{"id":19243,"date":"2019-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/the-coming-kingdom-063\/"},"modified":"2019-03-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T06:00:00","slug":"the-coming-kingdom-063","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/the-coming-kingdom-063\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Kingdom 063"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[89],"series_event":[470],"sermon_service_type":[474],"speaker":[6],"class_list":["post-19243","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-acts","series_event-the-coming-kingdom","sermon_service_type-wednesday-evenings","speaker-dr-andy-woods","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"The Coming Kingdom 063","sermon_date":"20190306","sermon_month":"3","sermon_year":"2019","sermon_notes":6483,"sermon_slides":6482,"sermon_mp3":6484,"sermon_id":"371901674048","series_or_event":470,"service_type":[474],"speaker":6,"books_of_the_bible":89,"chapter_and_verse":"2:16-21","sermon_transcript":"Andy Woods\n\nThe Coming Kingdom\n\n3-6-19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Acts 2:16-21\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lesson 63\n\nGood to see everybody this evening.\u00a0 If you all can take your Bibles and open them to Acts chapter \u00a02, verse 16.\u00a0 And just a quick reminder, next week if you show up and the room is empty you\u2019ll probably think you missed the rapture but we\u2019re not having Bible study next week, it\u2019s spring break so don\u2019t get two rowdy on me.\u00a0 And the Chafer conference is going on next week, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.\u00a0 I think Monday goes Monday afternoon\/evening, and Tuesday and Wednesday I think is all day and so if you have an interest in going to that that\u2019s available locally at West Houston Bible Church and I think that whole thing is going to be livestreamed.\u00a0 So just go to Dean Bible Ministries and you should be able to find it if you\u2019re interested.\u00a0 I think the focus this year is on Messianic prophecy and things like that, Old Testament exegesis and that kind of stuff.\n\nSo tonight let\u2019s take a look at Acts 2:16-21 and we are going to finish up, I\u2019m hoping (by God\u2019s grace) the points we were trying to make out of Acts 2.\u00a0 And I\u2019m planning on tonight finishing up chapter 18, we\u2019re about halfway through it, maybe two-thirds through chapter 18 of the book that I wrote.\u00a0 And in the book I spend a lot of time on Acts 2 because that\u2019s where everybody\u2019s arguing today that the kingdom has started in Acts 2.\n\nYou might recall we started off with a right interpretation of Acts 2; it\u2019s hard to critique something you disagree with unless you tell people what the right view is.\u00a0 So Acts 2 is the beginning of the church age.\u00a0 And you\u00a0 have the Holy Spirit falling, verses 1-4, the manifestation of tongues, verses 5-8, and then there\u2019s a description of those present hearing Peter\u2019s sermon, 9-12, and then the critique becomes well, these people are drunk so they\u2019re trying to explain away the work of the Spirit in Acts 2 via the naturalistic cause of drinking alcohol.\u00a0 And so Peter stands up and gives a tremendous sermon explaining where these miraculous manifestations really came from. \u00a0They can\u2019t come from drinking because it\u2019s 9:00 o\u2019clock in the morning, verses 13-15.\u00a0 Then in verses 16-21 he quotes Joel 2:28-32, and that\u2019s where we\u2019re spending our time this evening.\n\nThen after quoting Joel 2 he begins to explain in verses 22-35 where these miraculous occurrences actually are coming from; they\u2019re coming from Jesus who is now at the right hand of the Father.\u00a0 So he says Jesus, verse 22, was a miracle worker and He\u2019s working miracles now; He\u2019s just working them from the presence of the Father\u2019s right hand.\u00a0 This is the Jesus that the nation of Israel rejected but He rose from the dead after the Jewish nation turned Him over to the Romans for execution.\u00a0 And what Scripture does he use to demonstrate that Jesus rose from the dead?\u00a0\u00a0 Psalm 16.\n\nThen he says Jesus is the heir to David\u2019s throne and what Psalm does he use for that?\u00a0 Psalm 132.\u00a0 And then he says where is Jesus now?\u00a0 He\u2019s at the Father\u2019s right hand, and what Psalm does he use for that?\u00a0 Psalm 110:1.\u00a0 So it\u2019s an amazing sermon he\u2019s doing here as he\u2019s weaving together all of these Old Testament Scriptures.\u00a0 Then he gets to his conclusion that Israel rejected their own Messiah, who is both Lord and Christ, verse 36, and that brought tremendous conviction upon the hearers because they were pierced to the heart, verse 37, and they wanted to know what should we do?\u00a0 They felt guilty.\u00a0 And by the way, feeling guilty is not always a bad thing, amen!\u00a0 Because if you feel guilty maybe it\u2019ll cause you to turn to the right thing.\u00a0 So the Spirit was convicting these people that heard Him, so He gives them the exhortation, verses 38-41, He uses the word \u201crepent\u201d which means what?\u00a0 Change of mind, so quit being a Christ rejecting Hebrew and siding with what national Israel just did in the rejection of their own Messiah, and instead being a Christ accepting Hebrew.\n\nAnd He\u2019s got how many people responding to this message?\u00a0 Three thousand people\u2026 wow!\u00a0 And that\u2019s the beginning of the church.\u00a0 So what do these three thousand people do?\u00a0 They have their first church meeting, verses 42-47, which is sort of a description of everything that the early church gave themselves to.\u00a0 They gave themselves to apostolic doctrine, meeting each other\u2019s needs, miracles are happening, etc.\u00a0 So that\u2019s Acts 2.\n\nAnd let\u2019s take a look here at verses 16-21, where we\u2019re focused tonight. We\u2019re focused on Peter\u2019s use of Joel 2 in Acts 2.\u00a0 So what does Peter say there in verse 16, \u201cBut this\u201d what\u2019s \u201cthis\u201d?