The Power of the Name of Jesus | Pr Matthew Chang

You're listening to a message to go from X Church. We hope this message

will light up your day. Turn with me to X chapter three, and

I'm gonna read here from verse one to verse ten, and then after that

I'm gonna go into chapter four, where we will go through a bit more.

Okay, maybe I'll give a bit of context. Okay, X chapter

three, This is a bit of context about what has happened. So the

disciples, especially Peter and John, is now taking center stage. Okay.

So the four Gospels we see Jesus being born doing ministry, he was crucified,

he died, and he rose again, and then the book of X

takes off from here where the center stage is not. You know, Jesus

is still the main person, but now the transition happens to the power and

the movement of the Holy Spirit through the postels. Okay, truly apostles the

move and the Holy Spirit. Okay. And we see then when Jesus rose

from the dead, he told the disciples not to go and preach, not

to go, and heal not to go and do anything what he told him

to do. Wait in Jerusalem. Sometimes the hardest thing is to wait.

You know, they want want to do things. But when you hear God

say wait, you wait. And it was a very very important thing that

they did because you know, you know that when Jesus rose from the dead

and then told to his disciples that it was exactly almost parallel to what has

happened in Mount Sinai when Moses brought the people to worship God, and Moses

went up to the mountain to meet God and to take the commandment. He

told the people to wait. But the people when they waited, they couldn't

wait any longer. What did they do? They took all the gold jewelry

and then they asked to push what aaron to build a golden car? Isn't

it? Because they say that, I don't know why it's happened to Moses

give us a God that we will worship, and you know, and then

make us a God that we can worship. So because of that they commit

the idolatry, you know. So, yeah, you can be in the

mountain of God and yet still call me adult idolatry. Don't talk about it.

Coming to church. Sometimes you can want to do be in the presence

of God, and sometimes we call me idolatry as well. Why because our

hearts are not ready, we want to do instead of being in the presence

of God. Okay. So it's very important. And so because of that,

if you see a parallel between that Pentecosts in the Old Testament, in

Moses time, three thousand died Pentecosts in the New Testament, when Jesus,

who is greater than Moses, who is like you know, he's like a

better version of Moses, when he came, he didn't bring this is right.

He brought a new group of people, the Disciples. He told them,

and they and they obeyed, and because of that, three thousand will

added. So total difference is in it obedience versus disobedience. Disobedience can bring

death, and obedience brings life and growth as well. So it's amazing.

So we see that parallel happening there, and the disciples waited, and what

we waited was the promise of the Holy Spirit, okay, and the promise

of the Holy Spirit. Now we can't we can't do anything in life,

do church, or do anything that God has called to us without the power

of the Holy Spirit. It's simple as that. That's why why it was

so powerful, so important for them to wait. But then when they after

they waited, and then this the Holy Spirit manifested among them through the speaking

of tongues, and Peter gave his first summon very powerful. But nothing has

been done in the public arena yet. Okay. So this is where extra

to three when when I cover, is where the center stage would take.

This is where you will think that three thousand is powerful enough for the movement

of Jesus. Right, God is gonna take it another notch even higher.

Okay, in just a very short time. God, it's gonna take it

into a different we now as well. Okay. So in verse chapter three,

verse one, you say, here, now Peter and John went up

together to the temple, okay, and at the hour of prayer, the

ninth hour. This temple, of course, is talking about the Jerusalem Temple.

The two temples have been built in the history of Israel. Of course,

the third one is being planned right now, and we need thates.

We know that, and it's near ready. Okay. So the first temple

was built by who Solomon, okay, Solomon, the second one King Herod.

Which one is bigger? King Solomon? Who says, King Solomon?

