{"id":1088,"date":"2024-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/289-alfred-norris-the-visitation-at-pentecost\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:40:56","slug":"289-alfred-norris-the-visitation-at-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/289-alfred-norris-the-visitation-at-pentecost\/","title":{"rendered":"289: Alfred Norris – The Visitation at Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening to the second class in a series by Alfred Norris, the series is titled “The Mighty Acts of God”. This class is titled “The Visitation at Pentecost”.<\/p>\n

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

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\nWelcome to Good Chris Selfie and
\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. <\/p>\n

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\nOn this podcast, we select one
\ntalk a week to help us get the <\/p>\n

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\nBible in our Daily News feed.
\nWe post a new episode at the <\/p>\n

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\nstart of each week with the
\nshort intro beforehand to kind <\/p>\n

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\nof set the stage for the talk
\nyou’re about to listen to, and <\/p>\n

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\nnow let’s talk more about.
\nThis Week’s Talk <\/p>\n

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\nThis week’s Talk is the second
\nclass in a series by Brother <\/p>\n

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\nAlfred Norris.
\nThe series is called The Mighty <\/p>\n

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\nActs of God, and this class is
\ncalled the Visitation at <\/p>\n

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\nPentecost.
\nReally, really enjoyed this <\/p>\n

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\nclass.
\nIt’s kind of pretty evenly <\/p>\n

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\ndivided into two parts.
\nHe even takes a pause in between<\/p>\n

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\nthem, the first part being a
\ndiscussion on what it means to <\/p>\n

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\nbe made in the image of God.
\nAnd there was kind of a bunch of<\/p>\n

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\nthoughts in that first section
\nthat I’d I’d never had before, <\/p>\n

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\nso that was very fun to listen
\nto. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the second part, it’s about
\nthe last 17 minutes is about the<\/p>\n

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\nthe Holy Spirit working in Acts
\nand in the New Testament and <\/p>\n

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\nwhat the the gift of tongues
\nlike, how often it’s mentioned <\/p>\n

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\nand and what it what it might
\nhave actually meant. <\/p>\n

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\nSo very really really fun class
\nto listen to. <\/p>\n

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\nThis isn’t our first time
\nobviously running a Alfred <\/p>\n

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\nNorris talk.
\nThis is his fourth class on the <\/p>\n

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\nshow and he fits exactly into
\nkind of an older style and I’ve <\/p>\n

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\nI’ve talked about this in
\nintroductions before where he <\/p>\n

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\ndoesn’t quote a verse in this
\nentire class so which feels <\/p>\n

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\nfeels so foreign to me And now
\nas AI guess a modern day <\/p>\n

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\nChrysadelphian that all classes
\nand exhorts we hear now are full<\/p>\n

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\nof brethren quoting exact
\nscripture. <\/p>\n

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\nBrother Norris obviously refers
\nto scripture a ton and that’s <\/p>\n

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\nkind of fun to hear.
\nFun to hear him kind of use <\/p>\n

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\nquotes interwoven in his talk in
\nhis class. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know he’s he’s referring to
\nscripture constantly but not <\/p>\n

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\ntelling you exactly where.
\nSo it’s fun as a as a listener <\/p>\n

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\nto to hear those thoughts
\nbecause then it becomes kind of <\/p>\n

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\na more, I don’t know a more a
\nmore conversational style I <\/p>\n

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\nthink in less of a less of a
\nlecture feeling. <\/p>\n

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\nSo again, really enjoyed this
\none, really happy to, happy to <\/p>\n

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\nshare it.
\nSo here is Alfred Norris, The <\/p>\n

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\nVisitation at Pentecost.
\nThere’s one hymn, one of the <\/p>\n

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\nsound paraphrases, which sums up
\ncompletely the title of this <\/p>\n

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\nseries, which is, as you know,
\nthe mighty acts of God. <\/p>\n

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\nSo can we sing Hymn 24?
\nCould I ask that we sing the <\/p>\n

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\nsecond-half of verse 2 Softly
\nand the whole of verse 4 softly?<\/p>\n

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\nHymn 24.
\nO Lord, Thou Art My God and <\/p>\n

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\nKing.
\nThere’s a good deal more yet to <\/p>\n

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\nbe said about the resurrection
\nof the Lord Jesus, which was the<\/p>\n

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\ntheme we introduced yesterday.
\nSo the official title of this <\/p>\n

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\ntalk will occur only to the
\nlater part of what I have to <\/p>\n

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\nsay.
\nIn Acts chapter 2, Peter used <\/p>\n

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\nthe fact of the Lord’s
\nresurrection as the basis of <\/p>\n

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\nthat urgent appeal, that
\nirresistible appeal to all good <\/p>\n

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\nconsciences in their midst, that
\nthe people should repent and <\/p>\n

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\nturn to God.
\nFor the man who was raised from <\/p>\n

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\nthe dead was the man whom they
\nhad crucified, or whose <\/p>\n

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\ncrucifixion they had engineered,
\nor at the call for whose <\/p>\n

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\ncrucifixion they had applauded
\nand said, not this man, but <\/p>\n

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\nBarabbas.
\nThe apostles continue on the <\/p>\n

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\nsame theme, but as they do so,
\nthere arises an ever sharper <\/p>\n

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\ndivision amongst the people to
\nwhom they are speaking. <\/p>\n

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\nAt first a neutral body of
\npeople, including some friends, <\/p>\n

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\nsome enemies, some who had not
\nmade-up their mind addresses. <\/p>\n

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\nHere’s the address of Pentecost.
\nAnd then decide whether they <\/p>\n

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\nwill repent or they will not,
\nand 3000 decide they will. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the company increases as
\ntime goes on. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd a great number of the
\npriests are added to the faith, <\/p>\n

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\nwhich must have been no small
\nsurrender on the part of those <\/p>\n

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\npriests, since the priests were
\nprimarily Sadducees, and the <\/p>\n

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\nSadducees say there is no
\nresurrection, neither Angel nor <\/p>\n

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\nspirit.
\nSuch persons must therefore have<\/p>\n

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\ngone full circle from their
\noriginal denial that there was <\/p>\n

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\nsuch a thing, either as survival
\nof the dead or as bringing the <\/p>\n

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\ndead back to life again.
\nAnd when they were converted to <\/p>\n

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\nthe faith, that was conversion
\nindeed. <\/p>\n

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\nBut nevertheless, in spite of
\nthe increase in numbers growing <\/p>\n

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\nto 5000 and more, before very
\nlong there was inevitably an <\/p>\n

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\nincrease in hostility.
\nThey who were hardened in their <\/p>\n

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\nunbelief, they who had called
\ndown the blood of the Lord Jesus<\/p>\n

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\nChrist upon themselves and upon
\ntheir children, who would grow <\/p>\n

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\nin opposition to God to such an
\nextent that it would indeed be <\/p>\n

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\nneedful to destroy their city.
\nAnd the Romans would indeed come<\/p>\n

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\nand take away their place and
\nhabitation. <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re only mustering their
\nforces. <\/p>\n

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\nThe few thousands who joined
\nthemselves to the disciples were<\/p>\n

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\nmatched by an increasing number
\nand an increasing determination <\/p>\n

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\non the part of those who would
\nsee their hostility to the Lord <\/p>\n

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\nJesus Christ through to the
\nbitter end. <\/p>\n

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\nBitter end it would be indeed,
\nif ever there was a case of a <\/p>\n

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\npeople turning aside from God’s
\nways to their own discomfiture <\/p>\n

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\nand destruction.
\nThat was the case with the Jews <\/p>\n

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\nfrom Pentecost onwards in
\nJerusalem, and indeed throughout<\/p>\n

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\nthe cities of the Roman Empire
\nwhere Jews were to be found. <\/p>\n

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\nThere is throughout this book a
\nmonotonous story of the people <\/p>\n

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\nof God-given a second
\nopportunity to hear the wisdom <\/p>\n

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\nof God, allowed time to repent
\nof the deeds of their fathers in<\/p>\n

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\nputting the Son of God to death.
\nAnd though they heard the <\/p>\n

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\nmessage quietly for a day or so,
\nthen gathering their forces and <\/p>\n

