We got started in this chapter last Sunday, and this is about the end of it, where they was on the ship, remember they were sailing, and the ship was about to, well they were going to lose the ship, Paul had already told them that, they were going to lose the ship, but Paul had said that all their lives would be saved. And Paul said back here in the, let me see if I can find the verse, Paul said, I believe God, okay? And God told Paul that they would lose the ship, but all the lives would be saved. And we're gonna see that in the rest of the chapter this morning. So look at verse 28. The Bible says, and sounded and found it 20 fathoms. And when they had gone a little further, they sounded again and found it 15 fathoms. So they're coming from 20 fathoms, that's 120 feet to 15 fathoms, that's 90 feet. So the water's getting shallower. They're heading in towards the coast. All right, verse 29, then fearing least we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern and wished for the day. Most of this is self-explanatory. If you've been to sea, you know they cast four anchors out of the stern. That's the rear of the ship, okay? The front's the bow, and the rear's the stern, and the right is port, and the left is starboard. Right. And those terms in military and Navy, you can't say right and left and front and back. They'll cast you out. And these terms are Bible terms. The stern is the rear, and what it is, they said they threw out four anchors. That they're getting in shallow water To hold a ship to keep it from getting tore up and and wished For the day wish today would it would hurt him get light and what he could see and know what they were doing, okay? all right, so verse of Verse 30 and asked the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship When they had let down the boat into the sea under colors That's the word we use we say we say showed his colors, okay? And what they're trying to do, these men are trying to sneak off the ship and go ashore. And the Bible says, under colors, as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. They act like they were gonna go back and push some more anchors out, but what they had intention to do is let out of the ship and get away, leave the ship, okay? Now look, but of course Paul knew, look at verse 31, verse 31. Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, except these abide in the ship, you cannot be saved. Okay? In other words, now here's the story, they were trying to sneak off, they were trying to depart under colors, see? They were pretending they were going to do one thing while they were doing something else. Okay, and Paul knew it and Paul told God I said if these men Don't know where they can be saved is stay with the ship Now once again that word say don't mean safe from going to hell Every time you find saving the Bible don't necessarily mean save going to hell What what's saved here talking about? It's talking about being saved their life, their physical life. Okay? Because God the Lord told Paul that they would lose the ship, but their lives would be saved. See? You see, everything here was done under the direction of a man that was listening to God. You with me? And what do you think would have happened if Paul hadn't been on there? They'd all drown, wouldn't they? What do you think is going to happen to this world when, say, people quit putting out the gospel? They're all going to hell. And that's just about what's happened today. All right, verse... There's all kind of good preaching in here, you know. I'll show you some of these things in just a minute, but... Verse 32. Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off. Verse 33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that you have tarried, and continued fasting having taken nothing. They had 14 days they didn't eat or drink. You know why? They were scared to death. They were scared. They ate and they fasted and prayed like it was in Enjoy you know something. It's a You know we we say you know we talk about the advancement and the greater cause that we've had and you know in in the history of mankind But you know I bet you back. No you didn't find an atheist You didn't find that these people believe in God course you gonna see some more later on in this morning lesson, okay? all right now look at verse 35 and And when he had thus spoken, he took bread and gave thanks to God in prayers of them all. And when he had broken it, he began to eat. In other words, one praying man, one man that was right with God, was responsible for the entire crew being saved. And like I said, there's all kinds of good preaching here. You can make all kinds of types. You can say, well, life is like a voyage at sea. Okay? Life is like a voyage at sea. You lose everything in this life, but if you save, you'll come out alright. Okay? Now, the picture here is clear. They're gonna lose everything they got, they're gonna lose their ship, they're gonna lose all their belongings, but they're gonna come out, they're gonna be saved. Okay? Alright, verse... We'll see what's where we're at verse 37 and we were all In the ship 200 three score and 16 souls 276 people on that ship And when they had eaten enough they lighten the ship and cast out the wheat into the sea when they get rid of the cargo and And when it was day, they knew not the land, but they discovered a certain creek with a shore under which they were minded if it were possible to thrust in the ship. Okay, so what we got here, there's an opening there. And so what they did, they tried to get in that opening. But they didn't make it. Look at verse 40. And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder-bands, and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind, and made towards Shoah. And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground, and the fore