WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.240 So yesterday you may have heard us introduce the wrong passage, Yes, 2 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:06.120 where Peter gets left out in the dark and James. 3 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:09.080 Loses his head. That's what we're going to talk about 4 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:24.079 for sure. Today. He's Chris, I'm Jeff. We're the Bible Guys. Well, hey, 5 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:27.879 we're we're going to continue the stumped pastor yeah. 6 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:31.879 Yeah. So so just again, as a reminder, three weeks 7 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:34.679 ago or so, we asked people to send in questions 8 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:38.840 at this email right here, which is info at the 9 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:41.920 Bible Guys dot com. And so we want to make 10 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:44.240 sure that if you are listening today and you won't 11 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:46.240 have a question, send it in because we want to 12 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.560 do this segment a few weeks more, maybe perhaps down 13 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:48.799 the road. 14 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:51.719 Yeah yeah, and these these have been really challenging questions. 15 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:53.119 Yeah, very challenging, right. 16 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:54.880 And today it might be one of the hardest. 17 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:59.119 Yes, it is. And I'm really glad that you went 18 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:01.880 into the office this morning and looked at verses because 19 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:04.359 that really helps me because I didn't. 20 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:06.200 Not just today, I didn't just look it up today, 21 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.000 but I did write them down on my paper today. 22 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:10.319 Okay, good, okay, Well, you know you always study, is 23 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:11.719 that what you're going to say always. 24 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:16.079 Actually, I'm just that guy, all. 25 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:19.480 Right, So let me read stuff the pastor so Stephen 26 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.359 W writes this. We Christians all know the Easter story 27 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.400 of Jesus on the cross, died and was buried, then 28 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:29.079 three days later he returned from the dead. My question 29 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.319 is what are your thoughts were? More importantly, what does 30 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:35.959 the Bible say, if anything, about what took place during 31 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:39.599 those three days of being dead. Is Jesus in hell 32 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:43.280 battling with the devil? Is he in heaven sipping tea 33 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:45.079 with the Father? Or nothing? 34 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:48.439 Well, one, how cool would it be if you was 35 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:50.280 in hell battling with the devil? That makes for a 36 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:53.760 cool movie. And you know what, and also Cameron Cameron 37 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:54.840 could be yes. 38 00:01:55.879 --> 00:02:00.599 Cameron saving Hell. Yeah, no, it also be very cool 39 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:02.239 if he was in heaven. 40 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.640 Sipping tea with him cavizel, because you. 41 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:08.520 Know, the British should be like, I knew he was British. 42 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:15.039 That's right, that's right. But so this question comes is 43 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:20.000 rooted in the what we would call the Apostles Creed. Right, 44 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:24.479 So without the Apostles Creed, they're probably this question probably 45 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:26.840 wouldn't cross most people's minds. Most people would just assume 46 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:31.319 Jesus died and went to heaven or like. As a 47 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:33.360 matter of fact, in Luke chapter twenty three, Jesus told 48 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:35.919 the thief on the cross today, you'll be with me 49 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:39.439 in paradise. So wherever paradise is, right, So that's a 50 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:45.879 whole other conversation. But he he was wherever you go 51 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:48.240 after you die. That's what we, most of us would think, 52 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:53.479 except for the apostles Creed says that he descended into 53 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:56.919 Hell and then that then people go. 54 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:59.599 Way that comes pause and say, what is the apostles 55 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:01.759 Creed and is that part of the Bible. 56 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:08.159 Yeah, So the apostles Creed was a declaration of orthodox 57 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:12.960 Christian beliefs right that identifies the Trinity, the Father, Son, 58 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:16.800 and the Holy Spirit, that they're equal. It identifies the 59 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:20.280 work of Christ on the Cross and the resurrection, and 60 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:24.000 identifies the core beliefs of Christianity. And Christians would quote, 61 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:28.960 oftentimes would quote that it sprang up in the five hundreds, 62 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:32.400 and sometime around five hundred eighty was the earliest that 63 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.159 we really see this popping up, and then it became 64 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.800 a standard in these seven hundreds where this became part 65 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:42.520 of the liturgy of the church, where people would quote 66 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:45.439 this almost every weekend or every time they gather. And 67 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:49.039 the reason was, you know, now you're beginning within one 68 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.240 thousand and eighty, you start to move