1 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,200 Open your Bibles. As we get into the back straight 2 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,800 of the Book of Acts chapter. 25 is where we are. 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:19,520 Paul is in. Caesarea 2 occasions. 4 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,240 I've tried to kill him, particularly the Jews that 5 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:25,600 arrived from Turkey. And they've now gone. 6 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:30,520 Back to Turkey, Paul under Roman escort. 7 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:34,040 Cavalry armies. Calvary cavalry soldiers. 8 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,960 And and Spearman, and he's in Caesarea, he's in prison there. 9 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,480 He's already had a. Powwow with. 10 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:46,760 Felix, Who's the governor? Felix, remember? 11 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,880 Was the first slave. And only. 12 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:55,320 Slave ever to. End up being a governor through. 13 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,560 Israel. Through the Roman Empire and we 14 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,040 come now to meet another chap called. 15 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:09,080 Festus Verse. 1 chapter 25 and now when Festus had come to the. 16 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,200 Province after three days. He went up from. 17 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:17,840 Caesarea to Jerusalem. You'll always read, you always 18 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:19,800 come. Down from Jerusalem and you 19 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,880 always go up to Jerusalem when you're in Israel. 20 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:25,960 When you're driving Jerusalem, you're going up to Jerusalem. 21 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:27,640 When you leave Jerusalem, you're always going. 22 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,360 Down Jerusalem, the Bible always says so as well. 23 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,200 Then the high priest and the chief men of the Jews informed 24 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,240 him. Now this guy. 25 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,920 Felix a sorry Festus is going to take over. 26 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:45,840 From Felix, he's going to assume his position and they inform 27 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,480 him. Now listen to this. 28 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:52,480 It's been 2 years now that Paul has been. 29 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,320 In prison in Caesarea. Two whole years have. 30 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,080 Passed since. He was rescued. 31 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,120 From the mob. Taken up to. 32 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,600 The Antonio. Fortress there by the. 33 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:10,199 Roman Commander and then. Sent on to Caesarea 2. 34 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:19,120 Years since. 40 men had vowed to not eat or drink and kill Paul. 35 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,120 Two years have passed, yet we still. 36 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,040 Find they want. To kill him. 37 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:30,360 Hatred is is raging still against Paul. 38 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:35,760 And so they approached the the. New. 39 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,240 Governor. Festus and said they asked the. 40 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:44,280 Favour against him. Notice that he would summon him 41 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:45,400 to Jerusalem. Can you bring? 42 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,480 Paul back to Jerusalem. And you know, we need to talk, 43 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,200 we need to have a. Power out with him again. 44 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:50,720 He's already been there, gone through it. 45 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,080 While they lay. In ambush along the road to kill 46 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,200 Paul. That's the only reason they 47 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,800 wanted him. Get Paul to come back and on the 48 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,120 journey we'll kill him. Professus answered that. 49 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,720 Paul should be kept at Caesarea. That he himself was going to go. 50 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,240 There shortly. Back to Caesarea. 51 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,160 He's in Jerusalem at this time, therefore he said that. 52 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,960 Those who have authority among you, go down with me and accuse 53 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,040 this man to see if there's any. Fault in him. 54 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,360 You know. Each and every one of us have a 55 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,640 plan. We all know that God has a plan 56 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:26,560 for each and every one of us and. 57 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:29,920 Paul. Would never have planned that 58 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:33,520 this is going to be his life remember he grew up as a young 59 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:39,200 boy away from Israel and then at the age of 13 he had bar mitzvah 60 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,000 become a man and he from that age he went down to Jerusalem 61 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,960 and he there he started on the gamma leal 1 of. 62 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,920 The greatest of all? Rabbis at that time. 63 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:52,240 And then he was. Remember the? 64 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,200 Pharisee of the Pharisees of the Tribe of. 65 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,760 Benjamin of the law, he left nothing undone. 66 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,200 Here he is in. Caesarea in prison. 67 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:12,280 On charge False charges. And he's defending. 68 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,600 Jesus Christ, this would. Never have been his plan. 69 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:18,560 When you and I. Look at. 70 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:23,400 Where we are in Christ. And we look back where we are 71 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,080 today in Christ would never have been our original plan. 72 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,160 I remember when I was and I won't go. 73 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:29,400 Back. That's too much. 74 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,280 Rubbish to talk about that what I had hoped for, but anyway. 75 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,560 So God's. Will will be done. 76 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:41,560 Because back in Acts chapter. Nine turn back with me for a. 77 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,480 Quick moment. Acts Chapter. 9. 