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May 23, 2023 - Dan Bidondi Show
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Discussing The Book of Acts Chapter 9 - The Dan Bidondi Show Bible Series
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declaring war on the new world order truth radio show dot com and welcome to the Denver Donnie show truth radio show dot com We are in the Book of Acts, Chapter 9. We're doing chapter-by-chapter, in-depth study of the Book of Acts.
So, guys, what we do before we get started, we do a specific Bible study approach.
Number one, pray for wisdom and understanding.
So let's do that right now.
So, Lord, Yeshua, Messiah, Jesus, we come before you to ask for forgiveness of our sins and transgressions and trespasses.
Or any abominations that we might have committed, Lord.
And we ask you to just purify us.
We draw our sanctified, sacrificed blood.
And thank you so much for everything you've done for us.
And Father, we come before you and ask you that you could bless us all, Lord.
Protect us all from the forces of evil.
And give us the wisdom and knowledge and understanding and the Holy Spirit upon us.
To write your word in the book of Acts chapter 9 today upon our hearts.
And we ask you in your mighty name that you could help anybody out there that's going through any kind of physical pain or mental issues or anything like that that's going on.
We ask you to comfort them, Lord.
In your mighty name, amen.
So, we read the Bible and the Scripture in context, you should say, because context is key.
Remember that.
Because let the Scripture interpret the Scripture.
Let the Holy Spirit help you.
The Holy Spirit's our divine teacher and divine comforter.
So let the Holy Spirit allow the Holy Spirit to write the Word of God upon your hearts.
It's very important, very critical in this series here.
So we have to emphasize that at every show.
So sorry to sound redundant every time you watch one of these shows here.
We have to emphasize this specific Bible study approach.
Very important, guys.
So let's get into the book of Acts chapter 9. If you've got a Bible, please open it up.
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Right at the top of the page, you'll see the Bible series icon.
You click on that, and it's got all the series from Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts here.
And continue on after this as well.
So, here we go.
Acts chapter 9, and this is where the introduction of Paul comes in.
Now, at the time, he's called Saul.
Saul is a very, very major threat to Christians at the time.
The apostles and disciples and whatnot.
So let's get on with the series here.
So this is Paul.
He's got a bloodlust at the time, if you want to call them Christians.
And I call them followers of Jesus Christ.
That's what they are.
You know, again, the disciples, apostles, whatnot, people who are preaching the word of Jesus, the word of God.
And he goes into the synagogues, a letter, basically it's giving him a badge, so to speak, to go around rounding up Christians.
That's what it is.
To, you know, clarify that simply, right?
So, as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined around about him a light from heaven.
So, when we get to this series, you're going to understand what Paul did.
Now, Acts chapter 9 just quickly lays it out.
Paul, at the time, again, his name is Saul at first.
And we're going to show you why the name was changed later.
But, this guy went around, he slaughtered people preaching the word of Jesus, the word of God.
Understand us, right?
This guy was, yeah, if you want to call him almost like a Satan, if you will, right?
That's what it was him at the time.
So now, okay, the book of Acts here just gives you a brief description, right?
If you understand what Saul was doing, you're like, wow, this guy is a beast, literally, in a bad way.
So when he journeyed near Damascus, right, suddenly there was a light that shone upon him from heaven.
And he fell to the earth and heard a loud voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why you persecuted so me?
So this is Jesus, okay?
For some reason he found favor in Saul.
Now people say, why would you find favor in him?
He was known throughout the entire land.
All the apostles feared him.
All the disciples feared him.
All the people feared him that we dare to preach Christianity.
You know the word of God, though.
So this is Jesus in the Spirit from heaven reaching out to Saul.
Knocked him right off his horse.
Now he's on the ground, right?
And what happened, he lost his sight.
He went blind.
And we'll show you this, right?
And he said...
Jesus said to him, Why art thou Lord?
I'm sorry, Saul here.
He said, Who art thou, Lord?
So he's asking, Who are you, Lord?
Is that you, Jesus?
And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you persecuted.
It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
And he trembled and astonished, said, This is Saul now, right?
He was trembling and astonished.
He was afraid.
He was like, what?
He said, Lord, what will thou have me to do?
So he got Saul's attention, right?
Because at the time, Saul didn't believe Jesus was the Messiah.
This was the issue, right?
