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This is Living Waters of Grace, 
the teaching ministry of Clark 

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Wofford, senior pastor of 
Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 

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County of Greensburg, PA. 
Now here's Pastor Clark as he 

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continues teaching through God's
Word. 

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So that's the message then in 
the book of the Acts. 

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That's the message now today 
that God is commanding every 

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human being on the face of the 
planet. 

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They need to repent, change 
their mind, and see and believe 

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in the truth, because He's 
appointed today in which He will

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judge the world and 
righteousness by the man whom 

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he's ordained. 
And of course, that's Jesus 

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Christ. 
When he comes back the second 

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time, He's coming back as the 
judge. 

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It feels like whenever we drive,
there are warning signs 

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everywhere alerting us of icy 
bridges, tight turns, and 

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crossing traffic that doesn't 
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It may all seem a bit 
overwhelming, but Can you 

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imagine what it would be like if
those warning signs didn't 

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exist? 
Pastor Clark reminds you today 

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that God's Word contains a 
message of hope for humanity, 

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but it also contains a warning. 
The Lord will one day judge all 

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of humanity for its sin, and the
only way to avoid his wrath is 

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to repent and follow Jesus. 
Now here's Pastor Clark in the 

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book of Acts Chapter 17 with 
today's edition of Living Waters

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of Grace. 
Silas and Timothy are hanging 

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out in these places to help 
these new churches develop for a

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while. 
They'll eventually catch up with

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Paul, but Paul now is going on 
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Athens, Greece back then as 
today, is a incredible city. 

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It's a city of influence. 
It's a city of intellectualism. 

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It's a city of philosophy. 
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Plato, these philosophers, 
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This is what caused people to 
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life and whether they were true 
or false, they were their minds 

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were stimulated by the the 
brilliant people that lived 

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there. 
It was a city of idolatry. 

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To this day, there's the 
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and all these kind of places 
that you can go and actually see

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these buildings that have stood 
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centuries of history of some 
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corner, but a memorial to some 
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that the people were influenced 
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And so Paul, he's, he's here in 
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Verse 16. 
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at Athens, his spirit was 
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that the city was given over to 
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So he's there like a Taurus 
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why he's really there. 
He's fascinated by what he sees 

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because like, I can't believe 
that these people are so deluded

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into worshipping all these false
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These beautiful buildings 
they've built, they're void of 

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truth. 
They're void of God. 

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There's no evidence of Christ 
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He sees and he saw that the city
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That broke his heart. 
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He was like these people are 
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the truth. 
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in the synagogue with the Jews 
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worshippers. 
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and this opportunity to go into 
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things going. 
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deal with the Gentile 
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So you had Jews and Gentiles in 
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didn't end there. 
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with those who happen to be 
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That's interesting. 
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Ministry, how do you do that 
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Anytime I see St. 
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attractive because it's some 
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saying God hates fags or he 
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to hell. 
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I go to State College lots of 
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the Willard preacher there who's
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outside the science building and
tries a dialogue with people 

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about spirituality and that kind
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able to have a conversation with
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philosophy versus the truth of 
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But sometimes you'll see people 
out there screaming with a 

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microphone telling all the Penn 
State students that they're on 

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their way to hell. 
You know, that's not the way. 

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I think you start with the 
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I think you best start with 
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softens the heart. 
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hell. 
I don't want to even know who he

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is, right? 
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loves me. 
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about the love of God and what 
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sudden the message of the need 
for repentance to be saved from 

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hell begins to sink in and make 
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So as they're preaching here, 
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18, certain Epicurean and Stoic 
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Some said, what does this 
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The Epicureans were developed 
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incident took place. 
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believed in the good life, the 
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best entertainment, the best 
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ability to have, you know, the 
best sensuality or whatever sin 

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they might be able to experience
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It was all reasoned on. 
This is how we're to live and 

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enjoy all this good stuff. 
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any negativity, nothing. 
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Anything that had to do with 
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Their whole focus was your best 
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You know someone that proclaims 
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Epicureanism multi $1,000,000 
mansion, expensive jets, the 