into the dark ages, 69 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:54.159 and people couldn't read, and so in order to really 70 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.400 down as it was dark, well because they were illiterate, 71 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:01.199 right it really you know that the great libraries of 72 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:04.680 the world had been burned and looted, and education was 73 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:08.280 not core values. So there were educated people, which was 74 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:11.240 usually theologians and business people, but the rest weren't in 75 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.759 government leaders, and so they would teach the people a 76 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:21.399 creed that established the core of their belief system. So 77 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:24.279 that's where that came from. The nice scene Creed, which 78 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:27.000 was from three eighty eight, does not include this phrase 79 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:30.120 he descended into Hell, but the Apostles creed does, and 80 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:32.839 so it seems to be attached to I looked this up. 81 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:34.920 It seems to be attached to First Peter chapter three 82 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:38.360 eighteen and twenty and Ephesians four eight Those seemed to 83 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.920 be the two that kind of reference something along these lines. 84 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:46.519 So the one First Peter three eighteen Peter says that 85 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.800 after Jesus died, he preached to the spirits in prison 86 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:57.720 and then he ascends to heaven. Right, So what does 87 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:02.680 that mean? What are the spirits and what is he doing? 88 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:05.879 He's preaching the word preach. There is not the same 89 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:09.839 word in Greek that we use for preaching the gospel. 90 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:12.480 So this is it's clearly a declaration, but it's not 91 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:16.519 a declaration of the good news. So this may have 92 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:20.199 been that Jesus went to the those demons that are 93 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:24.720 trapped in hell and declared his victory. That's that could 94 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:27.160 have been what it was. Sure, I don't know there's 95 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:29.600 room for it, but that certainly seems like a legit 96 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:33.240 thing that hey, you thought you defeated me and instead 97 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:34.120 here's the victory. 98 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:34.360 Right. 99 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:39.680 Well yeah, Ephesians four eight. It uses the phrases. It 100 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:42.800 just says that Jesus took captivity captive And that's a 101 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:47.600 confusing phrase too. It could have meant that Jesus cleared 102 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:49.839 out paradise and took them to heaven. So do you 103 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:52.759 remember when Jesus tells the story of the rich Man 104 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:56.040 of Lazarus. Yep, And there's there's Abraham's boosom seems to 105 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:59.399 be paradise and then there's hell. Right, those seem to 106 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:04.319 be the whole place of the souls of humanity. So 107 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:10.279 then the people who were in Paradise prior to Christ, 108 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:14.920 maybe he took them from there to Heaven. That could 109 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.720 have been what that's talking about. The problem is both 110 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.360 of those are incidental statements. They're not the point of 111 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:22.560 either of those passages, and so it's just like a 112 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:25.160 casual statement and move on. The Bible is not super 113 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.839 clear on that. So it does look like perhaps he 114 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:30.399 went and declared his victory to the evil ones. It 115 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:32.240 wouldn't have been a battle, it was just a declaration 116 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.720 because it just says he preached and then he maybe 117 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.160 clears out Paradise and takes all of them to Heaven. 118 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:38.879 Yeah. 119 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:39.399 Yeah. 120 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:42.120 And the other piece that we talked about before was, 121 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:45.879 you know, when when Mary sees Jesus at the garden tomb, 122 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:47.920 he says, don't touch me, Mary, for I've not yet 123 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.720 ascended to my father, right, So, and so you know, 124 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:52.920 he had been already dead for you know, on the 125 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:55.079 third day. And by the way, he wasn't in the 126 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:57.639 tomb for seventy two hours. He was in the tomb 127 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:02.920 just before Saturday, late Friday rose early Sunday. So he 128 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:04.040 was actually in the tomb for. 129 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:05.160 Like on three days. 130 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.439 Yeah, on the third day is, but it wasn't fully 131 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.079 seventy two hours anyway. So he gets he gets out, 132 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:13.639 and it raises from the dead, and then he says, 133 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:15.279 don't touch me because I've not yet a sin in 134 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.240 my father. But then later on he appears in the 135 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:20.399 disciples room in the middle of the room and says, 136 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:24.079 Thomas touched my hands, touch my feet. Yeah, So so 137 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:28.199 we know that something had happened between you know, the 138 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.480 resurrection and then. And yet before then he had said 139 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:35.319 to Mary, I've not yet a sin to my father, right, 140 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:37.240 which means he wasn't in heaven sipping tea. 141 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:37.639 Right. 