WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.520 So in this chapter we're about to read the Apostle, 2 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:04.120 Peter is sticking it to the man. 3 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:24.519 Wow. So he's Chris, I'm Jeff. We're the Daily Bibble guys. Okay, hey, 4 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:25.440 you always laugh on that. 5 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:28.760 Yeah, it's just the the the ending of the intro. 6 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:31.160 I have to wait for it. It goes and I'm 7 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:32.479 just waiting. I'm like, is it going to be over 8 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:32.920 any time? 9 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:35.439 So it's building intensity. 10 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.280 Yes, it's intensity. It's so intense this podcast. 11 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.960 So here's the deal. I just decided to pull up 12 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.079 a list just for fun. By the way, I just 13 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:49.719 decided like two seconds ago to do this. It is 14 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:52.920 a list of the top paying jobs. 15 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:53.399 In the world. 16 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:54.439 Wow. 17 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:56.840 So I want you and by the way, I'm just 18 00:00:56.880 --> 00:00:59.320 going to give you a hint. Okay, out of the 19 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:02.159 top like five, i've they're pretty much all in. 20 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:04.120 The medical field, okay, okay, okay. 21 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:06.280 Well as if you couldn't have guessed that, okay. 22 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:08.799 Okay, So what do you think out of all the 23 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:10.799 medical So it's not. 24 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:13.239 Lead teaching pastor that I thought that was going to 25 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:13.840 be in the list. 26 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:15.439 Bro, it didn't even make those lists. 27 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.319 No, I have no idea on these brain surgeons. 28 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:21.760 So number. That's a good guest. That's a good guess. 29 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:22.359 It is not. 30 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.959 No, believe it or not, it is not according to 31 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:26.400 this list. 32 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:29.799 Okay, again, every every list on the internet must be real. 33 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:34.159 But these actually have median incomes with actual sound. 34 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:36.200 I can read this out because nobody make that up. 35 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:39.760 You know, everybody has a keyboard. You can just push 36 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:41.599 any number you want to push on it. Let me see. 37 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:45.640 So not brains, Wikipedia, heart surgeons. 38 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:49.239 No, it says, by the way, they're on here. I 39 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:55.840 don't know, man, it's anesthesiologists. Anesthesiologists make the median income 40 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:57.799 is three hundred and thirty one thousand dollars. 41 00:01:58.000 --> 00:01:59.280 What that's what it. 42 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:00.920 Says, all right, I had no idea. 43 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:05.439 And then oral or maxi facial surgeons. 44 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:06.879 People who rebuild the faith, right. 45 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:13.080 Uh, gynecologists almost three hundred thousand. Then then surgeons which 46 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:18.439 includes heart, brain, uh you know, orthodonists, and then uh 47 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:21.080 so anyway, then it goes down and then guess the 48 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:25.280 one profession that is outside of medical. It's the first 49 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:28.479 profession outside of medical that makes the most money. 50 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.360 Oh, computer programmers. 51 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:34.840 Yeah you would think so. Yeah, psychiatrists. 52 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:38.199 Psychiatrists in the medical field. Little bit Well, they're just 53 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:40.680 working on your on your on your emotions and your brain. 54 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:43.879 Well that's I guess that's probably true. Well then gee whiz. 55 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:45.039 Then you get to go all the way down to 56 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:48.919 like a general title of chief executives. Okay, yeah, uh, 57 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:54.919 pediatricians Okay. Outside of that, then we have Airpine airplane, 58 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:57.479 airline pilots. 59 00:02:57.479 --> 00:02:58.599 I don't know why that was so hard for me 60 00:02:58.639 --> 00:02:58.919 to read. 61 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:00.000 I don't know, it's tough. 62 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.759 My brain wanted to say here, yeah, that's a tough one. 63 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:03.520 That's a tough one. 64 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:06.759 Airline pilots, co pilots and flight engineers. 65 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:07.759 You know what they make? 66 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:08.280 How much? 67 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:09.159 What do you think? 68 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:10.680 Three million? 69 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:12.400 You stink? 70 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:13.439 I don't know. 71 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:16.560 You're like, you're like that guy that says like you're like, 72 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:18.719 hey man, I went through the airport the other day, 73 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:20.840 I got a hot talk. You'll never believe what it was. 74 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.439 And you would go like fifty dollars yeah, and shut 75 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:27.560 me down. No, dude, come on, six bucks man, geez, 76 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:28.680 you kind of ruined my story. 