Because he bought into the high priest and all that to think he was blaspheming against God and all that.
So Saul actually thought he was doing a good thing.
Because the followers of Jesus at the time, they were like terrorists.
They were defying the entire Jewish faith, right?
Because they were preaching the word of God, right?
So Saul actually thought he was doing a good thing.
You know, to him, he was ridding these terrorists off the planet.
That's what he was doing, right?
It's not that Saul didn't believe in God, but he thought he was doing the work of God.
So, now, when this light shone from heaven, right?
Knocked him right off his horse, right?
Now Saul went blind, but he could see Jesus, the image of him, right?
The spirit.
This is the radiance of Jesus, right?
And this is why it's very critical to understand the spiritual warfare, right?
When you understand how this works...
That's why people say, why doesn't God appear to me and all that stuff?
Well, there's a reason why, guys.
His radiance alone would make most men drop dead.
Look what it did to Moses.
Moses turned pure white.
His face was glowing when he came down off that mountain.
Because of the radiance of God, right?
This is going on right now when the radiance blinded Paul.
Knocked him right off his horse.
And it's high horse too, if you want to put it that way, right?
So now, this is the point right here.
Now he truly believes.
Because he didn't know.
Because he was misled by the Jewish soldiers, right?
And the high priest.
So yeah, he trembled and astonished and said, Lord, what will you have me do?
Because at this point in time, now he understands.
He is the Messiah.
This is true.
And the Lord said unto him, Arise.
And go into the city, and it shall be told thee what you must do.
So this Jesus said, get up off the ground, now go into the city, and you'll be told later on what you're going to do.
And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, but seeing no man.
Now, this is amazing.
This is truly amazing, if you really put yourself there, right?
Paul always traveled with men, right?
Like his militia groups, whatever you want to call it, right?
So they heard this loud voice.
They seen Paul knocked off his cross, right?
They seen him looking up in the sky, talking to somebody.
They heard the voice, but they couldn't see Jesus, right?
Saul seen Jesus.
That's why he got blind.
Understand this, right?
This is why he didn't appear to the other men, because they would have blinded them too.
He needed those men to lead Paul.
If you understand why he did this wrong, right?
If you really understand this, because people say, why didn't the other men see him?
Because they would have went blind too.
Imagine a bunch of blind people trying to ride into a city.
Yeah, it's not going to work, right?
So that's why he only appeared to Paul, okay?
Saul, I'm saying, he saw at the time.
So, understand why this is being done this way, right?
So Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man, right?
But they led him by the hand, so no man know he's blind.
He's blind now because of the radiance that he's seeing, the light, the radiance.
He's seeing Jesus, right?
They led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus, right?
So when Jesus told him to go into the city, that's Damascus, right?
And he went three days without sight, and neither did eat or drink.
So Saul's just like, he's shell-shocked, okay?
He's culture-shocked, whatever you want to put it there.
Because he's like, oh my God, I've been killing these people, persecuting these disciples and apostles, thinking that this Jesus is blasphemous and everything else, but he truly is the Messiah.
He is the Son of God, the Son of Man.
Could you imagine being in that state?
Yeah, I don't think we would eat and drink for three days either.
Right?
Right?
So now he's blind, right?
So, and there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias.
And to him said the Lord in the vision, Ananias, right?
So the Lord already went to Ananias, right?
I hope I'm pronouncing the name right, Ananias.
So he already went to him and told him that Saul's going to be coming to him and his instructions will be needed to tell him, right?
So he already prepped Ananias ahead of time.
And said, Behold, I am here, Lord.
So the Lord appeared to Ananias in a vision, and he told him, I am here, Lord.
And the Lord said to the Lord Jesus, Arise and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus.
For behold, he prayeth.
And he has seen in the vision a man named Aeneas coming in and putting his hand on him and that he might be received sight.
So Aeneas, he's like, what?
Are you kidding me?
Paul saw me?
Saul, you want me to go to Saul?
Because Aeneas knew who Saul of Tarsus was, right?
A huge persecutor and slayer of followers of Jesus, right?
So Aeneas is answering, Lord, I have heard many things of this man.
How much evil he has done to the saints of Jerusalem.
Right?
He's like, are you sure, Lord?
Because this guy's going around killing us, okay?
And here he has authority from the chief priest to bind at all that call on thy name.
