But Acts 11 is where we are. But in Acts 11, Peter recounts his story verbatim. And so, we didn't read it all, but there's some cool things for us to look at. And so just to, and some of it I guess, I mean the Lord's timing always floors me. Like Angel was mentioning, she had talked to me about it earlier. Some talked about all the different churches in Ephesians. In fact, I didn't realize they were all doing that. I don't follow any kind of course or any kind of whim. I'm just like, Lord, what do you have me do next? And to have it be on the heart of other pastors is pretty cool. When you know somebody else to say, hey, I just listened to another online. They talk about the same thing you talked about. It's like, good, God's message is going out. And there's people responding, and I'm one of them. So it's humbling. It seems like he's calling the church to suit up and be ready, so that's exciting. But the last chapter, chapter 10, ends with Cornelius, a Gentile, a Roman centurion, whose whole house gets saved. He gets saved. He's invited everybody in. Someone's coming to give us the gospel. They're all ready. And while he is preaching, he didn't even get to an altar car. He didn't call. He didn't have to play the song and say, every head bound, every eye closed. All of a sudden, people began repenting. And the Holy Spirit begins to fill them in real time. Once they hear the name of Jesus, once they know the answer to everything that they've been trying, as in Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost fills them. They speak in tongues. And it's not just random. you know, speak in Halamashundai, Taipotai, or whatever, somebody might run around and say, and I always repeat that because I had a pastor early on who says, boy, he went forward and they said, say Halamashundai, Taipotai, run around the church. And he did, and he was like, so I, you know, it wasn't upon me, someone told me to do that. And so it's not that, this is, it's more like mini Pentecost, and they're saying languages that people, that no one understands, so it's like that, the Gentile version of Pentecost, because it is there in front of Peter, because Peter is there with six witnesses. First chapter 10, 23 says he takes people with us. Chapter 11 tells us how many he takes and that to verify the Gentiles can get saved. Now, we just went through Ephesians about Cornerstone. We talked about the mystery and all these different things, how the mystery was the Gentiles and Jews are the same now. We're grafted in, we're part of the inheritance. We are partakers in the promises. We have all those blessings. This is what's cutting edge new, and they didn't get it. Chapter 10, verse 44, just to kind of give us our transition, says, when Peter yin spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on them, which heard the word, and they which are the circumcision, which is the Jews, which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then answered Peter, can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we? he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord and then prayed they him to tarry certain days and so they're like today coming on fellowship with us and he does so it's exciting Gentiles can get saved the Holy Spirit verifies it to Peter for continuity you were there at Pentecost You were there at the resurrection. You were there with Jesus Christ. You were seeing how the church is progressing, so it's coming for him. Paul's the disciple, or the apostle, for the Gentiles. But with Paul, this outsider that they're already skeptical about, all of a sudden comes to tell them that Gentiles could be saved. They're gonna be like, I don't know about this. But that's why I think the Holy Spirit shows the continuity and the consistency in this so that they can testify to it. It's all new. The Ethiopians, sure, he got saved. Judeans and Samaritans, they'd gotten saved. But now a Roman in this far-off country and everyone in his household, who knows who they all are. Like I said, the mystery of the Gentiles being grafted in as being laid down, and then Paul eventually explains it all to us. So how were the early days of the church? I think we always tend to romanticize, kind of like, you know, you remind yourself, say, oh, it was like the angel's day. until it's winter and you're like, I wish it was modern day. Like, oh, I wish it was back, it was just us on the farm until there was the axe accident and you wish you had the ambulance at 9-1-1 and what are we going to do? And they were like, I think you did an all right time. So that's romanticized, you know, when you think about it. Sometimes it sounds pretty good on a cozy winter night. I think we romanticize this as always peace and harmony. We have signs and miracles and God's moving and the church is just united. They sold all their stuff. They had all things in common. They were living in this great way to do it, caring for one another, a big love fest, everybody getting along in agreement and one accord. They mention that from time to time, but is that all true? I know we've faced it. I don't know if you're in a church very long. You'll face some kind of controversy or trouble. I would say right now as the church as a whole, it's kind of better than it's been in a minute. As far as division within the church a little bit, there's not so much, maybe it's just us, I've been schooled by you guys, there's