Class 1 from this series was used in GCT Episode 265.<\/p>\n
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\nthird period speaker, his
\nbrother Alfred Norris, and this <\/p>\n
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\nis his fourth class on the
\nsubject, Apostles, Their Acts <\/p>\n
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\nand their words.
\nBrother Dan just stopped short <\/p>\n
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\nof emulating the example of
\nWilbraham and Mid-Atlantic by <\/p>\n
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\nsaying our third class speaker
\nis Brother Norris. <\/p>\n
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\nThere they called me their
\nsecond class. <\/p>\n
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\nSpeaker but it’s I’m going down
\nnow sometimes when we’re. <\/p>\n
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\nReading the scriptures or
\nanxious to have a ready <\/p>\n
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\nreference to the scriptures,
\nit’s useful to have the kind of <\/p>\n
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\npassage that gives us basic
\nfacts or basic history. <\/p>\n
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\nIn summary, and there are some
\nsuch very useful chapters <\/p>\n
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\nthroughout the Bible.
\nI might name these and you might<\/p>\n
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\nlike to note them.
\nIn case you need a crib at any <\/p>\n
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\ntime, there’s the 9th chapter of
\nNehemiah, which reviews the <\/p>\n
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\nhistory of Israel up to that
\npoint very effectively. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s the 9th chapter of
\nDaniel that does the same, as he<\/p>\n
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\nleads up to the hope that God
\nwill fulfil the prophecy of the <\/p>\n
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\n70 years given by Jeremiah.
\nThere’s Psalm 78 and Psalms 105 <\/p>\n
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\nand six, and in the New
\nTestament there’s one we’ve met <\/p>\n
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\nalready in Stephen’s speech in
\nActs Chapter 7. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s one we’re just going to
\nmeet briefly in Paul’s speech at<\/p>\n
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\nAntioch in Presidia in Acts
\nchapter 13. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s a briefer one in First
\nCorinthians, chapter 10. <\/p>\n
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\nSome of the passages might
\nqualify, but those I mentioned <\/p>\n
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\nat this stage not particularly
\nbecause I’m anxious to make life<\/p>\n
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\neasy, though it does help that
\nway as because they all have <\/p>\n
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\nsomething in common.
\nThey all describe the history of<\/p>\n
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\nGod’s people from some starting
\npoint. <\/p>\n
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\nIt might be Abraham or Moses.
\nThey all make reference to God’s<\/p>\n
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\nconstant presence with them, to
\nHis mighty works, to His places <\/p>\n
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\nof worship, to the blessings
\nwhich they received, to the <\/p>\n
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\ndeliverance from their enemies.
\nAnd they all finish up, or at <\/p>\n
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\nsome point introduce with the
\nnote of Israel’s unfaithfulness.<\/p>\n
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\nThey all say, look how God good
\nhas God has been. <\/p>\n
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\nLook how good God has been to
\nyou, and look how ungrateful you<\/p>\n
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\nhave been to him.
\nAnd they all at some point come <\/p>\n
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\nwith a call to repentance.
\nOh, with a plea to God for mercy<\/p>\n
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\nfor the people who don’t deserve
\nthe blessings He’s. <\/p>\n
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\nPromised to them as Daniel, so
\nmoving they did when he finishes<\/p>\n
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\nhis own parade of the
\nunworthiness of the people with <\/p>\n
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\nthat.
\nVeritable storming of heaven <\/p>\n
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\nthat contains the expression Oh
\nLord, I beseech thee hear, oh <\/p>\n
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\nLord forgive, oh Lord have mercy
\nnow is that outburst of <\/p>\n
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\npassionate feeling for God’s
\npeople is not found in the <\/p>\n
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\nchapters before us.
\nNow the same feeling is there <\/p>\n
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\nthat Israel is being reminded of
\nits glorious history. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is being told how God has so
\noften in the past been good to <\/p>\n
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\nit, and it is being exhorted
\npleaded with. <\/p>\n
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\nNot to let those mercies go to
\nwaste. <\/p>\n
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\nNot to repeat the followers of
\ntheir forefathers. <\/p>\n
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\nNot to add one more chapter to
\nthe history of rebellion, but to<\/p>\n
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\nrepent while there is time.
\nAnd with the implication there <\/p>\n
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\nwon’t be much more time if you
\ndon’t. <\/p>\n
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\nSo when Paul addresses the
\nsynagogue in Antioch in Pisidia,<\/p>\n
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\nhe gives a review of Israel
\nIrish history not dissimilar <\/p>\n
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\nfrom that which Stephen had
\ngiven in Acts Chapter 7 and <\/p>\n
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\ncontaining some elements that
\nPeter had given in the <\/p>\n
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\nPentecostal speech.
\nAll designed to show God’s <\/p>\n
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\ngoodness, his power, his mercy,
\nthere in gratitude, and now the <\/p>\n
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\npossibility of further
\ningratitude, sealing their faith<\/p>\n
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\nin the sight of God for many
\nyears to come if they reject the<\/p>\n
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\nnew outpouring of His mercy in
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s to be noticed that Paul’s
\npattern of preaching as he went <\/p>\n
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\non his missionary journeys was,
\nwhere it was possible, quite <\/p>\n
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\nuniform.
\nHe began in the synagogues. <\/p>\n
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\nHe preached first of all
\ndirectly to the Jews assembled <\/p>\n
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\nin it, and also to those God
\nfearers or proselytes of the <\/p>\n
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\ngate who were assembled around,
\nwho were sympathetic to the <\/p>\n
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\nJewish.
\nCause. <\/p>\n
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\nHe believed in the uniqueness of
\nthe Jewish God, but had not yet <\/p>\n
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\ncommitted themselves to the
\nJewish faith. <\/p>\n
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\nHe did that for as long as it
\nwas feasible for him to do so. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen there wasn’t a synagogue,
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\nPhilippi, then he and his
\ncompanions went to the Riverside<\/p>\n
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\nand spoke to the Jewish women
\nwho resorted there. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the intention was always the
\nsame, to go first to the Jews, <\/p>\n
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\nthrough them, to the Gentiles
\nsympathetic with the Jews. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd onwards.
\nAnd after that the Gentiles at <\/p>\n
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\nlarge a view has sometimes been
\nexpressed. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd at the end of Paul’s
\nexperience with the Jews in <\/p>\n
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\ntheir synagogue in Antioch in
\nPisidia, he gave up that <\/p>\n
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\npractice.
\nThe way he said, seeing you <\/p>\n
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\njudge yourselves unworthy of
\neternal life, lo, we turn to the<\/p>\n
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\nGentiles, he was saying.
\nSo now, now I shall leave the <\/p>\n
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\nJews out.
\nI should go direct to the <\/p>\n
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\nGentiles and leave you alone.
\nWell, it’s not true. <\/p>\n
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\nThroughout his first and his
\n2nd, and where feasible, his <\/p>\n
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\nthird, missionary journalist,
\nPaul adopted the same practice <\/p>\n
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\nalways gave the Jews.
\nThe first opportunity was with <\/p>\n
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\nthem for as long as they would
\nlet him stay with them, and only<\/p>\n
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\nwhen they took the initiative of
\ncasting him out did he go and <\/p>\n
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\npreach somewhere else.
\nThe pattern for that was set in <\/p>\n
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\nthis chapter before us.
\nHe went into the synagogue at <\/p>\n
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\nAntioch in Presidia, and as you
\nleaf quickly through the pages <\/p>\n
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\nof the verses of Acts chapter
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\nGod chose their fathers.
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\nthem mercy in Egypt.
\nWhen they were in exile he led <\/p>\n
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\nthem out and this is a pattern
\nof things to come About the <\/p>\n
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\nspace of 40 years he suffered
\ntheir manners in the wilderness <\/p>\n
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\nand the picture of a body of ill
\nmannered people. <\/p>\n
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\nGoing through the wilderness
\nwith God, bearing with them, and<\/p>\n
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\nenduring what they were like,
\nshould have been a signal <\/p>\n
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\nwarning to anybody who’s
\nsupposed to show bad manners at <\/p>\n
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\nthat time too, about the space
\nof 40 years. <\/p>\n
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\nHe suffered their manners in the
\nwilderness. <\/p>\n
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\nHe destroyed certain nations,
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\nthem into the land of their
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\nAnd there could have been in the
\nbackground of that too, the <\/p>\n
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\nunspoken words.
\nHe would have destroyed them <\/p>\n
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\ncompletely if the people have
\nbeen faithful, but they weren’t.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd some survived to try them
\nand be thorns in their flesh, <\/p>\n
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\nand tempt them as to whether
\nthey would be faithful. <\/p>\n
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\nThen they had judges for a
\nperiod exceeding 400 years, <\/p>\n
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\nterminating in Samuel the
\nProphet, and at that point they <\/p>\n
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\nasked for a king.
\nAnd the very way of putting that<\/p>\n
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\nwhich is quite true, that they
\nasked for a king, conveys with <\/p>\n
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\nthe thought.
\nIt was their initiative. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Samuel has had been told
\nby God They have not rejected <\/p>\n
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\nthee.
\nThey have rejected me that I <\/p>\n
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\nshould not be king over them,
\nthat asking for a king was in <\/p>\n
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\nitself.
\nAn act of rebellion. <\/p>\n
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\nNot that God didn’t want them to
\nhave a it was evidently in the <\/p>\n
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\npurpose of God that they should
\nbe given a king. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd since he chose David in the
\nnext generation to fulfil the <\/p>\n
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\npromise that the sceptre should
\nnot depart from Judah until <\/p>\n
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\nShiloh come, it is obvious that
\nGod himself had had David firmly<\/p>\n
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\nin mind, and would have given
\nthem a king in his own way. <\/p>\n
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\nThat their demand prematurely
\nthat they should have a king, <\/p>\n
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\nlike all the nations at their
\nown request, was an act of <\/p>\n
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\nrebellion and disobedience
\nagainst him. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they suffered.
\nFor it for again, as the <\/p>\n
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\nscriptures tell us, he gave them
\na king in his anger, and took <\/p>\n
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\nhim away in his displeasure.