78 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:50,800 Verse 15 and 16 when Paul had met the Lord, and Anaias was 79 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,720 then sent by. The Lord to Paul and he told 80 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:55,880 Paul. Paul. 81 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,720 This. Is now your life verse 15 the 82 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,120 Lord said him go for he is a chosen vessel speaking to. 83 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,960 Ananias of mine, he will bear my name. 84 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,640 Before Gentiles Kings. And the children of. 85 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,680 Israel. For I will show him how many 86 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,360 things he must. Suffer for my sake. 87 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,440 Because Saul. Was going to become. 88 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,600 Paul, what has God? Changed you What is? 89 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,560 Your plan so. Often we make plans. 90 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,480 And you know only. When we come to. 91 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,640 Christ, do we find out our. Plans aren't his plans. 92 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:38,080 And so. Here. 93 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,200 It's two years. The. 94 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:42,800 Religious leaders are still. Angry. 95 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,040 They still want to kill Paul. And it says verse 6. 96 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:49,160 And when he had remained among them more than 10 days, this is. 97 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:54,360 Festus now Festus also. Is a secular leader. 98 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,440 He's a SEC. He's not interested in religions 99 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,240 at all. He's a secular thinker. 100 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:10,120 He in AD 60 became the governor, and he's going to be. 101 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,600 Dead in two years time. He doesn't know this two years. 102 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,120 He's going to be dead. Isn't it interesting how? 103 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,720 God. Is going to give this man the 104 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,200 opportunity to know. About Jesus Christ as. 105 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:29,040 God did with Felix. So he died in. 106 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:34,440 AD 62. So when the Jews who had come 107 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,000 down from. Jerusalem stood about. 108 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,920 And laid many serious complaints against. 109 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,720 Paul, which they could not prove. 110 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:45,560 Like that? While he answered for himself. 111 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,000 Neither against the. Law of the Jews. 112 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,080 They couldn't prove anything. Because he hadn't breached the 113 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,800 law at all. Nor against the temple. 114 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,680 Paul hadn't broken the laws of the temple. 115 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,080 Nor against Caesar. He hadn't breached. 116 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,920 The The Common Laws of the Day of Rome. 117 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:06,720 Have I? Offended in anything at all but 118 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:11,080 Festus wanting. To do the Jews a favour, this is 119 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:12,120 the. This is the. 120 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,720 Politician coming out in. Just like. 121 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:22,680 Felix Nero was. The one who appointed Festus to 122 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:24,440 this position? Cesar. 123 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,800 Nero and he's wanting to make sure now that I'm. 124 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,040 Here. Let's let's just let's. 125 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,960 Just do you know, do the right. Thing by everybody you know. 126 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,320 And so he's. Going to placate. 127 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:45,240 The Jews in his treatment of Paul not kill him, but he's not 128 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:51,760 going to set him free either. And so, Paul said, professors 129 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,320 wanting to do. The Jews a favour. 130 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,400 Answered Paul and said, are you willing? 131 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,280 To go to Jerusalem. Paul to go back, Paul said. 132 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:00,880 I ain't going back. There again. 133 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,080 This is This is. Not happening. 134 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,040 There be judged before me concerning these things. 135 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,120 No, been there, done that. Not going to, not going to do 136 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:11,480 that. Paul is speaking. 137 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,440 Up for himself. Christians, we can speak up for 138 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,040 ourselves. We we know. 139 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,960 Where, where where we can say things and we need to say things 140 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,160 and not just be. Pushed aside all the. 141 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,480 Time so, Paul said. Here's what I what I what I tell 142 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,000 you I. Stand at Caesar's judgement. 143 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,159 Seat where I ought. To be judged to the. 144 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:33,919 Jews, I've done no. Wrong as you. 145 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:37,559 Very well know. Festus, you know I'm innocent 146 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,559 because. Everything that's come up, 147 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:41,919 there's been no. And he did. 148 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:44,159 This and we have proved no evidence. 149 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:46,920 He's had two trials now. One with Felix. 150 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,520 Sorry with Festus Felix. And now Felix is. 151 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,920 Updated Festus as well. They know. 152 00:08:53,920 --> 00:09:01,560 This guy's done nothing wrong. And so he says to the Jews, I 153 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:06,960 have done no wrong, as you very well know, for if I am an 154 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:10,960 offender or have. Committed anything deserving of. 155 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:15,920 Death Capital. Punishment I do not. 156 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,320 Object. To dying in other. 