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Jommy closing you event they all down again? Do you
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say it?
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You? Almighty Creative desires a deep personal relationship with you.
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My name is James Robertson. I'm a researcher, publisher, and
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teacher regarding the matter and truths of the almighty Creator,
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whose true name is Yea the Eterney self existing. I've
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been actively serving him since nineteen ninety three, over thirty
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three years. If you're not actively serving Yard, then by
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default you're serving Satan. My objective is to show you
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how you can make a big difference on Earth and
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qualify for a position of high esteem in heaven for eternity.
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It's important to understand that as a believer, just being
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good is not the point. It's relationship with Yard that comets.
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Without this, you will be in a very unpleasant place
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in heaven with nowhere out. My aim is to show
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you how to get close to Father. If you're a
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good person without a clear relationship with Yard, then you
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are in a spiritual no man's land, and you will
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not into heaven when you die. The Creator has said,
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regarding unbelievers, why would I want someone to spend eternity
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with me when they do not believe I exists calling
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everybody on the planet to be volved and served him
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and help him to have victory over Satan. Fundamentally, we
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each need to learn to see things on earth from
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your perspective. Today, I'm going to carry on with the
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acts of the emissaries the apostles Pot. Five overview. The
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Book of Acts in the Bible reports various activities in
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the lives of emissaries and correct apostles meaning sent ones
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those sent by Ya and Yahoo sure to bring the
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good news for gospel to others, primarily Suarel Incorrectly Paul
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msries exist today just the same, but many are not
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recognized as such, the Book of Acts is generally attributed
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to Luke, the writer of the good News according to Luke,
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or the Gospel according to Luke. And this is part
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five of the Acts. Please refer to the introduction to
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the Eti Bible version and the Book of Mati Yahoo
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for more information, as most of the changes in commentary
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those books apply to Acts as well. So we're continuing.
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This is part five. We're continuing chapter sixteen at verse fourteen.
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And a certain woman named Lydia, the cellar of purple,
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of the city of Thiatera, which worshiped Ya, heard us
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whose heart yard the attorney self existing open that she
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attended to the things which were spoken of shaw And
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when she was immersed in her household, she besought her, saying,
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if you've judged me to be imminifol or incorrectly faithful,
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t Ya the eterney self existing, come into my house
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and abide there. And she constrained us and came to pass.
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As we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed of a
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spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much
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gain by sooth saying the same followed Shawl and us
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and cried, saying these men are the servants, are the
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most high mighty one, which show us the way of salvation.
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And this did she many days. But sure, being grieved,
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turned and said to the spirit, I commanded, in the
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name of you who sued the anointed, one of you
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are to come out of her. And he came out
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the same hour. So here we see another dimension, a
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couple of dimensions. Those things I touched on at the
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end of the last broadcast that women, the role of women,
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the standing of women has been downplayed in the Bible
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as a result of male prejudice by people who compiled it,
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to people who translated it, people who recorded it. I
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shared a few weeks ago about the teaching which is
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very convincing, the evidences that women created as a half
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of the man, not an equal half of the man.
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So the man was effectively divided into two, not a
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rib because there's a whole lot of wrong thinking about
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a woman of the rib. So she's just a little
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bit of a man. No, women are equal. Yeah, and
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women played a much bigger role in the ministry of
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Yo Hushire and the early days of this religion that
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we call Christianity today. That was all pressed down and
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discounted verse nineteen. And when her masters saw that their
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hope of their game was gone, they caught Shawl and
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Silas and drew them into the marketplace to the rulers.
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Brought them to the magistrate, saying, these men being Ya hoodie,
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to exceeding your trouble our city, and teach customs which
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are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe
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being Romans. And the multitude rose up against them, and
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the magistrates rental for their clothes and commanded to beat them,
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who then laid many stripes upon them. They cast them
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into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safe. Having
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received such a charge, trust them into the inner prison
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and made their feet faster than the stocks. And at
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midnight Shawl and Silas prayed and sang praises to Yah,
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and the prisoners heard them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake,
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so the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately, all
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the doors were opened, and everyone's bands were loosed. So
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there's a couple of pieces he had done. Are you
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you personally me bold enough to take a stand? Are
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you willing to exercise your anointing? For example, the cross
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are demons of a very public oppression. And then are
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you willing to be beaten and locked in jail? And
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at midnight sing praises to y'all. He's a special kind
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of person. But the point I want to make to
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you is it's entirely possible for you to get into
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that place. And there was a great earthquake. So Paul
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and Silas sure, and silist, we're getting through to father.
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They had father's attention twenty seven And the keeper of
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the prison, waking out of his sleep and seeing the
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prison doors open, drew out his sword and would have
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killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled and
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Short cried with a loud voice, saying, do not harm
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thyself before we are all here. And he called for
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a light and sprang in and came trembling and fell
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down before Shaol and Silas, and brought them out and said, sirs,
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what must I do to be saved? And they said,
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believe Yvon Adanaya, who surely anointed one of Yar, and
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they shall be saved in the house. And they spoke
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to him the word of Yar. They at tourney self,
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existing into all that were in his house, and I've
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had the point before the word of Yaar is the
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words that were coming out of their mouths. There was
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no New Testament, there was no book that they were
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working for. Y'all doesn't want you working from the book
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you want. You're working from His spirit inside you Verse
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thirty three. And he took them the same hour of
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the night and washed their stripes, and was immersed he
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and all his straightway. When he brought them into his house,
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he set meat before them and rejoiced, believing in ya
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with all his house. And when it was day, the
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magistrates sent the officers, saying, let those men go. The
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keeper of the present told them the saying, to show
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all the magistrates are sent to let you go, and
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are therefore depart in peace. So here we see a
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situation of the favor of your This Jayla is converted.
