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Acts 4:17 · BSB
4:17 But to keep this message from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them not to speak to anyone in this name.”
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…and undermines our gospel witness. And we must uphold the holiness of God as a church. I used this illustration about a year ago when we were inActs chapter 4but it's very relevant for today's passage. In C.S. Lewis' The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Susan, I think, is having a conversation with Mr.…
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…it's amazing for us to think about how God worked. And I think it's important for us to be encouraged. So it was recognized by the Sanhedrin, inActs chapter 4, that the people who are preaching are largely untrained. And that's very striking in its day. And bear in mind, too, that these first apostles,…
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…was letting them know that it was being fulfilled before their very eyes. And the apostles used the same text over and over to preach the gospel.Acts chapter 4in Peter's sermon on the day of Pentecost. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And…
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…And the response is, can anything good come from Nazareth? Of course not. These people are uneducated. That's gonna come up again later inActs chapter 4. They're gonna be astonished that these people are such powerful speakers. They must have been with Jesus because they're from Galilee. So they…
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…power that made Peter, who was hesitant to even say the word Jesus, say the name Jesus, the same power enabled Peter to preach to 3000 people inActs chapter 4. I want to read a verse because I just feel like we need to go back to the verse that we were reading out when we were talking about revival. It's…
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…stuff, but you don't see a single one of them recorded. And the book of Acts rolls around, the church begins, and it's all about their preaching.Acts chapter 4, they're just thrown in jail. They go out, they preach again. Acts chapter 4, they get arrested again. Acts chapter 4, verse 13. Remember what the…
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…Jewish faith for another religion altogether. Not simply another religion, but something that was blasphemous. Already, in the previous chapter inActs chapter 4, Peter and John were arrested and placed in custody for speaking of Jesus and his resurrection. The church is praying for boldness, asking God to…
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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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