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please thank you all right today is the 25th of June and just like that June went
I just I keep telling everybody I'm still waiting for January 1st I mean I
just never got started right here on the left we have our Sunday morning
evening sir I mean our Sunday morning service at 10 30 a.m.
Sunday evening 4 30 p.m. And then Wednesday service 5 30 our soul winning time
officialists
Sunday at 2 p.m. But everybody in the church knows they just if they're flexible they can just reach out and I'll go out or
I we can make it happen any other day
That's just the one that we know for sure we can we can be on and then the memory verse for this week
I think we were gonna you guys getting some grace because
I think we were supposed to be on Psalm 23-4, but we're on 3 again.
So, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
For thou art with me, thy rod, and thy staff, they comfort me.
And then souls, one year to date, 147.
We went out on Sunday. We didn't get any souls one, but we got rained on pretty good. So that was interesting
And then just we have our June happenings
We have all our birthdays there the one that's coming up
Shortly is Christian Rogers and then this Sunday is fifth Sunday dinner
So we will actually be providing the main dish and then if anybody wants to just bring any any side
There's nothing specific the main dish covers most of it. I mean if anything's just desserts or drinks or
Something they like the compliments food
We we were gonna do Mexican, but my wife found a better deal on Italian
I know I didn't tell anybody with enough time and that can be a big deal
But that's just what we're doing. So I made an executive decision and then on the back if you'll just love
Pray we're still working out the kinks on the automation for the prayer list
But that will start going out weekly as well as the memory verse and some other things that I'm going to start
Emailing and texting out so if you want to get on our email list or text just for those notifications that'd be great
For me the prayer request is actually more important than all of them
I think it's important for us to just be praying for each other as the Bible's told us of right there the big one is
James and Mary Bostic, they served here faithfully for many many years. Most of you probably will never meet them
But he's now in hospice and she's moving into assisted living. So just pray for them
Pastor Cobb, how long did they come here? I mean, I was here 10 years before they stopped coming. So 30 years
Yeah, so you've been 40 you've been here 48 probably most of that time
Most of that time that you were here. So I just pray for
Sylvia Fitz and her family the Longoria family the Jesse Boteo in their family
We'll eventually remove those but there was a couple of deaths in in our church family
If nothing else turn your handles over to page 274. I would like to just
Acknowledge is it you guys got to give me your names again
Annalisa and
and Amanda, I'm sorry, you knew him, I'm sorry, my wife knew him, but I'm horrible with names,
and then what ended up happening, I need to get him right the first time. So I'm really good if
I remember your name right the first time, but if I remember it wrong, then it's wrong the rest of
your life, you know, I'm just gonna do that. So Annalisa and Sister Amanda, they're here from
Corpus Christi with their daughter, and so we're happy to have them. Let's turn our hymns over
Jesus with
Enjoy
All right let's turn our handles over to page 169 and then we're gonna be in the book of
chapter 24. Moe, do I have the sermon over there? Oh yeah, we'll switch when you
come up. 169, standing on the promises. 169, standing on the promises.
Standing on the promises of Christ my King.
We're there in Acts chapter 24, Acts chapter 24, we'll read there where the Bible says.
And after five days, Ananias, the high priest, descended with the elders and with a certain orator named Tertullus,
who informed the governor against Paul.
And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying,
that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence. We accept it
always and in all places most noble Felix with all thankfulness, not
withstanding that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou would
us hear us of thy clemency a few words.
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a ringleader of
the sect of the Nazarenes who also have gone about to profane the temple
Whom we took and would have judged according to our law, but the chief captain Lysius came upon us and with great violence
Took him away out of our hands
Commanding his accusers to come unto thee by examining of whom thyself may as take knowledge of all these things
Where have we accused them and the Jews also assented saying that these things were so
Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered,
For as much as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation,
I do the more cheerfully answer for myself, because that thou mayest understand,
and that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for the worship,
and they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people,
neither in the synagogue nor in the city, neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers,
believing all the things which are written in the law and in the prophets,
and have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow,
that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.
And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience,
Now, after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings were upon certain
Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude nor with tumult, who
ought to have been here before thee, and object if they had ought against me, or else let these
while I stood before the council, except it be for this one voice that I cried standing
amongst them, touching the resurrection of the dead, I am called in question by you this
day.
And when Felix had heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred
them and said, when Lysius, the chief captain, shall come down, I will know the uttermost
of your matter.
that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto
him. And after certain days when Felix came with his wife, Drusilla, which was a
Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. And as he
responded, and as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment
to come, Felix trembled and answered, Go thy way for this time, when I have a
He hoped also that money should have been given at him of Paul, that he might lose him
wherefore he sent for him the oftener, oftener, and communed with him.
But after two years, Hortius Feastus came into Felix's room, and Felix, willing to
show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
to have a quick word of prayer your father god thank you for this day thank you for all the people
here today lord i pray that you fill us all with your spirit and help us to receive the message
with gladness lord and i pray that you feel pastor and refail with your spirit help them to preach
an accurate sermon for the word of god lord and help us to apply it to our day-to-day lives and
The very first thing I want to point out is since acts 19
For Paul he's been like in a I mean he's not poor, but you know what I mean?
He's been just basically like a hot potato going from governor and
Magistrate to governors and magistrates. I mean he's just been moved around all because of who the Jews and
You know this week
We've had a lot of
Jewish news on the you know television I mean so much so that even good old
Trump lost his temper and let out some choice words about them both Iran and
the Jews and the one thing I want to point out and I'm really gonna make an
emphasis here because of what's going on but also because it's actually very
thematic in the book of Acts is the fact that the biggest cause of persecution
the anti-religion or Judaism, right? I mean, I'm going to prove to you from the Bible,
we're not going to go into every scripture, but all the way, and I'm not going to go all the way
to the end of Acts, I'm just going to go from Acts 1 to Acts 23.
How many times the Jews have falsely accused the brethren, right?
I mean, it's just like this never-ending thing and even to this day just preaching on this subject
We're talking about the Bible. They'll use the term anti-semitic, which means nothing
I mean, it's just something that they made to sound negative
It's like when people say that you're a homophobe
Which doesn't mean anything because I'm not afraid of any queer. I just don't like them, right?
