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good morning my dear brothers and sisters

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it's uh very good to see so 
many people here this morning

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it reflects the

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genuine concerns that faces in this area of our 
community and we pray that together we might find  

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the word of god profitable to us in instructing 
us in those things which are essential

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we want to begin our study together 
this day by singing him number 88.

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after which we will ask that you 
remain standing for a word of prayer

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great is thy faithfulness o god my father 
there is no shadow of turning with thee  

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thou changest not thy compassions they fail not as 
thou hast been thou forever will be in number 88.

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oh

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me

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will be

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me

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oh

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with

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faithfulness

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faithfulness

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unto thee

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jesus

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four two one

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i pray

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me

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is

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let us pray

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almighty god

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thou who are the god of 
abraham of isaac and of israel

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with whom there is no variableness 
neither a shadow of turning  

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the dwellest in light and 
approachable high above the heavens

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we draw nine to thee at this time

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because though thou art so high and lofty

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thou has chosen to dwell with men of a humble 
and contrite spirit and who tremble at thy word

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and we give thee praise and glory and and all 
majesty because thou art greatly to be praised

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and we are weak creatures of the dust prone to sin

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inclined to do wrong before thee

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and at this time we seek your mercy and 
your forgiveness for our many failings

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we're gathered here today father in heaven

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to consider those things 
upon which our faith is built

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the work of the lord jesus christ

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the bringing together of a body of believers

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of one mind of one purpose with one hope

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and we pray as we struggle at this 
time through a difficult period

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that we might turn to thy word and allow 
it to influence our lives and our judgments

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that we might show concern for one another

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and as we are exhorted

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to esteem others better than ourselves

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we stand at the very threshold of your kingdom  

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we know that we live in the last days and 
that thy son will soon return to this earth

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and we pray earnestly

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that they will help us and guide us

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so that we might indeed all come in the 
unity of the faith unto that perfect man

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each working effectively to bring about

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a unity which is acceptable to you

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we ask your blessing that the words of 
our brother might encourage us in thy word

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and that we might reflect 
upon these things together

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and we pray

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that in all that we do and say this day  

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that will look down favorably upon 
us and accept everything that we do

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here our prayer would be 
secrecy grant us your mercy

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and may we find through your word 
the wisdom to move forward together

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we offer our prayer in the name of 
jesus christ our lord and savior amen

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uh

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well my dear brothers and sisters ah that's better

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my dear brothers and sisters we have a 
very busy schedule today a tight schedule

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for those with small children if if we do now have 
a sound system in the fire room at the back of the  

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building so if you find that you need to go out 
you can go into the area where the food will be  

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eventually and you can listen to 
the proceedings through that area

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they're going to be four sections to our study 
today under the theme built upon the foundation  

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of the apostles and prophets for those who haven't 
got a program there are some at the entrance  

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at the back of the hall and this morning our 
brother brian luke of adelaide australia is with  

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us to conduct us through this series of studies 
the apostles doctrine the apostles fellowship  

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the communion of the body of christ 
and they had all things common  

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those are the four topics for today god willing 
and we're going to introduce what he has to say  

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by reading from the acts of the apostles 
chapter 2 commencing to read at verse 22.

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acts chapter 2 verse 22

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ye men of israel hear these words jesus of 
nazareth a man approved of god among you by  

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miracles and wonders and signs which god did by 
him in the midst of you as ye yourselves also know  

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him being delivered by the determinate counsel 
and foreknowledge of god ye have taken and by  

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wicked hands of crucified and slain whom god 
hath raised up having loosed the pains of death  

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because it was not possible 
that he should be holden of it

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for david speaketh concerning him i 
forso the lord always before my face  

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for he is on my right hand 
that i should not be moved  

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therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was 
glad moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope  

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because i will not leave my soul in hell neither 
will thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption  

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that was made known to me the ways of life thou 
shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance  

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men and brethren let me freely speak 
unto you of the patriarch david  

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that he is both dead and buried and 
his sepulcher is with us unto this day  

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therefore being a prophet and knowing that 
god had sworn with an oath to him that at  

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the fruit of his loins according to the flesh 
he would raise up christ to sit on his throne  

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he's seeing this before spake 
of the resurrection of christ  

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that his soul was not left in hell 
neither his flesh did see corruption

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this jesus hath god raised up 
whereof we are all witnesses  

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therefore being by the right hand of 
god exalted and having received of the  

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father the promise of the holy spirit he has 
shed forth this which you now see and hear

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for david is not ascended into the heavens but 
he saith himself the lord said unto my lord sit  

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thou on my right hand until i make thy full 
thy footstool therefore let all the house of  

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israel know assuredly that god hath made that same 
jesus whom ye have crucified both lord and christ

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now when they heard this they 
were pricked in their heart  

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and they said unto peter and to the rest of 
the apostles men and brethren what shall we do  

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then peter said unto them repent and be baptized 
every one of you in the name of jesus christ  

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for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the 
gift of the holy spirit for the promises unto you  

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and to your children and to all that are afar 
off even as many as the lord our god shall call

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and with many other words 
did he testify and exhort  

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saying save yourselves from 
this untoward generation

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then they that gladly received his word were 
baptized and the same day they were added  

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unto them about three thousand souls and they 
continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine  

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and fellowship and in breaking of bread and 
in prayers and fear came upon every soul  

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and many wonders and signs were done by the 
apostles and all that believes were together  

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and had all things common they sold 
their possessions and goods and parted  

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them to all men as every man had need and they 
continuing daily with one accord in the temple  

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and breaking bread from house to house 
and did eat their meat with gladness  

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and singleness of heart praising god 
and having favor with all the people  

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and the lord added to the ecclesia 
daily such as should be saved

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so brethren sisters with 
that introduction we welcome  

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brother brian with us we ask him to come forward 
and under the theme built upon the foundation of  

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the apostles and prophets deliver his first 
study the apostles doctrine that's right

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dear brother ron and my dear brethren and sisters 
and young people it doesn't need me to tell you  

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that i come with the great uh feeling of our 
brethren and sisters of our clitoris in south  

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australia and australia too we know that we're in 
difficult times and that news has come across the  

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oceans and has brought concern and and so i bring 
our love the love of all of us in australia to you  

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this morning and as i uh just look around and 
see your faces i'm reminded of just how many  

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i know so well and for quite a lot of years 
and it's lovely to see you and i can only  

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pray and hope my dear brothers and sisters that 
although we know we've got some difficult times  

