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The Refiners Furnace
A highlight from A MAN'S GIFT
"Hi everyone good morning you're welcome to the refinance on his podcast once again and I'm your host the beneath the bassin I trust that the Lord is he then has been so gracious to you all right without wasting most of your time I I just wanted to share a bit of what the Lord is laying in my heart this morning with you and I'm trying to bring a corrective doctrine and let's bring a balance to this very subject because it has been it has been trending for a while and I just want us to have a proper understanding what scriptures really talked about our central text will be taken from Proverbs chapter 18 from verse 16 and it is actually talking about the wisdom in getting along with others okay so I got to understand that to actually relate properly with other people that there is a certain kind of wisdom that the Lord has the Lord expect of us yes there's something that the Lord expect of us yes there is an attitude there's a lifestyle it expects us to live so I I trust that the Lord will help us this morning in the name of Jesus so Proverbs chapter 18 from verse 16 I'm gonna read it in different translations and how the myths of God explain it I mean bit by bit so the Bible says in King James Version a man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men all right the good news Bible says that do not do you want to meet an important person is it take a gift and it will be easy that's a good news translation so let's go to the passion translation the person translation says would you like to meet a very important person is it take a generous gift it would do wonders to gain entrance into his presence you see this very scripture is bringing so much attention to what has been trending so they must gift make it room for him so a lot of people used to think it is what they call it now it is relating to someone's inherent talent someone's order calling now like let's say gifting oh I was born with a gift but the scriptures in Hebrew chapter 18 is practically talking about your relationship with other people and in verse 16 the Bible says if you want to get access you want to meet an important person if you want to be faithful by an important person now we're not talking about bribery as in Proverbs chapter 17 essentially Proverbs chapter 17 was talking about bribery no it's not bribery but this is this gift is giving you access now this talks about access to to important personalities amen so the Bible says if you want to meet an important person get a generous gift and it's going to do wonders I think that's a passion translation you're going to do a lot of wonders so I also carefully look at this in some other perspectives so the Proverbs is a simple recognition of factual generosity and politeness opens many many doors so you can just go to meet an important person for example the let me get let me get let me get that scripture straight but I want to really place so much emphasis I mean so much so much emphasis on on this very subject because I know that there has been a whole lot of misappropriation miss everything has been I mean everything has been taken in the wrong direction so Deuteronomy chapter chapter come chapter 16 verse 16 the Bible says three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread and in the feast of weeks and in the feast of tabernacles and they shall not appear before the Lord empty amen so this is not talking about your talent not talk about your gift this is more of your reverence your honor to a person that you you revere highly this is having to talk about your attitude your your the level at which you are not a person that this important person you're going to me so it must make it so all that can be very foolish and they go to meet an important person empty handed okay but you came with a gift you have so much access okay you have so much attention because you you have whole not this person coming to it you did not come to meet this person empty handed you came with something so a gift is more is more general than bread so here the proverb simply says that a gift can expedite matters but says nothing about bribing judges no so in Genesis chapter 43 verse 11 Jacob knew well and therefore paid his sons to take a present for the governor of the land presented a governor of the land though it were though it were both of every good thing a little so saw in first so was very very I mean King Saul was very very attentive to this very fact so his father's ass got missing and the guy said is there no man of God and the servant of which he was talking with said there is one there's one we know there's one we know and then when he went to go and see the man of God to inquire about is the loss as he did not go empty okay so it can it can it can also be an innocent courtesy of very early con that's a gift to reconcile that like a present Minha sent to the captain that was in first how much as a 20 generous at the 43 verse 11 that's King that's also please you have to take note of this very passage so that say that um you can really understand where I'm coming from and what I'm actually talking about so a lot of people misuse this very subject I mean they talk about their giftings and how talented you are and you see a lot of people start to charge before they can be a blessing to God's people they collect so much money some will be asking you how much is your honorarium budget because they believe that that the scriptures here is talking about what they have inside of them what the Lord gave to them is it freely I have given and I mean freely I've received and then free you have to give so they don't you know that very very scripture they go ahead you go ahead to scatter the the context of scripture just to suit their personal lost I think I made this I made something about this podcast episode happy some some some weeks ago about how people will go about decontextualizing the scripture just to suit their personal lost so a minister who is drawn after Mammon or who is was so much lost for money will now be selling what God gave to him freely and that he was supposed to to give out freely because God gave it to him freely so a man of God will start mechanizing the gift the giftings of God and then using the scripture to to back it up please I beg in the name of God we need to go back to our Bible studies we need to we need to check yes I know you spent so much I know you spent a whole lot to improve on yourself yes second Timothy chapter 2 I think from verse 15 apostle Paul was speaking to Timothy is a study to show yourself approved a workman and it's not patient so the Lord invested in you of course you will need to you will need to work that out you need to make him know that truly you're not wasting that which he bestowed in you amen you need to prove that okay I'm not saying that ministers of the gospel the mind of God should not be cornered of course when they are the concept I know you are still asking me to give you a million dollars you are outside the kingdom of God I'm telling you the truth now I expect to you in all honesty I tell you nothing I am NOT talking because I'm perfect I'm into the full image but I am bringing by the message how do you say part of the money to account before you come now we take the context or the lifestyle of the world to God's Kingdom yes the Lord is supposed to the Lord is supposed to sincerely yes but this is not the root the Bible says he blessed the works of your hands yes now now believe me the fact that you're doing ministry does not mean that you should not walk amen now the fact that you are you a minister of the gospel doesn't mean that you should be I don't know except and unless the Lord sends you I said oh go and do justice and if the Lord asks you to I mean give yourself totally to this cause which he has chosen you for I'm sure he's going to make provision not you make challenging and looking for ways to provide for yourself no how about some sweet little Lord is my shepherd I shall not want if you really know the God in which you are serving you should understand it now to Elijah the Bible says that the Lord commanded arabian arriving to what to feed him now I want you to understand that the Lord cannot really I mean the Lord truly sent you on an errand and then he leaves you empty it's impossible I mean it is extremely impossible like you I mean deconstructorization You are a spiritual, you should, you should, you should talk of midterm dancing.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Guided Into Truth
"Well, as you heard announced this morning, today is a special day for our church. The air is getting a little bit cooler, a little more crisp. The rain is starting to come and fall kickoff is happening. This means many of our ministries and programs are getting kicked off, ending their summer hiatus and getting rolling for the coming year. Now in conversations I was having with the guys on our pastoral staff earlier in the summer about the different ideas for fall kickoff, themes to go with, emphases to put out there. We had a bunch of different ideas and I won't share with you the ideas that ended up on the cutting room floor, but I will restate our theme for fall kickoff this year is guided into truth, which I think is a theme that really encapsulates what we are to be all about as followers of Jesus Christ, right? I mean, when you think about it, for those of us who are followers of Jesus Christ in the room this morning, we have been guided into truth in the ultimate sense in that someone somewhere at some point in time shared the gospel with us. They shared the good news message of Jesus Christ dying and Jesus Christ rising and Jesus Christ saving sinners like you and me so that our sins could be forgiven and our hope of eternal life secured. And then we responded to that gospel with repentance and faith turning from the sin that once had its claws in us to put our trust now in Christ finished work on the cross. So we we have been guided into truth in that sense. Now. We're also called to guide others into truth. And if we're faithful to Christ and obedient to his Great Commission for his followers, we guide others into truth. That's what we do. That's what we're marked by we do so around our dinner tables as we teach our children about Christ and we do so at our family gatherings as we openly recognize that all that we have the roofs over our heads the air in our lungs the food in our tables the experiences that we get to share together. They are all because of Christ we do so at church whether we hold a formal teaching post or not. We give instruction and encouragement and exhortation from God's Word pointing other people people around us to Christ and then for a select few we guide others into truth by sharing the gospel message with the lost for some that means doing so through door -to -door evangelism for some that means at the Holmes Lake prayer tower for others. This happens more organically and the day -to -day evangelism that you've heard spoken of more recently where people are more adept at moving their conversations from more of mundane topics, you know, the weather and Husker football and the like to the gospel and getting to the hope that's found in Jesus Christ. Well today's message is going to have one aim and the bull's eye that I've been praying that this message would hit is to press in on this notion that evangelism is the territory or the realm of only that select few in the church. I'm going to throw the flag on the thought process that goes John Kerry is the deacon of evangelism and therefore John Kerry and his team. Those are the evangelists of the church. I'm going to challenge those of you who whether through fear or or laziness let's just get real here a lack of concern and love for those who are truly lost or abandoning your responsibility to do what Christ has commanded you and I both to do which is to share the gospel with the lost. I'm going to exhort you this morning to stop warming the bench and to get in the game. So last week we looked at prayer you might recall from Colossians this morning. We're looking at evangelism. I figured I could complete the trio of all topics that people like to hear about giving maybe next Sunday. No, but I'm going to say what needs to be said about being more evangelistically minded individually and as members of this body of believers to be more faithful in sharing the gospel not from a place of personal preference or desire because that really doesn't matter here. I'm going to speak to you through a text of scripture one that is very familiar to many of us and a text that is so rich in terms of the description it provides and the picture it paints of what it means to be guided into truth and what it looks like to guide another into truth turn with me if you would in your Bibles to Acts chapter 8 Acts chapter 8 Matthew Mark Luke John Acts book number five of the New Testament. We're going to hit pause on our series and Colossians this week so that we as a church body in keeping with our fall kickoff theme this week can zero in on this text where we encounter someone who was guided into truth and also see someone who is guiding another into truth. We're going to look at Acts 8 25 through 40 this morning. I'm going to try to take the whole bite. We'll see how I do this morning sermon has five points. They're all alliterated. We're going to see the context first in verse 25 in leading up to verse 25. We're going to see the command in verse 26. We'll see the contact in verses 27 through 30 the conversion in verses 31 through 35 and then the consequences in verses 36 through 40 now since today's passage or today's sermon is one of these one -off sermons before we just drop ourselves into this passage. It would be important and good if we establish some of the context. So as we look at the context here first point number one, let's look at some of the background here. The Book of Acts was humanly speaking written by Luke the same Luke who gave us the Gospel of Luke and what both the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts revealed to us very clearly is that Luke was a very detailed and meticulous historian. We see that over in the Gospel of Luke the very beginning verses of Luke Luke 1 3 where he says this to Theophilus who is the immediate recipient of the gospel. He says it seemed fitting for me as well having investigated everything carefully from the beginning to write it out for you in consecutive order. So we see how meticulous already Luke was and then here in the Book of Acts, which is really part 2 of Luke's writing the sequel as it were to the Gospel of Luke. He continues on and giving this very precise and detailed historical account of the early church. In fact, let's go ahead and take a few moments to do a real high -level flyover of the first seven chapters of Acts leading up to our text for today. In fact, go with me over to Acts 1 and you can do the flyover with me. In Acts 1 we see that the resurrected Christ appeared to his apostles and according to Acts 1 3 he did this over a period of 40 days and spoke of the things concerning the kingdom of God and then over the course of those 40 days and at the conclusion of those 40 days the Lord said to his apostles over in Acts 1 8 that they will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all of Judea and Samaria and even to the remotest part of the earth file that statement away in your minds, by the way, we're going to come back to it a couple of times this morning then in Acts 1 9 we see Luke recording the Ascension of our Lord to the right hand of the Father where he is seated today says after he had said these things he was lifted up while they were looking on and a cloud received him out of their sight then in Acts 2 Luke gives an account of the day of Pentecost one of the traditional Jewish feast days what was Pentecost and this is the day on which the Holy Spirit as Christ had earlier promised would happen descended and fell on that assembly there in Jerusalem. This is the day on which the Apostle Peter gave one of the most powerful sermons ever preached and according to Acts 241 about 3 ,000 souls came to Christ were converted through that preaching of Peter Acts 3 were told more about the ministry now of both Peter and John still in Jerusalem. We see that Peter heals a lame beggar in this chapter and then Peter also delivers a second sermon from the portico of Solomon and in this sermon the second sermon Peter gives in Acts 3 15 he calls out the Jews of the day as it says here in verse 3 15 for having put to death the Prince of life the one whom God raised from the dead a fact to which we are witnesses that in Acts 4 we see the arrest of Peter and John recorded and then we see their interactions with Annas and Caiaphas and other Jewish high priests and it's in front of those high priests that Peter filled with the Holy Spirit Acts 4 12 says this and there is salvation and no one else for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved then over in Acts 5 Luke gives the account of the second arrest of Peter and John and the other apostles we see that they were flawed and eventually released and after they were flawed and after they were released Acts 5 41 says they went on their way from the presence of the council rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for his name in the very next verse Acts 5 42 says while they were still there in Jerusalem every day in the temple they go from house to house and they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ in Acts 6 Luke tells us verse 7 that the Word of God kept on spreading in the number of disciples continue to increase greatly in Jerusalem and then the very next verse Acts 6 8 we are introduced to Stephen who full of grace and power was performing great wonders and signs among the people and then the remainder of Acts 6 we see that Stephen was then brought up for trial essentially before the Jewish leaders on charges of blasphemy then in Acts 7 Luke gives us this very detailed account of the the bold testimony and defense that Stephen gave which included him turning the tables and indicting the very people who were trying to indict him for having murdered their Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ and that doesn't go very well for Stephen because we see in Acts 7 54 says when they had heard this meaning Stevens testimony and indictment of them they were cut to the quick and they began gnashing their teeth at him and then the rest of Acts 7 records Stevens ultimate death by stoning Acts 8 now begins with these words in verse 1 Saul the one who would later become known as Paul was in hardy agreements with putting him meaning Stephen to death and then look at the very next words and on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria and what does that remind you of what we saw back in Acts 1 8 where Christ himself said to his followers that you shall be my witnesses from Jerusalem to Judea to Samaria and then to the remotest part of the earth now take a look at Acts 8 4 we're going to work our way closer and closer to our text because Acts 8 4 here really sets up the immediate context where we'll be today says therefore those who had been scattered out of Jerusalem it means went about preaching the word Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began proclaiming Christ to them the crowds with one Accord were giving attention to what was said by Philip as they heard and saw the signs which he was performing from the case of many who had unclean spirits they were coming out of them shouting with a loud voice and many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 12:00 09-08-2023 12:00
