WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.200 Well, Jeff, today Paul pulls a Willie Nelson, does he Yeah, 2 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:05.120 because he's back on the road again. 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:09.000 Okay, he's heading on the way to Jerusalem. Is that right? 4 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:09.320 Yes? 5 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:11.240 Okay, So he's Chris and I'm Jeff and we're the 6 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:25.000 Bible guys. I just can't wait to get back on 7 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:25.879 the road again. 8 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:27.120 Yeah, Jeff, there you go. 9 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:31.039 Yeah right, Okay, So, hey, today we have a very 10 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:33.520 special segment. I don't know that we've done this segment before, 11 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.240 and I'm super excited about it. I'm super excited about it. 12 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:37.119 It's called said. 13 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:39.240 I just found out a minute ago that Jeff's the 14 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:40.640 one has putting me on the spot. 15 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.759 That's right. So it's a who said it? And what 16 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:45.439 I'm going to do is I'm going to read some 17 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:48.079 Bible quotes and you have to guess who in the 18 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:53.399 Bible said so much pressure. Well, you're one of the 19 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:56.240 Bible guys. Well this one. 20 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:58.640 I'm hoping that they chose ones that are semi obvious. 21 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:03.079 Yes, right, though, Well, in Sunday School, the answer always 22 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.760 was Jesus Moses, right right, Peter chose to Abraham. Those 23 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:10.760 were kind of the four answers. So yeah, anyways, I 24 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:14.280 can promise you. Here we go. That's not those aren't 25 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:16.280 the answers? Here we go? The first one, who is 26 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:18.040 the Lord that I should obey his voice? 27 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:21.359 That's the whole quote. 28 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:23.920 Well, it goes up, Leave my people, go worship the Lord, 29 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:25.079 Take your flocks and herds and go? 30 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:28.280 Can you shait again? 31 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:32.040 Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice? Up? 32 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:35.560 Leave my people, go worship the Lord, Take your flocks 33 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:36.480 and herds and go. 34 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:40.959 That's uh Pharaoh talking to most Pharaoh. 35 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:42.799 There you go. If I hadn't told you to take 36 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:44.760 your flocks and herds and go, it would admit it hard. 37 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.359 Because I know what the heck you read the first part? 38 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:50.159 I want the audience. 39 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:51.920 I said, who is the Lord that I should obey 40 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:52.359 his voice? 41 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:53.959 Okay? Anybody who said that? 42 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:57.799 No, that only comes up just Pharaoh. But okay, okay. 43 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:58.719 There's no context in that. 44 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:03.480 Okay, here you go. This one has no context. Will 45 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:08.759 you indeed sweep away the righteous and the wicked? That 46 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.400 Abraham or Abraham? There a lot very good and you're 47 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:13.800 killing them. That's the one. I'm not sure I would 48 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:17.879 have gotten, to be honest. Good job on that one. Oh, 49 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:19.759 this is an easy one. Oh Lord, I'm not very 50 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:21.759 good with words. I never had been, and I'm not. 51 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.159 Oh yeah, yeah, that's Moses. He was arguing, saying he 52 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:25.719 had all these problems. 53 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:27.719 Remember I told you most of the answers in Sunday 54 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:29.120 School or Abraham Moses, Oh. 55 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:32.479 Yeah, yeah, but the Pharaoh one. Without the context, I 56 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:33.599 wouldn't have got the Pharaoh one. 57 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:36.759 Don't you fear God even when you've been sentenced to die? 58 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:43.560 Jes Don't you fear God even when you've been sentenced 59 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:48.319 to die? Is that can maybe kidniser? 60 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:52.319 Oh? Who are the answers? What are the Bible answers 61 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:57.520 in Sunny School? A Jesus okay, yeah, almost almost, Jesus 62 00:02:57.919 --> 00:02:58.719 getting close. 63 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:01.400 Almost Jesus the Holy yeah yeah yeah no, no, no, no, 64 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:01.960 not the Father. 65 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:05.560 He was very close to Jesus. 66 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:08.840 Very close to Jesus. Yes, uh Jesus yeah yeah. 67 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:13.840 Oh man, so uh there were it was Jesus and 68 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:14.919 two other guys. 69 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:21.840 Oh Jesus, uh uh, it would be Peter and uh 70 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:22.879 okay James. 71 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:25.599 John No, no, no, Jesus and two other guys were 72 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:29.800 in a very unique situation. Everybody else was watching them. 73 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:35.439 Two angels, no thinking of the resurrection. 74 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:37.800 Yeah, well, you're getting really close. It's not the resurrection, 75 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.280 but it's the what's right before the resurrection. 76 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:44.639 The oh, two guys is a thief on the Christ. 