part stuck fast and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. Now what they tried to do, they tried to hit it into this little opening they saw, but they didn't make it. It hit a sand bank, it hit something in the front of it then, and the rear of it was just hanging, swinging, and the waves were just tearing it all to pieces. That's what you got here. And if you've ever been around any of these rough seas, you know what that thing can do. I mean, you know when a hurricane comes, they send the ships to sea to meet it head on. They don't leave them at the shore, because if they leave them at the shore, that wind will just beat them to pieces. See? And so that's what they, that's the picture you got here, all right? Verse 42. And the soldier's counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim and escape. But the soldier thought, well, these prisoners are going to escape, so we best go ahead and just kill them, okay? But, uh, note once again that the centurion, he... He probably had better sense. He listened to Paul. So he said, But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land. So like I said, a lot of this is self-explanatory. The centurion said, Well, no, but the ones that can swim go ahead and go to land. So look at verse 44. And the rest, that's these that can't swim now, and the rest, some on board and some on broken pieces of the ship, and so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land. Now, like I said, it's all kind of good preaching. One old preacher, one time he preached on this message and he said that people going to heaven and they're going on different boards. You see? And notice what the text says. All they could swim was to hit the sea first and go on in. But verse 44 said the rest. They couldn't swim on boards and broken pieces of the ship as the ship come apart. boards and particles of the ship, they went to grab that and go in on that. But they all got safe. In verse the last part, they all escaped all safe to land. And this preacher, he made a top of that and said that All going to heaven, some going in on a Baptist board, and some on a Methodist board, and some on a Presbyterian board, and all that. I reckon it's good preaching, but it sure ain't too sound. I wouldn't say that. I would say this. Anybody gets to heaven, they gonna come in on the blood. I wouldn't say no kind of denominational thing, because Ain't nobody going to heaven and calling you a Baptist. And nobody going to heaven and calling you nothing else. If you go to heaven, it'll be because of the blood. So I wouldn't preach a message like that, and I suppose it makes good preaching, and I imagine it's okay, but like I said, I wouldn't attempt to say, well, something's going in on a Baptist board, and some on a Methodist board, and some on a Presbyterian board, and all this stuff, because that's not true. Won't be nobody in heaven because there's a Baptist. Or a Methodist or nothing else. If you be in heaven, you'll be there because of the blood. Now, that's pretty... I believe in preaching typology, and I believe in some, like I told you before, sometimes good preaching may not be sound doctrine. But when it comes to salvation, you don't want to give nobody no false doctrine. Okay? We'll go chapter 28 the last chapter in the book all right now this is when they get the land and They end up on an island here, and this island is called Malita verse 1 and when they were escaped they knew that the island was called Malita and the barbarous people the barbarous people that is people that spoke an unknown language and they didn't understand their language, showed us no little kindness, for they kindled a fire and received us, everyone, because of the present rain and because of the cold. Now when they got this on, these people tried to help them out and give them, and comfort them, and notice the cold, it was in the fall, probably around October. Okay? And you can just imagine when you've been in cold water, In the fall of the year when it's already cold and how miserable you must have felt. And these people tried to comfort them and build them a fire and receive them. Okay? Alright, verse 3. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, there came out a viper out of the heat and fastened on his hand. Now, The snake came from the heat. He was probably trying to warm up, you know. And when Paul put them sticks down, he come out and bit Paul in the hand. Okay? Now we're gonna, I'm gonna show you something here that's few people know anything about. And I'm gonna show you something that's a lot of foreign religions are built on. I'm sure you've heard, you know, Years and years, there's always been these churches that have snake handlers, you know? Of course, a bunch of them people got bit and died, too. Now, let me tell you something. Let me say something to you, anybody. I don't know who's gonna hear this tape. It don't make no difference. But, uh, if you fool around with a rattlesnake thinking he won't hurt you, you're a fool. He said, well yeah, we bit Paul. Yeah, but Paul's an apostle. And Jesus said over there in Matthew, if they're bit by any poisonous thing, they'll not be hurt. Okay? Now look here, and watch this thing real close. And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast, he was a poisonous snake, okay, hang on his hand, they said among themselves, no doubt this man is a murderer. whom though he hath to escape the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live." Okay? Now, notice something here, that these heathen people, they got more sense than the average college student in America today. Even though they were wrong about Paul, they knew that God brought judgment on sin. They believed that. the average college graduate, they don't believe that. A lot of American people don't believe that. That's