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This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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Coming back to the forging table, the mission of Undaunted Life is equipping men to push
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back darkness with content that forges spiritual, mental and physical resilience.
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At the forging table, you'll see a group of regular guys forging spiritual resilience
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by digging into God's word and we're welcoming all of you to come along in that journey
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with us.
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That's Ryan.
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That's Howard.
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That's Donnie guys.
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We are wrapping up acts.
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So it's always fun when we get to start a new book of the Bible and it's always fun
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when we get to wrap one up as well.
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And so I don't have like a cool game or any like funny questions here at the beginning.
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I just want to dig right into the text.
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So Howard, how about we start out with you?
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Let's read the first 10 verses of Acts chapter 28.
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This is Paul going to Malta.
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Okay.
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Once safely on shore, they found that the islanders, the island was called Malta.
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The islanders showed us unusual kindness.
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They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was rain and cold.
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Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and as he put it on the fire, a viper dripping out
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by the heat fastened itself on his hand.
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When the islander saw that the snake was hanging from his hand, they said to each other,
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"This man must be a murderer."
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For though he escaped from the sea, the goddess justice has not allowed him to live.
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But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
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The people expected him to swell up and suddenly die or suddenly fall dead.
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But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happening to him, they changed their
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minds and said he was a god.
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There was an estate nearby that belonged to the chief official of the island.
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They welcomed us to his home and showed us generous hospitality for three days.
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His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery.
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Paul went to see him and after a prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him.
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When this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came to him and were cured.
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They honored us in many ways and when they were ready to sail, they furnished us with
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supply and all of the supplies we needed.
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So I guess dysentery doesn't just happen on the organ trail, apparently happened back
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in biblical days as well.
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But here we've got Paul.
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I mean, you've been beaten, you've been stoned, you've been shipwrecked, now you're a snake
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bit.
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Okay?
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And so he's at least having to run a bad luck, Satan's working overtime or something like
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that.
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But it was just so funny to me because I was remembered of what earlier in Acts, whenever
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there were certain things that would, that would happen.
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They would like try to treat these guys like God's like, no, no, no, we're not gods.
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Now you have Paul here gets bit by a snake, they're like, you know, this guy must be
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a murderer.
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This is a terrible person.
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And we don't know how long because it doesn't say here in the text.
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But it just means like, in here, I'm like just a few moments later and then it's like
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all of a sudden, this guy's a God because he doesn't die from the snake bite.
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And so anyway, it just struck me as a really funny.
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I think it's funny.
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They're like, this guy has to be a murderer.
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And he was.
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Yeah.
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He wasn't a murderer.
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He was a murderer.
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He was a murderer.
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That's true.
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Yeah.
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But then they thought he was a God by the end of it.
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I bet he, I doubt he was like, no, let me set the record straight.
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I am actually a murderer.
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I've taken out a couple of Christians.
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No, I just think it's kind of crazy to look at like, that's how people view justice.
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They were like, Oh man, he couldn't have done anything too bad.
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He survived that shipwreck, you know, and it's like, Oh wait, one moment later, he gets
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bit by a snake.
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This guy has to have been a murderer, you know, and it's just like, I think that goes to show
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that God's, God's justice is different than what we would have as our justice and that,
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that Paul may have done some bad things in his life.
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And now he was a new creation through Christ.
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And I think that him beginning bit by the Viper and not succumbing to those injuries,
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show what that new creation can do.
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Well, notice you have natives here on an island, you know, probably not really, you
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know, civilized.
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I mean, they were civilized, civilized, but not at the level of maybe Roman.
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And they still understood morality and that they were showing hospitality that that was
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still innate.
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Yeah.
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I mean, that was still an innate, but they still also understood circumstances from being
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bad or evil and that they saw this prisoner that was now getting what he probably deserved
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saved by the wreckage.
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But then hey, you're too bad to get by in the record.
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You're going to die this way.
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But this was innate in terms of knowing that evil deserves bad and being good as hospitality.
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And this is not a Christian, but this is just an innate part of human beings.
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Well, I think that's funny to actually bring that up in the fact that these were prisoners
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off a ship and they still showed hospitality like, yeah, like I watch con air like think
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of like that bus that con air breaking off in your neighborhood with like Cyrus, the virus,
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the first con air reference on the forging table and a ball, you know, and like you like
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open your home to them like, Hey, guys, come on in, you know, your bus broke down will feed
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you will hang out and like, you know, one of them gets bit by a snake.
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So I just think it's just kind of funny that you point out that, you know, that hospitality
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that was there no matter where they were at.
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Right.
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So it's pretty cool.
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Well, and God always points out in scripture, when people that are peggings do show hospitality
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and kindness to Christians, right?
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So I mean, just another great example of that.
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I think the thing I was reading in sprolls commentary was do we show that same pattern
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as Christians?
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Right?
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Peggings do that.
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Do we do that as Christians?
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Do we open our home?
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You know, we're in a society today where we're just so busy with everything going on.
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But do we slow down long enough to open our home, have people into that and go out of
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our way to show extraordinary kindness and look how God responded to those that showed
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hospitality.
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Yeah.
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There's healing there.
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Yeah.
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And Paul was healing people on the island and that was response to how they had treated
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his people.
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Yeah.
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It's also that side of it that says, listen, I bless those that take care of my people.
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Yeah.
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It's kind of a neat principle.
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Yeah.
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What do you say to Abraham?
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I'll bless those who bless you.
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And I think it wasn't just Publius' father, but it was everyone.
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And what that was, was multifever.
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Multifever was a disease that would happen for meeting unpasteurized animals.
