WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:01.760 Well, hey, today we're going to be talking about a 2 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:03.560 really cool story, you big dorcas. 3 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:06.839 Well, So there's a lady that we're going to be 4 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:08.960 talking about and she has a very unfortunate name. 5 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:09.640 Yeah. 6 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:11.880 So he's Chris and I'm Jeff, and we're the Bible guys. 7 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:26.600 All right. So the segment that was handed to us 8 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:29.079 is we're supposed to draft. 9 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:30.800 Yeah, I'm excited about the top. 10 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:33.880 Five fast food restaurants. We're supposed to do rock paper 11 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:35.719 scissors to figure out who gets the first draft? 12 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:38.399 So, so who? They just looked at it and went, oh, 13 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:40.079 they know some fast food restaurant. 14 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:40.920 I guess so is that? 15 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:41.759 Is that how it worked? 16 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:46.119 So it turns out because they requested five that apparently 17 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:48.280 one of us will have three on our team and 18 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:48.840 the other two. 19 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:49.200 Yeah. 20 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:50.840 Yeah right, so I guess. 21 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:52.520 Maybe we can do a bonus pick. So it's three 22 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:52.960 into three? 23 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:54.560 Yeah, sure, why not? 24 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:57.840 Okay, let's do We're terrible at this, by the way. 25 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:01.600 Yes, one, two, three? Shoot, oh I get the first 26 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:07.760 all right, so I'm gonna go with Oh, so I 27 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.040 have a question. Actually, so does five guys, burgers and 28 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:12.319 fries count as fast food? 29 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:15.120 Do they hand it out the window to you dread. 30 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:17.760 Okay, so well then no. 31 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:20.000 It has to be in a bag. Okay, hand it 32 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:20.599 out a window. 33 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:22.799 Okay, all right, bag window, got it? Okay, Well then 34 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:24.200 I I'm gonna go with Taco Bell. 35 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:28.920 Taco Bell is your number one draft choice. Yes, wow, 36 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:30.519 this is going to be easy for me to win. 37 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:32.359 Then okay, here we go, ready, ready, we got it? 38 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:34.200 Right? That was it just for first pick? 39 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:37.519 Oh oh oh I had to go Okay, okay, in 40 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:41.799 an out burger. Oh wow, yeah, I'm pretty that's that's 41 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:42.680 a no brainer. 42 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:44.079 I'm pretty dumb. Yeah. 43 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:46.400 Well, no, you enjoy your Taco Bell. 44 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:51.400 I would definitely trade Taco Bell for innut burger. Yeah 45 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:52.000 times ten. 46 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:54.280 Oh, I know in an outburger is amazing. 47 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:56.599 But we don't have them here, so it escaped my mind. 48 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:59.480 Yeah yeah, okay, all right, in an outburger by far 49 00:01:59.560 --> 00:01:59.959 the best. 50 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.159 Yeah. So gosh, these are hard. This is hard. 51 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:05.560 Yeah. My daughter and I took her to La and 52 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:07.680 like at eleven o'clock at night, she goes, Dad, I 53 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.280 got the munchies, So oh, let's go to in an outburger. 54 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:14.280 So we pull in Hollywood and we order and then 55 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:16.560 she's like, oh my gosh, and every day, if there 56 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:18.120 was a time way there, we kept stopping it in 57 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:20.639 an outburger. Yeah. I probably put on ten pounds that week. 58 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:21.439 But it was amazing. 59 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:22.759 Yeah, it was amazing. 60 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:26.360 You got to die from something, right, she was in 61 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:27.000 an out burger. 62 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:30.400 Right, So I'm going to go with Kentucky Fried Chicken. 63 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:32.719 Kentucky Fried Chicken. 64 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:34.840 Yeah, really really, yeah, our family loves it. 65 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:37.879 Okay, Well I'm going with Chick fil A. 66 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:40.280 Okay, I stink of this game. 67 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:43.360 Yeah, I know you come on, man, come on. 68 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.439 Your picks are supremely better than mine. 69 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:50.000 I know. So I'm all right. It may be because 70 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:50.879 I'm a Kinnoisewer. 71 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:55.000 Yeah, I mean, because they're just not on my mind. 72 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:57.759 Yeah, I just assumed. I mean, you were in Atlanta 73 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:01.080 for a while, you were in the town, true Kathy's 74 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:03.919 went to church, Yes, and you didn't think of Chick 75 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:05.879 fil A. Hey, by the way, that's Jesus chicken. 