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Title: Insanity , craziness… faith and surrender
Theme: Resurrection, faith and the Holy Spirit transform those who believe, surrender, and follow.
Text:Acts 5:27-32; ; : 26-29
Goal: a strong call to surrender and transformations which will be demonstrated by response which involves action
ME: ORIENTATION: FIND COMMON GROUND WITH THE AUDIENCE
Do you believe that the way you were raised is the way it should be today?
What are the important things we should maintain with out exception?
What groups of populations will we loose by doing this?
WE: IDENTIFICATION (MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU STRUGGLE)
WE: IDENTIFICATION (MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU STRUGGLE)
The church struggles today to understand the world around it.
We struggle to reach the next generation.
If we do not find a way to communicate and connect to the millennial generation we may not survive.
Churches will close.
This leads us to survival mentality, which is very deadly.
Each generation must be involved in transformation.
What does the Resurrection mean today?
What does the Holy Spirit mean today?
What does faith and surrender mean today?
What work should we be involved with today?
GOD: ILLUMINATION (THE GOAL IS TO RESOLVE THE TENSION
I.
This is Insanity … craziness
Acts 5:27-32
A. What does this text tell us about the disciples?
The second arrest of the apostles was inevitable.
The Sanhedrin had strictly ordered them to abstain from teaching in the name of Jesus, and they had publicly disregarded that command.
a.
They were considered heretics, and disturbing the peace
What does this text tell us about the disciples?
b. this isn’t the first timed they were warned
c.
The Sanhedrin was in charge of these religious matters to keep the peace.
d. angel or messenger There is not necessarily a miracle in the release of Peter and John.
The word aggelos has two meanings.
It means an angel; but it is also the normal word for a messenger.
Even if the release of the apostles had been brought about by human means, the agent of the release would still be the aggelos of the Lord.
B. n the narrative of the events after the release, we see vividly displayed the great characteristics of these early Christians.
a.
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
b.
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?’
c.
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
C. The apostles were healing the sick.
a.
The high priest reminds the apostles of the council’s instruction that prohibits them from preaching (4:17–18).
No mention is made of the escape, which is an embarrassment for the leadership.
How did they get out?
Were the guards irresponsible?
D. disobeyed strict orders
a.
The apostles have disobeyed strict orders.
Their disobedience is blatant.
Not only did they continue to preach in this name; they also have filled the city with their teaching and are clearly holding the leadership responsible for Jesus’s death.
As the high priest puts it, they are seeking “to bring upon us the blood of this man.
b.
This charge about the blood undercuts the leadership’s authority to uphold and represent righteousness.
c.
All of Jerusalem was filled with this teaching.
All even the leadership was called to repentance and forgiveness.
d.
They will obey God, not men.
Luke uses another comparison that expresses exclusion, using ἤ (ē; BDF §145a.1;
Moulton and Turner 1963: 216).
In this case, God has directly instructed them to preach in the temple, and that will continue.
The verb for “obey” (πειθαρχέω, peitharcheō) appears only four times in the NT (, ; ; ).
The use of δεῖ (dei, must) suggests a moral necessity for this obedience.
God has the claim on the apostles, and this has priority over any other group
e.
They get away with it
F. Why would they do this?
Christianity is about believing, faith alone.
They don’t have to go any further than that?
right
Wrong: While we are saved by faith we are called to action
II.
The disciples see Jesus and believe
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19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews,[a] Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.
21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
26 Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them.
Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”
27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side.
Do not disbelieve, but believe.”
28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me?
Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
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