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And so it was like a form of bacterial infection.
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But how it worked was you would have all these symptoms for like six months.
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And go away for a couple of days, maybe a week and then they would pop back up again
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for another six months.
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Like you never got rid of it when it's also a potentially great band name, multifever.
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Yeah.
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Come on.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That would make it even better.
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That's right.
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Hey.
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Are you okay?
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You sound like you're got something.
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No man.
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I'm just just singing your music, right?
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Singing my music.
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Yeah.
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You can sing it.
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Well, I think one thing that is important here as well is I guess how easily people are
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swayed by circumstances and they evaluate circumstances like, Oh, dude's a murderer.
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And then circumstances change.
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And then it's like, Oh, this dude's terrible.
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Maybe think of this.
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You all probably heard of this, but maybe some people in the audience haven't, but it's
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this Chinese proverb, which I'll get to, but it's a farmer in his son had a beloved stallion
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who helped the family earn a living.
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One day the horse ran away and their neighbors exclaimed, your horse ran away.
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What terrible luck.
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The farmer replied, maybe so.
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Maybe not.
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We'll see.
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A few days later, the horse returned home leading a few wild mayors back to the farm
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as well.
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If you found it out, your horse has returned and brought several horses with him.
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What great luck.
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The farmer replied, maybe so.
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Maybe not.
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We'll see.
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Later that week, the farmer's son was trying to break one of the mayors and she threw him
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to the ground, breaking his leg.
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The villagers cried.
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Your son broke his leg.
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What terrible luck.
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The farmer replied, maybe so.
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Maybe not.
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We'll see.
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A few weeks later, soldiers from the national army marched through town, recruiting all the
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able-bodied boys for the army.
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They did not take the farmer's son still recovering from his injury.
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One shouted, your boy is spared, what tremendous luck, to which the farmer replied.
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Maybe so.
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Maybe not.
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We'll see.
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This basically says the moral story is, of course, that no event in and of itself can
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be truly judged as good or bad, lucky or unlucky, fortunate or unfortunate, but that only time
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will tell the whole story.
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There are a lot of things that we see in our own circumstances here to where what if Paul
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at any point here after being beaten or being stoned or being shipwrecked or this thing.
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What if he ever started, like, looking internally and was just like, man, got bit by snake.
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This is just my land.
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I'm speaking mainly to myself here because I've had some stuff that's happened even recently
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where it's like, gosh, I'm just in my own head.
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I think I mentioned this a few weeks ago, where if you look at things on paper, things
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are good.
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People are healthy.
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Things are thriving.
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Things are good.
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But then you're just stuck in these super-negative thoughts.
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I feel like the people here are like, oh, the son's broken his leg.
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How terrible does this thing possibly be?
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But you have no idea what's coming on the back end of something like that.
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It's room in day 28.
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We know that all things work together for good now, living that on a daily basis and having
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that attitude affect our emotions and our thoughts is a whole different day.
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Well, all working together for our good, or his good, you know?
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And that's what we have to realize is like, hey, this might be a tough time for me.
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That seems like bad luck, but maybe in the end, it's going to work out for his good.
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And we have to realize that.
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I mean, like to look at Paul, Paul had a lot of brushes with good things and a lot of
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brushes with bad things, but it all worked out into the glory of God.
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In verse 10, where it says, and they also honored us with many marks of respect, MacArthur
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goes into seeing this as the start of the church in Malta, that they established a church
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to honor Paul.
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And I thought that was pretty interesting.
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It doesn't say that, but by honoring him, did that establish a church that you think
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of what the shipwreck led to?
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I mean, how many things do we not know happen in Malta after Paul's long gone?
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Didn't we see?
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I'm trying to remember it was Paul and it was a Paul Barnabas that split way back earlier
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in Acts because it was over Mark, because Mark had quit at some point and then now he's
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wanting to get back in the fray, and they had like a prolonged conflict over this group
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going together.
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He ended up splitting and going their own ways, and the thing was is that the church was able
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to spread so they were able to multiply by dividing.
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You have different things where there was, you know, Saul was persecuting the Christians
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and so they scattered and along the way they were setting up Ekklesias, right?
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And so because of persecution, they were scattering the message of the gospel.
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And so that's why it's always interesting to me when people talk about the problem of
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pain or things like that, where, you know, how could a good God let bad things happen
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to good people like that type of thing.
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It's like when you look at a situation and say the only thing that could possibly come
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from that situation is bad and negativity.
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What you're doing is you're assuming a judgment seat that can see all the different circumstances
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that surround the negative one that you're referring to.
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And I don't ever want to get into a position where I'm assuming that I know better than
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God or know better than anybody else, because that means I have to be able to see how every
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single case interrelates just think about a funeral, right?
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We talked about Zach Foster a few weeks ago.
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There was close to a thousand people at his funeral.
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What if someone's just like, good guy, young, young family, less than one year old daughter,
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bad, all this bad, there's no possible good thing that could happen.
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You're one of a thousand at this funeral and I wasn't even in the room.
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I was, I had pre planned to travel and so I couldn't even be there.
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So you're not only assuming that you can see all the different angles of for every single
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one of the people in this room, but everyone that knew Zach Foster, you're telling me that
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you know that all that is net negative, like, dude, you don't want to be the one that's
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making that call.
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I was in the room or I was at the funeral and I can tell you that the gospel was preached
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and a life touched by Christ was celebrated at that funeral.
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It was probably, and I've been to funerals, it was probably the one of the most beautiful
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funerals I've ever been to that was just filled with the gospel message and knowing Zach Foster.
