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HAVE YOU BEEN WITH JESUS

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Acts 4:13


Have You Been With Jesus
Donald Cantrell
Acts 4: 13


Act 4:13 KJV - Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

I - Being With Jesus Initiates Change

II - Being With Jesus Invokes Commitment

III - Being With Jesus Instills Courage

IV - Being With Jesus Invites Calm

V - Being With Jesus Involves Conquering

VI - Being With Jesus Indicates Companionship

Theme: ''The testimony of Peter and John could not be denied''

John Newton Discovered Amazing Grace

The Greyhound had been thrashing about in the north Atlantic storm for over a week. Its canvas sails were ripped, and the wood on one side of the ship had been torn away and splintered. The sailors had little hope of survival, but they mechanically worked the pumps, trying to keep the vessel afloat. On the eleventh day of the storm, sailor John Newton was too exhausted to pump, so he was tied to the helm and tried to hold the ship to its course. From one o'clock until midnight he was at the helm.

With the storm raging fiercely, Newton had time to think. His life seemed as ruined and wrecked as the battered ship he was trying to steer through the storm. Since the age of eleven, he had lived a life at sea. Sailors were not noted for the refinement of their manners, but Newton had a reputation for profanity, coarseness, and debauchery which even shocked many a sailor.

John Newton was known as ''The Great Blasphemer.'' He sank so low at one point that he was even a servant to slaves in Africa for a brief period. His mother had prayed he would become a minister and had early taught him the Scriptures and Isaac Watts' Divine Songs for Children. Some of those early childhood teachings came to mind now. He remembered Proverbs 1:24-31, and in the midst of that storm, those verses seemed to confirm Newton's despair.

John Newton had rejected his ...

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