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we're in them yet nevertheless we 
can find our way in the help of god  

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to find a solution to what must be found a 
solution to our problems we must find a solution

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our reading has taken us back to our origins  

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back to the very beginnings of christianity 
to the gospel that was preached in the name  

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of the lord jesus christ and after 
peter had completed his address

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there was a sense of wonder as to whatever 
they could do with themselves they  

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they had come to realize that that messiah 
had come and they had crucified him  

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and what kind of guilt was that and so 
in verse 37 when they heard this it says  

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they were pricked in their heart and said 
unto peter and to the rest of the apostles  

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men and brethren what shall we do what shall 
we do and so peter said to them in verse 38  

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repent and be baptized every one of you in the 
name of jesus christ for the remission of sins  

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and ye shall receive the gift of the holy spirit 
for the promises unto you and to your children  

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and to all that arafat even as many as the lord 
our god shall call and with many other words that  

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he testified exhort saying save yourselves from 
this untoward generation how would you feel if  

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through his discourse you come to realize that 
that was indeed messiah and you were implicated  

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in the murder that had taken place of messiah 
well four thousand it says three thousand  

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were baptized in verse 41 it 
tells us that three thousand

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they that gladly received his 
word were baptized in the same day  

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they were added unto them 
about three thousand souls

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when were they baptized

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they were baptized when they had gladly 
received his word that's the simple explanation

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so baptism was predicated upon 
belief in the gospel preached  

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we all understand that that's 
crystal delphin's it's what they do

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these people of course were not ignorant of a 
lot of things in the record of scripture but  

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they had for the most part almost all of them 
i suppose had a childhood that was brought up

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in the atmosphere of the 
scriptures of the prophets

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but it was a very new thing for them to hear  

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of the message of the word of 
god shining upon an individual  

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in a way that they'd never heard before it was a 
very new thing it was the first official preaching  

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of salvation in the name of jesus 
christ and the implication was  

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that there was salvation and 
not in what they'd had before  

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this people of god that trusted so much in 
what they were what the nation was and the  

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calling of god sons of abraham and now there 
was an indisputable address that had been given  

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and they had to change they had to 
react to that which had been given  

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they were in fact responsible for the the greatest 
tragedy and sin that had ever been in earth's  

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history and they had to respond to what peter had 
said so it was a it was a huge new development

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peter's discourse was absolutely 
unanswerable i know that we know  

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this mighty princess but just sketch the 
force and power of it again in our minds

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he had presented the facts concerning jesus 
of nazareth in verse 22 about his life  

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and his life was just colored with 
miracles whether it was in in galilee  

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or whether it was in judea and jerusalem approved 
of god therefore he was approved to god among you  

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by miracles and wonders and signs which god did by 
him in the midst of you as ye yourselves also know

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well you know what happened at the end of his 
life he was delivered by the determinate counsel  

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and for knowledge of god and ye have taken 
him by wicked hands of crucified and slain  

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and whilst that was a tragic 
sin of mankind yet nevertheless  

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there was purpose therein it was by the 
determinant counsel for knowledge of god

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well the third phase was also indisputable 
whom god hath raised up having loosed the  

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pains of death because it was not possible it 
was not possible that he should be holding of it  

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this was a righteous man and attested to by god 
when he raised him from the earth so there's  

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how he had lived this is what we did 
and yet god has given him life again  

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the seal of approval was upon him he was a living 
person all the stories were known about about the  

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ceiling of the stone and the soldiers placed there 
the complete chaos that was rendered to the the  

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house of the high priests nobody could deny it 
and so peter brought up the quotation from psalm  

00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:41.520 align:start position:0%
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16 verses 25 to 28 obviously a key passage 
it's it's quoted out here in full isn't it  

00:24:42.800 --> 00:24:49.200 align:start position:0%
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and it goes from the time of his manhood and 
living before god when he put his hand in god's  

00:24:50.320 --> 00:24:54.240 align:start position:0%
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i foresaw the lord always before 
my face for he is in my right hand  

00:24:55.120 --> 00:25:03.200 align:start position:0%
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that i should not be moved so he kept god 
at his right hand and though death came  

00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:12.000 align:start position:0%
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his flesh would rest in hope because he would 
be shortly after raised from corruption verse  

00:25:13.840 --> 00:25:20.560 align:start position:0%
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and given life verse 28 if you want to know 
where he is he's at the right hand of god thou  

00:25:20.560 --> 00:25:28.880 align:start position:0%
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shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance 
he put god at his right hand and god put him  

00:25:29.600 --> 00:25:37.440 align:start position:0%
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at his right hand how could you answer that 
could it apply to anyone else not possible  

00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:42.880 align:start position:0%
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david who wrote the psalm 
sepulcher is with us unto this day  

00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:50.240 align:start position:0%
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how do we explain that then says peter well you 
know the promise made to david verse 30 god hath  

00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:54.560 align:start position:0%
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swarmed with an oath to him that of the fruit of 
his loins according to the flesh he would raise  

00:25:54.560 --> 00:26:00.560 align:start position:0%
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up christ to sit on his throne he's saying this 
before spake of the resurrection of the christ  

00:26:02.560 --> 00:26:09.760 align:start position:0%
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that's who he is the resurrection of the christ 
that his soul was not left in hell neither his  

00:26:09.760 --> 00:26:18.480 align:start position:0%
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flesh did see corruption and in every phase of 
that requirement of psalm 16 and jesus of nazareth  

00:26:19.040 --> 00:26:24.560 align:start position:0%
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shone true and so he could bring the matter 
to a head as it were in verse 32 and say  

00:26:24.560 --> 00:26:31.680 align:start position:0%
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this jesus hath god raised up 
into a tumultuous number of people  

00:26:33.280 --> 00:26:37.520 align:start position:0%
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whereof we are all witnesses and 
there wasn't a voice that protested  

00:26:37.520 --> 00:26:42.320 align:start position:0%
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often say to people that want to ridicule 
christianity they need to read acts chapter 2  

00:26:43.280 --> 00:26:49.760 align:start position:0%
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because when the evidence was fresh and plenteous 
when the enemies were at their sharpest edge  

00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:57.440 align:start position:0%
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and when they were gathered in that assembly 
there was a voice that croaked there was not  

00:26:57.440 --> 00:27:01.200 align:start position:0%
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a single person that could take 
on the witness of what he said