157 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:19,440 Words. People say no. 158 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,720 One in the Bible doesn't. Support capital punishment. 159 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,520 Actually, it's never been taken away. 160 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,640 Paul is saying here. If I've breached the. 161 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:33,360 Law of the Land. And deserve the death sentence. 162 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:36,880 Let it be on me, he says. I'm not. 163 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:38,440 Afraid to die if that's happened. 164 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,200 I do not object object to dying. So. 165 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,240 Paul. While he's in Caesarea before. 166 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,440 All these heavy. Lifters and heavy hitters from 167 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,520 Rome, plus the. The same old mob. 168 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,640 From Jerusalem coming up and lying about him is death 169 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,120 doesn't. Frighten me, that's not. 170 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:58,200 And that's. The thing for? 171 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,440 You and I. The thing that Jesus did so 172 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,640 wonderfully for us. Is he took? 173 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:05,720 Away from every believer. The. 174 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:10,160 Fear of death. I pray that you have that that. 175 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:14,000 Death now no longer has. This hold over you. 176 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,720 I do not object to dying. But if there is. 177 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,080 Nothing in these things of which these. 178 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,080 Men accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. 179 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,040 I as a Roman. Citizen, which was his. 180 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:32,720 Right, I appeal. To Caesar, Caesar. 181 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:38,040 Nero Paul is not. Afraid to die? 182 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,840 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, 183 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,280 answered. You've appealed to Caesar. 184 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,040 OK, to Caesar. You. 185 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,080 Shall go. Paul says this. 186 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,200 Court. The Court, Jerusalem. 187 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,640 Not good enough. I. 188 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:59,680 Want and I demand the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court in 189 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:00,480 all of. Rome. 190 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:03,960 Was to. Stand before Caesar and so. 191 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,520 Here is Paul. Using his nails but also. 192 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,000 Isn't. This what the Lord. 193 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,680 Had promised. Paul back a few passages. 194 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:22,160 Back where was it? Acts. 195 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:31,040 I wrote it down here. Backs in acts. 23, Chapter 23, 196 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,760 verse 11. Paul for AS. 197 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,680 You have testified. Me for me in. 198 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:42,040 Jerusalem. So you must also bear witness at 199 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:43,520 where. Rome. 200 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:47,240 Paul's going to Rome. And you know who's paying? 201 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:51,200 The Romans, he's going to get an escort there. 202 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,720 So, Paul? In his mind is going, you know. 203 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,960 Just as the Lord. Said to me the other day, I'm on 204 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,160 my way to Rome. I'm going to give my testimony. 205 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:10,160 Before Cesar Nero, the. Craziest, wildest, angriest 206 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,440 leader. Of the world is known to this 207 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,720 time I'm going to tell him about Jesus Christ. 208 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,440 Isn't that what? God said he would do He would. 209 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,480 Testify before governors and. Kings. 210 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:30,440 And after some days King Agrippa and Bernice, every time you see 211 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:34,280 Agrippa, you'll see Bernice with him. 212 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,920 It's the duet. Came to Caesarea to greet 213 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,560 Festus. When are they had been there 214 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:45,160 many days? Festus late Paul's case before 215 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,560 the king, saying there's a certain guy I. 216 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:50,920 Left me a prisoner. By Felix, about whom the chief 217 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:52,840 priests and the elders of the Jews informed me. 218 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,600 When I was in Jerusalem asking for judgement against him, I 219 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,840 just want to kill him to them, I answered. 220 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,280 It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver. 221 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:04,560 Any man to destruction. Death before the accused meets 222 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:07,240 the accusers face to face and has. 223 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:08,800 Opportunity to answer for himself. 224 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,480 Concerning the charge. Against him. 225 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,240 Therefore, when they had come together without any delay, the 226 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,280 next. Day I sat on the judgement seat. 227 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:19,120 And commanded the man to be brought in when the. 228 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:22,000 Accuser stood up. They brought no accusation 229 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,240 against him of such things as I suppose they had no. 230 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,840 Evidence he's telling Agrippa, but had some questions. 231 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,120 About him, About their own religion. 232 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,320 That's what Felix is not interested. 233 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:39,560 In and about a, here it is. Is the heart of the matter a 234 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:41,400 certain Jesus? Why? 235 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,680 Who had died? And Paul affirmed. 