The Foundations of the Prison Were Shaken: And Immediately All the Doors Were Opened

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[00:00] and we're live you got say you say and we're live [00:07] say yeah that's how you do it that's how you do it sometimes you gotta let them know we [00:13] li sometime people don't really know that we [00:18] lie Sabbath peace it's another opportunity for us to [00:23] come together and hear and learn of the word of truth that is given to us by the most high God all honor goes to the [00:29] father through the son whose name is yahushua in him lies the only hope for salvation we know that it is obtained by [00:36] grace through faith not of Works lest anyone should boast and give him freely as a gift to all who obey him we [00:43] understand that if you do not obey him it is made manifest or made obvious that you do not believe in this state you [00:50] should expect no good thing from the most high however anything that you do give whether it be a gift of tongues a [00:56] gift of Prophecy or any Supernatural experience that you may have it can and it will be used against you in the day [01:02] of judgment with that said Peace to the saints that are in the room to the saints that couldn't make it to the Saints watching in on the camera to the [01:08] Saints in the chat to the Saints scattered around the world that we don't know about but no peace to the Wicked [01:13] the only thing we say to them is repent that they might [01:19] live so last week we talked a little bit about the book of uh the book of uh [01:26] Galatians right and we talked about how Paul was framing an argument in his letter remember what we reading our [01:33] epistle letters right so he was framing an argument in his letters against the [01:38] group that they call the circumcision right the the circumcision group and [01:44] that circumcision group represented Hebrews that kept the law right then you [01:50] had the group that's called the uncircumcision that's usually talking about Gentiles that do not keep the law [01:58] so Paul was making the case that although he also is a Hebrew the law is [02:05] not what justifies right so all the Gentiles that are uncircumcised that were feeling [02:11] compelled to be circumcised in order to be saved he is trying to tell them that wasn't necessary and not only that if [02:18] you feel it was necessary then you fallen for gra fallen from Grace so [02:24] that's what we read last week he kind of laid it on very very thick in uh Galatians to try to make that point so [02:31] now we going to pick up we going to go back to acts so if y'all remember we left off in Acts chapter 15 right the [02:39] big argument it was that big argument between um that big argument between uh [02:46] the the circumcision group right and the Pharisees against Paul and the rest of [02:54] the Apostles right so that was Acts chapter 15 let's pick up Acts chapter 16 [03:01] and let's keep going through acts until we get to it right this is Acts chapter 16 verse1 Acts chapter 16 verse [03:11] one let's see what the book [03:17] say on you said 16 yeah Acts chapter 16 verse one [03:40] then came he to Derby in lisra and behold a certain disciple was there named timotheus the son of a certain [03:46] woman which was a jewess and believed but his father was a Greek which was well reported of by the Brethren that [03:53] where at lisra and Iconium him would Paul have go forth with him and took and [03:59] circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters for they knew all that his father was a Greek now [04:05] we just got done reading about how Paul was saying you don't need to be circumcised right but now he has a boy [04:12] with him and this boy his dad is a gentile so if his dad is a gentile what [04:19] does that make him Gentile how do we know that because the lineage goes through [04:25] the father right this is Numbers chapter 26 [04:31] Numbers chapter 26 give me verse [04:43] 57 he said 26 yeah Numbers chapter 26 verse 5 uh [04:50] what I say 50 give me verse 52 Numbers chapter 26 verse 52 [05:02] we might have to cut this thing short tonight my throat is killing me boy PE [05:10] Louise and the Lord spake unto Moses saying unto these the land shall be [05:15] divided for an inheritance according to the number of names too many Thou shalt give the more [05:22] inheritance and to few Thou shalt give the less inheritance to everyone shall his inheritance be given according to [05:28] those that were numbered of him notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot according to the names of [05:33] the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit according to the names of what the tribes of their fathers the tribes [05:38] of their mothers their fathers no according to the names of the tribes of [05:44] their fathers that's their inheritance keep going watch [05:55] this according to the lot shall The Possession thereof be divided between many and few and these are they that [06:02] were numbered of the Levites after their families of gersam the family of the gershonites of kohath the family of the [06:08] kohathites and morari the family of the marites these are the families of the Levites the family of the lib [06:15] nites the family of the these are the family of who the Levites the Levites [06:21] levite I mean Levi was a father right so they inherited [06:28] everything through their father father they got their identity they're the family of the Levites that came from [06:34] Levi who was a man who had children it wasn't connected to Levi's wife it [06:40] wasn't connected to their mom right it was connected to the father so that's [06:46] how our inheritance work if something is passed down you got these Jewish people now that tried to adopt our culture and [06:54] somewhere along the way they listen to the wrong one of us surely they learned it from some hypocrite of people right [07:01] but they listen to the wrong hypocrite of our people who taught them that you're Jewish if your mother is Jewish [07:08] right you can't get none of that from our scripture you can never find nothing in our scripture that would even explain [07:13] something like that but somewhere along the way that's what they picked up and that's what they walked with right but [07:20] in reality our scripture says everything The Inheritance the identity the family everything is passed down by the father [07:27] so going back to acts right Acts chapter 16 in Acts chapter 16 you had a boy [07:35] whose father was a gentile so the way how would a Hebrew look at [07:42] him we gonna look at him like oh your daddyy a gentile you a gentile because if your daddy was Levi then we would [07:49] have called you a levite a Israelite if your daddy was Israel we would have called you a [07:56] Israelite right but since your daddy is a gentile I can't connect you to being [08:01] an Israelite therefore that's how I see you this is important to understand because Paul circumcised