1 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:02,300 I'm going to be reading this morning from acts, the 2 00:00:02,300 --> 00:00:07,400 eighteenth chapter and fascinating set of passages. 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,800 Here acts the eighteenth chapter starting in verse 24, is it 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,700 work? All right and obviously I'm 5 00:00:13,700 --> 00:00:15,500 heard here. I don't need to be tied. 6 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:19,700 There is this okay if I stand down here and speak but actually 7 00:00:19,700 --> 00:00:22,400 18th chapter, the last few verses of the chapter starting 8 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,200 with verse 24 and going on down through verse 28 is where we 9 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,500 want to take our text. There are many fascinating 10 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:32,700 passages and many fascinating characters in the scripture 11 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:37,200 there. And I've never been one to say. 12 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,400 This is one of my favorites or this is a favorite. 13 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,200 I've never been one to call Favorites because the next time 14 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,500 I read something else, then I have another favorite there in 15 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:47,000 that it because it just keeps going like that way. 16 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:50,500 But here's a man that's in a fascinating individual. 17 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:53,000 That's introduced to us in this passage here in Acts the 18 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,600 eighteenth chapter. We don't know anything about him 19 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,500 before this time. But it's a man by the name of a 20 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:02,100 paulus. And here, we read these words 21 00:01:02,100 --> 00:01:06,400 Upon A Certain Jew named Apollo's born in Alexandria and 22 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,300 eloquent, man, and mighty in the scriptures came to Ephesus. 23 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:12,300 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being 24 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:15,300 fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently, the 25 00:01:15,300 --> 00:01:19,200 things of the Lord knowing only the baptism of John and he began 26 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,400 to speak boldly in the synagogue, whom win Aquila and 27 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,400 Priscilla had heard. They took him unto them and 28 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:27,100 expounded unto him the way of God more. 29 00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:31,300 Perfectly anyway, he was disposed to pass into aquella, 30 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,500 the Brethren wrote exhorting, the disciples to receive him, 31 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:38,400 who, when he was come help them much, who have believed through 32 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,300 Grace for, he mightily, convince the Jews and that publicly 33 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:47,500 showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ and borrowed. 34 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:49,800 My mistakes. So weeds here in Reading from 35 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,700 the King James version this morning here. 36 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:58,700 So introduced to us this man by the name of a Us Bible says he 37 00:01:58,700 --> 00:02:01,300 was a Jew but he has a Greek name. 38 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,900 And he was from Alexandria. Alexandria was a hotbed of the 39 00:02:05,900 --> 00:02:12,400 Jewish of Jews in Egypt, and Northern Egypt, there over in 40 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,500 over in Africa. And here was a man. 41 00:02:15,500 --> 00:02:18,800 The Bible says, he was eloquent, he was mighty in the scriptures 42 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 and he came to Ephesus and taught the T, the, the teaching 43 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,900 about the Lord here to these people. 44 00:02:26,100 --> 00:02:30,100 So, here is a man who is obviously from his background, a 45 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:33,300 very religious man. He was Heritage a Jew. 46 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:39,300 He had this Greek name. So you see some influence here 47 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,000 of him and he comes up to Ephesus. 48 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,800 Ephesus is as the crow flies about 200 miles, north of 49 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,200 Alexandria, if I can, if I can use a rough estimate there, but 50 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:54,000 a crow would only fly there because you sure can't drive 51 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,400 there. You sure can't walk there 52 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,000 because it's across the Mediterranean Sea. 53 00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:01,700 And I don't know. And we don't know how that he 54 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:05,900 came the the route that he came to come to Ephesus but he comes 55 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:10,100 to Ephesus and Ephesus is a place where the Apostle Paul has 56 00:03:10,100 --> 00:03:16,200 been with two of his cohorts that is with two of his people 57 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,200 that he co-workers in that sense. 58 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:21,400 Aquila and Priscilla were there, they had come there, they had 59 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,600 preached the gospel there, they worked in the synagogue there 60 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,800 and then Paul left and had gone to Jerusalem as I understand it 61 00:03:27,808 --> 00:03:31,800 here from the Pictures here going into Judea and then he was 62 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,300 going to come back later. The Bible says that a policy 63 00:03:35,300 --> 00:03:38,600 appears on the scene and we understand this about him here 64 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,000 that he accurately had a knowledge had an accurate 65 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,500 knowledge of Jesus notice here. And verse 25 is a Jew named 66 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:47,600 Apollo's born in Alexandria. Eloquent man. 67 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:49,800 Mighty in the scriptures, came to Jesus, as a man was 68 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,200 instructed, in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in the 69 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,600 spirit, he spake, and taught diligently, the things of the 70 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,700 Lord. But he knew only the baptism of 71 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:04,100 John, so it qualifies what he said and what he knew about the 72 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:08,100 Lord, because notice it says, he was he instructed in the way of 73 00:04:08,100 --> 00:04:13,100 the Lord, he talked accurately or diligently, the things of the 74 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:15,800 Lord. But he knew only the baptism of 75 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,300 John. So I think we can safely say in 76 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:23,100 conclude from the scriptures that that last phrase that he 77 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:28,400 only knew the baptism of John. As a qualifier to his knowledge 78 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,700 of the Lord. Now, we know about the Lord, and 79 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:33,800 we know the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. 80 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,400 And this is what he understood. It seems like we have. 81 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,100 You know, the Bible says in First Corinthians, the fifteenth 82 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:41,900 chapter speaks concerning the gospel. 83 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,900 The Apostle Paul says, and he's talks about the complete Gospel 84 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:48,200 of Jesus Christ. He says, I declare unto you the 85 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,800 gospel, which I preached unto you which you've received and 86 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,000 wherein you stand by which you are saved if ye keep in memory. 87 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,700 What? I preached unto you unless I 88 00:04:55,700 --> 00:04:59,200 believed you unless you have believed in vain What is that 89 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,900 gospel for? I delivered unto you that which 90 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:05,500 I also received, how that Christ died for our sins, according to 91 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:09,300 the scriptures, how that he was buried and that how he rose 92 00:05:09,300 --> 00:05:11,400 again the third day, according to the scriptures. 