77 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.400 There you go, you go, there you go. When you 78 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.879 say close to Jesus, you're talking about you're talking about physically, 79 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:54.800 like in proximity. I was thinking like, oh, he's such 80 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:55.719 a good friend of it. 81 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:58.520 So we got you there, we got you right. Okay, 82 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:01.759 here's the last one. And this was a tricky one, Daniel. 83 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:05.080 I've come here to give you insight and understanding. The 84 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:07.159 moment you began praying, a command was given. 85 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:13.599 That's the angel, right, Yeah, which angel? Oh, it says 86 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:18.759 the name of the angel says it? Well, just guess, 87 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:19.639 I'll guess Gabriel. 88 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:22.040 Gabriel. Yeah, he's always the messenger. That's right, That's right. 89 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:26.360 All right, Yeah, very good. So remember he mentioned this 90 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:29.519 is one of those passages that blows my mind about prayer. Right, 91 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:33.759 Dani's been praying for what twenty something days, and Gabriel 92 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:35.959 shows up and says, the day you began praying, God 93 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.240 sent the answer, but this demon stopped it. And so 94 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.399 I had God sent Michael the archangel to fight that demon, 95 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:44.519 and here, I am to tell you this this information, right, 96 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:47.560 it's just it's phenomenal, that's right. Yeah, that's just great, amazing, 97 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:50.439 So good job man. So you were easily four out 98 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:52.319 of five. Yeah, and with just a little bit of 99 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:52.680 help you. 100 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:57.160 Got fire like nine answers to get to the thief 101 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:58.720 on the gross. 102 00:04:58.839 --> 00:04:59.480 That was great. 103 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:00.600 It was fun. 104 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:01.279 That's a fun one. 105 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:05.279 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And by the way, for desiree who's listening, 106 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:08.079 who makes up these show sheets, Yeah yeah, if you're 107 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:12.399 gonna stump Jeff choose like really obscure, really hard. 108 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.759 Yeah yeah, yeah, great, thank you. I'll fail every one 109 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:19.600 of them. I'll go zero for five as well. 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So today we are continuing in the Book 146 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:48.480 of Acts. So if you're new with us, what we've 147 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:50.600 been doing is going through the Book of Acts. And 148 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:52.600 then when we get to a spot in the Book 149 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:55.120 of Acts where Paul paused to write a letter, maybe 150 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:56.879 he was in prison, or maybe he was traveling or whatever, 151 00:06:57.000 --> 00:06:59.360 we would pause and then go through that letter and 152 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.279 deal with it in that context. So now we are 153 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:05.160 in fifty five a d. Fifty four to fifty five AD. 154 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:09.040 He has written the Book of Romans, and now he's 155 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:11.160 we're back into his travels. So we finished up the 156 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:14.879 Book of Romans. Now he's back in his travels. And 157 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:18.399 the last episode that we did he was talking to 158 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:21.360 the elders from Ephesus. And then here we go in 159 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:25.319 Acts chapter twenty one. After saying farewell to the Ephesian elders, 160 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:28.240 we sailed straight to the island of Kosts. The next 161 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:31.279 day we reached Rhodes and then went on to Patara. 162 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:34.560 There we boarded a ship sailing for Phoenicia. We sighted 163 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:36.399 the island of Cypress, passed it on our left, and 164 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:39.160 landed at the harbor of Tire in Syria, where the 165 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:41.959 ship was to unload his cargo. We went ashore, found 166 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.240 the local believers and stayed with them a week. These 167 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:48.199 believers prophesied through the Holy Spirit that Paul should not 168 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:51.439 go on to Jerusalem. When we returned to the ship 169 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:54.279 at the end of the week, the entire congregation, including 170 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:56.720 women and children, left the city and came down to 171 00:07:56.720 --> 00:07:59.319 the shore with us. There we knelt, prayed, and set 172 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.879 our farewell. Then we went aboard and we returned home. 173 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.120 The next stop after leaving Tyre was Ptolemay, where we 174 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:09.519 greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed for one day. 175 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:12.519 The next day we went on to Cesarea and stayed 176 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:14.240 at the home of Philip the Evangelist, one of the 177 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.079 seven men who'd been chosen to distribute food. He had 178 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.199 four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophecy. Several 179 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:22.879 days later, a man named Agabus, who also had the 180 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.519 gift the prophecy, he arrived from Judea. He came over, 181 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:28.040 took Paul's belt and bound his own feet in hands 182 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:30.199 with it, and then he said, the Holy Spirit declares, 183 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:32.080 so shall the owner of this belt be bound by 184 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:34.639 the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem and turned over to the Gentiles. 