Like we don't it has nothing to do with the fact that
they're I don't like I don't lose sleep at night thinking of like you know these flamboyant
sissies coming to mind I mean I'm just like that's not what I'm I'm not afraid of them
I mean if anything they should be afraid of God. I am afraid of God, but let's just get into the message here
and so the first thing we're going to see let's let's go there to Acts 24 and verse 1 and
The first point I have for you really quick is that flattery is the tool of the crafty and flattery is it is a
Really interesting trait because it you can't go wrong with flattery
You can remove all your emotion and if you are able to actually
Remove the emotion of your ego of liking the fact that somebody's telling you something nice
Somebody who flatters you is just not a good person
And so anytime that people come to me and I've said this before
You know, I don't mind and I appreciate when someone
Compliments me on a sermon or something like that if
I'm always careful, you know to like I'm always trying to discern is that flattery or where they sincere because if it's flattery, you know
obviously
Red flags go up and I'm always gonna be careful cuz at the end of the day the true colors are gonna come out
Like it doesn't matter human nature is human nature
You know, I tell people all the time in my business
Whenever I'm bringing them on as a client or I'm looking for some kind of partnership or anything
I mean, I've been saying this for years now in probably decades
It's like hey when I go into any business deal and I do the same thing in church when I go into any church
relationship or any church friendship
Just assume right from the get-go that you're gonna screw me that you're gonna back stab me that you're gonna do something to take advantage of me
And that way it just makes me sleep easier knowing that that possibility is already on the table
I mean we're like man, you're just kind of cynical and negative. I'm like no, I'm just I just know it's human nature
And actually, I should probably be more candid with that response, that request saying, you know, not only should I be like careful that you might take advantage of me, but you should be careful that I could take advantage of you.
And it has nothing to do with me going into it maliciously. It's just human nature. It's human nature.
right? If we're actively in the flesh, we're just going to fail and we're going to do what the
flesh naturally does. The flesh cubits, the flesh envies, the flesh, you know, does nothing. You
know, even Paul says in, in Romans, he says, the things that I want to do, I don't do and the
things that I don't want to do, those are the things that I do. And isn't that the battle that
we have every day? You're like, today I'm going to wake up. How many of you in your mind planned
the perfect day only to fail like within the first five minutes of the day, right? I'm going to wake up
Now, that's why people hire coaches, you know, that's why people hire people or get surrounded
by accountability and things like that.
And you need to do that because if you just rely on yourself, you're going to fail.
And obviously the biggest accountability or the biggest coach or leader we have in our
life is the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's why we need to meditate on the Word of God day and night, right?
But we're there in Acts 24 in verse one, the Bible says, and after five days and in eyes,
With the elders, you know, of course, we know that now, uh, what's his name? Paul has been moved
But the juice just won't give up it says and with a certain orator named
Turtulus who informed the governor against Paul now they're bringing someone who can he's he's good at you know
They're they're bringing, you know
Ted Cruz when he was actually good because now he's horrible and the reason I say that is because in 2012
My wife and I were there in the what's the one right there in a right there on Westheimer the really nice
Hotel Oaks the Oaks Hotel or whatever
The it's a hot whatever it is right in front of the Galleria
We were right there he had this big hole and by accident
I mean we were part of the campaign, but we weren't like like the elite right we were just like I was
32 at the time so we were just part of the the the group I was working for the city council member
I was the chief of staff so I had some stature, but I wasn't like the main donor or anything like that
But we ended up in the wrong room with Ted Cruz
And I remember I went up to him to shake his hand
And he had just gotten the call that he had won the primary
to go and you know basically go up against the democrat at the time and i was like the
first one to shake his hand and i thought this guy's cool like we campaign for him
grassroots movement you know he did kind of like obama and then now he's just a major
disappointment i mean it's like the guy's just a piece of crap i mean there's no other way to
What's what's one of the things that really stood out about Ted Cruz that he was a really good debater, right?
He had a debate history. He was a really good orator and that's what and Anise is doing here
He's bringing this guy by the name of Turtulus and it says who informed the governor against Paul and when he called for
Turtulus began to accuse him and in that interesting what the Bible says that the Jews are of the synagogue of Satan
And what is Satan known for being the accuser of the brethren? What is their tool is doing here?
He's beginning to accuse him saying seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness
and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation
by thy providence.
We accept it always and in all places,
most noble phoenix with all thankfulness.
Notwithstanding that I bet no,
not further tedious unto thee,
I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us
of thy clemency a few words.
I mean, this guy is like buttering it up in me.
He's just slathering this guy up.
He's like, oh, most noble phoenix, you know, you great.
And what do we see right now in the news, right?
Either Trump's buttering himself up or he's got a bunch of people that are buttering. I was watching
Uh, I don't know the guy's name. He's got that weird name
The guy that's leading the defense the secretary of defense or whatever the guy is always doing push-ups with everybody
And like Trump remember on what was it Saturday night? He gave that four-minute speech about how they had the greatest
military
tactic of all time and then the next morning this guy got up with the
the joint military staff or whatever the leader, and I listened to a couple of it, and it was
just like another regurgitation of the same thing. He's like, Trump is the only president
in history to ever do this. Everybody's trying to remove Iran from having weapons of mad
destruction, but Trump actually did, you know, like it's basically this, this, what is it, flattery.
Cause you know, at the end of the day, the same guy, I mean, I remember what we remember
back in the primaries, when Trump ran the first time, Ted Cruz and all these guys that
now are like with Marco Rubio, they couldn't stand him.
Like they went after him.
And now they're like kissing the ring.
They're like, Oh, wonderful Trump, you know, you're the greatest things is sliced bread.
It's the same thing here.
Right.
Roman leadership, but they're going to do whatever it can, you know, to throw Paul under the bus,
basically. Turn your Bible over to Psalm 5. Turn your Bible over to Psalm 5. We're going to be in
the book of Psalms really quick, but I want to point out a couple of things, what the Bible says
about flattery. In Psalms 5, the Bible says there in verse 8, it says, lead me, O Lord, in thy
righteousness, because of mine enemies, make thy way straight before my face, for there is no
Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulchre. They flatter with their tongue
Destroy thou them, O God. Let them fall by their own counsels.
Cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions for they have rebelled against thee.