\u00a0 The work of the Spirit, \u201cthis is what was spoken through the prophet Joel,\u201d and now he starts quoting Joel 2:28-32.\n\nDoes anybody remember when Joel had his prophecies?\u00a0 Probably around 835 B.C.\u00a0 So he\u2019s a ninth century B.C. prophet; he\u2019s one of our oldest prophets that we have in terms of biblical writing.\u00a0 And Peter starts quoting part of Joel\u2019s prophecy to demonstrate that the work of the Spirit that the folks there are now seeing is not due to drunkenness, it\u2019s actually something that was referred to by Joel.\n\nHe say, verse 17, \u201c'AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,' God says, 'THAT I WILL POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT ON ALL MANKIND; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS;\u00a0 [18] EVEN ON MY BONDSLAVES, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, I WILL IN THOSE DAYS POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT, And they shall prophesy.\u00a0 [19] 'AND I WILL GRANT WONDERS IN THE SKY ABOVE AND SIGNS ON THE EARTH BELOW, BLOOD, AND FIRE, AND VAPOR OF SMOKE.\u00a0 [12] 'THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD SHALL COME.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0And then it says in verse 21, \u201c'AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.\u2019\u201d\n\nSo this whole class that we\u2019re dealing with, we\u2019re trying to respond to Kingdom Now theology and what people do is they say well, the church didn\u2019t start here in Acts 2, the kingdom did.\u00a0 So I\u2019ve been quoting Darrell Bock, one of my former professors, who\u2019s argued this very vociferously, and he says, \u201cIn other words Jesus\u2019 resurrection and ascension to God\u2019s right hand is put forward by Peter as a fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant.\u201d\u00a0 Now we\u2019ve argued for the last two to three weeks that what\u2019s going on in Acts 2 is not a fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant.\u00a0 I\u2019ve given you his arguments and sort of responded to them.\u00a0 But he thinks it is a fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant.\u00a0 And then he says, \u201cJust as the allusion to Joel fulfills the New Covenant.\u201d\n\nSo do you remember the New Covenant?\u00a0 Anybody remember what chapter of the Bible that\u2019s in?\u00a0 Jeremiah 31.\u00a0 It\u2019s basically a prophecy for Israel that God is going to change them from the inside out through the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 So what Darrell Bock is trying to say here is that prophecy was being fulfilled in Acts 2.\u00a0 And he thinks the quotation from Joel proves that.\u00a0 And his logic is well if the Joel 2 prophecy is being fulfilled in part in Acts 2 then what else is being fulfilled in part in Acts 2?\u00a0 Not just the New Covenant but the Davidic Covenant.\u00a0 See, that\u2019s sort of the logic that he uses here.\n\nNow\u00a0 you probably, if you\u2019ve never been exposed to Joel 2 and Acts 2 maybe you don\u2019t want to be confused with the facts, but it can be a very complicated discussion because there are actually four views, at least, there could be more, as to what in the world is Peter doing with Joel 2 in Acts 2? \u00a0So let me walk you through those and I think the first three are incorrect.\u00a0 I think the correct one is number four, which I\u2019ll try to defend.\n\nThe first view is people say Acts 2 is a total fulfillment of Joel 2, a complete and total fulfillment;\u00a0 everything Joel 2 predicted was fulfilled in Acts 2.\u00a0 Well, let\u2019s see, what does Joel 2 say?\u00a0 \u201cThe sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood.\u201d\u00a0 Did that happen in Acts 2 that you can think of?\u00a0 NO!\u00a0 The second view, and this is probably the most prominent view, and this is sort of the position that Bock is taking and many, many others, is that Joel 2 was partially fulfilled in Acts 2.\u00a0 Yeah, maybe not all of it like the sun being turned into darkness and the moon into blood but at least part of it.\u00a0 So the argument is Joel 2:28-29 quoted in Acts 2:17-18 was fulfilled, but the part about the smoke and the sun turning into darkness and the moon being turned into blood, that part of it is not fulfilled in Acts 2. So Joel 2:28-29 is fulfilled in Acts 2:17-18 but Joel 2:30-32 quoted in Acts 2:19-21 is yet future.\n\nSo the argument is this part of it was fulfilled, \u201cAND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,' God says, 'THAT I WILL POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT ON ALL MANKIND; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS; [18] EVEN ON MY BONDSLAVES, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, I WILL IN THOSE DAYS POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT.\u00a0 And they shall prophesy.\u201d\u00a0 And people say well, that part wasn\u2019t fulfilled (in Acts 2) on the Day of Pentecost but all this other stuff about the sky above and the signs on the earth below, blood, fire, vapor, smoke, sun being turned to darkness, moon being turned to blood, the great and glorious day of the Lord, they say that part is future.\u00a0 So that\u2019s probably one of the most common views you have out there is part of the prophecy was fulfilled but the rest of it awaits the future program of God, the tribulation and the millennium.\n\nAnd my basic response to that is well then why does Peter quote both sections?\u00a0 I mean, if only part of Joel 2 is fulfilled in Acts 2 why does Peter quote all of it?\u00a0 I mean, it seems to me that if he\u2019s quoting all of it then he\u2019s basically saying all of it is being fulfilled.\u00a0 So I don\u2019t think you can take this part is fulfilled, that part isn\u2019t fulfilled because he\u2019s quoting both and their presence related to the Day of Pentecost.\u00a0 But that\u2019s what\u2019s called the partial fulfillment view.\n\nAnd then the third view is very devotional, where people get very devotional with the Bible and they basically say it\u2019s fulfilled in every age, so it\u2019s fulfilled every Sunday or it\u2019s fulfilled in the heart of every single believer.