185 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:37.240 When we heard this, we and the local believers all 186 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:40.240 begged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem, but he said, 187 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:43.919 why all this weeping, You're breaking my heart. I'm ready 188 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:45.919 not only to be jailed in Jerusalem, but even to 189 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.279 die for the sake of the Lord Jesus. When it 190 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:51.240 was clear that we couldn't persuade him, we gave up 191 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:54.559 and said the Lord's will be done. After this, we 192 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:57.320 packed our things and left for Jerusalem. Some believers from 193 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:59.759 Cesarea accompanied us, and they took us to the home 194 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:03.480 of Nason, a man originally from Cyprus and one of 195 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.679 the early Believers. When we arrived, the brothers and sisters 196 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:09.679 in Jerusalem welcomed us warmly. The next day, Paul went 197 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:11.360 with us to meet with James and all the elders 198 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.519 of Jerusalem which were present. After greeting them, Paul gave 199 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:17.200 a detailed account of the things God accomplished among the 200 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:20.480 gentiles through his ministry. After hearing this, they praised God, 201 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:22.799 and then they said, you know, dear brother, how many 202 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.120 thousands of Jews have also believed, and they all followed 203 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:28.279 the Law of Moses very seriously. But the Jewish believers 204 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:30.440 here in Jerusalem have been told that you are teaching 205 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:32.600 all the Jews who live among the gentiles to turn 206 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:34.679 their backs on the Laws of Moses. They've heard that 207 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:37.200 you teach them not to circumcise their children or follow 208 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:40.480 other Jewish customs. What should we do? They'll certainly hear 209 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:41.759 that you have come. 210 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:44.399 Just through twenty one, and I just. 211 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:47.200 Finished it twenty two. It was a bonus material. Yes, 212 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:50.720 I was giving bonus material. Freuche for it, extra rut there. 213 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:53.600 I like to just give our listeners even more than 214 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:54.639 they expected from them. 215 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:58.679 It's like when you go to five guys, they lived 216 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:03.360 up the fries and it goes, it overflows and there's 217 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.159 even fries at the bottom of the bag. 218 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:07.759 Yeah. Actually my notes to say that we were supposed 219 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:10.080 to go to verse twenty five. Ah, so you're cheating 220 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:13.320 them by four. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah a storyline. I 221 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:16.080 finished it in just a second. Both doesn't want you 222 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:18.120 to have all you deserve, listeners. That's what I want 223 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:24.919 to point. That's right, he says, what should we do? 224 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:27.200 They'll certainly hear that you've come. Here's what we want 225 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:29.000 you to do. We have four men here who have 226 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.159 completed their vow. Go with them to the temple and 227 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:33.679 join them in the purification ceremony, paying for them to 228 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:36.080 have their heads ritually shaved. Then everyone know that the 229 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:38.679 rumors are all false and that you yourself observe the 230 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.480 Jewish laws. As for the gentile believers, they should do 231 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:43.679 what we already told them in a letter. They should 232 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:46.960 havebstained from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood 233 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.679 or the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. 234 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:51.320 And that's where he ended it. 235 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:54.360 Yeah, sexual immorality. Yeah, that's a good. 236 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:58.440 Well, avoid eating meat strangled and offered to idols. 237 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:00.559 Yeah, so you know why I get confused because it's 238 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:03.759 acts twenty one. So in my brain, I was like, 239 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:05.799 you have to stop at verse twenty one. That's what 240 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:06.080 it was. 241 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:08.159 Yeah, you had that look on your face though, for 242 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:09.960 the people who are watching and not just listening it 243 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:11.600 to look on your face like Jeff, when if you're 244 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:13.240 going to shut up? That that was kind of the book. 245 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:15.200 Now that only happens on Sundays. 246 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:20.320 Yeah, so hey, say hey, by the way. 247 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:22.399 I thought what you said on last Sunday it was 248 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:24.759 so funny. You were poking fun at me, you know, 249 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:26.960 because you're teasing me. We tease each other. Yes, And 250 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:28.559 I'm in I'm in the I'm in that crowd. 251 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:30.519 By the way, it goes on nostine. 252 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:33.960 I'm in the crowd, and you said something about you 253 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:35.840 and me speaking or something, and you said, you know, 254 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:39.480 as wonderful as I am, and oh, because you were 255 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:42.519 talking about don't just trust the preachers, trust the Bible. Right. 256 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:44.360 We was talking about the Brians, how they went and 257 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:47.039 looked to see what the if y'all said was true 258 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:47.519 in the Bible. 