00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:09.120 align:start position:0%
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and they had everything to lose as they 
saw it but not a single person made a word  

00:27:11.040 --> 00:27:16.000 align:start position:0%
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jesus of nazareth had fulfilled the 
requirements of my messiah and whilst  

00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:22.880 align:start position:0%
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that was a shock to to perhaps the larger 
part of the audience who did understand that

00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:26.800 align:start position:0%
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they didn't understand it like that at all

00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:33.440 align:start position:0%
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they'd gone off to emmaus and said but we 
thought that it had been he that would have  

00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:40.640 align:start position:0%
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redeemed his rabbit what's happened he's he's died 
the understanding of that was almost not there all  

00:27:42.080 --> 00:27:48.160 align:start position:0%
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and yet now peter was putting it foot to them 
and they simply couldn't bypass his argument  

00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:58.240 align:start position:0%
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this was the beginning of our ecclesiastes 
where we come from we are people of the book

00:28:01.360 --> 00:28:09.600 align:start position:0%
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well what happens when you bring 3 000 people 
into the body of christ well it was a new body  

00:28:09.600 --> 00:28:16.640 align:start position:0%
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wasn't it in that sense this was new the course 
hadn't been cut there was no one to borrow from  

00:28:17.600 --> 00:28:23.920 align:start position:0%
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what do you do with 3 000 that have just been 
baptized where are they going how do they meet  

00:28:25.040 --> 00:28:30.960 align:start position:0%
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and what's the cause of their new life 
they're no longer part of the perhaps  

00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:35.360 align:start position:0%
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one or two million people that were gathered 
in that city that day as josephus tells us

00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:40.400 align:start position:0%
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but they had all kinds of friends

00:28:41.520 --> 00:28:52.880 align:start position:0%
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relatives three thousand now have a a new calling 
they're in a different body how will they go  

00:28:52.880 --> 00:29:00.320 align:start position:0%
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what will guide them in that circumstance 
well we're told they continued steadfastly  

00:29:00.320 --> 00:29:11.840 align:start position:0%
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in the apostles doctrine and fellowship 
and in breaking of bread and in prayers

00:29:13.120 --> 00:29:20.800 align:start position:0%
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it was a new community and there's the four 
signal things that i mentioned in that verse

00:29:23.360 --> 00:29:26.160 align:start position:0%
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what was the apostles doctrine 
my dear brother and sisters  

00:29:28.080 --> 00:29:32.880 align:start position:0%
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it was a huge new jump wasn't it we've 
just sketched it for that purpose  

00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:39.840 align:start position:0%
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no one really understood that 
messiah had to go through that path  

00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:48.400 align:start position:0%
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that was the apostles doctrine it was a doctrine 
of life by resurrection it was a doctrine  

00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:54.320 align:start position:0%
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that said the flesh profits nothing it was a 
doctrine that said not my will but thine be done  

00:29:55.200 --> 00:30:00.560 align:start position:0%
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it was a doctrine that accepted that the old 
testament had indicated that's what would happen

00:30:03.120 --> 00:30:10.240 align:start position:0%
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it was a doctrine that said that god will raise 
his people from the earth that hope would be by  

00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:17.200 align:start position:0%
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resurrection and that the lord jesus christ 
would then go to the right hand of his father  

00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:22.640 align:start position:0%
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and he would be a mediated between god 
and men and that he would be there until  

00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:27.280 align:start position:0%
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he should make his enemies his footstool 
do you believe all that of course we do

00:30:29.760 --> 00:30:36.560 align:start position:0%
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that's christodophian teaching isn't it every 
spot of it that was the apostles doctrine

00:30:38.800 --> 00:30:46.080 align:start position:0%
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they were the teachers they were greatly respected 
in the whole atmosphere of jerusalem at that time  

00:30:46.080 --> 00:30:54.080 align:start position:0%
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look at verse 43 fear came upon every soul and 
many wonders and signs were done by the apostles  

00:30:55.760 --> 00:30:59.920 align:start position:0%
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can you see them picture 
them highly respected people  

00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:09.040 align:start position:0%
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what fishermen a few days before or so people 
thought galilean accent in their voice highly  

00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:17.840 align:start position:0%
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highly incredulous really that they could ever 
be standing in this forum of israel's public life  

00:31:19.840 --> 00:31:23.600 align:start position:0%
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and you're about catching fish but here 
they are right out there in the middle  

00:31:23.600 --> 00:31:29.600 align:start position:0%
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of the public's eye it was an amazing thing 
that god did wasn't it you and i would never  

00:31:29.600 --> 00:31:35.840 align:start position:0%
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thought he would go that way but he did go 
that way and now these men are setting forth  

00:31:35.840 --> 00:31:42.640 align:start position:0%
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these teachings that had not been re understood 
by the people of israel nor by their teachers  

00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:49.040 align:start position:0%
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and now it's this group of fishermen these 
galileans that are all that that are stealing  

00:31:49.040 --> 00:31:59.840 align:start position:0%
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the show as it were in the very center of 
their nation look at chapter 4 and verse 30.

00:32:04.800 --> 00:32:12.080 align:start position:0%
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it says there in verse 30 of chapter 4 
after they return from the prison this  

00:32:12.080 --> 00:32:17.520 align:start position:0%
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is their prayer verse 29 and now lord behold 
their threatenings and grant unto thy servants  

00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:24.240 align:start position:0%
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of all boldness they may speak unto they may 
speak thy word by stretching forth thine hand  

00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:29.600 align:start position:0%
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to heal and that signs and wonders may be 
done by the name of thy holy child jesus  

00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:34.640 align:start position:0%
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and when they had prayed the place was shaken 
where they were assembled together and they were  

00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:39.600 align:start position:0%
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all filled with the holy spirit and they spake 
the word of god with holiness with boldness  

00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:49.280 align:start position:0%
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it was an amazing thing the whole city was 
aware of this new body of christ this new  

00:32:49.280 --> 00:32:55.840 align:start position:0%
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group of people that had been called out because 
of the effect of the doctrine that they had heard  

00:32:56.640 --> 00:33:03.200 align:start position:0%
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in chapter 5 and verse 12. by the hands of 
the apostles were many signs and wonders  

00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:08.320 align:start position:0%
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wrought among the people they're all with 
one accord in solomon sports there's a great  

00:33:08.320 --> 00:33:12.960 align:start position:0%
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interest in what he was saying things 
were happening around the apostles  

00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:20.160 align:start position:0%
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and people came to realize that that's 
how it was god was stamping those men  

