{"id":1015,"date":"2023-11-05T05:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/265-ad-norris-the-apostles-the-acts-and-their-words\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:54:50","slug":"265-ad-norris-the-apostles-the-acts-and-their-words","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/265-ad-norris-the-apostles-the-acts-and-their-words\/","title":{"rendered":"265: AD Norris – The Apostles, The Acts and their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening to the first class in a series given at the Texas Bible School in 1981 by Bro. AD Norris titled \u201cThe Apostles, The Acts and their Words”. <\/p>\n

We hope this strengthens your Faith and brightens your day!<\/p>\n

Thank you for listening, God bless, and talk to you next week.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good Chris Selfian
\ntalks. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m Levi.
\nAnd I’m Chris, and I’m Brian. <\/p>\n

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\nThank you for joining us this
\nweek on this podcast. <\/p>\n

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\nWe select one talk a week to
\nhelp us get the Bible in our <\/p>\n

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\nDaily News feed.
\nWe post a new episode at the <\/p>\n

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\nstart of each week.
\nWith the short intro beforehand <\/p>\n

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\nto kind of set the stage for the
\ntalk you’re about to listen to. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd now let’s talk more about
\nthis week’s talk. <\/p>\n

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\nThis week’s talk is class one in
\na series by brother AD Norris <\/p>\n

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\nthat he gave in 1981 at the
\nTexas Bible School called the <\/p>\n

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\nActs the Apostles and their
\nWords. <\/p>\n

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\nThere is no separate title for
\nthe for the different classes. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is the opening class.
\nI really enjoyed it. <\/p>\n

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\nIt is kind of the verse by verse
\nstyle of Acts chapter one and <\/p>\n

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\ntwo.
\nBut I found the insights he <\/p>\n

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\nbrought into those chapters to
\nbe really easy to listen to and <\/p>\n

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\nI think it is kind of great for
\nthe podcast form. <\/p>\n

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\nI don’t think you particularly
\nneed your Bible in front of you.<\/p>\n

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\nI think he is clearly very well
\nprepared. <\/p>\n

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\nI would bet every word is
\nwritten of Brother Norris’s <\/p>\n

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\ntalks.
\nIt sounds like that and really <\/p>\n

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\nreally enjoyable.
\nHe’s been on the show before <\/p>\n

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\nactually.
\nIf you go back and find I think <\/p>\n

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\nit’s episode 63 but I don’t I
\ndidn’t look that up exactly <\/p>\n

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\nbefore him.
\nBut it’s an introduction by <\/p>\n

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\nbrother James and brother James
\ncan’t talks about the benefits <\/p>\n

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\nof of listening to these much
\nolder speakers and then and <\/p>\n

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\nthat’s worth going back and
\nlistening to if you’d like. <\/p>\n

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\nSo this is the second episode
\nthat that would be that we <\/p>\n

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\nfeature Brother Norris.
\nIt was great, great talk, very <\/p>\n

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\nfun and encouraging to listen
\nto. <\/p>\n

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\nSo I’m excited to share it.
\nBefore we pass it over, I did <\/p>\n

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\nwant to just kind of share a
\nprogramming note that Brother <\/p>\n

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\n00:02:08,630 –> 00:02:11,510
\nBrian Adams is stepping back a
\nlittle bit. <\/p>\n

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\nHe won’t be as regular on the
\npodcast. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s taken on some extra
\necclesial duties and has asked <\/p>\n

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\nto to step back.
\nBut you will hear him again and <\/p>\n

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\nwe’re going to keep keep the
\nintroduction the same. <\/p>\n

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\nSo we thank Brian for all the
\nwork he’s done and will continue<\/p>\n

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\nto do with the podcast.
\nBut it’ll be going back to the <\/p>\n

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\nold days of just Chris and I
\nevery other week for a little <\/p>\n

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\nwhile.
\nAnd this show should always be <\/p>\n

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\nchanging as we keep it going.
\nThank you again for listening. <\/p>\n

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\nThank you so much for your
\nsuggestions. <\/p>\n

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\nWe pray, pray that you will keep
\nsending them in. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s a big help.
\nSo here is Brother AD Norris. <\/p>\n

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\nBye.
\nBye. <\/p>\n

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\nGood morning, brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n

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\nI have to give notice that it
\nwill be necessary to extend the <\/p>\n

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\nschool for the next 11 and three
\nquarter months. <\/p>\n

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\nTo finish all that has to be
\nsaid and each class will have to<\/p>\n

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\nlast two hours.
\nHowever, just in case it’s not <\/p>\n

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\npossible to do that, I’ll give
\nyou a selection of the various <\/p>\n

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\nthings that have to be said and
\nhope that the appetite will be <\/p>\n

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\nwetted.
\nApostle is not a very common <\/p>\n

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\nword in Scripture, and it’s most
\ncommon in the Gospels and the <\/p>\n

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\nActs, especially the Acts.
\nIt’s found once in Matthew and <\/p>\n

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\nonce in Mark, half a dozen times
\nor so in Luke, not at all in <\/p>\n

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\nJohn, some dozens of times in
\nthe Acts, and once or more in <\/p>\n

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\nalmost every letter.
\nThere’s some four or five that <\/p>\n

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\ndon’t use it.
\nIt means a person who is sent. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s usually simply rendered
\ninto English by a variation of <\/p>\n

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\nthe Greek letters apostle
\ninstead of apostolos, but just <\/p>\n

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\noccasionally it’s translated in
\nother ways. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s almost always used of the
\nspecial company of 12 whom the <\/p>\n

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\nLord appointed, except that
\nafter the suicide of Judas, <\/p>\n

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\nMatthias takes his place, only
\nreferred to once and later the <\/p>\n

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\napostle Paul specially chosen is
\ngiven that title. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd here and there you find the
\nword used of Barnabas, say, and <\/p>\n

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\nperhaps another or so once the
\nword is used of the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n

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\nChrist Himself, the Apostle and
\nHigh Priest of our profession in<\/p>\n

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\nHebrews chapter 13.
\nIn this original form, it <\/p>\n

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\nrepresents a selection from the
\nbody of the disciples and <\/p>\n

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\ndisciple. 2 is a somewhat
\nspecialized word in Scripture. <\/p>\n

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\nYou find it in the Gospels and
\nin the Acts, and then you lose <\/p>\n

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\nit all together.
\nIt’s never used again after <\/p>\n

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\nthat.
\nThe Lord Jesus Christ has <\/p>\n

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\nlearners who come to him to be
\ntaught, For the word matates <\/p>\n

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\nmeans a learner.
\nThey are called by that name <\/p>\n

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\nalmost invariably in the Gospels
\nand commonly in the Acts. <\/p>\n

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\nBut by the time the act is over,
\nand by the time the letters are <\/p>\n

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\nwritten, the words that seem to
\ntake their place are brethren, I<\/p>\n

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\nsuppose, and Saints.
\nThe learning period isn’t <\/p>\n

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\nexactly over, but the
\ninstruction is now complete. <\/p>\n

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\nThe available material for the
\npreparation of the Saints of the<\/p>\n

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\nLord is there, and perhaps
\nthat’s why the word disciple <\/p>\n

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\ngoes and words denoting
\nsanctified people or people in <\/p>\n

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\nbrotherly fellowship one with
\nanother take their place. <\/p>\n

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\nI want to begin by telling
\nretelling A brief story found in<\/p>\n

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\nMatthew, Mark and Luke.
\nAnd letting it hang in the air <\/p>\n

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\nuntil we find it later again in
\nthe act of the apostles <\/p>\n

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\nthemselves.
\nAnd that’s the story given in <\/p>\n

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\nMatthew Jackson 19 and Mark,
\nchapter 10, of a certain rich <\/p>\n

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\nyoung man who came to Jesus and
\nsaid, Good master, what good <\/p>\n

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\nthing must I do that I may
\ninherit eternal life? <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he’s told that he knows the
\ncommandments. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd invites the Lord to tell him
\nwhich. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the Lord gives him an
\nabbreviated list of some of the <\/p>\n

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\nmost important commandments, And
\nthen professes all these things <\/p>\n

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\nhave I observed from my youth
\nup. <\/p>\n

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\nWhereupon Jesus, looking at him,
\nand do not record loving him, <\/p>\n

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\nsays, If thou wouldst be
\nperfect, go and sell all that <\/p>\n

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\nthou hast, and give to the poor,
\nand the young man goes away <\/p>\n

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\nsorrowful.
\nOr he has great possession. <\/p>\n

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\nA man who apparently wanted to
\nbe a disciple, though perhaps <\/p>\n

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\nthat wasn’t in the 1st place
\nquite what he wanted, but found <\/p>\n

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\nthe conditions of discipleship
\nat that time at least too hard <\/p>\n

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\nto be accepted.
\nHe was rich. <\/p>\n

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\nThe records tell us that he was
\nyoung, that also he was a ruler,<\/p>\n

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\nsays Luke.
\nHe came and bowed the knee <\/p>\n

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\nbefore Jesus, says Mark.
\nAnd as I said, the Lord loved <\/p>\n

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\nhim when he saw him.
\nWhat there was to be loved in <\/p>\n

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\nthat man may perhaps only later
\nappear, for his behaviour at <\/p>\n

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\nthat stage was at least short of
\nlovable in some particulars. <\/p>\n

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\nHe seemed to want more, shall we
\nsay, a pass on the head than <\/p>\n

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\nloving.
\nHe came to ask the Lord what <\/p>\n

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\nwere the conditions of eternal
\nlife, hoping it would appear <\/p>\n

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\nthat the Lord would lay down
\nconditions he was already <\/p>\n

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\nkeeping.
\nAll these things have I observed<\/p>\n

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\nfrom my youth up.
\nWhat like I get, He came <\/p>\n

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\nevaluating goodness in terms of
\nthe good things you did, the <\/p>\n

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\ncommandments you kept well, the
\nbad deeds you avoided. <\/p>\n

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\nAll these things have I kept
\nfrom my youth up. <\/p>\n

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\nHe wanted to judge the Lord in
\nthe same way as he judged <\/p>\n

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\nhimself good.
\nMaster, what good thing shall I <\/p>\n

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\ndo?
\nAnd was it seems, not at once <\/p>\n

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\ndeterred by the fact that the
\nLord wouldn’t accept the title <\/p>\n

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\nfor himself?
\nWhy callest thou me good? <\/p>\n

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\nThere is none good but one that
\nis God. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the Lord who had done no
\nevil, and was to do none. <\/p>\n

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\nWho did no sin, neither was
\nguile found in his mouth, yet <\/p>\n

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\nstill would not take to himself
\na title which he would have to <\/p>\n

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\nshare with God.
\nThere is none good but one that <\/p>\n

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\nis God.
\nGod’s goodness is inherent, is <\/p>\n

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\ninseparable from him.
\nHe can never be anything else. <\/p>\n

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\nHe is under no peril of attack.
\nThere is no danger attaching to <\/p>\n

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\nGod’s goodness.
\nHe would never be anything <\/p>\n

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\notherwise.
\nBut Jesus had behaved well with <\/p>\n

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\nthe fragile goodness of a man
\nwho could be tempted in all <\/p>\n

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\npoints like as we are, who was,
\nas it were, in his behaviour, <\/p>\n

