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This Sunday Podcast
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Pastors Brandt and Hardaway discuss the Epistle reading from Acts for the 2nd Sunday of Easter.
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Introduction and Weather Discussion
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Greetings and welcome to this week's episode of this son of the This Sunday podcast. I am Pastor Matthew Hardaway over here in central Connecticut, where it's still cold outside. and well of course, this is going to be for Easter, but when we're recording this, we're still sitting on 12 inches of snow. Joining with me is Pastor Philip Brandt, Dr. Philip Brandt, the pastor at St. Michael's Lutheran Church, and you're in Portland, correct?
00:00:33
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Correct. All right, in Portland, Oregon. So I don't know, what's the weather like over there for you? No, I hate to break it to you, Matthew. It's it's about 60 degrees today and sunny.
00:00:46
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An absolutely beautiful day. All right. Well, praise God for that, fern for ah some people getting to experience a little bit of warmth. Of course, I, for one, don't mind the cold.
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But we have had a remarkably warm winter this year. I actually still have a geranium blooming on my patio. Wow, that is amazing. Yeah, no, that the congregation here, I think this is the first time in the last 10 years that this area of Connecticut has gotten this much snow.
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I've been here for about a year and the whole congregation is blaming me and my family. Pastor, we called you from Texas. You weren't supposed to bring this much snow with you. So but yeah um we are hitting this
Easter Readings and Acts Chapter 5
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episode. We want to dig into the readings from the second Sunday and Easter. So for the epistle reading, which we'll be looking at more closely today, we are going to be looking at Acts chapter 5.
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I believe the actual reading is 27 through 42. might be off slightly on that, but in that general area. So, Pastor Brandt, if you want to pick up there and and read some of that for us.
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Absolutely. um Acts chapter 5.
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When they had brought them, they set them before the council, and the high priest questioned them, saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
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But Peter and the apostles answered, We must obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
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God exalted him at his right hand as leader and savior to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are witnesses to these things. And so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
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When they had heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.
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That's a great text. oh what what i What I find so interesting about this this text is that that this is Peter, and and this is really happening just months, literally, after the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Transformation of the Apostles
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So, you know, Jesus died right at Passover in the spring of that year. We know that Pentecost happened early summer at that point. When you read the the narrative in Acts, it appears these events are happening pretty quickly thereafter.
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You know, this could be August, September, October, sometime around in there. There's not a lot of time, it appears, has passed. And yet, look at the at the profound difference that has that has taken place in in in Peter here, you In the spring, you know, he he was in the courtyard outside of Jesus' trial denying he even knows who Jesus is.
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And here he is confronting those very same people that had put Jesus on trial and brought him to Pilate and had him executed.
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know, they are not messing around. And and they and they are they are commanding Peter, stop talking in this man's name. And yet peter said and Peter and the apostles can stand up and say, no, we must obey God rather than men. We're going to keep doing this. We don't have an option.
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And... ah And that is that is to me this amazing transformation that Acts plays for us. is you know when you When you have the gospel according to Luke, which pretty much demonstrates the apostles being a bit of bumbling fools, right? They they just they they they don't get Jesus.
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They don't understand him. They follow him. They appear to love him, but they don't really get it and And then that they all flee and scatter at his arrest and trial and crucifixion.
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um that That something has had to change there. And and and that that great transformation, i mean, Luke is quite out open about what it is. It's the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
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And and that that has that that has just radically transformed these men from cowards into heroes. yes And it's given them this courage and this This this witness, this word to say that that is, i mean, there's no doubt in what Peter is saying right there.
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You crucified him. God verified him, raised him from the dead. You are in the wrong. We are in the right.
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And they that that there's there is no hesitancy. There's no wishy-washiness or you know conditionalizing of what Peter is saying right there. he's he is He is absolutely adamant about what he's saying. yeah that That sureness, that certainty that he's got right there and the bravery with which he speaks it in the face of the people who killed Jesus months later is is to me really amazing.
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Right. Something of just that just got to me, honestly, for the first time, possibly, and at least in a very long time, um they're the the leaders of the church are saying, we strictly charge you not to teach in his name.