Why? Why? Why is it bigger? King Solomon reaches it, he

smarter, wiser. Sorry to buss your bible, but King Herod' temple is

at least three times bigger. You can check out you can check out the

issue. But size doesn't matter on this part. Okay. It's not about

with It's very complex, you know. But yeah, anyway, so when

they built the temple, there are many layers. You got the porch of

Solomon, you got the gentle court yard, the lady caught yard. And

he says him that there was a man verse to a man that was laying

from his mother's room, very important, from young from Bertha. He was

lame. He and then was carried. They laid him at the gate of

the temple, which was called beautiful. Okay. So the temple had multiple

gates, probably about three main gates like that. So this was the second

one, okay, and they have different directions. You know, they're actually

nine if I seven to nine gates okay. One of the gates was called

beautiful. On the main gates, it's very beautiful because it's, uh,

it's heavy, it's like you know, twelve twelve to fifteen feet high,

uh, and it's very thick and normally if you know it's reserved for until

this stage. Normally the women will not be able to go up ready,

so the rest of the men will go up there as well. He says

that they actually laid him there, okay, to ask for alms from those

who enter the temple. Hey, he was there to beg and in verse

three, who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, ask

for alms? He asked from them, and fixing his eyes on him with

John, Peter said, look at us. So he gave them his attention,

expecting to receive something from them. Then Peter said, one of the

most important, you know verses that you need to remember for your own life

as you witness. You know, you remember this verse to be able to

witness, to be able to understand the not just the verse, the posture

that you are about to carry when you minister to people. Silver and go

I do not have, but what I do have I give to you.

Okay, So let's read this together again, Hey, very import then one

two three silver and gold I do not have, but what I have I

give to you. Okay, this is very important. However, we minister

to people. You go to your friends, maybe they are sick, or

go to your colleagues. You go to anyone they say, ask for money.

I don't have money, but I have something else to give to you.

Okay. When you say that, you honor God as well. You

honor God as well. Okay, in the name of Jesus Christ of naturers

rise up and more? What did he have? No silver? And God?

What do you have the name of Jesus? And today this is our

main message, the name of Jesus. Okay. Now it's quite powerful because

you look at it. In the following verse, he says, here and

he took him by the right hand. People took him by the right hand

and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

So he lived, being up, stood and walked and entered the temple.

He didn't just stand. And then he actually walked into the temple with them.

How did he walk? There's it's not it's not just walking on.

There is a manner in which he walked. He walked with him, but

walking, leaping and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and

praising God. Then they knew that it was he who sat begging arms at

the beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement

at what has happened to him. In a lot of ways, this layman

represents us is in it, see the temple of God's holy. A lot

of us are poor and we are just like this layman only can sit at

the side. And the thing is we just asking, you know, hey,

can you give me alms? But Peter, he says very specifically,

Peter said that look at us. Why because the guy was not looking at

him. This is a powerful thing, you know why we can When when

was the last time that you just do things our routine without looking at a

person in the eye. You're doing it because you've been doing it for forty

years, right, Conna. It's like if I suddenly asked past offering her.

Then when you're part of it, I say, look at me,

oh, look at me? What those Because Peter was saying that, no,

today is the day of your salvation. Today was different. He was

I realized that Wow, he looked at him. He said, in the

name of Jesus, you're healed. It was like, wow, and we

are. It's just like us, you know, sometimes we don't realize that

God is in front of us. We just do our routine until God calls

us by name and our attention that we look to him. And this is

the moment of what faith that you need to exercise, believe or not in

Then the thing that he heard more than anything else in this you know forty

years, what's the one thing in the name of Jesus. You can hear

Moses, the ten commamas, or whether you were sinful when young or not,

whether your mother and mother did wrong or not. We can hear all

this things. But the one thing that broke through that knowess what was it?

In the name of Jesus. If you are here, if you're like

him, would you ever imagine yourself to be healed? What kind of condition?

In what setting would be some you know, a miracle said the only

thing that he was prepared for for the healing was to hear the name of

Jesus. That was his beckon name, that was his calling. More the

most for him, it was the most beautiful name authority had he had ever

heard before someone someone ever spoke to him. And just like us as well,

we come to God by no other name but the name of Jesus.

And when God holds our hands, we stand up not by our own strength,

but by but through Him. Okay, we stand up through the power

of the name of Jesus, and we started to experience what He didn't just

walk in like that. No, he working, jumping and living and praising

God. What does it God require? We're not supposed to enter into the

presence of God without praising thanksgiving. Remember, no, we must always enter

into the courts, into in the Temple of God with what with with praise

and thanksgiving because God has done the great work in us. When we go

in, just like normal people, we are not aware of what God has

done in our lives. We are not in the proper posture, and God

is not glorified in it. Why did you come to the temple? This

is just for yourself? Or is it to glorify God? And the only

if you about glorifying God? The only way you can glorify God is that

you praise Him and you give things. So when I asked you this,

ask all of us here the same question. When you come to church,

what is it for? Is it, like you know, just to hear

the word or are you coming here to glorify God? And if you're coming

to glorify God. How does worship stir you? How? What kind of

responses should you be having? She'd be like, oh, God, man,

I hope this ends faster, Hey, faster Steven. And you know

where are we going for lunch? And right now you get me right?

