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DONTRUN FROM YOUR PROBLEMSFACE THEM.

FORMERLYBUT-NOW

NOT ON WHATWAS, BUT ON WHAT CANBE.

RUNAWAY FUGITIVE SLAVE WHO MET A RISEN CHRIST AND GOT SAVED, JUSTIFIED, RENEWED DIDNT DENY HIS PROBLEMS, DIDNT RUN FROM HIS PROBLEMS BUT INSTEAD DID WHAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE UNWILLING TO DO : HE WENT BACK FACED HIS PROBLEM AND ULTIMATELY TRUSTED GOD WITH THE RESULTS.

WHEN YOU ARE IN CHRIST WE DONT HAVE TO DENY OUR PROBLEMS, WE DONT HAVE TO RUN FROM THEM BUT WE CAN FACE THEM

BEFORE CHRIST WE ARE DEAD TO SIN, THERE IS NO HOPE. BUT NOW THAT WE ARE IN CHRIST WE CAN FACE OUR PROBLEMS

Formerly, you made a bad decision, but now you are the righteousness of God in Christ.Formerly you were lost in your sins, but now, youve been found.

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4PETERJOHNCOURAGEBOLDNESSPeter and John were walking along one time and they see a guy who had been crippled for more than forty years. Imagine he has been in a wheelchair or crutches for 40 years. Peter said to Silver and Gold I dont have! But Get up and walk. And he does! And all of a sudden that action stirs all of this controversy because everybody around knew this guy couldn't walk.

And so, some of the temple guards under the command of the Sanhedrin, the religious group ruling of the day, sent some people out to arrest Peter and John. And they brought them and put them on trial in front of the Sanhedrin, and here's what the Sanhedrin would do; they would actually, all of the Sanhedrin in their robes would line up in this big circle and then put the people on trial in the middle to intimidate them. They would hurl questions from all directions and then they would decide on their fate:

'WE'RE JUST GOING TO BEAT YOU,' 'WE'RE GOING TO IMPRISON YOU,' OR 'WE'RE GOING TO KILL YOU.' SO, PETER AND JOHN WERE IN THE MIDDLE AND ONE PERSON ASKED, BY WHAT NAME AND BY WHAT AUTHORITY DO YOU DO THESE THINGS? AND HERE'S THE BOLD RESPONSE, ACTS 4:8 (NEXT SLIDE)

58 THEN PETER, FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, SAID TO THEM, "RULERS AND ELDERS OF OUR PEOPLE, 9 ARE WE BEING QUESTIONED TODAY BECAUSE WE'VE DONE A GOOD DEED FOR A CRIPPLED MAN? DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW HE WAS HEALED? 10 LET ME CLEARLY STATE TO ALL OF YOU AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL THAT HE WAS HEALED BY THE POWERFUL NAME OF JESUS CHRIST THE NAZARENE, THE MAN YOU CRUCIFIED BUT WHOM GOD RAISED FROM THE DEAD. ACTS 4:8-10 NLTOne thing that STOOD UP in this STATEMENT is how BOLD and FULL OF COURAGE THEIR WORDS AND STATEMENT PETER DIDNT HOLD BACK or being POLITICALLY CORRECT! HE JUST SAID IT LIKE IT IS.

I cannot possibly overstate how bold that was. The Sanhedrin's hated Jesus, they were glad he was gone, they never wanted to hear from them again. And the foundation of their beliefs were that resurrection was impossible, they didn't believe in the resurrection from the dead. And so Peter points right at the people who had the power to kill him and says, 'You killed Jesus, He's back, He's raised from the dead.' Essentially, he made a statement that was a declaration of war and they're like, 'Wow!'

Now, what's really interesting to me is that two thousand years ago, what name was so controversial? The name of Jesus, right? Two thousand years later, what name brings so much controversy? The name of Jesus.

Think about it; I mean, in our world today, Everybody likes a little God talk, a little spirituality talk, it's just when you bring Jesus into it that everybody gets all freaked out!