142 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:38.600 That's what we know, right. 143 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:42.040 So there's there's this the physical side that we totally 144 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:47.519 get death, burial, resurrection, Thomas touched my hands, touched my side, 145 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.680 But there's also a spiritual battle happening here, and so 146 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:54.920 there's Jesus is interacting now on both the spiritual realm 147 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:57.360 and the physical realm. That's why the apostles were, you know, 148 00:07:57.439 --> 00:07:59.560 the disciples were amazed when Jesus just walked through the 149 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:02.199 through the door, right, right. And then the other time 150 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:04.480 he just appears with them, but at the same time 151 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:06.959 he eats fish and he says touch me. So he 152 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.920 Jesus is interacting both on the spiritual plane and the 153 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:13.879 physical plane at the same time, which is pretty cool concept. Yeah, 154 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:16.000 So it seems like maybe those are the two things 155 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.360 that the apostles Creed is referencing, but beyond that, we 156 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:20.560 can't really know for sure what Jesus did. 157 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.160 Right, So so the answer, of course to almost all 158 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:25.319 the questions and stuff the pastor is probably going to 159 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:29.800 end with we don't know, right, Yeah, maybe, but it's maybe, yeah, maybe, 160 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:34.480 But there's there's a there's a take on uh, there's 161 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:36.799 a take on it, yea. And so your take is 162 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:38.960 you're just unsure it was. 163 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:44.679 So there's plausible uh, explanations that perhaps first Peter is 164 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:47.600 talking about he declares a victory to the evil spirits, 165 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:51.240 and that in Ephesians he perhaps is clearing out paradise. 166 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:53.919 Those are plausible. Yeah, Neither one of those are central 167 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.480 theological things with regard to salvation. So, you know, the 168 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.519 Bible is very clear about Jesus as the virgin born 169 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:04.360 son of God. He lived a sinless life, he paid 170 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:08.519 the price for our sin on the Cross, That justification 171 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:13.519 of our sin is through repentance and believing by faith 172 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:15.840 in the finished work of Christ on the cross, right, 173 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:20.679 the resurrection is the central element of Christianity. All those 174 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:22.480 things are super clear. Every once in a while you 175 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:24.759 get one of these free fringe things, and the Bible 176 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:28.039 just mentions it. Incidentally, God knows, and we're kind of 177 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:30.399 left to kind of put those extra pieces together. But 178 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:32.919 it doesn't affect one way that it doesn't affect salvation, 179 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.840 which is the central message of the Gospel. 180 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:38.840 And that's very important to be reminded of. And so 181 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.399 that's great. That's probably a great segue. 182 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:43.879 Cool. So now we're going to get back into the 183 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:45.960 passage that we said we were going to talk about yesterday. 184 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:53.320 We were building anticipation, getting people excited. So in Acts 185 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:55.799 chapter twelve, we're reading from the New Living Translation. We're 186 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.840 just going to read the first twenty five verses, so 187 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.080 I'm going to get through it quickly. About that time, 188 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:04.240 King Herod Agrippa began to persecute some believers in the Church, 189 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:07.440 and he had the apostle James John's brother killed with 190 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:10.480 a sword. When Harod saw how much this pleased the 191 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:13.519 Jewish people, he also arrested Peter. This took place during 192 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.960 the Passover celebration. Then he imprisoned him, placing him under 193 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:18.919 the guard of the four squads of four soldiers each. 194 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:22.200 Herod intended to bring Peter out for public trial after 195 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:24.840 the passover, but while Peter was in prison, the church 196 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:27.919 prayed very earnestly for him. The night before Peter was 197 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:30.600 to be placed on trial, he was asleep, fastened with 198 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.600 two chains between two soldiers. Others stood guard at the 199 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:35.960 prison gate. Suddenly there was a bright light in the 200 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:37.919 sellon and the Angel of the Lord stood before Peter. 