WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.959 Hello everyone, I'm Dr. 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:01.600 Steve Holt. 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:04.799 I want to welcome you to the Road Church Podcast. 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:07.280 Each week we go into God's Word. 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:10.160 We teach chapter by chapter and verse by verse. 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:15.599 And we are here to build a kingdom of God revolution through empowering people to change the world. 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:21.440 So we pray this will minister to you at your heart level and change your life. 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:27.280 We are in Acts chapter 9. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:40.320 And what's exciting is we've looked at Saul getting knocked down by the power of the Holy Spirit and Jesus speaking to him. 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:46.799 Jesus appearing to him as a translucent Messiah, not dissimilar. 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:58.719 I mean, excuse me, in Revelation chapter 1, when John is on the island of Patmos, he sees this bright light. 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:08.959 Chapter 4, chapter 1, chapter 4, chapter 5. 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:19.920 So John is transported up into the heavenly rim and he sees this translucent Jesus on a throne. 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:24.959 And I wonder if that's not what happened here with Saul. 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:28.560 He says it was a bright light like the noonday sun. 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:31.040 Just amazing. 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:34.000 And so he gets radically saved. 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:44.400 And this no-name guy, this person we have no real solid information on named Ananias gets called into action. 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:46.879 And he doesn't even want to do it. 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:48.879 And he kind of argues with God. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:02:01.680 And he says, Don't you know this is a guy that's got papers to come to all the synagogues and arrest the people of the way? 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:07.439 And it's like, you know, the Lord says to him, I'm going to show him how much he will have to suffer. 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.879 And that seems to give Ananias some comfort. 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:16.960 And so then he comes and he prays over him and he sees again. 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:17.919 He was blinded. 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:19.039 He gets his sight back. 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:20.960 He gets immediately baptized. 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:23.840 And so we pick it up in verse 20 today. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:25.439 So that's the situation. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.400 Immediately he preached Christ. 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:38.159 And I want you to notice that it's got an article there and it says, the Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:47.199 Then all who heard were amazed and said, Is this not he who destroyed those who were called on called on his name in Jerusalem? 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:54.000 And has come here for that purpose, so that he might bring them bound to the chief priest. 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:59.120 But Saul increased all the more, isn't that amazing? 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:03.759 He increased all the more, confounding the Jews. 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:06.159 I mean, this is just in a few days. 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:11.039 He's confounding the Jews who dwelt in Damascus. 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:17.599 Now look at this, proving that this Jesus is the Christ. 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:19.199 Now, why is that important? 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:20.879 It's really important to me. 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:32.240 It should be real important to all of us, because the Christ means the anointed one, the Messiah, prophet, priest, and king. 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:38.000 How many times is Jesus in America just our buddy? 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:42.159 Oh, I, you know, he's the man upstairs. 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:48.960 And there's just this, there's this overemphasis on him almost being like us. 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:54.240 Like Jesus, he'll forgive me like I would forgive someone. 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.520 And we forget that he's holy, that he's reigning. 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:16.639 I mean, there's got to be something that happened to Saul when he saw this translucent Jesus probably reigning, just as he saw Jesus in other testimonial passages, but it's like he saw the prophet, priest, and king Jesus. 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:18.240 He saw the anointed one. 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:23.920 He saw the triumphant king, the resurrected king. 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:26.079 That's who he's preaching. 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:32.240 It doesn't say he preached Jesus here, it says he preached Jesus the Christ. 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:34.240 I think I don't know, man. 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:35.680 I just think that's significant. 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:53.519 I think that's significant that Luke kept that in there, and that isn't that an instruction to us when you share your faith, don't just share about buddy buddy Jesus, but share that Jesus is the resurrected one. 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.399 Jesus is the King. 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:02.720 Jesus is the triumphant King. 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:05.680 Jesus is the triumphant Savior. 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.560 Doesn't that change the conversation a little bit? 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:14.079 Go like this if anybody understands what I'm saying. 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:14.560 Okay. 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:16.879 Does it not change the conversation? 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:26.720 That's why I think I think sharing that we I believe, I'm a believer in Jesus. 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:33.600 I believe in the kingdom of God coming to earth. 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:47.759 And that it came to earth through Jesus, the one who is crucified on the cross for all of my sins, rose again on the third day as triumphant king. 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:49.839 And he is ruling in the heavenlies. 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:53.279 He's not up for a vote, and you should join the team. 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:57.920 Don't you want to join the team? 