76 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.639 By Your suggestion was to write them all down first, uh, 77 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:10.960 And I said, let's do it off the top of 78 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.560 her head. Yes, have we written them down? 79 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:16.840 Yeah? Those would have been their own bad choices. Yeah. 80 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:20.520 All right, Well, then, since I have such a terrible list. Anyway, 81 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:22.199 I'll just go with Wendy's. 82 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:26.080 Wendy's so I like Wendy's. Wendy's is good. Yeah, okay, 83 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:29.240 I'm going to say checkers. 84 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:34.639 All right, forget there you go. I'm going to get 85 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:35.120 up and leave. 86 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:37.800 Yes, am I right, you're right? I know. 87 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:40.439 Okay, your list is supreme. 88 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:42.759 All I have to say is follow the big guided lunch. 89 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:45.319 That's that's all. You always follow the big guy lunch. 90 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:48.280 Don't ever trust the skinny chef, and don't ask skinny 91 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:50.680 people where should we eat? Did you see that meme 92 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.360 the other day and it was like a news article 93 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.400 and it said one hundred and three year old vegetarian 94 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:56.800 said it wasn't worth it? 95 00:03:58.039 --> 00:03:59.159 Was it worth it? 96 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:00.000 It wasn't worth it. 97 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:01.680 It wasn't worth it. That's funny. 98 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:05.439 Okay, hey, I liked that one. So you know my 99 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:08.680 team would win this, yes, yes, okay. 100 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:13.879 Hey so sure. So we are reading from the Chronological 101 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:19.199 Life Application Study Bible, and the chronological word there is 102 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:25.759 because this particular Bible is placing, for instance, all the 103 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:28.680 all of Paul's doings and all of his writings, and 104 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:30.720 they're sort of, you know, weaving it in the Book 105 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:33.560 of Acts as the Book of Acts as we're reading it, 106 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.759 so we can make references to what is happening, for instance, 107 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:40.399 like yesterday we made reference to Glatians chapter one, because 108 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:41.279 that's what it does. 109 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.759 So if you're kind of new to Bible reading, sometimes 110 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:47.040 it can be a surprise. You just you know, you 111 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.480 pick up a Bible and you start reading it like 112 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:51.639 a regular book, a normal book, and that is you 113 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:53.199 just start at the beginning and you're planning to read 114 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:54.839 to the end, and you're looking at it and going, wow, 115 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:57.160 there's thousands of baities here, but I'm going to read. 116 00:04:57.480 --> 00:04:59.240 And so then you read through the Book of Genesis 117 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.360 and it just kind of goes in order. It makes sense, 118 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:04.399 and then Exodus it makes sense. And then after that 119 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:07.480 it starts getting a little kind of odd, and then 120 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:10.240 you start having a sense that you're not really reading 121 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.480 things in order. And then by the time you get 122 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:17.639 into maybe King David's life or Saul's life in the 123 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:20.279 Old Testament, you start to realize there's multiple books that 124 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:23.279 are telling similar or same stories and it's not in order. 125 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.040 And then you get in all these poetic books and 126 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:29.600 these prophets, and what's the context with them, and they're 127 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:31.759 from different times. And then you get into the Gospels 128 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:34.720 and there's four different eyewitnesses telling some of the same 129 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:37.160 stories and some different stories, and how does all that 130 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:38.959 work together. Then you finally get in the Book of Acts. 131 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.079 Then there's this whole group of writings of Paul that 132 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:44.560 are just kind of floating out there without any context 133 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:46.639 of when or why they were written. And then finally 134 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.600 you get to the end those final books. Finally you 135 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:53.360 finish up with with John writing the book Revelation. And 136 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:58.040 it's not in the same it doesn't flow in the 137 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:00.480 way that we're accustomed to reading Western books. And it's 138 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:03.839 because the books in the Bible sixty six books are 139 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:12.120 clumped together by ideas or by the style of the writing. Right, 140 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:15.839 So like the poetic books Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastics, they're poetic, 141 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.199 and they're kind of clumped together, not in order, just 142 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:22.120 these are the or the Gospels are here, or Paul's 143 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:24.680 letters are all here. They group them together that way 144 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:27.040 instead of giving them in context in order. So a 145 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:32.279 chronological Bible is not superior to the others, but it's useful, 146 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:36.000 especially when you're reading through the Gospels. For instance, in 147 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:39.000 this one. I love it because it'll put all three. 