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\nrejecting the message offered to
\nthem, some few, of course, did <\/p>\n

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\naccept the way of salvation.
\nThe primarily Jewish accession <\/p>\n

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\nto the faith from Pentecost
\nonwards, until the days when <\/p>\n

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\ndisciples first were scattered
\nabroad, gradually, however, <\/p>\n

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\nchanged into Jews plus
\nSamaritans, Jews plus Greeks. <\/p>\n

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\nSome Jews are mostly Greeks.
\nSo many Greeks that you now <\/p>\n

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\ncould begin to talk about the
\nJews did this, while the <\/p>\n

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\nbelievers did that.
\nAnd towards the end of the <\/p>\n

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\nhistory of the Acts of the
\nApostles, we have that dreadful <\/p>\n

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\njudgement on the people to whom
\nPaul in particular went first to<\/p>\n

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\npreach the way of life, that
\nseeing they judged themselves <\/p>\n

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\nunworthy of eternal life, lo,
\nthey would turn to the Gentiles.<\/p>\n

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\nWhich does not mean that the
\nJews were disallowed so far as <\/p>\n

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\nthe fulfilment of God’s purpose
\nfor them was concerned. <\/p>\n

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\nIt does not mean that they were
\nno longer acceptable if they <\/p>\n

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\nwould humble themselves beneath
\nthe mighty hand of God, but it <\/p>\n

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\ndoes increasingly mean that
\nthere were few who would do so. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd towards the end of New
\nTestament times, and ever since,<\/p>\n

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\neven to our own days, those of
\nthat race who would humble <\/p>\n

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\nthemselves and accept the name
\nof the Crucified One as that of <\/p>\n

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\ntheir Saviour, went down and
\ndown and has stayed down. <\/p>\n

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\nNow, however, we go on to the
\nremainder of the resurrection <\/p>\n

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\nWitnesses in the Acts.
\nMatthias was ordained to be a <\/p>\n

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\nwitness with the other apostles
\nof his resurrection, and with <\/p>\n

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\ngreat power gave the apostles
\ntheir witness of the <\/p>\n

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\nresurrection of the Lord Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n

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\nGod hath raised him from the
\ndead. <\/p>\n

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\nThis to Cornelius, of which we
\nare witnesses not to all the <\/p>\n

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\npeople, but unto witnesses
\nchosen before of God, even to <\/p>\n

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\nus, who did eat and drink with
\nhim after he rose from the dead.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd so first of all, in
\nJerusalem the apostles continued<\/p>\n

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\nto preach fearlessly that which
\nthey had seen and heard. <\/p>\n

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\nThey had seen an empty grave.
\nThey had heard a powerful, <\/p>\n

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\nvibrant, resurrected voice
\nbeyond the power of death. <\/p>\n

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\nThey had been witnesses of the
\nmany infallible proofs whereby <\/p>\n

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\nthe Lord had declared that he
\nwas alive forevermore. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd they knew.
\nAnd so, as John, the last of <\/p>\n

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\nthem, perhaps, was later to
\nwrite that which we have seen <\/p>\n

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\nand heard declare, We unto you
\nthe enemies arose, and tried to <\/p>\n

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\nsilence them.
\nThey took Peter and John, and <\/p>\n

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\nthey put them in prison.
\nThe prisons were miraculously <\/p>\n

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\nopened, and the apostles
\nappeared again in public next <\/p>\n

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\nday.
\nAnd the rulers, knowing that the<\/p>\n

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\ngreat work had been wrought in
\nhealing the man who’d been lame <\/p>\n

144
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\nfor so long, were unable to deny
\nthe great things that the <\/p>\n

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\napostles were doing in the name
\nof Jesus, But unable to deny it <\/p>\n

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\nthough they were, they would
\nquieten it if they could. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so they straightly commanded
\nthem that they should speak no <\/p>\n

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\nmore in this name.
\nIt was then that Peter made that<\/p>\n

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\nclassic declaration of what was
\nto be the way in which the <\/p>\n

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\napostles would always bear
\nwitness to their faith, which <\/p>\n

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\nwas, whether it be right in the
\nsight of God to obey you rather <\/p>\n

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\nthan him judge ye, or we ought
\nto obey God rather than men. <\/p>\n

153
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\nAnd then they rejoiced that they
\nwere counted worthy to suffer <\/p>\n

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\nshame for his sake in the sight
\nof the rulers. <\/p>\n

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\nThey were obstinate men,
\nignorant Galileans, a nuisance <\/p>\n

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\nto the smooth running of the
\nmachinery of the subordinate <\/p>\n

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\nJewish state, men without
\nvisible means of support. <\/p>\n

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\nMoreover, it should be easy to
\nquell them. <\/p>\n

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\nThey had been strangely
\nforgetful of how hard it was to <\/p>\n

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\nquell Jesus, who, despite the
\nfact that he raised no finger to<\/p>\n

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\nhurt any person at any time, yet
\ncould always escape them when <\/p>\n

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\nthey came.
\nFor Him, could always seem to be<\/p>\n

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\nsacrosanct when they tried to
\narrest him except for the last <\/p>\n

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\nmoment, and could not be
\nsilenced when they tried to <\/p>\n

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\ncause him to stop his preaching.
\nIf only they had listened, if <\/p>\n

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\nonly they had known, that the
\nChrist they crucified, and was <\/p>\n

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\nnow raised from the dead, was
\nindeed the one behind every <\/p>\n

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\neffort of His Apostles.
\nAnd that they who had received <\/p>\n

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\npower when the Spirit of God
\ncame upon them had that power <\/p>\n

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\nfrom him to whom it was given
\nall power in heaven and in <\/p>\n

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\nearth, that they went not alone,
\nbut in his company. <\/p>\n

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\nSo they preached not defenceless
\nmen, but with the Lord by their <\/p>\n

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\nside.
\nAnd if the Lord, who had not <\/p>\n

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\nbeen defended against his death,
\nwould not ultimately defend his <\/p>\n

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\ndisciples against their own, yet
\nquicken and bear witness to <\/p>\n

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\ntheir preaching, He would So
\nthey could not but speak the <\/p>\n

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\nthings that they had seen and
\nheard, first in Jerusalem, then <\/p>\n

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\nthrough Philip in Samaria, then
\nthrough Peter to Cornelius in <\/p>\n

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\nCaesarea.
\nThe first fully fledged <\/p>\n

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\nGentiles, not already Jews by
\nfaith, who were admitted into <\/p>\n

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\nthe fold, then through Paul in
\nAntioch of Pisidia, to a fully <\/p>\n

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\nGentile audience, with a many
\nfold repetition of the fact that<\/p>\n

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\nthe Lord Jesus Christ was indeed
\nrisen from the dead. <\/p>\n

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\nUsing the same Psalm as we have
\nsaid, that Peter used yesterday <\/p>\n

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\nto convince the Jews of
\nJerusalem, then further afield, <\/p>\n

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\nwhen he came to Athens, to
\nAthens, where there were so many<\/p>\n

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\ngods and goddesses, worshipped,
\nso many temples, so many altars,<\/p>\n

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\nso many shrines, so many
\nwitnesses, that this <\/p>\n

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\nsuperstitious people could never
\nbe quite sure that with a <\/p>\n

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\nmultiplicity of gods they were
\nworshipping them all. <\/p>\n

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\nSo that in order to secure
\nthemselves against a repetition <\/p>\n

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\nof a sad disaster which had
\novertaken them some years <\/p>\n

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\nbefore, there was in at least
\none place in their city an altar<\/p>\n

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\nbearing this inscription to the
\nunknown God. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd when Paul went into their
\nmidst and preached unto them <\/p>\n

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\nJesus and the resurrection, oh
\nYesus Kai, hey Anastasi, they <\/p>\n

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\nthought a new God and a new
\ngoddess were being introduced to<\/p>\n

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\ntheir category.
\nYes, it’s the God Anastasia the <\/p>\n

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\ngoddess.
\nAnd so they wished to enquire of<\/p>\n

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\nPaul what he meant by setting
\nforth strange gods in their <\/p>\n

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\nmidst.
\nThe unknown God should have been<\/p>\n