So he's saying, Jesus, he got permission, he's got full authority to go arrest us all.
Anybody that speaks your word.
But the Lord Jesus told him, he said, Go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
Because remember, Paul is very notable to the leaders there.
So Jesus is using him because he's a strong person.
And again, Saul keeps, yeah, he's Paul, okay, put it that way.
So, yeah, he's very influential to these leaders.
And again, I think Saul at the time was just thinking he was doing something of God.
But not realizing that, yes, this is the Messiah.
Because he got duped by the jewel of Sheldos.
But the Lord said to Aeneas, right?
Go the way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me to bear my name before the Gentiles, the kings, and the children of Israel.
For I will show him how great things must suffer for my name's sake.
So, Aeneas went his way, and he entered into the house, and putting his hands on him, said, Brother Saul, because Saul's there now, right?
And Aeneas went there to meet Saul, and he says, Brother Saul, the Lord even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way of the newcomers.
So, he's saying that vision you've seen, that, you know, knocked you off your horse, whatever, that made you blind, and, you know, you've seen Jesus appear to you, right?
On the way here.
And he sent me, that you might receive the sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
So immediately there fell from his eyes as there had been scales.
This is kind of really intriguing, right?
We'll get to that in a second.
And he received sight forth and rose and was baptized.
So Saul, right?
Major persecution of Christians, right?
He was like a terminator against Christians.
You know, I'll put it that way, right?
Blind out, and right away, he received his sight back.
But it's kind of, yeah, it's immediately there fell from his eyes that had been like scales.
So, there is something like, I don't know if you want to call them scabs or something.
That remains to be, I don't know, who knows what that is, but it's kind of intriguing that it says, fell from his eyes that had been like scales.
So something covered his eyes.
That's what happened.
Maybe scabs or something because of the radiance of the light of Jesus.
Yeah, that's just something really to really ponder on because that's really interesting.
So right away when Aeneas laid his hands on him, he gave him his sight back and he received the sight and rose and was baptized.
And after he was baptized, that's when the Holy Spirit filled him, right?
And when he had received meat, we talk about Saul now, right?
And when he had received meat, he was strengthened.
So he ate and got, because remember, he went three days and three nights without food.
So that's why Saul had to rose off the ground, because he was just, like, exhausted.
Exhausted and hungry and thirsty and everything else.
So, Aeneas helped him get his eyesight back.
And it helped him, you know, get off the ground with him.
Got him baptized.
Then gave him something to eat.
Then Saul was...
Oops.
Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.
So, basically, Saul was at X amount of days.
We don't know how many days.
Certain days...
With the disciples which were at Damascus.
So right now, these few days or whatever along he's with the apostles, right?
The disciples, I mean?
He's learning.
He's learning the ways of the Lord.
He's probably getting that information, you know, being fulfilled with the Holy Ghost and the whole nine yards, right?
So basically he's in training, if you want to put it that way, right?
And straightway, he preached Christ in the synagogues.
So right away, right out of the gate, he went out and preached.
Straightway, he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.
So mind you, Saul killed people for doing this.
Now here he is, in the synagogues, preaching that Jesus is the Son of God.
But all that heard him were amazed and said, It is not that he that destroyed them which called on the name of Jerusalem and came hither for the intent that he might bring them bound to the chief priests.
They're like, whoa, whoa.
Everybody in the land knew this guy, right?
Everybody in the land knew he was like the terminator, so to speak, with full authority to go round up followers of Jesus, anybody that would preach the name of Jesus Christ.
Right?
Right?
People feared him.
Now he's doing the very thing that he was sent to and authorized to stop.
So if you look at this, guys, before we go any further, right?
Take a look at this, right?
And when you get to the Scriptures in the future, you're going to learn a lot of the stuff Paul did, right?
So basically it was a murder.
Okay, very bad person, okay?
And he thought he was doing good, like I said, right?
But regardless, he killed lots of people who followed Jesus, right?
So, what does this tell you?
And of all people, all people, right?
Jesus reached out to him, chose him.
That's why even the apostles were shocked.
Are you kidding me, Jesus?
You chose him?
So, what does that tell you?
Anybody out there right now, if you've done bad...
We all did bad things.
Let's not kid anybody.
Everybody here has done something bad, alright?
Some worse than others, but regardless.
If he could choose Paul, because Saul later became Paul, that Jesus gave him a new name afterwards, because he was a new person, you know?