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best clothing, one of the most 
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country today. 
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spirituality. 
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And then the Stoics or the other
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hard nosed kind of people. 
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God was in everything and good 
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different, and they didn't want 
to participate in life like 

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these Epicurean kind of people. 
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very warped and distorted, but 
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time, and so they're calling 
Paul a babbler now in that 

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community. 
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discuss heady spirituality, new,
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So when someone came into the 
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Mars Hill and they had the Agora
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And as you went up, there was 
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sit on and they would talk until
midnight, I'm sure about their 

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philosophy of what they think 
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It was very influential in the 
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mythology, whatever. 
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conversation with him, with 
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Others said this is about Paul. 
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foreign gods because he preached
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resurrection. 
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this before. 
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and brought him to the Areopagus
saying, may we know what this 

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new doctrine is of which you 
speak for you're bringing some 

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strange things to our ears. 
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inquisitive here. 
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these things mean for all the 
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Verse 21. 
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there spent their time and 
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or to hear some new things. 
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to. 
You got an idea of philosophy, a

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new religion or called a false 
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They're all weird. 
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to say this because it 
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Then Paul stood in the midst of 
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Athens, I perceive them on all 
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You're very religious. 
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He doesn't condemn them about 
their idolatry and put them all 

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down. 
He's saying, like you guys seem 

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to be involved in spiritual 
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you're very religious. 
That probably puffed him up a 

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little bit. 
Well, this guy's pretty cool. 

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He thinks highly of us. 
Yeah, we, we got our act 

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together here. 
For as I was passing through and

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considering the objects of your 
worship, I even found an altar 

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with this inscription to the 
unknown God. 

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Very intriguing way of 
dialoguing with people about 

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their need of Christ. 
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someone when you're talking with
them to see if there's any 

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ground that you can have to have
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If there's not a foundation of 
some kind of place of ground 

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that you can communicate, you're
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people. 
But if you're able to listen and

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think and ask God for wisdom to 
to get into their minds and 

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their hearts a little bit, the 
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And Paul is an ultimate 
specialist in this kind of 

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communication. 
Of course, he's gifted and he's 

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apostle and the Holy Spirit's in
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upon him. 
But nonetheless, he says God who

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made the world and everything in
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and earth, does not dwell in 
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So right away, these people have
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structures that, you know, 
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You go in and you can say, oh, 
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The gold, the silver, the the 
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This is like really special 
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God that was in the building. 
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to explain to them that this 
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does not dwell in temples made 
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Now, how many people in our 
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only in the in the house? 
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This is where God is. 
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anymore. 
I mean, he's not with us 

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anymore. 
He's at the house, nor is he 

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worshiped with man's hands. 
So they make all this great 

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stuff. 
And I'm not putting down, you 

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know, artwork or beautiful 
structures and that kind of 

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stuff. 
He's educating them here that 

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that God, it doesn't get excited
about everything you built or 

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made or spent to give people 
this atmosphere of worship as 

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though he needed anything. 
God doesn't need anything. 

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We can be out on the hillside, 
we can be out in the 

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countryside, we can be at the 
ocean, we can be in the woods, 

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whatever. 
You can worship God really 

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anywhere. 
If you know who God is, you're 

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going to be able to worship 
anywhere. 

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The benefit of the church is we 
get to worship God together, 

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which were called not to forsake
the assembling of ourselves 

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together as a man or some, but 
exhort one another so much more 

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as we see today approaching. 
So we get together and we 

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encourage each other through the
Word and worship and praise, but

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God doesn't need anything. 
We're providing for Him in the 

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sense of our human ability. 
It's all what He's given to us. 

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And so the most you can give God
in a way that would honor Him is

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to be thankful and to follow the
truth of His Word. 

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It says He gives to all life, 
breath and all things. 

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It's like you might want to 
underline that in your Bible. 

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He gives to all life, breath and
all things and he has made from 

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one blood every nation of men to
dwell on the face of the earth 

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and it's determined to appointed
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their dwelling. 
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evidence in these scriptures. 
God created us from one blood. 