"It says it was developed by Saul Kurtzner, who is apparently a storied South African hotelier, and has hosted New Year's Eve events headlined by performers including Fergie and Sting. Nice. I mean, the water park looks awesome. It's got a casino. It's got a gajillion hotels. So I would think people can continue going to this place no matter what, because it looks like a one -of -a -kind property in the Bahamas. What could go wrong in the Bahamas? This is Bloomberg. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Markets. With Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller. We got a lot of green on the screen here, but the volume is light. We constantly underestimate the strength of the US consumer. This is a market that's much more optimistic or bullish than maybe central bankers are. Breaking market news and insight from Bloomberg experts. There's still some concern out there in the market that there is room for things to deteriorate a little bit more than what they're indicating. As small and medium -sized businesses struggle, they don't present as much competition. The supply chain has still got dislocations globally and here in the US. This is Bloomberg Markets. With Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller. On Bloomberg Radio. All right, coming up in this hour, we're going to check in with Catherine Lim, senior analyst. She covers consumer and technology with Bloomberg Intelligence, because I want to talk to her about this company that's coming public, AMER Sports. They make Wilson tennis rackets and Solomon ski boots. Those are my favorite ski boots. Like that stuff. And plus, we're going to talk about Matt Miller. What is Matt Miller driving these days? You know who we got? Michael Dean. He covers all the Euro autos. Yeah. So he's like one of your favorite guys. We'll get him in there. We'll talk about Matt, what he's driving, because he's always driving something. And he's a total car guy himself. Total car guy. He loves cars. Yeah, he loves cars. Michael, Kevin.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from POA4 Extraordinary Activity Put On The Armor A Manual for Spiritual Warfare with Dr. Paul Thigpen Ph.D. Discerning Hears Catholic Podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com, in cooperation with TAN Books, presents Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. Dr. Thickepen is an internationally known speaker, bestselling author, and award -winning journalist who has published 43 books in a wide variety of genres and subjects, including The Rapture Trap, A Catholic Response to End Times Fever, and The Manual for Spiritual Warfare, the book on which this series is based. In 2008, Dr. Thickepen was appointed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to their National Advisory Council. He has served the Church as a theologian, historian, apologist, evangelist, and catechist in a number of settings, speaking frequently in Catholic and secular media broadcasts and at conferences, seminars, parish missions, and scholarly gatherings. Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Well, we've talked about the ordinary act. We do need to touch upon the extraordinary demonic activity. Well, this is the kind of stuff that, you know, that Hollywood likes to glorify. It's extraordinary in that it really isn't as common as just temptation, which is common to every man, woman, and child. By extraordinary activity, we're talking about a destructive work that's more powerful and that manifests itself not only in our thought realm, but also in the physical realm. Most observers of demonic tactics agree that there's certain activities that occur. They often use different labels for them, and so I allow for that in my book. I have a certain terminology. There are others who would use a different terminology. The kind of a whole series of levels of activity, each one a little more serious than the last, that kind of finds its worst form in possession, which is what most people in the world, when they think about demons, that's what they think about. But the first is called infestation. It's demonic activity that's connected to a particular location or an object. So if there's a house, for instance, that's infested, and people often think it's, you know, they call it ghost or something, but it's actually demonic activity. But folks, witnesses in an infested house, may see physical objects moving on their own or seemingly on their own, levitating, flying through the air, disappearing and reappearing in other places. They may smell offensive odors, often like sulfur. They may hear noises they can't explain, like crashes or laughter or screaming. So when people talk about, you know, a haunted house, often that's what we're talking about, something where there's a demonic association with that building or that location. The next level then is what I would call oppression. It describes demonic attacks on a victim's exterior life. So it may be influences on their bodily health, influences on their finances, on their work situation, on their family relations and other social relations. In some severe cases, it may even include physical assaults, invisible blows to the body, a push out of bed or downstairs, mysterious scratches appearing on the skin. I've seen all of these before. A number of saints throughout the ages have spoken about enduring this kind of thing. So St. Anthony of the Desert, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Ante, Padre Pio, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, a few of those. Next, then would be obsession. That refers to a more severe and relentless form of the struggle in the victim's interior life. It's a wrestling with disturbing thoughts planted by the enemy, but to a degree, not just temptation. So it's an inner torment that can be suffered while you're awake or in nightmares, becomes so intense that the sufferer may seem to be going insane to themselves and to others. There may be visual and auditory hallucinations, persistent temptations to suicide. We have to note that symptoms like this may well have physical causes and mental causes rather than spiritual ones. That's why the church is always careful and insists that those who experience these kinds of afflictions should first approach medical professionals for help before just, instead of just concluding that they're under attack from evil spirits. But then the most serious is possession, the one that's most dangerous and most rare form of extraordinary demonic activity. It involves periodic episodes in which an evil spirit controls the body of the victim, though the victim is usually not aware of what's taking place during that control. And we have several accounts of that in the Gospels, as we've talked about before. So the demon -possessed person may engage in bizarre bodily contortions that would normally be impossible. The body may levitate or act with superhuman strength. The victim may groan, hiss, make animal sounds. An alien voice may speak through the possessed person, sometimes without even the use of their vocal cords. Often they reveal knowledge of hidden things. Are they talking a language unknown to the victim and the victim's never studied? And at the same time, as in cases of infestation, often disturbing and even violent physical phenomena may take place in the victim's presence. And then finally, the victim of demon possession exhibits an extreme, sometimes violent, sense of to revulsion holy things, like the name of Mary and the name of Jesus, to the rites of the church, to a consecrated host, to sacred relics, to sacramental, such as holy water. So that would be the most serious thing. And I always like to make the point that a demon can never possess someone in the sense of owning that person, because all human beings, no matter what they've been through or what they've done, all human beings belong to God. They are his personal possession. Well, we speak of cases of demonic possession in which the enemy has basically become a usurper occupying the human body that was created to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit instead. Now one of the reasons why we are going over again this particular part of our conversation is to know the battle. And it doesn't necessarily mean that we're called to be the Navy SEALs that are called to go out there and engage in, OK, now we know what it is, so we're going to go out and deal with it. It's important, as you said, at certain levels that, yes, medical professionals absolutely have to be working in relationship with a person afflicted. In many cases now, Paul, isn't it true that in dioceses around the United States, as well as around the world, that if there are those who feel that they are encountering this, that they can go to the Chancery or maybe even to the local parish, and they will be able to work together to help bring that person once again to wholeness? Yes, and that's so important. If you're at the place where your sense is that it's beyond the ordinary and these other things, you find a priest that you're confident in and you trust, and lay it before them. If you have to go to several priests, but go and give them a chance to help you figure out if it may be something else than what you're thinking. They can make references, refer you to medical professionals who can help you to kind of rule those things out, and the church won't allow you to go through something of a major exorcism without having kind of ruled out the other things. But the church is there, resources are there to help you. Our Lord Jesus, who cast out demons very easily, has given his authority to them, and powers don't always come out with just a word because they're complex situations that involve kind of healing that has to go on in the soul, and sometimes a renunciation of certain things before it can all happen, but completely. If you have a trained exorcist, they'll know what to do. So the church has that help, and go to the church for sure while I'm meeting more and more folks who, you know, are, well, I hear there's this spiritual healer, you know, and often it's someone who's not even of a Christian background, but some kind of New Agey thing. Either you don't want to go that direction because folks who don't have the authority that Christ gave to, you know, leaders of his church, they can just get you into worse trouble than ever. Yeah, you can look at the Scriptures for an example, the one that jumps in my mind is Saul, King Saul, when he chose to go to an oracle because he was feeling, can we say, maybe oppressed or something like that, I'm not trying to diagnose this situation, but to the point where he went to the oracle to summon up Samuel, and it ended up leading to not only her madness, but to his. Well, it's just a very dangerous thing. Like I said, you know, in the book of Acts, you know, the other example where you have the seven sons of Seva who fancied themselves exorcists, and they see St. Paul casting out you out in the name of Paul or Jesus or whatever name they used, and the thing just looks at them and you can just hear the smirk and the words, Paul I know and Jesus I know, but who are you? And then jumps on them, you know, but especially folks, you know, kind of occult healers and that kind of thing. There's certain cultures that, you know, just have a tradition of this, it's extremely dangerous. Sometimes, you know, people accuse Jesus of casting out demons by the prince of demons, and in this case, it's almost like that, that they're not really casting them out, but by, they themselves can be demonically influenced in a way that will, you know, if there's actually a demonic power that's somehow oppressing someone, and they go to one of these healers who's actually demonically connected, yeah, that person can appeal to the demon, lay off of them for a while, and they'll seem to think, you know, they'll look like maybe they've been healed or helped. It's the wrong way to go about it because it's not the authority of Jesus that's overcoming the thing. It's just, you know, orders from a higher demon, so to speak. You have to be really careful. And I think it needs to be said, too, here, and I hope you agree, Paul, that as we spoke about the ordinary activity, that of temptation that is done, that even in this extraordinary activity, demonic activity, that trained exorcists will say that there, it usually begins with an entry point, you know, a demonic entry point. There's a point in which it's not necessarily where the guy's just walking down the street and all of a sudden, boom, this happens to him. I'm not going to say that it can happen that way, but most of the time, the overwhelming majority of the time, it's because there is some type of activity, whether it was an assault as a child or it's something that the person agreed to participate in, it might be a violent act that was perpetrated. There's usually some moment or a series of moments where this activity enters into the person's life and then it manifests itself into a greater situation. And that's when those who are trained in this area are able to untie those knots to get to those layers. Am I presenting that properly? Yeah, I think so. I'm certainly no expert in exorcism and I've never trained and I'm not a priest, so I couldn't be an exorcist, but I hear the same thing from those who are trained that often there is some particular point of access. And again, it's not necessarily that the person makes a choice to do something, but something could be done to them or they could even just move into a house that is infested for whatever reason because there's some earlier resident called some of the powers and into there by what they did, maybe the Ouija board or something, who knows. And that's why you do need some trained folks because it's not just so simple as snap my fingers, the devil's gone. There are certain kind of principles that seems to be of demonic activity like that that an exorcist is trained to look at, to understand and to begin to, as you say, untie the knot because these things usually are complicated knots because you still need the will of the victim to cooperate with what's going on. There needs to be some part of them that is saying, I want to be free of this and I will do what I need to to be free of this. And if it means renouncing what I did, you know, by going to that channel or going to the Ouija board or whatever, or if it means forgiving this person who did this to me or as a part of it, or if it means forgiving myself, making reparation in something, some demonstration that my will is to do the will of God and to be free, you know, always gets to me that one time, I don't want to read too much in it, but in the gospel where there's a man who's been ill all his life, he's lame all his life and Jesus looks at him and says, do you want to be healed? And that's always struck me that sometimes that's a question he has to ask us through the priest, through the counselor, through the exorcist that we go that far, do you want to be healed? Because it's going to require some cooperation on your part.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Straight Paths of the Lord
"Here in Acts chapter 13, we're going to read verses four through 12 as we continue our series and the acts of the risen Lord Jesus as he has revealed them to us by his spirit. So I invite you to stand out of respect for the reading of God's Word. So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the Word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had John to assist them. When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar -Jesus. He was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the Word of but Alemus, the magician, for that is the meaning of his name, opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him and said, You son of the devil, you enemy of all of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time. Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand. Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of God abides forever. Amen. You may be seated. There's a poem by John Henry Newman, which I have come to love. I'm going to read it as we start to dive into the Word of the Lord here in Acts chapter 13. Newman writes, runs not the Paul had stayed in cot or learned shade with the priest white attire and the saints tuneful choir. Men had not gnashed their teeth nor risen to slay, but thou hadst been a heathen in thy day. What is Newman saying? Newman is saying that there was a comfortable life before the apostle Paul, and that comfortable life looked like, what, staying in Antioch, taking it easy with the saints there, seeing the church in Antioch continue to grow as he would enjoy singing hymns with them, as he would enjoy learning of the scriptures in the shade of Antioch. But Paul went forth. Paul went on several missionary journeys, and when he did that, it guaranteed two things. First of all, that he would encounter great opposition, that men would gnash their teeth at him and rise to slay him. But also, it ensured that you, you who have been called by the Lord, would come to know the gospel and believe. You see, we're about to study these missionary journeys of Paul, and there are several of them, and it's going to take us to the rest of the book of Acts. But as we lean in and look at these missionary journeys, I don't want it to just be about learning the facts. I certainly, you'll see probably next week, I'm going to put a map in front of you so you get a sense of the geography and scope of this thing. But what I want you to see is not that you just do a checklist of understanding what these missionary journeys are all about and where they go, but rather that you see that this is about God's mission toward you, towards sinners who desperately needed his gospel, who needed to hear his word. And as we study this history of Saul's travels, what I want you to see is this is really about the great missionary heart of God. And every time that Saul goes to a new city and encounters opposition there, God is saying, it's worth it because my gospel goes forth and sinners believe. That's the golden thread that runs through the rest of the book of Acts, the missionary heart of God. Every map speaks of his intent to save. Every new city that the gospel goes to shows that he's not just about maintaining the faith in some quiet little place, but he's about spreading the faith. This is your history because if Paul had not gone forth, how does the poem end? You would be a heathen in this day. You would not have heard the gospel. If he had not taken the gospel at risk of his own life to foreign lands, you probably wouldn't be here. This is the Lord's appointed means of saving sinners like you. And so I want to look at this first narrative. I want to look at the travel to the island of Cyprus because here we see a snapshot of the missionary heart of God as the gospel goes forth. You'll see that Paul and Barnabas and John Mark, the kind of pastoral interns with them, they go to the island of Cyprus. Now I would ask you if you were undergoing the first stage of a advance outside of Antioch and you could go anywhere, where would you go? I mean, you look at the map and you think there's a whole ancient world ahead of me. I could go to Rome. I could go really anywhere, but they choose to go to Cyprus. Why? Well, Cyprus is located 100 miles to the west and it could be that they just went to the first place they hit land, but Barnabas is from Cyprus. Barnabas knows a lot about Cyprus and Cyprus is also a vacation island. It's a place with tropical trees and where people would enjoy the sun. Now I don't think any of these reasons are why they sail to Cyprus. I believe they sail to Cyprus because it is a major crossroads of the ancient world. It is a major crossroads in the Mediterranean sea where people would stop and they'd refuel and Paul and Barnabas and John Mark know that if the gospel takes root in Cyprus, it goes out everywhere.
