SPEAKER_00: You're listening to the rogue with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt.
SPEAKER_01: Church, you are a jewel.
SPEAKER_01: You are beloved.
SPEAKER_01: You're a child of God.
SPEAKER_01: You're a son of God.
SPEAKER_01: You're a daughter of God.
SPEAKER_01: Not because you produce fruit yet, but because that's your identity.
SPEAKER_01: So as you stay in a healthy environment of a local church, you stay in a healthy environment of having some blood-stained allies, you stay in a healthy environment of learning to worship and pray, you're gonna produce fruit.
SPEAKER_01: It's gonna come.
SPEAKER_00: At The Road, our vision is to raise up wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: For more information on the road, visit theroad.org.
SPEAKER_00: We hope you are encouraged by today's message from Pastor Teacher Steve Holt.
SPEAKER_01: Turn to Malachi chapter 3.
SPEAKER_01: We've been talking about the refiners fire.
SPEAKER_01: And this is the last week we're going to talk about the refiners fire.
SPEAKER_01: Because God's really been speaking to us as a whole family, but also to the road leadership team and to our road ministry here.
SPEAKER_01: That God's bringing a refiners fire.
SPEAKER_01: He's doing something.
SPEAKER_01: And for the last six weeks we've been talking about the refiners fire.
SPEAKER_01: Go back to Malachi 3.
SPEAKER_01: For you that are guests with us today, I'm going to read our kind of seminal passage that we've been reading, and then we're going to finish up with chapter 4 in Malachi.
SPEAKER_01: Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me.
SPEAKER_01: And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight.
SPEAKER_01: Behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
SPEAKER_01: But who can endure the day of his coming?
SPEAKER_01: Who can stand when he appears?
SPEAKER_01: For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launder's soap.
SPEAKER_01: He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver.
SPEAKER_01: He will purify the sons of Levi.
SPEAKER_01: Purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.
SPEAKER_01: Say fire with me.
SPEAKER_01: Say breakthrough.
SPEAKER_01: Say joy, righteousness, and peace.
SPEAKER_01: Say refiner's fire.
SPEAKER_01: Because the refiner's fire of God brings, don't miss this, righteousness, peace, and joy.
SPEAKER_01: That's the kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_01: God never comes with a refining fire in your life except to purify you as gold and silver that you might experience the kingdom of God in a deeper way.
SPEAKER_01: You've heard me say that in the church, he's not a forest fire, he's a refiner's fire.
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't come and just indiscriminately burn, but we're going to look at chapter 4.
SPEAKER_01: And those who are not saved, those who do not have a personal relationship with Christ, he is a forest fire.
SPEAKER_01: He comes in because he hates wickedness and he hates immorality.
SPEAKER_01: But he loves you.
SPEAKER_01: And he cares about you.
SPEAKER_01: And if we'll embrace the refiner's fire, which is really, really hard, 1,764 degrees Fahrenheit to refine silver.
SPEAKER_01: So if any of you feel like you're in that kind of heat, welcome to the refiner's fire.
SPEAKER_01: But God is guiding you to righteousness, peace, and joy.
SPEAKER_01: He's enabling us to experience the kingdom at a new level that because of the sin in our life, because of rebellion, because of laziness, I mean it's different in everybody's life, because of our catatonic spiritual state, we're not experiencing it all.
SPEAKER_01: And this is actually the way he works, church.
SPEAKER_01: Because he loves you.
SPEAKER_01: So look at chapter 3 at the very end, and I want to start there, and then we're going to go into chapter 4 because I want to embrace these two verses, 17 and 18, again.
SPEAKER_01: We talked about them last week.
SPEAKER_01: They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, on the day that I make them my jewels.
SPEAKER_01: He's talking about you, church.
SPEAKER_01: He's talking about you.
SPEAKER_01: You're a jewel to him.
SPEAKER_01: I will spare them.
SPEAKER_01: As a man spares his own son, you know why?
SPEAKER_01: Because you're his own sons and daughters.
SPEAKER_01: You are his sons and daughters.