this [08:08] kid right and we just got done reading in Galatians how he was saying look [08:14] being circumcised won't save you and being circumcised is nothing but nevertheless Paul decided to [08:21] circumcise this Gentile kid and remember Paul's letter was written to Gentiles [08:26] this is why people get confused about Paul because people want to make things very simple for themselves and so what [08:33] they'll do and they'll say it's this extreme or that extreme but that's not how the book works that's not how Paul [08:40] teaches it what Paul teaches is very nuanced right and we gonna try to [08:45] understand some of that Nuance right now this is uh Acts chapter 16 where we leave off verse three this Acts chapter [08:56] 16:3 him would Paul have to go forth with him and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those [09:02] quarters for they all knew that his father was a Greek right so since all [09:07] the all the Jews all the Hebrews that was in that quarter they knew that his pops was a Greek they looking at it like [09:14] okay well you know I mean he agreed he better be super circumcised if he come around here right he telling them come [09:21] on down let's go to Jerusalem however you got to be circumcised or [09:27] they not going to let you in the land like that right start back at verse one watch this [09:33] then came he to Derby in lisra and behold a certain disciple was there named timotheus the son of a certain [09:39] woman which was a jewess and believed but his father was a Greek which was well reported of by the Brethren that [09:45] were at lisra and Iconium him would Paul have to go forth with him and took and [09:51] circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters for they knew all that his father was a Greek and [09:56] where do you think Paul said he he going to take to go with him where do you think Paul was headed Jerusalem let's [10:04] see keep going as they went through the cities they delivered them the decrees [10:09] for to keep that were ordained of the Apostles and Elders which were at Jerusalem and so were the congregation [10:17] congregations established in the faith and increased in number daily now when they had gone throughout peria in the [10:24] region of galatia and were forbidden of the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia after they were come to M Mia they [10:33] assayed to go into Bethania but the spirit suffered them not and they passed [10:39] by Messiah Messi Messiah came down to troas and a vision appeared to Paul in [10:45] the night there stood a man in Macedonia and prayed him saying come over into [10:51] Macedonia and help us and after he had seen the vision immediately he endeavored to go into Macedonia [10:57] assuredly Gathering that the master had called us for to preach the gospel unto them therefore loosing from troas we [11:06] came with a straight course to S SAR Samaria and the next day to neopolis and [11:14] from then to Philipi which is the chief city of the part of Macedonia and pick [11:19] that up and were in the in that City abiding certain days on the Sabbath we went out of the city by a Riverside [11:26] where the prayer was what to be made and sat down and spake un the woman which was stored there and a certain woman [11:33] named what verse is this uh we're on 14 now 14 yeah keep going and a certain [11:40] woman named Lydia a seller of purple of the city of thyra which worshiped God heard us whose heart the master opened [11:48] that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul and when she was so [11:53] now she came and she came and served Paul right she attended to Paul and served him right keep going and when she [12:00] was baptized in her her and her household she besought us saying if ye [12:06] have judged me to be faithful of the master come into my house and abide there and she constrained us and it came [12:13] to pass as we went to prayer a certain damsel possessed with the spirit of divination met us which brought her [12:18] Masters much gained by Soo saying the same followed Paul and us and cried saying these men are the Servants of the [12:24] most high God which show unto us the way of Salvation and this did many days but [12:30] Paul being grieved turned and said to the spirit I command thee in the name of yahua the Messiah to come out of her [12:37] right so now look you got you got to get the picture he meet a woman and he [12:42] baptized this lady right she's serving him right she making sure that everything all his needs is taken care [12:47] of right oh no no you got you need some food don't worry I'll cook something up for you right she don't know this man [12:53] she just know that he preached the word so she making sure he's taken care of right her and her whole household ended [12:59] up being baptized now Paul is walking around this city and then in this city [13:05] you got this other woman and the other woman is following them and what is she saying read it [13:13] again and the same follow Paul and US crying saying these men are the Servants of the most high God which show unto us [13:19] the way of Salvation right she's walking around and she just keep repeating these men are the Servants of the most high [13:26] God and they show us the way to Salvation is there anything wrong with [13:32] what she said is there anything evil about what she [13:37] said all right now watch how Paul respond and this she did many days but [13:43] Paul being grieved turned and said to the spirit I command thee in the name of yahua the Messiah to come out of her and [13:49] he came out that same hour and when her master saw that the hope of their gains were gone they caught they caught Paul [13:56] and Silas and Drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers and brought them to the magistrate saying these men [14:01] being Jews do exceedingly trouble our city and teach Customs which are not lawful for us to receive neither to [14:07] observe being Romans right so now he cast the spirit that was out of her [14:13] remember this Spirit was in her but it caused her to do all this divination [14:19] that they was making money off of you ever seen somebody do magic tricks like all you know what I'm saying you know what I'm saying tell me which hand the [14:25] ball is in so he put it like this you go like that and you go like this you choose a hand choose a hand go ahead and choose one you going to choose this one [14:32] ah no it's not that one right and now after there he open this one it's like poof you know what I'm saying smoke [14:37] start coming out or something like that then after that he grabbed the smoke like that then he pull a big old string out of there and you looking at him like [14:43] what type of voodoo like what type of stuff how you do that right how you do all these darn tricks and he make money [14:50] and people start giving him tips and all that well that's how she was except she was doing real magic and and doing real [14:57] like