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A highlight from The Cutting Edge of Evangelism
"I don't know how much all of you know about the Jewish faith today, but I suspect you know quite a bit. And I suspect everyone here this morning knows that someone's Jewish heritage is passed down through the mother's side. That in considering your Jewishness, it comes from your mother, meaning of course that if your father is not Jewish, but your mother is, by Jewish law, you are Jewish. However, if your father is Jewish and your mother is not, you are not, under Jewish law, Jewish. And that is how it stands today. So when I was studying for our passage in Acts for today, Acts 16 one through five, I was struck by an inconsistency in just exactly who was considered Jewish in the first century AD. Here's the passage and we'll read it. I don't usually read it first, but we're going to read it first. Paul came also to Derba and to Lystra. A disciple was there named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of all the Jews who were in these places. For they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith and they increased numbers daily. And if I have trouble reading here, this wasn't because of small print. I bought a new printer. My printer is double printing pages. I'm getting a new one on Friday, Aaron doesn't know that yet, but it's on its way. I can hardly read what's printed here. So forgive me if I'm slow on some of these. The rest, however, I hand wrote and that'll make it even harder to read. So what struck me here was that Timothy was the son of a Jewish mother and a Greek father. So under Jewish law, Timothy was Jewish, right? Jewish mother, Gentile father, you're Jewish. Jewish father, Gentile mother, you're not Jewish. So Timothy is Jewish. Why then did Paul find it necessary to circumcise Timothy because of all the Jews in the area who knew his father was Greek? But more importantly, if Timothy's mother was Jewish, why wasn't he already circumcised? What's going on here? Well, at the time of Acts 16, Jewishness was passed down through the father. It was not passed down through the mother. We were reading today in the Old Testament. Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. You notice who they're referencing here? They're referencing the fathers. Jewishness back then, the Levi priests, the priests of the temple were to be sons of Levi. This is how Jewishness was passed down in these days. It was passed down through the father's line. It was what is called a patrilineal society, meaning the line came down from the potter, the father. The opposite of that, because I'm going to be using these terms, is a matrilineal society. That is one that comes down through the mother. That everything was ordained by your potter, who was your father. That's what was important. It was not matrilineal based on your mother. So when did the change occur? And I think you'll all be with me on this. Okay, when did this change occur? I want you to know and what I say is not suspect. It's actually true. I could not find this in any Christian writings. I couldn't find it in commentaries. So what do I do? I go to the Jewish sources on the internet, the respected Chabad .org. My Jewish learning is good. There's a few others. The only place I could find this referenced and I found it universally referenced in Jewish sources is that between 10 AD and 70 AD, this change came in and was institutionalized. Now, if you've been here with me for these teachings, an awful lot of things changed between 10 AD and 70 AD. And I know you know the answer to this, but what happened in 10 AD to 70 AD? Well, let's see. Jesus was 13 years old. What happened in the temple when Jesus was 13 years old? Well, that's right. He appeared there and studied with the teachers when his parents didn't know he was there and left him there. We suspect that who he spoke to was Gamaliel, Simeon, and my old friend who I'll never forget, their grandfather Hillel. Okay, so in 10 AD, Jesus was beginning his study. Then, you know, we get to 30 AD. We're into Jesus' ministry. Up comes his crucifixion and resurrection. The church starts. The church age is from 35 to 70 AD. The church age is still going on, mind you. But the beginning of the church, 35 to 70 AD, and then comes the destruction of the temple in 70 AD. And they are universal in Jewish circles to say that this change occurred specifically between 10 AD and 70 AD. The change was made in the writings of our old friend, the Mishnah. It was written down there that it was now determined that the Jewishness was to go through the mother. And it strikes me that just as the Old Testament was the pre -first century scriptures for Israel and the New Testament in the first century, in the post -first century, words from God concerning his church. The Old Testament was pre -first century. The New Testament was post -first century. The Old Testament was concerning the nation of Israel and their relationship to God. The New Testament is how to understand the Old Testament and to see the ushering in of the church age. And where the New Testament is the continuation and explanation of the Old Testament, the Mishnah in many ways is not the continuation of the Talmud, but it changes almost every significant rule of Judaism laid down in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud. And the other major difference between the scriptures and the Talmud, of course, is that the scriptures are the word of God. And the Talmud was written by men as a commentary and as additional laws for the Jews. So last week, we saw that a sharp division arose between Paul and Barnabas on whether to take John Mark on the second missionary outreach the two men had planned. Barnabas was just as adamant that John Mark be included. This impasse led to the decision for the two great missionaries to go their separate ways. Barnabas taking John Mark with him to Cyprus, as we saw, and Paul traveling with Silas. We ended at verse 41 of chapter 15, which read, he, that is Paul, went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. A chapter, verse 1a of chapter 16, which we come to today says, Paul came to Derbe and Lystra. Okay, that's verse 1a. When Paul told Barnabas, he wanted to visit the churches that were started in the wake of their first missionary trip, my somewhat orderly mind thought we would sail to Perga and then travel to Sidi and Antioch and then down to Iconium and then go on to Lystra and Derbe. But that is not what Paul did. Paul went in reverse order. And why did he decide to go in reverse order? Scripture doesn't say, and I suspect Paul didn't know why he was going in reverse order. But instead of sailing, Paul and Silas instead headed north by land. Now they had to cross a major mountain range and crossing it brought them down to Tarsus. Now, you might recall the city Tarsus. There is somebody we know that was called Saul of Tarsus, you know, who is now the Apostle Paul. So he started by heading back just as Barnabas had gone to Cyprus, his home country. The second trip, for reasons we don't know, perhaps he had family he wanted to see. We don't know why he went to Tarsus first. We just know he had to go to Tarsus because it was the only way to get to where he was going by the route he took. And nothing is told of his stay in Tarsus if indeed he stayed there at all. We don't know that he didn't just pass right through because scripture does not tell us and neither does history, secular history. Traveling on from Tarsus, the party had to cross another mountain range. Directly north of Tarsus. And so they approached, then approached Derbe from the south. Verse 41b says they came to Derbe and to Lystra Verse 1b says a disciple was there named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer but his father was a Greek. So his mother was Eunice and we know this from 2 Timothy. His grandmother was named Lois. They figure prominently in letters of Paul to Timothy remembering of course that my rule of thumb is it's really good to be named in the Bible if you're not. Ananias and Sapphira and a few others. Lois and Eunice were highly thought of Christians in the early church. Now for Eunice to marry a Greek Gentile at the time was to break Jewish law. This was not allowed and people have wondered why as a Jewish believer she was allowed to do this. Well we know from Paul's first trip to Derbe and Lystra that these towns had a very small Jewish community with little influence in that region. And it is surmised for this reason that there were few suitable Jewish men that she was allowed to marry outside Judaism. While the ESV translation says that Timothy's father was a Greek, a more accurate reading would be that his father had been Greek implying that his father was dead. The past tense used in Greek showed that he was no longer alive. Timothy, second Timothy 1 .5 tells of Eunice's sincere Jewish faith. There Paul writes to Timothy I am reminded of your, Timothy's, sincere faith a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now I am sure dwells in you as well. And second Timothy 3 .15 speaks of Timothy's early instruction in Hebrew scriptures. Eunice, though married to a Gentile with a son therefore seen as a Gentile also chose to raise him as Jewish and take him to have him instructed in the scriptures. Indeed it was the duty of a Jewish parent married to a Gentile. Note that I just said parent. It didn't matter if it was a Jewish woman married to a Gentile man or a Jewish man married to a Gentile woman. It was their duty within Judaism to instruct their children in Jewish law and this Eunice had done. Eunice now was identified also as a Christian believer and she was undoubtedly one of those converted in Lystra by Paul and Barnabas on their first visit to there the previous year which was AD 48. Verse two says he and this again is Timothy was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Now Lystra and Iconium were several days travel apart. They were not side -by -side towns but undoubtedly the Christians in the area kept in touch as best they could. Timothy was thus known by the Christians of the surrounding area to be of superior character. Verse 3a says Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him and here is the reason that God directed Paul in his ministry to take a backward approach to his previous missionary trip. If he had repeated his trip he would have met Timothy in the last city on his second missionary trip. Instead he meets Timothy at the very beginning of the trip and this will prove important knowing that Timothy was a Greek father because we're going to see later that Paul doesn't just repeat his last trip he then ventures into Europe by way of Greece on this trip and having a native speaking Greek with him is going to be of importance and remember Silas that he took with him. He took with him from the Jerusalem church. Silas was a Hebrew Christian.
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A highlight from Churches Start Churches
"Alright Acts chapter 13, let's stand for the reading of God's word. We'll look at verses 1 through 3. Acts chapter 13 verses 1 through 3, the word of God says, Now there were in the church that was the Antioch certain prophets and teachers as Barnabas and Simeon that was called Niger and Lucius of Cyrene and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch and Saul. And as they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed and they laid their hands on them, they sent them away. And let's pray. Lord, thank you for the truth in your scriptures, we're going to look at this even help us to in the world, as individuals, as a church, and Lord, may we find a cause that is greater than ourselves, that pulls us out of bed and towards a worthy goal. We pray you'd speak to our hearts tonight in Christ's name, Amen. You may be seated. So tonight I want to give you a Bible study on this subject and you'll see how it helps our church but also applies to each one of us. And that is that in the scriptures, we see that churches plant churches, churches plant churches. In Acts chapter 13, there's a lot of different ways we could go with this. But we see the church here at Antioch, which was a prominent church, really became the prototypical church of the time after the persecution pushed believers outside of Jerusalem and they scattered, taking the gospel with them. The church at Antioch became just a powerhouse of Christianity and sending missionaries and soul winners in the local community, missionaries around the region there. And in this case, we find them sending out some more folks. They had a lot of wonderful ministers there. By ministers, that just means a servant of the Lord. We think often of a minister as one who is a professional or has a position. But the words use two ways. A minister can just be a servant. A minister, capital M, can be like a pastor, an evangelist, something like that. But they obviously had a lot of mature Christians doing a mighty work. And verse 2 says these people were busy serving the Lord, they were fasting, they were seeking the Lord, they were seeking His power, they were consumed with doing the work of the Lord. Let me just remind you that you don't have to be a pastor to serve the Lord. You don't have to be a missionary or an evangelist to serve the Lord. The truth is every Christian is a servant of the Lord. You say, well, I'm an accountant, I'm a construction worker, I'm a driver, I'm a this, I'm a that. Well, that may be what you do to provide for your family, but it shouldn't be who you are. That should not be the limit of who you are. And never forget that we should always get up to make a difference, not just get up to make a living. If you get in the habit of just getting up to make a living, that gets old real fast. But if you get in the habit of waking up and your profession might be X, but your purpose is Christ and your identity is Christ, and that's a powerful way to live. And so we must never forget that. But as these men were serving the Lord, the Holy Ghost said, separate me, Barnabas and Saul. This is the call of God. Sometimes God will call specific people to a certain work outside of the church. As a young man, 17 -year -old man at Blessed Hope Baptist Church in Jasonville, Indiana, the Holy Ghost said, separate me, Paul Chapman. And God put on me the call to become a full -time preacher and a pastor.
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A highlight from The Preeminent Attribute of Christian Love
"Well, I invite you to take your Bibles this morning and turn with me to 1 Peter chapter 4, 1 Peter chapter 4, and returning to our expositional study in 1 Peter this morning our attention will be given exclusively to verse 8 of chapter 4. And, to set verse 8 in its surrounding context, I want to begin reading in verse number 1. First Peter chapter 4, beginning in verse 1. For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, alarm yourselves likewise with the same mind, for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lust of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquedings, and abominable idolatries, wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you, who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. But the end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. And then our text in verse eight. And above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. And the title of my message this morning is The Preeminent Attribute of Christian Love. The Preeminent Attribute of Christian Love. Having reminded believers in verses one through four that God in Christ had saved them to live unto the will of God, and having exhorted God's people to continually live in light of eternity, in verses five through seven, the apostle Peter in verse eight now urges these scattered saints to keep the flames of Christian love fueled and burning hot among the flock. Now here at the outset of our message, I want you to carefully think of the great wisdom of God in moving Peter to speak this particular message of exhortation. Why do you suppose it was needful for Peter to preach the message of verse eight to this congregation of believers at this particular time? Why do you think God desires that these people who are weak, discouraged, sincerely struggling, and trying to fight off discouragement, hear yet another sermon on the subject of Christian love? I'll give you the answer. It's because God and Peter know that during times of trial, during times of suffering, we have this subtle sinful tendency to focus on ourselves. Often during times of great distress, the spirit of self -pity rears its ugly head and causes us to grumble. In the midst of great trials, we often think and sometimes say things like, look at what I'm dealing with. Look at all the loss and heartache that has come my way. Can't you see that I'm hurting? Don't you know what great problems I'm dealing with? Why are you not feeling sorry for me? Why are you not comforting me? Why are you not encouraging me? Why, why, why, me, me, me? Come on, it's true. When we meet with the troubles of life, often there's this little voice that sometimes fuels our pride and harmfully accuses others of not doing for us what we think others ought to be doing for ourselves. If I've seen it once, if I've heard it once, I've seen it and heard it a dozen times among the fellowship of local churches. A church member frustratingly leaves the fellowship of the flock and when asked the reason for their departure, they say, quote, nobody called me. Nobody served me. Nobody cared about what I was going through, so I'm gone. Now, sometimes the complaints are legitimate and the body of Christ has not done their part in caring for a hurting brother or sister in Christ. But most of the time, the one who is making such accusations has amnesia and has forgotten the many ways the church has sought to care for them in their trouble. Or the one suffering has become so self -consumed in their trial that they want everyone to go around feeling sorry for them to the degree that they are feeling sorry for themselves. And listen, this is the context of 1 Peter. Peter is writing to real Christians who live in a real world with a real spiritual enemy like you and me who are really hurting. And in so many words, Peter is saying, I know you are hurt. I know you are discouraged. I know you are dealing with disappointments and losses, but you must avoid turning inward in the midst of your problems. If you're tempted to say, can't you see that I'm hurting, you need to honestly look around and recognize the fact that you are not the only one hurting. In fact, everyone is hurting in their own unique way. So this is the spiritual prescription given by Dr. Peter to this hurting community. The spiritual medication is for God's people to be like Christ in esteeming others better than themselves, looking not on their own problems, but every man also on the problems of others. Peter knows that God's people need another reminder that the greatest threat to their Christian testimony is their selfishness. And Peter knows that the greatest method of evangelism to the world is their selfless love. For it's Jesus who said, by this shall all men know that you are my disciples if ye have love one for another. In other words, Jesus says the world is watching. The world may not be reading a Bible, but they are reading your life. They are reading the testimony of Christ's church. They are watching how believers act and react to the problems of life. And it's one thing to say that you love God when the circumstances of life seem to be unpleasant. It's another thing to show that you love God when the circumstances of life are against you. So Peter is saying, watch yourself. Be on guard. Don't forget your mission. Watch on the prayer. Keep your eyes on Christ. Look outward, not inward. Have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Now having considered the contextual reason for Peter's exhortation and the remainder of our time together this morning, I want to take this one verse, and I want to analyze it by setting it in four natural points of consideration. First I want us to consider the presumption of love that Peter implies upon the text. Second I want us to consider the priority of love that Peter emphasizes within the text. Third I want us to consider the practice of love that Peter suggests from the text. And then fourthly I want us to consider the perceivable product of love that Peter declares to be the tangible result of true Christian love. Four natural points of consideration that are taken from this one verse. And that being said, looking to our first point, I want you to notice with me the presumption of love, the presumption of love. Implied within the text is the foundational biblical belief that those who know Christ savingly will have a natural love for other Christians. When Peter says it is needful for those who he is addressing, namely believers, to have fervent charity among themselves, he is automatically assuming that they've been born again. Peter is naturally assuming as a result of their new birth they will have a genuine love for the brethren. And let me just say that this is the presumption of every human author of scripture because this is the truth of God. God's word clearly affirms that those who truly know God will truly love others. And Jesus says that the first and great commandment given in the law is to love God with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength. And out of that love for God, there will be love for others. The apostle John says, we know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death, speaking of spiritual death. We know that God has done a work in our hearts. We know that we've been born again when there is tangible, visible love for God's people. And then Paul in Galatians tells us that the fruit of the Holy Spirit is love. Not only love for God, but also love for Christ's bride. So keeping in step with the doctrine of scripture and the teachings of the apostle John and the apostle Paul, Peter is declaring through this exhortation that if somebody is right with God vertically, they will be right with others horizontally. And I think the best biblical example illustrating this truth is found in the conversion experience of Saul of Tarsus. You remember, before God changed the heart of Saul, Saul hated those who identified with Jesus Christ. With great passion, we read that Saul made havoc of the church entering into the houses of believers, dragging them to prison. In his sin, Saul lacked compassion. He was merciless. He was vengeful. He was selfish. He was hard. He was filled with self -love. But you know the account. You know his salvation testimony. When Christ gave him spiritual life, when Christ birthed him into the kingdom, Saul had a new relationship. Saul had a burning love, not only for God, but also for God's people. If you'll go back and read the whole of Acts chapter nine, you will find that this persecutor became a preacher. This blasphemer became a believer. The one who had previously hated God's people before salvation desires to be with God's people after salvation. In his lost condition, he was focused on himself, but in Christ, he became focused on loving the brethren so that the brethren might then collectively evangelize the lost. I'm submitting to you this morning that the changes brought by God in the life of Saul are the same changes God brings about in all who come to Christ in their conversion experience. If you are truly in the faith, you will have a burning love for God and his people. If you are truly in the faith, you will have a humble desire to serve others as Christ served others. If you're truly in the faith, the primary focus of your life will be the advancement of God's kingdom that comes by the edification of Christ's church. So I ask you this morning, is there evidence in your life that God has brought you to himself? You say with your lips that you love God, but do you have a sincere love for the brethren? You see, we can't go on and talk about the need of Christ -like love abounding among the church if you've never experienced Christ's love in salvation in a personal way. And for many people among the church, this is the fundamental element that is missing in their life. The reason why some are so distant, so fickle, so careless and apathetic toward the things of God among the community of the believer finds its root in the absence of true living faith in Christ. And if this is you this morning, I urge you to come to Christ now. I urge you to see that the reason for your perpetual unhappiness and indifference towards the things of God is directly related to your spiritual bankruptcy. What you need is a glimpse of God's love for you in Christ. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. But God commendeth, God demonstrated his love towards you in that while you were yet a sinner, Christ died for you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. So in talking about Christian love among the church, we need to first understand that Christian love can only abound collectively as Christian love is known individually among its members. A Christian church cannot love as Christ loved unless a Christian church is Christian. Unless a Christian church is in Christ, you can't do it. And so we start with this presumption. The first element of love Peter highlights for us is the presumption of love beating in the souls of those who name the name of Christ. He presumes that the church is a place where there are people who love God and love one another. Now turning to our second point, I want you to take notice of the priority of love spoken in the text. Peter says, above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves. And these words of Peter remind me of Paul's words spoken to the church in Corinth. In 1 Corinthians chapter 13, Paul notes that it is possible for someone among the church to have great faith in God. It's possible for someone in the church to have great spiritual giftedness. It's possible for someone to have a great knowledge of scripture, great ability to speak the truths of scripture. Paul says that it's possible for someone to bestow all their goods to feed the poor and even lay down their own life as a martyr. But if they lack true love for God and others, it all amounts to nothing. Paul says, without charity, without love, you are nothing. This is what the church in Corinth was lacking. They were lacking true Christ -like love. They were gathering Lord's Day by Lord's Day. They were busy about ministry. They were submitting themselves to their favorite preachers, saying, I'm of Paul, I'm of Apollos, I'm of Cephas, and yet they were taking one another to court. They were involved in scandalous sins. They were boasting about their spiritual giftedness, thinking themselves to be better than their brothers. And Paul comes along and says, you can do all these things all you want. You can play church, but without love, you are nothing. So in essence, Paul is saying, you can have the best preachers. You can have the most luxurious buildings. You can have the most exciting ministries, the most expensive high -tech toys and equipment. But if you don't have love one for another, your church will be a dead church. This is what Peter is saying in verse number eight. Peter is saying that love, Christ -like love, ought to be the stimulating spirit of Christ's church. Love ought to touch every aspect of the church's existence. Without love, all other duties are dead. Let me illustrate. If I preach Sunday by Sunday, without a love for God, and without a love for God's people, for you, what will it profit? If a Sunday school teacher only performs their responsibility to lead a Sunday school class for the sake of a position or for the sake of the applause of men, while remaining cold to the ones that they are teaching, what will it profit? If you come to church with God's people, Lord's Day by Lord's Day, and you are particularly focused on what others can do for you, you will be missing out on the divine purpose for which the church has been instituted. The church has been given to us by God as an amphitheater to broadcast God's love toward the world.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The LORD Is Faithful
"Would you please open your Bibles to Acts chapter 13. I'd like to begin reading in verse 13 and read through verse 25. This is a portion, a smaller portion than the actual sermon itself and for time I'm not going to read the whole thing. Again here we are in Acts chapter 13 verse 13 and following. Now Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga and Pamphylia. But John left them and returned to Jerusalem. The going on from Perga they arrived at Pisidian Antioch and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down. After the reading of the law and the prophets the synagogue official sent to them saying, brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people say it. Paul stood up and motioning with his hand said, men of Israel and you who fear God listen. The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt and with an uplifted arm he led them out from it. For a period of about 40 years he put up with them in the wilderness. When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan he distributed their land as an inheritance all of which took about 450 years. After these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet then they asked for a king and God gave them Saul the son of Kish a man of the tribe of Benjamin for 40 years. After he had removed him he raised up David to be their king concerning whom he also testified and said I have found David the son of Jesse a man after my heart who will do all my will. From the descendants of this man according to promise God has brought to Israel a savior Jesus. After John had proclaimed before his coming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel and while John was completing his course he kept saying what do you suppose that I am? I am not he but behold one is coming after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie. This is the Lord's word would you bow with me and let's again ask the Lord's help. We thank you Father for your scriptures and we thank you for the hymns that we are blessed to be able to sing tonight and for the reading of scripture. Our Father we come to you asking that your spirit will be present with us to help the servant and to help these your people. Those who join who are here in this building but those who will join also from afar. Oh Father we ask that you will advance your kingdom in your glory and I pray that the Lord Jesus will be lifted up faithfully. I humbly ask these things now in Jesus name amen. We are long overdue to be back in the book of Acts here and I've been stewing on this passage for some time as and wondering boy how do you how do you cover this a sermon like this in a in a sense that's intelligible. Here Paul was has preached to the Jews and God -fearing Gentles on his first missionary journey. Recall that he is in Pisidian Antioch which is central region of Galatia and it shouldn't be confused with Antioch from which Barnabas, Saul, and Mark were sent. Mark having deserted them and having gone back to Jerusalem we're told that Paul and Barnabas went on the Sabbath into the synagogue and they sat down and we are told this by Luke after the reading of the law and the prophets the synagogue officials sent to them saying brethren if you have any word of exhortation for the people say it. The Lord here presented a wonderful opportunity for Paul an open door for the gospel.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Fighting Back
"Dennis Prager here. Thanks for listening to the daily Dennis Prager podcast. To hear the entire three hours of my radio show, commercial free, every single day, become a member of Pragertopia. You'll also get access to 15 years worth of archives, as well as the daily show prep. Subscribe at Pragertopia .com to Music Welcome the Dennis Prager Show. I am your guest host, Carl Jackson, sitting in for the great Dennis Prager. Such an honor and pleasure to sit behind Dennis' microphone. So anyway, you can call in to the show, 1 -8 -Prager -776. I want to take the time to thank Dennis for allowing me to sit behind his microphone, trusting me behind his microphone. Alan Estrin, his producer out there in the ether. Thank you, Alan, for giving me another opportunity. Sean McConnell, that is in my ear. Gabe Cassiano has my back right here at AM950, the answer. Orlando .com, 94 .9 FM. Suzette is on the lines. So we've got a bang up show for you today. I've been going back and forth. I've got to be honest with you. I've been like, Carl, what are you going to talk about today? What's hitting you? What matters? What's important? And this concept came to mind, embrace opposition. I spoke about this somewhat on Officer Tatum's show. I didn't get an opportunity to go into great detail or specificity. But I do want to talk to you about some of Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals, not all of them. There are 13 of them. But I want to give you the antidote because I do believe that we are in a fight for our lives. I could talk about polls and all of that good stuff to tickle your ears. But I want to talk to the warriors out there that are ready to fight and willing to fight for this country. This is who this message is geared to today. We're going to talk about the economy. We're going to talk about Bidenomics. We're going to talk about the corruption of the Biden crime family with the big guy, the big boss. We're going to talk about fake racism. As you guys may know, some on the left celebrated the 9th anniversary, a pretty sickening thought, of Michael Brown, a black thug that the left pretends is a hero. I will not tolerate that. I want to talk about that. And black thugs are not black heroes. I want to make that emphatically clear. And I want you to push back, and I want you to embrace opposition because the left is throwing absolutely everything at us, those of us that love this country, because they want to destroy this country. They want to fundamentally transform this country, and they are not going to stop. You have to embrace opposition. I was reading earlier today, and quite frankly, I don't know all of the details because it was so early. My brain wasn't quite functioning, but I was trying to get some reading in, but it was what happened with issue one in Ohio. In issue one, basically, and I don't know all the details, but it was basically, listen, in order to amend the Constitution of the United States, you have to have a 60 % majority in order to amend it, and that simply didn't happen. The pro -life movement fell on their heels, so to speak, and so I read an article from AMAC and just trying to figure out what happened, and what happened was those that were on the right did not give the voters a clear message. As a matter of fact, they were almost scared to share their positions and their position of pro -life, their position of being small government. They were very vague. They were not specific. Those that were fighting for issue one, from what I read, and they were scared because the left had already framed them as, oh, you know, they're anti -democratic. We're pro -choice. They're against women, and they got so afraid of that narrative instead of embracing opposition and giving the voters something that they could grab onto, something that they could hold onto. Yes, we support babies. Yes, we don't want the left -wing radicals to come into this state and destroy our state and make it look like Portland, Oregon. I'll share a story of Andy, no, I shared this last night on Officer Tatum's show, but I want to get back to that. I'll share that story with you as well. But they didn't embrace the opposition, and this is the opportunity, guys. I got to tell you, we are in a position where we have to embrace opposition. We can no longer be afraid of the left. The left is going to hate you no matter what. I read another column today, and it was a column from USA Today. What's happening to Ron DeSantis' campaign? Why is his campaign tanking? And I'm paraphrasing here. And I read through the column, and I sat there, and I thought, man, Ron DeSantis' campaign, in my opinion, are making a huge mistake. They should be embracing opposition because you have a narrative out there in his campaign that he's going to be swayed by big -money donors, and one of the reasons the big -money donors are abandoning Ron DeSantis is because they say the guy is too doggone conservative, and he doesn't get it. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, okay? They said, man, he's too conservative when it comes to abortion, when it comes to immigration, when it comes to guns, the Second Amendment. He's more conservative than Trump. Doesn't he get it? And I'm like, dang, if I'm Ron DeSantis, that would be my next campaign ad. You embrace opposition. If Ron DeSantis doesn't get that, he's going to lose, and he's going to lose bad. See, one of the benefits that Donald Trump has is he embraces opposition. Ron DeSantis, frankly, in Florida, has done a great job of embracing opposition. He did it with this Amendment 4. When felons wanted to vote, he came in and said no to that. I thought he was going to be a rhino, came in and said no to that. He did amazing things. He fired these election people right away. He was embracing opposition. But for some reason, his campaign ran away from embracing opposition. You can't do that. You can't do that. And many people are flocking to Trump because, obviously, you've got a deep state that are going after the man that are persecuting the man, and one of the reasons why people love him and one of the reasons why people flock behind him is because he seems to embrace opposition.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Guest Host Carl Jackson Asks Whether Trump Should Participate In The GOP Debates
"The Mike Gallagher Show. The claims made in the document are consistent with what we found and disclosed to you all in Romania. It suggests a pattern of bribery where payments would be made through shell accounts and multiple banks. There's a term for that, it's called money laundering. In the ReliefFactor .com studios, here's Mike. Welcome back to the Mike Gallagher Show, I'm your guest host Carl Jackson sitting in for Mike Gallagher. You can find me online on my podcast, The Carl Jackson Show. Please subscribe, rate and review. If you go to YouTube and Rumble, give us a five, I would certainly appreciate that. But you can subscribe wherever you go to get your podcasts. Find me on social media, all things social media at The Carl Jackson Show. Hat tip Breitbart, Comer Biden business received over 20 million from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, while Joe Biden was VP. The Biden family business received over 20 million bucks from Russia, Ukraine. I wonder if he's confused as to who he wants to really win the war. And Kazakhstan, while Joe Biden was VP in the Obama administration, the House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer has revealed the committee previously unveiled two tranches of Biden business bank records. Those showed the Biden business received at least 10 million from business schemes in Romania and China. In total, nine Biden family members received payments from the family foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden's grandchildren. Comer predicted in June that the committee's work would ultimately show the Biden family accepted up to 30 million from its foreign business dealings. I think it is going to go beyond 30 million dollars. So remember what the left is doing. The last time I was on here was drip, drip, drip against the Trump campaign. All right, we're going to do drip, drip, drip against Biden. However, I will say this and looking through the rules for radicals, I do believe that we have to make sure that we are talking about other things rather than just Biden and even on our side, rather than just Trump. You have to talk about issues as well. You should talk about Trump and the persecution from the deep state, including the Biden administration or the third term of Barack Obama's administration. As we learned from the tablet piece over the weekend or over last weekend, listen, we all knew what was happening. We all knew the deal. Biden is allowed to get his payoffs right. He can be this corrupt, I believe, president as well. He can get paid off. His family can live lavishly. Just let Barack Obama finish the transition or the fundamental transmission of America and Biden will be your useful idiot to do so. We have one caller drop off. Al, if you will call back in, I'll get right to you. I wanted to go to you, actually. All right. I do want to play a video clip for you. This is video clip number one. If you will cue that up for me, Adam Trump represented the represents the regular citizen, Laura Ingram says, who can't get a break from the government. So let's play that. Let's roll that video number one. Well, I think it kind of represents to people at this point, after all these years of their coming after him, he kind of represents this the regular citizen who seems like they can't get a break from the federal government. The government's always on your back. It's always taking your money. It's always regulating you. It's always hassling you. And that's kind of what they're doing to Trump, obviously, in a much worse way. All right. So this is this is why I told you, you have to understand it's citizen versus the state. It is citizen versus the state. This is why I get so frustrated with some conservatives. Well, it's not that big deal. Oh, oh, my God. We need to back away from that. No, we need to back away from you because obviously you don't know what time it is. I've literally read some conservatives writing. They don't. Someone doesn't know what time it is when I read their article. I'm like, oh, maybe you don't know what time it is. It's insane. It's insane because what's happening is the left is using Saul Alinsky tactics against us and we're reciprocating, but not against the left. We're reciprocating against each other. One of the dumbest things I've ever seen in my life. But that's the way we Republicans roll, unfortunately. But after this show, Lord willing, we're going to roll a little differently, I hope, if you want to win, because we've got to use those tactics against the left. All right. We got to use them against the left. But Laura Ingraham is absolutely right. I think Trump represents the forgotten man. I think DeSantis has done the same thing. Whether or not you want DeSantis to be president, listen, that's a whole other issue. But I can tell you, as a governor, he's been phenomenal. He's been the every man's governor. So the debate between Trump and obviously Trump is way out ahead right now. He is going to be the light or he is, at least at this point, the likely nominee for the Republican Party. But you see DeSantis trying to do some things, making some changes within his camp, getting a new manager. We'll have to see we'll have to see how all of that stuff plays out. I'll let you know right off the bat. There's people that I love in the race. I love Trump. I love DeSantis. I love Larry Elder. I wish Larry Elder would get on the stage if for no other reason to address some of the systemic racism issues that are not to prove that America isn't systemically racist. I think he would do a much better job of doing that than Tim Scott personally. That is just my personal view of things. But we are dealing with a corrupt administration. All right, let me let me let me get to this before I end up forgetting and I just talk my way, talk my way out of it. Actually, let me do this. Let me take a call first. John has been waiting patiently in Orlando and then I want to get to this issue. I want to get to this issue of making sure that the next pandemic does not ever, ever, ever happen again. Everyone, even on the Republican side, and I include Trump with this, I think Trump needs to come out and say, I had Fauci, I had Deborah Birx in my ear. They straight up lied to me. I think that's important. I think that's important. I think that humility would actually gain more independence and so on moderate, so to speak. I think that needs to happen because what happened with Covid was an absolute damn shame. And we have to make sure that the left never gets that opportunity again. We've got to empower the citizen, never, ever, ever, ever empower the state. If you're in a political position and you're looking at some form of legislation and you look at that legislation and it says and you think through it, OK, will power go to the people or will power go to government? Always choose the people, always choose the people in the United States of America. All right, John in Orlando. John, welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. We're live from the ReliefFactor .com studio and you've got the mic.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from America's Cultural Revolution with Chris Rufo
