Happy Thanksgiving edition of the daily Bible podcast. Everybody, man, you're doing a great job already. Just opening up the DBR, doing your Bible, reading what a great way to start the day. If that's the way you're starting it. Yeah. If you're listening to this on Friday, cause you didn't do it on Thursday. That doesn't apply to you. It's acceptable. You still get partial credit? Yeah. No, it was, uh, hopefully you're, you're having a great day today. If you went out and played football, I, as pastor rod has, has suggested, we hope nobody got hurt. I met really, I'm nervous about it telling you I'm nervous because we need everybody there on Sunday to help us. Set things up. Right. And we, we care about you too. Don't want you in pain. On Thanksgiving. No. Probably most offices are closed. You know, doctor's offices are closing. On Thanksgiving. So yeah, urgent cares are open. They're more than willing to take your money out and I'm sure they will. Yeah. Yeah. I, uh, I learned early on that as. There's ramifications for playing sports. Um, As a pastor because it compensates. I sent it for the code. Softball team and tripped over first base and broke my shoulder. So. Yep. I remember a pastor, Mike wasn't too happy about that. No, no. I think he got a, a bit of a weapon a little bit. I mean, you showed up in the hospital, um, and scolded you, he did it. What are you doing? He did. You're not. You're not 18 years old again. Right. Yeah, something like that. You've got a stewardship. Yeah, no, that's true. I a. So my old baseball injury, softball injury, it flares up sometimes. Um, And I have never run to first base since then. That's the last time I did. No the last time he did it. Yep. And you learned your lesson? I did. I did. But Hey, if you play football today, Enjoy. Well, it says something it's like a, would a DAC or one of these guys, would they play a pickup? Football game with another group of people. Probably not. Right. Probably not either too valuable to do that. That's going to be our, uh, our excuse for too. Able to play football guys. You're just too, too high value person. Well, I mean his contract. It's a little bit different than, than, well, we. We get about the same, right. That's about what we get. Sure. Yeah. Give or take yeah. Um, I think when he sneezes, he makes what we make. I think so. Uh, Joe's going to be on him. I'm going after heaven, the rewards, and I'm confident God's going to be more generous with us there. And then than any organization can be with the athletes here. And now that's true, which is something to be thankful for. Speaking of being thankful. I'm very thankful. Yeah. Yeah. So hopefully your turkeys on whatever it may be. We, uh, we're smoking a Turkey this year. And so we've got that on the. The Trager and we've got the fixings with it that are, are going to be around the table. So we're, uh, we're excited. I like Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a good day. Get the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. Oh yeah, you got football. Who's football playing today. Uh, the Cowboys and the giants. Oh, cool. Yeah. What channel is that going to be on? Uh, usually it's on Fox. I believe. All right. Yeah. On Thanksgiving. Can I stream it somewhere? I'd like to strain it? Um, I don't have cable. That's a good question. If you, so if you don't have cable, if you get a, uh, antenna over the air antenna, which you can get for like 30 bucks at best buy 40 bucks at best buy. You can pick up local channels for free. Oh. So with streaming news during weather and things like that, sometimes it's a good thing. It connects. Um, I'm going to do that. Yeah. And actually the picture is better than HTMI cables and everything else. No kid. Why is that? He was in the traffic signal. Yeah. So there you go over the air and you can get local channels, so you can get Fox on there and you can watch the Cowboys or whatever else. During baseball season could watch the world series. We have come full circle because we used to have bunny ears. Yep. And then you're like, oh, let's go to cable. And cable had the great picture and all that. And now you're back to money years ago. Well, it's the antennas are far more sophisticated these days. It's not like you don't have to wrap foil around them in. Yeah, almost looks like the Elon Musk. Like. Starlink kind of thing. And so there's different kinds you can get in radius and everything, but yeah, they're not super expensive and you can get free channels. That's fantastic. Yeah. I'm going to do that. You should do it. I'm going to do that. Yup. Well, let's jump into acts 18 and 19. Let's do it. R X 18. So we are back. We were in testimonials network, jumping back in and Paul remember had gone to Athens and he was there and we had left him off. He had had the. The whole conversation on the area, alpacas. And pointed to the statute, unknown God, while he's leaving Athens now. And he's going to Corinth. And he comes to court, then he finds two people that are going to show up. Multiple times in the new Testament force, the rest of the time. And this is Aquilla and Priscilla. Uh, equivalent Priscilla are unique individuals here and what's fascinating is this is one of the few times. I'd love to get your insight on this, that we find a Quilla who is that? By the way, the mail. Uh, find a Quilla listed first. A lot of times we'll find Priscilla and Aquila. This is one of the few times we find