why they live the way they do. Okay? And he was wrong about Paul, but he was right about judgment. Okay? Verse 5, And he shook off the beast unto the fire, and felt no harm. Howbeit they looked, when he should have sworn and are fallen down, dead. They knew by the time they looked his hands should have started to swell or maybe a few minutes he should have fell dead. And they began to look and see that nothing changed. Okay? And saw no harm come to him they changed their mind and said he was a god. Well they were wrong both times. He wasn't a god. See? Let me try to show you something here. All unsaved people are wrong when you try to judge a man that's spiritual with God. Now, I've got a scripture for you. Take your Bible and turn to 1 Corinthians. I'm going to show you something here. You know, we're in a town today, and I'm going to preach a little bit of this on this morning, that if you judge anything, or you say something's right or wrong, They criticize you because in their eyes you don't have no right to do that. The Heavenly Father thinks that you have no right to make a judgmental decision on nothing they do or say. And I'm going to show you they're wrong. All right? Now look at 1 Corinthians chapter 2, and I want to read two verses here. And you ought to know these verses. You ought to learn them if you don't know them. And I'm going to show you what I'm talking about. Now, in verse 14 it says, but the natural man, that's an unsaved man. You listening? That's why an unsaved man picks up the Bible and reads the words and has no idea what they mean. And that's why unsaved people tell you the Bible is a book that depends on how you interpret it. You say well the Bible said yeah, but that's how you interpret. I may not interpret it that way Well, that's that's the voice of an unsaved person. That's not the voice of a man that saved and has spiritual discernment with God You listen now listen, but the natural man received it not the things of the Spirit of God say And what does it say? It said the natural man. He don't say he don't understand the Bible does it? But it does say that. It says he receives not the things of the Spirit of God. Who wrote this Bible? The Spirit of God. Alright? Then the natural man don't have the Spirit of God, therefore he has no discernment of what the Spirit of God intended for him to be. You with me now? Okay. Now here's the problem. For men are foolish unto him. Anything a man can't understand, foolish. Alright? Neither can he know them. He can't know what it means. Because they are spiritually discerned. He has no way to spiritually discern what the Spirit of God said. Right? Now in contrast, look at verse 15. Now listen to me. I want you to watch this real close. But he that is saved. Huh? What did I just say? That's not what it says, is it? See? But he that is spiritual, okay? A man that has spiritual discernment of the Word of God, and a man that knows what the Spirit of God wrote, and listen, judges all things. You see it? A man that's spiritual enough to understand the Bible and to know it, and to know what it means, judges all things. Okay? Listen. Yet he himself is judge of no man. How you gonna judge a man when he's right? How you gonna judge a man that's telling you what God said? You gonna draw judgment on God? If I'm going to tell you and read you what the verse says and tell you what the Spirit of God wrote and what He said and what He meant, how are you going to judge me for saying that's my interpretation? You don't know what you're talking about. See? And so then because people, even a lot of people that are saved aren't spiritual, they think when you criticize or you judge that you're wrong, well you have no right to do that. Yet the Bible makes it real clear that if a person is spiritual and has spiritual discernment, he will draw judgment on all things. You don't have to say, well, you shouldn't say that, or depending on how you look at it, well, not everybody believes that. It don't make no difference. Now we're going to see some more things in the next chapter that go right along with that, so I don't dwell there all day. The point I'm trying to show you is this. If you're saved and you have a spiritual assertion of the word of God, the Bible don't say you should, it says you will. It's kind of an automatic thing. I go back to Acts 28. Acts 28. Verse 7, In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Paulus, who received us and lodged us three days courteously. And it came to pass that the father of Publis lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux. We would call that bloody flux, we wouldn't quit bleeding, we'd call it hemophiliac. Paul entered in and prayed and laid his hands on him and healed him Okay Now look at verse 9 so when this was done others also which had diseases in the island came and were healed Now Once again, you don't find where nobody had faith nobody had to bring a certain price and Nobody had to believe a certain thing. It says, which had disease now came and were healed. Now look at verse 10, who also honored us. Honored us? Who is with Paul? Luke. Luke was a doctor. But who was doing the healing? See? It was Paul. See? Now, once again, let me make that real clear, that is under apostolic authority. That there is no such thing as healers today. Now they may say they are, and I don't, and I don't, when I say, I think if you're saved, you get sick, you ought to pray. If God sees fit, God can heal you. But again, the healing lies in a bunch of fools. And somebody thinks they can lay a hand on somebody and get healed, they're more of a fool than that. Amen? I've prayed for a lot of sick people. Some of them got well, some of them didn't. But you've got to consider this. Sometimes, there may be somebody sick and God wants them sick. If God wants you sick, honey, you