Jason Robinson – Toward Jerusalem – Class 7 – Beyond Jerusalem

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Good morning, Bible school.
OK, back to sadness.

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No, but my wife and I really
expressed thanks to all of you

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guys.
We’ve had a absolutely terrific

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week here at Shippensburg and
really, really enjoyed our time

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and our haven’t seen much of our
kids, so I’m sure they’re having

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fantastic time as well.
OK, so we are taking our journey

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beyond Jerusalem today.
We yesterday concluded in Luke

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chapter 24 where we brought
those two wandering disciples

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back into Jerusalem.
They were able to see who Christ

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was in the breaking of bread and
he tells his disciples to go to

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Jerusalem and to remain there
until they’re sent with the

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Spirit from on high.
So we come then to this idea of

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going beyond Jerusalem.
Before we really dive into the

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class, though, what I wanted to
do is quickly share with you

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some helpful resources that I
found and kind of just pass

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these on if you are interested
in taking your studies in the

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Gospels or in your journey to
Jerusalem further, I thought I

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would just share some of these.
So I’m just going to put up four

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different texts that I found to
be useful.

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The first of which being Brother
Bernard’s book on Luke verse by

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verse.
This was a great resource if

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anybody here is a fan of the
exposition those those green

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books that are just so prominent
on your shelves in at your

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homes.
This is another one.

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It like that.
It’s a verse by verse

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exposition.
Great great book to read.

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Next book is not from our
community, but I did find it

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very helpful.
It’s called Christ

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chronological.
This one’s on Amazon.

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It is a it is a great visual
harmony of the gospels and what

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it does it is it lays out very
nicely chronologically where

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each of the gospels lie with
each other.

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Each gospel has its own color
and each section has its own

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short kind of summary of it.
Very, very useful.

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I found myself often just
grabbing this as a quick

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reference as I would try to
figure out where all these

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pieces fit in various gospels.
Very good.

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My deaf recommended coffee table
book or something like that.

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Another good one that I have to
admit I did not read, which I’ll

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explain why in a second.
The Messiah and His Ministry is

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a series of three books so far.
This one is entitled The Journey

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to Jerusalem and in fear of
being taking brother Walker’s

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work, I actually did not read
this one.

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I own it.
It is the next book that I will

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read, but I did not want to kind
of be kind of driven in the

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direction that he was taking his
study, you know, out of fear of

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just mostly redoing a study that
he’s already done.

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So I’m really hoping we don’t
differ in opinions here because

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that’d be scary.
But I recommend this series.

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I have spoken with people who
have read the whole series.

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Very, very highly recommended as
well.

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If you’re interested in taking,
you know, this study in

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particular further, again, you
can see some context before the

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journey and then following the
journey in this series as well.

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Now, a book that I recommend
pretty much everywhere I go is a

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bonus material that I call it
this Morning.

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This is not necessarily to do
directly with the journey to

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Jerusalem, although it does play
a role.

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It’s the day Christ died.
Anybody here read this book?

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Absolutely recommend this book.
Absolutely hands down recommend

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this book.
It was written and assembled by

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a very dear friend of mine, a
major spiritual mentor for mine

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when I was a younger brother.
And I found tremendous help in

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this book. 400 plus pages, 24
hour time span.

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Very, very, very good read from
our community.

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Game changer on the if you’re
doing a study in the Gospels.

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OK, moving on, moving past that,
that was for the teens.

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OK, so let’s then go to Acts
chapter 1 while you turn to Acts

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chapter 1.
What I want to do is I want to

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quickly give you a summary of
where we really ended our Luke

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24 journey.
So we ended with Luke 24.

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And that repentance and
remission of sins should be

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preached in His name among all
the nations beginning at

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Jerusalem.
And ye, Jesus says, are

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witnesses of these things.
He’s speaking to the 11.

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He says remain in Jerusalem.
This is the conclusion of Acts.

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Pardon me.
This is the conclusion of Luke,

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and it’s the link to Acts.
It’s literally meant to tie

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these two gospels together.
Luke and Acts are two volumes of

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the same series.
That’s how these books should be

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approached because what we have
here at the very end of Luke is

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all nations would receive the
gospel beginning at Jerusalem.