real stuff and so people would come and they would give her money so then when Paul started coming around the [15:03] spirit that was in her that caused her to do all these things it just starts speaking through her and it had to [15:09] confess that this is Paul he serves the most high God and he's teaching us the [15:14] way to salvation but he keep repeating it Paul got grieved in other words he got annoyed by it right and so Paul [15:21] turned around was like yo Spirit come out of her but it's not because the spirit was lying right and that's the [15:27] part I want y'all to get sometimes I talk to people and they like no the spirit be moving in my church and [15:35] I tell them okay well well explain it to me you know what I'm saying just like just like tell me what you mean by that [15:41] oh no it's just a spirit filled Church you know um they pray a lot I'm like okay okay and they speak in tongues I'm [15:48] like okay when they speak in tongues though do they speak in tongues and [15:54] there's an interpreter I ain't never seen no interpreter it's another oh yeah okay [15:59] well that's out of order then brother what else they do well you know you know you just get the spirit how you know [16:04] they got the spirit you know they get up and they start running around the church and jumping up and down this that and [16:09] other you could just feel it oh no that's not that's not how the spirit is described in our [16:15] book right so when they look at it they looking like no this is the spirit when I'm [16:23] looking at it I'm saying that's not what I see in the scripture [16:29] but then they go to but my pastor be telling the truth [16:34] sometime well guess what even the demons tell the [16:40] truth right even the demons tell the truth uh H oh we got grab James chapter [16:47] 2 for me James chapter 2 what I want [16:55] verse 17 Maybe [17:01] I'mma say James James 2 verse1 17 let me see what it [17:06] say uh where where [17:14] yeah all right Max you might have gave me some water off the faucet huh what's wrong [17:21] with you boy you when you give me water it got to be out the out the out the fridge or it [17:27] got to be out the little you know what I'm saying you got a little one it take a little different maybe I need to get my filters [17:33] changed I don't know why that takes your wife ain't in the room right don't have her trying to jump on Bible [17:39] study trying to you know I mean get a cell out yeah [17:44] buy dangerous mention water you want verse 19 uh this is uh this is uh James [17:51] chapter 2 verse 19 watch the book say thou believest that there is one God [17:57] thou doest well the Devils also believe and tremble right so look thou believeth [18:03] that there is one God that's good he said but the devil's [18:10] what but the Devils also believe and tremble right so even the Devils believe [18:16] that it's one God that can't be our barrier just because we hear somebody to say [18:22] something that's true we can't be looking like oh now God moving in here we can't say that everything has to line [18:28] up you ever seen somebody you know what I'm saying you'll talk to somebody at church [18:34] and they' be like well you just never know I mean even the crackhead to be a Son of [18:39] God they get to tell you stuff like that even the bum on the the drug addict on the corner you know what I'm saying you [18:45] never know that could be an angel of the most high God that drug addict that you looking at you judging that could be an [18:51] angel of God they get to talking you like that cuz basically what they trying to teach you is don't judge a book by [18:58] it's cover that's what they trying to tell you right so they make up an extreme example like that to try to you [19:05] know what I'm saying give you an impression that you can't judge a book by its cover but when you know the [19:11] scripture that don't quite make sense it's a different being poor you just [19:17] poor okay you right you could be an angel of the most high God right you are [19:22] drunk you know that ain't gonna never line up right that's never gonna line up [19:29] there are certain things that we can't judge all right we are not to judge a person because they're [19:37] poor right we are not to judge a person because they make a different decision [19:44] than we would make right you like Green I like [19:50] blue where I'm from we had killed people over that you like red you like blue you [19:57] like Green I kill all y'all right we're not to judge for that you know what we [20:04] are to judge for you cussing you lying you stealing [20:09] you getting drunk right you darn cheating on your wife right you laying [20:15] down before you marry those are things that we should judge those are specific behaviors that [20:23] we don't have to judge based off our mind the most high God already told us that's wrong so those are specific [20:29] things that we look at we say okay for sure that's wrong we can agree with God about his [20:36] judgment on those things because he's already given us the Judgment [20:41] right we don't have to just because somebody is saying something that seem to be right we don't have to just roll [20:48] with it and be like oh no you you a man of the most high God no cuz if the crackhead or the drunk get they high or [20:56] drunk butt up and they get the saying something like you know what you a man of God brother you know what I'm saying [21:02] let me tell you something brother you you a man of God just because he say that that don't make me look at up you [21:08] are now a righte because you acknowledge that I'm a man of God you are now a righteous [21:13] man no that ain't how that thing work that's how they deceive [21:19] you he tell you you a man or a woman of God you look back look him back in his face you tell you need to sober up and [21:25] come see about me when you do right come come see about me after you [21:32] sober up I had a brother ask me he is looking like man look if you know what [21:37] I'm saying if I get drunk just a little I mean just a little tipsy you know what I'm saying and then [21:44] come sit down with your Bible study because I focus a little bit better you know what I'm saying when I'm a little tipsy you know what I'm saying would [21:50] that be okay I told no that ain't going to be okay you know what I'm saying what's wrong with you n that ain't going [21:56] to be okay you know what I'm saying let me tell you what better for you you train your mind to focus based off of [22:01] what God gave you you find a way to focus based off of keeping this [22:07] commandment you think you doing yourself a favor no man you building up a [22:12] crutch the people is addicted to alcohol can't stop it can't live without [22:20] it right you spend so much time training your body that you need this that then [22:27] you cannot not live without it can't function without it you get irritated your nerves get bad I got to have me a [22:33] drink