don't need to pray about that. Because you're going to be sick until God wants you well. That's the way I look at it. You say, well, I mean, I believe God can heal. Well, I do too. But, uh, let me ask something. Was Paul sick? Did he get healed? Never did. Never did. The last time Paul was with Timothy and left him sick, did Paul heal him? Couldn't heal him. You know why? Because those signs were leaving. See? And you take, we've studied this book of Acts now for, I don't know how long we've been in it, months or years, but anyway, when you find the tongues and the healing, the apostles are there. And that's why I know this stuff, they's phony, because there's no apostles. Now, you say, well, this fellow here says he's an apostle, he puts up a tent and says this is an apostle, so and so, and he's an apostle. He's a liar, he ain't no apostle. And you say, well, how do you know? Because he don't have the signs and wonders. He don't have the signs and wonders. If he's a real apostle, I'll tell you what he could do. He'd stand up and preach to 15 different nations, and they would all understand what he's saying in their language. That's what they did on the day of Pentecost. The day of Pentecost, nobody's sitting there saying, Nehemiah, Shanaan, Aboltah. That wasn't nothing. Nowhere in the Bible do you find that junk. Amen? And they say, well, you know, we had the gift of interpretation, you know. You know, let me make it real simple, and I'm going to be plain simple. People that believe that stuff about tongues, that say some woman get up there in church and spit out some kind of lingo, the mockingbird, I don't know what she's talking about, another fool over here say he interpreted it, that ain't nothing but a bunch of people that probably never, never, never known God. That's a four word in the Bible, you can't even compare it with the Bible. How many people are saturating those kind of religions today, see? Which goes to show, once again, that the majority of people would rather follow a lie than know anything about truth. All right. Let's go back to Acts. I don't get off on all this this morning. Verse 10. Who also honored us with many honors, and when we departed, they laid unto us with such things as were necessary. They let them die with the things they needed. That's very clear. And after three months, we departed in a ship of Alexander, home port of Alexander, which had wintered in the isle whose sign was Casta and Pallas, or Palu, whatever that word is. And those two words there, they're twins. Those two words are twins. They're called Gemini in the constellations. Okay, you can see them. Verse 12, and landed at Syracuse, that's in Sicily. We tarried there three days. And from hence, we fetched a compass and came to Rigmuth. And after one day, the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puol. Well, we found brethren and were desirous to tarry with them seven days, and so we went towards Rome. Okay? Verse 15, And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Apia, where that word is, Apia formula, and the three taverns Which, when Paul saw, he thanked God and took courage. There's an old Bible question, what did Paul take at the three taverns? He took courage, okay? That's a good one to put on somebody, I don't know if they've read their Bible, amen? Say, what did Paul take at the three taverns? They say, well, he took three drinks. No, he took courage, okay? All right, verse 16. And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoner to the captain of the guard, but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him. And it came to pass that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together, and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people or customs of our fathers, Yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem unto the hands of the Romans. Now Paul is going to tell these people what's happened to him, why he was a prisoner. He's going to find something here that's kind of shocking to him. Verse 18, Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me. That's true. But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appear under seizure, not that I had aught to accuse my nation of. And that's true. For this cause, therefore, have I called for you to see you, and to speak with you, because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chains. Now, when he says the hope of Israel, what's he talking about? Of course, it's the resurrection, but what Paul was wanting them Jews to know was to know Jesus Christ. That was the only hope they had, okay? Alright, so look at verse 21. Now, when Paul told them this, this is what he said, and they said unto him, We need to receive letters out of Judea concerning thee, Neither any of the brethren that came showed or spake any harm of thee. See? Now see, Paul's not messed up in Rome. He's still got a good testimony in Rome because that's where God wanted him to start with, see? And the thing about it is, if he'd listened to God, he'd have been there two years before now. See? And, uh, you have to stop thinking, lose your life, and say, well, if I had done this, how much Better off I'd have been? Well, I can't. I look back and say, boy, if I'd have just, you know, been a little, uh, but I didn't know. You know, like I said, you know, you get, uh, it's sad, but you get, uh, you're young, you got zeal, no wisdom. You get old, you got a little wisdom, no zeal, you know? And back when I had zeal, I didn't have wisdom and get a little wisdom and zeal's about gone, you know? But anyway, Paul, he would have been more effective in Rome for two more years all the time he's fighting them Jews. See, all the time he's fighting them religious people back there in Jerusalem where God told him not to go. And you know, that's just like a lot of people. Instead