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\ngood from moment to moment, and
\nno bad moment had come, nor <\/p>\n

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\nwould it come, but he could.
\nHe was one who must fight his <\/p>\n

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\nway to goodness by assimilating
\nhis mind to the mind of God, and<\/p>\n

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\nfinally laying down his life.
\nOnly thus would goodness be his <\/p>\n

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\nperfectly.
\nSo when the Lord would not allow<\/p>\n

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\nhimself to be so described, this
\nyoung man might perhaps had he <\/p>\n

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\nbeen more sensitive, and perhaps
\nlaser did when he became more <\/p>\n

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\nsensitive.
\nRecognize that you don’t measure<\/p>\n

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\ngoodness in a balance.
\nYou don’t pour your good deeds <\/p>\n

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\ninto a scale and weigh it and
\nsee how much you’ve got. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat you do is pour the goodness
\nof God into a scale and see how <\/p>\n

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\nlight is the other pan and how
\nimpossible it is for you to <\/p>\n

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\nweigh it down, and then learn to
\nseek your goodness in another <\/p>\n

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\nway.
\nSo the old man went away, <\/p>\n

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\nsorrowful, perhaps even
\nresentful, certainly frustrated <\/p>\n

156
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\nin whatever it was that brought
\nhim there, for the time being at<\/p>\n

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\nleast, and is lost to our sight,
\nyet lost with that question mark<\/p>\n

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\nhanging invitingly and there,
\nAnd Jesus, beholding him, loved <\/p>\n

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\nhim.
\nWhat was to become of a man whom<\/p>\n

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\nthe Lord loved, we wonder.
\nAt that time there were 12 <\/p>\n

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\napostles.
\nThe Lord had selected them <\/p>\n

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\ncarefully from amongst his own
\ndisciples, had prayed the whole <\/p>\n

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\nnight through the previous night
\nthat his choice might be the <\/p>\n

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\nright choice, went up to the
\nmountain in prayer. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:44,480 –> 00:10:47,240
\nAnd when it was dawned, he chose
\nhis 12 apostles. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:49,280 –> 00:10:52,240
\nAnd if particular attention
\nattaches to the 1st and the last<\/p>\n

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\n00:10:52,240 –> 00:10:59,610
\nof these, we’re not surprised.
\nThe first Simon, Peter, and <\/p>\n

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\nJudas is carried, which also
\nbetrayed him. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:05,650 –> 00:11:09,290
\nThe latter of these chosen no
\ndoubt in the full knowledge of <\/p>\n

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\nwhat that man would do when the
\ntime came to do it. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:12,490 –> 00:11:15,530
\nHave not I chosen you?
\n12 And one of you is a devil. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:16,730 –> 00:11:19,530
\nFor Jesus knew from the
\nbeginning who it was that <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:19,530 –> 00:11:22,370
\nbelieved, not, who they were
\nthat believed not, and who it <\/p>\n

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\nwas that should betray him.
\nThe other, the first chosen in <\/p>\n

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\nthe knowledge of the hard
\ntravail through which that man <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:32,100 –> 00:11:35,980
\nmust pass, before he became the
\nfit vessel to introduce the <\/p>\n

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\nGospel to Jews and Samaritans
\nand Gentiles, before he was the <\/p>\n

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\nman to be trusted, and relied
\nupon the rock layer of the firm <\/p>\n

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\nfoundation upon which the
\ncommunity would be built, A man <\/p>\n

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\nwho would be a great support, a
\nloyal follower. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:55,560 –> 00:11:59,440
\nA keen learner, an ardent
\nspokesman, and yet a man who <\/p>\n

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\nwould have his catastrophic
\nfailures. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:01,440 –> 00:12:05,000
\nNot because he was weaker than
\nany other, we are sure he was <\/p>\n

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\nstronger than most, but because
\nhe ventured into situations <\/p>\n

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\nwhere failure was possible and
\nconspicuous. <\/p>\n

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\nOther disciples did not sink in
\nthe waters because they did not <\/p>\n

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\nwalk on them.
\nOther disciples didn’t were not <\/p>\n

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\nseen to deny Christ because they
\nwere not there when the time for<\/p>\n

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\n00:12:21,520 –> 00:12:25,330
\ndenial came.
\nPeter walked on water, and <\/p>\n

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\ntherefore also sank when his
\nfaith faltered. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:27,650 –> 00:12:31,170
\nBut great faith it was.
\nPeter denied the Lord three <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:31,170 –> 00:12:33,930
\ntimes, but Peter was alone in
\nthe room with the pile in it. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:34,130 –> 00:12:37,410
\nWhen they placed his Lord on
\ntrial, the others were far away,<\/p>\n

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\nfleeing.
\nPeter was a man whom the Lord <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:41,170 –> 00:12:45,210
\nprayed for, and for whom the
\nLord’s prayers were effectively <\/p>\n

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\nanswered.
\nSimon. <\/p>\n

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\nSimon.
\nSatan hath desired to have you <\/p>\n

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\nall that you may sift you all as
\nweak, But I have prayed for thee<\/p>\n

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\nthat thy faith fail not, and
\nwhen thou art converted, <\/p>\n

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\nstrengthen thy brethren.
\nThere should be no poor Peter in<\/p>\n

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\n00:13:06,020 –> 00:13:11,500
\nour thinking, no weak, impulsive
\nPeter in the way we speak. <\/p>\n

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\nNo, that’s Peter.
\nPudding is putting it again in <\/p>\n

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\nthe way we think.
\nLeader amongst disciples was <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:18,470 –> 00:13:23,590
\ngreat, and in the Lord’s faith
\nstrong speaking words of faith, <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:23,590 –> 00:13:27,790
\nwhen no other would speak them,
\nsaying, We believe and are sure <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:27,790 –> 00:13:30,870
\nthat thou the Christ, the Son of
\nthe living God, when the <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:30,870 –> 00:13:33,230
\ndisciples were forsaking him in
\ntheir multitudes. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:33,430 –> 00:13:36,030
\nAnd when it looks as though a
\nmovement even amongst the 12 was<\/p>\n

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\nbeginning, will ye also go away?
\nSaid the Lord, with Judas <\/p>\n

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\nperhaps as the role of leader in
\nthe retreat. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:43,790 –> 00:13:46,790
\nPeter it was who, when they
\nreached the coasts of Cesarry of<\/p>\n

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\nPhilippi, near Sedan, on the
\nextreme northern border of the <\/p>\n

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\nancient territory, from Dan to
\nbe a Sheba alone spoke out. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:55,070 –> 00:13:59,230
\nWhen the Lord said, Whom, Say ye
\nthat I am, And answered, Thou <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:59,230 –> 00:14:02,470
\nart the Christ, the Son of the
\nliving God, and earned from the <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:02,470 –> 00:14:06,590
\nLord the commendation.
\nBlessed art thou, Simon Barjona,<\/p>\n

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\n00:14:07,670 –> 00:14:11,870
\nfor flesh and blood hath not
\nrevealed this unto thee, but my <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:11,870 –> 00:14:16,540
\nFather, which is in heaven.
\nIf it were not patronizing to <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:16,540 –> 00:14:20,020
\nsay so, we would have to say the
\nLord chose well when he chose <\/p>\n

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\nPeter.
\nAs we follow that man’s life as <\/p>\n

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\nwe shall in some degree, we see
\nhe could hardly have chosen <\/p>\n

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\nbetter.
\nWe leave the Peter of The <\/p>\n

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\nWalking on the water and the
\nsinking. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:34,390 –> 00:14:37,270
\nThe Peter of the half shekel in
\nthe fish’s mouth, the Peter of <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:37,270 –> 00:14:40,630
\nthe threefold denial, The Peter
\nof the Simon son of Jonas, <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:40,630 –> 00:14:44,310
\nLovest thou me more than these
\nof John 21 passed through the <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:44,310 –> 00:14:47,790
\ntravel and the bitter tears of
\nthe rejection of the Lord, to <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:47,790 –> 00:14:52,350
\nthe time when the Lord was risen
\nagain, when this bold man goes <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:52,350 –> 00:14:56,150
\ninside the tomb and sees the
\nsigns that later would be seen <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:56,150 –> 00:14:59,110
\nby him to mean that Jesus was
\nrisen from the dead. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:00,200 –> 00:15:03,360
\nWe leave the Peter of the
\ncompany of 11 who survived the <\/p>\n

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\nsuicide of Judas, and were with
\nthe Lord for 40 days when he <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:07,320 –> 00:15:11,120
\nshowed himself alive after his
\nfashion by many infallible <\/p>\n

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\nproofs.
\nAnd we come to the occasion we <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:14,480 –> 00:15:17,160
\nread about in the chapter in
\nActs, chapter one. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:19,800 –> 00:15:23,120
\nThere are by now but eleven of
\nthe original apostles left. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:25,330 –> 00:15:27,890
\nBy an inspiration of God that
\nmust surely have come even <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:27,890 –> 00:15:32,690
\nbefore the outpouring of
\nPentecost on Pisa, at least he <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:32,690 –> 00:15:36,090
\nstands up amongst the disciples
\nand denounces the change that <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:36,090 –> 00:15:40,050
\nmust now be made.
\nThere are but eleven of them, I <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:40,050 –> 00:15:44,610
\nsaid, and there should be 12.
\nHow will they define the 12th? <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:46,330 –> 00:15:51,570
\nHe lays down carefully
\ncalculated conditions wherefore <\/p>\n

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\nof these men.
\nWhich have companied with us all<\/p>\n

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\n00:15:56,150 –> 00:15:59,310
\nthe days that the Lord Jesus
\nwent in and out among us, <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:00,270 –> 00:16:03,150
\nbeginning from the baptism of
\nJohn until the day that he was <\/p>\n

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\ntaken up, promising to heaven,
\nMust one be ordained to be a <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:07,310 –> 00:16:09,230
\nwitness with us of his
\nresurrection. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:12,230 –> 00:16:15,070
\nJesus did not choose his
\napostles for their looks or <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:15,070 –> 00:16:19,830
\ntheir learning or their virtue.
\nThe next apostle was not to be <\/p>\n

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\nchosen for any such reason
\neither. <\/p>\n

251
\n00:16:23,170 –> 00:16:25,610
\nThey were witnesses by virtue of
\ntheir experience. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:25,610 –> 00:16:28,890
\nThey had been with him during
\nall his ministry, had known the <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:28,890 –> 00:16:32,250
\npreaching of John, and had
\nfollowed him to the day when he <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:32,250 –> 00:16:34,410
\nwas received up out of their
\nsight into heaven. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:34,650 –> 00:16:36,650
\nThey wanted another man like
\nthat. <\/p>\n

256
\n00:16:37,410 –> 00:16:39,770
\nNo other could be the kind of
\nwitness they were. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:40,210 –> 00:16:42,090
\nNothing less was to be asked of
\nhim. <\/p>\n

258
\n00:16:42,730 –> 00:16:44,850
\nSo they started with the baptism
\nof John. <\/p>\n

259
\n00:16:45,050 –> 00:16:47,010
\nThey went on to the teaching of
\nthe Lord. <\/p>\n

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\nThey continued to the death and
\nthe resurrection and the <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:49,770 –> 00:16:51,850
\nascension.
\nAnd they said that’s the kind of<\/p>\n