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This phrase is acts.
If you were going to summarize

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Acts, that’s it.
So Luke is saying there’s a

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cliffhanger at the end of Luke,
all nations beginning at

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Jerusalem.
Now go read Volume 2 when the

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gospel is preached to all
nations beginning at Jerusalem.

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If you remember from class
number one, we looked at how it

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all started.
Christ tells us in Matthew that

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his disciples were that city,
and they were set on a hill that

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could not be hidden.
They were a city of disciples

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there for the whole world to
see.

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And So what he does is he now
takes these and he says remain

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in Jerusalem.
And from Jerusalem you’re going

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to take this gospel message and
you’re going to spread it to the

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rest of the world.
You’re going to spread it

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everywhere.
He says that’s the book of Acts

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now all nations really.
If we were actually paying

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really close attention, we would
have seen that this this is kind

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of not new.
Luke chapter 2 A light to

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lighten the Gentiles.
Luke chapter 4 Elijah and Elijah

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sent to the Gentiles.
Luke 7 Jesus heals the Romans

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servant.
Luke 10 Parable of the Good

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Samaritan 10 Lepers the one who
returns Samaritan Parable of the

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10 lbs.
A certain noble went into a far

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country to receive for himself a
Kingdom pair of the wicked

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husband.
God’s going to transfer the

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vineyard to other people.
And the gospel was preached to

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all nations beginning to the end
of Luke.

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This was the message.
You could probably think of

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dozens more.
If they had actually been been

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been following those crumbs,
they would have seen that this

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was the principle all along.
It was to all nations all along.

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And so we look then to break
this out into two phases.

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Each book contains its own
phase, but they tie to each

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other beautifully.
The two phases are fairly

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straightforward.
Luke phase one, Acts phase two,

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phase one was in chapter in Luke
chapter 24.

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I’ll read you the verse Luke 24.
Very, very familiar.

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We’ve looked at this many times.
Then he said to them, these are

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my words that I spake to you
while I was still with you, that

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everything written about me in
the Law of Moses and the

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prophets and the Psalms must be
fulfilled.

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So what he says is that was
phase one.

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I have to get to Jerusalem.
Everything that’s written about

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me has to be fulfilled in
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Phase one, check Mark.
Luke has come to a conclusion.

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Christ has made it to Jerusalem.
He’s brought the 12 there and

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their remaining in the city.
Then you come to Acts.

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One verse one in the first book.
What’s he talking about?

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Luke in the first book, O
Theophilus, I have dealt with

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all that Jesus began to do and
teach in the first book,

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Theophilus.
I was talking about everything

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that Jesus began to do and
teach.

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Stay tuned for everything in
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The gospel explodes in Acts.
The journey to Jerusalem now

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seems like the afternoon stroll.
When you come to Acts, the

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gospel is going to go
everywhere.

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So we start Phase 2.
The disciples still in their

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confusion verse 6 when they had
come together, they asked him,

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Lord, are you at this time going
to restore the Kingdom to Israel

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Is now the time that you are
going to bring back the Kingdom

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of David of Israel is now the
time Christ says to them, it’s

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not for you to know times or
seasons.

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The Father have fixed by his own
authority, but you will receive

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power when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you and he says phase

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two, you will be my witnesses in
Jerusalem, Judea, Sumeria, and

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to the end of the earth.
So we see here the two phases 1

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accomplished everything that was
written about me in the Psalms

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and the prophets and the law of
Moses at Jerusalem.

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Phase one, Phase two, you bring
that message to Jerusalem,

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Judea, Samaria, and to the ends
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Acts is a big book.
A lot of people are going to

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learn the gospel message here.
Phase 1, you got to get to

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Jerusalem.
That was Luke volume 1 volume to

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spread the gospel out from
Jerusalem.

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We’ve made it there, brothers
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We’ve made it to the city.
Now let’s take it and to spread

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it to the world.
So let’s start.

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Then in Acts chapter 1, it gets
underway fairly quickly.

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They choose Matthias to replace
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Then we come to Acts chapter 2.
Acts chapter 2 starts the ball

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rolling, and we see now that
when this ball gets rolling,

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there is no stopping it.
The gospel is going to be spread

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to Jerusalem, it’s going to be
spread to Judea and Samaria, and

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it’s going to be spread to the
ends of the earth.

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But it starts here at the Day of
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And so they’re given the Holy
Spirit and instantly we have

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preaching.
But who are we preaching to?