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That's how Zach Foster would have wanted it.
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And I think it was just a testament to the beauty that Christ did in his life that he
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is able to kind of, you know, through Zach's death, kind of show the beauty of what Christ
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can do.
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So you're right on that, you know, like, we can't look at the bad and think that, you
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know, nothing good is going to come of it.
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Something good is going to happen somewhere.
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It may not be to you, but it could be to somebody else.
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How many, I mean, I've had plenty of examples of things that have gone wrong or I thought
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we've gone wrong, whether it's a delayed flight or okay, or something happened and you just
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man, you're mad, you're angry, you're upset, you're ticked off, whatever.
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And then later, you found out it worked out pretty good in your favor and you're thinking
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you're feeling about that big because you didn't trust God.
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I mean, everyone has got it.
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I mean, I have plenty of examples where we're like, man, why didn't I trust God?
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It went the way it didn't.
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I tried to control it and fix it because it wasn't going the way I'd visited it instead
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of going, okay, God, you're bigger than me, I'm just going to ride this wave.
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We all know that, but it's hard to let go of our own expectations.
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I think that's when we just make it about us, you know, and not about him.
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It's like, man, we put so much, and I think it just shows the idolization of ourselves
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and our selfishness, which is kind of what the gospel goes after.
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It's no longer about me.
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It's about him, and I think that's something that sometimes even as Christians we lose
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track of.
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You don't see it much being about Paul, do you?
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I don't see much being about Paul.
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Even when Paul heals Publius' father, he just says he laid, he prayed, and then putting
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his hands on him healed him.
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Like Paul prayed, you know, Paul's not sitting up here like, oh, there's not one thing in
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the Bible where I've seen Paul be like, hey, you know how many people I just healed?
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Or any of the apostles doing that, but like, I feel like in our culture nowadays, especially
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our Christianity culture in some areas, like, there's this whole kind of pharisaical view
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of healing.
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It's like, well, I've healed all these people.
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Like, I healed this person of their headache, and it's just like, why are we cheapening
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it?
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You know, like, this is something huge.
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This isn't Paul being like, well, I just healed this guy from dysentery or Peter.
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I just raised Dorcas from the dead, you know, or sauce, or sauce, you know, and it's just,
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they don't come back and talk about it.
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And actually it's not even them talking about it, it's people writing about them that are
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talking about it.
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And they always pray.
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They always pray.
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It's coming from God's power, not from their own hand.
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And so like, y'all give me a hard time of being like a cage stage Calvinist.
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So it's like, sometimes you've got to watch out for that cage stage charismatic, you
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know what I'm saying?
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Well, but don't you see that other way around, you know, look what business I built.
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Look at these kids I raised, you know, look at the, you know, the body I created or, you
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know, we'd get caught up in our own world to look at I'm self, you know, I'm self made
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if you will and we get caught up in that and forgetting that God gave us the tools, God
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gave us the wisdom, God gave us the talent, God gave us the ability and we kind of get
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out of the way and understanding he's the painter on the paintbrush.
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And I think that's one thing that we look at too, is like some of these pastors that
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have fallen.
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You know, it's like, it's so sad and it's, it's so hard, like, you know, we've had some
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that fall that, you know, we've really adored and it's just like, man, they're like, you
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know, Ravi Zacharias.
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He's like with his whole, whatever he was dealing with, his whole sinful fetish.
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He was like, well, I deserve this.
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I've done all this for the kingdom.
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I deserve this.
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And it's like, no, you don't.
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You don't.
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Like that's, I think that's what we have to look at is like, we don't deserve it, but
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he gives it to us gracefully on what is right and what is true.
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And so I think when we sit and then we think that we deserve something or something's ours
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or we did it, he didn't.
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He lose track of what it's all about.
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Well, look at the humility of Paul just in this and verse three where he's, he's shipwrecked,
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you know, gone through what he's gone through and he's helping pick up sticks to get the
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fire going.
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Yeah.
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Can you imagine?
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Right.
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He's got a Viper on him and he's just shaking it off his stupid Viper off of me into the
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fire.
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He's like, Oh man, I'm grabbing these sticks like, Hey, yo, you know, so I mean, yeah,
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it's just the humility of Paul.
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I mean, he was a tent maker, you know, he was a tent maker.
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That's what he was.
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And then he became the guy who wrote about a third of the New Testament.
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So go figure.
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But I see some names in this next section that I don't know how to pronounce.
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So Howard, that means you're coming out of the bullpen and I read for 11 through 16 sound
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smart.
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Ready to go after three months, he put us out 11 through 16.
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Okay.
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After three months, we put out to see in the ship that had wondered on the island.
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It was an Alexandria and ship with the figurehead of twin goddesses, caster and Pollack.
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We put it in at Cyrus and stayed there three days from there.
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We say, Oh, we sail and arrived at rig them the next day.
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The South wind came up.
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And on the following day, we reached.
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But solo.
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Sorry on that one there.
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We found some brothers and sisters who invited us to spend a week with them.
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And so we came to Rome, the brothers and sisters there had had heard that we were coming and
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they traveled as far as the forum of a pious and the three taverns to meet us at the site
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of these people.
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Paul, thank God and was encouraged when the when we got to Rome, Paul was allowed to live
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by himself with a guard with a soldier to guard him.
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So basically he was on house arrest, but and so we came to Rome.
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So after all of this time, after all the promises after in the middle of the storm, the angel
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of the Lord telling them, Hey, man, it's all good.
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We need you in Rome.
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You're going to talk to Caesar and that has to take place in Rome, all the things he finally
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makes it to Rome.
