Book of Acts - Ch. 3, Vs. 20-Ch. 4, Vs. 14 (01/19/2003)

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We take it up in Acts 3 verse 20. Who's speaking here?

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All right a great orator Peter And he shall send

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Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you David how did

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Jesus What caused him to come into the world? That's right

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Who is represented as being the

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The author of it Yes the father

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The father will send him Now Greg what kind of a verb is shall send?

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Means it's going to happen doesn't it? Did it happen Jesus was sent into the world

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He continues to operate by what? Dennis That's right

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Everything he ever did while he was here on earth was done to please the father that man.

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It was by the Holy Spirit 21 whom the heaven must receive

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Until the times of restitution of all things Which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets

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Since the world began Now we have quite a bit in this verse first of all the heavens must receive

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What does that mean David all right heaven had to receive him it must retain him also

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Now We come to the word restitution great. What does that mean?

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until the times of restitution of all things You mean they're not already?

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Where are they then? All right.

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I want you to remember that the whole cosmos Is under a curse it's operating less than 100 % peak efficiency

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It's words like this That caused me to believe

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That the world will return to where it was in Genesis 1 1 22 for Moses truly said unto the fathers a

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Prophet shall the Lord your gods Raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me

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Him shall you hear in all things Whatsoever he shall say unto you

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What's it mean then? It's like unto me but Yes Moses is saying

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Like unto me Help him out

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Greg All right

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Roger unto me like unto me God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me

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There it is a Mediator between God and man.

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This is the role Moses played and it shall come to pass that every soul

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Which will not hear that prophet Shall be destroyed from among the people

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Now David and it shall come to pass that every soul first of all

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What does the soul mean the word soul? All right that every living person

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Which will not hear that prophet now, what's he mean? I don't know

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Turn to John 10 if you will, please and Greg read verse 3

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Now read verse 8 or 16

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That that's quite a powerful verse It speaks of predestination it speaks of Of you and I Now read verse 27 now in John 8

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Turn over to there and read verse 43 47 chapter 12 verse 39 and 40

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Sounds almost unfair doesn't it? That he has blinded the eyes of certain people

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What if it were not like that Dennis? What if everybody had an equal chance?

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What was that If everybody had an equal chance

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Well, he did that But I'm asking

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Roger I'm asking what if there had never been any restrictions on salvation

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What would the world be like? The world would really be in a mess wouldn't it?

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Yes If he had not chosen certain peoples

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Yea, and all of the prophets from Samuel and those that followed after as many as you as have spoken

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Have likewise foretold of these days Greg, what's these days?

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Yes, it's right now You are the children of the prophets and of the covenant which

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God made with our fathers saying unto Abraham and in thy seed

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Shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed now

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Dennis How is it that in the seed of Abraham all the children of every nation and?

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wall Color and everything is blessed All right,

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Greg, well, let's get

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Roger to answer So, what does he got to do with everybody

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Of everybody All right, and The seed that shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed

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All the kindred all of the tribes all of the nationalities of everything His people are scattered among all of them and it's because of him that they are all blessed

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Even the unsaved are blessed because Christ was here Not to the same extent as us

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Unto you first God having raised up his son Jesus sent him to bless you in turning away

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Every one of you from his iniquities Now, why didn't it say?

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that It was from his birth That he turned away everyone from their iniquities

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Greg, why doesn't it say that? No Something else tells you in that verse something else or I didn't hear it

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I'm do you first God having raised up his son? It's his resurrection

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Yes In turning away To turn away from him from allegiance to anyone he's talking about turning away from Satan Now we've come to acts 4

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We'll get into this a little ways And as they spake unto the people the priests and captain of the temple and the

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Sadducees Came upon them. Here's the first persecution of the church

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Peter and John were persecuted Now was this

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Because of what they were Christian David well

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Let me read it again And as they spake unto the people the priests and the captain of the temple and The Sadducees came upon them.

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This is the first persecution of the church Peter and John were persecuted was it because of what they were

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That's it. It wasn't so much what they were is what they were saying Now, can you imagine?

