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June 29, 2023 - Dan Bidondi Show
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Discussing The Book of Acts Chapter 18 - The Dan Bidondi Show Bible Series
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TruthRadioShow.com And welcome everybody to the Dan McDonnell Show on TruthRadioShow.com Welcome to the Book of Acts, Chapter 18.
And there's in-depth, comprehensive study of this chapter here.
So if you missed Chapters 1-17, it's in our playlist.
And I encourage you to go watch those first.
If you haven't already before moving on here.
So, like we do all the time guys, it's very important to understand that we have a specific Bible study approach.
Very important to understand this.
And if you've been watching the show for a while, you know what I'm talking about.
But again, we have to repeat this stuff constantly because we need to keep this refreshed in our own minds as well.
So, what we do, guys, is read the scripture here in context.
But first, we pray for wisdom and understanding.
So, Jesus, Yeshua Messiah, we come before you.
And thank you so much for shedding your blood for us.
Thank you for just...
Everything you do and just offering us salvation, even though we don't deserve it.
But we ask you to forgive us individually of our individual sins and trespasses.
And we love you so much.
And Heavenly Father, we ask you once again to write your word upon our hearts, the book of Acts chapter 18 today, to have the Holy Spirit be our divine teacher today.
And Heavenly Father, thank you for creation.
Thank you for everything you've done for us and continue to do for us, even though we don't deserve it.
You are a gracious God, and we love you so much.
And thank you for your son.
Thank you for the sacrifice that had to be made to redeem our filthy souls, Lord.
And I can't ever thank you enough.
And I pray for everybody here that's going through any kind of spiritual, emotional, or physical pain, or anything that's going on, and I pray that you can help them, Lord, and also protect us all against the forces of evil.
And I love you.
God, Heavenly Father, Thank you so much again.
In your mighty name, amen.
So, we read the scripture in context because context is key.
And let the scripture interpret the scripture.
Don't lean on your understanding, guys.
Lean on the help of the Holy Spirit, the great comforter.
So, if you've got a Bible, guys, open it up.
Turn to Acts chapter 18. If you're not, go up on the screen here.
So, again, we explained in the last chapter here, chapter 17. When Paul, he was like leaving and going on to another city here.
And so basically he left Athens, I'm sorry.
Departed from Athens and came to Corinth, right?
And if you remember when Paul left, right?
I just want to go back and refresh us here so you know what's going on.
Because it's a continuation, right?
So Timothy in...
Hang on a second.
Yeah, alright.
I just got lost where I was here for a minute.
I apologize about that.
It's Timothy and Silas, okay?
I was just trying to refresh what happened at the last chapter here.
So Timothy and Silas didn't go with Paul right away, but when Paul got to the city in Athens, he was very disrupt because his spirit stirred in him because when he saw the city, it was full of idolatry.
And you remember what God does to people in cities that commit to idolatry, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So anyway, at the end of the chapter here, when Paul left, okay, he was accompanied by Dionysus the Applegate and a woman named Damaris and others that came with him, right?
So now he moved to Acts chapter 18, and after these things, Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth.
And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome, and came onto them.
So Claudius declared all Jews needed to get out of Rome.
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them and for their occupation there was tent makers.
So basically the craft is their job, whatever the case, and all of them were tent makers.
So all of them accompanied Paul into Corinth.
And he reasoned, now Paul again, that's the last chapter, right?
He spent every Sabbath in the synagogue.
Persuading the Jews and Greeks.
Preaching to the Jews and Greeks, right?
And the last chapter started off the same thing.
When Paul spent three weeks, because he says, spent three Sabbath days out of the scriptures, right?
In the synagogues.
Three Sabbaths, that means three weeks.
So again, Paul reasoned in the synagogues, like preaching the synagogues, trying to bring witness to the Jews and Greeks every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and Greeks.
And when Silas and Timotus would come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed on the Spirit.
He was just like really up on fire for the Spirit.
And testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
In other words, this is the Messiah that your scriptures, our scriptures, Foretold about it.
And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook his raiment and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads.
I am clean.
From henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
So, the Jews, right, of course they oppose the teachings here.
It blasphemed.
So Paul says, alright, no problem.
He shook his raiment, in other words, shook the dust off his feet, whatever, right?
And said to him, alright, your blood is upon your own heads now.
I did my job.
And as the scripture says about the watchman, right?
When the watchman, you know, you charge a job to warn people of danger, right?
In other words, if you see somebody on the train tracks, there's a train coming, right?
Hey, guy, you better get off the tracks, there's a train coming.
Now, if they call you names or whatever, yeah, you know, you did your job.
If they get hit by the train, you know what?
That's on them.
But if you didn't warn them, and he didn't see the train coming, then he gets hit.
Well, his blood is on your hands.
And the same thing goes today to today in what this is talking about.
In a spiritual sense, right?
Paul's trying to warn them.
Trying to bring them to Jesus that this is the Messiah that the Scriptures talked about, right?
Right?
But you guys refuse to believe.
I did my job.
I preached it.
I showed you a description that I have to say.
And we all witnessed Jesus walk the earth.
