Is it Worth the Risk

Title: Is it worth the risk

Theme:Is the risk worth the reward

Text: Acts 5:12a-14-15; 17-33; 40-42

Goal: Is the reward worth the risk

ME: ORIENTATION: FIND COMMON GROUND WITH THE AUDIENCE

June 21

Every believer in everything we do, remembers and lives out the Mission of Christ.

June 28

We communicate to whom ever God places in our path.

July 5

When people saw the disciples they knew that they had been with Jesus. What does your life say?

WE: IDENTIFICATION (MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU STRUGGLE)

Many of our young families have not returned to church yet.

I assume for many the fear of the virus I the reason. They may not like the set up.

Others it is just too easy to be tempted to not return. Maybe Facebook is to much.

It become to say to do our own thing.

Second we have been talking about taking the call to follow Jesus seriously, there is ministry to do.

Risk embarrassment, alienation, change, and new way of living etc.

We have been asking each other to move beyond the me to service with God.

Is it worth the risk?

The church in living into faith and sharing the Gospel can change the world.

GOD: ILLUMINATION (THE GOAL IS TO RESOLVE THE TENSION

I. Is it worth the risk to go against the Jewish Government ?

A. The Early Church thought so

29 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness,

30 while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness. Act 4:29-31 (ESV)

B. God thought so

12 Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. Acts 5:12A (ESV)

bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits, who were all cured. I.e., both bodily and mentally ill people were healed.

The ancients used such terms to explain serious psychic disturbances, whose causes they were unable to diagnose. Cf. Acts 19:12. What is described in this verse leads to the reaction of the religious authorities, which begins in 5:17.

C. The community was responding

15 so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them. 16 The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed. Acts 5:15-16 (ESV)

Is the reward worth the risk?

II. Is it worth the risk to be arrested?

A. Emotions

17 But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy 18 they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. Acts 5:17 (ESV)

Rose: to rise up for the purpose of taking action.

filled

① to cause to be completely full, fill, fulfill

Jealousy:

② intense negative feelings over another’s achievements or success, jealousy, envy1

B. Actions

they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. Acts 5:18 (ESV)

( The audience may be noted in 18. In that a public prison may be more a spectacle to public knowing about it. The high priest and his group throw them in public jail and the next morning they are back at it. While the apostle are serving Christ, they are set up for trouble. me)

Get a feeling of this emotion and anger.

19 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. Acts 5: 19-21 (ESV)

Angel

ἄγγελος (angelos). n. masc. messenger, angel. A being that is to deliver a message or perform a task.

Like Hebrew מַלְאָךְ (malʾāk), Greek angelos literally means “messenger”

The release is recounted with maximum brevity. It includes an escape enabled by an angel of the Lord and an instruction to teach in the temple, which the apostles obey. This is the ultimate, cosmic overrule of the Jewish leadership as the sovereign God acts to free the apostles, opening the doors of their prison.

You would think that if God got you out you could escape, run away.

Called back to sharing the gospel.

Is the reward worth the risk?

III. Is it worth the risk to be back at it again.

A. They go to the jail and it is all locked up with no one inside.

Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.” 26 Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people. Acts 5:25-26 (ESV)

* Can you imagine their anger and rage.

Yet they feared being stoned by the people.When people are healed and the gospel shared, you can see how God through Christ is reaching out to the jews in love.God is saving souls as the Jewish government want to put all this in the box.

28 saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us. Acts 5:28 (ESV)

B. Peter and the Apostles respond

29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. 31 God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.” Acts 5:29-32 (ESV)

*Peter responds and basically says what he has been saying.

* Emotions and anger have risen to murder.

 When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them Acts 5:33 (ESV)

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (Ac 5:33). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

Enraged “they were filled”

24 accounts this word is used 19 happens in Acts.)

seeking to kill Paul (9:29), James being killed (12:2), and Paul being at Stephen’s killing (22:20)

Bock, D. L. (2007). Acts (p. 249). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.

διαπρίω impf. pass. διεπριόμην lit., like πρίω ‘saw through, saw asunder’ (so Aristoph., Hippocr. et al.; Diod S 4, 76, 5; SIG2 587, 160; 304; 1 Ch 20:3). Pass., fig. be cut to the quick, be infuriated Ac 5:33. ταῖς καρδίαις inwardly 7:54.—DELG s.v. πρίω. M-M.

Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., Bauer, W., & Gingrich, F. W. (2000). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (3rd ed., p. 235). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Gmail eo ( Gamalel)

Came forth with wisdom and highly respected. Stated many have come in the past. If this is not of God it will pass. If it is of God you can not stop it.

Is the reward worth the risk?

IV. Is it worth the risk, to be beaten.

they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. 41 Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name. 42 And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus. Acts 5:40-42 (ESV)

Is the reward worth the risk?

YOU: APPLICATION (TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO DO AND WHAT THEY HAVE HEARD)

Conclusion:

Yes it is worth the risk!

The rewards of seeing souls changed is worth the risk.

The reward worth the risk!

Yes it is worth the risk!

To allow God to transform our hearts and lives

into a disciple that puts

God first, and spend a life of service.

The reward worth the risk!

Yes it is worth the risk!

To lead are families in this path so they too live for Christ and the next generation prepared and serving.

The reward worth the risk!

Yes it is worth the risk for the church to grow and many of the countries problems can be answered by people of faith.

The reward worth the risk!

Will it involve for work and sacrifice? Yes but the reward is worth the risk.

Stand again if you will begin the work.

Rise up oh saints of God be done with lesser things.