WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.000 So today Saint Peter gets called into the principal's office. 2 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:06.280 Oh boy, so he's Chris. I'm Jeff. We're the Bible guys. 3 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:19.600 So Chris, I totally resonate with getting called into the 4 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:20.359 principal's office. 5 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:21.399 Oh me too, you kidding. 6 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:23.120 I was perpetually in the We were like on a 7 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:24.839 first name basis, right right. 8 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:28.280 I'd bring your snacks. You like the sprinkles, don't you. 9 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:29.399 Hey, it's good to see you again. 10 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:32.159 That's not true. 11 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:34.399 For it was for me. Yeah, it really was for me. 12 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:37.079 Oh yeah, yeah, I believe or not. I caused a 13 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:38.880 lot of ruckus, but I didn't get to the principle 14 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:43.159 all that much, although although I have stories, and I'm 15 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.039 sure you did too, but we got to move on, right, 16 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:47.759 that's right. So a little while back, I think it 17 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:49.520 was a couple of weeks ago to three weeks ago. 18 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.280 I think it was the first week where we asked 19 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:55.320 people to if they wanted to to send in questions 20 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:59.320 to stump the pastor. And so this whole week, actually 21 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:03.600 we're going to be proposing five of those questions. 22 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:06.359 And these people got very excited about stumping the pastor, 23 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:07.560 let me just say. 24 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:08.400 And they're a great question. 25 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:09.760 Yes, they're really great questions. 26 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:11.920 Yeah. So hey, go ahead and do that again. 27 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:14.760 If you want to send in a great question stump 28 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:17.599 the pastor kind of question, we'd love to have you 29 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:21.200 do it. So send it into info at the Bible 30 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:21.840 guys dot. 31 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:24.519 Com, the Bible Guys, the Bible guys dot com. That's right, 32 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:26.879 Info at the Bible Guys dot com. 33 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:28.799 Right here, put it right here, right there. 34 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.599 All right, very good, so cool. So here is the 35 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:32.599 first question. 36 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:35.120 That we're tackling today that we were this could be great. 37 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:39.760 Somebody said aliens or life beyond earth? Question mark. That's 38 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:42.959 all that was written, it, says Dan M. Thanks Dan, Yeah, 39 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:46.560 thanks Dan for that question, which, by the way, most 40 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:48.760 of the answers to stump the pastors are going to 41 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:53.079 end with who knows, which is tough ones, which is 42 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:58.200 no one knows honestly. However, so we'll give our takes 43 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:01.239 on it, right Yeah. Yeah, So here's here's my contention. 44 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:02.760 Or do you want to think of first? 45 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:06.719 Okay, I will uh no, aliens, that's what you say. 46 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:08.560 That's why I say, yeah, I say probably not. 47 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:11.199 So. I mean all the things that you see with 48 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:15.120 Obama coming on late night TV going, well, I will say, 49 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:17.840 I will say I can't do Obama, And he said, 50 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.680 you know, there's there's things that we have on video 51 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:25.560 that are unexplainable and they defy anything that we've seen 52 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:29.080 in terms of speed. Sure, and then all the different 53 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:33.599 you know, evidences that we've seen. None of that. Yeah. 54 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:36.639 No, I just think it's I think every technology is 55 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:38.680 confusing until you figure out how to master it. 56 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:39.639 Yeah. 57 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:43.840 So I I don't feel the need personally for aliens 58 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:45.479 on you know, other life forms. 59 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:46.199 I think it's cool. 60 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:49.159 My wife's favorite shows are always the Star Trek shows 61 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:51.879 that she loves Star Trek, and it's fun to think 62 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:56.199 about other alien civilizations and things like that. Biblically, there's 63 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:57.840 not a need for it. As a matter of fact, 64 00:02:57.879 --> 00:02:59.879 I kind of think the Bible says Jesus died once 65 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:02.120 for all, so if the. 66 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:05.120 If there are other alien. 