And the reason I point this stuff out is because this is the attitude we need to have to people that are
Viciously against not only us and the Lord Jesus Christ, but also our flattering right there. It says what what are these attributes of someone who flatters?
It says there is no faithfulness in their mouth. You can't trust in what they're saying
right, I mean
Who really believes that if we took a poll of the United States of America and asked them, do you really trust your politicians?
I guarantee you, I don't even have to take that poll.
Probably over 80% of people would say no.
Right? Because politicians speak out one...
I mean, didn't Trump say that within two days of taking the office that the Ukrainian war would be over?
Like, I mean, you can't... I think that's what he ran on that platform, right? That there would be peace and there would be no more wars.
Right, and it says make what I'm sorry says their inward part is very wickedness. I just saw some clip of men yahoo
Talking about how Iran within a couple of months had the the the technology to make
New clear bomb, you know when this was in 1995 and
Then there's another clip in like
1996 where he's like within a few months. They have the technology to make
You know a new clear bomb and then fast forward to like 2002 and it's like the same message
He's like Iran is very dangerous and then mean they could very quickly with the technology
They have make a new clear bomb and then in 2002 the same thing and then 2006 and then there's one clip where he's like within a few days
They could make a new clear bomb and guess what in June 12 of
2025
He repeated the same thing and you know what Iran's not done in the last 30 years
This is 1995
When Netanyahu has been screaming this they've not made a nuclear bomb now. I'm not saying they want to say
He's been very wrong for the last 30 years, right? They're inward part is very wickedness
It says their throat is an open sepulchre. I mean literally what has been going on in the Middle East
It's all just death and destruction and it says they flatter with their tongue
Destroy them, I mean, destroy thou them, O God, let them fall by their own counsels, cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against thee.
It has nothing to do with us, it's against the Lord Jesus Christ.
Proverbs 29.5 says a man, you go to Psalm 12, but in Proverbs 29.5 the Bible says a man flattereth his neighbor.
Spread it spread it a net for his feet. Hey, we have to be careful when people are flattering us
Because what they're basically doing is setting up a trap for us
All right
We need to just take heed lest we fall like the only thing that matters for me
And we don't get that kind of feedback verbally is I just want to please the Lord
Right, so who cares what the world thinks whether they like it or not
You know, it's always nice to get a pat on the back when you're preaching to the choir
But that doesn't mean that you need to get a pat as a matter of fact, I don't expect it
I don't welcome it. It's not something that I like I don't preach
So somebody could tell me how great of a preacher I am or how wonderful the sermon was I just preach because
God's told me that we need to preach the word of God, right?
If you go to Psalm 12 verse 2, I mean verse 1, the Bible says,
Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor, with flattering lips and what and with a double
heart, do they speak? It's not just that they have flattering lips, they have a double heart.
They're playing both sides of the fence, right?
The Lord shall cut off all the flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things.
And it's interesting that it's also tied to someone who's prideful, right?
I mean, it's just like the Bible is just so relevant in 2025.
Who have said, with our tongue, will we prevail?
Our lips are our own. Who is Lord over us?
I mean, I mean, I know that maybe they're not saying that, but isn't that the attitude of literally
Americans right now? Like, you know, Americans have this attitude of like we don't have I'm free. I don't have to have
Accountability I don't have to have leadership
But we, that believe the Bible, actually look for that.
We want the Lord to tell us we're wrong.
We want the chastisement of the Lord.
Now it's not fun during the happening, but we want it because at least it keeps us on
the straight and narrow.
So the very first point we see is that flattery is not a good thing.
Second thing we want to look at and go back to acts 24 and of course stay and keep your finger there in acts 24
Because we're obviously in the book of acts and right there in verse 5
The second point after you today is that the world will twist your witness. I mean the world's gonna
I don't know. This is probably a rumor. There's so much stuff on on everything the news in the media
But I know Tucker Carlson
Beat up Ted Cruz pretty bad on this debate
But then I think after that he got some backlash like from the mainstream media for that, right?
And what they'll do is they'll just twist
like that testimony. Now, I don't, Tucker Carlson is a Catholic. He's not, but he was actually speaking some truth. And for that, he's probably getting beat up a little bit, right? I mean, as Christians, we're always getting beat up for just preaching the truth. I mean, I brought that up over the weekend about how I spoke to a family member. And they basically got mad because I told them the Bible says that, you know, imprecatory prayers are real. And they were like, I don't think so. I don't think God talks like that. When actually it's like, well, you just haven't opened your Bible, maybe because they're pretty
Apparent they're there, right? I'm not going to reprieve that sermon, but you know, that's the world
But what's going to happen as these things start to wax worse is that our witness will be twisted, right?
We're going to get falsely accused. We're going to get called different things
And we see this here even with paul. I mean literally this is not I mean, it's kind of hard not hard
But it it's repetitive because literally at every point since ax 19 paul's gone like hey
believe in the Lord Jesus Christ you killed the Lord Jesus Christ the Lord Jesus Christ is the way
the truth in life he is salvation and they're like you're you're a bad dude right even here we see
in verse five it says for we have found this man I mean this is pretty rough it says we found this
man what a pestilent fellow pestilence is not a good like that's a pretty strong word
You know when you think of pestilence you think of disease and filth and violence like if I was going into like
You know what? I when I think of pestilence. I think like the dump like nobody's hanging out at dump
Right like we're not going to the dump. They're like this guy's a pestle fellow. He's a bum
He stinks. He says and a mover of sedition and a poor little them right among all the Jews throughout the world
Notice poor Paul's preaching in this region of the world
And what do they do they're like this guy took it a step further
He's like he's not only a mover of sedition among all the Jews, but not just the Jews here
throughout the world and
a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes
Who also have gone out to profane the temple whom we took and would have judged according to our law
They said hey, we would have taken care of this business, but
the chief captain lasayas came upon us and with great violence and now they're being like
exaggerate isn't that what we see in america i mean literally america is replaying this
it says with great violence took him away out of our hands
i mean didn't they harp on january 6 of like 20 whatever 2016 like to no end
When there's been like worse events in US history, but it's just like they're always victimizing themselves, right?
It says commanding his accusers to come on to the by examining of whom
Thyself make us take knowledge of all these things. Where have we accused him?
