Witnessing is Easy!
- ...When you are rightly Prepared. (Acts 4:13)
- ...When God’s Work is clearly Seen. (Acts 4:14)
- ...When you love God more than you Fear Man. (Acts 4:15-19)
- ...When you Remember what Jesus has done for You. (Acts 4:20-22)
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Open up your Bibles with me, please, to Acts chapter 4.
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Acts chapter 4.
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We're going to be picking up in verse 13.
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And it was about three years ago or so, Taylor Brown was interning with us, and it was-- some of you guys were here, and you remember that-- and it was his first big opportunity to preach.
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And Taylor Brown's grandfather came, And his name is Charlie Brown.
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He was Charlie Brown before Charlie Brown was a thing, actually.
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But on that particular morning, we had some extra guests and visitors coming to hear Taylor give one of his first big sermons.
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And it was a morning that Cade was just sort of yammering at Aaron, just talk, talk, talk about this, that, and the other.
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And Aaron was trying to talk to people.
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And finally, Aaron had turned to Cade.
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and she said, "Why don't you just go say good morning to someone?" So Cade immediately turned and walked right over to Taylor Brown's grandfather, walked right up to him and looked him in the eye and said, "Good morning. Oh wow, you are very old.
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That's why Cade is no longer on the assimilation team." Well the truth is, well the truth is I have dozens of stories like that about Cade. But we're trying to teach him and we're trying to show him how he can grow in his relations with one another. And that's what we've been doing these past three weeks.
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We've been talking about for us growing as witnesses for Jesus Christ. What do we do when we have opportunity to share the gospel of Jesus Christ? Just as a review, we're talking about this all year. Jesus said in Acts chapter 1 verse 8, "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses." Jesus said that his Holy Spirit was going to come and dwell all believers so that we might be witnesses for him. And two weeks ago Peter showed us how to witness. We talked about making it clear. Your witnessing should be about God. We should be and you need to use God's Word and no matter what, never compromise.
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And that's where we left off last week in Acts chapter 4 and verse 12.
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Peter capped off his message to the religious leaders, you know, the people who are in the church, who were calling him to the carpet for preaching Jesus, Peter said, "There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." There are really two big myths when it comes to witnessing.
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And the first one we addressed last week, but for the people that say, "Well, you know, Witnessing is just not really my thing.
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That's just not, that's not really my thing.
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If you're a follower of Jesus Christ, witnessing is your thing.
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That's why you have his power, so that you might be a witness.
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But there's another big myth when it comes to witnessing, and the myth is this.
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Witnessing's hard.
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You know, witnessing's hard.
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I just don't know what to say, and what if they ask me questions and I don't know the answer?
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Well, it's a myth, because witnessing actually isn't hard.
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The truth is, when you're walking with Jesus Christ, witnessing is a very natural thing.
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That's what we're going to see in our text today.
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If you have your outline, witnessing is easy.
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Witnessing is easy.
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We are going to have to explain how that is, so we're going to let the Word of God show us.
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First of all, look at verse 13.
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"Witnessing is easy when you are rightly prepared." When you are rightly prepared, verse 13 says, "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished, and they recognized that they had been with Jesus." So witnessing is easy, first of all, when you're rightly prepared.
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So here you have Peter and John, and this miracle is performed, and they're speaking with great authority, and they were people that didn't have any formal religious training, but they had incredible Bible knowledge.
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This would have been déjà vu to these religious leaders.
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Like, "Wait a minute, didn't we just deal with this?
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Wasn't Jesus just this blue-collar guy that spoke with authority and knew the Word of God?" Well, the déjà vu really hit home.
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Remember, two months prior, you can read about it in Matthew chapter 21, when Jesus was questioned about his authority, he said, "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone." He was speaking of himself.
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Then Peter and John, when they were called out for preaching Jesus, Peter preached the same verse.
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So these guys were, your Bible says, they were bold and they were astonishing, but yet they were uneducated and they were common.
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How can all these things be?
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Well, the key phrase, look at the end of verse 13, this is the key phrase.
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They had been with Jesus.
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It says they had been with Jesus, and that means a lot more than they were hanging out with Jesus, because isn't it true that when you spend time with Jesus, He changes you?
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Have you noticed that?
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When you spend time with Jesus Christ, He changes you.
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You know, church, I went to Bible college.