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and And you kept doing it, and you're going to bring this man's blood upon us. Yeah. yeah It's not just a how dare you go about and talk about this guy we don't believe in.
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the The religious leaders, that that tenacity that Peter is showing. That confidence, it's scaring them.
Challenge to Religious Authority
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Well, I mean, and and here's one of the things I always find interesting about about those early sermons in Acts is, of course, that that the proclamation of the resurrection of Jesus is not exactly good news for most of the people who are hearing it.
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Right. I mean, they tried to kill Jesus. They did kill Jesus. And it didn't work. You know usually when you resort to that ultimate resolution of a troublesome prophet, which is to have the Romans kill him, that pretty much takes care of the problem for you.
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But in this instance, it doesn't. And in fact, his resurrection has only made the problem much more significant. Now, maybe, you know, if you go around killing prophets, you you may have you may have a guilt issue.
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all right But now you have a very positive problem with God in that he has undone what you have done. You know, he has he has raised him from the dead. um and And you have your authority, your your you know ultimate authority as the leaders of these people has just been called into question because you know you You have exercised your authority in its kind of rawest and most essential essential way in in in in condemning this man to death and seeing that through.
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and that's that's you know as As Paul says in Romans 13, the emperor bears the sword. And all of a sudden God has has undone your sword bearing.
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And And that has completely undermined their authority. And so the the the proclamation Jesus has risen from the dead is not good news for these guys.
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It's in fact very much bad news for them. Now, spiritually, humanly, in front of God, the resurrection of the dead, of course, is good news for people. But politically and in in their in their current situation, it's it's really bad news.
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It reminds me a little bit of Pharaoh in the Exodus, o where where his heart is hardened. And it's a whole different conversation there when Pharaoh hardens his heart or or God hardens Pharaoh's heart. that Both Pharaoh and the religious leaders have basically drawn a line in the sand.
00:09:48
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And so we absolutely refuse to believe anything that God is showing us. Right. With with Moses and God, it's it's all the signs and wonders. And Pharaoh just laughs it off. Oh, we can do that. We can do that. Yeah, it's nothing. Jesus does signs and wonders.
00:10:07
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throughout his ministry and and the religious leaders are completely no this can't be it just can't be oh jesus is gone great we can go back to the status quo but no we can't because know pharaoh couldn't go back either but yeah ah cool I mean, you're bringing up there, I think, a a really interesting point is that, yeah, that the reaction of the of the religious leaders to the preaching of Peter, you drew this to the statement by Peter today is to react with rage and and condemnation against him. um i mean, the world, you it just doesn't, it just can't get this.
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It can't, and it won't. yeah know i i My first parish, I served in ah in the the north side of
Modern Miracles and Personal Witness
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Salt Lake City. And there was my good friend served a neighboring parish.
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And he told this story of this woman in his parish who had been diagnosed with cancer. She was a young woman. She had children. She was, you know, this this was this huge tragedy. And they treated and and they finally went, brought her back in for this kind of this whole body scan. And they said, it's not working.
00:11:21
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they They counted over 200 tumors spread throughout her body. and And they sent her home and said, get your affairs in order. Because, you know, we have taken our best shot. And they had done some really, you know aggressive treatments of this to to try and do something to this cancer. It wasn't working. And they sent her home. And and a year later, to their surprise, she made an appointment with the oncologist.
00:11:48
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She walked into the room. She was a picture of health. And they they looked at her and said, what is going on? She says, I don't know. I feel fine. and they They put her back, you know, in that that CT scan or whatever it was they were using at that point to ah to to scan her. And there was not a tumor left in her body.
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where They were all gone. Now, what's fascinating to me is that there were two oncologists in the room interpreting those scans and and those results to her.
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And one of them looked her in the eye and said, Bonnie, it was a miracle.
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That's the only way to explain this. this I am witnessing a miracle. And the other guy looked at her and said, oh, the chemo must have finally kicked in.
00:12:36
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Yes. yeah and you know and and And here you got two guys who are looking at exactly the same data. yeah And and they're coming to they're coming to the wrong to the wrong conclusions or to two very different conclusions anymore. One of them is just like, he cannot see it.