it's too much going on I got to have me a drink don't nobody want to live like that the most high God a ain't [22:39] asked you to live that like like that he want us to live gloriously with what he [22:45] gave us which means we got to learn how to persevere through the things that's difficult life is going to get difficult [22:52] all y'all butts that stuff gets sad little you know what I'm saying you about to be hold of you [22:59] you 11 now you about to be darn 12 he don't even know all the changes his mind [23:04] and body about to go through at 12 maybe it might be earlier than [23:11] that you g be 12 no you probably already going through some changes huh look your [23:16] voice changing watch me your voice get all squeaky you know what I'm saying you g [23:22] be mident you gonna be talking say well I just want to you know what I'm saying they be listening to you like what in [23:28] the world cuz your body start changing but guess what your mind start changing too and when your mind start changing [23:35] you start feeling like everything is the end of the darn world everything you know what I'm [23:41] saying your little homeboy gonna tell you man your breath stank bro [23:48] you Mama they told me my breath you know what I'm saying and it's going to mess [23:53] you up you GNA be thinking man everybody hate me at school they all think I'm a dork you going to be messed up over it [23:59] then you going to think it's the end of the world I want y'all to know y'all got to persevere through it nothing is the [24:06] end of the world y'all got to press your mind through that stuff the adults [24:14] too I'm not talking to the adults as much because you I'm saying when you adult sometimes you just are who you are [24:20] at that point you know saying you can't do nothing about it your grown but ain't never learn to persevere through nothing then you break down every everything [24:26] that get thrown at you just break down right break the goodness great I just need help can't figure it out this that [24:33] you got to learn how to push through stuff right because that's what it's about you remember what we were talking [24:39] about the last week and a week before that right through perseverance through [24:44] tribulation we are saved he who endures to the end shall be saved that's all book all of it is talking about patience [24:52] forbearing tribulation enduring into the end that is life [24:58] that's what we have to do we can't be breaking down I just need a drink a man [25:04] if you need a drink to focus you already lost right you got a lot of work you need to do right you got to train [25:11] yourself to focus based off of what God gave you keep going see what else we working with where we at this is [25:18] James let's go back to uh acts this is Acts chapter 16 a coverage Y'all Gonna darn get everybody need a coverage [25:32] this is Acts chapter 16 what verse we leave off 21 this is Acts chapter 16 [25:38] verse 21 watch the book say [25:53] [Music] [25:59] acts 16 verse 21 and the multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates ried off their clothes and [26:05] commanded to beat them and when they had laid many stripes on them they cast them into the prison charging the Jailer to [26:11] keep them safely who had right so now Paul just got beat for casting that that [26:17] demon out that woman right they just came over there and beat his butt they put many stripes on them the book say [26:24] right so they hit him when it say Stripes they hit him with a whip and left marks on the B you ever got a whooping who who got a whooping here [26:31] raise your hand you ain't never got no stop all that line Andre definitely ain't never got no whoop you know I'm [26:36] talking about who got who whooped his butt all right you know what I'm saying your [26:41] daddy did it all right I ain't gonna I ain't gonna say your daddy ain't whoopy I know your mama ain't darn whoopy though you know say who got a whooping [26:48] you you ain't never got no who all you definitely ain't never got no whooping y'all ain't never got no [26:54] whooping you know what I'm saying Maxon got a whooping you know what I'm saying zah Harden got whooping that's for show you done got a whooping too you know [27:01] what I'm saying you God got a whooping too you know what I'm saying all my boys definitely a had a whoop that's a fact [27:07] you I'm talking about have I whooped your butt I probably whooped your butt before too right I whooped your butt [27:12] okay you got to whoop [27:17] you no I said I ain't gonna whoop you because you got a daddy got a daddy your daddy around a gonna whoop you unless he [27:23] give me a call look he he give me a call he say get his butt now now I'mma show you where a stripe is you know what I'm [27:29] saying but look oh please the boy look so first of all you disrespecting me then you got a [27:36] worst whooping than my boys you know what I'm saying I go whoop my boy right now just to make sure that ain't true you know what I'm saying listen but look [27:43] a stripe is you know how you get a whooping and you get a good whooping and then you run in the bathroom after you [27:48] done and then you go like this in the mirror and you look back and you see them welts you know what I'm saying look [27:54] some of y'all don't even know what I'm talking about like wel what a well you know what I'm saying you see that well [28:00] right there you look back and it it bring back the cry you done crying and you start looking at it [28:06] you like that you start crying again when you see it that's a stripe you know [28:11] what I'm saying that what when you see that's a stripe so Paul had a bunch of them Stripes because they whooped his [28:17] butt after they after they after he uh cast that demon out right I want y'all [28:23] to understand like visualize and appreciate what Paul is going through [28:28] and then don't forget his history Paul started as somebody who was doing these [28:34] very things to disciples right he was chasing us down [28:40] as disciples and then after a while he became a disciple became an apostle and [28:47] now these things are being done to him right so now he's suffering he getting [28:52] his butt whooped wack Wack he got Stripes he looked back you know what I'm saying I like to picture him crying in [28:57] the like God why you let that happen to me right but he doing it he okay let's [29:03] keep going watch this and when they had laid many stripes [29:09] upon them they cast them into prison charging the Jailer to keep them safely who having received such a charge thrust [29:16] them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks and at midnight Paul and after they got whooped [29:24] they got put I want y'all to y'all got to picture it right after that they got they got put in prison so they got their [29:31] feet in stock so in other words their feet was locked up right so now they're [29:36] in prison feet locked up they can't go nowhere