236 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,960 To be alive. You see the message? 237 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,600 That Paul has gotten. Through to everyone in Rome, the 238 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,880 governors. Jesus died, but he rose. 239 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:58,600 Again, that's the sign. That Jesus said one sign. 240 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:05,120 Now. This fellow Agrippa, he is the. 241 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:13,160 Last of the Herods. Herod he knew. 242 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,680 All about. Jesus Christ in his. 243 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:18,920 Family and his bloodline, It was his. 244 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,920 Father, his dad, who had had. James. 245 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:24,640 Killed. And had. 246 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,520 Peter arrested and Peter. Broke out of the gaol, remember? 247 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:33,880 His grandfather killed. John the Baptist back. 248 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:41,920 And his great grandfather? Killed all the Jewish babies at 249 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:46,280 the birth of Jesus. When the wise men came. 250 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:52,440 The magic and so. A gripper, He's pretty savvy on 251 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,880 all this stuff. Now beneath it's interesting. 252 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,080 Beneath is actually Herod's. Sister. 253 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,080 His blood sister. That's his missus. 254 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:13,880 She went on later. When he dies to. 255 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:19,560 Hook up with. Caesar Vespasian. 256 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:27,040 And later Vespasian's son Titus. So she went from. 257 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,120 Father to son. And it was Titus. 258 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,720 Who in AD? 70 Who would lay siege to 259 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:35,520 Jerusalem? This is that beneath. 260 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:43,880 And so we have some questions. About him, About his own 261 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,320 religion, About assert. Jesus who had died, whom Paul 262 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:49,280 affirmed. To be alive. 263 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,520 So Jesus is the issue. There's no crime here. 264 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,840 And because I was uncertain of such questions, I asked whether 265 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:55,800 he was. Willing to go to. 266 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,120 Jerusalem. And there be judged concerning 267 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,680 these matters, but when? Paul appealed. 268 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,160 To be reserved for the decision of Augustus. 269 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,120 I commanded him to be kept till I could. 270 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,600 Send him to Caesar. Nero then. 271 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,000 Agrippa said to Festus. Hey, I'd like to listen to this 272 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,560 guy. I know a bit about this Jesus 273 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,640 stuff, this rabbi. I'd like to hear from. 274 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:24,440 Paul myself tomorrow. He said you shall hear him. 275 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:28,800 So Paul is brought out of gaol again. 276 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:30,360 And what's? He going to do? 277 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,200 Let's read so the next day when Agrippa and Bernice. 278 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:36,680 Two of them together. It says had. 279 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:41,080 Come with great pomp. That is that word where we get 280 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,760 our word fantasy or Fantasia. In other words, and when we. 281 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:47,040 Go to Caesarea. Remember we, we. 282 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:48,360 We. Sit and we usually. 283 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:51,760 Have in that great. Amphitheatre. 284 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,400 There we sit and we we take a Bible. 285 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,360 Study there. This is where Paul would have 286 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:58,160 been brought. Out. 287 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:01,480 Facing all the governors, all the. 288 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,520 Roman generals and all. That sort of stuff. 289 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:08,000 Plus King Agrippa. Beneath, and it says they arrive 290 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,800 with great pomp. In other words, they've got 291 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:14,079 their crowns, their gowns, their their jewellery like. 292 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:16,680 The thing that. They just had the gala thing 293 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:18,119 they just had in Hollywood or wherever it. 294 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,560 Was they turned up and they're all done out and. 295 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,960 All their the best. And standing in front. 296 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:31,640 Of them is a guy best we know. He's about. 5 foot 2 he's bow. 297 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,280 Legged. He's bawling. 298 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:38,760 He's got a large. Hook nose and he can't see very 299 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:40,640 well because he's had trouble with his eyes. 300 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,000 And his name? Is Paul. 301 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:45,680 And he's standing there before them in chains. 302 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:51,280 Quite a distinct difference between the two parties. 303 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:56,560 Paul was brought in and fester. Said King Agrippa. 304 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,560 And all the men who are here present with us, you see this 305 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:01,120 man about. Whom the whole? 306 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:03,800 Assembly of the Jews. Petitioned me both at. 307 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,280 Jerusalem and here, crying out that he was not fit to live any 308 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:08,560 longer. Kill Paul. 309 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,480 Kill Paul. That's what the Jews he knew. 310 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:12,080 That's all that all the Jews. Wanted to do. 311 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:13,640 Kill him. But when I. 312 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,560 Found he had committed nothing deserving of death. 