Is there how we enter into passed through the beautiful gate? Know that the

gate called beautiful beautiful. This guy is running and jumping and praising and we

are deciding when to come out for at luncher. You know what I mean?

Right, it's it's it's it's it's so much we can actually draw from

it, you know, the spirituality that's coming from it, and what should

be Okay, this is just the first, the foretaste of what God is

doing to Peter and to everyone around as well. And he says there that

you know, when people saw him, they realized who he was. They

realized who he was, and they will filled with wonder and amazement. You

see, we can come to church if you are not see we can be

coming to church and doing all these things are but we have no effect on

people one and get me right, no effect. It's just that people know

you go to church, but we are not called to be like that.

Now God has done a great work in us. We are meant to be

sought and like because there is a difference within us when you go out,

is there a difference between you? Uh, you know and and the world

outside. They say, the salt ore there is useless. You know what

they use sort this is useless for you know what when salt is useless,

what do you do with it? You're throwing the ground? Why throwing useless

in the ground is as a battle tactic, you know, you know that

when I think it's a real romance. When the Romans that they pillage over

carthagere, when they when they when when they when they defeat the cart,

they were so upset with them. They said that we never want Carthage to

rise up again. So what they do is that they they they earn their

houses, their villages are and they're through salt so that no vegetation will ever

grow again. So instead of becoming a blessing and you become a course.

Ah, nothing good for but to be trampled. You know, what are

you safe for? People? What are you safe for? Okay, it's

very very important, you know, So now I think about it, all

these Roman people. Are they we just liedterally true, not just useless sort

line. They just throw so that nothing can grow. Okay, So it's

very important that we and when you look at it, it's that we examine

ourselves when we come before God. Do we revere God? Do we remember

God? Do we you know, consider his name to be halloh minite,

the proper reverence and acknowledgment to God as well. Okay, now let me

move on, and let's turn to act chapter four. Okay, kind of

here from verse one, so we see a reaction from the people. Then

things start to take a change. Nine verse four, chapter verse one,

Chapter four, verse one, you say, and now it's they spoke to

the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Seduces

came upon them, being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in

Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Now, how many of you are familiar

with the Seduces. Theuces one of the two main groups in the Jewish community.

So one is the Seduces and the Pharisees. The Suduces are comprised of

more of the elite, richer families and lineage. Okay, but Their belief

system mainly resides with that. They believe no more than the four that the

Torah four five thrus books okay, means beyond that are the books of Isaiah,

Jeremiah. They don't believe in it, okay. So they only strictly

adhere to the Torah book on the okay. And because of that, they

don't believe in the resurrection. Mean that when you die, just go into

avoid emptiness. So they don't believe in resurrection. But now there's a problem

this temple here there are a bunch of people talking about the reason Christ.

So it was a threat to them as well. The other group is the

Pharisees, but I won't talk much about them today, okay. So so

thes came to them, became greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached

in Jesus the reception from the dead, and they laid hands on the parcels

put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.

However, many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of

them came to be about how many five thousand, that's by one miracle,

by true the name of Jesus Okay, you don't need money and silver,

silver and money you have, but people need the name of Jesus. Okay.

Now verse five, Okay, it talks about addressing to the Sanhedrin,

and it came to pass on the next day that they are rulers, elders

and scribes as well as Anna's the high priest care first John and Alexander and

as many as were of the family of the high Priests were gathered together at

Jerusalem. Okay, together they comprise of the Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin is basically

the most powerful group of people, and they will consists of seventy one people.

They are of our elders and one main high priest as well. Okay.

And these people they make up the highest judicial system or priestly system at

that time, to judge, to pass laws. And they don't work independently.

They actually have to work in concert with the Roman government. Okay.

In fact, the Roman government is the one that appoints the high priests.