watch [29:42] this saying Praises unto God and the prisoners heard them and suddenly so they saying Praises unto the most high [29:48] God so they in there and they singing picture it right just got our butt whooped I Got Stripes then after that I [29:55] get locked up my feet is in stock so I can't really move but I'm in prison the guards is watching what we start doing [30:04] praise yah sing you know what I'm saying just sing it [30:09] praise y you know what I mean sing that thing then all of a sudden what you trying to [30:16] say Mel what you trying to say Mel I'm trying to see what you trying to [30:21] say m when we look when the T of y'all choir [30:27] come out I'm leading it you know I know you think you gonna lead it I'm leading it I just want you to [30:33] know uh let me I'm going show you what I'mma do uh couple announcement you know [30:40] pastor always talk couple announcements to without sister Cheryl on sister [30:47] Cheryl going in uh pray for her she got the back cancer you know I'm talking [30:53] about they always say like some cancer you ain't never heard of she got the back cancer make sure you pray for [30:58] sister Cheryl um let's open up in song and I'm going take the I'mma to take the thing [31:05] off you know what I'm say because I'm you know I'mma get to it I'mma take the thing off like [31:16] this love [31:26] yahu and that's when Mel going to come up on the side she got to be my backup singer ah the Mel going to come [31:37] in you know M got to hit the note I can't hit you know what I'm talking about I'm just gonna be like ah I'mma [31:44] stop right there and then Mel G come in we gonna get it done you know what [31:51] I'm saying toy y'all chir we might film it right but you look at Paul he in the [31:56] stocks he can't move he's singing and so now the guards listen to him [32:01] sing and now put yourself in the shoes of the guards you don't believe in no you know yahua you don't know nothing [32:08] about this Hebrew God you believe in darn Jupiter and all these other things and you hear him doing all this singing [32:14] what you think about him you crazy boy making all the darn noise I'm just trying to finish my darn [32:20] shift you know what I'm saying I'm just trying to finish my darn usually I sleep on my darn I can't even get no [32:25] sleep because you making all this darn noise right so you got to imagine they mad at [32:31] Paul keep going watch this and at midnight Paul and Silas [32:37] prayed and sang Praises unto God and the prisoners heard them and suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the [32:43] foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were open and everyone's Bonds were loose right so [32:50] now everybody's Bonds were loose what it's talking about is the things that was holding them there holding them at [32:57] their feet together the Earth start shaking Boom the gates open to the prison boom they pop open [33:03] because it's a big old earthquake then all of a sudden it shake them loose so now they they legs is free what you [33:09] think they about to do now and why would they do something like that because they free [33:17] right imagine this you serve the most high God you didn't do nothing wrong you [33:23] know you didn't do nothing wrong but these crooked police locked you up only [33:28] because you serve God right so you sitting in there and you singing and you [33:33] praying to God about you being locked up in prison and all of a sudden the earthshake big old earthquake and then [33:40] everything break loose the gates open up what do you think that [33:47] means it's a sign of what and what you supposed to do with [33:55] that Mel said you supposed to get up out of that thing right who agree with [34:00] that everybody agree with that I don't care you say what you [34:05] believe there everybody agree with that right let's see what Paul say and The [34:10] Keeper of the prison awaking out of awaking out of his sleep and seeing the prison doors open he drew out his sword [34:16] and would have killed himself supposing that have been fled The Keeper of the prison the guard he saw he looked up he [34:23] woke up because I told you he'd be sleeping on the job he trying to get some sleep after a while even when you hear whoever heard a song that they [34:30] hated when they first heard it what song was [34:35] it one song I showed [34:41] you which song was it that's crazy I showed you a song that you didn't like that Mak that hurts my [34:47] heart I know but that hurts my heart listen what about what about um what's [34:53] that one song I Want to Rock It Ain't I Want to Rock right now how How It Go how the what's the guy name Lil Uzi vert [35:01] no yeah I just want to write that one and he just the whole time just making noise so listen when I first heard that [35:08] song I said this song Gotta Be the stupidest song I've ever heard in my life and then by the maybe 757th time [35:16] that I heard it I found myself you know what I'm saying I [35:22] mean me you start kind of getting down because you hear it so many times so you [35:29] got to Imagine The Keeper of the prison at first when he start hearing Paul singing doing all [35:37] that he first right here looking like he like sister Sharon sister Sharon said the offering plate gonna be dry singing [35:43] like that right so he probably thinking the same thing like oh but then after a while they kept singing and he looking [35:50] like you know what this ain't that bad then he just go to sleep right all a sudden the Earth start shaking gates [35:56] open everything loose bits is off right he look around and he see the gates open [36:01] and he like oh they escaped and they escaped on whose watch on his watch my [36:09] man's pulled out his sword and what was he about to do with his sword he about to kill himself because he looking like [36:15] this is my job and they gonna kill me anyway if they see I let these boys run [36:21] away right so he is about to kill himself over it but watch what happened [36:28] but Paul cried with a loud voice saying do thyself no harm for we are all here [36:33] right so Paul he called out remember Gates is open the shackles is [36:38] off he thought they left Paul was like hey don't do nothing to yourself now [36:44] don't kill yourself now boy everybody here ain't nobody left we all here he [36:49] just woke up out of his sleep snoring brooling you know what I'm saying what what what oh no yeah he said no no no [36:57] don't do yourself no harm right make sure you do not do yourself no harm [37:03] everybody here why do you think everybody was still [37:12] there who did the wrong thing why do you think why do you think [37:18] none of them [37:26] left ain't because they ain't have nowhere to go nobody left because they know our [37:32] law they know our law see Paul knew Paul knew that when we were in [37:39] Egypt right we had every EV the most high God had every ounce of power to get [37:47] us out of Egypt during