67 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:07.159 Races, they must be perfect because Jesus didn't have to 68 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:11.159 die for them. So that's it. I don't feel the 69 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:13.520 need for it. I think that the Bible is very 70 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:17.960 human centric and very earth centric, and that's okay. That 71 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.319 would mean and the Bible says that God gave all 72 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:22.840 the stars and all the planets for our benefit, for 73 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:24.479 us to be able to navigate, for us to know 74 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:26.719 morning and evening, all those kinds of things, for us 75 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:29.520 to navigate the planet. So I don't see the need 76 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:31.759 for it. But I don't think you're a bad person 77 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:34.919 for you know you're thinking about it. 78 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:37.879 Yeah, sure, okay, So here's my take. My take is 79 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:41.800 the Bible leaves room for it. And the reason why 80 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:44.360 I believe the reason why I believe the Bible leaves 81 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:46.719 room for it is because this was addressed by my 82 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:52.039 old Testament professor and Bible college, which, by the way, 83 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.039 understand how conservative a Bible college that I went to. 84 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:58.680 And so is this the same guy that you quote, No, no, no. 85 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:00.840 This is different guy. This is that was doctor Hargy. 86 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:04.639 This is doctor Sewell. So doctor Sewell, says doctor James Soull. 87 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:08.360 And he said, in Genesis chapter two, it says that 88 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:13.039 God created the stars and the hosts of them. Right, 89 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.840 So he said, so, right there, it leaves a little 90 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.839 bit of room the hosts of them, So it could 91 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:22.000 it could mean the hosts of one star, which is 92 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.240 the planet Earth, where it could mean the host of them. 93 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:29.720 So there's room for it. And so my my feeling 94 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:30.439 is that he. 95 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:32.680 Didn't think the hosts just was referring to the huge 96 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:33.560 number of stars. 97 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:35.839 Well that's just what it is. No, no, the stars 98 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:39.759 and the hosts of the stars. So so it is 99 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:44.319 here's the thing. The answer, of course, is nobody knows, 100 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:50.519 obviously because we haven't found aliens, and what God would know, Well, 101 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:54.360 I'm talking about earth beings. People listeners to the podcast, 102 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:56.519 I know God's listening, but he always. 103 00:04:56.360 --> 00:05:03.199 Is he in think Oh good God? Yeah right, so 104 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:05.079 it's my favorite podcast. 105 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:09.279 It's my favorite podcast. So anyway, all that to say this, 106 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:13.000 so do you want to know the reason why people 107 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:17.680 uh just absolutely refuse to believe that there's not aliens? 108 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.680 It's really the same thing. It's the same theme and 109 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:22.920 that is uh, you know, it's the same thing that 110 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:27.600 Jodie Foster said on that show Contact with Matthew McConaughey. 111 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:30.759 She goes, well, if there, if there aren't other life forms, 112 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:33.800 it's sure would be an awfully waste of space. Right, 113 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:36.600 It's the same thing and and and it's it really 114 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:40.800 truly is the you know, the arrogance of humanity to 115 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:43.319 believe that we're the only ones. Why, Because there's an 116 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:44.759 awfully big universe. 117 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:46.839 Of sure, I think it's convenient when you don't have 118 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.399 a Bible versus go ahead and quota lined from a movie. 119 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:52.399 Right, Well, I mean, well, it's logic. People, people don't 120 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:54.079 look to the Bible for the answers. 121 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:55.720 I think that's why people believe in it is the 122 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:57.920 probabilities just seem. 123 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:00.959 Astronomically low that we're the only ones. So I would 124 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.839 just say this, I would say I heard I heard 125 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:06.480 something a very long time ago, just like I remember 126 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:10.279 doctor Seule's you know, leave room for it. I remember 127 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:13.879 Louis Giglio, which is one of my favorite UH speakers 128 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:17.560 at one time, at pretty good acquaintance, he actually said, 129 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:23.920 what if God's What if God's goal was to create 130 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:26.560 a vast universe to reflect how big he is and 131 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:29.319 how small we are, Like like, you know, after all, 132 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.399 like God is demonstrating his glory in creation, which means 133 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:36.560 he's demonstrating himself in creation. So if if what if 134 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:38.839 we look up at space and it's one big billboard 135 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:41.279 that says I am and you are not. 136 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:45.240 Right right, which is a theme throughout the book of Psalms, 137 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:47.759 for instance, yes that the heavens to declare the glory 138 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:48.120 of the Lord. 139 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:51.120 Yes, And so if God wants to remind us of 140 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:54.079 just absolutely how big he is, then here's a question. 