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So Rome, my wife and I have been fortunate enough and blessed enough to be able to see
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a lot of cities around the globe.
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So we've been to, you know, Kyoto and we've been to, you know, of course I'm like blanking
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now, but we've been to Florence and Venice and we've been to Athens and we've been to
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Istanbul.
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We've seen some really cool places, but my favorite city in the entire world is Rome.
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I love it.
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It's dirty and dingy, but you can literally go get a gelato and then walk through the
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Roman form and then grab a cigar and then walk around the, you know, the Colosseum.
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And what?
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Ready for Ryan.
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Ready for a fun fact.
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Tell me.
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I was born in Italy.
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Okay.
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Where?
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Like Italy, Tennessee or like Italy, a country of Italy.
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Okay.
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I didn't know.
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I had to make sure.
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Okay.
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We've been friends for so long.
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I don't, I'm surprised.
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I never told you this.
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Why, why, why you've been holding out this whole time?
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Because Rachel gets mad when I say I'm Italian.
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Oh, you're Italian American.
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Okay.
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It's high.
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I'm not even it's my, both my parents are American.
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So do you have, you know, dual, dual citizenship?
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They don't recognize dual citizenship if both of your parents are American.
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Oh, so, but I've been to Rome.
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And so the chance of where I was born is right between Verona, where, uh, Rome, yeah and
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Venice.
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So it's like right there in the middle.
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Funny thing about Verona.
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So Verona is kind of like, uh, because we went to Rome, Florence of Venice, but we went
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to a C.C.
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Verona, Lido, some different places in Verona, there's a statue of, uh, Juliet and it's
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really funny because the left, I think it's the left boob of the statue is shiny and the
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rest of the statue is kind of dull.
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Well, our guide was taking us through there and we walk past this wall and there's this
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wall with all these like names or it's, you know, you're at the house of Romeo and Juliet
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and, you know, you can write your little QT, whatever thing on the wall, but it's tradition
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to go through and like rub her left boob before you leave.
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And so obviously I didn't want to be rude to the local culture.
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So I like felt up this statue, but Mike that's a, that's a cute thing about the right.
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I think it's the left one.
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Cause I remember coming in it to it from this way and she was looking that away and it was
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the near boob.
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She was looking away.
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You pop the field.
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Yes.
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100%.
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Her buddy just rub one boob. You know what?
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We need to get to the bottom of this because like I tell that entire story, but I don't
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know why.
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If they're supposed to rub the left is like, right, something is that bad luck?
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I just, I don't know.
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I took a picture at the amphitheater and Verona and it was me and my dad and then some of
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my friend got ahold of it and like super imposed Angelina Jolie where my dad was like, here
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you go.
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Horn this picture looks better.
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And I was like, Oh man, my dad's all right. So I'm just going to click on the first article.
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So okay.
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There, there it is. There's this statue. That's why you have to rub the left one.
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And so this is from a tradition of touching Juliet's statues, breast for luck now cause
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for rebuke.
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Yeah, man.
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It's 2024.
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Yeah.
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I don't know if I want to read this.
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I don't know what this is.
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But yeah.
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So basically that does.
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Okay.
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A bronze statue of Juliet stands in the courtyard touching her right breast according to lore
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of unknown oranges. Origin is said to bring luck.
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So it's her right boob because she's covering up the left one.
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So you have to feel.
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Yeah.
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That's why I feel.
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I can't get full boobage.
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That's why.
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Why wouldn't you want good luck?
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Like I don't understand.
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But there's a balcony right there where that statue's at. And that's with the balcony of
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the Romeo Romeo.
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Where at that?
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Romeo.
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Yeah.
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So no, I have to say it like Rome was one of my favorite places. I've been to like Saigon.
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Have you all been?
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No.
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I've been to.
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Yeah.
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Love it.
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I mean, it is something to try to like navigate there because you walk through New York City.
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Everything's a gigantic grid. And so, okay, I'm going to go to this and this like Halston
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and Feth or whatever. But when you're there, like even if you've got Google maps out on
22:19
your phone and you're using walking directions, I mean, it is cobblestone streets and there's
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like nothing's a straight line. You're kind of going everywhere. But you know, it's just
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a very interesting city because of the things that you can do. I remember waking up early
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one morning and running circus Maximus. And so it's not it's where they used to do the
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cherry races. Now it just looks like a crappy park with like some busted up, you know, half
22:41
old thing going on. But like back in the day, there would be hundreds of thousands of people
22:45
gathered to watch these cherry races right there. And when you think about it, like you're
22:50
walking through the form and you're like, man, you know, the Caesars walk through here.
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And you know, you go to Paul's history. Yeah, you go to Paul where he was imprisoned because
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at this time he's under house arrest, but he is going to be released and he's going to
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do a couple more years of ministry. And then he's re arrested and goes back to Rome this
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time, you know, not under great circumstances. And so I've been in what is purportedly the,
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the jail cell of the Apostle Paul and it's underground, it's dark, it's dang, it's uncomfortable.
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And it's it's all right there. Like you, you spill out from one part of history and then
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you walk across the street right into another part of history. It's it really is a magical
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city, especially if you have any even tangential interests for your for your trip. Yeah, so
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we had a really cool guide who was a guy from Connecticut that went over for like a, you
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know, a city abroad trip or something like that over to Rome. And he just never left.