It's like, you know, you have a prime minister, but another government

appoints the prime minister. So the appointment of the high priest is actually you

know, you hear Annas and side Care First, they are actually related,

the two of them. So when Jesus when he was arrested, right,

it was interesting that he was supposed to bring to Annes but he didn't bring

but he was also bring to care First. Why because care First was actually

the earlier high priest. He was the sort of like the shared of high

priests whatever that care First wanted, Andes will actually sort of like agree to.

I think I can't remember what who was it. I think Anes was

the one who was the son in law of care First, So they were

in concert. And because the high priest the role was appointed by Romans,

right, Actually that role is actually kind of like not appointed but bided,

Okay, So that's why, like and also to get the high priest role,

they have to pay money, say like one million, two million,

you know, and then the high priests, through the systems will appoint what

they called it priests and text collectors as well. So Matthew was that's why

if you look at Matthew, he was a tax collector, he was a

priest. So because of this system, this reform to the priestly system,

right, a lot of the priests became tax collectors. Matthew the text collector,

so when you read Levi and stuff like that, so they became text

collectors. So it was quite a shameliner people who are priests who you know,

we're talking about thousands of priests who were serving God and because of the

Roman ruler, they become like despised, you know, and instead of serving

God down there serving a Roman government. And a lot of times they collect,

they collect more than they have as well. So if you think about

it, there's a very high chance the key is the guy who was on

climbing on the trier was probably a priest as well. We don't know yet,

but there's speculation on it. Okay, So Andy, there's site site

info. So Anderson, So the whole entire group of Usanhedrin came about to

question them. And this is the same group of council that actually questioned Jesus

and demanded that conscious pilot to uh what they could to crucify Jesus as well,

the same group and verse seven, it says there and when they had

set them in the midst they asked, okay, they asked one of the

most important questions, one of the most not the emos one demos okay question

in the New Testament. Okay, what question was that? By what power?

Or by what name have you done this? Okay? By what power?

And by what name? They didn't even deny the miracle happened, you

know, they didn't even deny it. They just say they happened. They

acknowledge that it happened. That there is power. They acknowledge there is power,

that they acknowledged, that there is authority that must come from somewhere.

The question is not what happened, is how and who it came from?

Okay, how and who it came from? And this was exactly the setup

that God had planned for Peter and for John as well. This exactly the

setup that God wanted. And in verse eight, okay, Peter, filled

with the Holy Spirit, said to them, rulers of the people and elders

of Israel, if we this day are judged for a good deed done to

a helpless man, remembers understanding. Peter is not educated when he's afficient manner,

but yet he seems to be able to grasp and navigate and go on

the offensive in this courtroom drama here, very very powerful. He says that,

oh saw the case and by which I'm judged is not what it's been

done. But you're judging me how this good deed was done? Okay,

you just want to know the source. Let me tell you then, Okay.

He says that by what means he has been made? Well, let

it be known to you all. Okay. He first addressed to the Sanhedrin

and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of

Nazareth. Okay, Well he didn't stop there. He say by the name

of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It's what he adds after that that re stir

something up. Who did he say? Whom you crucify? Whom God raised

from the dead by him? This man stands here before you. Now,

this is a very powerful thing. You know why Suddenly you can watch a

Colt drama and then you know, you can see the trial happening, and

suddenly the witness says that, oh, actually, uh, you know,

I want to call another witness. This is implication because that person was there.

Sharon, You're like, what why am I suddenly calling to that?

You know, but Peter is implicating what he's implicating not just the witnesses,

implicating the whole entire Judicial, the Sanhedrin, and all the people of Israel,

implicating that because Jesus did not just die. Okay, the name by

which the person this this miracle was performed is not just a person who died.

How did Jesus die? Crucified means what do people want to be crucified?

Normally one crucified means what punish we're punished. It's like if we go

to It's like, for example, in the school and suddenly a student saved

another girl from being not done, and the parent and they said, uh.

Then the principal came out and asked the parent, Oh, who saves

your daughter? Ah? Yeah, the kid whom you punish for discipline?