SPEAKER_01: He spares you.
SPEAKER_01: As a man spares his own son who serves him, then you shall again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
SPEAKER_01: So, so God says to all of us here, and it's really important that we hear this before I say any more about the refiner's fire, is that you're beloved.
SPEAKER_01: Most people do not feel and experience their belovedness.
SPEAKER_01: You're a jewel.
SPEAKER_01: And I don't think that's a mistake.
SPEAKER_01: He uses the word jewel when he's talking about a refiner's fire of silver and gold.
SPEAKER_01: Some of you have beautiful gold lockets around your neck or bracelets on your wrist.
SPEAKER_01: Some of you have piercings and it's and it's gold and it's silver on you.
SPEAKER_01: Those are jewels.
SPEAKER_01: You're his jewel.
SPEAKER_01: But that jewel had to be refined.
SPEAKER_01: We were walking through.
SPEAKER_01: Does anybody ever don't don't anybody raise their hand?
SPEAKER_01: But I was thinking, I was in California this week and I was walking through the airport, and there's a jewelry store right there in the airport.
SPEAKER_01: And there's a person, there was actually people talking.
SPEAKER_01: I was thinking, who buys jewelry in an airport?
SPEAKER_01: So don't answer that because it's wonderful if you do.
SPEAKER_01: I just want you to know, God bless you.
SPEAKER_01: You probably forgot something and you needed it and you're going to a meeting or whatever.
SPEAKER_01: I think that's what people do.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: But I don't go.
SPEAKER_01: Does anybody go to the airport to look for jewelry?
SPEAKER_01: I can't wait to go to DIA with my boarding pass so I can go and look at that one jewelry section on the way to my gate.
SPEAKER_01: Kind of cheapens it a little bit.
SPEAKER_01: Right now, Liz has noticed, we've been married a while, that one of the diamonds is loose in a ring, and so she hasn't been wearing the diamond ring.
SPEAKER_01: She's been wearing wearing the uh the actual wedding ring, which comes from her great-grandmother, but it's not the diamond, and it kind of and it bugs me.
SPEAKER_01: Kind of makes me mad.
SPEAKER_01: She says, Well, we could lose the diamond.
SPEAKER_01: I said, Well, then don't wear it.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I I dig that.
SPEAKER_01: But I want to go to the jewelry store and I want to get this thing fixed and put it into a beautiful arrangement.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna go to a jewelry store because jewelers do jewelry stuff.
SPEAKER_01: They they're jewelers at church.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus is a jeweler, and he's honing you, and he's and he's polishing you, and he's making you beautiful.
SPEAKER_01: Don't miss this point.
SPEAKER_01: You're beautiful.
SPEAKER_01: And we're gonna talk about family today.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna talk about how important it is that we treat each other with honor and that every person that comes in this room encounters God as best we can.
SPEAKER_01: We set it up where they can encounter God, but most people encounter God through people.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, if we had the Shekinah glory come down and angels appear, man, that would be super cool.
SPEAKER_01: But probably the way we're gonna encounter God is through someone loving us and through someone giving us honor and someone who cares about us.
SPEAKER_01: That's that's what a marriage is, that's what a family is, and that's the way the church is supposed to be.
SPEAKER_01: Because we believe there's gold in every person, there's silver in every person.
SPEAKER_01: Our job is not to criticize the old man, it's to polish the new man, to pull that out of you.
SPEAKER_01: That's what a good coach does.
SPEAKER_01: That's what a good dad does, that's what a good mom does.
SPEAKER_01: We we we look and okay, the room's not cleaned up again.
SPEAKER_01: But but in the midst of the discipline, and I'm not saying you shouldn't have to have discipline in your home and stuff, but I am saying that the way in which we interact and the way in which we coach our kids is to bring out the gold, right?
SPEAKER_01: Because God has made them beautiful and they're precious.
SPEAKER_01: For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble.
SPEAKER_01: This is that forest fire part of God.
SPEAKER_01: He is a forest fire to those who are wicked.
SPEAKER_01: And the day which is coming shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, that will leave them neither root nor branch.