00:33:21.360 --> 00:33:26.560 align:start position:0%
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from such simple backgrounds he was stamping 
them with the authority of his own commission  

00:33:27.360 --> 00:33:35.280 align:start position:0%
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it was going to be those men that would 
teach the world the gospel of life in his son

00:33:37.760 --> 00:33:44.000 align:start position:0%
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would you have ever chosen it like that it was 
the most amazing thing chapter 6 and verse 12 2  

00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:48.560 align:start position:0%
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what were they about the 12 called the multitude 
of the disciples unto them and said it is not  

00:33:48.560 --> 00:33:54.960 align:start position:0%
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reason that we should leave the word of god and 
serve tables they were busy as chapter four in  

00:33:54.960 --> 00:34:01.040 align:start position:0%
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chapter five and this chapter indicates in 
preaching the word administering the word  

00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:05.840 align:start position:0%
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the truth was coming from those teachers

00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:13.200 align:start position:0%
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they were divinely appointed it wasn't because 
they got up to speak what they thought they  

00:34:13.200 --> 00:34:20.880 align:start position:0%
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might want to say it was because god was working 
through that body of people there was the baptisms  

00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:30.720 align:start position:0%
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here was the continuing then in the doctrine 
of the apostles so appointed it was definite  

00:34:32.240 --> 00:34:38.800 align:start position:0%
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the things they taught were the gospel 
and it was sure and well stamped  

00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:46.320 align:start position:0%
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had the divine seal upon it and we just glanced 
through some of those expressions of teaching in  

00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:52.640 align:start position:0%
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chapter two just to see my dear brothers and 
sisters as a kind of reassurance to us all  

00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:59.280 align:start position:0%
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that they are just what we believe aren't they we 
don't have to move one inch from those teaching  

00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:05.200 align:start position:0%
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they're exactly what we believe and you go 
through the acts of the apostles and it's  

00:35:05.200 --> 00:35:11.520 align:start position:0%
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the same field all the way through we're not going 
to collate them all just just so that we get that  

00:35:11.520 --> 00:35:20.320 align:start position:0%
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that sense of confirmation look at chapter three 
this is another occasion but it's again it's peter

00:35:26.080 --> 00:35:32.800 align:start position:0%
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who else would put it this way the god of 
abraham verse 13 and of isaac and of jacob  

00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:44.400 align:start position:0%
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the god of our fathers hath glorified his servant 
his son jesus whom he delivered up and denied him  

00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:50.720 align:start position:0%
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the presence of pilate when he's when he was 
determined to let him go you feel at home in  

00:35:50.720 --> 00:35:57.840 align:start position:0%
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that but he denied the holy one and the just 
and desired a murderer to be granted unto you

00:35:59.920 --> 00:36:01.680 align:start position:0%
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and killed the prince of life

00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:07.760 align:start position:0%
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whom god hath raised from the 
dead whereof we are witnesses  

00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:15.440 align:start position:0%
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the death and the resurrection of the 
son of god is impregnated in those verses  

00:36:16.640 --> 00:36:22.880 align:start position:0%
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he could die because he was the son of god not god 
the son do you feel at home and the understanding  

00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:28.400 align:start position:0%
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of those verses my dear brethren sisters that the 
god of abraham and of isaac and of jacob did that  

00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:34.960 align:start position:0%
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as he promised is that not the abrahamic 
promises sketched into into peter's words

00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:43.040 align:start position:0%
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and an all-encompassing verse verse 18 it 
says but those things which god before had  

00:36:43.040 --> 00:36:51.440 align:start position:0%
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showed by the mouth of all his prophets that 
messiah should suffer he hath so fulfilled  

00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:58.800 align:start position:0%
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is that our point of reference do we love our old 
testament do we love the words of the prophets

00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:08.000 align:start position:0%
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not an ordinary people there's not too 
many that have that persuasion anymore  

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:14.400 align:start position:0%
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but that's us absolutely us from our very 
earliest beginnings till now that's us  

00:37:15.600 --> 00:37:22.880 align:start position:0%
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this is the same record that we love and the 
same points are coming out but he's coming again  

00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:28.640 align:start position:0%
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verse 19 repent you therefore and be converted 
that your sins may be blotted out when the times  

00:37:28.640 --> 00:37:34.960 align:start position:0%
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of refreshing shall come from the presence of the 
lord and as your sin jesus christ which before was  

00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:42.240 align:start position:0%
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preached unto you whom the heaven must receive 
until the times of restitution of all things  

00:37:43.200 --> 00:37:49.840 align:start position:0%
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which god has spoken by the mouth of all his 
holy prophets since the world began phase two  

00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:57.280 align:start position:0%
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there were sections in the prophets that spoke 
about the death of messiah and of his resurrection  

00:37:58.240 --> 00:38:01.760 align:start position:0%
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and there were other sections of 
the word of god in the prophets  

00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:07.760 align:start position:0%
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that spoke about his glorious return but who 
would use the expression restitution restitution  

00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:14.560 align:start position:0%
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of all things christadelphian would but tell 
me another who would bother to put it that way  

00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:23.840 align:start position:0%
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peter did the apostles did their teaching did it's 
a christadelphian comprehension it doesn't let go  

00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:32.240 align:start position:0%
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of the old testament who attends the first page 
but it notes that in the very first the very first

00:38:32.240 --> 00:38:35.200 align:start position:0%
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very first sentence of the new testament  

00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:44.640 align:start position:0%
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this is the generation of jesus christ the son 
of david the son of abraham you're glad of that  

00:38:45.680 --> 00:38:51.120 align:start position:0%
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that heritage my dear brothers and sisters does 
it ring true to what we are and where we stand and  

00:38:51.120 --> 00:38:59.840 align:start position:0%
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where we always have stood it's the same message 
isn't it who else cares about that in the same way

00:39:03.680 --> 00:39:10.400 align:start position:0%
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so his descent and his coming again is shown to 
us and that there will be a restoration of the  

00:39:11.120 --> 00:39:20.720 align:start position:0%
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kingdom of israel so the promise was first to 
the jews and then to the gentiles understand that  

00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:27.840 align:start position:0%
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don't have any trouble doing we perfectly 
understand that come to acts chapter 8.