77 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:30.919 Okay, so you don't want me to ruin your story. 78 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:33.360 They make one hundred and ninety five thousand. 79 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:36.960 That's great, one hundred ninety eight thousand, bam, did you cheat? 80 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.439 No, okay, I just know stuff. Well, no you didn't 81 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:41.599 because you said three million. 82 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:43.439 Well no, I was trying to make it interesting for you. 83 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:45.240 But if you want to me me precise, I'll take 84 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:45.560 you there. 85 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:47.400 Yeah, so that's it all right. 86 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:48.479 Yeah, I've read before. 87 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.719 So uh so you've had other jobs? Real quick, we 88 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:54.520 have you have thirty seconds. 89 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:55.400 I've had other jobs. 90 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:56.960 What is the. 91 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:59.520 Most interesting job that you've had outside of being a pastor? 92 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:00.479 You have thirty second ago. 93 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:05.120 Yeah, I worked at the Flagship Marriott Hotel in Chicago 94 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:09.120 on Michigan Avenue and Magnificent Mile for quite a while, 95 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:12.400 and I loved that job. Loved it customer service. But 96 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:15.120 basically we had twelve hundred and eighty rooms or something 97 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:17.560 like that. Twe hundred and forty nine rooms, and I 98 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.079 solved all the problems people call and complain and I 99 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:22.160 found ways to solve that. I had a whole crew 100 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:25.000 of people who could rush to solve your problem. 101 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:27.399 Magnificent problem solver her. 102 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:31.000 Yeah, it was good. What was your favorite job. 103 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:33.360 Well, pastor, outside of pastor? 104 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:37.959 Yeah, yeah, I would have to say definitely. Back when 105 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.439 telemarketing wasn't rejected by people, it was definitely telemarketing. 106 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:43.360 Really, I did tele marketing for a lot while I 107 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:46.360 hated it. Yeah, back then I don't like cold calls. 108 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:47.720 That oh I loved it. 109 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:53.360 Yeah, I'd imagine you're that irritating person. Now your personality 110 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:55.079 is just irritating enough. I can see that. 111 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:56.279 Hey, thank you for that. 112 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:59.160 But listen, it is almost a hard thing to believe 113 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:01.279 that you would call somebody and the number one they 114 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:03.680 would even answer, and then number two they'd. 115 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:08.959 Say, absolutely, I have ten minutes. But when telemarking was new, Yeah, yeah. 116 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:11.160 That's every single person said that. 117 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:13.319 I'm not everybody, but a lot of people. 118 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:18.439 Okay, Well, anyways, there's it. So my favorite job was 119 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.160 serving people. In your favorite job was fleecing people. 120 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:24.360 No, making money from people. Yeah, that was my favorite job. 121 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:28.439 Okay. So today we are continuing in the Book of Acts, 122 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:32.560 and now the Holy Spirit has come and the Gospel 123 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:35.680 is spreading their behaving like the church. And now you're 124 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:39.040 seeing the people of the church step up in the 125 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:42.040 power of the Holy Spirit, and you're seeing incredible impact. 126 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:45.759 So here's just one illustration out of Acts chapter three. 127 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:48.399 It says Peter and John went to the temple one 128 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:50.839 afternoon to take part in the three o'clock prayer service. 129 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.240 As they approached the temple, a man lame from birth 130 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:56.959 was being carried in. Each day. He was put beside 131 00:05:56.959 --> 00:05:59.480 the temple gate, the one called the Beautiful Gate, so 132 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.759 he could beg from the people going into the temple. 133 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:04.000 And when he saw Peter and John about to enter, 134 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:06.600 he asked them for some money. Peter and John looked 135 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:09.240 at him intently, and Peter said, look at us. The 136 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:12.720 lame man looked at them eagerly and expecting some money, 137 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:15.439 But Peter said, I don't have any silver or gold 138 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.519 for you, but I'll give you what I do have 139 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.560 in the name of Jesus Christ. The nazarene get up 140 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:23.160 and walk. Then Peter took the lame man by the 141 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:25.800 right hand and helped him up, and as he did, 142 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:28.680 the man's feet and ankles were instantly healed and strengthened. 