priests 142 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:35.720 and elders and told them, we've bound ourselves with an 143 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.040 oath eat nothing until we have killed Paul. So you 144 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:40.240 and the High Council should ask the commander to bring 145 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:42.040 Paul back to the Council again, pretend you want to 146 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:44.639 examine his case more fully. We'll kill him on the way. 147 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:48.199 But Paul's nephew, his sister son heard of their plan 148 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.199 and went to the fortress and told Paul. Paul called 149 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:53.360 for one of the Roman officers and said, take this 150 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:55.199 young man to the commander. He has something important to 151 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:58.279 tell him. So the officer did did, explaining Paul. The 152 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:00.600 prisoner called me over and asked me to bring this 153 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:02.639 young man to you because he has something to tell you. 154 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.519 Commander took his hand, let him aside, and ask what 155 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:08.079 is it you want to tell me? Paul's nephew told 156 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:10.199 him some Jews are going to ask you to bring 157 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:12.920 Paul before the High Council tomorrow, pretending they want to 158 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.199 get some information, but don't do it. They're more than 159 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.560 forty men hiding along the way, ready to ambush him. 160 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:19.800 They have vowed not to eat or drink anything until 161 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:22.519 they've killed him. They are ready now, just waiting for 162 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:26.600 your consent. Don't let anyone know you who told this, 163 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.519 the commander warned the young man. Don't let anyone know 164 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.040 you told me this. How about that? Yep, the commander 165 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:35.279 warned the young man. Then the commander called two of 166 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:37.519 his officers in order to get two hundred soldiers ready 167 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:39.920 to leave for cessarea by nine o'clock to night. Also 168 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:43.439 take two hundred spearmen and seventy mounted troops provide horses 169 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.160 for Paul to ride and get him safely to Governor Felix. 170 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:48.959 Then he wrote this letter to the Governor from Claudius 171 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:53.240 Lysius to his excellency, Governor Felix, Greetings, This man was 172 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:55.160 seized by some Jews, and they were about to kill 173 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:57.199 him when I arrived with the troops. When I learned 174 00:07:57.199 --> 00:07:59.279 that he was a Roman citizen, I removed him to safety, 175 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:01.199 and then I took him to their high council to 176 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:03.600 try to learn the basis of the accusations against him. 177 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.759 I soon discovered the charge was something regarding their religious law, 178 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:09.360 certainly nothing worthy of imprisonment or death. But when I 179 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:11.360 was informed of a lot to kill him, I immediately 180 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:14.120 sent him on to you. I've told you his accusers. 181 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:17.240 I've told his accusers to bring their charges before you. 182 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:20.480 So that night, as ordered, the soldiers took Paul as 183 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.319 far as an anti patris. 184 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:25.360 I never heard never either. 185 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:28.399 They returned to the fortress the next morning, while the 186 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.759 mounted troops took him on to Cesarea. When they arrived 187 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:34.759 in Cesarea, they presented Paul in a letter to Governor Felix, 188 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:36.919 and he read it and then asked Paul what province 189 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:40.879 he was from. Celicia. Paul answered, I'll hear your case myself. 190 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:43.080 When your accusers arrived, the governor told him. Then the 191 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.799 governor ordered him kept in the prison at Herod's headquarters. 192 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:51.600 There it goes. So it's really interesting because I believe 193 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:55.679 this is the only place where Paul's family is actually mentioned, 194 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:59.240 and because it's so out of the blue, and because Paul, 195 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:02.720 you know, is responsible for writing most of the New Testament, right, 196 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:06.440 just throwing it out of the blue. Paul and his sister, 197 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:09.639 what h and his sister's son was not only like 198 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:13.799 he was there, he was within close proximity, right, hear this? Yeah, 199 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:14.720 Like that's amazing. 200 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:16.759 Well, just think of how many times in our podcast 201 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:21.759 we've incidentally mentioned your three kids, my three kids, our wives. Yeah, 202 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:24.759 You've told stories about your brothers, You've told stories about 203 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:28.120 your mom, about your uncles. We've told so many stories 204 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.000 about our family, just in you know, in twenty minute 205 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:34.159 chunks over the last year. But this is the only 206 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.440 time Paul's family's mentioned in the whole Bible. 