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:02.319 Whatever happens in Washington, join the team. 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:13.920 And if you're here today and you've never met the triumphant king, the resurrected Jesus, probably you should do that. 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:16.800 It's really, really smart. 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:31.040 And you're here because someone invited you or you heard about something, but you're here today and you're, or you're streaming online, and Jesus wants to be your king. 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:48.399 And he really loves you, and he actually really care, he really poured his unique God image into you because you are a prophet, priest, and king on the earth representing Jesus. 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:51.040 I just think Saul got it. 00:06:51.439 --> 00:07:02.879 I think all the study and all the research and all of the stuff he got from Judaism and all the stuff that prepared him for that day when it was the right timing of God, where God wasn't silent anymore. 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:07.279 He spoke, he came in a translucent light, he gets baptized. 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.959 Maybe he thought of Isaiah 53, maybe he thought of Micah 6. 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:21.040 Maybe he thought all these all these passages that he had memorized about the Messiah came together for him. 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:27.360 And I think he saw Jesus as King, Lord, reigning. 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:32.480 Because remember, he was at the stoning of Stephen. 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:38.480 So he heard Stephen say what he said, I see him standing. 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:46.639 And then in the same final words, he he extends forgiveness. 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:48.399 How radical is that? 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:52.639 He's bloody, he's getting pummeled from that 50-foot tower. 00:07:52.720 --> 00:08:03.199 They're pummeling him with rocks, and they're laying their coats at Saul's feet at the synagogue of the Freeman, which we're going to see, he's going to visit again here in this passage. 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:06.160 And he sees and he hears it. 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:09.839 I think you heard what Stephen said. 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:10.959 And that's the goes. 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:19.360 Remember, he said, you can't quit kicking against the goads because I'm showing you again and again and again who I am and my nature. 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:24.639 Men and women, if you know Christ in a personal way, that's the king that lives in you. 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:31.839 And I believe we need revival. 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:38.559 I believe we need God to come down in a fresh way in each of our lives. 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:48.240 To cry out to God, Lord, would you come and show me in a deeper way what it means to love you with all of my heart. 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:50.320 That's what we're gonna do at Whole Heart Advance. 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.120 That's what we call it, Whole Heart Advance. 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:55.759 Is to God wants our whole heart. 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.559 And here's what's cool about all of you in this room. 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:05.759 This is the one of the things I love the most about being a pastor, is that all of you are so unique. 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:07.679 All of us are so unique. 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:22.080 And how do we how do we become good at pulling out what that image of God is that was placed in you before you were born, that was put on this earth to do something significant with our lives? 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:39.840 I'm not talking about being in full-time Christian work or something like some are called to that, but I'm just talking about in your job, in your marriage, in your neighborhood, in your relationships with your family, that you represent Jesus as the triumphant king. 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:42.879 And it just makes you happy. 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.759 You're just happier than everybody else. 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:52.000 And sometimes your circumstances, to use a theological term, suck. 00:09:53.200 --> 00:10:11.120 And yet you come to him again and again and again, and you get your marching orders from him, he fills you afresh, you open God's word, he empowers and strengthens you as him as a king in your life. 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:17.120 That's what I think is happening here, and so he is preaching Jesus. 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:17.919 Now look at this. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:25.120 Now, verse 22 to 23, let me give you, if you're taking notes or you write them on the side of your Bible, write three years. 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:30.480 Between verses 22 and 23 is three years. 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:31.120 Okay? 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:37.919 So now after he, Luke just says, after many days were past. 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:40.480 So we say, well, Steve, where are you getting that? 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:44.559 So look at, just turn to the right to Galatians 1. 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:54.240 You can put your, keep your finger in Acts 9, go to Galatians 1, and we get the insight of what happened. 00:10:54.399 --> 00:11:06.240 And I just want to follow, because I'm gonna help, hopefully, I'm gonna help us understand the fact that we're gonna not, we're gonna we're gonna lose touch with Saul now for the next seven years in the book of Acts. 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:08.000 So I want you to see what's going on. 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:11.519 So look at verse 11 of Galatians 1. 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:16.000 He gives us a glimpse into what was happening right after he gets saved. 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:27.440 But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man, for I neither received it from man nor was taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:35.200 For you've heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:47.200 And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. 00:11:47.679 --> 00:12:05.519 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through his grace to reveal his son in me that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood. 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:12.000 Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who are apostles before me, but I went to Arabia. 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:23.600 Okay, I went to Arabia and returned again, look at this, to Damascus. 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:25.360 So underline Damascus. 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:30.720 So he he he leaves for three years, he's gonna come back, and this is how we know it's three years. 