201 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:40.399 The angel struck him on the side to awaken him 202 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:43.039 and said quick, get up, and the chains fell off 203 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:45.240 his wrists. And then the angel told him get dressed 204 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:47.679 and put on your sandals, and he did. Now put 205 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:50.080 on your coat and follow me, the angel ordered. So 206 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.639 Peter left the cell following the angel. But all the 207 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:54.720 time he thought it was a vision. He didn't realize 208 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:57.120 it was actually happening. And they passed the first and 209 00:10:57.159 --> 00:10:59.480 second guard posts and came to the iron gate leading 210 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:01.879 to the city, and this opened for them all by itself, 211 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:04.360 so they passed through and started walking down the street 212 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:07.559 and then the angel suddenly left him. Peter finally came 213 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:10.039 to his senses. It's really true, he said. The Lord 214 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:12.080 has sent his angel and saved me from Herod and 215 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:14.159 from what the Jewish leaders had planned to do to me. 216 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:16.879 When he realized this, he went to the home of Mary, 217 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:19.840 the mother of John Mark, where many were gathered for prayer. 218 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:22.600 He knocked at the door in the gate, and a 219 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.559 servant girl named Rhoda came to open it. When she 220 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:28.360 recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed that instead of 221 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:30.879 opening the door, she ran back inside and told everyone. 222 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:33.679 Peter standing at the door, you're out of your mind, 223 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:36.279 they said. When she insisted, they decided it must be 224 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:40.440 his angel. Meanwhile, Peter continued knocking. When they finally opened 225 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:42.480 the door and saw him, they were amazed, and he 226 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:44.679 motioned for them to quiet down, and he told them 227 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:47.159 how the Lord had led him out of prison. Tell 228 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:50.679 James and the other brothers what happened, he said, and 229 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:53.200 then he went to another place. At dawn, there was 230 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:56.039 a great commotion among the soldiers about what happened to Peter. 231 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:58.720 Herod and Grippa ordered a thorough search for him, and 232 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:02.120 when he couldn't find him, interrogated the guards and sentenced 233 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:05.039 them to death. Afterward, Herod left Jude to stay in 234 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:07.840 cesarea for a while. Now, Herod was very angry with 235 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:10.639 the people, Attire and Sidon, so they sent a delegation 236 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:12.639 to make peace with him, because their cities were dependent 237 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:15.679 upon Arod's country for food. The elegants won the support 238 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:19.480 of Blastis, Herod's personal assistant, and an appointment with Herod 239 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:21.840 was granted. When the day arrived, Herod put on his 240 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:24.720 royal robes, sat on his throne, made a speech to them. 241 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:27.440 The people gave him a great ovation, shouting it's the 242 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:30.960 voice of a God, not of a man, and instantly 243 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.480 an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a sickness 244 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.720 because he accepted the people's worship instead of giving the 245 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:41.399 glory to God. So he was consumed with worms and died. Meanwhile, 246 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:43.559 the word of God continued to spread and there were 247 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.639 many new believers. When Barnabas and Saul had finished their 248 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:51.080 mission to Jerusalem, they returned, taking John Mark with them. Boy, 249 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:52.200 we covered some ground on now one. 250 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:53.960 Let's say this is three podcasts. 251 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:56.200 Yeah, this is so cool? Is it really is? 252 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:58.519 Yeah? So we're gonna, but we're gonna tackle it anymore. 253 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:04.120 So obviously, the big highlighting part of that passage is 254 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:07.200 Peter escaping from prison. Right, But let's not before we 255 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:09.600 get to that. Let's let's at least spend a little 256 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:12.120 bit of time on the fact that James is killed. 257 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:12.919 Right. 258 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.240 So James, John's brother was killed. This is James and John, 259 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:18.440 the sons of Zebede, that's right, right, And so then 260 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:21.159 later on who writes the Book of James. 261 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:24.200 That's the brother of Jesus, right, And and that's the 262 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:26.919 James that is mentioned when Peter says, go tell James 263 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:31.639 and the other apostles. He's talking about James, the brother 264 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:33.919 of Jesus. Hey, let me say this. This king Herod 265 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:37.399 Agrippa is the grandson of Herod the Great, the one 266 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:40.080 that wanted to kill Jesus when he was born. Right, Yeah, 267 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:42.159 So same same family rulers. 