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He cannot see But what but I guess what I really find interesting about about peter's about Peter right here is that um he does,
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he
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he he he really goes to what these guys have seen.
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um you know He says, we we are compelled here. you know We must obey God rather than men. But then he goes on to say these things.
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The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you crucified by killing hanging him on a tree. God exalted him to the right hand. to be our leader and our savior, to give repentance to Israel and the forgiveness of sins. And so we are witnesses of these things. And he uses that interesting word, I'm a witness of these things. And that's what I'm here to talk about.
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And ah I think a lot of times, that when we hear that word and we see these apostles talking in the Bible, or we we hear these these stories of that are recounted for us from the Bible, we imagine that to be a witness to Jesus is to be a witness to um to the events of the Bible.
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and that And that somehow we are bearing a witness to Christ if we if we recite a biblical story.
00:14:41
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and And I don't wanna diminish what the role of the biblical story in all of this is. It it it is normative for the witness that we bear. But but I think I wanna kinda challenge a little bit this idea that that somehow standing on a street corner and reciting the Bible at people is a witness um to people, or or even just handing out Bibles Yeah, it's one of those things, and again, I don't want to discredit the history and of this practice within the church. Yeah. We even do that with our confirmation process.
00:15:17
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Yeah. That no matter what age range you're going through confirmation, seventh and eighth grade historically, we start younger yeah at my congregation. I was an adult confirmand, so it doesn't matter which age, you are in some ways firehosed with all of the doctrines from Luther's small catechism, the history of Luther, the stories of the Bible, and when it's time for you to make a public confession of the faith that's been given to you in your baptism, you're saying, yes, I believe in all that stuff that happened hundreds of years ago or thousands of years ago.
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Yeah. and And that's great. We need that. ah believe I'm going to be a Lutheran pastor, you know, if I didn't believe that that was important. But I feel like sometimes we're missing, okay, you've got the knowledge of the background. You've got a foundation for what you believe. What are you going to do with it now? And how are you going to use that to filter?
00:16:22
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how you view life and how are you going to use that to filter how you react to life so that you can notice when the cancer disappears.
00:16:34
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and And it's not just chemotherapy, that there's no way it could just be chemotherapy. Right, right. Yeah. And I guess what i guess what what I want to click on is that that word witness.
00:16:46
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If I tell you what somebody else saw, i'm not a witness.
00:16:54
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i'm I'm conveying, what in in a court of law, I'd be conveying hearsay. Correct. I can only, in a court of law, act as a witness to tell you what I saw and what I heard.
00:17:10
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I cannot tell you what somebody else heard or what somebody else saw. I can tell you what they told me they saw, but I can't tell you what they saw.
00:17:23
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because that's actually a hearsay evidence. And so i think, you know, Peter is telling the the these guys, in the this is what we have seen.
00:17:34
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You killed him, God raised him. Now, what i what i I want to go back to the opening words of of the of the book of Acts here, is that Luke says, know, in my first book, Theophilus, I told you about all the things Jesus began to do.
00:17:51
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And implicit in that is he's not done. And that, that I believe that, that a Christian witness isn't a witness to what Jesus did 2000 years ago, but a Christian witness is a witness to what has he done that I have seen.
00:18:11
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Right. Where, where have seen Jesus at work? Where have I seen him do something? You know, and when when i was still so when I was serving that parish in Utah, I had an occasion to um i had an occasion to do to meet with the local pastors of the Christian churches in town. And we decided together to open a food pantry to serve people.
00:18:41
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And it was ah it was a really... really important ministry because there were there were a lot of people who kind of living on the edge of insolvency in that community.
00:18:52
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It was very well-to-do community in many respects, and a lot of people were struggling to attain, but if they ran into a you know ah transmission problem in their car or something happened to them, they might not have enough to make it to the end of the month.
00:19:07
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And so we set up this little food pantry and we we surveyed our congregations and we thought we could help 20 families a month with enough groceries to stretch to the next paycheck.
00:19:20
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is We were thinking like a couple bags of groceries. We're going to be able to do something for about 20 families a month. And. um We opened our foot bank. It was small. It really wasn't doing much. But um ah there was ah there were a couple people in those in that community, in my congregation and some others, who really thought this was important to do.