And the Jews also assented saying that these things were so and it wasn't just enough that he said it
Everybody there was like yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's true
Don't know what it looked like when I envision this have you guys ever seen like the House of Commons or Parliament in like England
You know, they're really loud and rambunctious and like somebody says something there's like yay. Yeah. Yeah, yeah
Or nay, you know, that's kind of how how I envision this go over to Revelation 12
You know, we're the accuser of the brethren is always going to influence those that hate God
Right, I'm not even trying to pick on the Jews. I mean literally
The religion of Judaism and by the way, I'm not picking on a people the Jews the race doesn't even really exist anymore
I mean if you could I don't know how you would prove it to me. I mean if you just do the math
It's just like daunting going back generation generation for 6,000 years
I'm talking about the religion of Judaism, those that hate the Lord Jesus Christ.
They're people that, I mean, they're literally a group of people that think that we are here to serve them.
They think of us as basically cattle, right? That's the way that they portray.
They don't even think of, like, they wouldn't look at this group and be like,
Oh, there's a Mexican and there's a white person and there's a black person back there or maybe an eight.
No, they're like, all of these people are just cattle.
And they're here to serve us.
We're like this great people, chosen people of God,
and you guys are basically trash.
That, I mean, I'm not even exaggerating that.
I wish I was embellishing.
I'm actually, I think I might be downplaying it.
The things that come out of their mouths
is just so much worse, right?
But in Revelation 12, verse nine of the Bible says,
and the great dragon was cast out,
that old serpent called the devil and Satan,
which deceiveth the whole world.
He was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with them and I heard a lot of voice saying in heaven
Now has come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of
Our brother and his cast down which accused them before our God
But pay attention. What did he say when he was in heaven? He accused them before our God
day and night
Literally the devil like just wouldn't even rest. He's like the first thing he did in the morning
The last thing he did before he went to bed in heaven is just like hey, look at look at so-and-so
Look at what they're doing. They're not going to church. They're not whatever
I don't know what what he accuses stuff, right?
It says and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony and they love not their lives
Unto death what how do we overcome the devil? We're just willing to just give it all for the Lord Jesus Christ
You don't have to turn there for the sake of time, but in Luke 23 verse 2 the Bible says
Verse 1 it says in the whole multitude of them arose and led him unto Pilate speaking of Jesus and they began to accuse him
Saying we found this fellow perverting the nation and
Forbidding to give tribute to Caesar saying that he himself is Christ the king
In Acts 17 verse 6 says that when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren
unto the rulers of the city, crying, that they have turned the world upside down, or come
hither also.
John 1520 by the way, I just picked three just just for the sake of threes a nice round number
I mean literally you can make an entire sermon just on false
Accusations of the Bible and you wouldn't finish if I wanted to bore you to death on how often the
Christians, you know those that believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are just falsely accused from the beginning
All the way to the end. It's like a never-ending story
Well, it will end one day, but it feels like an ever-ending story, right in John 1520 the Bible says remember the world
That I said remember the world with the word that I said unto you the servant is not greater than his Lord
If they have persecuted me they will also persecute you
You know, I just went online and I'm not I'm gonna just pick and choose here in the book of Acts
Here's a little timeline of the Jewish persecution
From Acts 1 to Acts 23
In Acts four, you have the first arrest of Peter and John.
Who's leading the charge?
Jews.
In Acts five, the apostles are imprisoned again.
In Acts six, 11 through 14, Stephen is framed.
And what do they do?
They bring a false witness against Stephen, right?
And then in Acts seven, they stone him in front of who?
Paul who was you know a Jew of all Jews, right? He he even said it himself. I'm not you know an act 8
Saul
Begins the first wave of persecution or you know that we have documented right in acts 9 the Jews plot to kill Paul after its conversion
And this is not the one we talked about last week when you had like 40 guys
That said they weren't gonna eat or drink anything else they were gonna fast until they killed Paul
This is another time in acts 13
The Jews contradict and blaspheme Paul and that in acts 14
They poison the minds and they do like a violent upheaval or violent attempt in acts 17
There's rioting over the gospel in acts 18. There's legal charges before Galileo in acts 23
There's the assassination plot. Oh, that was two weeks. Yeah, no, we're 24, right? Yeah, that was last week
I mean, it's just like this never-ending thing, right? Like Peter and John are the targets in acts 4
You know in acts 5 it's 12
in acts 6
11 through 14, I'll read a couple of them for you
when Stephen's frame says that they sub-born men,
you know, they bribed them, which said,
we have heard him speak blasphemous words
against Moses and against God.
They falsely accused him, and they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes
and came upon him and caught him and brought him to the council and set up what false witnesses,
which said, this man seeseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place
in the law.
For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place and shall change
the customs which Moses delivered.
I mean, and then they stoned him in X7 and I'm gonna repeat myself, but I just want to drive this point home
Like it's like a major theme of the book of Acts
The persecution is led by literally an anti
group, right and and an anti Christ
in Acts 8, you know, the target is the Church of Jerusalem
In Acts 9, the Jews are literally plotting after Paul says it out, but after many days
And I'm you don't have to turn the just just follow with me after that many days were fulfilled the Jews took counsel
What to kill him?
But they're laying weight was known of Saul and they watched like the gates day and night to kill him
Like I mean they were relentless in plackable
X 13. I mean, they're literally contradicting this jealousy. They they're going after Paul and Barnabas the next 14 again a mob tactic
It says but the unbelieving jews threw up the Gentiles and made their minds evil affected against the brethren
You know what's happening today? They're like anti-semitic, right? What do they call it the the Southern Poverty Law Center?
And then they have the other one. What's the other one the I don't know
But the one about that the Jews run, you know
There's like several groups and they're like oh woe is us these people preach against us
And you know some of our friends churches are there, right?
We probably should be there, but we're just not that famous
So that's why we're not on there
But if they just got a hold of some of our preaching we'd be there and the worst part is we're not even preaching anything
violent
or negative we're just calling them up for who they are i'm not telling anybody to go out and
persecute them or attack them or you know do anything uh to the lord's gonna take care of them
but that doesn't mean we don't stop preaching about it i mean that doesn't mean we yeah i think i
said that right if i didn't you know what i mean you know in act 17
Again, I mean Jason and other believers who just attacked right there in verse 5 says but the Jews which believe not
Move with envy took unto them certain lewd fellows of the base. They're bribing
They're convincing
They're grabbing like the vilest people
Lude fellows of the baser sword and gathered company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason
Literally, I mean, this is not even I wish it was conspiracy theory because at least I sound crazy
This is just the facts of life. This is the truth. There's like ads on Craigslist
Where political parties from the left funded by Jewish money will hire you to go protest different things throughout the country
And I mean these guys have been interviewed. They're like, oh, we showed up
And they said they're gonna pass a hundred and something a day or two hundred dollars a day
We showed up to this alley and then there was a palette of bricks
And, you know, we put two and two together.