268 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:42.919 Yeah, isn't that cool? 269 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:43.200 Yeah? 270 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:45.759 And so he is a he is a Roman appointed 271 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:46.600 king of. 272 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:47.679 The Jews, that's correct. 273 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:50.159 So he's he calls himself King of the Jews. But 274 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:53.759 his job is just to keep the Jewish people on line, 275 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:56.559 which which, by the way, yet here we have you know, 276 00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:01.279 you know, years and years later, decades later, after Herod's 277 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:04.440 big deal, and and yet still they're just really playing 278 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:07.840 to the crowd because he says he killed James and 279 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:10.320 then he loved the fact that the that the people 280 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:13.399 who are anti Christians liked it. 281 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:17.440 So that's his motivation for a technical politician. What the 282 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:20.159 Poles say. The Poles say, keep killing creations. 283 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:23.960 Right, right, so they grab Peter right, So that's that's interesting. 284 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:26.759 I love the fact that Peter's in prison, going to 285 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:29.559 trial tomorrow. I think he's going to die and he's 286 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:34.720 totally zonked out. The total peace, right, Hey, what's going 287 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:37.360 to have is going to happen? I say this sometimes, 288 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.480 you know, we've been in some dangerous situations around the 289 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:41.600 world doing you know, different work that we knew that 290 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:44.960 God was having us to do. And you will not die. 291 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:48.000 You will not show up and haven one minute before 292 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:50.639 you're supposed to. So if this is your time, you 293 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:53.600 can't prevent it. Right. If it's not your time, it 294 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:58.320 can't happen. Right, So you're invincible, And until you're not, 295 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:00.759 you're invincible until the minute. Got sides, He's going to 296 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:03.080 bring you to heaven when it comes to serving him. 297 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:05.240 I'm not saying just you know, don't don't take up 298 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:08.600 Evil Canebel's job jumping motorcycles, you know, over the fountain. 299 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:13.240 But I mean, yeah, right, uh, but when it comes 300 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.600 to serving God, then I really do believe that. And 301 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.480 so Peter, here's Peter totally sleeping, so much so that 302 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:23.120 the that the angel has to it's bright light, doesn't 303 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:25.200 wake him up. He has to. It doesn't say that 304 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:27.279 he just shook him. He had to hit him in 305 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:28.759 the side side right. 306 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:32.039 By the way, That makes this interaction in my mind 307 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.799 so human. Right, So in other words, you know, like 308 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:38.200 if we were if Hollywood were to depict this, it'd 309 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:42.360 be like Peter, a glowing echoey sort of like uh, 310 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:45.519 you know, effect on a microphone. But uh, but you know, 311 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:47.559 the bright light shines and then all of a sudden 312 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:51.159 it appears to be this this you know, he probably 313 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:53.320 looked like a man. You know, he punches him in 314 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:55.000 the side. Peter get up, and all of a sudden, 315 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:57.840 these magical things start happening, you know, the chains fall off, 316 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.879 the gates miraculously open, and then this person just disappears. 317 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:04.240 And by the way, let's not breeze over the fact 318 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:09.200 that Peter has seen so many visions miraculously from God, 319 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:13.080 and he's like, oh, another visions, even though his senses 320 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:16.559 tell him. You know, he's physically getting up, he's physically 321 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:19.840 walking and putting on his jacket and touching things and 322 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:20.679 smelling things. 323 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:25.879 Well, how worried was was King Herod that he had 324 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:29.039 Peter chained between two soldiers. 325 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:30.600 And then Roman guards posted outdoors. 326 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:33.919 That's right, that's right. How dangerous is Peter? Right? And 327 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:35.519 he's just sharing the gospel. 328 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:37.399 Well, the last time they put a couple of guards 329 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:40.639 there to guard a tomb that didn't work out, Jesus disappeared. 330 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:44.279 So the same kind of thing here, And then, you know, 331 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:46.840 I think it's I love this. This is typical Christians, 332 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:48.360 and this is what I love about. It's one of 333 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:50.720 my favorite stories in the Book of Acts. The people 334 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:54.039 are praying, Oh God, deliver Peter. God, don't let Peter die. 335 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:56.159 He's so important us, we need him for the work. 336 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:58.639 Peter is such a good leader. Oh God, rescue Peter. 