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\n00:16:51,850 –> 00:16:55,890
\nman we must have.
\nThere couldn’t have been many <\/p>\n

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\naround.
\nWe find they put forth too, and <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:00,730 –> 00:17:03,490
\nit’s an open speculation as to
\nwhether they put forth too, <\/p>\n

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\nbecause they’re only were two
\npersons eligible in other <\/p>\n

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\nrespects and having the
\nnecessary experience, and we’re <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:11,130 –> 00:17:16,810
\ngiven the names of those two.
\nThey are Joseph called Bar Sabas<\/p>\n

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\nand also justice.
\nThat’s one. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd Matthias.
\nAnd they cast lots to select <\/p>\n

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\nwhich one.
\nSo the question arises, is that <\/p>\n

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\nthe way to make our choices?
\nDo we put pieces of paper into a<\/p>\n

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\nhat and the one who draws the
\nlongest one get the job? <\/p>\n

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\nIs that how the Scripture
\ninvites us to select the elders <\/p>\n

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\nfor our communities?
\nIs this the biblical method of <\/p>\n

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\nmaking appointments?
\nAnd the answer would be yes, if <\/p>\n

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\nwe’re choosing an apostle, but
\notherwise no. <\/p>\n

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\nThe apostles were doing
\nsomething that required that <\/p>\n

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\nthey should take this course.
\nThe eligible candidates? <\/p>\n

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\nThey could bring them forward,
\nbut the choice of an apostle <\/p>\n

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\nmust be Jesus, not theirs.
\nThey were not there to choose <\/p>\n

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\nJesus’s man.
\nThe Lord had chosen the other <\/p>\n

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\n11, and the suicide too.
\nHe must choose this one as well.<\/p>\n

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\nSo they prayed, and they said,
\nLord, that not the hearts of men<\/p>\n

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\nshow which of these two thou
\nhast chosen. <\/p>\n

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\nIt was Jesus Job, not theirs.
\nAnd so they made a homemade <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:30,390 –> 00:18:34,990
\nUriman Thummim, and they made
\ntheir choice, and the lock fell <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:34,990 –> 00:18:39,820
\nupon Mathias.
\nAs Jesus, man chosen by Jesus. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:42,340 –> 00:18:44,100
\nAnd at that point another
\nquestion crops up. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:44,100 –> 00:18:48,740
\nShould they have done it at all?
\nJesus would in due course select<\/p>\n

290
\n00:18:48,740 –> 00:18:50,620
\nPaul for the work to which he
\nhad designed him. <\/p>\n

291
\n00:18:50,820 –> 00:18:53,380
\nThen shouldn’t they have left it
\ntill the Lord gave the sign? <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:55,420 –> 00:18:57,420
\nAfter all, we hear nothing more
\nabout Matthias. <\/p>\n

293
\n00:18:58,580 –> 00:19:00,260
\nHe comes into the picture and he
\nleaves again. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:00,260 –> 00:19:04,420
\nHe’s totally lost to sight.
\nHe’s just a name taking a piece <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:04,420 –> 00:19:08,680
\nof paper and getting at a point.
\nOut of which, as far as we can <\/p>\n

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\nsee, nothing comes.
\nWas that a condemnation of what <\/p>\n

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\nthe apostles did?
\nNo, of course it wasn’t. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:17,880 –> 00:19:21,040
\nIt would be impossible to
\nbelieve that men making such a <\/p>\n

299
\n00:19:21,040 –> 00:19:24,040
\nchoices that in such
\ncircumstances, that standing up <\/p>\n

300
\n00:19:24,040 –> 00:19:27,040
\nwith the boldness and the reason
\nthat Peter showed, is having <\/p>\n

301
\n00:19:27,040 –> 00:19:30,160
\nexceeded their office.
\nIt’s our own thinking that tends<\/p>\n

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\n00:19:30,160 –> 00:19:33,040
\nperhaps to make the apostles no
\nbetter men than we are. <\/p>\n

303
\n00:19:33,600 –> 00:19:36,920
\nOur own mistakes, which tends to
\nmake like to think that even the<\/p>\n

304
\n00:19:36,920 –> 00:19:39,000
\n12 themselves could make
\nmistakes like ours. <\/p>\n

305
\n00:19:39,600 –> 00:19:42,800
\nThat leads us to think of them
\nas doing what they shouldn’t <\/p>\n

306
\n00:19:42,800 –> 00:19:45,600
\nhave been doing here.
\nIt’s an irrational thought that <\/p>\n

307
\n00:19:45,600 –> 00:19:48,800
\nthat record would be set out
\nwith no word of condemnation, <\/p>\n

308
\n00:19:49,600 –> 00:19:52,400
\nwith every indication that the
\nLord answered the prayer that <\/p>\n

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\nwas given to him.
\nIt’s the way in which this <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:54,520 –> 00:19:57,320
\nrecord stands before us that
\nconvinces me, and I would think <\/p>\n

311
\n00:19:57,320 –> 00:19:59,960
\nwould convince you, that the
\napostles were doing the right <\/p>\n

312
\n00:19:59,960 –> 00:20:03,280
\nthing when they made that
\nopportunity for the Lord. <\/p>\n

313
\n00:20:03,780 –> 00:20:08,500
\nAnd the Lord chose Matthias.
\nOh, it’s true, we don’t hear of <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:08,500 –> 00:20:10,060
\nMatthias again.
\nThat’s a perfectly fair <\/p>\n

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\nstatement.
\nBut then of the 12 whom do we <\/p>\n

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\nhear of again?
\nPeter. <\/p>\n

317
\n00:20:16,740 –> 00:20:19,820
\nJohn.
\nJames, the brother of John, but <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:19,820 –> 00:20:23,220
\nonly because he was slain by the
\nsword for no other reason and <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:23,220 –> 00:20:26,940
\nnobody else.
\nSo Matthias joins the company of<\/p>\n

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\neight others, of whom we hear no
\nmore as the Acts of the Apostles<\/p>\n

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\n00:20:30,020 –> 00:20:33,370
\ngo their way.
\nIt’s no condemnation of their <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:33,370 –> 00:20:35,330
\nchoice of him that he fades from
\nthe picture. <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:38,090 –> 00:20:41,850
\nAll the same, the picture does
\npresent an intriguing little <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:41,850 –> 00:20:45,890
\nspeculation for us.
\nTwo men are put forward and both<\/p>\n

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\n00:20:45,890 –> 00:20:50,210
\ntheir names are given.
\nMathias is 1, he’s the one who’s<\/p>\n

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\nchosen, and the other is Joseph
\nBarsabas. <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:53,890 –> 00:20:59,490
\nJustice, it seems, doesn’t it at
\nfirst sight to lack a certain <\/p>\n

328
\n00:20:59,490 –> 00:21:02,740
\nsense of proportion.
\nWhy do you name the two <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:02,740 –> 00:21:04,740
\ncandidates?
\nAnd knowing now by the time you <\/p>\n

330
\n00:21:04,740 –> 00:21:09,020
\nwrite your record which one has
\nbeen selected, Give 3 handles to<\/p>\n

331
\n00:21:09,020 –> 00:21:12,540
\nthe name of the man who’s not
\ngoing to get chosen anyway, and <\/p>\n

332
\n00:21:12,540 –> 00:21:14,100
\nonly one for the name of the man
\nwho is. <\/p>\n

333
\n00:21:14,580 –> 00:21:18,580
\nWhy this elaboration of the name
\nof the second in the election <\/p>\n

334
\n00:21:18,580 –> 00:21:26,060
\nwho never takes up the office?
\nJoseph Varsabhas, Justice Luke <\/p>\n

335
\n00:21:26,060 –> 00:21:28,740
\nis a shrewd historian apart from
\nme in an inspired man. <\/p>\n

336
\n00:21:29,460 –> 00:21:32,820
\nHe writes in a carefully
\ncalculated way, and also under <\/p>\n

337
\n00:21:32,820 –> 00:21:35,180
\nthe guidance of the spirits.
\nAnd we would think there was <\/p>\n

338
\n00:21:35,180 –> 00:21:39,020
\nsome reason that may have lain
\nbehind that elaboration of the <\/p>\n

339
\n00:21:39,020 –> 00:21:40,660
\nname of the man who wasn’t
\nchosen. <\/p>\n

340
\n00:21:42,140 –> 00:21:45,780
\nWell, perhaps there was.
\nBut can I leave that hanging <\/p>\n

341
\n00:21:45,780 –> 00:21:48,660
\nthere too for a moment, and
\ncontinue? <\/p>\n

342
\n00:21:49,420 –> 00:21:51,060
\nWe shall return to it, if God be
\nwilling. <\/p>\n

343
\n00:21:54,300 –> 00:21:56,220
\nAnd now the day of Pentecost
\ncomes. <\/p>\n

344
\n00:21:57,930 –> 00:22:00,210
\nThe Lord has left the earth some
\nseven weeks ago. <\/p>\n

345
\n00:22:02,010 –> 00:22:04,410
\nThis is the day when they gather
\nin there in gatherings. <\/p>\n

346
\n00:22:04,410 –> 00:22:08,850
\nThis is the day of celebration.
\nAnd this time the Lord sends <\/p>\n

347
\n00:22:08,850 –> 00:22:13,610
\ndown his par from on high.
\nAnd the trolls speak with tones.<\/p>\n

348
\n00:22:14,610 –> 00:22:18,050
\nAnd the first, if not the only,
\nfulfillment of the prophecy of <\/p>\n

349
\n00:22:18,050 –> 00:22:20,490
\njoy.
\nIt shall come to pass in the <\/p>\n

350
\n00:22:20,490 –> 00:22:23,490
\nlast days, that I will pour out
\nof my spirit of all flesh. <\/p>\n

351
\n00:22:24,820 –> 00:22:27,740
\nYour young men shall see
\nvisions, and your old men shall <\/p>\n

352
\n00:22:27,740 –> 00:22:30,780
\ndream dreams, and your sons and
\nyour daughter shall prophesy <\/p>\n

353
\n00:22:32,180 –> 00:22:36,020
\ncame about.
\nThese men are not drunken, as <\/p>\n

354
\n00:22:36,020 –> 00:22:38,580
\nyou suppose, seeing it is not
\n9:00 in the morning. <\/p>\n

355
\n00:22:38,580 –> 00:22:41,460
\nBut this is that that was spoken
\nby the prophet Joel. <\/p>\n

356
\n00:22:43,420 –> 00:22:47,780
\nThey heard them speak with
\ntongues wherever they came from.<\/p>\n

357
\n00:22:47,780 –> 00:22:50,580
\nThey heard them speak with
\ntongues, and they came, if we <\/p>\n

358
\n00:22:50,580 –> 00:22:54,100
\nmay turn to the second of the
\nActs, from these places, at <\/p>\n

359
\n00:22:54,100 –> 00:23:01,900
\nleast, Acts chapter 2, verse 8,
\nverse seven. <\/p>\n

360
\n00:23:02,700 –> 00:23:06,340
\nThey were all amazed and novel,
\nsaying, one to another, Behold, <\/p>\n

361
\n00:23:06,540 –> 00:23:10,460
\nall us, all these which speak
\nGalileans, and how here we every<\/p>\n