SPEAKER_01: Now, keep your finger in chapter four or use your marker, whatever you have.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to flip to the right and look at 1 Timothy.
SPEAKER_01: So just keep moving to the right.
SPEAKER_01: I always go like this.
SPEAKER_01: Just go like that until you go through 1, 2 Thessalonians, you'll see 1 Timothy.
SPEAKER_01: Come to 1 Timothy chapter 1, starting at verse 12, he begins this dialogue.
SPEAKER_01: Paul's writing to Timothy, his pastor in Ephesus, about the church there.
SPEAKER_01: And then he says a very interesting thing.
SPEAKER_01: He gives us admonition about enablement, empowerment, but then look at verse 15.
SPEAKER_01: He says, this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance.
SPEAKER_01: So he's about to make a doctrinal point.
SPEAKER_01: This is, aside from what I'm telling you, Timothy, don't miss this.
SPEAKER_01: He says, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.
SPEAKER_01: He's saying that the primary purpose that Christ came was to save us from our sin, to save us from ourselves, so that he could make you a jewel.
SPEAKER_01: So that he could make you gold and silver.
SPEAKER_01: Now he's not done though.
SPEAKER_01: Look at verse 16.
SPEAKER_01: He says this.
SPEAKER_01: For this reason I obtained mercy that in me first Jesus Christ might show all long suffering as a pattern.
SPEAKER_01: Then jump down.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 18, this I charge you, I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by then you wage good warfare.
SPEAKER_01: Then chapter 2, verse 4, he almost says the same thing again, who desires all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.
SPEAKER_01: Here's why I'm saying this.
SPEAKER_01: You read Malachi 4, 1, and you might come away with an impression that I believe many of us in this room have, because of our religious background, of a wrathful God.
SPEAKER_01: That God in his wrath kind of can't wait to kind of get the wicked and get the sinners and burn them all up.
SPEAKER_01: But looking always from a New Testament perspective, we see that at the very core of the heart of Jesus, and the very core in the heart of Timothy as a pastor in Ephesus, is that Christ came to save those who do not have a personal relationship with him, and that his passionate desire is that every man, woman, and child would get saved.
SPEAKER_01: That is his heart.
SPEAKER_01: That is primarily the purpose of the church is to save these jewels.
SPEAKER_01: These beautiful jewels.
SPEAKER_01: You know, there's no other creation in all of creation created in the image of God but us.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saving elk.
SPEAKER_01: I shoot them.
SPEAKER_01: I don't save deer.
SPEAKER_01: We don't save fish.
SPEAKER_01: And by the way, I believe in all the environmental stuff.
SPEAKER_01: Most of it is fine.
SPEAKER_01: It's great.
SPEAKER_01: If we didn't have environmental laws, then we wouldn't have any animals or fish.
SPEAKER_01: So I'm for that.
SPEAKER_01: But my point is fish are not created in the image of God.
SPEAKER_01: Elk are not created in the image of God.
SPEAKER_01: We are.
SPEAKER_01: That's why we are so passionate about pro-life issues.
SPEAKER_01: Because every little baby is created in the image of God, whether it's in the womb or outside the womb.
SPEAKER_01: It really matters to God.
SPEAKER_01: So God's heart is he wants to make take this tarnished, this tarnished life, this broken life, this life that's been full of sin and rebellion and drug addiction or whatever it might be.
SPEAKER_01: And he takes that life and he turns it into a beautiful jewel.
SPEAKER_01: He gives it a new heart and a new spirit.
SPEAKER_01: And then what he does for the rest of our life, church, is he polishes you.
SPEAKER_01: He takes that jewel and he polishes us.
SPEAKER_01: And he polishes us.
SPEAKER_01: You know why?
SPEAKER_01: Because he wants you to shine like the sun.
SPEAKER_01: Shine like the sun.
SPEAKER_01: Because look at the next verse in chapter 4, verse 2 of Malachi.
SPEAKER_01: But to you who fear my name, the sun, S-U-N, the Son of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings, and you shall go out and grow fat.
