TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - May 14, 2025 - Romans 15:22-27 - Partakers of Spiritual Things

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

In this powerful session, Rick and Doc examine Paul’s reflections on mission delays, his longing for fellowship, and his commitment to supporting the saints in Jerusalem. They highlight Paul’s perseverance despite hindrances—whether from Satan, divine timing, or life itself—and his desire for rest and support from the Roman believers on his journey to Spain. The discussion emphasizes the tension between calling and community, the responsibility to support gospel work financially, and the blessings of spiritual reciprocity. The hosts draw modern parallels, reminding viewers that the path of ministry may involve detours, but obedience and persistence glorify God.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 5/14/25You can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!Amazon.com/Final-DayApple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!books.apple.com/final-dayPurchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.Sacrificingliberty.comThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!Trunews/faucielf

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna. It's Wednesday, and we are working our way through the 15th chapter of the Book of Romans. Today we're going to be studying verses 22 through 27. Let's pray. Invite the Holy Spirit, and Dr. Burkhardt will read the word, then we will begin our study. Almighty God, our dear Heavenly Father, our God, our Maker, our Father, Father, we pray to you in the name by your Holy Spirit the depth and the riches of your Word. Father, we desire to be shaped by your Spirit to conform to the image of Christ. Father, work in each of us to show others grace, mercy, and love. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Good morning, everyone, no matter

where you are in the world this morning. This is the 8 o'clock hour here on the East Coast, and you've joined us for the live edition of Morning Manna. We appreciate you being here checking in from places as far apart as Malaysia, Brazil, Russia, Philippines, Japan, South Korea, and all across the U.S. and Canada today. Thank you for being here. We're reading from Romans chapter 15 and I'll be reading verses 23 22 through 27 this morning. I'm reading from the King James. Just to let people know the second half of Romans 15 and chapter 16 you rarely hear messages about. You rarely hear any teaching about these but there is actually a lot of You rarely hear any teaching about these, but there's actually a lot of great information in this chapter and a half here. So don't go out on us here. The best is yet to come to finish up Romans here. So verse 22, reading from the King James,

For which cause also I've been much hindered from coming to you. But now having no more place in these parts and having a great desire these many years to come to you, whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you. For I trust to see you in my journey and to be brought on my way, a thither word, by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company. But now I go into Jerusalem to minister unto the saints, for it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Ikea to make a certain contribution for the poor saints

which are at Jerusalem. It hath pleased them verily, and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things. God bless the reading of his word today. Amen. You're right, Doc. Typically, this part of chapter 15 and all 16 is treated as just a long goodbye. So you're like, okay, we finished studying

the meat of Romans, he's now just doing a long goodbye, we can move on to something else. Right. But with apostle Paul, there's a lot in a goodbye. So that's what we're gonna study here. He's a goodbye. So that's what we're going to study here. He's saying goodbye. He's ending his letter. He's saying goodbye. He's ending his letter. So verse 22, for which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you. So we got to think about, okay, what's the cause? For which cause I have been much hindered from coming to you? Well, you go back to yesterday's verses as we ended yesterday's

lesson, verses 20 and 21, yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel not where Christ was named lest I should build upon another man's foundation. But as it is written to whom he was not spoken of, they shall see, and they that have not heard shall understand." So when Paul says in verse 21, for which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you, he's saying the cause I'm talking about is the commission to go into all the world and to preach the gospel, to go to places that have not heard the gospel. And he said, you know, in verse 20 and 21, I'm not going to go to cities and towns that already have a church. I'm going to move on. I I'm gonna find a town, a community, a city

that has not heard the gospel. And for this reason, I have been hindered from coming to you. The drive in Paul to go to more towns, more cities with the gospel. That's what's hindered him from getting to Rome. They already had a church in Rome. He's sending them a letter. Right. And what he's saying is, don't think that I've forgotten about you, that I don't want to visit, but I've been so busy

establishing churches in other towns and cities, it slowed me down getting to Rome. Much hindered. It's not talking about necessarily demonic hindrance. He's just saying, you know, there are things that have come up along the way, things that I didn't anticipate. There have been obstacles, there have been needs. Sometimes, you know, this is much hindered me. There was a need in a town. I had to stay longer. Right. And in this case, him going to Rome, the hindrance was his priority in preaching in Asia.