\nSuch was Saul, Paul’s earlier <\/p>\n
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\nnamesake, as a king of the
\ncombined United Kingdom of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael.
\nSo Saul lasted for 40 years. <\/p>\n
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\nHe tells us then when God had
\nremoved him, which he did by the<\/p>\n
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\nhand of Saul’s own hand on the
\nfield of battle with the <\/p>\n
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\nPhilistines verse 22, he raised
\nup David, And again there’s the <\/p>\n
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\ncontrast They asked for a king.
\nGod raised up David. <\/p>\n
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\nThey got what they asked for.
\nLater, God gave them what he <\/p>\n
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\nwanted them to have.
\nAnd again there’s the contrast <\/p>\n
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\nbetween what the people want and
\nwhat they ought to accept when <\/p>\n
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\nGod provides him.
\nI have found Jesse, David, the <\/p>\n
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\nson of Jesse, And then after my
\nown heart. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he shall do my will, And
\neven those words He shall do my <\/p>\n
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\nwill.
\nYou can trace the difference <\/p>\n
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\nbetween a willful people wanting
\ntheir own way, and the Lord’s <\/p>\n
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\nnot my will but thine be done,
\nand indeed the words of the <\/p>\n
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\nprayer he taught his disciples.
\nOur Father, which art in heaven,<\/p>\n
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\nhallowed be thy name.
\nThy Kingdom come, Thy will be <\/p>\n
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\ndone in earth as it is in
\nheaven. <\/p>\n
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\nThat word of prayer is not a
\nthing to be entered into <\/p>\n
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\nlightly.
\nThe Jews wanted God’s Kingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nThey wanted it earnestly and
\nurgently. <\/p>\n
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\nThey wanted to be rid of their
\noppressors. <\/p>\n
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\nThey wanted the men of the House
\nof David to reign over them as <\/p>\n
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\ntheir Messiah.
\nAt least they wanted him to <\/p>\n
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\nreign Father.
\nThey wanted him to reign over <\/p>\n
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\nthe nations around that they
\nmight be the head nation and not<\/p>\n
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\nthe tail.
\nThey wanted the Kingdom of God <\/p>\n
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\nto come so that they could get
\nwhat they wanted. <\/p>\n
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\nHeadship, prosperity, fame,
\neasy, effortless abundance. <\/p>\n
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\nThey would have found it easy to
\npray thy Kingdom come. <\/p>\n
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\nDoubtless they did prayer prayer
\nlike that, but thy will be done.<\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not quite so easy, not
\nquite so easy for us either. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd indeed, when one hears the
\nprayer, sometimes modified in <\/p>\n
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\nthe lips of brethren who say thy
\nKingdom come, that thy will may <\/p>\n
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\nbe done in earth as it is in
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\nOf this man seed God hath raised
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\nThere’s a word of deep reproach <\/p>\n
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\n00:19:43,120 –> 00:19:46,920
\nin his words, and though they
\nfound no cause of death in him. <\/p>\n
339
\n00:19:47,680 –> 00:19:50,640
\nYet desired they pilot that he
\nshould be slain. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:19:52,440 –> 00:19:55,880
\nThey could think of no adequate
\nreason why he should be slain. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:19:57,280 –> 00:20:01,440
\nTheir effort to trump up false
\nwitnesses to give what seemed to<\/p>\n
342
\n00:20:01,440 –> 00:20:05,640
\nbe adequate reasons have failed.
\nThey’re saddling him with the <\/p>\n
343
\n00:20:05,640 –> 00:20:07,880
\ncharge of saying that he was
\nChrist, the son of the living. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:20:07,880 –> 00:20:10,640
\nGod had brought the desired
\nresult, but it was true and not <\/p>\n
345
\n00:20:10,640 –> 00:20:11,840
\nfalse.
\nThat was no crime. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:20:11,960 –> 00:20:14,560
\nThey were the deeper in their
\nguilt for killing him for that <\/p>\n
347
\n00:20:14,560 –> 00:20:17,320
\ncause than they would have been
\nfor any other. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:20:18,520 –> 00:20:21,240
\nAnd then when they had found a
\nreason for killing him, or at <\/p>\n
349
\n00:20:21,240 –> 00:20:27,760
\nleast an excuse, they had to go
\nto the Romans, the hated Romans,<\/p>\n
350
\n00:20:28,840 –> 00:20:32,240
\nthe oppressors, the people whom
\nthey would gladly have been rid <\/p>\n
351
\n00:20:32,240 –> 00:20:36,120
\nof without a word of regret,
\ndeed, conquerors of their <\/p>\n
352
\n00:20:36,120 –> 00:20:39,000
\npeople.
\nBut they went to Pilot, and they<\/p>\n
353
\n00:20:39,000 –> 00:20:41,680
\nsaid, Will you please arrange to
\nhave this Jew of ours killed? <\/p>\n
354
\n00:20:41,800 –> 00:20:46,160
\nHe claims to be our king, And
\nanything more incongruous than <\/p>\n
355
\n00:20:46,160 –> 00:20:49,840
\nthat you can’t imagine.
\nAnd Pilot very rightly asked, <\/p>\n
356
\n00:20:49,960 –> 00:20:53,600
\nshall I crucify your king,
\nperhaps in his own humiliation, <\/p>\n
357
\n00:20:53,600 –> 00:20:56,560
\nseeking to wring from them the
\nconfession they gave him, <\/p>\n
358
\n00:20:56,560 –> 00:20:58,840
\nhowever reluctantly?
\nWe have no king. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:21:00,440 –> 00:21:04,160
\nBut Caesar, they said.
\nAnd so in denying their <\/p>\n
360
\n00:21:04,160 –> 00:21:06,480
\ndeliverer, they confirmed
\nthemselves in bondage. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:21:07,080 –> 00:21:09,760
\nWe won’t have him.
\nWe’d rather have Rome. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:21:11,080 –> 00:21:15,600
\nSo deep was their guilt, though
\nthey found no cause of death in <\/p>\n
363
\n00:21:15,600 –> 00:21:20,600
\nhim, yet desired that pilot of
\nall people that he should be <\/p>\n
364
\n00:21:20,600 –> 00:21:24,240
\nslain.
\nAnd when pilot didn’t want to do<\/p>\n
365
\n00:21:24,240 –> 00:21:27,320
\nit, they pressed their own
\niniquity further and deepened <\/p>\n
366
\n00:21:27,320 –> 00:21:29,720
\ntheir degradation when they said
\npilot. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:21:30,960 –> 00:21:34,560
\nIf thou let this man go, thou
\nart not Caesar’s friend. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:21:35,920 –> 00:21:38,240
\nIf you don’t get him crucified,
\nwe’ll tell Caesar about you, <\/p>\n
369
\n00:21:39,920 –> 00:21:44,480
\nthereby blackmailing the Roman
\nruler into doing the evil deed <\/p>\n
370
\n00:21:44,480 –> 00:21:48,080
\nthey did.
\nWhen sometimes, and it happened <\/p>\n
371
\n00:21:48,080 –> 00:21:52,680
\nin my experience quite recently,
\nJews of today say that it was <\/p>\n
372
\n00:21:52,680 –> 00:21:55,320
\nnot the Jews who crucified
\nJesus, it was the Romans. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:21:56,720 –> 00:21:59,080
\nThe answer is, of course it was
\nthe Romans as far as the actual <\/p>\n
374
\n00:21:59,080 –> 00:22:01,400
\ndeed was concerned.
\nBut the Romans would never have <\/p>\n
375
\n00:22:01,400 –> 00:22:03,560
\ndone such a thing, would never
\nhave thought of doing such a <\/p>\n
376
\n00:22:03,560 –> 00:22:07,320
\nthing, resisting to the idea of
\ndoing such a thing, until they <\/p>\n
377
\n00:22:07,320 –> 00:22:10,200
\nwere compelled into it by the
\nrebellion of the chosen People. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:22:12,600 –> 00:22:16,520
\nAnd so Paul brings home to Jews
\nliving in the dispersion in a <\/p>\n
379
\n00:22:16,520 –> 00:22:19,760
\nforeign country what their
\nfellow Jews living in their <\/p>\n
380
\n00:22:19,760 –> 00:22:22,800
\nnative land had done, and
\ninvites a decision about it. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:22:24,040 –> 00:22:26,360
\nThe decision supported by the
\nfact that God raised Jesus from <\/p>\n
382
\n00:22:26,360 –> 00:22:29,840
\nthe dead, that he was seen for
\nmany days, and those who went <\/p>\n
383
\n00:22:29,840 –> 00:22:33,440
\nwith him from Galilee to
\nJerusalem, That he was in fact <\/p>\n
384
\n00:22:33,440 –> 00:22:35,440
\nthe fulfillment of the promises
\nmade to the Father. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:22:35,680 –> 00:22:38,840
\nThat there could be no
\nrealization of the promises made<\/p>\n
386
\n00:22:38,840 –> 00:22:42,880
\nto faithful Abraham, unless this
\nthe seed per excellence had been<\/p>\n
387
\n00:22:42,880 –> 00:22:46,920
\nraised and raised up, and now is
\nin a position to bring about the<\/p>\n
388
\n00:22:46,920 –> 00:22:50,120
\nblessing which had been promised
\nto Abraham and his seed, and <\/p>\n
389
\n00:22:50,120 –> 00:22:54,720
\nthrough Abraham and his seed.
\nSo there we have the sure <\/p>\n
390
\n00:22:54,720 –> 00:22:57,800
\nmercies of David.
\nThere we have the promise of the<\/p>\n
391
\n00:22:57,800 –> 00:23:00,400
\nking, who will reign upon the
\nthrone of David, as the Angel <\/p>\n
392
\n00:23:00,400 –> 00:23:02,640
\nhad said to Mary.