93 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:15,200 And so the essential facts of the Gospel, the death, the 94 00:05:15,207 --> 00:05:17,600 burial, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 95 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,700 All of this done in fulfillment, of God's word and fulfillment of 96 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:24,600 the scripture. Now did a Polish know, all of 97 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,000 that. And that is that what he taught? 98 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,700 Well, he knew it apparently he taught it, but he taught it in 99 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:35,400 perfectly. In the Bible in Acts and Romans 100 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,400 a sixth chapter, we speak concerning baptism because that 101 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,500 was a problem that Apollo's had notice. 102 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:45,900 It says there in that 25th verse he taught accurately, or taught 103 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:47,600 diligently, the things of the Lord, but he only knew the 104 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,400 baptism of John. So apparently, he did not know 105 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,400 the things of that. We understand in Romans the 6th 106 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,600 chapter verses 3 and 4. No, you're not that so many of 107 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,000 us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his 108 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,400 death. Therefore we are buried with him 109 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,200 by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the 110 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,200 dead by the glory of the father, even so we also should walk in 111 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:13,300 newness of life. So, apparently, he understood 112 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:15,600 some things about the Lord, but I don't know that he understood 113 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,300 completely about the Lord. Obviously, he did not because he 114 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:21,700 did not understand these things about baptism. 115 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,300 Baptism in Jesus Christ because that was not under the baptism 116 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:29,300 of John there. And that's what he knew about. 117 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:33,800 Baptism the baptism of John and so there is some completeness 118 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,200 about what he knew, but some incompleteness about what he 119 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,700 knew we run into people like that. 120 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:42,300 Today when we talk to them, there are people who they know 121 00:06:42,300 --> 00:06:44,100 the gospel. They know the church, they know 122 00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:48,800 about the church but yet at the same time, their understanding, 123 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,800 and their background and their past is the worship of the Or 124 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,400 the service of the church is different is different. 125 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,300 Sometimes it's lacking in what the Bible teaches about, the 126 00:06:58,300 --> 00:07:00,900 worship of the church. And so these are people who are 127 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:04,100 kind of like a paulus. There are people today, who 128 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:07,200 speak about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and they talked about 129 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:11,800 Jesus and they understand the death burial and resurrection of 130 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:13,900 Jesus, but they speak different things. 131 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:18,100 Concerning baptism, they say, baptism is only is only a form, 132 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,100 is only a pattern of the death burial Resurrection. 133 00:07:21,100 --> 00:07:24,600 Jesus Christ has No relationship really is for forgiveness of 134 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:29,100 sins and so they're kind of like a policin that they know things 135 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:31,800 and they know accurately many things about Jesus but there's 136 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,000 some imperfections about their understandings there. 137 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:37,700 And that's kind of how he was here. 138 00:07:37,700 --> 00:07:40,700 Notice what the Bible says about him, the Bible says, some 139 00:07:40,700 --> 00:07:45,700 glowing things about this, man. He was instructed, he taught And 140 00:07:45,700 --> 00:07:48,400 so he was perhaps one of the Disciples of the first 141 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,800 commission that was given in Matthew the tenth chapter. 142 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,500 Remember Matthew, the 10th chapter Jesus calls, some of his 143 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:58,000 disciples, a number of his disciples to him and he says 144 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,200 this, he called him, he sent them forth and he says, go not 145 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,900 into the way of the Gentiles and into the city of the Samaritans, 146 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:08,300 neither do not enter there, but he says go to the lost sheep of 147 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:11,400 the House of Israel. And so, he called the twelve and 148 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:12,900 he sent them out. And they went out and they 149 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:17,300 preached the gospel of Us, that was known at that time, that he 150 00:08:17,308 --> 00:08:21,100 instructed them to that. The Messiah is here, the kingdom 151 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:24,600 is coming, he taught them and that they needed to repent. 152 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,600 They needed to turn to God. They need to turn back to God, 153 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,700 because because wonderful things are going to happen. 154 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,000 And that's what happened. That's what went out. 155 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,100 And perhaps a policy was one who was perhaps influenced by them 156 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,500 or by some who had heard them teach their down in Alexandria 157 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:42,700 there and that's where he came from. 158 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:44,900 We really don't know that much about about. 159 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,300 Paulus about where about that except what is. 160 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:51,800 So shown here in these scriptures at this point, this 161 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,500 man had natural gifts Now, sometimes we read in the 162 00:08:55,508 --> 00:08:59,900 scriptures and we read about those who in the first century, 163 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:03,300 who preach the gospel, the apostles, they preached, the 164 00:09:03,300 --> 00:09:07,100 gospel, and they would speak by inspiration and work miracles 165 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:11,300 and they spoke concerning wrap up by Revelation from God. 166 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:14,400 God told them what to say, and they would say that. 167 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,900 And remember, that's what Jesus told his disciples when his 168 00:09:17,900 --> 00:09:21,800 Apostles when they were brought before, Kings and rulers. 169 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,700 And when they were brought before, the leaders of the Jews 170 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:28,800 that they were, Were simply to speak what God had told him to 171 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,200 say. Speak. 