Peter, Standing Up With the Eleven, Lifted Up His Voice, and Said Unto Them

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[00:00] came out with a song. Yeah, he said he dissing LeBron. [00:06] About what? Oh, I guess he mad cuz LeBron mess with Kendrick too much or something. I don't know. They uh they [00:13] they showed a picture. I don't know if it's real, but they showed a picture of him. He got like LeBron tatted on him. So they say. I don't know if it's a fake [00:20] picture. I'm like, if he got LeBron tatted on him and then dissing him in a [00:25] song, that's it's just a crazy world we live in. That's a super crazy [00:30] girl. That can't be true, bro. That can't be true. I looked at I was like, "No, that's no way. No way. That don't [00:36] make sense." Yeah, that's crazy, bro. And Kendrick seemed [00:42] like he too much of a real one to mess with LeBron anyway. Nah, LeBron LeBron be mess. He like, you know, dancing to [00:50] the songs and repeated to it, repeating all the diss songs. He went to the concert because he trying to look cool. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So I [00:56] think but before that, you know, he mess with Drake heavy. He used to look cool next to Drake. So I think I think that's [01:02] what if if it is really a this to LeBron, I think that's what it's all about. He's just he's just trying to [01:08] ride the wave like a kid. LeBron one of them corny dudes. Super [01:15] corny. Like we can see through everything you do, Corny. Like bro, you get no points for what you're doing, [01:21] Corny. 1,00%. Yeah. the piece. [01:28] Yeah. No, I could I could never He just remind me of too many people. That's [01:37] Yeah. Sab in peace. Peace. It's another opportunity for us [01:42] to come together and hear and learn of the word of truth as given to us by the most high God. All honor goes to the [01:47] father through the son whose name is Yahosua. In him lies the only hope for salvation. We know that it is obtained [01:53] by grace through faith, not of works, lest anyone should boast and given freely as a gift to all who obey him. We [02:00] understand that if we do not obey him, it is made manifest or made obvious that we do not believe. In this state, we [02:06] should expect no good thing from the most high. However, anything that we do get, whether it be a gift of tongues, a [02:12] gift of prophecy, or any supernatural experience that you may have, it can and it will be used against you in the day [02:18] of judgment. With that said, peace to the saints that are in the room, to the saints that couldn't make it, but no peace to the wicked. The only thing we [02:24] say to them is repent that they might live. Um, so last week we talked a [02:32] little bit about um Yahosua starting to appear. So, he died and then he [02:38] resurrected. Remember the the women ran early in the morning. They were trying to figure out like, you know what I'm [02:43] saying, where he at? And it turns out that he was already resurrected. So then he started to appear to different [02:48] people. Some people when he appeared to him, they didn't know who he was, right? He appeared to him in a form that they [02:54] didn't recognize. So it wasn't until he opened their eyes that um that he was [03:00] they were able to understand who he was. And then some of them he appeared to him and they knew exactly who he was. You [03:05] know, at least the book doesn't say that they didn't understand who he was. So he appeared to to different people in different ways. Um and then, you know, [03:13] kind of continued to teach him things. So you remember in Luke 24 we read how he went through the whole scripture with [03:20] them boys. You know what I'm saying? There were two of them. They were walking around and they thought they was talking to Yahosua but they didn't know [03:25] who they was talking to. He went through the whole scripture with them and he started all the way at Moses and went [03:31] all the way through and he pointed out every situation in the book that was really talking about him. So you know we [03:37] talk about especially our Bible in the uh Bible in the year group. We talk about that, you know, more so in the [03:42] beginning of our our reading, but we talked about that a lot about how like [03:47] there's stories about Joseph and there's stories about um Jacob and there's [03:53] stories about uh um Joshua and stories about uh Samuel [04:00] and stories about Eli and stories about all these different people, but really [04:05] it's testifying to Yahushua, Right? Solomon is testifying [04:11] to Yahosua. David is testifying to Yahosua. So all these people have situations and things that are [04:17] documented in the book, but really all of it is just really a reflection about Yahushua. And so Yahushua took all of [04:23] those moments and he started to go through them with the disciples. And so the disciples came back, remember, and [04:29] they said, they said, "Did our hearts not burn with us when he went over the scripture with us?" And so that just [04:36] goes to show like that is that's how impactful the scripture was when he when [04:42] he taught it, right? And that's the reason why we here, right? We we want to we want to there's no way that that that [04:48] that in my mind I feel like I'm anywhere near the teacher of Yahushua. But the [04:54] goal would be that we teach this book as clearly as possible to the point where [04:59] we feel it in our heart heating up, burning. You know what I mean? And so that's why we keep going over it over [05:05] and over and over again. Uh and we'll do this y'all willing. We'll do this until the end. Right? So this is uh this is uh [05:13] Acts chapter 1, right? This is Acts chapter 1. So we finished up the [05:18] Gospels. Now we moving on to the book of Acts. So the book of Acts, the full name [05:23] is the Acts of the Apostles, right? And so it's a couple things we haven't talked about yet. We talked about we [05:29] talked about the apostles, but we didn't really take a lot of time to talk about the apostles when we were in the [05:34] gospels, right? So, you kind of look at it as like a hierarchy, right? You have the disciples, right? So, let's let's [05:41] start all the way at the bottom of the bucket. You got the complete unbelievers, right? The people that [05:46] just, you know what I'm saying, don't even acknowledge Yahushua as the Messiah, right? Then the next level up, [05:52] you got the followers of the Messiah. That was the great multitudes that we kept reading about, right? Then the next [05:59] level up from there, you got the disciples. Remember, and you remember Matthew 13 and Mark 4, it it separated [06:06] the disciples from the multitudes. It's like, man, I speak to the multitudes and [06:11] parables, but I explain the parables to my disciples. Right? So, that's the next level. You have at the bottom, you got [06:17] the people that don't even mess with the Messiah. Then you got the followers of the Messiah, right? which we today we [06:23] would call them Christians, right? So then you got the Christians and then the next level up from there now you got the [06:30] disciples but then there's one step above the disciples and that step is the [06:36] apostles. So of the disciples Yahosua chose 12 and he called them apostles. [06:42] Right? So now an apostle is that's someone that you send in your name. [06:47] That's what the word means. just like some you pretty much sending someone in place of you, right? So pretty much the [06:55] idea is if an apostle does it or says it, it's as good as me doing it or [07:01] saying it, right? And so he basically when he chose the apostles and when he called them apostles, he's stamping them [07:09] to deliver his message on earth as if they were him. Right? So now what we're [07:16] about to read in Acts, the full name of Acts is Acts of the Apostles. So what we're about to read are like a chronicle [07:24] or history as it relates to the apostles. So think of it similar to like [07:30] the book of Kings and Chronicles and 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel, right? Where those [07:36] are just kind of giving you factual events, right? This happened and then this happened. That's what Acts is [07:43] trying to do as well, right? The only difference is where Kings followed the kings and chronicles followed the kings [07:49] of Israel for the most part. Right? This is going to be following the uh apostles [07:55] for the most part only the apostles. Right? So we going to start off in uh Acts of the Apostles chapter 1 verse [08:03] one. Let's see what the books say. This is written uh they say this is written by the same person that wrote the book [08:08] of Luke. You can kind of see the similarities if you remember how how the book of Luke started out. You can kind [08:14] of see the similarities in in the way act starts out. [08:22] Also, you on [08:27] mute. This is Acts chapter 1 verse one. [08:43] Hello. Oh, my [08:54] bad. This is Acts chapter 1 verse one. Watch the book say. [09:03] Okay. The former the former tra treat traise [09:09] have I made, O Theopoulos, of all that Yosua began both to do and [09:17] teach until the day in which he was taken up after that he through the Holy Spirit had given commandments unto the [09:24] apostles whom he had chosen to whom also he showed himself alive after the his [09:30] passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them 40 And speaking of the [09:36] things pertaining to the kingdom of God and being so what he's saying is when he first [09:41] says he says look man this is my my trace. A trace is like a like u like a [09:49] argument like a debate. You know what I'm saying? But it's it's usually written. You know what I'm saying? So he's saying I'm writing this well it's [09:56] like a well ststructured argument. Right. So he's saying I'm writing this argument to argue my case. That's what a [10:04] treatise is, right? So he's like, man, I'm writing this, you know what I'm saying? I'm putting this well structured [10:09] argument together to make the case of who Yahushua is. And then he goes on to [10:15] say he chose these apostles. And of these apostles, he showed himself for [10:22] how long they say 40 days. Whom we are chosen to whom he showed himself uh alive after his [10:28] passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them 40 days. Right. So he said for 40 days he showed himself to them [10:36] and he said by many infallible proof. So infallible just means like what does [10:43] infallible mean? Like it can't it can't be broken. It can't be like it can't be debunked. You know what I'm saying? Like [10:49] nobody can call me a liar if I'm infallible. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm always right. You know what I'm [10:54] saying? Huh? Like perfect. Yeah. It's like perfect. There's no irrefutable. That's [11:01] the best way to say it's irrefutable. Right? So he's saying I've I heu showed himself to his his apostles [11:10] with irrefutable proof, right? And it's speaking about [11:15] them, right? When they experienced it, there's nobody who can tell them that didn't happen, right? He didn't appear [11:23] to everyone that way, but he appeared to his people with irrefutable proof. [11:29] Right? It's important because what Yahosua is doing is he's setting up, remember whenever we read the Bible, [11:36] what we got, go to um go to Isaiah chapter uh 28, give me verse [11:42] 13. Isaiah chapter 28, give me verse 9. It's it's it's something that we used to [11:50] start off when we started our Bible study, we used to start off every single Bible study with what we about to read [11:56] right now because it's always good to remind yourself that sometime we have [12:02] the expectation that God wants everyone like God will bend over backwards to [12:08] make sure everyone understands his word and understands his plan. And that's the [12:14] wrong expectation because you'll never read that. In fact, if you understand the book, it's the opposite, right? He [12:21] intentionally speaks to the masses in parables so that they don't understand. [12:27] Not he don't speak to them in in in parables to hope they do understand. His intention, stated intention. We going to [12:34] get Matthew chapter 13 after that. This is Isaiah chapter 28:9. Then we going to get Matthew chapter 13 after that. his [12:41] stated intention in both of these these passages that we about to read is so [12:46] that they don't understand right and you have to understand that about God first [12:52] because at first you going to get confused about whatever you read you going to get few you going to get [12:58] confused you going to start doubting yourself you going to start all that stuff is going to happen it's important to know that's a part of the plan like [13:05] that's supposed to happen that is that is a part of the natural journey journey [13:10] of anybody who come into this book. Right? And it's not me telling you that. Watch what the book say. This is Isaiah [13:17] 28:9. Watch the book say, "Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make [13:22] to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts?" Right? So