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 --> 00:00:05.320 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 --> 00:00:25.480 some of our greatest hits. 11 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:28.719 So today we're talking about a deacon an African and 12 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:32.960 exiting like a Star Trek transporter. Wow. 13 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:35.159 So he's Chris, I'm Jeff, and we're the Day of 14 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:52.439 the Bible guys. Okay, Chris, Yes, So I want to know, 15 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.079 and I think all of our listeners are very interested 16 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:58.320 in knowing. But we know that you're a very passionate person, 17 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.039 that you have long, big opinions. My wife would say, 18 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:05.799 so big big feelings that you that you you know, 19 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:08.439 you experience things in real time and big ways, and 20 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.239 so we want to do a segment called. 21 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:12.319 Real Time and Big Ways. 22 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:16.480 Yeah, Yeah, we want to do a segment called what 23 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:20.359 made Chris Mad this week? So what got under your 24 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:23.200 skin this week? How do we love it when you're mad? 25 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:24.799 I don't even think you have to think twice? 26 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.000 Okay, so get great at it then. 27 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:30.599 Yeah. So so here's what happens. I'm coming out of Kroger, 28 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:33.840 which is we shot with Kroger near my house, and 29 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:36.120 it's a super Kroger, so it's pretty big. It's one 30 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:37.000 of those marketplaces. 31 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:38.840 Of course, it is everything in your life's big. 32 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:41.519 Yes, bigger than life, that's right. Yeah, it's a super Coroger, 33 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.840 bigger than you everything. Yeah. So anyway, I come out 34 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:50.799 and a guy uh is parked two spaces away from 35 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:53.519 where you put your carts, but he decides to go 36 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:56.120 ahead and just put his cart, uh, you know, just 37 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.480 leave it on the space right, And I'm sort of 38 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.599 like catty corner from him, so like I'm sort of 39 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:02.719 looking at him, right. 40 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:03.560 I know where this is going. 41 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.319 So what happens is is he and what's really funny 42 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:08.800 is not only by the way I have I have 43 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:11.960 a I have a slogan in my life, and I 44 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.120 think I'm going to add a second slogan. Let me 45 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:18.319 just start off the way, Okay, Number one. A person 46 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:22.080 who's not nice to the waitress is not a nice person. 47 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:25.639 I've always said I've always said that I'm going to 48 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:29.159 add on after this experience. A person who doesn't return 49 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:32.560 his cart is not a good person. If you're listening 50 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:34.360 and you don't return your cart and you're like, well, 51 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:36.919 I just have a bad knee. No, no, you're not 52 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:37.560 a good person. 53 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:38.280 Wow. 54 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:40.159 Yes, I am very passionate about this. 55 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:41.960 So they left the cart. 56 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:44.719 So here's what happens. He leaves it, you know, in 57 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:48.360 between the parking spaces, and he pretends to be considered 58 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:51.039 by like looking around and like making sure, oh is 59 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.039 this three inches away from this car in this car, 60 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:56.120 and he sort of like takes his hands off it, 61 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:58.360 like oh like this, and he gets in his car 62 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:00.400 and he leaves, and as soon as he leaves, it 63 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:03.360 starts rolling to the front of my car. It's going 64 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:06.560 to bang my car. So I have to literally like, uh, 65 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.000 take my car out of reverse, put it in park, 66 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:11.800 take off my seat out, open the door, and run 67 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:15.120 and guess who wasn't fast enough? Right, right, So it 68 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:17.960 smacks into my car. In retrospect, what I could have 69 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.000 done is just like you know, booked out of there 70 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:22.000 and taking a chance of hitting somebody behind me something. 71 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:24.520 But anyway, I put it in park, try to save it, 72 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:26.680 don't get there in time. It smacks my car. Now 73 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:29.479 here's the good news, no damage. But I just thought 74 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:31.439 to myself, man, you turkey. 