253: Jim Harper – The Active Role of Heaven

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Welcome to good Chris Selfian
talks.

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I’m Levi.
And I’m Chris.

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And I’m Brian.
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to kind of set the stage for the

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talk you’re about to listen to.
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this week’s talk.
Welcome to the Good Chris

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Adelphian Talks Podcast.
This is Brother Brian.

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This week’s talk is a class by
Brother Jim Harper.

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That was given back in 2007 at
the Palm Springs Bible School,

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and the theme of the series is
the work of the Holy Spirit in

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the New Testament.
And today we’re listening to

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Class 3, which is called The
Active Role of Heaven.

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Now, the work of the Spirit
according to God’s will is a

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favorite topic of mine, and I
don’t believe that we’ve had any

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classes on this critical subject
yet.

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On the podcast so I wanted to
offer this series as a great

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starting point.
Brother Jim takes a very logical

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look at how the power of the
Spirit was experienced by the

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Apostles, what they were
instructed to do with these

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gifts and the way in which they
spoke about it.

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And all signs point back to it
being an extension of the Spirit

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that Christ was given.
By his Father upon his baptism.

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And how for the apostles It was
not a one and done pouring out

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as mentioned on the day of
Pentecost, but an ongoing

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participation with the glorified
Lord Jesus as the director of

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the Apostles work according to
the will of his Father.

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I would not say that this is
anything groundbreaking.

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But definitely a strong
foundation for the how and why

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of the Spirit being alluded to
in John in personal terms such

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as the Helper, the Comforter.
Brother Jim does a great job

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demonstrating with Scripture how
this is essentially A

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manifestation of Jesus’s own
words when he told them that he

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would be with them until the end
and that he.

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Would give them a mouth and
wisdom.

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So as always, we hope this
strengthens your faith and

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brightens your day.
Brother Jim Harper, The Active

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Role of Heaven.
Before I start, brothers and

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sisters, I just have to say that
Bible School committee members

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have to solve all kinds of
problems.

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And true to form, Brother Jeff
has solved the problem getting

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me through my material on time.
You see, he owns a remote like

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this as well, all right?
The active role of heaven,

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brothers and sisters.
And this is something that has

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that really impressed itself on
me as I read through the book of

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Acts and just saw these things
happening over and over again.

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A couple of questions to give
ourselves focus and direction.

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First of all, how did the
glorified Jesus continue to work

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throughout New Testament times,
from his ascension to God

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onward?
And secondly, how did the

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apostles view their role in the
work of the ascended Lord Jesus

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Christ?
All right, and we’ll attempt to

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address those questions under
these two headings.

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First of all, we’re going to
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God permitting at promises Jesus
made to his disciples before his

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ascension, and how those play
out in some of the rest of the

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New Testament.
And then we’re going to, if we

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have time, look at the testimony
of the apostles themselves as to

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how they perceived things.
And so the promises of Jesus,

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and we begin, perhaps, with one
of the best known and and

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greatest of them, he says, as
recorded at the end of Matthew’s

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Gospel.
Go there for and make disciples

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of all the nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father

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and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit, teaching them to observe

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all things that I have commanded
you.

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And lo, I am with you always.
Even to the end of the age.

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Amen.
And I don’t want now, brothers

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and sisters, for us to digress
into ways in which the Lord

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obviously and clearly works in
our own lives, but rather we’re

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dealing with the work of the
Holy Spirit and New Testament

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times.
And these words were first of

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all addressed to the apostles.
And there is a very real sense

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in which the New Testament times
were an age unto themselves.

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It was an age of Holy Spirit
empowerment, and it it it

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endured for that period of time
in the Lord’s work through His

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apostles.
And this is a sweeping promise

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by Jesus.
Lo, I am with you always, even

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to the end of the age.
It’s a sweeping promise to his

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apostles.
And it hardly suggests, at least

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to my mind, A1 time fulfillment
on the day of Pentecost.

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In his glory, Jesus would
actively work with his apostles

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throughout the rest of New
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The immediate objective has been
defined there.

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The immediate objective of the
Lord’s promise was to advance

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the cause of the Great
Commission.

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In a sense, that was Matthew’s
record of the Great Commission.

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To make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them,

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teaching them the empowerment
that Jesus gave on the day of

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Pentecost began to fulfill the
promise.

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And it happened again and again
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And this is what impressed
itself upon me as I simply read

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through the book of Acts, set
the baggage aside, and said what

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is it saying to me?
Preaching the gospel of

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salvation, brothers and sisters,
to a world that was dying,

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orchestrated, directed,
empowered by the Lord Jesus

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himself, was the first priority
of Holy Spirit activity in New

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Testament times, and edifying
the body of believers quickly

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became the second important
priority.

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We’ll do our best to explore in
and around the first of these

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today and.
God permitting perhaps a bit

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more of the second of these
priorities in our our class

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tomorrow, but giving eternal
life in the power of the Holy

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Spirit is still to come.
Baptisms.

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There were even multiple
baptisms of the apostles, and

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we’ll look again at one classic
pair of these, at least today.

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But the baptism of the Holy
Spirit is still to come.

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The work of the Holy Spirit of
New Testament times was a

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developmental work.
It was not a work of completion.

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We come to Mark’s Gospel, he
said to them.

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And again, the context is the
11th from verse 14.

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Go into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature.

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He who believes in his baptized
will be saved, but he who does

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not believe will be condemned.
And there is Mark’s version of

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the Great Commission, and he
goes on to say, Or Mark goes on

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to record, And they went out and
preached everywhere, the Lord

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working with them and confirming
the word through the

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accompanying signs.
This is going to be a

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partnership that we read of in
the book of Acts and on through

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the the New Testament.
A partnership between these men

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who were like us, who went forth
in the name of Jesus and heaven

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itself, working with them and
empowering them as needed and

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when needed and where needed.
This again in Mark’s account, as

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the Great Commission hardly the
work of one day.

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The Lord worked with his
apostles in an ongoing manner

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until the purposes were
accomplished through them.

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Now just pause for a moment
here, Brothers and sisters, I

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think we’ve taken on board the
kind of thing that you could

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read in Benjamin Warfield’s book
that this was the age of the

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apostles, and I have
deliberately attempted to bring

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myself away from that kind of
terminology.

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This is the age of the Holy
Spirit.

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Working through miracles,
wonders and signs administered

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by the glorified Lord Jesus
Christ through his apostles, who

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are his hands and are his feet
and are his mouth for him, his

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friends on earth.
And they took note that these

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men had been with Jesus.
It’s not an age of the apostles.