362
\n00:23:10,460 –> 00:23:13,830
\nman in our own tongue, wherein
\nwe were born Spathians and <\/p>\n

363
\n00:23:13,830 –> 00:23:17,230
\nMeads, and Elamites, and the
\ndwellers in Mesopotamia, and in <\/p>\n

364
\n00:23:17,230 –> 00:23:21,150
\nJudea and Cappadocia, in Pontus
\nand Asia, in frigia and <\/p>\n

365
\n00:23:21,150 –> 00:23:24,950
\npamphalia in Egypt, and in the
\nparts of Libya about Tsarinae, <\/p>\n

366
\n00:23:25,070 –> 00:23:28,350
\nand strangers from Rome, Jews
\nand prostates, Cretans and <\/p>\n

367
\n00:23:28,350 –> 00:23:30,630
\nArabians.
\nWe do hear them speak in our <\/p>\n

368
\n00:23:30,630 –> 00:23:34,630
\ntongues the wonderful works of
\nGod, and we’re all amazed and <\/p>\n

369
\n00:23:34,630 –> 00:23:36,310
\nwe’re in doubt, saying one to
\nanother. <\/p>\n

370
\n00:23:36,830 –> 00:23:42,420
\nWhat meaneth this?
\nI would think they were all in <\/p>\n

371
\n00:23:42,420 –> 00:23:45,780
\nJerusalem with a purpose that
\nwould not have been frustrated <\/p>\n

372
\n00:23:46,020 –> 00:23:48,660
\nby the fact that they had a
\ndifferent language from the <\/p>\n

373
\n00:23:48,660 –> 00:23:52,260
\nJewish language.
\nI would think they came there <\/p>\n

374
\n00:23:52,260 –> 00:23:55,500
\nperfectly, were able to get
\naround and do what they came <\/p>\n

375
\n00:23:55,500 –> 00:23:58,020
\nfor, and hear what they came to
\nhear, and speak with whom they <\/p>\n

376
\n00:23:58,020 –> 00:24:03,380
\ncame to speak in either Aramaic
\nor more probably, Greek. <\/p>\n

377
\n00:24:04,300 –> 00:24:08,060
\nThese people who came to
\nJerusalem at this time, they <\/p>\n

378
\n00:24:08,060 –> 00:24:10,940
\nwouldn’t be bewildered by not
\nknowing the language of the <\/p>\n

379
\n00:24:10,940 –> 00:24:13,900
\nplace.
\nSo they wouldn’t, I think, have <\/p>\n

380
\n00:24:13,900 –> 00:24:18,820
\nneeded for the sake of witness
\nthat Peter and the other should <\/p>\n

381
\n00:24:18,820 –> 00:24:21,180
\nspeak to them in their own
\nnative dialects. <\/p>\n

382
\n00:24:22,860 –> 00:24:24,060
\nBut they would have recognized
\nthem. <\/p>\n

383
\n00:24:25,780 –> 00:24:28,140
\nThey would have known that it
\nwas a very surprising thing that<\/p>\n

384
\n00:24:28,140 –> 00:24:31,620
\nthese Galileans an indication
\nthey did know the language they <\/p>\n

385
\n00:24:31,620 –> 00:24:34,750
\nwere talking about, an
\nindication that these Galileans <\/p>\n

386
\n00:24:34,750 –> 00:24:37,870
\nwere able to do things that
\nGalileans shouldn’t do, couldn’t<\/p>\n

387
\n00:24:37,870 –> 00:24:39,390
\ndo.
\nGalileans were Rustics. <\/p>\n

388
\n00:24:39,870 –> 00:24:41,950
\nThey knew their own dialects,
\nThey could speak with their own <\/p>\n

389
\n00:24:41,950 –> 00:24:44,910
\ncountry tongue.
\nBut these foreign languages not <\/p>\n

390
\n00:24:44,910 –> 00:24:48,510
\nGalileans.
\nSo the wonderlay not in the <\/p>\n

391
\n00:24:48,510 –> 00:24:50,710
\ntongues being needed for
\nunderstanding, but in the <\/p>\n

392
\n00:24:50,710 –> 00:24:54,110
\ntongues being a sign, a sign
\nthat they were doing things that<\/p>\n

393
\n00:24:54,110 –> 00:24:57,710
\nman couldn’t do, left to
\nhimself, given the gift from God<\/p>\n

394
\n00:24:57,710 –> 00:24:59,550
\nthat no man could have
\nsimulated. <\/p>\n

395
\n00:25:00,350 –> 00:25:04,190
\nAnd they were amazed, and the
\nbest of them believed. <\/p>\n

396
\n00:25:05,230 –> 00:25:09,070
\nAnd the same day they were added
\nunto the Lord about 3000 souls. <\/p>\n

397
\n00:25:12,310 –> 00:25:16,550
\nPeter’s message fully responded
\nto the prayers the Lord had <\/p>\n

398
\n00:25:16,550 –> 00:25:20,750
\nprayed for him.
\nHere was no Peter, bulled up to <\/p>\n

399
\n00:25:20,750 –> 00:25:24,110
\nthe last moment, and then
\nfleeing as the others had. <\/p>\n

400
\n00:25:25,390 –> 00:25:28,910
\nHere was a Peter who would see
\nit through, preach him, would <\/p>\n

401
\n00:25:28,910 –> 00:25:33,970
\nhave a company, go to prison if
\nneed be, and ultimately faced <\/p>\n

402
\n00:25:33,970 –> 00:25:35,890
\ncalm with the death that he
\nwould have to die. <\/p>\n

403
\n00:25:37,970 –> 00:25:41,930
\nThe Lord whom Peter had denied,
\nwhen the Lord was on trial for <\/p>\n

404
\n00:25:41,930 –> 00:25:47,290
\nhis life, and said, I know him
\nnot with an oath, I know not the<\/p>\n

405
\n00:25:47,290 –> 00:25:49,490
\nman cursing and swearing, I know
\nnot. <\/p>\n

406
\n00:25:49,490 –> 00:25:53,730
\nThe man of whom thou speakest
\nwas a Peter whom the Lord had <\/p>\n

407
\n00:25:53,730 –> 00:25:57,490
\nspoken to, and said, Simon, son
\nof Jonas, lovest are me more <\/p>\n

408
\n00:25:57,490 –> 00:26:02,400
\nthan these others.
\nAnd Peter, don’t say that there <\/p>\n

409
\n00:26:02,400 –> 00:26:05,800
\nwas no longer, though all men
\nshall deny thee, yet will not I <\/p>\n

410
\n00:26:05,800 –> 00:26:08,280
\nHe was not going to make
\ncomparisons anymore. <\/p>\n

411
\n00:26:09,960 –> 00:26:13,080
\nPeter wouldn’t even say he loved
\nJesus in the word the Lord used.<\/p>\n

412
\n00:26:14,160 –> 00:26:17,360
\nHe would choose a lesser word
\nand say, Lord, thou knowest that<\/p>\n

413
\n00:26:17,360 –> 00:26:23,040
\nI am thy friend that would taste
\nthe first denial. <\/p>\n

414
\n00:26:24,880 –> 00:26:27,880
\nThen the Lord came back to Peter
\nand said, Simon, son of Jonas, <\/p>\n

415
\n00:26:27,880 –> 00:26:31,320
\nlovest thou me?
\nLeave the others out of it? <\/p>\n

416
\n00:26:32,190 –> 00:26:37,750
\nAnswer yourself, do you love me?
\nAnd Peter would not budge. <\/p>\n

417
\n00:26:38,750 –> 00:26:41,950
\nThe Lord might climb down the
\nladder of his exaltation to <\/p>\n

418
\n00:26:41,950 –> 00:26:43,950
\nstand a little closer to Peter’s
\nlevel. <\/p>\n

419
\n00:26:43,950 –> 00:26:48,150
\nBut Peter was not climbing up.
\nHe’s staying just where he was. <\/p>\n

420
\n00:26:48,150 –> 00:26:50,910
\nHe would make no claims.
\nLord, thou knowest that I am thy<\/p>\n

421
\n00:26:50,910 –> 00:26:55,110
\nfriend.
\nSo the Lord comes right down and<\/p>\n

422
\n00:26:55,110 –> 00:26:58,550
\nstands by Peter’s side, speaks
\nPeter’s language, and says, <\/p>\n

423
\n00:26:58,590 –> 00:27:04,180
\nSimon, son of Jones, up thou my
\nfriend, And Peter was grieved <\/p>\n

424
\n00:27:04,180 –> 00:27:06,660
\nbecause the Lord said to him,
\nthe third time, art thou my <\/p>\n

425
\n00:27:06,660 –> 00:27:09,540
\nfriend.
\nThe third time was too painful, <\/p>\n

426
\n00:27:10,540 –> 00:27:13,940
\ntoo reminiscent of I know him
\nnot, I know not the man. <\/p>\n

427
\n00:27:14,100 –> 00:27:17,020
\nAnd the third time I know not
\nthe man of whom thou speakers, <\/p>\n

428
\n00:27:17,380 –> 00:27:21,260
\ntoo painfully reminding of the
\ngoing out and sobbing that Peter<\/p>\n

429
\n00:27:21,260 –> 00:27:23,540
\ndid.
\nWhen he realized what he’d done,<\/p>\n

430
\n00:27:24,540 –> 00:27:28,060
\nno wonder he was grieved.
\nBut there was nothing more he <\/p>\n

431
\n00:27:28,060 –> 00:27:32,490
\ncould say, nothing more he would
\nsay, Lord, thou knowest all <\/p>\n

432
\n00:27:32,490 –> 00:27:33,890
\nthings.
\nThou knowest that I am thy <\/p>\n

433
\n00:27:33,890 –> 00:27:39,090
\nfriend, and the feed my sheep,
\nand the tend my lambs, and the <\/p>\n

434
\n00:27:39,090 –> 00:27:42,210
\ntend my sheep, which the Lord
\ngave to Peter, after each of the<\/p>\n

435
\n00:27:42,210 –> 00:27:45,850
\nsuccessive threefold
\nrestorations, took Peter on the <\/p>\n

436
\n00:27:45,850 –> 00:27:48,650
\npath of service that was to take
\nhim to his triumphant death. <\/p>\n

437
\n00:27:51,330 –> 00:27:56,130
\nSo Peter stood up and preached
\nto the murders of the Lord, and <\/p>\n

438
\n00:27:56,130 –> 00:27:58,810
\nhad no hesitation in labeling
\nthem for what they were. <\/p>\n

439
\n00:28:00,320 –> 00:28:05,480
\nHear the closing part of Peter’s
\nspeech, Acts, chapter 2, verse <\/p>\n

440
\n00:28:05,480 –> 00:28:10,600
\n29.
\nMen and brethren, let me freely <\/p>\n

441
\n00:28:10,600 –> 00:28:15,040
\nspeak unto the patriarch David
\nthat he is both dead and buried,<\/p>\n

442
\n00:28:15,960 –> 00:28:18,600
\nand his sepulchre is with us
\nuntil this day. <\/p>\n

443
\n00:28:19,960 –> 00:28:23,280
\nTherefore, being a prophet, and
\nknowing that God had sworn with <\/p>\n

444
\n00:28:23,280 –> 00:28:26,280
\nan oath to him that of the fruit
\nof his lines, according to the <\/p>\n