172 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,200 Which what will be given to them in that our apology didn't have 173 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,500 that ability? Apollo's, could not work 174 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:41,300 miracles. How do we know that? 175 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,200 Well, let's just use some logical reasoning here to 176 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,600 understand where a policy was Apollo's. 177 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:51,000 Could not work miracles because those who work miracles were 178 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,300 those who had the hands of the Apostles laid upon him. 179 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,900 Now, that's very clear from scripture there and acts the 8th 180 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:01,400 chapter verses 14 through 19. Remember when Philip goes down 181 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,300 to Sumerian preaches, the gospel to them. 182 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:07,000 The Bible says there in that. Passage that, when the apostles 183 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,800 that were at Jerusalem, when they heard that Samaria had 184 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,700 received the word of God, they sent Peter and John who, when 185 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:15,000 they were come down, they prayed for them that they might receive 186 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,600 the holy spirit for Shetty has fallen upon. 187 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:19,400 None of them, only they were baptized in the name of the Lord 188 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,500 Jesus. Then they laid their hands on 189 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:23,400 them and they received the Holy Spirit. 190 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:27,200 So that's how the Holy Spirit the miraculous abilities of the 191 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,200 Holy Spirit, were imparted unto people in those days through the 192 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:36,500 laying on of the Apostles hands. And I believe that I think we 193 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:40,600 can be very sure about that Apollo has had not had his had 194 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,600 the apostles hands laid on him or in Apostles hands laid on 195 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,900 him, why? Because we had had an Apostles 196 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:50,900 hands laid on him. He would have known Better than 197 00:10:50,900 --> 00:10:54,600 to preach the baptism of John. He would have known the Full 198 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,500 Gospel of Jesus and he could have preached in any would have 199 00:10:57,500 --> 00:11:02,700 preached, it accurately there. So he did not have that ability. 200 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:05,000 He did not have that knowledge. Therefore he did not have that 201 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,100 ability and so this is how he was now. 202 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:14,200 Now, this makes him me like him even more because he preached. 203 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:19,000 The gospel and he preached the word of God, like you and I 204 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,500 preach it. Now we're not inspired and we 205 00:11:22,508 --> 00:11:27,800 don't have miraculous abilities from the Holy Spirit in order to 206 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,400 preach the gospel. We don't have Revelation from 207 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,700 God through the holy spirit for us to preach the word of God. 208 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,500 Neither did a policies. And so look what he says. 209 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:42,000 Look what it says this man was instructed in the way of the 210 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,600 Lord. Verse 24, he was mighty in the 211 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,500 scriptures. He was an eloquent, man. 212 00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:54,200 He was a good speaker. And notice here, later in verse 213 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,600 28, he mightily convinced the Jews that publicly showing by 214 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:01,500 the scriptures, that Jesus was the Christ, was the Messiah. 215 00:12:02,700 --> 00:12:06,300 So what a Polish would do is through his knowledge and his 216 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:10,500 study of the scriptures as ability to teach and persuade, 217 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:14,400 he would speak the word of God based upon what he read, but 218 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,500 what was read in the Old Testament scriptures and he 219 00:12:16,508 --> 00:12:19,700 would teach and show that Jesus fulfilled, that picture of the 220 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:24,800 Messiah, that's what we do. And that's how we do it through 221 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,300 studying the scriptures and then we explain these things about 222 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:31,100 the Lord. He taught just like we teach 223 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:33,500 today. So that makes me like him even 224 00:12:33,500 --> 00:12:35,300 more. That makes me like him even 225 00:12:35,300 --> 00:12:36,600 more. I don't think I could speak like 226 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:38,900 he could, obviously, I don't think I owe. 227 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:41,700 You know, he was a man who was eloquent and the scriptures 228 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,500 eloquent man. Mighty in the scriptures. 229 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:46,200 I don't know that I qualify in either of those cat those 230 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:50,000 categories but he came about it the same way that I would come 231 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,000 about it. And that's what we understand 232 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,800 here about a policy in this. So this makes me like him even 233 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:57,400 more. There, he would had a profound 234 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,800 understanding the scriptures. He was enthusiastic in 235 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,100 proclaiming. The Lord, the Bible says here in 236 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:07,500 this, but he had this Gap in his knowledge. 237 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:12,100 He did not fully know the things of the Lord there in this 238 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:15,000 situation. So we have these two people that 239 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,600 are introduced to us are here, he began to speak boldly in the 240 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:24,300 synagogue and verse 26. Whom went Aquila and Priscilla, 241 00:13:24,300 --> 00:13:28,700 heard this heard him, they took him to him and expounded in him 242 00:13:28,700 --> 00:13:33,000 the way of God more perfectly. So Aquila and Priscilla to of 243 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,200 the co-workers of the Apostle, Paul Aquila, the husband of 244 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,500 Priscilla the wife, they took him and they taught him. 245 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,600 I don't think they caught him publicly in the synagogue but 246 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:46,300 they took him. Aside, is the indication here in 247 00:13:46,308 --> 00:13:50,600 this here, you have a woman a woman also helping to teach a 248 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,400 man in this. So that's a scriptural thing. 249 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,100 Obviously, we understand from the scriptures, that women are 250 00:13:56,100 --> 00:13:58,800 not to teach in the church that they're not to speak in the 251 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,200 church, and they're not to take a teaching role in that or 252 00:14:01,300 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaking role in that. And here we find that they do 253 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,800 have a role to play. And here is a role. 254 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:12,400 By example that Priscilla played here in this in helping to teach 255 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:17,200 him the way of God, more completely more completely, he 256 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:21,700 was incomplete in his knowledge. And so this is what we learn 257 00:14:21,700 --> 00:14:24,700 about him here in this and this is what we have taught to us. 258 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,700 This role here that was played by Aquila and Priscilla in this. 259 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:36,300 Now. At this point verse 27, it says 260 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:38,500 he was disposed to pass into a KO. 261 00:14:39,700 --> 00:14:44,700 Now, he was over here in, in in Asia, Asia Minor. 262 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:48,600 There at Ephesus, he wanted to go over into a KO, which was 263 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,700 over in Europe. It's where Greece is, and 264 00:14:51,700 --> 00:14:55,200 basically what he's talking about is Corinth, we don't know 265 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,400 why he wanted to go to Corinth, but yet it says he was disposed 266 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,500 to go there. And so when he went the Brethren 267 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:07,000 from Ephesus wrote to Corinth and encourage them to accept 268 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,100 him. You know, sometimes that's what 269 00:15:09,100 --> 00:15:11,600 we do as well. With people, they go into a new 270 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,200 area, we want Brethren there to accept and we write him a letter 271 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,200 of commendation or letter of recommendation. 