141 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:57.360 How big should the universe be? You know what? The 142 00:06:57.399 --> 00:06:59.959 answer is infinitees. You know why because God is in. 143 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:02.319 And it's only been in the last undred couple hundred 144 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:05.000 years that we've begun to realize how big the universe is. Right, So, 145 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:07.319 about the same time humanity started getting too big for 146 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:09.759 their breeches is the same amount of time, is the 147 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:12.480 same time that we began to realize while we're in 148 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:17.079 a really big place, right, Right, So when David wrote it, 149 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:18.560 it was just the stars across the sky, but he 150 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:21.639 had no concept of distances, no concept of anything, right, 151 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.720 And then the more sophisticated we became, the more God 152 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:28.560 began to let us see how really, really, really big 153 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:31.120 this is. So I think it comes down to if 154 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:35.519 you believe in a special creation that God specifically made humanity, 155 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:38.759 he did it at a specific time. This wasn't a 156 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:41.439 gradual thing that just wounded up being the result of 157 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:44.319 probabilities over billions and billions of billions of years. But 158 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:46.839 that God said on this day, I'm creating a human 159 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:50.360 being and they didn't evolve, then it's not hard for 160 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:51.839 me to also look at the whole rest of the 161 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:54.160 universe and say it's all about God, it's not about 162 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.079 other creatures. But if you believe that there's a randomization 163 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:00.319 to the development of humanity and the evolution of humanity, 164 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:03.560 now you're playing a probabilities game, and then you would go, well, 165 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:07.360 if it evolved on this planet, maybe, then probably probably 166 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:09.639 it evolved on some other planet somewhere else. So it 167 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:11.800 depends on whether or not you believe in a special creation, 168 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:14.360 which is what I believe, and I believe the Bible 169 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:17.000 teaches that, or if you believe in a random beginning 170 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:19.519 to life. If you believe in a random beginning of life, 171 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:21.920 then then you look at the probabilities of the trillions 172 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:23.480 of stars and go, well, maybe there's another one. 173 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.079 Yeah yeah, And I tell you one day I look 174 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:30.040 forward to meeting the Romulans, the Ferengi, the Klingons. 175 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.360 Yeah yeah, yeah, because I don't think there's going to 176 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:33.399 be any Klingons in heaven. 177 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:35.120 Well yeah, well you never know. 178 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:36.000 You never know. Yeah, yeah. 179 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:39.679 More repented wharf is hard on the outside, but take 180 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:40.200 that's true. 181 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:45.799 Okay, we've devolved substantially here. Yeah, so I think that's 182 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:48.840 a fun question. It's fun to think about. Yeah, but 183 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:53.480 I I I hope that Dan is that Dan dan 184 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:56.360 em is happy with our response, which basically is. 185 00:08:56.759 --> 00:08:59.159 We're not sure, right, but here's our take, and neither. 186 00:08:59.000 --> 00:08:59.639 Is anybody else. 187 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:03.519 Okay, So tomorrow I think we have I'm really excited 188 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:06.519 about tomorrow's question. This really is another stumped pastor question. 189 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:09.279 It's gonna be fun. But let's jump into the passage today. 190 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:12.120 It's Acts chapter eleven, and if you remember, let me 191 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:15.080 just remind you. Last week we wound up with Peter 192 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:17.679 having gone and shared the Gospel with Cornelius, who was 193 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:22.799 the first recorded Christian convert that was a gentile and 194 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:25.600 not a Jew. And this is shocking to all the 195 00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:28.759 people that are with Peter. Peter was uncomfortable even walking 196 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:30.559 in the door into this guy's house because of the 197 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:35.080 cultural stigma of Jewish people being with gentiles. Well, now 198 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:37.759 he gets yanked into the principal's office, and because they 199 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:40.320 all the other apostles calling back to Drusom go, hey, 200 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:44.159 what's going on? So that's what's going on here. So 201 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:46.759 we're reading from Acts chapter eleven, verse one, and we'll 202 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:47.519 read Diverse eighteen. 