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\nenough.
\nIt was. <\/p>\n

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\nAll they needed was to be told
\nabout him, to be told that he <\/p>\n

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\nwas not likened to flesh and
\nblood, that it was useless to <\/p>\n

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\nimagine him, still less to
\ndepict him in the shape of <\/p>\n

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\ncarved images of man or beast or
\nbird or creeping thing, and <\/p>\n

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\nworst of all, in the shape of
\ngoddesses. <\/p>\n

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\nThat he created all things, that
\nhis power surpassed everything <\/p>\n

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\nyou could see in the created
\nuniverse. <\/p>\n

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\nThat he who made the earth, whom
\nthey ignorantly and <\/p>\n

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\nsuperstitiously worshipped, was
\nthe one in whose hand is the <\/p>\n

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\nlife of every living thing, who
\ncontrols the breath of all <\/p>\n

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\nmankind.
\nThey should turn from their <\/p>\n

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\nsuperstitions before it was too
\nlate, as Israel should have <\/p>\n

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\nturned from their parochial
\ntheir Pharisaic reliance upon <\/p>\n

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\nbeing Abraham’s dead children.
\nThey should turn and worship the<\/p>\n

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\nliving and the true God, for one
\nday it would be too late. <\/p>\n

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\nIgnorance, when there is no, no,
\nno extenuation of that <\/p>\n

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\nignorance, when there is no
\ninformation to be given, is one <\/p>\n

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\nthing.
\nIgnorance, when you shut your <\/p>\n

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\neyes to the truth which is
\ndeclared, is another. <\/p>\n

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\nThis the Jews had already done
\nthis. <\/p>\n

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\nThe Greeks might also do so in
\nthose classic words we so often <\/p>\n

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\nquote.
\nAnd the times of this ignorance <\/p>\n

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\nGod winked at, but now
\ncommandeth thee all men <\/p>\n

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\neverywhere to repent.
\nHe called the Greeks to join the<\/p>\n

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\nfaithful Jews in accepting the
\nGod of heaven declared in the <\/p>\n

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\nLord Jesus Christ.
\nFor he hath appointed a day in <\/p>\n

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\nthe which he will judge the
\nworld in righteousness. <\/p>\n

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\nWhereof he hath given assurance
\nunto all men in that he hath <\/p>\n

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\nraised him from the dead.
\nTo the Jews at Pentecost, the <\/p>\n

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\nresurrection of Jesus was the
\ncall to repent and turn from <\/p>\n

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\ntheir evil works, and
\nacknowledge the misdeeds of <\/p>\n

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\ntheir fathers.
\nTo the Athens, it was the call <\/p>\n

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\nto know, to know for sure, that
\nthere was coming a time when God<\/p>\n

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\nwould intervene once more in the
\naffairs of the earth, when there<\/p>\n

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\nwould be a judgement both of the
\nliving and the dead, where in <\/p>\n

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\nwhich the one who himself had
\nbeen raised from the dead would <\/p>\n

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\nstand before them to render into
\nevery man according to his <\/p>\n

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\nworks.
\nSo to Greeks as well as to Jews,<\/p>\n

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\nthere came the same call,
\nRepent. <\/p>\n

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\nThis word, repent, is a word we
\ncould use more often, a thought <\/p>\n

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\nwe could entertain more deeply
\nin our hearts, A-frame of mind <\/p>\n

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\ninto which we could more
\nconstantly find ourselves drawn.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen we receive the faith we
\nbelieve it is good to believe it<\/p>\n

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\nis indispensable.
\nGod requires that those who come<\/p>\n

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\nto him shall believe that he is,
\nand that he is a rewarder of <\/p>\n

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\nthem that diligently seek Him.
\nBut belief has come to mean <\/p>\n

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\nsomething less than its full
\nmeaning in our usual way of <\/p>\n

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\ndescribing it.
\nI believe that there is one God <\/p>\n

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\nmeans to most of us.
\nI am sure there are not three <\/p>\n

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\nand certainly not more.
\nI believe that the scriptures <\/p>\n

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\nare the inspired record of God’s
\ndealings with men means. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m sure it didn’t come by the
\nunaided work of man and that man<\/p>\n

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\nby himself could not have done
\nit and man was only the agent of<\/p>\n

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\nGod’s revelation.
\nI believe that Jesus Christ will<\/p>\n

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\nreturn to the earth means I’m
\nconvinced of the fact that one <\/p>\n

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\nday he will come back.
\nAnd one can believe such things <\/p>\n

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\nas that in the spirit of a man
\nwho, like James, beholds his <\/p>\n

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\nnatural face in the glass and
\ngoes away, and straightway <\/p>\n

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\nforgets what manner of man he
\nwas. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen we see our faces in the
\nglass, we ought, at least at <\/p>\n

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\n1st, to see a strangely
\ndisfigured image of God. <\/p>\n

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\nGod has made us in his likeness,
\nbut the likeness of God has been<\/p>\n

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\noverlaid with the likeness of
\nsinners, with the lines of sin <\/p>\n

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\nand mortality, with the
\ndistortions and the hardenings <\/p>\n

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\nand the flabbiness’s of engaging
\nin the lusts and desires of the <\/p>\n

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\nflesh.
\nWhen we who know that there is a<\/p>\n

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\nGod who created man in his own
\nimage after his likeness, look <\/p>\n

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\ninside the glass, we ought to be
\nable to tell that there is that <\/p>\n

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\neven in that distorted, bloated,
\nlined, and sin stricken image, <\/p>\n

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\nthat which tells us we are more
\nthan beasts, more than blind <\/p>\n

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\ncreatures, obliged to do the
\nthings that instincts make them <\/p>\n

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\ndo.
\nWe should know that God put in <\/p>\n

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\nUS better than that, but that we
\nhave not done so well as He put <\/p>\n

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\nin us that the deeds of our
\nsinning Father we have done with<\/p>\n

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\nall too great eagerness, and the
\ndeeds of him whose image and <\/p>\n

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\nlikeness we bear have come hard
\nto us to perform. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd whether we are murderous
\nJews at Pentecost, or well lived<\/p>\n

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\nGentiles at Caesarea, or curious
\nphilosophical idolaters <\/p>\n

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\nAthenians at the Ariopagus.
\nWhether we are good living <\/p>\n

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\nproselytes like the Ethiopian
\neunuch or terrace stricken <\/p>\n

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\nprison keepers like the Jenner
\nof Philippi. <\/p>\n

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\nWhether our lives have been as
\nthe world counts such lives <\/p>\n

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\nupright, honest, respectable,
\nesteemed by others. <\/p>\n

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\nWhether they have been
\nbrutalized, hard, callous. <\/p>\n

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\nWhether they have been wicked,
\nwanton, abandoned, well, there <\/p>\n

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\nhave been stiff, proud, Paris
\nsake. <\/p>\n

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\nWhether our lives have been any
\nof these things, from the simply<\/p>\n

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\nrespectful to the dreadfully
\nstained with nameless sins. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:27,920 –> 00:19:35,440
\nGod hath commanded all men
\neverywhere to repent, because he<\/p>\n

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\nhath appointed a day under which
\nhe will judge the word in <\/p>\n

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\nrighteousness by that man whom
\nhe hath ordained. <\/p>\n

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\nWhereof he hath given assurance
\nunto all men in that he hath <\/p>\n

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\nraised him from the dead.
\nThe assurance is the assurance <\/p>\n

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\nthat Jesus can judge because
\nhe’s alive. <\/p>\n

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\nTo do it.
\nGod hath raised him from the <\/p>\n

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\ndead.
\nThe assurance is the <\/p>\n

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\ndemonstration that he is alive,
\nfor so can the resurrection of <\/p>\n

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\nJesus be set out convincingly
\nbefore us. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so we all know he can judge
\nthe assurances that Jesus is <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:17,680 –> 00:20:23,640
\nentitled to judge, because in
\nrighteousness was the way he <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:23,640 –> 00:20:27,720
\nlived, and for righteousness was
\nthe way he died. <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:29,000 –> 00:20:32,160
\nAnd everlasting righteousness is
\nfixed upon him with his grant <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:32,160 –> 00:20:35,400
\ntitle, the Lord Our
\nRighteousness, which now He <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:35,400 –> 00:20:40,880
\nbears.
\nAnd He can and will judge the <\/p>\n