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And so this was like five or six years later. And so, you know, American speaks perfect
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English, but then he picks up conversational Italian while he's there. And so the cool
23:48
thing is, is he could speak directly to us in a way that we would 100% understand, but
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he communicated in a way to where the locals knew that he wasn't Italian, but he could
23:56
communicate well enough to kind of get around. But he also knew about things because everyone
24:00
knows about, you know, going to the Vatican and seeing the Sistine Chapel and go into
24:06
the Colseum and the Forum and, you know, all these different places, but we went to some
24:09
off the beaten path places because, you know, for Roman Lord, it's like Romulus and Remus
24:14
kind of, you know, they they suckled from the T of a, of a wolf and these types of things.
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But he when we first got there, the group that I was with, we got there about 12 hours
24:23
before the second half of our college group got there. And so he's like, I want to see
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some cool stuff. It's like, you know, not even in, you know, the books or whatever. So he
24:30
took us to this one place called bone church. And so if you search Rome, bone church, this
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is a particular sect of early Christianity that had a tremendous amount of reverence
24:40
for the dead. And so all of their mosaics on the wall were made with human bones. And
24:45
so like, I'll show you some of these mosaics, mosaic bone church, Rome, amazingly spelled
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all those correctly. But, um, yeah. So you can see in these pictures, like, look, you
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got like this little shrine thing here. And that those are all like skulls. And there's
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like rig rib bones and femurs and stuff like that. And like, that's the, that's the whole
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church is stuff like that. And so that's something that you would not, you know, normally, normally
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see, there's another one you can see like a little gelato have a little cappuccino. Right.
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Check out some bone mosaics. We should call her ABF or yeah, let's change our name. It's
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called a bone mosaic. Actually, just for the guys group, we could quit being mainly men
25:31
of those. It's just be like bone. I don't know. I don't think that will fly since Edmonds
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and swing or down. Yeah, we just established that. I think something a little bit. Yeah,
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we should probably. You know what I love is that when you're walking around Rome and
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you look at the, the sewer, the sewer, uh, what do you want to call them? Ah, little circles.
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Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. The manhole covers and they're like Latin.
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Yeah. Latin with Rome on it. Like, I don't know. I always say it's sport, but yeah. Yeah,
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but Latin for like SPQ or something like that. And I'm like, dude, it was so cool. I was
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like, dude, I left out the all feel right now a bunch of losers over there golf and not
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going over to see wrong. It's going to be going to work. Do you want to? Do you want to see
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Rome some days? I like on the list. Yep. A place you want to go. I think we talked about
26:17
going to Rome and the wives and the next year doing the whole thing. And we stepped us looked
26:25
at the price and I said, you know, I could probably do four or five trips to the Caribbean
26:30
with that one trip to Italy. And we were like, yeah, man, the way to do it though, that's
26:34
the hard part. Do a cruise because I've been to Rome two separate times, but one, we did
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a Mediterranean cruise. And so the cruise left from Chivita Vecchia, which is right outside
26:44
of Rome. And so we flew into Rome a couple of days early. So we walked around and did
26:47
the Rome thing that it was our return trip to Rome. And then we went like Chivita Vecchia.
26:52
And then we went over to Greece. And then we went over to Istanbul for a couple of days,
26:56
which that was at a time. We literally took a picture in between the Hagia Sophia and the
27:01
blue mosque in Istanbul. And like a year later, a terrorist like the bomber like blew up like
27:06
exactly where we were standing. So Turkey's kind of a sketchy place to go, especially
27:10
some of the places we went. These are places we would not go now. But then we came back
27:13
and we did the Amalfi coast, which is unbelievable. And we did some other places I can't really
27:18
remember. But that's the way to do it, because it's like, you're literally traveling as you're
27:23
sleeping and your bags can stay on the ship. And you don't have to worry about where your
27:26
bags are and taking them in a taxi to this hotel. And you obviously look like a tourist.
27:31
A lot of people don't realize how easy it is to do. You don't have to pack luggage everywhere.
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You just go from spot to spot. So but Donnie, to the question you asked your wife or to counseling,
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I need to, I couldn't get my wife to go to Rome. She's like, I don't want to leave the
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kids yet. So how do you get your wife to go to Rome when you have a work opportunity?
27:52
Because that has been we talked about Rome when the kids were gone. Yeah, there you go.
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Well, you could you could do that. But guys, you both literally make thousands of dollars
28:00
a year, both of you. And so it's like, I think you can, you can handle the cost of a trip
28:04
to Rome, right? It's not a cost. You know, it's Danny or daddy, Donnie would rather just
28:08
do like 13 trips to the Caribbean. There's too much sand and sun there. I don't know
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why you don't want to keep going back. There's so much history. Oh, man, Dennis, beautiful.
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We looked, I actually talked to a travel agent two months ago about going into Rome and going
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straight south hitting some water destinations across to what's the island, Sicily. Yeah,
28:30
going to Sicily and then back over and one or two nights, she had drawn up the whole thing
28:34
for us. You should go to Malta. It's just south of Sicily. Malta was one of the places
28:38
that you're looking to be careful around the fire though. I mean, you might like they got
28:42
snake problems, right? They do. I think yeah. What did we call it? The Malta fever, right?
28:48
The Malta fever. Watch out. That's our band. You're the lead singer. All right. Well, Paul
28:52
is in right. Hey, come on, man. That's like demonic, right? Obviously, like those sounds
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are clearly demonic. All right. Last person. Wait, who's red? Howard? No, that's my turn.
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No, no, Donnie hasn't read yet. This one. I thought Donnie started. Did you start, Donnie?