not so much about what kind of, what the girls wear dresses and how, what style of hair you have or whether it's on your face or on your head, I've been yelled at for that. I mean, you know, it's not like, you know, it's not like, you know, to music, can you worship God with a guitar? Man, I've never had debates about that, countless things. I've heard way too many sermons of about a one three beat versus a two four beat, and I'm like, where's that in here? I can't find the Bible about it, and syncopation, the evils of syncopation, how they came along, and then you get the Bible versions, you know, is it the Bible version, or you have the New International Pur Version, and they're all against it, you know, that's how they would call it, and they would all fight about what it's gonna be, and I've had people come here and say, You don't preach King James enough. And I'm like, I use the King James Bible every time, because everybody agrees on it. We don't argue about it. He goes, no, you don't preach about King James. I'm like, it's not about King James. It's about King Jesus. And we left. But it's about King Jesus. It's not about King James. It's about God's word. I picked this one because I know it best and because everybody agrees it's OK. I like that everybody has something different. I recommend, you know, watch out ESV. I recommend that. That's a good translation for today. We live in a good time when we know we have a good translations. And so, I think because it's a church, and the church has people in it, people are imperfect, things happen. You know, that's how it is. I remember I got called on the carpet once as a Sunday school teacher, because I made the comment that if someone got saved in Africa, like in the deep, dark, you know, jungle somewhere, and they got saved, you know, we wouldn't expect them to wear a suit the next Sunday. I got in trouble because they were like, yes, we would. I'd be like, well, they don't have a Sears or a JCPenney. This was before Kohl's was way back when. And so I had to have someone who would sit and monitor my class and take notes of what I said to make sure I wasn't speaking heresy. And I was like, I don't know if they'd ever wear a suit. Well, I mean, sometimes they do. And I know he had a missionary once. And he had a brilliant way. I thought he had a brilliant way in which he was presenting the gospel. He took some of those, like the Chick track, and he blew it up huge. on the streets of Rome for people to be able to read. And then the ones that would read it all the way through, he'd be at the end, like, what do you think? You know, I talked to him, and I asked the panel, I'm like, man, are we going to be able to support this guy? I'd like to let something unique and different. And they're like, he didn't ever come to our church again. I'm like, why? Because of those slides he had shorts on. And I was like, it's hot over there. And so I was like, that's crazy. And so sometimes we get, we do. Instead of just rationalizing it out and saying, why do you think that one is this? Is that true? Is that acceptable? Has that kid got you? Some women are very short, so I don't know. Most of them don't wear shorts. If I'm voting for a uniform in heaven, it's a Batman shirt and cable shorts. It's probably Roman white. I'm just saying, that's what. Because I have all these pictures. I got a Roman guard. You have somebody in a colonial suit. And I'm like, you're heavy over there. Gooseball and cable shorts. But he saves all of us, right? And the Holy Spirit verifies with signs here. Now, we don't always have that. And so we're supposed to use God's word. We're supposed to put it out and say, now, how logically, through scripture, can you say this is wrong? And when I stand up and I preach out of the King James Bible, I tell you what it means, and it says what the ESV already says, and it's like, could we cut the middleman out? Maybe sometimes you read the ESV, or how come that's not reasonable? Why can't we reason that that's still God's word, or why it has to be this big fight? And so there should be some reason. We should be able to hash things out, and I love hashing things out, and I like it that we don't always agree on everything, and I like it that you're passionate about things that I'm not passionate about, and that we stand for, but I like that. It's diversity. If you had a bunch of me, no one would like it, and we all say, what a jerk, and we all leave, and we all need a bunch of that. We all need difference, and so, God uses Peter to be this bridge. He'll call Paul, he's using Peter, And Peter and those with him, as we just saw, they're leaving. It's like, you know, what stops us from baptizing these guys? They got nothing! And so they go baptize them, and they're like, stay and teach us! Like, we will! And so they stay and teach, but they send word back, Gentiles are born again! They're speaking, you know, the Holy Spirit came upon them like Pentecost, right in front of us, they're being seen! The apostles and the brethren that were in Judea heard the Gentiles and also received the word of God. Yay! When Peter was come to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision, or Jews, contended with him. Wow, that's a good church word. We had contended. Contended. That means criticized. They opposed. They were at variance. They were saying, hey, what did we do? To understand, Jews were