313 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,960 So why didn't you refer him? Notice that? 314 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:23,640 Because he's playing the politician. 315 00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:27,040 But also. There's someone larger in 316 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,720 control here, isn't there? The Lord. 317 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,200 Is going to use this situation because he wants. 318 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:37,880 Paul to go to Rome. That he himself had appealed. 319 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:39,680 To Augustus, I decided. To send him. 320 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,880 I have nothing certain to write to my Lord concerning. 321 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:44,640 Him, in other words. I. 322 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,240 Can't send a prisoner. To season Nero. 323 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:49,680 And go, well, what's he done? Nothing. 324 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,040 Why are you sending? They're going. 325 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:53,760 To he's going to make him look like an idiot. 326 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,960 To do this so. This is what he's saying. 327 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,480 I've nothing certain to write to my Lord concerning Him, 328 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:02,000 therefore I've brought him out before you, and especially 329 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,400 before. You agrippa. 330 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:08,800 Because you know your family. And he is going to be the last 331 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,720 of the Herods after this. There's no more Herods. 332 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,280 After this fella so. After the examination has taken 333 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,760 place, I may have. Something to write. 334 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:25,000 For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to. 335 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,920 Specify the charges against him. Why can't they? 336 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,200 Specify the charges. He's innocent. 337 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,880 But why is he going to Rome? Because God said. 338 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,880 He's going to go to Rome. He's going to get it wrong 339 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:38,280 verse. Chapter 26. 340 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:43,920 So, Paul, here's where you. And I come into it in our. 341 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:45,800 Workplace when we face. Difficult. 342 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:49,280 Situations when things arise and something comes up. 343 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:54,320 About your faith the. Door is opened by God for you to 344 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:55,720 give your. Testimony. 345 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,080 Paul's going. To turn a trial into a 346 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,680 testimony, he's going to. Turn it into a church service. 347 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,920 A witnessing group. Has said to Paul, you're 348 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:11,480 permitted to speak for yourself. So Paul stretched out his hand 349 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,120 and answered for. Himself, Paul is ready. 350 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,640 Here's the problem today. When we ask. 351 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,080 People who attend. Church so much. 352 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,640 So why do you go to church? What is it about? 353 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,400 Jesus, that you know what makes you go and be. 354 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:26,120 Why do you believe in Christianity? 355 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,680 They have great band. They have a great programme for 356 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:33,520 the kids. They play golf on Sundays, 357 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:35,600 Sunday afternoons. Between church services. 358 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,080 They've got a great basketball team, they've got a great coffee 359 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,680 shop. No, no, no, no. 360 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,960 I'm talking about what? What is it you see? 361 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,480 You and I. Cannot go Oh. 362 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,520 I know we. Started the Bible. 363 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:51,160 But I don't know anything about the Bible. 364 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,240 That's a. That's an X. 365 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,240 Can't do that. We have. 366 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,880 To be ready in season. And out of season we are to be 367 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,880 able to give an answer. Because the very. 368 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,320 Person who's asking? You why do? 369 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:06,800 You go to church. Why do you? 370 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,600 Believe and act what? The way you do. 371 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,800 Why is this something perhaps in your workplace that is not sit 372 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,880 right with you? You say, well, I'm a person of 373 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,680 faith. Let me tell you, I once was 374 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,560 lost. I was a person. 375 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,320 Who'd lived for myself. I'm a I'm a Christian now, I 376 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:26,040 found. Christ. 377 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,800 I've changed the way that I think. 378 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,320 The way that I behave, it's now all. 379 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,840 Led by my Lord Jesus Christ, I. Believe in the Bible. 380 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:36,560 I believe that the Bible is God's word. 381 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,240 I believe salvation. I believe that there's judgement 382 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,240 facing everyone. And that not everyone's going to 383 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:43,760 go. To heaven. 384 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,600 I believe Jesus Christ died on the cross. 385 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,160 And he rose from the dead on the third day. 386 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:50,200 And then he's coming back, that he's alive. 387 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:51,520 And I believe that the Holy Spirit. 388 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,040 Lives in me now. And that I've. 389 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:54,400 Changed I'm a different. Person. 390 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,800 You see, you change. The situation. 