148 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:42.000 You know, maybe if you're reading a story and it's 149 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.040 in Luke and John, but it's not in Matthew Mark, 150 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:47.120 well it'll put those two together in the right order 151 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:49.399 at the right spot. So it kind of gives you 152 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:52.839 some flow to the storyline a little bit better. So 153 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:55.480 we love it. But it has all the notes here 154 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:57.600 of the Life Application Study Bible, which is what we 155 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.360 love because you don't want to just read the Bible 156 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:02.759 and then go well, I'm glad I read those words. 157 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:04.920 You want to read the Bible and then go away 158 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:06.800 saying so this is what I should do about it. 159 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:09.279 In the Life Application Study Bible will give you more information, 160 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:10.959 but I'll also give you a lot of thoughts about 161 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:13.319 how to apply it to my life. So we love it. 162 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:17.560 I just had a conversation with somebody yesterday in my office. 163 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:20.759 They're kind of re engaging in faith. They've never really 164 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:22.480 read through the Bible, and they told me they just 165 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:25.399 bought one of the Life Application Study Bibles online. So 166 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:28.079 we don't get paid for this. Nobody's promoting it or 167 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:31.000 promoting us to do it. We just think it's a 168 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:32.680 really useful tool. So you should get one. 169 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:33.879 Very cool. 170 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:38.639 Okay. So we are in Acts chapter nine. We're continuing 171 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:41.959 this and we're pivoting off of Saul for a moment, 172 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.439 and we're going back to Peter and Peter. 173 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:45.839 But we're not. 174 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.079 The Bible is well, the Bible is sure. Thank you 175 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:51.160 for the clarification. Yeah, you're welcome. 176 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:53.600 What we do without you verse thirty two. 177 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:54.759 I don't know what we do without you. 178 00:07:54.800 --> 00:08:00.040 We're seven minutes. Quit talking about it. 179 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:03.279 So Acts chapter nine, verse thirty two says, Meanwhile, Peter 180 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:05.920 traveled from place to place, and he came down to 181 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.680 visit the believers in the town of Lida. There he 182 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:13.279 met a man named Aeneus, he who had been paralyzed 183 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.680 and bedridden for eight years. Peter said to him, Aneus, 184 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:20.839 Jesus Christ heals you. Get up, roll up your sleeping man, 185 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:23.720 and he was healed instantly. Then the whole population, Elida 186 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:27.680 and Sharon saw Aeneas walking around, and they turned to 187 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:30.920 the Lord. There was a believer in Joppa named Tabitha, 188 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:34.440 which in Greek is Dorcas, and she was always doing 189 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:37.000 kind things for others and helping the poor. About this 190 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:40.399 time she became ill and died. Her body was washed 191 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:43.279 for burial and laid in an upstairs room. But the 192 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.840 believers had heard that Peter was nearby Atlida, so they 193 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:48.840 sent two men to beg him. Please come as soon 194 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.720 as possible. So Peter returned with them, and as soon 195 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:53.600 as he arrived, they took him to the upstairs room. 196 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:56.000 The room was filled with widows who were weeping and 197 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.600 showing him the coats and other clothes that Dorcas had 198 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.399 made for them. Peter asked them all to leave the room, 199 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.000 and then he knelt and prayed. Turning to the body, 200 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:07.279 he said, get up, Tabitha, and she opened her eyes, 201 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:10.080 and when she saw Peter, she sat up. He gave 202 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:12.440 her his hand and helped her up, and then he 203 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:14.519 called in the widows and all the believers, and he 204 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:17.399 presented her to them alive. The news spread through the 205 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.120 whole town, and many believed in the Lord, and Peter 206 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:23.000 stayed a long time in Jappa, living with Simon, a 207 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:23.960 tanner of hides. 