00:19:41
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And some of them had connections, and they started talking. um And they they started getting people to give to this thing. And within a year, we were we were feeding families a month.
00:19:58
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Wow. All right. And the the UCC church down the road, which had this way too big a building for it, it had a gymnasium, which they never used. That thing was, I kid you not, stacked five feet deep with food resources, you know, non-perishable food that we had banked ready to go for however long we, you know, we needed. if you know, if the donations diminished, we were still going to be able to feed people.
00:20:24
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And, you know i I look back on that, and and I think about you know Jesus turning to his disciples and and blessing and breaking five loaves of bread and handing them back to Peter and Andrew and those guys and saying, now go feed them.
00:20:39
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Go feed them. He only gave them five loaves of bread. yeah know I mean, did Peter turn around and and whisper, come and get Look that 5,000 hungry people out there. okay you know And what was that like? you in the and and and jesus and And it's interesting. Jesus didn't say, you know eat your lunch first and give me your leftovers and we'll give it to these people.
00:21:05
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um He said, give me what you got. And they they they surely said, well, it's not enough. And he says, don't worry about that. I'll make it enough. Yeah. And and they fed, you know, they they got to, win i I feel like I got to witness the same Lord Jesus multiplying loaves and fishes for the hungry people of that community that day.
00:21:31
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Now, was it a miracle in the same sense that Peter and John and James got to see on the shores of Galilee when they when they fed the the the multitudes?
00:21:42
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Not in the same sense, but yet, gosh, He got people to give. you know Anytime you pry open somebody's wallet, I kind of think that's a bit of a miracle. Yes. It is. And and that and that you know here was this, and and there was a guy in my congregation who was just really interested in this.
00:22:04
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um And he happened to have come out of the LDS community. So he knew all of these people in that town. He was related to a bunch of them. Because all of those families are interrelated in that little community. And and he went to the grocer. He went to the guy who ran the post office. He went to all of these people.
00:22:24
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And pretty soon, the food was just coming in.
00:22:31
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It was just coming into us. And and i go, I think I watched a miracle that day. but Over those couple months when that when that was transpiring and I think I watched you know and and now what the Bible does for me is it tells me goes it lets me go. Oh look, that's the same Jesus Who looked at the hungry people on the shores of Galilee and said let's feed them Who looked at the hungry people in that little community in northern Utah where I was and said let's feed them
00:23:05
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And he may have done it slightly differently, but I think it was the same Jesus who did that. I think that's actually a much more potent witness. I mean, I think that lets me say what I'm doing there is a witness to Jesus.
00:23:19
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Yes, and you can do that because of the faith that you have in Christ. Yeah. That we have as brothers and sisters in Christ because of the two oncologists. One oncologist had the faith to be able to say that's got to be a miracle.
00:23:35
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The other one obviously didn't. okay, I've got to figure this out in some way, shape, or form what it is. Ken Ham, a creationist from Australia. He's got the the museum in Kentucky, i think. yeah when When you're going through and viewing the Creation Museum, one of the first exhibits you see is an archaeological dig with two archaeologists, and they're animatronic like Or maybe they're statues, but you've got speakers. And with speakers, one guy's saying, hey, we're both scientists. We're both looking at the same thing, but we're coming up with two completely different answers.
00:24:11
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I happen to believe in the Bible, so I look at this and I see it this way. My my friend over here doesn't believe in the Bible, so he looks at this bone and thinks it's 5 million years old.
00:24:22
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and And that that's where... sharing our witness we're going to run up or for any brother or sister in christ sharing your witness it's what peter exhibits here and sees here exhibits experiences when i'm sharing my witness who can argue with me the religious leaders cannot argue that i'm wrong for what i saw right right and Yeah, notice Peter doesn't go digging into into, well, I'm interpreting, you know, the Torah or the prophets or the Psalms this way to say that's talking about Jesus. He say, this iss what I saw.
00:25:03
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Right. and And I think a lot of times we we we really don't engage in witness. We engage in theological kind you know theological debate because all we're really doing is is talking about a text that's 2,000 years old.
