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July 20, 2023 - Dan Bidondi Show
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Discussing The Book of Acts Chapter 26 - The Dan Bidondi Show Bible Series
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declaring war on the new world order truth radio show dot com shalom and welcome to the damper diney show on truth radio show dot com and welcome to the book of acts chapter 26 in our in-depth comprehensive study of the bible
So we go chapter by chapter, verse by verse, so one chapter at a time and we have a specific Bible study approach and we pray for wisdom and understanding so let's do that right now.
So, Jesus, Yeshua Messiah, we come before you once again.
And like always, as humans, we're not perfect, but we need to confess our sins to you.
Please forgive us all individually of our sins and trespasses that we may have committed.
And we ask you to help us with this divine wisdom, Lord, of your word, your word made flesh.
And Heavenly Father, we come before you to thank you for everything.
And to bless us all, Lord, and protect us all from the forces of evil, and to help give us the Holy Spirit to write your word upon our hearts today.
And in this case, the book of Acts, chapter 26. And thank you so much for everything, and please comfort everybody that needs comfort in, and protect us all from the forces of evil.
We constantly need that, Lord, because the enemy's always out to get us.
But we know that you're the divine conqueror, and You know, you win in the end.
So, and you've won from day one.
So, we love you so much.
Amen.
So, what we do also is read the scripture in context, because context is key.
Very important to understand that, guys.
And let the scripture interpret scripture.
Don't lean on your own understanding.
So, if you've got a Bible, guys, open up to chapter 26 of the book of Acts.
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So, if you're watching on the YouTube edition, we've got the Bible, the King James Version, up on screen.
But regardless, if you want to open your own Bible, go for it.
We actually encourage you to do it, to read it for yourself.
So, here we are, Paul, basically on trial.
So, we left off in Chapter 25, that the new governor here is presenting the case because, um...
Paul appealed the case, because the new governor here wanted Paul to go back to Jerusalem.
Basically, it's left in the hands of the Jews, which automatically he'd be killed, right?
But Paul appealed it and wanted to go to Caesar.
However, the king first wanted to hear his case.
So here we are, okay, in this court now, right?
And now it's Paul trying to talk.
So if you missed the last chapter, guys, please go watch it, because you'll catch up to what's going on here.
So anyway, then Agrippa, right, the king there, said unto Paul, You are now permitted to speak for yourself.
And Paul stretched forth to the hand and answered for himself.
So Paul here, right, we're in the court, basically.
It is, it's a court of law.
And Paul's representing himself.
There is no lawyers back then, whatever case, he's his own representative, his own lawyer, right?
He's the defense.
And mind you, this is two years in the process.
So if you think the court system is slow today, guys, it was just a slow back then.
Nothing's really changed.
Because if you remember a couple chapters ago, this is two years in the making.
This case.
Paul went from Jerusalem over to here in Rome, right?
And I forget his name of the city.
Caesarea.
And now he's standing before the king.
Which he appealed with the covenant, right?
So anyway, now it's Paul's turn to speak.
He's permitted by the king to speak, right?
And Paul says, I think myself happy, King Akronpa, because I shall answer for myself this day before detouching all the things where I am accused of the Jews, right?
So he's saying, yeah, I'm going to answer for myself, touching on all the things that I'm being accused of.
Especially because I know that I know that thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews.
Wherefore, I beseech you, like beg of you, plea of you, thee, to hear me patiently.
So, he's saying, like, I know you're an expert in his customs and the laws and all that stuff, especially when it's concerning the Jews and all that, but I'm begging you, okay, and I'm pleading for you to actually, if you could just be patient and let me hear.
I'm going to say, let me speak what I need to speak.
And for you to hear what I have to say, right?
And Paul goes on, My manner of life from my youth, which was the first among my own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews, which knew me from the beginning, and if they would testify that after the most stratus sect of our religion, I lived in the Pharisee.
Because I used to be a Pharisee.
And he says, the Jews will tell you that, yeah, you would understand what's going on.
And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers.
Unto which promise are twelve tribes.
Instantly serving God day and night, hope to come.
For which hope's sake, King Acropa, I am accused of the Jews.
He says, because Paul's saying, hey, I'm just doing God's work.
That's all I'm doing.
The same God of the Jews.
I'm just doing the Lord's work.
And I'm being accused from the Jews.
He says, why should it be thought a thing incredible with you?
That God should raise the dead?
So, because that's what the whole thing's about, right?
Right?
Because Paul taught the commandments and the laws and all that stuff about the prophets.
Same thing as Jews did, but the Jews that passed, excuse my language, ticked off, okay, that Paul is preaching about the resurrection of Jesus, right?
