WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.520 So today we're going to hear about Thunder You telling 2 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:04.759 the story or am I? 3 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.039 I'm gonna let you tell the story. But he's Chris, 4 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:09.919 I'm Jeff, and we're the Bible guys. 5 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:21.640 Okay. 6 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:24.399 Yeah, So Jeff did not know during the beginning as 7 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:26.679 we were talking that that was from you don't talk 8 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:27.239 about Bernie. 9 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:30.000 Yeah, so I know, though we don't talk about Bruno. No, no, no, no, 10 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:32.280 I know that song. I just didn't realize that phrase. 11 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:34.399 Yeah. Well, I mean you have to really like the 12 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:36.119 song to know what I was referencing. 13 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:38.679 Yeah, right, do you sing it in the showering? Do 14 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:41.399 you sing Disney songs? I sing it always, yes, because 15 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:42.759 you know a lot of Disney songs. 16 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:44.119 Well, we sing it around the house. 17 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:46.240 The only person who knows more Disney songs than you 18 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:47.359 that I know is my wife. 19 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:50.280 By the way, on the way home yesterday, just literally 20 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:53.039 last night, like a couple hours ago, we were coming 21 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:55.200 home and for some reason, it came into my daughter's 22 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.479 said a deer. Oh, because we saw a deer, a 23 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:01.600 female deal ray a drop of golden sun. And then 24 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:04.120 it turned out it turned into all of us singing 25 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:07.400 it and my son joining into and then all four 26 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:09.200 of us are singing it, and then it turned into 27 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:12.519 me asking Siri to play it, and then we listened 28 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:15.079 to the entire song and we all sang along with 29 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:17.680 it all because we saw a deer. 30 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:21.680 Wow, that's wonderful. So I also saw a deer last night. 31 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:23.560 I was in my tree stand and I was trying 32 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:25.519 to figure out there's a whole bunch of sausage walking 33 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:27.200 around the woods. I'm trying to get take it home. 34 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:30.959 But I wasn't singing. So you guys are the von 35 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:31.640 Trapp family? 36 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:32.359 Is that is that? 37 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:35.560 I'm not saying we're talented. We like to sing. 38 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:36.760 Okay? Well, good? 39 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:42.439 So today is the dad joke competition. This is kind 40 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:45.040 of one of those recurring things that comes back, and 41 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:47.640 I feel like I'm more prepared than I was last 42 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:51.640 time on this, and I'm confident I'm going to take 43 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:52.040 you down. 44 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:54.599 All right. You want to start? 45 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:56.680 No, you start? 46 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:01.000 Oh me start? Okay? How about this one? After an 47 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:05.159 unsuccessful harvest? Why did the farmer decide to try a 48 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:10.240 career in music, I don't know, because he had a 49 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:11.479 ton of sick beats. 50 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:17.639 Oh that's hilarious farmer jokes. 51 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:21.759 Now, did you know that the creator the Umbrella was 52 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:25.439 just gonna call it umbrella, but then he hesitatedlla. 53 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:30.639 Oh that's terrible, that's awful. All right, how about this one? 54 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.199 Just get back from a job interview where I was 55 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:37.840 asked if I could perform under pressure. I said I 56 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:39.759 wasn't too sure about that, but I could do a 57 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:42.280 wicked Bohemian rhapsody. 58 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:48.400 So you can't you're not sure? Yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay. So, uh. 59 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.560 What did Mike Tyson say after working out with Chris Hemsworth. 60 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:56.960 I don't know, you're going to be thor in the morning. 61 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:01.520 Oh, bad taste, bad taste. 62 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:06.400 You're gonna be throwing. You're going to be the money. 63 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:09.319 That's so funny. That's good. 64 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:14.360 Okay, Uh, I'm glad that segments. And that's a funny 65 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:17.439 one though these bust me up. I mean, I just 66 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:18.840 love dad jokes man. 67 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:20.439 Like the best you're gonna be the bad jokes are 68 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:20.919 pretty good. 69 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:23.960 So okay, before we get into this, would you do 70 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:28.479 us a favor? Would you subscribe on the Bible guys 71 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:30.879 dot com. 