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Remember phase two, the ends of
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Who are we preaching to?
Peter stands up.

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Verses 8 through 11, verses 8
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And how is it that we hear, each
of us in this own native

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language?
The world is here, Parthenians,

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Medes, Elamites, residents of
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Pontius Asia, Phrygia of
Pamphylia, Egypt, departs of

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Libya belong to Cyrene, visitors
from Rome, Jews, proselytes,

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Cretians, Arabians.
We hear them telling in our own

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tongue what the mighty works of
God.

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The world, the world is given a
glimpse now of phase two.

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We just get a tiny little
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But it started.
The flames been lit.

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These people are hearing the
mighty works of God at the hand

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of Peter and at the hand of the
others.

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Now we go on further in this, we
come to verse 16 and see if a

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light bulb, a tiny light bulb
goes off in your head.

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But this is what was uttered
through the prophet Joel.

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Any light bulbs?
Earlier on he’d met with the

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disciples.
They’re trying to find a

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replacement for Judas, and it
was Peter who stands up to the

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others and explains to them that
the Psalms had prophesied this.

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For it is written, he says, in
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Let his habitation be desolate.
Are there 2 light bulbs

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flickering in your head?
You’ll never guess what he says.

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In chapter 3 he’s speaking again
and he says Moses said the Lord

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God will raise up for you a
prophet like me from your

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brothers.
What’s going on in the mind of

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Peter?
What’s he declaring to

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Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and
the ends of the earth?

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He’s declaring to them what
Christ told him was phase one.

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Everything that’s written about
me in Moses, in the prophets and

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in the Psalms must be
accomplished.

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And now Peter, Peter stands up
and he says, guys, aren’t you

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listening?
Everything that’s written about

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Christ in the Psalms and the
prophets and through Moses, it

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had to be accomplished.
He’s preaching Phase 1.

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He gets it, Peter gets it.
And Peter is the one who we see

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primarily take the lead in the
beginning of Acts.

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Peter understands the message.
Peter understands the goal.

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He understands it so much that
we see in Acts chapter 4, they

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were arrested.
It’s a good sign.

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If you’re arrested in Acts, it
means you’re doing the right

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thing.
Peter and John are arrested.

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Acts chapter 5.
Guess what?

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They’re arrested in Acts chapter
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They choose the seven deacons to
serve Stevens arrested.

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And we come then to a pretty
significant change in phase two.

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Acts 7 says in verse 57.
But they cried out with a loud

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voice, stopped their ears,
rushed together at him.

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Then they cast them out of the
city and stoned him.

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And the witnesses laid down
their garments at the feet of a

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young man named Saul.
And as they were stoning

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Stephen, he called out, Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit.

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And falling to his knees, he
cried with a loud voice.

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Lord, do not hold this sin
against them.

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And when he had said this, he
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This account is purposely
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Phase 1.
Connect to phase one, Luke,

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volume 1.
Connect these stories.

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This is again a message of the
Lord Jesus Christ, because we

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see from the phase one, we see
instantly in chapter 8, verse

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one, phase two, and Saul
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But what happens?
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great persecution against the
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And they were all scattered
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and Samaria, except the
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So the ecclesia in Jerusalem is
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They see the success of Stephen,
and they persecute the rest of

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the brothers and sisters.
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the runaway.
Where do they run?

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Away To Judea and Samaria.
And do they abandoned their

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faith?
No, they start.

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Ecclesia is there, it started.
Phase 2 is underway.

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We’ve spread the gospel to
Jerusalem and Acts chapter 23000

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plus are baptized and more
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Now the persecution of Stephen,
though sad God uses it to launch

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phase two.
Judea and Samaria now have

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believers in their cities.
There’s ecclesias starting they

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bring with them the truth.
Jerusalem is indirectly involved

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here with spreading the gospel.
Acts 8, Philip verse four, one

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of these people fleeing for his
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Now those who were scattered
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Philip verse 4 went down to a
city of Samaria, of course, and

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he proclaimed to them the Christ
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attention to what was being said
by Philip when they heard him

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and saw the signs that he did.
The Gospel is spreading,

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brothers and sisters, it’s
working.