445
\n00:28:26,280 –> 00:28:29,260
\nflesh, he would raise up Christ
\nto sit on his throne. <\/p>\n

446
\n00:28:29,420 –> 00:28:34,140
\nHe’s seeing this before speak of
\nthe resurrection of Christ, that<\/p>\n

447
\n00:28:34,180 –> 00:28:38,260
\nhis soul was not left in hell,
\nneither his flesh did see <\/p>\n

448
\n00:28:38,260 –> 00:28:41,540
\ncorruption.
\nThis Jesus did God raise up, <\/p>\n

449
\n00:28:42,500 –> 00:28:48,500
\nwhereof we all our witnesses He
\njust quoted Psalm 16. <\/p>\n

450
\n00:28:48,500 –> 00:28:52,340
\nTo them thou would not leave my
\nsoul in hell, neither would thou<\/p>\n

451
\n00:28:52,340 –> 00:28:54,180
\nsuffer thine holy one to seek
\ncorruption. <\/p>\n

452
\n00:28:54,990 –> 00:28:57,990
\nAnd Psalm 16 was written by
\nDavid, and Peter was concerned <\/p>\n

453
\n00:28:57,990 –> 00:29:00,430
\nto show it couldn’t have been
\nabout himself, that he was <\/p>\n

454
\n00:29:00,430 –> 00:29:06,070
\nwriting and justice.
\nSee what Peter did that day, mil<\/p>\n

455
\n00:29:06,070 –> 00:29:08,510
\nand brethren, the patriarch
\nDavid. <\/p>\n

456
\n00:29:08,670 –> 00:29:11,270
\nHe is both dead and buried.
\nThere’s his grave. <\/p>\n

457
\n00:29:13,550 –> 00:29:15,510
\nHis suffocory is with us until
\nthis day. <\/p>\n

458
\n00:29:15,670 –> 00:29:18,230
\nIf they let you look inside it,
\nyou’ll see only dust. <\/p>\n

459
\n00:29:19,910 –> 00:29:25,060
\nHis flesh did seek corruption.
\nBut being a prophet and knowing <\/p>\n

460
\n00:29:25,060 –> 00:29:28,860
\nthat God had sworn about his
\ncoming, seed men and brethren, <\/p>\n

461
\n00:29:28,900 –> 00:29:33,660
\nthere’s another grave.
\nThey probably won’t let you look<\/p>\n

462
\n00:29:33,660 –> 00:29:37,140
\ninside it now.
\nThey’ll have taken precautions. <\/p>\n

463
\n00:29:38,300 –> 00:29:40,940
\nBut we know and they know and
\nyou know that there’s nobody in <\/p>\n

464
\n00:29:40,940 –> 00:29:44,460
\nit.
\nAnd there’s only one reason why <\/p>\n

465
\n00:29:45,660 –> 00:29:48,620
\nthis Jesus did God raise up.
\nWhere are we? <\/p>\n

466
\n00:29:48,620 –> 00:29:54,080
\nAre witnesses.
\nWe’ve looked in, we’ve seen and <\/p>\n

467
\n00:29:54,080 –> 00:29:58,640
\nwe know.
\nAnd so Peter stood before them <\/p>\n

468
\n00:29:58,640 –> 00:30:02,440
\nas the chief of the ambassadors
\nof the Lord Jesus Christ to use <\/p>\n

469
\n00:30:02,440 –> 00:30:05,360
\nthe first of the keys.
\nThe Lord gave him the keys of <\/p>\n

470
\n00:30:05,360 –> 00:30:08,320
\nthe Kingdom of heaven.
\nI were given to thee, and opened<\/p>\n

471
\n00:30:08,320 –> 00:30:10,720
\nthe door of salvation to
\nrepentant Jews. <\/p>\n

472
\n00:30:11,160 –> 00:30:13,840
\nAnd with these words he
\nchallenged them to repentance. <\/p>\n

473
\n00:30:15,040 –> 00:30:21,540
\nVerse 33 Therefore being by the
\nright hand of God exalted, and <\/p>\n

474
\n00:30:21,540 –> 00:30:24,420
\nhaving received of the Father
\nthe promise of the Holy Spirit, <\/p>\n

475
\n00:30:24,940 –> 00:30:27,940
\nhe has said forth this which ye
\nnow see and hear. <\/p>\n

476
\n00:30:29,340 –> 00:30:32,340
\nWhat David is not ascended into
\nthe heavens, but he says <\/p>\n

477
\n00:30:32,340 –> 00:30:35,140
\nHimself.
\nThe Lord turned to my Lord, sit <\/p>\n

478
\n00:30:35,140 –> 00:30:38,300
\ndown my right hand, until I make
\nthy pose the footstool of thy <\/p>\n

479
\n00:30:38,300 –> 00:30:41,860
\nfeet.
\nTherefore let all the House of <\/p>\n

480
\n00:30:41,860 –> 00:30:47,140
\nIsrael know assuredly the God
\nhath made that same Jesus whom <\/p>\n

481
\n00:30:47,140 –> 00:30:51,030
\nye have crucified, both Lord and
\nChrist. <\/p>\n

482
\n00:30:53,670 –> 00:30:55,510
\nOh, what a different Peter is
\nthis. <\/p>\n

483
\n00:30:57,590 –> 00:31:01,150
\nThat place of trial, where
\nrulers were examining the <\/p>\n

484
\n00:31:01,150 –> 00:31:05,470
\napostles for their faith,
\nsuddenly became A cause in which<\/p>\n

485
\n00:31:05,510 –> 00:31:09,350
\nthey stood in the dock, waiting
\nto be condemned. <\/p>\n

486
\n00:31:11,630 –> 00:31:18,110
\nGod hath made this same Jesus
\nwhich ye have crucified both <\/p>\n

487
\n00:31:18,110 –> 00:31:21,950
\nLord and Christ.
\nNot just He is now alive, and we<\/p>\n

488
\n00:31:21,950 –> 00:31:23,870
\nare glad, but he’s now alive.
\nAnd you killed him. <\/p>\n

489
\n00:31:25,710 –> 00:31:27,350
\nWhat are you going to do about
\nthat? <\/p>\n

490
\n00:31:29,430 –> 00:31:31,870
\nThat was Peter’s call to
\nrepentance. <\/p>\n

491
\n00:31:32,630 –> 00:31:35,030
\nHe did it later.
\nNot very much later either, <\/p>\n

492
\n00:31:35,030 –> 00:31:39,750
\nstill in Jerusalem.
\nWell, he said, Ye refused the <\/p>\n

493
\n00:31:39,750 –> 00:31:45,030
\nPrince of life and desired A
\nmurderer to be granted unto you.<\/p>\n

494
\n00:31:46,790 –> 00:31:50,110
\nThere you had in front of you
\nJesus of Nazareth and Barrabas. <\/p>\n

495
\n00:31:51,270 –> 00:31:55,510
\nNow Barrabas was a robber and
\nhad committed murder during the <\/p>\n

496
\n00:31:55,510 –> 00:31:58,150
\nrebellion.
\nAnd what did you do? <\/p>\n

497
\n00:31:59,630 –> 00:32:03,550
\nYou saw before you Abel, who was
\nto be killed, and Cain, who <\/p>\n

498
\n00:32:03,550 –> 00:32:04,990
\nkilled him.
\nAnd you said, we don’t want <\/p>\n

499
\n00:32:04,990 –> 00:32:10,150
\nAbel, we want Cain.
\nYou’ve turned the course of <\/p>\n

500
\n00:32:10,150 –> 00:32:12,070
\njustice and common sense upside
\ndown. <\/p>\n

501
\n00:32:12,430 –> 00:32:15,920
\nYou desired A murderer.
\nYou said, give life to the <\/p>\n

502
\n00:32:15,920 –> 00:32:19,720
\nkiller, and you refused.
\nThe Prince of life, you said <\/p>\n

503
\n00:32:19,840 –> 00:32:23,680
\nkill the life giver.
\nThat was how wicked and stupid <\/p>\n

504
\n00:32:23,680 –> 00:32:30,600
\nyou were, said Peter.
\nThe Cain and Abel record is a <\/p>\n

505
\n00:32:30,640 –> 00:32:36,760
\nuniversal record for all time
\nnot ask Cain, who was of the <\/p>\n

506
\n00:32:36,760 –> 00:32:40,760
\nwicked one, and slew his
\nbrother, and wherefore slew he <\/p>\n

507
\n00:32:40,760 –> 00:32:43,760
\nhim, because his own works were
\neven, and his brother’s <\/p>\n

508
\n00:32:43,760 –> 00:32:46,040
\nrighteous.
\nThe world had allied itself with<\/p>\n

509
\n00:32:46,040 –> 00:32:49,440
\nthe cause of Cain, so that, as
\nthe Lord said, the blood of all <\/p>\n

510
\n00:32:49,440 –> 00:32:51,840
\nthe righteous men shed from the
\nfoundation of the world, should <\/p>\n

511
\n00:32:51,840 –> 00:32:56,240
\nbe required of this generation.
\nFrom the blood of Abel, whom <\/p>\n

512
\n00:32:56,240 –> 00:33:00,880
\nCain slew, to the blood blood of
\nZacharias, the son of Barakaius,<\/p>\n

513
\n00:33:01,200 –> 00:33:03,320
\nwhom he slew between the temple
\nand the altar. <\/p>\n

514
\n00:33:11,970 –> 00:33:16,450
\nAnd they needed to be told, and
\nthey needed to be convicted, and<\/p>\n

515
\n00:33:16,450 –> 00:33:19,130
\nthey must forswear the things
\ntheir fathers had done. <\/p>\n

516
\n00:33:19,290 –> 00:33:22,410
\nThey themselves had connived
\nthat not this man but Baraba <\/p>\n

517
\n00:33:22,410 –> 00:33:26,610
\nsome of them perhaps, had
\nshouted, and turn again. <\/p>\n

518
\n00:33:28,610 –> 00:33:32,490
\nTherefore let all the House of
\nIsrael know assuredly that God <\/p>\n

519
\n00:33:32,490 –> 00:33:36,770
\nhath made the same Jesus whom ye
\nhave crucified, both Lord and <\/p>\n

520
\n00:33:36,770 –> 00:33:40,870
\nChrist.
\nWhen they heard this, they were <\/p>\n

521
\n00:33:40,870 –> 00:33:43,790
\npricked in their hearts, and
\nsaid, Men and brethren, what <\/p>\n

522
\n00:33:43,790 –> 00:33:48,310
\nshall we do?
\nYou can say it calmly. <\/p>\n

523
\n00:33:49,350 –> 00:33:51,310
\nWhen they heard this, they were
\npricked in their hearts, and <\/p>\n

524
\n00:33:51,310 –> 00:33:53,070
\nsaid, Men and brethren, what
\nshall we do? <\/p>\n

525
\n00:33:53,310 –> 00:33:55,870
\nOr you can say it with the sense
\nit surely must have and say, <\/p>\n

526
\n00:33:55,990 –> 00:33:58,550
\nWhen they heard this, they were
\npricked in their hearts, and <\/p>\n

527
\n00:33:58,550 –> 00:34:00,870
\nsaid, men and brethren, whatever
\nshall we do? <\/p>\n