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No, no. Yeah, you're a liar, right? I did. You started because I gave you a big, easy
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stick. Oh, yeah. That's why. Yeah, because I didn't get all the hard names. Yeah, you're
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welcome. You're welcome. 17. Donnie, you are going from 17 through the end of acts. We're
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wrapping up acts right here. Let's go. Last one. After three days, Paul called together
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those who were the leading men of the Jews. And when they came together, he began saying
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to them, brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers,
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yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem and to the hands of Romans. And when they had
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examined me, they were willing to release me because there was no ground for putting
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me to death. But what the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar and that I
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had any accusations against me, my nation, for the reason, therefore, I request to see
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you and to speak with you for I am wearing these chains for the sake of the hope of Israel.
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They said to him, we have neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have
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any of our brethren come here and report or spoken anything bad about you. But we desire
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to hear from you what your views are for concerning this sect. It is known to us that
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it is spoken against everywhere. When they had said a day for Paul, they came to him at
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the lodging in large numbers. And he, he was explained to them by the solemnly testifying
30:24
about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus from both the law of
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Moses and from the prophets from morning until evening. Some were being persuaded by things
30:34
spoken, but others would not believe. And, and when they did not agree with one another,
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they began leaving after Paul had spoken one parting word. The Holy Spirit rightly spoke
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through Isaiah, the prophet to your father saying, go to the people and say, you will
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keep on hearing, but will not understand, and you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive.
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For the heart of the people has become dull and with their ears, they scarcely hear and
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they have close their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes and hear with their
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ears and understand with their heart and return. And I would heal them. Therefore, let it be
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known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles. They will also
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listen. When he had spoken these words, the Jews departed having a great dispute among
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themselves. And he stayed with, he stayed for two, four years in his own rented quarters
31:26
and was welcoming all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God and teaching concern the
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Lord Jesus Christ with all openness unhindered.
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And that's it. That's it for Acts 28. And so for some people, it's like, wait a minute,
31:39
what the heck happened to Paul? Like what in the world do we know? So we have from church
31:42
tradition and church history that, you know, Paul stayed these two years. He was released
31:47
in another couple of years of ministry, which I talked about earlier. And then he was re-arrested
31:51
and eventually executed when he was re-arrested. That's when he, you know, was writing Second
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Timothy and certain things like that. And so, you know, there's still a whole lot left
32:01
to Paul's life. And so this, this doesn't exactly wrap it up in a bow. I do want to go
32:05
back to verse 23, where it said, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince
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them about Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets. And some were convinced
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by what he said and others disbelieved. So one of the things I wanted to point out is
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it said that he was trying to convince them. And so obviously, you know, Ryan, you know,
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we talked about an osmat this point to where it's like, you know, why would someone who's
32:30
a strict Calvinist or a cage stager? Why in the world would they try to convince somebody
32:34
to accept Christ or to use reason based arguments because they're either elect or they're not?
32:38
And that's not exactly the point here. The point is, is that we see that what did Paul
32:42
try to do? He tried to convince people because he did not know of the people he was looking
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at. Who is elect? Who are the people that would choose him as it were if you have more
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of that theological persuasion? And we see right here that we get right into the results
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and some were convinced by what he said, but others disbelieved, go all the way back to
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Jesus. And that's what we see. The Gospels preach, the Gospels proclaimed that the message
33:07
of Jesus is put out there. Some people go along with it and some people don't. It just kind of
33:12
is what it is in ministry. What did Jesus, how did Jesus really teach? What did he use a lot of?
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Parables. Parables. Yeah. And it's not everybody understood the parables. Some people did and
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were fed by them and some people didn't and they weren't fed by them. Like the Holy Spirit opened
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their eyes to that. And so that's the thing is a cage stage Calvinist or a Calvinist or having the
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mind of, you know, God's, God's providence over your salvation is that that doesn't, if I believe
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that, that doesn't give me an out, not to go and do what he's called me to do, which is to preach
33:44
the gospel and that and like, you know, I have people that I talk to on a daily basis who are
33:50
Christians and I will come at a Christian, you know, argument on why they should have salvation
33:54
or if they, they know Christian ease and I have some family member, I have a family member who
33:59
wants to look at all the science. He doesn't really look at the Bible. And so I have to find a way to
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preach the gospel to him in a way that he'll understand it. And hopefully his eyes are open to it.
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That's just my job to do. Now, I can't open his eyes. Only God can, but I may not be the person
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do it. I may be dead and gone and my brother could be like 55, 60 years old and then finally clicks,
34:20
you know, but you know what I'm going to do? I want to do like Paul did last week or two weeks
34:24
ago and I'm going to hope like he hoped for into a, a grip of the second, like whether it's now
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or later, I'm going to hope that at some point your eyes are opened.
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Well, and even saying that, I mean, this, this form of verses from the Old Testament, go to the
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T. Bill and say you will be, you keep on hearing their hearts will become the fold or dull.
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Their ears will be, you know, not able to hear eyes closed. Notice that that exists,
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but that doesn't stop us from speaking the truth and from bringing the gospel. You know,
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we're seeing more of this now than we've ever, ever before in our world today. Eyes are closed.