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:32.000 Look at verse 18. 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:41.519 Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and remained with him for 15 days. 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:46.559 So between 22 and 23, he goes up to Nabataean. 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:49.440 Nabataean, have fun trying to spell that. 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:51.759 I'm not gonna spell it for you, but I had to look it up. 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:54.240 But Nabataean Arabia for three years. 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:57.519 Now, what was he doing in the desert for three years? 00:12:57.679 --> 00:12:58.480 We don't know. 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:12.399 But what we sense from putting different passages together, coming alongside with the tradition of the church, I wonder, give you a little bit of my opinion, is if he didn't go to Mount Sinai. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:18.559 I wonder if he went to Mount Sinai where Moses received the law. 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:36.080 Remember, he's a Pharisee of Pharisees, a Hebrew of Hebrews, and I wonder if he camped out for three years and just spent time in God's word saying, Lord, you've got to guide me. 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:44.000 This is a massive paradigm shift, men and women, for Saul. 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:48.720 Everything he's believed in, he's been 100% zealous. 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:54.080 I mean, all in going for it, boom, he gets knocked down. 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:59.600 There's this shift that occurs, and everything he's against, listen, he's now for. 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.759 Everything he was against, he's now for. 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:19.840 And for those three years, I wonder if he was at the base of Mount Sinai, there in the Nabataean Arabia area, and that would be the Sinai Desert, upper plateau of Jordan today, and lower Sinai Desert. 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:23.759 He's there grappling with this paradigm shift. 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:25.679 Well, what was the paradigm shift? 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:31.200 I'm gonna give you three things that I think were huge changes in Saul's thinking. 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.360 Number one, law and grace. 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:36.000 Number one, law and grace. 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:44.559 God was gonna teach him, and Ephesians, Galatians, and Romans especially show this transformation of law and grace. 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:46.320 Number two, works. 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:48.639 Works and faith. 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:50.720 Works and faith. 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:54.240 And then thirdly, religion versus relationship. 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:55.600 Religion and relationship. 00:14:55.759 --> 00:15:00.960 So he grapples with that, and we're gonna see him show up again in chapter 13. 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:05.200 So, so here's why I think the three-year gap. 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:06.240 Look what's next. 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:09.360 But their plot became known to Saul. 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:13.120 They watched the gates day and night to kill him. 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:20.879 Then the disciples took him by night and left and let him down through the wall in a large basket. 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:44.480 So some private citizen somewhere had, and what they did, church, is they had waste, literal waste baskets that they had two particular ropes on, and they would drop the waste basket down along the wall, and then pull the other rope and dump out the escrement there and then pull it back up. 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:48.879 That's what Saul gets lowered down into. 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:53.759 He's in a basket with the remains of escrement to escape. 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:55.919 Imagine this. 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.720 Guys, imagine this that he's going to Damascus. 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:02.960 He's a rock star of Judaism. 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:04.320 He's the man. 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:08.559 He's rising up, he's popular, he's well known. 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:10.240 He met with Caiaphas. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:13.519 Not everybody got to meet with Caiaphas. 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:15.039 He met with the high priest. 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:19.600 He knew everybody by name on the Sanhedrin of the 70 leaders of Israel. 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:37.919 And now he's gone from that to going out into desert for three years, comes back again to Damascus, immediately they're trying to kill him, and he's being lowered down in a basket with the remains of escrimen in it to escape for his life. 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:40.480 Talk about getting hammered. 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:51.120 Talk about getting crushed by God for the purpose that God has for him. 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:52.320 Well, it doesn't end there. 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.000 Now look at verse 26. 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:57.200 And when Saul had come to where? 00:16:57.919 --> 00:16:58.720 Jerusalem. 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:00.000 That's Galatians 1. 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:00.559 Remember? 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:02.480 He went to Jerusalem. 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:05.279 And he tried to join. 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:16.079 And the Greek word here is he continually tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him and did not believe that he was a disciple. 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:19.759 This is a man without a country. 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:23.039 This is a man without any friends, without any family. 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:25.440 He's been rejected by the Jews. 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:27.759 He's been rejected by the synagogue. 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:29.680 He's been rejected by the temple. 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:31.920 He's obviously rejected by the Sanhedrin. 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:34.480 And now he's even rejected by the church. 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:38.079 Church doesn't do that kind of stuff. 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:41.680 Church doesn't reject people. 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:46.240 How many got church hurt? 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:48.079 Any got any church hurting around here? 