\u00a0 And this is what\u2019s called the continuous fulfillment view.\u00a0 Yes, it was fulfilled in Acts 2 but then it was fulfilled today and tomorrow and yesterday and basically every time someone gets saved.\u00a0 And the problem with that is it says in verse 21, \u201cAnd it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Well how exactly are people saved today?\u00a0 I mean, what if\u00a0 you don\u2019t have the vocal cords necessary to call on the Lord; is salvation not available to you?\u00a0 What happens is salvation is available to everyone who what?\u00a0 It starts with a \u201cB.\u201d\u00a0 Believes!\u00a0 The moment you believe or trust in Christ the Holy Spirit comes into you, Romans 8:9.\u00a0 [Romans 8:9, \u201cHowever, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.\u201d]\n\nSo it isn\u2019t necessary to \u201ccall on the name of the Lord\u201d to be saved (as many people teach); what\u2019s necessary is that you believe or trust in Christ.\u00a0 So this calling upon the Lord, as I\u2019ll show you in a minute, has a specific context to it. So this idea that this is being fulfilled with every single conversion throughout the last two thousand years of church history I don\u2019t think really fits with the details of the passage.\u00a0 So view number one is totally fulfilled.\u00a0 Well, if that\u2019s true then how do you explain the sun and the moon and all these kinds of things that it talks about?\n\nNumber two, it\u2019s partially fulfilled.\u00a0 Well then why quote the whole\u2026 why quote both sections if only some of them are being fulfilled?\n\nNumber three, it\u2019s fulfilled with every conversion. Well, why does it tell people to do something that God never tells people to do, which is to call upon the name of the Lord when the Lord says you\u2019re just supposed to believe on Him.\n\nSo if those first three views are incorrect what exactly is the correct view?\u00a0 And I think the correct view is none of it was fulfilled in Acts 2; none of Joel 2 was fulfilled in Acts 2.\u00a0 And if that\u2019s true it guts Darrell Bock\u2019s entire argument because he\u2019s saying because the New Covenant has been partially fulfilled then the Davidic Covenant is being partially fulfilled.\u00a0 See what he\u2019s doing here?\u00a0 But the whole argument disintegrates when you buy into the analogical view that absolutely none of Joel 2, none of it, was fulfilled in Acts 2.\n\nSo if none of Joel 2 was fulfilled in Acts 2, and I\u2019ll try to make that case in just a minute, why in the world is Peter quoting Acts 2?\u00a0 He\u2019s not saying Joel 2 is now being fulfilled.\u00a0 What he\u2019s doing is he\u2019s reasoning analogically.\u00a0 He\u2019s using an analogy and his point is simply this: the Holy Spirit is going to do something for the nation of Israel in the distant future, in the tribulation period and the millennial kingdom.\u00a0 And the Holy Spirit is doing something similar, not identical, similar right now.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why you can\u2019t write off these supernatural occurrences as drunkenness.\u00a0 So that\u2019s at least the point.\n\nSo Peter\u2019s whole point is it\u2019s too early in the morning for drinking.\u00a0 Look at Acts 2:13 for a minute.\u00a0 He says, \u201cBut others were mocking and saying, \"They are full of sweet wine.\u201d\u00a0 [14, \u201cBut Peter, taking his stand with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them: \"Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and give heed to my words.\u201d]\u00a0 And then Peter says in verse 15, \u201cFor these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day;\u201d which would be about 9:00 o\u2019clock in the morning. And from there he starts quoting Joel 2.\n\nAnd the mistake that people make is they think well, my goodness, Joel 2 is being fulfilled in Acts 2 completely or partially.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t think either of those views are correct.\u00a0 I think what he\u2019s saying is the Holy Spirit is doing something similar right now in Acts 2 on the Day of Pentecost in comparison to what He will do in the future tribulation period and the millennial kingdom.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the same thing but it\u2019s similar and you therefore should recognize the work of the Spirit and what\u2019s happening here is not a result of drunkenness because the Spirit is going to do something similarly, not identically, similarly to what\u2019s happening now.\u00a0 So anyway, that\u2019s at least a perspective. Do you guys at least see where I\u2019m going with this?\u00a0\u00a0 I haven\u2019t made the case yet but do you at least under\u00adstand the view?\u00a0 In other words, he\u2019s reasoning analogically.\u00a0 You say well who cares?\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s a big deal if you\u2019re trying to gut kingdom now theology which is what I\u2019m trying to do in the book.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I wanted to deal with this.\n\nSo why do I hold to this analogical view?\u00a0 And let\u2019s kind of walk down this list, I\u2019ve got a list of seven things or so.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t plan it that way but seven is a biblical number.\u00a0 So why would I hole to the idea that Peter is reasoning here analogically rather than saying the prophecy is being fulfilled?\u00a0 By the way, has anybody ever heard of the analogical view before?\u00a0 How many people have never heard this perspective, that it\u2019s an analogy?\u00a0 That\u2019s what I thought, it\u2019s a minority view out there but it\u2019s held by some very good people.\u00a0 You\u2019ll notice at the bottom of the screen I\u2019ve got Constable\u2019s notes that you\u2019re probably familiar with.\u00a0 He hold to the analogical view.\u00a0 And then Arnold Fruchtenbaum holds to the analogical view and I\u2019ve got his online paper posted where you can read up on it if you\u2019re interested.\n\nBut why would I think the analogical view is correct?\u00a0 Well, first of all, what does Joel 2 actually predict?