But there were other times, for instance, in 1 Thessalonians 2.18, it says he was planning on going to Thessalonica, too. He says, wherefore we would have come unto you, even I, Paul, once again, but Satan hindered us. I think this is a lesson here in understanding the direction and leading that God gives us in life. There are obstacles in our life. Some are obstacles as a result of Satan's hindrances, for instance, getting to Thessalonica. But sometimes the hindrance or the delay is that there is a priority of mission, that God says, for now I have a priority of mission, in this case, the preaching the gospel in Asia.

But if you go back to Romans 1.13, it says, now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purpose to come unto you, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles." And so he starts off the letter, in the very first chapter of Romans, saying, just so you know, it's my goal to come to you.

And now we're at the end of Romans, and he's reiterating that, and he's explaining the delay. Yes, you're right, Doc. I would break it down into three different categories, explaining hindrances, delays, not reaching your goal on the timetable you thought you were gonna reach it. As you pointed out, sometimes it's demonic opposition.

It's just Satan standing in your way. Sometimes it's gone. Sometimes God puts obstacles there because he is not that where you're going is wrong or the project you're working is wrong, but he has a plan for you to do something else at that time. And then we'll release you to go to that other project later. And then the third, I would add a third one, which would be,

sometimes life just has obstacles. Sometimes life just has delays. Yes. It's just life. Sometimes there are needs. Where you get to, you know, maybe Paul would get to a town and he expected to spend a week there and he ended up spending six months there because of the need. So at the end, the Lord works it all out for his glory If you if you'll stay if you'll stay in the program if you won't quit The Lord will work it out all things will work for good

For those who love God and are called according to his purpose. Just stay on in the program. Don't quit according to his purpose. Just stay on in the program. Don't quit. You know, at times I have goals and plans and projects and like, hey, this is what we're going to do. And then we run into obstacles or opportunities or opportunities. Yes. It doesn't mean I've given up on it. It doesn't mean I've given up on it. It just means the timetable is, has changed. And Rick sometimes opportunities can be a bigger distraction than obstacles. Oh, yeah. Isn't that the case? Oh, yeah. Oh, that there's where I'm vulnerable. I am more vulnerable to shiny opportunities than growling obstacles. You know, a satanic obstacle, it just makes,

I just doubled down. Oh, really, Satan, you're gonna oppose me? Oh, you just told me I have to do this. But a shiny opportunity, hey, look over here, Rick. Look at this. See, that can get you to turn your head, right? Instead of looking straight ahead at where you're going, Satan's over here waving something saying,

then look at this one, look at this, right? And you start to veer off to the right or left to pursue something else. Right. That one is, else. Right. That one is that's a very effective technique that the enemy can use and be on guard for it. You know, Dr. Mike Murdoch said, the way to destroy a person's dream is to give them another one. Oh. You know, that one's true. So be aware of that in your life.

So he said, for which cause? OK, as I explained, that's the gospel. I've been hindered for this cause, the gospel. You know, I've been hindered for this cause, the gospel. Taking the gospel into new regions. Much hindered, you know. Again, it reveals that Paul faced challenges. Sometimes I don't think that I don't think he necessarily the words much hindered here means negative opposition again it could just have meant my priority is to take the gospel into

new territories and I found success and I was hindered see he was it could have been hindered by success. In other words, I went to a town and the Lord gave me favor there and I ended up staying there six months. So I was hindered in getting to Rome from coming to you. He said, hindered from coming to you, coming to you. He said the hindered from coming to you, expressing his heartfelt desire for fellowship with other believers in Rome. One thing I see here is there's a tension between mission and community Paul was committed to his mission and yet he desired community and fellowship