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You know, ears are not hearing, hearts are dull and yet we're still with call just like Paul
35:10
to continue to preach the word. Well, I think it's interesting if you go to John 1237, he talks
35:17
about willful unbelief and then sovereign blindness. So, you know, they were given the
35:23
opportunity to believe, but they hardened their hearts and then he turned it to where they couldn't
35:28
believe, right? Just like he did to Pharaoh. So I think that's that piece that, you know, he gives
35:33
us the opportunity to respond and a lot of times we don't and he closes the door. Yeah, and I think
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Donnie brought up a good point is that we live in a society now and we live and it's no different
35:44
than the society back then. I mean, we want to go back and look at Paul. Paul, under the time
35:49
was living under Nero and Nero was just as depraved as our society is now today. The Romans were just
35:56
as depraved, but we need to speak truth. And Paul, I think is a great example of speaking truth. He
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spoke truth to Agrippa. He spoke truth to Festus and we need to be able to speak truth, but when he
36:10
did speak that truth, he spoke it in love. He spoke it in a caring manner, a manner in that he actually
36:15
cared for the people he was talking about. He wasn't just trying to win an argument. He really
36:20
cared and he really wanted these people to see what God has done for them through Christ Jesus.
36:25
And I think we see here at the end, verse 31, proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about
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the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness without hindrance. So I mean, we should see that though,
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without hindrance piece, like he's basically able to do his job with the protection of Rome because
36:40
he's under house arrest, but he still has Jewish people that would love to see him dead. And so
36:45
he's being imprisoned and kept safe by by a Roman, right? And so, you know, I kept thinking about the
36:53
First Amendment, at least as it currently stands here in the United States, we're able to say the
36:58
things that we want to say about Jesus, because we have the legal right and ability to do so,
37:02
because the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights recognizes the inalienable rights that all of us
37:07
were not given by government, but they just recognize the rights that we were given by a sovereign
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God that created everything, including us. And so I think that that's important here. And that's
37:15
an interesting way to end the book of Acts, where it's like he is openly preaching this message that
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he has already verbalized that he would give his life for. And he's doing it with boldness,
37:25
not just when it's convenient and without hindrance, which means there was no hindrance to the
37:29
spreading of his message. And we we also see here in the text that he he very likely was working,
37:34
like during these, you know, two years, he maybe he went back to tent making or doing so he was
37:38
doing something other than just just sitting and preaching on pre on street corners.
37:43
Proverbs 28, 20 says a faithful man will bound with blessings. Always a faithful man, he had bound
37:50
with blessings. A lot of what he was blessed with in terms of what Kyle just mentioned was because
37:56
of his faithfulness. He was faithful. God blessed him. And I think that that the scripture is still true
38:02
today when we're faithful. God blesses us. Now, is blessing your shipwrecks and snake bites and
38:10
prison for two years, four years, ten years, whatever, he still blesses us. It may not look like
38:16
blessings that we want materially, but he blessed Paul because he was faithful. He got bit by a
38:21
snake and didn't die. That's right. That's a blessing. Yeah, it's a blessing because he has a cool story
38:25
now. It's like I got bit by a pipe scar. Does he have a scar? Rob, you would think so. I think one
38:31
thing to look at is like, you know, towards the end of acts, this is this is how he leaves us with
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what we're talking about God proclaiming the kingdom of God in teaching about Jesus Christ
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with all boldness and without hindrance. And so we look at 2 Timothy is that his last letter.
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I think I'm pretty sure it's pretty sure it's his last letter. And so 2 Timothy 4,
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I'm going to read verses one through, through eight. I solemnly exhort you in the presence of God
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in Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead and by his appearing in his kingdom,
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preach the word, be ready in seasons in season and out season to correct rebuke and exhort with
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great patience and instruction for the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine.
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But wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance
39:25
with their own desires and they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
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But as for you, you self-restraint in all things and your hardship, do the work of an evangelist,
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fulfill your ministry for I am already being poured out as a drink offering.
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And the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course.
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I have kept the faith in the future. There is reserved for me the crown of righteousness,
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which the Lord, the righteous judge will award to me on that day and not only to me, but also to
40:03
all who have loved his appearing. Isn't that just like an awesome way of like reading the end of Acts
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28 and then seeing what he wrote in his last like he like he talked the talk, he walked the walk,
40:16
he finished the race. And how many times do we not like think about how we can finish the race or
40:21
how we get lazy and don't want to finish the race. I want to use the way I believe in regards to
40:27
salvation of not doing what Christ has asked me to do and be obedient to his words. Like we have
40:33
to have obedience. We have to be able to correct and we have to be able to speak truth and love
40:38
and finish the race. When it's our time, can we say that? Whether that's tomorrow, neither of us
40:46
guaranteed to be here tomorrow or whether it's 20 years from now, can we say that? That's a
40:53
sobering look that I had when we were at Acts funeral. It's like, man, can I say that I've done
40:58
that when they're talking about, man, at the drop of a dime, he'd go to a widow's house and take
41:03
care of something or if you ever, Kyle's talked about it a couple of times that he's always just
41:08
always been there. Drop of a dime, you call him, he's like, I'll be right over. I'll get it taken
41:12
care of. And it's just like, man, where am I going to be? How am I going to finish a race?
41:18
Zach had 38 years of life. And then the last, who knows, in the last five years, he's done more
41:24
for the kingdom than I probably could have done in 39 years of my life right now.
41:29
And the thing for Zach is why was he doing it? He wasn't doing it for social media.
41:34
No. He wasn't doing it for clicks. He wasn't doing it. So the interesting thing is after he died,
41:40
stories began to circulate of Zach Foster stories of that time where at the drop of a
41:45
hat, Zach would do whatever was necessary to take care of somebody else. He would inconvenience
41:51
himself to an extreme degree so that somebody else can be made whole or have their project
41:55
completed or get their timeline back in order. And the thing was is like, it was always a different
42:03
story. And so like he wasn't doing it so that he could brag to somebody else about, oh, yeah,
42:07
whenever I helped out such and such so and so, it was just part of the DNA of who he was as a person.