separated. That's part of who they are. That's part of what they do. Because God gave them certain rules. You're gonna go into a promised land. You're gonna be surrounded by pagans. Matter of fact, you're occupying land that pagans have been in who did wicked things. I mean, wicked, wicked things in this area. Where some parts, it's like salt, salt the ground. We gotta let the land heal before anybody gets back in there. And sometimes you go in and you're gonna harvest a vineyard that you didn't even have to plant. Because I drove them out with hornets and different things. and Joshua kicked a bunch of them, and there's a few areas they still left, and one of them's Gaza, and one of them's Golan Heights, still areas where they have contention today, and so it's still a spiritual stronghold there. But they come into that, but they're supposed to be, God says you're gonna go there, and you're not gonna mix with those around you. You're not gonna be married to those that aren't Jewish. You're not gonna stay within your tribes, you're gonna have that. Don't marry, don't blend together, because if you do, if you take in a wife, and she's gonna be like, I really would like an altar like I had at home, you know, I wish I could bring in And if you want to see it, would that be true or not? Look, it's King Solomon. He put ashtorels up. He put groves on hills. He did it because he married all these different women from all these different places. And so he turned it into a horrible thing. By lying all that in, because he was married to different women, he wanted to keep them happy. And he wrote things like, it's better to be in the corner of the house than live into the house with a contentious woman. So it's just like, oh, let's build the cross. So he did these things versus having 1,000 wives bickering at him. So he said, keep separate. So now God's like saying, until now. Now I am the savior of them all. And so he sends Peter and the sheep with all the things in it. Don't call, come on, what I said, what I blessed and said you can have. And so that's where we're at, verse three. He says, saying now when it's the end to the men uncircumcised and to eat with them, you're shocked because to eat a meal with them is something very intimate. It was showing an approval, like, oh, I'm invited to your house. You're welcome to me. I'm welcome to you. And if you'd gone to a Gentile's house and you ate with them, I doubt it was kosher. It was not a kosher meal. And so I was asking Robbie, because when I was writing this, I was thinking about the stories he told me. He went to Africa, and I was like, well, is a stranger some weird thing you had to eat? And he said, a zebra? I'm like, a zebra's a pretty weird one. And then he said, the worst was what, a bowl of rice that, you know, I'm being tense. So you prayed for that bite, right? Like you never prayed for a meal before. But yeah, it's offensive. I've heard people on missionary trips to Mexico, same thing. It's like, we're the only chicken they've got and they're serving it to me, but you're going to offend them by not doing that. And so you're in a pagan house, they're going to offer you gross, strange food. And if you have to have, this is now brother and sister in Christ, you know, and kosher laws, you know, where does that go now? And God just said, you know, don't talk about it. He just said, he just showed alligators and clothing things. And so, yeah, they blessed it and they ate. And they ate ham sandwiches and bacon and shrimp and lobster and crabs and all the things that God said you were, you know, that all those Gentiles eat. And they had to take it. He goes, yeah, I did. I went to their house and yeah, I did eat with them and I did fellowship with them. Verse four, but Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning and expounded it by the order unto them saying, now granted this is Peter, this is not Brian the Sunday school teacher arguing about a suit in Africa. This is Peter who's been shown by God how things are and so he tells it all. So I'm gonna read through it here so at least get through one chapter. It says, I was in the city of Joppa praying in a trance when I saw a vision and a certain vessel descend as it had been a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners and it came even to me. Upon the witch, when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered and saw four-footed beasts of the earth and wild beasts and creeping things and fowls in the air. And I heard a voice saying unto me, arise, Peter, slay and eat. And I said, not so, Lord, for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth. But the voice answered me again from heaven, what God hath cleansed thou call not thou common. And this was done three times. And then all were drawn up again into heaven. And behold, immediately, where three men already come into the house where I was at, or where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me, and the Spirit made me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover, these six brethren," so we have six guys with him, "'accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house.'" So he makes sure he has witnesses with him as he's done all this. "'And he showed unto us how he had seen an angel in his house, "'which stood and said unto him, "'Send men to Joppa and call for Simon, "'whose surname is Peter, Shall tell you the words