we first start off [13:28] with a question. Who is this knowledge even for? Right? Is it for babies? when he [13:36] say wean from the uh wean from the milk and drawn from the breast he talking about a young child right so he's asking [13:43] the question is this knowledge that I have this is God talking right God talking through the book of Isaiah [13:50] through the prophet Isaiah is is the knowledge of the most high God for you [13:56] little children right he's talking about spiritual little children so people who who's just getting introduced to our [14:02] faith who's just starting to read the book he's asking a question. Should the knowledge be revealed to little children [14:10] in the faith? Or watch what he say next? For precept must be upon precept, [14:16] precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there a little. Right? So when he says here a [14:22] little and there a little, and precept and precept, and line and line, he's describing a puzzle. He's saying this [14:28] part got to be on this part and this part got to go with this part and this got to connect with this a little bit [14:34] from here and a little bit from there. Right? So he's describing a puzzle. If you were to give a puzzle to a kid, [14:42] they'd make a mess of it. They going to start putting it in their darn mouth. They going to start spitting it out. [14:47] They gonna start squishing pieces together that don't go together. They may not even make sense. They don't even [14:52] they not even interested in it making sense. They making whatever picture they trying to make because they don't have [14:58] the understanding yet, right? But as you get older, that same kid, as they [15:03] continue to mess with that puzzle, they'll start to figure it out. Right? [15:08] That's what this whole book is about. Watch what he say [15:15] next. For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people, to whom he said, this is the [15:21] rest, wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest. And this is the refreshing. Guess what? They would not hear. They [15:27] would not hear. Right? So when it says, listen, when he's saying with stammering [15:33] lips and another tongue will he speak to this people, all that's saying when you [15:40] say stambering lips, that's like somebody with a stutter, right? Stammering lips is a somebody who got a [15:46] stutter problem, right? Another tongue is saying another language. So if you [15:51] speak to somebody in another language or you speak to somebody with a stutter problem, what you think that somebody [15:58] come to you stuttering, I you come on, bro, get it out cuz you trying to understand what [16:04] they saying. Come on now. Slow down. You know what I'm saying? Go ahead, get it out. Let me hear what you're saying cuz [16:09] you can't understand them as long as they No, I'm I'm just saying, you know what I'm saying? You [16:15] don't understand what they saying. Somebody come to you speaking another language. They come to you speaking darn Russian or German or something. One of [16:21] them weird languages. You know what I'm saying? Them Russian them Russian and Georgia. You know what I'm saying? You [16:26] can't can't understand a darn word. They said it sound like you need to clear your darn throat, boy. Right. But they trying to talk to you and you can't [16:33] understand it. Right? So then when you think about that, think about yah is [16:40] intentionally y'all can speak English if he wanted to. He intentionally come to you speaking darn, you know what I'm [16:46] saying? Russian, speaking darn German, speaking darn French. Yeah. You know what I'm [16:53] saying? All you sitting there trying to make sense of it and he's speaking to you intention. It's like speak English. [16:59] You know you speak English. You know what I'm saying? But Yah chooses not to. And he says this. He said in another [17:06] tongue I mean with stammering lips in another tongue will I speak to this people right to whom I said this is the [17:13] rest and this is the refreshing but they would not hear right now watch this so [17:20] hold on I want y'all to understand that part when he says to whom I said this is the rest and this is the refreshing that [17:25] is the promise right that is the promise of everyone who has a life of good works [17:33] when you display a life of good works and you repent from sin, the promise is [17:39] you will enter into God's rest, right? You will enter into the [17:45] kingdom. And the kingdom is supposed to be a rest from the rest from the rest of the world, from the rest of the sin, [17:51] from the toils. It's supposed to be happiness. It's supposed to be peace. So, you're supposed to be entering into [17:57] God's peace. So when he says this is the rest and this is the refreshing, he's talking about anybody who has that [18:04] promise. And that's the promise that attracts all of us to the most high God. [18:09] Right? Every one of us in one form of another are attracted to the word of the most high God due to that promise. This [18:16] is the rest and this is the refreshing. The refreshing is talking about he's restoring. He's he's uh resurrecting, [18:24] right? He building the back building things back up. So he's saying this is what the promise is to everyone he said [18:32] this is the promise to he's talking to them in a different language and with [18:37] stammering lips. That is important to understand what we going through. Right? [18:42] Keep going. Watch this. But the word of the Lord was unto [18:48] them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, [18:53] here a little and there a little. Right? So the word of Yahweh was onto them like [18:58] a puzzle, right? So let's recap. He says, "Who's going to understand this stuff? Is it going to be the little [19:04] kids?" Because you got to put together a puzzle to understand this stuff. I'm speaking to y'all in a language y'all [19:10] don't understand. Like I got a darn sting problem. Who? The ones that I told this is the promise that you going to [19:15] get. But you know what? They didn't listen to me. So the word onto them stayed like a puzzle is what he's [19:22] saying, right? He's telling you you're not going to get this if you new to this. Right? If you new to this, I'm [19:29] speaking to you like it's a different language. But if you don't hear what I'm speaking to you, even though it's in a [19:36] different language, then it's going to remain a puzzle to you. In other words, it's going to be it's going to continue [19:42] to be confusing to you. Right? And what reason? Let's see this. [19:50] that they might go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken. Right? So, the whole thing is a setup. It's a [19:58] trap. Not a trap for the people that's going to serve the most high God. It's a trap for the people that's going to [20:04] hypocrite, the people that's going to when we talked about the the the hierarchy, right? It's a trap for the [20:09] ones that don't even mess with Yahosua, don't even acknowledge him. And it's a trap for the ones that follow him but [20:15] are not disciples, right? What does that mean? The ones that say, "No, I believe Yoshua." You know what I'm saying? All [20:21] Yahua, listen. He saved me in 1993. 1993. I remember the day. I've [20:27] been saved since that day. Oh, y'all might have messed up now, but God ain't never stopped walking with me. Them [20:33] people who they mouth get to talking. They mouth if as long as they talking they mouth say they close to God. But [20:40] they behavior and they lifestyle and their choices and their decisions and they habits say that they are far away [20:46] from the most high God. Oh those people it's a trap for right because they would [20:53] not hear. Right? So I want y'all to know what we're going through. Yahosua [21:01] intentionally right speaks. Let's Matthew 13. Let's grab that one real quick, too. It's Matthew 13. Jump on [21:07] down to what? I want probably verse 9, verse 8. Matthew 13, right? I want y'all to [21:14] know that God intentionally, right, presents these things in a way that's challenging for [21:21] people to understand, right? The point of me saying that and going into all that is because I want you to understand [21:28] why Luke is saying I had to put this treatise together, this well [21:34] ststructured argument. And Yahosua showed up to his apostles, not the whole [21:39] world, only his apostles and and the disciples in in many infallible ways, [21:46] showing through many infallible proof. So, in other words, he gave them evidence for them. Not evidence that [21:53] they can take a picture of and show to everybody else, but evidence for them. He made sure that they understood this [21:59] is real. He made sure that he left no doubt in their mind that he resurrected and that he's the one. And then he then [22:07] he boogied on them after 40 days. Right? That's important because they have to be [22:13] the ones that push the message to everyone else. And now the test becomes [22:19] we have to believe on Yah through their word. We didn't get to see the [22:25] infallible proofs, right? So now the strength of their belief because Yahosua [22:31] showed them everything, right? He gave them infallible proofs. So the strength of their beliefs has to carry this thing [22:38] 2,000 years later, right? They have to have they have to be so convinced that they got to [22:45] write this stuff down and then they doing miracles so the people that they wrote it down for they see it and be [22:51] like no I saw it with my own eyes. I know Paul died but I was alive when Paul [22:57] did X Y and Z and I was alive when Peter did X Y and Z. No, that was the real deal. I'm telling you stuff that they [23:03] wrote is true. And then that has to be carried to the next generation. And the strength of what they did has to spread [23:10] throughout the whole world for 200 years. There's no way that that happens if the apostles don't have [23:19] infallible. If the apostles had to get it word of mouth like, "No, I heard Yahosua did that." Then it wouldn't [23:25] happen this way, right? So that Yahosua had to appear. You remember when we last [23:30] a couple weeks ago when we talked about Thomas? Thomas was like, "Man, ain't no way I'mma believe. Ain't no way I'mma [23:35] believe unless I can see, you know what I'm saying, the wounds in his hands and I can touch, you know what I'm saying? I [23:41] can touch uh I don't know why I keep losing you." You know what I'm saying? But I can, you know what I'm saying? L I [23:47] can touch his wounds and I can do all this. Thomas was like, I you know what I'm saying? I can't believe. And Yoshua [23:54] showed up and gave him exactly what he wanted to. Why? Because Thomas is one of the ones that has to push this in a way [24:01] that it lasts until our time now. It lasts 2,000 years. That means he had to [24:07] be fully convinced because he needed the apostles to spread the gospel. He don't [24:13] want to spread. Yahosua could have appeared to everybody. He could have showed in the middle of the sky, I am the Messiah and they just put me today. [24:19] Could have showed to all the Gentiles. But guess what? That's not speaking to the people in a different language. [24:25] Right? If he did that, he's speaking to everybody in their own language. That's too easy. That's not what God's plan is. [24:31] God wants to see if he give you just enough, will you believe? Right? Will you believe? That's [24:39] why we don't have to get it. But that's why back in John chapter 17, he said, you know what I'm saying? Or or not even [24:45] John, even Thomas, right? When he when when when Yoshu was talking to Thomas, he told Thomas, yeah, you believe [24:50] because you see, blessed are those who believe but don't see. And that's us. He [24:56] talking about us. So I know it's I know it's I know it's glorifying, right? When it's like, oh, I get to see a miracle or [25:04] I get to see something spectacular or Yahw himself appeared to me or spoke to [25:09] me. All that is special. And you should feel special if any of that happened. And that is something that's a good [25:15] thing for us to desire. But at the same time, we should all keep in mind that Yahosua out of his own mouth said, [25:21] "Blessed are the people who don't get those experiences." Right? So, I know it feels like it's a [25:27] bigger blessing to be a prophet, right? But according to Yahosua, he says, [25:32] "Bless when you don't like you didn't get to see nothing crazy." Blessed are [25:38] you cuz you still believe, right? I want us to believe purely based off of the word. Everything [25:44] else, if y'all add it to us, man, glory to the most high God. But I want us to [25:50] look at the word and based off of the word purely say, you know what, this guy's the real deal. Because there's a [25:57] blessing in that, right? This is what I want. Matthew 13, what [26:08] should be about verse 8, N 10. This is uh Matthew chapter 13:10. Watch the book [26:14] say, "And his disciple and the disciples came and said unto him, why speak thou unto [26:20] them in parables?" Right? So the disciples came unto Yahosua and said, "Why speakest thou?" In other words, [26:26] Yahosua, "Why Yahosua are you speaking to them?" The them in this situation are [26:32] the great multitudes that follow Yahosua, right? So why are you speaking to those who follow you in parables? And [26:39] watch what Yahosua says. And he answered and said unto them, because it is given to you to know the [26:46] mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. He said, it's not given to them to know the mysteries [26:52] of the kingdom of heaven. Now remember, these are not rebellious Pharisees and Sadducees that he's talking about. These [26:59] are the people, the regular people, the poor, the downtrodden that's coming to [27:04] him looking to get healed and looking to hear his teaching. Y'all have to get that in your mind because a lot of times [27:11] we think it's easy for us to say Pharisees evil, Saduces evil. Therefore, [27:18] God said it's not for them to know the kingdom. That's that's simple in our brains. But that's not reality. That's [27:23] not how it happened, right? If we put it in today's term, the Pharisees and the [27:29] Sadducees would be like the Hebrew Israelites and and and the Christian leaders, right? would be like the [27:36] Catholic church, the Christian Christian leaders, you know what I'm saying? The big Christian churches and and and and [27:42] some of these, you know, stuck up Hebrew Israelites, right? But then imagine the [27:48] regular people, the average people, your brother, your sister, all the average people that's interested in Yahosua, [27:54] right? That's interested in Jesus Christ, right? Imagine them, the people who just attend the church. They regular [28:01] people. They just trying to do the best they can. Those are the people that Yosua is saying it's not given to them [28:07] to know it. Right? But watch what he say after that. [28:14] For whosoever has, to him shall be given. No, go back one. [28:19] Huh? Go back one. Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but [28:25] to them it is not given. For whosoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall [28:31] have more abundance. But who whomver whoever hath not from hell shall be from [28:36] him shall be taken away even that he has. Therefore speak God to them in parables because they seeing see not and [28:42] hearing they hear not neither do they understand and in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says by hearing [28:49] ye shall hear and shall not understand and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive. For this people's heart is [28:55] waxed, gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have been closed. Lest at any time they should be [29:02] they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and should be converted [29:07] and I should heal them. Right? So he's saying when I read this prophecy, I take [29:12] it as being sarcastic. He's saying though like literally what he's saying is these people have been made to they [29:19] that so that they can't see and they can't understand because if they did understand they'll mess around and be [29:25] converted because it's a trap. It's meant to weed out the people who not really about this right. So uh sister [29:33] Tia she said what is what are the the the the mysteries of the of mysteries of heaven of the kingdom of heaven. So when [29:40] you think of that just think of like two different words mysteries right? So mysteries is just saying stuff that [29:45] people don't know, right? And then you got kingdom of heaven, of course, right? That phrase, right? So you mystery, [29:51] stuff that people don't know about the kingdom of heaven. So when he's speaking about parables, that's what those are, [29:57] right? So when you ask what are the mysteries, it's those parables, right? the parable that that that that that [30:03] he's saying, "Oh, yeah. The um uh the kingdom of heaven is like uh uh a man [30:10] who sows seed on and it falls on the wayside and it falls that that's that's a mystery because before he explained [30:16] that, people didn't know that about the kingdom of heaven. People don't know nothing about the kingdom of heaven before he started explaining it, right? [30:22] So, he's explaining what the kingdom of heaven is. He's explaining how it works. He's explaining, you know what I'm [30:29] saying? How we get into the kingdom, what it's like to be in the kingdom, how do you rank in the kingdom, right? He [30:35] just the kingdom of heaven is is basically just saying it's basically him, right? He's explaining what it [30:41] takes to be in him. Um, and those are mysteries. Think about think about uh [30:47] John 3, right? John 3 when when um when Nicodemus the Pharisee came up to him, [30:53] he looking like, you know what I'm saying? So look, we know you a teacher of God and y'all should have jumped right in like, "Yeah, but you know, you [30:59] know what I'm saying? Person, you know what I'm saying? You got to be born again." And so that's something nobody's [31:04] ever heard nothing crazy like, "You got to be born." Like what are you talking about? That's what Nicodemus is like, "Man, I got to climb up in my mama belly [31:11] and be born. What are you talking like? What's this foolishness you talking about?" Right? And y'all, she was like, "Oh, what? You are you a ruler of Israel [31:17] and you don't know these things?" Right? Because these are mysteries. These are things that people don't know. You know [31:23] what I'm saying? So he int Yahosua intentionally speaks to the followers in [31:30] a way that they don't know in a way that they won't understand purposely so that [31:35] they don't get the message so that they don't get the mystery that shouldn't [31:41] discourage us right cuz all of us start as a mere follower all of us start as a [31:46] Christian for a lack of a better word right all of us start as a follower of the Messiah right but you have to [31:53] progress past that point to become a disciple. And how do you do that? You sit at the Messiah's feet and you learn. [32:00] You don't get it. It don't make sense to you, but you stick around and you learn. Right? You remember that in what we was [32:07] reading in the gospel, many times you will see that Yahosua will say something to disciples and they is looking like, [32:13] "Uh, I don't even know what that mean." Right? We just read uh in our in our weekly reading uh we just read uh the [32:20] other day where it was saying that uh uh uh before they went to the mount where where Yahosua transfigured himself. You [32:27] know what I'm saying? We was reading how he was saying, "Yeah, man. I got to go and on the you know what I'm saying? I'mma die and on the third day I'm going [32:32] to be risen again." Ain't none of the disciples knew what that thing meant. They look like, "I don't know what he talking about." You know what I'm [32:38] saying? But they were afraid to ask. But guess what? They stuck around. When Yahosua was talking all that crazy stuff [32:45] to the to the uh to our people, talking about, "Yeah, now you got to eat my flesh and drink my blood." A lot of the [32:51] disciples heard that and they looking like, "No, man. I don't know what you talking about. That's crazy." And they left him. He turned to Peter. He was [32:58] like, "Are y'all going to leave me too?" And Peter's like, "No, man. You know what I'm saying? Where we where else going to go?" You know what I'm saying? [33:03] You got the ways to the kingdom. You got the ways to life. Right? So it's the what separates [33:10] a a follower and a disciple is when you're a disciple, you stick around to figure it out. You push through to [33:18] figure it out. You don't understand it. It don't make sense. It's not connecting. But you push through to make [33:24] it connect. You put the puzzle together, right? And that's what separates those [33:30] who are just followers who are just going to do it every Sunday or every whatever. Sometimes every Sabbath for [33:36] those of us, you know what I'm saying? who who start keeping the Sabbath, whatever it is, you do it and then you go back to your regular life. Well, [33:42] that's going that that makes you a follower, right? You remember he used to send away the multitudes. He was, "Yeah, [33:48] go ahead and send them away." You know what I'm saying? Go ahead. He used to hop in the boat and cross the cross the [33:53] sea so that he can get away from the multitudes. But his disciples was always with him, right? That has to be our [34:01] mindset. We always have to be ready. We always have to be studying. We always have to be understand in this book. We [34:08] got to push through all misunderstand. We got to obsess over it, right? Because [34:13] the times is dark. And when I say dark, I don't mean dark as in evil. I'm saying dark as in unclear, right? The truth is [34:20] unclear. So many lies. There's so many so much confusion. The truth of everything is so unclear, right? You [34:28] can't figure out. It's a dude that that that blew up a darn Tesla truck right in front of the Trump building. You can't [34:35] figure out the basic fact. You don't know who lying about what. They say the FBI is involved with this. They say they [34:42] just released. You know what I'm saying? About the dude that blew it up. They just released cuz he was in the army. He is a special force. He I think it was [34:49] navy or marine. He is one of them special force. He one of the ones where you send him somebody going to [34:54] die, right? So they trying to make sense of it like wait a minute. He got a bullet wound to his head. He lit the [35:01] whole thing on fire. That's what they say. You don't know nothing is true. Right. But he got a bullet wound to his head. He lit the thing on fire. Elon [35:08] Musk say these trucks and these uh Tesla cars are not supposed to be able to drive with a dead person in it. So, did [35:14] somebody kill him and stick it in it and it did drive? I don't know. Right. All I know he lit the thing on fire. It blew [35:21] up. And then some of his special forces buddies just came out and released some [35:26] paperwork saying, you know what I'm saying, that you know what I'm saying? He gave them a manifesto and that they [35:34] know all them drones. Y'all heard about them drones that were flying in uh New Jersey. He they know all them drone them [35:40] drones that were flying in New Jersey is using some new technology that nobody's ever heard of called gravity what what [35:47] they say I think it was gravity uh anti-gravity propulsion systems or [35:52] whatever where basically they found a new way for stuff to fly where it's just it's not flying because of because of [35:58] propellers or jet rockets or anything like that is flying because of technology that's anti- gravity so it's [36:04] no longer subject to gravity. You know what I'm saying? That's what they say, right? They say it's China technology [36:10] and US technology and it's stuff going on and ain't nobody telling it and that's part of the reason that he did [36:16] it. You know what I'm saying? Who knows what's true? But I know the the not I know but what they say is the same base [36:23] that that that the dude that set up the you know what I'm saying? Set the Trump on fire. You know what I'm saying? The same base that he come from, the dude [36:30] that was in New Orleans that ran over all them people in his pickup truck. Both of them got rented cars. You know [36:36] what I'm saying? from the same company. You know what I'm saying? And they both electric cars, you know what I'm saying? He ran over all them people. I think he [36:42] got a F-150 Lightning. Ran over all them people in New Orleans. Killed all them folks. You know what I'm saying? And [36:47] they say they try to make it look like he is a black dude. He was no darn black dude. You know what I'm saying? He ain't he ain't black America. He ain't like us. You know what I'm saying? He not [36:54] like us. You know what I'm saying? He one of them dudes from Morocco. You know what I'm saying? He one of them Africans from Morocco. He was born in the US, but [37:01] his parents was from or at least one of his parents, his daddy was from Morocco, right? He wasn't a Hebrew, right? So he [37:08] ran all them people over. You know what I'm saying? And they think he he part of ISIS. FBI immediately on the scene. You [37:14] don't know what to believe because why the FBI there so quick? I ain't never seen the FBI. I've never seen nobody [37:21] have this many answers for no no no no situation. You know what I'm saying? When the when the um when the uh when [37:28] the trans was like a trans uh school shooter when that trans school shooter shot up all them kids. You know what I'm [37:34] saying? We didn't have answers for weeks. You know what I'm saying? Everybody was on the case trying to [37:40] figure this thing out. They got Listen, it took them about six hours. Middle of the night, they on TV with all the [37:46] answers. Yeah. Well, he went to this and did this and this that it's like the man was burnt up behind beyond recognition. [37:52] How you figure out all this stuff, right? Because you don't know what's true or not. You don't know who [37:57] manipulating