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0:00Acts chapter [music] 13.
0:02Now there were at Antioch in the church
0:05that was there prophets and teachers,
0:09Barnabas and [music] Simon, who was
0:10called Niger,
0:12and Lucius of Cyrene,
0:14and Manaen, who had been brought up
0:17[music] with Herod the tetrarch, and
0:19Saul.
0:22While they were ministering to the Lord
0:24and fasting, the Holy Spirit said,
0:27"Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for
0:30the work to which I have called them."
0:34Then, when they had fasted and prayed
0:37and laid their hands on them, they sent
0:40them away.
0:42So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit,
0:45[music] they went down to Seleucia, and
0:48from there they sailed to Cyprus.
0:52So, here we have this scene. It seems
0:55abstract, but it's not.
0:57Luke is telling us
0:59that Paul and Barnabas
1:02were put into apostolic ministry in a
1:05very specific manner.
1:08The term that he uses, "sent out," that
1:11is the apostolic commissioning,
1:14apostello. They were sent out.
1:17But he tells us how they came to this.
1:20He says they were sent out by the Holy
1:23Spirit.
1:25Amen?
1:26But he tells us how the Holy Spirit
1:29worked through a plurality
1:32of an eldership that was comprised of
1:35many different gifts.
1:37So, he starts off by telling us that
1:40there were prophets and teachers.
1:44He doesn't say there were ministers who
1:46prophesied,
1:47which any minister can do situationally.
1:50And he doesn't say there were ministers
1:52who taught occasionally, which everybody
1:54must be able to teach. He says there
1:56were prophets
1:58and teachers.
2:00But you know what there wasn't? There
2:02wasn't apostles in that region.
2:05So the elders
2:06who were there gathered together and
2:09began to fast and pray to know who God
2:13was putting this mantle of apostleship
2:15on.
2:17And the Lord identified Paul and
2:19Barnabas as
2:22these apostles.
2:24And so they sent them out.
2:28Verse 4, so being sent out by the Holy
2:30Spirit
2:32they went down to Seleucia and from
2:34there they sailed to Cyprus.
2:37When they reached Salamis, they began to
2:40proclaim the word of God in the
2:42synagogues of the Jews.
2:44And they also had John, John Mark, as
2:47their helper.
2:49When they had gone through the whole
2:50island as far as Paphos, they found a
2:53magician
2:54a Jewish false prophet whose name was
2:58Bar-Jesus
3:00which means son of Jesus.
3:02Who was with the proconsul
3:05Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence.
3:09This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and
3:12sought to hear the word of God.
3:15But Elymas, the magician, for so his
3:18name is translated
3:20so the Bar-Jesus guy is also called
3:22Elymas
3:25was opposing them seeking to turn the
3:28proconsul away from the truth.
3:31So
3:32this city official, proconsul
3:35is wanting to hear the truth. Saul and
3:38Barnabas are preaching it.
3:40But this
3:42magician, this false prophet
3:45a Bar-Jesus Elymas
3:48he
3:49is trying to turn the pro Council
3:52against the faith.
3:55But Saul,
3:56who was also known as Paul,
3:59filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his
4:01gaze on him.
4:03He's about to say something to Elymas.
4:05Now,
4:06Paul means small.
4:10And
4:11his Hebrew name is Saul. It was his
4:15entire life and it still is in heaven.
4:18And that refers to his
4:21membership in the Jewish community.
4:24It refers to his
4:27participation in the tribe of Benjamin.
4:30Right?
4:32But he's also got this name Paul. And
4:34it's not a transliteration of Saul.
4:37Instead, it means small and it is his
4:42Greek name.
4:43And sometimes they would give people a
4:46name that rhymed or sounded similar to
4:49another. That's sometimes how the
4:51Hebrews,
4:52uh, they would rhyme things things
4:54together to kind of point toward each
4:55other. So, Saul and Paul sound a little
4:57bit similar to us. That may have played
4:59a part, but he had two names.