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The disciples made it to
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They stayed in Jerusalem.
They were receiving the Holy

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spirits in Jerusalem.
They preached in Jerusalem and

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there’s persecution in
Jerusalem, but it is spreading

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the word Judea and Samaria.
Philip baptizes the first

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Gentile in Acts, in the
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first steps of phase two bearing
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We have believers, and
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where five years earlier Christ
had preached the message of

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salvation to a Samaritan woman.
In Acts 8, he persecutes the

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ecclesia and Philip flees.
And we come now to this pivotal

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chapter, Acts Chapter 9, Acts 9,
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Think about this for a second.
Have you ever seriously thought

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about the man Christ chose?
We’ve been talking all week

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about Christ during to
Jerusalem, how he he calls the

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unexpected guests, he calls the
lost people, the ones abandoned

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by the rulers, the seemingly
worst of the worst show fruits

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of repentance.
And he calls Saul a man everyone

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knew a man everyone knew someone
he had killed and he calls this

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man.
This was the message to

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Jerusalem.
Christ calls everyone to

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repentance and Saul’s
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We then come to verse 31.
So the ecclesia throughout all

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Judea and Galilee and Samaria
had peace, but not only did it

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have peace, but it was what it
was being built up, we’re told,

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and walking in the fear of the
Lord and in the comfort of the

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Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
It’s still working at the hands

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now of Paul.
We’re spreading the gospel

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message far and wide.
Acts chapter 10 What happens in

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Acts chapter 10?
Peter’s vision and the Gentiles

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receive the Holy Spirit.
The Gentiles receive the Holy

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Spirit.
It’s a big deal for the spread

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of this gospel message to make
it outside of Judea and Samaria

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and Jerusalem, but now Gentiles
are able also to participate in

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this.
Acts 11 we have the first

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Christians as they’re called,
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When they heard these things,
they fell silent and they

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glorified God saying then to the
Gentiles also God has granted

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repentance that leads to life.
The Gentiles can find repentance

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and life.
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Now those who were scattered
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rose over Stephen, that’s
Chapter 7 and 8, traveled as far

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as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and
Antioch, but they preached just

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the Jews.
But there were some of them, men

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of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on
coming to Antioch spoke to the

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Hellenists also preaching the
Lord Jesus.

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And the hand of the Lord was
with them in a great number who

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believed turned to the Lord.
The report of this came to the

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members of the ecclesia in
Jerusalem and they sent Barnabas

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to Antioch.
It’s working.

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Jerusalem hears that other
ecclesia are popping up and they

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say they gather their meeting
and they say we need to send

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people down there.
We need to make sure what

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they’re doing is, is, is in
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And they say verse 22, Barnabas
go to Antioch and Barnabas goes

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to Antioch and there’s an
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There’s believers everywhere and
there’s popping up.

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Phase 2 is underway.
It’s working.

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Acts chapter 12, death of James
and again, another arrest of

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Peter.
But it’s important to remember

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back in the last chapter when he
had found him, he brought him to

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Antioch for a whole year.
They met with the ecclesia and

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taught a great many people.
And in Antioch the disciples

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were first called Christians,
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And so now as Peter is spreading
this message, as the the gospel

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is being proclaimed by the
apostles, we’re followers of

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Christ.
And so you come to Acts chapter

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13, Barnabas and Paul, they’re
sent off on the 1st of many

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missionary journeys that take
them far beyond Judea and

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Samaria.
It takes them to the ends of the

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earth.
So brothers and sisters just

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blasting through a few chapters
and Acts, we see phase two

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heavily underway.
Unstoppable movement of those

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who believe in face of
persecution, in face of death,

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in face of imprisonment.
They believe in the gospel.

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And just as Peter had taken up
the education of the purpose of

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Christ journey towards
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You’ll never guess the words
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He says in Acts 13, as it is
written in the second Psalm,

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Thou art my son, this day have I
begotten thee.

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Beware, therefore, he says in
Acts 13, lest that come upon

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you, which was spoken of by the
prophets, Acts 26 saying none of

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the things and those which the
prophets and Moses did say

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should come.
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and he brings it to the rest of
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And so, brothers and sisters,
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The disciples, beginning in the
day of Pentecost, lights cities

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on a hill that couldn’t be hid
for all to see.