75 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:34.560 What kind of human if he was there? That guy 76 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:38.360 doesn't even deserve to live that you feel about that? 77 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:41.800 Hey? Your question was? Your question was what made Chris mad? 78 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:42.960 You're making me mad. 79 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:43.960 Listen to me. 80 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:46.759 Did you get his license? 81 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:50.560 Right now? I want the videotape, the security footage. Listen. 82 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:54.599 I'm serious when I say this. I would have pulled 83 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.400 him over and stopped him and not starting to fight 84 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:59.199 with him, of course, but I would have just said, bro, 85 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:04.080 it's it's two spaces away from you. It wasn't raining, right, 86 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:07.400 he had two working legs, right, you know, there was no. 87 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:09.599 I'm with you on this one. Yes, yes, so let's 88 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:10.240 go find him. 89 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:10.759 Let's go. 90 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:12.759 Wait. What day was it? 91 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:14.719 So here, here's what I would. 92 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:15.560 Say, what day was it? Was it? 93 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:16.279 Like? Listeners? 94 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:18.439 Listeners, listen, listen, Chris is watching. 95 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:24.279 You always always return your carts. There's no reason why 96 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:27.120 you can't return your carts unless you know you're you're 97 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:30.000 you have a good reason, unless you're you know, handicapped 98 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:32.720 or physically disabled, or maybe it is raining and you 99 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:34.560 want to put it up on the on the curb 100 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:37.120 or something like. You know, it's still not a great move, 101 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:39.720 but still yeah, just returned. 102 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:42.800 Remember remember that eighties sung every move you make? 103 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:44.079 Yeah, every car. 104 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:46.079 Watching you. 105 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:47.720 Yeah, it's actually a pretty creepy song. 106 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:52.279 Oh yeah yeah yeah, well so so our listeners. If 107 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:54.639 you are tempted to leave your cart. 108 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:56.399 You're a bad person in the thing. 109 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:00.319 Well no, not if you're tempted. Oh Chris, doesn are 110 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:04.319 you dude? I didn't realize if you're tempted, tempted just 111 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:08.240 to ask yourself w w CD, what would Chris do? Yeah, 112 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:10.720 that's right. We should make t shirts ww CD. That 113 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:15.720 could also be christ little brace, little braces, Chris, I 114 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:16.000 don't know. 115 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:16.720 Yeah. 116 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:19.959 So anyways, Wow, that was riveting. I'm glad we had 117 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:23.040 that segment. Chris mad this week? Yeah, man, we should 118 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:24.639 do this this segment every day everyone. 119 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.839 I'm actually fired up now and we're about to read 120 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:28.279 the scripture. 121 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.199 I'm just like, okay, I need to calm down, so 122 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.040 we do have something to ask you before we get 123 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:36.639 into the scriptures and that is this. Would you go 124 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:41.279 on Facebook and like us, follow us on Facebook, and 125 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:43.959 then would you share us with your friends? So just 126 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:46.759 look up the is it the Daily Bible guys. So 127 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:49.839 if you search the Daily Bible Guys on Facebook. We 128 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:51.800 have a new Facebook page and we just want to 129 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:53.120 be able to use that to get the word out. 130 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:56.879 So would you like us, follow us, you know, and 131 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:00.279 then tell all your friends how amazing Chris is the 132 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:03.720 Daily Bible guys, and share that and help us get 133 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:05.480 the word out. So we're trying to build all the platforms. 134 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:07.720 Just's a brand new thing that we're doing and we'd 135 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:09.600 love to have you help us out on that. So 136 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:11.759 if you just take await minutes, it's just written as 137 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:13.199 the Bible guys, the Bible guys. 138 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:15.519 Yeah, just the Bible guys. Yeah, so I'm following. I 139 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:16.759 didn't even followed theund page yet. 140 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:18.079 I didn't even follow your own page yet. 141 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:18.639 So there it is. 142 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:19.120 Do that. 143 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:21.079 Well, look at this. We have one hundred and fifty 144 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.199 seven likes, one hundred ninety eight followers already. But that's 145 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:25.800 pretty good considering it's only a few days old. 146 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:27.279 Well, yes, it was, matter of fact, it is the 147 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:28.360 first time we've ever mentioned it. 148 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:30.720 Yeah, wow, wow, I didn't even know that it was 149 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:31.040 a thing. 