WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:03.680 2 Chronicles chapter 26. 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.000 And also, would you pick up the book of Acts chapter 1? 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:13.679 Acts chapter 1 and 2 Chronicles 26, please. 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:17.280 It's nice to have a Bible, isn't it? 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:23.039 2 Chronicles 26 and Acts chapter 1. 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:39.119 In 2 Chronicles chapter 26, I want to highlight a man's life, and I want to show you two words that I hope in just a few moments from now they'll they'll take on a different connotation. 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:50.799 In 2 Chronicles 26, it talks about, if you would, Uzziah, who was, if you would, in verse 1, that all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was how old? 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:56.159 Sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father. 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:07.120 Now the Bible says in 2 Chronicles 26 and verse 3, 16 years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned 50 and 10. 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:13.120 In fact, you read your Bible through and you'll find out this is one of the longest reigns, if you would, rulerships in the whole Bible. 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:16.560 Fifty-two years he's ruling, if you would. 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:18.879 And I know I want you to notice verse 7. 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:19.920 Verse 7. 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:21.599 Now talk to me a little bit this morning. 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:22.480 And God what? 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:23.200 Helped him. 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:23.840 Say it again. 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:25.040 What did God do? 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:30.000 He helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians and on down, verse 9. 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:32.079 Uzziah built towers. 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.799 Uh he dig many wells in verse 10. 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:36.239 He had much cattle. 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:41.439 Um he had uh vine dressers in the mountains, uh, and he loved husbandry, if you would. 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:43.280 Uh he was somewhat of a gardener, amen. 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:46.799 And if you would look at verse 14, verse 14. 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:57.040 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields and spears and helmets, habergens, and bows and slings to cast stone. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:59.280 And he made in Jerusalem engines. 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:11.120 If you understand what an engine, you ever see in those uh old movies where they got that thing that bends back like this, and they put a big rock in it and they toss it out, and he made all kinds of inventions, if you would, at that day and age. 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:20.960 He made in Jerusalem inventions, uh, or engines invented by cunning men to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks to shoot arrows and great stones withal. 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.000 And his name spread abroad. 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:26.879 For he was, would you say the next two words? 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:28.560 Marvelously helped. 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:29.599 Say it again, please. 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:33.919 Marvelously help till he was strong. 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:35.120 Let me ask you a question. 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:37.680 Who marvelously helped him? 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:38.400 God did. 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:39.439 Look in verse 7. 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:40.319 Verse 7. 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:41.439 And God what? 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:42.319 Helped him. 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:48.479 God helped him, but not only did he help him in verse 15, he marvelously helped him. 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:51.840 Now, you say, man, I've used the word marvelous before. 00:02:51.919 --> 00:03:02.400 And you know, we uh I remember when we would grow up in a kid, you know, Hollywood always used that word marvelous and marvelous, you know, and and I see our sometimes our kids say marvelous or or something like that. 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:05.520 But you know, the word marvelous has some interesting connotations. 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.520 Not only did God help him, but he he marvelously helped him. 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:26.960 And when you think about marvel, you would say something like this uh a wonder or an event that you look at and you stand astonished. 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:33.759 The Bible or the dictionary says it causes one to pause. 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:45.199 It's one of those events maybe that just leaves you somewhat speechless. 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.560 Have you ever heard God do something like that for you? 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:57.680 And I'm not saying, well, you know, on national television it would be known, and you know, we'd broadcast about it. 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:05.360 But maybe personally, in your own life, have you ever seen God marvelously help you to where you just stood? 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:14.319 Wow. 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:24.000 You may say, I don't, I don't know if I ever had that happen to me before. 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:29.279 You know, sometimes God can marvelously help us and we don't see it. 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:37.680 God sometimes can be working in situations and and he helps us, and we just we just pass it on by. 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:44.480 But I'll tell you what, when it's marvelous, it's different. 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:48.319 Look at 1 Chronicles 16 and Acts chapter 1. 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:49.040 Stay with me. 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:53.199 1 Chronicles 16 and Acts chapter 1. 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.160 Let me give you an illustration of what marvelous is. 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:02.079 A marvelous demonstration of God's power. 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:07.439 Acts chapter 1 and 1 Chronicles, not Corinthians, 1 Chronicles 16. 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:15.839 In Acts chapter 1, brethren, look at verse number 9, while you're holding your place in 1 Chronicles 16. 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:22.560 In Acts chapter 1, verse 9, and when he had spoken these things, what things? 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:27.120 That verse 8, they should receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you. 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:29.839 This is Jesus speaking in verse 9. 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:36.720 And after he had spoken those things, while they beheld, while they were looking right at him, he was what? 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:37.839 Taken up. 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:39.839 That was a marvelous thing. 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.480 That was something that kind of took your breath away. 