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We're all descendants of Adam, 
every nation, doesn't matter 

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what color of skin or what 
ethnic background or what 

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culture people have been from. 
We all come from this one God, 

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one blood, every nation of men 
to dwell on all the faces the 

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earth. 
God knows the time that you and 

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I have. 
He knows before we get here and 

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He knows the time and when we're
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So he says in verse 27, so that 
they should seek the Lord and 

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hope that they might grow for 
him and find him, though he is 

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not far from each one of us. 
And that's the picture of of 

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someone in darkness. 
It's, it's tragic. 

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Where's the answer to life? 
I'm feeling here, I'm touching 

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this, I'm experiencing that, I'm
trying this. 

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I still can't find an answer. 
People grope. 

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People groped all day long, all 
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by the bed. 
They're trying to find an answer

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to life. 
They're depressed. 

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People take their lives because 
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They can't find the truth. 
Jesus is the truth, He's the 

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way, He's a life, and the only 
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you and I and people like Paul 
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these people the gospel so they 
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They can find the Lord because 
faith comes by hearing and 

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hearing by the word of God. 
For in him we live, move, and 

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have our being. 
Boy, that's a beautiful truth 

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and insight, as also some of 
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So Paul uses poetry and he gives
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poetry and and the Holy Spirit 
can use poetry. 

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If some of you saw the movie, I 
heard the bells on Christmas 

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Day. 
Anybody see that movie? 

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If you haven't, I challenge you 
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It's the history of Henry 
Wadsworth Longfellow, one of the

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premier leaders in the civil 
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slavery back in the Civil War 
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Passionate man for the word of 
God and the truth of God and the

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gospel of Jesus Christ. 
And he wrote poetry, went 

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through terrible tragedy in his 
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And I'm not going to give the 
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You can do. 
I knew nothing about Longfellow 

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other than the name I heard in 
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No one ever told me how this guy
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Remarkable, remarkable man. 
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In him we live, move and have 
our being, for we also are his 

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offspring. 
So he's telling this whole crowd

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of people here that we're all 
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God. 
He's using natural revelation to

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the pagans. 
When Paul spoke to the Jews, he 

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used the Old Testament. 
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he's using natural revelation of
the the creation. 

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And though the Bible tells us in
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a God that we're accountable to,
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offspring of God, we ought not 
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is like gold or silver or stone,
something shaped by art and 

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man's devising. 
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you guys have developed, this 
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Truly, verse 30, these times of 
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There was a time when God 
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we're wired, lost and without 
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He gave the human race a break 
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Not that He justified what it 
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they needed to have 
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that can only come from the 
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Word through the apostles and 
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Truly, these signs of ignorance 
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all men everywhere to repent. 
So that's the message then in 

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the book of the Acts. 
That's the message now today 

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that God is commanding every 
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planet. 
They need to repent, change 

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their mind, and see and believe 
in the truth, because He's 

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appointed today in which he will
judge the world and 

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righteousness by the man whom 
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And of course, that's Jesus 
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When he comes back the second 
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judge. 
He has given assurance of this 

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to all by raising him from the 
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So again, he's preaching the 
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the resurrection of Jesus 
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And when they heard of the 
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mocked while others said, we 
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matter. 
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So no matter where you are, who 
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apostle, some will laugh at you 
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Some will believe and some will 
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and I might consider this later.
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So my challenge and yours and 
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is what are we doing with our 
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Are we participants in the 
building of the Kingdom through 

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the preaching of the gospel? 
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is just not Sundays in church, 
right? 

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It's it's an everyday life, the 
opportunity to find these people

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who are groping out there trying
to find an answer and they've 

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never heard the answer, the 
ultimate answer that we know 

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that Jesus is the way, the truth
and the life. 

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No man comes to the father, but 
through him. 

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The good news here after Paul 
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join him and believed among them
diagnosis the Areopagite and a 

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woman named Damaris and others 
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So this the the wonder of this 
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God and doing what Jesus said go
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gospel to every living creature.
That is the foundation and the 

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ultimate command that Jesus left
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His apostles, before He ascended
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How are we doing with sharing 
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Personally? 
How are we doing with sharing 

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the gospel as a church? 
We have a radio station and 

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thank God it's out there and 
people are listening and 

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believing and some of you have 
found the church because of 

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that. 
But that's on the air. 