\nFor the Lord was conceived. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:23:02,640 –> 00:23:07,800
\nAnd now we have the same words
\nused by Peter on the Pentecost <\/p>\n
394
\n00:23:07,800 –> 00:23:12,600
\nspeech, to the same effect that
\nDavid had prophesied that God <\/p>\n
395
\n00:23:12,640 –> 00:23:14,520
\nwould not leave somebody’s soul
\nin hell. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:23:14,520 –> 00:23:16,760
\nNeither would he let that
\nsomebody see corruption. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:23:17,280 –> 00:23:21,520
\nAnd Paul bringing the point home
\nwith no actual tomb to point to,<\/p>\n
398
\n00:23:21,760 –> 00:23:24,560
\ngives the same message.
\nDavid, after he had served his <\/p>\n
399
\n00:23:24,560 –> 00:23:27,480
\ngeneration, fell on sleep and
\nwas laid in the grave and saw <\/p>\n
400
\n00:23:27,480 –> 00:23:30,760
\ncorruption.
\nBut he whom God raised from the <\/p>\n
401
\n00:23:30,760 –> 00:23:34,800
\ndead saw no corruption.
\nSo there you have Jesus. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:23:36,240 –> 00:23:39,520
\nHe is the one who will do the
\nsaving he was promised to do. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:23:39,800 –> 00:23:42,120
\nHe will provide you with
\nblessings which your own law <\/p>\n
404
\n00:23:42,120 –> 00:23:46,680
\ncould never have provided.
\nHe will justify you through all <\/p>\n
405
\n00:23:46,680 –> 00:23:49,160
\nthose things from which you
\ncould not be justified by the <\/p>\n
406
\n00:23:49,160 –> 00:23:53,440
\nlaw of Moses.
\nAnd that letters be elaborated <\/p>\n
407
\n00:23:53,440 –> 00:23:56,240
\nin the letters of the Galatians.
\nAnd that to the Romans, and <\/p>\n
408
\n00:23:56,240 –> 00:23:58,720
\nbrought out in its fullness in
\nthe letter to the Hebrews, <\/p>\n
409
\n00:23:58,920 –> 00:24:02,480
\nbrings out the contrast between
\nthe law in which they trusted, <\/p>\n
410
\n00:24:02,480 –> 00:24:07,520
\nand the Lord, who now had come.
\nAll before him was Shadow. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:24:08,720 –> 00:24:13,920
\nSacrifice Priesthood, Tabernacle
\nTemple. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:24:14,800 –> 00:24:18,080
\nCircumcision, ritual law,
\ncleanness, and uncleanness, <\/p>\n
413
\n00:24:19,080 –> 00:24:21,800
\nalthough they had some merit in
\nliving their ordinary daily <\/p>\n
414
\n00:24:21,800 –> 00:24:24,360
\nlives and made them perhaps a
\nhealthy nation, were all <\/p>\n
415
\n00:24:24,360 –> 00:24:29,080
\nprimarily intended to point to a
\nreal deliverance, A genuine <\/p>\n
416
\n00:24:29,080 –> 00:24:35,480
\nrighteousness, a sanctification
\nbefore God, a cleansing, a <\/p>\n
417
\n00:24:35,480 –> 00:24:39,000
\nperfecting.
\nAnd the Lord Moses says Paul <\/p>\n
418
\n00:24:39,000 –> 00:24:41,640
\nhere as emphatically as the
\nletter to the Hebrews will say <\/p>\n
419
\n00:24:41,640 –> 00:24:43,800
\nit later, could not do that
\nthing. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:24:43,800 –> 00:24:47,280
\nCan’t do it now.
\nSo please, Jews of Antioch, wake<\/p>\n
421
\n00:24:47,280 –> 00:24:50,760
\nup to your opportunities while
\nhonouring the memory of him who <\/p>\n
422
\n00:24:50,760 –> 00:24:55,440
\nhas given you so much to this
\ncharacter completion, and walk <\/p>\n
423
\n00:24:55,440 –> 00:24:58,880
\nout of the pattern of Abraham.
\nFollow the way of faith and <\/p>\n
424
\n00:24:58,880 –> 00:25:04,720
\nbecome baptized into the Lord
\nJesus if we had. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:25:05,520 –> 00:25:08,960
\nModern facilities available to
\nus from those days. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:25:09,960 –> 00:25:15,680
\nWe could have videotapes of Paul
\nin the synagogue Antioch and the<\/p>\n
427
\n00:25:15,680 –> 00:25:19,360
\ncamera could flash from Paul in
\nhis Zealand in his appeal to the<\/p>\n
428
\n00:25:19,640 –> 00:25:23,200
\nassemble company and see the
\nexpressions on their faces. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:25:23,840 –> 00:25:27,800
\nWe see it done, haven’t we?
\nOn less important occasions like<\/p>\n
430
\n00:25:27,800 –> 00:25:31,040
\nthis, like somebody crying
\nbecause her husband is being <\/p>\n
431
\n00:25:31,040 –> 00:25:33,920
\nbeaten in a tennis match, but
\nnot that. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:25:34,760 –> 00:25:39,440
\nThis is quite different.
\nIf Paul had turned away from if <\/p>\n
433
\n00:25:39,440 –> 00:25:42,600
\nthe camera had turned away from
\nthat face of Paul and looked at <\/p>\n
434
\n00:25:42,600 –> 00:25:48,200
\nthe audience, I wonder what he
\nwould have seen, what it’s like <\/p>\n
435
\n00:25:48,200 –> 00:25:53,240
\nwondering what Stephen saw when
\nreciting that beautiful to this <\/p>\n
436
\n00:25:53,240 –> 00:25:55,480
\nmoment Will I look?
\nDecided not to recite it. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:25:55,840 –> 00:25:57,800
\nAnd looking at that, people said
\nhe’s stiff, necked and <\/p>\n
438
\n00:25:57,800 –> 00:26:01,960
\nuncircumcised and told them that
\nhe knew what they were like. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:26:03,040 –> 00:26:06,320
\nPaul does it.
\nHere you can be justified, he <\/p>\n
440
\n00:26:06,320 –> 00:26:09,520
\nsays in verse 39, from all
\nthings from which you could not <\/p>\n
441
\n00:26:09,520 –> 00:26:11,360
\nbe justified by the law of
\nMoses. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:26:11,640 –> 00:26:16,040
\nBeware, therefore, lest that
\ncome upon you, which is spoken <\/p>\n
443
\n00:26:16,040 –> 00:26:20,160
\nin the prophets.
\nBehold, ye despise us, and <\/p>\n
444
\n00:26:20,160 –> 00:26:24,800
\nwonder and perish.
\nFor I work a work in your days, <\/p>\n
445
\n00:26:24,800 –> 00:26:27,840
\na work which you shall in no
\nwise believe, though a man <\/p>\n
446
\n00:26:27,840 –> 00:26:32,800
\ndeclare it unto you.
\nAnd what was the outcome? <\/p>\n
447
\n00:26:34,920 –> 00:26:37,400
\nIt would seem that while not
\ngnashing upon him with their <\/p>\n
448
\n00:26:37,400 –> 00:26:42,160
\nteeth and leading him out to his
\nstone, not yet the Jews as a <\/p>\n
449
\n00:26:42,160 –> 00:26:43,880
\nwhole were unmoved by his
\nappeal. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:26:45,680 –> 00:26:49,680
\nIt was somebody else who turned,
\nand when the Jews were gone out <\/p>\n
451
\n00:26:49,680 –> 00:26:52,640
\nof the synagogue, the Gentiles
\nbesought that these words might <\/p>\n
452
\n00:26:52,640 –> 00:26:56,320
\nbe preached to them.
\nThe next Sabbath the Jews went <\/p>\n
453
\n00:26:56,320 –> 00:26:59,000
\naway, perhaps saying, We will
\nhear the again of this matter at<\/p>\n
454
\n00:26:59,000 –> 00:27:02,320
\nthe best.
\nBut Gentiles who had received <\/p>\n
455
\n00:27:02,520 –> 00:27:05,280
\nnot the Law of Moses as their
\nguide in life, with its <\/p>\n
456
\n00:27:05,280 –> 00:27:07,960
\ncircumcision and all but a
\nrespect for the God who was <\/p>\n
457
\n00:27:07,960 –> 00:27:11,240
\nthere honoured, could see more
\nclearly with their unfettered <\/p>\n
458
\n00:27:11,240 –> 00:27:14,920
\ngaze what Paul was preaching
\nwhen he put before them Jesus. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:27:15,120 –> 00:27:17,240
\nAnd they said, we want to hear
\nmore of this. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:27:19,080 –> 00:27:22,760
\nAnd they were allowed to.
\nThe synagogue was still open, <\/p>\n
461
\n00:27:22,760 –> 00:27:25,880
\nbut only just to further
\npreaching by Paul. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:27:27,120 –> 00:27:30,680
\nNow when the congregation was
\nbroken up, many of the Jews now,<\/p>\n
463
\n00:27:31,240 –> 00:27:33,960
\nand the religious proselytes
\ntoo, followed Paul and Barnabas,<\/p>\n
464
\n00:27:34,160 –> 00:27:36,960
\nwho, speaking to them, urged
\nthem to continue in the grace of<\/p>\n
465
\n00:27:36,960 –> 00:27:38,840
\nGod.
\nJews had divided themselves. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:27:38,840 –> 00:27:41,200
\nSome were against, some were
\nthinking it over, some were <\/p>\n
467
\n00:27:41,200 –> 00:27:43,480
\nfollowing to learn more,
\ntogether with Gentiles and <\/p>\n
468
\n00:27:43,480 –> 00:27:47,400
\nproselytes.
\nAnd the next Sabbath day came <\/p>\n
469
\n00:27:47,400 –> 00:27:50,320
\nalmost the whole city together
\nto hear the word of God. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:27:50,520 –> 00:27:53,200
\nBut when the Jews saw the
\nmultitude, they were filled with<\/p>\n
471
\n00:27:53,200 –> 00:27:57,440
\nenvy and speak against those
\nthings which were spoken by <\/p>\n
472
\n00:27:57,440 –> 00:28:00,840
\nPaul.