391 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:00,320 You. Use that time. 392 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:01,280 But you. And I the. 393 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:02,960 Bible tells us. We are to be. 394 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:07,920 Ready to give an answer? Ready to give an answer? 395 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,560 How you got saved? How did you get saved? 396 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,000 Have you told your? Testimony to anybody. 397 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,760 Well, I just grew up in church. That's not a testimony. 398 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,760 You're going to have. A mouse mouse family run around 399 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:28,760 here and they grew up in church. So Paul says. 400 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,000 I think myself. Happy. 401 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,800 He's the guy, he's the prisoner, King Agrippa. 402 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,640 Because today. I shall answer for myself before 403 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,680 you concerning. All the things which I'm 404 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,360 accused. By the Jews especially, because. 405 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,280 And who's he homing? In on now King. 406 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,080 Agrippa. You know all about. 407 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,720 This. Your dad, your granddad, you. 408 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:57,400 You're an expert. In all the. 409 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,320 Customs questions which have. To do with the. 410 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:01,840 Jews you know all about. This. 411 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,000 All of a sudden. King of Griffiths got a little 412 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,360 bit uncomfortable, don't you think? 413 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,200 Therefore I beg you to hear. Me patiently now. 414 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,880 Paul is not. He's opening the door. 415 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,440 And he's. Wise. 416 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,080 As a serpent, but gentle as a dove. 417 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:18,920 My manner. Of life from. 418 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,640 Youth was spent from the beginning among my own nation at 419 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,240 Jerusalem, someone could have said. 420 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,880 What's this got to do with the? Trial now. 421 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,160 Paul's given his. Testimony. 422 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,160 He's taking control. God's running the show. 423 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,680 All the Jews know. They knew me from. 424 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,760 The first if they were willing to testify that, according to 425 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,000 the. Strictest sect of our. 426 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,880 Religion I lived a Pharisee and now I. 427 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,000 Stand and am judged. Why? 428 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,280 Why am I here? Paul's going to tell you. 429 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:48,360 This is the issue. King Agrippa. 430 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,640 For the hope. Of the religion of the promise. 431 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,920 Sorry for the hope of the promise made by God to our 432 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:56,880 fathers. Which promises. 433 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:01,480 That back in Deuteronomy chapter. 18 verse 15, Moses 434 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,520 said. There shall be a. 435 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,320 Prophet raised up. And you shall. 436 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,960 Hear him not like. Me. 437 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaking of the coming. Of the Messiah to this promise, 438 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,680 our 12 tribes earnestly serving God. 439 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,680 Day and night. Hope to attain. 440 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:22,040 The whole of the Jewish. Nation, their whole hope. 441 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,760 Is based on. The Messiah to come. 442 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,520 For this hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused. 443 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,640 By the Jews. Why should it be thought? 444 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,880 Incredible by you that God raises the dead. 445 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:41,000 You know. About this stuff, King Agrippa. 446 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,760 You know the things that have happened in Israel. 447 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,600 Indeed I. Myself thought I must. 448 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,520 Do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth, but 449 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,240 I. Was not originally like that. 450 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,560 This I also. Did in Jerusalem and many. 451 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,360 Of the Saints I. Shut up in prison, having 452 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:05,560 received authority from the chief priests, and when they 453 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:06,440 were. Put to death. 454 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:08,360 I cast my vote. Against them. 455 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:15,600 Stephen's death. And I punished them often in 456 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,560 every synagogue, compelled them to blasphemy, tortured. 457 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,000 Them. And being exceedingly enraged. 458 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,520 Against them I persecuted them even to. 459 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,360 Foreign cities I was on. My way to Damascus. 460 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,840 Paul is the impossible. Case Paul is. 461 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,120 Someone who said. A guy, Paul Saul getting saved. 462 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,640 Being come a Christian. No chance. 463 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:43,960 You and I, we look at members of our family. 464 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,480 Relatives, people, we talk. To our neighbours and we go. 465 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,600 No chance. Paul says ha ha. 466 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:51,680 I'm the chief. Of sinners. 467 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,480 If I can get saved. Anybody can, Paul. 468 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:02,560 Is the example Exhibit A of? It's not impossible for. 469 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,240 Anyone to come to Christ. No one is impossible. 