272 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,400 Sometimes, there's letters that are written that are not letters 273 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,800 of recommendation, in that sense there. 274 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:27,000 But do we have, always have to write a letter to send somebody 275 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,700 over somewhere. I don't think we do because we 276 00:15:29,708 --> 00:15:33,000 can sometimes pick up a telephone in there or as we do 277 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,200 now, take out our cell phone and send a text to somebody there 278 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:37,700 and tell them this is a good brother. 279 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,100 You know, please. Yeah, except him here. 280 00:15:40,700 --> 00:15:42,700 But here it gave introduction to it. 281 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:47,700 And so he goes to aquella in. The Bible says here that he 282 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:51,100 went, they hear they exhorted the brother and to receive him. 283 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:54,700 And when Apollo's was come to aquella, he helped them much who 284 00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:59,100 had believed through Grace. Now here we understand and this 285 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:01,700 goes back to the 18th chapter, the earlier part of the 18th 286 00:16:01,700 --> 00:16:05,100 chapter will, Paul was at Corinth, Paul goes to Corinth 287 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:08,200 there and what does he do? The Bible says that when he was 288 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,500 at Corinth, he reasoned verse 4 of Acts 18. 289 00:16:11,500 --> 00:16:14,300 He reasoned in the synagogue, every Sabbath and persuaded the 290 00:16:14,300 --> 00:16:17,400 Jews and the Greeks. And when Silas and Timothy came 291 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,000 Paul was pressed in the spirit. He testified to the Jews that 292 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,300 Jesus was Christ. And so he became more bold when 293 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:27,100 he had his backups with him. There, I don't think it's a 294 00:16:27,108 --> 00:16:29,000 matter of Boldness. I think it was a matter of 295 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,900 planning that there was more work, that would be brought up 296 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:35,900 with Timothy our yes, with Timothy and and Silas that came 297 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:38,000 there. And so this is when he began to 298 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,300 fully, press the gospel and prove to them, that Jesus is the 299 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:45,600 messiah. Verse 6 says, when they oppose 300 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,900 themselves, that is the people in the Jewish synagogue there in 301 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:55,000 Corinth, when they oppose themselves and blasphemed. 302 00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:59,100 That is they really, they defeated their own spiritual 303 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:03,600 purposes in how they reacted to the preaching of the Gospel of 304 00:17:03,608 --> 00:17:07,200 Jesus Christ here, by Paul Paul shook his raiment, he said unto 305 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,300 them, your blood be upon your own heads. 306 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:11,700 I'm clean. I will henceforth turn unto the 307 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:15,200 Gentiles. So, Paul took the gospel first 308 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,900 to the Jews. And then he took it to the 309 00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:21,200 Gentiles after that he gave them opportunity first to do this. 310 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:24,700 And what was he doing? What was he doing when he 311 00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:27,500 preached to them? Well let's look at the 17th 312 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:31,000 chapter because I think it's a good example of what Paul was 313 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,900 doing their acts of 17th chapter. 314 00:17:33,300 --> 00:17:40,200 Here is Paul and thessalonica verse 2 and 3 Paul as his manner 315 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:46,200 was This is Paul how he customarily operated when he 316 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,900 went into a area where the gospel had not gone before. 317 00:17:51,500 --> 00:17:54,900 And so if they Paul did it at thessalonica, that's probably 318 00:17:54,900 --> 00:17:57,400 what Paul did at Corinth or what he was doing there. 319 00:17:57,500 --> 00:17:59,700 How did he behave? How did he, what was, what was 320 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:03,000 his plan of operation, as his manner was he went unto them in 321 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,600 the synagogue there. According to verse 13 Sabbath 322 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,400 days, he's reason with them out of the scriptures, he reasoned 323 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:12,600 with him out of the scriptures. Now, it's not the New Testament 324 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,600 scriptures, but the Old Testament scriptures there. 325 00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:17,800 He use the prophecies, he used the teachings of the Old 326 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:19,500 Testament and he reasoned with them. 327 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,400 Paul would read them or they would read them and he would 328 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:27,100 talk to them reasonably logically about what the 329 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:31,400 implications and the teachings of the scriptures were verse 2. 330 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:36,800 Verse 3 says Paul did this, he opened and alleged he opened it. 331 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:41,300 Alleged that is his argument and is documentation backing that 332 00:18:41,300 --> 00:18:44,700 up. He says his argument and is back 333 00:18:44,700 --> 00:18:49,300 as documentation, backing that up, is that Christ had to suffer 334 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,800 and Rise Again from the dead. The Jews. 335 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,300 Often times, did not believe that about the Messiah. 336 00:18:55,700 --> 00:18:58,200 They wanted a Victorious. Messiah, not a suffering 337 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,800 Messiah, but this is what Paul said. 338 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,300 This was his argument, and this is what he proved to, then, he 339 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:08,200 opened an alleged that the Messiah had to suffer and to 340 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,900 rise again, on the third day. That is, that's what the 341 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:13,100 scriptures. Taught here. 342 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:18,500 And that this Jesus whom I preached unto you is the Messiah 343 00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:21,100 is the Christ. And so that's how he did it. 344 00:19:21,300 --> 00:19:24,300 He's taught them, he taught them correctly, the Prophecies of the 345 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:27,900 Old Testament and then he showed how that Jesus fit the profile 346 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,300 fit, the teaching of the Old Testament prophets there. 347 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,700 And that's how I convinced many of the Jews that Jesus was the 348 00:19:34,700 --> 00:19:37,200 Christ and that they need to follow after Christ. 349 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,500 That's what he tried to do in Corinth. 350 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,600 In the Bible says that when he did that, there it says They 351 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:46,400 oppose themselves and they blasphemed they didn't like it 352 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,900 at all. I didn't like it at all. 353 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,000 And so Paul turns away from him and goes to the Gentiles, but 354 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:54,200 there was enough to start a little congregation. 355 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,300 Apparently they're at Corinth, Paul stays there for some time 356 00:19:57,500 --> 00:20:00,500 and this is where a policy goes and you know how to polish was 357 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:04,700 doing Paul Apollo's was using the same methods that Paul was 358 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:07,700 using. In teaching, that's what we just 359 00:20:07,700 --> 00:20:10,600 said there. Now the difference is or 360 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:14,400 difference is Paul had the benefit of inspiration from God. 361 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,200 On his side Apollo's, did not paulus taught like you and I 362 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:19,300 did. It. 363 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,300 And so a Polish goes there. The Brethren have been 364 00:20:23,300 --> 00:20:27,900 encouraged to accept him and receive him verse 27 of Acts 18. 