Let's be honest, you can go on Oprah and you can talk about a higher power all day long, Oh yeah, that's good, that's interesting. Oh, and God did this, and the spirit did this, and I'm a spiritual person, I've got spirituality. Oh yeah, huggie, cry, cry! But as soon as you say, Jesus, everything changes!WHY? BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THAT NAME. AND SO, PETER POINTS RIGHT AT THEM AND SAYS, 'JESUS, YOU KILLED HIM, HE'S BACK!

I was asked to pray one time in a sporting Gathering by International Student Club gathering in one of the college But please dont use the name of Jesus! To be Neutral!

Then whose name would I pray??

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613 THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL WERE AMAZED WHEN THEY SAW THE (COURAGE) BOLDNESS OF PETER AND JOHN, FOR THEY COULD SEE THAT THEY WERE ORDINARY MEN WITH NO SPECIAL TRAINING IN THE SCRIPTURES. THEY ALSO RECOGNIZED THEM AS MEN WHO HAD BEEN WITH JESUS. ACTS 4:13 NLTLETS STOP HERE & LET THIS SPECIFIC VERSE SPEAK TO US!!

TO SEE PETERS JOURNEY ITS PRETTY REMARKABLE THEIR COURAGE AND THEIR BOLDNESS TO SPEAK AND TO ACT UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS NAME.

NOW BASED ON THIS, WE KNOW ABOUT THEIR SCANDALOUS BOLDNESS FACTS!!7GOD GIVESORDINARYPEOPLE EXTRAORDINARYCOURAGE

(THE LEADERS) COULD SEE THAT (PETER AND JOHN) WERE ORDINARY MEN WITH NO SPECIAL TRAINING IN THE SCRIPTURES. ACTS 4:13 NLT8ORDINARYMEN: IDIOTES

OBSERVATION THESE GUYS ARE UNTRAINED IGNORANT UNSKILLED NO SPECIAL TRAINING!!

it's the word idiot! Yeah, I like that! The Bible translators, they're just too polite. The most literal translation is, these guys were amazed and couldn't believe the boldness of these idiots. Here's the deal; God, if you're like the best of the best, the brightest of brightest, God can still use you, He can, I promise you! It's just that He specializes in using idiots! He does, He loves using ordinary people.

BLESS THEIR HEART JOKE - It sounds sweet and Southern, it's not! Whenever someone says, Bless your heart, what they're saying is, You're not nothing but an idiot! You just need to know that, it means you're an idiot. You just watch, some girl comes in and her clothes don't match and they just go, Well bless her heart, look at that! BLESS THEIR HEART They are iDIOTES!

REFLECTION YOU DONT NEED TO BE AN EXPERT TO EXPERIENCE THE EXTRAORDINARY TO DO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS WITH EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE FOR EXTRAORDINARY PURPOSE.

IN FACT THEY ARE CALLED BY MARK THE WRITER - IDIOTES9THEIR BOLDNESSAMAZEDEVERYONE.THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL WERE AMAZED WHEN THEY SAW THE BOLDNESS OF PETER AND JOHN. ACTS 4:13 NLTFACT OBSERVATION THEIR BOLDNESS AMAZE EVERYONE!!

ITS VERY VISIBLE VERY MUCH RADICAL! FEARLESS! BOLD! FULL OF COURAGE

JUST LIKE PAUL SAID: I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL

WHATS THE SECRET? WHATS THE KEY?? WHAT HAPPEN??