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I went to the Harvest Bible Chapel Training Center.
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and others certainly value in education.
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I have read a stack of books about how to witness and natural evangelism and inside the mind of the unchurched and you know how to share the gospel naturally.
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And certainly there's value in reading all of these things.
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But you got to mark this down.
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Nothing, nothing prepares you to be a witness more than just being with Jesus Christ yourself.
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That's what's going to prepare you in prayer, in worship, in his word, meditating on it.
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It fires you up.
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Nothing's going to prepare you for being a witness more than being with Jesus Christ yourself.
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You know, it's sort of like, you know how it is when you watch Rocky?
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We've all seen, how many of you have seen one of the like 12 Rocky movies?
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You've seen Rocky, right?
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Now if you're like me, when you're done watching Rocky, don't you feel like, "I'm going to be a boxer." Don't you feel like you could walk outside and whoop anybody?
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How many people feel like that after you watch Rocky?
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Don't lie, come on.
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Totally.
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You watch Rocky and you walk outside and you're just like, "Bring it!" I would get my tail kicked.
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But you feel so fired up!
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You see like one of those Fast and the Furious movies, and you get back in your Dodge Neon, and you're tearing out of the parking lot, and you're like, "That's not me!
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I'm such a crazy, insane, good driver!" Anybody else?
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How many people got a ticket pulling out from seeing that movie?
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drivers right Amanda but you watch that movie and you sort of feel like I can so do that that is so me and um that's sort of the feeling you get when you go to a worship service or a baptism service you're leaving you're leaving church here haven't you ever felt like when you when you left church don't you just feel so fired up to witness like we're going to lunch and I'm telling that waitress about Jesus and you're just you're so excited about the gospel and about Jesus and about what he's done and you're just fired up.
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Why is that?
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It's because corporately we were just with him.
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You know, we spend time in worship and we spend time praying together and we spend time in his word.
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We spend time in his presence and it fires us up.
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And that should be happening privately in your life as well, because nothing is going to rightly prepare you to witness better than spending time with Jesus.
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I was talking to Mark Gort this week, he's one of our elders, and he was telling me he was studying 1 Corinthians.
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And in 1 Corinthians 4.10, it says that we are fools for Christ.
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And something that Mark was sharing with me that I just, I got a kick out of it.
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He said the Greek word for fool is moros, which is where we get the word, anyone?
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Moron.
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In other words, we are common uneducated morons for Christ.
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And you're like, speak for yourself.
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And I'm like, I am speaking for myself, but I'm speaking for you too.
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Look, you know what?
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At the end of the day, the Bible just says we're morons for Jesus.
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Or to say it more eloquently, another friend of mine says, "I'm just a nobody telling everybody about somebody that can change anybody." And when it comes to witnessing, Church, it's not about how many witnessing books you've read or how many Bible college degrees you have or how many Billy Graham training seminars you've attended and I have all my certificates framed and on the wall.
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Hey, those things are great, but nothing prepares you to witness.
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Like spending time with Jesus Christ yourself, that's what these men, these religious leaders recognize about Peter and John, like these guys have been with Jesus.
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So witnessing is easy, easy when you're rightly prepared.
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Secondly, witnessing is easy when God's work is clearly seen.
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Look at verse 14.
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Verse 14 says, "But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition." So do you have this scene?
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Do you have the scene?
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Here's all these religious leaders, and they're wearing their fancy-schmancy robes, and they got these two grungy fishermen, but also with them is this man who everybody knew was lame and was begging for years, standing there totally healed.
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And their response in taking this whole scene in is, "I got nothing. I got nothing." What can you say?
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What can you say when God is clearly at work? What can you say about that?
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What can you possibly say in opposition when God is so clearly at work?
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It's easy to be bold in our faith when God is at work, because it's hard to argue with real results.
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You can imagine somebody coming into this cafeteria this morning and walking up saying, "You know, Jeff, you need to stop telling people that God is alive and that God is at work.
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You need to stop telling people that." My response would be, "Look at what's happening.
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Look at what's happening around the room." We haven't had anybody that was healed from being lame.
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We don't have anybody like that in the church yet.
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But we have an even greater miracle that took place in this church.
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That's a testimony of changed lives.
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Yeah, a guy that was lame, not walking, that's pretty cool.