00:39:40.240 --> 00:39:47.360 align:start position:0%
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in acts chapter 8 the record hovers it waits 
to tell us a number of times about the gifts  

00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:56.160 align:start position:0%
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of the holy spirit but what is philip teaching 
up there in samaria when they believe verse 12  

00:39:57.200 --> 00:40:00.720 align:start position:0%
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philip preaching the things 
concerning the kingdom of god  

00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:09.520 align:start position:0%
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and the name of jesus christ they were baptized 
both men and women same teaching same as acts  

00:40:09.520 --> 00:40:16.480 align:start position:0%
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chapter two and three same as our young people 
our interested friends learn when they learn  

00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:23.920 align:start position:0%
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the truth through our christadelphian ecclesias 
same facts isn't it things of the kingdom things  

00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:30.000 align:start position:0%
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of the name it's there in chapter 28 it's there 
in chapter 8. that's what was taught in samaria  

00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:38.880 align:start position:0%
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apostles doctrine they continued steadfastly 
in that that's what it was the same things that  

00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:45.280 align:start position:0%
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you and i have always loved and always understood 
since we were that high we were told to learn the  

00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:53.120 align:start position:0%
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promises to make to abraham we did we could still 
parrot them off today if we were asked couldn't we  

00:40:54.320 --> 00:41:00.080 align:start position:0%
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what about the holy spirit gifts when they would 
come down verse 19 the apostles they prayed for  

00:41:00.080 --> 00:41:04.560 align:start position:0%
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them that they might receive the holy spirit for 
as yet he was fallen upon none of them only they  

00:41:04.560 --> 00:41:09.600 align:start position:0%
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were baptized in the name of the lord jesus 
then lay they their hands on them and they  

00:41:09.600 --> 00:41:15.600 align:start position:0%
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received the holy spirit and when simon saw that 
through the laying on of the apostles hands the  

00:41:15.600 --> 00:41:21.840 align:start position:0%
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holy spirit was given he offered them money 
saying give me also this power that on whom  

00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:28.160 align:start position:0%
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i lay hands he may receive the holy spirit but 
he didn't get it the holy spirit in the ability  

00:41:28.160 --> 00:41:32.480 align:start position:0%
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to convey that to others was in the hands of 
the apostles is that what you teach on sundays  

00:41:33.040 --> 00:41:40.160 align:start position:0%
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of course it is that's what we've always said 
who else says that what did the apostles teach  

00:41:41.200 --> 00:41:45.840 align:start position:0%
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that's what they taught they taught that 
the power of the gifts of the holy spirit  

00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:51.120 align:start position:0%
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were limited to the lifetime of the 
apostles and they were distributed widely  

00:41:51.120 --> 00:41:58.400 align:start position:0%
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among the disciples at that time well many people 
were baptized and so also was the ethiopian eunuch  

00:41:59.200 --> 00:42:04.640 align:start position:0%
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and so we read in verse 36 and as they went 
on their way they came unto a certain water  

00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:11.520 align:start position:0%
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water and the eunuch said see here is 
water what doth hinder me to be baptized  

00:42:13.200 --> 00:42:19.920 align:start position:0%
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and so there was a need for water verse 
38 he commanded the chariot to stand still  

00:42:20.560 --> 00:42:25.920 align:start position:0%
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and they went down both of them into the 
water both philip and the eunuch and he  

00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:31.760 align:start position:0%
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baptized him is that what you believe is that 
what christodolphians always have held about  

00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:38.560 align:start position:0%
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baptism that it's by immersion and by 
full immersion when there's understanding  

00:42:39.200 --> 00:42:44.400 align:start position:0%
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as in a man that in his chariot was reading the 
record of scripture just as he was traveling home  

00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:53.040 align:start position:0%
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of course it is well my dear brethren we 
begin to realize that what the apostles taught  

00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:58.640 align:start position:0%
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was really the same that you and i believe 
and here we are right at the end of  

00:42:59.200 --> 00:43:01.600 align:start position:0%
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gentile times and we've still got it

00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:11.680 align:start position:0%
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go outside you can't find it there i'll tell 
you that the holy spirit's coming down and  

00:43:11.680 --> 00:43:19.200 align:start position:0%
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bucket loads all over the place go and see if it 
is it's a falsehood it's not there i've been i've  

00:43:19.200 --> 00:43:26.160 align:start position:0%
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been a number of times not there what they claim 
just doesn't happen old lady can come up with her  

00:43:26.160 --> 00:43:30.720 align:start position:0%
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with her deafness and she goes out as deaf as 
she was when she came but there's a show made

00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:41.280 align:start position:0%
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to the audience and so it goes on so 
that what we have is a very remarkable  

00:43:42.080 --> 00:43:49.760 align:start position:0%
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consistent follow-through of teaching that has 
come to our hands what a claiming miraculous  

00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:56.000 align:start position:0%
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intervention of god but we are claiming that by 
a reasonable comprehension of what the apostles  

00:43:56.000 --> 00:44:02.880 align:start position:0%
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taught what was the apostles doctrine is something 
that we've had in our community ever since it was

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now i can't i can't measure the calling of god 
my dear brothers and sisters and neither can  

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any of us but i'm not going to leave that i'm not 
going to divert from that to say well i don't know  

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whether it really was it is that's the facts and 
as you go down through the acts of the apostles  

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you find time and time again that has the old 
ring of what you've always learned as a christian

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look at the chapter 10.

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this is the conversion of the first gentile in 
cornelius how god anointed jesus verse 38 a lot  

00:44:49.600 --> 00:44:56.960 align:start position:0%
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of things in this verse how god anointed jesus 
of nazareth with the holy spirit and with power  

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who went about doing good and healing all that 
were oppressed of the devil for god was with him  

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we are witnesses of all these things which he 
did in the land of the jews and in jerusalem  

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whom they slew and hanged on a tree him hath 
god raised up the third day showed him openly  

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all the things we've ever believed 
and verse 42 that he's to be  

00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:25.360 align:start position:0%
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judge of quick and dead he's to 
return and be judged upon the earth

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that's a long list we've got now if we happen to 
sketch them out from all these passages it's a  

00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:43.920 align:start position:0%
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long list chapter 13 and this is by no means 
comprehensive you could make many you could  

00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:51.200 align:start position:0%
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double it up but just to give us the sense when 
he had removed him verse 22 of chapter 13 in  

00:45:51.200 --> 00:45:58.240 align:start position:0%
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the synagogue synagogue at antiochus when he had 
removed him that soul he raised up unto them david  

00:45:59.040 --> 00:46:06.640 align:start position:0%
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to be their king to whom also he gave testimony 
and said i have found david the son of jesse  