528
\n00:34:02,750 –> 00:34:05,750
\nWhat can be done for the likes
\nof us who did so wicked a deed? <\/p>\n

529
\n00:34:05,950 –> 00:34:12,570
\nHow can we be restored to God?
\nAnd just as at an earlier stage <\/p>\n

530
\n00:34:12,570 –> 00:34:15,610
\nmen had come to Jesus and said,
\nWhat shall we do that we may <\/p>\n

531
\n00:34:15,610 –> 00:34:18,889
\nwork the works of God?
\nWhat works must we do? <\/p>\n

532
\n00:34:20,090 –> 00:34:22,449
\nAnd Jesus had answered, This is
\nthe work of God. <\/p>\n

533
\n00:34:22,449 –> 00:34:24,370
\nThat ye believe on him, or he
\nhas sent. <\/p>\n

534
\n00:34:25,850 –> 00:34:31,210
\nFaith is what you need.
\nSo said Peter, now men and <\/p>\n

535
\n00:34:31,210 –> 00:34:35,889
\nbrother, and what shall we do?
\nAnd the answer is not much, <\/p>\n

536
\n00:34:37,090 –> 00:34:40,730
\nphysically.
\nTo bring about your entry into <\/p>\n

537
\n00:34:40,730 –> 00:34:43,210
\nthe way of salvation, you are to
\nrepent. <\/p>\n

538
\n00:34:44,290 –> 00:34:48,050
\nYou’re to think differently.
\nYou’re to turn around and want <\/p>\n

539
\n00:34:48,050 –> 00:34:51,010
\nto go another way.
\nYou’re to change your minds. <\/p>\n

540
\n00:34:52,010 –> 00:34:55,370
\nYou’re to be back ties.
\nAnd then of course, means that <\/p>\n

541
\n00:34:55,370 –> 00:34:57,890
\nyou’ll have to take the trouble
\nto step down into the water. <\/p>\n

542
\n00:34:57,890 –> 00:35:01,130
\nBut it only becomes baptism
\nbecause God accepts it as such. <\/p>\n

543
\n00:35:02,010 –> 00:35:06,650
\nIt’s his baptism.
\nAnd then, well, the help will <\/p>\n

544
\n00:35:06,650 –> 00:35:10,190
\ncome from God, and the promise
\nis unto you, and to your <\/p>\n

545
\n00:35:10,190 –> 00:35:13,910
\nchildren, and to all that be
\nafar off, even as many as the <\/p>\n

546
\n00:35:13,910 –> 00:35:16,750
\nLord our God shall call.
\nAnd with many other words did <\/p>\n

547
\n00:35:16,750 –> 00:35:20,470
\nPeter testify and exhort,
\nsaying, save yourselves from his<\/p>\n

548
\n00:35:20,470 –> 00:35:25,230
\nuntoward generation.
\nSo that’s what they had to do. <\/p>\n

549
\n00:35:26,430 –> 00:35:29,470
\nAccept the verdict of the
\npicking of their hearts when <\/p>\n

550
\n00:35:29,470 –> 00:35:31,470
\ntheir conscience was touched,
\nwith the horror of what they had<\/p>\n

551
\n00:35:31,470 –> 00:35:34,640
\ndone.
\nAnd with the repentance of that <\/p>\n

552
\n00:35:34,640 –> 00:35:36,040
\nand the knowledge of the Lord
\nJesus. <\/p>\n

553
\n00:35:36,040 –> 00:35:38,680
\nWhich in some ways they would
\nhave had already and Peter would<\/p>\n

554
\n00:35:38,680 –> 00:35:42,640
\nhave filled up for them.
\nGo down and die to an old life, <\/p>\n

555
\n00:35:44,280 –> 00:35:47,800
\nlater, to be described as being
\ncrucified with Christ. <\/p>\n

556
\n00:35:49,280 –> 00:35:54,000
\nInstead of calling out, crucify
\nhim, saying what the repentant <\/p>\n

557
\n00:35:54,000 –> 00:35:56,790
\nrobber had said.
\nWe indeed justly, for we <\/p>\n

558
\n00:35:56,790 –> 00:35:58,470
\nreceived the due reward of our
\ndeeds. <\/p>\n

559
\n00:35:58,630 –> 00:36:00,390
\nBut this man hath done nothing
\namiss. <\/p>\n

560
\n00:36:00,590 –> 00:36:02,990
\nLord, Remember Me when I comes
\ninto thy Kingdom. <\/p>\n

561
\n00:36:03,110 –> 00:36:08,230
\nThis is what they must do.
\nAnd more than 3000 did it. <\/p>\n

562
\n00:36:09,710 –> 00:36:13,110
\nThe outcome for a while was a
\nchurch marked by match, this <\/p>\n

563
\n00:36:13,110 –> 00:36:18,630
\nharmony, unlimited generosity,
\nand giving and joy in <\/p>\n

564
\n00:36:18,630 –> 00:36:24,760
\nfellowship.
\nVerse 41 Then they that gladly <\/p>\n

565
\n00:36:24,760 –> 00:36:28,160
\nreceived his word were baptized,
\nand the same day they were only <\/p>\n

566
\n00:36:28,160 –> 00:36:32,440
\ndone to them about 3000 souls.
\nAnd they continued steadfastly <\/p>\n

567
\n00:36:32,600 –> 00:36:35,480
\nin the apostle’s doctrine and
\nfellowship, and in the breaking <\/p>\n

568
\n00:36:35,480 –> 00:36:39,920
\nof bread, and in the prayers.
\nAnd fear came upon every soul. <\/p>\n

569
\n00:36:40,840 –> 00:36:44,240
\nAnd many wonders and signs were
\ndone by the apostles, and all <\/p>\n

570
\n00:36:44,240 –> 00:36:46,440
\nthat believed were together, and
\nhad all things common. <\/p>\n

571
\n00:36:47,080 –> 00:36:49,800
\nAnd they sold their possessions
\nand goods, and parted them to <\/p>\n

572
\n00:36:49,800 –> 00:36:55,440
\nall men, as every man had need.
\nAnd they, continuing daily with <\/p>\n

573
\n00:36:55,440 –> 00:36:58,320
\none accord in the temple, and
\nbreaking bread from house to <\/p>\n

574
\n00:36:58,320 –> 00:37:01,400
\nhouse, did eat their meat with
\ngladness and singleness of <\/p>\n

575
\n00:37:01,400 –> 00:37:04,720
\nheart, praising God and having
\nfavour with all the people. <\/p>\n

576
\n00:37:05,640 –> 00:37:08,960
\nAnd the Lord added to them day
\nby day those that were being <\/p>\n

577
\n00:37:08,960 –> 00:37:11,400
\nsaved.
\nAs the revised version puts it. <\/p>\n

578
\n00:37:14,840 –> 00:37:18,200
\nThis turns out from that at
\nleast this point that the <\/p>\n

579
\n00:37:18,280 –> 00:37:21,840
\nmiraculous gifts of the Holy
\nSpirit were not very widespread.<\/p>\n

580
\n00:37:23,080 –> 00:37:25,800
\nNot at that time, perhaps.
\nNot at any time, at least, I <\/p>\n

581
\n00:37:25,800 –> 00:37:28,360
\nmean not placed in many people’s
\nhands. <\/p>\n

582
\n00:37:29,760 –> 00:37:32,080
\nFor the speaking with tongues
\nwas certainly done by some <\/p>\n

583
\n00:37:32,080 –> 00:37:35,160
\nmembers of the original company.
\nThe multitude was not involved <\/p>\n

584
\n00:37:35,160 –> 00:37:38,760
\nin that.
\nAnd though thousands repented <\/p>\n

585
\n00:37:38,760 –> 00:37:43,600
\nand were baptized, we find that
\nwhen that had happened many <\/p>\n

586
\n00:37:43,600 –> 00:37:46,080
\nsigns and wonders were done by
\nthe apostles hands. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:37:47,560 –> 00:37:52,220
\nAnd no other miracle worker is
\nnamed either there or in any <\/p>\n

588
\n00:37:52,220 –> 00:37:54,620
\nchapter until we come to chapter
\n6, where in very special <\/p>\n

589
\n00:37:54,620 –> 00:37:57,820
\ncircumstances similar powers are
\nexercised by Steven and by <\/p>\n

590
\n00:37:57,820 –> 00:38:00,340
\nPhilip in Chapter 7, or chapter
\n8 rather. <\/p>\n

591
\n00:38:01,620 –> 00:38:04,700
\nSo it does look as though God’s
\nwork in salvation did not <\/p>\n

592
\n00:38:04,700 –> 00:38:07,980
\nempower by any means all,
\nperhaps not most. <\/p>\n

593
\n00:38:08,180 –> 00:38:11,900
\nPossibly only a small minority
\nof his servants with the power <\/p>\n

594
\n00:38:11,900 –> 00:38:16,420
\nto work mighty gifts, and the
\napostles were prominent and 1st <\/p>\n

595
\n00:38:16,420 –> 00:38:22,270
\namongst them.
\nWhat else emerges from this is <\/p>\n

596
\n00:38:22,270 –> 00:38:26,190
\nthis matter of having all things
\ncommon they’re selling of their <\/p>\n

597
\n00:38:26,190 –> 00:38:28,230
\nproperty and their distribution
\nof it to others. <\/p>\n

598
\n00:38:28,630 –> 00:38:30,990
\nA first and devotive attempt in
\ncommunism. <\/p>\n

599
\n00:38:30,990 –> 00:38:36,030
\nDo I hear you saying?
\nPeople have said that, but I <\/p>\n

600
\n00:38:36,030 –> 00:38:41,070
\ndon’t think it was.
\nThat was a very poor church, <\/p>\n

601
\n00:38:42,190 –> 00:38:46,310
\nthat congregation in Jerusalem.
\nMaybe they were poor in any <\/p>\n

602
\n00:38:46,310 –> 00:38:48,910
\ncase, but they seem to be cut
\noff from public relief at this <\/p>\n

603
\n00:38:48,910 –> 00:38:51,370
\ntime.
\nWe learned later of the widows <\/p>\n

604
\n00:38:51,370 –> 00:38:53,370
\nwho were neglected often, they
\nthought were neglected. <\/p>\n

605
\n00:38:53,610 –> 00:38:56,610
\nIn the daily ministrations in
\nchapter six we learned of relief<\/p>\n

606
\n00:38:56,610 –> 00:38:59,610
\nparties and funds and goods
\nbeing sent from Antioch and <\/p>\n

607
\n00:38:59,850 –> 00:39:02,930
\nelsewhere throughout Asia Minor,
\ntoo, for the relief of the poor <\/p>\n

608
\n00:39:02,930 –> 00:39:05,570
\nSaints that were in Jerusalem.
\nThey needed money badly. <\/p>\n

609
\n00:39:05,610 –> 00:39:10,130
\nThere they were, destitute.
\nAnd so those who had resources <\/p>\n

610
\n00:39:10,130 –> 00:39:13,450
\ncouldn’t see their brother in
\nstarve, and they sold them, and <\/p>\n

611
\n00:39:13,450 –> 00:39:15,530
\nthey gave the money and laid it
\nat the apostle’s feet. <\/p>\n

612
\n00:39:17,880 –> 00:39:20,760
\nThat was what they were doing.
\nThey were sharing their goods <\/p>\n

