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July 17, 2023 - Dan Bidondi Show
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Discussing The Book of Acts Chapter 24 - The Dan Bidondi Show Bible Series
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TruthRadioShow.com And welcome everybody to the Dan Badani Show on TruthRadioShow.com and welcome to the book of Acts chapter 24.
So if you have not read chapters 1 through 23, especially the last few chapters, I would strongly suggest you to go do that in our playlist there.
So this is an in-depth comprehensive study of the Bible and we're going to focus on Acts chapter 24 today.
So, before we begin, we do our specific Bible study approach like we do at every one of these shows.
Number one, to pray for wisdom and understanding.
So, let's do that right now.
So, Yeshua, Jesus, please forgive us all individually of our sins and trespasses, abominations and transgressions that we may have committed today.
And please forgive us once again, because we are full of a sinful nature, Lord.
Amen.
I can't apologize enough.
And Lord, thank you so much for forgiving us and just blessing us.
And we love you so much, especially what you did to die for our sins.
And Heavenly Father, we come before you and ask you once again for this divine intervention with the Holy Spirit to help us understand your word.
And today, the book of Acts chapter 24. And we pray that you can have the Holy Spirit write that upon our hearts today so we may know and disseminate your information for what it is.
Without filters of religions, without filters of religious dogma, without filters of religious people or false prophets, but right from you directly.
And I pray that you can comfort everybody out there that's going through any kind of spiritual anguish or physical, mental, any emotional distress as well.
And we pray that you can comfort them and also help us, Lord, to protect us all from the forces of evil.
In your mighty name, amen.
So, what we do also is read the scripture in context.
Very important.
Context is key.
That's why it's highlighted.
And let the scripture interpret scripture.
Very important, guys, to understand this method there.
Because we don't lean on our own understanding.
We're not supposed to take interpretations from humans.
Let's do it right from the Holy Spirit.
So, if you've got a Bible, turn to Acts chapter 24 and ShakeYourWakeRadio.com, the audio edition.
Thank you for carrying this, and please open your Bibles, those of you listening.
So, let's begin here, because we've got a lot to cover.
So, if you remember, we left off chapter 23. I'm going to revisit real quick at the end, where...
The chief captain was writing a letter on part of Paul to the governor.
And if you remember, you know, during the council and all that, they wanted Paul dead.
The Jewish people wanted Paul dead, and the chief captain sent Paul to the governor, got him by an army, and also accompanied with a letter.
So, as I said, the soldiers commanded them to take Paul and brought him to Anthropos, right?
And on the morrow, which was tomorrow, they left the horsemen to go with him and return to the castle.
So, who, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, and presented Paul before him.
And the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province it was, and when he understood that he was Cecilia, Cilicia, I'm sorry, that Paul was a Roman.
So he goes, I will hear thee, he said, and dying accusers will also come.
And he commanded him to be kept at Herod's Judgment Hall.
So basically the government says, all right, yeah, there's all this controversy, and if you read with me the chapter of the last show there, you'll understand what's going on.
If you haven't, go do that, please, before you go any further.
So just hit pause and go watch that if you haven't done that already.
Anyway, so now, Basically, he's putting Paul in the court.
So, I want to hear from all sides to say, the governor.
I want to hear from your accusers, I want to hear from you, and we're going to resolve this, right?
So, that's chapter 24 now.
And after five days, Aeneas, the high priest, descended with the elders, and with a certain Oradia, named Chertoas, who informed the governor against Paul.
So, it took him five days to get there.
Obviously, back then, they didn't have...
Uh, proper transportation like we do today that would get there quick, you know?
So, after the governor ordered, hey, I want everybody here, let's, let's, let's finish this.
I want to know who's at fault, what Paul did, the whole nine yards I want to hear from everybody.
So, it took him all five days to get there.
So, um, this guy, uh, named Churchellus, he's basically the, uh, not the defense, uh, the, um, The prosecutor.
You know what I mean?
Sort of speaking, if you want to put in the court speaking, right?
So...
And when he was called forth...
Now we're there at the judgment hall, mind you, right?
When he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him.
So here we go with the court here, right?
So everybody's there in this hall.
And now the governor wants to hear from everybody.
So now the prosecutor, if you will, Tertullus...
Began to accuse him, saying, referring to Paul, seeing that thee we enjoy great quietness, and very often worthy deeds are done unto this nation by and by pradence.
Pradence means in God's care.
Right?
So we accept it always in all places, most noble Felix with all thankfulness.
And notwithstanding that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray that thou wouldst hear us of the clemency of a few words.
So tedious means, you know, repetitive, just, you know, a lot of information.
So you want to make it blunt, you know?
So, and also I notice that people like me when I bring their definitions up or something.