203 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:47.919 It says. 204 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:50.360 Soon the news reached the apostles and other believers in 205 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:52.720 Judea that the Gentiles had received the word of God. 206 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:55.879 But when Peter arrived back in Jerusalem, the Jewish believers 207 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:59.279 criticized him. You entered the home of gentiles and even 208 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:02.360 eight with them, they said. Then Peter told them exactly 209 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:03.919 what had happened. I was in the town to Joppa, 210 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:05.559 he said, and while I was praying, I went into 211 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:08.080 a trance and saw a vision. Something like a large 212 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.200 sheet was let down by its four corners from the sky, 213 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.039 and it came right down to me. When I looked 214 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:13.799 inside the sheet, I saw all sorts of tame and 215 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:16.440 wild animals, reptiles and birds. And I heard a voice say, 216 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:18.320 get up, Peter, kill. 217 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:18.960 And eat them. 218 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:21.519 No, Lord, I replied, I've never eaten anything that our 219 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:24.519 Jewish laws have declared impure unclean. But the voice from 220 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:27.879 heaven spoke again, do not call something unclean if God 221 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:30.200 has made a clean. This happened three times before the 222 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:34.080 sheet and all it contained was pulled back up to Heaven. 223 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.519 Just then, three men who had been sent from cessarea 224 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:40.600 arrived at the house where I was staying. The Holy 225 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:42.240 Spirit told me to go with them, and not to 226 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:46.000 worry that they were gentiles. These six brothers here accompanied me, 227 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:48.519 and we soon entered the home of the man who 228 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:51.000 had sent for us. He told us how an angel 229 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.559 had appeared to him in his home and had told 230 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.200 him send messengers to Jappa and summoned a man named 231 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.840 Simon Peter. He'll tell you how you and everyone in 232 00:10:58.840 --> 00:10:59.759 your household. 233 00:10:59.360 --> 00:10:59.960 Can be saved. 234 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:02.960 As I began to speak, Peter continued, the Holy Spirit 235 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:04.759 fell on them, just as he fell on us at 236 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:08.279 the beginning. And then I thought of the Lord's words 237 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:10.399 when he said, John baptized with water, but you will 238 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:11.120 be baptized with. 239 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:11.679 The Holy Spirit. 240 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.200 And since God gave these gentiles the same gift he 241 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:16.759 gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, 242 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:19.480 who was I to stand in God's way. When the 243 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:22.480 others heard this, they stopped objecting and began praising God, 244 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:24.639 and they said, we can see that God has also 245 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:27.480 given the gentiles the privilege of repenting of their sins 246 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:31.000 and receiving eternal life. Now, on one hand, this can 247 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:32.919 kind of feel like, hey, this feels like a rehearsal, 248 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:36.399 a re rehearsal of what had happened in the past. 249 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:40.720 This is a significant moment for every Christian in all 250 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:43.679 of history that wasn't Jewish. And so that's why we're 251 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:45.519 kind of hanging on this for just a minute, because 252 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:47.960 the Bible does, yes, takes a few chapters to cover this. 253 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.080 Yeah, And so really Peter is just recalling what we've 254 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:53.840 already read in previous podcasts. So it's not a lot 255 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:57.759 of new information. But however, what is new is the 256 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:01.240 interaction that Peter has with those who are criticizing him. 257 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:04.399 So he goes back and he gets criticized, and they're like, hey, 258 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.879 and you know, I received this two ways, both like 259 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.919 negative because I think of the negative Christians you judge. 260 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:14.240 But then also you think of it as like innocence, 261 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:19.639 like for instance, right like like for instance, like my well, 262 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:21.399 I don't want to get into that. I just had 263 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:24.000 a thought, but it's just too much. There are a 264 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:26.559 lot of things that we grow up. Oh, I'll give 265 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.039 you a good example. There was a gentleman in the 266 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:31.559 lobby of our church on Sunday and he came up 267 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:34.399 to me and he was asking me about communion and 268 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:37.720 I had said, well, the Bible never talks about frequency, 269 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:40.440 never asks you know, it never commands us to. 270 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:42.639 Take community every week, just as often as you do this. 271 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:44.759 As often as you do this, do this and remembrance 272 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:47.000 of me. And I was trying to explain to him, 273 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:49.559 you know that, hey, we just took communion. We're taking 274 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:53.639 it like another four weeks, and we do it periodically. 