SCRIPTURE: Acts (NIV) 4:7 They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11 He is “‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.’ 12 Salvation is found in no-one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
OBSERVATION: The day before, Peter and John had ministered healing to a cripple who sat at the temple gate (Acts 3:2-11). Such a crowd was gathered that the Jewish leaders put Peter and John in jail. Now they were questioning how they could do this.
The same Holy Spirit that brought the cripple to their attention, the same Holy Spirit who ministered the healing through them, was now speaking through them in their defense! Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, Peter spoke truth about Jesus Christ!
APPLICATION: They spoke truth, explaining what had just happened to the crippled man, AND they spoke eternal truth: “Salvation is found in no-one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved!”
Many of us SOAP readers have known this truth for many years, and there are many SOAP readers who have just discovered the great salvation Jesus has made available for us! We welcome you to the family of God!!!
PRAYER: Holy Spirit, fill us and use us to bring glory to Jesus. May Jesus be glorified through our words and actions today. Amen
Pastor Leon
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