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:49.200 All right. 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:55.200 You're living a charmed life if you haven't had church hurt. 00:17:55.519 --> 00:18:00.079 But listen, isn't this, I mean, let's let's dive in a little bit. 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:05.599 No home, no family, no friends, nobody trusts him. 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:08.400 He's been out in the desert for three years. 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:13.200 Everything he tries to do ends up being someone wanting to kill him. 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:17.599 He's been lowered down in a basket with the remains of escrement. 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:22.400 And now he can't even find any friends in Jerusalem. 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:23.200 You know why? 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:25.279 Because they remember him, don't they? 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.960 They remember what he did, maybe to their family members. 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:30.640 I'm not gonna have anything to do with that guy. 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:32.079 He killed my mom. 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:34.480 He imprisoned my dad. 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:37.920 Now, this is verse 27. 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:44.240 The first bloodstained ally in the New Testament church. 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:47.039 But Barnabas. 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:51.680 But Barnabas took him. 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:54.319 And I wrote on the side of my Bible, B.S. 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:56.640 A, bloodstained ally. 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:10.319 Brought him to the apostles, and he declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:11.839 Phenomenal. 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:13.920 A true bloodstained ally here. 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:21.440 We see what's happening because Barnabas comes along, and Barnabas, his name was Joseph. 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:24.160 If you go back to Acts 4, that's when he's introduced. 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:28.400 He evidently was a wealthy man who had land in Cyprus. 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:40.720 He was a Greek-speaking Jew, and he had money, he had land, he sold it, he gave everything he had to the early church in Acts chapter 4. 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:50.640 But what's parenthetically mentioned in Acts 4 is they changed his name to the Son of Encouragement. 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:52.559 That's what Barnabas means. 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:55.039 And he becomes a bloodstained ally. 00:19:55.359 --> 00:20:04.319 He comes along and he rescues, he literally rescues Saul from the church and says, listen, I've heard his testimony. 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:06.240 I believe he's the real deal. 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:08.160 Look what I want to tell you what he's done. 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:09.839 He did this in Damascus. 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:11.359 Accept him. 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:17.519 Here's a definition of Barnabas. 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:19.519 Here's a definition of blood-stained ally. 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:27.279 A true blood-stained ally is the one who doesn't cast you out when everyone else does. 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:50.640 And after, and permit me respectfully to say this to you that are new, because you don't know everything, which is really good, but with the hardship of the last year and a half at the road, you guys are blood-stained allies. 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:55.119 When others are not here, you're here. 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:57.119 And I just want to say thank you. 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:00.799 We all need blood-stained allies. 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:02.880 We all need each other. 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:05.200 You need blood-stained allies in your life. 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:09.200 Because you're going to come to times in your life where people cut and run. 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:11.440 May happen in your family. 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:16.400 And you'll be surprised who comes along and stands with you. 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:19.039 And that's what happened with Barnabas. 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:19.839 He's there. 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:30.799 So he was with him at Jerusalem, coming and going, and he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, disputing against the Hellenists, but they attempted to kill him. 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:37.039 When the brethren found out, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus. 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:55.119 If you read the rest of Galatians 1, you'll see the Saul, now called Paul, which is his Roman name, writing in Galatians about this particular part, but because of time we'll move past that. 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:59.039 So he shipped out, he goes back to Tarsus. 00:21:59.119 --> 00:21:59.839 Now that area mentioned. 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:01.680 And women is called Galatia. 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:03.920 And so he's there for seven years. 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:05.839 So listen, here's what's happening. 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:07.279 This is important. 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:11.200 Three plus seven equals ten. 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:23.599 So it will be literally ten years before Saul, who becomes known as Paul, in Acts 13 comes on the scene again. 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:28.559 And so for the rest, several chapters coming out, we're going to go back to Peter. 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:29.759 Verse 31. 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:40.799 Then the churches throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and were edified and walking in the fear of the Lord and the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied. 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:53.599 Now it came to pass as Peter went through all parts of the country, so we're pivoting now to Peter, that he also came down to the saints who dwelt in Lidah. 00:22:53.759 --> 00:23:01.759 There he found a certain man named Anas who had been bedridden eight years and was paralyzed. 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:06.400 And Peter said to him, Anas, Jesus Christ heals you. 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:08.079 Arise and make your bed. 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:09.839 Then he arose immediately. 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.559 So all who dwelt in Lidda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord. 