"We have a great guest for the full hour, really smart man, Christopher Rufo, author of a very important book that you should purchase, America's Cultural Revolution, by Christopher Rufo. Christopher, thank you for joining the program again, the subtitle of the book is How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. I have been encouraging our audience, it's about Mao, it's about Mao, it's about Mao, you know, kind of in politics, we talked about Stalin or Hitler and Mussolini, I think too much. Mao doesn't get as much attention. Before we talk about America's Cultural Revolution, catch us up to speed about Mao's Cultural Revolution and what can we learn from it and how does it apply today? Well, Mao understood, you know, Mao was of course the great Chinese communist military hero who led the communist forces on their long march and then conquered the country, established a Marxist -Leninist state. But what he realized by the 1960s was that leveling the economy, reshaping everything on an economic front and a political front was not enough. And that in order to get the true communist utopia, he believed, you had to also level all attachments to the prior culture. You had to really wipe out the connection between the people and their cultural history and replace it with left -wing Marxist ideology, which then became known as Maoism, famously made concrete in his little red book of quotations that was spread around the country at that time and still to this day. And in America, though, what's happening is something very similar. The radical left realized that they could not bring a socialist Marxist working class revolution to the United States. In fact, most middle class Americans and working class Americans were totally against that kind of movement dating back to the 60s and 70s. And so they said, what we have to do is infiltrate the institutions of culture and turn those great institutions against the American people to change how they think about their past, their present in order to influence their future. And so now you're talking about America's cultural revolution. When did it start? And we could talk about how they've conquered everything as you throw out because your book is super smart and you make a lot of great points. When would you say was the beginning of America's cultural revolution? The beginning point is actually quite clear. It's in the year 1968. That was when the so -called new left came to prominence. You had student activists and left -wing intellectuals mobilizing in the universities at the same time that you had what was thought of as the underclass mobilizing through riots in America cities, more than 100 different cities around the country. And this is the genesis of this coalition that has stuck around to this day. You have the intelligentsia working ideologically, trying to reshape people's opinions, attitudes and beliefs. And then you have the streets, the inner cities, what was called the lumpen proletariat, the people at the fringes of society mobilizing in a physical and violent way. And so what you saw established, that basic dynamic in 1968, all of a sudden you fast forward 50 -some years to 2020 with George Floyd and you see it emerging again. You have the editorialists at MSNBC and the elite left -wing media working with the BLM movement that was really mobilizing people to violence in America's cities. It's the same pattern over and over and over. These folks have been doing it not by accident, but very deliberately. They had a plan to get the institutions to march all the way through America's prestige economy and then to turn these ideas on using events like the death of George Floyd as a focal point in their campaign. So in the book, I'm really glad you start, chapter one, Erbert Marcuse, the father of the revolution. This is a name that most Americans aren't familiar with. Politically involved people would maybe know Saul Linsky, right? Maybe Antonio Gramsci. But Marcuse, elderly philosopher, took the dialectics of liberation, you write. What did he believe? What is the Frankfurt School? And I'm told, Christopher Rufo, by the media that the Frankfurt School is a conspiracy theory. Christopher Rufo. Yeah, I guess it's a conspiracy theory, but it's quite interesting because left -wing intellectuals prior to maybe 2015, 2016, they celebrated what they called Western Marxism or Cultural Marxism. And they said that that was a line of thinking in the academic literature that was highly prized at the time. And then all of a sudden, once it became well known and it became unpopular because these insane, ideas are then they said, no, no, no, we can't talk about that anymore. That's a conspiracy theory. And they tried to take all their own work and kind of hide it in the corner. But Herbert Marcuse is really important and his name should be just as prominent as Saul Linsky's name. And I, because I think he's actually more important because while Saul Linsky was a master tactician, he knew how to play the game of activism at the tactical level. Herbert Marcuse was really the intellectual godfather of the modern left. He realized that the traditional Marxist revolution was a failure. He looked at the Soviet Union and realized that that could not work, wasn't working in the Soviet Union and wasn't working anywhere in the West. And so all of the ideas that Marcuse originated, the ideas of the new left, the idea of the high -low coalition, the idea of changing cultural perceptions in order to change politics, the idea of using extra -parliamentary power, meaning street activism and the threat of violence in pursuit of political activism, the idea of repressive tolerance, meaning repressing certain ideas, all conservative ideas in places like universities and forcing left -wing ideas into the discourse. All of those ideas that you see all around us were already written about, thought about and originated and perpetuated by Marcuse in the late 1960s. So if you want to understand our current moment, you have to understand this man, you have to understand his ideas and you have to understand his strategies for achieving power.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Randall Terry Unpacks the Theme of "Time Boys" and "Time Boys 2"
"I'm talking to Randall Terry, whom you must discover for yourself at Randall Terry dot com or on the rumble channel for this program, the Eric metaxas show. You can watch the two hours I did with him talking about the story of his life, which is extraordinary folks. I want to recommend it to you. If you get my newsletter, go to Eric metaxas dot com. When we sent out the newsletter, you will get this video. You've got to know who I'm talking to. This is not just some guy who made time boys the movie as important as that is, as wonderful as that is. So time boys the movie has to do, you said earlier, Randall, with. Trying to save a life medically. That theme is in time boys and time boys two, which I'm very excited about. I'm very thankful for. I want to encourage because I appreciate you teasing me about being a dad, but when I when I look at king David in the Bible and I see this boy out in the wilderness, watching sheep. He could have become bitter. He could have become lazy, but what he did was he used his time to learn to fire a slingshot and got so good that he could do it on the run and then he also learned to play an instrument because the Bible calls him the psalmist of Israel. So when our boys were little and I'm having, this is an exhortation to moms and dads and grandmas and grandpas. When our boys were young, we said to them, look, you're going to eat, you're going to grow, but you're going to learn math, and you're going to learn English. And you're going to learn at least two instruments. All of them were required to play the piano, and all of them could pick another instrument. And so the reason I'm saying this is because we're desperate in America for people who have a gift with the arts. But a lot of it has to do with discipline. And I don't want to practice too bad. You have to practice. And so you can just see king David out there with the sheep, but he's also using his time wisely to learn to throw that sling to learn to sing to write poetry to play the instrument. He was so good that when he played for Saul, the demons left Saul.
The Bible in a Year
1 Samuel 27: David Flees From Saul
"First Samuel, chapter 27. David goes to king Akshay in gath. And David said in his heart. I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines, then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand. So David arose, and went over. He and the 600 men who were with him to akshi, the son of Malcolm, king of gath. And David dwelt with akshi and gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, a hint of jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, naval's widow. And when it was told Saul that David had fled to gath, he sought for him no more. Then David said to Ashish, if I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there, for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you? So that day actually gave him Zika. Therefore, zik lag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day, and the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months. Now David and his men went up and made raids upon the gesture rights, the gurus, and the amala kites. For these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as sure to the land of Egypt, and David struck the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and came back to Akshay. When Akshay asked, against whom have you made a raid today, David would say, against the negev of Judah, or against the negev of the Jeremy lights, or against the negative of the canines. saved neither man nor woman alive to bring tidings to gath thinking lest they should tell about us and say, so David has done. Such was his custom all the while he dwelt in the country of the Philistines and trusted David, thinking he has made himself utterly abhorred by his people Israel. Therefore he shall be my servant always.
Truth For Life Daily Program
Saul: When Jealousy Grips a Mind (1 Samuel 18)
"Now notice what he says here, he says, I want you to show yourself strong fight, fight the lord's battles. Remember the law? You shall not take the name of the lord your God in vain. For the lord will not hold them guiltless who take his name in vain. What he suggesting here inferentially is that his mind and his heart are actually set on the defense and the advance of the kingdom of God. And so under the disguise of piety, he seeks to advance his own evil agenda. Wrap the dirty business up in a concern that is ostensibly for the vastness and the greatness of God. This is beyond crafty. This is actually cruel. Because he is prepared to use his daughter, actually his daughters, as we will see, to fulfill his own selfish ends. He said, well, how do you get that? Well, you get it from reading your Bible. This is what he said. Here's my daughter. I'll give her to you as a wife. You advance the kingdom of God, and we'll take it from there. But or far as the conjunction in the ESV for so thought, let not my hand be against him against David, but led by a hand of the Philistines be against it. You see what happens when jealousy grips a mind when jealousy takes hold, his words said we're planning a celebration. His heart was thinking in terms of elimination. Twist it. I'll leave it up to my enemies to do the dirty work. My hands are clean. It'll be the Philistines that take him out.
The Bible in a Year
"saul" Discussed on The Bible in a Year
"Genesis to revelation, discovering how the story of Salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today it is day 111, it is day one one one and we are reading from first Samuel chapters 18 and 19 are also praying psalm 59. One thing I maybe I say this too often if you have reached today 111, which is kind of a cool number, three ones kind of trinitarian. If you've reached this far with us, this is incredible. I think a lot of people that we have reached out to me have in the past said, yeah, you know, I've always wanted to read the Bible and I have not ever been successful at this. I haven't been consistent at it. But if you have made it to today, it means that you have consistently. For 111 days you've opened yourself to God's word and you've let him speak to your mind and shape the way you see the world and shape your heart. And so what a gift. Wow, praise God for that. Also, the translation that I am using for this Bible in a year is the revised standard version second Catholic edition. I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension. And if you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit Ascension press dot com slash Bible in a year. Also, if you've not yet subscribed to this podcast, you are invited to consider that pray about it. Let me know what you choose. Anyways, this is day 111, and we're reading first Samuel chapter 18 and 19 and we're praying psalm 59. First, Samuel, chapter 18. Jonathan's covenant with David. When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. Insult took him that day, and would not let him return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as his own soul, and Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt, and David went out, and was successful wherever soul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war, and this was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants. As they were coming home, when David returned from slaying the philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel singing and dancing to meet king Saul with timbrels with songs of joy and with instruments of music, and the women sang to one another as they made Mary Saul has slain his thousands and David his 10,000s. And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him, he said they have ascribed to David 10,000s, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have, but the kingdom. And so I to David from that day on.
The Bible in a Year
1 Samuel 17: 19-36 David and Goliath
"But I probably will tomorrow. Just to let you know, just heads up on that one. Probably say it again tomorrow. But today is day one one zero. I don't know why I'm saying it like that. Day 110. Oh my gosh, you guys, this is the stop for a second. 810. Well done. Phenomenal work. I just, what a gift. Here we are, reading from first Samuel chapter 17, praying, psalm 12. First Samuel chapter 17, David and Goliath. Now, the Philistines gathered their armies for battle, and they were gathered at so called, which belonged to Judah, and encamped between soko and azaka, and FS Damien. And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the valley of elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines. And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side with a valley between them. And there came out from the camp of the Philistines, a champion named Goliath of gath, whose height was 6 cubits and a span. He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was 5000 shekels of bronze, and he had grieves of bronze upon his legs, and a javelin of bronze, slung between his shoulders, and the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spears head weighed 600 shekels of iron and his shield bearer went before him. He stood, and shouted to the ranks of Israel. Why have you come out to drop for a battle? Am I not a philistine and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us. And the philistine said, I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man that we may fight together. When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistines, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. Now David was the son of an epithet of Bethlehem and Judah, named Jesse, who at 8 sons. In the days of Saul, the man was already old and advanced in years, the three eldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle, and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were eliab the firstborn, the next to him, abhinav, and the third shamah. David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul, but David went back and forth between Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. For 40 days the philistine came forward and took his stand morning and evening. And Jesse said to David his son, take for your brothers and ifa of this parched grain and these ten loaves and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers, also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See how your brothers fare and bring some token from them. Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Ella, fighting with the Philistines. And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went as Jesse had commanded him, and he came to the encampment as the host was going forth to the battle line, shouting the war cry. And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle army against army and David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers. As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the philistine of gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words as before, and David heard him. All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were much afraid. In the men of Israel said, have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel and the man who kills him, the king will enrich with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel. And David said to the men who stood by him, what shall be done for the man who kills this philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel. For who is this uncircumcised philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? And the people answered him in the same way, social it be done to the man who kills him. Now eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men, and elie abs anger was kindled against David, and he said, why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness, I know your presumption, and the evil of your heart. For you have come down to see the battle. And David said, what have I done now? Was it not but a word? And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people again answered him as before. When the words which David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him. And David said to Saul, let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this philistine. And Saul said to David, you are not able to go against this philistine to fight with him. For you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth. But David said to Saul. Your servant used to keep sheep for his father, and when there came a lion or a bear and took a lamb from the flock, I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if it arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him. Your servant has killed both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised philistine shall be like one of them, seeing that he has defied the armies of the living God. And David said, the lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this philistine. And Saul said to David, go. And the lord be with you. Then saw clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail, and David belted on his sword over his armor, and he tried in vain to go, for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, I can not go with these, for I'm not used to them. And David
The Bible in a Year
"saul" Discussed on The Bible in a Year
"Of Saul in gibi of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude was surging here and there, then Saul said to the people who were with him. Number and see who has gone from us, and when they had numbered, behold. Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there, and Saul said to a haj, bring the arc of God here for the ark of God went at that time with the sons of Israel, and while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more and Saul said to the priest withdraw your hand. Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle, and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion. Now, the hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill country of ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle. So the lord delivered Israel that day, and the battle passed beyond Beth Evan. Saul's rash oath. And the men of Israel were distressed that day, for Saul laid an oath on the people saying cursed be the man who eats food until it is evening, and I am avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted food, and all the people came into the forest, and there was honey on the ground. And when the people entered the forest behold, the honey was dropping, but no man put his hand to his mouth for the people feared the oath. But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath. So he put forth the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth and his eyes became bright.
