My Pulpit Message - notes Grow and Go - The Boldness of the Apostles My Pulpit Message Notes are extracted from the sermon preached at the Nairobi Baptist Church (NBC) Ngong Road on Sunday 23rdJanuary 2022. Preacher: Reverend Majid Ochieng, NBC Deputy Senior Pastor. Topic: The Boldness of the Apostles. Scripture: Acts 4:1-17
Grow and go are two sides of one coin. There is a place of growing and after than there is going. If you go Acts 2 and have not grown there is a lot of emptiness. Similarly if you just grow and keep on growing The church experiences the receiving of the dythen we may end up with too much information. namic power of the Holy Spirit. If we are with someone especially a figure of au- Acts 3 thority, someone that we admire, we want to be like them and do the things that they do. This happens to all of us. Acts 4:13 Acts 4:13 13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and 13 When they saw the realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they courage of Peter and John and realized that they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. ness. -
Jesus Christ comes and transforms us.
Acts 1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3 After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with[a] water, but in a few days you will be baptized with[b] the Holy Spirit.”
- After the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, they became also changed men because they honoured and obeyed the instructions as they waited. They were preaching and teaching, miracles were happening, people were being healed, signs were following their works. They preached with bold-
The healing of the lame man was proof that the apostles were carrying out the ministry of Jesus Christ as He had told them. Especially as Peter stands with the lame man he offers up many infallible truths that it was not he or John who healed this man but Jesus Christ that they had crucified is the One that performs all the signs and wonders. As Peter spoke about 3000 men got born again. Acts 4
The trouble begins because the persecution begins. This is because the leadership were not amused at the preaching of the apostles. They thought they had silenced Jesus Christ. They were not amused that people were becoming believers. They were not amused There is this assurance that Jesus had left, he had because signs and wonders were following the preachbeen killed, but resurrected and he appeared to them ing and the work of the apostles. to assure them that He is still alive that that which He taught was not in vain.
3 TT 137 | JAN 24th -30th| 2022