you. You don't know what they trying to get you to believe about some drones in New Jersey. You don't know what's going on. You don't know who [38:04] lying, who telling the truth. It's a dark, dark, dark dark time. So in the dark time, what we have to do is we have [38:10] to cling to the scripture because it's a sure word, right? This is a sure word. [38:16] We know that it does not change and that thing been right the whole time it's been here, right? The rest of this stuff [38:22] is waffle waffle. You know what I'm saying? It's little wobbly. You know what I'm saying? You can't take it. [38:28] Let's jump over to uh where was we about to read? Uh uh Acts one. This is Acts. Let me [38:36] see. Acts. What we want? Acts. Uh what was it? 1 verse3. This is Acts. We only on verse [38:43] three. Goodness gracious. This is Acts chapter 1 vers3. Let's make some move. [38:51] to whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs being seen of seen of them 40 [38:58] days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God being assembled together with them commanded [39:04] them that they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the father which saith he have heard of [39:10] me for John truly baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from here when they [39:18] therefore for were come together. They asked him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at [39:24] this time restore again the kingdom of Israel. And he said unto them, it is not for you to know the times of the seasons [39:29] which the father has put in his own power. Right? So now when they looking at him, remember he's appearing to them. [39:35] So when they seeing they like, all right, is it time if you going to restore the kingdom of Israel? In other [39:41] words, he's saying like, is you going like we know you the Messiah? You are man, but uh you about to tell the rest [39:47] of the world. You know what I'm saying? Cuz they know what that mean. They know as soon as everybody know he the Messiah, it's wart [39:53] time. And and we believe that he wins in the end. So we looking at the winner. We [40:00] looking at the man. We looking at the person that's going to be the king over all the earth. The greatest king that's [40:06] ever been on earth. We looking at him. We believe every word of the prophecy. Right. So we looking like ready to get [40:13] this thing going. Is is it time? Y'all she was like, "Man, look, look, look. Don't stress yourself out. The father [40:18] know the time. You know what I mean? Don't stress yourself out. It ain't for you to know the time yet. Relax. You [40:24] know what I'm saying? Then he changed the subject on it. Watch this. But you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost [40:30] after the Holy Spirit has come unto you. And you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in Judah, and in [40:36] Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth. When he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken [40:43] up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven, as he went [40:48] up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, which also said, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into [40:56] heaven? The same Yahosua which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into [41:04] heaven." Does that make sense? So Yahosua appeared to them 40 [41:09] days. Then he's like, they asked him like, "Okay, so look, is it time we about to get this thing going?" He [41:15] looking like, "Man, look, don't worry about that. But listen, I'mma send the Holy Spirit, the set aart spirit to you, [41:21] right? And it's going to be a gift to y'all. Y'all just wait here in Jerusalem and I got you." Right? So, they're in [41:28] Jerusalem. Remember, he told when he when he when he rose from the dead, he appeared to the people on the third day [41:34] and he said, "Go tell them in Galilee." Because they all went back to Galilee. [41:40] Remember, the Passover was over. So they was all headed back home to Galilee. So [41:46] then they went all the way to Galilee. He appeared to them. He had to send them back to Jerusalem. So they came all the [41:53] way back to Jerusalem. Now it's 40 days later. It's 40 days after the uh after [41:58] the first fruit sheath waving. Technically, it's 40 days after it and they're still in Jerusalem. And he's [42:04] still telling them, "Chill and wait. I'mma send you a gift. I'm going to send you to set to set apart." Holy means set [42:11] apart, right? It means separated, right? So, I'mma send you the spirit that's [42:16] separated. The spirit that's set apart. The spirit that's not like any other spirit, right? I'mma send you this [42:23] spirit. So, then everybody hear. Then after that, Yahosua just ascend into the [42:28] cloud. He just go right up into the cloud and then the cloud, he went into the cloud and then you can't see him no [42:34] more, right? So when they look up, they looking like, "Dang, just like that, he out of [42:41] there." Right? Then it was two men dressed in white. We perceive them to be [42:47] angels. Right? They looking like, "Oh, why y'all gazing up there?" Read it again. Watch this. [42:53] Which said, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? The same Yosua which is taken up from you into [42:59] heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." Right? [43:04] So he said the way he going to come back is just like how you seen him. So my [43:09] question to y'all is does that make sense? Because if he ascended into a cloud, [43:16] what would we expect? He going to come in on a cloud. Right. Hold we got grab uh Matthew [43:22] chapter 24. Give me verse 29. This is Matthew chapter 24 verse 29. [43:38] What did the book [43:47] say? Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light [43:53] and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign [43:59] of the son of man in heaven. And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the son of man coming [44:04] in the clouds of heaven coming where great glory coming in the clouds of heaven and great glory. So just like the [44:12] two men said look the same way you see him going up is the same way he going to come back. Jump back over in [44:22] Acts the whole book line up but that's what it is. You got to take precept upon [44:28] precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little. That's the only way to understand this book. That's why the most high God put [44:35] it on men's heart to teach. Cuz y'all y'all know how difficult this thing [44:47] is. What is this? Acts 1 verse what? Well, this Acts chapter 1 vers2. Watch [44:53] the book say, "Then they returned unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusale Jerusalem's a [45:00] Sabbath day's journey." Oh, and look at that. They returned from where? The Mount of Olives. So, they was in the [45:07] mount called Olivet or the Mount of Olives, right? And now they're going back to Jerusalem, right? So, now that [45:14] means Yahosua left and ascended into heaven from the Mount of [45:19] Olives. Watch this. This is uh Zechariah. We going to come back. This is Zechariah [45:26] 14:1. Give me about verse three, maybe verse 4. [45:55] In that day shall shall a fountain be opened in the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for [46:00] uncleanness. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Yahwh of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols [46:06] out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered. And also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirits to pass [46:12] out of the land. And it shall come to pass that when they shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that [46:18] begott him shall say unto him, "Thou shalt not live, for thou speakest lies in the name of What uh what chapter is [46:23] this?" This 13. Which one you say? 12. 14. Oh, 14. My bad. [46:38] Behold, the day of Yahwh cometh, and the spo and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all [46:44] nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished, and half [46:50] of the city shall go into its captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall [46:56] Yahweh go forth and fight against those nations as when he as he fought in the day of battle, and his feet shall stand [47:03] in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which his feet going to stand where now? On the Mount of Olives. So the same [47:10] place that he he left, the book say his feet going to touch down right [47:17] there. So what the what the angels are saying, what the men were saying that was in white, what they were saying is [47:23] according to the scripture. They not saying nothing. It's not like one thing we have to all understand including [47:29] Yahosua. Nobody can come and talk God's word and just make something up. If you making it up, then you it's [47:36] not God's word. When you speaking on behalf of God, it's going to line up. [47:41] The trouble is not everybody knows how to line it up. Not everybody pays [47:47] attention enough to the scripture to line it up. So that's where we mess up. That's where the Pharisees messed up. [47:53] That's where the Sadducees messed up. That's where our elders messed up who put our our Messiah to death, right? [47:59] They didn't know how to line it up and they didn't stick around to understand it. Now, it was supposed to happen that [48:05] way. It was no other way for it to happen. It's a trap, right? That's why he he couldn't reveal everything. He [48:11] could have made it easy. He could have made everybody understand, but he had to make it so that it's a trap so that those exact things would happen. [48:19] Nevertheless, destruction and woe onto whoever causes it to h happen. So, we [48:24] have to pick a side. It's going to be people are going to go to mass majority of people are going to hell. There's no [48:29] there's no way around that. That's that's going to happen. It's set up that way. That's how it happens. The [48:35] objective of you and me have to be that that is not us, right? That's our option. That's our [48:43] choice, right? Most people are going to choose to go to hell. That's a fact. No [48:48] way around it. Right? Our choice has to be we have an opportunity. We have the [48:55] information. I'mma move a little different. Right? I'mma separate myself. I'mma be holy, right? I'mma separate [49:01] myself from everybody else. This is uh this is uh Acts chapter [49:08] 1. Where we at? Verse 14, 15. Verse 12. It's Acts chapter 1 verse 12. Watch what [49:14] the book say. Then returned they unto Jerusalem from [49:20] the mount called Olivet which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath day's journey. And when they were come in they went that [49:26] means a week. That mean it takes he said when they say a Sabbath day journey it [49:31] means it takes a week to get from Mount Olives to uh Jerusalem. [49:42] And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room where abode both Peter and James and John and Andrew, [49:49] Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alfus, Simon Zelotus, [49:55] and Judah the brother of James. These all continue with one of those are the those are the those are [50:01] the apostles, right? Those are the the the 12 that was chosen. But it wasn't just them. Watch this. [50:08] These are all these all continue with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women and Mary the mother of [50:14] Yahosua and with his brethren. So Yahosua mama was there too, right? And [50:19] his brothers and then more. Watch this. And in those days Peter stood up in the [50:25] midst of the disciples and said the number of names together were about 120. [50:31] Right? So it was 120 people there. And then Peter stood up. He is like, "All right." Because you remember Peter was [50:38] before Yahosua died, Peter was made the man. You have to understand that before [50:43] Yahosua died, he in front of all the apostles and the disciples, he looked at Peter and said, "I'm giving you the keys [50:50] to this thing." He said, "I'mma make you my rock, the rock of my [50:57] congregation. That's you. This your job." So everybody knows that Peter is [51:02] that guy, right? that everybody knows. The next up is James and [51:09] John, right? So, it's Peter, James, and John. Those are the ones. Those are the sons of Zebedee that kept sitting at [51:16] Yahosua's side saying, "Can I sit at your right hand?" Or, "Who's going to be the greatest in the kingdom?" Those are [51:21] those, right? Those three are the ones that Yahosua took on that mountain when [51:27] he showed them Moses and Elijah talking to him in a vision and they heard the voice saying this is my son in whom I am [51:34] well pleased. So they have very unique experiences with Yahosua. Everybody kind [51:39] of know like no they the top they the top of the top those are the guys right [51:46] James and Peter those are the ones right so now Peter being the head cuz he was [51:52] given the key he stand up when everybody around everybody praying Yahosua told you you got to imagine how exciting this [51:59] is right how dedicated