So, anything you might have done, okay...
Understand this.
God's plucked the most evilest people out of the pit of hell, literally.
I can name several people I know personally.
Two people I know, William Schnoblin, Doc Marquis, both former members of the Illuminati.
Illuminati, that's the echelon of the occult.
Pluck them out to go preach the word of Jesus.
And people in the Illuminati, they'd be the least people to do that.
That this is top-level Satanism as it comes.
So, no matter what you've done, if you come to Christ, okay, you can be saved.
And if you don't think, oh, all the stuff I did bad, you know, there's no way Jesus is going to have a plan for me.
Really?
He had a plan for Saul?
So let me ask you something.
If you don't think he has a plan for you, Have you done worse than Saul did?
Most people, I hope not.
You know, I hope not, but if you did, still, don't think that God does not have a plan for you.
He most certainly does.
If he could pick Saul out of all people at the time, and many others, it doesn't go through the Scriptures.
So it doesn't matter what you did.
Come to Christ and repent from it.
And yes, he has a plan for you guys.
But Saul increased the more in strength and confounded the Jews which dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the very Christ.
So Saul here increased more power and strength, right?
Remember we talked about Stephen a couple chapters ago?
Stephen was a very, very powerful minister.
Saul, yeah, doubled that.
Because remember, he knew all the very powerful people in Jerusalem, in Damascus and all that, right?
Now he confounded them.
In other words, he shut them right up.
No matter what they had to say, he shut them right down real quick.
Saul became a very mega-weapon.
Once a mega-weapon against Christianity, now a mega-weapon for Christianity.
And after that, many days were fulfilled, and the Jews took counsel to kill him.
So the Jews were like, oh, you know.
They didn't know what to do.
They were shell-shocked.
Poor little people became a Christian?
What?
So they all came up in a conscience like, we need to kill this guy.
But their land of wait was known as Saul.
And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
So they were waiting.
Yeah, they stood there waiting all the time.
Day and night.
Waiting for Saul to come so they could kill him.
Then the disciples took him by night and let him down by the wall in the basket.
So basically we're in Damascus, right?
Damascus always had gates there.
So they were waiting at the gates, as it says, right?
Day and night.
Because eventually Saul had to leave Damascus, right?
So they waited day and night at the gate, waiting for Saul to go to leave, right?
So they could kill him.
But at night time, the disciples lowered him down the wall in a basket.
Like some kind of a basket they made, obviously, with a rope and lowered him down at night time from the wall.
So he can get out of Damascus.
And when Saul was to come to Jerusalem, he is said to join himself with the disciples.
But they were afraid of him.
Now the disciples that were in Jerusalem, they don't really know too much about this right now.
So when they joined the disciples in Jerusalem, they were very afraid of him.
And they believed that he was a disciple.
So they couldn't believe him.
Like, what?
You're not no disciple.
You kill us.
You're a persecutor of us.
But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way and that he had spoken to him and how he preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
So Barnabas came to bear witness to the apostles.
No, no, guys, chill out.
Chill out.
He's not like that no more.
He's converted.
And it was like, what?
The apostles were like, what?
They were shocked over this, right?
And he was with them, coming in and out, going at Jerusalem, right?
And he spoke boldly in the name of Jesus, the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grishians, but they went about to slay him.
So this is Saul speaking boldly against these Grishians, and they were about to kill him, which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him forth to Tarsus.
Remember Saul is from Tarsus, right?
Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria and were edified.
In other words, they explained disgust.
You know what I mean?
They explained everything, right?
And walking in the fear of the Lord and in comfort of the Holy Ghost were multiplied.
And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt in Lydia.
And this is, you know, came to pass sometime afterwards, right?
And there he found a certain man named Aeneas.
I hope I don't butcher these names.
I apologize, but yeah.
And so which had kept his bed eight years and he was sick of palsy.
So basically he's been bedridden for eight years.
That's what it's saying, right?
There's a certain man, like the Bible says a certain man is just like a man just being named Aeneas, right?
He was bedridden for eight years from palsy.
And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ makes thee whole.
Arise and make thy bed.
And he rose immediately.
And all that dwelt at Lydia and Sarah and saw him and turned to the Lord.
So, here's the thing, too.
This is what Jesus did, too.
Working through these apostles.