143 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.800 He jumped up, stood on his feet and began to walk, 144 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:34.800 then walking, leaping and praising God. He went into the 145 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:37.720 temple with them. All the people saw him walking and 146 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:40.319 heard him praising God. And when they realized he was 147 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:42.319 a lame beggar that they had seen so often at 148 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:45.920 the Beautiful Gate, They were absolutely astounded. They all rushed 149 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:48.680 out in amazement to Solomon's Colonnade, where the man was 150 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:52.079 holding tightly to Peter and John. Peter saw his opportunity 151 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:54.920 to address the crowd people of Israel. He said, what 152 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.399 is so surprising about this? Why stare at us as 153 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:59.959 though we had made this man walk by our own 154 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:02.839 power or godliness? For it is the God of Abraham, 155 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:05.759 Isaac and Jacob, the God of all our ancestors, who 156 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.800 has brought glory to his servant Jesus by doing this. 157 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:11.439 This is the same Jesus whom you handed over and 158 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:15.279 rejected before Pilate, despite Pilot's decision to release him. You 159 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:18.519 rejected this holy righteous One, and instead of demanded the 160 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.680 release of a murderer, you killed the author of life. 161 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.160 But God raised him from the dead, and we are 162 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:27.360 witnesses of this fact. Through faith in the name of Jesus, 163 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:29.800 this man was healed. And you know how crippled he 164 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:32.879 was before Faith in Jesus' name has healed him. Before 165 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:36.240 your very eyes, friends, I realize that you and your 166 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:39.759 leaders did to Jesus was done in ignorance, but God 167 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:42.439 was fulfilling what all the prophets have foretold about the 168 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:45.519 Messiah that he must suffer these things. Now repent of 169 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:47.839 your sins and turn to God so that your sins 170 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:50.680 may be wiped away. Then times of refreshment will come 171 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:52.720 from the presence of the Lord, and he will again 172 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:56.000 send you Jesus, your appointed Messiah, for he must remain 173 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:58.360 in heaven until the time for the final restoration of 174 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:02.639 all things, as God promised long ago through his holy prophets. Wow, 175 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:05.199 what a cool story. Well I'm in Yeah, well, I 176 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:06.600 thought I thought you were in the story because it 177 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:09.680 kept talking about the lame man. And then I just realized, oh, 178 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:12.000 because I heard your dad jokes a couple of days ago, 179 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:14.879 you know. And then I realized, Oh, he's not talking 180 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:16.120 about you, just being lame. 181 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:17.279 So let me get this straight. 182 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:19.920 While reading God's Word, the one thing on your mind, 183 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:23.160 Dominantly was I can make a joke of God's. 184 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.279 Word when it's talking about lame same I'm trying to 185 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:29.720 figure out how to shame. I'm always anytime, I'm trying 186 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:31.759 to figure out how to apply it. And the only 187 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:33.000 lame person I know is. 188 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:39.399 Yeah, the only lame guy that's terrible. You know, this 189 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.759 is an unbelievable story. And here's what I think. I 190 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:45.039 think this is the first recorded instance of Peter committing 191 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:47.840 this type of miracle. Yeah, now I have to believe 192 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:50.759 that it would be the first instance. Right, It doesn't 193 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:53.480 necessarily mean that it was, but I'm we're pretty sure 194 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:56.279 that it was. And so if you think about the 195 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:59.600 faith that Peter had, I mean, these are the same conversations, 196 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:01.879 you know. It reminds me of the conversations where they 197 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:04.559 went back to Jesus, remember in the Gospels, and they said. 198 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:06.440 Why don't we have the power to drive out demons? 199 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:07.039 You know? 200 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.000 And why don't we have your same power, Jesus? 