259 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:51.120 Yes, and so it's always fact check any preacher. That's 260 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:52.799 what you were trying to say. That's what you were saying, right, 261 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:54.720 And then you said you go as wonderful as I 262 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:59.039 am and as hard as Chris tries. I thought that 263 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:02.159 was so funny. It just flowed out of your mouth 264 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:04.679 like just like like you like you were working on 265 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:05.440 that all morning. 266 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:07.000 Yeah, No, I wasn't. It just came out. 267 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:08.159 It was very funny. 268 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:10.200 I don't know that. So I only said that in 269 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:12.440 that service that you were in, so we for our 270 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:15.440 listeners that didn't know, we do three identical services every weekend, 271 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:17.440 but it was the one that you were in. It 272 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:18.639 was the one I said that in here. 273 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:22.000 Yeah, So I thought about standing up and shouting something back, 274 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:22.919 which would have been funny. 275 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:24.200 I would have had the ushers remove you. 276 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:26.759 Yeah, it's so funny. 277 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:30.360 That's funny. So here we are fifty five a d. 278 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:32.519 He's kind of coming to the end and and I 279 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:36.559 think there's there's a couple of interesting things here. At 280 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:41.320 the beginning, he has these prophecies, multiple prophecies, don't go 281 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:44.120 to Jerusalem. You're going to be arrested, they're going to 282 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:46.120 hand you over to the gentiles, you're going to be killed. Right, 283 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:50.440 that's pretty big. But the amazing one was where it says. 284 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:58.159 Uh, these believers verse four, these believers prophesied through through 285 00:12:58.159 --> 00:12:59.919 the Holy Spirit that Paul should not go on to Drew, 286 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:03.080 and he goes on to Jerusalem. 287 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:06.240 And so does this mean Paul was disobeying the Holy Spirit? 288 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:09.759 Well, I think he only went to Jerusalem because he 289 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:11.159 felt like God wanted them to. 290 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:14.519 Yeah. So then I mean that's an interesting phrase then 291 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:16.240 that this is the Holy Spirit saying don't go on 292 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:19.639 to Jerusalem. And so I'll be honest with you, I've 293 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:22.679 read that half a dozen times, dozens of times probably, 294 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:25.559 but probably a half a dozen times. I thought, So, 295 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:28.559 what's the deal, Paul. If somebody prophesied don't go in 296 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.360 the Holy Spirit, right, what do you do? So then 297 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:33.440 this is the first time I've ever noticed this. You know, 298 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.960 we love to use the Life application study Bible. I 299 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:38.279 think these notes are great. And the note for verse 300 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:41.320 four it literally says did Paul disobey the Holy Spirit? 301 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:43.759 Which I thought was funny because that's always my question 302 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.759 when I get to that spot. It says, no more 303 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:49.559 likely the Holy Spirit warned these believers about the suffering 304 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:52.320 that Paul would face in Jerusalem. They do. They drew 305 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:55.639 the conclusion that he should not go there because of 306 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:59.120 that danger. Acts twenty one, ten and twelve support this. 307 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:01.399 The local believers have hearing that Paul would be turned 308 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:03.879 over the Romans begging him to turn back. So they're 309 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:07.440 begging him to turn back. So the prophecy was You're 310 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:10.120 going to be turned over. Paul's confidence later on in 311 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:12.120 this chapter goes, hey, I'm willing to die for christ 312 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:13.919 Ione to go in chains. He'd already been arrested a 313 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:16.039 bunch of times, has already been beaten, he'd already risked 314 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:18.440 his life many times. So he's like, I'm not afraid 315 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:22.360 of this that's happening, and I'm convinced I'm supposed to go. 316 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:25.279 But the believers they also heard the same thing. Bad 317 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:29.000 things are going to happen to you. But and so 318 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:33.159 then their interpretation was you shouldn't go, But Paul knew 319 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:33.879 he was supposed to go. 320 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:36.639 So my question for you is this, have you ever 321 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:38.639 been in a situation because I think he used to 322 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:42.600 minister like gangs in Central PARKI yeah, yeah, right in Chicago, 323 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:45.320 in Chicago. So have you ever been in a situation 324 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:47.399 where you felt like this is what God wanted you 325 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.240 to do and it was dangerous? Oh yeah, and you 326 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:53.639 did it anyway. Yeah, So, like, give us a fun story, 327 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:57.440 because that's actually pretty inspiring because for a lot of us, 328 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:00.279 we have a hard time even speaking up because we 329 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:02.480 think it's going to make