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And now, here's Gary.

Acts 26 today, if you want to open your Bibles.

And we've been studying the book of Acts from the perspective of the leading of the Holy Spirit.

And we've been following Paul's journeys.

You know, we've studied Acts over the years many times, but we've never really approached Acts in the way that we're doing at this time. That is to say,

watching the effect of God on people over a period of time. And the fascinating thing is that we

are going through perhaps the most tumultuous time in all of history except for our own today. There's a great deal of

similarity between what happened to the Roman Republic from BC 19 until AD 70. There was a huge

set of changes that took place over a very long period of time that involved the devolution of

spirituality to the point that men became beasts during that time.

And we see that happening again today and we wonder if we aren't repeating that period

in which the apostles did their work.

And I think maybe we are in certain ways.

Today, we are going to look at what some people have called

one of the most decisive moments in all of history, in Acts 26,

when Paul gets an opportunity to deliver a sermon to Agrippa. If you want to open your Bibles to Acts 26,

we'll set the scene. Now, Herod Agrippa is a fascinating guy. Well, I guess fascinating,

if you want to put it that way, a repulsive guy, but fascinating in terms of society. If you'll

recall, we left off last time with Paul having been kept prisoner for two years. He was innocent

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