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Yeah, yeah, yeah, 88 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:12.479 so you should do it because all the cool kids 89 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:12.919 are doing it. 90 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:13.759 Okay. 91 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.839 So we are in Acts chapter sixteen, and you and 92 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:19.519 I before this, before we started recording this episode, we 93 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:21.560 both said this might be the coolest story in the 94 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:23.279 book of Acts, right, certainly one of them. 95 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:24.319 It's my favorite one. 96 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:27.399 Anyways, Yes, okay, so we're going to start off in 97 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:32.199 Acts chapter sixteen, Verse sixteen. Paul and Silas get themselves 98 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.160 in trouble. Says one day, as we were going down 99 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:37.000 to the place of prayer, we met a demon possessed 100 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:39.279 slave girl. She was a fortune teller who earned a 101 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.240 lot of money for her masters. She followed Paul and 102 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:44.439 the rest of us, shouting, these men are servants of 103 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:46.680 the Most High God, and they've come to tell you 104 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:49.399 how to be saved. This one on day after day 105 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:52.240 until Paul got so exasperated that he turned and said 106 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:54.199 to the demon within her, I command you, in the 107 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:56.920 name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her, and 108 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.240 instantly it left her. Her master's hopes of wealth were 109 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:02.639 now shattered. So they grabbed Paul and Silace and dragged 110 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:05.399 them before the authorities at the marketplace. The whole city's 111 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:08.000 in an uproar because of these Jews, they shouted the 112 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.120 city officials. They're teaching customs that are illegal for US 113 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:14.839 Romans to practice. A mob quickly formed against Paul and Silas, 114 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:17.720 and the city of officials ordered them stripped and beaten 115 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.439 with wooden rods. They were severely beaten, and then they 116 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:22.839 were thrown into prison. The jailer was ordered to make 117 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:24.800 sure they didn't escape, so the jailer put them in 118 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:27.560 the inner dungeon and clamped their feet in the stocks. 119 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.199 Around midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns 120 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.120 to God, and the other prisoners were listening. Suddenly there 121 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:36.399 was a massive earthquake and the prison was shaken to 122 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:39.800 its foundations. All the doors immediately flew open, and the 123 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:43.160 chains of every prisoner fell off. The jailer woke up 124 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:44.879 to see the prison doors wide open. He assumed the 125 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:48.040 prisoners escape, so he drew his sword to kill himself, 126 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:51.439 but Paul shouted to him, stop, don't kill yourself, We're 127 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:54.639 all here. The jailer called for lights and ran to 128 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.079 the dungeon and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 129 00:05:57.120 --> 00:05:59.199 And then he brought them out and asked, sirs, what 130 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:02.000 must I do to be saved? They replied, believe in 131 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:04.040 the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved along with 132 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:06.560 everyone in your household. And they shared the word of 133 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:10.120 God with him and with all who lived in his household, 134 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:12.839 even at that hour of the night. The jailer cared 135 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:15.120 for them and washed their wounds, and then he and 136 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:18.360 everyone in his household were immediately baptized. He brought them 137 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:20.480 into his house and set a meal before them, and 138 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:24.439 he had his entire household rejoiced because they all believed 139 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:27.720 in God. The next morning, the city officials sent the 140 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:31.639 police to the jailer let those men go. So the 141 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.199 jailer told Paul, the city officials have said, you and 142 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:37.199 Silas are free to leave, go in peace. But Paul replied, 143 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:39.399 they've publicly beaten us without a trial and put us 144 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:42.839 in prison, and we're Roman citizens, so now they want 145 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:46.279 us to leave secretly certainly not let them come themselves 146 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:49.279 and release us. When the police reported this, the city 147 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:51.480 officials were alarmed to learn that Paul and Silas were 148 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:54.360 Roman citizens, so they came to the jail and apologized 149 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:56.399 to them. Then they brought them out and begged them 150 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:59.000 to leave the city. When Paul and Silas left the prison, 151 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:01.639 they returned to the home of Lydia. There they met 152 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:03.800 with the believers and encourage them once more. Then they 153 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:04.360 left town. 154 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:06.439 Such a cool story. 155 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:10.040 It's a great story. So the so the thunder part 156 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:13.480 was when the you know, the earthquake, the earthquake happens. 157 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:17.360 That was my little reference there. And can we start 158 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:21.959 there at the beginning where Paul decides to cast a 159 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.839 demon out of a fortune teller. Yeah, and then everybody 160 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.560 gets upset because that was the source of income. But 161 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:30.199 let's not pass up the fact that there was a 162 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:32.920 demon who could see the future and. 163 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:34.680 So well could at least tell fortunes. 164 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:37.959 Yes, at least tell fortunes, which is future right maybe. 