\nWhen they saw the multitude, <\/p>\n
473
\n00:28:02,040 –> 00:28:04,160
\nthey were filled with envy and
\nspoke against. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:28:06,120 –> 00:28:10,920
\nIf only they had all had the
\nspirit of Barnabas, who came and<\/p>\n
475
\n00:28:10,920 –> 00:28:14,880
\nsaw the multitude following the
\nway, and was glad because it was<\/p>\n
476
\n00:28:14,920 –> 00:28:19,560
\na good man, If only they had
\nbeen able to remove the pride of<\/p>\n
477
\n00:28:19,560 –> 00:28:22,680
\nnation from their hearts, and
\nrejoice that others were coming <\/p>\n
478
\n00:28:22,680 –> 00:28:25,640
\nto God.
\nIf only they had been able to <\/p>\n
479
\n00:28:25,640 –> 00:28:28,200
\nhear the words of the Lord,
\nother sheep I have, which are <\/p>\n
480
\n00:28:28,200 –> 00:28:31,000
\nnot of this flock, this flock,
\nthey must come together and be <\/p>\n
481
\n00:28:31,000 –> 00:28:33,720
\none full one shepherd, and
\nreceive it with pleasure, <\/p>\n
482
\n00:28:33,720 –> 00:28:36,680
\nbecause blessing of all nations
\nare beginning how much better <\/p>\n
483
\n00:28:36,680 –> 00:28:41,520
\nthings would have been for them.
\nBut they saw a big multitude, <\/p>\n
484
\n00:28:41,520 –> 00:28:43,960
\nbigger than they had ever
\nassembled in their synagogues or<\/p>\n
485
\n00:28:43,960 –> 00:28:45,480
\naround them, coming to hear
\nPaul. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:28:47,200 –> 00:28:50,400
\nThey saw the word of God, based
\nindeed upon their scriptures <\/p>\n
487
\n00:28:50,560 –> 00:28:53,000
\nbeing preached to a multitude
\nwho wasn’t listening to them, <\/p>\n
488
\n00:28:53,120 –> 00:28:55,000
\nand they saw it being done
\nwithout their help. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:28:55,760 –> 00:28:59,000
\nThey saw the intermediary act of
\nthe Jews being abolished by <\/p>\n
490
\n00:28:59,000 –> 00:29:02,560
\ndirect preaching to Gentiles who
\ncome with boldness before the <\/p>\n
491
\n00:29:02,560 –> 00:29:05,160
\nthrone of grace, as well as any
\nbelieving Jew could do. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:29:05,160 –> 00:29:08,560
\nAnd they didn’t like it.
\nTheir privilege was being eroded<\/p>\n
493
\n00:29:09,880 –> 00:29:12,560
\nand so they spoke against the
\nthings which were spoken by <\/p>\n
494
\n00:29:12,560 –> 00:29:14,720
\nPaul.
\nAnd it was at that point that <\/p>\n
495
\n00:29:14,720 –> 00:29:17,640
\nPaul said it was necessary that
\nthe word of God should first be <\/p>\n
496
\n00:29:17,640 –> 00:29:22,040
\npreached unto you, But seeing
\nyou put it from you, and judge <\/p>\n
497
\n00:29:22,040 –> 00:29:25,000
\nyourselves unworthy of eternal
\nlife, lo, we turn to the <\/p>\n
498
\n00:29:25,000 –> 00:29:29,960
\nGentiles, For so hath the Lord
\ncommanded us, saying, I have set<\/p>\n
499
\n00:29:29,960 –> 00:29:32,720
\nthee for a light of the
\nGentiles, that thou shouldst be <\/p>\n
500
\n00:29:32,720 –> 00:29:34,680
\nfor salvation unto the ends of
\nthe earth. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:29:35,480 –> 00:29:38,960
\nAnd naturally enough, when the
\nGentiles heard this, they were <\/p>\n
502
\n00:29:38,960 –> 00:29:41,760
\nglad and glorified the word of
\nthe Lord. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:29:42,440 –> 00:29:45,600
\nAnd as many as were ordained to
\neternal life believed, and the <\/p>\n
504
\n00:29:45,600 –> 00:29:47,840
\nword of God was published
\nthroughout all the region. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:29:48,400 –> 00:29:53,600
\nBut the Jews sought to do to
\nPaul what they had done to <\/p>\n
506
\n00:29:53,600 –> 00:29:57,040
\nStephen, what they had done to
\nJesus, and choosing the means at<\/p>\n
507
\n00:29:57,040 –> 00:29:59,960
\nhand, sought to rid them of
\ntheir lives. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:30:00,760 –> 00:30:04,000
\nBut the Jews stirred up the
\ndevout and honourable women and <\/p>\n
509
\n00:30:04,000 –> 00:30:07,280
\nthe chief men of the city and
\nraised a persecution against <\/p>\n
510
\n00:30:07,280 –> 00:30:10,640
\nPaul and Barnabas and expelled
\nthem out of their coasts. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:30:12,160 –> 00:30:15,840
\nBut they shook off the dust of
\ntheir feet against them and came<\/p>\n
512
\n00:30:15,840 –> 00:30:19,800
\nto econium, and the disciples
\nwere filled with joy and with <\/p>\n
513
\n00:30:19,800 –> 00:30:24,880
\nthe Holy Spirit.
\nWe can take that preaching in <\/p>\n
514
\n00:30:24,880 –> 00:30:28,400
\nthe synagogue at Antioch as
\nbeing a pattern of the kind of <\/p>\n
515
\n00:30:28,400 –> 00:30:32,320
\nway that Paul approached the
\nJews, the kind of way in which <\/p>\n
516
\n00:30:32,320 –> 00:30:35,080
\nthey then became divided into
\nsome, doubtless few, who would <\/p>\n
517
\n00:30:35,080 –> 00:30:37,960
\nfollow him, and many more who
\nwould turn aside. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:30:39,200 –> 00:30:41,360
\nHow the attitudes polarized
\nunder the influence of the <\/p>\n
519
\n00:30:41,360 –> 00:30:47,680
\nunbelieving Jews and Paul was
\nthen expelled or cast out or <\/p>\n
520
\n00:30:47,680 –> 00:30:53,040
\nstoned and left for dead.
\nAs we read through the Acts of <\/p>\n
521
\n00:30:53,040 –> 00:30:57,240
\nthe Apostles, we discover what
\nseems at first sight to be quite<\/p>\n
522
\n00:30:57,240 –> 00:31:02,200
\nnumerous examples of Paul’s
\nsufferings in persecution at the<\/p>\n
523
\n00:31:02,200 –> 00:31:04,600
\nhands, almost always at the
\nhands, or because of the <\/p>\n
524
\n00:31:04,600 –> 00:31:07,520
\nactivities of the Jews to whom
\nhe preached. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:31:08,920 –> 00:31:12,520
\nThere was this being cast out.
\nThere was a stoning of <\/p>\n
526
\n00:31:12,520 –> 00:31:15,560
\nZeaconium.
\nThere were lines in weight <\/p>\n
527
\n00:31:15,560 –> 00:31:17,920
\nagainst him as his missionary
\njourneys took their course. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:31:18,920 –> 00:31:21,120
\nThere was the enlisting of Roman
\nrulers against him. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:31:23,040 –> 00:31:26,760
\nBut when we look at that
\nconsiderable list of sufferings <\/p>\n
530
\n00:31:26,760 –> 00:31:31,040
\nin the Acts of the Apostles,
\nit’s timely to remember that is <\/p>\n
531
\n00:31:31,040 –> 00:31:33,640
\nnot written to be a catalogue of
\nfalse afflictions. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:31:35,160 –> 00:31:37,840
\nAnd that if the hall had been
\ntold, we would have known a lot <\/p>\n
533
\n00:31:37,840 –> 00:31:39,840
\nmore about Paul’s afflictions
\nthan we do. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:31:41,280 –> 00:31:43,240
\nAnd we do know a lot more than
\nActs would tell us. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:31:43,240 –> 00:31:45,640
\nBecause under a certain
\nprovocation, Paul himself has <\/p>\n
536
\n00:31:45,640 –> 00:31:49,640
\ntold us it was during his third
\nmissionary journey, when there <\/p>\n
537
\n00:31:49,640 –> 00:31:52,120
\nwas still suffering to come,
\nthat he gave us the most <\/p>\n
538
\n00:31:52,120 –> 00:31:54,560
\ncomprehensive list we have.
\nAnd you might get a look at it <\/p>\n
539
\n00:31:55,160 –> 00:31:57,320
\nin the second letter to the
\nCorinthians, <\/p>\n
540
\n00:32:09,360 –> 00:32:16,440
\nPaul’s Second Letter to the
\nCorinthians, Chapter 11, verse <\/p>\n
541
\n00:32:16,440 –> 00:32:21,720
\n21.
\nI speak as concerning reproach, <\/p>\n
542
\n00:32:21,720 –> 00:32:25,080
\nas though we had been weak.
\nHowbeit wherein soever any is <\/p>\n
543
\n00:32:25,080 –> 00:32:26,760
\nbold I speak foolishly, I am
\nbold. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:32:26,760 –> 00:32:29,320
\nAlso are the Hebrews.
\nSo am I. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:32:29,560 –> 00:32:31,080
\nAre there Israelites?
\nSo am I. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:32:31,280 –> 00:32:33,720
\nAre there the seed of Abraham?
\nThese are false ministers of the<\/p>\n
547
\n00:32:33,720 –> 00:32:34,800
\ngospel.
\nSo am I. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:32:35,880 –> 00:32:37,720
\nAre they ministers of Christ?
\nI speak as a fool. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:32:37,720 –> 00:32:41,240
\nI am more now.
\nSee the list in Labour’s more <\/p>\n
550
\n00:32:41,240 –> 00:32:46,320
\nabundant in stripes above
\nMeasure in prisons, more <\/p>\n
551
\n00:32:46,320 –> 00:32:52,080
\nfrequent in deaths.