a Quilla listed first and there's intentionality with word order in the Greek. And so what are some thoughts maybe you have as to what to make of that? Man. I struggle with this because I can't, I can't help, but think that Luke front loads her most of the time. Because of her position within the family, perhaps. She had the wealthier family and maybe there was a family business involved that he was part of. Although not running point, like perhaps she was, there's so many different potentials. That it's hard to know for sure. What of, what, of any of them, if any of them they could be. But what we do know is that as a, as a means of, uh, As a way of demonstrating status. You would say it's like Paul and Silas are not pawns. Yeah. Although Paul is that it's also works. Uh, Barnabas and Paul or Saul. Uh, at first it was Barnabas and Saul, and then eventually it turned into Paul and Barnabas because he became the front man. So here you have a very similar situation where apparently. Yeah, Priscilla Prisca. Uh, other, uh, another place has mentioned. Uh, it has some kind of status that was greater than equivalent. Now what to make of that. I have no clue, but there it is. Yeah, I don't, I don't think we can go as far as some might say, is, is suggesting, well, this is evidence of egalitarianism that you can't say that. I'm saying too much, the text doesn't tell us. Right. We just don't know. Right? Yeah. I would agree. I would agree. Well notice in verse five, we get Silas into the back with Paul. So his traveling companions rejoined him here in verse five. Um, they skipped his time in Athens there, and now they're with him. Uh, they're in Corinth. And then in verse six, something interesting happens here because Paul goes into the synagogue as he's always done and he finds more opposition. So he shakes out his garments, which was a symbol of Hamden with you. He said your blood beyond your own heads. I'm innocent from now on. I will go to the Gentiles. Now he says this, although he's still going to. Keep going to the synagogue. Paul struggles to quit the Jewish people. And I get why, I mean, these are his kinsmen, but the main thrust of his ministry from this point on is going to begin to shift towards the Gentiles, which is massive for this guy who was a former Pharisee. As he's saying. Okay. Um, I'm, I'm leaving off this. I'm going to go where it's more fruitful for me. That's why. Is the harvest. I mean, he's going to the way that the fields are white and where people are going to respond to the gospel, and he's going to say later, I've made it my ambition to preach Christ where he hasn't been named before. And so Paul's after fruit and he's concluding here. He's going to find more fruit with the Gentiles than with the Jews. And that was in fact true. And that wasn't very fruitful with the Gentiles. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well verses nine and 10, um, the, the Lord shows up to Paul one night. It says in a vision, it says don't be afraid, but go on speaking. Don't be silent. I'm with you. No, one's going to attack you or harm you. So there in Corinth. He gets this message from the Lord saying, Hey, keep doing what you're doing. I'm going to protect you while you're here, because remember all the opposition he's faced so far. So here, Paul has a. Pretty good guarantee. One that she can kind of take to the bank. In fact, verses 11 through 17, after this, the Jews try to oppose him, but God is true to his word. And in the Roman, proconsul that the official there dismisses any charges, they try to bring against Paul. And so they're not able to do anything. They can't do anything about Paul. Paul has the freedom to, to serve into, into preach Christ there in Corinth, because God had come and said, Hey, I'm in a, I'm gonna support you right now. Uh, verses 18 through 22, then we get the conclusion of the second missionary journey. So he's returning back to Antioch in Syria. And he's going to get there by way of emphasis. He's going to come back to emphasis and I think Jerusalem. PR your thoughts? 1822. He says, after going up, he came back down and so some commentaries are read said typically, when he talks about going up, we're talking about Jerusalem there. A hundred percent. So it seems like he gave a report to Jerusalem, probably James and the church there. And then also he went back to a sending church in Antioch and, and reported to them what the Lord had been doing with him on the second journey there. Right. So keep in mind here, as you're tracking through your Bible, verse 22 is really the end of the second missionary journey, but you get to Paul's third missionary journey. It seems like in the next breath, you just, you breathe out, you take a breath in. He's like, okay, I'm back at it now. So second and third missionary journey. There's not a lot of fanfare here in your Bible, if you're looking at the ESV, but that's what we understand happening. Yeah, I would agree. Yeah, it kicks off there in chapter 18, verse 23. It's going to go all the way through chapter 21, verse 16 and mainly this third missionary journey is going to focus on the region of Ephesus. Uh, emphasis you'll you'll hear the book Ephesians written to the churches in this area there you'll, you'll pick up on that just by the name there. But verses 24 through 28, we kind of shift back to Priscilla and Aquila and find that they've encountered a guy there in emphasis whose