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It’s an age entirely under the
control of heaven itself.

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And so I no longer accept the
idea that the apostles possessed

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from the day of Pentecost
forward some miraculous power

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that they could pass on.
And it’s at the end.

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Brothers and sisters of the the
Apostolic Age.

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The Spirit gifts ended because
the apostles died.

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It worked the other way around.
That’s the way life works.

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When God’s purpose with us is
finished, it’s over and we die.

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And that’s all right.
The best is yet to come.

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And so when the end of the
Lord’s purposes with America’s

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wonders and signs comes to its
to its culmination, those things

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will cease, and the last of the
apostles will die.

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Heaven doesn’t have to say,
well, there goes the last of the

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apostles.
What do we do now?

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No more spirit gifts.
No, no, no, no.

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No works the other way around.
It’s the way it worked with John

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the Baptist.
When it was over, it was over

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and it wasn’t pleasant.
And he understood that he must

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think it increase.
I must decrease.

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He understood that we must
understand that.

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You know, if the Lord’s work
with me is done with this

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period, I won’t see lunch.
And that’s okay.

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That’s okay.
The best is yet to come.

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So the Lord worked through His
apostles in an ongoing manner

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until His purposes were
accomplished.

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Through them the gifts ceased
and the the last of the apostles

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died off.
The Lord’s work was done with

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them.
He has much better things in

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store for them.
That’s all for now, and the

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historical record here in March
seems deliberately qualified.

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The Lord working with them the
age of eternal life for all

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believers.
Has not yet come, and so now we

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want to focus.
We want to look at promises

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Jesus made to His apostles while
He was yet with them before the

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Ascension, before, even in many
respects His crucifixion.

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And then we want to see how
these play out in their work

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through the rest of the New
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And we go back to Luke chapter
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We’ll start with a couple of
promises Jesus made in Luke’s

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gospel, and we’ll go to Acts and
see how Luke records the

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fulfillment, the keeping of
these promises.

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You’ll remember this now when
they bring you to the synagogues

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and magistrates and authorities.
Do not worry about how or what

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you should answer or what you
should say, for the Holy Spirit

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will teach you in that very
hour.

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What you ought to say, or this
one again, in Luke chapter 21,

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you will be brought before kings
and rulers for my name’s sake,

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but it will turn out for you as
an occasion for testimony.

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Therefore settle it in your
hearts not to meditate

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beforehand on what you will
answer for.

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I will give you a mouth and
wisdom.

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Which all your adversaries will
not be able to contradict or

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resist.
There’s the promise.

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And the Lord is saying this to
them.

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Be ever before His crucifixion.
Oh, what the Lord understood,

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It’s just absolutely
breathtaking.

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He’s already projected himself
in into the the age of of His

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glory.
Brothers and sisters, the Holy

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Spirit will teach you what you
ought to say.

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I will give you a mouth and
wisdom, their equivalent

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statements.
The ad hoc work of the Holy

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Spirit was in fact the ongoing
work of the glorified Jesus.

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And what I mean by that ad hoc,
it came at a time when it was

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needed for the purpose that it
was needed, and then when it was

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over, it was over.
It was toward a specific end

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that these empowerments would
come, and when that was over, it

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was over and it would come again
for a specific end.

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It was in fact the ongoing work
of the glorified Jesus.

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The Holy Spirit is a
personified.

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The Holy Spirit will teach you
in that hour what you ought to

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say.
I will give you a mouth and

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wisdom.
It’s the person of the glorified

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Jesus who’s behind the
personification of the Holy

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Spirit in in these promises.
The empowering of the apostles

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for the purpose of bearing
witness was carried out by Jesus

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when he saw fit to do it, where
he saw fit to do it as he saw

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fit to do it, And I could add,
as only he would know when it

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was fit to do it, His apostles
in turn had to depend day by day

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by day, on the faithfulness of
Jesus to his promise.

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And so when they got up in the
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don’t envision them flexing
their Holy Spirit muscles and

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saying let’s rattle off a few
words in Cappadocian before we

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head out for breakfast.
I don’t see them having that

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kind of power, and I don’t.
I don’t mean to say that

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flippantly, because it sounds
like it, but if they needed that

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day the ability to do some
miracle, the Lord knew it and

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he’d provide it when it was
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Promise kept and we’ll go to the
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we’ll go to acts for actually
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You remember how after the
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the crowds rushed to see what
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They had been, they had gone on
into the temple, and the man was

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leaping and praising God and and
they rushed to see this, and

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Peter sees the moment.
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And we see that the message he
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parallel to the message he he
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The the.
It’s a replication again of what

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was preached on Pentecost.
You remember that they were

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arrested.
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So I think was the lame man.
They were put in prison

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overnight and the next day all
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Peter and John and the man
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And they are answering to the
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It came to pass on the next day,
that their rulers, elders and

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scribes, as well as Annas, the
high priest, Caiaphas, John, and

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Alexander, and as many as were
of the family of the high

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priest, were gathered together
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And when they upset them, Peter
and John, in the midst, they

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asked, by what power or by what
name have you done this?

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They have been brought before
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sake.
Then Peter, filled with the Holy

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Spirit said to them.
In that very hour I will give

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you a mouth and wisdom, rulers
of the people and elders of

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Israel.
Here’s the mouth.

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Here’s the wisdom.
Let it be known to you, to all,

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to all the people of Israel,
that by the name of Jesus Christ

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of Nazareth.
And notice the phrasing and Acts

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is, is, is impeccable.
It’s no longer just Jesus of

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Nazareth.
The way Peter began his address

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in Acts 2 verse 22 and had to
bring them to the the

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realization that God had made
that Jesus whom they crucified

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both Lord and Christ.
Now they’re all the stops are

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pulled out here, Jesus Christ of
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And he says that to the rulers.
You’ve got to understand.

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He’s no longer just Jesus of
Nazareth, the prophet of

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Galilee.
This is Jesus Christ of

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Nazareth, whom you crucified,
whom God raised from the dead by

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Him.
This man stands here before you

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hold nor is there salvation in
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For there is no other name under
heaven given among men by which

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we must be saved.
And there’s the mouth and the

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wisdom that came under
inspiration to Peter in that

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very hour.
A mouth and wisdom.

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Now when they saw the boldness
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that they were uneducated and
untrained men, they marveled and

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they realized that they’d been
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Vitally important, The apostles
will begin to be magnified in

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Jerusalem, and it’s already
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And they know that these men had
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They are the visible link to
Jesus on this earth, and they

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are his hands, and they are his
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And I always love this little
expression, uneducated and

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untrained, Agra Matos and
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I sympathize with that, All
right.