whereby thou and all my house shall be saved as I began to speak the Holy Ghost fell on him As it was on us at the beginning of Pentecost and then remembered I the words of our Lord of the Lord So here he's going to quote how he said John indeed baptized with water But he shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost and so he has scripture to vacuum up was happening, verse 74. As much then as God gave them the light gift as he did unto us who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, what was I that I could withstand God? He's like, you tell God, brother. You're telling me that God told me I should do this for them? And you're saying, no, what about our dietary laws? No, what about these Gentiles? What about mixing? What about that? He said, no, God told me to. He has a vision that confirms it. Our two visions go align with one another. And as soon as I get done with my vision, they're standing there waiting. They have my name that God had given them. And so yeah, he defined me at the address I was supposed to be. So yeah, all this lines up. And so I'm gonna tell God, no, he will let us told those who just beat me earlier. I'm going to pray God rather than men. Do you think I'm going to argue with you? In this, no. God wins. Here's something different back then, at least here in this instance. Verse 18, and when they heard these things, they held their peace. All right, the vision makes sense. All right, there's confirmation. I'm going to give you an example of that. There was contention, but they reasoned with scripture and teaching. They went back and forth. God is fine with that. We're supposed to be iron sharpening iron. We can debate. We can debate passionately. As you know, my wife is passionate. When she believes something, she'll speak it up and say it. And so we have these discussions at home, how it is, and we defend, and we go back and forth, and we adjust, and we try to see it and reason it in that way. And so it's how it's supposed to work. He's given us desires that way. There's things that she and I don't agree on. We have to hash it out and what are we gonna do as a couple? And we do. That's how God works out. We do the church sometimes. That's what this means about things and what we're gonna do, how we're gonna do it. And we're trying to seek God's glory. That's supposed to be the purpose of it all. Be united and part as friends and re-agreed in this. And so that's what we're supposed to do. That's what they did. So that's a good model for us. That's something God's always blessed us with the whole time I've been here, 19 years or so. Praise God. and I thank you for it. Verse 19, now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phineas and Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto Jews only. And so the interesting thing here is that Saul had helped spread the gospel even before he was saved. And that's what this is telling us is that they were all scattered abroad. They had all gone up because of the persecution, Once it became life or death, they killed Stephen and Oliver, like, this is good, but we can move, we can turn the gospel somewhere else, let's do that, and so they did. So they were scattered abroad because of persecution, and God uses that. Sometimes he has persecution come to spread the gospel and put it out, or sometimes to give you boldness, to make it come to a head, to stand, and so God can take hard questions, and he can ask you why. Be faithful, be committed to the things that you know. I'm gonna preach the gospel, I'm gonna do this, My family felt like we need to move, we're gonna move. And that's what they did. Turned out that was part of God's plan. And so, the first name of the city was a really weird one, I wrote it out phonetically, it's Foinake, it's a Syrian town near the Mediterranean. The next one I mentioned is Cyprus, it's an island, we mentioned it a little bit earlier, a couple chapters earlier. It's in the Mediterranean Sea between Sicily and Syria, I think that's how I'm saying it right. So it's an island out there, a Mediterranean island. And then Antioch, which is the capital of Syria, has a big base of Greek Jews that live there. And spoiler alert, it's going to become like the hub of the church for a while. Persecution of heat comes on Jerusalem. Most of the Christians flee. As a matter of fact, by 70 AD, All the believers believe before they destroy the city. Matter of fact, they make a boast about that. Luke 21 warns about that, and we're in a circular city. It sounds a lot like Matthew 24, but it's different in that he's warning about the time of the attack on the temple in 70 AD. All the Christians leave. None of them were killed at that time because they listened and he did the warning and left. Sadly, all the apostles were killed by that time, or John was in Ephesus. But they all leave, and so, and it's going forth, and so Antioch becomes, the new kind of hub that they work from. And so we're kind of seeing the start of that and the reason why. And they spread, and then when they spread, they preach the gospel and says, here, only to Jews, only to Jewish assemblies. Because they don't know yet. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt. You're gonna go, you're probably gonna look for a Jewish community, and then when you're there, you're gonna go to synagogue, you're gonna tell them about the things you've seen in Jerusalem, and you got a lot to tell them about things that are going on, about who Jesus Christ is, and what Peter's done, and all the miracles, and so they preach all that. Verse 20. Listen, some of them were men from Cyprus, Cyrene, and when they would come to Antioch, they spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus, and so it's getting global. People are there, now these people know people, and those people know people, and so it goes back more, and so it's spreading out, and it's getting there, and now we've got Greeks and the Grecians that are believing, verse 21, and the hand of the Lord was with them, a great number believed and turned unto the Lord. So the gospel is going forth and now it's going into the uttermost parts just by people leaving town and going back to their little disciples. And so verse 22, then tidings of these things came into the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem and they sent forth Barnabas He should go as far as Antioch. And so we're like, we need a representative up there. The disciples, I've already said, they're going to the apostles. They're gonna stay in Jerusalem. They're given to that. They're gonna take care of the whole church there. Now they're sending out missionaries or disciples in this way. So they send out Barnabas. Now we've heard about him before, and we're gonna hear about him some more. In chapters 4 and 36, he's the guy who sold his land that he owned on Cyprus and donated it so that he could take care of the people of Jerusalem. This is what made, Ananias and Sapphira say, well, maybe we want part of that deal, because he got acknowledged in that, but they kept part back. So he's the, in the chapter, he's the one that came up with the idea. I know, I'll sell this land and I'll donate the money. We'll be able to take care of the saints of Jerusalem. So that's him. In chapters nine, verse 27, when Saul escapes by a basket being let down over the wall, he goes to Jerusalem to try to report to them and understand and tell them that Christ had saved him. The disciples all hid. And they were doing underground church, only thing, reels, reels. You know, they're hiding, they don't know. And Barnabas is the one who's like, I know where they are. I don't know who they're supposed to meet this time. And he says, I know you're the real deal. I know your testimony, I've heard it, Saul. I will take you to meet him. And so he knows the password, he knocks on the door, you know, they get inside and they're like, who's with you? Oh, this is Saul of Tarsus. And they're like, oh, wow. He goes, I am verified. I know his testimony, you know, he told him who it is. And so he vouches for them. He comes and shares his testimony. He gets right hand of fellowship. Now that he's, they hear about this. And so more Gentiles are being saved. So they need someone to go up there. So they send Barnabas. He seems like he's a guy who's already a bridge. He's a guy who's not afraid. He's a guy who understands. And so they send him up there to kind of investigate and to see and to help. And then verse 23, it says, When he came he had seen the grace of God was glad and exhorted them all with purpose of heart that they should cleave unto the Lord so he begins to teach and to preach and tell them how they're to hang on to the Lord. It's good. Read verse 24 again. For he was a good man. And we all wish we had that epitaph, right? Good man, he's a good man. Good man, good woman. They can say that he was full of the Holy Ghost. He's an encourager. He pointed to the Word. He tried to ground them and keep them grounded so that when He's gone or they're gone, they go out, that they know when they are left with the Holy Spirit and God's Word and how to search it and understand it, He is teaching them and equipping them. We can be that. You're like, well, I haven't been that, or maybe I haven't been that as much as I'd like. Sure, I'd sure like to be that. Man, our story's not done. Our story's still being written. We can determine to be a part of this, to be good, to encourage people. to instruct them in the scriptures, to show them, to go around and try to win others as well. We just need to remember Jesus is the main character of the story. We are the people that support this main character, and we're pointing people to him. You gotta meet the main guy. You gotta meet Jesus Christ. Important, Barnabas does that, Saul does that, and so we can still do that. We can still write our story. I'm glad God is a God of forgiveness. God's a God of second, third, fourth, fifth, fourth, 200 chances. He'll be coming back to you and say, this week, Lord, he'll use you. So Barnabas is kind of like the new pastor and leader. I'll just have you know that he takes a year off and goes traveling to Tarsus, and so I don't know if that's correct or not. He goes to Antioch, Antioch's hub, and so he says, I'm going to need some help. This is 2 Peter 25. Then departed Barnabas. No guy who can help me in this ministry is too big for me. I need a guy who's passionate, who's grounded in this. So he goes and he seeks him out. So he goes and finds him. Takes him a little while. Verse 26, and when they had found him, he brought him to Antioch and he came to pass. And the whole year they assembled themselves with the church and taught much people and the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch. So this is where we get the