You know what I'm saying here. So by asking that question, they didn't

realize they are doing themselves, you know, because they punish the kid that

saved the girl, and so who is made look foolisher the principal so in

the sense he drinks. By asking that question, they implicated themselves because this

is not just any other name, not just a powerful name, a name

they punished and murdered, a name that you thought, by bringing down to

the grave, will have no more power. Normal say, But yet up

from the grave, he roes. And it's still performing work right now.

A powerful name, you know, the name of Jesus is still working.

You know, people, what a powerful name it is, the name of

Jesus. The name of Jesus is still at workman, people, It's still

at work, you know. You know. Sometimes you know, we like

to you know, we like as human beings, we have this this fleshly

need to be associated. H you know, I'd like to be associated with

this famous person when your work, you know, being associated, and you

put the prospectus and then the first thing about the company, you know,

is all the directors from maybe to establish what credibility association all these fellow was

that and this day and then you put all your credentials and all these things.

You want to be associated? Okay, uh you know, and you

know when we when we climb a certain ladder already when we get associated,

all I meant, I've been to this network and this guy knows me,

he will give a referral to me. We feel very proud, you know.

And then suddenly if one of these days want the okay, and this

that thought saying that I was able to guarantee your your contract put there,

people will sign you even doing much money because he puts his name there.

People take up your contract and give you the contract or maybe give you a

letter guaranteed. But then suddenly the dog going bankrupt. What happens then?

Do people still give you the contract? People be asking money from you?

You know you'll be a different girl. People knocking on your door or the

what's the what the longer? It's not that it's the our long guy already

from that or a long Okay, it'll be chasing for you. You know

what the name normal carries power. Jesus died, died, parnish or bankrupt

is one thing and all but crucified and all of words of the worst names

you know use the same namer when you used to even the name of some

bankrupt. But to go and apply for a bank, to go and buy

your car. I don't much money, but I'm going to apply for this

guy who's bankrupt a criminal record. To go and apply for alone. Nobody

will give it to you. But the name of Jesus who died is able

to heal the name of Jesus still working on. So they can only prove

one thing either the either either the all Jesus is really from the devil like

they called, or from Belzeburg, or he really is innocent, the son

of God. So you, the Sanhedrin, have murdered the wrong person,

and you are guilty, you said. And it's not only are guilty,

only you're judge wrong here, but you claim you are the people, the

select group of people of God. You think you said that you know the

law, but yet you prosecuted and killed his prophet. And more than that,

it's begotten son ah. So it's a very powerful thing, you know.

Now, you understand that it's amazing that the Peter healed a person.

He'll heal a layman. But the setup was for him to work. The

miracle became a blessing for those who believe, but it became a judgment on

those who are evil with there will be a separation at the end of the

days, the ships and the ghats people. Every miracle that God brings will

separate the sheep and the God. The sheep and the God, the sheep

and the God. You believe that right now? We believe in you know

why, because we know human nature is human nature's sinfulness and all these things.

So it says here verse eleven, this is the stone which was rejected

by you builders, not just Jesus, but he is the stone which was

rejected by the builders. We had now become the chief cornerstone. Nor is

there salvation in any other For there is no other name under Heaven given among

men by which we must be saved. The name that was, you know,

so called thought to be buried into the ground. The name that was

couldn't have been any worse. The name that was crucified under a tree is

the name that we must be saved by. Amazing, really amazing. Wow.

So when you use the name of Jesus, are still going to shrink

away? There is power, There is power, no other name, you

know. Okay, Now, let's move on as I draw to a close.

Here verse thirteen, he says, here, now, when they saw

the bonus of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men,

they marveled, and they realized that they had been with Jesus. So

it's not just the word, okay, but what activated them, what activated

the apostles, you know, into to make such a statement. It was

the boldness and the reality and the presence of God in their lives give me

that. So is the presence of God that activated their boldness. You can

know a lot of truth today, but if there is no reality of God

in your life, the boldness in your heart will not be activated. You

get what I'm saying here, A lot of Christians and all believers I can

hear yeah, yah yah yeah, But there's no reality. And that's why

the boldness cannot be activated. Because you fear. The only way you can

overcome fear is through the reality and the presence of God. You get mean

right, because it is a presence mind. When you're feared, because there

is a circumstance around you that's going to box you at your age, your

money, your protection, your career, your knowledge of forces outside. There

is a fear, then there's a reality that the world gives you. So

the only thing that can propel you forward is the reality of God that comes

not from the outside, that comes from the inside. That is, what

is in you is greater than what is outside of you, true or not.

