PETER AND THE PASSION (3 OF 7)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Acts 5:4, Acts 5:12-33, Acts 5:35-42
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Peter And The Passion (3 of 7)
Series: When The Rock Moved
Jeff Strite
Acts 5:12-42
OPEN: In Reader's Digest, a young woman told of being employed as a dental receptionist.
She said: I was on duty when an extremely nervous patient came for root canal surgery. He was brought into the examining room and made comfortable in the reclining dental chair. The dentist then injected a numbing agent around the patient's tooth, and left the room for a few minutes while the medication took hold.
When the dentist returned, the patient was standing next to a tray of dental equipment.
''What are you doing by the surgical instruments?'' asked the surprised dentist.
Focused on his task, the patient replied, ''I'm taking out the ones I don't like.''
APPLY: Apparently, some of those tools made the patient very uncomfortable. AND, his intention was to remove anything from the tray that was unpleasant to him.
I. The High Priest and the Sanhedrin are uncomfortable.
There's something about the Apostles (and what they're preaching) that is unpleasant for these leaders.
SO... their intention is to ''remove'' this irritation from their sight
- They begin with a warning in Acts Chapter 4
- Now, they jail them, flog them and warn them sternly not to do this again
- AND later, we find them openly persecuting (not just the Apostle) but the whole church
They threatened them
Beat them
Imprisoned them
And even stoned some of them to death
Now... why would they do this?
I mean Peter and John - and the rest of the church - were doing good things in the community
They are helping people...
healing the sick,
reaching out to the poor
standing against evil
These are good citizens
So, why are the High Priest and the Sanhedrin so angry with these Apostles? Why are they making life so difficult on them?
(pause...)
Well... it's not because of what they DOING... but because of what they TEACHING
II. What is it about their teaching that made the Sanhedrin ...
Series: When The Rock Moved
Jeff Strite
Acts 5:12-42
OPEN: In Reader's Digest, a young woman told of being employed as a dental receptionist.
She said: I was on duty when an extremely nervous patient came for root canal surgery. He was brought into the examining room and made comfortable in the reclining dental chair. The dentist then injected a numbing agent around the patient's tooth, and left the room for a few minutes while the medication took hold.
When the dentist returned, the patient was standing next to a tray of dental equipment.
''What are you doing by the surgical instruments?'' asked the surprised dentist.
Focused on his task, the patient replied, ''I'm taking out the ones I don't like.''
APPLY: Apparently, some of those tools made the patient very uncomfortable. AND, his intention was to remove anything from the tray that was unpleasant to him.
I. The High Priest and the Sanhedrin are uncomfortable.
There's something about the Apostles (and what they're preaching) that is unpleasant for these leaders.
SO... their intention is to ''remove'' this irritation from their sight
- They begin with a warning in Acts Chapter 4
- Now, they jail them, flog them and warn them sternly not to do this again
- AND later, we find them openly persecuting (not just the Apostle) but the whole church
They threatened them
Beat them
Imprisoned them
And even stoned some of them to death
Now... why would they do this?
I mean Peter and John - and the rest of the church - were doing good things in the community
They are helping people...
healing the sick,
reaching out to the poor
standing against evil
These are good citizens
So, why are the High Priest and the Sanhedrin so angry with these Apostles? Why are they making life so difficult on them?
(pause...)
Well... it's not because of what they DOING... but because of what they TEACHING
II. What is it about their teaching that made the Sanhedrin ...
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