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Uneducated, Ungrammered and
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That’s how they viewed them.
But transfigured men?

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Transformed men.
Whatever else, the punctuated

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empowerments that they received
from heaven to carry out the

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Great Commission, brothers and
sisters, it had a lasting effect

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on them as well, and within them
developed an indwelling spirit

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that is also making them full of
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But the but the the miraculous
empowerments are punctuated

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events.
They realized that they’d been

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with Jesus, and seeing the man
who had been healed standing

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with them, they could say
nothing against it.

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Saying what should we do to
these men?

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For indeed a notable miracle has
been done through them is

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evident to all who dwell in
Jerusalem.

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And we cannot deny it.
We cannot deny it.

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What did Jesus promised?
Your adversaries will not be

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able to contradict or resist,
and they wrote the last word on

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that by saying this.
And so Acts 4 verses 8 to 16,

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brothers and sisters, is both a
fulfillment of the promise of

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Jesus and it’s the language of
Holy Spirit.

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Baptism in the sense of giving
miraculous inspiration and

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empowerment.
And we note too that this event

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Pentecost did not provide a once
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Spirit in any kind of sense of
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The Apostles repositories of
Holy Spirit power.

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That baptism of continuous Holy
Spirit power is yet to come.

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The Lord Jesus filled his men
with Holy Spirit.

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He inspired them.
It’s And remember we said it the

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first day.
The more closely we find

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ourselves drawing the lines
between the New Testament work

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of the Holy Spirit and the way
that God worked through the

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power of His Holy Spirit and Old
Testament times, probably the

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closer we are to understanding
what’s going on.

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And there in Old Testament
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prophets was a punctuated
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Go back to the judgement judges.
The Spirit of the Lord came upon

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Samson.
The Spirit of the Lord came upon

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Samson.
The Spirit of the Lord came upon

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Samson.
They were punctuated events.

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And Samson did the mighty works.
And still it is the soul here.

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This is not the ultimate, yet
this is a developmental work.

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The work of the apostles was the
ongoing work of the glorified

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Lord Jesus by the power of the
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He’s in control.
Another example of that promise

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kept.
And now we come forward to the

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Apostle Paul.
We come to Acts 13 and we go

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from Jerusalem to Cyprus.
And on our way to Cyprus, we’ll

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stop, brothers and sisters, at
Antioch in Syria, up on the

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northeast corner there of the of
the Mediterranean Sea and there

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in the Ecclesia in Antioch,
there were certain prophets and

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teachers.
You can read of this at the

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beginning of Acts 13.
And they are fasting and

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praying.
And I have to believe, brothers

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and sisters, being the the nerve
center that Antioch had become

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for preaching the gospel, that
they are fasting and praying for

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direction from heaven.
What do we do next?

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Where do we go next?
Where do you want us to go to

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carry the gospel to a perishing
world?

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And then perhaps through the
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There in Antioch the Holy Spirit
says, separate to me, Barnabas

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and Saul for the work where
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And so being sent out by the
Holy Spirit, that’s the Lord

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Jesus Accomplishing this by the
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Being sent out by the Holy
Spirit, they Barnabas and Saul

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went down to Salucia, and from
there they sailed to Cyprus, the

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active role of heaven.
And when they gone through the

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island to Pappas, they found a
certain sorcerer, a false

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prophet, a Jew whose name was
bar Jesus, who was with the pro

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consul, Sergeus Paulus, an
intelligent man.

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And he was I I I think we’ll see
some evidence of that

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momentarily.
This man called for Barnabas and

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Saul that was intelligent.
We’ll see more evidence.

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And he sought to hear the word
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so his name is translated,
interpreted.

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We’ll talk about very briefly
the interpretation of tongues,

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but that’s the same word
withstood them seeking to turn

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the Pro Council away from the
faith.

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So here’s the adversary.
We’ve got a variation on the

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theme.
They are now before a ruler, not

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an adversarial ruler, but in his
midst is 1.

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Who’s the adversary?
And we’re going to see again the

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Lord Jesus taking control of
this situation and bringing a

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wonderful, wonderful result out
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Then Saul, who’s also called
Paul, filled with the Holy

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Spirit, looked intently at him
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So this promise even applies to
the apostle Paul originally

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given in Luke’s gospel to the to
the 12 take away Judas, add

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Mathias.
But it applies to Paul as well

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in that very hour, and Paul’s
experience invites comparison

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with Peter’s.
There is the Greek.

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And except that we’ve got Saul
and Peter.

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All right, you take a look.
Filled with the Holy Spirit,

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filled with spirit, Holy.
Here, brothers and sisters, same

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Greek word, right down to the
verb parsing.

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Exactly the same.
Here we’ll see a similar kind of

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comparison.
And another time in the book of

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Acts, this is a very, very
similar experience to what Peter

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had before the council.
And the just to to fill out this

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verb parsing.
It’s the aoris tense we spoke

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of.
It’s the passive voice.

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So it’s done to Peter.
It’s done to Paul.

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It’s the participle They’re
filled at that moment with the

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Holy Spirit.
The Greek is exactly the same,

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and the language is that of Holy
Spirit baptism and ad hoc

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inspiration in New Testament
times when it applies to special

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empowerment.
And so Paul says something that

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none of us would dare to say.
He has sensed this empowerment.

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He has sensed the connection
with heaven.

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His will is entirely In Sync
with that of the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
And when he opens his mouth, it

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will be the Lord, the Lord’s
words that he speaks.

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And he says to Elimus, the hand
of the Lord is upon you.

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He’s not saying I’m going to put
my hands on you.

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He already has had by
inspiration a knowledge of the

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judgment that Jesus is going to
carry out.

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The hand of the Lord is upon
you, and you shall be blind, not

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seeing the sun for a time and
immediately a dark mist fell on

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him.
Paul’s put his neck in the noose

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here, and Jesus doesn’t let him
get hung.

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Immediately a dark mist fell on
him.

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Fell on him.
Remember yesterday?

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Not.
All right.

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Where did it come from?
And he went around seeking

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someone to lead him by the hand.
Prophecy, the immediate

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fulfillment of prophecy.
Under inspiration Paul

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prophesied this judgment of
Elimus, and Jesus carried out

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the judgment.
Paul was given a mouth and

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wisdom, and his adversary was
not able to contradict or

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resist, and he went around
groping for somebody to lead him

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by the hand the man made blind.
You know, there we are.

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Isn’t it because he had
resisted?

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The truth just occurred to me?
Thank you, brother.