165 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:41.759 I mean, so you've seen fortune cookies or seen zodiac 166 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:44.360 writings and things like that, and it's just people predicting 167 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:46.480 a lot of times. But what they do is they 168 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:49.040 customize it for you. So if you go to if 169 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:51.360 you went to a fortune teller today, there's some that 170 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:53.959 are Charlatans that they just pick up on body language 171 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:55.680 or they sneak stut moud of your purse to figure 172 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:58.079 out what's going on and to tell stuff. So do 173 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:00.480 you have do you have a relative sick? 174 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:01.360 I do? 175 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:03.480 Yeah? 176 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:05.399 Is this person important to you? She is? 177 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:08.959 She is really right, And that's what they do. 178 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.040 So they pick up on little cues and they figure 179 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:12.680 out how to kind of customize the thing to get 180 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:14.879 more money out of you. So there's that side of it. 181 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:18.279 And then this is clearly a demonic thing that had 182 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:20.959 maybe some special demonic knowledge and that's what would get 183 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.879 them information. But this demon didn't have to necessarily know 184 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:26.720 the future. That this demon could just know special things 185 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:27.439 about those people. 186 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:29.439 Yeah, well, well, you're all right in saying it doesn't 187 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:31.600 say future, it says fortune telling. 188 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:33.919 Right right, yeah right, so fortune telling is you know, 189 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:36.679 that's how we hired you at Heritage Church. I was 190 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:38.159 trying to figure out when I should How are you 191 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:41.480 not at cracked cookie at Payway. 192 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:44.200 And they said, you know, hey way, Yeah, the future 193 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:44.600 is bright. 194 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:45.759 That's great. 195 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:47.799 Move with caution is what it said. 196 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:51.799 So my life applicated move with caution. Jeez, I wanted 197 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:53.360 to move on. You're still wanting to tell your job. 198 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.159 So the Life Application Study Bible says uh that the 199 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:03.080 Gospel would be later hurt in Ephesus when in Ephesian 200 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:08.600 idol makers, the Gospel also hurt Ephesian idol makers financially. 201 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:11.360 That's coming up in Acts chapter nineteen, resulting in a 202 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:14.919 citywide riot when people are more concerned about their economic 203 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:17.440 well being than the glory of God and the salvation 204 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:20.240 of lost souls. It's a clear sign of idolatry, greed, 205 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:23.799 and wilderness. So it's just it's it's so amazing on 206 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:27.960 something that unrelatable with seeing demons in a person being 207 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:30.559 cast out, which is not something that is very common 208 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.559 for us to be a part of, is also carries 209 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:37.240 with it a principle that says, when we're more upset 210 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:41.559 about our ability to make money over you know, the 211 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.240 furthering of God's gospel and the good things of God, 212 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:48.120 then that's a problem. So that's that's a great application 213 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:48.639 for us today. 214 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:49.240 Yeah, I think so. 215 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:53.519 And then the other big one here is she's she's saying, hey, 216 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:55.679 these men have come to tell you how to be saved. 217 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:58.840 Right, So what does she say? 218 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:00.600 She said, there's servants of the Most Hi God, and 219 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:02.759 they've come to tell you how to be saved. Now, 220 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.559 remember when we mentioned before, just believing isn't enough. You 221 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:07.720 have to have received Christ as your personal savior. Because 222 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:10.600 even the demons believe in God. And here this demon 223 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:13.440 recognizes the Most High God. 224 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:14.799 Right. 225 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:17.240 But it's interesting they've come to tell you how to 226 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:19.759 be saved. It seems like Paul wouldn't have minded that 227 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:22.440 she was doing it, because that's all true. It's true. Oh, hey, 228 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:23.759 that is why we're here. We're here to tell you 229 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:26.519 how to be saved. The problem was he cast out 230 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:28.600 that demon because he did not want to associate his 231 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:30.320 message with a demonic message. 232 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:30.799 Right. 233 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:35.360 He was differentiating between the two, so he neutralized the 234 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:38.159 demon power so that he can then just let God's 235 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:38.840 power rise away. 236 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:41.200 Well, not to mention he helped the little girl, Yeah 237 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:42.480 he sure did, sure did. 238 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:43.720 So what a wonderful thing. 239 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:45.519 Well then they wind up losing their income and they 240 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:47.639 get mad and they get arrested and get put in prison, 241 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:49.399 and then pretty cool story. 