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:17.440 So it's this powerful healing. 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:24.960 Now what's important here is that the healing of a body led to the healing of souls. 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:41.119 So every power encounter as it relates to healing or deliverance is there to accent the mighty, triumphant king who gives us the greatest healing, which is our soul. 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:45.440 And so probably thousands get saved in this region. 00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:56.079 At Joppa, there was a certain disciple named, I always say Tabitha, but I'm going to say it in the Aramaic way, Tabitha. 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:00.880 Okay, Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas. 00:24:01.279 --> 00:24:02.880 Now, which name would you rather have? 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:03.359 Okay. 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:08.319 Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas, but listen to what they say about her. 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:13.200 This woman was full of good works and charitable deeds, which she did. 00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:17.119 But it happened in those days that she became sick and died. 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:28.160 Now this is a beautiful picture of an entrepreneurial, giving, loving, caring person in a local church. 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:29.599 Verse 38. 00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:33.359 But it happened in those days that she become sick and died. 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:36.880 When they had washed her, they laid her in the upper room. 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:38.559 Now they didn't embalm back then. 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:42.559 But she's she's not mostly dead. 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:45.440 She's really dead. 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:48.079 And they're preparing for the wake. 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:52.240 I mean, this is like probably it's been at least 24 hours. 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:54.799 But but she's she's really dead. 00:24:55.119 --> 00:25:04.960 And this is gonna be the first time that we see a regular person, a regular disciple used by God the way Jesus did his ministry. 00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:05.839 Verse 38. 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:15.599 And since Lydda was near Joppa and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them. 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:17.039 Then Peter arose. 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:20.400 Okay, I just have so much to say here. 00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:22.160 I'm already out of time. 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:24.720 Who's that person? 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:28.960 Isn't that another like significant thing? 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:30.799 I wish we could just camp there. 00:25:31.039 --> 00:25:34.319 Like, who's that person who she's dead? 00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:38.960 She's really dead, and they say, hey, you know what? 00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:41.119 I heard Peter's in the area. 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:46.160 Let's go get see if Peter will come and lay hands on her and heal her. 00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:49.759 Nobody believes that, but someone did. 00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:52.160 And so Peter hears about it. 00:25:52.319 --> 00:26:08.880 Then Peter arose, verse 39, and he went with them, and when he had come, they brought him to the upper room, and all the widows stood by him weeping, showing the tunics and the garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them. 00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:11.920 So this lady is really beloved. 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:24.880 She's got a heart for the poor, she's generous, she's loving, she's one of those people that brings, you know, um, pound cake like my mom used to do to the sick and the bereaved. 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:32.400 She's always, and so everybody misses her and they love her, and they're telling them all this, but look what look what Peter does in verse 40. 00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:34.880 But Peter put them all out. 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:39.359 And he knelt down and he prayed. 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:41.920 What's happening here? 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:46.079 Oh my goodness, this is just so good. 00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:47.920 It's from Mark 5. 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:50.799 It's Mark 541. 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:55.599 It's when Jesus walked in and the little girl was dead, remember? 00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:02.799 And everybody's talking about it, and everybody's frustrated, and everybody's weeping, and then guess who's probably with Jesus? 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:03.920 Peter is. 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:08.319 Probably Peter, James, and John come in and they see what Jesus does. 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:10.319 He comes in, everybody get out of here. 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:16.000 He didn't want a mixture of faith, he only wanted people of faith that would believe. 00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:17.359 So he casts them out. 00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:21.279 And then Jesus goes down to the little girl. 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:24.799 And here's what it says in Mark 5. 00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:29.599 It's Talitha Kumi in Aramaic. 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:36.319 Taluthi, Talitha Kumi, which means little girl arise. 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:38.000 And you know what I think Peter said? 00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:40.240 He says, Tabitha kumi. 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:46.960 Not Talitha kumi, Tabitha kumi, Tabitha arise. 00:27:50.880 --> 00:28:10.240 And then he gave her his hand, and he lifted her up, Tabitha arise, and she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up, and then he gave her his hand, and he lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, he presented her alive, and it became known throughout all Joppa. 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:12.400 Many believed on the Lord. 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:20.240 And so it was, he stayed many days in Joppa with Simon the Tanner, which is actually a significant verse, but I don't have time to go to it. 00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:23.200 Thank you for listening to the Road Church Podcast. 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:27.039 We pray today's message has empowered you to make a difference in your world. 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:33.440 For more information about the Road Church and to find more content like this, go to theroad.org. 00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:36.240 That's therode.org.