name is Apollos. A Apollos is another name. That's going to show up multiple times. Some people even believe that this is the guy that wrote Hebrews. That has been a suggestion. That's been posited. I don't necessarily agree with that, but it's a thought. Um, Paul is going to refer to a policy in first Corinthians. He's going to talk about. Hey some say I'm a Paul others have, have a policy book. At this point in time, a policy is wet behind the ears. He knows enough to be dangerous, but enough also to be heretical probably at this point. And so Priscilla and Aquila recognizes zeal. They pull them aside. They kind of give him a crash course in the gospel, and then they, they, they turn them up and they release him back out. They send them to a Kao, which is the region of Corinth. At that point from there. In emphasis. So that's one of the reasons why Paul in first Corinthians is going to say, Hey, some of you say you're of a policy because a policy is sent by Priscilla and Aquila back to that region to begin training and preaching the gospel there. Yeah. Be slow to preach, man. Uh, don't don't. If God's calling you to do that, I know God puts it on a lot of people's hearts. That's a good thing. First Timothy chapter three says if anyone desires that to noble thing to noble thing to want that. Uh, but take it, take a lesson here from Priscilla and Aquila slash Apellis and take, take some time to learn, take some time to study and to grow in your understanding before you start getting behind a pulpit and wanting to preach, it's a good desire, but make sure that desire is under control and prepared for yeah. Yep. All right. We're 10 minutes in. We've only got one chapter left. All right. So here we get we're we're doing okay on time. I think acts 19 then acts 19 one through seven. Paul comes across these 12 men who, uh, Luke calls, disciples that they had only known the baptism of John and hadn't received the holy. The spirit yet. So I guess in a way, maybe there's some parallels between Apollos and these guys, these guys aren't teaching and preaching, but they've got some knowledge, just not enough knowledge. It appears here. This is difficult because Luke does call them disciples though. They haven't been baptized. All they knew is the baptism of John. So. I think this, if nothing else, this reminds me, man, ax is not normative for our, our understanding of soteriology or how the holy spirit is given. This is a unique time where the church is exploding. These are unique circumstances. Uh, case in point this in Romans eight, nine, Paul's going to say if somebody does not have the spirit of Jesus, they don't belong to Christ. And so Paul is going to say right there. Look, if you don't have the holy spirit, you're not a Christian. And so here, this hybrid version of somebody who seems to have profess faith in and has believed, but has not received the holy spirit, this is unique to this time in the church. That's, that's my thoughts. PR are your thoughts on this opening part here in chapter 19? I'd have to agree with that. We don't want to expect that people are going to receive the spirit of God in this particular way. Uh, in the future. Uh, we, we are cessationists by conviction and we believe that these, these signs were done as a means of demonstrating the, the authenticity of the message and the messenger. And it was especially important in this time, time period when the church was being established. So it makes perfect sense at that time today. We have different tools to work with. We have languages that we can study and learn. We have the, we have the book of the whole Bible, the whole Corpus of scripture from Genesis to revelation and most languages. Yeah. So with that said again, not normative. These are the kinds of things where you can take lessons from them, but they're not the kind of thing we should say. Okay. I'm going to go to church on Sunday and pastor PJ's preaching. I should expect for him to put his hands upon me and me to receive the holy spirit. You receive the holy spirit when you become a Christian. Yeah. I'm not going to do that by the way. Uh, even if you asked me to, I probably wouldn't do that. I'll I'll pray for you. I'll lay hands on you and pray for you, but, but not to receive the holy spirit that's above my pay grade. Hmm. All right. X 19, then 18 or eight through 10. We get the transition from Paul again, away from the Jews to the Gentiles. It continues as persecution forces Paul to leave the synagogue for a Gentile venue here. So like I said, Paul struggles to quit the Jews. So he's back in the synagogue, the synagogue opposition is ramping up and I think this is God right now saying, Hey, Paul, I've got a different audience for you. And so Paul ends up leaving the synagogue. He goes into what's called the hall of Tyrannus here, which we don't know a ton about. But we do know that it was a Gentile venue, whatever it was, whether it was a place of aeration and philosophical debate. Or a, or a marketplace we're not entirely clear a hall of education. But Paul ends up there and he's preaching to the God, the gospel to the Gentiles. And this goes on for two years so that all the residents of Asia hear the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. So, um, he's like you said, he's fruitful. With his ministry to the Gentiles here, Asia minor, by the way. Yes. Not in China. Important. Yes. Key. That's helpful. Yeah. Uh, all right. Verses 