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Loyal
Introduction
Jab 1
Arabian horses go through rigorous training in the deserts of the Middle East.
The trainers require absolute obedience from the horses, and test them to see if they are completely trained.
The final test is almost beyond the endurance of any living thing.
The trainers force the horses to do without water for many days.
Then he turns them loose and of course they start running toward the water, but just as they get to the edge, ready to plunge in and drink, the trainer blows his whistle.
The horses who have been completely trained and who have learned perfect obedience, stop.
They turn around and come pacing back to the trainer.
They stand there quivering, wanting water, but they wait in perfect obedience.
When the trainer is sure that he has their obedience he gives them a signal to go back to drink.
Jab 2
Jab 3
Tension
Why this appeals to me
Explanation
1 Loyalty through obedience
God’s will before mans will
That must have infuriated the Sanhedrin.
THEY are God’s representatives and here are these heretics telling them that what they are preaching is from God and that they will not listen to them.
In the minds of these religious leaders only they have a connection to God, not these uneducated fishermen.
How dare they know something about God that they don’t know.
But Peter and all the disciples now are showing their loyalties here aren’t they?
This would have been tough and very intimidating.
They must obey God before men and they have to obey what the angel told them.
Acts 5:19-21a
But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, 20 “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”
21 And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach.
They are in jail, (arrested for preaching AGAIN) an angel busts them out and tells them what to do and lets them out.
They are loyal to the message God gives them through the angel to go from the prison and to speak life to all the people.
(note that they went at daybreak, they didn’t waste any time.
Their minds were set on obedience.
Disciples disregarded the earlier order to not teach about Jesus.
But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, 20 “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”
21 And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach.
Nate Saint was one of five missionaries who were killed by the Auca Indians.
He once said that his life did not change until he came to grips with the idea that “obedience is not a momentary option … it is a diecast decision made beforehand.”925
We need to be prepared for obedience.
It’s much easier to obey a Godly principle when you know what your answer is going to be before it happens.
Baseball: “I tell kids playing baseball to think before every pitch, ‘what do I do if the ball is hit to me on the next pitch’?
“ When you ready yourself like that you find that obedience is easier.
The more you entertain the options the more difficult it is to do the right thing.
That’s why I don’t think about tithing, I write that check when I first get paid.
I don’t think about what bills are due when it comes to tithing, I know God wants me to be obedient in that so I do that first.
I have resolved to do it.
Prepare yourself to be obedient.
Disciples disregarded the earlier order to not teach about Jesus
They aren’t following the rules And they are disturbing the peace (they don’t want Rome to get involved) (things are stable right now)
after meeting with the sanhedrin they went right back doing what God told them to do
(1) They had courage.
The command to go straight back and preach in the Temple sounds to a prudent mind almost incredible.
To obey that command was an act of almost reckless boldness.
And yet they went.
(2) They had principles.
And their ruling principle was that in all circumstances obedience to God must come first.
They never asked: ‘Is this course of action safe?’
They asked: ‘Is this what God wants me to do?’
(3) They had a clear idea of their function.
They knew that they were witnesses for Christ.
Witnesses are essentially people who speak from first-hand knowledge.
They know from personal experience that what they say is true; and it is impossible to stop people like that, because it is impossible to stop the truth.
Sometimes our obeying God means that we have to break some other rules.
Generally speaking, Christians are supposed to be followers of the law, followers of the rules.
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Let every person be subject to the governing authorities.
For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
To be sure, Christians are called to be conscientious citizens and generally speaking, to submit to human authorities.
But if the authority concerned misuses its God-given power to command what he forbids or forbid what he commands, then the Christian’s duty is to disobey the human authority in order to obey God’s.
We note that they disobeyed the Sanhedrin, who had told them not to speak in the name of Jesus (4:17), in order to obey the angel who told them to speak the words of life.
Follow the law, follow the rules, until those rules break a principle of God.
The world gets crazier and crazier.
I don’t know what is coming next.
We do know again to follow the laws of man as long as those laws don’t violate God’s commands.
And so the perfect example are these disciples who are told ‘Don’t speak that name of Jesus anymore” but they have to because they are doing what God told them to do.
( can you imagine them teaching first at the temple, maybe the temple guards are closing in and they are saying, let’s continue this conversation at your house!)
So they are Loyal through their obedience and...
2. they are loyal to their message.
They tell the message to anyone who will hear them which is pretty cool in and of itself.
But It’s really incredible that their message isn’t just for the people in the temple or in the homes but for the Sanhedrin themselves.
Thats right, the very men that have arrested them and are accusing them.
They tell the message to anyone who will hear them.
Its incredible.
And their message isn’t just for the people in the temple or in the homes but for the Sanhedrin themselves.
Believe it or not, they are actually trying to persuade these religious leaders!
That takes guts!
But they know the secret!
They know that Salvation belongs to God and that the message of Jesus can change the hearts of the most lost person.
They actually had a love for those who captured them.
A love for Christ that wanted to see others, even their enemies surrender to Christ.
And we do know that there were some who would recognize Jesus as the messiah.
Maybe it was through this speech that Peter gave that moved the heart of someone or planted a seed for someone to give their life to Jesus.
To be sure, Christians are called to be conscientious citizens and generally speaking, to submit to human authorities.
But if the authority concerned misuses its God-given power to command what he forbids or forbid what he commands, then the Christian’s duty is to disobey the human authority in order to obey God’s.
They are loyal to this message.
And they would continue to be loyal to it.
They would keep speaking the name of Jesus to all those who they would come in contact with.
The men are before the sanhedrin again, told again not to speak the name of Jesus (after Gamaliel gives his speech)
Their loyalty wouldn’t stop there.
Finally, they were
3 loyal in their suffering.
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