5:02And when Paul is ministering and
5:04involved deeply with the Gentiles, he's
5:06known by Paul.
5:08And when he's ministering and deeply
5:09involved with the Jews, he's known by
5:11Saul. But he has both of these names.
5:14It's just the way it is at that time.
5:18So, here is where his name starts being
5:20called Paul as soon as he starts really
5:22ministering with the Gentiles.
5:25But Saul, who was also known as Paul,
5:29filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his
5:31gaze on him, Elymas.
5:35And he said, "You are full of all deceit
5:39and fraud, you son of the devil,
5:43you enemy of all righteousness.
5:46Will you not cease to make crooked the
5:49straight ways of the Lord?
5:53This is a pretty sharp rebuke.
5:56Notice how the Bible tells us that true
5:59ministry makes the Lord's path straight.
6:04John the Baptist comes to prepare the
6:07way of the Lord.
6:08So, true ministry does the work of
6:11repentance to remove rubble and
6:14stumbling blocks out of the way so that
6:17the authority of Christ has clear access
6:20into the throne of our hearts to take
6:22his place there.
6:24But, obstructionary ministry
6:27puts stumbling blocks in front of
6:29people, raises questions that shouldn't
6:31be there, puts pitfalls that shouldn't
6:34be there.
6:35And he's not doing it because he has a
6:38burden for the proconsul. He's not doing
6:41it out of some sincere theological
6:44quandary.
6:45He's doing it because he's envious,
6:48because he has a place of influence that
6:50he fears he's about to lose.
6:53And the Apostle Paul does not look
6:55favorably upon it.
6:59So, he says to him,
7:01"You are full of all deceit and fraud,
7:05you son of the devil.
7:07You enemy of all righteousness.
7:11Will you not cease to make crooked the
7:13straight ways of the Lord? Now, behold,
7:17the hand of the Lord is upon you,
7:19and you will be blind and not see the
7:22sun for a time."
7:25You're going to
7:27obscure the light of God's word from
7:29others?
7:30You're going to make it where people
7:31don't glory in the word of truth in the
7:34preaching of the gospel of God?
7:36Well, guess what? The light's going to
7:38go out in your own life.
7:43And immediately a mist and a darkness
7:46fell upon him
7:48and he went about seeking those who
7:50would lead him by the hand.
7:53Then the proconsul believed when he saw
7:56what had happened
7:57being amazed at the teaching of the
8:00Lord.
8:02It all became clear, didn't it?
8:06Now Paul and his companions put out to
8:10sea from Paphos
8:12and came to Perga
8:14in Pamphylia.
8:16But John left them and returned to
8:19Jerusalem. That is the young man John
8:21Mark who was supposed to be their
8:23helper, their aid.
8:26But going on from Perga
8:29they arrived at Pisidian Antioch and on
8:31the Sabbath day they went into the
8:33synagogue and sat down.
8:36After the reading of the law and the
8:38prophets, the synagogue officials sent
8:40to them saying, "Brethren,
8:42if you have any word of exhortation for
8:44the people, say it."
8:48Paul stood up and motioning with his
8:50hand
8:51said, "Men of Israel."
8:53So, motioning with his hand, Luke is
8:55giving us an insight that Paul in his
8:59preaching he was demonstrative. He used
9:02his hands.
9:04"Men of Israel and you who fear God,
9:07listen.
9:08The God of this people Israel chose our
9:11fathers
9:13and made the people great during their
9:15stay in the land of Egypt.
9:17And with an uplifted arm
9:19he led them out from it.
9:23For a period of about 40 years he put up
9:25with them in the wilderness.
9:28When he had destroyed seven nations in
9:30the land of Canaan he distributed their
9:33land as an inheritance all of which took
9:36about 450 years.
9:40After these things, he gave them judges
9:42until Samuel the prophet.
9:44Then they asked for a king, and God gave
9:47them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the
9:50tribe of Benjamin, for 40 years.