He had a need for it he's out on he's out on the road by himself or with just a few fellow travelers with him. It was a lonely, rough journey all the time, every day. He needed community. He needed fellowship. He needed rest, but he had a mission. And so there's this tension. Do I continue pressing ahead with mission or do I pull back in fellowship? And I look and I'm guilty of it, not coming off the battlefield to get rest. We just stay on the battlefield. And we're wounded, we're bleeding, we're injured,

we're limping, we should be on a stretcher. You know, somebody ought to be putting bandages on us, stopping the bleeding. Sometimes we need tourniquets. But we just keep fighting. Right. That's the danger for many ministers, because they think if I say I'm hurt, if I say I'm wounded, if I say I'm bleeding, people will say, oh, you're weak. And so we stay on the battlefield. And so you see this with Paul. He wanted to go to Rome, he wanted to fellowship, he

just wanted to sit down and relax with other Christians who were growing in the Lord, mature, but he had this mission. And that mission had a lot of negatives to it. He endured a lot of hardships. lot of negatives to it. He kept going. He may suffer delays, obstacles, roadblocks, opposition, but inch by inch, he kept moving forward.

Yes. And victory over hindrances glorifies God. You know, victory over hindrance glorifies God. It shows God's sovereignty over natural things. When the enemy, when the world put up obstacles, mountains, roadblocks to prevent a Christian from accomplishing God's will, when that will is accomplished, God is glorified. But you have to stay in the fight. You have to continue going. Even when it looks like you're not making any progress. Sometimes it looks like you're going backwards. And sometimes we do. We have to go back and then regain ground that we already had. It's called life. It's just life. You're right.

But the key thing is perseverance. Never giving up, never quitting, never letting the devil win. Never letting the devil win. Never let the devil win. Ever. Verse 23. But now, no longer having any place in these regions and having these many years a longing to come to you. Yes.

So he's writing to the Roman church, I'm completing my mission in this region. I still have this deep longing to visit Rome, to meet you, to be with you, you to be with you to Have dinner with you to Have long talks with you. You know No more place in these parts. He's he's saying that his his gospel work is Complete in the regions that he's working in at the time he's writing the letter.

Having a great desire these many years, not weeks or months, years. You know, there are people in Jordan I love very much and I've not seen them for years. Years go by. You're separated. And Paul's saying, I have longed for years to come and fellowship with you. And Paul had never been to Rome and yet he longed to be with the believers in Rome. And I think that's telling right there. I haven't been to St. Kitts for years and I miss the people that I became friends with in St. Kitts, the island St. Kitts. And about six months ago, I was thinking about a dear Christian businessman who showed me great favor. He was well connected in St. Kitts. And he was, I would

say, the first person God connected me with when I went to St. Kitts. And he was a close friend and advisor to the prime minister. He was the person that all outside business people went to if they wanted to start a business in St. Kitts. He just had a lot of influence, but he was a godly Christian man. And he, you know, I visited every time I went to the island, I always went to see him, always. He was always gracious to me, always kind, open doors for me. There was one time he knew that I wanted to meet the prime minister, and it just never happened. Then one day I was on the island and he called me and he had a very deep distinguished voice

with a British accent. He was educated in England. And he said, Rick, meet me outside the hotel at 7 p.m. Goodbye, that's it. Okay, I got my instructions. I was standing outside the hotel, 7 p.m. As SUV pulled up, you know, put the window down, Rick, please get in. All right.

He still, I still don't know where we're going. And we're driving across the island. I looked and I said, where are we going? He said, you wanted to meet the prime minister, you're going to meet him tonight. So, you know, he took me to a reception where the entire government was there, the entire cabinet, everybody, the legislature, the parliament, the queen's governor was there, everybody, the ambassadors, ambassadors from other nations were there. What I'm telling you is about six months ago, I was thinking about him. I thought, I got to go back to St. Kitts.

I haven't seen him for years. And I went online just to see what he was doing. And you know what the first thing I saw? His obituary. See? Yes. First thing I saw. I was so sad when you said that.