And he goes, should it shock you that God could raise somebody from the dead?
Because that's what the whole matter is.
He rose his son from the dead, Jesus.
And he's presenting it to them.
It's like, why is this such a shocker?
I've really thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Right?
And because, again, Paul used to be called Saul.
He used to go around killing Christians.
The disciples and all that, right?
And he got converted.
Right?
Which thing I also did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints did I shut up in prison.
He's saying, when I was Saul, I used to go around shutting these people up.
The people used to preach the word of Jesus Christ, I used to go around killing them.
Having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
He's saying, I used to go out, I used to, you know, go persecute the apostles.
These very chief priests who want me dead now, they're the ones who gave me authority to go do this years ago.
I went around and shut these people up.
I put them in prison.
I killed them in the whole nine yards.
Right?
And I punished them oft in every synagogue.
I compelled them to blaspheme.
And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to the strange cities.
You know, onto the strange cities.
So he's saying, like, yeah...
I ran him out of sin.
You talk about the apostles, right?
I ran him out of sin to God.
I charged him for blasphemy.
Because they were preaching Jesus Christ and everything, and that's right, yeah.
And he's saying his old self, Saul, right?
He's explaining what he used to do.
Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests...
So basically he's saying I was a high gun, a hitman if you will, or an executioner of the chief priests.
I had full authority to go around to condemn anybody who spoke the words of Jesus Christ.
And killed him.
At midday, O king, I saw in the way of light from heaven, which this is when Saul converted to Paul, right?
And he was saying, this is why I used to go kill all these Christians, right?
And he goes, at midday, in the middle of the day, King, I saw the way of the light from heaven above the brightness of the sun shining round about me in them which journey with me.
So Saul used to travel around with his henchmen.
And, you know, as he's saying, as we learned a few times here in this book, that light from heaven shined upon Paul.
Literally knocked him off his horse.
He went blind, okay?
And Jesus approached him.
He could see Jesus, but he couldn't see nothing else.
Jesus approached him in the spirit.
And picked Paul and said, you know what, you've got to work for me now.
And he was converted, you know what I mean?
And later on his sight was healed and everything else.
And now, then he became Paul.
A new man.
And he's explaining this to the king.
And when we were all flown to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me saying, in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuted to me?
It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks, which is the pricker butchers, you know, the thorns, right?
And this is Jesus speaking.
And he was in the spirit speaking of Saul, Paul, right?
So why are you persecuting me?
It's hard to kick against a frickin' bush, right?
In other words, Jesus says, I'm not going away.
We're not going away.
So stop persecuting us.
And I said, who art thou, Lord?
And he said, yes, I am Jesus whom you persecute.
But rise up and stand up on your feet, for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose.
You know, reciting what Jesus told him to the king.
To make you a minister and witness both of these things which you have seen.
And of those things which I have will also appear unto you.
Deliver indeed from the people and from the Gentiles, whom now I send you.
To open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them, which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
So, this is Jesus telling Paul that, yeah, I need you to go preach my gospel.
Now you've seen, okay, Paul, now you've seen this is real.
I'm in the Spirit, you know, Jesus in the Spirit.
Now, that's why Paul addressed him as Lord, because he couldn't believe what he was saying.
And it was a sole confirmation that the resurrection and everything, it's all real, like the apostles, the very people he was killing, they were true, they were right.
And this converted Paul, Saul, and again, he later became Paul.
And Paul tells the king, right, Agrippa, I was not disobedient into heavenly vision, into that heavenly vision.
Yeah, the chief priest gave me all the authority and all that to go kill these people, and I didn't disobey them until I had this heavenly vision.
But showed first unto the Damascus and that Jerusalem and throughout the coast of Judea, and then to the Gentiles that they should repent and turn to God, and do the works meet for repentance.
So saying, I want all these places to bring the witness of Jesus Christ to these people, so that they repent and turn to God, right?
For these causes, the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
So this is why they want me dead, because I'm preaching the word of Jesus Christ, for repentance and resurrection and everything else.
This is Paul Pleinus' case to the king.
Having therefore obtained the help of God, I continue unto this day, witnesses to both small and great, saying, None other things than those which the prophets and Moses have...
I'm not doing nothing wrong.
The very prophets that the Jews honor, right?
The very word, the very scripture, right?
I'm doing the same thing.
Except for one thing.
I'm actually obeying and understanding what the prophets had to say.
They're not.
The prophets talked about the coming of Jesus, the resurrection and everything else.
And they don't want to believe that Jesus is that resurrection and all that.
The Messiah, right?
He said, I'm just listening to the prophets, which he didn't.