So notwithstanding, so let's get a definition of that.
In spite of.
So, notwithstanding the evidence of consciousness that his jury will not reach a verdict.
So, like I said, this is pertaining to a court-like situation.
So, what this guy's saying here...
In spite of...
Right?
That's what he's saying in spite of Paul here and everything else, right?
So anyway, this guy's like the prosecutor, or the lawyer of, you know, which is a prosecutor, whatever the case is, against Paul.
And he says, For we have found this man, you refer to Paul, a pestilent fellow.
So in other words, a troublemaker.
And a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
So basically he keeps accusing Paul of being some kind of a religious nut job, a cult leader or something like that, right?
That's going against the Jewish religion.
So, who also has gone about to profane the temple, which Paul never did any such thing.
Again, like I said in the prior chapters, they're making up lies.
They did the same thing to Jesus to get him executed.
They did the same thing to Stephen to get him executed.
Now they're going to do the same thing to Paul.
And if you remember the prior chapters here, Paul already knew that him going to Jerusalem would set him up to be trialed and put to death.
And he's excited about that because, yeah, because he's serving Jesus.
This is called a martyr.
So here we go, Act 3 of killing an innocent person by the Jews, right?
Mind you, Paul used to work for them, killing, in the Romans, killing Christians, right?
So Paul became one of the most effective apostles there is, disciples.
So anyway, he says,"...who has gone about to profane the temple..." Right?
Accusing Paul of profaning the temple, whom we took and would have judged according to our law.
But the chief captain, Lassius, came upon us and with great violence took him away out of the land.
So he's saying, hey, he came into our temple.
Under our law, we judged him according to our law, right?
Right before we went to kill him, because they tried to kill him, Your chief captain came and said, hey, with great violence, with a force, basically, and grabbed Paul and took him out of there, as we read in the prior chapter.
Commanding his accusers to come unto me, by examining of who thyself may take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
So, the chief captain was commanding them, hey, where's the evidence?
You can't just go kill a guy.
Where's the evidence?
And of course, when he had that counsel, as you all see, they really couldn't come up with sufficient evidence.
That's why it started a ruckus.
And the chief captain had to pull Paul out of there again and protect Paul.
And the Jews also sent it, saying that these things were so.
So after this accuser here, which is the prosecutor, against Paul...
The Jews, they're also attested, basically, to these things, these charges, right?
So then Paul, after the governor, had beckoned unto him to speak.
So Paul, you're trying to speak.
So now this is defense, right?
I'm using today's court term language, you know what I mean?
You know, legal.
So Paul is now the defendant, right?
So the governor is basically the judge here.
It says, now it's your turn to speak.
And answered, for so much as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation.
Referring on the address of the governor.
I do the more cheerfully answer for myself.
Because thou hast mayest understand that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to worship.
So it's been twelve days now.
So it's the time that Paul went into Jerusalem, went into the temple, and when he was speaking the word of God, that's when all the Jews rose up against him, causing this whole tobacco, right?
So he says, Paul's saying, right, and they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues nor in the city, neither can they prove the things wherefore they now accuse me of.
And they couldn't.
That's why in the council, 12 days ago, whatever, that they could not accuse, come up with anything to accuse Paul.
That's why the chief captain had to protect them, because Paul was a rumor.
And you...
You know what I mean?
They messed up when they scourged Paul, and they found out he was a Roman and he wasn't condemned yet.
So now the chief captain's like, alright, we made a mistake, so now they were protecting Paul, and that's how he got to the governor there without being killed by the Jews.
So now this is up in, just like, you know, let's put this at another layman's term, like, we're at the Supreme Court now.
They're already at the lower courts during the consul, at the last chapter there.
Now we're at the supreme court, if you want to put it this way, right?
The governor is the judge.
And the governor is right under the king.
Not the king and the emperor, whatever, of Rome, right?
He's right under him.
So, but this I confess unto you, that after the way which they had called heresy, right, they accused me of heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believe in all things that are written in the law and in the prophets.
So he's saying to the governor, I don't do nothing wrong.
I believe in the same laws they do.
I believe in the same God, the same Father they do.
I believe in the same prophets they do.
But except for them, they're not following the prophets because the prophets are about Jesus coming, right?
And that's what Paul teaches.
But they don't want to believe, the prophets or Paul, that Jesus was the Messiah.
That they get blasphemy, right?
So this is Paul telling the governor, I didn't do nothing wrong.
I did exactly what that is supposed to be done in that temple.
In the synagogue, right?
And he says, I have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow.
And there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both the just and the unjust.
So hereon I do exercise myself.
In other words, I speak for myself.
I'm defending myself.
Right?
He's his own lawyer.
