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Introduction
Good evening.
I hope you you had a great day at Impact! I’m going to ask__________________ to pray for me and for us as we get into the message.
A little boy is afraid of the dark.
One night his mother tells him to go out to the back porch and bring her the broom.
The little boy turns to his mother and says, “Mama, I don’t want to go out there.
It’s dark.”
The mother smiles reassuringly at her son.
“You don’t have to be afraid of the dark,” she explains.
“Jesus is out there.
He’ll look after you and protect you.”
The little boy looks at his mother real hard and asks, “Are you sure he’s out there?” “Yes, I ‘m sure.
He is everywhere, and he is always ready to help you when you need him,” she says.
The little boy thinks about that for a minute and then goes to the back door and cracks it a little.
Peering out into the darkness, he calls, “Jesus?
If you’re out there, would you please hand me the broom?”
Our culture is getting more and more hostile to true, biblical Christianity.
One of the fantastic things that you learn by studying the book of Acts is the early history of the Christian church.
We see a people fiercely devoted to Jesus and the the gospel and we can trace what happens to these Christians living in a hostile culture.
It is incredibly applicable to the church today and the culture that we live in.
Acts 5:17–42 (ESV)
But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison.
But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”
And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach.
Now when the high priest came, and those who were with him, they called together the council, all the senate of the people of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported, “We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside.”
Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to.
And someone came and told them, “Look!
The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”
Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council.
And the high priest questioned them, 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.”
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.
But a Pharisee in the council named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in honor by all the people, stood up and gave orders to put the men outside for a little while.
And he said to them, “Men of Israel, take care what you are about to do with these men.
For before these days Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him.
He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.
After him Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him.
He too perished, and all who followed him were scattered.
So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or this undertaking is of man, it will fail; but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them.
You might even be found opposing God!”
So they took his advice, and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.
And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.
This is the Word of the Lord.
Let’s pray and ask the Lord to help us understand it and apply it to our lives.
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They were equipped as witnesses
Some people are terrible witnesses because they have not been equipped as witnesses because they don’t truly know Jesus.
What it means to truly be a Christian.
Repent and believe the gospel
The indwelling of the Holy Spirit, empowering for service.
II.
They were encouraged to be bold.
They had been arrested and put in prison.
The high priest and the party of the Sadducees were filled with jealousy
They were worried about keeping their influence and power.
The angel releases them and tells them to go stand in the temple (explain hp job) and speak to the people all the words of this Life.
He’s telling them to go talk about Jesus.
Early Christians were called The Way or followers of The Way.
They may have also been referred to as The Life.
I love how that name shows that this isn’t just something you believe.
It’s something that you stake everything on.
You believe it and it changes how you live.
When you really believe the gospel and are truly converted you will live differently.
It might start small as just a bud but there will be change.
Desires, dreams, goals
So they do just that.
They go at daybreak to the temple and started to teach.
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They were fearlessly devoted to the message of Christ.
Their devotion was to Jesus and Jesus alone.
They held that it was above their nationality and their ethnic religious group.
They even held it above their own lives.
They were doing the things that Jesus did.
We must be devoted to the message of Christ.
It is vital that we get the gospel right in your generation because you are living in a culture full of anti-religion or watered down religion.
I heard one of my favorite pastors tell this story:
There once was a delicious drink, with powerful, positive side effects.
When it was introduced, everybody drank it and loved it.
And they found that it was not only good but it was good for them too.
When some business consultants ran across this this new drink, they saw its marvelous possibiliites and they said to the owner, “don’t you want people to drink this marvelous beverage.
“ “Yes,” said the man.
“Wouldn’t you like more people to be helped by it?”
“Yes,” said the man.
“Just leave it us,” they said.
Within a few weeks bottles of the drink began appearing in vast numbers, not just there in the town where the man had invtened it but in the nearby city and cities all around that part of the country.
A vast ad campaign had been added to the rumors that were already going around about the drink’s great taste and beneficial effect from the few that had bought the drink from the man who first introduced it.
As the bottles were snapped up and drank, people were underwhelmed.
It was a good drink but it wasn’t what it was cracked up to be or what their friends had told them about.
It was a good drink, like many other drinks on their shelves at their stores.
When the original owner heard about people’s responses, he wondered how this could be?
His product had never failed.
He hurried to the store where the shelves were stocked with every imaginable size of bottle of the drink.
He opened one and started to drink.
Then he understood.
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