365 00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:31,900 He says, when he was come He helped them much, which had 366 00:20:31,900 --> 00:20:36,000 believed through Grace. So Paul is came there at Corinth 367 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,900 and he was a great help to the church there in Corinth because 368 00:20:40,900 --> 00:20:43,800 notice what happens here in verse 28, for he mightily 369 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,500 convinced the Jews and that publicly showing by the 370 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:50,000 scriptures that Jesus was the Messiah was the Christ. 371 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:52,700 And so he did it. What? 372 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:58,600 Paul opened an alleged there? Apollo's was the closer I guess 373 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,600 you could say there because he put it over the top for many of 374 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,600 them. Their and apparently he was very 375 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,500 successful in doing that. And so, this is some things we 376 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:10,900 have about a policy that's not all we read about a policy in 377 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:13,200 scripture. He's mentioned, if I'm not 378 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,000 mistaken in 10 different verses in the New Testament scriptures, 379 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:21,400 where we have him next, is, we have him next in, in First 380 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,500 Corinthians, 1st Corinthians. Chapter chapter one. 381 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:26,800 Who's talked about here, he's mentioned here in this. 382 00:21:26,900 --> 00:21:29,100 Passage. And so I want to turn over there 383 00:21:29,100 --> 00:21:31,200 and let's read some of that because there are some things to 384 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:35,200 be gained from the teaching about a policy or the mention of 385 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:39,300 a policy here in these passages. Here the Paul writes to the 386 00:21:39,300 --> 00:21:41,500 church at Corinth Church of Corinth. 387 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:44,500 As we just said, is the church that Apollo Swit to and help 388 00:21:44,500 --> 00:21:48,500 them a lot by his teaching there after he was straightened out, 389 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,800 after he was straightened out. Before I get there. 390 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,100 There's a question that burns in my head. 391 00:21:57,100 --> 00:22:01,100 When I read this in Acts the eighteenth chapter, if you are 392 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:04,100 returned, the First Corinthians, just keep your finger there or 393 00:22:04,100 --> 00:22:05,300 Mark, that will come back to that. 394 00:22:05,300 --> 00:22:08,000 But right now, I want to go back to ask the 18th chapter because 395 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,100 I have this, in my, in my sketchy notes Here. 396 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:14,700 I don't want to talk about this. The question is this? 397 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,300 Aquila and Priscilla taught a policy of the way of the Lord, 398 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:28,400 more perfectly. Apollo's came knew only the 399 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:34,100 baptism of John. When a policy has taught the way 400 00:22:34,100 --> 00:22:37,900 of the Lord more perfectly. Was he re-baptized you read 401 00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:39,400 acts? The 18th chapter, doesn't say 402 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:45,200 that. But you relax, the 19th Chapter. 403 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,300 And here's what we do, read. AXA 19th Chapter, the first few 404 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:52,800 verses. The first five verses it says it 405 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,300 came to pass. This is sometime later. 406 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,600 Came time is sometime later. Came to pass when Apollo's was 407 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,300 at Corinth. Paul. 408 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,700 This is the Apostle Paul returns to Ephesus. 409 00:23:07,700 --> 00:23:10,100 He did not return by land but he passed the upper Coast. 410 00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:16,200 It says he passed Inland there and came to Ephesus back to 411 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,700 Ephesus. He came to Ephesus, he found 412 00:23:18,700 --> 00:23:20,400 some disciples. There were there. 413 00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:25,900 And he said unto them, have you received the Holy Spirit since 414 00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:28,900 you believed? They said it to him. 415 00:23:28,900 --> 00:23:31,300 We have not so much as heard. Whether there be any Holy 416 00:23:31,300 --> 00:23:35,400 Spirit. He asked them under what then 417 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:39,900 were you baptized? They Senator John's baptism. so, 418 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:45,500 With these disciples. Who were followers? 419 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,700 Of what a paulus had preached were these some converts of a 420 00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:51,700 policies there in Ephesus, we don't know. 421 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:57,900 We don't know, Ephesus. Was a metropolitan City. 422 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,000 There would be probably several synagogues a number of 423 00:24:01,008 --> 00:24:03,300 synagogues in the city of Ephesus. 424 00:24:03,300 --> 00:24:05,700 This may have been a different synagogue that was not even 425 00:24:05,700 --> 00:24:09,700 connected where a policy had been where he had been taught 426 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:11,500 the way of the Lord more perfectly with the cool and 427 00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:13,000 Priscilla. Maybe may not be. 428 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,900 We don't know at this point. But the thing is that the 429 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:19,400 Apostle Paul talks to them about this. 430 00:24:19,700 --> 00:24:23,000 What were you baptized into? They sent it to John's baptism. 431 00:24:23,700 --> 00:24:27,900 And so Paul says, this about John's baptism, Paul said, John 432 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:30,400 truly baptized with the baptism of repentance saying to the 433 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,900 people that they should believe on him, who should come after 434 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:38,400 him that is on Christ Jesus. So, here was the problem, they 435 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,700 were baptized into John's baptism but baptism of 436 00:24:40,708 --> 00:24:43,500 repentance. If you read back in Mark, the 437 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:46,000 first chapter, it was a baptism of repentance for the remission 438 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,400 of sins. They're so remission of sins was 439 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,400 even Associated and affiliated with John's baptism. 440 00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:56,400 But it was all conditional upon their acceptance of Jesus. 441 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,400 When Jesus came notice he says there, John baptized the 442 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,200 baptism, repentance saying that you should believe on Jesus on 443 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,100 him and she come after that. Is on Christ Jesus. 444 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:08,600 They had not done that and that was the problem with the 445 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,500 policies baptism here either. He did not know that Christ had 446 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:16,100 come or somehow it was, there was a problem here with this. 447 00:25:16,100 --> 00:25:20,800 He preached the baptism of John But not fully to the acceptance 448 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,100 of Jesus. Apparently, that's what had 449 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:26,000 happened here. This was after the resurrection 450 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,000 of Jesus Christ. This is after the resurrection 451 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,100 of Jesus Christ, is after the time of which now Jesus is now 452 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:36,200 claimed as the Messiah, as the Risen and ascended Messiah. 