Peter, yeah, right?
Everybody, okay?
Everybody in Lydia, right?
They knew who Aeneas was.
Eight years bedridden in the sky, Paul, everybody knew this.
Could barely even stand up.
Now here he is, up and at him, you know what I mean?
It shocked everybody.
Wow, what happened?
The water healed me.
What?
And, you know, it was like, wow, that's a living witness right there.
And it made a lot of people convert to Jesus.
So now, there was Joppa and a certain disciple named Tabitha, Tabitha?
We'll call it Tabitha, right?
Which interpreted it as darkness, right?
And this woman was full of good works and alms deeds, which she did.
Alms is like deeds, like helping people, you know what I mean?
And good works is just, you know, good works, of course.
But yeah, so already, it was Tabitha, okay?
Sorry for the butchering names, like I said, but her name was Dorcas.
And it came to pass in those days, later, you know, days after, whatever the case, that she was sick and died.
Whom, when they had washed, they laid her on the upper chamber.
So let's talk about the chamber in the tomb there, right?
For as much as Lydia was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent him with him two men, desiring him that would not delay to come to them.
That Peter rose and went with them, and when he has come, they brought him unto the upper chamber, that all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats of garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.
So they were out, you know, they're in upper chamber, you know, all these widows stood next to him and, you know, just, you know, displaying the coach and all the garments that Dorcas made, you know what I mean, and just weeping for her.
It was like a memorial sort of thing, right?
So, but Peter put them forth and kneeled down and prayed.
And turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise.
And she opened her eyes and she saw Peter and she sat up.
Imagine that.
She's been in this tomb, right?
Up in the upper chamber.
Which would be like, out of the tombs back then, they went underground too, you know?
But she was in the upper chamber.
So she wasn't ready, you know, actually, you know, because basically they had her out for the memorial.
That's what was going on, right?
Just like when you go to a funeral, like the wake, they have the body out there in the coffin.
Displayed, you know, for the memorial and all that.
They do, people show pictures of their past life and all that stuff and all that stuff, the ceremonies, right?
So that was going on.
It was a ceremony going on, right?
For the death of Tabitha, right?
So Peter comes in, right?
Just comes in, kneels down and prayed before her body, right?
And he says, Tabitha, Arise, get up.
She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
And he gave her his hand and lifted her up, and while he had called the saints and widows, presented her a life.
Wow, imagine that.
So they're all in the tomb, right?
They're on the tomb.
Honoring, you know, celebrating her life like the services, right?
Weeping for her and everything else, and Peter just walks in, goes into the upper chamber, kneels down before the body, right?
Not that he was praying to the body, he was praying to God, of course, you know what I mean?
And Jesus told him to do this, right?
And he used the power of Jesus to make her resurrect.
She got up and they walk out of the upper chamber together, holding hands, like present to her alive.
Imagine people's faces.
Imagine that.
It's like you go to a funeral, right?
And all of a sudden, somebody goes up to the coffin and prays, and all of a sudden, the body gets up and starts talking to you and everything else.
Yeah, what a miracle that would be, right?
That's the miracle that happened, right?
And it was known throughout all job.
And many believed in the Lord.
So this here converted so many people.
To see Tabitha that was laying there dead, now she's living.
And it came to pass that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a Tanner.
This is amazing stuff, really, yeah.
There's a lot of content in one chapter.
This is why, and I saw it already so redundant, but this is why we have to do this, guys.
Read the Bible in context.
I don't know how many times I've got to say this.
Some churches and religions, they'll take a couple of verses out here and go to another book or whatever the case is.
You don't do that, guys.
Yeah, if you want to bring related stuff to you, yeah, you can do that.
But you need to know there's some context before you do that.
We learned two good accounts today in full detail about Saul, who eventually becomes Paul, right?
The evil stuff he did, he converted.
God chose him.
Chose him of all people.
A slayer of Christians.
To become one of his most powerful leaders.
Imagine that.
Then using these miracles, you know what I mean?
Helping the guy with the palsy.
Three things here.
Helping the guy with palsy that everybody knew eight years.
The guy was bedridden, right?
They helped him.
Won a lot of people over because they've seen this, right?
Through seeing the power of God through them, right?
And now, Tabitha here.
Rose her from the dead and converted a lot of people.
Amazing stuff.
It really is.
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