Midweek Review #10 (Acts 5:12-42)

Remember the suffering of our brothers and sisters around the world. In closing here,

I think this is the key point. The last few verses, notice the reaction of the apostles when they get set free.

It comes on the other end of a beating, and I'm sure it was a violent one like Jesus endured, but notice how they respond.

We'll be done after this. Verse 40, And when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus and let them go.

Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.

And every day in the temple and from house to house they did not cease teaching and preaching that the

Christ is Jesus. And this is the big point

I'm trying to communicate. They counted themselves blessed and honored that they suffered dishonor for the name.

Philippians 1 29, For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him but also to suffer for him.

What a privilege it is for us to be willing to endure suffering for the sake of the name.

Because in that we say that we worship him who is more valuable than anything else that we have. This is how we declare his worth.

We endure suffering for the sake of the name. That's what I take from this passage.

I hope you take it too. This world will not be won by weaklings, the suave and the mild.

It's going to be won by people like Wurmbrandt, Sabina as well as her husband

Richard. By people like Hatham who loved the very people that tried to kill him.

By people like Dura who endured punishment from her own husband.

By disciples like this who would not stop preaching and teaching from house to house and in the public places.