11 through 20 God. Uh, in, in this passage, we see again, talking about what's normative versus not normative or prescriptive versus descriptive. This is descriptive here. Uh, God's doing miracles through Paul, such that even his, his tissues. Are being taken to people and. Uh, God is using the contact with those two to heal people. It seems like in Paul's exercising demons. And so here comes this, this group of men called the sons of Skiva and they want to be able to do the same thing, but the problem is there they're Jews, they're not Christians. Right? And so this, I think is what separates this group from those when, when the disciples said, Hey Lord, these people over here are casting out demons in your name. I think they were sympathetic to Jesus that they weren't part of his immediate band of followers. These guys are Jews they're opposed to Christ. They just want the power and the glory that they see in Paul. So they try casting out these demons and the demons come back on them and publicly humiliate them, uh, to say the least. Uh, which leads to a great repentance from the Jews and Greeks in this region, they recognize the validity of Paul, which again is, is. Points to the, our view of cessationist. They're they're seeing. Okay, God's doing something unique with this guy. I need to listen to this guy and not listen to the noise from, from the other people that are opposing him because of what they've seen here. These kinds of people still exist by the way. Um, we don't call them the sense of Skiva, but they are people who practice magic. Uh, purification, no, they'll come to your house. If you have weird things happening, they will come and they'll perform ceremonies in your living room. And. They will speak incantations to the house and to the spirits in the house, at least what they understand to be spirits. Um, and as you see here, This is real. This is not a, uh, This is not phony. There's, there's real things that are happening that your eye can't see. And our advice to you would be not to hire these people. Just call us. If you have anything weird happening, call us and we'll, we'll come and pray with you. We'll come in. We'll come and pray with. We'll tell you that much, and we'll give you some advice about how to handle that biblically. But just notice there are people like this who still go around and put their services in the Craigslist or the Facebook marketplace. And they. I would love to come in, uh, with. And then you determine like they'll come and bless your home to protect it against spirits like that. Uh, bad idea. Bad idea. Don't do that. Call your pastor. And let him have helped you with that a hundred percent agree with that. It's it's of the same ilk as the mediums and the psychics and things of that nature too. Yeah. Um, Yeah, verses 21 through 41, then. Message here is look, Satan hates the gospel being spread. And so he stares up here, a single silver Smith here in the region whose business has suffered due to Paul's exposing idols. As false and this one, man riles up the entire city, basically against Paul and his companions. Uh, it gets to the point of, of a riot. And he says in verse 26, you see in here, not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, again, Asia minor, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people. Seeing that gods made with hands are not God's. So Satan had. Stirred up the Jews against Paul. And so Paul was like, all right, I'm going to the Gentiles. So now what is Satan doing? He's stirring up the Gentiles against Paul as well. So this riot. Reaches his levels that eventually reaches the, the, the decision makers. And the, the riots quelled here, because they're, they're worried of, of being accused of writing for no reason. Like they even realize, okay, we don't really even have a reason to ride here. Um, But we just need to recognize, recognize here that, that the opposition, that Paul is going to face. This is signaling. It's not just going to come from the Jews, but it's also now going to come from the Gentiles as well. Satan's not going to give up just because Paul's turned from the Jewish people and now he's going for the Gentiles. All right. Well, let's pray. And then we'll be done with a Thanksgiving episode of the daily Bible podcast. Father God, we do want to be thankful, uh, for, for all the good things that you've brought to us. And as a church, should we have gotten together today and said, Hey, let's everybody stand up and give reasons to be thankful. We could be there all day and into the night and into the next day. And for. Weeks upon weeks, God, there are so many good things that you've done for us. And so make us a people. Of gratitude, even as we sing this past Sunday or that song about. Uh, praising you and even realizing all I can do at times is just saying, I'm going to worship you because what do we have that you didn't first give to us? And so make us a grateful church. Uh, church of gratitude and help us to celebrate today. Well, And to be rejoicing in the greatest gift that we've received, which is Jesus, who is our access, our righteousness. And the one who we can plead. For, for even coming before you to parade him. And so we thank you. We pray these things in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. All right, church, keeping your Bibles and tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the daily Bible podcast. See you then folks. Yeah.