of going to church where they can mount something for God, they go to some of these old dead religions where they got to worry about what people think and argue and all this stuff, you know. And you'll see all that in time to come. Yeah, we just went through a little experience over here. You know people come here They don't they ain't interested in God in the Bible Come in make excuses and all this stuff. You know what anyway? All right, let's read on verse 22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest Don't you look at that? Let me read all that verse before I say something, but we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest and For as concerning this set, we know that everywhere it is spoken against." Now, that's what everybody wants to know. They want to know, what do you think? You ever see them in these talk shows? Well, what do you think about this? You know that's where a lot of churches are. They go to church Saturday morning and they'll say, Now this verse here says this, oh brother, what do you think about that? Well, I think we oughta better, well brother, what's your opinion of that? You know, and they go around, you know. And you know what that is? That's just somebody wanting to know what you think, so they can weigh it and judge it in the light of what they think. See? Nobody wants no absolute truth. See? And the thing about it is, Here's the thing about it. What you think about it, and what I think about it, don't mean nothing. It's what is it? What does it say? And you got that. You never saw such a people that nobody wants nothing real. They want to know, well, what's your opinion? What's your opinion? And a lot of people want to know what you think, what you think, what you think, so they can be sure they don't think different and get in trouble or go against nobody. They didn't care about the truth. They had to say, well now, what's right? What's the truth of the matter? They say, what do you think about it? Okay? Let me tell you something. Let me give you a good example here. One of the best ways in the world to know that you're living right and you're doctrines right is stand up and if you're right, most everybody go against you. See? And like I told you people here over and over and over again, the way to go out there in the world and get along and fit in and be accepted is just be like everybody else. And just forget your Bible, forget God, just be like everybody else. And you'll be okay. But if you go out there and you stand right, and you stand with God, and you put out the Bible, you don't be in no neither way for it, you'll have people, most of them will just put you aside. Okay? All right, verse 23. And when they had appointed him a day, they came many to him under his lodging, to whom he expound and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. Now, look here. They came and Paul started teaching about Jesus from what Moses wrote, first five books of the Bible, from the prophets, and look at here, 12 hours a day. How'd you folks like to have church till 10 o'clock tonight? We can shut it down after the day, couldn't we? 12 hours a day, nothing but Bible teaching. Boy Our verse 24 the here here's here's what always happens Here's the way it is 12 hours a day. He taught him about Jesus from Moses and the prophets and Here's what he got and Some believe the things we were spoken and some believe not Now there you go. That's the two kind you got today and You'll get up and open the Bible, and you'll tell them what it says, and you will find some that'll believe it, and some that won't. No different. And that's it. You might as well just expect it. You ain't gonna, everybody ain't gonna believe it. As a matter of fact, if I said a few believed it and most of them didn't, it'd probably be about the same thing, because that's where we are today. I mean, the more truth you put out today, it seems like just very few people will believe it, see? Same thing. I mean, if a man says, I believe the Bible, and yet he'll recommend another translation, he's a liar. He don't believe it at all. He don't believe it at all. People say, I believe the Bible. Why don't you do what it says? That's what you find today. I mean, most independent Baptist preachers and people say, I believe the Bible. But if they did, they ought to live different. The Bible don't give no instruction the way some people live. That people sat in the independent Bible churches writing that tell you they're saving it right with God and fellowship with God And their life don't match up with the Bible Hmm Now if you believe the Bible and it tells you to do something or not to do something if you you gonna respond Don't tell me you're gonna live contrary to the Bible when I'm saying you believe the Bible The Bible says some believe and some didn't. Right? Verse 25. Boy, we could preach there. We could stay there a few minutes Look at verse 25. And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed. After that, Paul had spoken one word. Uh-oh. Now look here. Paul spoke one word. They departed. Well spake the Holy Ghost by Isaiah as a prophet unto our fathers. Now I'm going to show you what that one word is. How many know? How many of you read this text? You know, how many know what that word is? Alright, let's read it. Now, we started Isaiah here Thursday night. And we're going to go over some things. This is in the book of Matthew. It's in John, it's here, and it's in Romans. Verse 26. Saying, Go unto this people and say, Hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing you shall see, but not perceive. Alright? Now look here, look what you got here. Notice three things. Hear it, and see it, and understand it. You hear it with your ears, you see it with your eyes, and you understand it in your heart. Okay? And here's what Isaiah said. Isaiah