275 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:55.480 And he's like, well when, And I was trying to 276 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:58.159 explain to him, well, just periodically. That's that we just 277 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:00.720 don't have a system, and we do when we think 278 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:03.360 it's best. And he was trying to explain to me 279 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:06.240 it has to be every week, And I said, well, 280 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:08.519 why why do you believe this? He said, because that's 281 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:12.440 the way I was raised Right. So that's a great example. 282 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:14.200 Because and he wasn't raised wrong. 283 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:15.320 It wasn't raised wrong. 284 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:17.080 That's not a wrong thing that, that's not a wrong 285 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:18.000 thing in every week. 286 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:20.759 But the point is is that he was made to 287 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.519 believe that that was the only way. And so so 288 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:27.200 in that sense, it's pretty innocent where you know, like, 289 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:28.960 you know, you want to get mad at these uh, 290 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:31.720 you know, these Jewish believers who are critician, you know, 291 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:33.960 who are criticizing Peter and said, we can't believe you 292 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.519 ate with that scum, the gentiles, the unclean people. But 293 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:39.679 in a way, you can't blame a person for the 294 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:42.840 way they were raised. You can't blame them for, you know, 295 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:45.799 things getting passed down to them that they were told 296 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:49.120 and taught that these are the right ways to think. 297 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.000 And they're very devout to their religion, and they're very 298 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:55.840 devout to their cultural upbringing right, and there's nothing wrong 299 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.440 with that in and of itself. It reminds me of 300 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:02.519 I heard it wound up being a true story. I've 301 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:04.960 heard illustrations like this before, but I had a lady 302 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.240 come and tell me this actually happened to her that 303 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.759 when she would make a roast, she made a roast, 304 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:13.080 she'd always cut off the two sides and kind of 305 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.440 make it longer on one end and narrower on the sides, 306 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:19.679 and for years and years and years, and her daughter asked, 307 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:21.159 why do you do that? She said, oh, that's way 308 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:23.360 my mom did this when my grandmother did it. So 309 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:27.639 when the granddaughter was with the grandmother, she said, grandma, 310 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:29.879 why do you always cut the sides of this roast off? 311 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:31.799 And she said, because that's the sizes of the pan 312 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:35.559 that I had, right. So her mom had no idea, 313 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:38.679 She just saw. She just saw her mother, the grandmother 314 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:40.559 cut off the ends, so that's what she did. She 315 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:42.480 just thought those ends were bad or something that's supposed 316 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:43.720 to use them, and it wasn't. It was just the 317 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:47.519 size of the pan. Sometimes we tend to believe that 318 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:52.600 the traditions around us are the rules or the law, 319 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.080 and that's just not true. So these guys, they're devout. 320 00:14:56.840 --> 00:15:01.440 They're strongly legalistic, right, which is the Jewish religion at 321 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:04.320 that time in Jesus Day and the Apostles day was 322 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:09.440 very rules oriented, so very legalistic, these Jewish believers, and 323 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:11.360 they intend to rebuke Peter. 324 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:13.240 Peter, what are you doing? Right? 325 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:15.600 What kind of Christian hangs out with gentiles? 326 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:16.440 Right? 327 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:18.399 And Peter goes, hey, guys, let me just tell you 328 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:20.799 what happened. And by the way, I have six witnesses 329 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:21.120 with me. 330 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:23.799 Right, we heard what you did on the Mission Street. 331 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:29.000 That's right. And this is going to go in your file, right, right, 332 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:32.279 hr Yang, your permanent record, that's right. 333 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:34.600 And so they were about ready to put Peter on 334 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:38.360 a p IP, a personal improvement plan, and put it 335 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:40.960 in this permanent file, and Peter goes, well, hang on, 336 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:45.200 let me just explain what happened. I was only doing. 