Like, this is what's going on.
I mean, this is the facts.
Acts 18, the Jews made an insurrection with one accord
against Paul.
Acts 21, and when the seven days were almost ended,
the Jews, which were in Asia, when they saw him in the temple,
stirred up the people.
Like I mean I'm not even like I'm not even trying to pick on them
I mean this is just like this is I could throw a dart at the book of acts to probably land on one of these verses
Right. It says in acts 23
And when it was day certain of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under cursing that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul
And we get to acts 24 and it's the same story
Different, you know different scenario different day same story different book like it's just like the never-ending
Implacable
Judea
Judaizers that hate Jesus Christ and
And they just won't stop
Let me just
I'm gonna have a little pause here. Well, I've got to change
have technical difficulties. The good thing is we adapt quickly. But I mean, I think I drove my
point home. I'm not even trying to be, I'm not anti-Semitic. I don't hate the Jews. Like, you
know, they want to come to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ and they want to get saved and
go to heaven forever. I want them to. But the reality is most of them will not. They hate the
Lord Jesus Christ. Not only do they hate the Lord Jesus Christ, they hate anybody who loves the
They, they, they think the worst thoughts about godly people, about, you know, just the, the
Holy Spirit, the Trinity, I mean, to them, it's an insult that God would come down in
the form of a human.
I mean, that, they think God's the Spirit, there's a whole, you know, that's a whole
other sermon I don't want to get off on track, but because it's on the news, it needs to
be preached.
Because there is a tide of people that are starting to understand that they're not our they're not God's chosen people
Number one, they're not on God's side. We should not be allies with them from a
spiritual standpoint
Now the government's gonna do whatever the government wants to do, but as for us, we're not, look, I'm not gonna blow a shofar, I'm not gonna wear a shawl, I'm not gonna put on a little hat, come up here and be like, hey, let's have my Jewish brothers in Christ, they're not.
Just get it through your thick hat, they're not gonna, and I mean, and you have no idea how many Baptists get mad about that stuff.
Like I've lost more Baptist friends from the you know when I got the church where I met my wife
I made some acquaintances and friends and over the years
You know you stay in touch on them with Facebook and the minute you bring up like something negative about that stuff
That's it. It's over like they don't want to talk to you
No skin off my back, but it's just, it is what it is.
But go there to X24, third point and a half for you,
you know, they flatter,
they're gonna bring up false witness against you.
And another, I guess we could add like a sub point,
is it just implacable.
You know, I like that word implacable
from the reprobate doctrine,
because as a Mexican or Hispanic that speaks Spanish,
you know, I heard that word growing up a lot.
You know, my mom, you know, when you have three kids running around the house, destroying everything,
you know, my mom would call my dad in angst.
And she wanted us to like basically put some order in the house and she would use that word
I remember it clearly los niños están implacables meaning like we just couldn't she couldn't stop us, right?
It's like it's never like and they would tell us to stop remember
You know how kids get the giggles and then you just can't get them to stop now the nice thing about kids
They're just kids, but when you get old and you're implacable. That's a bad thing, right?
Like it's just what's going on but go there verse 10 in Acts 24 the Bible says then Paul
After the governor on the third point I have for you is that our defense is the truth
Right the way we defend against false witnesses. It's just the truth
There's nothing else because honestly our only defense is the Lord Jesus Christ
This is then Paul after the governor had beckoned unto him to speak answered for as much as I know that thou has been
Of many years and judge onto this nation. I do the more cheerfully answer for myself
Because that thou mayest understand that there are yet but twelve days
Since I went up to Jerusalem before to worship and they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man
Neither raising up people neither in the synagogues or in the city neither can they prove the things whereup they now accuse me
They brought no evidence
But this I confess unto thee after the way in which they call heresy
But I hate what they call heresy. I have no problem
He's standing up and he says so worship I the God of my father's believing all things which are written in the law and in the
Prophets and I love the way Paul addresses this right?
He doesn't just strictly go into the salvation message believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, but he called him out
He says hey, I believe what they believe it's in the law and the prophets because you know what if you look at the Old Testament
It's replete with salvation by grace. I mean I preached all those sermons. It's clear as day, right?
It says, and we have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust, and here do I exercise myself to have always a conscious void of offense toward God and toward men.
And that was the title of the sermon I forgot to give it to you. It's act 24 and it's void of offense toward God
And here I do exercise myself to have always a conscious
Void of offense toward God and toward men. Look if we're preaching the Lord Jesus Christ
There will be no holes in
Their defense and their accusation
Now they could find fault in me the man and big rays, right like my my flesh
But you can't find fault in my doctor
Yeah, you might I might not be able to interpret revelation perfectly, but you know what I can interpret salvation by grace to faith
As a matter of fact, I interpreted so well that there's nothing that pisses me off more than a faulty, muddy, down, watered-down salvation message.
I can't stand it. I can't stand if they say it repented your sins, or you need to change your life, or, you know, if you've not shown any, any outward appearance of, of change over the years, are you even saying none of that?
Like, I don't like Lordship salvation. I don't even like accept the Lord Jesus Christ, which is technically not even incorrect.
But the Bible says believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
I'm just careful to say if somebody came up to me and they say why except that the Lord Jesus Christ
I probably will still question them be like well, what do you mean by accept like do you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ?
You know, is it just faith or is it faith and works you'd be surprised how many people would be like well
It's faith and works, you know, I don't believe that you can lose your salvation
I don't believe that there's like an unpartable sin of suicide. I just don't believe any of that
Right, I don't believe that there's multiple versions of the Bible. It's just the King James for the English-speaking people
I don't you know, I don't believe in any of that
I believe soul winning is the way that we lead people to Christ that it's faith to faith
I don't think that some reprobate devil like Judas could lead anybody to Christ
Even though he was out soul winning he was just faking it until he he had the opportunity to turn Christ in
You know all the weird stuff that you hear out there like that's what Paul's talking about right Paul saying hey
My conscious is void of offense toward God and toward men
You know every once in a while, I'll come up to my wife after a service. I'm like, man
I don't know should I have said that you know?