613
\n00:39:20,760 –> 00:39:24,160
\nbecause somebody would have died
\nif they hadn’t, and they got <\/p>\n

614
\n00:39:24,160 –> 00:39:26,920
\nhelp from her outside, because
\nit was still needed and it kept <\/p>\n

615
\n00:39:26,920 –> 00:39:29,960
\non being needed.
\nThis was no philosophy of <\/p>\n

616
\n00:39:29,960 –> 00:39:32,880
\ncommunism.
\nThis was an urgent and brotherly<\/p>\n

617
\n00:39:32,880 –> 00:39:36,880
\nresponse to need and it stayed
\nlike that throughout the whole <\/p>\n

618
\n00:39:36,880 –> 00:39:39,320
\nperiod of the New Testament as
\nfar as we can tell. <\/p>\n

619
\n00:39:41,820 –> 00:39:44,780
\nSo then this company meets
\ntogether and they need help and <\/p>\n

620
\n00:39:44,900 –> 00:39:47,020
\nthey keep on needing it a little
\nbit later. <\/p>\n

621
\n00:39:47,300 –> 00:39:50,100
\nA bit more help is forthcoming,
\nas you will see if we turn to <\/p>\n

622
\n00:39:50,100 –> 00:40:00,380
\nChapter 4, Chapter 4, verse 36.
\nNow we start earlier, verse 34. <\/p>\n

623
\n00:40:01,290 –> 00:40:03,890
\nNeither was there any among them
\nthat lacked for as many as were <\/p>\n

624
\n00:40:03,890 –> 00:40:07,010
\npossessors of lands or houses,
\nsold them, and brought the <\/p>\n

625
\n00:40:07,010 –> 00:40:09,930
\nprices of the things that were
\nsold, and laid them down at the <\/p>\n

626
\n00:40:09,930 –> 00:40:12,890
\napostles feet, and distribution
\nwas made to every man according <\/p>\n

627
\n00:40:12,890 –> 00:40:16,770
\nas he had need.
\nAnd Joseph’s who by the apostles<\/p>\n

628
\n00:40:16,770 –> 00:40:19,970
\nwas surnamed Barnabas, which is
\nbeing interpreted the son of <\/p>\n

629
\n00:40:19,970 –> 00:40:24,130
\nconsolation A Levite, and the
\ncountry of Cyprus having land <\/p>\n

630
\n00:40:24,130 –> 00:40:26,930
\nsold it and brought the money
\nand laid it at the apostles <\/p>\n

631
\n00:40:26,930 –> 00:40:31,000
\nfeet.
\nWell, there’s some reason one <\/p>\n

632
\n00:40:31,000 –> 00:40:33,240
\nwould think for picking this
\nparticular man out. <\/p>\n

633
\n00:40:34,520 –> 00:40:37,880
\nHe joins the procession of those
\nwho give generously to the cause<\/p>\n

634
\n00:40:38,120 –> 00:40:40,960
\nof seeing to it that the poor
\nare housed and clothed and fed <\/p>\n

635
\n00:40:41,600 –> 00:40:44,400
\nand his name is given to us.
\nAnd it is well the authorized <\/p>\n

636
\n00:40:44,400 –> 00:40:48,640
\nversion, the King James version
\nsays Joe says the revised and <\/p>\n

637
\n00:40:48,640 –> 00:40:54,400
\nlater version say Joseph.
\nSo his first name was Joseph and<\/p>\n

638
\n00:40:54,400 –> 00:40:58,680
\nhis second name was Barnabas.
\nAh, but not originally. <\/p>\n

639
\n00:41:00,440 –> 00:41:02,600
\nWe don’t know what his father’s
\nname was. <\/p>\n

640
\n00:41:04,080 –> 00:41:08,320
\nWho by the apostles were
\nsurnamed Barnabas. <\/p>\n

641
\n00:41:10,080 –> 00:41:14,080
\nThey do what the Lord Jesus did
\nsay, with Thomas or with Simon <\/p>\n

642
\n00:41:15,240 –> 00:41:20,160
\nand gave him a new name.
\nAnd their new name for him was <\/p>\n

643
\n00:41:20,160 –> 00:41:22,880
\nBarnabas.
\nHe was previously called Joseph.<\/p>\n

644
\n00:41:24,880 –> 00:41:27,080
\nWell, we’ve met one Joseph
\nalready, haven’t we? <\/p>\n

645
\n00:41:28,220 –> 00:41:29,860
\nThe men with the three handles
\nto his name. <\/p>\n

646
\n00:41:30,820 –> 00:41:34,900
\nJoseph Barsabas justice, given
\nthose names. <\/p>\n

647
\n00:41:34,900 –> 00:41:38,260
\nSurprisingly, when he wasn’t
\ngoing to be chosen, the man <\/p>\n

648
\n00:41:38,260 –> 00:41:42,460
\nwhose only claim to fame was the
\ndidn’t become an apostle so far.<\/p>\n

649
\n00:41:44,300 –> 00:41:46,380
\nAnd now we have Joseph
\nintroduced to us again. <\/p>\n

650
\n00:41:46,500 –> 00:41:47,860
\nIt doesn’t have to be the same
\nJoseph. <\/p>\n

651
\n00:41:47,860 –> 00:41:51,780
\nIt’s quite a common name.
\nAnd now we have a new name given<\/p>\n

652
\n00:41:51,780 –> 00:41:53,580
\nto him, and we’re told the
\napostles gave it to him. <\/p>\n

653
\n00:41:53,580 –> 00:41:58,320
\nSo it wasn’t these before.
\nWell, one can never prove it, <\/p>\n

654
\n00:41:58,320 –> 00:42:03,400
\nbut how attractive is the
\nthought that Joseph, son of <\/p>\n

655
\n00:42:03,400 –> 00:42:08,400
\nSaba, Joseph Barsabas?
\nWho wouldn’t want to claim the <\/p>\n

656
\n00:42:08,400 –> 00:42:10,960
\nword justice for himself?
\nFor there is none good but one <\/p>\n

657
\n00:42:10,960 –> 00:42:13,640
\nthat is God.
\nHe’d be glad to get rid of that <\/p>\n

658
\n00:42:13,640 –> 00:42:15,360
\nname when he became a disciple,
\nI’m sure. <\/p>\n

659
\n00:42:16,080 –> 00:42:21,360
\nSo Joseph Barsabas doesn’t get
\nelected to the apostleship, but <\/p>\n

660
\n00:42:21,360 –> 00:42:24,240
\nwas considered eminently worthy
\nof the job by the apostles. <\/p>\n

661
\n00:42:26,160 –> 00:42:28,160
\nAnd the apostles find him out of
\nthe same name. <\/p>\n

662
\n00:42:28,920 –> 00:42:33,240
\nWhy not the same man?
\nAnd say not bar Sabbas, but bar <\/p>\n

663
\n00:42:33,240 –> 00:42:37,320
\nAbbas?
\nNot the son of Sabba, but the <\/p>\n

664
\n00:42:37,320 –> 00:42:42,120
\nson of consolation, the son of
\ncomfort, the son of excitation, <\/p>\n

665
\n00:42:43,000 –> 00:42:45,440
\nbecause of his renown for the
\ngood deeds he did. <\/p>\n

666
\n00:42:46,600 –> 00:42:49,880
\nHe’s doing 1 here.
\nThere are plenty more to come <\/p>\n

667
\n00:42:51,210 –> 00:42:53,170
\nbefore we finally loose sight of
\nBar Abbas. <\/p>\n

668
\n00:42:53,170 –> 00:42:57,730
\nWe have met a very remarkable
\nand wonderful man, and this is <\/p>\n

669
\n00:42:57,730 –> 00:42:59,130
\nwhere we meet him for the first
\ntime. <\/p>\n

670
\n00:43:00,490 –> 00:43:05,250
\nNot saying anything, not
\nclaiming anything for himself, <\/p>\n

671
\n00:43:05,250 –> 00:43:08,890
\nnot gaining a name of renown for
\nhis deeds or his words, but <\/p>\n

672
\n00:43:08,890 –> 00:43:12,490
\ngiving something away, letting
\nother people help by what he <\/p>\n

673
\n00:43:12,490 –> 00:43:16,370
\ngives them.
\nSo Joseph bar Savas, just as <\/p>\n

674
\n00:43:16,370 –> 00:43:20,220
\nperhaps, becomes Joseph the son
\nof consolation and comfort, and <\/p>\n

675
\n00:43:20,220 –> 00:43:25,500
\ngives his goods for the poor.
\nWe shall have once more to put <\/p>\n

676
\n00:43:25,500 –> 00:43:27,740
\nhim on the shelf for a little
\nwhile, for we’re going more or <\/p>\n

677
\n00:43:27,740 –> 00:43:30,780
\nless chronologically through
\nthose parts of the acts that we <\/p>\n

678
\n00:43:30,780 –> 00:43:35,180
\ndo touch.
\nAnd now we move on to Chapter 6.<\/p>\n

679
\n00:43:38,580 –> 00:43:44,060
\nIn chapter 6, as I’ve intimated
\nalready, a problem arose about <\/p>\n

680
\n00:43:44,060 –> 00:43:46,420
\nthe distribution of the urgently
\nneeded relief. <\/p>\n

681
\n00:43:47,620 –> 00:43:51,860
\nWe read verse one, and in those
\ndays when the number of the <\/p>\n

682
\n00:43:51,860 –> 00:43:55,420
\ndisciples was multiplied, there
\nwas a murmuring of the Grecians <\/p>\n

683
\n00:43:55,420 –> 00:43:58,500
\nagainst the Hebrews, because
\ntheir widows were neglected in <\/p>\n

684
\n00:43:58,500 –> 00:44:04,420
\nthe daily ministration.
\nGrecians and Hebrews, meaning <\/p>\n

685
\n00:44:04,860 –> 00:44:08,060
\nJews who spoke naturally Greek
\nand Jews who spoke naturally <\/p>\n

686
\n00:44:08,060 –> 00:44:13,300
\nAramaic, or perhaps even more
\nexactly, Jews coming in from the<\/p>\n

687
\n00:44:13,300 –> 00:44:16,540
\nforeign world, and Jews who
\nlived in Judea or Galilee. <\/p>\n

688
\n00:44:17,900 –> 00:44:20,340
\nHome born Jews and Jews from
\nafar. <\/p>\n

689
\n00:44:20,980 –> 00:44:22,780
\nJews of the land and the
\ndispersion. <\/p>\n

690
\n00:44:22,780 –> 00:44:28,380
\nThe Diaspora.
\nFellow Jews grouped together <\/p>\n

691
\n00:44:28,380 –> 00:44:31,580
\nagainst the Gentiles, no doubt.
\nBut when they got together and <\/p>\n

692
\n00:44:31,580 –> 00:44:34,380
\nthere weren’t any Gentiles
\naround, not always getting on <\/p>\n

693
\n00:44:34,380 –> 00:44:38,900
\nvery well, they had their
\nlanguage relations problems even<\/p>\n

694
\n00:44:38,900 –> 00:44:44,410
\nthen, and either the Grecian
\nwidows were being neglected or <\/p>\n