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\nworld in righteousness, having
\nbeen raised from the dead. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause the resurrection came
\nafter the spotless living <\/p>\n

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\nitself, the fruits of a lifelong
\nbattle between the man with <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:54,680 –> 00:21:02,000
\nman’s instincts and man’s
\ntemptability, and the way that <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:02,000 –> 00:21:06,080
\nGod wanted him to live, and the
\nrightness God wanted him to <\/p>\n

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\nshow, and the sinlessness it was
\nessential that he should reveal.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd the Lord did it, And the
\nLord could look, had he been so <\/p>\n

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\nvain as to look in a glass that
\nrevealed his own face, and know <\/p>\n

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\nthat no act of his had lined
\nthat image? <\/p>\n

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\nPuffed those cheeks, coarsened
\nthat tender glance, the Lord <\/p>\n

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\ncould bid them, give him a coin,
\nshow to them Caesar’s image, and<\/p>\n

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\nsay, knowing that they would
\nlook straight at him as he did <\/p>\n

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\nso render unto Caesar that which
\nis Caesar’s, and bears Caesar’s <\/p>\n

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\nimage, and unto God that which
\nis God’s, and bears his. <\/p>\n

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\nFor surely that is what the Lord
\nwas saying when he said, Render <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:57,240 –> 00:22:00,440
\nunto God the things that are
\nGod’s. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the outcome of that should
\nhave been and should be that <\/p>\n

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\nwhen they went.
\nAnd when we go to our own place <\/p>\n

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\nand look in our own glasses
\nagain, it is not purely for the <\/p>\n

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\npurpose of brushing our hair and
\npowdering our nose and making <\/p>\n

327
\n00:22:20,280 –> 00:22:22,960
\nthe none too perfect image look
\nbetter than it is. <\/p>\n

328
\n00:22:25,040 –> 00:22:29,960
\nBut seeing the image as it is
\nseeing in the face of the Lord <\/p>\n

329
\n00:22:29,960 –> 00:22:33,640
\nJesus Christ, which we also
\nbehold in the glass what it <\/p>\n

330
\n00:22:33,640 –> 00:22:39,600
\nought to be like.
\nAnd repenting, knowing how much <\/p>\n

331
\n00:22:39,600 –> 00:22:44,400
\nworse the one is than the other.
\nHow much deformed is the image <\/p>\n

332
\n00:22:44,400 –> 00:22:48,520
\nof God in US?
\nSeeing what God would like it to<\/p>\n

333
\n00:22:48,520 –> 00:22:55,840
\nbe and repenting, turning aside
\nfrom our own way and walking in <\/p>\n

334
\n00:22:55,840 –> 00:23:00,000
\nGod’s ways, leaving behind us
\nour own sins and seeking God’s <\/p>\n

335
\n00:23:00,000 –> 00:23:04,280
\nrighteousness, leaving behind
\nour own pattern of worldly <\/p>\n

336
\n00:23:04,280 –> 00:23:08,720
\nbehaviour, and seeking that
\ngodly direction of life which <\/p>\n

337
\n00:23:08,720 –> 00:23:14,240
\nwas exemplified perfectly only
\nin one, but is now evidently set<\/p>\n

338
\n00:23:14,240 –> 00:23:19,360
\nforth in him who was crucified
\namongst us. <\/p>\n

339
\n00:23:21,440 –> 00:23:24,120
\nAnd that is how Paul puts the
\nresurrection before the men of <\/p>\n

340
\n00:23:24,120 –> 00:23:28,200
\nAthens.
\nHe will judge because he can, <\/p>\n

341
\n00:23:29,120 –> 00:23:32,760
\nrighteously because he is
\nrighteous at the appointed day <\/p>\n

342
\n00:23:32,760 –> 00:23:42,120
\nbecause he is God’s servant, and
\nso now is the time to repent. <\/p>\n

343
\n00:23:45,000 –> 00:23:47,560
\nThere were some who did, not
\nmany. <\/p>\n

344
\n00:23:47,560 –> 00:23:50,040
\nIt seems the odd man here and
\nthere. <\/p>\n

345
\n00:23:50,040 –> 00:23:52,920
\nSome noble women joined Paul in
\nAthens, but we don’t hear of any<\/p>\n

346
\n00:23:52,920 –> 00:23:55,520
\nchurch founded there, so it
\nlooks as though there perhaps <\/p>\n

347
\n00:23:55,520 –> 00:24:05,080
\nwasn’t one for ourselves.
\nWe have turned our minds to <\/p>\n

348
\n00:24:05,080 –> 00:24:08,000
\nadmit us through the things we
\nbelieve, to confess faithfully <\/p>\n

349
\n00:24:08,200 –> 00:24:10,480
\nthe first principles of our
\nstatements. <\/p>\n

350
\n00:24:10,840 –> 00:24:14,800
\nBut to believe is to have faith,
\nto have trust, to place <\/p>\n

351
\n00:24:14,800 –> 00:24:19,840
\nourselves in God’s hands, to
\nturn aside from vain trust in <\/p>\n

352
\n00:24:19,840 –> 00:24:21,680
\nthe mortal things of this
\nworldly life. <\/p>\n

353
\n00:24:21,680 –> 00:24:26,000
\nFor the world passeth away on
\nthe lust thereof and place our <\/p>\n

354
\n00:24:26,000 –> 00:24:30,240
\nconfidence in God through the
\nLord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n

355
\n00:24:35,530 –> 00:24:38,010
\nMany wonders and signs were done
\nby the apostles. <\/p>\n

356
\n00:24:40,570 –> 00:24:44,170
\nThis touches in a different kind
\nof way upon a life problem of <\/p>\n

357
\n00:24:44,170 –> 00:24:47,210
\ntoday.
\nNot much to do with our <\/p>\n

358
\n00:24:47,690 –> 00:24:52,170
\nbehaviour, though it has
\nsomething to do with that, but <\/p>\n

359
\n00:24:52,170 –> 00:24:56,170
\nrather to do with our defences
\nagainst the constantly attacking<\/p>\n

360
\n00:24:56,690 –> 00:25:00,840
\nwinds of doctrine that confront
\nus in the world in which we <\/p>\n

361
\n00:25:00,840 –> 00:25:05,680
\nlive.
\nIn a new upsurge of Neo <\/p>\n

362
\n00:25:05,680 –> 00:25:12,480
\nPentecostalism, In a world where
\nthe spirit gifts are claimed <\/p>\n

363
\n00:25:12,480 –> 00:25:16,520
\nagain and increasingly and
\naggressively with the new <\/p>\n

364
\n00:25:16,520 –> 00:25:20,240
\ncharisma matter that men are
\nbegging for themselves and <\/p>\n

365
\n00:25:20,240 –> 00:25:24,840
\nclaiming to receive, we are not
\ninfrequently confronted with the<\/p>\n

366
\n00:25:24,840 –> 00:25:28,440
\nproblem.
\nHow far are these things true? <\/p>\n

367
\n00:25:30,000 –> 00:25:31,840
\nHow far should they affect
\nourselves? <\/p>\n

368
\n00:25:32,600 –> 00:25:35,560
\nHow much should we follow them?
\nShould there be an earnest <\/p>\n

369
\n00:25:35,560 –> 00:25:39,440
\ncoveting of the same things in
\nour minds, or should we bring <\/p>\n

370
\n00:25:39,440 –> 00:25:42,320
\ndown all the shutters and close
\ndown our minds even to thinking <\/p>\n

371
\n00:25:42,320 –> 00:25:45,960
\nof the matter and battening down
\nthe hatches, decide that this is<\/p>\n

372
\n00:25:45,960 –> 00:25:50,480
\nnot for us?
\nWell, of course, the right way <\/p>\n

373
\n00:25:50,520 –> 00:25:53,640
\nat all times is to say what is
\nwritten. <\/p>\n

374
\n00:25:55,360 –> 00:25:58,800
\nHow readest thou both, if you
\nlike? <\/p>\n

375
\n00:25:58,800 –> 00:26:01,200
\nWhat did they experience in the
\n1st century? <\/p>\n