470 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,600 Exhibit A While. Thus occupied as a. 471 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,680 Journey to Damascus with authority and Commission from 472 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,880 the chief priest at midday. At noon, O King. 473 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,120 On the hot. Road along the road. 474 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:20,920 I saw a light. Bazzled. 475 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,080 From heaven, brighter than the sun shining around me and. 476 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,160 Those who journeyed. With me when we had all. 477 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,840 Fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking. 478 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,040 To me and saying in the Hebrew language. 479 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,160 So. So why are you persecuting me? 480 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:37,200 It is. Hard for. 481 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,000 You to kick? Against the goads. 482 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,400 So I said. Who are you? 483 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,960 Lord and he said I am. Jesus, whom you're persecuting. 484 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,440 But rise. Stand on your feet. 485 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,000 For I have appeared to you for. This purpose. 486 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,360 To make you a minister and a witness both of the. 487 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:53,720 Things which you have. Seen. 488 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,960 And of the things? Which I will yet. 489 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,520 Reveal to you. I will deliver you from the. 490 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,560 Jewish people as well. As from the Gentiles. 491 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,240 To whom? I now send you. 492 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:05,680 To. Open. 493 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:12,760 Their eyes in order to turn them notice. 494 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,520 When someone's not. Saved to. 495 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,360 Turn them from darkness. They're living in the dark. 496 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:20,240 You and I, we're living in the dark. 497 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,360 To light and from the. Powers of Satan. 498 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,560 We were under the. Power of Satan Ephesians chapter 499 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,560 2 says we were children of the devil. 500 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,080 Did you know that? He pulled the. 501 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,880 Strings and we we, we danced and we did exactly what what he 502 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,320 wanted. To, but we've been. 503 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,600 Taken out Christ broke that power over us now. 504 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:43,200 We're set free The book of. Galatians goes into that in 505 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,360 great. Detail and from the. 506 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,200 Power of Satan to God. That they may. 507 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,800 Receive what? The forgiveness of sins, that's 508 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,440 what's happened to us. And an inheritance we're. 509 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,880 Going to go to. Heaven among whom? 510 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,200 Those who are sanctified. That is set apart. 511 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,760 By faith in me. Therefore, King Agrippa. 512 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:06,440 I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared. 513 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,840 1st to those in. Damascus and in Jerusalem, and 514 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,680 throughout all the region. Of Judea, and then to the 515 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,160 Gentiles. What what? 516 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,760 What should they do? Notice the message hasn't 517 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,440 changed today. The only way you get saved is 518 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,400 repent that. Means you need to know that you 519 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:25,440 need. To be saved. 520 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,040 That you're. Wrong that you're guilty and 521 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,360 then you. Call on God, God help me, save 522 00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:32,280 me. And that's repentance. 523 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:38,240 That they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting 524 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,360 repentance. In other words, now that you've 525 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,640 repented. If you are a Christian, then 526 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,320 your life. Should be different if you're. 527 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,480 Living the same. You've been baptised, you come 528 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,880 to church, you carry a Bible, but you're. 529 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:56,040 Still the same person, living the same, thinking the same, 530 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,800 speaking the same. Then there's. 531 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:06,320 Hypocrisy there because there's. Got to be a change. 532 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,680 Saul became Paul. You and I are the same. 533 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,120 For these reasons, the Jews seized me in the Temple and 534 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,520 tried to. Kill me therefore, having 535 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,000 obtained help from. God, to this day I stand 536 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:21,960 witnessing both to small and great. 537 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,360 Saying no other things. Than those which the. 538 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,000 Prophets and Moses said. Would come that the. 539 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,120 Christ would suffer. That's what the Old Testament 540 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,520 said. The Lamb, John the. 541 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,880 Baptist Behold the Lamb of God, who's come to take the sins of 542 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:40,400 the world, that he. Would be the first to rise from 543 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:46,400 the dead. That he would not see death in 544 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,960 the in the sense of morbidity on himself. 545 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,720 He saw death, yes. But there would be no decay in 546 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,240 his body. Because he'll be raised. 547 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:55,880 From the dead. In a new. 548 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,640 Body. That the Christ would suffer. 