Mayhem, Miracles and Monday Morning [Part 1]

Pastor, author and Bible teacher Alan Wright is a story of the miraculous escape of Peter from prison. It's a miracle story, but is candid by the fact that James another leader in the early church apostle was martyred and is no explanation as to why James was killed instead of being rescued while Peter was being rescued instead of income or Alan Wright another message of good view. See your life in a whole new light. I'm Daniel Britain excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series limited as presented at renewal. The church North Carolina are not able to stay with tire program to make sure you know how to get our special resource. Right now you can be yours for your donation this month to Alan Wright strings as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today's special offer. Contact us at pastoralan.org Pastor Alan.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860.

More on this later in the program right now. Let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright life with God is miraculous. But it is speckled with grief and situated in the ordinary and that's okay. That really is okay. It's okay to understand that life with all of its miracles also will have its share and there also is plenty of routine and hard work, and that is more than okay. You can expect God to deliver you from life's difficulties, we can expect God to heal us of our infirmities.

We can expect God to triumph over the devil's plot against us, we can expect miracles, while also understanding that we are human and Jesus said in this world you will have trouble and we can also understand that there is always Monday morning that life has taken out the garbage cleaning the house, commuting to work, pay the taxes and dealing with the leaky faucet that's real life to and the routine stuff of life and the disappointments of life, do not dethrone the God who is a God of miracles and today were going to learn all about that in a message. I therefore called mayhem miracles and Monday morning because I've got some of all that well. Notice brother David has gotten interested in digging up family history doing ancestry staff and on both sides.

My mom and dad's side of the family, and he recently unearthed the actual obituary of my great uncle on my mother's side, my mother's father was old when my mother was born and he was 90 when he died and I was six, so unfortunately I didn't get to know him that well TR Wolf my grandfather. We called Paul was a Methodist minister and he pastored in Methodist churches all over the Western Conference and in those days, especially the Methodist Church was highly committed to the itinerant system of ministry.

They moved at least every four years and so my mom moved around but she says she can remember time where they had just loaded up everything and move to a new town have never been there before, but the bishop said you know here for your new churches can remember, her father pulling into the gas station and speaking to the attendant and asking can you tell me where the Methodist parsonage is having never been there to even see if it was a suitable place to live. I heard some of those stories and decided to become a Presbyterian. My grandfather was a strict but good man, sober, dedicated, hard-working, preaching the gospel, visiting the sick, enjoyed his garden.

He enjoyed his golf and loved his wife, Stella, and he had. I think my mom's here. This wanted 10 siblings.

He was one of 11 and he had at least think to preachers other preachers were much the siblings and one of those was the Rev. William Davis, Wolf, and it is that great uncle. My mom's uncle, of which my brother unearthed in the obituaries actual news clipping.

I put it up there because they just don't write them like this anymore. Rev. William Davis Wolf, 62, pastor of historic New Hope Presbyterian Church near Gastonia dropped dad in his pulpit at 1140 5 o'clock says that anymore says that say that you say he went to meet his Lord our went home to glory something you say dropped dad dropped at 1140 5 o'clock Sunday morning as he was nearing the conclusion of his sermon as he slumped to the floor. Why do we need these details.

Granted, you know what you really think you're curious, but they don't put these things in the paper but I did man is nearing the conclusion serve as he slumped to the floor. Members of the church rushed to his aid, only to find that death would come to them.

Suddenly, although none of his family knew it, Mr. Wolf suffered a severe heart attack three weeks ago, but it did not prevent his going ahead with this pastoral wire like that anymore.

Let's just say first I want to claim something very positive here.

This is evidence this man. This man had a severe heart attack Ministering so Was Say I Come from Good Hard-Working Stock. I like the Commitment but There Are A Few Things from Great Uncle, Davis. I've Had to Break Some Patterns Here and One of Which Is I Do Not Plan on Dropping Dead. It 62 in the Pulpit 102 in the Middle of If It's a Good Sermon 102. I'll Take It All Right Would You Be and Agree More That 102 May Be Preaching from the Book of Galatians or Something like That and Then Just Don't Have That Big 102 Button It 60 Drum Break and That the Other Other. They Also Want to Mention Here Is That This Is a Little Dysfunctional to Have Had a Major Heart Attack and Not Tell Anybody, Including Your Wife. So I Want to Promise Not to Do That If I Have a Major Problem. I'll Tell At Least Two People and but Here's the Main Thing I've Had to Break This Pattern and I Do Want to Celebrate This with Me. Did You Notice This Language. It Said He Dropdead in His Pulpit. 1140 5 O'clock As He Was Nearing the Conclusion of His Sermon Nearing the Conclusion of His Sermon in Court until 12. Are You Kidding Me Just Didn't Go in Accordance Well I Had to Break off That Short Sermon Pattern. They Don't Lie.