150 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:34.600 So great job. People keep it up. So today, share it. 151 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:35.759 I didn't even know it was a thing to you 152 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:36.040 said it. 153 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.240 Yeah, and you have the ability to share each day's 154 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:42.560 podcast notification, I think, so send it out. Just blast it. 155 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:45.519 Let's let's let everybody know that this is there, and 156 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:48.439 maybe we can help a few people. And if not, 157 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:51.000 it's at least entertaining enough to listen to Chris talk 158 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:54.279 about what he's mad about today. So okay. So we 159 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:56.800 are continuing in the Book of Acts, and this is 160 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:00.720 such an exciting time. The church is just explode. Persecution 161 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:03.839 has begun, but so has the spread of the Gospel 162 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:08.360 outside of Jerusalem. Finally, so one of the first servants 163 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:11.279 in the church, Stephen, he has lost his life. He 164 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:15.560 was stoned to death. Many of the other servants continue 165 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:17.600 to serve. It begins to spread, and one of those 166 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:20.279 guys is named Philip. And here's what it says. In Acts, 167 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:23.240 chapter eight, verse twenty six. It says, as for Philip, 168 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.160 an angel, the Lord said to him, go south down 169 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.040 the desert road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza, so 170 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:31.199 he started out, and he met the Treasurer of Ethiopia, 171 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:35.040 a eunuch of great authority under the Candiate, the Queen 172 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:38.920 of Ethiopia. The eunuch had gone to Jerusalem to worship, 173 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:42.319 and he was now returning. Seated in his carriage, he 174 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:44.720 was reading aloud from the book of the Prophet Isaiah, 175 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:46.560 and the Holy Spirit said to Philip, go over and 176 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:49.480 walk along beside the carriage. So Philip ran over and 177 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:52.399 heard the man reading from the Prophet Isaiah. Philip asked him, 178 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:54.959 do you understand what you're reading? And the man replied, 179 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:57.759 how can I unless someone instructs me, And he urged 180 00:07:57.800 --> 00:07:59.879 Philip to come up into the carriage and sit with him. 181 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:03.279 The passage of scripture he'd been reading was this. He 182 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:05.839 was reading from Isaiah. He was led like a sheep 183 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:08.360 to the slaughter, and as a lamb is silent before 184 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:10.680 the shears, he did not open his mouth. He was 185 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:14.399 humiliated and received no justice. Who can speak of his descendants, 186 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:17.000 for his life was taken from the earth. The eunuch 187 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:19.519 asked Philip, tell me was a private talking about himself 188 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:23.040 or someone else? And so, beginning with this same scripture, 189 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:26.079 Peter told him the good news about Jesus. As they 190 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:28.480 rode along, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, look, 191 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.560 there's some water, Why can't I be baptized? And he 192 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:33.639 ordered the carriage to stop, and they went down into 193 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:36.919 the water and Philip baptized him. When they came up 194 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:39.159 out of the water, the spirit of the Lord snatched 195 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.799 Philip away. The eunuch never saw him again, but went 196 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:45.639 on his way rejoicing. Meanwhile, Philip found himself further north 197 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:48.440 in the town of Azotus, and he preached the good 198 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:50.720 news there and in every town along the way until 199 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.559 he came to cesarea. Yeah, man, it is so what 200 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.480 an incredible story. Philip is this dynamic guy. He's not 201 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.799 a professional Christian, he wasn't one of the apostles. He 202 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:06.120 was a guy that was highly esteemed among the early Christians, 203 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:09.799 and they chose him to be a deacon, a servant 204 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.279 in the church. And he's traveling around not only helping 205 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:17.080 serve in the food pantry the hungry widows, but he's 206 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.120 also preaching the Gospel and doing great works. And he 207 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:24.639 runs across this very influential, powerful Ethiopian who represents the 208 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:25.679 Queen in her treasury. 