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And the question I have to ask you, as a believer,
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could you be the instrument of a turning around like this?
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Because there's no reason why you can't other than what's
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in your head was seven which old said to them.
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They've beaten us openly, uncondemned being Romans, and have cast
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us into prison. Now they thrust us out privily, they
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farely could let them come themselves and fetch us out.
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The officers told these words, and magistrates, and they feared
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when they heard that they were Romans. They came and
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besought them and brought them out, and desired them to
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depart out of the city. And they went out of
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the prison and entered into the house of Lidia. When
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they'd seen the brethren, they comforted them and departed. So
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notice that the believers were pretty much in control of
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the situation, as much as it didn't look like that
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to start with. And one does have to ask one'self
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the situation, like the question what allared showal and silas
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to be beaten like that? So, as I've said many
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times before, my understanding is that nothing bad can happen
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to a believer, a true believer like that. And this
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is some we'll see in the next session or two.
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What happened to show a few years on from here
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chapter seventeen. And when they passed through Amphipolis and Apolonia,
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who came to the Alonaka, who was a synagogue of
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the Hudi, and sure as his manner was, went into
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them in three seventh days, reasoned with them out of
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the writings opening and alleging that the anointed one of
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your must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead.
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This Yeahoushure, whom I priest to you, is the anointed
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one of your And notice that I'm saying the anointed
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one of your. Your typical English Bible will say Christ.
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Ninety percent of the time the word Christ refers to
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the spirit of your and not to the person who
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is anointed. The other ten percent of the time it's
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used in the context of the one anointed with the
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spirit of Your. So, for example, Hoosure can be referred
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to as the anointed one. He's not the only anointed one,
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He's unnointed one. In the context of what we're reading about,
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he is the anointed one verse four. And some of
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them believed and consulted with Shawl and silas of the
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devout Greeks, a great multitude, and of the chief women,
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not a few. That is the women again. But the Yehude,
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which believed, not moved with envy, took some of the
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wicked men from the marketplace, gathered a mob, and set
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all the city on an uproar, and came upon the
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house of Jason, sought to bring them out to the people,
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and when they found them not, they drew Jason and
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certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying, these
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that have turned the world upside down are come hither
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also whom Jason has received in these all due contrary
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to the dogmas of Caesar, saying that there's another king,
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one Yahoo Shur. And they troubled the people and the
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rulers of the city when they heard these things. So
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lots of possession if you try and put yourself in
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that situation, in that scenario, in that society at that time,
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much more aggressive, much more harsh, much more physical, not
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an easy area to evangelize verse nine. And when they
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had taken security of Jason and of the other they
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let them go, and the brethren immediately sent to Ratia,
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all in Silas one night to Berea, coming hither thither
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into the senegora of the Yehudi. These were more noble
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than those in the Alamaka, And that they received the word,
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or they're already miss of mind, and such the writings daily,
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Whether those things were therefore many of them believed also
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of honorable women which were Greeks, and of men, not
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a few, but when the Hudie of Thessilonaika had knowledge
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that the teachings of the Yar were preached of shoal Aperia,
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they came to it also and stirred up the people.
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And then immediately the brethren sent away show All to
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go as it were, to the sea. But Silas and
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Ti Matheas stayed. They're still, and they had conducted off,
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and that conducted show All brought him to Athens, and
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receiving a commandment to Silas and to Matthias for to
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come to him with all speed, they departed. So again
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we've got this ongoing thing, got a whole bunch of
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religious people who have got very clear opinion as to
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what is supposed to happen, and yeah, are sure, and
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everything following you are Hushure doesn't fit for many of them,
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and so we end up with case after case of
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people being beaten and being chased out and what have you.
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Verse sixteen. Now, while Shaul waited for them at Athens,
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his spirit was stirred in him, and he saw the
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city wholly given to idolatry. Therefore disputed. He in the
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synagogue with the whodi and with the devout persons, and
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then the market daily with them that met with him.
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Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the stakes
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encounted him, and some said, what will this Babna say?
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And some other sun seems to be a set of
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for the strange mighty ones, because he preached them and
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the resurrection. And they took him and put him into
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the europaas saying, and we know what this news teaching
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with your speakers is, for that bring us certain the
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strange things to our ears. We would know therefore what
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these things mean. For all the Athenians and strangers which
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were there spent their time in nothing else but either
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to tell or to hear something new. Then Charol stood
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in the midst of Mars Hill and said, ye, men
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of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are
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too religious, And that's not a compliment, just in case
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you thought it was. For as I passed by and
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beheld our devotions, I found an altar with this inscription
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to the unknown theos, the unknown God, unknown mighty one,
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whom therefore you ignorantly worship him, that could declare I
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you the clever bit of footwork picking up this unknown God,
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the else unknown mighty One. There's a story in Greek
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mythology about a supernatural event involving this unknown mighty One,
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which was in fact you are. The els is the
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Greek word generally translated God in the New Testament, but