024: Nathan Schipper – In Prison With Paul

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Welcome to the good Christian
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I talked this week comes from a
class that was given as part of

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a series at the UK youth
conference, in 2013, By brother,

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Nathan shipper, brother Nathan
in his class is looking at the

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Life of Paul.
It’s a fantastic series.

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I enjoyed listening every single
one of them.

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My favorite were probably class,
4 and Class 5 and class 5 is

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what we will be looking at for
our, for our talk today.

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Brother, Nathan is really
enjoyable and have really

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relatable speaker.
The the way he approaches the

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entire subject is kind of a
fresh take on how You could look

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at the life of Paul, he breaks
it into five little groups,

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talking about different five
stages in in Paul’s life.

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This class 5 is talking about,
Paul’s time in prison.

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A couple quick disclaimer is
just about the class.

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If you hear him talking about
handing out Smarties, or doing

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things to try to get
participation, that was

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something he was doing
throughout his entire series of

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putting names on the board for
the different people from the

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different parts of the world
that we’re at this, at this

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youth weekend.
And also handing out Smarties to

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encourage people to participate.
He also ends this class with

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something he did at all five of
his classes called a postcard

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from Paul.
Would you like a little short

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message, which actually serves
as a perfect little summary for

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the theme of the class all
written in Paul’s perspective?

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As I said this class is about
top, Paul’s time in prison and

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brother, Nathan does a really
good job at digging into a lots

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of really neat nuggets about
Paul’s time in prison really

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giving a good synopsis of his
entire time from the time.

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He’s first arrested and taken to
caesarea all the way to the time

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that he until he appeals to
Caesar and then lives in house,

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arrest through the end of his
life.

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While going through them, he
pulls out some really neat

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lessons for or us really
practical ones.

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One of the major cruxes of this
whole class.

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He starts with is not letting
her situation, set your attitude

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instead. letting whatever drives
you set your attitude regardless

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of your situation, which is
something that Paul did and is

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really a good lesson that no
matter what you’re going through

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in life, as long as you are
focused on God and on serving

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him as best as you can, you
won’t be discouraged by it.

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I think my favorite part of this
class in particular is the last

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about five six minutes which is
where brother Nathan is wrapping

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up his in, not just this class
but also the entire series for

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the week, you can really feel
the emotion that he feels for

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the group of people.
It’s as a youth weekend, the

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group of young people that he
was talking about and about the

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passion.
He has for this subject, it was

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really powerful to feel and he
really kind of takes what had

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been a Let’s look at Paul and
pull out some lessons and really

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kind of flips the script and
really makes it about how do we

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live our life and it was just a
fantastic way to close the the

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class and the series.
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was really, really great and we
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everybody.
So with with that will will turn

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it over to the class.
Now, for class 5 from brother,

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Nathan shippers, series on Paul
titled in prison with Paul,

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Morning afternoon g’day.
Mate.

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Good, awesome.
I’m so, we’ve been here for

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nearly four weeks now and I’ve
got to say the longer, I’m here,

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the mall weird.
This country seemed like

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everybody says tonight on the
menu, it’s roast beef and

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Yorkshire pudding and I might
fantastic.

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I’ve never had this Yorkshire
pudding stuff.

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Heard about it.
This this To be good on a rock

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up there.
It’s like a shell that is like

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false packaging, putting like
just a shell.

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I couldn’t believe it.
And then last night.

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What’s this thing about?
Like you got to sit on the

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ground, open a birthday card.
There’s this guy telling

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everyone to sit down on the
floor because you got over to

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birthday God.
What’s going on?

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I’ve never heard of this before.
Where did this come from?

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It’s just like a national thing.
When you open birthday card, you

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sitting on the floor.
No.

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So Paul’s just weird.
Yeah, okay.

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Sorry.
I could not work out what was

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going on.
Sit on the floor.

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Open a birthday card.
That’s the first time I’ve done

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it and I promise you I’ll never
do it again unless one of you

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guys send me a birthday card,
okay, I’m going to start with

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saying thank you.
The kids have just loved it.

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It’s some.
It’s been really awesome because

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you guys have looked after the
kids and help with the kids and

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played with the kids.
And I have to sit.

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And that has allowed me to spend
time with you guys and get to

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know you got and only his well,
we’ll get there.

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I think, when we arrived with
new light, Probably 15 people

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like Lockheed Smith.
He goes to my pleasure and Joe

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and Jules.
I go to my page about 16, people

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probably all of them from Perth
and then Duncan I met him once

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that was almost about it.
So getting to know you as I have

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has been great.
But yeah, thank you.

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Okay.
If you ever decide to come to

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Australia or going to get past
this, thank you for looking

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after the thank you for looking.
After the kids, I got it out.

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Okay, if you ever decide to come
to Australia and want to keep in

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touch, or want to keep in touch,
we’re live in Perth.

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In Western Australia.
There’s my email address my

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phone number and if you’re on
Facebook, I don’t really like,

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really do Facebook.
But if you’re on Facebook,

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that’s who I am, I’m Nate from
Facebook not native to keep it.

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If you ever come to Perth and
want somewhere to stay, give us

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a dial, drop me an email, and
I’ll find a hotel for you.

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No problem.
No, let us know and we’re more

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than happy to put you up or send
you.

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Okay, so, Joe or Joe’s or Sam’s,
or, you know, there’s plenty of

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other people in Perth would love
to meet young people, but you’re

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more than, welcome to come and
stay end of your studies, which

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is actually in December of every
year, over the Christmas New

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Year.
Period is a really awesome time

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to come.
You have Sensational weather,

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and there’s a week of studies
and a camp in the middle to

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really good time become.
So if you want to get away from

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the snow, come to Perth for the
interview studies lock, you can

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tell you all about it.
It’s a pretty awesome week.

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Really good week.
Okay, that’s enough of that.

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Who am I?
Sorry.

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No, not sorry.
No.

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Yesterday, anyone hear that?
Say it again.

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Andrew.
Okay, that is Robert Ballard.

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Does anyone know what some what
he’s famous for sinking, being

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an American?
Almost.

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That’s Andrew Fraser.
I’m talking Robert Ballard the

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other guy who made us all sit on
the floor, so someone got over

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their birthday gun.
You just be brought.

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September 1 1985 350.
Miles off the coast of

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Newfoundland.
In two miles, deep of water.

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That man found the Titanic.
And this is what he said are

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pointing it.
My first direct view of the

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Titanic, lasted less than two
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But the Stark sight of her
immense black Hull towering

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above.
The ocean floor will remain

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forever ingrained in my memory.
My lifelong dream was to find

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this great ship and during the
past 13 years, the Quest for her

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has dominated my life.
What is dominating your look?

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Is it, you study?
You unique schooling.

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Is it career?
He’s a how much money.

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Mm.
How many has you know?

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He’s falling apart dominate your
for 13 years.

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This guy was pressing forward
just to find the ship just to

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find a ship that had life, sunk
after nearly 100 years early he

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just wanted to find.
It was his lifelong dream fine

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Titanic and the quest to find
it.

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Dominate lie.
What is dominating your life?

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the Apostle Paul said, When he
was in prison.

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When the walls were High when
the lights were out, when the

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walls seemed absolutely
insurmountable.

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And there was no way out of the
trauma and the terrifying

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situation that he was in.
He said, the one thing I want is

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not Freedom, it’s not a bottle
of San Pellegrino.

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It’s not like the newspaper.
It’s not a good meal, it wasn’t

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anything other than to become
progressively, more deeply and

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more intimately.
Pointed Jake.

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What is dominating your locker?
And importantly.

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Where we going to be in 10 years
time.

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Where are you going to be in 10
years time?

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What plans have you put in
place?

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Are you putting in place to say?
This is where I want to be

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Spirit. 10, you what is your
goal?

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What up?
Really important thing.

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Where are you going?
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We hand up.
If you stayed in jail.

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Just for overnight, not as a
visitor, I’ve said stayed in

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jail, if you overnighted in
jail.

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Probably none of us have been in
jail.

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I think it’s probably fair to
say that none of us have

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probably been confined anywhere
for a year, let alone two or

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three or four, a large
percentage of your life.

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Probably the closest many of us
have got is you’re grounded.

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And you’re not going out for two
hours or two days.

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No, you’re not going anywhere,
and it was really tough.

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Wasn’t it was really tough in my
house.

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When that sort of stuff happened
to me, I had to go and we’d the

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lon go and pull the weeds out of
the lawn and the rule was an ice

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cream bucket.
Naughty thing about an ice cream

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bucket full of weeds and I had
to be pressed down and

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overflowing you know trying to
get this spiritual thing out of

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pulling weeds out of the lon but
I had to deliver to my parents.

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A bucket of weeds Christian and
overflowing and as tough because

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all your friends or your mates
are out there, having fun and

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you’re waiting the lawn with
Myron par, not particularly

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enjoyable.
But that would just lasted for a

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couple of days, maybe for a
couple of hours but we’re today

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in prison with Paul we’re going
to get behind the bars of the

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jails in which he spent a lot of
his life, we’re going to observe

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him, observe his behavior.
Observed the way he interacted

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with If people are going to
listen to these conversations

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and take a peek at some of the
things that he wrote, while he

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was in prison, and we begin in
Acts chapter 24 back to where we

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were.
I think the other night Acts

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chapter 24, Write a few more
questions because I’ve got heaps

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of Smarties left, right?
How many counties are there in

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Germany?
He said that the guy who gave me

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that question.
Yeah, very well done.