376
\n00:26:02,240 –> 00:26:07,680
\nAnd is there a promise 1\/2
\npromise, an open-ended promise, <\/p>\n

377
\n00:26:07,680 –> 00:26:10,880
\nor no promise of corresponding
\nevents in our own day? <\/p>\n

378
\n00:26:13,840 –> 00:26:16,120
\nAnd in the period when the
\nmighty acts of God were most <\/p>\n

379
\n00:26:16,120 –> 00:26:18,640
\nmanifest of all subsequent to
\nthe resurrection of the Lord <\/p>\n

380
\n00:26:18,640 –> 00:26:20,800
\nJesus Christ?
\nWe do, at least it seems to me, <\/p>\n

381
\n00:26:20,960 –> 00:26:26,120
\nhave the top end of what God
\nmight have done, and therefore <\/p>\n

382
\n00:26:26,120 –> 00:26:28,400
\nmight conceivably be going to do
\nagain. <\/p>\n

383
\n00:26:30,560 –> 00:26:34,720
\nWhat did He do in that 1st
\ncentury, by way of Spirit <\/p>\n

384
\n00:26:34,720 –> 00:26:41,040
\nendowment and mighty gifts and
\nmiraculous manifestations? <\/p>\n

385
\n00:26:43,240 –> 00:26:45,320
\nWell, He gave the visitation of
\nPentecost. <\/p>\n

386
\n00:26:46,600 –> 00:26:49,880
\nHe called the apostles, at least
\nperhaps at most, to speak with <\/p>\n

387
\n00:26:49,880 –> 00:26:51,880
\nother tongues as the Spirit gave
\nthem utterance. <\/p>\n

388
\n00:26:53,560 –> 00:26:56,400
\nHe caused a promise to be made
\nthat if they would repent and be<\/p>\n

389
\n00:26:56,400 –> 00:27:00,080
\nbaptized every one of them, then
\nthey should receive the gift of <\/p>\n

390
\n00:27:00,080 –> 00:27:02,680
\nHoly Spirit, whatever that
\nimplies. <\/p>\n

391
\n00:27:03,800 –> 00:27:06,800
\nAnd the promise was to extend to
\nthem and to their children, and <\/p>\n

392
\n00:27:06,800 –> 00:27:09,600
\nto all that were afar off, even
\nas many as the Lord their God <\/p>\n

393
\n00:27:09,600 –> 00:27:14,160
\nshould call.
\nAnd he caused 3000 to be <\/p>\n

394
\n00:27:14,160 –> 00:27:16,120
\nbaptized that day and be joined
\nto the faith. <\/p>\n

395
\n00:27:18,120 –> 00:27:21,680
\nAnd then what?
\nWell, we’ll come back to Then <\/p>\n

396
\n00:27:21,680 –> 00:27:27,560
\nwhat in a moment.
\nFor that was Pentecost, the next<\/p>\n

397
\n00:27:27,560 –> 00:27:31,560
\npublic manifestation of
\nwidespread Spirit gifts, however<\/p>\n

398
\n00:27:31,560 –> 00:27:35,400
\nwidespread they were, would, I
\nsuppose, be at Samaria when <\/p>\n

399
\n00:27:35,400 –> 00:27:37,680
\nPhilip had preached the Gospel
\nwith his own mighty works in the<\/p>\n

400
\n00:27:37,680 –> 00:27:40,280
\npresence of the Samaritans.
\nAnd they, having believed, <\/p>\n

401
\n00:27:40,280 –> 00:27:42,680
\nawaited the time when Peter and
\nJohn would come down from <\/p>\n

402
\n00:27:42,680 –> 00:27:44,800
\nJerusalem.
\nAnd when Peter and John came, <\/p>\n

403
\n00:27:44,800 –> 00:27:47,000
\nthey prayed for them that they
\nmight receive the Holy Spirit. <\/p>\n

404
\n00:27:47,240 –> 00:27:49,920
\nAnd in what manifestations we
\nhardly know. <\/p>\n

405
\n00:27:50,320 –> 00:27:54,320
\nThe prayer was granted, and the
\ngift was put upon Samaritans <\/p>\n

406
\n00:27:54,320 –> 00:27:58,600
\nalso.
\nAnd then there was Caesarea, <\/p>\n

407
\n00:27:59,920 –> 00:28:02,600
\nwhen Cornelius the Gentile was
\npreached to, when it was <\/p>\n

408
\n00:28:02,600 –> 00:28:05,000
\nanticipated from above, and
\nunderstood by Peter that it <\/p>\n

409
\n00:28:05,000 –> 00:28:08,280
\nmight be very difficult to
\npersuade hardened Jews to accept<\/p>\n

410
\n00:28:08,400 –> 00:28:11,520
\nthe Gentiles without first
\nbecoming Jewish, by faith, could<\/p>\n

411
\n00:28:11,520 –> 00:28:13,440
\nbe introduced into the Christian
\nfold. <\/p>\n

412
\n00:28:13,680 –> 00:28:16,400
\nAnd so while Peter was yet
\nspeaking to them, behold, the <\/p>\n

413
\n00:28:16,400 –> 00:28:19,240
\nHoly Spirit fell upon them, and
\nthey began to speak with tongues<\/p>\n

414
\n00:28:19,240 –> 00:28:21,800
\nand glorify God.
\nAnd Peter was then empowered to <\/p>\n

415
\n00:28:21,800 –> 00:28:24,440
\nsay who we can forbid water,
\nthat these should not be <\/p>\n

416
\n00:28:24,440 –> 00:28:27,400
\nbaptized, which have received
\nthe Holy Spirit as well as we. <\/p>\n

417
\n00:28:30,720 –> 00:28:35,160
\nAnd it occurred in Ephesus, when
\nin the 19th chapter of the Acts,<\/p>\n

418
\n00:28:35,160 –> 00:28:37,240
\nwhen Paul had gone there
\nfollowing the mission of <\/p>\n

419
\n00:28:37,240 –> 00:28:39,680
\nApollos, and had found there
\ncertain who are called <\/p>\n

420
\n00:28:39,680 –> 00:28:43,080
\ndisciples, obtained an
\nunsatisfactory answer to the <\/p>\n

421
\n00:28:43,080 –> 00:28:46,400
\nquestion, Have you received the
\nHoly Spirit since she believed, <\/p>\n

422
\n00:28:47,760 –> 00:28:49,880
\nbeing told that they had not so
\nmuch as heard, that the Holy <\/p>\n

423
\n00:28:49,880 –> 00:28:52,880
\nSpirit was given, proceeded to
\ntell them about the limitation <\/p>\n

424
\n00:28:52,880 –> 00:28:56,120
\nof John’s baptism, about the
\npromise of John, that they or <\/p>\n

425
\n00:28:56,120 –> 00:28:59,200
\nsome of them would be baptized
\nwith Holy Spirit not many days <\/p>\n

426
\n00:28:59,200 –> 00:29:01,640
\nhence.
\nAnd from that point on, well, <\/p>\n

427
\n00:29:01,640 –> 00:29:05,240
\nthe gift of the Holy Spirit came
\nto these people too, a small <\/p>\n

428
\n00:29:05,240 –> 00:29:08,760
\nnumber, and they were convinced
\nthat God’s gift was given. <\/p>\n

429
\n00:29:11,720 –> 00:29:15,880
\nNow outside those four.
\nIs it public? <\/p>\n

430
\n00:29:15,880 –> 00:29:24,800
\nExamples At Pentecost in Samaria
\nin Caesarea, as in Ephesus, Acts<\/p>\n

431
\n00:29:24,800 –> 00:29:27,640
\nis just about silent about
\nwidespread gifts. <\/p>\n

432
\n00:29:29,640 –> 00:29:32,160
\nNot merely is it just about
\nsilent about widespread gifts, <\/p>\n

433
\n00:29:32,160 –> 00:29:36,800
\nbut the implications are that
\nthey weren’t widespread anymore.<\/p>\n

434
\n00:29:38,160 –> 00:29:41,320
\nThough there might have been
\nthese outsurgings of the Spirit <\/p>\n

435
\n00:29:41,320 –> 00:29:48,040
\ngifts, but they didn’t last,
\nSave that many wonders and signs<\/p>\n

