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Complete Sermon Notes
A Coward Has No Power
OPENING PRAYER – Tuesday election – sorrow can produce action [fast].
Benjamin Franklin – “If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?
Monday’s prayer Focus – a new president by the time we meet again.
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INTRO: A Coward Has No [spiritual] Power – the connection has been lost.
The church is looking for better methods – God is looking for better men.
Peter and John Arrested
ACTS 4 Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, 2 being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. 4 However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
Sadducees – no resurrection.
Church growth model – “heard the word”: unadulterated, untarnished – REPENT AND BELIEVE was the main message – preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
This begs the question to churches, “Does the world love the way we ‘do church’?” Do they appreciate that we never challenge, or calls things into question? Do they like the fact that we never make people feel uncomfortable or offended? If so, you may want to reconsider Jesus’ words that true disciples will be hated by the world.
Obviously, churches should be welcoming, loving, accepting, friendly, warm, hospitable places of worship. But please don’t misunderstand: they should also challenge, contend, exhort, reprove, and admonish from the pulpit—this, the world will hate.
“I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Deut. 31:11 when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, 13 and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.”
1. * A coward avoids the difficult truths – someone filled with the Spirit must declare them.
Addressing the Sanhedrin – 5 And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes, 6 as well as Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, “By what power or by what name have you done this?”
Annas and Caiaphas were both High Priests – Annas was the first.
They were hoping for a different answer – When God moves,
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Complete Sermon Notes
A Coward Has No Power
OPENING PRAYER – Tuesday election – sorrow can produce action [fast].
Benjamin Franklin – “If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?
Monday’s prayer Focus – a new president by the time we meet again.
________________________________________________
INTRO: A Coward Has No [spiritual] Power – the connection has been lost.
The church is looking for better methods – God is looking for better men.
Peter and John Arrested
ACTS 4 Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, 2 being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. 4 However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
Sadducees – no resurrection.
Church growth model – “heard the word”: unadulterated, untarnished – REPENT AND BELIEVE was the main message – preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
This begs the question to churches, “Does the world love the way we ‘do church’?” Do they appreciate that we never challenge, or calls things into question? Do they like the fact that we never make people feel uncomfortable or offended? If so, you may want to reconsider Jesus’ words that true disciples will be hated by the world.
Obviously, churches should be welcoming, loving, accepting, friendly, warm, hospitable places of worship. But please don’t misunderstand: they should also challenge, contend, exhort, reprove, and admonish from the pulpit—this, the world will hate.
“I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Deut. 31:11 when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, 13 and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.”
1. * A coward avoids the difficult truths – someone filled with the Spirit must declare them.
Addressing the Sanhedrin – 5 And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes, 6 as well as Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, “By what power or by what name have you done this?”
Annas and Caiaphas were both High Priests – Annas was the first.
They were hoping for a different answer – When God moves,