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:51.040 That was a, if you would, if you look in the dictionary about the word marvel, it's an act or a wonder that is associated with a degree of surprise. 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:52.480 They didn't expect it. 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:57.439 I mean, here they were listening to him, and all of a sudden he was taken up. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.160 And a cloud received him out of their sight. 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:01.680 Come on, what do you mean, taken up? 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:03.120 What's the spiritual meaning of that? 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:04.480 What does that mean in the Greek? 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:08.879 It means he began to rise above gravity and went straight up. 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:12.959 Now we look at that and say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:18.480 How would you like to have been standing there and you're just, he's just talking to you, and all of a sudden he stops and up he goes. 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:24.079 What would you do? 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:26.720 You would do just what they do. 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:31.279 That's what they did. 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:33.920 Verse 10. 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:36.240 And while they looked how? 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:37.759 Steadfastly. 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.639 They weren't taking their eyes off of that heaven. 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:49.680 Towards heaven, as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye what? 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:50.720 Gazing? 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:52.879 Well, because they were awestruck. 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:55.519 They were astonished, they were surprised. 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:59.120 They say, Why are y'all gazing up into heaven? 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:09.839 This same Jesus was which is taken from you into heaven, shall so come, and then don't forget these next three words, in like manner. 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:12.800 By the way, you you know what that means. 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:14.319 It'll surprise all of us. 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:19.040 As you have seen him go up into heaven, please look up here. 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:20.079 It was a marvelous work. 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:30.000 They were sitting there talking to him, and all of a sudden, up he goes, like, surprised? 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:31.759 Astonished? 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:33.120 Marvel. 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:39.519 And then a couple guys in white apparel say, Hey, what are you guys standing up there looking up there? 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:41.279 That's the same Jesus. 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:42.959 He'll come back and like man. 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.199 That's marvelous. 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:49.040 Astonishing. 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:50.959 Uh incredible. 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:56.160 Look at 1 Chronicles 16 and Psalm 78, please. 00:07:56.399 --> 00:08:00.000 1 Chronicles 16 and Psalm 78. 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:05.600 Let me ask you a question while you turn there. 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.399 1 Chronicles 16 and Psalm 78. 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:12.079 Do you believe God can still work marvelously? 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:16.560 I want to ask you again. 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.800 Do you believe that God can still work marvelously? 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:39.519 Now, you know what can happen because man has tried to recreate sometimes and even fake that God's working, you know, some of that stuff on TV, brethren, that's termed religious, isn't real. 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:43.279 Some of it's just made up. 00:08:44.320 --> 00:09:01.039 And really what it does, maybe they're sincere, some of them, and I'm not saying all of it's wrong, but some of them maybe they're sincere in their efforts to try to encourage people, if you would, that God is real, but in doing so, they really cheapen what God's able to do. 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:05.360 And people look away from that saying and say, what a fake. 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:11.279 Every time a preacher on television is is found out to be a fraud, it cheapens God. 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:17.759 Well, he did this and a trickster, and he schemed this way, and he did that and all that. 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:20.000 But I'm telling you, throw that aside. 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:22.960 God can still work marvelously. 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:25.440 God can still astonish us. 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:27.919 God can still leave us in awe. 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:34.080 And not everybody has to see it. 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:37.840 As long as we do. 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:44.480 I mean, I've had things in my life that I wouldn't I wouldn't tell you about because it wouldn't mean anything to you. 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:47.840 If I told you, you would go, well, that's nice. 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:50.000 Do you know what I'm saying? 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:51.360 That's nice. 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:52.000 That's good. 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:53.519 No, you don't understand. 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:54.879 This is what happened. 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:57.039 That's nice, preacher. 00:09:57.600 --> 00:09:58.879 It's wonderful. 00:09:59.919 --> 00:10:02.799 Now, uh, you know, I gotta go up. 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:04.159 It's time to eat. 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:05.679 No, come back here. 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:07.200 It was marvelous. 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:10.720 You can't get it across to someone else, what you experienced with God. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:18.960 And it would be a terrible thing to walk through this life and never experience something that God did in a marvelous way. 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:29.120 I mean, surprised, uh, uh, astonished to the place where we look at it, we go, unbelievable, incredible. 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:34.559 It's hard to fathom that God did that for me. 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:40.000 Let me stop right here and say salvation ought to be that way. 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:46.240 We ought to look at our salvation and say, amazing, incredible. 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:53.200 Wow! And not, oh yeah, I'm saved. 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:07.679 It ought to not get to the place where we get so hardened to it that it still doesn't excite us somewhere along the way that the God of heaven drew us in, forgave our sins, and now is our Father. 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:11.519 And how he did it. 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:21.919 Maybe it was a young child for you, or maybe yours wasn't as sensational and spectacular, but the very fact that he forgave our sins is marvelous. 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.679 Look what he says in 1 Chronicles 16. 