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Acts 4:1-2 Peter and John Talking Too Much · Life For Toledo

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  This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson. I'm pastor of New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church and
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  director of the Southside Life Station. You're receiving this message because you opted in
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  to be encouraged.
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  The Lord took me back again this morning to Acts chapter 4 verses 1 and 2. There Peter
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  and John are witnessing about Jesus and it said, and as they were speaking to the people,
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  the priest and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came upon them, being greatly
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  disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection
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  from the dead. There were people among them that didn't even believe in life after death
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  and they're not very happy about Peter and John talking about Jesus coming back to life.
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  They're not very happy about Peter and John talking about Jesus in general. And I realized
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  as I was reading this that during witnessing you're going to have to make yourself available
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  for people to come up to you. Some people who have questions or want to hear what you
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  have to say and others who may not like what you have to say. People may use the world's
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  system to try to get you to stop talking about what you know about Jesus or living according
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  to what you know about Jesus. It does happen, happens even today. And maybe when it happens,
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  instead of us being intimidated, we need to realize that it is confirmation that we are
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  living the way we are supposed to be living and speaking the way we're supposed to be
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  speaking. So speak up, live up for Jesus. Maybe you're one of those people who ask questions.
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  We're available to answer those questions the best we know how. But the bottom line
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  is you can turn your life over to Jesus today. You can say, okay, Lord, forgive me of my
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  sins and help me live for you for the rest of my life. And so doing God will make you
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  born again. And you'll be in that position where you will then need to talk about what
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  it is that God is doing in your life and live for him. Maybe you want to do that through
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