453 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:41,700 Now the king over God's kingdom and they somehow had missed part 454 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:45,100 of that. They had not accepted in as the 455 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:48,000 king over God's kingdom. They not had accepted him as the 456 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:51,400 Risen Christ. As the ascended Christ. 457 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:58,200 And so when Paul teaches these disciples, what they say about 458 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,300 that, they need to accept Jesus Christ. 459 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:03,100 What they do. They say, oh okay, we'll accept 460 00:26:03,100 --> 00:26:05,700 them now. No, they didn't do that. 461 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,400 They Under the guidance of Paul here. 462 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,000 Obviously, if this had been wrong, Paul would have corrected 463 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,400 him there since when they heard this, they were baptized in the 464 00:26:16,408 --> 00:26:20,200 name of the Lord Jesus. These people were baptized. 465 00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:24,000 Sometimes we call that they were re-baptized. 466 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,500 But that's the appropriate thing to do. 467 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:29,900 So my question would be then going back to a paulus. 468 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,000 This is what was in Acts chapter 19. 469 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,200 Is this what was done in? Check Acts chapter 18 and I 470 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,500 would say yes. Indeed, it was, yes, indeed. 471 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:42,800 It was When a Polish found out that his baptism, the baptism he 472 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,700 was preaching and obviously the baptism that he had obeyed was 473 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:49,400 wrong. He did the same thing that Paul 474 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:56,100 later instructed the Ephesians to do down here If not, then we 475 00:26:56,100 --> 00:26:58,800 have confusion and how the scriptures are put together. 476 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,200 And there's some people today that I've believed are 477 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,400 confusing. The idea of baptism they want to 478 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,900 say this, they want to say it really doesn't matter. 479 00:27:06,900 --> 00:27:09,900 Why you're baptized just as long as you're baptized. 480 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:15,700 And that's not what the scriptures say. 481 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,900 That's not what the scriptures say because it does matter. 482 00:27:20,900 --> 00:27:26,600 It does matter baptism according to Acts 2:38 is for the 483 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:32,500 remission of sins. 1st Peter, chapter 3 verse 21 says baptism 484 00:27:32,500 --> 00:27:38,600 also. Now saves us Acts 22:16 arise, 485 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,000 and be baptized and wash away your sins. 486 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:46,900 That's what it's for and the intention makes a difference. if 487 00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:50,900 you fall off a bridge, I guess the end result is the same, 488 00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:53,600 whether you jump or whether you're pushed right, the 489 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,800 intention is, the end result is the same, but baptism is not 490 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,200 falling off a bridge. Baptism is not falling off a 491 00:28:01,208 --> 00:28:04,100 bridge, it understands and it makes a difference what you 492 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:07,600 understand, what you believe in the purposes for which you're 493 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,600 doing it. It does. 494 00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:14,900 And so the idea that sometimes, sometimes we hear said well just 495 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:18,500 as long as they're baptized just as long as they're baptized, 496 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,500 That does not add up to scripture here, that does not 497 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:23,600 act to the context of Acts chapter 18. 498 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,900 Our Acts chapter 18 in Acts chapter 19, does not does not 499 00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:30,400 add it. To the purpose of baptism as is 500 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,200 taught in the New Testament scriptures there. 501 00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:36,300 And so that's what stands out to me here. 502 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:37,900 A part of this story of a policy. 503 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:39,800 Let's go on next. It's notice this. 504 00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:43,000 According to the book of Acts here. 505 00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:45,800 Not look at First Corinthians. That's where we're going, right? 506 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,000 Thank you. Thank you for reminding me where 507 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,800 we're going here and, and we'll be done. 508 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,900 Let's notice here. What Paul says One of the 509 00:28:56,900 --> 00:28:58,900 problems in Corinth Paul addresses. 510 00:28:58,900 --> 00:29:02,800 A number of difficulties that took place in the church at 511 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,000 Corinth. One of the problems was there 512 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,700 divisions. Here's what he says in First 513 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,800 Corinthians chapter 1. He says, now this I say every 514 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,600 one of you says, I am appalled, I am of a paulus. 515 00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:20,800 I am of cephas or Peter and I am of Christ. 516 00:29:21,900 --> 00:29:24,300 Now, apparently, Paul lays out here that there were divisions 517 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:26,900 among them there. Is Christ. 518 00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:28,700 Divided was Paul crucified for you. 519 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:29,800 Are you baptizing? And Paul. 520 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,300 I think God, I baptized none of you. 521 00:29:31,300 --> 00:29:34,800 But Crispus and Gaius he says, there were divisions among you 522 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,100 in verse 10. I beseech you Brethren by the 523 00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:38,900 name of our Lord Jesus Christ, he speak all that. 524 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:41,700 You speak the same things. If there be no divisions among 525 00:29:41,700 --> 00:29:44,700 you, but be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in 526 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:48,200 the same judgment. Because I understand there's 527 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,200 some saying, I am a follower of Paul. 528 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,600 I'm a follower of a policy. I am a follower of Peter. 529 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:57,000 I'm a follower of Christ. That doesn't work. 530 00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:02,500 Paul was not. Crucified for them. 531 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,600 They were not baptized in the name of Paul or of a paulus 532 00:30:07,100 --> 00:30:09,000 nopales, was not crucified for them. 533 00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:12,700 They don't qualify to be one who people follow. 534 00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:15,800 Christ. Jesus Christ is the one who 535 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:22,000 qualifies there. so he urges them urges them to follow after 536 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:27,200 Christ chapter 3, Start in the beginning of chapter 3. 537 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,900 Paul says, I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual that 538 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:33,500 as unto those who are influenced by spiritual things. 539 00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:37,400 Under more mature, people could not speak unto you as mature, 540 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,400 Christians, spiritually, minded Christians, but even carnal. 