I kind of maybe I was too transparent on this or that but you know what?
I never I never come up to her and say hey
Should I have said that you know you only believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you know faith alone not of works
Let's then he mentioned but that's that sometimes I say other stuff, right?
Because I just get like a little excited and maybe I overstep boundaries or whatever, but you never I've never come up there and been like
Do you think I preached too hard on a clear salvation message?
You know, you think that was too, too clear?
Maybe I should have, I, and that's what Paul's doing here.
Go over to 2 Corinthians, go over to 2 Corinthians 4.
Go over to 2 Corinthians 4 while I read for you Proverbs 20 verse 1.
The Bible says, the wicked flee when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
And there's two reasons I've chose that verse number one.
We see the boldness of Paul.
But in a little bit, we're gonna see
the weakness, right?
What's his name Felix, right?
But in 2 Corinthians 4 verse 1 the Bible says therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy
What does the Bible say we faint now?
You know, that's a clear commandment in the Bible that we need to not faint
Paul was attacked and
Like endlessly I didn't even touch on the fact. I mean, I guess I could have brought up
These are just the examples I gave you just like basic up. I could have brought up the fact that they left them for dead
I know I bring that one up
But to me that's just like the most amazing story of Paul like they stoned him they leave him for dead
He gets up he goes into the next town and he starts preaching again like he's just like let's go back to work. I
Mean talk about his dedication for the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
It says we faint not, but ever now is the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in
craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending
ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.
You know why we preach so hard about all the things?
Even I remember when I first started preaching like even now we've never hit a thousand subscribers on YouTube
Which whatever I don't you know, I've been doing this is 2018 like on the YouTube channel and it is what it is
Maybe I don't know the algorithm. Maybe I'm just not that exciting on there. Maybe I don't know what I'm doing
That's fine. But you know what even with that small of a reach
We get emails and I get comments about people who are just like I didn't know this or thank you for clearing this up
Or I have this biblical question you we just got to preach the Lord's gonna reach who he needs to reach
Through the media that he's gonna do it
You just never know our gospel cannot be hid. Don't ever think that just because you're not
the limelight just because you're not you know
I mean obviously is a friend of ours like because of you're not pastor Anderson or their church that you're not making a difference
You know with compassion and with and some with compassion right making a difference every time we go out and we knock that door every time
We call somebody every time we don't back down and we say no salvation by grace through faith to family member or an ex-church member
Or the cult you left or whatever we're making a difference. It's not hidden
Because if we hide it the Bible says it is hit to them that are lost
We preach here to the choir, but it's really for the edification, right? I'm the goal of preaching is to make you better
That's why we shouldn't just always preach the choir
You know, that's why we do stuff that maybe it's not always exciting like on Sunday
I'm doing an overview of the Bible, you know, it's not as excited as preaching about the homos
I mean, it just isn't right. I think it is but somebody else, you know, maybe someone who's not as doctrinally sound might not think so
But it doesn't matter because none of you know, I don't want it to be hid to them that are lost
The only way I get better at preaching the gospel out there is to get better preaching here, right?
It says in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them, which believe not lest the light
There it is again lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine on them
This reminds me I saw this clip and I showed it to Moe and then I showed it to my wife of
This guy who's an apologetic
I wish I remembered his name because every once in a while he pops him on my screen. He's this guy he wears glasses
He's like a middle. He's probably a little bit older than me probably in his 50s and
It made me so angry because
They obviously they pan to this person in the audience
He's at a college and he's taking these Christian questions and it's a young kid and you can tell he's very sincere
And he's like when Pharaoh hardened his heart
He said does that mean that God harden his heart where he couldn't repent anymore?
That's a great question
Because it's true
You know why that kids doing that because he wants to know that maybe some wickedness will not be rewarded
Right. There's people that think that Jeffrey Jeffrey Dahmer is like saved Jeffrey Dahmer never got saved
Right Judas could never have been saved. It says the Bible says he was the son of perdition
Right and here's God's clear. He says some of them. I don't want him to know
He says in in whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them
Which believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine
So then this guy gets up and then he gives the like the most pathetic answer
I wish I wish I would have memorized it, but basically he's like
He's like that's a really good question
He said what this tells me
The way that I can answer this question for you is that Moses knew Egyptian theology.
Like what now we know Moses did grow up and he was well-learned
But he goes he goes on to further make this thing even worse
And he never even answered the question he goes and by knowing theology
That's why the author of Genesis wrote that he hardened Pharaoh's heart because he's basing it basically on
Egyptian theology says that with when the pharaohs would die their hearts were weighed against the feather
Now I'm not this is his answer as a Christian. He says and if his heart
was
If the feather was heavier than his heart then he would go into the afterlife and if his heart was heavier than a feather
He would go into like I guess what the equivalent of hell and so basically Moses was telling Pharaoh
That this was his like penance
And then he just moved on
Didn't answer the question at all left that poor kid like more confused like that was a very confusing
I was like what in the world?
That's not what the Bible says the Bible says that Moses forsook the sins of pleasure for a season
Let's just go there go to Hebrews 11. It's just one verse. I love that. This is one of my favorite verses
But let's just go there
You know, maybe I should write that guy and be like dude with that
It's there in Hebrews 11 it's right towards the middle when he's talking about Moses
It says, verse 25 says, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of seeing for a season,
esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he yet respect unto the recompense of the reward.
You know why Moses understood that God had heart in the heart of Pharaoh?
not because he understood Egyptian theology, right?