I saw his obituary and I thought, oh no, he's passed away. See, Paul was saying, I had this longing to come to Rome. I have an emotional bond with you. And I have desired for years to come to Rome, but I've been hindered. I've had other projects, I've had other things.

This work I have for the gospel, it's hindered me. And I've had a few devils along the way that have hindered me. I'm trying to paint a human picture of So, the completion of Paul's work in one area inspires disciples, it inspires others. Pastored that one church that he can't separate from it. But he ends up doing more harm than good. Yes, and doesn't allow younger leadership to mature and grow. Right. You know uh I was uh I keep up on news in the Assemblies of God Rick and I had a came across an article I think on Monday that uh this year at general council at the Assemblies of God

they are proposing a mandatory retirement age for pastors of 70 years old across the denomination and that you cannot pastor a church if you're older than 70. I think it's interesting that they're doing that, but you know, to me that's an arbitrary number. Why 71, not 71? Why not 75? Something like that. But I understand why they're doing it. Because what happens is these pastors, and I'm not trying to be critical here.

I'm just saying it's human nature here in this, that pastors, once they get to a certain point in time and age, they tend to stay in these churches for long periods of time and there's not an opportunity for younger ministers, younger pastors to come and you know bring in new ideas, new blood if you will, new ministry. And so I don't think a mandatory retirement age is the solution, but I understand the reasoning behind it. I think you do too. That there comes a time where the ministry ends

and it's time to go to Spain. Yes. So, and then see the congregation, the supporters of the ministry, they need to be aware of that. They need to understand it. They have to be aware of that they need to understand it They have to be supportive and I'm glad that most most people with our ministry have been very supportive we've lost I will tell you we lost about half of our audience

We lost about a half about 50% They're not interested in the Word of God they just wanted me to be their newsman. All right, they moved on. Okay, that's okay. I'm being obedient to God. And continuing in that work was actually causing, it was having a detrimental effect on me. Yes, it was affecting me emotionally, mentally, physically, I was worn out, I was mentally worn out, I was just, I've been doing it for 26 years. I, and the Lord was saying, give it up, let go. And so this is what Paul's saying, I'm done here. You can be certain there were people hanging on to Paul. Please, Paul, don't go. Stay here, let this be your home.

You be the bishop of this city. Don't go. Of course they were doing that. And there were people that were saying, don't go, stay here. We need you. But he knew that that was not his assignment, his assignment was to move on. So there are human emotions involved here. We get connected to people, and but we still have to allow those separations to take place and know that God is working in it and just

trust in the sovereignty of the Lord and rest in it, that He'll have a plan and in the end He will be glorified. So, verse 24. Whenever I travel to Spain, that just blows me away. I'm going to Spain. Never been there. I think I know where it's at. But I will come to you. Whenever I travel to. But I will come to you whenever I travel to Spain. I will come to you for I hope to see you on my journey and be helped on my way there by you.

If first I may enjoy your company for a while. Right. Do you know what Paul just did? He just invited himself to dinner. Yes, prepare a place for me. It's what he said. Not only that, but you need to take up an offering. And to be helped on my way there by you. And to be helped on my way there by you

For I hope to see you on my journey my journey I'm gonna go when I'm on my trip to Spain I'm gonna come over to Italy and see you And I expect to be helped on my way there by you If first I may enjoy your company for a while, right? I'm not I'm going to stay there for some time. I'm going to relax. I'm going to eat some good spaghetti in Rome. This is going to be a good trip. I mean, think about it. He's out there. He's eating. He's picking meat off of Sheep bones that he fried on a campfire. When I get to Italy, I get to Rome, I've heard they have pasta. I don't know what it is.

I heard they had meatballs the size of your head. I've never, I don't know what it is, but they say it's great. I'm gonna stay, I'm gonna enjoy your company for a while. That's a polite way of saying I'm hanging around and and I I desire to be entertained and Have company with you This we saying I had to enjoy your company for a while. I'm coming over to your house. So he's talking about his trip to Spain. He's expressing his hope for fellowship and support. His journey into Spain is still going.