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I'll tell you what's even cooler, somebody that was dead in their sins and alienated from God, born again, alive in Christ, totally transformed, that's an even greater miracle.
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and we have lots of testimonies about that you see people that can give testimony of sin being forgiven public professions of faith in baptism uh... hurts that have been healed needs it had been met it fires up your faith when you see god move i imagine it did for peter and john you know for these guys to be like you gotta stop with the jesus talk And here's the healed man standing right beside him and Peter and John are just like, we can't do that because God is very clearly at work and I can't shut up about that.
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So our mission, like Peter and John, our mission is not just saying the message.
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You know, I think sometimes when we think of witnessing and evangelism, we think it's It's just about getting this right message, this right presentation packaged, and we just give that out to people.
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And it's more than that.
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Discipleship is getting involved with people and seeing the effects of the message.
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Like Peter and John, God gives us power to witness, and then we see God's power at work into lives of those we witness to.
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And we realize that this isn't some detached conceptual message.
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This is a message that transforms lives and that fires us up even more.
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Greatest example of that is Jesus.
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You know, for Jesus ministry, he didn't just run around telling everybody, hey, by the way, I'm God in the flesh.
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FYI Let me tell you some things about the kingdom of heaven FYI, what do you see in Jesus ministry countless?
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people being healed of blindness and deafness and leprosy and raising people from the dead and Feeding multitudes at least on two different occasions Jesus fed thousands of people. Why did he do all of those things?
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Because you couldn't deny Jesus message when he was saying he came to love and to serve He backed it up So the God's work was clearly seen It's very hard to make a claim when you can't back it up But when you see God at work like these religious leaders saw God was very clearly at work Can't deny the message So witnessing is easy church first of all when you're rightly prepared secondly when God's work is clearly seen thirdly It's easy to witness when you love God more than you fear man When you love God more than you fear man Jumped down to 15, but when they had commanded them to leave the council they conferred with one another Okay, so these religious leaders are like, okay, we need to call a recess And they sort of whisked Peter and John away and said we need to huddle up What are we going to do?
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Verse 13 talks about Peter and John's boldness when we talk about boldness. I mentioned this last week It's not boldness isn't being obnoxious or jerky You know, it's not bold to go to your neighbor's house and pound on their door and say hey, you're going to hell pagan You better repent that's not bold. That's that's obnoxious Boldness is simply this when God gives me opportunity to speak up. I'm going to open my mouth and I'm going to speak up Boldness doesn't mean you're not nervous It's okay to be nervous Pastor Jeff are you still nervous? I had somebody asked me that recently you nervous when you preach You've been doing it almost 20 years now. Are you nervous when you preach and the answer is every single time It's okay to be nervous boldness is despite my fears, despite my nervousness, I'm gonna speak up and I'm going to say, hey, let me tell you who Jesus Christ is and what he's about.
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That's boldness.
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So they call this recess, verse 15, what are we gonna do?
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Verse 16, saying, "What shall we do with these men?
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For that a notable sign has been performed through them as evidence to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it." See, that was the problem.
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The problem was how evident the miracle was.
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They're like, "We got a problem.
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These guys are running around preaching Jesus, which is a big enough problem enough, but we can't easily refute their message because everybody knew about this man.
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So what are we gonna do about this?" Look at verse 17 and 18.
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Here's their plan.
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You ready for this?
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Here's their plan.
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But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.
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So they called them, they called Peter and John back, they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
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Like here's the plan.
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We can't deny the miracle, so we're going to tell them They're forbidden to tell people about Jesus Christ.
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It's kind of ironic.
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In our day, we have to coax people to witness.
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We have to encourage people.
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Come on, speak up for Jesus.
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Don't be afraid to witness.
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That's a problem in our day.
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In their day, they couldn't get these guys to shut up.
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See, that was their plan.
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Just, okay, here's the deal, guys.
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We had a meeting and here's our ruling.
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Stop talking about Jesus.
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That's the ruling, okay?
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That's the plan.
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I love Peter's answer. Look at verse 19.
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But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you, rather than to God, you must judge." Peter's basically saying, "Okay, you say don't speak.
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So, which one do you think God wants me to do?" There again, Peter put the ball back in their court.
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He's like, "Guys, you see our dilemma.
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You put a gag order on us, but God told us to proclaim the gospel.