208 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:32.000 Yeah. So wow, there's I mean, two stories both by Peter. Peter, 209 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:35.799 by the way, who walked with Jesus, saw Jesus perform 210 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:40.320 many miracles, healing people and then rising people from the grave. Right, 211 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:43.879 you know, just raising them up just by speaking. And 212 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:47.120 then Peter, of course, you know, taking his first stab 213 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:51.399 at those things, you know, walking by and saying, hey, 214 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:53.120 I don't have silver and I don't have gold, but 215 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:56.879 rise up and walk. And so Peter is taking a 216 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:01.240 shot at this. Well apparently he's still doing the and uh. 217 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:07.000 But this is the first account where Peter himself raises 218 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:11.440 somebody from the dead, which, by the way, is pretty crazy. 219 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:15.039 I mean, it's just crazy to think that that that 220 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.039 God used these people. And by the way, that the 221 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:21.440 New Testament had not been written or completed at this time. Right, 222 00:10:21.480 --> 00:10:24.200 So there's the Old Testament, then Jesus who had walked 223 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:26.799 through the you know, walked the earth, and who had left, 224 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:30.519 and then this birth of the Church. And so God 225 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:36.000 uses them in miraculous ways to further the kingdom and uh. 226 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:37.679 And so you know, one of the ways that he 227 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.159 does is by giving them the ability to do great miracles. 228 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:44.799 So Peter raises Dorcas. And by the way, I prefer 229 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:48.320 to call her Tabitha, right, so we get yeah, well 230 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:49.799 it's the it's the Arabic name. 231 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:57.080 No, so, so Tabitha is Aramaic and Dorcas's Greek. Dorcas's Greek, 232 00:10:57.639 --> 00:10:58.639 Docas Greek. 233 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:00.320 And I knew it was something about something like that. 234 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.799 So so anyway, but he says, rise up Tabitha. 235 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:07.279 Yes, yes, yes, so I prefer to Well, he's speaking 236 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:09.879 in Aramaic, which would have been more probably Jesus spoke 237 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:14.440 more in Aramaic and as well. But yeah, so both 238 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.080 both names Tabitha and Dorcas both mean in their native 239 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:22.159 languages Aramaic and Greek mean gazelle. Really yeah, so isn't 240 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:22.679 a pretty name? 241 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:23.159 Did not know? 242 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:25.200 That's very pretty? So Dorcas that means gazelle. 243 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:28.200 Oh so when I say you big Dorcas. 244 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:31.080 You're calling somebody a big gazelle. Oh okay, yeah, I 245 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:33.120 think a big gazelle is a kudu, isn't it? What? 246 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:33.759 Right? 247 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:38.759 Right? So that's the biggest of the gazell's. So one 248 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:40.399 of the things I love, So, you know, not to 249 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:43.919 minimize Eneus. I think that his story is really special. 250 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:47.559 He'd been paralyzed for eight years, unable to walk, and 251 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:51.039 that's really incredible, and the people are amazed, and it 252 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:54.120 says that he's he's up and walking around and people 253 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.120 turn to the Lord right. The whole population saw this happening, 254 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:02.559 and they turned to the Lord. And that's really significant. 255 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:06.559 Miracles happen. The majority of miracles in the New Testament 256 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:10.639 happened for the purpose of capturing the attention of the 257 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:14.720 community so that people would come to faith in Christ. 258 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:18.039 That's when these miracles are happening. They're not just for 259 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:20.759 their own benefit. They're not just so all good. Finally 260 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:23.519 this guy can walk, Certainly, he benefits, but it's for 261 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:26.480 the benefit of the entire community. God does these miracles 262 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:28.720 because I'm sure there were other people who couldn't walk 263 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.919 in the world that Peter did not heal. He healed 264 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:33.759 this guy in this moment, and it was for the 265 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:37.320 sake of getting all the people in the community to 266 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:40.879 be aware of the good news of Gospel Christ. That's great. Hey. 267 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:43.519 By the way, just side note, I was looking at 268 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:46.440 the notes here in this life Application study Bible, and 269 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:50.039 I love how sometimes the Old Testament and the New 270 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:53.080 Testament connect together. Because we see that she lives in 271 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:55.480 the city of Japa, and it says the Djappa was 272 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:58.600 one hundred and twenty five feet above sea level, overlooking 273 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:02.399 the Mediterranean Sea. Joppa was the town with which the 274 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:06.639 cedars of Lebanon had been floated to be shipped to 275 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:10.799 Jerusalem to use in the temple construction way back in 276 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:14.080 second Chronicles. And then of course the prophet Jonah had 277 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:17.679 left port from Joppa on his fated trip when he 278 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:18.960 tried to sail to Tarshis. 