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Thank you.
A dark mist fell on him and it

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uses Holy Spirit baptism
language.

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Except that this intervention of
heaven came in the form of a

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miraculous judgment rather than
a gift that promised life.

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This is the great thing we see
of these events in the New

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Testament, brothers and sisters.
We see Jesus as the Savior of

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men through the power of the
Holy Spirit, and we also see him

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as the judge of men.
And if our friends in the

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religious world around us want
to claim those kind of powers

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for themselves, show us both
sides of the coin,

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categorically, unequivocally,
without any question.

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Not just the saving power, but
the Judgment Power Strike and

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Anonyzer.
So Fire are dead.

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Would they dare do it?
Neither did Peter.

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He pronounced the judgment and
Christ did it.

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And same here the Council
believed, when he saw what had

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been done, being astonished at
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And it’s this praising that just
says to me this man is

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intelligent because he’s
perceived this is not just the

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preaching of Saul and Barnabas.
It’s not just their teaching

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about the Lord.
He has, I think, perceived and

437
00:29:11,420 –> 00:29:13,060
gotten right to the heart of the
matter.

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00:29:13,300 –> 00:29:15,820
This is the teaching of the Lord
that he’s hearing.

439
00:29:17,660 –> 00:29:19,980
I will give you a mouth and
wisdom.

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00:29:20,900 –> 00:29:24,340
This man, Sergeus Paulus, was an
intelligent man, and I think he

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00:29:24,340 –> 00:29:27,820
recognized this truth in some
way.

442
00:29:28,180 –> 00:29:31,700
These were the words of heaven,
that he was hearing another

443
00:29:31,700 –> 00:29:34,340
promise, brothers and sisters,
going back now again to the

444
00:29:34,340 –> 00:29:38,590
Gospels before the Lord’s
crucifixion, going to that

445
00:29:38,590 –> 00:29:41,910
series of of of chapters, John
14 to 16.

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00:29:43,430 –> 00:29:47,230
And Jesus promises to his
apostles, whatever you ask in my

447
00:29:47,230 –> 00:29:51,510
name that I will do, that the
Father may be glorified in the

448
00:29:51,510 –> 00:29:54,350
Son.
If you ask anything in my name,

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00:29:54,350 –> 00:30:00,170
I will do it.
Or in John 16 most assuredly I

450
00:30:00,170 –> 00:30:03,890
say to you, whatever you ask the
Father in my name, he will give

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00:30:03,890 –> 00:30:05,530
you.
And I just want to highlight

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00:30:05,530 –> 00:30:08,330
that that is again one of those
Holy Spirit baptism words that

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00:30:08,330 –> 00:30:11,250
we looked at on Monday.
But I want for us to also see

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00:30:11,250 –> 00:30:14,530
that this word is going to come
back in a moment in exactly this

455
00:30:14,530 –> 00:30:19,970
kind of setting in Acts, because
Jesus is inviting his apostles

456
00:30:19,970 –> 00:30:25,530
to pray, to pray for the help
that would come from his Father

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00:30:25,770 –> 00:30:30,130
in Christ’s name.
Until now you’ve asked nothing

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00:30:30,130 –> 00:30:32,530
in my name.
Ask and you will receive that.

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00:30:32,530 –> 00:30:35,970
Your joy may be full.
And before we go over to Acts, I

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00:30:35,970 –> 00:30:37,570
just want you to notice
something.

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00:30:37,650 –> 00:30:41,130
There’s been a changing of the
guard here, in a sense.

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00:30:42,770 –> 00:30:45,570
Previously, we looked at
promises that Luke recorded in

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00:30:45,570 –> 00:30:49,570
his Gospel, and we look at his
fulfillment of those, or his

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00:30:49,570 –> 00:30:51,450
record of the fulfillment and
acts.

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00:30:52,250 –> 00:30:55,330
Now we’re going back and looking
at promises that Jesus made

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00:30:55,330 –> 00:30:58,930
recorded in John’s Gospel, and
Luke will show us the

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00:30:58,930 –> 00:31:01,530
fulfillment and Acts, and the
changing of the guard is

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00:31:01,530 –> 00:31:06,490
seamless, such as the integrity
of the Gospels In the book of

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00:31:06,490 –> 00:31:09,490
Acts, such as the integrity of
the New Testament, though the

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00:31:09,490 –> 00:31:13,650
promise is recorded by John,
Luke will show us the keeping of

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00:31:13,650 –> 00:31:19,690
the promise and we come to
Jerusalem and we come to Acts

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00:31:19,690 –> 00:31:24,450
chapter 4, and we come to the
sequel to the healing of the

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00:31:24,450 –> 00:31:29,170
lame man and the interrogation
of the council, who threaten the

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00:31:29,370 –> 00:31:34,810
Peter and John and send them on
their way and they come back to

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00:31:34,810 –> 00:31:38,050
their companions.
It picks up about verse 23 or

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00:31:38,050 –> 00:31:41,490
thereabouts, and in verse 29, I
want you to see what they’re

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00:31:41,490 –> 00:31:45,370
doing.
They are praying.

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00:31:46,900 –> 00:31:51,620
Whatever you ask the Father in
my name, he will give you.

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00:31:53,700 –> 00:31:58,420
And so they pray.
Now, Lord, look on their

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00:31:58,420 –> 00:32:05,780
threats, and give the same word.
Grant to your servants that with

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00:32:05,780 –> 00:32:09,700
all boldness they may speak your
word, and as their profile

482
00:32:09,700 –> 00:32:14,260
grows, so brothers and sisters
does the threat of persecution

483
00:32:14,260 –> 00:32:18,220
from the rulers, and by the
grace of God they will remain

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00:32:18,220 –> 00:32:20,860
untouchable.
At least the apostles will for

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00:32:20,860 –> 00:32:22,940
some time yet to come.
James.

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00:32:22,940 –> 00:32:27,860
No, ultimately he’s slain by
Herod, but the Apostolic College

487
00:32:27,860 –> 00:32:31,380
will remain largely intact up
until the time of the Jerusalem

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00:32:31,380 –> 00:32:36,060
conference.
With their center in Jerusalem,

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00:32:36,900 –> 00:32:41,340
they will remain untouchable in
in in most regards, not

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00:32:41,340 –> 00:32:45,660
entirely, but in most regards.
While even the persecution of

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00:32:45,660 –> 00:32:49,340
Sol of Tarsus will drive others
out, the apostles remain

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00:32:49,340 –> 00:32:52,740
untouchable in many, many
respects, and will perhaps try

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00:32:52,740 –> 00:32:55,940
to come back and and comment on
that if if time allows.