337 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.559 Rescue Peter. And Peter and iun door rode open to her. 338 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:04.079 Oh my goodness. She slams the door and run and goes. 339 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:05.400 You never gonna leave. It was Peter's outside. 340 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:08.839 They're like, you're nuts, right right, They're like, they're like, 341 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:13.960 we don't believe it. We're praying, we've been we've been praying, 342 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:15.920 but surely God didn't answer the prayer. 343 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.079 Yeah, yeah, yeah right, Rhoda, you're crazy. Be quiet. We 344 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:21.119 need to get people. We're praying for Peter. We're praying 345 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:22.920 to God to deliver Peter. Well, he's standing this outside 346 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:24.880 the door, and the Bible says, while they're telling her 347 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:27.759 that she's crazy, you're out of your mind, she insisted, 348 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:29.799 and so they go, oh, well, it must be maybe 349 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:32.440 his angel is coming to tell us something. Meanwhile, Peter's 350 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:34.720 knocking out. Okay, he just keeps knocking. 351 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:37.000 And that's the best detail. So all this is happening 352 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:40.079 and the inside in the meanwhile, Peter's still knocking, right. 353 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.200 Hello, Yeah, there's people looking for me. 354 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:46.319 Right right. I don't want to be out of here too. 355 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:49.359 Long that I love the story. This is just one 356 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:53.960 of my favorite things. It's so like us. It's so human, 357 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:57.480 right that we're totally dependent on God enough to pray, 358 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:02.240 but not enough to believe that he's at kind of answer, right, right, 359 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:04.599 So you want to know how much faith it takes 360 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:09.440 to get God to move enough faith to ask, right, 361 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:11.640 so God doesn't always give us what we ask for, 362 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:16.480 but he says the prayers of a righteous person avails much, 363 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:18.960 it accomplishes much. And so when we go and we 364 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.119 have the courage to ask, if it aligns with God's will, 365 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:25.319 God will intervene and God will alter the course of 366 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:28.400 otherwise what may have happened. Who knows Peter might have been, 367 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:30.559 that he might have been up for the execution that day. 368 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:34.920 And by the way, total sidebar here, but a lot 369 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:37.680 of times when people have a tragedy in their life, 370 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:40.119 like they have cancer or they have a surgery. So 371 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:42.759 I read a post of my good friends in Texas 372 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:46.000 who just posted today that her husband's getting surgery on 373 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.279 some lymph nodes. Cancer has spread to the lymphodes. So 374 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:51.680 she's like, I want everybody to pray. And then there 375 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:54.119 are other people in this world who when they have 376 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:57.319 some sort of a health problem, they're completely silent, they 377 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:00.000 don't want anything to know, They're completely private, which prevents 378 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.200 people from praying. And so I'm the type of person 379 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:05.559 where I tell people, hey, this personally is going on 380 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:07.839 in my life. We really need prayer, And then some 381 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:11.240 people say, why do you share that? And sometimes even 382 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:13.039 my family members would say like, well, I don't want 383 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:15.640 that private, and I'd say, well, then you're not going 384 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.480 to have the army of people praying for you, because 385 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:23.559 if we truly believe that, you know, that prayer accomplishes much, 386 00:19:24.039 --> 00:19:27.160 then you know, fifty people praying is better than one 387 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:31.440 person praying, because we believe it actually matters. So unless 388 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:34.799 we believe prayer actually matters, then I guess there's really 389 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:36.319 no point of sharing it. 390 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:39.680 Yeah, right, I think if it's something that's deeply personal 391 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:44.559 for you, sharing with the people that you trust is important. 392 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:48.880 If it's deeply personal for somebody else and you, then 393 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.599 I think you should maybe keep that group a. 394 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:54.200 Little narrower, right, or get the consent. 395 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:58.839 Yeah. So, sometimes you know, there are people who share 396 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:01.519 way too much when they're sharing prairie quests. It would 397 00:20:01.559 --> 00:20:03.960 be okay to say, hey, you know, it might be 398 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:07.240 you might know their name, the exact circumstances of things, 399 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:11.200 and every little detail about how a marriage is falling apart. 400 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:12.799 You don't need to tell any of that. You can say, 401 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:16.599