\nOFT of the use five times <\/p>\n
552
\n00:32:52,080 –> 00:32:54,080
\nreceived our forces stripes,
\nsave one. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:32:54,440 –> 00:32:56,640
\nWe don’t have a categorical
\ndescription of any one. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:32:56,640 –> 00:33:00,600
\nOf those five times thrice Was I
\nbeaten with rods. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:33:00,640 –> 00:33:03,680
\nI only know of one once.
\nWas I stoned? <\/p>\n
556
\n00:33:03,680 –> 00:33:06,640
\nThat one is recorded.
\nTwice I suffered shipwreck. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:33:06,640 –> 00:33:09,360
\nThere isn’t a word about those.
\nFor the real shipwreck to come <\/p>\n
558
\n00:33:09,360 –> 00:33:12,200
\nisn’t yet happened, and nice.
\nAnd today have I been in the <\/p>\n
559
\n00:33:12,200 –> 00:33:13,800
\ndeep.
\nThat too is new to us. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:33:14,680 –> 00:33:18,080
\nIn journeyings, often in perils
\nof waters. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:33:18,320 –> 00:33:20,560
\nI don’t know those either.
\nIn perils of robbers? <\/p>\n
562
\n00:33:20,560 –> 00:33:23,560
\nNo, I get that in perils by my
\nown countrymen. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:33:23,560 –> 00:33:26,000
\nPlenty of those.
\nBut there are doubtless more in <\/p>\n
564
\n00:33:26,000 –> 00:33:29,280
\nperils by the heathens, Some of
\nthose in perils in the city, <\/p>\n
565
\n00:33:29,280 –> 00:33:31,400
\nYes, in perils in the
\nwilderness. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:33:31,400 –> 00:33:33,640
\nI can’t recall the description
\nof them in the Acts. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:33:34,160 –> 00:33:36,320
\nIn perils in the sea?
\nNo, not yet. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:33:36,760 –> 00:33:39,240
\nIn perils amongst false
\nbrethren, Yes to some of that. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:33:39,760 –> 00:33:43,120
\nIn weariness and painfulness, in
\nwatchings often in hunger and <\/p>\n
570
\n00:33:43,120 –> 00:33:46,120
\nthirst, in fastings often in
\ncold and nakedness. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:33:46,720 –> 00:33:48,960
\nBeside those things that are
\nwithout, there is that which <\/p>\n
572
\n00:33:48,960 –> 00:33:51,920
\ncometh upon me daily, the care
\nof all the churches. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:33:52,760 –> 00:33:54,800
\nWell, that’s a very
\ncomprehensive list. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:33:54,800 –> 00:33:57,800
\nPerhaps it isn’t comprehensive.
\nIt’s a very detailed list <\/p>\n
575
\n00:33:57,800 –> 00:33:59,160
\ncompared with this we have in
\nthe ACT. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:33:59,400 –> 00:34:03,000
\nIt details many, many more
\nsufferings that Paul endured in <\/p>\n
577
\n00:34:03,000 –> 00:34:05,960
\nthe service of his master, and
\nwe are left to marvel that he <\/p>\n
578
\n00:34:05,960 –> 00:34:09,159
\ncould have survived those and
\nstill been available to write <\/p>\n
579
\n00:34:09,159 –> 00:34:13,080
\nthis letter Act is not there to
\ntell us about Paul’s <\/p>\n
580
\n00:34:13,080 –> 00:34:15,440
\nafflictions.
\nIt does so, incidentally, as <\/p>\n
581
\n00:34:15,440 –> 00:34:17,280
\nthey arise in the course of his
\nministry. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:34:17,840 –> 00:34:21,239
\nBut for Paul’s own afflictions
\nin the service of his Lord, we <\/p>\n
583
\n00:34:21,239 –> 00:34:23,760
\nneed that which was dragged out
\nof him in his writings. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:34:24,120 –> 00:34:26,960
\nBy the foolish boastings of
\nthose who denied to him the <\/p>\n
585
\n00:34:26,960 –> 00:34:32,400
\nclaim to be an apostle of the
\nLord, we move away. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:34:32,400 –> 00:34:35,840
\nThen from the second, the first
\nmissionary journey to its close,<\/p>\n
587
\n00:34:37,560 –> 00:34:40,679
\nwe find Paul and Barnabas going
\nback to their centre of <\/p>\n
588
\n00:34:40,679 –> 00:34:45,239
\noperations at Antioch in Syria,
\nand there they report to the <\/p>\n
589
\n00:34:45,239 –> 00:34:50,560
\ncommunity verse 26.
\nAnd thence they sailed to <\/p>\n
590
\n00:34:50,560 –> 00:34:53,040
\nAntioch, from whence they had
\nbeen recommended to the grace of<\/p>\n
591
\n00:34:53,040 –> 00:34:54,960
\nGod.
\nThat you remember is when they <\/p>\n
592
\n00:34:54,960 –> 00:34:56,840
\nlaid their hands upon them and
\nsent them away. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:34:57,160 –> 00:34:59,960
\nWhen the first missionary
\njourney started, they went back <\/p>\n
594
\n00:34:59,960 –> 00:35:02,160
\nto those who had brought
\nblessing upon them, and reported<\/p>\n
595
\n00:35:02,160 –> 00:35:04,840
\nto them, from whence they had
\nbeen commended, to the grace of <\/p>\n
596
\n00:35:04,840 –> 00:35:06,880
\nGod for the work that they had
\nfulfilled. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:35:07,440 –> 00:35:09,680
\nAnd when they were coming to
\ngathered the church together, <\/p>\n
598
\n00:35:09,840 –> 00:35:13,000
\nthey rehearsed all that God had
\ndone with them, and how he had <\/p>\n
599
\n00:35:13,000 –> 00:35:15,280
\nopened the door of faith unto
\nthe Gentiles. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:35:15,920 –> 00:35:18,360
\nAnd they abode long time with
\nthe disciples. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:35:21,760 –> 00:35:25,000
\nBut now one of the earliest
\nserious problems which was to <\/p>\n
602
\n00:35:25,000 –> 00:35:28,040
\nimpede the work of Paul, came
\nright to the surface. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:35:29,560 –> 00:35:32,320
\nWe read the 1st 6 verses to
\nintroduce this section of the <\/p>\n
604
\n00:35:32,320 –> 00:35:35,800
\ntalk.
\nThere were those who came from <\/p>\n
605
\n00:35:35,800 –> 00:35:39,920
\nJerusalem to Antioch and said
\nthere Gentiles aren’t believers <\/p>\n
606
\n00:35:39,920 –> 00:35:42,040
\nunless their men focus
\ncircumcised. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:35:43,760 –> 00:35:47,040
\nSo Antioch troubled by this or
\nseeking for the definition. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:35:47,960 –> 00:35:51,080
\nSent Paul and Barnabas to
\nJerusalem to inquiry into the <\/p>\n
609
\n00:35:51,080 –> 00:35:54,840
\nmatter, and when they got there
\na council was assembled and <\/p>\n
610
\n00:35:54,840 –> 00:35:57,840
\nthere were certainly some Jews
\nof Paris, except where the true <\/p>\n
611
\n00:35:57,840 –> 00:36:01,000
\nbelievers badly informed, or
\nsome of these grievous wolves in<\/p>\n
612
\n00:36:01,000 –> 00:36:02,760
\nsheep clothing that entered into
\nthe pool. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:36:02,760 –> 00:36:04,680
\nIt’s hard to say.
\nThere were plenty of those <\/p>\n
614
\n00:36:04,680 –> 00:36:08,760
\naround as Paul’s work went on,
\nand they said it was necessary <\/p>\n
615
\n00:36:08,760 –> 00:36:11,880
\nto circumcise the Gentiles and
\ncommand them to keep the Law of <\/p>\n
616
\n00:36:11,880 –> 00:36:15,440
\nMoses.
\nSo now it came up for <\/p>\n
617
\n00:36:15,440 –> 00:36:18,720
\nauthoritative definition.
\nWas it necessary or wasn’t it? <\/p>\n
618
\n00:36:20,200 –> 00:36:22,400
\nIt had apparently not been
\nnecessary in Antioch. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:36:22,400 –> 00:36:25,400
\nWhen those who went from
\nJerusalem preached the Gospel, <\/p>\n
620
\n00:36:25,400 –> 00:36:28,040
\nnothing is said of it.
\nBut now the Judaizers are at <\/p>\n
621
\n00:36:28,040 –> 00:36:29,400
\nwork.
\nThe matter is coming to a <\/p>\n
622
\n00:36:29,400 –> 00:36:32,520
\ncrisis.
\nDo Gentiles have to become Jews <\/p>\n
623
\n00:36:32,520 –> 00:36:33,880
\nbefore they can become
\nChristians? <\/p>\n
624
\n00:36:33,880 –> 00:36:38,760
\nThat was the question much
\nreasoning to and fro was <\/p>\n
625
\n00:36:38,760 –> 00:36:42,040
\noffered.
\nThe crisis point was reached <\/p>\n
626
\n00:36:42,040 –> 00:36:46,000
\nwhen that ever generous hearted
\nSimon Peter stood up and said, <\/p>\n
627
\n00:36:46,880 –> 00:36:51,000
\nyou know, that it pleased God
\nthat by my mouth the Gentiles <\/p>\n
628
\n00:36:51,000 –> 00:36:56,520
\nshould hear the word of God.
\nThat’s another good man, a man <\/p>\n
629
\n00:36:56,520 –> 00:36:58,920
\nwho must have found it much more
\ndifficult to retreat into the <\/p>\n
630
\n00:36:58,920 –> 00:37:04,560
\nbackground than one of us would,
\nbut who did it gladly, who saw <\/p>\n
631
\n00:37:04,600 –> 00:37:06,840
\nthat court assembled and still
\nhaven’t testified. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:37:07,480 –> 00:37:10,440
\nI was given the key to open the
\ndoor to the Gentiles. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:37:11,760 –> 00:37:14,720
\nPaul has now told you that the
\ndoor of faith has been opened to<\/p>\n
634
\n00:37:14,720 –> 00:37:18,880
\nGentiles at large.
\nIt was my task, under God’s hand<\/p>\n
635
\n00:37:18,880 –> 00:37:23,000
\nto start the work.