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So, which one do you think would be more honoring to God here?" Putting them back on defense.
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And somebody at this point is like, "Wait a second.
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If these religious leaders were also like the ruling body in Israel, like we talked about last week, shouldn't we always submit to the government?
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Doesn't the Bible say we should submit to the government?
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Yes, the Bible absolutely does say that.
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Romans 13, Paul talks about it.
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Peter himself right here, 1 Peter 2 and verse 13 says that we should submit to the government.
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So the answer is, should we submit to the government? Yes, we should.
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We should absolutely submit to the government, unless...
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unless the government orders us to do something that violates the Word of God.
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For example, if the government, if the United States government today said, "From now on, it's illegal to tell people that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation." I'd do what I've been doing for the last 20 years, because God has commanded this message to be preached.
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So in that case, I would have to respectfully decline the command of the government, if something like that was forbidden.
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If the government commands you to do something that God forbids, or the government forbids something that God doesn't forbid, God commands, in that case, you appeal to the higher authority.
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That's what Peter was doing here.
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Appealing to the higher authority.
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Like, look, I know you're telling me to shut up, but somebody over you, somebody over you said that I'm supposed to speak up.
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So you tell me which is proper.
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So in that case you appeal to the higher authority and also in that case you have to decide which is stronger in your life, your love for God or your fear of man.
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On one hand you have the God who loves you and purchased your salvation and indwells you and has all power and works all things for the counsel of his good versus willfully ignorant and wicked people who might persecute you because they don't like your beliefs.
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Which one are you going to go with there?
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Why is it such a hard decision?
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Well, because we see the people.
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That's why naturally we fear them.
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We don't see God.
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That's where faith comes in.
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In times like this, when somebody in authority tells you to stop preaching the gospel, it's It's only by faith in God that you can continue to preach the gospel.
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So which is stronger in you?
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Is it love or is it fear?
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In our flesh it's just fear.
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I'd like to remind you 1 Timothy 1.7 says that God gave us a spirit not of fear, but of power and love and self-control.
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control yeah it can be scary but that's why God already supplied the power ahead of time you will receive power you'll be my witnesses and when we're doing it in God's power not our own that makes witnessing pretty easy and finally for today witnessing is easy when you remember what Jesus has done for you.
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Witnessing is easy when you remember what Jesus has done for you.
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Look at these last few verses. Peter says, "For we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.
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And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them because of the people for all were praising God for what had happened.
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for the man on whom the sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old I looked at that last verse this week and I'm like what's that all about?
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The man on whom the sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old Yeah, it's tough being a sports fan isn't it?
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because when an athlete hits like thirty-five they talk about him like he's Methuselah you know, you heard that with the Super Bowl like Peyton Manning, they're like "Well, you know, he doesn't have much left in the tank because he is 39." I don't like hearing that.
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So where was I?
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Oh yeah, it's easy to witness when you remember what Jesus has done for you.
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Verse 20 is actually a double negative in the Greek.
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Literally, Peter says, "I cannot not speak." You're saying don't speak?
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I cannot not speak. It is literally impossible for me to keep my mouth shut about Jesus.
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And I would just like to remind you as we're coming down the homestretch here, do you remember?
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Do you remember how you were when Jesus found you? Do you remember how you were? Do you remember discovering the grace, the love, the forgiveness?
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Do you remember when Jesus made all things new in your life? Do you remember when your life suddenly had meaning because you realized that God who created you loves you and has a purpose for your life? Do you remember that? It happened to me. The immoral, foul, hungover, lost guy learned about the forgiveness and love of Jesus Christ. My life hasn't been the same. I've been keeping journals since I was 16. Not like every day, but just trying to highlight events.
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And every so often, I just kind of go in and just break down what's happening.
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Like I said, I've been doing that since I was 16.
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And I.
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I came to Christ when I was 20.
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And I'm so thankful now that I started those journals before I came to Christ, because you can go back and read them and you can like see the page where it happened. And I go back and look at them, I don't even recognize guy that wrote this stuff before I came to Christ. I'm like, "Who wrote this?" It was me. It's in my handwriting. And the times that I wonder, you know, "What's God doing?
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Is God at work? Has God really called me?" And I go back and look at that, and I can take you to the page back in 1995 when everything changed. And the things that I've seen God do since then. I have pages and pages and pages of answered prayer.