And then we see there in verse five,
it says, for we preach not ourselves,
but Christ Jesus the Lord and ourselves your servants
for Jesus' sake, for God who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness, have shined in our hearts
to give the light of knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 3 verse 15 the Bible says but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man that
Ask if you a reason of the hope that is
In you with meekness and fear having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as evil doers
They may be a shame that falsely accuse you your good conversation in Christ. Hey
You know when you get comfortable in the Word of God, you just get comfortable in answering questions
And I don't have to tell you that Moses understood if that kid would have asked me
I would have been like hey, let's turn it over to Romans 1
Let's go to 2nd Corinthians 4. Let's go to John 12. Let's go to you know, let's go to Isaiah 6
I mean literally there's like a slew of verses where God's like I don't even want him to know
The Gospels are replete with them where God repeats Isaiah and repeats Isaiah and keeps saying hey
Blind them make their hearts fat so they'll they'll never come to the knowledge for Jesus Christ
I literally had someone tell me yesterday that I saw somebody call me and said, hey,
do you remember so-and-so?
This is a family member.
And they're like, do you remember so-and-so?
I was like, yeah.
And they're like, their wife died, and now he's getting remarried right away.
I was like, oh, OK, that's funny.
But the weird thing is, obviously, this is a very typical man thing, especially if you
don't have...
Like high morals or something. He's getting married to a younger woman
So then she's like, do you remember her and I was like, I don't know. I remember the ex and this lady's been divorced
I didn't know this has been the worst attempt. She's like my agent. So she sent me the picture
I was like, oh, I don't remember her and I was like, man, I said, but this late
I thought this lady was an Adventist like it looks like she's wearing a bikini there and and she goes well
You know, I don't think wearing a bikini is that bad. I said
What do you mean? I said, oh, I said, that's what I said. I said, oh, it looks like she's
wearing a, I said, I, well, I said, now I understand why this guy's wanting to get married to a younger
woman. She's a slut. That's what I said. I said, she's a slut. And this person goes,
I don't think we're in bikini, slutty. I said, absolutely is, is slutty. Wearing a bikini is
not only slutty, it's horish. I said, how do we, how do we get to a world where I said, so you're
It's so weird that we've convinced the world that if two young ladies were sitting here,
one's in her panties and her bra and the other one's in a bikini, we would be like,
oh, this lady is in her undergarment. How rude. But this lady's in her bikini. You can stay there.
Don't worry about it. It's the exact same thing. A bikini is just bras and a panty. It's gross.
When you have the gospel of Christ in your life when you have the word of God, you know, it's just comfortable to say that stuff
I wasn't even being rude. I wasn't picking a fight. It's a matter of fact that person didn't agree
I don't care if they say hey, you know what I'm not comfortable talking about doesn't be like all right
Move on like I'm not like a younger me would have thought about it
But I'm not trying to convince them that it's slutty. I'm just telling them the truth. It is slutty. That's it
That's all I you know when you have the truth you just give an answer and you just move on
It's actually very different. I hope you guys are catching that point
I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything the Lord does that we get the credit when we lead people to Christ
But what I am trying to tell you is that we just speak the truth, you know when we go out so many
We just speak the truth. We were out with a couple of visitors on Sunday and go to acts 24 as I'm running this thing up
But we're out so wedding and some guy opened the door and I don't know
He looked a little he was tall and he looked mean
But he also looked like he was a sodomite and I'm like hey
We're out with spring crest Baptist Church. We're just out passing
This is like only a few blocks from here and I handed him a card
I said, oh, is it okay if I had an invitation and he actually took it. It's like
And I said, Hey, by the way, we also, you know, just, we also ask everybody the same question if you've heard it out today or you're 100% sure you're going to heaven.
Oh, wow. Like you just slammed the door in anger.
That's just speaking truth. I wasn't even picking a fight with him. I mean, he slammed it so hard, my son, like, because I was with my son.
Kevin little Kevin I had Kevin Roger son little Kevin and I had Rika with me and we were with brother Jerry
And he slammed in the kids with kind of like that started back like it it turned on the alarm next door
You know the car alarm next door like it just went off. I was like, I guess this guy's like not happy about it
Well, it's just the truth
But you know what we do. I don't even care. I just moved on
It's a good story and then just like life goes on but go back to act 24. Let's just close this thing out
The truth also is not only our defense, but the truth makes men tremble both those that are saved and the unsaved
Now the truth makes you tremble, but not everybody repents not everybody believes on the Lord Jesus Christ
Right in verse 17 of Acts 24 says now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings
We're upon certain Jews from Asia and those Jews in Asia wouldn't leave Paul alone for it
Then it isn't a later in the New Testament
He says everybody in Asian has forsaken me Paul says like those guys did not like Paul
Says found me purified in the temple neither with multitude nor with tumult who ought to have been here before thee and
Object if they had ought against me or else let these same here say if they have found any evil
Do it in me while I stood before the council
Accepted be for this one voice that I cried standing among them touching the resurrection of the dead
I am called in question by you this day and when Felix heard these things having more perfect knowledge of that way
He deferred them and said, when Liza's the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
And he commanded a Centurion to keep Paul and to let him have liberty and that he should forbid none of his acquaintances to minister or come unto him.
So this guy's actually showing Paul some grace.
Which was a Jewish so see Felix was under the influence of a woman and he just wasn't man enough to just put her in her place
She's a Jewish, right?
He sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ and as a reason of righteousness tempers and judgment to come
Felix trembled and asked her go thy way for this time when I have a convenience season
I will call for thee he hoped also that the money should be have been given of Paul that he might lose him
Wherefore, he said for him the oftener and communed with him.
But after two years, Porsches Festus came into Felix's room and Felix, Felix, willing
to show the Jews a pleasure, let Paul, left Paul bound.
So Felix was kind of hoping that this guy would be let out on bail.
He really liked Paul, but Paul kind of threw him for a loopy.
Like Paul had influence and authority and power, Felix trembled at the words that he
was hearing.
And then it got just so far along that the influence of the Jews in his life
That he just you know it says he left Paul bound just to make sure that the Jews wouldn't get mad at him
What does that sound like today?
I mean it almost sounds like Trump didn't want to attack Iran directly
So he found some way to attack Iran in order to appease
You know his allies
Then they still didn't listen. I mean he literally let out a cuss word
He's like, you know Iran and Israel have been going at it for so long. They don't know what the bleep they're doing
I mean, he was so fresh who heard that like he's just so frustrated
In one minute. He's like I
We've got a ceasefire
Everything's great. Everybody's gonna listen to me and then and then Ben and yahoo was like I had listening
And he's like, what the heck, man?
I thought we figured this thing out.
What does it sound like?