00:25:22
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And um I don't think that that's actually ever terribly, i think that's something you do after the witness has been born. i think that's something you do after you have you've got a community of people and they have come to faith and they believe in Jesus. And now they're trying to discern that Jesus better by by by looking at their scriptures.
00:25:48
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But that that ultimately what brought all of them to faith was one person said, hey, I see Jesus over there.
00:25:57
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Or can you see him right here? right And that that's what that's where actually the witness comes in. to this And I think that's where the where where it gets to be a a a true witnessing to this.
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um that that And this is why I really liked that that in the in the season of Easter here, we're going to be looking at Acts for the next several weeks, because what Acts does for us is it it says, oh, that story keeps going.
00:26:27
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yes And Jesus keeps doing things. yeah He's going to confront Saul in chapter 9. He's going to be there with ah when when Paul the Apostle is out preaching in these various places. Jesus is going to show up and tell Paul, you know go, no, don't go don't take a right, go left. Go to go to go to ah ah go to Greece, go to Macedonia. you know You're going to see that that that Jesus is active in those
00:27:01
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in those in those in those narratives. And you go, and Jesus is still active and that there's our witness. That's what we are called to bear witness to.
00:27:13
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And that's much more potent for me. Also, I think there's another little phrase
Obeying God Over Men: Misuse and Clarification
00:27:18
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in here. just, before we, you know, before we wrap up here, I want to talk about one more. And that is Peter says, you know, we must obey God rather than men.
00:27:28
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And, uh, uh, I, I think sometimes that, that, uh, uh, that that phrase has been really misused by people.
00:27:38
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And, and I kind of want to just spend just a moment with that word, you know, uh, as they're confronting the Sanhedrin, we, we have to obey God rather than men. we We oftentimes use that as, as an excuse for form of disobedience.
00:27:55
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Right. And, uh, It's very interesting to me that the ah ah that at in this instance and in several other instances in the text, um the disciples are going to be beaten.
00:28:09
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you know they're They're going to be punished. um They never stand up and say, you don't have a right to do that because we're obeying God.
00:28:18
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um They might stand up and say, that's a foolish thing to do. but ah they don't ever use their obedience to God as a excuse for doing the wrong thing.
00:28:35
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you know what I mean? that That we have sometimes turned this into into this this this means of of resisting the authorities.
00:28:48
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and And I don't think that's really what they're doing. They're saying, you know okay, we're we are we are citizens here of Jerusalem. You are the authorities. You can do what you want to do to us. And they do.
00:28:59
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you know i mean Ultimately, James is is is killed by the ah by the local political authority. Peter is imprisoned by the Sanhedrin. And there's all of these things go on. And these these disciples just got sprung from prison by an angel.
00:29:15
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um They don't ever say, that those people are illegitimate for doing that. What they're, what they're really saying is that we, we have to obey this, and this compelling command from our Lord Jesus Christ, who has been raised from the dead to proclaim this good news.
00:29:38
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And ah I think a lot of times that, that, that word, you know or that, that, that verse from the Bible has been, should we say taken out of context and instrumentalized and turned into a tool that a lot of people use for for saying and doing things that, well, I don't know that that's quite appropriate.
00:30:02
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You know what i mean? Oh, yes, absolutely. Doing a men's Bible study, we were talking about mysticism last night. Mysticism being the word, thinking that you can find God through your feelings.
00:30:14
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Yeah. As a primary, ultimate source to that. that Okay, the The classic phrase I don't need to go to church. I can go be on the lake and I experience God, the you know, the lake. Or the golf course or wherever, right? Right, exactly. say i don't and what It's Satan deceiving us into thinking we don't need to hear or seek God, find God, experience God.
00:30:39
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where God has told us he is going to be, which is in the word, which is the word, which is Christ. you know and And I see a lot of times that we must obey God rather than men. Well, sure, I can pluck that out.
00:30:54
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But if i'm if where I'm finding God is in my feelings, Then who are you to tell me that I'm wrong because i want to live my life this way because it's what makes me feel good. And that's where I think I experience God.
00:31:10
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Peter's not doing that. Stephen's not going to do that just two chapters from now. very This is nothing about how I'm feeling. If anything, it's very obvious they are going to be hurting me.