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They spread the gospel to
Jerusalem, to Judea, Samaria,

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into the ends of the earth.
We’ve brothers and sisters,

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looked this week at many of the
struggles that they had that we

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have on the road towards
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But brothers and sisters, they
made it.

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They made it to Jerusalem.
That’s our goal.

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Our goal is to make it to
Jerusalem.

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We have trials, we have
troubles.

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We’ve looked at them abundant
times this week, but the goal is

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we make it to Jerusalem to
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But we don’t stop there, do we?
Because once we are called into

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that Kingdom, do we simply sit
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No, what do we do?
We bring the message to the ends

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of the earth.
And just as these apostles were

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witness to this, brothers and
sisters, this will be our role

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to get to Jerusalem and to bring
that message to the ends of the

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earth.
The final verse I’d like to look

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at together with you this week,
if you come with me to the book

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of Philippians.
The book of Letter to the

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Philippians has in chapter 3
some very comforting words.

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And I’ll read from the English
standard up on the screen.

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It says, but our citizenship is
in heaven.

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It’s the word polytuma means a
community in the strongs.

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It means a government.
Citizenship means belonging to

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something.
Our citizenship, brothers and

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sisters, it’s in heaven, and
from it we await a Savior.

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We certainly do, don’t we?
The Lord Jesus Christ, who will

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transform our lowly bodies to be
like His glorious body by the

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power that enables Him even to
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First one of chapter 4.
Therefore, my brothers, whom I

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love and long for my joy and
crown, stand firm.

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Thus in the Lord, our
citizenship, brothers and

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sisters, is in heaven.
We journey together towards the

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same city, following the same
man, to be counted as New

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Jerusalem.
But brothers and sisters, we

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know that the mission to
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And do we know Phase two was
successful?

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How do we know, brothers and
sisters, Phase two was

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successful?
How do we know that the message

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was preached to the ends of the
earth?

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Look at us, look at us.
We’re Christadelphians living

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2000 years after these events.
And God’s gathered us from all

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over.
The message was preached to the

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ends of the earth.
We’re here, brothers and

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sisters.
We’re so close to Jerusalem.

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We’re so close.
So as we, God willing, future

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members of that new Jerusalem,
we will take the same gospel

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message that we’ve clung on to
until that day, and we’ll start

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in Jerusalem and we’ll bring it
to the rest of the world under

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the command of our king.
I look forward to this day

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greatly to join you all, where
we will help fill Jerusalem,

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Judea, Samaria, and the ends of
the earth with God’s glory as

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the waters cover the sea.
But for the time being, brothers

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and sisters, we journey towards
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So what I would like to do is
wrap up the Toward Jerusalem

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series with a hymn.
If you please, get out your hymn

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books.
We, of course, still have our

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third session afterwards, but
I’d like to finish up my study

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together here by lifting up our
voices together and praise to

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our Father.
And after we’ve sung this

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together, if you remain
standing, I’ll close with the

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word of prayer.
And then following prayer, our

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presider for the day will
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We’ll close with Him 89.
There are many beautiful hymns

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in our hymn book.
I love the hymn book that we

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have, but there’s something
special when there’s one written

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by a brother from our community.
Him 89 was written by

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Christadelphian by the name of
Brother John Morris.

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And it speaks so beautifully of
the hope that we have in that

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city, New Jerusalem.
If you aren’t familiar with the

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tune, let’s give it your best
go.

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It’s a fairly simple melody,
hopefully, and I’m confident

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you’ll pick it up quickly and
you’ll belt it out with me.

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I’m going to read all three
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Hymn 89.
Hallelujah.

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God be honoured, true and
righteous all his ways.

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Praise our God, all ye that fear
him, praise the Lord his

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servants.
Praise come ye Saints, with joy

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and gladness for the marriage
feast prepare.

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Purged from all their sins the
blessed robes of righteousness

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shall we’re coming down to earth
from heaven.

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New Jerusalem we see God shall
dwell with man forever.

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His own people they shall be.
God shall wipe away all sorrow.

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Former things will pass away,
Lit forever by God’s presence.

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Earth shall glow in endless day.
Come, Lord Jesus, come now

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quickly open soon the book of
life.

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Bring thy judgments and thy
blessings.

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End the years of tears and
strife.

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Worthy is the Lamb that liveth,
who through death the victory

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won.
Blessing, honor, strength and

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riches.
Be to him God’s conquering Son.