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How many locks are there in
Scotland?

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29.
I know that.

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So Australia gets another ten.
One, two, three.

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Okay, Acts chapter 24.
Where is Paul?

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Paul is in caesarea, right?
And you remember the story, the

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whole case had been based on
hearsay and so it was dismissed

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the case, the court was closed
and Felix put pull back into

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custody and said, look, leave
him at Liberty.

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Let his friends come to him but
just keep him under some sort of

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security.
So there’s there’s Paul, he

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spend some time there.
Felix knew that he had a

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dilemma, and he knew that he had
to do something about, he knew

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that he had to sort something.
Before this case could progress

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any further and does anyone know
how long Paul was in prison?

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Just about two years, just
waiting for Felix to get the

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emotion, you go just two years,
you know?

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So you’re 18, you still in
there.

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When you’re 19 your 20th,
birthday prison, happy birthday,

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Hannah and Joe.
By the way, Hannah’s having a

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21st, imagine being in prison
from like 19 to 21.

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Imagine being in prison too,
what would that be?

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That is the Apostle Paul, right?
He’s in jail for two years.

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Are there any charges laid
against him not one charge at

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all?
He’s been held and being

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detained without charge.
Now, I just want to put that in

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perspective for a moment so that
we actually can understand what

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we’re talking about here, your
country, the UK has enshrined in

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law that no one can be detained
for more than 24 hours without

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chart.
You can’t be detained for more

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than 24 hours.
That is the longest.

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Someone can be held without a
charge being placed unless

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they’re suspected of terrorism
in which case you ate that 28.

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So my mass and I could be wrong,
that tells me the Apostle Paul

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was in prison for approximately
720 something more days, more

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than your country would allow
without charge.

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No Amnesty International no
human rights Commissioners.

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Nothing.
No lawyer, no support

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whatsoever.
I don’t know what it’s like in

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your country, but are illegal
immigrants.

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Get treated better than that.
Nope, not all and while in

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custody, what did he do?
What did he do?

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When he’s in custody sitting
there year after year, month

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after month, what did he do?
He wrote letters, he wrote let

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it.
Did he write into lawyers?

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No he didn’t write letters to
Lloyd’s was he complaining?

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Whinging demanding, an immediate
review of his case.

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Felix, this is ridiculous.
I’ve been here for so long.

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I want to get out of here.
No, we would probably have

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written her memoirs and made a
whole heap of money from it.

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No, Paul wrote, LED on joy and
grace.

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Didn’t allow the circumstances.
Dictate this take mine.

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Not once did.
Paul get impatient?

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Not once.
Did he get bitter about the way

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he had been true.
Now, once, did he say to the

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guards?
Hey, mate.

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Can you just go and have a chat
to Felix?

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And just remind him.
I’ve been here for two years, 12

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days, 9 hours and 10 minutes,
but seriously, get a move on.

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No, not once, are we given any
indication at all that?

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He complained all that, he felt
that he’d been dealt with

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harshly, or that.
It was all unfair, you know,

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Luke records, nothing that leads
us to believe that Paul suffered

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from impatience, bitterness and
regret not So, how do you handle

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those tight pants?
Paul seems to say that we don’t

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pump patient. pretty hard isn’t
its it’s all easy to say so easy

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to make.
Yeah patient but it’s a hard to

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put back.
Things aren’t going the way that

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you think they should go.
Things aren’t happening as you

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think they should happening,
they’re not happening as fast as

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you think they should happen and
we get all impatient about it.

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We get all upset about it.
Think about Paul.

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He was absolutely desperate to
get to Rome, right?

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Absolutely desperate to get to
Rome because you wanted to

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preach desperate to get to work
preaching in Rome but he’s held

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up his delay.
You getting.

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I think that’s the time when we
get most, isn’t that, when our

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timing isn’t, when things just
aren’t happening, according to

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our time frame and an hour
schedule.

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And I, when I want them to
happen, And that’s when we

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getting paid.
We hardly need, reminding do.

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That things haven’t quite done.
Like a father mobile wanted to

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go over the last set. haven’t
quite gone, like, he would like

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But not only has been, has he
been long-suffering with whole

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world?
Actually they long for you.

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With you.
Hasn’t been any patient.

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He’s been long suffering.
With you.

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We really have.
No reason at all to allow

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impatience onto our list
character.

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It really shouldn’t, right?
The next time you start feeling

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impatient, take a few deep
breaths.

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Think about Paul. 720 days in
custody with absolutely no acts.

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4:27 tells us that to use on
He’s still there.

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He’s still in prison.
Still there and one more one

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morning Paul is busily painting
letters there in this prison in

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caesarea.
And here’s news, news comes down

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to him.
That Felix had just been booted

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out of office.
He’d been sent all the way back

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to Rome and a new governor was
on his way to see the real

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Changing of the Guard, right?
Changing your gut, you’ve been

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booted other office and another
one was coming in and like in a

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lot of countries around the
world, there can be such a thing

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as a presidential or a
Governor’s pardon.

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That could have happened right
here. and Paul could have

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thought to himself might have
been here, two years nearly

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Farina, But really couldn’t, you
pardon me.

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Why couldn’t you have just given
me a Governor’s?

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Pardon and I could get out there
and just start doing the work

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that I love doing much preach
sharing.

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The gospel we think that’s what
I want to be doing.

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Why didn’t you give me a
presidential?

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Pardon Felix.
Why?

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I don’t understand that.
What’s going on?

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What is the plan of God?
Why am I here?

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Why am I still here?
so many months after they put

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this Former, you know young
people should question.

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What if Felix had relief?
Top 30, but yet it didn’t

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happen.
We don’t know.

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But we know from the previous
chapter there’s a bunch of

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vultures waiting at the door who
said we’re not going to eat till

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he’s dead.
So called probably have been

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kicked.
And you see God, too.

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Maybe Paul didn’t understand
that, maybe Paul, just wanted to

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get out of there and to get out
and preach the gospel and do

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what he wanted to do.
But God said, no, no, it’s all

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part of my plan.
I want you in prison Paul.

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I want you here because you can
write letters.

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You can write letters, which are
going to help people not just

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for now.
But for 2,000 years, that’s why

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I want you here.
Your best work is actually being

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done in prison.
That’s why I want you in prison.

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I don’t want you free.
I don’t want you killed.

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I want to imprison I want you
writing letters that was the

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best thing for Paul.
It was the best thing for Paul.

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It was imposed best interests
that he stay in prison.

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What?
Believing, that is awesome.

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You going through a terrible
time.

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In my life, you’ve got
incredible pain and suffering.

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If somebody comes along and
says, it’s in your best

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interest.
Wow, that’s hot.

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That is really, really hard to
hear when somebody comes into

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your life and says it’s actually
in your best interest.

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It’s okay.
Things will happen.

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Things will work out in time.
We’ll all get sorted.

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This is actually in your best
interests.

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It’s okay.
Wow, that’s hot.

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That is awfully hard to hear.
If the circumstances in your

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life are far from perfect.
And it’s difficult for you at

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the moment being told that it’s
in your best interests.

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Doesn’t usually go down, doesn’t
usually, go down but you know,

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Paul said I know it is and I
read a passage for you.

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He says, but I would, you would
understand that what’s happened

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to me has actually fallen out
for the benefit.

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What’s happened to me, has
actually worked out the benefit,

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got to actually being this.
It Now before we leave Acts

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chapter 24, guys, I just want
you to notice.

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I have a look at verse 25.
Felix 24:25 pulls in prison for

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a couple of years, right?
And it seems that regularly

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Felix called for Paul as he
reasoned of righteousness, is as

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Paul as Paul reasoned of
righteousness Temperance and

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judgment to come.
Felix trembled and said, go your

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way.
Paul go your way this time.

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When I have a convenient season,
I will call for you end of verse

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26.
He hoped that money would be

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giving him that he might loose.
Paul, wherefore he sought for

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him, the officer and communed
with him often, okay?

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So Felix is calling Paul to him,
often hearing this stuff when

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it’s a convenient season, when
it’s the right time there and

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I’ll listen to you.
Then I want to hear more about

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your message, then I’ll believe
then I’ll be converted.

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You know guys some people say
some people plan to repent at

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the 11th hour and then diet
10:30.

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And that’s what happened to
Felix.

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He was good.
He died at 10.

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Don’t wait till the 11th hour to
repent and be converted.

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Felix did and he was booted from
up and Acts chapter 25.

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Start by telling us that Festus
the new governor of the new p.m.

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the new David Cameron arrives in
caesarea and he was determined,

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it tells us this absolutely
determined to get straight onto

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Paul’s case.
And so he headed straight yarn

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to Jerusalem to consult with the
Jews.

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Their first one tells us three
days after arriving, in

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caesarea, he’s packing his
overnight bag and heading down

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to Jerusalem.
Heading up to Jerusalem, to have

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a chat with the leaders.
Discover more about this

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situation with Paul.
Now, that’s hardly enough.

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Time to unpack your bags unpack,
your suitcase has hang up, all

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your Royal clothes, your
trousers, hang up.

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All the stuff that you brought
with you.

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He’s on the road straight up
there to Jerusalem.

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He wants to get onto this case
straight away and it wasn’t just

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about checking out Supreme Court
of the country, right?