541 00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:45,100 Those who are influenced by the world, even like babes in 542 00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:48,800 Christ, I fed you with milk. I've not fed you with meet up 543 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,300 into this point. You have not been able to Bear 544 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:52,000 it, neither yet. Now, are you able to Bear? 545 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,400 He says, this is a sign of carnality among you. 546 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,700 This is sign of being influenced by the world and immaturity 547 00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:00,300 spiritual immaturity for. Whereas among you, there is any 548 00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:03,100 among you envying and strife and divisions, are you not carnal 549 00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:05,900 and walk as men? Now, what's the evidence? 550 00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:07,900 He's saying that they were immature and they were 551 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:10,000 influenced by the world. He says this. 552 00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:14,700 Verse 4. First Corinthians 3:1 says, I am 553 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:19,400 a follower of Paul another. I'm a follower of Apollo's or I 554 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,100 am of Paul, or I am of Apollo's. Are you not carnal? 555 00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:28,300 Who's Paul? And who is Apollo's. 556 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,400 They're simply ministers by whom ye believed even as the lord 557 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,500 gave to every man. I have planted Apollos, watered 558 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,900 God gave the increase. So, they neither see the planet. 559 00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:41,900 Anything to the? He that water. 560 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:46,100 But God gave the increase now. Think back after reading that 561 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:49,000 thing back over there in Acts the 18th chapter, what happened 562 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,200 there? Paul went to Corinth, Paul 563 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,300 started, the church there, but to a great degree. 564 00:31:57,300 --> 00:32:00,700 Paul is frustrated in preaching the gospel at Corinth. 565 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:07,600 Paul planted. the end of Acts, the eighteenth chapter Apollo's 566 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:13,000 comes and where Paul had planted and was frustrated, a paulus, 567 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:16,500 preach, the gospel there Apollo's watered Apollo's was 568 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:21,800 highly successful, He helped him much, he believed that through 569 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,400 faith because he convinced the Jews mightily through the 570 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,200 scriptures proving that Jesus was the Christ. 571 00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:32,000 So, a Polish wins the ticket right here. 572 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,100 Impalas wins. Because he did, he was more 573 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:36,500 successful than Paul at Corinth there, right? 574 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,100 No. And one way of accounting, we 575 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:45,000 can say he was more successful. But he just played a different 576 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,400 role. Paul was the planter a paulus, 577 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,700 was the water there and that's kind of how it is sometimes. 578 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,300 Sometimes how it is parents, they'll teach their children all 579 00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:58,000 their lives and someone comes through. 580 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,700 And some preacher comes through, from out of town has never been 581 00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:02,100 there before. Hold the gospel beat him and 582 00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:04,400 they baptized him and, you know, Wonderful. 583 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,700 It's everybody playing the road. That's how it is here because 584 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:12,300 that's what Paul says here. I planted Apollo's watered God 585 00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:14,400 gave the increase. So is neither the he the plans 586 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,600 plants anything? Neither, is he that Waters? 587 00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:19,400 But it is God who gives the increase. 588 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,300 That is the one who really makes the difference there. 589 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,000 We play our roles and without planting and watering there 590 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,100 would not be the increase to be made, but God gives the increase 591 00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:32,900 and we play our roles. Paul played his role Apollo's 592 00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:34,900 played his role. You play your role. 593 00:33:34,900 --> 00:33:37,600 I play my role, those in the congregation, they play. 594 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,200 A their role, it is God who gives the increase? 595 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,500 So, these are some things we can learn from the palace. 596 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,200 Another thing we learned from the policy here is this idea of 597 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,400 this division of this falling after different people. 598 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:52,600 There Paul says, is a sign of carnality, being influenced by 599 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:56,700 the world, and it's a sign of spiritual immaturity. 600 00:33:57,300 --> 00:34:00,200 It results in here. He says, envy and strife and 601 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,000 divisions among you, he says this is a symptom of your 602 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:08,000 carnality and spiritual immaturity in this And sometimes 603 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,900 today we don't do that. Sometimes we don't say, I'm a 604 00:34:11,908 --> 00:34:15,199 follower of this brother. I'm a follower of that brother. 605 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:18,400 I'm a follower of that person there but we do is we turn it a 606 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:23,300 little bit different. And we'll say this, will say we 607 00:34:23,300 --> 00:34:25,900 change that phrase a little bit will say, do you agree with 608 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,500 them? You do agree with that person. 609 00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:30,400 Do you agree with them that person there? 610 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,600 It's sometimes. It said tool that you use to 611 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,800 divide up there and identify each other. 612 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,600 And sometimes it's born out of strife and Division. 613 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,500 And sometimes, oftentimes, sadly, it is a sign of 614 00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:47,000 carnality. Oftentimes though, that's an 615 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,300 it's necessary to identify those who are teaching false Doctrine, 616 00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:55,699 teaching false things. But sometimes we use it in the 617 00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:59,600 much the same way that it was used in 1st Corinthians. 618 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,900 The third chapter there, to the detriment of the cause of 619 00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:07,400 Christ. Now, Now let's go next and see 620 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,000 another place in which it's used here in chapters and verses 21 621 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:16,100 through 23. Paul says the roles are this 622 00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:19,000 that they were just working together in this verses 21 623 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000 through 23. Therefore let no man. 624 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,600 Glory in man for all things are yours. 625 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,600 So it's not the individual leaders or teachers that we are 626 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,500 to follow. After let, no, man glory in man, 627 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:34,000 for all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollo's, or 628 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,400 Peter, or the world to come or life, or if their death, nor 629 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:38,700 things, present, or things to come. 630 00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:39,600 All are yours. You are. 631 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,600 Christ's and Christ is God's. It says, the thing is, we're in 632 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:52,800 this together. and then in chapter 4, Verse 6, Paul, erases 633 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,100 all the names. Now, what do we mean by that? 634 00:35:56,900 --> 00:36:03,500 Looking 4:6? He's used Paul a paulus and 635 00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:09,600 Peter and Christ all along here. In chapter 6, verse 6 of chapter 636 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,600 4 seems to indicate to me that really the problem wasn't some 637 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,800 were saying I'm a follower of a policy and some say my man 638 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:21,000 followed appalled. Because in Chapter 4 Verse 6, 639 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,600 Paul says it's these things Brethren. 