any of those plagues right but we didn't leave Egypt [37:53] until the king of Egypt told us go y'all get away don't don't don't hit that that [38:00] that court right don't he's like don't all [38:05] right he didn't say don't leave but we didn't leave until the king of Egypt said y'all can go right Paul understands [38:14] that the most high God don't don't sneak stuff right you don't sneak away you [38:20] don't get away you don't you don't you don't you don't like circumvent nothing the most high God humbles people [38:27] right and so that's what we about to see here that Paul is going to want to sit there until they say he can go not [38:34] because a earthquake happened and he and you know what I'm saying he can get away they say he can go now that's different [38:40] from what we read before about Peter oh we got grab uh Acts chapter 5 I just [38:46] want to show y'all the difference right the most high god did not tell Paul I'm [38:52] about to send an earthquake and after that I want you to leave out had God told Paul that he could have walked [38:57] walked out of there but instead Paul has to be subject to the [39:03] authorities he was putting chains so if if if tonight if I'm preaching the word [39:09] and a cop came and knocked on our door right now said toha go answer the door they pulled [39:16] out guns where's bro Filmore you know what [39:22] I'm saying see you remember that one time we in uh we in t house yeah you know saying and they came in they came [39:29] in with the big the AR-15 the big boys you know what I'm saying they came in that thing look like this and we wasn't [39:34] ready at all we looking like whoa whoa what in the world is happening right now [39:39] right so they coming to out just like that big old AR-15 they tell Tasha get back where's bro Filmore you know what [39:47] I'm talking about and then they start coming up the stairs and I'm still preaching and they say you know what you [39:55] handcuffs they put me in the handcuffs and all of a sudden out of nowhere a earthquake happen and my handcuffs shake [40:01] off and all the lights go out and they sit that ah he got away [40:07] right I would stand right here because I'mma Be subject to [40:14] whatever they got going on until they say no you can [40:19] go it's a different mindset people some people might look at that as you know what I'm saying no you weak you know [40:25] what I'm saying you you letting them win whatever however they look at it we have to look at it as the most high God has [40:32] to Humble people right we can't let people off the hook and escape and sneak out and cut [40:40] the corners no the whole situation got to be humble everybody got to bow down to the most high [40:46] God right watch watch the difference with um [40:52] with uh Peter this is uh Acts chapter 5 ver1 17 [41:00] brother stepen right brother stepen said when we left Egypt we left with all that gold not just the gold either the gold [41:07] the darn silver the darn purple we had the purple uh the purple uh material [41:13] that they that they gave us they bread we left with all types of materials from them right we brought our flocks along [41:19] with us right but that's how the most high God set it up for us right he set it up where everybody got to Humble [41:26] themselves to him and we have to be agents of that right we have to when I say agents of it like we have to be [41:32] instruments to make that happen and sometimes to be that instrument you got to take a beaten you got to take a [41:39] l right you got to choose when you lose you have to choose when you lose and you [41:45] got to lose when the most high God say it's good to lose if you don't choose when you lose [41:50] and you always trying to win everything you never want to make a sacrifice you never want to take a loss then guess [41:56] what somebody else is going going to choose when you lose and you're not going to be ready for it right this is [42:01] acts 5:1 17 watch the book say then the high priest rose up and all [42:07] they that were with him which is the sect of the Sadducees and were filled with indignation and laid their hands on [42:12] the apostles and put them in the common prison but the angel of Yahweh By Night opened the prison doors so now look they [42:20] put all the apostles in the prison all the disciples in the prison and then what came by Angel of YW [42:28] the angel of Yahweh came by and did what by night and opened the prison doors and [42:33] brought them forth and said go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life so here's the [42:40] difference they escaped prison but they didn't escape prison just because they was trying to sneak out no the angel of [42:47] Yahweh came and was like yo I opened up the doors I want y'all to go preach in the temple watch what happened next [43:00] when they heard that they entered into the temple early in the morning and taught but the high priest came and they that were with him and called the [43:06] counsel together and the Senate of the children of Israel and sent to the prison to have them [43:12] brought but when the officers came and found them not in the prison they returned and told saying the prison [43:18] truly found we shut with all the safety and the keepers standing without before the [43:23] doors but when we had opened we found no man Within now when the high priest and the captain [43:29] of the temple and the chief priests heard these things they doubted of them where unto this would grow then came one [43:37] and told them saying behold the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the the [43:43] people right so they ended up being teaching you know teaching right back in the temple and the the the keepers of [43:50] the prison didn't know how that thing happened right let's jump back over where Paul was is Acts chapter uh the [43:57] end 16 we at to end of 16 yet uh 16 28 [44:03] 28 this Acts chapter 16 verse 28 so Paul's still in the prison watch [44:11] this and remember Paul didn't leave because there was no angel that came to him and told him to [44:17] leave right most high God didn't come to him and tell him you can leave so he stays subject to the authorities that's [44:24] very important y'all going to understand this a lot more later but that's very important stuff is going to start [44:30] getting tough and you going to be put in a position remember these types of stories in the book all of us right [44:39] because this is how you avoid the mark of the beast right when they start handing out [44:45] marks I don't know what it gonna be I'm not the guy telling they gonna put a chip in you or it's gonna be Bitcoin or [44:50] I I don't know what it's going to be I'm not trying to predict it if I knew I'll tell you I promise right but whatever [44:57] whatever it is you're going to want to compromise and you're going to want to sneak and you're going to want to get [45:02] around because it says that the people could not buy or sell without