242 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:52.480 And by the way, if you'll permit me, please just 243 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:54.279 just give me a little bit of leeway here, let 244 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:58.120 me see, Yes, I permit you, Oh good, thank you. 245 00:10:58.480 --> 00:10:59.240 I had to think about it. 246 00:10:59.399 --> 00:11:01.240 So all the way through this chapter it talks about 247 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:04.600 the church terminology of saved. So this is where we 248 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:06.320 sort of get it. So Paul uses it all the 249 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:08.240 way through the Book of Romans. I mean, it's here 250 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:10.320 in the Book of Acts. And and by the way, 251 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:13.360 that word saved means to be rescued, right, that's what 252 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.559 it literally translates into. So so they're telling people how 253 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.360 to get saved. The Roman soldier you know this, the 254 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:23.039 person in charge of the of the jail fell before 255 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:26.200 Paul and Silas asked the exact same question, what must 256 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.279 I do to be saved? And by the way, so 257 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:30.919 it's no secret that I don't I don't love church 258 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:33.720 culture all that much. But but it's it's it's only 259 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:36.240 because when it hurts. So let me say it a 260 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:38.559 different way. Do you remember when we used to use 261 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:40.919 the word secretary. We used to use the word secretary 262 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:44.159 all the time, and now we change it to what admin? 263 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:45.320 Or administrative assistant? 264 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:45.600 Right? 265 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.799 We used to say stewardess? But now what do we say? Right? 266 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:50.960 And so we used to say waiter, but now we 267 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:51.759 say waiter. 268 00:11:52.600 --> 00:12:00.200 Well, no we say server, server, yeah, waitress, waitress, word 269 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:01.200 association game. 270 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:03.639 No, no, no, it seems that way. But know what I'm 271 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:06.000 saying is is that there's nothing wrong with the word 272 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:10.120 waiter or waitress. But when society attaches that word to 273 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:12.919 something negative, all of a sudden, it's an untouchable word. 274 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:18.600 So secretary becomes this abusive nineteen fifties women shouldn't be, 275 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:20.679 you know, all this kind of thing right then, And 276 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.559 because that word seems tainted, it becomes derogatory. When technically 277 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:27.120 the word secretary is a great word, sure, but because 278 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:30.399 it's attached to something negative, then it's almost like I 279 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.679 want to abandon the word. And to be quite honest 280 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:35.799 with you, the word saved is a biblical word, but 281 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:38.240 I never use the word saved ever. And the reason 282 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:41.279 why is because I think with a lot of people, 283 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:45.759 there's church terms that get attached to a church culture. 284 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:48.360 And if there's a church culture that seems to be 285 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:51.600 a little bit negative in somebody's mind, and if those 286 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:54.399 are the people that are using church terms, then all 287 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:56.720 of a sudden it feels tainted. So you know, you 288 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:58.840 hear the word saved, and for you, you may say 289 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:00.879 what's wrong with that because you have a great church 290 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:04.519 experience with that, But with me, it immediately takes me 291 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:09.320 to all the churches that I have problems with. So anyway, 292 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:12.960 all that to say this, so I just I always 293 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:16.120 like to say, the word saved is the term that 294 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:19.120 we're using. It's a biblical word, but what it really 295 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:21.879 means is putting your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, right. 296 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:24.639 It means making a decision to trust Christ to go 297 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:27.840 to heaven. And that's the word. But you'll never almost 298 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:28.960 hear me, never say the word. 299 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:33.679 Say whenever I use the word saved, I don't really 300 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:36.720 associate it with negative church experiences, but I do I 301 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:40.559 am aware of how lost people of the world would 302 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:43.759 currently maybe not understand it. So any word that is 303 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.840 in the Bible, that's common, that has a really important meaning. 304 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:48.399 I'll keep using the word. 305 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:50.679 It's a biblical word, but I'll always use it in 306 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:53.279 the context of the definition. So I always explain, explain, 307 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:53.960 here's what it means. 308 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:54.200 Right. 309 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:57.480 I think the word saved is really, really, really important 310 00:13:57.879 --> 00:14:00.799 because a lot of people have replaced the word safe 311 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:04.039 with you need a relationship with God, or you need 312 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:06.080 to have more faith or whatever. 313 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:08.559 As opposed to like salvation. 314 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:12.039 Salvation means you need to be saved from something, right. 315 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:13.840 And you know, I've had a lot of conversations with 316 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:16.039 people who go, I'm a pretty good person. I just 317 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.120 and so what they're looking for is more blessing from 318 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:22.360 God on their pretty good life, as opposed to understanding, 319 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:25.600 I'm a lost sinner that is on my way to 320 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:28.679 hell unless God saves me. I need a savior, I 321 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:32.399 need I need to be saved. And so the word 322 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:34.840 is an important word, but we always need to use 323 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.360 it in the content. We have to give the definition 324 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:41.480 of it, rather than allowing the current colloquialisms and the 325 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:44.480 current definitions in society to drive. 