00:31:22
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in a very severe way. But they're saying, i am a witness to Christ. I am a witness to this. And I can't deviate from the witness of the word.
00:31:35
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Right. i scientists I'm compelled. Right. That's a scary place to consider having to walk into.
00:31:46
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah but we yeah. Like I said, but I think we use that that phrase to excuse misbehavior a lot of times instead of to empower a witness. And and that's how Peter's using it here.
00:32:01
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I just think that's that's actually really important.
00:32:07
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I love this text. I love it because it it it it it really emboldens me yeah to to be able to say,
00:32:18
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yeah God did that to to this fearful man named Peter. um I wonder what he's doing to me. i wonder what he's doing to the people who hear me preach on Sunday morning and the the the people that I interact with throughout the rest of the week as as the Holy Spirit uses me as a witness.
00:32:40
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what What is he doing in the hearts and the lives and the minds of these people? And yeah That's actually a lot of fun. when you when you When you come to life that way and you look at it say, well, what is he doing today?
00:32:54
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That is a lot more fun. Yes, it is. and And that is also the Holy Spirit is going to work when and how is necessary when we are witnessing our faith, obviously.
Personal Stories and Episode Conclusion
00:33:09
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But I think about the oncologist that looked at that situation. How much fun Could that be to to be able to go out and say, I got to experience that.
00:33:22
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Being in the ICU once personally and having the the doctor from Saturday night or Sunday night come and see me on Monday morning and she's got tears in her eyes. And so I put on my pastor hat. You know, I'm still in ice. I've got tubes coming out of me. its Weird, weird, long story. But I put on my pastor. I'm like, what's wrong? And she's like, well, Mr. Hardaway, I wasn't expecting to see you alive this morning.
00:33:48
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and I got to work and I can see on the screen, your heart's beating. Now, of course me, that's ah a weird story because I get to see her still that same thing, that joy of I got to see a patient do this.
00:34:00
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And of course for me, it's like, I didn't realize I was that bad. But thank you, Lord, because I also got to experience on a very personal level that, okay, God's angels were watching over me concerning my health, you know, and and even when I was such a fool to not realize how sick I was, God goes, guess what? Ain't done with you yet. yeah and And you know what? You now get to go tell that story as your witness to one of the many ways that God has worked in your life.
00:34:32
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That's right. That's right. He gave you that ED doc. He gave you that um he gave you those those nurses and all of those people who were in there. And yeah and and I think ultimately, even even the guy who who said who said, well, the chemo must have kicked in, you know ultimately could come around and say, yeah, God did that.
00:34:52
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Yes. Yeah, God did that.
00:34:57
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Well, it's been fun, Matthew. Yes, enjoy very very much so. let's ah Let's do it again. Yeah, how about this time next week? Yep, let's do it again, this time next week.
00:35:09
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we'll be on We'll be on Acts chapter 2, the aftermath of the Great Pentecost Sermon. Excellent. We'll get to see how the disciples react to their, their, you know, fire on top of their heads.
00:35:23
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Well, it's, it's not the disciples we're so interested in here. We, that that's the sermon, Peter preaching. It's, it's the, ah it's the people listening that is really, that's what we're going to get next week is, is the, uh, is the, uh, the hammer blow of, of that sermon and and what happens as it, uh, as it impacts those, those people gathered, uh, somewhere in Jerusalem to hear what Peter had to say.
00:35:52
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I can't wait. For those joining us and watching, I hope that you enjoy this. Look forward next week wherever you found this podcast. The next one will be coming out shortly.
00:36:04
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Hopefully every Sunday we'll be getting these put out for you. And definitely if you have questions, comments, concerns, a prayer request, feel free to reach out to us. We will have contact information for you We both would love to to interact with our audience and and engage in that conversation but for from from the text. so And if you want to if you want to know more about some of the things that we're doing elsewhere, check out sunday-sermon.com, which is my one of my websites, and that's where I put out a bunch of material about these very texts. All right, wonderful. Blessings on your week, Pastor.
00:36:45
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You too. God bless you. Preach them a good one. You do the same. all right. God peace. Bye-bye. Bye.