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Peter Preaching the gospel of Christ He didn't talk real low he didn't whisper it

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He spoke it out being grieved that they taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead

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Peter never did fail to mention that the resurrection Being grieved means to be troubled displeased offended pained to be worked up The preachers and theologians along with the doctors from the seminaries

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Are still distressed about us You know what distresses them the most

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Take a guess Roger. What do you think distresses the theologians the most

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Take a guess great. All right, that's all true

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Greg why do the doctors the theologians the big preachers

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What is most distressing to them? About us

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That's it. Exactly That anybody

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That men without their equal education Can understand and teach

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This bugs them. I don't know if they know it, but it does We didn't can decide the truth and error and further they say

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This common man has no official right to teach

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Now David how much of it depends upon schooling?

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You either have it or you don't have it also, they feel threatened because It is their congregation that they're teaching

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Most of all these are Sadducees and it's sad you see

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That they didn't believe in the resurrection I Cannot imagine anybody putting that doctrine forth

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But I guess they do Three and they laid hands on them and put them in hold until the next day

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For it was now even tied Now here we have something

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Exposing a ruling or a law. What is it David? Well, it was more than that it was an evening it was night and the

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Jews didn't have any authority at night Now it was just one of their laws. I don't know

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But they had to just lock them up they couldn't process the culprit during the night

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Now what does hold mean? H -O -L -D Dennis? Right a place where the prisoners are kept.

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What did you say? How be it many of them which heard the word believed and the number of the men was about 5 ,000

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Can you imagine Peter reaching that number without any

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PA system 5 ,000. In Romans 10 17 turn over there if you will, please and read it

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Greg This verse proves that we

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Do not possess the faith How does it prove that Greg?

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Right. It takes the Word of God to bring it It takes a gift of God to hear it

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It takes a gift of God to understand it Now how much of that verse is totally of God?

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All of it and it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and elders and scribes and Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and as many as were of the kindred of a high priest

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Were gathered together at Jerusalem Now do you suppose they just happened to come together this

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John is not John that we know This John is a certain man a member of the

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Sanhedrin By the way, what is is there anything today in this land that compares to the

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Sanhedrin David That's it

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Now we see nepotism in this So nepotism is not something new

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Alexander and as many as were of his kindred they knew these men and They knew that they had not been

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To an institution Higher education higher learning

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Such as they had Therefore they could not speak within the authority

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They were just ordinary ignorant men That up until a short time ago were making their living by fishing something that anybody could do

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And they turned to preaching Jesus resurrected And you see why they were disturbed in their way of thinking

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The graduates graduates of seminaries today Are enraged because the teaching of some present -day ignorant men unquote is contrary to their own and they are

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Too much in love with their own way of laying guilt on the congregation

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And to have somebody come along and not even mention that it's wrong

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Christianity is an educator of men.

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Is that true great? Christianity is an educator of men

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It teaches them to think It stimulates the mind wherever it goes.

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Well, you'd have to agree with the other also Christianity is an educator of men

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Christianity It stimulates the mind wherever it goes if you can attend a church service today and not come away thinking new thoughts and Knowing that your mind has been stimulated you've wasted your time.

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I Do hope that we do that here Christianity teaches men to know to instruct

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Means to pile up in the mind the proper materials of knowledge to educate

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Is to lead out the mind to develop it develop its dormant facilities

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And when they had to set them in their midst they ask

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What power or by what name have you done this? They're more interested in that than the fact the man was healed

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By what power to such people as you do this healing by what power

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Then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost said unto them you rulers of the people and elders of Israel Now what is this filling of the

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Holy Ghost? David Did God give him the words

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Yes At that very instant He didn't get them a day ahead or an hour ahead.

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It's while he was speaking The grace that was in him developed itself

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God actuates his instruments as the immediate occasion requires

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Now that's something that is not explainable It happens

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It still happens. It happened to Peter This council was convinced that The lame man was healed.

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They couldn't argue that As much as they would like to but they couldn't but they believed that it was done by some magic power and As all such power of familiar spirits and all spells charms and so forth were unlawful

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They probably hope that they could prove at the inquest and then these men could be put to death

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This is why they inquired about the power Peter who just a short time ago denied

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Jesus you remember that and he denied him Is now filled with the

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Holy Spirit and speaks with all authority He's gone from denying to speaking the very highest

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Thus proving the scripture in Matthew 10 18 turn over the

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Greg 18 and 19 20

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Yes Now I explained that Greg You believe that?