695
\n00:44:44,410 –> 00:44:48,650
\nthe Grecians thought they were.
\nSomebody had hard feelings <\/p>\n

696
\n00:44:48,650 –> 00:44:51,850
\nagainst the others.
\nA rift was developing within the<\/p>\n

697
\n00:44:51,890 –> 00:44:56,410
\ncongregation in Jerusalem, and
\nthey brought the message to the <\/p>\n

698
\n00:44:56,410 –> 00:44:59,770
\napostles.
\nAnd the apostles said at first <\/p>\n

699
\n00:44:59,770 –> 00:45:03,050
\nsight with a seeming, but I’m
\nsure quite unreal appearance of <\/p>\n

700
\n00:45:03,050 –> 00:45:05,170
\narrogance.
\nIt is not meat that we should <\/p>\n

701
\n00:45:05,170 –> 00:45:06,770
\nleave the world of God and surf
\ntables. <\/p>\n

702
\n00:45:08,080 –> 00:45:10,200
\nWe will give ourselves to the
\nword of God and prayer. <\/p>\n

703
\n00:45:10,440 –> 00:45:12,920
\nLook out for yourselves. 7 Men
\nof honest report. <\/p>\n

704
\n00:45:14,520 –> 00:45:18,080
\nI’m sure they were too busy to
\nbe able to spend time on such <\/p>\n

705
\n00:45:18,080 –> 00:45:22,120
\nminor matters of administration.
\nJust as Jethro said to Moses he <\/p>\n

706
\n00:45:22,120 –> 00:45:24,080
\nought to be too busy to do that
\nkind of thing, but should <\/p>\n

707
\n00:45:24,080 –> 00:45:26,400
\ndelegate the job.
\nThey were right to delegate, <\/p>\n

708
\n00:45:27,680 –> 00:45:31,480
\nright perhaps to convey
\nresponsibility, and proved very <\/p>\n

709
\n00:45:31,480 –> 00:45:36,160
\nright by what happened for that
\ncongregation in which Grecians <\/p>\n

710
\n00:45:36,160 –> 00:45:40,030
\nwere the aggrieved.
\nAnd if there was a grievance, <\/p>\n

711
\n00:45:40,230 –> 00:45:43,350
\nthe aramed speaking.
\nHebrews were the aggressors. <\/p>\n

712
\n00:45:44,110 –> 00:45:47,670
\nChose seven people with Greek
\nnames to resolve the problem. <\/p>\n

713
\n00:45:47,750 –> 00:45:51,430
\nIsn’t that remarkable?
\nAnd they sought out 12, seven. <\/p>\n

714
\n00:45:51,430 –> 00:45:55,700
\nI mean Stephen, a man full of
\nfaith under the Holy Spirit, and<\/p>\n

715
\n00:45:55,700 –> 00:45:58,500
\nPhillip, and Trochorus, and
\nDicarno, and Timon, and <\/p>\n

716
\n00:45:58,500 –> 00:46:01,540
\nParmenos, and Nicholas a
\nproselyte, Nicholas a proselyte <\/p>\n

717
\n00:46:01,540 –> 00:46:03,740
\nof Antioch.
\nThey chose those seven, and they<\/p>\n

718
\n00:46:03,740 –> 00:46:05,940
\nbrought them to the apostles,
\nand the apostles laid their <\/p>\n

719
\n00:46:05,940 –> 00:46:07,700
\nhands on them, and they got on
\nwith the job. <\/p>\n

720
\n00:46:08,500 –> 00:46:10,140
\nBut a marvellous act of
\ngenerosity. <\/p>\n

721
\n00:46:10,140 –> 00:46:12,660
\nIt was to say, we will wait the
\ndice. <\/p>\n

722
\n00:46:12,660 –> 00:46:16,260
\nWe will load the dice in favor
\nof those who are dear grief <\/p>\n

723
\n00:46:16,260 –> 00:46:18,660
\npersons.
\nThey will then have surely no <\/p>\n

724
\n00:46:18,660 –> 00:46:22,130
\ncause to complain.
\nThe seven people with Greek <\/p>\n

725
\n00:46:22,130 –> 00:46:25,290
\nnames were given their job and
\ndid their job, we presume, and <\/p>\n

726
\n00:46:25,290 –> 00:46:26,250
\nwe don’t know what the answer
\nis. <\/p>\n

727
\n00:46:26,250 –> 00:46:28,450
\nWe don’t need to know.
\nThat’s of no importance to us at<\/p>\n

728
\n00:46:28,450 –> 00:46:30,930
\nall.
\nBut they must have done it well.<\/p>\n

729
\n00:46:32,290 –> 00:46:34,050
\nAnd they didn’t stop when they’d
\ndone it. <\/p>\n

730
\n00:46:36,090 –> 00:46:37,810
\nThey had gone before the
\napostles and received the <\/p>\n

731
\n00:46:37,810 –> 00:46:40,370
\nCommission.
\nThe apostles had laid their <\/p>\n

732
\n00:46:40,370 –> 00:46:42,570
\nhands on them.
\nBy what means we do not know. <\/p>\n

733
\n00:46:42,570 –> 00:46:44,970
\nBut at least two of them,
\nStephen and Philip, as I’ve <\/p>\n

734
\n00:46:44,970 –> 00:46:47,530
\nsaid, subsequently became
\nworkers of miracles. <\/p>\n

735
\n00:46:48,250 –> 00:46:49,810
\nThere’s no evidence that they
\nwere before. <\/p>\n

736
\n00:46:50,520 –> 00:46:52,960
\nThe company of those who could
\nwork miracles had to that extent<\/p>\n

737
\n00:46:52,960 –> 00:46:57,480
\napparently been increased, and
\nneither Stephen, nor Philip, nor<\/p>\n

738
\n00:46:57,480 –> 00:47:00,120
\nthe others, perhaps that we
\ndon’t care about them, wasted <\/p>\n

739
\n00:47:00,120 –> 00:47:01,800
\nthe opportunities which this
\ngave them. <\/p>\n

740
\n00:47:03,080 –> 00:47:08,000
\nStephen is first in the field,
\nas we learn into a state, and <\/p>\n

741
\n00:47:08,000 –> 00:47:10,880
\nStephen, full of faith and
\npower, did great wonders and <\/p>\n

742
\n00:47:10,880 –> 00:47:14,680
\nmiracles among the people.
\nThen there arose certain of the <\/p>\n

743
\n00:47:14,680 –> 00:47:18,200
\nsynagogue, which is called the
\nSynagogue of the Libertines, and<\/p>\n

744
\n00:47:18,200 –> 00:47:21,720
\nof the Seradians, that the
\nAlexandrians, and of them of <\/p>\n

745
\n00:47:21,720 –> 00:47:25,320
\nSiddithia and Asia, disputing
\nwith Steven, and they were not <\/p>\n

746
\n00:47:25,320 –> 00:47:27,880
\nable to withstand the wisdom
\nwith which he spoke. <\/p>\n

747
\n00:47:30,360 –> 00:47:32,720
\nThe outcome of that we’ll hope
\nto consider tomorrow. <\/p>\n

748
\n00:47:32,720 –> 00:47:35,760
\nBut just notice what that
\nsynagogue was. <\/p>\n

749
\n00:47:35,760 –> 00:47:38,000
\nAll those synagogues were.
\nIf there were more than one <\/p>\n

750
\n00:47:38,000 –> 00:47:43,720
\ninvolved, it included amongst
\nits members Libertines, which <\/p>\n

751
\n00:47:43,720 –> 00:47:45,640
\nmeans, one would think, freed
\nslaves. <\/p>\n

752
\n00:47:47,380 –> 00:47:53,220
\nIt include people who came from
\nSirenia, North Africa, part of <\/p>\n

753
\n00:47:53,220 –> 00:47:59,300
\nthe modern Libya, Alexandria,
\nEgypt, the city of Learning, <\/p>\n

754
\n00:47:59,300 –> 00:48:03,460
\nwhere there was even then a
\nuniversity November of Asia. <\/p>\n

755
\n00:48:04,060 –> 00:48:07,020
\nWell, that’s the southwestern
\npart of Asia Minor as we now <\/p>\n

756
\n00:48:07,020 –> 00:48:11,540
\nknow it.
\nAnd Silesia, where’s that <\/p>\n

757
\n00:48:13,100 –> 00:48:15,140
\nSilesia?
\nCan you picture it? <\/p>\n

758
\n00:48:15,900 –> 00:48:19,940
\nThe map of Asia Minor like that?
\nAnd your way around Palestine <\/p>\n

759
\n00:48:19,940 –> 00:48:23,140
\ndown there and here a bump in
\nthe map. <\/p>\n

760
\n00:48:23,620 –> 00:48:26,620
\nThat’s Solicia, Southwest Asia
\nMinor. <\/p>\n

761
\n00:48:28,140 –> 00:48:31,940
\nAnd what was its capital city?
\nAnyone know? <\/p>\n

762
\n00:48:33,620 –> 00:48:37,620
\nTarsus is right.
\nSo Stephen was in dispute with <\/p>\n

763
\n00:48:37,620 –> 00:48:42,820
\nthose who included members of
\nthe Jewish community exiled in <\/p>\n

764
\n00:48:42,820 –> 00:48:44,940
\nSolicia, whose capital city was
\nTarsus. <\/p>\n

765
\n00:48:45,470 –> 00:48:48,830
\nAnd when events ran their
\ndreadful course, and Steven was <\/p>\n

766
\n00:48:48,830 –> 00:48:54,670
\nlynched the end of the chapter,
\nand they laid down their clothes<\/p>\n

767
\n00:48:55,750 –> 00:49:00,110
\nat the feet of a young man whose
\nname was sore. <\/p>\n

768
\n00:49:01,750 –> 00:49:07,830
\nSaul of Tarsus, a citizen of no
\nmean city, was chief amongst the<\/p>\n

769
\n00:49:07,830 –> 00:49:12,750
\nwitnesses who murdered Steven.
\nWould not Saul of Tarsus have <\/p>\n

770
\n00:49:12,750 –> 00:49:16,340
\nbeen chief amongst the
\nprotagonists who stood in all <\/p>\n

771
\n00:49:16,340 –> 00:49:21,500
\nhis arrogant gemelial, taught
\nfor his sake, wisdom, and <\/p>\n

772
\n00:49:21,500 –> 00:49:26,220
\nwatched Stephen locked down his
\nargument like 9 pins, and they <\/p>\n

773
\n00:49:26,220 –> 00:49:29,300
\nwere not able to withstand the
\nwisdom with which he spake. <\/p>\n

774
\n00:49:30,860 –> 00:49:36,780
\nThat’s how we first meet Saul,
\nthe defeated Judaizer, the man <\/p>\n

775
\n00:49:36,780 –> 00:49:39,300
\nwho couldn’t stand up to a
\ncommon Greek speaking Christian <\/p>\n

776
\n00:49:40,380 –> 00:49:44,180
\nand hated him for it and saw
\nthat he was murdered. <\/p>\n

777
\n00:49:58,170 –> 00:50:00,250
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\n00:50:00,250 –> 00:50:02,850
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\n00:50:30,080 –> 00:50:32,800
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795
\n00:50:50,090 –> 00:50:52,970
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265: AD Norris – The Apostles, The Acts and their Words<\/a><\/blockquote>