said, for the heart of the people is white growth, they're hard-hearted. And their ears are dull, they won't listen. And their eyes have their closed, they don't want to see it. Okay? That they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. And look at verse 28. He's quoting Isaiah. Be it known therefore unto you. Who is he talking to? Who is you there? That's the nation of Israel, that's the Jews, isn't it? Okay? that the salvation, and there's the one word he mentioned up here in verse 25, that's the one word that scattered them. Okay? That salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles and they will hear it. Now for 1,900 years, God has offered the Gentile nation salvation through Jesus Christ. Now, folks, if you can see this thing, I hope you can, but if you can see it, if you believe the Bible, you have to understand your heart of the Bible, you ought to be able to see what I'm fixing to show you. You ought to be able to see that today, the same thing is happening to Gentiles and happening back here to the Jews. People won't listen. They don't want it. They're rejecting what God offers. soon very soon God is going to finish the Gentile nations, and it's going to go back and The Jews are going to be brought back in over chapter 11 See it. I mean it's any way you look at it and That's clear. I don't know why people can't see that but uh what what God said about those nation of Jews in Isaiah and Their heart is hard. Their ears are dull. And their eyes, they don't want to see. It's exactly the picture of things today. It's a perfect picture of it today. That's the way people are. Why do you think we got so many people here? Where's the rest of them? I mean, where's the people that say they're saved and believe the Bible? They don't want the Bible. I mean, you go out in the morning and you stop the average person and say, hey, you Savior, where you going to church? Okay. Say, do you know what the Bible says that's going to happen at the end of the Gentiles? They don't know what you're talking about. Ask them a few simple Bible questions. They ain't got no idea what you're talking about. And then try to tell them. Then try to tell them. Go and try to tell somebody about his phony religion, about his phony preacher, and see if he'll listen. And see if he'll try to understand his heart. And see if he'll want to see the light. Huh? Try it! Alright? Now, look at verse 29. And when he had said these words, Now what words does he say? All he does is tell them what Isaiah said about him. But when he said that word that salvation, the salvation of God is going to the Gentiles, boy he split them Jews. See? Because the Jews didn't believe a Gentile could get saved. And of course after the cross he couldn't. And when he had said these words, the Jews departed and had great reasoning among themselves. Huh? They were often talked about among themselves. Well, I don't know, I ain't never heard that before. I ain't never heard a preacher say that before. I don't even know who he's talking about. Well, we've always been God's people. Back to Abraham, we've been the race of people that God give everything to. I can't just imagine what they said. You ever try to talk to these people and say, wow, we have the greatest denomination in the world. Up there, where are we from up there in such and such a state? Wow, we got 64 churches up there in our organization. I've had them tell me this. And we send out so many dollars every month to missionaries, they don't know where that money goes. Huh? I've had them tell me that. And you ain't got the right of what's going on. verse 30 and Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hard house that is Paul had his own he was still a prisoner but he had his own house okay and and received all that came in under him okay Paul wasn't a big shot just only the apostle could come see Paul anybody could come and see Paul right you are You try to go see some of these big preachers today, try to talk with them. They ain't got time for you. You got to be in their class, alright? Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence, no man forbidding him. And there was something else here. When Paul was where God wanted him and doing what God wanted done, People didn't bother him. You notice that? See? Now let me tell you something. There's a good spiritual lesson for a Christian. If you get where God wants you to be, and you're doing what God wants you to do, I'm going to tell you something. There ain't too many people that are going to bother you. They ain't going to bother you. See? Because God ain't going to permit it. Paul was in Rome where God wanted him. And from here on, the Book of Acts don't really end here, but if you read up there in your Scopia Bible, it says Paul turned to the Gentiles. From here on, Paul's ministry went mainly to the Gentiles. On and on. And then, you know that because the next book is what? Huh? Is Romans. Is Romans. And who is Romans wrote to? Huh? Romans wrote to the world. Romans is the book of the New Testament that reveals salvation by the grace of God. See it? And that's why I'll tell you before, you'll never find no cult or nobody that's messed up in the Bible ever take Romans and use Romans for their theology of salvation. You'll never hear a charismatic run to Romans to establish his theology. He'll stay in Acts and Matthew. But if you want to understand Bible salvation, and you want to really know what it's about, you've got to go to Romans. There's no other book you can go to. If you want to be sure that you're saved eternally without doing anything, you go to Galatians. Isn't it amazing that these books of the Bible, that every lie that's ever been told, every curse that's ever been established, there's a book in the Bible to mess up what they believe. Isn't that strange?