549 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,040 That he would. Be the first to rise from the 550 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,880 dead, would proclaim light. To the Jewish people and to the 551 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,760 Gentiles. Now, as he had. 552 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,600 Thus made this defence, Festus said with. 553 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,360 A loud voice. And Festus interjects Paul. 554 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:13,440 You. You're crazy. 555 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,880 You're a nut case. Isn't that what happens when we 556 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,160 testify? You're mad? 557 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,800 What? Are you talking about much 558 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,680 learning has driven you mad? Religion has. 559 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:26,280 Made you go crazy. But he said I'm not mad. 560 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,480 Most noble Felix, but speak the words of truth and reason. 561 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,320 For the king before. Whom I speak freely knows these 562 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,400 things, for I'm convinced. That none of these. 563 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,840 Things escapes his attention. Since this thing was not done in 564 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:44,080 a corner, King Agrippa, do you believe in the prophets or? 565 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:48,200 Oh man, he's home. And you know King Agrippa, I 566 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,440 know that. You do believe? 567 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,760 He's pressed and Agrippa said to Paul. 568 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,040 Whoa. You almost persuade me to become 569 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,440 a Christian. Here's the choice. 570 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:04,200 A gripper could have. But now I've got man, I've got a 571 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:09,200 career I could penise. She's she's, she needs looking 572 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,280 after. She, she costs a lot of money. 573 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:17,560 I got to keep this job, Paul said. 574 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:18,960 I. Would to God that not only you, 575 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,640 but also those who hear me today. 576 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,760 Might become almost an altogether such as I am. 577 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,720 Except for these chains all standing there, he's the only 578 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,880 one that's actually. Free, he's not bound by sin. 579 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,520 When he had said these things, the king stood up. 580 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,480 As well as the. Governor and beneath and. 581 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:39,640 Those who sat. With them and when they. 582 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,040 Had gone aside. They talked among themselves 583 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:46,400 saying, you know what? This man is doing nothing 584 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,600 deserving of death or change. He's innocent. 585 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,560 He is. He's done nothing wrong. 586 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:55,520 And Agrippa. Said to Festus. 587 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,680 You know what? This man might have been set 588 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:03,240 free if he had not. Appealed to Caesar. 589 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,520 Why did he? Appeal to Caesar. 590 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,640 I'm going to run. God says I need to go to Rome. 591 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,160 I'm going to run. Paul. 592 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,880 Would go to Rome. He would arrive in Rome. 593 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,280 He'd be in. Prison for two years. 594 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,920 Under house arrest, people come and visit him. 595 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,840 But but still changed all day. Through a shift of. 596 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,640 Roman guards. Then he would be. 597 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:34,480 Released for a period. Under season Nero and then he 598 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,320 would have be arrested again this time. 599 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,640 Placed in. Prison and executed. 600 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,040 But Paul would be able to say this time when he was in Rome. 601 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,520 I've run my race. I've. 602 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,440 I've given my testimony to everyone that God sent. 603 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,400 Me to. That's what you and I are doing, 604 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:57,920 Jesus said. I command you, go into all the 605 00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,040 world. Preach the gospel. 606 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,040 It's not a suggestion. You have people. 607 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,080 In your family. In your workplace. 608 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:12,440 And need to hear your testimony and to know. 609 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,160 Here's what's true Jesus. Died. 610 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,240 The tomb's empty. You know he died. 611 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:20,520 You know he lived. You know he died. 612 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,840 He rose again. The third day, just as he said. 613 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,080 And here's the other thing. We're living in tumultuous 614 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,120 times. Jesus said he's coming back. 615 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,480 These things are true. You need to think about how you 616 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:38,880 live. I used. 617 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,040 To be like you. I found Christ. 618 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,160 It's changed my life. Father I thank. 619 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,520 You for your word. And now as. 620 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,080 We pray. I pray now for your holy. 621 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,120 Spirit to lead us and to. Guide us. 622 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:59,040 Help us to be like Paul. Paul. 623 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:07,440 In chains prisoned 2. Years yet, he says happily. 624 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:09,800 I'll speak. I'm happy. 625 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,480 Why? Because he was in your will. 626 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,600 Help us to. Be in your will tonight. 627 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,199 In all that we do, Father, in Jesus name, we. 628 00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:19,320 Pray Amen. Amen. 629 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:33,719 Just to know you my sweet his friend, my friend.