640 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,600 I have in a figure transferred to myself and to apologize for 641 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:30,400 your sakes. Notice he says, I have in a 642 00:36:30,408 --> 00:36:33,100 figure transferred him to myself on a policies. 643 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:37,600 Used Paul says I've used myself a nopales is examples here. 644 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,400 I don't think they were following after Paul or polish. 645 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,700 They might have been following after brother so-and-so in the 646 00:36:45,707 --> 00:36:48,500 congregation and some saying I'm a leader. 647 00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:52,200 I'm, I'm, I'm following the leadership of brother so-and-so 648 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,100 in the congregation there at Corinth there. 649 00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:58,800 The Paul just used himself in a policies examples. 650 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,900 So sometimes we, you know, you seen those shows where it says 651 00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:08,700 the names were changed to protect the innocent Here I 652 00:37:08,707 --> 00:37:10,500 guess you'd say. Paul says the names were changed 653 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:13,000 to protect the guilty and that sense there. 654 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,500 Having to figure transferred Paul myself in a policy in this. 655 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,500 But the point is this. The point is still clear. 656 00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:24,100 The point is still the same that you may learn in us, not to 657 00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:26,300 think of men above that, which is written. 658 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:29,800 And then no one of you be puffed up against another. 659 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,600 The point is still the same. God is the one who gives the 660 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,400 increase. We are simply workers together. 661 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:44,600 For God or with God, in his Vineyard and his kingdom one. 662 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,700 Last thing I want to point out about a paulus here. 663 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:57,200 Is in. the last chapter of the book of Corinthians, First 664 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,800 Corinthians chapter 16. One thing I learned about Paula 665 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,900 Paul is, if we look at it here Apollo's finally did meet up 666 00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:05,900 with Paul. He did meet up with some 667 00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:09,100 Apostles and so he could have in his later career, in his later 668 00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:12,600 life, he could have had miraculous gifts imparted to him 669 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,500 because he came in contact with Paul. 670 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,000 He came in contact, perhaps with others as well. 671 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,800 That we do not know of Paul mentions him at the book of 672 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,100 Titus, Titus Chapter 3, I believe verse 13. 673 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:26,500 He mentions a paulus. It apparently seems like Paul is 674 00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:28,800 may have been the one who delivered the letter to Titus 675 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:35,200 there and so he was associated with the Paul's, but here in 1st 676 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:39,200 Corinthians chapter 16, we learned something about how God 677 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:45,600 works and God's plans for us 1st Corinthians chapter 16 and verse 678 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,900 12. Paul rights. 679 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,700 In his closing remarks to the Corinthians as touching our 680 00:38:52,700 --> 00:38:56,800 brother Apollo's. I greatly desired him to come 681 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,800 unto you with the brethren. But as will was not at all to 682 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,700 come at this time but he will come when he shall have a 683 00:39:03,700 --> 00:39:07,300 convenient time. You know, this verse seems to 684 00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:11,800 tell me this verse seems to seems to indicate and gives me 685 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:16,200 understanding that. God does not always have a 686 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,500 specific plan for your life on what you to do and what work 687 00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:23,700 here involved. I guarantee you there are times 688 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:28,700 in life when we draw the conclusion, when we're faced 689 00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:30,900 with an issue, when we're faced with the work. 690 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,700 Frank you ever had this who you? Those words, the Old Testament, 691 00:39:35,700 --> 00:39:37,000 who knows? But what you've come to the 692 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:42,200 kingdom for such a time as this and sometimes you feel like that 693 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,700 the task in front of you, is the task that you're called to do. 694 00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:54,100 And indeed it is. But look here in 1st 695 00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:58,100 Corinthians, the 16th chapter verse 12 and inspired Apostle 696 00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:00,900 greatly desire to polish to go to Quarry if and work there. 697 00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:04,500 But the Paul says a paulus. Didn't want to come at this 698 00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:05,800 time. Don't know why? 699 00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:08,100 He was not willing to come at this time. 700 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,100 You'll come later when he has a convenient time. 701 00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:15,600 And so that tells me also there that it's not that God says, 702 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,700 this is the work that you are to do, and you have to do this 703 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:20,800 work, we have a choice in the matter. 704 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:27,300 We have a choice in the matter. But we follow the wisdom and the 705 00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:31,600 teaching of scripture in this. And so that tells me that tells 706 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,000 me and that seems to indicate to me that God doesn't have a 707 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,100 roadmap for my life on, on where I'm going to go, what I'm going 708 00:40:39,100 --> 00:40:41,000 to have for breakfast, what I'm going to have her lunch and, you 709 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,100 know, things like that, it does not do that. 710 00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:48,100 He tells me, I need to obey the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 711 00:40:48,100 --> 00:40:51,000 I need to live for him. I need to serve and I need to be 712 00:40:51,008 --> 00:40:53,300 a part of the body of Christ. I need to serve him in the 713 00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:55,600 church. I need to worship as he teaches 714 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,600 here. Those are things that he does 715 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,400 plan for my life and he does direct for my life. 716 00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:07,200 But some of the details he leaves to my choice as to where 717 00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:10,900 and when and how some of these Works go forward there. 718 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,200 Some things for your consideration. 719 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,100 A paulus a man whose fascinating to me in Scripture. 720 00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:23,500 A man who I take a lot of Hope him because he was a man, kind 721 00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:29,100 of like me. 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