Open-Minded Religious People (Acts 19:1-10) | TMBH Acts #79
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- In Acts 19, Paul's in Ephesus talking with some guys who sort of believe the same stuff he does. They're followers of John the Baptist, and don't get all the stuff about Jesus yet, so Paul explains. What's cool is that instead of getting into a big stupid argument, they listen and learn, and everything about everything is better as a result.
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I would love to have your "Battle Of New Orleans" song in its own video. That was awesome!
I have some cute kids that wanted to watch the song again and again, we agree!
I'll see what I can do - I probably should have put that in the outtakes.
The Ten Minute Bible Hour That video will go right into my favorites. Can't wait!
A big thanks for this one. Have had a hard time with "The Holy Spirit" for a very long time, but this explanation is one of the clearest I have ever gotten. Only took 60+ years and your video to clear things up!
But the problem is that all the explanations for why the Holy Spirit is supposed to act differently now compared to then are speculative. The ones I heard tend to go along the lines of "Oh, it just doesn't make sense." The question is why? Why would it not make sense? There are way too many VERSES talking about the Holy Spirit being active in special ways in the life of a believer for us to just reject those ideas with: "oh, it just doesn't make sense for us." :/ Just my two cents.
An old discussion, I know, but here's my two cents: Sometimes the miracles of the Holy Spirit in an individual are on a more personal level and not just restricted to the moment one accepts Christ into their lives. These personal experience are not so obvious to an observer, and they are not intended to be. Many times it's only the individual that realizes how the Holy Spirit has effected their attitude, their out look, even events in their life. Sometimes God takes a more subtle approach and doesn't always put on a show for the non-believer.
Love your summary at the end for how to approach Bible study, that's how I feel about it now, after having been in dogmatic churches in the past and that's part of what I love about this channel!
I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I love watching/listening to your 10 minute bible hour every day. I appreciate all you put into these messages as well as your perspective and energy! Thanks for all you devote to teaching about Jesus Christ and His Gospel. Amy :)
"Do you clap when you sing songs?"
Lol
I love how different Americans remember the war of 1812 compared to how Canadians remember it.
I heard the Americans tried to invade and "free" Canada from the British, and the subsequent invasion and burning of the White House was in retaliation for that.
But then again, I'm Australian, so I never really payed that much attention to it.
I just started watching, I like it when you add the scripture so I can pause and read because I'm on the treadmill. thank you for doing these videos.
I THANK YOUR MOM AS WELL!!!It was great...so here I am, finally finding the rest of Acts and going along in my Daiky Walk. Thanks Matt Whitman..😉
Thanks for doing this. Talking in modern day terms about the Bible makes it so much more real than sitting reading the KJV which leaves many, including myself, thinking what the heck did that actually mean?
I'm a Canadian Catholic who has been binge watching your channel after you visited a Catholic cathedral. The first thing you have said that I have strongly disagreed with is your interpretation of the War of 1812. And that is probably a great sign for the ecumenical movement! :p Thanks for your work!
Thanks for the video and being open to talking about different thoughts within the Christian world.
The ,No Dumb Questions, podcast brought me here. I dig it! This video revealed to me that you and Destin share similar nuances in your delivery style on camera. Minute 8:20-33, particularly. However, the dichotomy between you two on the podcast is striking and entertaining. Keep it up. I appreciate what you do.
Another great episode! Thanks.
Another fantastic video! Thanks, Matt!
I'm British, and I approve of the intro
There's nothing about this video to be dissatisfied with 😂😂😂 #imlovinit #badabababa🎤
The lesson here is: More singing. Less talking.
Hooray for awkward but catchy songs (might have just named your first album)!
Emphasis on awkward! I've got something even worse coming up soon; stay tuned :)
Amen.. the book of Acts is amazing. However the Holy Spirit is given to all who ask and some think they received it when they first believed and don't go one step further and persistently ask for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Speaking in tounges edifys he who is praying.1 Corinthians 14:4. Also check out Romans 8:9
Great episode!
The office of the Holy Spirit, I think, is so overlooked these days because we don't understand the power therein. Jesus talked about this! And the scripture says the Father is the same yesterday, today, will be the same tomorrow on in to eternity . How can we seperate the Lord And the Holy Spirit from this line up sense they are all one, in total agreement?
Carry on telling it as it is...... :) you make sense.
Hey Matt! Thanks for the great explanation! I recently had a conversation with one of my roommates regarding his views on the Holy Spirit. He is pretty charismatic, and he pointed me to this passage, among other passages, as evidence supporting his views. I have been encountering a lot of people lately who have been pushing me in this direction, but there is a lot of dissonance in my head when it comes to this topic. I appreciate the clarification you made regarding the "disciples" mentioned. This passage was the point that really stuck out to me when my roommate was explaining things. Are there any other resources (or even some of your own thoughts) that you can point me towards that have to do with charismatic or non-charismatic views of the Holy Spirit?
I have ideas, but they're all older books. Let me do some thinking on this. Stay after me Luke.