436
\n00:29:48,040 –> 00:29:53,680
\nwere wrought by the apostles,
\nand the words are emphasized. <\/p>\n

437
\n00:29:54,480 –> 00:29:58,600
\nMany wonders and signs were
\nwrought by the apostles, and <\/p>\n

438
\n00:29:58,600 –> 00:30:03,040
\nwith great power gave the
\napostles their witness, and <\/p>\n

439
\n00:30:03,040 –> 00:30:06,640
\nmiracles occurred.
\nThe Lord wrought special <\/p>\n

440
\n00:30:06,640 –> 00:30:11,040
\nmiracles by the hand of Paul.
\nThey gathered together, if <\/p>\n

441
\n00:30:11,040 –> 00:30:13,960
\nperhaps the shadow of Peter
\npassing by might fall upon some <\/p>\n

442
\n00:30:13,960 –> 00:30:16,880
\nof them, and their sick ones be
\nhealed. <\/p>\n

443
\n00:30:19,240 –> 00:30:22,080
\nAnd it is so throughout the
\nbook. <\/p>\n

444
\n00:30:23,240 –> 00:30:29,280
\nPeter works miracles, Paul works
\nmiracles, and Philip and Stephen<\/p>\n

445
\n00:30:30,480 –> 00:30:34,160
\nalso work miracles.
\nBut Philip and Stephen are <\/p>\n

446
\n00:30:34,160 –> 00:30:38,200
\nspecial men chosen at the behest
\nof the Apostolic Council of <\/p>\n

447
\n00:30:38,200 –> 00:30:40,640
\nJerusalem, to look after the
\nproblem of the unequal <\/p>\n

448
\n00:30:40,640 –> 00:30:43,960
\ndistribution of relief to
\nGrecian and Jewish widows with <\/p>\n

449
\n00:30:43,960 –> 00:30:47,400
\nthe apostles hands laid upon
\nthem, with a special discernment<\/p>\n

450
\n00:30:47,400 –> 00:30:50,840
\ngiven unto them, with it seems,
\nthat special endowment still in <\/p>\n

451
\n00:30:50,840 –> 00:30:53,640
\nthem as they lead the solution
\nof that problem, and set about <\/p>\n

452
\n00:30:53,640 –> 00:30:56,240
\npreaching work in earnest.
\nAnd Stephen full of the Holy <\/p>\n

453
\n00:30:56,240 –> 00:30:59,720
\nSpirit and power, wrought great
\nsigns, And Philip wrought mighty<\/p>\n

454
\n00:30:59,720 –> 00:31:01,800
\nmiracles in the neighbourhood of
\nSamaria. <\/p>\n

455
\n00:31:03,760 –> 00:31:06,360
\nSo much then is the Acts
\nconcerns with mighty signs <\/p>\n

456
\n00:31:06,360 –> 00:31:09,640
\nwrought by apostles and by
\nspecial apostolically appointed <\/p>\n

457
\n00:31:09,640 –> 00:31:14,960
\ndelegates, that it doesn’t have
\nanything to say in general terms<\/p>\n

458
\n00:31:15,840 –> 00:31:18,080
\nabout other people being workers
\nof miracles. <\/p>\n

459
\n00:31:19,080 –> 00:31:22,520
\nTongues come and tongues go, but
\nwe hear no more of them in the <\/p>\n

460
\n00:31:22,520 –> 00:31:26,000
\nActs.
\nAnd if those who are not <\/p>\n

461
\n00:31:26,000 –> 00:31:28,840
\nforewarned, as some of you have
\nbeen, I know we’re asked the <\/p>\n

462
\n00:31:28,840 –> 00:31:30,920
\nquestion.
\nAnd how often do we hear about <\/p>\n

463
\n00:31:30,920 –> 00:31:34,160
\ntongues outside the Acts and of
\nMark chapter 16? <\/p>\n

464
\n00:31:35,720 –> 00:31:39,040
\nThe answer would be how many
\nbooks of the New Testament? <\/p>\n

465
\n00:31:41,240 –> 00:31:43,680
\nYou’re quite right.
\nNot to commit yourselves, but <\/p>\n

466
\n00:31:43,680 –> 00:31:48,600
\nit’s one just one place outside
\nthe axe are the gift of tongues <\/p>\n

467
\n00:31:48,600 –> 00:31:51,280
\nreferred to, and that one is in
\nFirst Corinthians, and it <\/p>\n

468
\n00:31:51,280 –> 00:31:54,200
\noccupies essentially the basis
\nof three chapters there, <\/p>\n

469
\n00:31:54,440 –> 00:31:59,760
\nchapters 1213 and 14.
\nAnd the urgency which Paul has <\/p>\n

470
\n00:31:59,760 –> 00:32:02,480
\nin dealing with the problem of
\ntongues in Corinth is not to <\/p>\n

471
\n00:32:02,480 –> 00:32:06,360
\nencourage the gift, though he
\ndoes, say, forbid not to use it,<\/p>\n

472
\n00:32:07,520 –> 00:32:12,120
\nbut to regulate it.
\nNot to incite them into speaking<\/p>\n

473
\n00:32:12,120 –> 00:32:15,920
\nwith tongues, but to ensure that
\nif they do, they’ll do it right,<\/p>\n

474
\n00:32:16,920 –> 00:32:18,920
\nin the right way and in the
\nright place, and to the right <\/p>\n

475
\n00:32:18,920 –> 00:32:22,040
\npeople.
\nBut they shall not privately, in<\/p>\n

476
\n00:32:22,040 –> 00:32:24,440
\ntheir prayer meetings or in
\ntheir closed ecclesial <\/p>\n

477
\n00:32:24,440 –> 00:32:27,200
\nassemblies behind doors, which
\nshield them from the public, <\/p>\n

478
\n00:32:27,360 –> 00:32:31,080
\nengage in paroxysms, ecstatic
\nutterances, and do it for their <\/p>\n

479
\n00:32:31,080 –> 00:32:33,800
\nown supposedly spiritual
\ndelight. <\/p>\n

480
\n00:32:35,360 –> 00:32:38,080
\nBut you remember that tongues
\nare for a sign, not for them <\/p>\n

481
\n00:32:38,080 –> 00:32:43,080
\nthat believe, but to them that
\nbelieve not that they will <\/p>\n

482
\n00:32:43,080 –> 00:32:46,080
\ndeserve the accusation of being
\nmad, if in their private <\/p>\n

483
\n00:32:46,080 –> 00:32:49,080
\nenjoyment of these luxuriating
\ngifts the door happens to open, <\/p>\n

484
\n00:32:49,080 –> 00:32:51,240
\nand a stranger comes in and rubs
\nhis eyes with astonishment. <\/p>\n

485
\n00:32:52,080 –> 00:32:53,560
\nAnd there coming one of them
\nthat believe not. <\/p>\n

486
\n00:32:53,560 –> 00:32:54,720
\nWill it not say that you are
\nmad? <\/p>\n

487
\n00:32:54,800 –> 00:32:59,240
\nHe says so.
\nIt would seem that Corinth was <\/p>\n

488
\n00:32:59,240 –> 00:33:02,400
\nexceptional in the way it used
\nthe gifts, possibly unusual in <\/p>\n

489
\n00:33:02,400 –> 00:33:05,040
\nhaving the gifts to any large
\nextent at all, and certainly <\/p>\n

490
\n00:33:05,040 –> 00:33:08,200
\nwarned that this was the way in
\nwhich such gift, if they were <\/p>\n

491
\n00:33:08,200 –> 00:33:11,640
\nclaimed, should be regulated,
\ncontrolled, and evidence <\/p>\n

492
\n00:33:11,640 –> 00:33:13,880
\nprovided for the speaker, and
\nfor the listener, that the gift <\/p>\n

493
\n00:33:13,880 –> 00:33:18,480
\nis indeed come from God, with an
\ninterpreter to explain to the <\/p>\n

494
\n00:33:18,480 –> 00:33:22,000
\nothers what the words mean, if
\nthe words are not spoken in the <\/p>\n

495
\n00:33:22,000 –> 00:33:26,160
\nlanguage understood by all For
\nthe rest. <\/p>\n