201 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:09.600 You know? 202 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:11.759 And they were sort of, you know, always trying to 203 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.200 you know, want to be you know, Jesus's messengers and 204 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:20.360 and and carry his power. But now Peter does this 205 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:23.559 in a way to where he says the command first 206 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.600 and then helps the man up, which means with absolute 207 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:30.559 confidence and belief, he says, rise and walk in the 208 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:33.759 name of Jesus the Nazarene, and then he helps him up, 209 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:36.559 and then it happens. And there's no like, you know, 210 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:39.440 there's no moment where it's recorded where Peter says, I 211 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:43.159 hope this works. You know, so we we see we 212 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:46.480 feel a sense of confidence, and and so think about it. 213 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:49.799 Wouldn't you be confident if you just experienced the fiery 214 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:51.039 tongues in Acts chapter two? 215 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:51.279 Yeah? 216 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:55.919 Absolutely, just the absolute miraculous things that you know, you 217 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:57.759 see Jesus ascend to heaven. 218 00:09:57.960 --> 00:09:59.519 Yeah, and then and then then. 219 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:02.159 You so I mean, then you preach in your language, 220 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:05.720 but everybody hears in their language, right, right, So why. 221 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.720 Would Peter not have absolute confidence because it isn't Jesus 222 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:14.279 anymore leading the miraculous things, it's them experience miraculous things, right, 223 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:18.480 And so Peter's thinking, hey, we've got this. Jesus told 224 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:20.519 us one day we would have it, right, He told 225 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:23.639 me I was the Rock, and and and and so 226 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:26.200 this is where Peter starts, you know, becoming more rock like. 227 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:26.759 Right, right. 228 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:28.440 And I think it's awesome. 229 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:32.200 And you'll also notice the theme the miracles that happened 230 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:34.480 through the Book of Acts. Almost all of them have 231 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:36.480 the purpose of being able to share the Gospel with 232 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:39.600 people who otherwise wouldn't have paid attention to the gospel. Right, 233 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:43.039 So this is bringing validation to what other people, many 234 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.000 of the other Jews would have viewed that viewed Christianity 235 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.559 as a cult, as we mentioned before, and so these 236 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:50.960 miracles are bringing validation to the message of the Gospel 237 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.519 to people who would otherwise have never listened to the gospel. 238 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:58.919 I'm sure there were other lame people in and around Jerusalem, 239 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:03.759 and by laying mean crip yes, cripple people not like Maine, right, right, 240 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:06.279 they would be like in this situation. So that was 241 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:08.360 a joke before, but this this is for real. I'm 242 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:11.039 sure that there were other people who couldn't walk in Jerusalem, 243 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:13.639 but it was this guy on this day that was 244 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:17.759 necessary for the opportunity to share the gospel immediately afterwards. Right, 245 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:21.960 So there are sick people that don't get healed even 246 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:23.720 though they believe in the name of Jesus. There are 247 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:27.120 because that's it's part of life. It's part of the 248 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.080 consequence of us living in a broken world, all those 249 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.399 kinds of things. And this isn't heaven, right, So perfect 250 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:36.440 healing does come in heaven. But in this circumstance, God 251 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.679 saw fit to heal this guy for the purpose of 252 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:42.080 Peter being able to step up and share the gospel afterwards. 253 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:45.320 And that's what you'll see throughout most of the miracles 254 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:47.519 throughout the rest of the Book of Acts is those 255 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:51.039 kinds of miracles. You know. I was just in Nepaul 256 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:54.679 and a guy was sharing his testimony. He was Hindu 257 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:57.320 and his whole family were Hindus, and he did not 258 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:00.960 know Jesus at all, didn't even know his name. Then 259 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:04.360 somebody introduced Jesus to his family and to him, and 260 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:07.679 he was very interested, but his family was very aggressive 261 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.799 against it. We don't want this imported Jesus. We don't 262 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.879 want this colonial god. They've just pushed away. This is 263 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:19.720 a foreigner's god. And Christians, you know, they call us 264 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:22.840 cow eaters, and you know many of the Hindus worship cows, 265 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:26.440 and so they are offended even by our behavior in general. 