The Bible in a Year
Saul's Unlawful Sacrifice (1 Samuel 13: 1-14)
"We're reading first Samuel, chapter 13 of 14, and praying psalm 58. First Samuel chapter 13. Saul's unlawful sacrifice. Saul was years old when he began to reign. And he reigned, and two years over Israel. Saul chose 3000 men of Israel 2000 were with Saul in mik mash in the hill country of bethel. And a thousand were with Jonathan in gibi of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home every man to his tent. Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines, which was at giba, and the Philistines heard of it. And saw blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, let the hebrews hear. And all Israel heard it and said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philippines, and also that Israel had become odious to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at gilgal, and the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel 30,000 chariots and 6000 horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped at mik mash. To the east of Beth aven. When the men of Israel saw that they were in straits for the people were hard pressed, the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and entombs and in cisterns or crossed the forge of the Jordan to the land of gad in Gilead. Saul was still at gilgal and all the people followed him trembling. He waited 7 days at the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to gilgal. And the people were scattering from him. So Saul said, bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings, and he offered the burnt offering. As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering behold, Samuel came and saw went out to meet him and salute him. Samuel said, what have you done? And Saul said, when I saw that the people were scattering from me and that you did not come within the day's appointed. And that the Philistines had mustered at Mick mash, I said, now the Philistines will come down upon me at gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of the lord. So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering. In Samuel said to Saul, you have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the lord your God, which he commanded you for now. The lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The lord has sought out a man after his own heart and the lord has appointed him to be prince over his people because you have not kept what the lord commanded you.
The Bible in a Year
"saul" Discussed on The Bible in a Year
"And so Saul looks like a king. He looks like a fighter. He looks like a warrior. He looks like someone who would be brave. And that's how we're introduced to him. Now, we're going to find out that solve suffers from an affliction that happens to many people who look the part, right? There's a lot of times in our lives where we might look the part. She might be super beautiful, and so we think, oh, she is such a way. He might be really handsome, so he's such a way, or someone might seem really aggressive. And so they're just a big fighter or someone looks weak and so we just kind of put them into these categories and so is someone who looks the part he looks like he is. The king, handsome, tall, he looks capable. What we're going to find is Saul is not capable. Well, he's sorry. He has capabilities, but one of his Achilles heels. One of his shortcomings is he is overly concerned with what other people think, and again, this is the affliction of those who look the part. It's because they look a certain way because they appear to others to be a certain way. They are always thinking about how they look to others. They always thinking about how they're seen in other people's eyes. And this is going to be one of the situations that happens to king Saul. Now, before we get to that point though, we recognize that here is all he's doing his job. He's doing his duties. Now Saul is not, this is important for us to understand. Saul is not an evil character. Now he is going to descend into being pretty much a bad guy, right? Yet. We need to understand that we've done this already for a 105 days until today, a 108 106 is that we recognize that there are people just like us in the Bible that are mixes of good and bad. It mixes a good motivation, a bad motivation makes us of good choices and bad choices and solves one of them. So I'll make some really good choices. Salt is doing his father's bidding. He's doing his daily duty. He's doing what he should be doing and looking for these lost donkeys, and he's not going to give up. He continues to seek them. That's really good. That's really noble. And then also when he goes to see Samuel in the high place, Samuel anointed with oil and says, here's what's going to be a sign of your being anointed is that you're going to get to meet a band of profits and you're also going to prophesy. In fact, it's so powerful to recognize that it says the spirit of God will come upon you and you will be a new man. The spirit of God will come upon you. It would be a new person, a new creation, in fact, this is exactly what happened to you and me at our baptism. When we received the Holy Spirit, we became a new person. We were given the gift of, you know, when a child is baptized in an adult is baptized in the Catholic Church, they're not only baptized, but they're also anointed with oil, and they're anointed priest profiting king or queen. To anointed priest prophet and king or queen,
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Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams
"On May 28 2021, fishermen in Tobago found a boat adrift as they approached it, they made a grisly discovery. Inside, where the decomposing bodies of around a dozen black men, one later identified as SAO, who'd gone missing in January that year in Mauritania, Tobago assistant commissioner of police William nurse helped on the probe, with a backlinks origins remained a mystery. We began to remove the bodies from the boat, one by one. It was one of the most horrific experiences I have ever had. The AP's traveled to the mauritanian town of celebrity and found that dozens of people from that region, Mali and Senegal had gone missing after boarding a boat on the night of January 12th, 2021, and Allison Saul was among them. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
The Bible Project
"saul" Discussed on The Bible Project
"Too. Ah, okay. Yeah, but you're right. That's a good point. The story of humanity, that is the story of humanity. Yeah, that's why. All these stories are being hyperlinked on analogy Adam and Eve. So I'm just annoyed by being human. Yeah, I guess so. Look at the meta plot themes here. You have an anointed one who's given everything they need to succeed, but their moments that are going to need to trust. And trust God's wisdom, and insults Casey does it first, and then he stops. And we didn't look at those stories in detail, Saul's failure stories, but they're all about him not listening to the word of the lord and doing God's command. Just like, what God says Adam and Eve. But now here's David. And he not only succeeds where Adam and Eve failed, consulted that, too. But now, David is succeeding where soft ailed. Test after test, in fact, Saul becomes the test. And David refuses to exalt himself to the public place of God's anointed one. Yeah. That's what's key here. He's being patient. And he's kind of like has this radical trust in like, if God wants me to be an anointed one. I'll wait. Yep, for God's timing. Yes. That's right. And I won't take in my own initiative. Yep, that's right. And in fact, that's what the next two chapters we don't have time to look at them for Sam, I'm 25 and 26 till two more stories, making a total of three right here that are David's kind of ultimate test. And three times, he refrains from using the sword to make himself king. And one in the middle time, it's not even his own decision fully he's persuaded by a wise woman. Named my father is the redeemer, Abigail. And she convinces David not to use the sword to try and assert his authority as king. And he listens to her. And he does the will of God by listening to the woman. When he faces his test. So I guess the whole thing is the portrait of the anointed one, takes a big step forward in the story of David. In that, whatever it's going to look like to stomp on the snake. Yes, there is sometimes it's as simple as Goliath. It's calling a common trope. There's a good guy, there's the bad guy. Kills a bad guy. By simple, you mean it's plain. Yeah, plane. There's the bad guy. He's described like a snake. Yeah. Talks like his take the bad guy out. Take him out. But what if the bad guy? Yeah. Is the anointed one. Right. A fellow fellow is really. Your brother, who still king, yeah, what then? What then? How do you fight the snake? When the snake is your brother. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. And in this case, he doesn't crush his head. He allows the snake to bring about his own ruin. And you wait for God to elevate him. You know, as we think about their relationship as a canon able kind of story, it's fun to rethink of the story of Cain and Abel as like Kane tries to kill Abel is unable to. I didn't mean to say that. But the word play on Abel. Kane tried to kill Abel. Yeah. He isn't able to have the ability to. And then Abel can then go back. And take out Kane. Yeah. That's right. And then decides not to. That's the story. That's the story. Yeah, that's right. So the true victory of God's real anointed one is to sit patiently and wait through suffering. Wow. Even suffering that comes from your own brothers. And allow God to elevate you to the place of rule and to trust that God will bring about the downfall of your persecutors. Who claim to be the anointed one. And when I first started to see these themes of work, it was so hard for me not to start thinking about how the gospel authors have shaped the story of Jesus. Yeah, I was thinking about that like, how much was Jesus? Thinking about David when he would talk about the ethic of the kingdom, too. How do you treat your enemy? Yeah. David killed plenty of enemies. At least in this story. But for this story, clearly the author wants to see this as the tests of David's face. Yeah. He doesn't take vengeance into his own hands. It's really powerful. Young David's pretty. It's pretty rad. Incredible. Yeah. Yep. I've killed lions. Send me after him. Yeah. So I think why this is cool for the anointed conversation is the reason why most people think of a king from the line of David when they hear the word messiah. Is because the David's story is the fullest narrative portrait of the anointed one in the Bible. I mean, Aaron appears in the Torah, and he's important, but he doesn't get nearly as much airtime as David. There's one character who isn't annoyed one who gets a lot of page time. David. But also, God very explicitly says, there's going to be a king in the line of David who is going to, in fact, this perfect place to land the plane. At the very end of David's life he sings two poems that we call second Samuel chapter 23 and 22. Samuel 22, it's also identical to psalm 18 in the book of psalms. Okay. It's a song of David that he sang when the lord rescued him from the hand of Saul and the hand of all his enemies. That's how it opens. And he retells the story in poetic imagery of how God's rescued him throughout his life, and the last line, last lines of the poem, or this. He says yahweh is alive. How blessed is my rock? Now is The Rock. May
The Bible Project
"saul" Discussed on The Bible Project
"Of God, what better liquid than Kool-Aid? Country delight. Have you ever done? You just got me two times. I do remember country delay. What was that? Yes. I was like a lemonade. It was a type of what was country to lie. Yeah, it was not a spirit. And water. That was like two modern sugar. Drinks from my childhood. Wow, thank you for that. That was impeccable timing. Sorry, oil. Oil. Oil. And vegetable oil. I mean, we're not talking about. That's right. Petroleum. Yeah, no olive oil, which is, you know, olives are the seed of the olive tree. So the seed is the life. And out of you squeeze that life seed of the olive tree and out comes this dense liquid that, man, it does so many good things. So olive oil becomes a liquid symbol of the water of life, which in genesis two is set on analogy to the life giving heaven conveying presence of spirit. And when it's used in the Hebrew Bible, it's for people being set apart, you got it. To lead in some way as an ambassador. What's the word you'd want to use? Oh, representative. Representative. Yeah. Yeah, an image. To use the language of genesis one. All right. So what we're going to go on today and the next few episodes is there's one particular group of people within the storyline of the Hebrew Bible that gets called the anointed ones and that are associated with the energizing power of the spirit. And those are the kings. Israel's kings and then specifically the kings that are David and Solomon and then the kings from the line of David. So what we're going to focus on right now is actually the rivalry between the first anointed king, Saul, and then we're going to see how he becomes the anti anointed. The Antichrist? Oh yeah, annoyed to meet Christ. Yeah, anointed. The Greek word Christ is the Greek word for anointed one. Oh. So the anti Christ. Wow. Means an anti anointed
Let's Start A Cult
"saul" Discussed on Let's Start A Cult
"But we're not on the list back. That was my biggest worry. But william shatner going up was gonna leave him up there. Oh incredible. wow this is amazing. He he was a very. I mean he awestruck how couldn't stop saying. Oh wow how much. Lsd do you think he took our here. I was like really thinking when i watched that video. I'm like i think he might be lightheaded. Like seems everyone else like this crazy like else's point seeing themselves and he's just like looking out the window. Wow he's having a breakdown. Oh yeah which. I don't get because he's been up there many times. I've seen documentary that. He's he was in famous when star trek. Yeah he was a captain yet his own ship. God i saw him save the whales. Well guys before we finish up today it is time for critique this yes which actually we should. We should call it Would you call it radioactive tomato. We should call that today. That's right so this is the part of the episode where my guests and i talked about the cult we just covered and give it a reading at a five stars today. We're going to do another seven. Great on how well it did as a cult. There's no hard and fast rules about how we do. The ratings you could give it a one star and it was great or you could give it a five star at say. It was great up to you. So andy you started to. What would you rate the sullivan institute. Out of seven stars. Ooh boy you know honestly. I think that. I think that i will give the sullivan institute. I'm gonna say five out of seven stars as a colt And josh here's the reason for for that that rating i think in terms of a colt. It it it draws a lot of the classic cult tropes. There are a lot of cult classic elements for sure to the sullivan institute. It had fun. it's gotta fun. Twist in the way that it starts you know for you lovin therapy and low pressure indoctrination methods. I guess so it's kind of it's kind of unique in that i'll also give it credit for a little bit of staying power. Your his colts go. I mean you know when you think about it. Most colts have a very pretty short life-span because like get out of control so a couple of decades is a pretty long life for a cold. I think very long. I would say the beating is the scientology yup. I don't think that's probably a record that will never be broken yet But i you know so. I gotta git of decent score. It's probably not the greatest colt that ever lived. But i think it's a pretty good colt. Yeah as far as colts go not flashy but reliable. You'd say right. Yeah this is the this is the ford focus of coal as a great comparison aright and andy. What's your rating at of well. You want me to go again. Sorry sorry i had any written second. I don't know why i said your name. I but go ahead. Sorry but i know you couldn't wait to hear from me josh. And that's okay. that's all right. Actually andy stole the words right out of my mouth. How oh I give it back. Those words back to i think yeah. I think a five is a really is. Yeah the score. I would also bestow the colt. And i think for very similar reasons. I think you know if it like. Let's say you know we've covered heavens gay. We've covered the jim jones. I feel like those are like those are sevens in my book. Oh you can say those to any person and they probably they probably know what you're talking about yup the name recognition solomon's we're gonna know that is probably not so i think you got daca point for that and then i mean a lot of the lot of the things that you said. India think were hundred percent. Yeah wow welling the those. These are great reviews. i think i'm also going to give it five out of seven home. I got a perfect five out of seven all of the same things you guys said. But also because that was the same rating they gave the nuclear power plant destroying. So i think. That's i i was. I was really tempted to give it a five point. Seven stars at a seven. We'll thank you guys for joining me. If you guys don't mind please tell my audience where they can where they can find mr bunkers conspiracy podcast and tell them a little bit about it. You could find all of our links. At mr bunkers conspiracy. Time dot com. We have new episodes every wednesday. There's you know. We're on instagram. At mr bunker pod and twitter at mr bunker pod eighty how would you describe. I guess our show. Is you know it's a little it's a. It's it's in a similar vein to to maybe some other guests you've had but andy and i were to comedian skeptics to to friends and we've we get kidnapped every week by the tischler mr bunker who's a conspiracy just nut he's a he's a illusionary mastermind and he forces us to podcasts by these topics in the hopes that he can convince us or our listeners. The bunkers and Very similar to you. We always rate the topics at the end of the episode. On a scale of how plausible we think they are rarely ever heard patented bunker scale of plausibility right and and josh. There's certain i mean for the benefit of of all your audience. I mean our story is very complicated with mr bunker. We've been at this for a couple of years and there's quite an extensive back story involving our relationship with mr bunker so there's a lot to unpack their the app. There's a there's an extensive intro lor you guys should do a whole episode breaking down the extensive lore of of your podcast and the ultimate meta episode. Wow that would be a wild ride of an episode. Just a recap you know like every every few years. Although i guess it does get people to go back to episode one and listen through so that they understand it. I mean if you can stomach the sound of our voices for that long. I mean it's journey. You can go on for sure. That's true you are actually. It's a really nice way to prove yourself that you are mentally tough and you can take on any challenge in your life. I listened to the whole back catalogue. Mr buggers confused. I guess i could do anything. There should be some sort of award for people that have done that at the same time it also proves mental instability simultaneously proving your exceptionally stable and exceptionally unstated weird. It's a weird balance your your audrey inserted obstacle there. Yeah well yeah definitely go check them out it's a it's an amazingly funny podcast And very informative like i. I definitely go come away from some of the episodes. And i'm like wow. I had no idea about that if you love listening about conspiracy theories and just an all around good time. Finally if you want to support this show you can do so by rating reviewing and sharing the podcast on apple. Podcast sir or good pods. If you.