00:46:07.200 --> 00:46:14.720 align:start position:0%
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a man after my own heart which shall 
fulfill all my will of this man's seed  

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hath god according to his promise 
raised unto israel a savior jesus  

00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:30.400 align:start position:0%
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raised unto israel a savior jesus 
of this man's seed had he done that  

00:46:31.040 --> 00:46:35.440 align:start position:0%
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is there anybody that doesn't know how that 
happened and why it happened or where it's written  

00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:41.760 align:start position:0%
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what is second to samuel 7 all about we all know 
those things that's the crux of what he's saying  

00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:47.600 align:start position:0%
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here in the synagogue at antioch and now we're in 
the lands of the gentiles same doctrine apostles  

00:46:47.600 --> 00:46:52.960 align:start position:0%
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doctrine it's not swerving is it it's straight 
ahead whether it's in antioch or whether it's in  

00:46:53.520 --> 00:47:00.080 align:start position:0%
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antioch of syria whichever place it might be it's 
the same testimony that is there and so it goes on

00:47:02.240 --> 00:47:03.280 align:start position:0%
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in chapter 14

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and saying sirs verse 15 this is the crowd and 
lystra sirs why do you thee do these things we  

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also are men of like passions with you preach 
unto you that you should turn from these vanities  

00:47:18.080 --> 00:47:24.560 align:start position:0%
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unto the living god who evolved the world and 
to the living god which made heaven and earth  

00:47:24.560 --> 00:47:29.280 align:start position:0%
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and the sea and all things that are in it's 
beautiful to read it isn't it the certainty of  

00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:38.320 align:start position:0%
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those things who else thinks like that a few left 
but it's never not been like that with us is it  

00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:42.960 align:start position:0%
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this is the apostle doctrine this 
is what they taught it's very plain  

00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:49.120 align:start position:0%
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to read it's thrilling to see that that's the 
substance of our heritage in the mercy of god  

00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:55.040 align:start position:0%
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chapter 5 15 and verse 5 but then i wrote 
up certain of the sect of the pharisees  

00:47:55.040 --> 00:48:00.400 align:start position:0%
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which believed saying that it was needful to 
circumcise them and to ca command them to keep  

00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:05.840 align:start position:0%
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the law of moses that's not our understanding 
is it that we should keep the law of moses  

00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:13.120 align:start position:0%
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but there are people from time to time in christ 
in christianity who have burdened their disciples  

00:48:13.120 --> 00:48:22.000 align:start position:0%
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with an adhesion to the law of moses but not so 
within us after this verse 16 i will return and  

00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:26.960 align:start position:0%
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will build again the tabernacle of david which has 
fallen down and will build again the ruins thereof  

00:48:26.960 --> 00:48:32.080 align:start position:0%
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and i will set it up that the residue of men might 
seek after the lord is that christodorf in faith  

00:48:33.680 --> 00:48:38.720 align:start position:0%
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it's wonderful isn't it do you feel that a sense 
of thankfulness to god that you've got that  

00:48:40.160 --> 00:48:43.440 align:start position:0%
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there's no doubt about the words the 
obvious as you could ever make them  

00:48:44.080 --> 00:48:50.240 align:start position:0%
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well i think we should be mighty thankful for 
that we're a long long way away from it we're more  

00:48:50.240 --> 00:48:58.240 align:start position:0%
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than 1900 years away from it and yet we are here 
today to assemble today as people who believe that  

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i'm sure as fervently as 
they did in the first century

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sometimes in the writings of the apostles you 
can almost feel like a list of things as being  

00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:21.200 align:start position:0%
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enumerated a bit like we've been gathering 
that little list there have a look in titus

00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:31.920 align:start position:0%
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did you ever think this sounded a bit like a sort 
of a reduced statement of faith things of the  

00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:37.920 align:start position:0%
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kingdom and things of the name it is a bit like 
that it's often occurred to me that it's like that  

00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:42.640 align:start position:0%
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the apostle wrote these 
words he must have been kind  

00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:51.120 align:start position:0%
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summarizing you know the the the high points 
of error of our comprehension verse 11 to 14.  

00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:58.080 align:start position:0%
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look at the number of things that you just 
tick off alongside our statement of faith  

00:49:58.080 --> 00:50:04.720 align:start position:0%
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for the grace of god that bringeth salvation 
hath appeared to all men teaching us

00:50:07.040 --> 00:50:11.840 align:start position:0%
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teaching us that denying 
ungodliness and worldly lusts  

00:50:13.200 --> 00:50:20.560 align:start position:0%
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we should live soberly righteously and godly 
in this present world separate from the world

00:50:23.120 --> 00:50:29.280 align:start position:0%
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looking for the kingdom looking for that blessed 
hope and the glorious appearing of the great god  

00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:35.600 align:start position:0%
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and our savior jesus christ is that our home

00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:41.200 align:start position:0%
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did he die once who gave himself for us  

00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:51.280 align:start position:0%
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he wasn't god the son he was the son of god that 
gave his life he gave himself who had the problem  

00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:59.280 align:start position:0%
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wheat had the problem he gave himself 
for us that he might redeem us

00:51:01.520 --> 00:51:12.000 align:start position:0%
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from all iniquity and purify unto himself 
a peculiar people yet zealous of good works  

00:51:13.040 --> 00:51:18.080 align:start position:0%
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you don't want to read that quickly do there's a 
certain beauty in reading that carefully through  

00:51:18.080 --> 00:51:22.800 align:start position:0%
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because every bit of that's filling in the 
picture isn't it you can just feel that picture  

00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:29.440 align:start position:0%
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being filled in as neat as it is things of the 
kingdom and things of the name our qualities of  

00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:34.960 align:start position:0%
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life our response to what christ has done very 
beautiful statement in the first thessalonians  

00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:40.800 align:start position:0%
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do i think there's a shorter version but i'm 
sure the apostle paul was summarizing things

00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:48.560 align:start position:0%
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so in verse nine and ten and 
first of thessalonians chapter one  

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for they themselves show of us what 
manner of entering in we had unto you  

00:51:55.520 --> 00:52:04.240 align:start position:0%
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and how ye turned from god from idols to serve 
the living and true god one god the living  

00:52:04.240 --> 00:52:11.120 align:start position:0%
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and true god and what about his 
son to wait for his son from heaven  

00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:20.320 align:start position:0%
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whom he raised from the dead he was truly dead 
even jesus which delivered us from the wrath  

00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:25.200 align:start position:0%
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to come the judgments of god that have come all 
of that you take for granted don't take it for  

00:52:25.200 --> 00:52:34.320 align:start position:0%
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granted we're a rare and privileged people that we 
have that as the basic understanding of our faith

00:52:37.120 --> 00:52:44.400 align:start position:0%
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well not only did the apostles preach that 
doctrine with all those common features that are  

00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:51.520 align:start position:0%
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ours as well thank our heavenly father but they 
also realized it would not be easy to retain that

00:52:53.600 --> 00:52:59.840 align:start position:0%
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not really surprising but take acts chapter 20.