He's on this mission to take the gospel to regions that have not heard the good news. to regions that have not heard the good news. Right. So there are churches today in Spain that were birthed by Paul during this trip. Yes, and I'm with you, Rick. I believe Paul made it to Spain. I believe that he made it to Spain. Because-

Yeah, just because he didn't write about it doesn't mean he didn't go. Right. The early church fathers, Clement and Eusebius, both confirmed that Paul made it to Spain. Somehow or other, we also know that Paul came back to Rome at some point too. So he made it to Spain. Now, like you said, Paul didn't write about that, but the evidence from the early church product, especially Clement, Clement wrote his first Clement about 30 years after Romans was written.

And he was saying that Paul had made it to Spain. And like he said, there are churches in Spain that say, hey, this is a church founded by Paul. That's right. That's right. There are churches in Egypt that are built on sites that are built on sites that they say Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus stayed there when they were hiding from Herod. So you look at these historical records, and even though it's not in the Bible, there are historical

records or oral church legends. And you have to take all these into account. So this verse is showing us that Paul viewed Rome as a strategic point for rest and support before traveling westward to Spain. He's saying, I'm coming to Rome as a rest area. You know, Doc, that might be a polite way of saying, uh, give me a break when I get there. I can't preach and teach anymore.

I got to rest. Maybe in a polite way that he just said, uh, you know, I'm, I, I'm going to kick back for a while. I'm, I don't, don't ask me to teach and preach every day. I, I, I need a break from casting out devils. Don't ask me to teach and preach every day. I need a break from casting out devils. There's some letters I need to write. Yes. And don't expect special miracles and mighty works.

I'm kind of just tired and would like to sit down and talk and just relax. There's nothing wrong with that. Right. Oh, should I say this? One of the reasons, and I'm not going to ever do it again, something has changed in me in the past couple, in the past month. But over 26 years, Susan and I have only taken maybe three, possibly four vacations over 26 years. And there were two reasons.

One, you know, when you're doing a daily news show, what do you do? How do you keep the program going and take a break, go on vacation, get some rest? And sometimes what I did is I I pre-recorded interviews. Well, I would work so hard at getting that done. That by the time I left the vacation, I was exhausted.

I was like, I don't even right now, I just want to collapse. You know, because you're doing your regular daily show plus recording sometimes two other shows on the same day and scheduling the guests and everything. And you just wear yourself out. You're just, you're just exhausted. That was one reason. The other reason, and I'm just going to be honest with you.

The other reason is every time I'd go be honest with you, the other reason is every time I'd go away, and again it was only three or four times over 26 years, you get you get a barrage of hate mail from the audience saying, well it must be nice to take a vacation. See what you're doing, and they put the guilt on you. They lay guilt on the minister. I don't think Paul allowed anybody to put guilt on him when he went to Rome and said, I'm here to rest. I don't think anybody, I don't think he allowed anybody to say, oh, Paul, you're here resting. You should be out there ministering the gospel.

Yes. Because I think Paul would have said, well, where were you when they were beating me up and trying to kill me? Right, and left me for dead. Yeah, where were you? I don't remember seeing you there. So I don't think Paul allowed anybody

to put that guilt trip on him. So he's being very, very direct, open, and yet he's phrasing his words in a soft way of saying, you know, I'm coming there to rest and I'm not going to ask anybody's permission whether I can rest. I need to rest. I need to get to ask anybody's permission whether I can rest. I need to rest. I need to get to Rome and, and take off. We don't know. Do we have any idea, Doc, how long he stayed in Rome on this trip? Uh, we know that later on that he spent two, two years in Rome, but where that is

on the Paul timeline is the question. So that's a lot of pasta. Because there was a period of time, depending on who you ask, the Nero released Paul, having appealed to Caesar, that Nero released Paul Paul and then eventually made it to Spain but at some point in the future Paul was arrested again and brought back to Rome where he died. And he was likely beheaded not But this trip is not that trip. It's not that trip more more than likely it's not that trip. And so Early church history is kind of teaching us that. So yeah, so my guess is it was a brief stay and I don't mean a day or two, could have been weeks

or a month or two. But it wasn't, I don't think it was years. I think he probably, you know, maybe stayed several months and just said, I like Rome, this is nice, I'm enjoying it. This is refreshing me. I'm renewing my energy, I can get back out on field. When I leave here, I'm going to Spain. Right. So he says, I will come to you. I'm going to connect with you when I get there.