9:54After he had removed him, he raised up
9:56David to be their king, concerning whom
9:59he also testified and said, "I have
10:01found David, the son of Jesse, a man
10:04after my heart, who will do all my
10:07will."
10:10From the descendants of this man,
10:12according to promise, God has brought to
10:15Israel a savior, Jesus.
10:20After John had proclaimed before his
10:22coming a baptism of repentance to all
10:24the people of Israel.
10:27And while John was completing his
10:29course, he kept saying, "What do you
10:32suppose that I am? I am not he, but
10:35behold, one is coming after me, the
10:38sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to
10:41untie."
10:42So, the Apostle Paul is telling them
10:44their story, and he's saying, "This is
10:47how God started us out. Hard times in
10:50the wilderness. He used the the judges
10:52until Samuel the prophet. Then he gave a
10:55king, but then he had a king who was
10:57after his heart, who would do his will.
11:00And that king was going to have a son,
11:03and his name is Jesus." And then he
11:04shows them how John prophesied and
11:08pointed toward Jesus, and Paul quotes
11:11from the Gospels.
11:13So, the Gospel message that John says
11:16that his sandals he is not fit to tie,
11:18Paul is already quoting that.
11:21Now, he hadn't become a Christian until
11:22long after Jesus ascended, but he's
11:25already quoting from the Gospels.
11:27"Brethren, sons of Abraham's family, and
11:30those among you who fear God, to us the
11:33message of this salvation has been sent.
11:36This is what it looks like when Paul
11:38walks into a synagogue and begins to
11:40preach to the Jews. For those who live
11:42in Jerusalem and their rulers,
11:45recognizing neither him nor the
11:47utterances of the prophets which are
11:49read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by
11:53condemning him.
11:56>> [sighs]
11:57>> And though they found no ground for
11:58putting him to death, they asked Pilate
12:01that he be executed.
12:03When they had carried out all that was
12:05written concerning him, they took him
12:07down from the cross and laid him in a
12:10tomb.
12:12But God raised him from the dead.
12:16And for many days he appeared to those
12:19who came up with him from Galilee to
12:21Jerusalem,
12:22the very ones who are now his witnesses
12:25to the people.
12:27And we preach to you the good news of
12:30the promise made to the fathers that God
12:33has fulfilled this promise to our
12:35children in that he raised up Jesus,
12:39as it is also written in the second
12:42Psalm, "You are my son, today I have
12:46begotten you."
12:48As for the fact that he raised him from
12:51the dead, no longer to return to decay,
12:54he has spoken in this way, "I will give
12:56you the holy and sure blessing of
12:59David."
13:00Therefore, he also says in another
13:02Psalm, "You will not allow your holy one
13:05to undergo decay."
13:08Paul is preaching from their scriptures
13:11who Jesus was, that he fulfills the
13:14promise.
13:16For David, after he had served the
13:17purpose of God in his own generation,
13:19fell asleep and was laid among his
13:22fathers and underwent decay.
13:25But whom God raised did not undergo
13:28decay.
13:29Therefore, let it be known to you,
13:31brethren, that through him forgiveness
13:33of sins is proclaimed to you.
13:38The curse of sin, the judgement of sin
13:41is death, but Jesus is not bound by it.
13:45So, if you can accept and come into him,
13:48then you don't have to be bound in your
13:49sins, either.
13:51And through him, everyone who believes
13:54is freed from all things from which he
13:57could not be freed through the law of
13:59Moses.
14:01Therefore, take heed, so that the things
14:03spoken of in the prophets may not come
14:06upon you. Behold, you scoffers, and
14:09marvel, and perish, for I am
14:11accomplishing a work in your days, a
14:14work which you will never believe,
14:17though someone should describe it to
14:19you.
14:20So, he's saying, you're still bound.