label that we probably wear now, where he was just a follower of Jesus. They're like, man, these people follow Jesus. So they begin to call him Christian. So Antioch becomes this new sinner that's gonna need help. So he goes and gets Saul to help him. And so they begin to work together and preach in the gospel. I'm sure he's learned from Saul and Saul's learned from him as they teach and they establish and they go forth. Verse 27. And in these days came a prophet from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And there stood up one of them, remember God said that he would send some of the gifts that he gave him, one of those prophets, and so a prophet has come to teach him. And he stood up and one of them was named Agabus, and he signified by the spirit that there should be a great dearth throughout all the world, which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar. So he said, hey, there's gonna be a dearth, there's a famine. He said, there's gonna be a famine? And then Luke, as he's writing this, he goes and tells us that it happened, there was a famine. Condensed Joseph story. Hey, there's gonna be time to fame and prepare for it. He comes in warning There's going to be a famine and it turns out that under that Caesar there was four famines but specifically there was one that hit this area of Syria and Jerusalem really hard and many died. They said in Jerusalem because of it. There's just no food It said the rest of them were less distressed left distressed. So I imagine he didn't have food. He didn't have much food It's good play on you for a good while and so it does They said they were kind of rescued and the ones that were able to hold on were held on by a queen of Helena. She was able to send them corn and figs and certain grains of a large supply. It turns out someone in her family gets bored again and so they don't know. She was a proselytite. She was already a Jewish convert. We don't know from history whether she became a believer or not. Seems like she's doing a very generous thing to help them out, but it kind of gets them through this hard time. And so it was worse in Jerusalem. So the church needs some help. Verse 29. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren, which dwelt in Judea, which also they did, and set it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. So the representatives are gonna be Barnabas and Saul as they take it back down. And so the church wants to help. And so they are accused of God, and the area they are, they have a little bit better off, so they take up collection. You're gonna see that that becomes a truth in the book of Acts, that the church of Jerusalem is always under persecution, and always under hardship, and always needing help, and so all the Gentile cities give, and they send it back to help, and a good support, and so it's just a good testimony. And so they help out, and so they, they're in a spot where they're taking care of, so they can help out others. And that's pretty much the theme of the Bible, if you look at it as far as, finances and anything goes that God says I give them to you so you can bless others. I'll take care of you, but if I give you anything over and above, I'm expecting you to be my resource when I'm saying so-and-so needs a little something and somebody to be usable in his hands. I love that I don't have to talk about money. I love that I don't get money when it comes around in the passage. I love that we have an honor box that God surprises us all with. And it's not that. It's just, again, just that to be prepared so that we can be used when the time of tragedy comes. And I always say that on the airplane, too. You know, as you get ready to fly, I'll go through the whole thing. You know, the stewardess has done this many times. She doesn't even know what she's doing. She's buckling something. She's dropping something. She's acting it all out. You know, you're sitting there like, I haven't flown for a long time. What am I doing with the mask? You know, I'm memorizing the little thing in the back of the chair. But they're like, if you have small children with you, make sure you put the oxygen mask on first. And then help your kids, you know, because they know in a circumstance you're going to be like, oh, my kids. And you're going to make sure you get them air. But they're like, you can't help your kids unless you have that mask on. So you've got to take care of yourself first. You can take care of others. That's kind of the principle here. You've got to take care of, make sure you're taking care of, you're right, you're living right, you're being good, and you have enough, so that you can have enough to help somebody else. That's kind of the principle. And if you'd like to see this act out, you're like, I don't know about that. There's a YouTube channel called Smarter Every Day. where he does experiments, where he's on a plane, where they recreate it, they have him put the mask on, and he can do all kinds of stuff. They have him delay just enough in trying to put a mask on another kid, if a captain got depressurized, and all of a sudden, he can't remember anything, he can't do anything, this guy's an aerospace scientist, and he's like, of course, it didn't take very long at all, and all of a sudden, he's in bad shape, and he can't help anybody, and now you're taking more resources, because we have to come and help you. So we need to