Empowered to stand
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Secular: flower grows from rock
Personal:
What obstacles are you facing today?
What things are working against your growth and your success?
How are you responding to that opposition?
Biblical:
Jesus faced the highest authority in Jewish culture - religious leaders
Religious leaders given authority by God
Jesus spoke things that opposed the religious leaders
Religious leaders opposed Jesus to the point of death
Now the religious leaders oppose Jesus’s followers
Subject: How should we respond to powerful opposition?
Textual: Acts 4:1-22
Peter and John arrested 1-6
Peter and John questioned 7-12
Peter and John warned 13-18
Peter and John respond 19-22
How should we respond to powerful opposition?
When the powerful surround - Stand upon the singularity of hope
When the powerful threaten - Stand upon the priority of allegiance
Happy Mother’s Day
Gift
Be Strong and Courageous
9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