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:29.679 1 Chronicles 16. 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:32.399 Give thanks, verse 8. 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:35.279 Unto the Lord. 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:39.360 Call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people. 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:45.759 Sing unto him, sing songs unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works. 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:48.799 Glory ye in his holy name. 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:52.159 Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:54.720 Seek the Lord in his strength. 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:56.559 Seek his face how? 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:57.840 Continually. 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:00.320 Remember his what? 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:06.000 Marvelous works that he hath done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth. 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:06.960 You know what he says? 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:12.559 Give thanks and remember and make known those marvelous works God has done. 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:14.480 Verse 23, look at it, brethren. 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:16.720 Sing unto the Lord all the earth. 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:20.000 Show forth from day to day his salvation. 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:20.559 Why? 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:22.159 Because it's a marvelous work. 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:24.559 Declare his glory among the heathen. 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:25.440 His what? 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:26.080 Say it. 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.399 Marvelous works among all nations. 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.600 For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:36.320 He is also to be feared above all little g gods. 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:46.159 I think sometimes the reason Christians grow stale is they don't see God working in their life. 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:52.399 Well, Christianity, ho hum. 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:55.759 My Christianity so far has never been ho-hum. 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:03.360 Now, there's been times when I've been a little bit down, I'm sure, and there's been times when, you know, the excitement wasn't, yeah, I'd sit there and go, yeah, right. 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:06.000 Boring? 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:06.799 No. 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:11.039 All the time marvelous? 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:11.600 No. 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:17.600 Sometimes it seems like God lets some things in our lives get set up. 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:23.759 And it's almost like he's orchestrating some things behind the scenes. 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:33.679 Sometimes things deteriorate, or sometimes things get really what we would call tragedy. 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:41.519 And what he's doing sometimes is setting us up for a marvelous help. 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:53.679 Because if he just went along and everything was just peach keen and nothing bad was happening, and all this was taken care of, and that was taken care of, this over here was taken care of, that was taken care of, that was taken care of. 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:58.080 It was just all, we just kind of get, oh hum, oh, it's just God, he always does it. 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:04.480 But I think sometimes God withholds it and lets things get into somewhat of a chaotic mess. 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:11.120 We get to the end of what we can figure out and what we can do, and then God says, now it's all set up. 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:15.039 I got them right where I want them. 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:19.519 They're confused, they can't figure it out, they don't know what to do. 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:21.200 Oh, it's gonna be great. 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:26.879 Wait till they see what I do. 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:28.799 You say, why would God do that? 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:29.919 To build our faith. 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:32.000 Why would God do that? 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:34.159 To help us to depend on him more? 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:35.519 Why would God do that? 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:37.360 To help us fall in love with him more. 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:48.799 Look, if you would, uh a little bit farther and look at Acts chapter 12. 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:52.080 Acts chapter 12. 00:14:53.519 --> 00:15:04.399 And you're already holding Psalm 78, Acts chapter 12, and Psalm 78. 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.919 Let me show you another illustration of marvelous in Acts chapter 12. 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:13.679 You don't mind studying your Bible, do you? 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:18.799 Now you may be sitting there and say, you know what, this Christianity, I just wish I could get into it more. 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:23.840 If God did something marvelous in your life, you wouldn't have to try to get into it. 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:25.039 You would jump in. 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:35.120 The reason I gave up my Marine Corps career, the reason I gave up my business, the reason I gave up my life, I've seen God work marvelously. 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.039 But I've got to tell you something. 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:43.120 I'd like to see more. 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:46.879 I don't think that's a wrong desire. 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:56.799 I don't think it's a wrong desire to ask God to roll up his sleeves, so to speak, and show us his mighty power. 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.639 I mean, think what he can do with a finger. 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:06.559 They said this is nothing else than the finger of God. 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:15.759 With what he can do with a finger, I'd like to see what he can do when he rolls up his sleeves. 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:20.080 He's done it in other generations. 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:27.919 He can still do it today. 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:36.879 And by the way, call it what you want, but I'm not going to be an independent fundamental Baptist that doesn't believe in the miracles of God. 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.080 Nobody's going to take that away from me. 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.639 You say, well, I just don't believe God's doing miracles. 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:44.399 Believe what you want, buddy. 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:46.320 I'm still seeing him do something. 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:50.960 Salvation's still a miracle. 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.559 Well, it depends on how you describe it. 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:00.799 Look at Acts chapter 12. 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:05.599 Look at verse 5. 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:10.480 Peter, therefore, was kept where? 