209 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:30.799 Yeah, and the New Living Translational Life Application Study Bible 210 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:33.480 says the strength and the accomplishments of Philip. He's one 211 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:35.600 of the seven organizers of the food distribution of the 212 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:39.159 Early Church. He's one of the first traveling missionaries, one 213 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:41.200 of the first who obeyed Jesus' command to take the 214 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.840 Gospel to all people, and a careful student of the 215 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:47.919 Bible who could explain its meeting clearly. And I would 216 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:51.840 add to that, someone who got beamed out like star 217 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:53.759 trek by God. 218 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:54.320 Wow. 219 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:56.480 Yeah, that's a good thing to put on a resume. 220 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.000 That's kind of what happened here, isn't it. 221 00:09:58.080 --> 00:09:59.559 Yeah, what it says he got caught up by the spirit. 222 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.480 Nobody he knows what it really means. 223 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:04.399 But then it just snatched away. 224 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:08.919 He snatched away, and then he found himself north of 225 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.360 the town. And if you look at that stuff on 226 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:13.679 a map, I remember a sermon one time. Even though 227 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.360 we're not I can't find the stats and all these 228 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:19.519 notes here, but sure, but it's but it's ridiculous to 229 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:22.360 assume that he got there any other way other than 230 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.120 some miraculous thing that God did, which is pretty cool. 231 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:30.559 So the road from Jerusalem down to Ethiopia, kind of 232 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:35.120 runs through the center portion of Israel. Now is Jerusalem 233 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:38.840 is in the southern portion of Israel, and it's it's 234 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:44.879 a road heading towards Gaza as a Zotus is north 235 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:48.320 of Gaza, right on the on the Mediterranean Sea, so 236 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:51.039 it's a long ways. He got picked up in this 237 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:53.960 one place and he shows up in another place. Oh yeah, 238 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.080 he didn't head there. God just picked him up moving 239 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:57.960 in there. I think this is one of the only 240 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:00.200 times there was Enoch. The Bible says he walked with 241 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.639 God and then he was not. Yes, there was Elijah. 242 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:06.679 He goes goes up in the chariot of Fire. And 243 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:09.480 then there is this one where Philip is preaching and 244 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:11.399 God just goes, Okay, you're done there, I need to 245 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.759 move you over here. How bizarre would that be? 246 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:15.240 Yeah, so bizarre. 247 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:17.440 So now we've got those out of the way. 248 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:20.559 Yeah, and so when the eunuch says, what must I do? 249 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:25.320 You know, why can't I be baptized? Some manuscripts include 250 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:28.200 another verse that wasn't in here, where it says just 251 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.960 believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you can be baptized. 252 00:11:32.679 --> 00:11:38.279 So verse thirty seven would say, you can be baptized. 253 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:40.080 Philip answered, if you believe with all your heart, and 254 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:42.799 Unich replied, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son 255 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:47.799 of God. That verse is in many, if not most, 256 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:53.559 of the transcripts or manuscripts of this Book of Acts, 257 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:56.879 but a couple of the earlier manuscripts did not include it. 258 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:59.679 So some early manuscripts do, some don't. So the New 259 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:02.320 Living did not include it, but they have the little asterisk. 260 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.200 There says but either way it says in verse number 261 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.679 thirty five. So beginning with the same scripture, Philip told 262 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:10.919 him about the good news of Jesus. So think about this. 263 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.960 So Philip basically explained all the way from Isaiah, which 264 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:19.639 was written seven hundred years before Jesus was born, and 265 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.080 he starts with the prophecy of the coming of the 266 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:25.320 Messiah and then tells him the good of Jesus, which 267 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:29.320 basically included, you know, pretty much his life, journey through 268 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:32.360 the gospels, the events of his death, beryl, and resurrection. 269 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:35.320 So all of that was, you know, assumed talked about, 270 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:40.919 because otherwise how can you connect that scripture to Jesus 271 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:43.360 without the crucifixion, right, you have to have it because 272 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:46.840 that's what that scripture means. That's right. So the good 273 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:50.360 news of Jesus was clearly explained, and then in order 274 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:52.720 for the unit to be baptized, he had to believe 275 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.039 in that or else why would he even ask the question? 