getting [45:08] the mark on them so in other words you ain't gonna be able to eat make no money feed your family without getting this Mark on you right and it says the mark [45:15] on the hand and the forehead is how the book describe it right so it's like you not g to know how to get this done so [45:22] guess what you going to want to do you going to want to circumvent you going to want to try try to find a different way [45:27] you're gonna want to get a fake mark on you or something like that and you going to think you getting away with something [45:33] right that can't be our mindset our mindset got to be Noah if I don't get the mark go ahead [45:40] and put me in jail if I don't get the mark go ahead and do whatever you gonna do to me you gonna kill me all right go ahead and [45:46] kill me or I can't eat all right well I'm just not gonna eat and then what we have to do is we [45:53] have to trust for the most high God to come because it's going to be Temptations in those [45:59] moments the same way it had to be tempting for that earthquake they praying in the most high God how you [46:04] know that earthquake wasn't a devil devil open up the thing make you [46:10] feel like a miracle happen and all of a sudden you take off running that boy chop your darn head off W and it be [46:16] right because you tried to escape prison right you can't just think you [46:23] can't call something God just because you call it God everything has to to tie back to keeping the [46:29] Commandment that's it it tie backs to righteousness to giving God glory those [46:36] are the things that you can say okay that's righteous that's that's what we supposed to be doing it don't tie back to that if it if it tie back to making [46:43] yourself comfortable if it tie back to making you richer making you better making you happy that's not the stuff [46:49] that's of God God don't care nothing about that stuff not in this [46:54] life it's good if you happy in this life and you got joy in this life but the happiness and the joy we [47:00] look for it come in the next life everything in this life we got to count that thing as [47:07] lost keep going this is Acts chapter 16 verse probably [47:14] 29 but he cried with a loud voice saying do thyself no harm for we are all here then he called for a light and sprang in [47:21] and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas and brought them out and said sir what must I do to be saved [47:29] right so now because they were faithful and they didn't get scared and try to [47:35] run away and escape prison when nobody told him to do that now you have the [47:40] guard that's coming to them humbled crying looking at them and saying [47:46] because you remember he was ready to kill himself he was so afraid that he thought he was gonna die so he is ready to kill himself put that phone away [47:53] right he is ready to kill himself and then he ended up crying saying what [48:00] must I do to be saved y'all all have to understand that that is the most important question that anybody can ask [48:08] what must I do to be saved of what he asked let's see keep going they said believe on Yahweh yahushua believe on [48:16] yahua the Messiah that thou shalt be saved in thy house and they spake unto [48:22] him the words of the master and of all that were in his house and all that were in his house and he took them the same [48:29] hour of the night and washed their stripes and was baptized look how white his legs his straight [48:35] way he and all his straight way and when he had brought them into his house he set meat before them and rejoiced [48:41] believing in God with all his house and when it was day the magistrate sent the S the sergeants saying let those men go [48:50] and The Keeper of the prison told the saying to Paul the magistrates have set you set to let you go sent to [48:57] so now look the the people in charge they came to uh they came to the Garden they like look man just go ahead and let [49:02] them boys go right they is about to set them free but watch what Paul said now therefore depart and go in peace but [49:09] Paul said unto them they have beaten us openly uncondemned being Romans and have cast us into prison and now do they [49:15] thrust us out privately nay verily but let them come themselves and fetch us out right so Paul's like no I'mma stay [49:24] in prison cuz y'all whoop my darn but publicly y'all didn't give me due process y'all didn't take me to court no [49:31] judge said I should be whooped and then you put me in prison and now after a while now y'all trying to just tell me [49:37] just go privately and don't tell nobody don't you know what I'm saying you still can't can't uh take accountability for [49:42] what you did he said no we not doing that tell him to come here myself and tell me I can go watch this and the [49:49] sergeants told these words to the magistrates and they feared when they heard that they were Romans and they [49:54] came and besought them and brought them out and the and desired them to depart out of the city and they went out of the [50:00] prison and entered into the house of Lydia and when they had seen the Brethren they comforted them and [50:07] departed let's go to the next chapter it's chapter [50:14] 17 now when they had passed through m empis amphipolis in abalonia they came [50:24] to thessalonica where the Sy ogue of the Jews where was the synagogue of the Jews [50:29] and Paul as his manner was went in unto them in in three Sabbath days reasoned [50:35] with them out of the scriptures right so now Paul Went to went to a place called [50:41] thessalonica right and then for three Sabbath days in a row the book that he [50:46] reasoned with them out of the scriptures in other words he went to them he opened up the scriptures and he tried to show [50:53] them what's in the scriptures concerning yahushua right and he did that for three Sabbath days in a row why didn't he go [51:00] on [51:06] Sunday that's right Sunday ain't got nothing to do that's these Gentiles that came up with [51:12] Sunday talk about oh let's go to church on S what's wrong with y'all right he [51:17] went on the Sabbath because it was our cut H we got grab uh grab Luke Chapter [51:23] uh 4 verse what is it 27 it ain't that far down it ain't far as [51:29] down as 27 it's something El it's let's say Luke chapter 4 give me verse 14 [51:36] maybe you about to say 13 all right let's do 13 he say he is gonna say 13 [51:41] this Luke chapter 4 verse 13 let's see what the book say I still think you wrong I think I think it was 14 you say [51:47] it 13 I say it's 14 let's see [51:54] [Music] [52:07] you said Luke what uh Luke chapter 4 maybe verse [52:25] 13 and brother Stephen I think it's one in Acts chapter 3 and one in Acts chapter [52:30] 5 we just read the one in Acts chapter 5 so I think the other one is Acts chapter 3 if I'm not [52:40] mistaken he said Luke 3 Luke chapter 4 verse uh [52:50] 13 why don't y'all cut it out just relax when the devil