00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:10.080 align:start position:0%
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here the apostle paul says in just one 
passage of well there must be fifty of them  

00:53:10.080 --> 00:53:16.640 align:start position:0%
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where the apostle paul warns the 
disciples not to depart from that teaching  

00:53:18.160 --> 00:53:25.520 align:start position:0%
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verse 27 for i have not shunned to declare unto 
you all the counsel of god take heed therefore  

00:53:25.520 --> 00:53:31.440 align:start position:0%
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unto yourselves into and to the flock over the 
which the holy spirit hath made you overseers  

00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:39.520 align:start position:0%
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to feed the ecclesia of god take heed therefore 
unto yourself not going to be easy to keep it  

00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:46.800 align:start position:0%
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judaizers in ephesus we're speaking to the elders 
here in ephesus and they're active and powerful  

00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:52.400 align:start position:0%
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people strong-minded people and desperate 
people will take you off course if they can  

00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:56.560 align:start position:0%
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will shift the direction of the ecclesia if they 
could they take the apostles life if they could  

00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:02.400 align:start position:0%
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i cease not to warn you night and day with 
tears for three years the apostle says

00:54:07.120 --> 00:54:11.280 align:start position:0%
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so we're never going to have it just 
drifting along as we might like it  

00:54:12.320 --> 00:54:21.440 align:start position:0%
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there's always been a warfare to preserve 
the truth for i know that after my departing  

00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:28.640 align:start position:0%
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shall grievous wolves enter in among you not 
sparing the flock also of your own selves  

00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:35.840 align:start position:0%
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shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw 
away disciples after them therefore watch and  

00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:42.240 align:start position:0%
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remember that by the space of three years i cease 
not to warn everyone night and day with tears  

00:54:44.240 --> 00:54:50.080 align:start position:0%
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so in our joy of having the truth we nevertheless 
have that responsibility to shoulder the  

00:54:50.080 --> 00:54:56.160 align:start position:0%
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preservation of the truth now it was not that the 
apostle paul was sort of bent on that way and the  

00:54:56.160 --> 00:55:03.120 align:start position:0%
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others weren't have a look at what peter says 
i know we know these things my dear and sisters  

00:55:03.120 --> 00:55:10.000 align:start position:0%
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but just now and again it really pays to come and 
read them again doesn't it in the second of peter  

00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:21.440 align:start position:0%
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chapter 3 and verse 2 we find that this message 
of warning be awake be mindful watch out preserve  

00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:28.720 align:start position:0%
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stand by is all through the apostolic advice 
part of their teaching part of their doctrine  

00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:34.320 align:start position:0%
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so ii peter 3 and verse 2 that ye may be 
mindful of the words which were spoken  

00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:38.000 align:start position:0%
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before by the holy prophets and of 
the commandment of us the apostles  

00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:42.400 align:start position:0%
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of the lord and savior the commandment 
of the apostles of our lord and savior

00:55:44.880 --> 00:55:50.160 align:start position:0%
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he's stirring up their minds by way of 
remembrance and saying verse 3 knowing  

00:55:50.160 --> 00:55:55.920 align:start position:0%
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this first that there shall come in the last days 
scoffers walking after their own lusts and saying  

00:55:57.200 --> 00:56:02.000 align:start position:0%
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where is the promise of his coming 
for since the fathers fell asleep all  

00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:06.160 align:start position:0%
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things continue as they were from the 
beginning of the creation which is just about  

00:56:07.120 --> 00:56:13.680 align:start position:0%
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what you could say evolution is and all of our 
last days have been in the culture of evolution  

00:56:13.680 --> 00:56:18.080 align:start position:0%
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we've had to live our ecclesial lives in that 
brother thomas sort of got the ecclesiastes  

00:56:18.080 --> 00:56:26.480 align:start position:0%
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going in the late 1840s and darwin had his book 
out in 1860 we've lived through all of that

00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:33.120 align:start position:0%
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uniformitarianism this is just another 
word for it everything's just drifting on  

00:56:33.120 --> 00:56:39.680 align:start position:0%
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god's not intervening there's no 
climax that's our world isn't it was  

00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:45.680 align:start position:0%
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peter right and we're right in the thick of that 
we're in the very thick of all of those things  

00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:52.800 align:start position:0%
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but in verse 15 he says an account that 
the long suffering of our lord is salvation  

00:56:54.240 --> 00:56:57.840 align:start position:0%
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my word we need to keep that in mind 
today don't we we want him desperately  

00:56:59.120 --> 00:57:03.520 align:start position:0%
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even as our beloved brother paul also 
according to the wisdom given unto him  

00:57:04.080 --> 00:57:10.800 align:start position:0%
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hath written unto you peter and paul one to the 
gentiles one of the jews but they're they're  

00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:18.320 align:start position:0%
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in the same armor now they're in the same force 
linking up together as they always were as also in  

00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:23.920 align:start position:0%
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all his epistles speaking in them of these things 
in which are some things had to be understood true  

00:57:25.680 --> 00:57:31.920 align:start position:0%
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which they that are unlearned and unstable rest as 
they do also the other scriptures unto their own  

00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:38.960 align:start position:0%
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destruction ye therefore beloved seeing thee know 
these things before beware lest ye also being led  

00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:44.880 align:start position:0%
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away with the error of the wicked fall away from 
your own steadfastness same message isn't it a  

00:57:44.880 --> 00:57:54.000 align:start position:0%
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tremendous intense apostolic concern that the 
truth could so easily be lost if there wasn't  

00:57:54.000 --> 00:58:00.320 align:start position:0%
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this degree of carefulness and watchfulness 
and willingness to combat it when it came  

00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:05.360 align:start position:0%
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john we know the passage so well 
chapter four of his first abyssal  