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He didn’t just want to do a
royal tour of Jerusalem.

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Now, he went straight down to
Salt with the high priests and

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the Jews about the situation.
Verse 7 tells us that he comes

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back, he comes back to caesarea.
He’s armed with information.

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And it says that when he was
come the Jews, which came down

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from Jerusalem, stood, round
about Paul, and laid, many and

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Grievous, complaints against
Paul, which they could not

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prove.
So this time right?

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There’s no eloquent lawyer,
there’s no tertullus about to

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slander and slam whole, there’s
none of that.

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It’s just a group of unnamed
Jews, who surround Paul and it

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was a scene that Paul was pretty
accustomed to by this point in

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time there.
Just piling one charge on top of

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the other to impress Festus with
the fact that this was a, pretty

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serious case was of major
importer.

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Hey, touch the sky is no
ordinary offender.

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We sear it done, some pretty
dodgy.

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And although, the charges were
obviously serious in nature and

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deadly if they could be proved,
they were empty.

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And as a record says, they had
absolutely no proof.

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You know, we don’t know exactly
what charges were.

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But Paul’s defense in verse 8
tells us all we need to know.

437
00:28:48,700 –> 00:28:52,900
It tells us all we need to know
Paul reiser’s to offer a very

438
00:28:52,900 –> 00:28:56,200
calm reply.
In fact, a condenses his entire

439
00:28:56,200 –> 00:28:59,800
speech to what think amount to
around 20 English.

440
00:29:01,800 –> 00:29:05,000
What does he say?
No trace of anxiety.

441
00:29:05,900 –> 00:29:08,600
No, bitterness.
No patience.

442
00:29:09,800 –> 00:29:14,400
He says, neither against the law
of the Jews neither against the

443
00:29:14,400 –> 00:29:18,800
temple, nor yet again, Caesar
have I offended anything.

444
00:29:21,600 –> 00:29:26,400
And having said that, you know,
it’s what he doesn’t say.

445
00:29:26,700 –> 00:29:31,100
That’s really remarkable.
He could have reminded them that

446
00:29:31,100 –> 00:29:34,000
the previous p.m. couldn’t
substantiate any of the church.

447
00:29:34,900 –> 00:29:37,500
He could have reminded festered.
Hey, mate.

448
00:29:38,600 –> 00:29:42,800
Previous guy, he liked the
specific, a get out of court

449
00:29:42,800 –> 00:29:46,200
close to the court because the
child couldn’t be tension.

450
00:29:47,400 –> 00:29:50,200
Begin to him.
He didn’t do any of that.

451
00:29:50,600 –> 00:29:54,400
What?
He could have reminded them of

452
00:29:54,400 –> 00:29:57,300
his Roman drivers life but at
this point in time he didn’t do

453
00:29:57,300 –> 00:30:02,800
that, he didn’t do anything.
He simply stood for the

454
00:30:02,800 –> 00:30:05,300
representative of the most
powerful man in the earth than

455
00:30:05,300 –> 00:30:09,200
said what he said about me.
Is wrong.

456
00:30:09,800 –> 00:30:17,100
I’ve done none.
The notice pistol, inverse Norm,

457
00:30:18,100 –> 00:30:21,900
fastest is the new p.m. right?
David Cameron, they typically

458
00:30:21,900 –> 00:30:24,900
want to please the voters, just
after they’ve got into office,

459
00:30:25,100 –> 00:30:26,400
they want to get in the good
books.

460
00:30:26,500 –> 00:30:29,400
So he’s willing to do the Jews a
pleasure, he answered Paul.

461
00:30:29,400 –> 00:30:33,600
And he said, Paul, would you
consider going to Jerusalem to

462
00:30:33,600 –> 00:30:36,000
answer these chart?
Would you consider going and

463
00:30:36,000 –> 00:30:42,900
being tried in Jerusalem?
No doubt, he tried to couch it

464
00:30:42,900 –> 00:30:47,500
in very inviting her.
No doubt Festus was offering or

465
00:30:47,500 –> 00:30:49,400
trying to offer something that
he would.

466
00:30:50,000 –> 00:30:54,000
He hope all will take up hoping
that what he said, would come

467
00:30:54,000 –> 00:30:56,700
across as a really attractive
offer and Paul would go.

468
00:30:56,700 –> 00:30:59,800
Yes, that is exactly what I want
to do.

469
00:31:01,700 –> 00:31:06,400
Unfortunately Festus.
Paul saw God’s hand all over

470
00:31:06,400 –> 00:31:09,700
this.
Paul saw God’s hand all over it

471
00:31:10,400 –> 00:31:15,100
and it’s at this point in time
that he wrote wave Roman Drive.

472
00:31:16,400 –> 00:31:22,700
Hey the drive is my Roman
passport counts.

473
00:31:23,400 –> 00:31:30,000
I’ll be okay.
He saw God’s hand all over this

474
00:31:30,000 –> 00:31:32,800
now, how do we know this?
How do we know that Paul

475
00:31:32,800 –> 00:31:36,000
standing there in court, hearing
what these guys are saying?

476
00:31:36,400 –> 00:31:39,300
Hearing what Festus is just said
to him, do you want to go to

477
00:31:39,300 –> 00:31:41,700
Jerusalem?
And there have this case heard

478
00:31:42,300 –> 00:31:45,100
and Paul could see God’s hand
all over it.

479
00:31:45,200 –> 00:31:49,400
How on Earth did Paul see God’s
hand all over this?

480
00:31:49,600 –> 00:31:52,200
Well firstly I miss the only
passenger I’m going to turn to

481
00:31:52,200 –> 00:31:54,600
show in this desert out there
are others but that’s the only

482
00:31:54,600 –> 00:31:56,800
one I’m going to use Acts
chapter 23.

483
00:31:57,000 –> 00:32:00,400
A and verse 11 not long before,
right?

484
00:32:00,400 –> 00:32:04,600
Just when he was in Jerusalem
and not at a vision had appeared

485
00:32:04,600 –> 00:32:09,800
to him 23:11 and the night.
Following the Lord stood by Paul

486
00:32:09,800 –> 00:32:13,400
and said be of good cheer Paul
for as you’ve testified of me in

487
00:32:13,400 –> 00:32:18,100
Jerusalem so must you also bear
witness of me in Rome.

488
00:32:18,400 –> 00:32:22,100
You see Paul saw this as an
opportunity to honor the command

489
00:32:22,100 –> 00:32:24,600
of Jesus.
You must go to Rome.

490
00:32:25,600 –> 00:32:28,500
You know, guys, Jesus had not
said to him.

491
00:32:29,400 –> 00:32:34,200
You will go to Rome.
Jesus had not said to Paul, it

492
00:32:34,200 –> 00:32:36,400
would be good if you could get
to Roman preach, the gospel

493
00:32:36,400 –> 00:32:40,200
there.
Jesus hadn’t said to Paul Paul.

494
00:32:40,300 –> 00:32:45,700
I will take you to Rome No,
Jesus had said to Paul, you must

495
00:32:45,800 –> 00:32:48,300
go to Rome and that was a
command.

496
00:32:48,300 –> 00:32:50,200
That was something that Paul had
to do.

497
00:32:50,300 –> 00:32:52,900
It was something that Paul had
to make happen.

498
00:32:52,900 –> 00:32:56,600
It wasn’t all organized for him.
The tickets weren’t booked by

499
00:32:56,600 –> 00:32:59,800
Jesus and an itinerary given to
Paul and saying, now, you’re off

500
00:32:59,800 –> 00:33:03,400
to Rome.
No, Paul had to get himself to

501
00:33:03,400 –> 00:33:06,500
Rome, and it’s right here.
And right now, that Paul says,

502
00:33:06,800 –> 00:33:09,100
Jesus told me, he’s commanded
me.

503
00:33:09,100 –> 00:33:13,400
I must go to Rome, I’m going to
lean on that promise, right now.

504
00:33:13,900 –> 00:33:16,500
I’m going to lean on that
Command right now and wave my

505
00:33:16,500 –> 00:33:18,800
life tours.
Oh my God.

506
00:33:20,000 –> 00:33:26,800
To Rome.
I it’s there that I And how was

507
00:33:26,800 –> 00:33:30,800
that all possible?
You know, guys, the charges that

508
00:33:30,800 –> 00:33:34,600
these men must have laid against
the Apostle, Paul have to have

509
00:33:34,600 –> 00:33:37,200
included a charge against
Caesar.

510
00:33:37,700 –> 00:33:41,100
They must have said, in some
way, shape or form that Paul had

511
00:33:41,100 –> 00:33:44,400
bagged out, Caesar, always
preaching against Caesar, always

512
00:33:44,400 –> 00:33:46,500
doing something to slander.
Caesar.

513
00:33:46,700 –> 00:33:52,700
They must have done that because
it was impossible to appeal to

514
00:33:52,700 –> 00:33:56,600
Caesar on the basis of Jewish.
Law.

515
00:33:58,200 –> 00:34:02,200
Impossible you couldn’t do.
It sees is not interested in

516
00:34:02,200 –> 00:34:04,000
arguing about Jewish religious
law.

517
00:34:04,100 –> 00:34:07,100
That’s what Festus is therefore
Fester’s, can deal with that

518
00:34:07,100 –> 00:34:09,600
stuff.
I deal with the big stuff, I’m

519
00:34:09,600 –> 00:34:11,800
Cesar, right?
I do with the big stuff.

