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So, I hope that some of you, if you visited is a Facebook page or Instagram page, you would have seen a amazing video.

I even though I'm I'm part of it, one of the things that we decided to do is give just a one-minute kind of teaser at a store.

So every Thursday or Friday that will be posted, but the, the the goal of it is that you would be able to then read the scripture before you come on Sunday and have time to contemplate on that.

I did get a few questions from that.

First of all, was that what I wear my Kilt?

I had this morning.

I did not, would I be carried in by people?

No, I did not.

I will say that when you're at a wedding and you just pull people together, it's amazing what God will provide, which included a professional videographer.

Although he's from the states and works for a professional wrestling company.

So, I don't know.

Is that was really totally helpful.

However, that is what God provided for us.

I like to welcome you to hook sitting.

My name is David and I'm one of the teaching team here over the past few weeks.

Been following Paul and his colleagues as they have made their way to Jerusalem from Asia Minor which is modern-day turkey.

This narrative is found and looks history of the early church called The Acts of the Apostles.

Some people are sometimes said it would be better to say the acts of God through the early Apostles because that is actually what is a record of but we should look at it and see what's coming.

So, three weeks ago.

Ian taught about mine, the root in the anticipation of trouble ahead.

Then two weeks ago, Peter taught about warnings and the anticipation of trouble ahead last week.

Matt talked, and cover the section where Paul just by prophecies about what trouble ahead continued on his journey to Jerusalem as directed by the spirit.

If this was a serialized drama, You would know what's coming and it doesn't look good for our main character.

In fact, I find it when I'm watching and the, the main character on a TV show walks into a dark room.

I go, why don't you turn on the lights?

They always have a flashlight or alpenlite or something, damn, for the fact that, you know, what they're behind.

You there in the room somewhere, there, is this anticipation that something bad is going to happen.

Or perhaps you love a challenge.

When you've heard these three weeks of teaching is about trouble ahead.

You're like, the skier who comes up to the top of the mountain and looks to see which one do I want to take?

Can you go immediately for the Double Black Diamond because yours like Bring it on.

I am so ready to take off down this mountain and thought you might even begin to wonder if Paul is thinking in this situation, I'm the more mature and experienced believer.

I've injured beatings and riots before and I'm ready to test myself and show how it's done.

But neither of these are Luke's and 10th.

Remember Lucas our author here, he's writing about the history of the early church.

He is also written the story of the life of Jesus in the book titled Luke.

So in front as a doctor and he's more.

Matter of fact in his narrative he wants to make sure that everything in his story has a life of Jesus.

In the history of the early church is accurate.

Soci off filous who addresses in the beginning of the book, both Luke and acts can know with certainty of the things that have been taught.

And here we are two thousand years later, studying.

The same accounts, with the same desire to have a certainty of what we have heard about Jesus in his early followers.

So let's pick up the story where we left off last week with Paul his companions arriving in Jerusalem to meet the leaders of the church during the offering that they'd collected from Gentile Believers on their way there.

And they wanted to get the Time for an important festival or feast in the Jewish calendar.

Take one of the Bible since you have their turn to page 1118 1118 and follow along as David reads, the passage for us.

A straight together.

We arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters received as warmly.

The next, the pole, and the rest of us went to see James and all the elders will present a report reported in detail what God has done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

When they had this day, praise God.

Then they say to Paul, you see brother.

How many thousands of Jews have believed in all of them as it has for the low?

They have been informed, that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children who live according to our customs.

What should we do?

There was certainly hear that you have come so do what we tell you that our foreman Among Us who have made a vow, take this men, join, India, purification rites, and pay the expenses so that they can have their heads, shaved, then everyone will know.

There is no truth in this report about you but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law as to the Gentile Believers.

We have written to them.

Our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to Idols from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.

The next day Portugal, the Man and purified and serve along with them.

Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification will end and the offering will be made for each of them.

When is seven days, we're nearly over some juice from the province of Asia.

So, appalled at the temple, they stayed up the whole crowd and system shouting fellow Israelite purpose.

This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people are not a law and this place.

And besides, he has brought Greek into the temple, and the farthest place.

They have previously seen traffic trophimus, the Ephesian in the city of Port and a zoom that poor lad brought him into the temple.

The whole city was aroused and the people came running from all directions season for the dragon from the temple and immediately to get to a short while they're trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an opera.

He at once, took some some officers and soldiers around down to the crowd when they're artists do the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating for The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be born with 2 Chainz.

Then he asked who he was and what he had done, some in the crowd shouted, wanting some other, some another and silicone.

Could not get out the truth because of the Opera, he ordered the poor be taken into the box.

When Paul reach the steps, the violence of the mobile was so great that he had to be carried by the soldiers.

The crowd.

That photo.

Kept shouting, get rid of him.

Sucks driving to the nearest if there's actually quite a bit to cover today.

So I want to make sure that you get an understanding and a feel for this particular Passage So when we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters received as warmly, first thing that happens is, Paul gets a warm welcome from those who believe in Jesus, no matter what their background is, they welcomed me.

And they provide Hospitality for him, they are glad to see him, Paul knew some of them and others, perhaps hit me with meeting for the first time.

But in common, they had their faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Vanessa De Paul in the rest of us, went to see James and all the others were present.

Paul goes with his traveling companions from the churches that he is either planted or been working with in Asia Minor to meet the leaders of the Jerusalem Church.

This is important.

This is why I was coming.

There is this assumption that he's going to present this offering that they have collected.

But it doesn't get mentioned here.

All it immediately talks about is the fact that Paul greed greed some and he reports in detail and vs 19 + 20, what got it done among the Gentiles through his ministry and when they heard this day, praise God.

Remember, this is all that has happened up for for this amazing aspect of that, they understood that the, the gospel and the good news of Jesus Christ was not just those for those with a Jewish background.

But for everyone in the world, anyone could come to Jesus and have faith and belief in him.

And when we have that opportunity, then it creates them.

And just because all of a sudden we're not, Jenny is in our backgrounds and where we come from, not culturally, not religiously, not in our familial structure.

All of that is different but in Christ, there's this opportunity to be together in the same Fellowship in the same church.

So they worshiped when they heard what God has done in the amazing respond.

But they also then report and they said to Paul, you see brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed and all of them are zealous for the law.

At this point, we're 20 to 25 years past the day of Pentecost, and the church in Jerusalem has grown dramatically, but it is grown through those with a Jewish background.

So now we hear about two different groups of Believers.

Have a strong faith in Christ who have not necessarily merged at this point.

They each have their traditions.

In fact, this is not the first time that we hear about the Jerusalem Church.

Addressing what has happened among those Gentiles those who were not Jewish and back, when they heard the report, they gave some strict instructions about you can ignore these things.

But these are the things you have to pay attention to until they talked about and we'll find out about it cuz they repeat it again a little bit later in the passage about what they need to follow.

So what would the Jewish church have looked like at that point if you all come from a homogeneous background and experience?

What might it look like?

Well, if you have thousands of the meeting in Jerusalem, there going to be Jewish and culture and nature and it's possible to corporate worship might have been men and women separated in the same meeting space.