Now everything come starts to make sense is in it. So the reality.

That's why they said that they realized they had been with Jesus, because

they have been with Jesus. There is why they are bold, Okay,

not just bold, They are bold because they have been with Jesus, and

they and then the boldness was activated, and their boldness proclaimed the name of

Jesus. Understand presence and the boldness, and then proclamation of God as well.

Okay. And in verse fourteen. And seeing the men who had been

healed standing with them, okay, there was an evidence, they could say

nothing against it. But when they had commanded them to go outside of the

council, they conferred among themselves, saying, what shall we do with this

man? Okay? For indeed that a notable miracle has been done through them.

It's evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

You can say all you want, You can say anything, you can

throw all the accusation against them and against Jesus. He said, all the

things are he claimed to be Moses, like maybe he claim to destroy the

tempolar, He claiming you must eat off his flesh and blood, like all

the whole things are. But yet even he does, people can hear you.

So they got nothing to say, you know, because it's evident and

people everyone saw it. So that's the power might have glory of God,

isn't it? Nothing can shut it? One and no, okay, now

he says here in verse seventeen, But so that it spreads no further among

the people. What did they do? Let us severely threaten them? They

could only threaten them that from now on? What do they want? So

that they don't have worship anymore? They don't buyble study anymore, they don't

put posters any more. What's the one thing they don't want you to do?

You speak the name of Jesus. You can worship, you can do

Bible study, you can go and visit the poor, help the poor,

bill projects, everything, But anything you do, just don't do it under

the name of Jesus. That's the one thing they want you to shut.

You can speak in tongue and oh, you're going on. But the one

thing they want to don't do it under the name of Jesus. But it

is the only thing that we have. You understand what I'm saying. It

is the only thing. Peter went there to proclaim nothing or no, he

didn't that. Oh I gave a great summer and dependecost. I got say,

six thousand people. Hey, hey, check out myriads with me.

And the only thing he came by was by what strength the name of Jesus

Christ, whom you prosecuted. You cannot prosecute them by anything else but the

name. The name of Jesus will judge them. The name of Jesus is

everything power, isn't it. Now? Let's move on here. In verse

eighteen, so they called them and commanded them not to speak at all,

not teach in the name of Jesus. We preach, we teach. We're

saying, we give all in what name of Jesus. But Peter and John

answered and said to them, whether it is right in the sight of God

to listen to you more than to God, you judge, For we cannot

but speak the things which we have seen and heard. We cannot we see

and heard what he is saying. It's real to us. We can only

say and testify the things that are real to us. You can threaten us,

like I said, there will always be fear coming outside. But what

we have seen and heard, He has already brought forth a reality in our

heart that you cannot threaten and press down. You know what I'm saying,

God is too really our lives it's so real it cannot be pressed down.

It's from the inside of their private cannot. We have seen and heard,

we have tasted, we have known, so we cannot. It's in us,

it is all of us. Okay, So whatever I but the things,

but speak the things for which we have seen and heard in verse twenty

one. So when they had further threatened them, they let them go,

finding no way of punishing them because of the people, since they all glorified

God for what has had been done for the man was over forty years of

whom this miracle of healing had been performed. Okay, lastly, and so

now we've seen that Peter and John triumph over the Sanhedrin last time. When

Jesus went there, he was crucified. Jesus performed many miracles. Yeah,

the disciples perform only one miracle. But yet when they went there, they

came out alive, not only alive, blameless or quite amazing, isn't it.

You think about it? Before there, before Jesus was raised, were

they like they were scared, you know, locking themselves in the door,

And you say that, hey, is Jesus really not say but if you

look at the transformation and what happened with the disciples. It speaks of what

God is alive. No, no, no, no person that can experience

such a transformation. When you're the teacher you followed, are just got crucified

and you're hiding your house. Suddenly are you're dare to go and heal people

and testify before the he testify testified before the person who killed your former master.

Know what happened because only you believe that Jesus is alive. They may

not see Jesus, but Jesus is alive in them. Jesus. People in

this world may not see Jesus right now, but they see Jesus in you.