520
00:34:11,900 –> 00:34:13,699
I don’t want religious stuff in
front of me.

521
00:34:14,300 –> 00:34:18,400
So the charges that these guys,
lay must have included, a charge

522
00:34:18,400 –> 00:34:23,000
against Caesar and Paul can see
it all coming together for

523
00:34:23,000 –> 00:34:30,300
consider all coming together and
he goes, Pedro. as I said

524
00:34:30,300 –> 00:34:34,500
before, and one of the other
talk whole never ever Way Drive,

525
00:34:34,500 –> 00:34:43,699
God, no, he pulled it out, put
it out, but it was never his

526
00:34:43,800 –> 00:34:47,000
personal benefit.
He pulled it out here because

527
00:34:47,000 –> 00:34:52,800
price had given him a command
that said, you must go to Rupp

528
00:34:54,699 –> 00:34:56,000
You know, he’s been in jail
right?

529
00:34:56,000 –> 00:35:00,000
For years.
And he doesn’t think God’s

530
00:35:00,000 –> 00:35:03,200
forgotten him.
He doesn’t think that God has

531
00:35:03,200 –> 00:35:07,800
forsaken him, he still thinking
clearly he’s still thinking

532
00:35:07,800 –> 00:35:11,600
objectively years being in
prison.

533
00:35:12,600 –> 00:35:16,000
Would you be thinking like that
after years in prison?

534
00:35:17,700 –> 00:35:27,100
This guy said it would help.
It was hell banging, not not

535
00:35:28,300 –> 00:35:31,600
total opposite.
He could see God’s hand.

536
00:35:34,600 –> 00:35:38,300
Finally, having been Shipwrecked
the Apostle Paul finds himself

537
00:35:38,400 –> 00:35:41,100
in Rome.
Still smelling of seaweed from

538
00:35:41,100 –> 00:35:45,200
being Shipwrecked finds himself
an apartment in which he would

539
00:35:45,200 –> 00:35:49,200
live a couple of years.
I want to ask a question.

540
00:35:51,200 –> 00:35:56,400
Why did God put the Paul?
I’ll put Paul and the passengers

541
00:35:56,400 –> 00:36:03,000
on that vessel through the
traumatic experience of a I’m

542
00:36:03,000 –> 00:36:07,800
not asking.
I’m not asking the question.

543
00:36:08,200 –> 00:36:13,700
Why do we have the record of it?
Because our no matter, sorry.

544
00:36:15,300 –> 00:36:21,900
I’m asking why did God put that
boat on the bottom?

545
00:36:24,700 –> 00:36:31,100
Anyone have any ideas?
Talked for exactly, you know

546
00:36:31,100 –> 00:36:34,400
guys this is such awesome thing.
This is why it pays to look at

547
00:36:34,400 –> 00:36:38,800
the Bible from a really big Have
a look at the end of Acts

548
00:36:38,800 –> 00:36:43,000
chapter 25.
Acts chapter 25 and will read

549
00:36:43,000 –> 00:36:48,100
verse 25 Festus is chatting to
King Agrippa and this is what he

550
00:36:48,100 –> 00:36:50,700
says.
I found acts 25:25.

551
00:36:50,800 –> 00:36:54,700
I found that Paul had done
nothing, worthy of death, he’s

552
00:36:54,700 –> 00:36:58,100
done, nothing wrong and that he
himself, but he himself has

553
00:36:58,100 –> 00:37:01,000
appealed to Caesar.
I’ve got to send him, he’s a

554
00:37:01,000 –> 00:37:02,300
Roman.
I’ve got to do what he asked me

555
00:37:02,300 –> 00:37:06,200
to do all of whom I have no
certain thing to write under my

556
00:37:06,200 –> 00:37:08,300
look, I’ve got nothing to write
to Caesar.

557
00:37:08,400 –> 00:37:10,600
I’ve got no letter of charges, I
can’t send.

558
00:37:10,700 –> 00:37:13,900
Anything with Paul to say, this
is what he’s doing wrong, we’re

559
00:37:13,900 –> 00:37:17,800
40 King Agrippa, I’ve brought
you here, especially you, in the

560
00:37:17,800 –> 00:37:21,400
hope that you can examine him
and afterwards, I can have

561
00:37:21,400 –> 00:37:24,100
something to write for it
seemeth to me, verse 27,

562
00:37:24,200 –> 00:37:27,600
unreasonable to send a prisoner
and not with all to signify the

563
00:37:27,600 –> 00:37:30,500
crimes laid against him.
Well, as I said before, they had

564
00:37:30,500 –> 00:37:33,000
a empty page at the beginning, I
had an empty page at the end,

565
00:37:33,200 –> 00:37:35,000
but they must have come up with
something, right because no

566
00:37:35,000 –> 00:37:38,500
passenger could go before or no
prisoner who go before Caesar

567
00:37:38,600 –> 00:37:41,900
without a letter of charge where
did Litter of charges end up.

568
00:37:43,500 –> 00:37:46,800
Bottom of the ocean which meant
Paul was in prison for a couple

569
00:37:46,800 –> 00:37:49,700
of years while they sent back
letters to Jerusalem saying,

570
00:37:49,700 –> 00:37:52,400
hey, we need more information on
this guy, what’s he done?

571
00:37:52,400 –> 00:37:53,600
Wrong, what’s a letter of
charges?

572
00:37:53,600 –> 00:37:56,400
Where what’s happened?
We need to know the case to be

573
00:37:56,408 –> 00:37:59,200
able to present to Caesar all
the while polar’s Penning.

574
00:37:59,400 –> 00:38:03,200
Well, just to fission ‘s is just
Philippians, just Colossians.

575
00:38:03,200 –> 00:38:06,800
Just Timothy probably Hebrews,
probably Philemon.

576
00:38:08,800 –> 00:38:11,000
You see God put that boat at the
bottom of the ocean.

577
00:38:11,800 –> 00:38:14,700
So Paul could spend time in
prison and do what Paul did

578
00:38:14,700 –> 00:38:18,100
best.
Because Rock, which was write

579
00:38:18,100 –> 00:38:20,700
letters, not just for the
benefit of the people that lived

580
00:38:20,700 –> 00:38:24,700
when he did.
But for you and me, and that

581
00:38:24,700 –> 00:38:27,800
those letters, Ephesians,
Philippians Colossians Timothy,

582
00:38:28,100 –> 00:38:32,200
Hebrews, Philemon, probably some
of the best letters in the Bible

583
00:38:32,200 –> 00:38:36,300
that tell us about a disciples
life, Or written while he’s in

584
00:38:36,300 –> 00:38:41,300
prison.
Because God put a boat and 270

585
00:38:41,300 –> 00:38:47,300
other people in the water.
So, that one man could write a

586
00:38:47,308 –> 00:38:52,800
few letters for you.
Is that awesome or what?

587
00:38:56,800 –> 00:39:03,000
That’s, he’s absolutely.
So, accept the 2627, we find the

588
00:39:03,000 –> 00:39:08,200
Apostle, Paul he is in, right?
And he dragged his chains around

589
00:39:08,200 –> 00:39:14,000
that apartment in Rome for two
years for two years and it was

590
00:39:14,000 –> 00:39:17,400
on the north side of that busy
City where Paul was under house

591
00:39:17,400 –> 00:39:23,600
arrest and it was no tree.
It was no black hole Sands or no

592
00:39:23,600 –> 00:39:26,800
Bournemouth Beach When I went to
Google and type in 10, best

593
00:39:26,800 –> 00:39:28,700
beaches in the u.k.
Right.

594
00:39:28,800 –> 00:39:31,300
And that’s what it said.
Is that right Blackpool Sands.

595
00:39:31,900 –> 00:39:36,600
Yes.
And Bournemouth in Devon Oh

596
00:39:36,600 –> 00:39:44,800
sorry.
Oh really This is Perth beaches.

597
00:39:47,700 –> 00:39:50,400
That is where I live.
That is where your where we all

598
00:39:50,400 –> 00:39:52,100
live.
That is the bait we’re locking

599
00:39:52,100 –> 00:39:53,800
goes has served for we go and
swim.

600
00:39:54,000 –> 00:39:56,700
And when we have a lot of fun,
that is the beach that is what

601
00:39:56,700 –> 00:39:59,700
betas are like in Perth.
But we’re poor live was nothing

602
00:39:59,700 –> 00:40:03,800
like absolutely nothing like
that and it wasn’t even like

603
00:40:04,200 –> 00:40:08,100
Bournemouth in Dorset.
There are ya?

604
00:40:08,200 –> 00:40:10,000
All right.
Nothing like that.

605
00:40:10,300 –> 00:40:15,100
It was a height house with a
cold concrete floor and it was

606
00:40:15,100 –> 00:40:20,100
there that he was in prison.
So, I want you to try and

607
00:40:20,100 –> 00:40:23,500
imagine what it would have been
like to visit Paul in that

608
00:40:23,500 –> 00:40:27,500
house.
Just imagine knocking on the

609
00:40:27,508 –> 00:40:31,500
door.
Being welcomed in by Soldier

610
00:40:31,500 –> 00:40:36,300
into the house. he walked
through the main room and you

611
00:40:36,300 –> 00:40:41,600
find pool sitting there
dictating to epaphroditus who’s

612
00:40:41,600 –> 00:40:45,100
gripping the quill and key
vertically, right?