He in no way violated the law at all.
And it's just the stubbornness of the Jewish elders that didn't want to believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
They're the ones who didn't listen to the prophets.
This is Paul's plea, right?
He says that Christ should suffer and that he would be the first that should rise from the dead and show light unto the people and to the Gentiles.
And he thus spoke for himself.
So this is what Paul told in the quartet.
Paul told them, this is it.
Jesus showed unto the people, right?
And he is the Messiah.
And as he spoke for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself, much learning does make thee mad.
So it looks like he cut off Paul there, yelled out, screamed at Paul.
You are beside yourself.
And if you want to know what beside yourself means...
It's overcome with warrior anger.
Destruct.
So he's accusing Paul of being struck.
Cuts Paul off and says that, right?
But he said, I am not mad.
See how the Bible interprets it, too?
It's cool.
So Paul's saying, I'm not mad, most noble Festus, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
Because it looks like out of desperation Festus is like, yeah, right, you're beside yourself, you're mad, whatever, and Paul says, no, I'm not.
He's saying, I'm sober as it can be, and I'm just speaking the truth.
And for the king knows of these things before I also speak freely.
For I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him, for this thing was not done in the corner.
King Akrabah believes the rest of the prophets.
He's asking, does King Akrabah believe the prophets?
I know that he does believe.
So he's saying that the king does not believe the prophets?
I know he believes it.
Then Acrobat said it to Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
So he almost persuaded me to be a Christian, like the nephology is great, right?
And Paul said, I would to God, that not only though, but also, all that hears me this day, we're both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
That's Paul replying back to the king, right?
And I don't know if this was derogatory from the king or not.
What are you trying to persuade me to be a Christian now?
Because he's saying, hey, don't you believe in the prophet's king?
I know you believe it, right?
And the king says, well, what are you trying to persuade me to be a Christian?
And Paul said, I would go to God that not only you...
But I'll go to God, but also that he and me to this day were both almost and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up and the governor and the Bernice, and they all sat with them.
And when they were going aside, they talked between themselves, saying, this man does nothing worthy of death or bonds.
So now they all come together.
It's like, all right, yeah.
What did he do wrong?
What did he do wrong?
This is a major similarity to Jesus.
Now Pontius Pilate, the Jews tried to convict Jesus, right?
And Pontius Pilate said, where's the proof he did anything wrong?
And they kept pushing and pushing until Jesus was dead.
Even though they had no proof against him.
And they're doing the same thing to Stephen, they did the same thing to Paulian, right?
Then said Agrabin to Festus.
This man might have been set at liberty if he had not appealed into Caesar.
So he's saying, like, Paul might have been set free if he had not appealed into Caesar.
So, we're going to find out what that means in the next chapter.
Because it doesn't sound good.
So, in other words, because if he didn't...
Yeah.
If Paul didn't appeal this case, right, he would have already been set free.
But essentially, appeals to Caesar, what does this mean?
And we're going to find that out in the next chapter.
So, we've got two more chapters to go in the series here.
So, interesting stuff really is.
And this is like a...
This is a court case going on, guys.
And it's very similar to the courts today.
And it's kind of funny, too, because this is two years in the making.
And it sounds much like the court systems today that take three years, whatever, two years, whatever, to get something pushed to the courts.
It's crazy.
Because it goes through different levels of courts.
As you're seeing, Paul here went through several layers of courts to get to this high court here.
And he's not even at the highest one.
Because the highest one is with Caesar.
First was the Jewish elders, right?
In the council, right?
Then it went to before the governor.
Then it's before the king right now.
And next to Caesar.
So when I said a few chapters ago about the Supreme Court, this would be considered the Supreme Court, so I apologize about that.
Going on to Caesar, this is the top, top, top, top, top court.
Which ultimately, God is the ultimate judge.
But in this case, yeah, Caesar is the one who's going to decide what happens to fall, as we're going to find out in the next two chapters.
So thank you guys for joining us in this study, and if you've got any questions, comments, or anything like that, please put it in the comments section.
So, again, check out our shows at truthradioshow.com.
And don't take my word, anybody else's, guys.
Read it for yourselves, please.
And thank you for joining us in the book of Acts, chapter 26, in this in-depth, comprehensive study.
And I'm excited to get on to the...
I just want to finish this whole New Testament.
I want to get into the Old Testament.
It's going to be awesome.
I'm just excited.
I'm not trying to rush to it.
I'm just excited to get to these chapters.
Because I'm learning as I go along as well.
Holy Spirit is teaching me as well as he's teaching you.
So thank you guys for tuning in.
And we'll see you for chapter 27. So God bless.
Shalom.
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