\nI’m very glad to see it going <\/p>\n
636
\n00:37:23,000 –> 00:37:25,880
\non.
\nNo move with envy. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:37:26,480 –> 00:37:28,920
\nNo.
\nPaul is a usurper, taking my job<\/p>\n
638
\n00:37:28,920 –> 00:37:31,840
\noff me, stealing the limelight
\nwhere it should have been left <\/p>\n
639
\n00:37:31,840 –> 00:37:33,440
\nto me.
\nNone of that. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:37:34,000 –> 00:37:37,200
\nIt pleased God to do this.
\nI’m glad to have done it. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:37:37,200 –> 00:37:39,880
\nThe door is now wide open
\nthrough the work of this man who<\/p>\n
642
\n00:37:39,880 –> 00:37:44,320
\nis with you now.
\nDon’t hinder his work. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:37:45,520 –> 00:37:49,040
\nDon’t spoil it by laying a yoke
\nupon the Gentiles which neither <\/p>\n
644
\n00:37:49,040 –> 00:37:51,160
\nwe nor our fathers were able to
\nbear. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:37:53,680 –> 00:37:57,200
\nAnd the man who was called the
\nfirst of the apostles, the man <\/p>\n
646
\n00:37:57,200 –> 00:37:59,960
\nwho was given the keys of the
\nKingdom of heaven, stood up as a<\/p>\n
647
\n00:37:59,960 –> 00:38:02,560
\nwitness in that court under
\nJames’s presidency. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:38:04,000 –> 00:38:07,480
\nAnd James used his witness to
\nbring the court to a doubtless <\/p>\n
649
\n00:38:07,480 –> 00:38:12,560
\ndivinely guided decision, when
\nhe said Simeon hath declared and<\/p>\n
650
\n00:38:12,560 –> 00:38:14,320
\nto disagree the words of the
\nprovince. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:38:14,880 –> 00:38:19,640
\nAnd this is my judgement.
\nSo the judgement which James <\/p>\n
652
\n00:38:19,640 –> 00:38:21,920
\ngave, and which was submitted
\nfor the endorsement of the <\/p>\n
653
\n00:38:21,920 –> 00:38:25,320
\nassembled company Apostles and
\nElders of the Light, was that we<\/p>\n
654
\n00:38:25,320 –> 00:38:28,680
\ntrouble, not the Gentiles.
\nThat we don’t attempt to do the <\/p>\n
655
\n00:38:28,680 –> 00:38:31,600
\nwork of Moses for him, the old
\nwork, the misunderstood work of <\/p>\n
656
\n00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:33,800
\nMoses for him.
\nFor in every city there are Jews<\/p>\n
657
\n00:38:33,800 –> 00:38:38,680
\nstill doing that, that we preach
\nthe true gospel to them, and lay<\/p>\n
658
\n00:38:38,680 –> 00:38:41,840
\nno further burden upon them than
\nthese necessary things. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:38:43,560 –> 00:38:46,440
\nAnd as is repeated at least
\ntwice in this chapter, the <\/p>\n
660
\n00:38:46,440 –> 00:38:49,840
\nnecessary things which the
\nCouncil at Jerusalem decided <\/p>\n
661
\n00:38:49,840 –> 00:38:52,760
\nunder God’s hand should be after
\nthe Gentiles were that they <\/p>\n
662
\n00:38:52,760 –> 00:38:55,680
\nshould abstain from meat
\nsuffered unto idols. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:38:57,120 –> 00:39:02,840
\nAnd from things strangled, and
\nfrom blood and from fornication,<\/p>\n
664
\n00:39:04,560 –> 00:39:08,320
\napart from that they were free,
\nThose things they must be <\/p>\n
665
\n00:39:08,320 –> 00:39:13,840
\ncancelled not to engage in.
\nNow there arises the interesting<\/p>\n
666
\n00:39:13,840 –> 00:39:18,920
\npoint.
\nWere those four minor public <\/p>\n
667
\n00:39:19,880 –> 00:39:24,120
\npill sugaring concessions to
\nmake the Jews a little happier <\/p>\n
668
\n00:39:24,120 –> 00:39:25,960
\nwhen Gentiles were admitted into
\nthe faith? <\/p>\n
669
\n00:39:27,440 –> 00:39:29,880
\nWell, they asked to take a
\nnumber of cosmetic measures. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:39:30,640 –> 00:39:33,880
\nIt would make it easier for Jews
\nto receive gentiles because they<\/p>\n
671
\n00:39:34,160 –> 00:39:40,520
\ndidn’t eat blood, or they didn’t
\neat meat supper unto idols, or <\/p>\n
672
\n00:39:40,520 –> 00:39:43,720
\nthey didn’t eat birds that being
\nstrangled and not have their <\/p>\n
673
\n00:39:43,720 –> 00:39:47,760
\nblood poured out, or they didn’t
\nengage in fornication. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:39:49,960 –> 00:39:51,600
\nI don’t think that was the
\nreason. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:39:53,840 –> 00:39:57,200
\nAnd one good ground for being
\nfairly sure that it was not the <\/p>\n
676
\n00:39:57,200 –> 00:39:59,680
\nreason, is that fornication is
\nincluded in the list. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:40:01,600 –> 00:40:05,720
\nBecause if anything is utterly
\nself-evident, it is that the <\/p>\n
678
\n00:40:05,720 –> 00:40:08,200
\nwhole teaching of God demands
\nthat those who are true to him <\/p>\n
679
\n00:40:08,200 –> 00:40:11,800
\nto remain chaste and pure and
\nonly and faithful in their <\/p>\n
680
\n00:40:12,080 –> 00:40:17,320
\nunmarried and married lives, to
\nkeep clear of fornication, is so<\/p>\n
681
\n00:40:17,320 –> 00:40:21,000
\nobvious, however difficult it
\nmight be, the love would hardly <\/p>\n
682
\n00:40:21,000 –> 00:40:23,640
\nhave been laid.
\nThere’s a cosmetic condition <\/p>\n
683
\n00:40:23,640 –> 00:40:29,640
\nupon Gentiles to make them more
\nreconcilable to Jews, and <\/p>\n
684
\n00:40:29,640 –> 00:40:32,680
\nbecause of that, one has to
\nthink of another reason why <\/p>\n
685
\n00:40:32,680 –> 00:40:35,640
\nthese obligations were laid upon
\nthe Gentiles. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:40:35,640 –> 00:40:38,200
\nRemember them again.
\nDon’t eat meat offered unto <\/p>\n
687
\n00:40:38,200 –> 00:40:42,080
\nidols, don’t eat things
\nstrangled, don’t eat blood, and <\/p>\n
688
\n00:40:42,080 –> 00:40:47,080
\ndon’t be guilty of fornication.
\nI think we can solve the <\/p>\n
689
\n00:40:47,080 –> 00:40:49,200
\nquestion, or at least bring it
\nnearer to solution, by <\/p>\n
690
\n00:40:49,200 –> 00:40:52,480
\nconcentrating upon the not
\neating meat offered unto idols. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:40:54,280 –> 00:40:56,520
\nWhy shouldn’t they least offered
\nunto idols? <\/p>\n
692
\n00:40:56,680 –> 00:40:59,480
\nThere is not, as far as I know,
\na specific commandment in the <\/p>\n
693
\n00:40:59,480 –> 00:41:02,960
\nlaw that they shouldn’t.
\nThen why shouldn’t they? <\/p>\n
694
\n00:41:04,640 –> 00:41:06,680
\nFor the same reason.
\nI would imagine, as Daniel <\/p>\n
695
\n00:41:06,680 –> 00:41:09,240
\npurpose in his heart, that he
\nwould not be defiled by King <\/p>\n
696
\n00:41:09,240 –> 00:41:12,160
\nNebuchadnezzar’s meat when that
\nwas appointed to him and his <\/p>\n
697
\n00:41:12,160 –> 00:41:17,840
\nthree friends in the court of
\nBabylon, where Daniel, Hananiah,<\/p>\n
698
\n00:41:17,840 –> 00:41:20,920
\nMishael, and Azaraya, with good
\nJewish names were invited to <\/p>\n
699
\n00:41:20,920 –> 00:41:24,840
\nbecome good Chaldeans,
\nBelteshazzar, Shadrach, Mesh, <\/p>\n
700
\n00:41:24,840 –> 00:41:29,200
\nand Nevanigo, by eating the food
\nwhich Nebuchadnezzar put before <\/p>\n
701
\n00:41:29,200 –> 00:41:33,000
\nthem, the King’s meat, the
\nKing’s dedicated meat, the meat <\/p>\n
702
\n00:41:33,000 –> 00:41:35,440
\nthe Chaldeans ET meet often unto
\nidols. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:41:35,440 –> 00:41:39,160
\nI should think so, and I would
\nthink Daniel refused because he <\/p>\n
704
\n00:41:39,160 –> 00:41:41,280
\nwas not going to be compromised
\nwith things, Chaldea. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:41:42,240 –> 00:41:44,360
\nHe was going to make it plain to
\nall concerned that he was a <\/p>\n
706
\n00:41:44,360 –> 00:41:46,120
\nseven of the one true God and no
\nother. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:41:46,840 –> 00:41:49,120
\nThat was why he wouldn’t eat the
\nKing’s meat, I believe. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:41:51,000 –> 00:41:52,760
\nNow take the case of the
\nGentiles. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:41:53,920 –> 00:41:57,520
\nMeat, often unto idols, was just
\nmeat, possibly better meat than <\/p>\n
710
\n00:41:57,520 –> 00:42:01,160
\nyou’d buy if it hadn’t been
\nmaybe a very good food. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:42:02,640 –> 00:42:05,560
\nWas it totally irreconciled with
\nthe fate hammers to touch it <\/p>\n
712
\n00:42:05,560 –> 00:42:06,960
\nwith their lips?