207 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:38.000 That's crazy. 208 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:41.919 The note in the Life Application Bible says this is 209 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:44.559 the only Biblical reference to remember to a member of 210 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:47.360 Paul's family. Some scholars believe that Paul's family had disowned 211 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:50.240 him when he became a Christian, and Paul had written 212 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:53.480 of suffering the loss of everything for Christ and Phippians 213 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:56.120 three and so that might have been what he's referencing there. 214 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:00.120 But his nephew was able to see him because he 215 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.600 was a Roman citizen. Roman citizens that were imprisoned were 216 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:07.159 treated very differently, you know, when they were under the 217 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:10.200 authority of the court, they were treated very differently than 218 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:13.080 non Roman citizens, and so they had access to family 219 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:16.759 members at one point through Paul's arrest. Here in this cycle, 220 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:19.759 he spends years just living in his own apartment, but 221 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:22.679 he's got Roman soldiers you know, that are assigned to 222 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:24.679 him all day every day. But he has his own 223 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:26.600 home and he's doing all these things. So it was 224 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:28.960 a very different experience to be arrested as a Roman 225 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:32.000 citizen that it would have been as a non Roman citizen, right, Yeah. 226 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:35.240 And I think it's interesting to theorize that his family 227 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:38.759 would have disowned him because I think Adnew Murray we 228 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:42.240 had him as a guest and one of our you know, 229 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:48.159 Sunday Morning experiences, and he actually talked about the cost 230 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:51.159 that Paul would have had to pay and just you know, 231 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.840 sort of brings to mind would have cost Paul to say, oh, 232 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:57.480 just kidding, I'm now a Christian or a follower of 233 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:00.720 the Way, and you're talking about pretty high price. 234 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:03.480 Well, that happens all around the world today, you know, 235 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:07.320 and not just within you know, not just people who 236 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:11.080 become new believers in Christ, but in so many different areas. 237 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:15.039 You know, people that leave Islam, or leave Hinduism, or 238 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:19.080 leave Buddhism oftentimes are rejected by the families, people who 239 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:22.600 leave families that are centered around humanism and atheism, same things. 240 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.519 Sometimes you become a Christian and your family sometimes will 241 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:27.639 abandon you. And Paul said, hey, you know what, if 242 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:30.559 I suffer total loss for Christ, it's still worth it. 243 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:34.000 And we also know from other sections in Paul's writings 244 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.080 that Paul was single, because he talks about, you know, 245 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:39.200 it's better like me to serve Christ, but if you 246 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:39.879 must go ahead and. 247 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:41.200 Marry yeah, First Corinthians seven. 248 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:44.240 Oh, there it is. So we do know that Paul 249 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:48.000 is single. So it's very safe to assume he doesn't 250 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:51.360 have any children, you know, no spouse at this point, 251 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:54.279 there's no indication that he ever got one, really, but 252 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:56.799 we do know that his nephew cares about him enough 253 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:59.399 to look out for him. So if he was dis 254 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:01.440 owned by his faamily, it could have been he might 255 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:04.480 have been disowned by his sister, but the nephew didn't 256 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:07.080 understand or didn't care. Yeah, and loved Uncle Paul. 257 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:10.720 And this is years, Like, this is decades saw slash Paul. Yeah, 258 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.559 this is decades. This is close to fifty seven AD 259 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:16.080 at this point. Yeah, yeah, this is decades after he 260 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.679 trusted Christ. So you know, sometimes it's a lot of 261 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.879 heat at the beginning, and then over time the family 262 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.679 will soften a little bit. Now he's in prison, he's 263 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:30.519 in Jerusalem, and they maybe the families have compassion on him. Whatever. 264 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:31.120 Yeah. 265 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:34.279 Oftentimes, you know, if you were going to be fed 266 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:37.080 in the prison, it's going to be gruel, you know 267 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.279 what I mean, It's going to just be bread and 268 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:41.360 water kind of thing. But the families were allowed to 269 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:45.440 bring food for the Roman citizens, and so there's all 270 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.320 kinds of reasons maybe, but it does. This is the 271 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:50.440 only time ever mentions this family, which is kind of cool. 272 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:53.600 You know, we often mentioned the Life Application Study Bible. 