00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:10.720 align:start position:0%
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beloved believe not every spirit but try the 
spirits whether they are of god because many false  

00:58:10.720 --> 00:58:18.000 align:start position:0%
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prophets have gone into the world and he gives us 
a method of identification as to how that might be

00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:24.720 align:start position:0%
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so my dear brother and sisters there 
are these things that are laid down  

00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:32.000 align:start position:0%
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as apostolic doctrine they 
continued in that they gladly heard  

00:58:33.680 --> 00:58:41.680 align:start position:0%
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they responded with open hearts they were baptized 
and they continued steadfast in that doctrine  

00:58:43.200 --> 00:58:48.000 align:start position:0%
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so that comes to us in this way doesn't 
it that we are to do the same thing  

00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:56.080 align:start position:0%
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it needs some resilience and determination it 
needs the overall cooperation of us all to do that  

00:58:57.200 --> 00:59:02.560 align:start position:0%
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apart from our present circumstances 
i mean as christodolphins that's laid  

00:59:02.560 --> 00:59:09.040 align:start position:0%
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upon us is their message our message 
was the apostles teaching our teaching

00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:22.240 align:start position:0%
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and definitely without exception it was our 
teaching as well and i can't help think my  

00:59:22.240 --> 00:59:28.400 align:start position:0%
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dear brother sisters in a world that is playing 
around with the truth in every possible way  

00:59:29.040 --> 00:59:35.520 align:start position:0%
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that that exhortation comes to us to be stable 
to be strong in the faith that we've always had  

00:59:36.640 --> 00:59:44.400 align:start position:0%
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be prepared to fight for it be prepared to 
stand for it in all of our circumstances  

00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:50.000 align:start position:0%
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wherever we might be on present questions 
that comes with common force to us all  

00:59:51.520 --> 00:59:56.800 align:start position:0%
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our beliefs which have been thankfully 
written down in our statement of faith  

00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:04.720 align:start position:0%
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where would we be without that statement of faith 
i heard someone said that we should screw it up

01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:15.280 align:start position:0%
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can you imagine that we'll talk more 
about the value of our statement of faith  

01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:21.520 align:start position:0%
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but we ought to love it we ought to 
teach our children to stand by it

01:00:25.520 --> 01:00:32.240 align:start position:0%
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our watchfulness may not need to be for a great 
time i'm sure that's true but surely it comes to  

01:00:32.240 --> 01:00:38.400 align:start position:0%
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us with a force that's greater than i can bring 
it comes to us out of those scriptures that we've  

01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:46.560 align:start position:0%
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read that we need to be strong to to stand by 
that which god has given us and be thankful i've  

01:00:46.560 --> 01:00:52.400 align:start position:0%
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seen things not about him i've seen things in 
my own country that are absolutely amazing i've  

01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:57.440 align:start position:0%
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seen people now starting to question all sorts 
of things that i never thought would ever do so

01:00:59.680 --> 01:01:01.280 align:start position:0%
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and i can't help say that i feel  

01:01:03.200 --> 01:01:11.840 align:start position:0%
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determined more than ever to tell my children and 
my grandchildren all of them about what they have  

01:01:13.120 --> 01:01:18.320 align:start position:0%
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in being a christodolphian or growing 
up in that family i don't think that's  

01:01:18.320 --> 01:01:21.920 align:start position:0%
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accident my dear brother and sister i've never 
believed that the truth is a matter of accident  

01:01:23.440 --> 01:01:30.960 align:start position:0%
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i believe it's something that god has has done for 
all of us if i can't measure how good that is i'm  

01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:38.480 align:start position:0%
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nevertheless i'm deeply thankful for that it's not 
another gospel it's not by other teachers as the  

01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:46.480 align:start position:0%
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apostle paul calls them it's something that comes 
out of the whole weight of that apostolic writing

01:01:48.800 --> 01:01:51.840 align:start position:0%
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and you all know that and 
we've all shared that together  

01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:54.800 align:start position:0%
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and i don't think we're about to let that go

01:01:58.160 --> 01:02:02.400 align:start position:0%
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i think that's a very solemn commitment 
if we are thankful for our heritage  

01:02:03.440 --> 01:02:10.400 align:start position:0%
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we are thankful for that we now have that now 
and we will surely under god preserve that  

01:02:11.600 --> 01:02:13.840 align:start position:0%
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in the right and proper 
ways which we might discuss  

01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:20.400 align:start position:0%
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i just wanted to finish with 
a little passage note this

01:02:25.200 --> 01:02:29.760 align:start position:0%
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i've always seen what i meant but 
what a beautiful passage this is

01:02:32.400 --> 01:02:40.160 align:start position:0%
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today the christodolphine community brothers 
in christ is the inheritor of a noble tradition  

01:02:41.520 --> 01:02:44.800 align:start position:0%
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by which elements of the truth 
were from century to century

01:02:46.880 --> 01:02:50.480 align:start position:0%
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hammered out on the anvil of 
controversy affliction and even anguish  

01:02:52.240 --> 01:02:55.600 align:start position:0%
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these pages may help us to 
appreciate a bible doctrine  

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that god does not establish truth by the 
counting of heads but by the trying of hearts

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and also to understand why we as 
christodophians today resist as we always have  

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the outstretched hands of broad economical unity  

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and consider as traitors any among us 
who sell their birthright for this cause  

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it's a magnificent statement isn't it the course 
has never changed so whatever we bring to our our  

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current circumstances that remains absolutely 
true hammered out on the anvil of controversy  

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you know just by here brother thomas walked just 
by here they threw his typewriter into the river

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the grand river it's the grandest moment ever had

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just by here my dear and sisters he spoke 
in lecture halls trudging all the way from  

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chicago and then from richmond and lay behind an 
understanding that's come through to you and i  

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grateful for that when he come he didn't 
come with lovely clothes and plentiful things  

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hardly had his lunch in his lunchbox shot a 
partridge to find food as he trudged away on  

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horseback on dusty or muddy roads chicago 
was a city of 6 000 people at that time  

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but he came as far as toronto and paris and 
we're not far from those places today are we  

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so in thankfulness let us reflect 
upon that which god has given us  

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and in our hearts and our minds pray 
to god that he might give us that  

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that stability and strength to persevere 
until our lord is in the earth thank you

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we will now my dear brethren sisters have a 
break there is coffee at the back of the hall and  

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drinks and there are cookies 
on the side and we ask that you  

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be back in your seats when the organ begins 
to play at about 25 after 11. thank you