\u00a0 It predicts that the Spirit is going to be poured out on who?\u00a0 All flesh!\u00a0 Acts 2:17, quoting Joel 2, \u201cAND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS, \u2018 God says, \u2018THAT I WILL POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT ON ALL MANKIND....\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Now has that happened in Acts 2?\u00a0 NO!\u00a0 How many people were saved?\u00a0 Three thousand which is praise the Lord, we\u2019ve got three thousand but that doesn\u2019t qualify as \u201call mankind.\u201d\u00a0 First it starts off with a hundred and twenty, earlier in Acts 1 and Acts 2 and then by the time you get to Acts 2:41 you\u2019ve got three thousand (roughly) conversions.\u00a0 [Acts 2:41, \u201cSo then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.\u201d]\n\nAnd that is a substantial number but it is very, very small in comparison to the total population in Jerusalem at this time.\u00a0 Why was Jerusalem so heavily populated at this time?\u00a0 What feast day is it?\u00a0 The Day of Pentecost, and so the Jews living in the known world were commanded to show up at the central sanctuary or Jerusalem on this particular feast day.\u00a0 So Josephus, the first century historian, tells us that there could have been over a million people in Jerusalem.\u00a0 And three thousand people compared to a million is actually a very small fraction, it\u2019s a very small number.\u00a0 So the Spirit was never poured out on all flesh; it wasn\u2019t even poured out on the whole nation of Israel on the Day of Pentecost.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what Joel 2 predicts.\n\nIt says there, \u201c\u2018'AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 When you actually study Joel 2 what it\u2019s dealing with is the tribulation period; that\u2019s what the moon, the blood, the fire, the vapor of smoke, the sun, that\u2019s what all that stuff is talking about.\u00a0 And then it\u2019s also talking about the millennial kingdom.\u00a0 And what it says there, \u201c\u2018'AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 What is that talking about exactly?\u00a0 That\u2019s the call by Israel in Christ at the end of the seven years.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what brings Jesus Christ back to the earth to rescue Israel from the antichrist.\u00a0 That\u2019s what it means there when it says \u201cEVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 And that\u2019s not what\u2019s going on in Acts 2 at all, it\u2019s not even a tribulation period context.\u00a0 Jesus, I think is talking about Joel 2 when He says [Matthew 23:37] \u201cJerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. [38] Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!\u00a0 [39] For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say,\u201d what? What\u2019s the next word, verse 39, \u201cuntil you say,\u201d that\u2019s a confession, isn\u2019t it, \u201c\u2018BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Which is a Messianic Psalm.\u00a0\u00a0 Until you publicly confess Me as the Messiah I\u2019m not coming back for this nation.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Joel 2 is talking about when it says, \u201cAnd it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s talking about the physical rescue of Israel at the end of the tribulation period.\n\nAnd that\u2019s the meaning of Romans 10:9-10.\u00a0 Even though Romans 10:9-10 is in everybody\u2019s evangelistic tract Romans10:9-10 is talking about the audible confession of Jesus by the nation of Israel at the end of the tribulation period.\u00a0 Romans 10:9-10 says, \u201cthat if you confess with your mouth Jesus as<\/em> Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; [10] for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.\u201d\u00a0 Now everybody today when they evangelize they toss in Romans 10:9-10, and they call it the ABC Method of salvation.\u00a0 First you admit you\u2019re a sinner, that\u2019s the \u201cA,\u201d then you believe in Christ, that\u2019s the \u201cB\u201d, and then you\u2019ve got to make some kind of public confession, that\u2019s the \u201cC\u201d.\u00a0 And if you don\u2019t do all three A, B and C you\u2019re not a Christian.\u00a0 Well, what do you do with someone who doesn\u2019t have vocal cords physically?\u00a0 Are you saying they can\u2019t become a Christian?\n\nYou see, Romans 10:9-10 has a specific context; it\u2019s in Romans 9-11 which deals with the nation of Israel. That\u2019s the whole context of Romans 9, 10 and 11.\u00a0 Romans 9, Israel in the past elected; Romans 10, Israel in the present rejected, Romans 11, Israel in the future accepted!\u00a0 And Romans 10:9-10 is in that context dealing with the future of the nation of Israel.\u00a0 So when it says, \u201cEveryone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved,\u201d [Acts 2:21] its context is dealing with the end of the tribulation period, not the beginning of the church age.\u00a0 Do you see that?\u00a0\u00a0 And that\u2019s why Peter is not saying Joel 2 is being fulfilled right now; what he\u2019s saying is the Holy Spirit is doing something similar right now in comparison to what He will do in the future.\n\nDo you have to confess Jesus Christ publicly to be a Christian?\u00a0 What do you do with someone in an Islamic country that may be hears the gospel through a missionary or a tract or something, and they know that if they say anything about their new found faith in Christ they could be killed, their family could be killed or tortured, and they keep the whole matter to themselves?\u00a0 I mean, is anyone bold enough to say such a person is not a Christian?\u00a0 You see, the ABC method of salvation works great in the United States where we have freedom of expression but it doesn\u2019t work in other parts of the world.\u00a0 And believe me, I\u2019m not against people confessing Christ if the Holy Spirit is calling them to do that, what I\u2019m saying is that\u2019s not a requirement for justification. That\u2019s my point.\n\nAnd what does John 12:42 say?