Let's Start A Cult
"saul" Discussed on Let's Start A Cult
"First nineteen ninety one eighty five year old. Sol newton passed away at the methodist hospital in brooklyn new york. After battling alzheimer's disease and septicemia his death combined with the negative publicity and the controversial lawsuits. Mark the end of the sullivan institute. Which had already been on a downward spiral with that. Members fled crumbling group in droves forced to reintegrate back into family units that they had abandoned long ago. Yes boy yeah. Secondhand cringe year lee. That's the weird cousin. That went off Hey uncle mario i doing. I'm back there definitely had new york accents here rate. Oh god and the guy from long island yo. I'm your biological father disowns. You set your boarding school. Oh come give you a hug. I don't have any money. I gave all my salary to the sullivans out anyway. Can aggression you couch. That's bad Yeah so it was definitely probably not a good time nada. Good time sadly not. Everyone was lucky enough to escape. Unscathed for instance helen fogarty. One of newton's ex-wives had her license to practice psychology revoked by the state of new york in nineteen ninety seven new york. What a bunch of bullshit. Let her do her thing and to be fair. They did letter practice for six years afterward and then they were like. Oh you know. Look into this very thorough investigation and found out. She might not be fully qualified license. Yes she had a few things definitely wrong with her. So we found a couple of inconsistencies in your path. Just wanna clear those up with you real quick to couple of small things. Please check the boxes. That better accurate. Were you grossly negligent with your practice. you check the box for yes and circled it. A bunch then run a big arrow with the words yes pointing to it and then something about you need money here So she was made to go through a hearing where a panel consisting of members of the board of psychology found her guilty of quote practising the profession fraudulently with gross negligence with gross incompetence with negligent negligence on more than one occasion and with incompetent some more than one occasion boy. This sounds like my last job review. My ex wife her review. I used to sounds like your ex wife. I wouldn't fogarty. that's right after. She divorced sell newton. I was married to. You're like but only until two thousand six after nine years licensed marriage yeah hi revoked it grossly negligent to to support the verdict. The panel cited several incidents including one in which fogarty coerced. Her live-in babysitter was also patient to having sex with newton who was pushing seventy at the time. Well the babysitter ultimately agreed to do so. She later filed a complaint with the state claiming that she only complied with their requests because she feared losing her job and therapy sessions that she had been receiving so that's not sure she should have been so upset about losing the therapy sessions. But turtled see why you would need the income still. Yeah i guess if someone's offering free therapy you don't you should question that at least the minimum. It should be like. Yeah birger. I don't know Still pretty unsavory situation. Yeah definitely not great field. I do feel bad for this person and well. Fogarty admitted that she had been wrong in having her patient work as her live-in babysitter. She denied allegations of sexual coercion in a later interview with the journal news. She was cited as saying quote. The babysitter made this all up that. I told her to have sex with my husband. Do i dispute it. I totally dispute it. That's unthinkable. i was a therapist. She worked for me. That was the whole issue. She was babysitting one of my kids and asked if she could be therapy with me and quote probably not gonna take her word for it. I'm being brutally honest but take on the situation so yeah. I don't know that helen's earned the benefit of the doubt though since she's grossly incompetent on more than asian that's documented history of gross incompetence is written on a permanent record inclusion. The sullivan institute may have ended in nineteen ninety one however former members remain unwilling to go public about their time in it. While many have horror stories others only have positive memories for instance eric greunen. Who spent more than a decade in the group continues to defend it even going so far as to criticize those who referred to it as a cult he has also which is something someone in a cult would say. Yeah very cult-like behavior. Yeah you're from written that niche for sure. He has also made harsh comments about former members who spoke out against newton claiming in an interview with gotha missed. That dr michael bray had gone over to the dark side. Well bray and paul sprecher. Our content on leaving the institute firmly in the past former members like greunen are hopeful that something similar to sullivan institute would be established again. According to him the group's value and doctrine are exactly what people nowadays that is saul newton and the sullivan institute. Wow what are your has Thoughts on it. I mean really this the sullivan institute it. It has like all of these classic colt elements. I mean it's sad. There's saul newton. He becomes like a a jim jones type of character. They give all their money to the. The group is very like people's temple. Hitch heaven's gate ask yup. Yeah they they kind of take a Kind of a higher moral sense of like well. You know we believe in like free love and like we're giving therapy and all this stuff and it's it's almost a commune in. It's it's almost like a merging of of the peoples temple and scientology little. Yeah yeah yeah you're right and you know what they were so close to being lake decent people. Yeah it's like tottering on the edge certain that the therapy probably felt i mean. I've said one hundred percent their therapy sessions of their practices. But like that's how you bring people in right is like you give them you. Give these these people who have you know. No no connection and no outlet you. Give them an outlet. You give them your to listen to you and that feels pretty good. Get that stuff off your chest right. Yeah sure then all of a sudden like the it just starts snowballing and all your disowning your son and what's gonna like poison the well because it's like. Oh yeah come. Tell me all your problems. And then it's like oh also i'm a sympathetic ear. You can tell me anything. But then i'm gonna feed like propaganda in time other ear right to fill up the stuff. You've just got rid of them. that's true. yeah. It's like a netflix subscription. They give you that at free months for life looks cold. Oh god i might have to do it. Episode in great idea amazon is amazon for sure. Yeah there's no questions that episode over it is yeah you guys can come on for that one. We can talk smack about jeff bezos and probably get on his headless somewhere. We've made enough visas joke on our show. We probably already on his hit list. Also we are on the list. Go to space so nice..
Let's Start A Cult
"saul" Discussed on Let's Start A Cult
"Know who will also demand that you give them their money. is it the matthew the mafia well both both are probably true. Yeah we did it. I specifically meant the products and services that support this show. Oh no usually they will give you something for the money. But i cannot personally guarantee that In enjoy these.
Let's Start A Cult
"saul" Discussed on Let's Start A Cult
"Goes good. I like that. This aggression was encouraged by both newton and harvey according to the. Yeah they were like this is great. Keep going his. Yeah get that. Collect theater collective. There's nothing dork. Year than theater nerds arguing over theater spaces stage. We can do improv better than you us. According to the sullivan. Paul sprecher foot. All the members were invited to come down and occupy the theater. The cops came in in the middle of the night and we had barricaded the doors. It was very exciting saul wanted to teach people how to stand up to the cops. He liked that kind of confrontation and quote. Which i mean. Fuck cops i guess you know like but this is an extreme where i think the cops might have been in the right to attack. Yeah i mean this was like This would have been like nineteen seventies new york too so yes edward great through pretty wild back then it was kind of a warriors style right. Yeah this is probably like before. There was any amount of oversight of policing exactly this disturbing nature of the sullivan. Stu would only escalate from there on march twenty eighth nineteen seventy-nine reactor at a nuclear generating station in dauphin county. Pennsylvania partially melted resulting in a radiation leak that many feared would affect the local population the three mile island accident as it was referred to afterwards is now known as the most significant nuclear power plant accident in american history garnering a five to seven rating on the international nuclear event scale. Pretty hot. it's at a seven. Seems like that could be at a five or ten you know. Yeah this was. This was a good nuclear event. Not a perfect one. Yeah it didn't kill enough people often try next don't you. I loved it. There's like a rotten tomatoes style service for nuclear disasters. Five out of seven from critics. But it's a seven seven as whereas the audience is concerned radiated tomatoes. Maybe there you. That's what it is besides causing widespread panic about the potential negative effects of nuclear power. The three mile island accident also drove the sullivans to relocate to orlando florida in a bid to avoid escape the imminent destruction of new york city. When this failed to happen they returned to the upper west side. Were those who had declined to make the move or ostracized by newton and the rest of the institutes appointed leaders. That's pretty interesting. Yeah it causes a divide between the haves and the have nots. It's like we've been to florida. We know what true freedom is you. You haven't lived until you've been orlando. It's like It's like covert when all the new yorkers moved to florida when to get three no mask. Mandates mandates yep much the same it all. It's all exactly the same. Even at the time. Florida in mandate anything. That's why the sullivans loved it. Yeah there were like a cult. Welcome in he'll fit right in with the other ones. We've got plenty of colts. We've got a spot on the by you for you. Have some oranges. The three mile island accident proved to be a turning point for the sullivan institute. It changed the dynamics among members with newton behaving more and more radically as the months passed for instance he believed that the cia cia was interfering with joanne harvey's work and so he had a room built was still played walls so that she could edit her films in peace. Well i never. I never considered that. That's actually a pretty good idea. You should think about that you know. Yeah if our creative pursuits. Don't do. Well just blame it on the government. Interfering with them at the output wasn't what we intended. I think i think with your line of work. They might already be watching. That might be. Well received their most of your listeners. Actually the shake. We'll take whatever it takes. Yeah please subscribe. And so he also began seeing enemies everywhere which led him to intimidate an abuse his followers in a misguided attempt to protect himself and this is the classic cult leader trope and they all go down this where they think. Everyone's after them and out to get them psychology guy. Why would that be. I don't know probably like a little bit of narcissism and they. They definitely think that like you know. They're like paranoid and anxious about anybody doing anything that is in them. Abc control of it. It's probably control thing to right like you know you spend so much time telling other people that you know best that eventually you start to believe it right and then you know you're you're still aware enough to understand that not. Everybody thinks that you do know best. And so i think that's very undercutting to a person with the ego that it takes to be a cult leader reid well hundred percent. You guys are good. Wow are you professional idiots. Josh charge me for the hour. No this is on the house. Allow perfect first ones freeze. How we do it for our own narcissism. Just like you say you guys are good but you're not with the cia. Are you moving. Leader amy siskind. Who had been a member of the sullivan in stew. For more than two decades recalled that quote even had this idea on how to deal with people who were against you and his idea was basically intimidation and violence in her many incidents throughout the history of the group of intimidation and quote. So how. I love this. He's like i got this great new idea joanne. I got this great idea intimidate and abused people. She's like that's an original one. I've never ever seen that before. I don't think another person's ever tried to intimidate or abuse. The people around them to get them to do what they want. Anyway i thought hitler tw- twenty years ago i learned i. I know a thing or two. Because i seen a thing or two. Yeah he's great guy. He also encourage this behavior among the sullivans to which resulted in the institutes therapist using fear tactics to manipulate their patients in order to get them to act as they wished according to test. Ko of penn state university desire to control. Who had kids. And how many and who with one account of when a member tried to leave to sullivan's track the man down to subway and dangled him over the tracks threatening to kill him if he left the movement. One of those men was newton son and quote. Wait a minute sold newton. Kids got to hang around. Yeah oh yeah. The rules don't apply to newton. Who can he makes their wives. And he gets to have old fam- he gets to have multiple families exactly and that's why isaac newton's also didn't abide by his own laws. Yeah i guess if his sons doing this i guess you could say the apple in full from the draw own ges. I'll give you that one all right. We'll start running counter on puns in the senate there. We go if you hit five. You're allowed back. We'll be no problem to add to that. Newton also acquired a fleet of school buses and motorcycles claiming that it was necessary in case of an emergency former sullivan. Dr michael bray was put in charge of this and he later recalled that quote. We'd have very planned out escape. Route that involved. Walking to george washington bridge in terms of the leadership's children it meant putting them in backpacks and then writing them out. In an who'd motorcycles which we had about six of an quote by the time the sullivan institute had managed to amass approximately twelve million dollars in property assets. Apart from the several apartment buildings in the upper west side they also owned a resort in the catskills and a house in vermont all of these refunded by members who had been voluntarily giving up the majority of their salaries for the purpose betterment of the group. Oh my god. And andy art. Do you.
Let's Start A Cult
"saul" Discussed on Let's Start A Cult
"Theories and paranormal phenomenon. From the death of john lennon to the men of new orleans they cover it all. Please welcome art. And andy. our you guys doing today. They josh josh. We're doing great. Thank you for having us. Thank you for having us and thank you to your listeners. For putting up with us our apologies and also our thanks. Oh no no you. You guys are great. My my listeners will love you. fred will become Bunkers what do you call your audience bunkers funk funk funk okay biscuit as book fuckers but it is bunkers. That's true all right. All right i. i appreciate that. So fred's will be thumb bunk fosters and and they will like it so yeah some some aggressive cross pollination going on conversion well guys in today's episode of let's start called. We will be talking about the story of the sullivan institute. An infamous sex cult based in new york city that existed from the late nineteen fifties to the early nineteen ninety s established by a psychotherapist who aimed to promote his mentors teaching it instead became a group that four members to give up their children in favor of sexually liberated lifestyle. The so what are your thoughts on promiscuous lifestyle with no kids. Wow i mean the bachelor life. Sounds like a dream come true. I mean every night down at the applebees hunting for strange. The apple beats. That's the life for me. Yeah that's right. Well where else would you rather be a friday night. No kids nobody to answer to nobody. But you and the bartender jeff even just little late all your problems to lay at his feet because he's here to serve you. Well that's the that is a very interesting take on on this cult but so you guys might fit right in by the sounds of it. Wow wow yeah we've never fit in anywhere that's a i. Yeah usually people tell us where to aspirin for colts. You guys are way too much. We have this too much personality. We used to know. This guy's name was charles manson. He was like i. Listen i gotta kick you guys out so it's not really working out. Your personalities are a little aggressive for me. The drugs are not working on you. And your harshened my buzz to so. Take a hike artery. Well let's hop into the early years of the leader saul newton. Not much is actually known about the early years of saul bernard cohen. Who would later go by the name. Saul newton what is known though is that he was born on june twenty-fifth nineteen o six in the city of saint john in new brunswick canada lewis canadian. We claim him. Oh vilo yeah another rotten canadian immigrant come into the united states. It's starting something weird. I him then drake than justin bieber. It doesn't ever end. I apologize after attending the university of wisconsin. He went on to study at the university of chicago. Where iran social circles that ultimately resulted in him becoming communist and antifascist these ideologies led him to serve in the spanish civil war which lasted from nineteen thirty six until nineteen thirty nine which is super weird that he was like. I can go fight in another country. Civil war does that. Does that not seem odd to you. This is already what a life story. Yeah even already. He immigrated from. Canada went to school in the united states and then fought in the spanish civil war. So taylor's all this time. What a life. He could wrap it up there and he could write so many. Yeah but wait. There's more so much more. Afterwards he was drafted into united states. Army to fight against the axis powers during world war two. The post war years saw newton studying to become a psychotherapist although he maintained a keen interest in politics and psychology around this time he married dr jane pierce a self taught marxist therapist whom he had met while working. At william allison's white institute in new york city co founded in nineteen forty. Three by the renowned psychiatrist harry stack sullivan. The william allison white institute promised to train students. In psychoanalysis and psychotherapy it was widely regarded as revolutionary since it's teaching steered clear of conservative mainstream ideas in favor ones that were newer less explored and perceived as more radical. You know radical like not lobotomize. Impede right it was about say radical far out radical like writing skateboard while deng. It's cool mom. All the other kids are doing it. Psychology is cool mom. Shortly after harry. Stack sullivan's death in january nineteen forty nine newton and pierced. Left the william allinson white institute to start their own. They called it the sullivan institute for research in psychoanalysis just quite a matt mouthful but you can see they named it after the man they mired the man who just passed away so they got they did. They did learn a lot from them but clearly not enough yet. They might have missed a couple chapters. Yeah they skipped a few classes. Newton pearson vision there institute to provide students with an unadulterated version of his namesake's teachings. But it didn't take long for this to be distorted and ruin. thanks in part to the couple's political ideologies. Kind of like how the idea of this podcast started off with great intentions but my fascist ideologies of ruined abbey and. Yeah i mean whatever. Our political ideologies are have also contributed to the decline of this episode. You guys you guys just believe in Alien pyramids right. Yes that's right that's very love. We love to see extraterrestrials arranging themselves in the shape of a pyramid and cheering for the home team. In the shape of orion's belt so b sullivan institute opened its doors in nineteen fifty seven attracting many artists and intellectuals all of whom were taught that mental illnesses and social anxiety were caused by the traditional nuclear family unit which consisted of parents and their children because of this they were prohibited from engaging exclusive committed relationships with newton and pierce encouraging everyone to have regular sex with each other. Yeah i just have sex with whoever. You want a winning me over with this philosophy. I'm through the door my nut. I have a pamphlet in hand. My hat is backwards. I'm ready to listen. I got my skateboard in the other. Yup let's.