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How many have experienced that nobody

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Well, you have you should probably don't want to say so It still works today

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Just as much as it did with Peter Only today we tried to prepare it we try to write ahead of time

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We tried to put it all down so I can remember it verse 9 if we this day

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Be examined of the good deed done

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To the impotent man by what means he is made whole and sound the body be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel That by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth Whom you crucified

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Whom God raised from the dead Even by him does this man stand here before you whole

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They didn't want to hear that It's a very bold declaration on the part of Peter But he felt he stood on good ground

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The reality of the miracle was not questioned. They couldn't question the fact that the man was healed

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The only question was how have you done this? And in whose name have you done this what a beautiful opportunity this gave to Peter He immediately answers.

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We have done it in the name of Jesus of Nazareth Whom you crucified

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This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders Which has become the head of the corner

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Neither is there salvation in any other? For there is none other name under heaven given among men

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Whereby you must be saved By the rejection of Jesus they had fulfilled one of their prophecies

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Turn to Psalms 11 22 and 23 Greg What?

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Psalms 118 22 So David knew about it

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Way long years ago And as one part of the prophecy is now fulfilled

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I may rest assured that the other part is In Matthew 21 43 turn to that Greg I Read 44

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David what does that verse mean? And it's appointed by the

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Heavenly Father In Revelation 13 8 turn to that Greg now we have to back up a little bit

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And that all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him who is the hymn

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David That's right

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Now I want you to notice whose names are not written Meaning that every name is written someplace

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Are not written from the foundation of the world going back to that Undefiable undeniable beginning which was not a beginning

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Then John 6 44 Greg Dennis what does the word draw mean?

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Roger make it as forceful as you can What does it mean? That's it to be drawn by an irresistible force

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That's what we were Now we wanted to Not before but after After we were saved the instant we were saved we wanted to come to Jesus We wanted to before but not knowing how it didn't bother me very much

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But to draw him drag him compel him to come very very forceful

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Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were

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Unlearned and ignorant men they marveled And they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus The immediate influence of the

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Holy Spirit This is what we have in Peter the influence of the

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Holy Spirit An ounce of experience is worth a ton of theology

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It will free you from the fear of men More is done by character than anything else

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There once was a man who had the wonderful gift of teaching Two church members were discussing this man

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One remark yes, I'll grant you He is a good teacher

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But just think what it could be if he had been to the seminary and schooled in the proper things that he was teaching

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The other person answered and said What do you mean? He's now doing more than better than any other graduate

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Of that school why should he go to some higher education Place to learn what he knows and does by his gift in God I'm not against seminaries schools of higher education

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But be very careful 14 and beholding the man which was healed

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Standing with them. They could say nothing against it There was no way

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In which these rulers could refute the fact that this cripple was now standing walking running leaping

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They just could not say that's not happening the faces were speaking

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The facts were speaking for themselves If the doctrine is false this man could not have been miraculously healed

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If the man was miraculously healed Then the doctrine is true, and he was healed by the name of this man

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Jesus of Nazareth I want to stop there We'll go into 15 next week

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All right, we have Covered the first persecution.

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We're into the persecution it gets rather interesting when They put them back in prison

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And they come to take them out We'll see what happens next week

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Is there anything that anybody would like to say? Yes That's true

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That's true When you were a child, my father was fooled in all the places

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The words of God were corrupt He had incriminations on the walls of the courts

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The God of the Son of God was listening to his statements

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Now he can see the intimidation

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That is what the world Those who live in the

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United States have not seen That's right

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You made one statement Back when we were unsaved That we were good people

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Doing good things Now we may have thought they were good But we didn't know what good was

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Until we're in Christ You're right Roger We see it

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We see everything being destroyed If we had a few

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Madeline O 'Hara's in the world I guess it would be destroyed faster But if you read the

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Bible closely He says this is what will happen Is there anything else?