somebody feel uncomfortable. That's the 330 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:03.799 amount of danger we shy away. 331 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:07.200 Yeah yeah, yeah. Right back when I was in my twenties, 332 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.080 I worked for a while with a ministry that served 333 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:14.279 gang members on the northwest side of Chicago, and there 334 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:17.799 was a kind of a war going on. Then A 335 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:20.840 and the channel A and E had used to have 336 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.320 a TV show called Gangland, and they had an entire 337 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:28.240 episode all about what was happening while I was there 338 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.600 in the early nineties, and so it was the Cholos, 339 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:35.120 the Insane Latin Disciples, the Latin Kings were fighting quite 340 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.840 a bit, and then they bordered up against some of 341 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:40.799 the African American gangs were raped just to the south. 342 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:43.159 So they would fight there and over and over and 343 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.879 over again. We had guys that were getting killed and things. 344 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:48.279 But every week we'd pack up. We'd be there all 345 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:53.600 day Saturday, all day Sunday, late into Monday morning and engaging. 346 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:56.159 And there were a lot of times where we would 347 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:58.679 all of a sudden either have some kind of word 348 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:01.240 would come to us, or somebody would tell us, Hey, 349 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:03.080 this is going to go down and this is going 350 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:05.360 to be really bad, and we would kind of pull back, 351 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:08.399 especially a lot of the young women that were working 352 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:10.799 on our ministry. We would say, hey, maybe this is 353 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:12.919 the week that you guys just take the week off. 354 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:15.159 Why don't you pray? Why don't you because we're not 355 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:17.720 sure what's going to happen. And on more than one occasion, 356 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:20.639 there was a lot of violence, a lot of bad things. 357 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:22.960 We never had any of the people in our ministry. 358 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:28.559 One time somebody got hurt, but beyond that, it was 359 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:31.799 mostly you know, gang related. They weren't targeting us, but 360 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:34.840 being in a situation where you know, there were shootings 361 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:38.600 and stabbings and you know, we lost I probably lost 362 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:42.559 eight or ten young teenagers that I knew that were killed. 363 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:44.559 You know, we'd be at the hospital with the parents 364 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:47.600 and things. So, yeah, danger happens, and sometimes you know, 365 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:50.080 a message will come, hey, watch out, and then you 366 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:54.120 have to weigh this, you know, is God telling me 367 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:56.240 don't go? Or is God just telling me be careful? 368 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:57.799 And most of the time we had a sense that 369 00:16:57.840 --> 00:16:59.159 God was just saying, you know, be careful. 370 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:04.799 Yeah, So that's really interesting because you know, sometimes God 371 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:08.240 calls us to do things that are risky. You know, 372 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:12.640 they have a penalty, they have a high cost, right, 373 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:17.759 and sometimes it could not necessarily be the most safe environment, right. Yeah. 374 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:19.680 Yeah, sure. I've had to happen all over the world 375 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:22.200 as well, and it's kind of one of those things 376 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:25.079 I don't tell my wife until I get home right 377 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:27.279 right about what happened. But you know, I just have 378 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.319 this very very strong sense. Even when I found out 379 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:32.519 I had cancer, I had this very strong sense, You're 380 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:35.000 not going to arrive in heaven and God, go, what 381 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:36.039 are you doing here so early? 382 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:37.599 Right? Right? 383 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:39.160 But I'm not going to go. I'm not going to 384 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:41.160 arrive in heaven and how to go. Hey, you're fifteen 385 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:45.319 minutes late. When my time is done, that's my time. 386 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:47.920 It's not going to surprise God. Book of Hebrews, which 387 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:50.079 we'll get to. The Book of Hebrews, well, it says 388 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:53.480 it's appointed unto man wants to die. That means every 389 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:55.839 one of us has an appointment. I can't avoid it. 390 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:59.240 I can't prolong it, I can't avoid it. My appointment 391 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.000 is my appointment. I'm not going to show up early. 392 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:03.240 I'm not going to show up late. And so instead, 393 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:05.359 I just have to make sure that we are living 394 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:10.200 our lives fully, living out God's purpose for our life 395 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.680 every moment. And I think that's what Paul's saying. He said, Hey, 396 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:14.519 I'm willing to be in chains, I'm willing to go 397 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:16.160 to prison, I'm willing to die if I have to. 398 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:18.079 But I know that I'm supposed to keep moving forward. 399 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.359 And he had this predisposition for action. Paul does. He 400 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:23.240 doesn't stay around very long, I mean a couple of 401 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:25.680