10THEY ALSO RECOGNIZED THEM AS MEN WHO HAD BEEN WITH JESUS. ACTS 4:14They also recognize these guys as men who had been with Jesus. How in the world could Peter stand in the face of possible death and declare what he did? He knew, encounter and experience Jesus, he could be bold because he had been with Jesus. SEE THERE IS A DIFFERENCE TO KNOW ABOUT JESUS and actually HAD BEEN WITH JESUS

BUT WHAT HAPPEN ACTUALLY WITH JESUS BECAUSE NEXT SLIDE11BUT THEYVE BEEN WITH JESUS!!!THEY HAD BEEN WITH JESUS for 3 and half years! BUT IF YOU NOTICE WHY THE BOLDNESS OF THESE DISCIPLES START TO SHOW UP IN THE BOOK OF ACTS

PETER IS ACTUALLY PRETTY BOLD BUT HOW COME HE STILL DENY JESUS 3 times???

STORY GARDEN OF GETHSEMANI PETER CUT THE EAR OF MALCHUS one of the officer that arrested Jesus BUT THEN RIGHT AFTER THAT HE DENIED JESUS 3 times 12PETERS BOLDNESS CAME FROM HIS OWN STRENGTHWHICH IS BOUND TO FAIL MAYBE THE SOLDIERS THAT CAPTURED JESUS in THE GARDEN GETSEMANI WERE JUST A FEW but THEN WHEN PETER FOLLOWED JESUS TO BE TRIED AND TORTURED THERE ARE HUNDREDS OFSOLDIERS.

SO THAT WHEN A LITTLE GIRL ASK PETER IF HE WAS JESUS DISCIPLE HE WAS AFRAID AND NO LONGER HAVE COURAGE OR EVEN THE BOLDNESS ANYMORE AND IN FACT HE DENIED JESUS 3 times

FROM HERO TO ZERO

THIS IS REFLECTION OF OUR BEST EFFORT IS A FAILURE IN FRONT OF GOD

OUR RIGHTEUSNESS IS LIKE A FILTHY RAG NO MATTER WHAT WE CANT REACH GODS STANDARD!

THATS WHY HE CAME TO A PLACE OF BROKENESS! HE WAS COMPLETELY BROKEN FELT LIKE HE BETRAYED GOD NEXT SLIDE13SUDDENLY, JESUS WORDS FLASHED THROUGH PETERS MIND: BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS, YOU WILL DENY THREE TIMES THAT YOU EVEN KNOW ME. AND HE WENT AWAY, WEEPING BITTERLY. MATT 26:75

THE GRACE OF GOD CAN ONLY FLOW FROM BROKEN VESSELSWHEN PETER Denied Jesus 3 Times PETER FAILED HE DIDNT KEEP HIS WORD (He said previosuly I wont leave you But then He denied Jesus) PETER FINALLY REALIZE HE DOESNT HAVE WHAT IT TAKES!!

DO YOU KNOW THAT PETER WAS SO BROKEN AND FEEL LIKE A FAILURE AT THAT MOMENT THATPETER WENT BACK FISHING!! And SOME OF THE DISCIPLE IN JOHN 21 went with him!! BUT THEN AS YOU KNOW JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN JESUS CAME AND MEET PEOPLE

Jesus came after the SO CALLED DISCIPLES(THEY QUIT AND WENT BACK FISHING) were fishing with no result! JESUS was waiting at the shore and asked them to spread their net again and they suddenly experience miracle right there and then and gotten many fish.

When they came back JESUS PREPARED BREAKFAST FOR THEM AND HE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH PETER!!

THIS IS MOMENT PETER EXPERIENCE THE GRACE OF GOD THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE OF GOD IMAGINE THAT MOMENT

14SIMON SON OF JOHN, DO YOU LOVE ME MORE THAN THESE?YES, LORD, PETER REPLIED, YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.THEN FEED MY LAMBS, JESUS TOLD HIM.16JESUS REPEATED THE QUESTION: SIMON SON OF JOHN, DO YOU LOVE ME? YES, LORD, PETER SAID, YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.THEN TAKE CARE OF MY SHEEP, JESUS SAID.17A THIRD TIME HE ASKED HIM, SIMON SON OF JOHN, DO YOU LOVE ME? PETER WAS GRIEVED THAT JESUS ASKED THE QUESTION A THIRD TIME. HE SAID, LORD, YOU KNOW EVERYTHING. YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU. JOHN 21:15-17JESUS ASKED DO YOU AGAPE ME PETER FELT A FAILURE I CANT AGAPE YOU ANSWER I PHILEO YOU!