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You got to find 100.3 FM. 
They actually hear anything, 

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right? 
You and I are a 24/7 living 

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broadcast person or people to be
able to communicate to people in

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live time, wherever we are, the 
good news of the gospel. 

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I think of Longfellow when I 
watched that movie and I said to

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my wife last night, I said I 
want to live for something 

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that's bigger than myself. 
I get caught up in my life like 

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you do too. 
And making a living or doing 

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whatever we got to do every day 
and thank God for our careers 

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and our, you know, the things 
God allows us to accumulate 

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whatever. 
But at the end of the day, I 

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want my life, and I know you do 
too, to, to account for 

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something that's way beyond this
natural realm. 

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And so my prayer for me as well 
as you today. 

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And that we have more love in 
our hearts, more care, and more 

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concern for people who need a 
Savior. 

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Inviting people to church, 
inviting people to listen to 

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YouTube, giving people a Bible. 
We got Bibles out there to give 

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to people to read and and define
that that God is the promise 

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keeper and the people would come
to faith in Jesus Christ. 

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Lord, you did this for me. 
You shed your blood, You gave 

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yourself on the cross for my 
sins. 

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What is it you want of me? 
He wants more of us. 

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He wants more of our hearts or 
our lives. 

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And He doesn't demand. 
He woos us to Himself. 

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He causes the Word of God to 
soften our hearts and to cause 

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us to know we need more of Jesus
every day. 

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We need to be sensitive to His 
Spirit and how He wants to use 

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us in our lives, in our homes 
and our marriages and our kids, 

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our families, neighborhood, 
community, church, world, 

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remembering what He did for us. 
And then we leave here, 

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hopefully with a sense of deeper
understanding of what it means 

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to be a witness of Jesus Christ.
How can we be a more influential

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witness? 
And that's the work of the Holy 

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Spirit in each of our lives. 
That's not something you or I 

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figure out. 
Well, I'm going to do better at 

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this or try harder at this. 
No, it's like, Holy Spirit, you 

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live in me. 
Take my personality, my gifts, 

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my abilities, my talents, my 
resources, and use them for what

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will count for eternity, right? 
Only one life will soon be 

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passed. 
Only what's done for Christ will

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last. 
Father God, we come and we are 

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humbled, Lord, by your word 
today. 

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Lord, we're thrilled when we see
this testimony and this history 

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of these two guys, this going 
out and sharing the gospel and 

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what you do as a result of the 
gospel being shared. 

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You save souls, Lord, who've 
chosen the the preaching of the 

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gospel is the power of God and 
to salvation to all those who 

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believe to the Jew 1st and also 
to the Greek Father, I pray you 

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would make us a a witnessing 
church, a witnessing people that

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Lord as we do our lives, Lord, 
that we look for opportunities 

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as Paul did and he walked around
the streets of Athens who who 

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might be groping who might be 
desperate for a Savior. 

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Lord, we surrender our lives to 
you again today afresh soften 

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us, Lord, cause us to be 
enthralled with your love and 

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your grace and your majesty. 
Make us gracious people, Lord, 

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make us loving people. 
Make us caring and compassionate

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people for those who are without
you. 

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Lord, bless my brothers and 
sisters as we're on this journey

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together, Lord, learning more 
about you, learning how to to 

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serve you, Lord. 
And we pray, Father, that all 

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that we do and all that we say 
would all give honor and glory 

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to You. 
Thank you for listening to this 

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edition of Living Waters of 
Grace. 

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Pastor Clark is teaching us 
about the book of Acts in this 

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series. 
Acts is a powerful and unique 

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part of Scripture, not just 
because it records the spread of

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the gospel geographically from 
Jerusalem to the ends of the 

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earth, but also culturally. 
Acts shows us how the message of

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Jesus moved beyond its Jewish 
roots and began to reach the 

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Gentile world. 
What started with Peter leading 

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a small group in the Upper Room 
became a global movement with 

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Paul taking the gospel to 
cities, synagogues and 

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marketplaces across the Roman 
Empire. 

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Acts captures this vital 
transition and reminds us that 

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the good news of Jesus is for 
all people in every place. 

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May we be inspired to carry that
same gospel boldly into our 

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world today. 
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