SPEAKER_01: Grow fat like stall-fed calves.
SPEAKER_01: For any of you that struggle with your weight, you can always use this verse as an apologetic for where you're at.
SPEAKER_01: He wants you to grow fat in Christ, Son of righteousness.
SPEAKER_01: The most powerful metaphor for Jesus Christ is the sun.
SPEAKER_01: Nothing more powerful in all of the creative order than the rising sun.
SPEAKER_01: I've been up in the mountains of sub-zero weather so many times I can't even count them all.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm hunting or I'm hiking or I'm fishing or whatever it is I'm doing, and that sun starts to rise.
SPEAKER_01: Oh man, it's awesome.
SPEAKER_01: And if you know anything about the outdoors, you tend to want to be on the shadow side of the mountain so it doesn't just blast into your eyes.
SPEAKER_01: But most of us that are freezing run over to the other side when it first comes up because we're so numb.
SPEAKER_01: And our lives have been numb without the sun.
SPEAKER_01: And the sun of righteousness is rising.
SPEAKER_01: And the rising just began today for some of these kids and for some of these young people.
SPEAKER_01: But for the rest of their life, it's going to be a son of righteousness.
SPEAKER_01: We'll be understanding more of God's righteousness as the days go by.
SPEAKER_01: And so, this son of righteousness, I can't think of a better quote than what Charles Spurgeon wrote of this passage.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus, like the sun, is the center and soul of all things, the fullness of all that is good, the lamp that lights us, the fire that warms us, the magnet that guides and controls us.
SPEAKER_01: He is the source and fountain of all life, beauty, fruitfulness, and strength.
SPEAKER_01: He is the foster of tender herbs of penitence, the quickener of the vital sap of grace, the ripener of fruits of holiness, and the life of everything that grows within the garden of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Whereas to adore the Son would be idolatry, it would be treason not to worship ardently the divine Son of righteousness.
SPEAKER_01: And so, men and women, some of you are new to the Lord, and you're just starting to grow, or some of you are at Sappha and you're in the training center right now, and some of you are in our discipleship classes and you're coming to some things that we do, and the sun's just starting to rise.
SPEAKER_01: You may have known the Lord a long time, but you're starting to experience righteousness, peace, and joy.
SPEAKER_01: And because of that, you've got to stay with the sun.
SPEAKER_01: Because it's part and parcel of the Jesus Training Center, is that He's developing you inside.
SPEAKER_01: You see, if I were to tell you, if we went in our backyard of my house and said, that is an apple tree.
SPEAKER_01: And you go, that's not an apple tree.
SPEAKER_01: I said, No, it's an apple tree.
SPEAKER_01: That's not an apple tree.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, it is an apple tree.
SPEAKER_01: Well, how do you know?
SPEAKER_01: Because I know.
SPEAKER_01: They go, well, I don't see any apples.
SPEAKER_01: And my question would be, do you have to see apples to be able to prove that it's an apple tree?
SPEAKER_01: No, you don't.
SPEAKER_01: Because the identity of that tree is that it's an apple tree.
SPEAKER_01: But guess what?
SPEAKER_01: If it keeps getting water, and if it keeps getting sunshine, and if the environment is around it so that it's healthy, guess what it produces next year?
SPEAKER_01: Apples.
SPEAKER_01: But it didn't become an apple tree because it produced apples, it already was an apple tree.
SPEAKER_01: Church, you are a jewel.
SPEAKER_01: You are beloved.
SPEAKER_01: You're a child of God.
SPEAKER_01: You're a son of God.
SPEAKER_01: You're a daughter of God.
SPEAKER_01: Not because you produce fruit yet, but because that's your identity.
SPEAKER_01: So as you stay in a healthy environment of the local church, and you stay in a healthy environment of having some blood-stained allies, you stay in a healthy environment of learning to worship and pray, you're gonna produce fruit.
SPEAKER_01: It's gonna come.
SPEAKER_01: But don't look around at other apple trees.
