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Well, it is Friday on the Daily Drive, and we just have a couple of weeks until Christmas. Man, I am so

excited for that. Can't believe it's almost already here. It is the most

wonderful time of the year. And they ought to make that phrase into a song, I'm thinking.

We're just going through the Book of Acts here on the Daily Drive, and we hit Chapter 13 today.

Barnabas and Saul, who had been preaching and teaching up in Antioch. You might remember how

Barnabas stood up

for Saul when nobody else would, when people weren't sure that the conversion of this former

persecutor of the church was legit. Barnabas goes to bat for him, telling everybody that Saul was the

real deal, that he had a dramatic encounter with the resurrected Jesus, and God's hand was on

this guy to spread the good news. So Barnabas gets Saul to join him up in Antioch, and God does amazing things through the two of them.

And then the Holy Spirit tells the leaders of the church of Antioch, I now need these two to go take the message all over the world.

So lay your hands on them, pray for them, and then send them out.

And out, they go. And along the way, they encounter this guy who was a sorcerer, a magician of

sorts, a false prophet who tries to impede Saul and Barnabas from sharing the good news with the

governor of the province. And verse 9 gives us a

glimpse into the passionate personality that was Saul. Let me just read it. Saul, also known as Paul,

was filled with the Holy Spirit. And he looked the sorcerer in the eye and said,

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