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:11.759 In prison. 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:16.000 But prayer was made without ceasing of the church and the God for him. 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:20.799 And when Herod would have brought him forth the same night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers. 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:22.880 I'd say he's pretty secure, amen. 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:25.200 Bound with two chains. 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:27.680 And the keepers before the door kept the prison. 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:29.119 Now, picture this. 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.359 He's got two soldiers right next to him. 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:35.680 He's got chains on him, and there's keepers at the door that were keeping the prison. 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:38.240 I'd say they didn't want him to escape, amen. 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:39.759 Are we okay so far? 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:41.119 Verse 7. 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:44.480 And behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him. 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:46.799 And light shined in the prison. 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:49.119 And he smote Peter on the side. 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:50.559 Kind of like, wake up. 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:53.440 And raised him up, saying, Arise up, how? 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:54.640 Quickly. 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:57.359 And think about this now. 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:03.200 He stands up, and his chains fell off from his hands. 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:05.200 You know what that is? 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:06.880 Marvelous. 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:10.000 Surprised, Peter. 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:18.160 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, bind on thy sandals. 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:19.039 So he did. 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:21.839 And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee. 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:23.839 They had him naked, evidently, and follow me. 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:25.119 Verse 9. 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:26.319 Now look at this. 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:32.720 And he went out and followed him, and wist not that it was true. 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:38.079 Which was done by the angel, but thought he saw a vision. 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:39.519 Please look up here. 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:39.839 You know what? 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:40.720 It's one of these. 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:42.160 Is this real? 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:49.119 Have you ever had one of those? 00:18:55.759 --> 00:19:04.799 When they were past the verse 10, first and second ward, I mean, he was he was back in the deep recesses of this prison. 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:12.400 They came into the iron gate that leadeth into the city, which opened to them of his own accord. 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:14.000 You know what? 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:16.240 When we read this, you read this, and you know what we do? 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:17.039 That's nice. 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:19.119 No, you've got to visualize this thing. 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:20.559 You've got to picture this thing. 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:22.240 This is better than Maxwell Smart. 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:27.680 You know, the door's open. 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:33.920 If you're spiritual, you didn't get that. 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:40.720 The iron gate, it opens itself up. 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:42.640 Verse 10. 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:49.279 Which opened to them of his own accord, and they went out and passed on through one street, and forthwith the angel departed from him. 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:50.400 Verse 11. 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:52.160 And when Peter was what? 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:53.440 Come to himself. 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:54.480 You know what? 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:57.680 He was in the prison, asleep. 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:06.559 The angel woke him up, the chains fall off, he gets dressed, and as he's walking out, everything just opens up to him, and the next thing he knows out in the city walking, he kind of. 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:18.319 Now maybe you haven't had that yet. 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:23.519 But I believe God can still work. 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:24.640 How? 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:26.319 You say it. 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:26.960 How? 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:29.359 Marvelously. 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:41.279 He said, Now I know of a surety that the Lord, verse 11, hath sent his angel and hath delivered me out of the hand of Aaron. 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:44.480 Don't you think that did something for Peter's faith? 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:50.160 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John, whose surname was Mark. 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:52.799 Where many were gathered together doing what? 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:53.440 Praying. 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:54.799 Who were they praying for? 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:55.759 Peter. 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:00.079 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, Dansa came to hearken named Rhoda. 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:04.240 And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness. 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:08.079 But ran in and told how Peter stood before the gate. 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:11.200 And they said unto her, Thou art what? 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:12.880 You're insane. 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:14.720 Can't be Peter. 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:16.160 He's in prison. 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:18.000 We're praying for him. 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:21.200 We're praying that God get him out of prison. 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:28.400 But she constantly affirmed that was even so. 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:31.839 Then they said, It's his angel. 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:33.759 Please look up here. 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:40.319 They just couldn't fathom that it could possibly be him because they knew they put Peter way back in the deep recesses. 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:43.599 He knew they had him chained up and there were probably guards sitting next to him. 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:46.640 There's just no way that he could get out. 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:52.720 You're mad, little girl. 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:54.240 It's his angel. 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:54.799 Quiet. 