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00:32:57,300 –> 00:33:00,180
But here’s what they’re doing.
They’re they’re asking grant to

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00:33:00,180 –> 00:33:04,700
your servants that with all
boldness is there men like us.

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00:33:06,270 –> 00:33:10,910
They’ve just been threatened,
and they realize that along with

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00:33:10,910 –> 00:33:14,510
the power to speak the word,
they need to have the

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00:33:14,510 –> 00:33:19,190
reassurances of heaven that give
them the boldness to do this.

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00:33:19,950 –> 00:33:23,310
And so grant to your servants
that with all boldness they may

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00:33:23,310 –> 00:33:26,950
speak your word by stretching
out your hand to heal marvelous

501
00:33:26,950 –> 00:33:28,590
echo of the healing of the lame
man there.

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00:33:28,750 –> 00:33:31,870
When Peter stretched out his
hand to help that man up, that

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00:33:31,870 –> 00:33:36,430
was the hand of Jesus at that
moment.

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00:33:37,150 –> 00:33:42,790
Lifting that man up by
stretching out your hand to heal

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00:33:42,990 –> 00:33:46,150
and that signs and wonders may
be done through the name of your

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00:33:46,150 –> 00:33:50,590
holy servant, Jesus, whatever
you ask in my name.

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00:33:51,030 –> 00:33:53,030
And we’re getting an
interpretation of this now.

508
00:33:53,230 –> 00:33:55,070
We’re getting an interpretation
of this now.

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00:33:55,630 –> 00:33:59,470
Preaching in the name of Jesus
in Jerusalem was dangerous work.

510
00:34:01,030 –> 00:34:05,620
The apostles needed boldness.
They asked for boldness.

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00:34:05,740 –> 00:34:11,420
They were given boldness.
This prayer in the name of Jesus

512
00:34:11,420 –> 00:34:15,260
was not so much a formula of
words, brothers and sisters, as

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00:34:15,260 –> 00:34:20,699
it was a request for help as the
apostles preached salvation in

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00:34:20,699 –> 00:34:23,300
the name of the glorified
Savior.

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00:34:24,100 –> 00:34:35,380
Or to put it another way, prayer
in the name of Jesus is prayer

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00:34:35,580 –> 00:34:42,300
dedicated to his service.
When I began to realize that,

517
00:34:42,340 –> 00:34:47,420
thinking these things through,
I’ve had perhaps to examine my

518
00:34:47,420 –> 00:34:51,219
own prayers a bit more
carefully, Are they truly,

519
00:34:51,219 –> 00:34:55,580
genuinely from my heart?
Prayers dedicated to his service

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00:34:55,980 –> 00:34:58,900
that I can legitimately offer in
his name.

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00:34:59,590 –> 00:35:01,950
Not just prayers that
incorporate his name and the

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00:35:01,950 –> 00:35:07,230
phrasing.
We’ll come back to that promise

523
00:35:07,230 –> 00:35:10,790
kept.
And so they said grant, Lord.

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00:35:10,790 –> 00:35:14,350
And when they had prayed, the
place where they were assembled

525
00:35:14,350 –> 00:35:19,150
together was shaken, and they
were all filled with the Holy

526
00:35:19,150 –> 00:35:21,550
Spirit.
Now this is Peter and John and

527
00:35:21,550 –> 00:35:25,030
their companions who almost
certainly must have include

528
00:35:25,230 –> 00:35:27,630
included the rest of the
Apostles and perhaps some

529
00:35:27,630 –> 00:35:30,570
others.
But they were all filled with

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00:35:30,570 –> 00:35:33,850
the Holy Spirit and they spoke
the word of God with boldness.

531
00:35:33,850 –> 00:35:35,970
And this is Holy Spirit baptism
language.

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00:35:36,130 –> 00:35:39,690
I’m going to ask you to to to
bear with me on this for another

533
00:35:39,690 –> 00:35:45,050
moment.
They spoke the word of God with

534
00:35:45,050 –> 00:35:51,970
boldness and that is going to
play out now through Acts 5 and

535
00:35:51,970 –> 00:35:54,610
over into to to the end of Acts
5.

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00:35:57,740 –> 00:36:01,380
Boldness came with the
inspirations, the Holy Spirit

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00:36:01,380 –> 00:36:07,700
baptisms strengthening them to
continue preaching in Jerusalem,

538
00:36:07,940 –> 00:36:11,380
and the results, brothers and
sisters, of Acts 4 versus 29 to

539
00:36:11,380 –> 00:36:16,420
31 and the the following verses
into chapter five were nothing

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00:36:16,420 –> 00:36:18,740
less than a replication of
Pentecost.

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00:36:20,340 –> 00:36:25,460
There was a Theophony on the day
of Pentecost.

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00:36:25,460 –> 00:36:28,780
There was the rushing mighty
wind and the tongues as a fire.

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00:36:29,060 –> 00:36:33,820
And now there is Earthquake.
Let’s make no mistake about it.

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00:36:34,220 –> 00:36:37,300
When they had prayed, the place
where they were assembled

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00:36:37,300 –> 00:36:43,420
together was shaken.
There were the inspirations that

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00:36:43,420 –> 00:36:46,030
came.
Here’s Acts Two Day of

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00:36:46,030 –> 00:36:48,030
Pentecost.
They were all filled with the

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00:36:48,030 –> 00:36:51,150
Holy Spirit.
Here’s Acts 4 after Pentecost,

549
00:36:51,270 –> 00:36:53,190
they were all filled with the
Holy Spirit.

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00:36:53,390 –> 00:36:56,310
And it is not just the same in
English.

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00:36:57,390 –> 00:37:03,590
There’s the Greek.
You find a way to fit a file

552
00:37:03,590 –> 00:37:09,750
card edgewise between those.
It’s exactly the same, exactly

553
00:37:09,750 –> 00:37:12,640
the same phrasing.
There’s the word filled.

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00:37:12,640 –> 00:37:15,880
Again, there is the parsing of
the verb.

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00:37:16,280 –> 00:37:18,680
It is aorist.
It is passive.

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00:37:18,720 –> 00:37:21,520
It is indicative.
In both cases, as simple as

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00:37:21,520 –> 00:37:25,240
statement of past action
performed on the apostles, as

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00:37:25,240 –> 00:37:27,520
you can have.
I don’t understand, but I’m not

559
00:37:27,520 –> 00:37:31,280
a language expert and as I said
yesterday, just a simple physics

560
00:37:31,280 –> 00:37:33,280
teacher, in fact a retread
engineer.