The 2nd time- JESUS ASKED AGAIN DO YOU AGAPE ME? PETER SAID IT AGAIN I PHILEO YOU

THE 3rd time is very INTERESTING and its a reflection that it is GOD WHO COMES DOWN AND REACH OUT TO US: JESUS SAID DO YOU PHILEO ME THEN PETER CRIED HE WAS GRIEVED HE WAS BROKEN

BECAUSE HE REALIZED HE CANT DO IT!! HE IS NOT ARROGANT ANYMOREHE DOESNT THINK HE CAN ANYMORE. HE IS BROKENHE FELT LIKE NOTHINGHE BASICALLY SAID THAT I CANT EVEN REACH TO YOUR STANDARD JESUS

I GOT GOOD NEWS FOR YOU IF YOU FEEL THAT WAY YOU ARE A PERFECT CANDIDATE FOR GODS GRACE

IF YOU FELT THAT YOU ARE ABLE THEN THATS WHEN YOU ALREADY FAIL BECAUSE NONE OF US CAN BUT IT TAKES PETER TO DENY JESUS 3 times FOR HIM TO REALIZE THAT EVEN HIS DEDICATION AND HIS BOLDNESS IS NOT THAT BOLD AFTER ALL.15

AND AFTER SAYING THIS HE SAID TO HIM, FOLLOW ME.JOHN 21:19

THE SCANDAL OF GRACE IS PERSONAL FOR PETER (IDIOTES)MAY I POINT IT OUT THAT THIS EXACT SITUATION IS EERIELY SIMILAR TO LUKE 5 When PETER WAS CALLED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME TO BE A DISCIPLE BY JESUS.

LUKE 5 PETER SAID : DEPART FROM ME LORD FOR I AM A SINFUL MAN!! AND JESUS SAID DONT BE AFRAID FOLLOW ME I WILL MAKE YOU A FISHER OF MEN!!

WHAT JESUS IS SAYING IN JOHN 21 IS: REMEMBER WHEN YOU STARTED YOU FELT UNWORTHY NOT QUALIFIED BUT I CHOSE YOU BY GRACE

NOW AFTER 3 and half years walking with me You steer away from Gods grace and rely on your own strength ON your knowledgeyour reputation that you thought you have by WALKING with the MESSIAH

JESUS ORCHESTRATED THE EXACT SAME SITUATION IN JOHN 21 TO REMIND HIM of HIS GRACE WHEN PETER START and to SHOW PETER THAT EVEN WHEN HE FAILED and JESUS GAVE PETER GRACE TO BE ACCEPTED AND EMBRACED AND LOVED EVEN AFTER HE DENIED HIM

THE SCANDALOUS GRACE OF GOD BECOMES VERY PERSONAL TO PETER WHO IS IDIOTES (ORDINARY) HE IS SAYING I AM NOTHING!! I NEED YOU JESUS!! I CANT REACH YOU. I CANT EVEN FOLLOW YOU WITH MY OWN STRENGTH BUT YOU TELL ME TO FOLLOW YOU ANYWAY!

WHY PETER PREACHED WITH SUCH CONVICTION BECAUSE THE GRACE OF GOD IS NOT JUST A THEORY, A SERMON, OR A STORY. BUT IT BECOMES PERSONAL!!

ITS PERSONAL!! HIS BOLDNESS DOESNT COME FROM KNOWLEDGE, BOOK, THEORY. BUT IT COMES FROM AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE SCANDALOUS GRACE!! ITS SO BEAUTIFUL! ITS PERSONAL FOR PETER!16IS IT PERSONAL TO YOU?

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