A Disturbing Example (9 of 34)
Series: Acts
Robert Dawson
Acts 4:32-5:16
If at first you don't succeed then try, try and try again. Words of wisdom and encouragement to anyone, as long as what they are trying is good. Determination is a good thing as long as we are determined to do what is good.
Satan's in his adversarial approach to God and His people has taken that little saying to heart. He is determined and unrelenting in his efforts to oppose God and His people.
1. As soon as the Holy Spirit came and empowered God's people and began working through the people of God the enemy stepped up his attacks. Pentecost was followed by persecution.
2. His first attempt to smother the spark of the Gospel before it had a chance to spread was through external pressure and threats.
3. This first attempt did not work. It did not splinter the church it solidified the church. Rather than fracturing the people of God it fused them together.
However, having failed once he does not give up. He does not quit. He never quits. He simply changes his strategy. It has not changed. He has used the same tactics through the years.
Here is the early pages of Acts we discover the tactics he is still employing today. In Acts 4, 5 and six we discover three of the enemy's primary stratagems:
1. Persecution. This has already begun to some degree with the threats and intimidation but the intensity of his efforts in this area will reach fever pitch as the church continues to grow. Believers will be beaten and eventually murdered for their faith.
2. Moral Corruption and Compromise from within the church. If he cannot bring enough external force and pressure on the church so that it crumbles under the weight of it he will seek to corrode the supports of the church from within so that it will give way to the pressures around it.
3. Distraction and Disunity. He will seek to distract the church and its leaders from its main mission.
4. Later in the book of Acts we find ...
Series: Acts
Robert Dawson
Acts 4:32-5:16
If at first you don't succeed then try, try and try again. Words of wisdom and encouragement to anyone, as long as what they are trying is good. Determination is a good thing as long as we are determined to do what is good.
Satan's in his adversarial approach to God and His people has taken that little saying to heart. He is determined and unrelenting in his efforts to oppose God and His people.
1. As soon as the Holy Spirit came and empowered God's people and began working through the people of God the enemy stepped up his attacks. Pentecost was followed by persecution.
2. His first attempt to smother the spark of the Gospel before it had a chance to spread was through external pressure and threats.
3. This first attempt did not work. It did not splinter the church it solidified the church. Rather than fracturing the people of God it fused them together.
However, having failed once he does not give up. He does not quit. He never quits. He simply changes his strategy. It has not changed. He has used the same tactics through the years.
Here is the early pages of Acts we discover the tactics he is still employing today. In Acts 4, 5 and six we discover three of the enemy's primary stratagems:
1. Persecution. This has already begun to some degree with the threats and intimidation but the intensity of his efforts in this area will reach fever pitch as the church continues to grow. Believers will be beaten and eventually murdered for their faith.
2. Moral Corruption and Compromise from within the church. If he cannot bring enough external force and pressure on the church so that it crumbles under the weight of it he will seek to corrode the supports of the church from within so that it will give way to the pressures around it.
3. Distraction and Disunity. He will seek to distract the church and its leaders from its main mission.
4. Later in the book of Acts we find ...
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