\u00a0 \u201cNevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;\u201d there\u2019s a lot of people in the ministry of Christ that trusted in Him but they wouldn\u2019t say a word about it, particularly in the land of Israel because they were afraid of being kicked out\u00a0 of the synagogue.\u00a0 Are we going to say that such people that didn\u2019t confess Christ as Christians because they didn\u2019t follow the ABC method of salvation?\u00a0 That would be ridiculous, wouldn\u2019t it? \u00a0And everybody that promotes this ABC method of salvation never interacts with John 12:42.\u00a0 They\u2019ll quote Romans 10:9-10 until the cows come home but what about John 12:42?\n\nWhat do you have to do to become a Christian.\u00a0 John tells us, \u201cTherefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; [31] but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may\u201d what? \u201cbelieve that Jesus is the Son of God and that by believing\u201d and confessing, it doesn\u2019t say that, does it, \u201cthat by believing you may have\u201d what? \u201clife in His name.\u201d\u00a0 I mean, God has made salvation so easy that anybody can receive it as a free gift simply by trusting.\u00a0 And the Bible says this I think about 150-160 times, it says this about 99 times in John\u2019s Gospel.\n\nSo why in the world would I travel over to an out of context verse, like Romans 10:9-10 which concerns Israel at the end of the tribulation period and use that obscure verse to develop my evangelistic model?\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t make any sense what we\u2019re doing, and we\u2019re telling people to do things (in terms of getting saved) that God never asked them to do.\n\nSo I believe that Joel 2:30-31 is a tribulation context and then Joel 2:28-29 is a millennial context.\u00a0 \u201cIt shall be in the last days God says I will pour forth My Spirit on all mankind,\u201d that\u2019s the millennium, \u201cand your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. [29] \u201cEven on the men and women I will in those days pour out My Spirit.\u201d\u00a0 When you actually really study Joel 2 you\u2019ll see part of it deals with the tribulation period and part of it deals with the millennial kingdom.\u00a0 None of it deals with the beginning of the church age.\n\nAnd this is sort of unpopular preaching because we have a lot of females today that want to be preachers. When I was teaching at the local Bible college and I would say you know, God has placed gender restrictions on the office of Senior Pastor, what verse of the Bible would they quote to me?\u00a0 They would quote Joel 2 which says, \u201cyour sons and your daughters shall prophecy.\u201d\u00a0 And they thought that sealed the deal.\u00a0 And it was very disappointing for them to learn that that had to do with the millennial kingdom, it doesn\u2019t have anything to do with the church age.\n\nAnd then\u00a0 you have other people that want to develop the ABC method of interpretation, A<\/u>dmit, B<\/u>elieve, C<\/u>onfess, and what part of the Bible would they quote to me?\u00a0 They would quote Acts 2:21 quoting Joel 2:32, \u201cAnd it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.\u201d There it is!\u00a0 And it was disappointing for them to learn that that deals with the nation of Israel at the end of the tribulation period.\u00a0 That\u2019s why coming down correctly on Acts 2, Joel 2 and Acts 2 spares your mind from an awful lot of confusion, IF you understand it correctly.\n\nAnd then of course we have the charismatic movement who believe that all of the gifts of the Holy Spirit are in full operation, and what\u2019s their favorite passage of the Bible that they quote?\u00a0 Acts 2 and Joel 2.\u00a0 And it\u2019s very disappointing for them to learn that Joel 2 is not being fulfilled in Acts 2 at all.\u00a0 Peter just using it by way of analogy.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why I\u2019m trying to explain why I\u2019m trying to explain why I\u2019m going into this detail about Joel 2 in Acts 2.\u00a0 It shapes a lot of different issues related to the church.\n\nSo number one, the Spirit was never poured out on all flesh in Acts 2, as Joel 2 requires.\u00a0 That\u2019s the first reason I hold to the analogical view.\u00a0 Number 2 of my seven reasons, what Joel 2 predicts never happened in Acts 2; it never specifically happened in Acts 2.\u00a0 As we\u2019ve already pointed out, in Acts 2 the sun never turned to darkness and the moon never turned to blood red.\u00a0 Beyond that, when you keep reading Joel 2 and you get to verse 32 it says this: \u201cAnd it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the LORD Will be delivered; For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as the LORD has said, even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.\u201d\n\nHey, Jerusalem is supposed to get an escape according to Joel 2.\u00a0 In fact, the Lord is supposed to return according to Joel to and He\u2019s supposed to rescue Zion or Jerusalem.\u00a0 Now did that happen in Acts 2?\u00a0 Absolutely not!\u00a0 What happened forty years after Acts 2?\u00a0 An event called A.D. 70 where Jerusalem didn\u2019t escape but Jerusalem was demolished at the hands of the Romans.\u00a0 Beyond that what else didn\u2019t happen in Acts 2 as Joel 2 predicts?\u00a0\u00a0 You don\u2019t have the blood, you don\u2019t have the fire, you don\u2019t have the vapors of smoke, you don\u2019t have blood, fire, billows of smoke, you don\u2019t have young men seeing visions.\u00a0 You read Acts 2 there\u2019s absolutely no vision at all that\u2019s happening there.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have old men dreaming dreams.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have slaves and daughters prophesying.\u00a0 I mean, you start looking at it detail by detail and almost nothing, in fact nothing that Joel 2 predicts actually materialized in Acts 2 on the Day of Pentecost.\u00a0 And I have those underlined portions there that never happened in Acts 2.\n\nYour sons and daughters will prophecy.\u00a0 Did that happen in Acts 2?\u00a0 No!\u00a0\u00a0 You young men shall see visions.