266 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:31.000 And can you imagine, right, So he said, they wind 267 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:34.720 up having this horrible circumstance, and he prays to all 268 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:36.600 of his gods, and none of his gods will work. 269 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:40.399 And so then he said, Jesus, if you're the real God, 270 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:45.679 would you do this miracle? And then immediately this miracle 271 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:49.639 happens and the whole family goes, oh wow. So then 272 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:52.519 this friend who had introduced Jesus to them before came 273 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:54.879 back is able to share the Gospel with them. They 274 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:57.360 all become followers of Christ, and they banish all their 275 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:00.639 other gods and they only now serve Jesus. This miracle 276 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:03.639 happened for the purpose of these people being able to 277 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:05.240 come to faith in Christ. And he said, that's the 278 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:07.960 only major miracle we've had in our lives, apart from 279 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:10.120 the everyday miracles, but the one where we called on 280 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:12.360 Jesus for a miracle, and it was for the purpose 281 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:14.159 of the Gospel being able to be made clear to them. 282 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:17.440 I think that's most of the miracles we see throughout 283 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:19.080 Christianity and certainly in the Bible. 284 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:21.240 Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah. 285 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:24.200 So my brother Jim, he's a he was a former 286 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.759 pastor in Texas and still is involved in ministry in 287 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:28.279 very significant ways. 288 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:29.600 And he works with. 289 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:32.679 Those who are Indian, right, so they're directly from India. 290 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:34.559 In fact, they come over to the United States and 291 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:39.480 the state of Texas calls him personally and asks him 292 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:42.399 to host them when they arrive from their nights, you know, 293 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:43.440 from developing countries. 294 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:43.679 Yea. 295 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:46.440 So he is this big ministry and you know, he's 296 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:48.360 sort of in charge of like five or six hundred 297 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:50.840 people that he talks to almost on a weekly basis 298 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:53.720 from India. So anyway, but he always tells me, he says, 299 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:57.840 so learning about polytheism and how they believe in multiple 300 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:03.039 gods Holly means multiple yeah, as opposed to God, monotheism 301 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:07.799 or theism. So anyway, he says, he goes, it's a 302 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:10.679 really strange thing to have to learn that. You have 303 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:15.080 to sort of start with Jesus is a god among 304 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:17.679 many gods, right, He's a god, and then you have 305 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:20.200 to graduate to the Jesus. 306 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:23.399 Is the God, I mean who. That's just an unbelievable 307 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:24.279 thing to have to manage. 308 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:27.200 Well, it's incomprehensible because you know, for us, we've grown 309 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:29.519 up even if you're not growing up in a Christian family, 310 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:33.320 you've grown up in a Judeo Christian world where the 311 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:36.720 general ideas that there was this good man named Jesus 312 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:40.559 who claimed to be God, Easter, Christmas, Resurrection, all that 313 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:44.759 kind of stuff. Generally, know the idea, even if you 314 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:47.440 don't know the specifics. Whereas when you get it dealing 315 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:50.120 with the Gospel and places where they have no concept 316 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:53.320 at all, then how do you penetrate into that. One 317 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:55.200 of the ways would be the miracles. The other way 318 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:57.120 it would be starting where they're at and bringing them 319 00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:59.360 to Jesus, which is both tactics you find in the 320 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:00.000 Book of Acts. 321 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.000 You know. Let me comment on this real quick. I 322 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:06.360 had a really good thought, and that is Peter's. 323 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:08.320 Good We're hoping we've been waiting for a good thought 324 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:08.600 from you. 325 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:09.240 Thanks Jeff. 326 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:12.799 Verse fourteen, where Peter looks at the crowd after he 327 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:16.639 says this is Jesus, he says, you rejected this holy 328 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:20.080 righteous one and instead demanded the release of a murder. 329 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:23.240 And then he says, you killed the author of life. 330 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:25.519 So he looks at a crowd who he's trying to 331 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:27.679 give the gospel to. And gospels, by the way, the 332 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:30.200 word gospel means good news. It's the good news about 333 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:33.960 the resurrection of Jesus. So he's trying to spread the 334 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.399 good news, tell them that they need to believe in Jesus. 