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00:37:33,760 –> 00:37:36,320
All right, so I don’t understand
things of language.

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00:37:36,320 –> 00:37:38,080
You tell me how those are
different.

563
00:37:39,300 –> 00:37:41,060
Our theology makes them
different.

564
00:37:41,180 –> 00:37:44,420
Our theology says this is the
baptism of the Holy Spirit, and

565
00:37:44,420 –> 00:37:48,260
this is something different.
And I thought that brothers and

566
00:37:48,260 –> 00:37:50,980
sisters, I don’t see that.
I just don’t see it.

567
00:37:51,500 –> 00:37:54,740
The baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Yes, it came on Pentecost.

568
00:37:54,740 –> 00:37:56,580
Jesus said categorically that it
would.

569
00:37:56,820 –> 00:38:02,580
But hasn’t it again happened?
I believe it has, because I

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00:38:02,580 –> 00:38:05,660
believe all of those events, as
we saw from a totally different

571
00:38:05,660 –> 00:38:09,600
direction yesterday, were
incipient events for the

572
00:38:09,600 –> 00:38:13,320
promulgation of the gospel, the
Great Commission, and ultimately

573
00:38:13,480 –> 00:38:19,040
for the edifying of believers.
But the best has yet to come,

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00:38:21,400 –> 00:38:24,400
and the outcome’s the same.
They began to speak the Word

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00:38:24,400 –> 00:38:27,030
with other tongues.
They spoke the word of God with

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00:38:27,030 –> 00:38:29,310
boldness.
And on Friday, God willing, will

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00:38:29,550 –> 00:38:33,110
attempt to make some connections
here between speaking with other

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00:38:33,110 –> 00:38:34,870
tongues and speaking the word of
God.

579
00:38:34,870 –> 00:38:37,670
Because I believe on the day of
Pentecost, this is very much

580
00:38:37,670 –> 00:38:43,310
what was was embodied in what
they spoke with tongues to the

581
00:38:43,310 –> 00:38:46,950
Jewish people who understood,
who understood what they were

582
00:38:46,950 –> 00:38:54,110
hearing.
Before we proceed, they often

583
00:38:54,110 –> 00:38:57,190
need the same inspiration, the
same outcome, the same.

584
00:38:57,310 –> 00:39:00,350
The apostles are involved in
both cases, so that’s the same.

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00:39:00,550 –> 00:39:03,910
And may I also say, brothers and
sisters, that the greater

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00:39:03,910 –> 00:39:06,830
spiritual lesson in both Acts 2
and Acts 4 is the same.

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00:39:07,550 –> 00:39:10,630
Even Acts 2, the Spirit filled
the whole house where they were

588
00:39:10,630 –> 00:39:13,630
sitting.
And as we said on Monday, that’s

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00:39:13,630 –> 00:39:19,190
Old Testament temple language.
And so they are now, in a sense,

590
00:39:19,310 –> 00:39:22,870
the house in which God dwells by
His spirit.

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00:39:23,610 –> 00:39:27,370
You take a look at Acts 4.
Starting at verse 23, you’ll be

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00:39:27,370 –> 00:39:30,890
able to find at least a handful
of details that also tell us

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00:39:31,050 –> 00:39:34,610
that this Harkins back to the
dedication of the temple.

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00:39:34,610 –> 00:39:37,290
In Second Chronicles chapter
five and Second Chronicles

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00:39:37,290 –> 00:39:39,490
chapter 6, you’ll see those
details.

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00:39:39,690 –> 00:39:43,490
This again is telling us that
these men are the House of God

597
00:39:43,490 –> 00:39:48,010
in whom God wishes to dwell.
So even the spiritual lessons

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00:39:48,010 –> 00:39:52,250
are the same in Acts 2 and Acts
4I fail in my simplicity to see

599
00:39:52,250 –> 00:39:55,840
how they are different in what
they have to to, to to mean and

600
00:39:55,840 –> 00:40:02,760
to and to teach us and the
apostles prayer.

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00:40:02,840 –> 00:40:07,360
Lord grant to your servants
continued to be answered.

602
00:40:07,800 –> 00:40:12,280
God continued to stretch out his
hand, granting signs and wonders

603
00:40:12,280 –> 00:40:14,520
to be done in the name of the
glorified Jesus.

604
00:40:14,680 –> 00:40:17,400
The active role of heaven
continued and continued and

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00:40:17,400 –> 00:40:19,640
continued.
We go on to Acts 5.

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00:40:21,610 –> 00:40:24,210
Through the hands of the
apostles.

607
00:40:24,890 –> 00:40:29,090
I like the phrasing there.
I particularly like the choice

608
00:40:29,090 –> 00:40:32,890
of the preposition.
It isn’t just by the hands of

609
00:40:32,890 –> 00:40:36,690
the apostles.
It’s through the hands who’s

610
00:40:36,690 –> 00:40:38,450
doing it.
Through the hands of the

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00:40:38,450 –> 00:40:41,690
apostles.
I believe it’s the glorified

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00:40:41,690 –> 00:40:48,850
Lord Jesus Christ that this is
his work and they are his men

613
00:40:49,130 –> 00:40:52,990
and they are recognized.
They have been with Jesus

614
00:40:54,670 –> 00:40:56,150
through the hands of the
apostles.

615
00:40:56,150 –> 00:40:59,510
Many signs and wonders were done
among the people and they were

616
00:40:59,550 –> 00:41:01,990
with one accord in Solomon’s
porch.

617
00:41:02,190 –> 00:41:07,550
Anytime we see this one Greek
word 1 accord in the early

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00:41:07,550 –> 00:41:09,910
chapters of Acts, it’s a
reference to the apostles.

619
00:41:09,910 –> 00:41:13,950
Brothers and sisters, you go
back and look at Acts 1 long

620
00:41:13,950 –> 00:41:17,150
about verse 1415.
Look at Acts 2 verse one.

621
00:41:17,390 –> 00:41:20,430
Look at the antecedents.
Look at the antecedent here

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00:41:21,020 –> 00:41:22,660
through the hands of the
apostles.

623
00:41:22,660 –> 00:41:25,420
Many signs and wonders were done
among the people, and they were

624
00:41:25,420 –> 00:41:27,300
all with one accord in Solomon
sports.

625
00:41:27,540 –> 00:41:30,740
And in a sense it plays off
against what we saw on Acts 1.