273 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:56.080 And there's a little chart here in mind that talk 274 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.759 about the unsung heroes in the book of Acts. Yeah, 275 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:00.399 and he says when we think of this, says of 276 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:02.080 the early church, we often think of the work by 277 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:05.879 the apostles, but the church. But the Church couldn't have 278 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:09.200 done it, have not been not been for the unsung heroes, 279 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:13.159 the men and women who through some small committed act 280 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:17.519 moved the church forward. So it mentions at Act chapter three, 281 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:19.960 the crippled man after his healing, he praised God and 282 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:22.720 the crowds gathered the five deacons in Act chapter six, 283 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:26.279 Annonius and Act chapter nine who brought sight to Saul 284 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:33.519 and Cornelius, Rhoda, James, Lydia, Julius, and Jason. And then 285 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:36.600 it says Paul's nephew, right, so he doesn't have a name. 286 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:39.480 This is Paul and nephew. He saved Paul's life by 287 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:42.320 telling the officials about the murder plot. So think about 288 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:46.480 the contribution that this young man had, assuming he's a 289 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:51.440 young man to the church that you and I pastor today. 290 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:55.960 So the connected, the connect the dots syndrome, the ripple 291 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.639 effect of Paul spreading the gospel to the ends, of 292 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.279 the world, including the tells, which are you and me 293 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:04.360 and and you know, the church just you know, blossoming 294 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:08.320 across Europe and in Asia and then eventually coming across 295 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:11.279 the seas you know, of the Pond or whatever and 296 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.320 making it over here. So think about that. So, so 297 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:16.720 we're gonna get to Heaven one day be like, hey, 298 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:18.320 you're the nephew kid. 299 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:20.960 Yeah. Yeah, then nobody else gets to say Hi, I'm Jason, 300 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:24.399 I'm Lydia and he's like, I'm Paul's nephew. So he's 301 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:25.679 gonna have to tell us his name and we get 302 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:25.919 to Heaven. 303 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:29.080 I think this would be funny. We're sharing I was. 304 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:31.679 I was in Atlanta, Georgia for eleven years, and you know, 305 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:34.440 they're pretty southern in Atlanta in some parts of it. 306 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.720 And I had a really Southern speaking friend named Mark, 307 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:40.879 and mark'sluck. He's like, dude, you got to go downtown 308 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:43.159 Atlanta of this church that I grew up in and 309 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:45.240 they do this play and it's the same play like 310 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:49.279 every year, and I'm telling you it is dynamite. I'm like, okay, 311 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:50.679 and it's supposed to be It's supposed to be this 312 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:52.200 like end of the end of life kind of thing. 313 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:55.279 And so every year, you know, they made up this play, 314 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:57.720 like the person in the congregation wrote it, and they 315 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:00.240 perform it. And then at the end he's he's like 316 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:01.720 at the end, they walk up to you and they 317 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:04.039 hand you these crosses, you know, like will you accept 318 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:06.840 the cross today? You know, all these kind of things. Well, anyway, 319 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:12.200 in the script it said, uh, blind boy, a blind boy. 320 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:15.879 They say this before. Okay, So first of all, Jesus 321 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:19.919 was a silhouette of somebody wearing a burger king crown, okay, 322 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:25.440 behind a bed sheet. It was absolutely laughable, right, hysterical, 323 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:28.120 hysterical in this poor little church. 324 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:30.360 Right, So the light was shining behind him, and so 325 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:31.840 then you had the shadow. 326 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:36.159 And you see the crowd, right, and so anyway, so 327 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:38.120 what ends up happening is this boy, you know, this 328 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:40.639 sweet little character that they had written in. Well, he 329 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:42.480 dies and he goes in front of the bed sheet, 330 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:45.840 right with the big silhouette, and and and then God's 331 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:51.360 voice and the microphone says, ah, my friend, blind. 332 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:55.600 Boy instead of a name, because God wouldn't have known 333 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:58.159 his name, knew his circumstances. 