326 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:44.919 The meaning of it. 327 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:46.720 We have to come back to the Biblical definition of it. 328 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:48.200 Yeah, and if you're if you're going to use a 329 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:51.480 synonym to your point, just use a synonym that focuses 330 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:54.440 on the actual salvation of a person as opposed to 331 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:56.879 having to knowing God or something. 332 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:57.639 Yeah. 333 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:59.919 Yeah, well it's not inappropriate to use the word rescue 334 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:00.759 or whatever else. 335 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:01.200 Right. 336 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:05.759 But yeah, so they wind up getting arrested for no reason. 337 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:08.360 They hadn't done anything illegal. 338 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:11.440 Right, although they say they say, they claimed that they're 339 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:12.000 doing illegal. 340 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:15.960 Sure, but they hadn't actually broken the law. Conversation was 341 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:20.320 not illegal. And uh so they wind up getting put 342 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:23.159 in prison, and but they're not treated like Roman citizens. 343 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:26.759 Can you imagine the apology that had happened? Oh man, 344 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:30.320 can you imagine after stripping them and beating them with 345 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:33.039 wooden rods. I don't know about you, but that does 346 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:34.039 not sound fun at all. 347 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:36.960 Well, they had to have their wounds addressed later, so 348 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:38.759 you know they were wounded pretty badly. 349 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:40.200 They're putting stocks. 350 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:43.080 Yes, have you been in any of the prisons, the 351 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:45.039 Roman prisons in like Rome. 352 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:48.080 Or they have or not in Rome? But I was 353 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:49.960 in prisons in Israel? 354 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:51.879 Yeah, how long? How much time did you do? 355 00:15:54.679 --> 00:16:01.919 So you know, they'll always have like something attached to 356 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:05.480 the floor, some hooks, some circles, some rings. They'd run 357 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:08.799 chains through those and then they would attach like in 358 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:11.559 this one, they were stocks, so they'd have their foot 359 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.039 put their feet put into these stocks. They'd lock it 360 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:16.799 down so they couldn't move They're completely immobile. Then they'd 361 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:19.960 be attached to the floor. They couldn't move around it all, right, And. 362 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:22.039 Sometimes it was the risks and the risks and ankles. 363 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:26.080 Yeah, and it was somewhat torturous, right, It wasn't intended 364 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:29.240 to be like full on torture, but it was a 365 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.159 miserable experience. You know, through the nighttime, you couldn't move 366 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:34.600 around much. You're kind of the chafing, all those kinds 367 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:36.960 of things that would happen. But this was not a 368 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:41.440 treatment for a Roman citizen who had not been tried. 369 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:45.440 So Roman citizens were guaranteed a trial before you were 370 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:49.399 put in the prison, right right. But non Roman citizens 371 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:52.600 were just treated like non Roman citizens. They're just thrown 372 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:54.639 a prison, beat up, roughed up and stuff. And so 373 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:58.159 they just assumed because they had this Jewish accent and 374 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:00.960 they were talking to Jews and whatever, they must be Jewish, 375 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:02.919 and so they didn't realize that both paul In Silts 376 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:06.000 were deserved a different treatment. 377 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:07.279 Right legally, Yeah, And. 378 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:12.559 It also says that they were thrust into the inner dungeon, 379 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:15.319 which means it's not as if they needed the stocks 380 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:17.960 to keep them safe, right, They were already in the prison, 381 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:20.759 and then they put them in this center of you know, 382 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:24.160 the the facility, which is you know, to be guarded, 383 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:28.839 so there's guards watching them. They're already in the inner dungeon, 384 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:31.400 and so they're thrown in the stocks for good measure 385 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:32.440 of torture, and. 386 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:36.720 They're wounded so badly, and they're in such a miserable circumstance, 387 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:38.720 and they're in the worst of the worst. That's why, 388 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:40.519 as asking if you've been in any of the old 389 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:47.200 Roman prisons, they're miserable, they're wet, they're gross, there's no light, 390 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:50.640 the smell would have been horrible, everything else. And these 391 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:55.440 guys are sitting there about midnight with bleeding, wounded, having 392 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:59.000 been beaten for no reason, and they they're singing yeah right, 393 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:03.200 and all of the other prisoners were listening. You know, 394 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:06.680 they would have had the right to be mad that 395 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:09.319 they felt like, hey, I'm just serving God, but this 396 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:12.000 bad thing happened, and I'm mad at God. Instead they 397 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:15.480 decided to praise God. And everybody else is watching. And 398 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:17.480 I think that we have to be aware as Christians, 399 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:22.240 your reaction to everything. There are lost people that are watching, 400 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.400 your reaction to your boss, your reaction to your co workers, 401 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.240