14:23Jesus had told them in John 8
14:26that anyone who commits sin is a slave
14:28to sin, but Paul is saying you can be
14:30freed, not just from the guilt of your
14:33sin, but from the power of your sin.
14:35And don't be like these scoffers,
14:38because God's going to do a work in your
14:40day that you can't believe. And the work
14:42that he was going to do in the day of
14:43the Jewish people that Paul was
14:44preaching to, he was going to tear down
14:46the temple, he was going to scatter the
14:48nation, everything they put their trust
14:51in
14:51was going to be brought to nothing
14:53unless they put their trust in him
14:56who does not allow us to come to shame.
14:59As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the
15:01people kept begging that these things
15:04might be spoken to them the next
15:06Sabbath.
15:07Now, when the meeting of the synagogue
15:09had broken up, many of the Jews and of
15:12the God-fearing proselytes followed Paul
15:14and Barnabas,
15:16who, speaking to them, were urging them
15:18to continue in the grace of God.
15:21The grace of God not something you
15:23think. It's not a moment in time. It's
15:26something that you start in and that you
15:28must continue in.
15:30The next Sabbath, nearly the whole city
15:32assembled to hear the word of the Lord.
15:36But when the Jews saw the crowds,
15:39they were filled with jealousy
15:42and began contradicting the things
15:44spoken by Paul and were blaspheming.
15:48Jealousy is the first sin that caused
15:51murder in the Bible. Jealousy is what
15:53killed Jesus. Jealousy is what drove the
15:57persecution of the first apostles. It's
15:59what fought Paul at every turn and it is
16:02still the greatest plague in the church
16:04to this day.
16:07Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and
16:10said, "It was necessary that the word of
16:14God be spoken to you first, since you
16:17repudiated and judge yourselves unworthy
16:21of eternal life, behold, we are turning
16:23to the Gentiles."
16:25So, Paul and Barnabas said, "Since you
16:28reject it, you judge yourselves unworthy
16:31of eternal life."
16:32God didn't judge them. God didn't
16:34predestine them to hell. They judged
16:36themselves
16:37>> [music]
16:37>> unworthy of eternal life. And since they
16:40repudiated it, Paul's turning to the
16:42Gentiles
16:43>> [music]
16:43>> and they're not going to like that.
16:45"We are turning to the Gentiles, for the
16:47Lord has commanded us, 'I have placed
16:50you as a light for the Gentiles that you
16:53[music] may bring salvation to the ends
16:55of the earth.'" He's quoting the Old
16:58Testament.
16:59When the Gentiles heard this, they began
17:01rejoicing and glorifying the word of the
17:04Lord and as many as had been appointed
17:07to eternal life believed.
17:10And the word of the Lord was being
17:11spread through the whole region.
17:14But the Jews incited the devout women of
17:17prominence and the leading men of the
17:20city and instigated a persecution
17:23against Paul and Barnabas [music] and
17:24drove them out of their district. That
17:27means they went around to talk to the
17:29wealthy people. They sowed dissension
17:32among brothers. Have you heard what
17:34they're doing? I remember they did such
17:36and such. They went around to the big
17:38people, to the know-it-alls, to the
17:41aristocrats in the city and drove them
17:43out of [music] the district.
17:46But Paul and Barnabas, they shook off
17:48the dust of their feet in protest
17:51against them and went to Iconium.
17:54And the disciples were continually
17:56filled with joy and with the Holy
17:58Spirit.
18:00So they're doing exactly what Jesus
18:02[music] told them to do
18:03in Matthew 10. When someone doesn't
18:06receive your message, don't let the dust
18:10from their city go with you.
18:12Which means when someone does receive
18:14your message, you take them with you in
18:16your heart. And you leave some of your
18:18soul with them. You're being connected.
18:21But when they don't, don't even take
18:22their dust. Don't take their goods,
18:25[music] don't take their money, don't
18:26take anything.
18:27So that they can't have any claim on
18:29what God is doing in the future.
18:43>> [music]

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