be prepared, and people need seven basic things to survive, air, thank you, Lord, water, sleep, food, clothing, shelter, and safety. We always kind of summarize that down to beans, bolts, and vitals. But the thing that we've learned just here recently, that North Carolina, most of the people didn't have the basics even enough to last a day or two. They were dependent upon a road that was gone. And hell, they couldn't get there. To go to the grocery store, or the Dollar General is around the corner, and none of those would get anything if they got there anyway. And so they began stealing from each other and robbing each other because it's survival of the fittest. And even our own FEMA says that we're within three days of total chaos. Three days. We have to miss three meals for three days before it gets crazy. And so we need to be prepared. And as a matter of fact, that whole thing that happened to our camera affects us here in Indiana in ways that you don't think. And I'm afraid for your friend that might be someone who's evicted. Well, because of Indiana, we don't have enough IV fluid. They are sheltering it, yeah. Because the plant that makes it got destroyed in the flood. And now we are without. Doctors are prescribing Gatorade. I mean, they're called to ration what they have and what it is. When Joel goes in, I heard the family member was there from another family. And they're like, she was ready to deliver yesterday. They held her off because they didn't have enough IV fluid. And so now they're pushing her that she's been in this stressful delivery for a day. And then we're worried about Joel and his wife who are like, Oh, it comes quick, which it did, praise the Lord. And they had to make it right away, because it's like, hey, get them at home and get them out, because it's dangerous. I'm listening to a book right now called Five Days of Memorial. All right, yeah. Memorial. I didn't remember Memorial. Five Days of Memorial. It's talking about Katrina. You do not want to be in a hospital when bad things happen. Because they take DNR as a right to kill you. I've heard recent rumors that they think the first hospital that they went to, that they euthanized 100 patients, knowing that they weren't getting supplies in to try to bring it down. So you want to make sure you're healthy, and you're cared for, and you can be home. And so I haven't had that one confirmed yet. But who knows? I know it's happened before. You know, it's how they triage to be able to get it all down. We're more fragile than we think. And I think everybody on the island must have some troubles coming. We got a big day coming up Tuesday, right? No one's going to be happy. Half the country's going to be mad one way or another. So I don't know how much disruption. I just know that we don't have much disruption to take. Everything's going to it just in time, not just encasements. Mentally, it used to, you'd go to a hospital, there was enough drugs there to be able to take care of it. Well, there was a bus accident. Now you have just enough there for that day. Now if there's a snowstorm or a bridge out, you don't have enough to get through the day. And we're starting to see the effects of that because it makes the CEO do it for the bottom dollar. But we just need to be prepared. Do the best you can best time bison wake up So when you can get it, you know, so sometimes think like what would be two weeks or what would be something? We need to stay at home I'm just saying be reasonable take care of it and so then if anything we can help somebody else and so we try to put some things here and I like to see a student the more the church but just Take that as a warning. God put it here at this time for this reason I think and I was gonna get to chapter 12, but we will not so we'll save that next week It is exciting We'll talk about something really weird, I'm sure no other preacher's talked about. I'm not afraid to go there, and we will, and it'll be gross. And so, we'll talk about that. And so, bye to all your friends. I appreciate you being here. Load up on tracks, pass them out, and we'll be done. As I was pulling in tonight, you can come look down our road, as the sun was in the road, you can see a seat from where they took in the field across yesterday, and there's a seat in the road, and that makes me feel the peril, right? the seed and sow it. Some was, I'm sure, dropped in the field, some to the ditch, some's on the hard road, you know, and the birds are eating them up and stealing away. We got gospel tract, we got a chance to go broadcasting. If the kid drops it, the kid puts it in his candy bag and he doesn't read it until next year. If you have a gospel tract in there, you never know the life of a seed. Let's sow the seed. Some will go in good ground, some will go in shallow ground, some will go in the ditch, some will land on the road, I'm sure. Let's just do our part to broadcast this evening. So we have an opportunity, hopefully if somebody comes around, I'm gonna take some with me. I have a kid that we're gonna go to the grandkids and try to pass some out when they go around, like, oh, here's something back for you, since you gave us something, and so we'll be able to share it that way. So load up and take it with you. I thank you all for being here, and remember to keep one another lifted up in prayer. God's moving, and so let's make sure we stay together as a unit.