613
00:40:47,000 –> 00:40:53,900
I love you.
Okay, maybe the house had an

614
00:40:53,900 –> 00:40:57,000
atmosphere of happiness and we
know that from the letters that

615
00:40:57,000 –> 00:41:00,600
Paul wrote while he was there
his character his personality

616
00:41:00,700 –> 00:41:03,700
hadn’t been soured or hardened
by All the Troubles.

617
00:41:03,700 –> 00:41:09,700
No no he was kind.
He was kind he was tender, huh?

618
00:41:10,400 –> 00:41:15,100
He was forgiving just as Christ
had forgiven him.

619
00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:18,400
He said, that’s what he wrote,
didn’t need to the Ephesians

620
00:41:18,900 –> 00:41:21,300
that, you be kind tender
hearted.

621
00:41:21,800 –> 00:41:26,700
Forgiving just as Jesus has
forgiven you We’ve been pretty

622
00:41:26,700 –> 00:41:30,700
hard for him to do that.
It wasn’t in a good state of

623
00:41:30,700 –> 00:41:31,800
mind.
They’re in prison.

624
00:41:32,300 –> 00:41:34,700
I’ve been in prison for four
years now.

625
00:41:35,600 –> 00:41:38,700
Be kind.
Tender hearted.

626
00:41:40,400 –> 00:41:44,000
To give tender-hearted in
prison.

627
00:41:45,600 –> 00:41:49,700
Be forgiving be forgiving as
Christ had forgiven you.

628
00:41:49,900 –> 00:41:56,000
He walked in love, he was still
a great encourager that he had

629
00:41:56,000 –> 00:42:01,200
been all his life without Pony.
He was full of joy, he was

630
00:42:01,200 –> 00:42:04,800
fervent in prayer and in
preaching he was still as

631
00:42:04,800 –> 00:42:07,900
passionate as ever about his
beliefs.

632
00:42:08,400 –> 00:42:12,400
And you know what makes this all
the more amazing is the Man

633
00:42:12,500 –> 00:42:18,500
simply would not grow.
Humble would love by God’s

634
00:42:18,500 –> 00:42:21,700
grace.
He had lived he’d learnt to live

635
00:42:22,000 –> 00:42:25,400
above it all.
How would that be possible?

636
00:42:25,400 –> 00:42:27,700
Just get you.
So down, have you guys got a

637
00:42:27,707 –> 00:42:31,700
prisoner here in England?
That like the popular people.

638
00:42:31,700 –> 00:42:34,600
Everybody knows about and
they’ve been in prison for ages.

639
00:42:34,800 –> 00:42:37,500
This question marks over whether
they should be in prison or not.

640
00:42:37,600 –> 00:42:42,600
You guys have it in English.
No, in Australia, right?

641
00:42:42,600 –> 00:42:45,200
We’ve got this girl, he’ll
probably just stuck.

642
00:42:45,400 –> 00:42:49,100
Yo prison half of Australia.
Think she should be there, half

643
00:42:49,100 –> 00:42:51,500
of Australia, think to shouldn’t
be that you’re wrecking my para

644
00:42:51,900 –> 00:42:54,800
half-and-half locked in half an
hour to half an hour.

645
00:42:56,200 –> 00:42:57,700
Some people think they should be
in jail.

646
00:42:57,800 –> 00:42:59,300
Some people think she shouldn’t
be in jail.

647
00:42:59,800 –> 00:43:03,300
She is so bitter, her whole
family, a bitter, they’ve

648
00:43:03,300 –> 00:43:04,900
written books.
Have written stories.

649
00:43:04,900 –> 00:43:07,000
They do media releases all the
time.

650
00:43:07,000 –> 00:43:09,300
Saying, how unjust?
This is, how wrong it is, how

651
00:43:09,300 –> 00:43:12,300
terrible it is, how she’s just
turning so bad.

652
00:43:12,300 –> 00:43:16,000
How attitude is going downhill?
Paul’s been in prison for longer

653
00:43:16,000 –> 00:43:18,800
than Chappelle corby’s, been in
prison and he’s writing letters

654
00:43:18,800 –> 00:43:24,100
of joy and happiness.
How had he learned the secret of

655
00:43:24,100 –> 00:43:25,800
contentment?
Where did that come from?

656
00:43:25,900 –> 00:43:30,300
Um, what is the secret of
contentment in jail content.

657
00:43:30,500 –> 00:43:33,000
Are you for real?
He was still smiling.

658
00:43:33,800 –> 00:43:37,100
He was still positive.
He was as upbeat as ever.

659
00:43:37,700 –> 00:43:42,500
He still had a smile used up.
Who am I?

660
00:43:47,400 –> 00:43:50,800
Thomas Jefferson.
Who said that excellent?

661
00:43:50,800 –> 00:43:53,800
Does anyone know what?
Thomas Jefferson is famous for

662
00:43:55,300 –> 00:43:59,600
Not The American or a American
as anybody know you’re from.

663
00:44:00,600 –> 00:44:05,400
I thought it was Yeah, what
else?

664
00:44:11,200 –> 00:44:13,500
What America don’t forget about
a guys watch.

665
00:44:13,500 –> 00:44:15,700
This doesn’t happen.
Very often.

666
00:44:16,300 –> 00:44:17,800
What is Thomas?
Jefferson famous for.

667
00:44:17,800 –> 00:44:22,700
Come on, Andrew.
The Declaration of Independence,

668
00:44:22,700 –> 00:44:26,100
hirota?
Sorry from the UK, absolutely,

669
00:44:26,100 –> 00:44:29,100
originally from the UK, but he,
it was who instituted the

670
00:44:29,100 –> 00:44:32,700
Declaration of, in, of
independent, is actually awfully

671
00:44:32,700 –> 00:44:35,400
interesting.
I’d love to mention something

672
00:44:35,400 –> 00:44:36,600
about it but I want it over
time.

673
00:44:36,600 –> 00:44:39,700
It mind-blowing really the
anyway, moving on.

674
00:44:40,100 –> 00:44:44,300
Okay, this guy, this guy this
guy this guy was one day

675
00:44:44,500 –> 00:44:47,700
traveling across a river.
He was with a group of people

676
00:44:47,800 –> 00:44:49,300
and they’re traveling on
horseback ride because they

677
00:44:49,300 –> 00:44:51,900
didn’t have limousine.
He’s an Air Force One, and

678
00:44:51,900 –> 00:44:54,700
Apache helicopters at the time
that Thomas Jefferson was

679
00:44:54,700 –> 00:44:57,000
president, and he was traveling
across the river.

680
00:44:57,000 –> 00:45:00,400
That was actually a large river,
and it had overflowed its banks.

681
00:45:00,600 –> 00:45:03,400
And each of the men was
crossing, the horseback they’ll

682
00:45:03,400 –> 00:45:05,900
for on Horseback and they were
fighting for their life.

683
00:45:06,400 –> 00:45:08,000
It was hard to get across this
River.

684
00:45:08,100 –> 00:45:10,800
It was incredibly hard.
And there was with this group, a

685
00:45:10,800 –> 00:45:15,200
lone traveler, just one lone
traveler, and he watched as the

686
00:45:15,200 –> 00:45:21,300
group crossed, this treacherous
River and then he I went up and

687
00:45:21,300 –> 00:45:24,500
asked the president.
The president would take him

688
00:45:24,500 –> 00:45:27,600
across the president, agreed
without hesitation and said,

689
00:45:27,600 –> 00:45:30,500
sure that’s absolutely fine.
The man climbed on safely or the

690
00:45:30,500 –> 00:45:33,100
man climbed on and was safely
taken to the other side.

691
00:45:33,400 –> 00:45:36,600
And it was there that somebody
said to him, why did you ask of

692
00:45:36,600 –> 00:45:41,400
the president for this favor?
And the man said I had

693
00:45:41,400 –> 00:45:44,300
absolutely no idea that it was
the president he said, but this

694
00:45:44,300 –> 00:45:47,600
is what I do know.
All I know is that on some of

695
00:45:47,600 –> 00:45:50,100
your faces was written the
answer?

696
00:45:50,500 –> 00:45:54,200
No.
And on some of your faces was

697
00:45:54,200 –> 00:45:55,800
the answer?
Yes.

698
00:45:57,200 –> 00:45:59,300
And his is it?
Yes.

699
00:45:59,300 –> 00:46:01,900
Yes.
What is your face?

700
00:46:03,700 –> 00:46:06,800
What is your attitude?
What is your face saying to the

701
00:46:06,800 –> 00:46:11,300
public to the people that you
share the gospel to Paul’s was a

702
00:46:11,300 –> 00:46:16,800
yes, face Yes.
Three times in a very very short

703
00:46:16,800 –> 00:46:19,300
letter written while Paul was in
this house.

704
00:46:19,400 –> 00:46:22,300
He mentions his circumstances.
I want you to fast-forward to

705
00:46:22,300 –> 00:46:28,200
Philippians if you can place.
Three times in a fairly short

706
00:46:28,200 –> 00:46:32,200
letter whole mentions his
circumstances, and it’s a letter

707
00:46:32,400 –> 00:46:38,200
which was written while in this
very house, while being in

708
00:46:38,200 –> 00:46:40,900
prison, Philippians chapter 1,
verse 12.