276 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:00.759 And then another thing about that scripture is is that 277 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:06.279 it wasn't a special body of water. Right, So Jesus 278 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:07.919 was baptized in the Jordan River. 279 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:08.840 Yeah. 280 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:10.519 By the way, have you ever been to the Jordan River? 281 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:12.720 I have not, so one of things I've never been 282 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:13.159 to Israel. 283 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:15.120 Yeah, so we need to change that. I know, we 284 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:16.000 need to rectify that. 285 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.600 Like immediately, let's let's take a daily Bible guys trip 286 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:19.159 to Israel. 287 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:21.559 Well, oh, wait a minute. If you're going to toss 288 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:23.600 it out there, I think it'd be fun. Oh you know, hey, 289 00:13:23.679 --> 00:13:27.559 let's bring up that info at info at at the 290 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:29.840 Bible guys. Can we do that? So we have a 291 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:33.399 little right here right here, Email us at info at 292 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:36.039 the Bible Guys dot com. I'm doing this off the 293 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:37.960 top of my head. If you're interested in going on 294 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:40.919 a trip to Israel with us, which would cost an individual. 295 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:43.159 Five thousand, four thousand, dollars. 296 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:45.080 Four thousand dollars, which means if you're going as a couple, 297 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:47.799 you're you're really spending the money, right, But you can 298 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:49.799 raise it. You can raise it. You can send out 299 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:51.360 letters and things like that, so you don't have to, 300 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.000 you know, spend all of that. But if you're interested 301 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:57.240 in going there, email us over here. Let's see if 302 00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:58.159 we have a group of people. 303 00:13:58.159 --> 00:13:59.720 It's literally spur of the moment. We hadn't planned that, 304 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:02.240 but then we didn't plan that will be fantastic. 305 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:04.399 But let me tell you real quick. So Jesus is 306 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:07.799 baptizing in the Jordan River. I went down to get baptized, 307 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:10.559 or excuse me, to baptize in the Jordan River. And 308 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:13.399 and there's so many people that want to get baptized 309 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:15.519 in the Jordan River. You sure have to wait your turn, 310 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:18.639 like this group of people, this church, this church, but 311 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:21.320 they give you white robes. And so I was baptizing 312 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:26.200 two women and actually I I have, like, you know, 313 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:29.200 decently hairy legs, and all the fish were picking on 314 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.799 the hairs on my legs. And so something's happening underneath 315 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:36.360 the water where fish are just constantly nibbling at me. 316 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:38.759 So I was just shaking like this, and nobody really 317 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:41.080 knew what was happening, like why is he shaking? You know, 318 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:44.720 and all the women are like what's going on? They 319 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:47.919 weren't bothering the women. The women shaved their legs that day. Right, 320 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:51.440 So anyway, I got to baptized. But my point is 321 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:55.559 this is that Jesus get baptized in a normal body 322 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:59.960 of water. They're in Africa, just passing by this random 323 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:00.759 body of water. 324 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:02.559 Well this is an African but they're still in Israel. 325 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:05.200 Oh yeah, of course, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry the African. 326 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:06.879 Yes, they're between Jerusalem and Gaza. 327 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:10.759 Yeah, Jerusalem and Gaza. Yes, And so they're going by 328 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:14.600 this random body of water. And so, in other words, 329 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:18.240 you can get baptized anywhere. It doesn't matter if it's 330 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.600 in a baptistry or in a swimming pool, or if 331 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:22.759 it's in a river or a pond. 332 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:25.200 It doesn't require a designation for holy water. 333 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:25.720 Right. 334 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:27.679 What's happening makes it holy. 335 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:30.919 Right, because it's all about the symbolism. That's right, because 336 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:34.279 that's what it symbolizes, which is why Jesus asked John 337 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:37.279 the Baptist to baptize him in just a river. 