\nNo, it wasn’t that. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:42:08,320 –> 00:42:10,480
\nBecause when Paul wrote his
\nfirst letter to the Corinthians,<\/p>\n
714
\n00:42:10,480 –> 00:42:12,880
\nhe said whatsoever is sold in
\nthe butcher’s shops. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:42:12,880 –> 00:42:14,760
\nEat asking no question for
\nconscience sake. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:42:15,880 –> 00:42:17,880
\nIf it happens to have been often
\nunto idols, you don’t know. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:42:17,880 –> 00:42:19,600
\nIt makes a difference.
\nAll you bought is meat. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:42:20,240 –> 00:42:22,240
\nIt’s quite all right to eat it,
\ndon’t ask. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:42:24,120 –> 00:42:28,400
\nOn the other hand, if you go to
\na feast which has been laid on <\/p>\n
720
\n00:42:28,400 –> 00:42:30,880
\nby somebody who is not of the
\nfaith, and you’re disposed to <\/p>\n
721
\n00:42:30,880 –> 00:42:34,040
\naccept his invitation, eat
\nwhatever is put in front of you.<\/p>\n
722
\n00:42:34,040 –> 00:42:35,480
\nDon’t ask questions.
\nIt’s all right. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:42:35,480 –> 00:42:37,640
\nIt won’t do you any harm.
\nDon’t worry about where it’s <\/p>\n
724
\n00:42:37,640 –> 00:42:42,280
\nbeen.
\nBut if somebody says to you this<\/p>\n
725
\n00:42:42,280 –> 00:42:46,040
\nhath been open unto idols, then
\ndon’t touch it, for conscience <\/p>\n
726
\n00:42:46,040 –> 00:42:49,640
\nsake, Not only your own, but the
\nconscience of the one who told <\/p>\n
727
\n00:42:49,640 –> 00:42:51,640
\nyou.
\nNow that, I think, sets the seal<\/p>\n
728
\n00:42:51,640 –> 00:42:55,840
\nfor the reasoning.
\nAnd the reasoning is when you <\/p>\n
729
\n00:42:55,920 –> 00:42:59,080
\naccept the faith in the
\nenvironment of gentile paganism,<\/p>\n
730
\n00:42:59,200 –> 00:43:01,720
\nit must be plain to all that
\nyou’ve given up your paganism. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:43:02,720 –> 00:43:04,000
\nYou have nothing more to do with
\nit. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:43:04,720 –> 00:43:07,360
\nYou don’t take pleasure in
\neating dedicated foods. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:43:07,880 –> 00:43:09,960
\nIf anybody tells you it’s been
\ndedicated, you say, I don’t <\/p>\n
734
\n00:43:09,960 –> 00:43:11,680
\nbelieve in that God anymore.
\nI won’t touch it. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:43:12,880 –> 00:43:15,040
\nFood is just.
\nFood to you till somebody tells <\/p>\n
736
\n00:43:15,040 –> 00:43:18,600
\nyou it’s been dedicated.
\nThen it’s forbidden food because<\/p>\n
737
\n00:43:18,600 –> 00:43:21,680
\nyou mustn’t seem to compromise
\nwith the worship of the idol. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:43:23,400 –> 00:43:26,440
\nSo there is Paul interpreting
\none of these four instructions. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:43:26,960 –> 00:43:28,640
\nDon’t eat, meet other than two
\nidols. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:43:28,640 –> 00:43:32,160
\nIf somebody tells you it is,
\ndon’t bother to inquire if you <\/p>\n
741
\n00:43:32,160 –> 00:43:36,680
\ndon’t know, because if you do,
\nthat man will say you can be a <\/p>\n
742
\n00:43:36,680 –> 00:43:39,520
\nChristian and an idol worshiper
\nat the same time, and you must <\/p>\n
743
\n00:43:39,520 –> 00:43:44,320
\nmake it plain that you can’t.
\nNow I think that fornication in <\/p>\n
744
\n00:43:44,320 –> 00:43:48,960
\nthis context comes into the same
\ncategory that the evil deeds <\/p>\n
745
\n00:43:48,960 –> 00:43:51,680
\ndone in heathen temples with
\ntemple prostitutes, male and <\/p>\n
746
\n00:43:51,680 –> 00:43:53,400
\nfemale.
\nWell, the things that they were <\/p>\n
747
\n00:43:53,400 –> 00:43:56,040
\ntold to keep quite clear of them
\nmust be none of this for you. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:43:57,280 –> 00:44:01,320
\nSo steer clear of sanctified
\nritual fornication seems to me <\/p>\n
749
\n00:44:01,320 –> 00:44:03,960
\nto be the basic thing laid upon
\nthem as a duty here. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:44:04,160 –> 00:44:06,320
\nAll other kinds as well, of
\ncourse they must keep clear of, <\/p>\n
751
\n00:44:06,320 –> 00:44:08,120
\nbut that as I say, we’re
\nself-evident. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:44:08,440 –> 00:44:10,480
\nThis was the one they needed to
\nbe told about. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:44:12,400 –> 00:44:14,920
\nAnd from that I have to
\ninterpolate slightly and suggest<\/p>\n
754
\n00:44:14,920 –> 00:44:18,080
\nthat there were ritual libations
\nof blood and ritual <\/p>\n
755
\n00:44:18,080 –> 00:44:21,720
\nstrangulations of birds, that
\nall four of them are <\/p>\n
756
\n00:44:22,240 –> 00:44:25,880
\ninstructions to abstain from any
\npossible supposed contamination <\/p>\n
757
\n00:44:25,880 –> 00:44:27,800
\nwith the idolatry they have left
\nbehind. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:44:29,480 –> 00:44:31,920
\nOr, in a nutshell, I read
\nJames’s and the church’s <\/p>\n
759
\n00:44:31,920 –> 00:44:35,640
\npronouncement to mean gentiles
\ndo not need to be Jews the most,<\/p>\n
760
\n00:44:35,640 –> 00:44:39,320
\nbut they will stop being pagans.
\nSo they don’t need to keep the <\/p>\n
761
\n00:44:39,320 –> 00:44:43,240
\nlaw, but they do need to keep
\naway from the evil customs that <\/p>\n
762
\n00:44:43,240 –> 00:44:44,720
\nwould defile and compromise
\nthem. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:44:48,800 –> 00:44:52,720
\nWe finish the experience of the
\nfirst missionary journey and the<\/p>\n
764
\n00:44:52,720 –> 00:44:56,800
\npreparation for the next, by
\nconsidering what happened when <\/p>\n
765
\n00:44:56,800 –> 00:45:00,720
\nthey went back to Antioch, Paul,
\nand Barnabas after their <\/p>\n
766
\n00:45:00,720 –> 00:45:03,120
\ndiscussion with the Church
\nthere, and the very satisfactory<\/p>\n
767
\n00:45:03,120 –> 00:45:08,280
\nconclusion to which it LED Acts
\nchapter 15, verse 30. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:45:10,040 –> 00:45:12,320
\nSo when they were dismissed,
\nthey came to Antioch, and when <\/p>\n
769
\n00:45:12,320 –> 00:45:14,760
\nthey had gathered the multitude
\ntogether they delivered the <\/p>\n
770
\n00:45:14,760 –> 00:45:17,560
\nepistle which, when they had
\nread it, they rejoiced for the <\/p>\n
771
\n00:45:17,560 –> 00:45:22,080
\nconsolation, and Judas and Silas
\nbeing prophets also themselves. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:45:22,280 –> 00:45:25,600
\nTwo who had gone with Paul and
\nBarnabas back to Antioch from <\/p>\n
773
\n00:45:25,600 –> 00:45:28,720
\nJerusalem, Judas and Silas,
\nbeing themselves prophets, <\/p>\n
774
\n00:45:29,080 –> 00:45:31,840
\nexhorted the brethren with many
\nwords, and confirmed them. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:45:32,360 –> 00:45:35,080
\nAnd after they had tallied their
\nspace, they were let go in peace<\/p>\n
776
\n00:45:35,080 –> 00:45:38,760
\nfrom the brethren unto the
\nApostles, notwithstanding it <\/p>\n
777
\n00:45:38,760 –> 00:45:40,680
\npleased Silas to abide there
\nstill. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:45:41,320 –> 00:45:44,880
\nPaul also and Barnabas continued
\nin Antioch, teaching and <\/p>\n
779
\n00:45:44,880 –> 00:45:47,440
\npreaching the word of the Lord,
\nwith many others also. <\/p>\n
780
\n00:45:49,240 –> 00:45:52,280
\nAnd some days after Paul said
\nunto Barnabas, let us go again <\/p>\n
781
\n00:45:52,280 –> 00:45:55,160
\nand visit our brethren in every
\ncity where we preach the word of<\/p>\n
782
\n00:45:55,160 –> 00:45:59,520
\nthe Lord, and see how they do.
\nAnd Barnabas was determined to <\/p>\n
783
\n00:45:59,520 –> 00:46:02,960
\ntake with the mark John, whose
\nsurname was Mark. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:46:03,520 –> 00:46:06,560
\nBut Paul thought it not good to
\ntake him with them, who <\/p>\n
785
\n00:46:06,560 –> 00:46:10,040
\ndeparted, who withdrew from the
\nwork in Pamphaglia, and went not<\/p>\n
786
\n00:46:10,040 –> 00:46:12,800
\nwith them to the work.
\nAnd the contention was so sharp <\/p>\n
787
\n00:46:12,800 –> 00:46:16,040
\nbetween them that they parted
\nasunder one from the other. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:46:16,720 –> 00:46:19,440
\nAnd so Barnabas took Mark and
\nsailed unto Cyprus. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:46:20,160 –> 00:46:23,840
\nAnd Paul chose Silas and
\ndeparted, being recommended by <\/p>\n
790
\n00:46:23,840 –> 00:46:25,400
\nthe brethren to the grace of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:46:26,040 –> 00:46:29,080
\nAnd he went through Celia and
\nCilicia, confirming the <\/p>\n
792
\n00:46:29,080 –> 00:46:33,840
\nchurches.
\nWhat a sad thing that was, <\/p>\n
793
\n00:46:33,840 –> 00:46:38,040
\nwasn’t it?