everybody is not because they read some words and no no [52:07] they were around this man right for years. Then this man [52:14] died, came back and then proved it to them that he's the one for years. You [52:21] trying to understand it, you believe, but it's like you just believe up here. You kind of seeing what's happening. You [52:27] see some crazy stuff. You see some miracles. You got these experiences that nobody else really got. Then on top of [52:34] that, the man dies, come back and shows himself to you specifically and talking to you. Something that nobody gonna [52:40] understand, nobody gonna see. So then you know the larger picture is at hand. You know the kingdom is about to be [52:46] brought forth. You know that he's about to take over the whole world. You don't know when, but you know this thing is [52:52] about to happen. And he told you to wait. You don't know exactly what you waiting for, but he's saying the spirit [52:58] coming. That means some power coming. Okay, I'mma wait. So, it's exciting. Everybody sitting [53:05] there and they praying and they fasting and they ready like they getting [53:10] theirelves spiritually ready for war, right? I just want y'all to put y'allselves in the midst of it. How [53:15] exciting this got to be cuz everybody there been seen some stuff that nobody else in the world saw, right? And they [53:22] trying to figure it out and they trying to figure out what's the next step. They energized. How can I help? What can I [53:27] do? What do you want me to do, Lord? Like, they are energized. just it's happening right now, right? So they in [53:34] the room, everybody's excited, everybody praying, everybody waiting for the next instruction, and then Peter stand up. [53:40] Watch what he say. Hold on. I might have lost the brother. Hold on. Give me a second. Can you hear me? Yeah, you back [53:46] now. Okay. So now watch what they say. [53:54] Hold on. Let me answer uh Sister Pam question. So the question was even though so Peter was made the the the the [54:03] leader even though Yahosua said you will deny me three times. And the question is [54:08] what does that mean to us? That means that this is real life right? It's real [54:13] life. What did that situation mean? Peter in his mind at that time thought [54:19] he was already there. He's he told Yahu. The reason why Yahosua told him cuz he [54:24] told him man I love you Yahosua. I ride for you. I forget the exact words right now, but he's like pretty much, I ride [54:30] for you. I love you. You my man. I never let nothing happen to you. Yada yada. And Yahosua came back to me and was [54:37] like, oh, really? Is that the case? Are you sure? Because he said he died for [54:42] him. He said, "Are you sure?" Because uh you'll deny me three [54:49] times. And Peter at that point couldn't imagine it. Right? And that's how a lot [54:55] of us are. we just would not be able to imagine. It's like, no, I wouldn't do that. I can't imagine doing nothing like [55:01] that. You're wrong. Right. However, when it happened, Peter look up like, dang [55:07] it, he was right. Right. He was right. And so, that's all of our lives. A lot [55:12] of us be thinking, "Oh, I got saved in 1993 and this, that, and another." And then we do something and that's Yah [55:20] telling us, you're not where you think you are. Right? But Yah has to expose [55:25] that. That's why he sends the tempters to us. That's why he sends Satan to us to expose to us and to test us and to [55:32] see that we can show ourselves, okay, I truly am righteous. I stood in the face [55:37] of Satan himself and denied him. Right? I truly am righteous. I faced the [55:43] temptation. I used to be a drug addict and I just faced the temptation of drug. I thought that was going to be the [55:48] scariest thing. I thought that was going to be the thing that made me fall, but it didn't. Right? That's when we can [55:54] kind of prove it to ourselves and build our confidence even after the temptations come and we make it through. [56:01] So Peter had to go through that to see I wasn't there yet. Now Yahosua exposed a [56:06] lot of stuff to him and he still make him the the the the uh the um he give [56:12] him the keys of his congregation and make him the leader of the congregation. Right? So it's like we we have been kind [56:19] of conditioned to look at things and nitpick everything. Right? It's like, "Oh, well, you this, that, and the other." That's not how God works. The [56:25] most high God say, "If you repent from all sin, I don't care about it no [56:31] more." Right? That's it. He's just looking for people who are righteous. So yes, Peter denied him three times. But [56:38] Peter is also the one that's been the whole time that we reading the most zealous and the most witted, the most he [56:44] the one when when Yahosua when it was go time and they tried to get Yahosua who pulled out the sword and chopped off [56:50] homeboy ear and he would have had his neck but he missed. You know what I'm saying? Like it would have been his [56:56] whole neck but he missed and chopped off his ear. Y'all was like whoa whoa. Peter is the one like Peter the one that's [57:02] been riding this whole time. When everybody when everybody was walking away, Peter was one like I ain't going [57:07] nowhere. You got the worst of life. When everybody was talking about, yeah, no, some people saying you the [57:13] Christ. No, you the son of the living God. You know what I'm saying? You the Messiah. That's all coming from Peter. [57:21] So Yahosua already know Peter going to make that mistake and he going to make other mistakes. But what Yahosua is [57:27] looking at is this man is going to turn from every ounce of sin for me cuz he [57:34] truly ride. He truly understand. He just got to be exposed to a few things. I [57:39] just got to show him a few things. But I know his heart is going to be the one to turn. And it's the same thing that Yah [57:45] is saying to some of us, right? But now we got to play it out. Like it like the only way to prove [57:53] it to yourself is to do it, right? If you get discouraged, you you know what I'm saying? You doing all that stuff and [57:59] you live in that mess, that means it's not in your heart. Our heart got to say, "Okay, I messed up, but I won't do it [58:05] again." Our heart, our heart got to say, "Okay, I don't understand this book, but I'mma push through [58:11] it." Right? No matter what, we got to find every excuse to work harder and to [58:18] believe harder and to have more faith no matter what happens, right? Because [58:24] that's the heart that's going to be in the end. That's the heart that's going to be redeemed. The people who give up, the [58:31] people who, you know what I'm saying, every time something happened, you know what I'm saying? They fall away. They trying to No, you can't do that. You [58:38] can't do that. All right. That's the parable. Remember he told about the parable. It's the man who built his house on the sand. And the one that dug [58:44] deep and built it on the rock. You know what I'm saying? The one who built it on the rock. Even though the flood came, [58:49] the house stayed intact. And the one who built it on the sand, the flood came and wiped away the whole house. Well, that got to be us. We got to dig deep that [58:57] way. Our foundation is sure. Ain't just because somebody make me sad ain't going to move me off of the book. That's [59:03] crazy. But that's what happens. Somebody You got a lot of the people that go to church every darn Sunday faithfully. But [59:09] as soon as they get out of church, guess what happens? Somebody cut them off. They get to cussing and wanting to fight [59:14] with them and doing all this other stuff. And the reason why is because they didn't dig deep enough. They not [59:21] they they they foundation is not deep enough. Right? We got to make sure that we understand this scripture and tie [59:27] everything that we believe, everything that we are to word. And when we do that, it doesn't move. You can't move [59:35] this word. This word been around longer than anybody you know, right? So there's [59:41] nobody that'll be able to move you off of this word if your lifestyle, if your belief, and if your heart is tied to it. [59:47] And that's what learning is about. You keep putting this stuff in you, you ain't got no choice. Eventually, it's [59:53] just you going to put it in you so much that eventually it comes out, right? But [59:59] we got to look at the long game and we got to look at the future and we got to have faith in all this stuff. So that's what happened with Peter, right? That's [60:05] why Yah yam I'm saying chose. And I ain't got to explain it. Even if even if I'm wrong about everything I just said, [60:12] Yah chose him for whatever reason he chose him. Right? But if you look at the history of Peter, you can see that Peter [60:18] he he appeared to be the most loyal, right? In terms of what was highlighted about Peter, right? So he made him the [60:26] the leader over the congregation. And then now watch what Peter say. [60:33] In those days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said, "The number of the names together were about [60:40] 120 men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which [60:45] the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judah, which was guide which was guide [60:53] to them that took Yahosua. For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry. Now this man purchased [61:00] the field with the reward of iniquity, and falling headlong he burst [61:06] the sunder in the mist, and all the bowels gushed out. And it and it was known unto all the dwellers at [61:12] Jerusalem, in so much as the field is called in their proper tongue, a cl a cladama, that is to say, the field of [61:19] blood. For it is written in the book of the Psalms, let his habitation be desolate desolate. Let no man dwell [61:26] therein. In his in his bishop Rick, let another [61:31] take. Wherefore of these But what that's saying is is is quote I think it it's [61:36] quoting from a couple places in Psalms. I think he's mixing he he put together two different um quotes in Psalms. But [61:44] the part where it says it's it's talking about a bishop, his office of a bishop, [61:50] you know what I'm saying? But if you read that in the scripture, I think it's like Psalm 109 or Psalm 110. Um, it [61:56] says, uh, let his office be given to another. You know what I'm saying? So, in other words, let his let his [62:03] responsibilities, you know what I'm saying? Let the space that he has be given to another. So, what Peter did is [62:09] Peter starts speaking to all the disciples. And what he's looking at, he's looking like, okay, it's only 11 of [62:15] us, but Yahosua chose 12. So what he's like, well, there is a scripture that [62:21] says, "Let his office be given to another." Therefore, remember, he he's [62:27] running the show. Yahosua ain't around. Yahosua left. So now Peter is the one running the show. So his first thing [62:33] that that the book said he did, the books are like, "Listen, let's replace Judas." Yahosua chose 12 and now it's [62:40] only 11 of us. So now Judas, since he was chosen, there is a spot for him. let [62:46] us let us choose somebody else for Judas. Right? So that's what that's what Peter is proposing. Watch what happens. [62:53] Wherefore of these men which have comied with us all the time that the [62:58] Lord Yahosua went in and went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of [63:03] John unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his [63:09] resurrection. And they appointed two, Joseph called Barabus, who was surnamed [63:16] justice and Matias. And they prayed and said, "Thou Lord, which knowest the [63:22] hearts of all men, show whether these two thou has chosen, that he may take part of this ministry in [63:29] apostilhip, from which Judas by transgression failed, that he might go to his own place." And they gave forth [63:36] their lots and the lot fell upon Matias and he was numbered with the 11 apostles. [63:43] Right. So you had Joseph who was uh also called uh what was it? Barnabas. [63:50] Uh go to what was it? [63:56] Uh yeah Barabus. Barabus. Yeah. And then and then you [64:01] have Matias. Right. So, and Matias uh [64:06] different way is Miniah, right? Or Matthew, you know what I'm saying? So, [64:11] you have Madiah and then you have Joseph who was all Badis or whatever his name [64:18] was. You know what I'm saying? And so, these two were standing there and they cast lots, right? So, think of it like [64:25] rolling dice. You know what I'm saying? Where but the dice only got two two numbers on it. You know what I'm saying? [64:30] You got one number or the other number. So you roll it and it got to hit this number or it got to hit that number. And [64:35] if it hit this number, it's Joseph. If it hit this number, it's Mataniah. Right? So you sit there and you roll it. [64:41] Boom. And it land on. They they prayed for like, "Yeah, let the lot fall on the one you want to take over the [64:48] apostilhip." They did it. Boom. It land on Mataniah. Right? So in Peter's mind, [64:53] all right, Madaniah is now in the place of Judah. This is the new apostle. [64:58] Right? Keep going. [65:06] And when the day of when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in [65:12] one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind. And it filled all the house where [65:18] they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as actually let me go back. Right. So the [65:24] first verse it say in the day of Pentecost penta. Penta means like 50 or or five. [65:33] Really? You know what I'm saying? Um, is that right? Yeah. Like the Pentagon or [65:39] Yeah. Like a Pentagon. Five sides. So, what that what it's saying is the [65:45] Pentecost is talking about 50 days, right? That 50 days comes from our feast [65:51] of weeks, right? We gonna have to go over the calendar. I think we'll do a maybe maybe next week we'll do a study [65:57] on the calendar so that all this stuff can tie together. But you have you have [66:03] 50 days in between um the week of unleaven bread and the uh feast of [66:10] weeks. So what happens is during the week of unleaven bread, you know what I'm saying? You have so first you have [66:16] Passover and that's when Yahosua died, right? Yahosua died. He in the ground for three days. He rises up on the feast [66:24] of the first fruit sheath waving, right? That's a day that's in the midst of the Passover is is uh over uh of the [66:31] unleaven bread. Then that's a Sunday. That's always the first day of the week. So then from there, you count seven [66:38] weeks, right? So 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 week. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 weeks. You count seven weeks [66:45] and then that's going to land you on the Sabbath. But then you add one day. So seven * 7, right? 7 7 days versus seven [66:54] weeks. So 7* 7 is going to give you 49, right? Which would land you on the [67:00] Sabbath. So 49 days will put you on the Sabbath. And then you add one additional day to that to land on the day after the [67:07] Sabbath, which would be the first day of the week. And then that is what they're calling Pentecost. Pentecost is in [67:13] Greek, though. What we would have called it is the feast of weeks, right? Feast [67:18] of weeks. It's also called the first fruit. the feast of first fruit. You know what I'm saying? But it's the feast [67:23] of weeks. So this is where they came together, right? So remember Yahosua [67:30] appeared to them for 40 days. Feast of weeks is 50 days from when Yahosua came [67:36] back. When Yahosua resurrected, he appeared to them for 40 days. So now he [67:41] left for 10 days. They still in Jerusalem because guess what? It's [67:46] against our law. like everyone has to or every male has to appear on the feast of [67:52] weeks anyway in Jerusalem. So they ended up usually people might go back home, [67:58] right? And then come back for the feast of weeks. They ended up pretty much staying from the day that Yahosua came [68:05] back, they went back for a little bit, but from the day that Yahosua came back, they pretty much stayed there the whole time. So it's 40 days. They chilled in [68:12] Jerusalem for the for the next 10 days. They was all together for the feast of weeks. And then this is what [68:22] happens. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind. And it filled the house where they were [68:29] sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as a fire. And it sat upon each of them. And they were all [68:35] filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues. And the spirit gave them utterance. As the spirit gave them utterance, right? So now they got [68:43] cloven tongues like so when you think of clothing tongues think of it like like a snake's tongue right so like a snake [68:50] tongue but it looks like fire right so this is what's like fallen on some of [68:55] the people and all of a sudden the people are speaking or go [69:02] ahead and there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews devout men out of every nation under heaven now when this was [69:09] noised abroad the the mult multitude came together and were confounded because that every man heard them speak [69:15] in his own language. Right? So when what it's talking about is there's devout men out of every nation. In other words, [69:23] there are some of our people that wasn't living in Israel. Some of our people was living in Rome, but we still kept the [69:29] law because our land is still there. So it's like, listen, although I'm living in Turkey, you know what I'm saying? I [69:37] mean, I'm still going to go home and I'mma see about, you know what I'm saying, what's going on because I got to keep the law, right? Or although I'm [69:44] living in like Iran or in Babylon or wherever, you know what I'm saying? I'm living in Egypt, I'mma travel back home [69:51] to keep the law because the law says every male has to appear during the feast of weeks. So, I point that out for [69:57] a reason because imagine if someone sat out and said, "You know what, man? The [70:03] law is done away with. Yahosua just died. The law is done away with. They would have missed this [70:12] prophecy, right? They would have missed this experience like some people did, [70:17] right? But they wouldn't even been in town to hear about it. They would have completely missed it. And that's the [70:23] importance, right? All these things are being fulfilled, right? Based off of the [70:29] prophecy of the law. These things are based off of the principle of the law. That's where these fulfillments are [70:35] coming from. So our mind has to be why wouldn't we keep the law? Why wouldn't [70:41] we uphold the practices of the law? Why wouldn't we commemorate and memorialize what the mo what the law uh told us to [70:48] do? Because one day it's going to make us more familiar with what Yah is doing in the [70:53] spirit. Right? Keep going. Watch this. [71:02] And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, "Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? And how [71:09] here we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born. Parththeians in the Mes and Elummites and the dwellers [71:16] of Mesopotamia and in Judah in Capidosia and Pontius in Asia, Pergia and Panilia [71:22] in Egypt and all parts of Libya about Sirene and the strangers of Rome, Jews and Proelites, [71:29] Cits and Arabians. We do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of [71:34] God. So now he's that. So all these people are standing around, right? All these [71:42] people got to witness something crazy. They're looking at some of the disciples [71:47] got these the vision of these tongues on them that look like fire, right? And [71:53] then when they hear them speak, I'm from let's say I'm from uh I'm from Egypt, [72:00] right? And in Egypt they speak the language of Kit, right, at that time, [72:06] right? So then I I'm I know I can speak two language. I can speak in Hebrew and [72:11] I can speak the language of Kamet, right? And then let's say brother T brother T is coming from I don't know [72:19] let's say he coming from from Saudi Arabia, right? Which at that time would have been Sheba, right? So he's coming [72:26] from Sheba. And in Sheba, let's say they speak whatever version of Arabic it was [72:32] or whatever, right? Yeah, the people could see the tongues. [72:38] It was a vision, right? So then, so then and then let's say, let's say another [72:44] brother and another sister, she coming from I don't know what else is near, you [72:50] know what I'm saying? That's close by. You know what I'm saying? They coming from uh from the other side of the Jordan, you know what I'm saying? Like [72:56] from Moab and all that, right? So these people are coming. Some people coming from from Syria, some people coming from [73:03] Turkey, there's some people coming from Azar Bazan, all these different places, right? They're coming and they're going [73:10] to all these places. I mean, they they going these places, but they all speak Hebrew and at the same time they all [73:16] speak their other language, right? So then they sitting there, they see this [73:22] vision of the fire in the tongues, right? They see the strong wind coming [73:27] in. So you see something crazy happening and then all of a sudden you see all of [73:33] these disciples which you know these are poor people from [73:38] Galilee right remember Galilee is up north that's where all the brokies are [73:43] people they don't really know no scripture like that they just kind of lowass people right you know these [73:49] people who are speaking are from Galilee but you hear them in your language of [73:55] commit or you hear them in your language of of um of uh Sheba or your language of [74:03] of Turkey or your language of Syria, right? Whatever language that of the [74:08] nation that you came from, you hear them in that language. And then you looking around [74:15] and you know all these other people speak a different language and you looking like, "Oh, y'all hear them too?" And y'all understand that that's the [74:22] language. Wait a minute. Everybody hearing them in their own language. And so that's the part that's crazy for [74:27] everybody looking around like, "Wait a minute. These boys, these boys are from Galilee. I know they don't know how to [74:33] speak no Kimmit. They can't speak no darn Sheba. These boys ain't been out of [74:38] G. Poor butts. They ain't been out of Israel." Right? And so it's it's crazy [74:44] to them and they can't make sense of it. So watch this. And they were all amazed and were [74:50] in doubt, saying one to another, "What does this mean?" Others mocking said these men are full of new wine. But [74:56] Peter, these boys is look others start mocking talking about, "Oh, these boys is [75:01] drunk." Right? These boys is full of new wine. So watch this. But Peter standing [75:08] up with the 11 lift up his voice and said unto them, "Ye men of Judah and all ye that dwell in Jerusalem, be this [75:14] known unto you and hearken to my words. For these are not drunken as ye suppose, [75:19] seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. And it shall come [75:25] to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall [75:31] prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And on my servants, and on my [75:37] handmaidaidens, I will pour out in those days my spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders in heaven above, [75:44] and signs in earth beneath, blood and fire, and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon [75:50] into blood before that great and notable day of Yahweh come. Right? So what he's [75:55] telling them is, hey guys, this is Yah pouring out his spirit on the children [76:02] like Joel prophesied and you saw what happened next. The blood of the I mean the moon [76:08] is supposed to turn to blood and it's the great and notable day is supposed to come after that. So in other words, he [76:14] giving them a signal like the end is near. This is the prophecy that's [76:19] telling you the end is near. Right? And you have to understand that's all of [76:24] their mindset because Yahosua just told them, "Look, wait for me." Right? Remember they asked, "Is it time?" They [76:31] think they think it's about to go down right now. Yahu like, "Look, it ain't for you to know the time, but just wait [76:37] here. I'mma send you a gift." So now they looking like, "Oh, this the gift." And Peter is sitting there like, [76:43] "Uh-huh. This is what Joelle was talking about, right?" and he poured out the prophecy, right? So that the children [76:50] could speak or prophesy. And that's what's happening right now. So the people are speaking. Everybody hears [76:56] them in their own language. They looking like this is crazy. They can't make sense of it. They looking like they [77:01] drunk. When he said that, Peter had to stand up be like, "No, no, no. You see my brothers that's that's that's [77:07] speaking right now, they not drunk." You know what I'm saying? He said it's only about the third hour. So at third hour [77:13] of the day, that would be like 9:00 for us, right? So he like, "Man, it's only about 9:00." And in Israel, we don't get [77:20] drunk. And our our ancestors, we wasn't getting drunk drunk at no. Now day, you know what I'm saying? Now day, that [77:26] don't mean nothing to nobody. You tell somebody, man, I ain't drunk. You know what I'm saying? It's only 9:00. They look, so what? You know what I'm saying? [77:31] Everybody getting drunk. No, no matter what the time of day is now. But back then, that was unheard of to be drunk at [77:37] 9:00 in the morning. That's crazy. Excuse me. That's crazy, right? So, he [77:43] looking like, man, it's only 9:00. They ain't drunk. This is the prophecy. And then he quoted the prophecy to him. [77:48] Watch this. Keep going. And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved. Ye [77:54] men of Israel, hear these words. Yahosua of Nazareth, a man approved of God among [77:59] you by miracles and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know. In [78:06] being delivered by the determined counsel and fornowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified [78:13] and slain, whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that he [78:20] should beholden of it. For David speaks concerning him, I forsaw the Lord always [78:25] before my face, for he is on my right hand that I should not be moved. Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my [78:30] tongue was glad. Moreover, also my flesh shall rest in hope. Right? So, you see how he's quoting a lot of scripture [78:37] because what he's trying to do is he's trying to prove to them that Yahosua who they put to death. Remember these same [78:44] people that that appear for the feast of weeks, it would have been our law that they would have had to appear for the [78:50] unleaven bread. So, these same people that are here from out of town have were here from out of town when Yahosua was [78:56] put to death, too. Right? It's the same people. So he's trying to prove to them [79:01] like, "Hey, this guy that y'all y'all consented to put to death that y'all was all yelling like, "Yeah, put him to [79:07] death. Crucify him." Because the chief priests were doing it. Let me prove to y'all that he was the one. So he now [79:13] he's quoting scripture. Remember when Yahosua showed them all the scripture that pertained to Yahosua? He's now [79:19] taking some of that same information and putting it back and showing them like he trying to teach them according to that [79:24] scripture like this is who he was. I want y'all to see the transformation [79:30] because Peter wouldn't have been able to do that before when Yahosua was walking around before he died. He wouldn't have [79:35] been able to to work the scripture like this. But this is in two chapters. Peter [79:40] quoted the scripture in three different places to prove something, right? Cuz [79:45] he's a bad boy with the scripture now. Yahosua over these 40 days been teaching them. So now now he's a bad boy with the [79:53] scripture. He looking like, "Nah, man. You know, uh, Peter in the Psalms, I mean, not Peter, uh, uh, the Psalms, [80:00] Psalms said, you know what I'm saying? Let another man take his office. So, let's cast lots." Then he pop back up like, "No, no, no, brother. This is what [80:06] this is what Joel prophesied." Remember what Joel said, he'll pour out his spirit and the children to prophesy. This is what Joel talking about. Then he [80:13] come back here and he's telling you, "Oh, yeah. You remember what David said, right?" Right? So, he's quoting [80:19] scripture to kind of put everything in context for everybody who understands [80:24] and and and believes the scripture. Right? Watch this. Keep going. Because thou will not leave my soul in hell, [80:30] neither will thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life. Thou should make [80:37] me full of joy with thy countenance. Men and brethren, let me. Right? So, now he's finished quoting. So, he just [80:43] quoted that from the psalm and now he's now he stopped himself. He said, "Okay." So, imagine imagine him he ain't got I [80:49] don't think he got a book, but imagine him quoting that. He probably doing off the top, right? Imagine him quoting [80:54] that. Then after he quote it, he he look he walk up men and brethren. You know what I'm saying? And you got to imagine [81:00] like Peter with all confidence, right? Like cuz you know how zealous he is. You know he is with the business anyway. And [81:06] now he running the show. So now he's like, "Men and brethren, let me tell y'all something." No, they ain't drunk. [81:13] This is what it is. Men and brethren, watch what he say. Let me freely speak unto you of of the patriarch David that [81:20] he is both dead and buried and his supplicer is with us until this day. So now he teaching them something, right? [81:27] Remember he quoted something that David wrote in the Psalms, right? And what [81:32] David was saying is, "Oh, thank you Yah, cuz you won't allow my body to see [81:38] corruption." Right? Now, Yahosua probably taught Peter like, "Oh, when [81:43] David said that, you thought that was about David? No, that was about me." Right? So, Yahosua probably taught him [81:49] that that was about him. So, now Peter is about to teach the rest of the people. So, he he read it off where [81:55] where David talking about, "Yeah, you won't suffer my body to see corruption." Then he stand up and say, "Men and [82:01] brethren, you know what I'm saying? Watch this. Because thou will not leave my [82:07] soul in hell, neither will thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Thou has made known to me the ways of life. [82:13] Thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. Men and brethren, let me [82:19] freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his seeler is with us until this [82:25] day. Therefore, being a prophet and knowing that God has sworn with an oath to him that the fruit of his loins [82:32] according to the flesh, he would raise up the Messiah to sit on his throne. He [82:37] seeing this before spake of the resurrection of the Messiah, that his soul would not be left in hell, neither [82:43] his flesh did see corruption. This Yahosua has God raised up. Wherefore we [82:48] all are witnesses. Therefore, being by the right hand of God, exalted, and having received of the Father of the [82:55] promise, the Holy Spirit, he has shed forth this which ye now see and hear. [83:01] For David is not ascended into the heavens, but he saith himself, Yahweh [83:07] said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand until I make thy foes thy foottool. [83:13] Therefore, so now he's quoting scripture again, right? But let me let me break down what he's explaining, right? So [83:19] first he reads from David where David says you won't suffer me to see corruption right you won't suffer since [83:26] sister Pam said did he go to hell yeah so like he so I so this is my fault [83:33] because I shouldn't be doing I should be clarifying this so when I use hell I'm usually talking about the hell fire [83:40] right I'm talking about the fire the eternal fire so I say yeah you going to go to hell this that and the other we [83:45] don't want to go to hell I'm I'm usually what I'm really trying to say is the eternal fire, the eternal judgment that [83:52] happens at the end that hasn't happened yet. Right? When when in the King James [83:57] version, it translates the grave or the pit or shol. You might be more familiar [84:03] with shol. It translate shol as hell, right? Or hades right here in the Greek [84:11] is translated from Hades. So now, what is hell and hades and shol and all that? [84:17] All that is the same thing. Before judgment, right? Hell or Hades or shol [84:24] or the pit or the grave. All those mean the same thing. It's talking about being [84:29] underground, right? So what if we if we look at what David was saying, David was [84:34] saying, you won't suffer me to be be left underground, right? Like I'll be [84:41] there temporarily is pretty much what he's saying, right? You won't suffer me to be left underground, right? And then [84:48] you won't suffer me to see corruption. So now what Peter made the point of, he [84:53] said, "Let men and brother, let me speak to you freely." The point he was making was David is underground. You know what [85:00] I'm saying? David did see corruption. You know what I'm saying? His body, we can go to where his grave at. His body [85:06] is still there. So he's saying clearly this wasn't about David. But he said [85:13] David being a prophet, he was shown that the fruit of [85:19] his body that was promised to him, remember when when when uh when he asked Solomon, it was promised to him that the [85:26] you know what I'm saying? Like no, you not going to make me y'all told him you're not going to make me a temple. I'm going to make you a house. You know [85:32] what I'm saying? He said your house, your son is going to be my son. You know what I'm saying? So all those are the [85:38] things that was promised. So he's saying David knew that and what David was doing was prophesying about the fruit that [85:45] would come from his loins. In other words, the child, his descendant talking about Yahushua. So Peter is making the the [85:53] case that although this looks like it's talking about David and it looked like David is talking about himself, he's [85:58] really talking about Yahushua. And so he's saying, "Men and brother, let me speak to you openly." Then he start [86:05] quoting some more stuff. Watch this. Therefore, let all the house of Israel [86:11] know assuredly that God hath made that same Yosua whom you have crucified both Lord [86:17] and Messiah. Right? So now he said, listen, that Yahosua, go back one verse [86:23] because I want to go back one verse. For David has not ascended unto the heavens, but he said himself, Yahweh [86:30] said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand until I make thy foes thy foottool. [86:36] Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made that same Yosua whom you have crucified, both [86:42] Lord and Messiah. Right? So, he said, "The same guy that y'all crucified, he's [86:48] he's pointing directly like he's flatfooted just letting them know like he ain't tiptoeing around nobody. He's [86:54] just letting standing right there letting them know, no, no, no. These boys, they not drunk. But the same [87:00] Yahosua that y'all crucified, that's the guy that's sitting at the right hand of the father." What y'all thought? David. [87:06] When David said, "Let my," you know what I'm saying? "Let my Lord sit at my right hand." Do you thought that was talking [87:11] about David? He He's like, "David is in the ground right now." He didn't go to heaven. He ain't sitting in nobody right [87:17] hand. I'm telling you who it was, the guy that y'all just crucified. He's the [87:23] one who went to heaven. He's the one sitting at the right hand. He's the Messiah. Right? And then he put it right [87:29] on their lap. He said, "The one that y'all crucified." Look at them all. I like to imagine Peter just looking them [87:35] in the eye. The one that y'all crucified, right? And watch what happened. [87:41] Now when they heard this, they were pricricked at their heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, [87:46] "Men and brethren, what shall we do?" Right? So what do you think made them [87:52] open to receive that message? The scripture proven in the scripture. [87:59] You think that same conversation if he just would have laid out the scriptures without the miracle, you think it would have went the same way? No, not at all. [88:06] We going to see. We going to see almost a similar situation. We going to see one with a miracle and one without a [88:12] miracle. And we going to see the difference in the two, right? So this miracle happened and it opened them up. [88:20] The first thing they had they saw the see they saw something they ain't never seen before. All these Galileans. And [88:26] after that, Peter come out and he talked to him and then he preached the word to him, right? He break it down. He line up [88:34] the scripture. Listen, this is how word is preached, right? When you see Peter, [88:40] he not spending an hour just talking, right? He's quoting scripture. He going [88:46] from this one and he connecting all these different scripture. That's how it's that's line upon [88:52] line, right? This is this is what we're going to see. Like so far in the book, [88:58] we don't get examples of people teaching the word, right? What we're about to see [89:03] all through Acts and what we're about to see all through the New Testament all together is you're going to see them [89:10] teaching the word and they do a bunch of quoting different parts of scripture, parts that you never even thought about [89:16] in the way that you thinking about them or the way they they teaching them and they connect the dots and they bring it [89:21] all together because that's line upon line, precept upon precept. Here a [89:27] little, there a little. Right? But this is what it looks like to be a teacher of the most high God. What Peter is doing, [89:34] right? Keep going. Watch this. Then Peter said unto them, "Repent and [89:40] be baptized every one of you in the name of Yahosua the Messiah for the remission of sins." So when when he laid it on [89:45] their chest, and he is looking like y'all the one, the book say they were what to their heart. Pricked in their [89:51] heart. They were pricricked to their heart. In other words, it cut them in the heart. Right? That's a good thing. [89:58] But I want y'all to like I want y'all to know there's always two ways to deal [90:04] with the exact same situation. Right? So right here they were pricricked to their [90:09] heart and then their response to that being pricricked or their response to being pricricked was oh what should we [90:16] do? Right? They humbled themselves and they they looked for instruction from Peter. What should we do? Then Peter [90:22] replied back read it again. Then Peter said unto them,"Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the [90:28] name of Yahosua, the Messiah, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the [90:34] promise is unto you, and unto your