Obituaries like That Anymore. Today Everything Is Much More Candy Coated, but Were to Read a Story Today That Is Not Working. Read Story Today That's Very Real. It's a Story of the Miraculous Escape of Peter from Prison. It's a Miracle Story but It's Book Ended by the Fact That James Another Leader in the Early Church Apostle Was Martyred and Is No Explanation As to Why James Was Killed Instead of Being Rescued While Peter Was Being Rescued Instead of Being Killed Is No Acclamation Given the Bible Seems Unconcerned with That Question and on the Other Book and Is Well It's Almost Funny to See the Early Church and the Way There, so, so Human and They Have To Continue on with Life's Book Ended by the Confusion of a Tragedy and by the Ordinariness of Human Life. On the Other Hand, and in the Middle Is This Miracle Because Real Life Is Some Mayhem Some Monday Morning in the Middle of It All. The Miracle of God's Grace in Talent Right Will Have More Teaching Moment from Today's Important Series Inspiration and Practical Help to Grasp Is That in Conjunction with the Exciting Really Suppressed Allen's New Book, the Power to Blast Put Together Some Tools to Get You Started on the Journey of Speaking, Life Empowering People You That the Toolkit Includes a Message of Pastor Alan's Recent Sermon on the Mysterious Blessing from Them the Marks at the Gateway to Understanding the Power of All Blessing Also Included in the Kit Is a Booklet with a List of Scriptures That Can Be Spoken Directly As Blessings Blessing Scriptures and Product Pricing Can Easily Access Them for Specific Situations When You Make Your Gift Right Ministries This Month Will Happily Send You the Power to Bless Toolkit Is Our Way of Saying Thanks for Your Partnership Resources Are Available for Immediate Digital Download or Available in CD and a Quick Partner with Us and Be Inspired and Equipped to Bless Someone's Life to the Gospel Is Shared When You Get Alan Wright Ministries. This Broadcast Is Only Possible Because of Listener Financial Support. When You Get Today We Were Stingy and a Special Offer. We Are Happy to Send This to You As I Thanks from Alan Wright Ministries, Seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 Come to Our Website Pastor Work Days Teaching Is It Is an Acts Chapter 12 and We're Going to Today. Just Follow It One Verse at a Time and Just Let the Story Unfold and Then I Have A Few I Think Conclusions and God Has Some Prophetic Insight for Us.

I Think in This Marvelous Story so Just Pick up an Acts Chapter 12 Verse One.

About That Time Herod the King Laid Violent Hands on Some Who Belonged to the Church Was Pause Here and Make Sure You Know Who This Herod Is You Can't See. Probably These Names Appear, but I Just Know It's It's Family Tree and Herod the Great Is the Patriarch at the Top of This, Herod the Great Was the Hair Red That You Read about That Tried to Find Baby Jesus through the Magi and Then Was Want to Kill Baby Jesus and Couldn't and so I Killed All the Baby Boys and That Was Herod the Great, He Was Called and He Was He like to Be Called the King of the Jews. There Was, He Wasn't Fully Jewish. No Buying This Family Was Fully Jewish, but They like to Make Themselves As If They Were on the Savages. They Really Were like Roman Puppets.

They Were Doing the Bidding of Rome and There Was a Drop of Actual True Roman Royal Blood in Their in Their Family Tree.

But That's Herod the Great Many of These Boys Archelaus and Herod and Philip and Aristarchus. So One of His Sons, Herod, Who We Would Call Herod Antipas. This Herod's Son Was the One That Beheaded John The Baptist. This Herod Herod Antipas Is the One That Jesus Called Herod That Fox This Herod Herod Antipas Is the One Who Had the Encounter with Jesus before Jesus Crucifixion so the Patriarch Died Not Long after Jesus Part Then Herod Antipas You Read about in the New Testament.

Well, Herod Also Had a Son, and Aristotle Is Who He Had a Son Named Herein so This Herod, Who Became Known As Herod Agrippa the First.

This Herod the Grandson of Herod This Year at the Herod of Our Story Today. What Happened Was That Herod the Great, Had All This Property That Include Galilee and Judea and Surrounding Areas. And Then It Got Kinda Divided up amongst the Signs, but This Year It Was Real Manipulative and He Garnered A Lot Of Favor with the Jews and He Basically Got the Kingdom Back to about the Same Size.