To have always a conscious void of offense toward God and toward men.
Now, after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings, right?
And alms is, we want to know what alms is.
And this is what a Bible study is, guys, so understand what alms is and all that.
It's historical context that money, food, are given to the poor, right?
That's what alms is.
So, he says, I came to bring money, food, and stuff to help out the poor to my nation.
Refer it to Rome, right?
And offerings.
I came to help people.
Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with the multitude nor with Tamal.
Who ought to have been here before thee in subject they had ought against me?
So basically, yeah, they're trying to accuse Paul of ridiculous things that Paul never did.
Alright, so Paul is pleading his case here.
Or else, let these same here say, if they found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council.
So he's saying, what evil did I do?
Except for it to be this one voice, that I cried standing among them, touching the resurrection of the dead, I am called the question by this day.
To you this by this day.
So, he's preaching the resurrection of the dead.
And now I'm calling to question, you know, what the heck's going on?
Because he preached the laws, preached about the prophets, right?
Which is, they do the same thing.
But he's talking about the resurrection and everything, you know, of the dead in a lot.
And to the Jews, he's talking blasphemous, right?
Because he's preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them and said, When Lizzie is the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
So he heard both sides and now he wants to hear from the chief captain.
Because the chief captain was in the middle of all this.
Because it's his story, that story, and with the real, you know, the real story according to the law.
It's like if you get to an accident, right, or a fight, whatever the case, right, you got your story, you got the other guy's story, then you got the person, if the witness, or in this case, it's the chief captain.
So now the governor wants to hear the chief captain's story.
And he commanded the centurion, which is the guard, to keep Paul.
So basically keep God over Paul.
And let him have liberty.
In other words, watch him, but let him, you know, don't restrain him, let him have his liberty.
You know what I mean?
That's self-explanatory.
Like he wasn't in shackles or nothing like that.
Just keep an eye on Paul.
That's what he was telling the gods, the centurion, right?
And that he should forbid none of the acquaintance to minister or come unto him.
So, basically saying, Paul, we're not going to shackle you.
Just keep an eye on the centurion.
Keep an eye on him, right?
And just make sure he doesn't talk to anybody.
That's it, right?
Or nobody talks to him, I mean.
So, and after certain days, when Felix came with his wife to Jerusalem, which was a Jewish, Jewish, right?
She's a female Jew.
He sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
So he wants to know about, yeah, he's concerned about the faith of Christ, the gospel of Christ, right?
And Paul responded, He reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come.
Felix trembled, and he answered, Go thy way for this time, and when I have a convenient season, I will call for you.
So Paul went there to talk to them and all that.
And so Felix, the governor there, he trembled.
He's like, oh, wow.
And he's like, all right, all right, all right.
So just go your way for now, right?
And when I have a convenient season, when we can schedule this matter later on, I'll call for you, right?
So just go and, you know, wait for me to call you, right?
So he hoped all that money should have been given to him of Paul.
That he might lose him.
Wherefore, he has sent him the offer and communed with him.
So, it looks like they're going to get him some money there so Paul can stay around for a while.
And he communed with him.
So, had, you know, broke bread with him and all that stuff, right?
And after two years, Pontius Festus came into Felix's room and Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, and left Paul bound.
So, this obviously continues on to the next chapter and such.
So, pretty interesting.
So, and it says after two years.
So, I guess Paul had to hang around this area.
Basically, the governor gave him compensation to keep him around.
And obviously, he communed with him, which says, break bread, whatever the case, fellowship and whatnot, probably.
So, after two years now, Portius Festus...
So we're going to find out who Portia's mini-superfinalness is before I get to the next chapter.
Because the next chapter probably...
Was the fifth procured of Judea from 59 to 62 AD succeeded Antinus Felix.
Alright, so what it looks like here, Portius Festus was the new governor.
Succeeding Antonius Felix, which was the current governor, so Portius here became the fifth governor after Felix.
And Felix willing to show the Jews a pleasure and left Paul bound.
So what does this mean?
So after two years, So here's the thing, I don't know if Portia's here.
I don't know if he's the new governor yet.
But we do know he succeeds Felix and becomes the new governor.
So I don't know if in this particular case here, I don't know if he's the new governor yet.
So we'll have to find out in the next chapter.
So we'll do that with the next video.
So thank you guys for joining us here.
And can't wait to get on to the next video.
So yeah, it's going to be awesome.
So this is amazing studies.
It really is.
And trust the plan, the only plan, and that's the Bible.
And don't take my word or anybody else's word for it.
Read it for yourself, guys.
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And thank you for tuning in to the book of Acts, chapter 24. And I can't believe we're almost done with this book.
So, we'll see you for chapter 25 in this in-depth, comprehensive study of the Bible.
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