279 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:22.480 Yeah, and Jappa still exists today, Yes, in the Palestinian 280 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:24.240 region of Israel. 281 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:27.919 And Japa was also on Clash of the Titans. Remember 282 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:29.919 the movie or share them from Joppa? 283 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:34.799 That's true, Okay, I can always trust you for a 284 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:35.720 movie reference. 285 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:36.759 Definitely, yes. 286 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:40.960 Yeah. So historically it's always been a well known city, 287 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:44.120 and so this will be another reason why this miracle 288 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:46.080 happened here is because if the people of Djappa go, 289 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:49.159 my goodness, did you just see what happened? The word's 290 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:50.600 not just going to stay in this little village. It's 291 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.120 going to spread everywhere that commerce goes. You know, you 292 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:55.399 believe what just happened over in Dappa, right, right, So 293 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:58.759 God is very strategic and where these miracles are happening 294 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:02.440 and why they're serving god purposes, not just Eneus's purpose 295 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:06.240 or or hear in just this moment, uh Dorcas's purpose. Right. 296 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:06.919 Yeah. 297 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:08.120 So yeah. 298 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:12.519 And I made a joke earlier about her making draperies. 299 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:14.639 It doesn't actually say draperies, but you assumed that she'd 300 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:17.559 probably made draperies because she made clothes, she was a seamstress. 301 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:21.519 She was obviously loved and known in that town. And uh, 302 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:25.440 you know, for them to go grab Peter also demonstrates 303 00:14:25.559 --> 00:14:29.919 their faith. Right. So imagine, you know, somebody dies and 304 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:33.000 they prepare the body, uh you know for the upper 305 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:35.679 you know, they put put place placer and obviously in 306 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:38.559 this room that they referred to like upstairs, and then 307 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:40.759 they have faith and they say, Peter, come as quick 308 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.720 as you can. Well, she's already dead, yeah, which means 309 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:44.519 think about that. 310 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:45.759 What were they expecting? 311 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:48.320 Well, I think they were expecting exactly what he did. 312 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:50.519 Peter hadn't raised anybody from the dead yet. 313 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:53.480 Well, yeah, you're probably right, So what were they thinking 314 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:55.399 was going to happen? I think they thought what was 315 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:58.440 going to happen happen? Yeah, yeah, right, And I mean 316 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:01.639 even when Jesus was alive, remember when he raised Lazarus. 317 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:03.399 Does it seemed like they're called that Peter was a 318 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:07.120 little late, right you know, Hey, well she's sick. Maybe 319 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:09.000 while she had that fever. You should have called Peter, 320 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:10.159 right right, right? 321 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:12.679 Well anyway, well do you remember do you remember when 322 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:15.720 Jesus showed up on the scene for Lazarus. Uh, they said, 323 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:17.120 we wish you would have been here. 324 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:19.919 Yeah, yeah, he waited, He waited for three days on purpose. 325 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:20.039 He did. 326 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:20.919 Yeah he did. 327 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:24.399 But they didn't have this type of faith in calling 328 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:27.399 them because they're the ones who said we wish you 329 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:29.519 would have been here, and that was Jesus. I mean, 330 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:30.879 Peter's just the little minion. 331 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:32.759 Yeah, well he's a big dog. 332 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:33.960 But yeah, he's a big dog. 333 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:36.399 Now, yeah he is. He wasn't then, but he is 334 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:38.960 in this story, yeah for sure. So he winds up 335 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:44.799 going and I think this is really a beautiful moment 336 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:46.639 for us if we just pause a little bit, because 337 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:50.600 the story it's astounding. Peter is a big dog. Wow, 338 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:53.360 I don't think I Well, so, I personally have never 339 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:57.000 raised anybody from the dead. Yeah, as far as I know, right, 340 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:01.080 I've prayed over people, I've seen God heal people, certainly, 341 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:05.200 but I've never raised anybody from the dead. So it's astounding. 