SPEAKER_01: If all the apple trees in the orchard produced exactly at the same time, there wouldn't need to be for a month of harvest of apples.
SPEAKER_01: But different trees produce at different times.
SPEAKER_01: And some of you are pretty damaged.
SPEAKER_01: You've had some terrible stuff done to you, and some pain and hurt and betrayal.
SPEAKER_01: It really hurts.
SPEAKER_01: We welcome you here.
SPEAKER_01: We want you here.
SPEAKER_01: We need a church made up of the healthy, the unhealthy, and the and the growing and the nurturing.
SPEAKER_01: We're all at different places in the grove.
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that exciting?
SPEAKER_01: For you that are struggling, it's not exciting.
SPEAKER_01: I know it's the refiner's fire.
SPEAKER_01: But you're gonna get there.
SPEAKER_01: You will get there.
SPEAKER_01: You're gonna produce great fruit in your life.
SPEAKER_01: So then he goes on, and he says, This you shall trample the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I do this, says the Lord of hosts.
SPEAKER_01: And he does this with a broken heart, church.
SPEAKER_01: Remember the law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all of Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
SPEAKER_01: Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, and he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.
SPEAKER_01: Here's what he's saying.
SPEAKER_01: That at the very core of who the Lord is, is he's building family.
SPEAKER_01: He's building mothers and fathers.
SPEAKER_01: He's building children in the faith, and he's building family.
SPEAKER_01: I like what Jonathan Edwards, the great first great awakening, great pastor, probably one of the greatest theologians America ever produced.
SPEAKER_01: He said that every family is a little church.
SPEAKER_01: Every family is a little church.
SPEAKER_01: The last five years I've been planting two churches: the road and the holts.
SPEAKER_01: Your family is a little church.
SPEAKER_01: Now it may be a dysfunctional church, it may be an awesome church, but God's polishing it.
SPEAKER_01: It's okay wherever you're at.
SPEAKER_01: Because as we as we press into righteousness, peace, and joy, God is making a family and he's turning our hearts to each other.
SPEAKER_01: We'll flow with that.
SPEAKER_01: If we'll flow with that church, God will turn the hearts of mothers and fathers to their children and children to their mothers and fathers.
SPEAKER_01: That's God's righteous kingdom way.
SPEAKER_01: Well, let me give you, in closing, what I think is the purpose of the road at Chapel Hills in relation to being a family.
SPEAKER_01: I want to give you five thoughts here.
SPEAKER_01: Five things.
SPEAKER_01: Number one, we're a culture of honor.
SPEAKER_01: We are building here a culture of honor.
SPEAKER_01: That means, here's what that means: that we honor everybody here.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody is honorable.
SPEAKER_01: Even when they're acting like a jerk.
SPEAKER_01: Does anybody know that in the church it's made up of sinners who act like jerks sometimes?
SPEAKER_01: Okay, if you don't, you'll find out really soon.
SPEAKER_01: But but a culture of honor is that we begin to build a culture here of the kingdom of God where we are looking for the gold and the silver, not the ore and the iron.
SPEAKER_01: In other words, we're calling out the good in every person rather than punishing the bad.
SPEAKER_01: Because we are saint and sinner, right?
SPEAKER_01: We are saint and sinner.
SPEAKER_01: God wants us as a church to call out the good, so a culture of honor.
SPEAKER_01: Number two, an atmosphere of forgiveness.
SPEAKER_01: An atmosphere of forgiveness.
SPEAKER_01: And all of this applies to our homes too.
SPEAKER_01: But that we're quick to forgive each other.
SPEAKER_01: Number three, a covenant of harmony.
SPEAKER_01: That when we have disagreements or we have struggles, that we go to that person, and in humility, we ask for forgiveness, for misunderstandings, and we begin to work things out.
SPEAKER_01: Some of you in this room, albeit most of you in this room have left churches in the past because of something that was done to you or something that happened to you and you got hurt and you never worked it out.
SPEAKER_01: Let's stop that trend here and work stuff out.
SPEAKER_01: I can't tell you in these first five years, dozens of situations where we followed these steps, a covenant of harmony, and we always, in every case, we got it all worked out because we talked about it.