Esports Network Podcast
"saul" Discussed on Esports Network Podcast
"I have it on the background and while I'm working I listen to it. It's pretty it's like this show. It's 45 ish minutes to 20 minutes or so or 25 to 40 minutes or so, and it's just interesting talk to interesting people. And we're learning all kinds of things. So I mean, this is kind of a subjective question, but what was the most surprising thing that you've learned throughout this video series, the most surprising? I don't know. I don't know that I was surprised about anything that I learned. Probably the most surprising thing was that, like you said, the bosses went for it. You know, because, you know, law firms by law firms by their nature are very conservative. Just give you an example. My old law firm really didn't want to get into the cannabis space because of concerns of what that would mean. And Saul Ewing is very active in that space as are a lot of other firms. But you know, I think firms in general don't want to portray an image to anyone that they're anything less than serious. And I think when you come on and you have a series about video games and you talk about playing video games, is there some people that might say, well, those aren't serious lawyers. But you know, I look at it completely differently at coming from the world that I came from. And I think everyone in our practice group looks at it that way too. We're serious lawyers that on our downtime play video games. And I think it's extremely important that we do that to represent our clients to the best that we can. I mean, it's a cutting edge from you joined here because I don't think I've ever heard somebody refer to themselves as a serious lawyer, working in the eSports industry space, you know? And then, of course, the work is serious, but you know, there's also times you kind of have to lay back a little bit and enjoy the gaming you have in front of you. So if you ever need a guess, let me know. I'm more than happy to hop on. I've never been excited in an invitation in the middle of an interview before. So I think I'm blushing a little bit on this side of the camera. And if you can see that, but we'll definitely set something up, Kevin. We'd love to have you on. For sure. I'd love to say yes. So let's do it. But let's talk about the sea squirts and games face a little bit more. When you first heard that competitive gaming and eSports companies were emerging and it was kind of becoming this newfangled media market with tons of opportunities for intellectual property and trademark and copyright and all that good stuff there. What was your first reaction? Was it one of kind of like you kind of like being a little skeptic or was it one like you're more curious? I figured you're more curious than anything about the emerging space, right? Absolutely. I was curious about it, and I was excited about it. The thing that I think I first had skepticism about was when colleges and universities started having scholarship programs for eSports athletes, but I'm so thrilled that that has really taken off. And just as an aside at my firm, we represent a lot of colleges and universities and as part of our eSports group, we've worked with a lot of them on different issues about setting up tournaments and having programs, varsity programs, things like that. But I'd say that was the first thing I said, well, I can understand having a scholarship for an NCA basketball player, but for eSports players..
Esports Network Podcast
"saul" Discussed on Esports Network Podcast
"What kind of interest surrounded the launch of a video series about gaming and eSports and what led you to kind of hosted? I mean, I'm sure you brought it up to your bosses over at saw you and you're like, hey, there's interest here. We should really bring on some guests and talk about this. But what kind of support did you see kind of building this up and hosting it? You only launched what a few months ago. So you're still kind of in the weeds, if you will, but it's pretty good from what I've seen so far. Thank you, I appreciate that. Yeah, we've been we only launched in the summer of this year, but we've been working on it all year. And for me, it really started my prior firm, which I was at for 17 years. We had a bit of a video game in eSports practice, but it was kind of ad hoc. You know, there was just a couple of people that were into it. And you know, we were kicking around marketing ideas there. Nothing like this. But it never really went anywhere. And the one thing I love about Saul Ewing is their marketing department is really second to none. If you bring them a great idea and like you said, your bosses love it. They're going to do it. And so, you know, they already had one of the reasons I wanted to go there was they already had an established eSports and video game practice group, which has led by my colleague Al Coleman out in Minneapolis and he does work for version one and rocker. And a lot of other a lot of other entities in the eSports space. And they already had this established practice, but I didn't feel like it was being talked about enough. And like everyone else during the pandemic, you know, I had the idea of, well, I'm going to be at home anyway. Let's think about what we can do with a video series. And I came up with this concept of lawyers with game and I thought it would be a great idea to have some of our existing clients come on and talk about some of their experiences. And we did that and we put together we still have one more episode that's left to drop in the next week or two. Oh, wow. And then we're hopefully going to do it again next year with some more and different clients and maybe other people as well. Maybe someone like you. Would come on and talk to us about your experiences. But we just kind of wanted to and the other part of it is, you know, a lot of my colleagues at Saul Ewing also have an interest in gaming. They have a game system at home. Now it's a different levels. In some cases, they play with their kids. In some cases, they play on their own time. Maybe not as a zealous as you or I are about it. But they're all gamers. And they're all into it. And I thought, you know, relaying that to the people who might hire us as attorneys was something important. And that we knew about this world and that we lived in it. And so that was really the ultimate idea and it got approved. And, you know, we spent the last year putting it together and you know, I'm really happy with the way that it came out. I'm happy just watching it..
Life Together
"saul" Discussed on Life Together
"So we went to the high priest. He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in damascus operation. And the arrest of any followers of the way he found there. It wasn't by accident. That paul was trying to persecute christians. He went out of his way to find a route to kill jesus followers. He wanted to bring them both men and women back to jerusalem and chains. Paul was zealously traveling out of his way to gather christians for persecution. And so. I want you to remember that a couple chapters before is stat. Are i mart. So christianity was spreading. The disciples were telling people about jesus people were starting to believe about jesus and putting their trust in him as their lord and savior in the church was growing and things were going well and then persecution broke out. We have our first martyr couple chapters before saul has counter with jesus by manningham steven steven was preaching the gospel and the jewish zealots rose up and said this is blasphemy wrong. You're contaminating the truth of y'all way we can't have this in our society. You need to die. And they did. They stoned him but the person presiding over that judgment was saul himself and at that point the bible says persecution broke out among the church. People were scared they had just lost a loved one and now they were being hunted down and they were hiding so what they did. They went from jerusalem to a long way miles away north. They went to damascus. And look where. Paul is asking for permission to go persecute the church. Damascus and somewhere along the way. Paul has this encounter with jesus that doesn't change his zeal but it changes his mission. And can you imagine being a christian. Where paul shows up in your church. I mean my first reaction would be. Oh no he's here. There's we're off to prison now. There's no hope this guy killed my grandpa but he comes into the room and he says jesus is the way how floored the followers of jesus were to see this man totally transformed that his zeal was totally transformed. And as we look at our zealous apostle today our last night of our series. God is calling you. I've also heard god quietly whispered in my heart. How are you zealously pursuing christ's mission to share. Jesus with your world see we can be pulled in so many different directions right. There's just so many things calling for our attention. These days that we could get so wrapped up with our time and our resources and our energy and our relationships that we lose the focus of why we are zealously following christ..
Life Together
"saul" Discussed on Life Together
"I honestly have come to the place in my faith that i wouldn't stumble me. I would be fine to keep following. Jesus but i wonder what it takes the sacrifice it takes for someone who so convinced that their lifestyle and their parents and their grandparents and generations before them. That said we are right in this venture that there's zealously pursuing a path that leads to hell that there's times in life that we can zealously pursue a path that were so convinced as right but is not the past that god wants us to zealously pursue and that brings me to our second question is how does jesus change. What you zealously pursue i think about the disciples. They were zealous for christ to the point of horrible persecution. Like weird stuff. Like how do people come up with being burned alive like. Oh let's do something really mean to this person. Let's burn alive. How do people think about that or some. Some disciples were sued by saws crucified upside down or boiled and bowling oil. I mean just horrible horrible ways to die right but they were so zealously convinced with a divine convention that they knew that jesus is worth dying for. They didn't make the story of the resurrection. And they knew this. Because they saw the risen lord and savior's so thank back. When jesus died on a cross he even told them before he died. He said guys. I'm going to die but don't worry and three days. I'm going to raise back to life. And so when jesus died on a cross disciples weren't like okay. We'll just set our clocks and three days later. We'll see jesus again. It'll be okay guys. it'll be no. They hold themselves up in a room. They were scared to death for their lives. That someone was gonna come. Kill them for following jesus and then they were morning they were like our dead. We were wrong. Jesus wasn't the savior and now we're in peril. Were dead meat and in the middle of that dark room of suffering and mourning. Jesus shows up. And says i'm here and at that moment. The disciples were so convinced of their risen. Savior the truth. That jesus is who he said he was because they saw the risen lord that they were willing to be boiled to death and burned alive and eaten by animals and stoned to death because they knew they knew they knew that jesus is who he says he is and so we have paul and he's zealously pursuing something that he thinks is worth laying his life on the line for and yet when he comes in sight of the risen lord and savior the glory of jesus shows up to him and says saul saul. Why are you persecuting me. Pause zeal didn't change but his mission did when he met jesus oliver zealand. Strength and dedication and relationships and hobbies were now zealously focused on the one goal of calling people to jesus. So let's go back to to our first passage and let's remember why paul was going to damascus. The bible says saul was uttering threats with every breath and was eager to kill the lord's followers..
The Bible...but Funnier
"saul" Discussed on The Bible...but Funnier
"At this time saul was the king the top dog the head show however he didn't actually feel a large and in charge he had a battle to fight against the phyllis teams that he didn't actually think he can win. That army was big and scary and he didn't know he was up for the challenge. So so turn to god to get a fix on how to handle the dilemma. He tried all the usual methods to reach. God including cindy adm a divine message. But god totally left him on. Reed got an saul. how shall we say. This strange relationships saul made some poor choices. As god's chosen king unsure of what to do next so said to his servants no choice. Send for me a woman that is a medium. Yes a witch. The sermon knew that saul had previously outlawed witchcraft and sent them packing. Buddy new friend of a friend who the dog belonged to the cousin of medium. So he timidly said to his master. I know which at indoor saul shot back indoor. Isn't that a galaxy far far away. No actually it's kind of in the galley region again. Take me there immediately. But before travelling there saul put on a disguise. it would be a really off. Coordin- culture if the king showed up to request the services of a medium the same group of people that he had vanished saul put on a fake moustache fake glasses and changed his fence. He rose four less fancy ropes yet even in disguise he was not going to slip into those off brand robes by no means with the servant leading the way he traveled to indoor arriving there at night. He knocked on her door. A woman answered the door. If you are here for not walks. I'll let shooting now. We don't have any of those here. No no i. Won't you to divine spirit that i will name bring him up from the dead. She ushered him inside now. Now you got to be crazy easy. Haven't you heard that. So all the mediums and neck. Romances if i do that i could be killed and i still have so many things to do on my bucket list software chuckle too. So yes i know what that devilish lee handsome saw guys down. But i swear to you the lord that no harm will.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"saul" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Yes, it's going to be okay. Wait, Who said that? I did it for way Did I'm down here. Oh, my God. This is talking. I'm not going to hurt you. I promise, But why should I? I mean, you're in my throat. It would be easy. If I was going to hurt you. I would have done it already. Anyway. I don't want to hurt you. Why not? Aren't you guys into killing this, Saul now? Excuse me, but I'm not like the rest of them. I'm not trying to get revenge or take over or whatever it is they're doing. I'm on your side. Why? Because I'm you. I'm sorry, but you're not me. You're something I use. I'm your voice. I say everything for you. I live inside of you. I'm part of you. But my thoughts are my thoughts. They're not yours. I'm me way are not a week. That hurts, But I'm still going to keep talking for you up until the very end. It's the refrigerator crushes you or the plane start falling from the sky, which they very well might I'm going to say a last words with you. Mom..
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
"saul" Discussed on Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
"Welcome to technically. It's great to speak with you today. Either pleasure is mine will solve a begin with your your role. You are the head of technology at wells fargo and company. And maybe you can take a moment and describe your purview to do soviet beater. And it's my pleasure to have -nology for wells fargo basically and deals all suffer albins the ideal predations infrastructuring clouds enablement Shoppers security and all types of staff reductions down the veto death from the us and india mainly with a smaller primus that behalf in emea in uk we have forty thousands technologists be run the kind of nine billion budgets which is a public number. So i can share view and some people ask me to question. Wiser title had of technology and Global cio or something that you would normally expect for these type of physicians. When i came here i had that same question was very simple answer like the cio and cto already given two layers and levels below me so you will be going to handle technology For me it's not important. You know the title role is how you x. on that role and the responsibility that you have saul you are as you mentioned earlier of of dutch heritage and you are someone who has worked in many different countries based now in the us But but based in many different countries across your career. And i'm curious your own perspectives on the different cultures cut different cultures company to company. Even if they're across the street from each other largely populated by people that live in the same same city You have a cognizant of the differences of culture company to company but also Country to country. Talk a little bit about how you think about Think about that in your own your own work life and maybe some insights of of the the the experience the advantage of having seen so many different kinds of cultures. And maybe the how that might make you a bit more malleable in your own approach As you join a new company and you'd be there that.