342 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:07.960 And we can get obsessed with and focused on that 343 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:13.600 part of the story. But the women didn't love Peter. 344 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:20.039 They'd loved Tabitha right right. They were grieving. Peter was 345 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:25.279 a tool for them because they loved Tabitha. And sometimes 346 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:32.279 we overemphasize the dramatic front of house on stage gifts 347 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:36.240 and we just don't think our gift of clothing, the 348 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:40.519 widows caring for people behind the scenes make a big impact. 349 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:43.399 But these women were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Peter, 350 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:46.200 it's nice to have you here. We really need her back, right. 351 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:50.200 They're not saying, oh, thank god, Peter's here. Finally we're 352 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:53.440 going to be fulfilled in our Christian walk. They wanted 353 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:56.679 Tabitha back because she's the one that cared for them. 354 00:16:56.919 --> 00:16:59.320 She's the one that gave them value. She's the one 355 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:01.240 who poured in their lives. She was the one who 356 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:04.880 loved them and cared for them, and they they desperately 357 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:09.319 wanted her. And so don't minimize your role in the kingdom. 358 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:12.000 Don't minimize the good that you do for those children 359 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:15.240 in that classroom, or for those teenagers that you're in 360 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.880 that group with, or don't minimize the care that you 361 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:20.839 give to the hungry people or those that are in 362 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:24.720 prison or whatever. That work has a greater impact on 363 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.000 the hearts and the lives of people than just the 364 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:30.160 big miraculous moments that Peter's walking around doing. Not to 365 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:34.079 minimize Peter, but sometimes we overemphasize his kind of gifts 366 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.599 and we minimize hers. But here in this moment in 367 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:39.880 the church, they were grieving over her. 368 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:44.359 Now a little foreshadowing, the Bible goes out of its 369 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:47.160 way to say that Peter stayed a long time living 370 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:50.160 in Jappa, living with Simon a tanner of hides. 371 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:51.240 Isn't this cool? 372 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.279 Yeah? Because so think about this. So if you're a 373 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:57.519 good Jewish boy and you're raised like Peter, and you know, 374 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:01.400 you'd believe your entire life that God was you know, 375 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:04.119 you were the chosen people, and the God of Israel 376 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:08.200 was for you as a Jewish boy in a Jewish culture, 377 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:10.759 and that was you know that that was the deal. 378 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:15.519 And then all of a sudden, last chapter, God converts 379 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:19.559 Saul into Paul. God meets Paul and basically gives Paul 380 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.880 the mission and says, your main job of your entire 381 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.880 life is to make certain that anybody who is not 382 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:29.920 Jewish knows that the Gospel is for them too. So 383 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:34.680 Paul's entire mission was very specifically to bring the Gospel 384 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:37.319 to the Gentiles, even though he himself was a Jew, 385 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:39.400 but he was also a Roman citizen, right, so he 386 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:42.640 sort of had one foot in both worlds. So Paul's 387 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:47.400 goal is to bring to the Gentiles. Well, think about this. 388 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:51.319 So Peter, you know, he actually had a hard time, 389 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:53.839 as we're about to see tomorrow, he had a hard 390 00:18:53.880 --> 00:19:01.720 time treating the Gentiles Christians with the same respect, treating 391 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:07.079 them with the same manner. Favoritism, jealousy, disrespect, all that 392 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.440 stuff comes into play. Paul eventually challenges Peter that we're 393 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:13.359 going to probably read about that too. But anyway, here's 394 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:17.200 the point of the story. The foreshadowing takes place with 395 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:22.039 Peter living with Simon, a tanner of hides, so it 396 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.480 says this in the life acculation study Bibble In Djaba, 397 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:28.599 Peter stayed at the home of Simon, a tanner of hides, 398 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:31.920 a leather worker. Leather workers made animal hides into leather. 399 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:35.039 It is significant that Peter was at Simon's house because 400 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:40.079 leather working involved contact with dead animals, and Jewish law 401 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:44.559