\u00a0 Did that happen in Acts 2?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Your old men shall dream dreams.\u00a0 Did that happen in Acts 2?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Even though my bondservants both men and women, is there any women preaching in Acts 2?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 I will in those days pour forth of My spirit and they shall prophecy.\u00a0 Probably about the only thing that happened is the prophesying part where Peter preached a sermon on the Day of Pentecost.\u00a0 So virtually nothing Joel 2 predicts happened in Acts 2.\n\nNumber three, the third reason why I hold to this analogical view.\u00a0 Number three, the things that did happen in Acts 2 are not even predicted in Joel 2.\u00a0 One of the things that happened in Acts 2 is the speaking of tongues.\u00a0 Look at Acts 2:5-8 just for a second.\u00a0 \u00a0Acts 2:5-8 it says, \u201cNow there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven. [6] And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language. [7] They were amazed and astonished, saying, \u201cWhy, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?\u201d\u00a0 And then it says in verse 8, \u201cAnd how is it that we each hear them<\/em> in our own language to which we were born?\u201d\u00a0 Now we talked about tongues, haven\u2019t we?\u00a0 Basically it\u2019s the ability to speak in an unknown\u2026 let me rephrase that, an unlearned but known language.\u00a0 And that\u2019s the miracle that was happening in Acts 2, and that\u2019s how the people seeing this transpire could tell it was from God.\u00a0 So tongues or the gift of languages is huge in Acts 2.\n\nNow go back to Joel 2, that ninth century B.C. prophet. Does he ever make a single statement about the gift of tongues in Joel 2?\u00a0 Not a single one!.\u00a0 Joel 2:28-32 says absolutely nothing about the gift of tongues.\u00a0 And so another reason why I think the analogical view is correct is number three, Acts 2 realities are not even found in Joel 2.\n\nThe fourth reason I think the analogical view is correct is Peter changes the words around when he is preaching from Joel 2 in Acts 2.\u00a0 For example, and you might even have your Bible open to Joel 2:28-3e and your finger in Acts 2 so you can go home later and do this comparison yourself.\u00a0 What does Peter do in Acts 2:17?\u00a0 He says, \u201cAND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,'\u201d now compare that to Joel 2:28, Peter just changed \u201cafter this\u201d in Joel 2:28, to \u201clast days\u201d in Acts 2:17.\u00a0 [Acts 2:17, \u201c'AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,' God says, 'THAT I WILL POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT ON ALL MANKIND; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS;\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Joel 2:28, \u201cIt will come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young men will see visions.\u201d]\n\nAnd here\u2019s something else that\u2019s very interesting.\u00a0 Around verse 18 Peter, quoting Joel 2, says, \u201cEVEN ON MY BOND SERVANTS, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, I WILL IN THOSE DAYS POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT,\u201d now look at this last expression here, verse 18, \u201cAnd they shall prophesy.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Now you can go back and\u00a0 you can compare that to Joel 2:29 and what you\u2019ll see is Peter added that expression.\u00a0 [Joel 2:29, \u201cEven on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.\u201d]\u00a0 So you say well what\u2019s your point?\u00a0 My point is if Peter was saying Joel 2 was completely and totally fulfilled in Acts 2 would he sit there and edit the passage?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 The fact that he\u2019s editing, the fact that he\u2019s changing words around to my mind demonstrates that he\u2019s not saying Joel 2 was fulfilled in Acts 2.\u00a0 If he was actually saying that Joel 2 was being fulfilled in totality or partially in Acts 2 I really don\u2019t think Peter would be taking the editorial liberties that he\u2019s taking here.\n\nAnd then what do we have here, number four, the fourth reason why I don\u2019t think Joel 2 was fulfilled in any sense in Acts 2 but rather merely represents an analogical statement is what word is missing there in Acts 2?\u00a0 The word what?\u00a0 It starts with an f\u2026 fulfilled.\u00a0 I mean if Joel 2 was being fulfilled in totality or partially in Acts 2 wouldn\u2019t Peter use the word fulfilled?\u00a0 But he doesn\u2019t do that.\u00a0 Now does ever elsewhere use the word fulfilled?\u00a0 Actually he uses it quite frequently.\n\nIf you go back to the prior chapter, in Acts 1:16 there was a prophecy from the Old Testament that was being fulfilled in Acts 1:16 and so what does Peter say?\u00a0 \u201cBrethren, the Scripture had to be\u201d that\u2019s the Greek word pl\u0113ro\u014d<\/em>, in other words, when prophecy is being fulfilled Peter is pretty good at saying hey gang, the prophecy is being fulfilled right now.\u00a0 But in Acts 2 do you ever see the word \u201cfulfilled\u201d?\u00a0 He never says fulfilled, which again to my mind is communicating that Peter, when he quoted Joel 2 in Acts 2 is quoting it not for purposes of fulfillment but for purposes of making an analogy because these folks were attributing everything to drunkenness.\u00a0 Peter\u2019s only point was, in Acts 2, this isn\u2019t drunkenness because the Holy Spirit is going to do something similarly, not identical, similarly in the distant future for the nation of Israel in the tribulation period and the millennial kingdom.\n\nThe sixth reason why I don\u2019t think Joel 2 was fulfilled in Acts 2 has to do with the mystery nature of the church.\u00a0 What is the church or the body of Christ?\u00a0 It\u2019s a what?\u00a0 It starts with an \u201cm\u201d and ends with a \u201cy.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s a mystery.\u00a0 Now why do we say that?\u00a0 Because you can read the Old Testament until your eyeballs bleed and you\u2019re not going to find any references to the church.