had ended uh the [52:56] Temptation he departed from him for a season that's [53:03] not um I'm looking for as our custom was you know what I'm saying as as yashua's [53:08] custom was to read on the Sabbath day it's Luke 4 ain't it I don't know [53:15] hold on yeah 4:16 16 this is Luke 4: 16 watch the [53:23] book say and he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was as [53:31] as his custom was he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read right so it was our [53:38] custom to talk about the scripture on the Sabbath day so although he's in a [53:44] land full of Gentiles and this is after yahushua died and rose again his mindset [53:50] is still let's go reason in the scriptures on the Sabbath day it is [53:56] always always been Sabbath and it will always be Sabbath because that is our [54:01] heritage don't let these people look anybody I don't care how how good they [54:07] seem I don't care how much how much n like how much knowledge you think they [54:13] have anybody who calls their self a leader or a teacher according to God's [54:19] word and they tell you to gather weekly on the Sunday [54:26] without recognizing and preferring the Sabbath they do not have light in them [54:34] they just don't right they are following the traditions of men if they have you if [54:40] they prefer a Sunday over the Sabbath now they might be somebody who [54:45] they say look we meet on the Sabbath we meet on Sunday we meet we meet every day of the week or a lot of the days of the [54:50] week that's different right but they have to recognize the Sabbath [54:57] if they out here trying to do just keeping a Sunday you know what I'm say oh no Sunday Sunday is the Lord's day Sunday is the day for church Sunday is [55:03] the day that we talk to the Lord whatever you they have no light in them [55:09] they don't know what they talking about they just following tradition of men and I say that because I assure you that [55:15] anybody who teaches this word they've seen it right they've seen it they've [55:21] read these things in the word they've seen the Sabbath and then they made a mental decis decision to ignore [55:28] it right they made a mental decision to say although I see that I'm not going to [55:33] teach it to the people or I'm not gonna I'm not going to be inquisitive and figure out what that means right but [55:39] they seen the Sabbath they didn't see Sunday one time in a book they seen the [55:44] Sabbath and they chose to not even look into it or they chose to not teach people what they know it is dangerous to [55:51] be under a teacher like that I don't care how smart you think they are I don't care how right you think they are [55:57] trust me if it don't line up with this book it's because they ain't got no light right let's jump back this is Acts [56:03] chapter 17 so Paul he he's talking to the people of thessalonica and when he goes in there [56:10] he went for three sabbaths on the road so he go in there on one Sabbath he open up the book like look man let me tell [56:16] you so look when Moses was talking about this in Deuteronomy chapter 18 he is really talking about the Messiah and [56:23] then in Numbers Chapter 30 you know how it's it's telling you that a husband can take on the penalty of the vow of the [56:30] wife look I'm trying to explain to you that's talking about the Messiah then he get into yeah Isaiah is [56:37] talking about the Messiah uh this talking about the Messiah Joshua when we did that that's talking about the Messiah he's showing it to him he's [56:42] trying to give him the gospel directly from the book directly from the uh scriptures right and so he take he has [56:50] to do that for three Sabbath days in a row reasoning with him trying to explain it to him right let's see what what [56:56] happens after that opening an alleging that the [57:02] Messiah must need have suffered and risen again from the dead and that this yahua whom I preach unto you is the [57:09] Messiah and some of them believed and consorted with Paul and Silas and of The Devout Greeks a great multitude of the [57:15] chief women not a few but the Jews which believed not moved with Envy took unto them certain lwd fellows of the baser [57:23] sort and gathered a company and set all the city on uproar and assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring them [57:30] out of the people and when they had found them not they drew they drew Jason [57:35] and certain Brethren unto the rulers of the city crying these that have turned the world upside down have come here [57:42] also whom Jason have received and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar [57:48] saying that there is another king one yahua and they troubled the people and the rulers of the city when they heard [57:54] these things and when they had taken sec of Jason and of the others they let them [57:59] go and the and the Brethren immediately sent Away Paul and Silas by night into Berea Who coming there went in went into [58:07] the synagogue of the Jews these were more noble than those of thessalonica and that they received the word with all [58:13] Readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures Daily whether those things were so right so now look when he was in [58:20] thessalonica he had to argue with them boys for three sabbaths in a row he and [58:26] there no I'm trying to tell you this what it is they coming back he reasoning with him that means pretty much he's trying to he's making an argument right [58:33] and so he did that three sabbaths in a row then he go to Berea he left thessalonica he went to Berea when he go [58:39] to Berea when they hear they looking like that's what that's what that mean for real and so they accepted it and [58:47] then after they accepted it on their own they went back to study it for themselves to try to figure out like is [58:52] that really true what he said he might be on to something so they took it in good faith and then looked in the words [58:59] and try to prove it whereas the other side was taking it like no I don't know about that so it put Paul in a position [59:06] where he had to reason with him like man look okay no I'm telling you that's what this is no that's not true because of [59:11] this and so he going back and forth with him right but he left thessalonica went [59:16] to Berea so now Paul wrote two letters called Thessalonians 1 and second [59:23] Thessalonians we won't get into it today but we'll get into it next week and we going to read what he wrote to those [59:30] Thessalonians right the same ones that he went to and he reasoned with them some of them was convinced and then you [59:36] got a whole bunch of Hebrews that was looking like no we not rocking with what you saying and then they chased him out [59:42] of town then he went to Berea all right any [59:51] questions what [59:58] you said what no Temple was the [60:07] temple that Temple was the temple no [60:14] questions all right well let's pray [60:21] out un