I want face-to-face meetings with you. I trust to see you. He's expressing his hopeful expectation. I'm trusting God that I will see you. I'm looking forward to this. And modern English says, and be helped on my way there by you. King James says to be brought on my way there to there by you. When's the last time you said to there? So, but what he's saying here is, I'm hoping and expecting that the church in Rome will receive an offering for me to send me on my way to Spain. Right. Remember, Paul was earning his way making tents. Remember, Paul was earning his way making tents.

That was to take care of his daily needs. But he needed to fill up the fuel tank in Rome. Say, look, I got another journey to Spain. It's going to take some money for me to get there. Not only just money but supplies. Hey, here, you know, my duffel bag's worn out. My shoes are worn out. I, you know, I got to get refreshed before I get back out on the road and head to Spain. And there's an interesting word in this verse, Rick. It's pro-pimpo, to be brought on my way. It implies that he had an escort,

likely a paid escort to bring him to Rome. And so it's an interesting word. It means to have a guide. I'm trying to think of another word to describe it today, but to have a tour guide, if you will, that brought it. That's interesting. Yeah, that's what that word comes from. So he expected them to meet him along the way with us with an escalator and escrowing into the city. Yes. He was he was direct.

Well, you know, sometimes in ministry, you have to be direct about your need. Yes. And, you know, and not hint around or you know, say, it would sure be nice if this happened or something like that. But rather say, we have a need. Not a want, but a need. This is our ministry need. We need an escort to Rome. And I'm trusting that you will provide that escort to Rome.

That's right. Ministers are reluctant to tell people their personal needs, and they just hope that God tells people for them. And often, He doesn't. Because it is the Lord's way for the minister to express, this is the need that we have, so that people will know exactly why they're giving, what it's for. And it's interesting that in the next several verses, Paul talks about a need that he is supplying for the saints in Jerusalem. Yes. So he was thinking about somebody else. He's thinking about the Christians in Jerusalem. They had a need. And what did they need? They needed money. They were broke because of a famine that had been going on for nearly a decade at this point. That famine that the Agabus told him was coming?

Yes. Verse 25, But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints. This is what the Do Doc is talking about. So before he gets to Rome, he says, I got to swing over to Jerusalem. I go on to Jerusalem. It's a deliberate choice. I go, I've made a decision. I'm going to Jerusalem before I come to Rome

and I'm coming to Rome before I go to Spain. He's got his itinerary. He's got a schedule. He's got a plan. I'm going to Jerusalem to minister unto the saints, right? To serve the saints, minister to serve the saints. He's really talking about the practical care of the saints. Not so much the spiritual ministering, but the physical ministering. He knows that they're hurting. And so he's letting them know in Rome, I got to do this, I got to get over Jerusalem.

I need to go there and encourage the disciples and to take them some aid and to help them get through the hard times that they're facing. And we get to verse 26. So he says, for it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem. It has pleased the church, the Christians in Macedonia and Achaia that Paul would take money to Jerusalem to help the poor Christians in Jerusalem. And this is significant ministry here because those churches or those areas, these were gentile churches, gentile areas. So these Macedonia, it was likely the congregation there was overwhelmingly Gentile, same thing with Ikea, that it was overwhelming Gentile. And yet these churches are providing support for the poor saints, probably mainly Jewish, former Jewish believers,

or former Jewish adherents who are now part of the church in Jerusalem who are suffering. There was no division between Gentiles and Jews in their mindset. There were brothers and sisters in Christ. That's right. And there are two reasons. There would be a difference. Yeah, there are two reasons, I think, why the Jewish Christians in Jerusalem were suffering. One was the drought, the famine.