But you know what?
I did my job so your blood's on your own hands.
Because I'm clean.
My hands are clean.
Which it was.
He did his job.
They didn't want to listen so Paul left.
And he went into the Gentiles.
And he departed thence.
And entered into a certain man's house named Justice.
One that worshiped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
In other words, it's right connected basically to the synagogue.
This man, Justice, right?
And he was a believer in Jesus Christ.
And Christmas, the chief ruler of the synagogue, right?
The chief of the whole synagogue, right?
Believed on the Lord with all his house.
And many of the Corinthians herein believed and were baptized.
Right?
So this ruler of the synagogue here at Christmas, right, was a believer also in Jesus Christ.
And this is how effective Paul was, guys.
And again, I said in the last chapter, how all these modern day religions and all that, most of them mock Paul, they belittle Paul, and try to paint Paul as a bad person.
They hate Paul because Paul told it how it was.
And the thing is, why would all these cults and religions hate Paul?
Well, here's a simple answer.
Because the person who does the most effective job is the most hated.
Who's the most hated?
Jesus.
Besides Jesus, okay, Paul was on fire.
Stephen started off on fire and they ended up killing him.
For the short time he was an apostle, that guy did some miraculous things.
For the Lord, right?
So now, Paul...
Paul's on fire here.
You know what I mean?
And that's why they attack Paul.
They hate Paul.
That's the Gnostics, the Essenes, the Kabbalistic Jews.
They can't stand Paul with a passion.
And many of these fake religions of Pauls.
So anyway, again, Crispus, the chief rule of synagogue, right?
So Paul got these people to believe, these high-end people.
Except for the Jews, of course, you know what I mean?
Then spoke to the Lord at night by a vision, right?
Now this is Jesus.
He came to Paul in the middle of the night.
He told Paul, Don't be afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace.
Don't hold your peace.
Don't bite your tongue.
Speak.
Don't be afraid, right?
And Jesus tells him, For I am with you, and no man shall sit on thee to hurt you.
For I have much people in the city.
So Jesus is saying there's a lot of people in the city that need the gospel.
And I am not going to let anybody hurt you.
So don't hold your peace.
Go and speak boldly.
This is Jesus Christ coming in the spirit to Paul in a vision.
That's powerful, guys.
And the stuff I've done, you know, like when I did my Infowars report and all that, when I confronted some evil people, guys, and a lot of people ask, well, how do you get the guts to do that?
Well, here's the thing.
Where the Bible says, if God is with you, who could be against you, right?
And behold, I will give you the power to tread over scorpions and serpents, and no harm will come upon you.
And Jesus told Paul, yeah, look, I'll protect you.
Don't worry about these people.
I'll protect you, right?
If you have that kind of faith and power, man, it's great.
It's not that, you know, I'm loathing as a superhero or whatever the case.
No, because I'm brave because I'm brave in the Lord.
I trust in the Lord.
You know, I truly believe firm, okay?
And I'm a living witness to this.
When God sets you on a mission, okay, there's nothing nobody can do to stop you.
I technically, derelict, should have been dead already or probably wrongfully prosecuted.
But the Lord protected me and seen me through the things He put me to do.
So I could be a witness to this very thing.
If God is with you, nobody could be against you.
Plain and simple.
And Paul had that kind of courage too.
You know what's funny too?
You know how politically incorrect Paul would be today?
If Paul went to some of these churches out there today, most of them I should say, most of these religions, they would throw him out.
These churches and religions out there are so watered down, so degraded.
Everything's about acceptance.
It's about repentance, not acceptance, by the way.
They would take Paul as some kind of a nut job or something.
But Paul told people how it was, the way it was, just like Jesus did.
That's why Paul was very effective.
But again, here's Jesus assuring him, hey, keep speaking, I'm with you, right?
So Paul continued there for a year and six months, so a year and a half, teaching the word of God among them.
So when Galileo was the deputy of Archia, the deputy means like it's the second in charge.
Like, you got a sheriff, then a deputy sheriff.
You know what I mean?
You get the point.
So this guy was second in charge in the Archea.
The Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul.
So the Jews all got together with one mission, basically, to say, all right, we're going to protest against Paul.
They grabbed Paul and brought him to the judgment seat, saying, falsely accusing them, right?
Saying that this fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
So here's the Jews lying to Galileo that Paul is committing blasphemy to going against the word of God, the law of God, which we know that's not true.
And then contrary to that, the Jews were the ones doing that, not Paul.
Ha ha!
So when Paul was now about to open his mouth, so Paul's about to speak.
Galio said unto him, the Jews, right?
If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would I, should I not bear with you?
So, looks like Galio here is like, what are you guys doing?
Why is Paul even on the judgment team?
But if it be a question of words and names of your law, look ye to it, and I will be no judge of such matters.
So he's telling the Jews, yeah, what law did he break?
Look into your own law, you know, be the judge for yourself.
And they drove them out from the judgment seat.
He drove them out.
In other words, get out of here.
He told the Jews, like...
He drove, as like in the Bible here, had driven him out.
Drove, you know what I mean?
Get out of here.
That's what he did, right?