334 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:05.240 Apparently you're only known by your defects, right, but I've 335 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:08.480 telling you what. Nobody even caught it around me. Nobody 336 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.320 even caught it. But he said, my friend, blind boy, 337 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.799 I almost fell out of the pew. I could not recover. 338 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:18.480 And I'm telling you and Marcus like, what's the matter 339 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:18.720 with you? 340 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:22.879 They called a blind boy. 341 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.080 This is Paul's nephew. But you know, he's not given 342 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:30.840 any credit here, but he's the guy, he's the man. 343 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:34.080 Yeah, and I think it's neat how God uses apparently, 344 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:36.799 you know, it's it's assumed believe that he would have 345 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:40.559 been a kid, right, so maybe you know, a young 346 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:44.080 teenager or whatever. He had the ability to navigate on 347 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:46.519 his own. His mom's not there, so yeah, probably a 348 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:51.159 young teenager. And I think sometimes we underestimate even young teenagers, 349 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:53.840 underestimate what they can do for God. And in this instance, 350 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:55.919 he winds up getting a bit of knowledge that's important. 351 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.600 He cares about his uncle, and he has the guts 352 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:00.440 to go and tell his uncle, but of course his 353 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:03.559 uncle's in jail. So then Paul says, well, why don't 354 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:05.440 you go tell that commander, And he had the guts 355 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:08.160 to continue to follow through, and God use this kid 356 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:12.559 to save Paul's life, and by the way, A whole 357 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:16.000 bunch of books of the Bible are written after this moment. Right, 358 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:17.839 had they killed him in this moment, had he been 359 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:20.880 assassinated on this road, we would have missed out on Ephesians, 360 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:23.000 on Galatians, we would have missed out on First and 361 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:27.039 Tewod Timothy Titus fi Lehman. Right, there's so many books 362 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:30.680 that Paul has not yet written that still needed. There 363 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:33.079 was still a lot of mission left for Paul, and 364 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:35.400 God use his nephew to rescue him. 365 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:38.480 Yeah. And so here's the great thing about any time 366 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:41.000 that you come across an unsung hero, as the Life 367 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:44.880 of Christian Bible describes, is that you know some of 368 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:51.440 the greatest contributions to any worthwhile organizations, nonprofits. You know 369 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:54.680 things that people have given their lives to and sacrificed 370 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:58.359 for that they've moved the Kingdom of God forward. There 371 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:01.440 are so many unsung heroes along the way, and so 372 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:04.480 you could be an unsung hero behind a great movement. 373 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:08.519 I remember a friend of mine who actually, uh did 374 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:14.039 this exercise, and long story short, they identified that that 375 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:18.400 they're like who lift up the arms of Moses. 376 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:20.680 It was Aaron and Joshua. 377 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:23.720 Aaron Joshua. So then so there's a scripture where it says, 378 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:26.960 you know, as as long as Moses held his arms 379 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.440 up there winning the war, you know, his arms got tired. 380 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:31.519 So they so they actually you know, stood on either 381 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:31.799 side of. 382 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:33.000 Them, and they held about his arm. 383 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:36.119 And and this guy was trying to say that he 384 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:39.440 identified with being the unsung hero like he's he said, 385 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:42.240 I'm not a Moses. I'm not an outfront kind of leader. 386 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:43.799 He said, you know what I am, He goes, I'm 387 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:47.559 an Aaron who Uh, I'm going to do my very 388 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:50.240 very best to lift up the hands, uh, you know, 389 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:53.039 or the position or the voice, or the or the 390 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.160 desires or whatever of the leaders. You know, these are 391 00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:59.559 the unsung heroes of the world, right, And so just 392 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:02.160 just know that nobody may know your name, and you 393 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:06.599 may have a phenomenal contribution to wherever God has placed you, 394 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:09.920 you know, in your sphere of influence, in your relationships, 395 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:12.680 or in your church, in the mission of your church. 396 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:15.799 Yeah that was her, Aaron and her oh her, Yeah, 397 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:19.440 that's because Joshua is out leading the army there. So yeah, yeah, sorry, 398 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:21.400 my brain didn't come along quick enough. You know, we 399 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:23.799 have a guy like that in our life. Chad Asman 400 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:25.440 is our executive pastor at Ariedis Church. 401 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:28.279