Unhindered

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Recovering a holy imagination by seeing Pentecost from the final scene of Acts. What does the power of the Holy Spirit mean for a church under house arrest?

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0:00.0	.
0:07.0	Acts chapter 28 verse 31.
0:14.0	He proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness
0:22.1	and without hindrance.
0:23.1	This is the word of the Lord.
0:30.1	In 2003, Fox gave a shot to this new sitcom called Arrested Development.
0:39.1	It gained a cult following but was a small following.
0:42.1	For a major network like Fox, they weren't entirely sure that that was worth it.
0:46.1	After season 3, they write midway of the script and the storyline just cancelled the show.
0:53.1	What was intended to be a season finale then got rebranded as a series finale.
0:58.1	The show ended midplot with no one properly tying all the threads together.
1:04.1	Netflix then picked up that show that was cancelled.
1:08.1	It got watched by the masses and came far more popular after it was cancelled than it ever was while it was airing.
1:14.1	It became so popular that Netflix was able to financially incentivize the entire cast to get back together to film a couple final seasons and to give the show its proper ending.
1:28.1	They gave the people what they wanted.
1:31.1	More laughs and all the threads getting tied together.
1:34.1	But in comparison to the anticipation, these two new seasons kind of flopped.
1:42.1	And at hindsight it turned out that the abrupt ending was the proper one all along.
1:48.1	He proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.
1:54.1	That's the final verse in the book of Acts.
1:57.1	If this was a television series, here's where the cameras would pan out and Morgan Freeman's voice would be reading that scripture as the credits begin to roll.
2:06.1	There are other translations that use the single word unhindered.
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