It sounds like what we're reading in the Bible.
They're flattering.
They say one thing and they're setting up a trap for another.
They literally set up Trump for a trap.
They're like, oh yeah, we'll cease fire.
And then when Trump went out and told the whole world,
what did they do?
They made him look like a fool.
And that was sincere like I think everything else
You know could be like theater and pumps and circumstance
But that that little clip right there that was real frustration
Usually you don't let that out without some real frustration
I'm just saying whoever who's ever stopped their toe you didn't plan that right and then maybe you didn't say things
You didn't want to say right just go over to 2nd Corinthians 6 and that's where we'll close out
But in Acts 26 verse 28, I don't usually get ahead when I'm we're going through the chapter by chapter
But I just think it's I love this verse because Paul had so much influence
He left a wake of people that could have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, but it wasn't his fault
They were just too stubborn
There were too many too much of men pleaser in Acts 26 or 28 then a grip was set up to Paul almost
That'll persuade us me to be a Christian
You almost and I've had conversations like that
I literally within the last year at a conversation with a guy who said man
You're saying sounds so good. I
Just can't bring myself to believe it. He's like I actually have nothing against it
Everything lines up. I just I don't know why I can't bring myself to believe it
Still pray for that guy. I'm not gonna give you his name because I don't know if he watches it
And he actually reaches out on occasion
Recently he preached he he reached out and he asked me what Bible you should buy and I said don't buy anything
But a King James and he listened to me and he bought a specific Bible
I referred to him so he's reading his Bible. I've preached the gospel and I planted the seed
So maybe he will come around but I don't know. I hope he's not like our grippa, right?
Almost now persuades me to be a Christian
And Hebrews 10 31 the Bible says it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God
The second Corinthians 6 verse 2 we see it will close out with this
The Bible says when we then as workers together with him to teach you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain
Hey, don't do don't get God's grace just in vain. Don't be like those people that we knock their door
we lead him to Christ and then 99% of them don't ever do anything for the Lord.
It says, for he saith, I have heard the end of time accepted, and in the day of salvation I've
suckered thee. Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. And I used to
just, you know, this application obviously is, if you're lost, receive it. The grace of God, believe.
But also, the more we read the Bible, the more this becomes true also for us.
We shouldn't receive the grace of God and not preach the grace of God, right?
That's vanity also.
Today is the day of salvation because it takes two to tango in the salvation process.
You need...
The the person who's lost and you need the person who's given the gospel
I mean, that's clear even in the book of Acts. That's why they're going out two by two
That's why they're scattered abroad
That's why they're preaching every day in the temple and in the houses and the highways and the hedges
The person who's receiving it cannot don't get the grip those people that receive the grace of God
We've planted the seed and they don't accept that's in vain of course
We know that but also if we received it and we don't do anything with it then we're also vanity
Just like Solomon, Solomon doesn't sound like he was a very good soul winner because he's like vanity of vanities
All his vanity say the preacher, right?
He had a lot of wisdom, but apparently he didn't have a lot of soul winning in his life
Whereas David was a man after God's own heart
You know, I'm actually going through the second Samuel. We're going through David
I mean you talk about David's character and demeanor like the guy just he's like no bones about the things of God
Like he didn't mess around right? That's the attitude. We didn't have you look at Paul Paul doesn't mess around
Right. He loves the brethren. He's he's probably one of the most loving and caring individuals
You can see just by the people are following him, but he doesn't he doesn't hold back either
Right, I don't want you I've heard the same before and now it makes sense, right?
I don't want people to you don't have to love me. You don't have to like me
But I want you to respect me right in the sense that I don't need you to be a respected person
Hey, I like people to respect me same man that guy. I
Mean at least we know something about me. He's dogmatic. I've heard that all my life. Oh
Man, that guy's a little bit radical
Ever since he turned the page that guy's a little bit nuts for the Lord. All he wants to talk about is religion and faith
You know, because obviously the world says it different, right? But that's what we were what else is there to talk about?
You know the latest and greatest episode of whatever is on TV right now
Isn't that what the workplace is filled with? Hey, did you watch the finale of so-and-so?
Did you see the this movie did you go and watch that did you?
We like telling stories like hey this guy slammed the door in our face in the next door
We or in this occasion we didn't get anybody but it really did it really was crazy. I'll close with that
Got one four minutes. I've done better about timing myself just because I do have a tendency to want to go over
But we were out soul wedding and then it started to drizzle on us
And I was like, ah, it's just drizzle and then I looked over the left and you could see the sheets of rain coming
And we were three blocks out so we didn't even run we just walked
I mean when I came back on Sunday if you look at our Sunday service
I preach without a coat because they were just drenched like everything I was just like whatever, you know
We love it, right? Why do we go out and do those things? It's a good story, but also because
we planted a seed. We don't know who's going to receive the Lord Jesus Christ.
I've had stories like that all my life where someone randomly called me that met me a long
time ago and they're like, hey, weren't you, didn't you believe like this? Or didn't you
believe like that? And then all of a sudden they got saved. So we cannot be, don't hide your life,
right? The truth is the truth. Be someone who has a conscious void of offense.
You know go to sleep at night with a clear conscience
You might mess up you might get in a fight with your wife, but you know what when it comes to Christ you've got it, right?
So let's close in the word of prayer heavenly father Lord. Thank you so much for today Lord. Thank you for
Acts 24. Thank you actually for the book of acts for being so clear Lord honestly
It's kind of daunting of a mental
Gymnastic experiment
to try to convince yourself as a Christian that the Jews are God's chosen people when you read the book of Acts.
So I just would
pray that more people would actually read their Bibles and that they would see clearly
that anybody, and it's not just the Jews, just anybody who doesn't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is anti Christ.
They hate the Lord Jesus Christ.
Or the wrath of God abided in them. Not everybody hates the Lord Jesus Christ.
But there's a lot of people pushing for that.
There's leadership, there's religious leaders and political leaders that are pushing that agenda.
And the lost world will more likely fall into the flesh and the spirit until they get saved.
So it's our duty, Lord, to be that light.
because there's not a lot of light out there, but not a lot is needed to make a difference.
Help us, Lord, to make a difference, to have compassion, to pull people out of the fire.
Thank you for the message, Lord. Today, thank you for just
edifying our hearts with the Book of Acts. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.