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NEW LIFE
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Today I want to talk about New Life
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- So I am a pastor of a church in Woods Harbour and we have been partnering with a church in Yarmouth called Yarmouth Wesleyan to work through the book of Acts.
The book of Acts is an incredibly exciting book in the Bible that describes how the church was born and how the Holy Spirit worked through the church
Rather than re-invent the wheel I thought it would be cool to speak to you guys from the book of Acts because I think it really fleshes out the gospel crystal clear and reveals to us what it means to be a lifestyle Christian
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Context
So let me lay the context of the particular scripture we are looking at here today.
So this passage of Scripture happens immediately after God used the apostles (aka Jesus sent ones) to do some amazing signs, wonders and miracles.
The church was growing and more and more people were coming to accept the message about Jesus.
Crowds were beginning to gather and people who were sick, tormented by demons etc. were being healed.
17 Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the partyt of the Sadducees,u were filled with jealousy.
High priests and all his associates; so like everyone
High priests weren’t just like a pastor; he was more like the leader of the people.
The Sadducees were a group of people who followed the law and taught the law but they did not believe people could rise again from the dead or in other words be resurrected
Everyone was filled with jealousy
They were all super jealous.
Have any of you ever been jealous before?
Maybe someone with incredible talent
Happens a lot in relationships and sports
It be like if you really, really like a girl or guy and someone else is getting close to them - you are like, no way man; back up from my man
Or in sports - when you lose a game and you are jealous because you know that you wanted to win
Usually you are jealous because you are going to lose something
Question - Why do you think the Sadducees were filled with jealousy?
They have some competition
A definition of jealousy -
Mere resentment of what another has accomplished has no relation to the pursuit of excellence.
Richard I. Pervo, Acts: A Commentary on the Book of Acts, ed.
Harold W. Attridge, Hermeneia—a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2009), 141.
Jealousy is ugly
Let me try and explain a little bit of what is happening here.
The Sadducees are people who do not believe in a resurrection from the dead and Peter here is telling them that God raised Jesus from the dead and they were guilty of killing him in the first place.
So they are rip-roarin’ mad
An amazing quote that re-iterates the irony I talked about a few weeks ago
the Sadducees, who killed Jesus and do not believe in resurrection, wish to suppress information about their double condemnation: God raised Jesus from the dead.10
18 They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.v
- They put them in jail to try and stop them from doing what they are doing
Jealousy will make you do stuff to try and stop the success of other people
19 But during the night an angelw of the Lord opened the doors of the jailx and brought them out.y
But if God is doing something good luck trying to stop him
He has these things....called angels…like real angels…like strong and powerful angels…that can do crazy things…like let people out of jail and such.
So that is exactly what happened.
God wanted to continue to do stuff through the apostles so they opened the way for them.
Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people all about this new life.”z
These angels also give a message to the apostles to go back into the temple where they were speaking and tell others about this new life.
Question - What was this new life that the angels talked about?
What is this new life?
PAUSE
This new life involved a transformation
This new life is the resurrection power of Jesus that lives on this inside of us when we accept the message about Christ
This new life
This new life involves a lifestyle transformation
This new life is more than just praying a prayer and accepting Jesus it involves Jesus transforming your lifestyle.
Jesus wants to literally change the way we live and the day in and day out things that we do so it reflects his lifestyle
Jesus wants us to live a new life of following him
And this new life is a life that is forever
What is this new life is a loaded question?
Does this new life interest you at all?
Like, are you at all interested in learning about the new life Jesus has for you?
Or are you ok just to live life the way you want?
At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people.
Back to the text - so they begin to teach about this new life
So basically what I am doing here tonight, they are explaining to these people how to get this new life through Jesus and then how to live it out
says Go and make disciples of every
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,f baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,g 20 and teachingh them to obey everything I have commanded you.
And surely I am with youi always, to the very end of the age.”j
Mark
- So Jesus commanded the disciples before he left to go and make disciples and to baptize them and to teach them all Jesus commanded them.
So if these apostles were teaching about this new life they were teaching about how to come to faith in Jesus and then how to obey the commandments Jesus gave.
One of the commandments Jesus gave was to be baptized
If you want to experience the new life Jesus has for you baptism is one of those steps
Now some of you are planning to get baptized next Friday right?
Does anybody here know what baptism means?
Baptism is loaded with meaning
Baptism means death
Baptism means new life
Baptism means grace
Baptism means going public
Baptism is an outward sign of something God has already done in your heart
You know when we first come to Jesus maybe we pray and ask Jesus to come into our hearts but maybe we haven’t really gone public with our faith
You know there is that process of us wrestling through and start reading the Bible and praying
But we come to the moment in our lifestyle where we are like man, I need to let the world know where i stand with God
We come to that point where we don’t want to just say I am Christian but want to make a public statement to the world that I want to live my lifestyle for Jesus
Do you see the little difference?
Usually when someone accepts Jesus we ask people to close their eyes and bow their heads and tend to do it more privately - there is nothing private about baptism
Like when we get baptized we ought to have a profile picture of our baptism or post something on instagram because that is essentially what our act is proclaiming
Baptism means that you are proclaiming to the world that you have decided to follow Jesus not just in word but with your lifestyle
So Baptism is public
Baptism is also death - gulp
Baptism is a symbol to you and to the world that the old life you use to live has been nailed to the cross of Jesus
The reason I am so excited about baptism and sharing with you tonight about this new life is because baptism is a tangible physical act or a step that you take that is physical
Baptism represents a step that you take
Baptism solidifies a decision you have already made
Baptism also represents new life
You rise again from the dead
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