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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Monday, February 11, 2019
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Peter and John Arrested Bible Verse:Acts 4:1-12 "And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand. On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” " Message:
Peter has been openly defying the Sanhedrin. Just months after Jesus was tried and executed for heresy, Peter has begun to preach Jesus’ message openly, in public, and right in Jerusalem itself—the heart of the Jewish religious establishment. He has converted 5,000 people. He is practically asking to be arrested and executed.
Annas and Caiphas
How far he has come since he denied Jesus three times after Jesus was arrested! Peter is exploding with courage. When Annas and Caiaphas (as well as other high priests) ask him how he has made the lame man whole, Peter gives it to them in spades. He summarizes the very speech he has been making in public to win converts—he goes so far as to accuse, by implication, the high priests of murdering a man sent by God.
And then, he tells them right to their faces that “there is salvation in no one else.” They, the high priests, have been superseded. Jesus, and his Holy Spirit operating through Peter, have replaced the very priests before whom he stands.
But the climate has changed. Now, Christians number 5,000 in a city that, by modern standards, is quite small. Most estimates run about 30,000 to 50,000 permanent residents. Their strategy of stopping the heresy by executing the leader has failed; this Jesus person has become a real thorn in the Sanhedrin’s side.
Meditation : Prayer : May the word I have read, Lord, be planted deeply in my mind and heart. Help me not to walk away and forget it, but to meditate on it and obey it and so built my life on the rock of your truth........Amen. |
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