626
00:41:31,300 –> 00:41:34,580
Judas was not with one accord
with them, and he went to his

627
00:41:34,580 –> 00:41:39,740
own place.
And when the day of Pentecost

628
00:41:39,740 –> 00:41:43,940
comes, Matthias and the Eleven
are in one place with one

629
00:41:43,940 –> 00:41:48,390
accord.
These are the ones that that

630
00:41:48,390 –> 00:41:53,430
Luke is showing us that are
being magnified to carry forth

631
00:41:53,430 –> 00:41:54,870
the work of the Great
Commission.

632
00:41:55,630 –> 00:41:58,230
So through the hands of the
apostles, many signs and wonders

633
00:41:58,230 –> 00:42:00,870
were done among the people.
They were all with one accord in

634
00:42:00,870 –> 00:42:05,070
Solomon’s Porch, yet none of the
rest dared join them.

635
00:42:05,870 –> 00:42:07,830
But the people esteemed them
highly.

636
00:42:09,030 –> 00:42:12,110
And if you read 1/2 a dozen
different expositors on verse

637
00:42:12,110 –> 00:42:14,950
13, you’ll get a half a dozen
different ideas as to what that

638
00:42:14,950 –> 00:42:18,890
means.
None of them, right.

639
00:42:22,250 –> 00:42:25,090
That’s an arrogant statement.
That is an arrogant statement,

640
00:42:25,090 –> 00:42:28,770
brothers and sisters.
And I may just as well be wrong,

641
00:42:30,410 –> 00:42:37,570
but I believe what that’s saying
is this was scary work, and it

642
00:42:37,570 –> 00:42:42,770
was the work that Christ granted
the gift of boldness to his

643
00:42:42,770 –> 00:42:46,370
apostles to carry out.
And the rest of the ecclesia

644
00:42:46,530 –> 00:42:50,290
does not have to join them in
this work.

645
00:42:51,010 –> 00:42:55,290
It’s going to be bad enough when
Saul of Tarsus has to track down

646
00:42:55,290 –> 00:43:02,250
moving targets for them to have
been stationary targets standing

647
00:43:02,250 –> 00:43:04,010
there with the rest of the
apostles.

648
00:43:05,940 –> 00:43:09,100
The apostles are untouchable for
a couple of reasons.

649
00:43:09,300 –> 00:43:12,060
The people esteemed them highly,
and you remember how they, even

650
00:43:12,060 –> 00:43:15,260
the rulers, were afraid to take
Jesus for the very same reason

651
00:43:15,820 –> 00:43:19,900
they have to do it secretly.
All right.

652
00:43:20,060 –> 00:43:24,500
And there’s another reason
because Saul of Tarsus, who

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00:43:24,500 –> 00:43:27,940
would ultimately spearhead the
purge of Christians in

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00:43:27,940 –> 00:43:31,740
Jerusalem, had a mentor and his
name was Camellia.

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00:43:32,020 –> 00:43:34,820
And very shortly Camellia is
going to say, leave these men

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00:43:34,820 –> 00:43:41,090
alone, Leave these men alone.
And so Paul may have honored the

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00:43:41,290 –> 00:43:44,970
the edict of his mentor, but I
think he was bound and

658
00:43:44,970 –> 00:43:48,290
determined to prove him wrong as
he went after the the other

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00:43:48,290 –> 00:43:52,210
believers in Jerusalem.
This was dangerous work and none

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00:43:52,210 –> 00:43:55,770
of them dared join with the
apostles there in Solomon’s

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00:43:55,770 –> 00:43:57,530
court to do this at Solomon’s
porch.

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00:43:57,610 –> 00:44:01,030
And they didn’t have to.
Christ was working through them.

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00:44:01,150 –> 00:44:04,510
That doesn’t mean that the
lovely old sister who learned

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00:44:04,510 –> 00:44:07,270
the truth from the apostles
didn’t tell their neighbor,

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00:44:07,710 –> 00:44:10,470
didn’t tell their relatives,
didn’t tell their friends.

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00:44:10,590 –> 00:44:13,590
I’m sure the truth went forward
that way, as it does today.

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00:44:13,870 –> 00:44:16,710
But they didn’t have to stand up
there with the apostles in

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00:44:16,710 –> 00:44:22,830
Solomon’s Porch and be counted
as those amongst the preachers

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00:44:22,990 –> 00:44:25,790
who are growing in their
magnitude, because the Lord is

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00:44:25,790 –> 00:44:29,870
magnifying them.
And with that growth of

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00:44:29,870 –> 00:44:32,390
magnitude comes the dangers as
well.

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00:44:33,030 –> 00:44:38,350
The people esteemed them highly,
and believers were added to the

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00:44:38,550 –> 00:44:42,830
to the, to the, to the body.
Preaching was the work of the

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00:44:42,830 –> 00:44:46,190
apostles who asked for and
received having special gift of

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00:44:46,190 –> 00:44:50,670
boldness.
And believers were increasingly

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00:44:50,710 –> 00:44:54,110
added to the Lord multitudes of
both men and women.

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00:44:54,310 –> 00:44:57,230
And that’s the language of
Pentecost all over again.

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00:44:59,240 –> 00:45:01,480
It’s a language of Pentecost all
over again.

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00:45:02,000 –> 00:45:06,560
The apostles seem brothers and
sisters, at least from a

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00:45:06,560 –> 00:45:10,560
miraculous empowerment point of
view.

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00:45:11,400 –> 00:45:16,160
The apostles seem to have had
continuous access to God and His

682
00:45:16,160 –> 00:45:22,080
Holy Spirit power.
Whatever you ask, He will give

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00:45:23,640 –> 00:45:29,520
in my name, and we’ve seen the
context now of how that works

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00:45:29,520 –> 00:45:32,440
out in the preaching of
salvation.

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00:45:32,440 –> 00:45:37,520
There is no other name given
under heaven amongst men whereby

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00:45:37,520 –> 00:45:40,800
we must be saved.
The apostles have had access

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00:45:40,960 –> 00:45:44,400
continuously to God and his Holy
Spirit power, rather than

688
00:45:44,400 –> 00:45:47,440
continuous possession of
miraculous power.

689
00:45:47,840 –> 00:45:52,200
Their work was a work of ongoing
partnership with God, in which

690
00:45:52,360 –> 00:45:56,000
their will and the will of God
became fully aligned.