children, and to all that are far off, even as many as Yahweh our God shall [90:40] call." And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, "Save yourselves from the un from this unre [90:48] generation." Right? So, what it's saying is that that part that we just read is [90:53] saying that he didn't just say that. He said a lot more. Right? So, this is that was like a sample of what he said, but [91:00] he said a lot more. He was breaking down the scripture much like how we be talking, but he's doing it with like [91:06] absolute precision because he learned at the feet of the Messiah. You know what I'm saying? Me and Brother T, we just [91:12] learned through the scripture trying to put it together. Most high God had to reveal to us over time little things and [91:17] he's still revealing to us. Like, imagine learning at the feet of the Messiah before he died. And after he [91:25] died and a man open up all the scripture to you, oh man, that boy Peter a bad boy. You better not mess with him. That [91:31] boy Peter a bad boy opening up that book to the people like man. No, let me tell you. No, that can't be the cape because [91:37] this that and that. Oh, you thought David? What? You thought that was David? How that's David? If David, we can go to you want to go to the grave right now? [91:44] That can't be David. No, let me tell you. Look at this scripture. It's saying this. So, he laying it out for them. And [91:49] so, they was open because they saw the miracle. Now the the the the word was [91:54] able to penetrate them. It pricricked them in the heart. They humbled themselves said, "What should we do?" And Peter said, "It's all right. You're [92:02] going to be baptized in the name of Yahosua and you'll receive the gift of the Holy [92:07] Spirit." Right? So now watch this. Then they that gladly received his [92:13] word were baptized in the same day. How many? In the same day there were added [92:18] unto them about 3,000 souls. Right? So it went from 120 to now [92:27] 3,120, right? 3,000 people was added to him in that one day. Right? Keep going. [92:34] And they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship in the what? The apostles doctrine. So this is [92:42] what saves a man. I don't care what none of these [92:48] people is talking about. What saves a man is the apostles doctrine. You don't [92:53] hear about Yahosua. You don't hear about the gospel. You don't hear about nothing unless it come from the apostles because [92:59] those are the ones that Yahosua showed himself to and specifically chose to [93:04] carry his word forward. You going to have people that tell you, "Oh no, you know what I'm [93:09] saying? Like, no, man. The New Testament ain't this." And you know what I'm saying? That's just they words. They what? They not actually Yahua. You don't [93:17] know anything about Yahushua unless it came from them. It got to be the [93:22] apostles do doctrine. Otherwise, you just running your darn mouth. You don't know what you darn talking [93:27] about, right? So, keep going. That's the end of it. [93:33] And in f and in breaking bread and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul. [93:39] And many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. And all that believed were together and had all things common and [93:45] sold their possessions and their goods and parted them to all men as every man had need. And they continuing continuing [93:53] daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house did eat their meat with gladness and [93:59] singleness of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And Yahweh and Yahweh added to the church [94:05] daily such as should be saved. The congregation daily such as should be saved. All right. So now the all the [94:13] people is together. Remember it's energized. Everybody willing to give everything up because they see all this. [94:20] It's it's nothing like what we doing today and what we talk about today. Like we we barely energized today. You know [94:25] what I'm saying? I wake up in the morning. I know I'm supposed to be reading. I'm looking like uh you know what I'm saying? Let me uh let me clock [94:31] in. Let me go to work. Let me do this. Right. We not energized. Damn. Imagine in your mind it's all like nothing else [94:38] matters. It's all about to be over tomorrow. He about to come back and set the whole thing together. Like the [94:45] urgency is there with them, right? They moving and they shaking. They see miracles. It's everything for them, [94:52] right? This is their whole life. So they got everything in common. They sold all their possessions, sold their houses, [94:58] and all of them is just hanging out together as one big community, right? They sharing everything. They gave [95:03] everything to Peter. Here, Peter, you have all my money, have all my possessions. just make sure everybody [95:09] eating. So then Peter and the disciples uh and the apostles, they set it up to [95:14] make sure that everybody is fed every day, make sure everybody got food, but everybody's sharing everything. You know [95:20] what I'm saying? Like nobody got their own possessions. That's where the you know communism, that's where communism [95:25] came from, right? This is this is the idea communist just everybody is one community and sharing everybody. Now, it [95:33] just so happens that all these communist leaders, they these communist dictators are corrupt. You know what I'm saying? [95:38] So, they be stealing everybody's stuff. But that's not what was happening with Peter, right? With Peter and James and [95:44] John and those that was running the congregation, they wasn't stealing nothing. They was just making sure everybody was taken care of and that [95:50] they could share everything and everybody had everything in common. That's what it's talking about when it say everybody had everything in common. [95:57] Let me read this question. If they baptized in his name now, what was it before he ascended? In Yah's name. Yeah. [96:05] Yeah. We actually we actually uh that's a good question. We actually don't have any specifics around what name was [96:12] baptized or it could be it's possible it wasn't baptized in any name, right? It it's possible it's just a person just [96:19] said a prayer and then you got baptized, right? So, I don't know. Um, I don't [96:25] know specifically cuz I don't have no I don't have no book to tell me how they got baptized or anything before. But all [96:31] I know is after Yahosua in uh Matthew chapter 28, he commanded them. He said, [96:37] "Go out and baptize everybody in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit." And um that uh the book [96:46] just said that uh they was coming to him confessing their sins and he was just baptizing them. So it was more so about [96:51] repentance. It didn't really. Yeah. So, it may not be a name. It may not have been any name that they was baptized. It [96:58] was just probably the the act of being baptized, not respective to any name. So, the name we know for sure came from [97:04] Yahosua where he said baptized in the name of the father, the son, and spirit. And we know the name of the father, son, [97:10] and spirit is Yahosua. So, now they baptize in the name of Yahosua. Uh, so [97:15] were they technically the first cult? Well, yeah. Whoever whoever defines Coke [97:22] can can leave it up to them. That's funny. But um but yeah, I wouldn't say [97:28] the first because you had other groups already like technically the Pharisees is a cult. The or could be described as [97:36] a cult. The Sajes could be described as a cult. But um but yeah, they were [97:41] definitely in there. You know what I'm saying? And that's definitely how people saw them. Definitely people we and we [97:46] going to read like in the next chapter of Acts. Definitely people saw them as a cult, right? They saw them as a as a [97:52] faction of people that was fringe that was on the [97:59] edge. Uh the brother is is that JL JT? Um I don't even know if it's a brother, [98:05] but uh JL or JT, I can't tell what if it's a JL or JT, but uh yeah, we [98:11] definitely got to do water baptism. Go get in some water. Do whatever you got to do. You in Vegas, I'll do it for you. [98:18] But I don't care if you go to a Christian pastor and go get baptized. I prefer that you go to a Hebrew. But if [98:23] you ain't got nothing left, you believe the word and go get in some water. Let somebody dunk you under the water. [98:29] Right? I rather I rather you I rather you I rather you have a chance to speak to the most high God and say, "Look, all [98:36] I had was this Christian pastor to do it, but yeah, I didn't have no other choice. I let him do it because I didn't [98:42] want to wait. I rather that be your argument than no, I didn't think I didn't want to let him do it. this that [98:47] another and the most like God look at you like when did I tell you anything about you know what I mean all I told you is go get in some water and you [98:54] didn't do it right so I just want you like I want you to have a fighting chance you can get baptized many time we ain't got nothing in this book that say [99:00] you only can get baptized once I prefer you go get baptized in whatever way you can now and then if you make it up to [99:07] Vegas go ahead and get you baptized again I'll baptize you right and we'll do it anybody who want to get baptized [99:13] we can get it done right yeah don't hesitate don't wait on it don't play around. If you ready and you know you [99:18] committed to this thing, go ahead and get your butt baptized. It is a requirement. It's absolutely a [99:23] requirement. Everything that Yahua commanded is a requirement. If you don't get baptized, you will be going to the [99:30] eternal fire. I'm I got to say that from now on. You will be going to the eternal fire. You'll be going to the fire that [99:36] lasts forever. Right. Uh what other questions we [99:42] got? Let me see. Y'all know my brain. Yeah. No offices are sharing it [99:47] crazy. Any other questions? Next week we going to jump into to uh I mean we might do the [99:55] calendar because I want y'all to understand the significance of this happening on the Feast of [100:02] Weeks, right? Like like these third these these these 3,000 people don't get [100:10] that opportunity if they wasn't keeping the law. If they didn't if they if they wasn't memorializing and and doing what our law [100:18] says. Let's see. Water baptism is not is is that of John. Messiah didn't come [100:24] baptizing with water. All right, man. Whatever you say. If you if you understand already, don't [100:30] ask no questions. You know what I'm saying? If you understand, listen, if you if you know if you know that you got [100:36] a clear understanding of what this book say, then go for it. You know what I'm saying? You look put your heart into [100:41] what you saying. But I'll let you know what I'm teaching you is the truth. But if you if you don't if you not looking for that, if you not if you don't [100:47] believe that what I'm teaching you is the truth or if you believe you got something to say, hit me up. We can talk about it. We can figure it out. But I'm [100:53] not I'm not I'm not trying to debate nobody right now. Um this is uh this is Yeah. So this this [101:01] this is uh I think important for us to understand like the importance of the [101:07] appointed times talking about Passover, unleavened bread, the first fruit sheath waving, the uh feast of weeks, right? [101:14] And then the ones in the latter part of the year which is the day of atonement, the day of trumpets and the end [101:20] gathering, right? All these days kind of have something special about them, have [101:25] something very significant about them, right? We start off with a week-l long se celebration and then we end off with [101:31] a week-l long celebration, right? So, it happens on both sides. So, I won't I want to go over all that with you. But [101:38] to do that, I think we have to go through the calendar. So, next week, maybe y'all willing, we'll break down [101:45] the whole calendar, which means we got to talk about Jubilees and Enoch. I try to avoid doing it. But um but I think it [101:52] is important that that people kind of understand how we how we reckon the calendar and and what's scriptural and [101:57] what's not scriptural and then we can kind of go from there. Um but uh yeah, [102:04] any other questions? Let me see. What is the truth according to the Bible? You tell it if you know it. [102:15] Um all right. Well, let's pray out. I don't see no more relevant questions. Let's pray [102:22] out. And brother, brother or sister, whoever he is, feel free call the number or text the number. Either way on the [102:30] screen, we can talk about it. I'll give you a little bit. I'll give you a couple. I'll give you a couple. I just, you know what I'm saying? I don't know [102:36] if you really asking questions or if you trying to fight, but you know what I'm saying? Go ahead and call, text the number on the screen. We can do it for a [102:42] little bit and then, you know what I'm saying? If you know what you're talking about, then go on about your business, ma'am.