It Was under His Grandfather and That and That's Herod Agrippa I Just a Side Point.

But Is Just Interesting. Herod Agrippa, the Grandson He Had a Sister Named Herodias and Herodias, so Herodias Was Married to Philip, Which Was Her Uncle and Then Herodias and Philip Got a Divorce, Partly Because of Herod Antipas's Tactics, and Then She Married Herod Antipas so She's Why Only Women I've Ever Heard That, Mary. Two of Her Uncles. That's a Messed up Family Okay so That's the Herod Were Talking about in This Herod Agrippa the First.

He Is Doing All He Can to Get the Jews to Love Him and and Basically That's What We're Reading about Here.

He's a Persecutor of the Early Christian Church and He's Getting Some Attention from the Jews Because of That, As We Read in Verse Three He Killed James the Brother of John with the Sword. When the Early Apostles James and When He Saw That It Pleased the Jews, He Proceeded to Arrest Peter Also so He Is an Opportunist. He Saw the Jews Were like Oh Greg Killed One the Christian Leaders.

So He Went for Even More Famous Christian Leader Peter Arrested Him and Was Going to Have Him Executed. Also but He Hesitated Because Verse Three. This Was during the Days of Unleavened Bread Say Much about This. Although You Preach the Whole Sermon on This. The Spring Festival and Israel Was Generally Called Passover, but Passover Proper, the Feast of Passover Was Just One Part of a Larger Festival for 14 Days They Would Make Sure Their Houses Had No Unleavened Bread and This Is a Time When All the Jewish People Would Would Make Sure.

Not Only Did You Know You Don't Have Any You Have Any Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. You Don't Got a Blueberry Muffin You Got No Danish Pastry and You Got No Sourdough Bread That's Been Rising up You Get Rid of All That Because Levin Is a Symbol Ultimately of Sand 11 Schools a Whole Think and You Get Rid of All of the Leavened Bread so Anything You Have That It Is Is Would Be like Cracker You Know Nothing and It Was It Really, Really Began Because When They Were Escaping Their Slavery like There's No Time. When the Time for Deliverance Comes, You Gotta Move and Move Quick No Time for the Bread to Rise All That Symbolized so in the Spring. Jews Would Faithfully Sweep out Their Houses Pull the Fridge out Make Sure There's Not a Krom of Unleavened Bread Left in the House and They Play a Little Game Where the Hide One Little Piece 11 Bread and All the Children Go and Look for It to See Who Can Find It and They Celebrate the Child of Five. The Last Piece 11 Bread and They Throw It out and Burn It up If It Is, There Is a High Holy Festival and Peter Was Arrested during That Festival and so Herod Did Not Want to Execute Them in the Middle of a Holy Festival That Would've Blunted the Positive Attention He Was Getting from the Jews so He's on Hold for That. Also, I Think.

I Wish I Could Say More about This, but Time Doesn't Allow This Was the Backdrop of Peter's Miraculous Escape. The Celebration of Passover. You Got to Think about the Original Passover, Which the Jewish People Were Slaves for Hundreds of Years and Then by a Passover Lamb and Blood over the Door.

God Brings Judgment against Egypt and All of the Hebrew Slaves Are Set Free and That's What Passover Is All about, and One of the Things That You Would Know If We Had Time to Do It Is Amazing Similarities in the Language of the Passover Story in Exodus and Our Story in Acts Chapter 12. Let Me Give You One Example Exodus 12 Verse 11 in the Original Passover. In This Manner. You Shall Eat the Passover Feast with Your Belfast and Your Sandals on Your Feet.