709
00:46:40,900 –> 00:46:44,200
You reading the verse that I
read out earlier, but I want you

710
00:46:44,207 –> 00:46:47,700
to know that the things which
have happened unto me have

711
00:46:47,700 –> 00:46:51,200
fallen out unto the furtherance
of the Gospel.

712
00:46:51,600 –> 00:46:54,000
They’ve actually helped promote
the gospel.

713
00:46:54,300 –> 00:46:57,500
Now fast, Forward to Philippians
chapter 4 and verse 11.

714
00:47:00,300 –> 00:47:04,000
Not that I speak in respect of
want for, I have learned in

715
00:47:04,000 –> 00:47:07,900
whatever state I am and he’s not
talking whatever County, right?

716
00:47:08,300 –> 00:47:12,800
He’s talking whatever situation.
I may find myself in there with,

717
00:47:13,300 –> 00:47:16,400
to be content.
Doesn’t matter what situation

718
00:47:16,400 –> 00:47:18,300
I’m in.
I’m going to be content verse

719
00:47:18,300 –> 00:47:21,600
12, finally.
I know both how to be abased and

720
00:47:21,600 –> 00:47:25,000
I know how to abound everywhere.
And in all things I am

721
00:47:25,000 –> 00:47:28,800
instructed both to be full and
to be hungry both to abound and

722
00:47:28,800 –> 00:47:32,100
to suffer need Three times
Paul’s writing about his

723
00:47:32,100 –> 00:47:36,100
circumstances and not once does
a grumble in all three of those

724
00:47:36,100 –> 00:47:39,100
situations.
He says, actually been on it is

725
00:47:39,100 –> 00:47:42,000
actually helped.
It’s actually furthered the work

726
00:47:42,200 –> 00:47:47,700
of the Gospel.
Not once does his circumstances

727
00:47:47,800 –> 00:47:52,000
determine an effect.
His level of content.

728
00:47:52,800 –> 00:47:57,600
He offers no conditions, no
restrictions or boundaries on

729
00:47:57,600 –> 00:47:59,600
that at all.
No, no.

730
00:48:00,200 –> 00:48:05,200
Regardless of his circumstances,
chose to live above.

731
00:48:06,800 –> 00:48:10,400
Though there are extreme, fairly
extreme circumstances.

732
00:48:10,400 –> 00:48:16,900
Unbelievable circumstances.
His attitude remain full of he

733
00:48:16,900 –> 00:48:20,700
had a yes face.
In fact he had a yes face all

734
00:48:20,700 –> 00:48:22,900
the time.
You may be sitting on think.

735
00:48:22,900 –> 00:48:24,000
Okay.
I’m just going to put that down

736
00:48:24,000 –> 00:48:25,600
to the temperament of cool.
You know.

737
00:48:25,600 –> 00:48:28,800
Like there’s some people who are
just like it just really chewed

738
00:48:28,800 –> 00:48:33,200
up just really laid-back people.
Nothing really gets under their

739
00:48:33,200 –> 00:48:36,300
skin.
Doesn’t take a lot.

740
00:48:37,200 –> 00:48:41,500
Real lot to actually upset
though, so maybe the Apostle

741
00:48:41,500 –> 00:48:47,100
Paul’s like, maybe, maybe, no,
not at all.

742
00:48:47,200 –> 00:48:51,300
Not one bit, how do we know that
the truth is contentment was not

743
00:48:51,300 –> 00:48:53,300
genetic for the Apostle Paul,
right?

744
00:48:53,300 –> 00:48:57,000
Because Paul wrote in verse 11,
I have what’s the word?

745
00:48:59,400 –> 00:49:04,500
Lance I have learned in
whatsoever circumstances, I am,

746
00:49:04,500 –> 00:49:08,300
I have had to learn this.
I’ve had to learn contentment if

747
00:49:08,300 –> 00:49:12,600
you’re like me and struggle to
find contentment sometime when

748
00:49:12,600 –> 00:49:15,500
situations aren’t going well.
When life ain’t great.

749
00:49:16,600 –> 00:49:19,400
That’s for us.
That’s for me, right?

750
00:49:19,900 –> 00:49:24,400
Let’s do you will learn all
deeply all wasn’t this

751
00:49:24,400 –> 00:49:28,300
Supernatural hero, who had this
genetic thing, that allowed him

752
00:49:28,300 –> 00:49:29,700
just to accept.
Whatever happens.

753
00:49:30,000 –> 00:49:36,400
No, no, he learnt content, he
learned Paul deliberately

754
00:49:36,800 –> 00:49:41,500
cultivated it, over time, he
learned how to sustain an

755
00:49:41,500 –> 00:49:45,600
excellent attitude, despite the
worst possible of sir.

756
00:49:47,400 –> 00:49:49,700
He learnt to rise above his
head.

757
00:49:51,800 –> 00:50:00,400
He learnt to to live beyond.
Do you do what an enviable attic

758
00:50:01,500 –> 00:50:05,500
or in diva?
you may find yourself in a

759
00:50:05,500 –> 00:50:14,000
situation, that’s far less than
ideal life, Stitch becoming

760
00:50:14,000 –> 00:50:17,300
difficult frustrating and maybe
you’re growing even more

761
00:50:17,300 –> 00:50:20,500
miserable every day as a
circumstances, become

762
00:50:20,500 –> 00:50:25,900
borderline, unbearable, and
maybe even feel like giving up,

763
00:50:27,000 –> 00:50:31,500
you know, the great temptation
is to like to allow that doing

764
00:50:33,600 –> 00:50:36,900
To allow that to turn you into
someone who lives under a dark

765
00:50:36,900 –> 00:50:40,400
cloud.
Is an overcast face.

766
00:50:41,600 –> 00:50:46,300
With a forecast for dreary too,
depressing, dates little or no

767
00:50:46,300 –> 00:50:50,600
champ.
The block Yep.

768
00:50:54,700 –> 00:50:58,300
You know, the great news is
there is hope beyond your done.

769
00:50:59,700 –> 00:51:04,800
There is hope Beyond you can
live above your stuff.

770
00:51:06,600 –> 00:51:08,900
And the way it’s done, tap, hold
it.

771
00:51:10,000 –> 00:51:14,200
Let the father become the
central focus in your locker, in

772
00:51:14,200 –> 00:51:20,900
a Helo, he alone can Empower.
He can assist you to live above

773
00:51:21,100 –> 00:51:26,000
your Circa, your external
circumstances may not change,

774
00:51:26,300 –> 00:51:32,400
but deep within you, will change
Paul lived above these

775
00:51:32,400 –> 00:51:35,100
circumstances is that didn’t
mean he got out of jail.

776
00:51:35,700 –> 00:51:37,200
That didn’t mean.
Wasn’t baton.

777
00:51:38,000 –> 00:51:40,700
Jesus lived above the
circumstances, but that didn’t

778
00:51:40,700 –> 00:51:43,700
mean that he wasn’t beaten, but
he wasn’t crucified.

779
00:51:43,900 –> 00:51:46,000
No, no living above you
circumstances.

780
00:51:46,100 –> 00:51:48,700
Doesn’t mean life’s going to be
happy comfortable and pain-free.

781
00:51:49,000 –> 00:51:53,300
It just means that you can live
seeing the big.

782
00:51:54,400 –> 00:51:58,400
You can see God in it.
You can see God at work and no,

783
00:51:58,900 –> 00:52:02,000
you can have the confidence,
they’re going to come out.

784
00:52:02,000 –> 00:52:05,000
The other end and you’re going
to find yourself in the

785
00:52:05,000 –> 00:52:11,300
father’s.
The change happens with it.

786
00:52:11,300 –> 00:52:17,000
Instead of seeing yourself as a
victim, you’ll begin to realize

787
00:52:17,700 –> 00:52:19,900
that your strength is not your
own.

788
00:52:21,400 –> 00:52:25,400
It’s not a strength from, you
know, it’s a strength come from

789
00:52:25,400 –> 00:52:32,100
God about that.
Paul taught himself to do this.

790
00:52:32,100 –> 00:52:35,300
You see and we can check out the
benefits in this letter.

791
00:52:35,300 –> 00:52:38,700
We’re in right now.
Philippians chapter 1, there’s

792
00:52:38,700 –> 00:52:43,100
three benefits, three benefits
that come from choosing to live

793
00:52:43,300 –> 00:52:47,500
above your circumstance.
And the first is that the

794
00:52:47,500 –> 00:52:50,300
progress of the Gospel is
accelerated.

795
00:52:51,300 –> 00:52:56,000
The preaching of the Gospel is
enhanced as a result of your

796
00:52:56,000 –> 00:52:58,900
choice to live above your
circumstances.

797
00:52:59,000 –> 00:53:03,400
Let’s just read again for the
Time for the pins 1:12, I want

798
00:53:03,400 –> 00:53:07,100
you to know that What’s happenin
to me has fallen out to the

799
00:53:07,100 –> 00:53:10,800
promote the gospel.
He’s in prison and he says, it’s

800
00:53:10,800 –> 00:53:13,100
actually helped to preach the
gospel.

801
00:53:13,300 –> 00:53:17,600
If I was him, I’d be saying the
best thing possible would be for

802
00:53:17,600 –> 00:53:21,300
me to be out of here and
preaching the gospel planting

803
00:53:21,300 –> 00:53:25,100
occasions, talking to people.
And God says, no.