\u00a0 In fact, the Lord Jesus, in His earthly ministry\u2026 remember Jesus is functioning under the period dispensation of the Law, Galatians 4:4.\u00a0 [Galatians 4:4, \u201cBut when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,\u201d]\u00a0 He only makes a few vague hints of the coming church.\u00a0 So the church is really not something that starts until Acts 2 and the concept of the church prior to that point in time is totally foreign to the Bible.\n\nEphesians 2:14-16, of the church, says, \u201cFor He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into<\/em> one\u201d that\u2019s Jew and Gentile, \u201cand broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, [15] by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is<\/em> the Law of commandments contained<\/em> in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two\u201d now who are \u201cthe two\u201d?\u00a0 Jew and Gentile, \u201c\u2026He might make the two into one new man, thus<\/em> establishing peace, [16] and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity. For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into<\/em> one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, [15] by abolishing in His flesh the enmity,\u201d that\u2019s what the church is, Jew and Gentile into one new man on co-equal footing called the church or the body of Christ.\n\nNow do you find that concept anywhere in the Old Testament?\u00a0 No you don\u2019t.\u00a0 You find God dealing with a nation, the nation of Israel, and God is using national distinctions in the Old Testament.\u00a0 Not so in the age of the church; national distinctions are abolished.\u00a0 That\u2019s why Paul calls the church a what?\u00a0 Ephesians 3:3?\u00a0 A mystery.\u00a0 [Ephesians 3:3, \u201cthat by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief.\u201d]\u00a0 What does he call it in Ephesians 4:4?\u00a0 A mystery.\u00a0 [Ephesians 3:4, \u201cBy referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ.\u201d]\u00a0 What does he call it in verse 5? Something that\u2019s been especially given to the apostles.\u00a0 [Ephesians 3:5, \u201cwhich in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;\u201d]\n\nWhat\u2019s the mystery?\u00a0 To be specific, that Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.\u00a0 That\u2019s a brand new idea, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 Paul calls the church a mystery in Ephesians 3:9, \u201cand to bring to light what is the administration of \u201c what, I\u2019ve got it underlined, \u201cthe mystery<\/u> which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things.\u201d\n\nWhat is a mystery?\u00a0 A mystery is a new truth never before disclosed; that\u2019s the way the Greek lexicon defines a mystery.\u00a0 That\u2019s how Paul defines a mystery, Romans 16:25-26, that which has been kept secret for long ages but now is manifested and by the Scriptures of the prophets.\u00a0\u00a0 [Romans 16:25-25, \u201cNow to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past,\u00a0 [26] but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith;\u201d]\n\nPaul, in Colossians 1:26 defines a mystery as that \u201cwhich has been hidden from past ages\u00a0 and generations, but now has been manifested to His saints.\u201d\u00a0 So what is happening today is something that we call a parenthesis or a mystery.\u00a0 As the nation of Israel has been set aside temporarily God will turn again to Israel in the future tribulation period.\u00a0 What\u2019s God doing in the interim?\u00a0 I mean, what\u2019s he been doing for the last 2,000 years?\u00a0 He\u2019s been at work in this new man that we call a mystery, and the prophets of old, could they see the mystery?\u00a0 They couldn\u2019t see it.\u00a0 The best thing the prophets could see was the two mountain ranges in a distance.\u00a0 You look at two mountain ranges in a distance with the second mountain raised slightly above the first mountain, all you can really see are two mountains and what can you not see?\u00a0 The valley between the mountains.\u00a0 That\u2019s why the Old Testament prophets, like Joel, could not see our age because our age is part of the church, which is a mystery, something new never before disclosed.\n\nI mean, Joel couldn\u2019t have seen the church if he wanted to and because the church is a mystery how in the world could Joel be talking about the beginning of the church age, which is a mystery?\u00a0 I mean, how can people say that Joel\u2019s prophecies are being fulfilled at the beginning of the church age when Joel himself couldn\u2019t even see the valley between the mountains. Do you see the problem?\u00a0 So people that say Joel 2 was fulfilled in Acts 2, the beginning of the church age, think that Joel saw church age prophecies which is an impossibility because the church was always a what?\u00a0 Was a mystery.\u00a0 Daniel couldn\u2019t see the church, Joel couldn\u2019t see the church, in fact all of the Old Testament prophets couldn\u2019t see the church.\n\nPeter says, [1 Peter 1:10-11]\u00a0 \u201cAs to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful searches and inquiries,\u00a0 [11] seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. \u00a0That\u2019s all they could see.\u00a0 They could see one mountain range and another mountain range, they could not see the valley and that\u2019s why they\u2019re confused, some of these prophets, about their own prophecies.\u00a0 So for someone to say that Joel 2 is being fulfilled in Acts 2, that Joel\u2019s prophecies are being fulfilled at the beginning of the church age misunderstands the whole mystery nature of the church.\n\nAnd then one more thing, and with this we\u2019re finished, on my list of seven, why I hold to the analogical view of Joel 2 and Acts 2 is a misunderstanding concerning this is that.\u00a0 Now everybody that argues that Joel 2 was fulfilled in Acts 2 will quote verse 16 where Peter says \u201cbut this is what was spoken of through the prophet Joel:\u201d and they say this can\u2019t be just an analogy, this has got to be a fulfillment of a prophecy because Peter himself prefaced the quotation from Joel 2 by saying \u201cthis is that,\u201d the Greek is toto espen to<\/em>, this is that.