42:12
And so even if he did some of those things before he became a Christian,
42:16
because we talked about that a little bit, like there were some people that are like,
42:18
hey, I knew him. He was a good dude before he became a Christian too. It's like, even if he
42:22
was doing those things, he would have admitted to you. The reason I'm doing them now is because I
42:27
want to serve the least of these. And so the least of these today might be a widow whose,
42:32
you know, husband just passed away and he always mowed the lawn even into his 80s.
42:35
And now all of a sudden there's nobody to mow the lawn. Well, I'm going to mow that thing until
42:39
there's somebody some other way that we can get that taken care of for this gal. And he was going
42:43
to continue that the guy wanted a large family. He wanted a buttload of kids. He had, you know,
42:47
one daughter that he got to meet here on this side of heaven. And that that's just the thing
42:52
with a guy like that is he ran the race that was set before him. And he did it with a glad heart.
42:59
And he always, you know, spoke the truth and love no matter what. And again, like he was a huge fan
43:04
of undaunted life and supported what we did here. One of our earliest donors and like constantly
43:09
sharing the material with other guys because he, because he knows the drill, he knows that there
43:13
are some guys that he can't just send him our Hitchcock sermon too, because they're going to
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listen to it and they just don't really understand. They don't get the cadence. They don't get like
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where all this is going. But maybe they can send him an episode of the forging table or an interview
43:23
with Vodie Bockum or something like that. And they're going to be like, okay, well, I can get
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down with some of this and this just the way in. And so, you know, making sure that we can be
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more like that and how we operate. Zach Bragg, though. I always heard Zach Bragg.
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Bragg on himself. Yeah, never about that. Jesus. I do. I do talk to you. I think you've said it.
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Like, incessantly talked about Jesus. And I was like, man, I want to have a heart like that.
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I want to incessantly talk about Jesus, not about myself. Absolutely. Well, guys,
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go ahead and go. Are you trying to wrap up? Well, what we got?
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Dude, that 11 22 thing, man. What do you mean? It's awesome. I kind of want it.
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This is awesome. Well, I've already talked about it before on the show. Apparently,
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you're not all caught up on all the shows. But yes, this is a wonderful custom leather made
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thing on my little Yeti cup here that I got from a great 11 22. It's got the 11 22 logo on one side
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and undaunted on the other. Do you think he could do one for me that says the forging table or
44:20
jubby left? I doubt it. Because that's like the dumbest title possibly that anyone can have. Oh,
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maybe that can be on one side on the other side. Be like, this guy is scared of sweaty legs or
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something like that. We can do something like that. You you rapping me in a pretzel? No. Well,
44:35
that's the it gets a little weird when you go back around to have half socks. Half socks. Oh,
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boy. For those of you that were not here a few weeks ago, they don't throw me under the bus.
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We're flip flops. We're wearing thong sandals at the moment. So we don't have any issues. I'm
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wearing thong sandals. Yeah, well, in addition to his rainbow thong these got underneath. But guys,
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anything else on the entire book of acts before we move on man, I love acts. No, boom. Well, guys,
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we have delayed long enough. We need to go ahead and announce what we were doing as the next book
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for the forging table. Let's see what I can do to draw this out. Because I know I mentioned
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Romans a few months ago, I talked about how we might hit Romans. And the thing is, is all roads
45:17
kind of lead to Romans. But the thing is, is it's kind of going to be hard to continue moving on
45:21
without going back to the beginning. And so we're going, shut up, Ryan. I'm in the middle of telling
45:25
everybody what I'm just saying. No, what? What? What? What? Ryan? What? What? I've asked for
45:31
this one for a long time. Okay, you could have said that after I was done, like I was about to
45:35
crescendo. We were almost there. You decided to kind of like, but you're, Hey, anybody else got
45:40
anything to say before I announced the actual couple couple counts, we might. Yeah, there's not a big
45:44
enough couch for the two of us, apparently. But yeah, there he goes. Here, we're going to the book
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of Genesis. Is that okay? We're getting to the book of Genesis. Is that what you wanted?
45:53
Let's just do whatever you want all the time. Okay. Sorry, Kyle Lee. No, but we are doing the
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book of Genesis. It's one of those things that from the beginning, we're like, okay, we don't
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really know what the forging table is going to be. We did the book of Galatians because it's like,
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all right, there's only six of these. So it's a really terrible idea. We can do six of these and
46:08
never do them ever again. But I just remember it's like, man, you get into something like Genesis.
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That's a year. Like that is a year of your life because Genesis kind of breaks down a little bit
46:17
different where, you know, we might spend maybe we'll spend two weeks in one chapter or maybe we'll
46:21
combine some chapters, but guys were digging in. And so I know there's going to be a lot of
46:25
opinions, especially on the first three chapters that Genesis getting into some areas that I swore
46:29
we'd never talk about here on the show. But it's going to be a lot of fun. I'm excited about
46:33
Genesis on OB. Oh, Ryan, are you excited about Genesis? I was. You got a little bit of a little
46:39
pin mark on there. It's just something to remember me by. Not that big a deal. But I'm super excited
46:44
about Genesis. I'm really looking forward to the first four chapters. And there's so many different
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commentaries. And I know all of us have mentioned different ones. We got Sproul and Stod and MacArthur
46:52
and different things. But my goodness, there's been so much ink spilled on Genesis. And I mean,
46:57
just chapters one and three. I mean, we could spend the next year talking just about chapters one
47:03
and three. But you know, we'll do our best to make it interesting for you guys. But we're gonna have
47:07
to leave the book of Acts there. But guys, come here next week ready to discuss Genesis one or
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