496
\n00:33:26,160 –> 00:33:29,080
\nCorinthians is concerned with
\ncoveting earnest and the best <\/p>\n

497
\n00:33:29,080 –> 00:33:32,960
\ngifts, with recognizing that not
\neverybody has all of them, that <\/p>\n

498
\n00:33:32,960 –> 00:33:35,040
\nnot everybody has any of them,
\nthat there are some who have <\/p>\n

499
\n00:33:35,040 –> 00:33:37,760
\none, some another, and many who
\nenjoy the results of the <\/p>\n

500
\n00:33:37,760 –> 00:33:41,680
\nadministrations of those He gets
\nsome apostles, some prophets, <\/p>\n

501
\n00:33:41,760 –> 00:33:44,280
\nsome ministrations afterwards,
\ngifts of healing and tongues, <\/p>\n

502
\n00:33:44,280 –> 00:33:49,800
\nand so forth.
\nApart from that, when you go <\/p>\n

503
\n00:33:49,800 –> 00:33:52,720
\nthrough the other epistles, you
\nget the occasional indication <\/p>\n

504
\n00:33:52,720 –> 00:33:56,080
\nthat God has by miraculous
\ndivine appointment attested that<\/p>\n

505
\n00:33:56,080 –> 00:34:00,640
\nsome are His special servants
\nwith special gifts, and they are<\/p>\n

506
\n00:34:00,640 –> 00:34:03,760
\nspoken of in such a way that the
\nApostle Paul calls them the <\/p>\n

507
\n00:34:03,760 –> 00:34:07,480
\nsigns of an apostle.
\nThe signs of an Apostle were <\/p>\n

508
\n00:34:07,480 –> 00:34:09,920
\nwrought in me, that I could
\nspeak to you with power and <\/p>\n

509
\n00:34:09,920 –> 00:34:14,679
\nwisdom, with mighty works.
\nAnd when we learn in the letter <\/p>\n

510
\n00:34:14,679 –> 00:34:17,639
\nto the Hebrews that they had
\nreceived the faith because they <\/p>\n

511
\n00:34:17,639 –> 00:34:21,000
\nwere visited with mighty
\nmiraculous works by those who <\/p>\n

512
\n00:34:21,000 –> 00:34:24,000
\nhad conversed with the Lord
\nJesus Christ after he rose from <\/p>\n

513
\n00:34:24,000 –> 00:34:26,480
\nthe dead again, you have the
\nimpression that the Hebrews <\/p>\n

514
\n00:34:26,600 –> 00:34:30,600
\nheard the words, saw the
\nmiracles, but received the <\/p>\n

515
\n00:34:30,600 –> 00:34:35,560
\nwords, and understood the
\nmiracles and didn’t do them in <\/p>\n

516
\n00:34:35,560 –> 00:34:39,000
\ntheir turn.
\nWhen Paul writes to the <\/p>\n

517
\n00:34:39,000 –> 00:34:42,679
\nGalatians and warns them against
\naccepting the blandishments of <\/p>\n

518
\n00:34:42,679 –> 00:34:45,440
\nJudaizers, who would have their
\nmen circumcised before they <\/p>\n

519
\n00:34:45,440 –> 00:34:47,960
\ncould be baptized, or at least
\nhave both if they thought <\/p>\n

520
\n00:34:47,960 –> 00:34:51,520
\nthemselves Christians at all, he
\nsays, He that ministeth to you <\/p>\n

521
\n00:34:51,520 –> 00:34:55,679
\nthe Spirit, and worketh miracles
\namongst you doeth it by the <\/p>\n

522
\n00:34:55,679 –> 00:34:57,280
\nhearing of the law, by the Word
\nof Faith. <\/p>\n

523
\n00:34:58,600 –> 00:35:01,360
\nAnd again, the Galatians were
\nwitnesses of miracles, <\/p>\n

524
\n00:35:01,800 –> 00:35:04,040
\nspectators of the Spirit’s
\nmighty Acts. <\/p>\n

525
\n00:35:04,640 –> 00:35:09,840
\nThey knew that God was with
\nthem, but only some, and perhaps<\/p>\n

526
\n00:35:09,840 –> 00:35:13,040
\nonly few, did these things
\nthemselves. <\/p>\n

527
\n00:35:14,480 –> 00:35:16,880
\nYou knew a prophet when you met
\nhim, and he was a rare thing. <\/p>\n

528
\n00:35:17,000 –> 00:35:18,680
\nThere was a prophet called
\nAgabus. <\/p>\n

529
\n00:35:19,040 –> 00:35:23,000
\nThere were as Antioch certain
\nprophets as Barnabas and Saul <\/p>\n

530
\n00:35:24,680 –> 00:35:26,800
\nprophets.
\nMessages were inspired messages.<\/p>\n

531
\n00:35:28,040 –> 00:35:30,440
\nThe greatest of the temporal
\nprophets at that time was Saul <\/p>\n

532
\n00:35:30,440 –> 00:35:32,400
\nhimself.
\nPaul now that if a man think <\/p>\n

533
\n00:35:32,400 –> 00:35:34,880
\nhimself to be a prophet or
\nspiritual, let him acknowledge <\/p>\n

534
\n00:35:34,880 –> 00:35:37,240
\nthe things that I write unto you
\nare the commandments of the <\/p>\n

535
\n00:35:37,240 –> 00:35:41,480
\nLord.
\nThe Lord confirmed the word with<\/p>\n

536
\n00:35:41,480 –> 00:35:45,280
\nsigns following.
\nBut the great majority of those <\/p>\n

537
\n00:35:45,280 –> 00:35:48,480
\nwho believed confessed their
\nrepentance, accepted the faith, <\/p>\n

538
\n00:35:48,680 –> 00:35:51,680
\nwent down into the waters of
\nbaptism, had good and sufficient<\/p>\n

539
\n00:35:51,680 –> 00:35:53,880
\nevidence that the gospel they
\nwere accepting was the true <\/p>\n

540
\n00:35:53,880 –> 00:35:57,000
\ngospel indeed, which might in
\nsome areas and at sometimes <\/p>\n

541
\n00:35:57,000 –> 00:36:02,360
\ninclude seeing mighty science,
\nhearing the exercise of the gift<\/p>\n

542
\n00:36:02,360 –> 00:36:04,080
\nof tongues.
\nBut in the case of only few of <\/p>\n

543
\n00:36:04,080 –> 00:36:09,160
\nthem would it involve them in
\ndoing the science, speaking the <\/p>\n

544
\n00:36:09,160 –> 00:36:14,080
\ntongues, making the prophecies,
\ncarrying out the healings. <\/p>\n

545
\n00:36:16,640 –> 00:36:19,400
\nAnd that was how it was in the
\ndays when the mighty Acts were <\/p>\n

546
\n00:36:19,400 –> 00:36:23,760
\nmost manifest, when there was
\nthe most frequent and powerful <\/p>\n

547
\n00:36:23,760 –> 00:36:27,080
\nexercise of the gifts, when the
\nLord confirmed the Word in such <\/p>\n

548
\n00:36:27,080 –> 00:36:29,600
\na way that they could not deny.
\nAnd it seems to me that when <\/p>\n

549
\n00:36:29,600 –> 00:36:33,320
\nMark’s Gospel was written, he
\ndescribes the events of those <\/p>\n

550
\n00:36:33,320 –> 00:36:35,480
\ndays as though perhaps they were
\nalready on the way out. <\/p>\n

551
\n00:36:36,280 –> 00:36:39,600
\nThey went everywhere, says Mark,
\npreaching the Word, the Lord <\/p>\n

552
\n00:36:39,600 –> 00:36:42,320
\nconfirming the Word, with signs
\nfollowing as though to say <\/p>\n

553
\n00:36:42,440 –> 00:36:45,440
\nthat’s what they did and that’s
\nwhat happened. <\/p>\n

554
\n00:36:46,720 –> 00:36:51,240
\nAs though to say the preaching
\ngoes on, but the Lord’s <\/p>\n

555
\n00:36:51,240 –> 00:36:54,280
\nconfirmation of the Word has got
\nas far as it needs to go. <\/p>\n