\u00a0 And what I want you to understand is toto espen <\/em>to is used elsewhere in the New Testament concerning an analogy.\u00a0 In fact, here is the passage we read at every communion service, I think we just read this last Sunday, didn\u2019t we?\u00a0 Someone say yes.\u00a0 [Someone said yes]\u00a0 It shows me you were here.\n\n1 Corinthians 11:24-26, \u201cAnd when He\u201d this is Paul referring to Christ, inaugurating the Lord\u2019s table in the Upper Room, \u201cAnd when He had given thanks He broke it and said, \u2018This is My body,\u201d now in Greek \u201cthis is My body\u201d is what?\u00a0 \u03a4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c4\u03cc \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd \u03bc\u03bf\u03cd that\u2019s the identical Greek expression that you find Peter using in Acts 2:16, \u201cbut this is that\u201d t\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c4\u03cc \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd \u03c4\u1f78.\n\nNow when we take communion as Protestants do we look at the wafer as the actual body of Christ?\u00a0 No we don\u2019t; we look at it as an analogy.\u00a0 See that?\u00a0 An analogy.\u00a0 Jesus said, \u201cDo this is remembrance of Me.\u201d It\u2019s not the actual physical body of Christ, and this is where we differ from Roman Catholicism.\u00a0 Roman Catholicism teaches transubstantiation, that when you partake\u00a0 of the elements Christ is being literally recrucified every single mass.\u00a0 And we don\u2019t believe that. First of all, if Christ is being recrucified every single mass then why does the Book of Hebrews tell us over and over again that he died, how many times?\u00a0 One time, it says that over and over again.\u00a0 I mean, if He\u2019s being re-crucified every single mass then he\u2019s being recrucified every single mass and He didn\u2019t die just once.\n\nSo we take the cup as not His actual blood but as an analogy for His blood.\u00a0 And we take the wafer not as His actual body but as an analogy for his body.\u00a0 See that.\u00a0 So when Paul says, quoting Christ \u201cThis is My body,\u201d he\u2019s quoting Christ using a what?\u00a0 It starts with an \u201ca,\u201d analogy.\u00a0 So if t\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c4\u03cc \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd \u03c4\u1f78 clearly means an analogy in 1 Corinthians 11:24 why can\u2019t I take that identical Greek expression, t\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c4\u03cc \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd \u03c4\u1f78 in Acts 2:16 and treat Peter\u2019s use of Joel 2 in Acts 2, not as a fulfillment of prophecy but as an analogy. Do you follow?\n\nSo I\u2019m giving you basically some reasons as to why I think the analogical view is correct, and if the analogical view is correct kingdom now theology is gutted because Darrell Bock says in other words Jesus resurrection, ascension to God\u2019s right hand as put forward by Peter as a fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant, just as the allusion to Joel fulfills the New Covenant.\u00a0 I mean, after all, if Joel 2 is being fulfilled or partially fulfilled in Acts 2 then so are the prophecies of the Davidic Covenant. See what he\u2019s saying?\u00a0 And I\u2019m coming back and I\u2019m saying guess what?\u00a0 Joel 2 was never fulfilled in Acts 2, it wasn\u2019t partially fulfilled, none of what Joel 2 predicts was fulfilled in part or in total in Acts 2 and if that\u2019s true then Bock\u2019s whole argument here basically dissolves.\n\nSo why do I hold to an analogical view of Joel 2 in Acts 2?\u00a0 Number one, was the Spirit poured out on all flesh in Acts 2 the way Joel requires it?\u00a0 NO!\n\nNumber two, there\u2019s an awful lot of things in Joel 2 that were never fulfilled in Acts 2, like the sun becoming dark, the moon becoming blood red.\n\nNumber three, there\u2019s an awful lot of Acts 2 realities, like speaking in tongues that are not even predicted in Joel 2.\n\nNumber four, as I\u2019ve showed you in a couple of places Peter changes the text of Joel around a little bit, which to me would be very, very odd for him to do that if Joel 2 was actually being fulfilled in Acts 2.\n\nNumber five, Peter is pretty good at using the word fulfilled when he wants to demonstrate that an Old Testament prophecy was being fulfilled in Acts.\u00a0 But does he use the word fulfilled at all in Acts 2?\u00a0 NO, he does not!\n\nNumber six, the church is a mystery. What\u2019s happening in Acts 2 is the beginning of the church; the whole church, including how it started is a mystery and because it\u2019s a mystery could Joel have ever seen anything related to the church in a prophecy.\u00a0 It\u2019s an impossibility.\u00a0 That\u2019s number six.\n\nAnd then finally number 7, where people say okay Mr. Wise Guy, if this is an analogy then why does Peter preface the quotation by saying \u201cThis is that\u201d and my point is the verbiage is \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c4\u03cc \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd \u03c4\u1f78 [touto estin to<\/em>] which is used elsewhere as an analogy, and if it can be an analogy elsewhere why can\u2019t it be an analogy in Acts 2 when you can demonstrate all of these details.\n\nSo it\u2019s a pretty heavy lesson, I guess, if you\u2019re a first-timer here but if you\u2019ve been tracking with our study I hope you\u2019re kind of seeing why issues like this become a big deal.\u00a0 Did I confuse everybody tonight or help.\u00a0 I hope I helped a little bit.\u00a0 And wow, look at this, we\u2019re even stopping early, it\u2019s 7:59, we\u2019re getting out a minute early, do you believe that?\u00a0 So if you\u2019ve got to collect\u00a0 your kids or otherwise take off feel free to do that at this time and you might want to take a picture of the clock on the way out.","series_sermon_number":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t