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The early Church didn't move randomly. It moved where the
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spirit pointed, And that raises the uncomfortable question we can't
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avoid is that if Axe was a blueprint, are we
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following the fire or are we protecting the prison?
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Podcasts in the minds of the people.
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You ever read the Book of Acts and feel like
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you accidentally walked into the wrong genre, Like you thought
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you were getting a clean, inspiring origin story and instead
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you got axe, tongues of fire and angel breakouts. Men
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speaking languages they never learned. It sound like a violent
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wind with no weather report, Flames resting on heads like
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Heaven's calling card, prison doors opening without keys, chains falling
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off like they were made of paper, And visions that
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don't just come for people, they redirect entire lies. The
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early Church didn't spread because it was socially acceptable. It
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spread because it was untouchable. And right now in the
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world that feels controlled, curated, and spiritually numb, that hits different.
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So tonight we're going in Welcome back to broadcasting Seeds.
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I'm your host, Benettantin, and I want to start with
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a question that's simple, but it'll mess with you if
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you just if you sit with it for more than
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five seconds. What if the early Church didn't move forward
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because they had the right messaging, but because the Spirit
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of God was doing things that couldn't be explained away.
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Because if acts is true, then the supernatural wasn't the
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side effect, it was the actual engine. And here's where
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this gets uncomfortable for so many people. Fast this week,
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people are arguing about politics, institutions, power, influence, and narratives.
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Same old game, right, But in acts, the disciples aren't
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trying to win seats at the table. They're not lobbying
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for Rome or lobbying Rome. They're not courting approval. They're
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not even looking trying to look credible. They're trying to
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stay obedient while reality keeps getting interrupted. The early Church
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didn't grow because it was popular. It grew because it
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was undeniable. Tongues of fire, angel jail breaks, and visions
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that hide jack their plans. That's not branding. That's power.
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And listen. I'm not saying every weird thing online is God,
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or that every spiritual story you hear is automatically true.
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Some people are selling snake oil with a cross on
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the label. I get it, okay, But if you've ever
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felt like there's more going on than what you can see.
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If you've ever had that gut level sense that the
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world isn't just physical, it's going to feel more like
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a warning label. Also quick favor, because this is how
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the show grows. If you like broadcasting seeds hit like,
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share the episode and give us a review. Okay, And hey,
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send this to a friend who's been saying something's shifting lately,
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but I can't explain it. One more thing. If you're
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a researcher, investigative creator, or you've got firsthand experiences that
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connect to these biblical supernet threads or any other topic
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that I cover, reach out not in a weird way,
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and let's compare notes kind of way, okay, because once
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you see what's happening in Acts, you can't unsee it.
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And the real question becomes this, If the Book of
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Acts is the blueprint, why does modern face so often
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feel like it's missing the fire section one when the
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sky touched the street. And imagine standing in Jerusalem it's Pentecost.
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You've got pack streets, pilgrims everywhere, some noise must tension,
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who knows what else? The place smells like. You've got
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tension in the air. Fifty days after the crucifixion, Okay,
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fifty days, people are still whispering about the empty tomb.
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And then it happens, not a metaphor, not a feeling,
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a sound like a violent ushing wind. But there's no storm,
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there's no clouds, there's no weather, just a roar from
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nowhere that fills the room. That's where X begins, not
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with strategy, not with a committee meeting, with interruption. The
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text says something that people skim pass too quickly. It
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says tongues of fire rested on each of them. Fire
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not on the building, not above the city, on people.
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And suddenly they're speaking in languages they never studied that.
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They don't speak real languages, dialects from across the Roman world, Parthians, Medes, Egyptians, Arabs.
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The crowd is stunned because they're hearing their hometown dialect
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coming out of a Galatian fisherman. And here's what's wild.
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They aren't speaking to impress anybody. They're declaring the works
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of God right there in the street. Now, pausitive me
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for one second. Right now, in our time, people are
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obsessed with influence and platforms and algorithms, messaging strategies, viral moments,
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but an acts. There's no pr team, there's obedience and ignition.