556
\n00:36:54,280 –> 00:36:56,600
\nNow, you can’t expect much more
\nof this. <\/p>\n

557
\n00:36:57,200 –> 00:37:01,840
\nThis is what they did not, and
\nit would be Needless to say it <\/p>\n

558
\n00:37:01,840 –> 00:37:04,760
\nif it were the case, what they
\nare doing, as everybody knows. <\/p>\n

559
\n00:37:06,840 –> 00:37:08,680
\nSo it seems to me.
\nWe have, apart from the evidence<\/p>\n

560
\n00:37:08,680 –> 00:37:12,120
\nwe would normally adduce, very
\ngood New Testament evidence that<\/p>\n

561
\n00:37:12,120 –> 00:37:15,920
\nthe gifts were given to few,
\ngiven for a short time temporary<\/p>\n

562
\n00:37:15,920 –> 00:37:22,920
\nin their duration.
\nWhether it will please God to <\/p>\n

563
\n00:37:22,920 –> 00:37:29,520
\nvisit the world with such gifts
\nagain before His Son returns, It<\/p>\n

564
\n00:37:29,520 –> 00:37:32,040
\nseems to me we should humbly
\nwait and see. <\/p>\n

565
\n00:37:34,080 –> 00:37:37,080
\nNot sure that Joel’s prophecy
\nmight not be fulfilled twice <\/p>\n

566
\n00:37:37,640 –> 00:37:39,760
\nbefore another great and
\ndreadful day of the Lord. <\/p>\n

567
\n00:37:40,720 –> 00:37:45,000
\nBecause it looks in Joel as
\nthough it might be so not <\/p>\n

568
\n00:37:45,000 –> 00:37:47,720
\ncertain that God would not when
\nHe sends His disciples out in <\/p>\n

569
\n00:37:47,720 –> 00:37:51,680
\ntheir last message to the world
\nbefore the Lord comes back and <\/p>\n

570
\n00:37:51,680 –> 00:37:54,960
\nbids them preach again before
\nmany peoples and nations and <\/p>\n

571
\n00:37:54,960 –> 00:37:57,840
\nkindreds and tongues.
\nAs Revelation tends as He will <\/p>\n

572
\n00:37:58,920 –> 00:38:02,800
\nthat He won’t in that case to
\nmake the world so totally aware <\/p>\n

573
\n00:38:02,800 –> 00:38:06,520
\nthat this is a divine work, that
\nit will be totally responsible <\/p>\n

574
\n00:38:06,520 –> 00:38:12,000
\nfor its rejection of it, and
\ntherefore not in the mood to be <\/p>\n

575
\n00:38:12,000 –> 00:38:15,720
\ntoo surprised.
\nIf before the Lord comes back, <\/p>\n

576
\n00:38:15,720 –> 00:38:20,120
\nwe do find that He Himself takes
\na hand in bearing witness to the<\/p>\n

577
\n00:38:20,120 –> 00:38:26,560
\nlast decisive testimony to His
\ngospel before the Lord comes in <\/p>\n

578
\n00:38:26,560 –> 00:38:29,640
\nflaming fire, taking vengeance
\non them that know not God and <\/p>\n

579
\n00:38:29,640 –> 00:38:31,880
\nthat obey not the gospel of our
\nLord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n

580
\n00:38:32,040 –> 00:38:34,280
\nWhen He shall come to be
\nglorified in His Saints and <\/p>\n

581
\n00:38:34,280 –> 00:38:38,080
\nadmired in all them that believe
\nas our testimony among you was <\/p>\n

582
\n00:38:38,080 –> 00:38:46,280
\nbelieved in that death.
\nBut not being sure, not doing <\/p>\n

583
\n00:38:46,280 –> 00:38:48,240
\nsilly things to try to make it
\nhappen. <\/p>\n

584
\n00:38:50,320 –> 00:38:57,280
\nNot whipping up guitar strummed
\nenthusiasms, not trying by pop <\/p>\n

585
\n00:38:57,400 –> 00:39:04,280
\nengendered paroxysms to force
\nGod’s hand for him, but waiting <\/p>\n

586
\n00:39:05,920 –> 00:39:10,080
\nsoberly, knowing that the gift
\nof God by grace is the thing we <\/p>\n

587
\n00:39:10,080 –> 00:39:12,480
\nneed.
\nThat His presence with us to <\/p>\n

588
\n00:39:12,480 –> 00:39:15,160
\ninfluence our hearts in ways
\nunknown to us, when we surrender<\/p>\n

589
\n00:39:15,160 –> 00:39:20,720
\nourselves to Him, is His mighty
\nact for us and content to wait, <\/p>\n

590
\n00:39:20,720 –> 00:39:25,560
\nalmost fearful in waiting, in
\ncase the time should come when <\/p>\n

591
\n00:39:25,560 –> 00:39:30,440
\nHe will take other steps,
\nunmistakable other steps, steps <\/p>\n

592
\n00:39:30,440 –> 00:39:34,720
\nthat can’t be controverted to
\nmake the world know that this is<\/p>\n

593
\n00:39:34,720 –> 00:39:39,360
\nHis last appeal to them.
\nI’m not saying He will do that. <\/p>\n

594
\n00:39:41,120 –> 00:39:43,640
\nI’m saying we should wait and
\nsee. <\/p>\n

595
\n00:39:44,920 –> 00:39:47,960
\nAnd if He does, there won’t be
\nany doubt. <\/p>\n

596
\n00:39:48,840 –> 00:39:58,320
\nShall we sing Him. 154 And I
\nthink the sentiments of this <\/p>\n

597
\n00:39:58,320 –> 00:40:02,240
\nhymn are such that a restrained
\nvolume is what we need <\/p>\n

598
\n00:40:02,240 –> 00:40:07,000
\nthroughout.
\nWe’re not shouting about things <\/p>\n

599
\n00:40:07,000 –> 00:40:11,480
\nof praise and power now.
\nWe’re pleading for things of <\/p>\n

600
\n00:40:11,480 –> 00:40:16,560
\ngrace and goodness.
\nLord, speak to me that I may <\/p>\n

601
\n00:40:16,560 –> 00:40:18,720
\nspeak in living echoes of thy
\ntone. <\/p>\n

602
\n00:40:20,000 –> 00:40:22,080
\nOh Lord our God and Heavenly
\nFather. <\/p>\n

603
\n00:40:23,880 –> 00:40:26,440
\nWe have thy family, who are
\njoined to thee through Jesus <\/p>\n

604
\n00:40:26,440 –> 00:40:31,120
\nChrist our Lord, who is not
\nashamed to call us brother and <\/p>\n

605
\n00:40:31,120 –> 00:40:34,840
\nsister.
\nWe thank thee that thou hast <\/p>\n

606
\n00:40:34,840 –> 00:40:37,680
\nrevealed to us the light of the
\nknowledge of thy glory, and the <\/p>\n

607
\n00:40:37,680 –> 00:40:43,080
\nface of Jesus Christ, both in
\nthe face of him that suffered <\/p>\n

608
\n00:40:43,080 –> 00:40:47,920
\nand died, and in the face of him
\nrisen with glory from the grave.<\/p>\n

609
\n00:40:50,040 –> 00:40:54,400
\nMay we keep that image and
\nlikeness of thine before our <\/p>\n

610
\n00:40:54,400 –> 00:41:02,600
\nface at all times.
\nAnd so, as we trust in thee and <\/p>\n

611
\n00:41:02,600 –> 00:41:07,880
\nthe work of the risen Lord is
\ncontinued in US, be changed <\/p>\n

612
\n00:41:08,720 –> 00:41:13,840
\nafter the same image from glory
\nunto glory, even as by the Lord <\/p>\n

613
\n00:41:15,280 –> 00:41:21,600
\nthe Spirit receive us.
\nIn this we ask thee, hear and <\/p>\n

614
\n00:41:21,600 –> 00:41:24,440
\nanswer our prayer and open our
\nhearts to receive the answer <\/p>\n

615
\n00:41:26,160 –> 00:41:30,600
\nthrough Jesus Christ our Savior.
\nAmen. <\/p>\n

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\n00:41:43,960 –> 00:41:46,080
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