335 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:39.000 And the first thing that he says to this listening 336 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:43.919 crowd is you killed the author of life. That is 337 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:47.320 such an unbelievably strong statement. But how it relates to 338 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:51.120 us is this. I learned a long time ago that 339 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:55.240 in order to get a people person to realize that 340 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:58.919 they need Jesus. They need to be lost before they're found. 341 00:15:58.960 --> 00:15:59.720 That's right. 342 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:02.039 People need to know their sins. 343 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:04.080 You know, the Bible says that the first thing that 344 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:06.559 we need to learn is that we need to be saved. 345 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:08.720 And in order to be saved, we realize that we 346 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:10.840 have to be lost. Right, you have to know that 347 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:13.320 you're a sinner, saved from what, saved from what? 348 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:14.559 Right. 349 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:16.679 And so here's what Peter is doing, and it seems 350 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:20.360 incredibly harsh, but Peter, you know, starts out with his statement, says, 351 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:22.720 you want to talk about defining reality. You killed the 352 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:25.600 author of life. That is what it is. And of 353 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:28.600 course we don't know the people's reaction. But then he 354 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:32.120 eventually says, now we know that you've done this by ignorance. 355 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.759 We understand that you didn't understand it. It is the truth, 356 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:38.440 but you didn't realize it. And then he then he 357 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:41.120 sort of talks about, you know, Jesus and the story 358 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:41.639 of Jesus. 359 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:42.720 But it's real. 360 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.240 There is no good news without some bad news, right, 361 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:46.559 It's just all news. 362 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:48.039 That's right, that's right. Right. 363 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.759 So when I went in from my sert with with 364 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:54.000 my really good my cancer doctor, you know, I didn't 365 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:55.679 know I had cancer. We just knew something wasn't right. 366 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:58.639 And then the doctor comes in after all the tests 367 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:00.559 and he sits down and he says, listen, there's no 368 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:03.360 good way to do this. He said, there's good news 369 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:05.039 and bad news. I'm going to give you the bad news. First. 370 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:09.240 You have cancer, and it's bad, and it's just quiet 371 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:11.559 for a moment, you know, I think I want to cry. 372 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:15.079 And he said, the good news is this, it's treatable, 373 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:18.200 and we think we can get it all right. So 374 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:20.599 I don't know that I would have been open to 375 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:22.920 the idea of somebody cutting a ten inch incision in 376 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:25.039 my side and taking out my kidney. 377 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.200 Right unless I said, if I. 378 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:29.559 Hadn't realized there's some bad news. The good news is 379 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:31.920 we can manage this and treat it. Then, you know, 380 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:33.519 so far all of my tests. Here we are almost 381 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:36.200 two years later. It looks like I'm cancer free. Everything 382 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.519 that they said, it's turned out that way. But I 383 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:41.279 don't know that I would have responded with the need 384 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:43.440 to please cut me open and cut something out of 385 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:46.240 me if I hadn't known that there was some bad news. 386 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:49.200 And it's the same thing. You don't know that you 387 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:50.920 need to be saved until you know you need to 388 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:53.039 be saved, and that means you have to understand what 389 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:55.240 you need to be saved from. We're sinners and we're 390 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:57.920 betting against God. We have a broken relationship with him, 391 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:01.240 and the only answer is killed the author of life. 392 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:03.920 But he said God raised him from the dead, and 393 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:06.599 wear witnesses of this fact. So he gives bad news 394 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:09.079 and good news back to back. So it's not just 395 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:11.039 about shame on you. I think a lot of Christians 396 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:13.680 they want everybody to change your behavior, and that's not 397 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:16.759 the goal. The goal is to understand that everybody is 398 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:19.559 apart from Christ and that Jesus is the answer that 399 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.799 we can come to Christ. Christ will rescue us, save 400 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:24.480 us from our sins if we would turn to him. 401 00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:26.359