338 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:40.600 Yeah, yep. So there's some a little bit of history here. 339 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:44.759 So the Ethiopian has gone to Jerusalem to worship, yes, 340 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:47.080 and then he's coming home, and that's kind of a 341 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:49.320 surprise because here's an African coming and worshiping in the 342 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:54.440 Jewish Temple. And so the Jews had had some contact 343 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:57.440 with the Ethiopians for a long period of time. They're 344 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:02.159 mentioned in Psalm sixty eight, mentioned Jeremiah thirty eight. We 345 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:05.080 know Solomon engaged with the Queen of Sheba. Depends on 346 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.200 where you think Sheba is at that time, but it 347 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:14.039 certainly appears that what you had was and the Ethiopian 348 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:16.960 Church today and the Ethiopian Jewish people today would all 349 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:19.440 point to it was an Old Testament thing that for 350 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:23.919 generations upon generations there were Ethiopians that were worshiping the 351 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:28.080 God of Israel. And so then he's there, and it's 352 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:30.120 in that context that it would just be natural. This 353 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:33.120 is a very powerful man, right, he's the head of 354 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:36.720 the treasure for the entire nation, and he's reading the 355 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:41.240 Book of Isaiah. The importance of the words of God. 356 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.159 You and I will rarely ever argue somebody into heaven. 357 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:47.799 We're not going to argue them into faith in Christ. 358 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:52.279 It's the words of God that convince people and convict people. 359 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:54.480 But what he does use is he uses people like 360 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:56.559 you and me to explain what it is that they're doing. 361 00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:58.720 So Philip did not come in with his own agenda. 362 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.399 He began where this guy, this guy just happened to 363 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:03.720 be in Isaiah. And he's like, oh, I know how 364 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:05.839 Isaiah connects to Jesus. Let me tell you. And he 365 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:08.599 showed him that way. He wasn't giving some kind of polemic. 366 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:12.720 He wasn't giving an apologetic. He was just explaining Jesus 367 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.880 from that place in the Bible on two things. So 368 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:19.000 you don't have to be a super apologist. You don't 369 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:21.880 have to know every argument from the Bible. You just 370 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.000 need to know where is Jesus in the Bible, and 371 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:27.160 how do you get your friend or your family member 372 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:31.799 to Jesus from that place. God's words are what changes hearts. 373 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:33.960 The Holy Spirit uses the words of God and the 374 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.319 testimony of his people. Those are the two bullets that 375 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:40.720 defeat Satan. Right, and so we do those two things. 376 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:45.000 Your testimony and God's words transform lives. So this Ethiopian goes, 377 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.160 I get it. I want to put my faith in 378 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:50.519 trust in Jesus, and so he steps up he gets baptized. 379 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:52.920 So this is all God asks for any of us 380 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:54.720 as we share the gospel. You know, you have the 381 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:57.839 gift of evangelism. At the gift of evangelism, but you 382 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:00.119 don't have to be gifted. I don't know that the 383 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:03.279 Bible says Philip was gifted, right, So you don't have 384 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:06.920 to be gifted. We're all commanded right, right. And so 385 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:09.640 in this instance, it wasn't hey, Philip, you're gifted, why 386 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:11.279 don't you go talk to the ethiopen. It was just 387 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:13.960 that God says, you go. 388 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:16.680 Go next to the chariot. That was it. And by 389 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:18.200 the way, that's what I was going to say next 390 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:21.240 to If you think about this, the Holy Spirit gave 391 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:23.000 him a nudge that says, I think you need to 392 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:26.160 go next to this chariot, and then that's it. We 393 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:30.160 don't hear like a further instruction from God. So God 394 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:33.160 just nudged him in the right direction. So it's interesting 395 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:36.079 because sometimes we'll get a nudge to reach out to 396 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:38.200 a friend and we won't know why. You know, they'll 397 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:40.240 say pray for somebody, reach out to somebody. Make this 398 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:42.759 phone call, you know, send, send somebody a text or 399 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:46.400 a letter or you know, or maybe an approach a stranger, 400 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:48.319 you know, whatever it is. But we'll get a nudge 401 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:50.920