The Secret Of Holy Boldness
Dr. Adrian Rogers
I'm speaking tonight on this subject, "the secret of holy boldness." I think if there's anything we need in this 20th century - where it's not primarily the moral majority but the silent majority - we need an epidemic of holy boldness. The Bible says here in Acts 4 verse 13, "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled and took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus." Now if you're one of those who wished that you had more courage to testify and witness for Jesus I want you to pay attention. I am convinced that many of us want to share our faith and want to tell others about our Savior, but we've been intimidated and we are cowardly Christians.
When I was a little boy there used to be a program on the radio called the Low-Pressure Salesman, and he had to go out and make sales but he was intimidated by people and he would knock on the door and then say, "Nobody home I hope, I hope, I hope." Do you remember that program? That will date you if you remember that, the Low-Pressure Salesman. And I believe that there are a lot of people like that when they go out to testify for Jesus. Their loyalty makes them go on the one hand, but their fear makes them slow on the other. They just are not the vibrant testimony for Jesus that they ought to be.
Well, what made Peter and John so bold? I want us to go back and get the setting here if we can and I begin reading now in chapter 4 verses 1-3, "And as they spake unto the people the priests and the captain of the temple and the Saduccees came upon them, being grieved that they taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on them and put them in hold until the next day," that means they were in jail, "for it was now eventide. Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed, and the num ...
Dr. Adrian Rogers
I'm speaking tonight on this subject, "the secret of holy boldness." I think if there's anything we need in this 20th century - where it's not primarily the moral majority but the silent majority - we need an epidemic of holy boldness. The Bible says here in Acts 4 verse 13, "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled and took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus." Now if you're one of those who wished that you had more courage to testify and witness for Jesus I want you to pay attention. I am convinced that many of us want to share our faith and want to tell others about our Savior, but we've been intimidated and we are cowardly Christians.
When I was a little boy there used to be a program on the radio called the Low-Pressure Salesman, and he had to go out and make sales but he was intimidated by people and he would knock on the door and then say, "Nobody home I hope, I hope, I hope." Do you remember that program? That will date you if you remember that, the Low-Pressure Salesman. And I believe that there are a lot of people like that when they go out to testify for Jesus. Their loyalty makes them go on the one hand, but their fear makes them slow on the other. They just are not the vibrant testimony for Jesus that they ought to be.
Well, what made Peter and John so bold? I want us to go back and get the setting here if we can and I begin reading now in chapter 4 verses 1-3, "And as they spake unto the people the priests and the captain of the temple and the Saduccees came upon them, being grieved that they taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on them and put them in hold until the next day," that means they were in jail, "for it was now eventide. Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed, and the num ...
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