337 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:47.879 And Peter had nothing to fear, really, because he was 338 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:50.440 only doing God told him to do. And then not 339 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:53.639 only that, he mentions that the Holy Spirit fell on him, 340 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.559 and so all of that by himself hit by his 341 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:02.080 own testimony. Okay, it's just whether or not the other 342 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:04.840 apostles believe Peter. But Peter goes, hey, when the Holy 343 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:06.960 Spirit fell him, these other six guys, he has the 344 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.039 six witnesses with him. There's a lot of wisdom in 345 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:13.000 explaining your story, explaining what happened. And then if there 346 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:15.919 are witnesses, to bring witnesses along when there's a confusion 347 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:17.840 about your behavior, when you know that you did what 348 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.159 was right, you did what you were supposed to do. 349 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:21.120 It's also good. 350 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:23.720 It's beneficial to also be able to bring witnesses. And 351 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.720 they saw it too, right, and that's what happened here. 352 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.200 And I also love at the end of this story 353 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:31.399 when Peter gives the whole thing. You know, again we've 354 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:33.919 already read and been through this, so he goes all 355 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:36.440 the way through it and he says and then they 356 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:38.840 receive the same gift as us. And then I love 357 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:41.039 how at the very end of the story, it says 358 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:43.919 when the others heard this, they stopped objecting and began 359 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:47.279 praising God, and they said, we can see God has 360 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:49.799 also given the gentiles the privilege of repenting of their 361 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.080 sins and receiving internal life. And I thought to myself, 362 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:56.399 that is unbelievable, because Peter's posture was he says, who 363 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:57.639 am I to stand of the way of God? 364 00:16:57.759 --> 00:16:57.960 Right? 365 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:00.440 Right? And what he's saying is like, you're trying to 366 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:03.360 yell at me, right. I had sort of the same 367 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.640 objections as you, But God did this. I'm not standing 368 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:07.920 in the way of God. And so they have no 369 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.160 choice but to say, well, of course we're not going 370 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:13.000 to be either. But they didn't object. They didn't they 371 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:15.960 didn't push back, they weren't skeptical. And so here's what 372 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:19.400 that means. That means that Peter was a trustworthy person 373 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:22.920 to your point, right, And so they didn't object anymore 374 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:27.039 because they believed him. And so it's also a treasure 375 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:29.640 to be able to be in relationship with someone and 376 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:35.079 especially in leadership, that when they speak, you just believe them, 377 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:37.519 you know, It reminds me of a good friend of 378 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:41.079 mine who actually said that he saw an angel and 379 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:43.440 he was actually he'd actually there was a car wreck 380 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:46.440 and he pulled up behind the car wreck. It had 381 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:49.799 just happened, and he ran over to the driver's side 382 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:52.720 and he was looking and this woman was laying there 383 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:55.240 and she she got cut and she was bleeding. And 384 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:58.359 then he looked across the car and there was a 385 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:02.599 person there, and the person said, hey, grab your fingers 386 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:04.480 and put it, put it on his put put it 387 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:06.839 on her neck and pushed down to stop the bleeding. 388 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:10.079 And then and then my friend did this, and then 389 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:11.920 he then they said no, no, no, up up to 390 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:14.240 the right, to the right, okay there, push hard, and 391 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:16.599 then it stopped bleeding. And then he was sitting there 392 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.079 holding the blood pressure, you know, first stop bleeding. And 393 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:23.039 then all of a sudden, the ambulance eventually finally came. 394 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:26.000 And the entire time he's talking with this person, the 395 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:29.119 ambulance pulls up. He looks back and the ambulance comes 396 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:32.400 up and the person was gone. And then they said, well, 397 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:35.480 you saved this woman's life. And he said, well, where 398 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:38.279 did that that man go? And he said, there was 399 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:40.279 there was nobody. He said, what do you mean there 400 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:42.000 was nobody? He said, he was there when you pulled up, 401 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:43.759