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And this week people are starting to notice how fragile
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our systems are. Economy shake, institutions, wobble. Trust is evaporating
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and questioned. The question everybody's quietly asking is what actually
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has power? Ax answers that in a most uncomfortable way. Possible,
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not politics, not persuasion, with presence. Tongues of fire didn't
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fall on a cathedral, They fell on ordinary people. The
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supernatural didn't crown an institution, It ignited individuals. Let me
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say something, if that happened today, would we recognize it
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or would we call it mass hysteria, emotional manipulation or psyops? Yeah,
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that's the best one. It's a psyop because here's the
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thing that hits me every time I read this. The
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crowd has options, right, Some were amazed, some were absolutely confused,
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some mocked and said they're drunk, same miracle, different interpretations.
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Does that sound familiar to you right now? We're living
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in an era where every event gets filtered through a
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narrative machine. Everything becomes spin, everything becomes suspect. So when
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we read Acts, it forces us to confront something deeper.
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What if Heaven doesn't care about our narratives? What if
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it moves anywhere? Here's the part that should make you
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sits sit up straight. This wasn't the climax. It was
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the beginning, because fire was just the spark. Prison doors
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are about to open without keys. Angels are about to
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step into locked cells, and visions are about to reroute
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entire missions across continents and the early Church. They're about
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to learn something most of us have forgotten. When Heaven moves,
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chains can't hold. They don't hold. Let's talk about the
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jailbreak Section two, when chains meant nothing. Picture this. You're
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locked in a first century prison, stone walls, iron bars,
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Roman guards who probably just don't play games. You've already
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been warned to stop speaking in the name of Jesus,
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and he didn't stop. And now you're inside again. That's
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where the second wave of Acts Tongues of Fire hits,
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not in a prayer circle, not in a worship surface,
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in a worship service, in a jail cell. Acts five.
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The apostles were arrested for preaching publicly, boldly, not subtly.
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The religious authorities were irritated, to say the least. The
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political structures threatened. And this movement isn't dying down. It's
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it's frankly, it's multiplying. And so they do what power
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structures always do when they feel cornered. They try to
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contain it, lock it up, silence it, make it disappear.
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But during the night, an angel of the Lord opens
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the prison doors and brings them out. No dramatic explosion,
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no riot, just doors opening. Chains are irrelevant. And then
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the angel says something that almost feels reckless. Go stand
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in the temple courts and tell the people all about
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this new life. Not hide, not relocate, not to to
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tone it down. Go right back to the public square.
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And here's what should unsettle you. The next morning, the
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officials gathered to bring the prisoners out for trial, and
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the doors are still locked. The guards are still standing
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at their posts, but the cells they're empty. But that's it.
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For a second, the system thought it had control. The
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doors were locked, the guards were posted, the structure was intact,
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but Heaven had already walked through it. Right now, people
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feel trapped in systems, financial systems, political systems, medical systems,
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digital systems, all the damned systems. You feel it, the
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sense that everything is monitored and regulated and categorized. Right.
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And here's why Acts Tongues of Fire feels relevant in
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this moment because it tells the story where the most
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secure system in the world at this time, that's Rome,
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couldn't hold what God was advancing. And the apostles they
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didn't act like victims. They didn't act like rebels either.
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They acted like witnesses. There's a difference, folks. They weren't
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trying to overthrow Rome. They were trying to declare something higher.
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And when questioned, their response is simple, we must obey
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God rather than men. That's not bravado. That's what we
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call alignment. But here's where it gets even more intense.
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This wasn't a one time jam break Acts. In Acts twelve,
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Peter arrested, guarded by four squads of soldiers. Chains on
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bolt risks guards at the door in the middle of
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the night. Light fills the cell, and an angel strikes
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feet are on the side to wake him quick get up.
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Chains fall off what the gates open on their own,
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and Peter walks out, thinking it's a vision until he's
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standing in the street free so the tension building and
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just broke them out. Period. What but what happens when
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the prison isn't physical? What happens when the chains are
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mental or spiritual or cultural? Because Acts doesn't just show
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external miracles, it shows something even harder to explain. Visions
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that reroute destiny. We'll talk about that next section three.
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When visions reroute history? And what if most dangerous? What
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if the most dangerous prison isn't made of stone but certainty?
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What if the real jail break and Acts wasn't iron
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chains falling off risks, but mindsets breaking open? Because right
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when the early Christians, right when the early Church starts
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gaining momentum, something happens that doesn't look explosive at all. Right,
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it looks quiet. It's a vision, and it changes everything.