But number two, they had been ostracized. You know, remember Paul himself was, when he was Saul, was the leader of the persecution of those saints. And it didn't stop when Paul got saved. Right. They were just other people that rose up and took Paul's place. So the Jewish Christians were under persecution in Jerusalem on top of, you know, dealing with a famine. It's really bad to be poor when everybody else is in a famine. You're the poorest of the poor.

Yadakh is right. The churches in Macedonia and Oceania were Gentile churches, and they raised funds and said to Paul, take this money to our Jewish, Christian brothers and sisters in Jerusalem. No division. They weren't messianic Jews. Amen.

Do you understand that? They were not messianic Jews. They were Christians. Jews. They were Christians. They were Christ believing Jews who were blessed by Christ believing Gentiles. They were no longer Gentiles and the ones in Jerusalem were no longer Jews. Now, a new race, a holy nation, peculiar people, the church, the true Israel. Amen. He says, a certain contribution, he says, you know, I got a specific gift here. It's earmarked for Jerusalem. Right.

This is a certain contribution. This is dedicated money. This money has been earmarked. It is for nothing else other than the poor Christians in jerusalem Right. I'm taking that certain contribution to them Right. It's not being used for my trip. It's not being used for anything else This is for the poor saints which are at jerusalem. That's right And verse 27. Yes, it has been their good

pleasure and they are their debtors for if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in material things. Yes. What he's saying here is the Gentiles in Macedonian Oceania recognize that they are the spiritual, they've been spiritually blessed by the church in Jerusalem, where the church, the Christian church began and the gospel was taken out from Jerusalem to the Gentile nations. And they're saying because we have been blessed as former Gentiles, the Jews of Jerusalem, the former Jews of Jerusalem, brought the Gospel to Macedonia, brought the Gospel to Uchaiah, because we were blessed with the Gospel.

Now we are sending back material blessings. Yes. We have a debt to you. We would not have known the Gospel had you not come to Macedonia. So they're expressing their gratitude and they're saying we trace our spiritual heritage back to Jerusalem. Amen. See, this is the attitude we should have today. Right. But what's happening to the Christians in Jerusalem right now? They're being, they're getting beat up, the churches are being shut down.

And think about the difference between then and now, Rick. This offering was sent out of expression of love from the folks in Macedonia and Ikea. It was willful, it was a cheerful gift. We're glad to do it. We're sinning in our way as opposed to today where it is not only implied, we're told that we have an obligation to support whatever the state of Israel does.

See the contrast there? Yes, right. So if the state of Israel wants to seize the land of Jerusalem churches or tax the churches and put them into debt and then seize the land because, hey, you didn't pay your taxes. Or if we want to send armed police, I'm going to say goons, but I'll just say armed police officers to a church on a Sunday morning and just rough up the Christians.

Hey, we decided to resurrect Sunday morning people in this church. Resurrection Sunday morning. Resurrection morning manna. And it says true news. Search for Morning Manor. Right. There's a new account. There's a new account on all the social media platforms for Morning Manor, and you will find us streaming at 10 a.m. Eastern and 3 p.m. Eastern. Eventually, the True News account will be retired. Eventually, the True News website will roll over to, I think we're

going to take it to Rickwiles.com. So those are the changes not going to happen today or next week, but in the coming weeks. So understand that those accounts, there is a Morning Manor account on rumble x getter I think facebook all the social media platforms. So start searching for morning manna and we stream at 10 a.m And 3 p.m eastern time. That's right. Now one other one other thing i'm gonna i'm gonna learn from paul Okay, i'm taking a lesson from Paul. Paul wasn't bashful. I'm coming to you now for a gift.

About half of our audience has deserted us because they really didn't want the Word of God. They wanted me to be their newsboy only. And when I stopped performing for them, you know, when I left the Oregon grinders employment. Were you the grinder or the monkey? I was the monkey. I was the monkey. They were tossing peanuts at me as long as I gave them the news. So about half of them have departed.