SPEAKER_01: Number four, a kingdom of priests and kings.
SPEAKER_01: We are priests and kings.
SPEAKER_01: We're a kingdom of priests and kings.
SPEAKER_01: Here's what that means: that means that God has called us, another way to say it is worshipers and warriors.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm going to start the series, worshiper and warrior on the life of David next week.
SPEAKER_01: But we are priests.
SPEAKER_01: That means, church, that we're becoming worshipers.
SPEAKER_01: Come to the road ready to worship.
SPEAKER_01: Come to the road ready to encounter God in worship.
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes, like today, you probably know almost every song because there were some ancient hymns in there.
SPEAKER_01: And sometimes it's going to be all new stuff.
SPEAKER_01: Because we're writing new music.
SPEAKER_01: I'm challenging Michael and others.
SPEAKER_01: Write songs, man.
SPEAKER_01: I want a new song.
SPEAKER_01: The scriptures are about God inaugurating new songs.
SPEAKER_01: I want new songs.
SPEAKER_01: I want new songs that speak to the next generation, to the millennials and the Gen Zers.
SPEAKER_01: I want new songs.
SPEAKER_01: How about you?
SPEAKER_01: And some of you are like, I don't know that song.
SPEAKER_01: We'll just we'll teach it to you.
SPEAKER_01: We'll equip you in it.
SPEAKER_01: I promise.
SPEAKER_01: And see, worship is declaration, gang.
SPEAKER_01: Worship is declaring to God truth that we believe in.
SPEAKER_01: Some of us have never discovered that.
SPEAKER_01: That actually, when you worship, it should be good theology, it should be good processes of righteousness, peace, and joy that we're experiencing in our life.
SPEAKER_01: And we're declaring it to God and experiencing intimacy with God at the same time.
SPEAKER_01: And so I grew up in a hymn-singing church with hymnals.
SPEAKER_01: You want to talk about a war?
SPEAKER_01: The war in the Lutheran church in the 60s was they changed the color of the hymnal.
SPEAKER_01: This was big-time warfare.
SPEAKER_01: Churches left the denomination because it went from red to green.
SPEAKER_01: Let's get over it.
SPEAKER_01: And let's go and experience what God's doing today, and that's intimacy with Christ.
SPEAKER_01: And then lastly, fifthly, a kingdom revolution vision.
SPEAKER_01: A kingdom revolution vision.
SPEAKER_01: We are building revolutionaries in this church.
SPEAKER_01: God has called this church to last for a hundred years if he tarries.
SPEAKER_01: When the Puritans and the pilgrims came to America, they came to lay good foundations and they believed that America was a light on a hill.
SPEAKER_01: And they built like that.
SPEAKER_01: And we have such a short-term mentality because of an eschatology and a last days perspective sometimes that, well, it's all gonna just end really soon anyway.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if it is or isn't, but I want to be building until he comes.
SPEAKER_01: I read that somewhere.
SPEAKER_01: And so, church, we need to have a long-term vision for our city.
SPEAKER_01: That we have men and women touching it, people in the business world, in the government world, in sports, in our schools, among our teachers, among our doctors, among our nurses, among our churches.
SPEAKER_01: As kingdom revolutionaries that bring the love and the power and the joy of the kingdom in whatever mission field God's given you.
SPEAKER_01: God will show up.
SPEAKER_01: And I know He'll honor that because that's how those 12 disciples changed the world.
SPEAKER_01: I love Acts 17:6.
SPEAKER_01: Acts 17, 6.
SPEAKER_01: Those people who have turned the world upside down have come here also.
SPEAKER_01: The Romans were flipping out.
SPEAKER_01: The Jewish scribes and Pharisees did not know what to do, which started with 12 and then it got subtracted down to 11.
SPEAKER_01: Then the men, women, and children, it grew to 120.
SPEAKER_01: And then Paul came along and they changed the world.
SPEAKER_01: And God wants to continue to change the world with the revolution of the kingdom of God.
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