Your Staff in Your Hand Is Usually Needed in Haste If the Lord's Passover Will Come Back to That Show You Some Similar Language in Acts Chapter 12. It Sits a Picture of the Lord and Rated to Deliver You to Get Ready Get Ready Here Comes Our Back to Acts Chapter 12 Verse Four When He Had Seized Him. When Herod Sees Peter He Put Them in Prison, Delivering Him over to Four Squads of Soldiers to Guard Him Intending after the Pastor Passover to Bring Them out to the People. This Is Overkill. This Is for Squads of Soldiers and a Squad Was for This Is 16 Soldiers Guarding Him Is Just Highlighting How Powerful the Miracle Is, It Regenerates the Meanwhile, the Church Is That Prayer the Church Is Just Praying Fervently in the Word That Is Used To Speak of How the Church Praise Is the Same Word That Is Used To Describe How Jesus Prays in the Garden of Gethsemane and Look at Verse Six. This Is Just Great. Look What Peter Is Doing. He's Probably Going to Be Brought out the Next Day to Be Executed yet All These Soldiers All around Them, and He's Changed to Guard and Look What He's Doing. Verse Six When Herod Was about to Bring Him out on That Very Night Peter Was Sleeping between Two Soldiers, Bound with Two Chains and Centuries before the Door Were Guarding the Prison You Remember a Time When Jesus Was Sleeping in a Boat and a Storm and Peter Was One of the Frantic Disciples Tried to Wake Him up and Now Peter so Full of the Holy Spirit Is Sleeping on the Eve of His Likely Execution. The Peace That Passes All Understanding. Give Us That Lord. It Is Possible Is Possibly Be Changed to the Roman Guards Who Might Deliver You to Your Own Execution and to Get a Good Nights Rest If That's Possible. I'll See What We Can Sleep Well in the Middle of a Global Pandemic God Is Still in Charge. So What a Beautiful Picture That Peter Sleeping in God's People Are Praying We Sleep People Pray God Saves. I Bet You We Get to Heaven to Find out Every Single Good Thing That Happened Your Lifecycle. So I Pray for You, Doesn't Mean That God Is Limited. There Is No Limit with God, but He Has Ordained It. He Has Designed It That He Will Move through the Prayer of His People.

I Love What Missionary to China. Hudson Taylor Said so Simply When We Work We Work, We Pray, God Works.

Our Work Is Important, but It's Just Work. What We Really Want Is God Look at Verse Seven.

This Is Great, Behold, an Angel or Stood Next to Him in a Light Shown in the Cell. A Strike Peter on the Side and Woke Him Sinking up Quickly and the Changed All of His Ideas Sleeping so Soundly That Even Though the Shekinah Glory. The Light of God Comes and Fills His Prison Cell. He Is Sleeping so Soundly That the Angel Has To Get My Copy of the Kick Him in the Side Wake up, Wake up. It's so Funny Is like a Father Trying to Get His Toddler up in the Morning Get up Warmer Now Angel of the Lord. Funny Is Powerful Intermediate Felt This Week, Intensely Prophetic Sense What I've Been Sensing Say That This like Even with the Body of Christ Is like. There's a Spiritual Malaise Is like a Kind of People Thinking Well There's a New Normal.

And It's Just Laced with Lament and It's Just on Hold in Life Is and Is like, and I Feel like God Is Saying to the Church like We It Is. It's Time for Spiritual Awakening Time for Our Spirits to Stand at Attention to the Word of God and for Our Spirits to Rejoice Greatly in God Our Savior Helen Running Today's Good News Mess and Make Miracles Monday Morning from Our Series Are in Now Titled Unlimited and Pascarella in His Back with His Hearing the Studio Sharing His Parting Good News Thought for the Day for All Just a Moment of Inspiration and Practical Help to Grasp Is That in Conjunction with the Exciting Really Suppressed Allen's New Book, the Power to Blast Put Together Some Tools to Get You Started on the Journey of Speaking, Life Empowering People You That the Toolkit Includes a Message of Pastor Alan's Recent Sermon on the Mysterious Blessing from the Gateway to Understanding the Power of All Blessing Also Included in the Kit Is a Booklet with a List of Scriptures That Can Be Spoken Directly As Blessings Blessing Scriptures and Product Pricing Can Easily Access Them for Specific Situations When You Make Your Gift Right Ministries This Month Will Happily Send You the Power to Bless Toolkit Is Our Way of Saying Thanks for Your Partnership Resources Are Available for Immediate Digital Download or Available in CD and a Partner with and Be Inspired and Equipped to Bless Someone's Life to the Gospel Is Shared When You Get to Alan Wright Ministries. This Broadcast Is Only Possible Because of Listener Financial Support. When You Get Today. We Will Send You a Special Offer. We Are Happy to Send This to You As I Thanks from Alan Wright Ministries, Seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 Come to Our Website. Pastor, Our.org Pastor and I Love the Title of This. I Remember This Message When You First Preached It and It's Our Good News. Thought for the Day Is Replace the Bookmark Your Mayhem Miracles Monday No Life Consists a Little Bit of All of That.net Is Where You Just Not Sure What's Going on. Things Seem to Be Crazy. Other Times Where You Just Have Miracles and You Celebrate. And Then There's Also Monday Morning. Back to the Routine of the Things That Are Ordered and Is Such Good News to Know That God Is in the Midst of All If You Only Caught Part of Today's Teaching.

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