Thanks a ton!
I feel like a lot of people refer to tongue talking as being charismatic, I'm confused as to why that is cause when I first heard people talking in tongues I ran away (literally I picked up my son and ran out the door)
I've since had a change of heart in a different understanding of it but I would think it would be the opposite of charismatic.
@@chupie3085 Two years late, but if anyone else is curious about this, I believe it's based on an older meaning of "charisma" which appears in the original Greek. "Charis" means 'grace', and "charisma" seems to mean something like 'things given in relation to grace'. For example, in Romans 12:6 Paul says [NIV] "We have different gifts [charisma], according to the grace [charis] given to each of us."
According to wikipedia, the modern meaning of "being the sort of person people follow" comes from about a century ago from Max Weber, who talked about people being given special qualities that made them particularly suited for leadership.
like the way you explain it.
Best Segway ever
Nice Martin, but that’s on funky capo
I'm still not sure what to think about speaking in tongues. I've seen someone do it while I was in college praying in a group, but I got the impression they were acting and trying to get attention, and it was very disruptive, like the kind of thing Paul warned about in 1 Corinthians 14. Have you seen it being used properly?
I've not seen it used in a way that resembles what happened in Acts, though I have been around it a lot. The stuff God instituted in the Bible all makes sense in purpose, function, and motivation, but tongues as a modern practice doesn't to me.
James Craver I've seen it a few times at a church I used to go to. Someone would start shouting some craziness, usually followed by someone else translating. Usually "Praise God", etc. Nothing specific like "give today's offering to Joe". Knowing the people involved and listening to it, I'd definitely vouch that it's real. It was like a different language and dialect, but perfect with no stuttering or anything. I could never convincingly fake that.
Andy Jones Wait that happens in church ?
I attend a Pentecostal church, my pastor explains in 1 Corinthians 14 (specifically verse 23) that speaking in other tongues in the holy spirit should be in one on one prayer with God. We have moves in the spirit but I would relate it more to cheering at a football game when your team wins the game, not a whole lot of tongue talking craziness going on in my church. Though most churches of the same religion have a bad rap for that tongue talking stuff. It's not meant for an audience but it's gone that route.
I came from a Mormon background so I had a really hard time with it, I've felt the spirit move but have very rarely done it and never done it audibly enough for anyone to hear me. It just seems to come out in a natural flow when I'm really trying to have a real conversation with God and not a robotic one sided prayer.
Just my experience, it's something that can't really be explained until you go through it but once you go through it you understand it. I went to this church for 4 years (had family in it otherwise I would not have gone that long) before I finally understood and before I always thought it was a psychotic cult, but one day I just felt an urge to pray, not in a way like I wanted to say routine night time prayer but I wanted to have an actual conversation with God and hear him and build a relationship and bond with him and that's when it happened and I started bawling my eyes out, it was weird. That feeling just gave me so much desire to want to figure God out, what he likes what he doesn't like, how he lived, why he works the way he does and it just made me want to be like him and be close to him.
I've been in this church ever since, while there is definitely some doctorines in this denomination I question my pastor is pretty honest about debunking the ones that are just Pentecostal tradition.
that Jesus stuff.....lol i love this video
I don't always catch all these videos, but for awhile there you switched your name didn't you? The Worst Christian Ever if I recall? What made you go back to your original? Personally, I liked this one better, I felt the other one was trying too hard to get noticed. Either way, good video, just wondered what made you go back to this name.
+Xion Productions Thanks for watching!
I tried the other name for a lot of reasons, but a main one was to broaden the type of content I could put on my channel. Ultimately that was too much on a lot of levels, and I like content associated with the Ten Minute Bible Hour more, so I switched back.
Also I just think this is a better name.
And today I had a raisin bagel, lightly toasted, with a good serving of butter. Then I sat at my computer, where I always sit, all the time, and watched another great episode of the Ten Minute Bible Hour.
I get it, a lot of miracles happened in the bible. But that's because it is telling a story. Trying to pass on ideas. You can't do that with boring, mundane information. Something many movies haven't figured out. LOL But to say that you aren't a Christian because you haven't done anything miraculous seems a bit foolish. Nowhere in the bible, that I know of, says that when you are saved, you will witness, or perform a miracle. These were tougher times, so they needed all of the help they could get. Miracles helped to prove points. Not to prove that somone is saved. It is also a story. Stories center on events. And there isn't any bigger event than a miracle.
I like how Paul confronted these people. He asked them a simple question that demonstrated there lack of understanding without being confrontational.
If I may ask, what happened to the video? It looks like you ran key cleaner without any key.
Whats the buzz, tell me whats a happening
Are you aware that the war of 1812 was started by you guys invading Canada? Burning down the white house was retribution for the burning of York (now Toronto), which was our capital at the time. We also have a patriotic song about the war.
Ronald Reagan? Really? Man does he get around. Ok...Ironhead (eerr...man)...Raising my hand...Can I be the nuisance commenter this time?