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:56.240 We're praying for Peter. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.440 Hey, we laugh. 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:03.200 Don't we do that in our prayers? 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:07.920 I prayed for something before, and when it happened, I continued praying. 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.119 Didn't realize that God had already marvelously answered the prayer. 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:22.559 I mean, I prayed for something for two months after it already happened, didn't realize it happened. 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:26.319 I think God was saying, is he still talking about that thing? 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:29.599 Doesn't he know I took care of that already? 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:33.839 Is he still talking about that thing? 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:35.519 How long is he going to ask me about that thing? 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:38.400 Would somebody go down there and show him that I already took care of that? 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:42.079 Better yet, I didn't keep praying. 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:47.759 Because when he finally realizes that I did it, it'll be more marvelous. 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:54.720 Rather, why should we expect just a little bit from God? 00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:59.440 As I read my Bible, oh, you know what this book contains? 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:01.039 Marvelous works. 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:04.319 All the way through it is marvelous works. 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:08.799 Verse 16. 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:14.799 But Peter continued knocking. 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:23.680 And when they had opened to the door, when they had opened the door and saw him, they were what? 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:24.400 Say it. 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:25.599 Astonished. 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:28.319 What do you think they did? 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:33.119 Their jaw dropped open. 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:35.200 It was marvelous. 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:42.160 Psalm seventy-eight. 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:43.839 Please turn there. 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:46.640 And John chapter nine. 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:49.200 I won't ask you to turn to any more scripture. 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:53.359 Psalm seventy-eight. 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:55.599 And John chapter nine. 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:00.720 Have you ever had anything that God did that was marvelous? 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:08.640 Surprising. 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:10.799 Astonishing? 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:12.400 Caught you off guard. 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:13.920 Knew it was God. 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:16.000 Nobody else could have figured it out. 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:18.640 Nobody else could have orchestrated it that way. 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:20.240 Psalm 78. 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:24.000 Or better yet, let me ask you a question. 00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:26.400 You say, well, I don't know if I have, and yeah, I have. 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:28.400 Do you still believe that he's able? 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:31.440 In your own personal life? 00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:37.039 Look at Psalm 78. 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:41.519 I said the book is full of his marvelous wonders. 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:43.599 Psalm 78, look at verse 12. 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:45.359 First two words? 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:46.559 Marvelous things. 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:47.440 Say it again. 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:48.559 Marvelous thing. 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:49.599 Hey, you know what? 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:52.160 Somebody's going to say to you after church, how was church? 00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:54.160 And you're going to say, Marvelous. 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:04.400 Marvelous things did he in the side of their fathers in the land of Egypt in the field of Zoan. 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:05.839 He divided the sea. 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:06.319 You know what? 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:07.279 That's marvelous. 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:10.160 They recreated at Universal Studios. 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:11.599 Hey, it's just a recreation. 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:12.640 He really did it. 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:17.839 Caused them to pass through and he made the waters to stand up as in heat. 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:22.640 In the daytime also, he led them with a cloud in the night with the light of fire. 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:24.640 That's marvelous things, verse 12. 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:29.279 He cleaved the rock in the wilderness and gave them drink out of the great death. 00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:31.279 That's marvelous things, verse 12. 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:35.759 He brought streams out of the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers. 00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:37.119 That's marvelous things. 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:40.079 This whole book is filled with marvelous things. 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:43.119 You know why a lot of Christians don't believe that he is able? 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:44.799 They don't know the book. 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:52.240 If we saturate ourselves in this book and not in TV, we'll believe that God can do some marvelous things. 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:09.599 Though he had commanded the clouds from above and opened the door of heaven, and had rained down man upon them to eat. 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:11.119 That's marvelous. 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:14.400 And have given them the corn of heaven. 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:15.759 Man did eat what? 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:17.119 Angels' food. 00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:19.440 Like coriander seeds, it says. 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:21.200 He sent them meat to the full. 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:25.839 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven, and by his power he brought in the south wind. 00:26:25.920 --> 00:26:33.119 He rained flesh also upon them as dust and feathered fowls, like the sand of the sea, and he let it fall in the midst of their camp. 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:34.960 You talk about room service. 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:38.640 They didn't even know what they were ordering. 00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:39.759 He just brought it in. 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:41.599 Quail under glass. 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:48.480 Brought it right to their door, round about their habitations. 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:54.319