804
00:53:25,500 –> 00:53:28,900
The best thing for you is to
actually be in prison, it’s

805
00:53:28,900 –> 00:53:31,900
actually helped in the Preaching
of the gospel.

806
00:53:32,100 –> 00:53:35,700
Paul never viewed his
confinement as a barrier to the

807
00:53:35,700 –> 00:53:38,900
gospel.
But rather he actually said,

808
00:53:39,100 –> 00:53:43,100
it’s actually a catalyst for
wider impact more people are

809
00:53:43,100 –> 00:53:48,200
affected now, Now that’s the
benefit of learned contentment.

810
00:53:49,300 –> 00:53:52,000
When you live above your
circumstances, you’ll have

811
00:53:52,000 –> 00:53:54,100
little trouble spreading the
message of.

812
00:53:54,100 –> 00:53:57,700
You got off the goal, not just
to people like out there who

813
00:53:57,700 –> 00:53:59,100
don’t know about the gospel,
right?

814
00:53:59,500 –> 00:54:04,500
But to each other, you’ll have
no trouble sharing the message

815
00:54:04,500 –> 00:54:07,400
and the joy of the Gospel to
your friends here.

816
00:54:08,000 –> 00:54:12,400
But I do your homework Leisure
when you choose to live bottle,

817
00:54:12,400 –> 00:54:15,800
sir, sir.
How why what on Earth do you

818
00:54:15,800 –> 00:54:18,600
mean we see everyone will want
to know?

819
00:54:19,300 –> 00:54:21,100
Everyone will want to know how
one.

820
00:54:23,100 –> 00:54:27,200
You’re able to live with such
joy and positivity.

821
00:54:28,600 –> 00:54:36,000
When your circum?
Everyone, I want.

822
00:54:39,700 –> 00:54:41,000
I know what’s happened in your
life.

823
00:54:42,200 –> 00:54:46,000
I know what you’re going.
How you doing?

824
00:54:47,600 –> 00:54:51,500
How are you?
The second thing is when you

825
00:54:51,500 –> 00:54:55,700
live above your circumstances,
the edge of the message is

826
00:54:55,700 –> 00:54:57,400
sharp.
It’s never dull.

827
00:54:58,000 –> 00:55:02,200
It is never dulled at all.
You know, Paul says that his

828
00:55:02,200 –> 00:55:05,700
chains had actually become the
best preaching.

829
00:55:08,200 –> 00:55:13,700
The best preaching tool, if not
Freedom, not the ability, just

830
00:55:13,700 –> 00:55:15,600
to walk into a synagogue and
over the Bible and start

831
00:55:15,600 –> 00:55:16,500
talking.
No.

832
00:55:16,500 –> 00:55:18,600
No.
The best thing that’s happened

833
00:55:18,600 –> 00:55:22,200
is I’ve been in prison because
the message is sharper the best

834
00:55:22,200 –> 00:55:25,000
preaching to live had.
Are these things are these

835
00:55:25,000 –> 00:55:27,500
chains, this guy’s for real,
right?

836
00:55:27,500 –> 00:55:32,200
He’s on death row, he’s on death
row and he says, rather than

837
00:55:32,200 –> 00:55:36,300
slumping into spare rather than
getting all upset after Soldier

838
00:55:36,400 –> 00:55:39,400
after Soldier.
After Soldier attaches the chain

839
00:55:39,400 –> 00:55:44,000
to me.
Rather than doing any of that.

840
00:55:44,300 –> 00:55:49,200
Now he says this is the most
awesome freaking opportunity.

841
00:55:51,200 –> 00:55:56,500
He had a captive audience. you
imagine being Soldier chain to

842
00:55:56,500 –> 00:56:05,800
pull, Walk-in or marcha gun.
Holstered ready to go or match?

843
00:56:05,800 –> 00:56:09,200
Oceanic pull.
Pull converter.

844
00:56:09,900 –> 00:56:14,900
And when they walked out, they
were kind tend to her.

845
00:56:16,500 –> 00:56:23,400
Will you tell his message went
to the barracks of Caesars Gap?

846
00:56:24,400 –> 00:56:29,800
He converted all the troops.
He converted the practice is

847
00:56:29,800 –> 00:56:33,500
troops.
MI6 troops, converted his

848
00:56:33,500 –> 00:56:38,000
message spread like wildfire,
which is house.

849
00:56:43,200 –> 00:56:46,900
Ever been stuck in a loop ever,
like being stuck in a little up,

850
00:56:46,900 –> 00:56:52,700
half our heater captive
audience, guys, awesome ever

851
00:56:52,700 –> 00:56:55,300
stuck on an airplane, sitting on
the tarmac for hours.

852
00:56:55,500 –> 00:56:57,300
What am I going to do?
Everyone’s complaining.

853
00:56:57,300 –> 00:56:58,500
Where’s the water?
Where’s the drinks?

854
00:56:58,800 –> 00:57:02,200
Captive audience?
That’s Paul.

855
00:57:02,300 –> 00:57:08,400
He viewed his confinement as a
benefit as a help to, to further

856
00:57:08,500 –> 00:57:12,800
and to spread the gospel
message, those chains sharpened,

857
00:57:13,000 –> 00:57:15,700
the message and the third
benefit of living above your

858
00:57:15,700 –> 00:57:19,200
circumstances, is that the
courage of others is

859
00:57:19,200 –> 00:57:21,000
strengthened.
And I want to show you this in

860
00:57:21,000 –> 00:57:25,100
Philippians chapter 1, verse 14
of us that a this is what I was

861
00:57:25,100 –> 00:57:27,700
just referring to.
So my Bonds in Jesus are

862
00:57:27,700 –> 00:57:32,200
manifest in all the palace and
And in all other places, and I

863
00:57:32,200 –> 00:57:34,800
want you to know this, Paul
says, many of the brethren in

864
00:57:34,800 –> 00:57:39,500
the Lord waxing, Confident by my
bonds are much more bold to

865
00:57:39,500 –> 00:57:43,900
speak the word without fear,
when you live above your

866
00:57:43,900 –> 00:57:47,200
circumstances, when you choose
to do that.

867
00:57:47,400 –> 00:57:51,200
The courage of others is
strengthened other people go, if

868
00:57:51,200 –> 00:57:55,500
he can do it.
So can I If he can in his

869
00:57:55,500 –> 00:57:59,800
situation and my situation is
nowhere near as bad as that my

870
00:57:59,800 –> 00:58:02,700
life is nowhere near as bad of
that if he can do that.

871
00:58:02,900 –> 00:58:08,100
So can I how do you do that?
How, how did you get to that?

872
00:58:08,600 –> 00:58:11,100
She told me, share it with me.
I want to do what you’re doing.

873
00:58:12,200 –> 00:58:14,900
You see, when you choose to live
above your circumstances, the

874
00:58:14,900 –> 00:58:18,700
message or other people are
strengthened to spread that

875
00:58:18,700 –> 00:58:24,400
message, both out there.
And if you just by living by

876
00:58:24,900 –> 00:58:28,900
yourself, what Paul is telling
us is that more and more and

877
00:58:28,900 –> 00:58:32,000
more, and more people got to
find out about the gospel.

878
00:58:33,100 –> 00:58:38,100
Is he was?
Completely around the other way,

879
00:58:38,100 –> 00:58:39,900
right?
Completely around it pulls

880
00:58:39,900 –> 00:58:43,000
thinking maybe post thinking,
possibly, I should be out there

881
00:58:43,000 –> 00:58:46,100
preaching, the gospel.
That’s where I do my best work,

882
00:58:46,300 –> 00:58:49,000
my best work that out there.
Sharing the gospel with people

883
00:58:49,200 –> 00:58:51,100
and God says, that’s what you
think.

884
00:58:52,600 –> 00:58:56,000
I’m going to put you in prison
and show you that you being in

885
00:58:56,000 –> 00:58:58,400
prison.
He’s actually been the best

886
00:58:58,400 –> 00:59:01,700
preaching tool ever more, and
more and more, and more people

887
00:59:01,700 –> 00:59:03,100
are finding out about the
gospel.

888
00:59:03,200 –> 00:59:07,400
Because you happen to be stuck,
in prison, three benefits of

889
00:59:07,400 –> 00:59:10,500
living above your circumstances.
The progress of the Gospel, is

890
00:59:10,500 –> 00:59:12,700
accelerated.
A message is sharpened.

891
00:59:12,900 –> 00:59:15,400
And the courage of others is
strength.

892
00:59:16,200 –> 00:59:19,400
Courage of others is
strengthened other people are

893
00:59:19,400 –> 00:59:26,400
inspired by what you do.
In Philippians chapter 4 and

894
00:59:26,400 –> 00:59:30,300
verse 13.
He secret to contentment.

895
00:59:30,500 –> 00:59:34,100
How is this all possible?
Herrick, how could he do this?

896
00:59:34,300 –> 00:59:39,600
Philippians 4:13, I can do all
things through Christ, who

897
00:59:39,600 –> 00:59:43,100
strengthens me, how often they
must have heard him say that,

898
00:59:43,800 –> 00:59:46,700
how often they must have heard
him say that our letters

899
00:59:46,700 –> 00:59:48,100
arrived.
Ecclesia st.