He came mean right by you, by the virtue of you when they

see you, by the works that you do, by the life, and

more importantly, by the reality that you live in. God is manifested.

Makes sense. We project the reality of God even in us. Amen.

Now, he says, here how they so? Now Peter comes back to

the to the belief that the group believers. How did they respond? As

we come to a close, He says, after being let God, they

went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had

said to them. So when they heard that, they raised their voice to

God. One of the things, no I asked you, guys, when

you heard this, how would you respond? Would you be like them to

respond to God with one God saying that Lord, you are God who made

heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, who,

by the mouth of your servant David, had said, by the nation's

rage and the people prot baying things, you know what these people are almost

like prophesying, you know, in one accordinal the kings of the earth to

their stand, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, against their

Christ, for truly, against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed both

herod and ponscious pilot. With the gentiles and the people of Israel, were

gathered together to do whatever your hand and your purpose determined beforehand to be done.

What they are saying is that God, all these people had schemed plan

to, you know, or to thwart and to murder the one that you

have said. All this had been planned, because God is sovereign. What

men intended for evil, God has allowed and used it in a way to

bring forth glory for Him and salvation to us as well. People. You

might think that evil and you know, evil and the world seems to rule.

You can't see it. But God rules and over rules. You understand

all this time, God rules and he over rules what people plan. And

we say, oh God, it shouldn't be this way. No, no,

no, God works in a different plane, different field. God rules

and over rules. That's why I say Heaven rules. Isn't it Heaven rules?

When we see this in all through Christs as well? And you say

that verse twenty nine. Now look Lord, look on their threats. Okay,

now this is the part. And what did they ask when they pray

together that what did they ask from the Lord? Said? Oh, Lord,

just grant us favor someone. No, they pray and ask grant to

your servants. Who are these servants? Is it just limited to the apostles?

So the rest of ours is just stay in the church? Is it?

So? So the rest of the time when people when when there's a

miracle that happened to your family, maybe through cancer, maybe God provided for

you save your child. So we don't use the name of Jesus anymore.

So we normal, but this is only activated for the servants, so called

the apostles. But if that's the case, then why are miracles still happening

among the believers and among us as well? You know what I mean?

Right? So that itself by the reality that the fact that healing Americas are

still happening, means that we are called to bear witness, that we are

implicated in this audience here of the servants. You know what I mean,

right, Just the simple fact that you pray and you ask for America and

it's still happening, we are called to bear witness. It cannot be that

you experience, you ask for America, and you experience and witness America,

that you do not give an account for it. Why then God will give

you a miracle? Then every miracle for healing. Our people will still go

back to the grave on you. You're a letter, you extent maybe a

year or two or maybe a bit more. But even then people still go

to the grave. But why then they God healed? Why then the White

God still perform all this healing so that people will know him? And how

can people know him if we don't bear witness? You know what I mean?

Right? Miracle is never just for us, It's always about God.

Every miracle. That's why Jesus said no miracle should be given to you except

the sign of Journal, because you are a wicked and perverse generation. But

for those who believe and are pure hearted, the miracle will lead you into

repentance. It's all about God. You get what I'm saying here, It's

all about God. Now what did they What did they pray? Now,

Lord, look on their hearts and ground to your servants, ground to all

of you here that with all boldness, not with a bit of boldness,

with all boldness, you and I everyone here may speak your word. God's

desire is for you and I to speak his word, that we will have

boldness. Like I said, why bondness because God is real in your life.

If God is not your life, then of course you don't apply.

Then it doesn't apply to you. Then then you need to ask for the

reality of God in your life. But God has been real, So now

you need to respond. And the response is boldness to speak your word by

stretching out your hand to heal when they speak by bondness, by stretching out

your hand God's hand. We may stretch up, but it is actually God's

hand that is stretching out to heal signs and wonders may be done through what

the name of your Holy Servant Jesus. Amen. What a beautiful name it

is, isn't it. I hope that we all appreciate, you know,

and then really revere the powerful name of Jesus in terms of its power,

but also in terms of his responsibility. We like to quote the name of

Jesus, but there's a responsibility that comes with the name of Jesus. It's

not just wielding, but it's the responding to proclaim it, to be bold

about it. Amen. Every time sometimes when people come to, hey,

how did you get this on it's the name of Jesus. Amen. We

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