So, then all the Greeks took somethingness, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat.
And Galileo cared for none of those things.
So the Greeks beat up the chief ruler of the synagogue.
And Galileo didn't care.
He's like, whatever.
Who cares?
So, and Paul, after this tarry, they are yet a good while.
So, in other words, while this is going on for a while, right?
Paul then took his leave of the brethren, right?
So, Paul departed at it.
He's like, alright, I'm out of here.
All this is going on, he's saying, right?
Paul, like, slipped out of there, in that case, and then sailed then into Syria.
And with them, Priscilla and Aquila, having shown his head in Chentia, for he had a vow.
And he came to him with a vow, basically, because Jesus taught him to keep preaching and all that, keep going through, you know, the land, right?
Because he had people there.
And he came to Euphrates and left them there, but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
So Paul, he left Aquila and Priscilla there, right?
And he went into the synagogue by himself to reason with the Jews.
And when they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not.
I forgot what tarry means.
Let me see.
This is what a Bible study is.
You look up words and all that stuff.
Tarry is like a cover of tar.
Let me see.
Tarry.
Bible definition.
There we go.
To abide or stay in the place.
Sorry, to basically stay there a while, right?
So when they decided to tarry, you know, they decided Paul to stay a while, right?
For a longer time with them.
Paul said no.
He didn't consent to it.
But bade them farewell, saying, I must, by all means, keep this feast that's coming in Jerusalem.
But I will return again unto you, if God will.
And he sailed to Euphrates.
So the Jews are like, oh, why don't you stay here while we can discuss longer?
And he goes, no, I gotta go because the feast is coming.
They're not gonna go.
But I'll be back if it's God's will.
And when he had landed in Caesarea and gone up and saluted the church, he went down to Antio.
Saluted is like paying patriots to the church, right?
Let me just get that.
So is our rendering to inquire, but be more properly of the term of the button.
Alright, so basically when Paul landed in Caesarea, he'd gone up and inquired about the church.
Then he went down to Anatoch.
And after he had spent some time there, he departed and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all his disciples.
All the disciples there.
And this is pretty cool.
It just gives details of where he went from land to land.
Location to location.
Because remember, Jesus commanded him to do that.
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born in Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures, came to the feast.
This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in the spirit, he spoke and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only baptism of John.
So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue, when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him into them and expounded him into the way of God more perfectly.
So we'll see what all expounded.
Exceedingly.
So all right.
In other words, to learn better.
And when he was disposed to pass at Aitia, the brethren exhorted the disciples to receive him, who, when he was to come, helped them, much which he had believed through grace.
So it sounds like this Jew here that knew the scriptures very well, Came unto the Lord.
For he mighty convinced the Jews publicly shown by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
All right, so this is describing now this man this Jew named Apollos, right?
So the Jew is very well-versed in the scriptures, right?
Very well-versed in the scriptures.
And people with...
I'm sorry, I got distracted for a minute.
I got lightning going on over here.
So the power doesn't go out.
Anyway, yeah, this Jew named Apollos, right?
Very well-versed in the scriptures.
And this guy, like, believed that Jesus is the Christ.
And for him being a Jew and all that stuff, he mightily convinced Jews in that publicly showing that the Scriptures, that Jesus was the Christ, the Messiah.
So Apollos, because of his status, right?
Everybody knew he was very well versed in the Scriptures.
Now you've got this Jew of all people, right?
Right?
Now professing that Jesus is the Messiah.
Confirming exactly what Paul says.
So, which is going to lead into chapter 19, and I can't wait for that, to see what comes upon us.
Because now I'm sure the other Jews are not going to be too happy that Apollos now is out there preaching that Jesus is the Messiah.
Because remember, the Jews are going around causing all kinds of trouble for anybody that does that.
They put a lot of people to death for doing that, so it's going to be interesting to see what they do to Apollos now.
So now Apollos is well versed in the scriptures and all that stuff, right?
And he was made more perfectly by Aquila and Priscilla.
They took him and expounded them in the way of the Lord to make him more perfectly, right?
In other words, like, fine-tuned him.
Aquila and Priscilla fine-tuned him with the scriptures.
And now, this person, all the Jews look up to him now.
Now he's going out and saying, yeah, Jesus is Christ.
Paul's right.
Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah.
So that being said, guys, I can't wait for chapter 19. I think the power's going to go out because the power's blinking and all that.
The lightning storm going on.
So what I'm going to do now is end this real quick here.
Thank God we just got done with the scriptures.
But if you've got any questions, comments, answers, guys, please ask me in the chat room there.
I mean, I'm in the comment section.
So trust the planet or any planet.
It's a Bible.
And don't take my word and nobody else's for it.
Read it for yourself with the Holy Spirit, guys.
Can't say that enough.
And real quick here, go to truthradioshow.com It's our website there and you'll find all our links to everything.
So we'll see you for chapter 19. It's going to be exciting.
Yeah.
So thank you guys so much.
God bless Shalom.
Remember, you are the resistance against evil.
And yeah, thank you for tuning into the book of Acts chapter 18. We'll see you for chapter 19. God willing.
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