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Acts ten. Peter is preying on a rooftop, hungry, waiting
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for lunch, and he falls into a trance. He sees
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a sheet descending from heaven. Inside it so bizarre animals
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considered unclean under Jewish law. A voice says, get up, Peter,
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kill and eat. Peter resists three times. The voice replies,
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do not call anything impure that God has made clean.
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Now Pause This isn't about diet. This is about inclusion.
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This is about the Gospel crossing ethnic, cultural, and concovenal lines.
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And right now people are starting to notice something about culture.
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Lines are everywhere, political lines, ideological, ideological lines, religious lines. Everybody.
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I'm carnivorum ketoum vegetarian. Everyone drawing circles and guard the
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borders right of their of their lines. Axe flips that
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God interrupts peter theological framework and says, essentially, your map
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is outdated. And as Peter is trying to process the vision,
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messengers show up from Cornelius, who's a Roman centurion, a
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gentile An outsider, an officer in the very system that
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crucified our Lord Jesus, and the Spirit says, go with them,
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do not hesitate. This is where acts becomes more unsettling
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than inspirational, because it's one thing for fire to fall right,
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it's another thing for your worldview to just shift. And
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the Spirit didn't just break Peter out of prison. He
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broke Peter out of prejudice. Okay, let me ask you something, honest,
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what would it take for your framework to change? Because
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if we're being real, most of us like supernatural stories
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as long as they confirm what we already believe. Right,
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but Acts doesn't just confirm it confronts and right now
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this week, people are arguing over who's in and who's out,
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who's clean, who's corrupt, who's chosen? These Epstein files are wild,
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who's compromised?
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Right?
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And acts as something radical? The Spirit leads, not tribes,
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not factions, not narratives, period, the spirit. And when Peter
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walks with corne into Cornelius as Cornelius's house and sees
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the Holy Spirit fall on Gentiles the same way it
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fell in Acts too, it's a second Pentecost, not in Jerusalem,
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in a Roman's living room. Okay, haven't ignores the border.
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It's not It doesn't mean anything. And here's the thread
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tying this altogether. Tongues of fire, angel, jail breaks, rooftop visions.
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This isn't chaos, its direction. The early Church didn't move randomly.
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It moved where the spirit pointed. And that raises the
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uncomfortable question we can't avoid is that if Ax was
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a blueprint, are we following the fire or are we
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protecting the prison? We've got one layer left to feel back,
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because the story doesn't end with miracles. It ends with
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momentum that couldn't be stopped. The fire was never meant
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to stay contained. Here's the part nobody talks about. The
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Book of Acts doesn't actually end, okay, it just stops
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mid movement, so weird Paul's under house arrest. The gospel
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is spreading. Rome hasn't crushed it yet. The system hasn't
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contained it though, and the fire has not gone. And
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Luke closes the scroll without trying tying a knee bow
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on it. Why Because Acts wasn't a movement, it was
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a momentum. Tongues of fire weren't the climax. Angel jail
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breaks weren't the headline. Visions weren't spiritual entertainment. They were
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directional markers. They were proof that Heaven doesn't just intervene,
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that Heaven advances. And right now, in a world that
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feels curated, scripted, managed, monitored, that freaking matters because people
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are starting to notice that institutions wobble normal people, not
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people like some of us. Systems strain right, narratives just fracture,
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And lately there's this undercurrent of instability and everything from economics,
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politics and trust and the question people aren't saying out loud.
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Is this what is actually real? Ax answers in the
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most unsettling way possible. What's real is what heaven backs.
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That's what's real. The tension with that the early Church
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didn't chase miracles. They obeyed, firefell, angels, moved, visions, redirected.
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But the through line wasn't spectacle. It was surrender. The
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power and acts wasn't hype. It wasn't branding. It wasn't
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emotional manipulation. It was obedience under pressure. So let me
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bring this home. If you've felt lately like something is shifting,
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of course, like there's more happening beneath the service of
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surface of culture, like the visible world isn't telling the
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whole story, I assure you that you're not crazy. Ax
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suggests that the spiritual realm isn't distant at all, and
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that it's active. But here's the part that hits hardest.