Ok...thanks...sorry for not waiting for permission...
Um, your last statement was perfect, "Hey, we solved God in Bible!" Do you get that on the fly or do you have to write it up? It has taken me so long to figure out how to say that, but it is great. The word "theology" is the very expression of that statement because it is "how to configure all the knowledge about God in one breathless sentence that lasts 10 years". God is not a puzzle to be solved. You didn't marry your wife to figure her out did you? That's impossible. God is a being who is relational like we are. Just wants respect and honor like us. Wants to be acknowledge for his Character not his looks like us. Wants committed friends who give him the benefit of the doubt not doubt because of the lack of benefits. All relational all the time. If we let Him be mysterious, which He is; if we let Him have secrets, which he does, then we don't have to have all of it figured out, we can just enjoy what we know about Him and enjoy getting to know more.
That being said, I think I would like to say that the Spirit of God never changes. How He operates and what He performs never changes because if He changes, then He violates the Biblical stance that God cannot lie or can He change. So I know that opens the door for the discussions everyone loves on dispensations, but I would say that dispensations can not change His inherent character. What I do see is that man, due to unbelief, places serious constrictions on what the Spirit does. Because of this observation (and believe me, I am seriously guilty, finding it difficult to allow my mind to let go of it's learned boundaries - Read: "Your trying to bend the spoon. That's impossible. What you have to realize is there IS NO spoon") I think it is terribly important to look at the not-so-obvious influence of the greek/roman mind that was coming into the Assembly of the Body. The various gifts of the Holy Spirit are only addressed in Paul's writings because of misuse and generally that was in the vicinity of the greek/roman/gentile parts of the new Assembly (and was, up until 124 a.d., synagogue based and considered part of Israel's tribal community.) The Jewish heart within Israel did not struggle with the Spirit because the Spirit was expected. Corinth shows us that the struggle was brought in by the cultural ideals that the Roman society held. A society that was not Biblical.
So a non-Biblical society is invited in by God and initially is brought into the community of the Jewish people where they could be trained in a lifestyle that was 3000 years in the making. This transition was hard. Read Corinthians. Very hard. Paul would be tested completely working with the Corinthians. But he was the right choice because he was the chief student of the Torah community in Jerusalem and from the Roman city of Tarsus. A great ambassador. He would have to deal with their lack of understanding about the Torah community life and have the revelations of Grace for the gentiles because it was impossible to expect them to be able to be Torah observant in any normal time passage, nor, as you said Matt, was that perfection of Torah observation even the most important focus anymore. But the wisdom that Paul possessed was vital. His knowledge, not of the new testament, but of the Old Testament was critical for all his letters and his training of the new converts. It would be this wisdom that would help him make the corrections needed in their handling the Spirit of God and His giftings in people and how the Spirit could move to affect humanity.
Ok, so one last paragraph, I have personally witnessed tongues used properly and have a personal friend who has operated a number of times in the Acts 2 version of tongues. One example, he was sitting in a church service and the pastor got up and spoke at length in tongues and then proceeded to prove that he was un-biblical by interpreting what he just said on his own (Out of the mouth of two or more witnesses let the Word of the Lord be confirmed). My friend said that as he was listening, he knew the man was speaking in Chinese. Well, the man sitting next to my friend happened to be chinese and so my friend said to the man, "The Spirit told me that the pastor didn't interpret it correctly because he doesn't know Chinese. You know chinese right?" The man said yes. My friend says, "Did he interpret it correctly?" The man said no. To that I say this; the Spirit of God has not changed. We have. The greatest question a person can ask is, "Why?" What changed the Assembly after the first century and why did every writer of an epistle and even the gospel writers pass on warnings about a coming apostasy? What apostasy came? What did it do to our gospel? How has it influenced us and did the church ever get free from it? Are we free from it?
Sorry, one last...that's all...sorry it's long....and sorry Matt, I tried so hard not to watch this episode. I really did. I knew in my heart I would be writing and wasn't wanting to get in a fight. I lost the battle with the Spirit. I trust you though, which is really weird to say to a man I have never met except on youtube...where he shares his close friends like Ronoldus Maximus Reaganus. Thank you for your continued graciousness to teach. Really glad you switched back to TMBH. I hope the Spirit of God has you take this down a very long road. Oh, and your getting more nuanced and professional as you proceed. I watched your first episodes the other day and boy were you stiff. Shalom.
Wait, you play guitar?
+Matt Thompson I do not.
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Awwwww man...
Matt Thompson Get in an argument. I wanna see a fight! You can take him. You're bigger and smarter than he is.
Andy Jones What are you saying? Are you saying I'm fat? Is that it? I'm fat because I play bass, is that right? I see where this is going.
You're a bass alright... A large mouth bass! (See what I did there? I have fish puns.)
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Nice. I appreciate your light-heartedness but I think 'this Jesus thing' goes over the line to irreverent. I mean , this is God's work of salvation we're talking about here!
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