\nWhat an unseemly quarrel between<\/p>\n
794
\n00:46:38,040 –> 00:46:43,040
\n2 long standing friends over the
\nperson of John Mark. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:46:44,080 –> 00:46:47,440
\nPaul said.
\nWe’re not having him, Bolivar <\/p>\n
796
\n00:46:47,440 –> 00:46:48,640
\nsaid.
\nAnd I’m not leaving him. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:46:48,640 –> 00:46:52,440
\nAnd they quarrelled so sharply
\nthat they went in opposite <\/p>\n
798
\n00:46:52,440 –> 00:46:54,280
\ndirections, or at least in
\ndifferent directions. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:46:56,080 –> 00:46:59,760
\nIs that how you read it?
\nI do hope not. <\/p>\n
800
\n00:47:01,680 –> 00:47:07,640
\nI don’t think it was like that.
\nThere are situations which arise<\/p>\n
801
\n00:47:07,640 –> 00:47:11,520
\nin life when it’s right for me
\nto do this, and it’s right for <\/p>\n
802
\n00:47:11,520 –> 00:47:13,400
\nyou to do that.
\nBut we can’t do it together, <\/p>\n
803
\n00:47:15,000 –> 00:47:18,720
\nbecause if we did it together,
\nmy doing this would be spoiled <\/p>\n
804
\n00:47:18,720 –> 00:47:23,680
\nand so would you are doing that.
\nIt was like that with Paul and <\/p>\n
805
\n00:47:23,680 –> 00:47:27,880
\nBarnabas and John Mark.
\nPaul was quite right. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:47:27,880 –> 00:47:31,200
\nHe couldn’t have been wrong in
\nmaking the decision that Mark <\/p>\n
807
\n00:47:31,200 –> 00:47:34,080
\nwas not suitable at this time to
\ngo with them to the work. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:47:34,240 –> 00:47:36,400
\nHe wouldn’t have been able to
\nbear his weight. <\/p>\n
809
\n00:47:36,560 –> 00:47:42,240
\nMark had a temperament that
\nneeded steel in it, but Barnabas<\/p>\n
810
\n00:47:42,240 –> 00:47:45,520
\nsaid I’m his uncle if that’s the
\nrelationship. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:47:46,280 –> 00:47:50,880
\nThe English version says
\nSister’s son Mark to Barnabas in<\/p>\n
812
\n00:47:50,880 –> 00:47:53,600
\nthe letter to the Colossians.
\nI can’t leave him in the lurch. <\/p>\n
813
\n00:47:53,600 –> 00:47:56,400
\nHe needs me.
\nSomething has got to be done to <\/p>\n
814
\n00:47:56,400 –> 00:47:58,360
\nhelp this man.
\nAnd they were both right. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:47:59,840 –> 00:48:03,480
\nPaul couldn’t take Mark Barnabas
\nbeing the Barnabas. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:48:03,480 –> 00:48:06,480
\nHe was the son of consolation,
\nalways helping the lame dog. <\/p>\n
817
\n00:48:06,680 –> 00:48:11,720
\nBarnabas couldn’t leave him and
\nthe contention was so sharp. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:48:11,720 –> 00:48:13,640
\nMeans, I think, no more than
\nthat. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:48:13,960 –> 00:48:16,320
\nThe difference of outlook was so
\nacute that they couldn’t do it <\/p>\n
820
\n00:48:16,320 –> 00:48:23,520
\ntogether and they parted.
\nI am persuaded with that good <\/p>\n
821
\n00:48:23,520 –> 00:48:26,440
\nChristian humour and mutual
\nforbearance which became two <\/p>\n
822
\n00:48:26,440 –> 00:48:29,720
\nsuch men.
\nAnd Barnabas said with the <\/p>\n
823
\n00:48:29,720 –> 00:48:33,200
\nreluctance, Well, goodbye Paul.
\nI have to go with Mark. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:48:33,960 –> 00:48:35,720
\nMay it go well with you on your
\njourney. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:48:37,080 –> 00:48:39,920
\nAnd Paul said to Barnabas, I’m
\nsorry to lose you Barnabas. <\/p>\n
826
\n00:48:39,920 –> 00:48:42,720
\nWe’ve worked well together, but
\nI see Mark’s need go and give <\/p>\n
827
\n00:48:42,720 –> 00:48:45,360
\nhim all the help you can.
\nI think they said things like <\/p>\n
828
\n00:48:45,360 –> 00:48:50,360
\nthat to each other.
\nAnd Barnabas did the sensible <\/p>\n
829
\n00:48:50,360 –> 00:48:51,600
\nthing.
\nHe was a man of Cyprus. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:48:51,600 –> 00:48:55,640
\nYou’d noticed that, hadn’t you?
\nHe was taking him home to his <\/p>\n
831
\n00:48:55,640 –> 00:48:57,800
\nown home country.
\nBut Mark was going to go amongst<\/p>\n
832
\n00:48:57,800 –> 00:48:59,720
\nfriends they had believing
\nfriends too. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:48:59,720 –> 00:49:02,200
\nIn Cyprus by now they’ve had a
\nsuccessful journey there. <\/p>\n
834
\n00:49:03,240 –> 00:49:07,840
\nMark could be sequestered and
\nkept in good company, free from <\/p>\n
835
\n00:49:07,840 –> 00:49:10,480
\nthe ragings of the world around,
\nuntil it was a different than <\/p>\n
836
\n00:49:10,480 –> 00:49:12,400
\nthe better than the more
\nreliable Mark. <\/p>\n
837
\n00:49:12,600 –> 00:49:16,840
\nAnd it worked.
\nBarnabas, the backroom boy, did <\/p>\n
838
\n00:49:16,840 –> 00:49:20,920
\nthe same good job again, as he’d
\nalways done before, with the <\/p>\n
839
\n00:49:20,920 –> 00:49:24,000
\nmoney for the widows, with the
\nsponsoring of Saul, with the <\/p>\n
840
\n00:49:24,000 –> 00:49:27,080
\ncalling of salt and testers,
\nwith taking the second place in <\/p>\n
841
\n00:49:27,080 –> 00:49:29,680
\nthe first missionary journey.
\nHe did it again, withdrew from <\/p>\n
842
\n00:49:29,680 –> 00:49:32,440
\nthe public eye and took Mark
\nback with him to Cyprus. <\/p>\n
843
\n00:49:34,760 –> 00:49:36,200
\nAnd it’s time to be able to
\nreport that. <\/p>\n
844
\n00:49:36,200 –> 00:49:38,640
\nThat same Letters of the
\nColossians which tells us that <\/p>\n
845
\n00:49:38,640 –> 00:49:42,200
\nMark is sister son to Barnabas,
\nimplies a compliment to Barnabas<\/p>\n
846
\n00:49:42,200 –> 00:49:46,400
\nin saying if Mark come to you,
\nreceive him, and perhaps the <\/p>\n
847
\n00:49:46,400 –> 00:49:49,760
\nwords touching whom you receive
\ncommandments might mean and I’ve<\/p>\n
848
\n00:49:49,760 –> 00:49:52,560
\ntold you the needs he has and
\nyou’ll know how to treat him. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:49:54,520 –> 00:49:57,800
\nAnd it’s a mark of the success
\nof Barnabas work too, that later<\/p>\n
850
\n00:49:57,800 –> 00:50:00,760
\nwe have Peter calling Mark my
\nson, regarding him as a <\/p>\n
851
\n00:50:00,760 –> 00:50:03,920
\nprofitable worker together with
\nhim when Paul perhaps is no <\/p>\n
852
\n00:50:03,920 –> 00:50:07,520
\nlonger at large.
\nOne of us did the last good job <\/p>\n
853
\n00:50:07,520 –> 00:50:12,600
\nwe know about in taking Mark to
\nCyprus and bringing him up to be<\/p>\n
854
\n00:50:12,600 –> 00:50:15,600
\na strong man in the nurture and
\nadmonition of the Lord. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:50:16,400 –> 00:50:21,880
\nWe’ve almost lost one of us now,
\nsave once, and not only briefly.<\/p>\n
856
\n00:50:21,880 –> 00:50:26,200
\nWe don’t hear from more about
\nhim again, and when we do it <\/p>\n
857
\n00:50:26,200 –> 00:50:29,120
\nstill some years later, Paul is
\nstill active and obviously so is<\/p>\n
858
\n00:50:29,120 –> 00:50:31,360
\nBarnabas.
\nIt’s during the third missionary<\/p>\n
859
\n00:50:31,360 –> 00:50:33,680
\njourney, and it’s in the first
\nletter to the Corinthians where <\/p>\n
860
\n00:50:33,680 –> 00:50:36,920
\nPaul is talking about the
\ncontrast between himself and, <\/p>\n
861
\n00:50:36,920 –> 00:50:39,680
\nsay, Peter and James and John
\nwith their wives. <\/p>\n
862
\n00:50:39,800 –> 00:50:44,360
\nHe Paul living a bachelor life
\nor an effective bachelor life as<\/p>\n
863
\n00:50:44,360 –> 00:50:48,200
\nhe preached his gospel.
\nHe says, I only and Barnabas <\/p>\n
864
\n00:50:49,680 –> 00:50:54,440
\nhave we not part of a bare
\nworking, so contact wasn’t lost.<\/p>\n
865
\n00:50:55,560 –> 00:50:58,600
\nBut one of us went on with it is
\nto us unseen. <\/p>\n
866
\n00:50:58,600 –> 00:51:03,960
\nWork went on successfully
\nserving the Lord, and whatever <\/p>\n
867
\n00:51:03,960 –> 00:51:09,120
\nwe have lost to sight, we can
\nhave no doubt no failure of <\/p>\n
868
\n00:51:09,120 –> 00:51:12,240
\nconfidence that somewhere
\nwritten large and underscored in<\/p>\n
869
\n00:51:12,240 –> 00:51:16,920
\nthe book of life is the name of
\nJoseph, surnamed by the <\/p>\n
870
\n00:51:16,920 –> 00:51:18,920
\napostles, the Son of
\nconsolation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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