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You know, I can tell you stories about, you know, when I thought Cade was going to die from the horse kick and Aaron was praying over him and not one broken bone. It was a miracle. Even recently, concerned about Aaron's health and the miraculous comeback she made from that. I could tell you stories of when we had the bank account was down to like seven cents and literally not two nickels to rub together and God came through with miraculous provision and I look back on my life and see so many times that the Lord has shown up in so many different ways and all I can say is the same thing that Peter says here. I cannot not speak about Jesus Christ. I can't deny what he's done in my life, so I can't shut up. No matter what that's going to cost me, I can't shut up, because I've had a front row seat of seeing him do some amazing things. And you know what?
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So have you. That's one of the things I love when somebody becomes a member of the church and they sit down with one of our elders and myself, and they share their testimony with us.
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I love hearing testimonies.
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I love hearing testimonies, and I love seeing the joy in the people's faces when they say how they came to Christ and how they were in such a miserable place and how Jesus Christ changed and transformed and saved them.
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I could listen to testimonies all day.
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The power of God at work.
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So don't forget.
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You'll never forget who you were before Christ changed you.
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So when the person comes along, whether it's now or whether it's down the road, when the person comes along and says, "Hey, hey, you've got to stop being so fired up about Jesus." You say, "I can't help it.
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I can't help it.
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I can't deny the effect that he's had on my life.
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I have written documentation of the effect that he's had on my life.
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I can't I can't deny I heard one person describe sharing the gospel sharing witnessing talking about it being natural they talked about witnessing this way they said you know evangelism is really just one beggar telling another beggar where he can find some bread and if you put yourself in that scenario imagine if you're a beggar and you found this place that says hey we have as much bread as we can give out.
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Anybody who's hungry can come and get it.
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Wouldn't you go and tell your beggar friends, "Hey, I found the answer to our problem.
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I found a place where we can get fed." And that's the gospel.
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That's when God takes us rotten, rebellious sinners and transforms us.
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And then we go out and find other rotten, rebellious sinners and we're like, "Hey, we found the answer.
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We found Jesus Christ and he can save you and he can change you." Witnessing is easy.
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When you are a witness, when you're like Peter and John, when you've seen and heard and experienced the Lord in your own life, when you've seen His hand at work in others, you can say, you know, witnessing isn't something that I do.
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Being a witness is actually what I am.
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And when I'm being true to what I am, then I find that witnessing is easy.
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Let's pray.
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Father in heaven, we thank you so much for the example that you've set forth in your Word from Peter, that you've preserved for us, that we can go back and read these accounts.
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such great encouragement, Father, to see that I think so many times we think that we have to be Bible college graduates or we have to have some kind of certification.
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We don't see that in your Word. We see regular blue-collar fishermen that you used to turn the world upside down simply because they had been with Jesus, simply because they had stories of the way that Jesus Christ had changed them. They had seen too much and they have heard too much and they had they had witnessed too much about Jesus to even want to shut up about him. They'd seen too much. They couldn't stop speaking about Jesus. And Father I pray that for this church. I pray that we wouldn't be so consumed with these other things that we lose sight of God at work in our lives how you saved us how you changed us and how you continue to do that every day how you continue to transform us and grow us and mature us in our walks father I pray I pray father that we would cultivate that time with you in your word and in prayer and in private worship.
32:30-32:46
So that Father as we are nurturing this real relationship that we have with you, we're going to walk out of our doors and realize that witnessing is actually a very easy thing because it's the overflow of what you're already doing.
32:48-32:51
So Father, I pray for all of us, for myself and my brothers and sisters here.
32:52-32:53
Grow us.
32:55-32:59
Grow us as witnesses for Jesus Christ.
33:00-33:02
It's in His name that we pray.
33:03-33:03
Amen.
Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Acts 4:13-22
How did the religious leaders know Peter and John had been with Jesus (Acts 4:13)? How will people know YOU have?
Why do some people, like these religious leaders in this passage, refuse to accept Jesus even though they can’t deny the evidence of Who He is? Hint: See John 3:19.
Share some things that you have seen Jesus do in your life, or the lives of those around you, that you cannot deny (as Peter said in Acts 4:20).
Breakout Questions:
Pray for each person in the group, by name, to be a better witness. Take turns praying, pray for the person on your left, he prays for the person on his left, etc...