900
00:59:48,100 –> 00:59:50,300
Paul.
We, so concerned, how we know

901
00:59:50,300 –> 00:59:51,400
you’re in jail.
What’s going on?

902
00:59:51,400 –> 00:59:54,400
Are you okay?
I can do all things through

903
00:59:54,400 –> 00:59:56,400
Christ.
Amen!

904
00:59:56,400 –> 00:59:58,900
Some the letter off.
That was his answer.

905
01:00:00,100 –> 01:00:04,900
Doing I can do all things
through Jesus Christ, who

906
01:00:04,900 –> 01:00:07,700
strengthens me.
He see, Paul’s contentment was

907
01:00:07,700 –> 01:00:14,400
found in a person.
Jesus, Jesus Christ, made a

908
01:00:14,400 –> 01:00:18,600
difference price, taught him how
to endure all circumstances,

909
01:00:18,900 –> 01:00:24,000
every situation every challenge,
no matter how hard it was.

910
01:00:25,000 –> 01:00:29,700
Could be endured through the
power of Jesus props.

911
01:00:30,600 –> 01:00:36,600
Paul released all his rights.
All his own strength, he let go

912
01:00:36,600 –> 01:00:39,200
of it all he gave it All to
Jesus cry.

913
01:00:40,500 –> 01:00:46,800
And in turn Christ, Jesus
release, all the strength that

914
01:00:46,800 –> 01:00:49,400
Paul would need.
Plus.

915
01:00:51,300 –> 01:00:59,200
Plus.
Let’s take the spotlight away

916
01:00:59,200 –> 01:01:03,800
from a man.
Who was housed 2000 years ago?

917
01:01:04,500 –> 01:01:07,600
In a jar and let’s focus that
spotlight.

918
01:01:09,000 –> 01:01:15,700
On you and your life.
Does God feel loved by you?

919
01:01:20,700 –> 01:01:22,900
Does God feel loved by the way
you’re living a lot?

920
01:01:25,300 –> 01:01:26,700
What things you’re thinking
about.

921
01:01:28,600 –> 01:01:32,700
You.
Just got to love y.

922
01:01:35,300 –> 01:01:38,800
Are you making a difference in
the lives of those who are posts

923
01:01:38,800 –> 01:01:41,800
you?
By the way that you respond the

924
01:01:41,800 –> 01:01:47,600
circumstances in your life?
Others inspired by your faith.

925
01:01:50,800 –> 01:01:53,200
Are they discouraged by your
fear?

926
01:01:55,000 –> 01:01:58,300
Are the attitudes of unselfish
humility of Joyful.

927
01:01:58,300 –> 01:02:03,700
Accepts, strong determination.
And Thanksgiving.

928
01:02:05,900 –> 01:02:14,100
They evident in your life.
If not guys. start by refusing

929
01:02:14,100 –> 01:02:22,300
to let your situation to him and
you are as we saw in Paul the

930
01:02:22,300 –> 01:02:26,900
power to transform stubborn
Soldier, And attitudes of fear,

931
01:02:27,800 –> 01:02:33,600
bitterness anger, see came from
Jake.

932
01:02:35,800 –> 01:02:41,300
And you know, he stands ready.
For his strength to you.

933
01:02:42,700 –> 01:02:46,100
He alone can do that and you
will he will.

934
01:02:46,900 –> 01:02:56,600
When, when when Import control,
you will lock. given time, you

935
01:02:56,600 –> 01:03:02,200
may face a situation somewhat
like called it It may not have

936
01:03:02,400 –> 01:03:07,200
the official intensity of a
Roman Court, it may not include

937
01:03:07,200 –> 01:03:10,800
a plot to end your life but you
will encounter those who don’t

938
01:03:10,800 –> 01:03:16,400
seek your good you will.
And when you do do what he did,

939
01:03:17,300 –> 01:03:23,400
he stood firm on the promise of
God and it was that promise that

940
01:03:23,400 –> 01:03:25,400
enabled him to stick to keep
going.

941
01:03:26,000 –> 01:03:33,000
Just keep going and trust him.
What if he didn’t have that,

942
01:03:33,800 –> 01:03:36,400
what if he didn’t have the
promise?

943
01:03:36,700 –> 01:03:40,600
What if Christ hadn’t told him
that he had to go to Rome?

944
01:03:42,500 –> 01:03:46,100
Why, you know?
He may have given.

945
01:03:47,600 –> 01:03:51,200
He may have lost faith, he may
have questioned, whether God was

946
01:03:51,200 –> 01:03:55,300
at work.
You know, who knows what would

947
01:03:55,300 –> 01:03:58,200
have happened in all its
detailed but one thing we know,

948
01:03:59,000 –> 01:04:03,800
having that promise gave him
Direction, gave him courage

949
01:04:04,300 –> 01:04:13,000
taking hope you’re you know, to
absolutely no different.

950
01:04:13,300 –> 01:04:19,100
If it wasn’t for the promises
that God has given us, we too

951
01:04:19,100 –> 01:04:21,000
would suffer from lack of
direction.

952
01:04:21,000 –> 01:04:26,000
We too would struggle with
courage with faith and with

953
01:04:26,000 –> 01:04:31,700
commitment, you see, it’s those
promises that kept all going and

954
01:04:31,700 –> 01:04:36,300
it’s those promises.
That keep you and me going to

955
01:04:36,300 –> 01:04:40,300
what?
So you guys the Bible is

956
01:04:41,500 –> 01:04:44,200
absolutely jam-packed full of
crumbs.

957
01:04:45,900 –> 01:04:50,400
Promise after promise, after
promise after promise and their

958
01:04:50,400 –> 01:04:56,000
personal to you that personal
you find them, find them,

959
01:04:56,100 –> 01:04:59,000
connect your name to them.
There’s myriad’s of them right

960
01:04:59,000 –> 01:05:00,600
there.
Is myriads of them become

961
01:05:00,600 –> 01:05:02,600
familiar with them live with
them.

962
01:05:02,800 –> 01:05:06,400
Let them be your guide, let them
be your comfort and like, Paul,

963
01:05:06,700 –> 01:05:09,700
you’ll be able to withstand the
fiercest storms that life

964
01:05:09,700 –> 01:05:13,100
throws.
Doesn’t matter what happens even

965
01:05:13,100 –> 01:05:16,800
if it’s jail when you stand
firm, On the promise of God,

966
01:05:17,200 –> 01:05:26,300
Anything is Possible.
Wait on the Lord been be of good

967
01:05:26,300 –> 01:05:31,300
courage and he will strengthen
you wait on the Lord.

968
01:05:31,300 –> 01:05:34,800
Joe They have good courage to
strengthen.

969
01:05:36,400 –> 01:05:40,700
White on the law, type be
prepared to strengthen you.

970
01:05:41,900 –> 01:05:47,500
The Lord is Hannah’s light and
Hannah salvation Who will she

971
01:05:47,500 –> 01:05:51,000
fear?
The lord is a light of Hannah’s

972
01:05:51,000 –> 01:05:56,400
lat.
The Lord is a lot of Susie’s

973
01:05:56,400 –> 01:06:01,000
life and salvation who will
Susie fear.

974
01:06:01,800 –> 01:06:08,700
The lord is the strength of
Susie’s Be still Lara and know

975
01:06:08,700 –> 01:06:12,000
that I am God.
Be still Peter.

976
01:06:13,100 –> 01:06:19,400
And know that I am, God. if you
don’t live with any other

977
01:06:19,400 –> 01:06:26,200
promise, Living this one.
I’ll never leave you.

978
01:06:28,100 –> 01:06:32,800
And I’ll never forsake, you.
Mmm.

979
01:06:42,800 –> 01:06:46,800
Who’s that?
I’m pleased.

980
01:06:46,800 –> 01:06:50,600
You guys know who he is.
I’m very impressed.

981
01:06:51,400 –> 01:06:54,800
He’s one of my hero.
I think the guy was amazing what

982
01:06:54,800 –> 01:06:56,700
he did for your country, what he
did for the world.

983
01:06:56,800 –> 01:07:02,900
I read a lot of really like it
and on October 29 in 1940,

984
01:07:03,700 –> 01:07:07,500
Winston Churchill, sorry, 1941
actually prime minister.

985
01:07:07,500 –> 01:07:11,800
Winston Churchill was invited to
speak at Harrow School

986
01:07:12,100 –> 01:07:16,600
Middlesex, I was invited to
speak at a graduation ceremony.

987
01:07:18,200 –> 01:07:20,900
And after a very long-winded
introduction listing, all of his

988
01:07:20,900 –> 01:07:25,200
achievements and all of his
successors, Winston Churchill,

989
01:07:25,200 –> 01:07:32,200
step forward, and this is what
he said, never ever, ever ever

990
01:07:33,000 –> 01:07:35,000
ever.
Give up.

991
01:07:37,500 –> 01:07:40,500
Your postcard for today.
Dear loved ones.

992
01:07:41,600 –> 01:07:44,800
Never ever, ever, ever, ever.
Give up.

993
01:07:45,900 –> 01:07:48,800
Really looking forward to seeing
you soon and the father’s

994
01:07:48,800 –> 01:07:52,100
Kingdom.
Paul PS.

995
01:07:53,000 –> 01:07:56,700
Your crown is waiting for you.
Never give up.

996
01:08:06,200 –> 01:08:08,900
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997
01:08:09,400 –> 01:08:11,800
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