691
00:45:56,370 –> 00:46:05,890
They were all with one accord
with God, and God was

692
00:46:05,890 –> 00:46:10,810
exceedingly active and evident
in fulfilling his role in the

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00:46:10,810 –> 00:46:14,170
partnership.
In fact, he is the initiator of

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00:46:14,170 –> 00:46:20,490
these roles.
And so they brought the sick

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00:46:20,910 –> 00:46:24,430
onto the streets and laid them
on beds and couches that at

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00:46:24,430 –> 00:46:27,470
least the shadow of Peter
passing by might fall on some of

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00:46:27,470 –> 00:46:29,950
them.
There’s no Holy Spirit power in

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00:46:29,950 –> 00:46:35,190
Peter’s shadow, any more than
there will be in Paul’s

699
00:46:35,190 –> 00:46:40,550
handkerchiefs and aprons and
Acts. 19 So who knows and has

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00:46:40,550 –> 00:46:44,070
the wisdom to heal these people
when Peter’s shadow falls on

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00:46:44,070 –> 00:46:47,630
them, or when the handkerchiefs
and aprons come to the afflicted

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00:46:47,630 –> 00:46:52,360
in in Asia?
It’s the work of heaven,

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00:46:52,360 –> 00:46:56,080
brothers and sisters, in my
estimation, it’s the work of the

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00:46:56,080 –> 00:47:00,800
glorified Lord Jesus Christ, and
also a multitude gathered from

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00:47:00,800 –> 00:47:04,760
the surrounding cities to
Jerusalem, bringing sick people

706
00:47:04,760 –> 00:47:07,720
and those who were tormented by
unclean spirits.

707
00:47:07,880 –> 00:47:14,960
And they were all healed by
stretching out your hand to heal

708
00:47:16,600 –> 00:47:22,360
whatever you ask in my name.
And when they, that is the high

709
00:47:22,360 –> 00:47:25,480
priest and Council, had called
for the apostles and beaten

710
00:47:25,480 –> 00:47:28,600
them, they commanded that they
should not speak in the name of

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00:47:28,680 –> 00:47:32,280
Jesus and let them go.
So they departed.

712
00:47:32,280 –> 00:47:34,360
And now Gamalia has given his
advice.

713
00:47:34,360 –> 00:47:36,920
Leave these men alone.
So they departed from the

714
00:47:36,920 –> 00:47:39,280
presence of the council,
rejoicing.

715
00:47:40,680 –> 00:47:44,600
Comparing Acts, brothers and
sisters with John, it’s evident

716
00:47:44,600 –> 00:47:49,800
that prayer in the name of Jesus
was petition related to serving

717
00:47:49,800 –> 00:47:54,220
God.
In the name of Jesus more than

718
00:47:54,220 –> 00:48:02,980
it was a formula of words.
They let them go, and so they

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00:48:02,980 –> 00:48:07,620
departed from the presence of
the council, rejoicing that they

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00:48:07,620 –> 00:48:10,260
were counted worthy to suffer
shame for his name.

721
00:48:10,420 –> 00:48:12,540
What did Jesus said about the
promise?

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00:48:14,220 –> 00:48:20,420
That your joy may be full and
this causes us brothers and

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00:48:20,420 –> 00:48:26,700
sisters, to stop and entirely
redefine what joy means?

724
00:48:28,860 –> 00:48:31,220
We have a wonderful time here at
Bible school.

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00:48:32,860 –> 00:48:35,540
We can have a wonderful time in
many of the things we do in

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00:48:35,540 –> 00:48:40,180
life.
But here is joy that transcends.

727
00:48:41,380 –> 00:48:47,900
And they were suffering shame
for the name of Jesus and daily

728
00:48:47,900 –> 00:48:50,180
in the temple and in every
house.

729
00:48:50,220 –> 00:48:53,900
They, the apostles, did not
cease.

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00:48:54,020 –> 00:48:55,620
Here’s the wonderful answer to
that prayer.

731
00:48:55,620 –> 00:49:01,380
Lord, grant your servants, and
he does and daily in the temple

732
00:49:01,380 –> 00:49:04,340
and in every house.
They did not cease teaching and

733
00:49:04,340 –> 00:49:06,020
preaching.
Jesus is the Christ.

734
00:49:06,020 –> 00:49:09,260
Come what may come whatever the
the the rulers might bring

735
00:49:09,260 –> 00:49:12,060
against them.
Boldness indeed.

736
00:49:14,100 –> 00:49:18,180
Boldness indeed.
And our time is gone.

737
00:49:20,640 –> 00:49:23,080
You’ll have to look in your own
notes, brothers and sisters, to

738
00:49:23,080 –> 00:49:27,320
see how the apostles themselves
will bear testimony to the way

739
00:49:27,440 –> 00:49:30,960
that they were instruments in
the hands of the Lord Jesus and

740
00:49:30,960 –> 00:49:33,880
all the work that they did.
There’s some comprehensive

741
00:49:33,880 –> 00:49:38,960
statements, but let’s just turn
to page 12 and we’ll we’ll bring

742
00:49:38,960 –> 00:49:42,560
it to a conclusion here.
Brothers and sisters, page 312.

743
00:49:44,160 –> 00:49:50,310
The summary, Jeff, you just
didn’t use that remote control

744
00:49:50,310 –> 00:49:51,950
fast enough today.
I don’t know.

745
00:49:53,150 –> 00:49:58,190
Here we are.
Every day in the life of an

746
00:49:58,190 –> 00:50:01,590
apostle was an adventure in
faith.

747
00:50:04,390 –> 00:50:10,390
Peter, Paul, and the rest
ventured forth prayerfully to

748
00:50:10,390 –> 00:50:15,280
serve in the name of Jesus,
relying on the fact that God

749
00:50:15,280 –> 00:50:20,680
would grant the power when
needed to advance the cause of

750
00:50:20,680 –> 00:50:25,000
the Great Commission.
The entire New Testament period

751
00:50:25,000 –> 00:50:30,720
can be characterized as an
ongoing, dynamic partnership

752
00:50:31,120 –> 00:50:36,800
between God and Christ in heaven
and the Friends of Jesus on

753
00:50:36,800 –> 00:50:40,360
earth.
They took note that these men

754
00:50:40,520 –> 00:50:45,330
had been with Jesus, and it’s
for the purpose of offering the

755
00:50:45,330 –> 00:50:48,370
gospel of salvation to a
perishing world.

756
00:50:49,450 –> 00:50:54,050
Pentecost was simply day one of
the process, The day on which

757
00:50:54,050 –> 00:50:58,530
the New Covenant was first
offered to Israel as an Old

758
00:50:58,530 –> 00:51:02,770
Covenant had been offered to
their fathers at Mount Sinai on

759
00:51:02,770 –> 00:51:05,330
the first Pentecost of their
history.

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00:51:20,330 –> 00:51:22,570
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