So it is on you, the morning manna class, whether you're with us at 8 a.m. live or throughout the day, this ministry now rests entirely on you entirely 100% whether we survive financially or not, this is it for you. So many of you are already givers. Those of you who are not I'm asking you like Paul, I'm coming to you. I'm coming to you like Paul, send us on our way. We plan to expand morning manna, send us on our way. We've got to take morning manna all over the world.

We have plans to translate morning manna into multiple languages. There are things that we desire to do. Send us on our way. Paul went to Spain. Okay, well, we're gonna put Morning Man into Spanish. We'll put it into French. We'll put it into Russian.

We'll put it into Mandarin for China. There are things that we desire to do. But Doc and I can't do it all ourselves. Japanese, absolutely Japanese. Okay? We desire to expand to go to more nations with the support of God. His teaching. So we're asking if you're not a donor, become a donor.

Yes. And you can give online at faith and values you can still go to true news it's the same donate button it goes to the same place and faith and values there's there's a donate button or you can send a check or money order to faith and values. P.O. Box 399, Vero Beach, Florida, 3296, six zero? Always forget the building is six one,

one is a six one and one is a six zero, right? Maybe Jody, can you remind us here? I keep forgetting too. I'll look as soon as I get out of here. The post office is just around the corner. They'll figure it out. OK. Yeah, they know where we are.

I see that Sherry asked questions. Is there a way to add monthly to the 899? Sure there is. Just click any donate button on either faith and values or truenews.com. And you can always give above that, and we would hope that you would. And so,

okay, just to get that that 8 99. That's just to cover. That's just to cover this platform that we're using. Yes. That does not, we don't really benefit from that. That's just a cover. Do you, do you know what we paid last year for this platform? We're leasing this platform. It was $80,000 last year to lease this platform. So imagine if

we were leasing a building and it costs us $80,000 in order for us to have a place where we could congregate, meet, stay out of the rain, maybe have a church supper, you know, have a music concert, if we're releasing a building, people would have no issue with that at all. Right. And we're releasing an online building, releasing a building. These platforms like we're using right now, for us to build it, we're looking at millions of dollars of investment cost. Trust me, it's millions of dollars in development cost

and in maintenance because they break down. So we lease it, all right? $80,000 just to use this platform. That doesn't cover anything else. So we need support. And now, like we said, half of the audience has left us because we have departed from the news and they've said goodbye. We knew that they were going to go.

We knew it. That's the big, see, people said to me, oh, Rick, don't be afraid about it. The people will stay with you. Well, half left. Half of them left. But not half of the donors. See, that's the good thing. Right. Not half of the donors, half of the audience. Okay. Those people weren't supporting us in the first place. Right. They were consumers. And they didn't want they didn't want the manna bread, the bread of life, they wanted dog food. And they got mad at me because I said said I'm not making any more Alpo Done I'm done with Alpo we're serving the bread of life Take him or leave him. That's it. No more Alpo

Because we were only serving Alpo to get people to come in and try the bread of life and The Lord just said to me a couple months ago, it's time to separate. The Lord will always do this, He'll separate. And so that's what's happened with our ministry. The ones that did not want the word of God were actually holding us back. They were the hindrance. The ones who did not want us to teach the word of God were actually holding us back. They were the hindrance. The ones who did not want us to teach the Word of God were the hindrance to this ministry. The Lord said, I'm removing the hindrance.

Okay, so, anyhow. All right. Got to go. Yes, sir. Well, we love you very much. We invite you to be back here tomorrow morning, bright and early, 8 o'clock hour here on the East Coast. Join us live if you can. If you're listening at another time, we'd love to have you. Join us for the live Bible study where you can interact with fellow believers from around the world. We'd love you very much much and we'd love the opportunity

to be able to teach the Word of God to you. And we'll see you on the Thursday edition of Morning Manna. All right, goodbye, love you.