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Acts 4:16 · BSB
4:16 “What shall we do with these men?” they asked. “It is clear to everyone living in Jerusalem that a remarkable miracle has occurred through them, and we cannot deny it.
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…back to David, and of course you see David's words, David's name in verse 20. I found David my servant. This is what's quoted in the book of Acts.Acts chapter 4picks us up again, quoting Psalm 89, that God found David, a man after his own heart, chose him with my holy oil. I anointed him. He's receiving…
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…temple and they get in trouble and arrested because they healed a lame man. And guess what? The scriptural subject was of their defense, it's inActs chapter 4. It says, this in verse 8, then Peter filled with the Holy Spirit said to them rulers and Elders of the people. If we're being called to account…
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…cause. It's okay. And the early church was marked by this, eh? In Acts Chapter 1, 8, you shall have power to witness in every part of the world. InActs Chapter 4, 31, they prayed saying, give us boldness, and the whole place shook. Hebrews 13, Verse 6, The Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid of man? 2…
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…allegiance to Jesus trumped their commitment and their allegiance to any earthly authority. One of the things you see in the early church, readActs chapter 4, Acts chapter 5, repeatedly, the apostles say, We've got to obey God rather than men. Our priority is not the authority of the state. Our priority…
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…but God used it for good. This is such an important truth for us to understand because this prayer says something. So astounding here. Go back toActs chapter 4. Think about what the person who's praying this prayer, what the disciples are saying. They're saying that God is sovereign over the greatest…
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…to realize after Jesus had ascended into heaven. Maybe you remember later, Jesus' followers come to have some conflict with these same leaders inActs chapter 4and they're threatened. Don't you talk about Jesus anymore. And they gather together and they pray. And this is what they say in Acts chapter 4.…
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…why were they cut to the heart? Was it because Peter was just so eloquent? No. That's actually part of what blew their minds. You see it again inActs chapter 4. Peter preaches the gospel. And it's the Sanhedrin that's blown away because they look at him and John and they say, these are unlearned men. These…
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…his Babylonians. Babylon, the most powerful empire in the world, was simply doing his bidding. Now we get the same thinking if you fast forward toActs chapter 4where we are told the sin of Pilate, the sin of the Roman soldiers, the sin of the chief priests, and the sin of the people conspired together to…
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…prophetically to Jesus and how the early church quoted Psalm 2 as they gathered together after being persecuted and prayed these very words inActs chapter 4. We looked at that a number of months ago. It was against the Lord, against his anointed Messiah, Jesus Christ, first and foremost. But of course,…
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…city are his. The apostle Peter was told, earlier in the book of Acts, was told not to speak about Jesus by the religious authorities of his day inActs chapter 4. And his reply was this, salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to humanity by which they must be saved.…
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…he ascends to the right hand of the throne of God, which is where he is seated, reigning and ruling even now. And Stephen details that for us inActs chapter 4, after chapter 7, as he was full of the Holy Spirit, and he gazed up into heaven, and he saw the glory of God, and he saw Jesus sitting there at…
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…he then wants to make six headlines. He's seen already 120 in an upper room in Acts 1. That expanded to about 3,000 in Acts 2 after Pentecost. InActs chapter 4, that goes to over 5,000. And he wants to keep giving you the point that living things grow. So, open your Bibles, track with me through his…
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…devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to prayer Acts chapter 3 we see that Peter and John go to the temple daily at the hour of prayerActs chapter 4the apostles are persecuted and facing opposition and what do they do they turn to God in prayer in Acts chapter 6 before they choose deacon…
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Well, thank you so much, Alice, and thank you, Fraser, for leading us this far. Folks, come back with me toActs chapter 4, to this passage this morning. Maybe you've got lots of questions about it. Hopefully, as we go through this, you'll see that there's a big thing…
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…collectors and anti-Roman zealots yet the religious leaders of the day were blown away by the power with which they preached the gospel remember inActs chapter 4now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated common men they were astonished and here's what it says…
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…church faced persecution and how they responded to it. We're going to see how the gospel grows as it is opposed. As we consider three things fromActs chapter 4. Persecution, proclamation and prayer. So the first thing we see in this passage is the persecution of God's people in verses 1 to 7. The…
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…think we had to pray for healing. Well, you don't, but you need to pray for the atmosphere. We'll get more into that type of thing later. So inActs, chapter 4, now they're persecuted, they're beaten and told not to preach and teach in that name. And so they went, had a corporate prayer meeting, went back…
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…that's supposed to be a temple activity. But Luke keeps telling us this is happening in the streets. It's happening in people's homes. Right? InActs chapter 4, when they're being examined by the temple authorities, they quote Psalm 118. They say, the stone that the builders rejected, the stone that you…
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…in Acts chapter 2, and the Bible says they're filled with the Spirit. Now, for the sake of time, we don't have time to read it, but you go again toActs chapter 4, and now there's another moment when it says they were all filled with the Spirit. Now I only say this to point out this at a moment of conversion,…
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…by Your Holy Spirit. So we ask that You would do that tonight by speaking to us through Your Word, in Your Word. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.Acts chapter 4, verses 13 through 31. Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished, and they recognized…
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