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This is ERC Sundays, the 
messages at Emmaus Rd. 

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Church in DeWitt, Iowa. 
ERC is a Church of people 

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striving to grow in Jesus and 
make him known to others through

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our faith, words and actions. 
Find out more about our church 

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at emmausrdonline.org. 
Here's this week's message. 

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We are continuing in Acts. 
Pastor Chris left us last week 

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with with some thoughts from 
Peter on how the church was 

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together, what they were 
engaging in and what they were 

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doing. 
Since then, Peter and John in 

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chapter 3 have continued to 
preach. 

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They, they healed a man who, who
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and they were persecuted for 
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The, the teachers of the law and
the religious leaders wanted 

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them to stop. 
They, they, they did not support

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what they were doing, especially
that they were doing it in the 

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name of, in the name of Jesus 
and by his power to the point of

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where they were actually, they 
were arrested for healing people

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and, and doing miracles and 
continuing to proclaim the name 

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of Jesus. 
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chapter 4, even they're, they're
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imprisoned, they're taken upon 
their release because they, they

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couldn't really charge them 
this, that they couldn't debate 

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that this man had been healed. 
He was, he was thought to be 

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about in his 40s and he was well
known to have had this 

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affliction since birth. 
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didn't. 
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who knew that he didn't. 
They could, they couldn't really

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for fear of public outcry, they 
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hold Peter and John and, and 
that they couldn't really 

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justify it in that way. 
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end of chapter 4, there's a 
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And some of the of course, not 
all these titles in our in our 

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Bibles were there in the, in the
original editing. 

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We've, we've added those in, in 
our modern languages and in 

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translations, but in, in some 
Bibles, this passage we're going

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to look at at the end of chapter
4 is called a prayer for 

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boldness. 
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are today. 
Acts chapter 4. 

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We are picking up at verse 23. 
This is again after Peter and 

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John had been imprisoned and and
now released by the leaders 

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because they just didn't have 
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to hold them at this time. 
Reading in Jesus name Acts 

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chapter 4 starting at verse 23. 
When they were released they 

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went to their friends and 
reported what the chief priests 

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and elders had said to them. 
When they heard it, they lifted 

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their voices together and said, 
Sovereign Lord, who made the 

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heaven and the earth and the sea
and everything in them, Who 

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through the mouth of our Father 
David, Your servant said, by the

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Holy Spirit, why did the 
Gentiles rage and the people's 

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plot in vain? 
The kings of the earth set 

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themselves, and the rulers were 
gathered together against the 

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Lord and against His anointed. 
For truly in the city they were 

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gathered together against Your 
holy servant Jesus, whom You 

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anointed both Herod and Pontius 
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and the peoples of Israel, to do
whatever Your hand and Your plan

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had predestined to take place. 
And now, Lord, look upon their 

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threats, and grant to Your 
servants to continue to speak 

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Your Word with all boldness, 
while you stretch out your hand 

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to heal. 
And signs and wonders are 

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performed through the name of 
your holy servant, Jesus. 

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And when they had prayed, the 
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gathered together was shaken. 
They were all filled with the 

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Holy Spirit and continued to 
speak the Word of God with 

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boldness. 
How many of you remember TV 

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show? 
I think it's still going on. 

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I'm not sure that it is. 
Who wants to be a millionaire, 

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right? 
This is, this is this like man 

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redefined game shows, right? 
You, you could, you could win 

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$1,000,000. 
There's this new standard of 

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prize on a game show, right? 
And if you kind of remember 

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there, there were 15 questions 
and, and the money kind of 

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multiplied. 
The first five questions were 

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were really pretty easy. 
If you've seen any old, old 

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videos of this show, anyone, 
anyone who got out in the first 

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five questions was like, well, 
that's, that's a joke. 

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Yikes that this person hasn't 
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their life. 
But there were these OK, maybe 

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that was just me. 
There were these safe, safe 

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points along the way after the, 
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there was now a new you were, 
you were going home with at 

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least $5000. 
And, and after, after 10 

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questions, you were, you were 
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Like those, Those were safe 
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And, and it took them a few 
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actually went all the way and 
won and won the $1,000,000. 

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But there were these safe points
all the way and there were there

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were many who tried. 
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reckless. 
But no, I'm you know what came 

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to win a million. 
I'm going to try to answer this 

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question. 
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you were out and you went back 
to whatever safe point you were 

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at. 
But there were some who ventured

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into boldness and many, many 
failed until it was finally 

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done. 
And of course, there have been 

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winners since then and that has 
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But I was thinking about this 
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of, it kind of redefined game 
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But it was also the idea of what
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There was there was this new 
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talks. 
Money talks in our, in our 

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society and in the world, 
there's a way to simply answer 

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15 questions and get $1,000,000.
And that signified some modicum 

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of freedom of power, of wealth, 
of, of time that you now had to 

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make. 
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a manner of boldness to actually
to get to that point, to know 

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the answers, to know the 
strategy of how to use the, the 

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life lines and the helpers and, 
and what you could do along the 

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way to get there. 
Some people ducked out. 

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Some people, you know, what made
it to that second checkpoint got

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to a question they didn't know 
the answer to. 

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And they're like, Nope, I'm, I'm
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safe. 
And I'm going home with what I 

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know. 
I'm going home with, with what 

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I've got to this point. 
I'm not, I'm not going to reach 

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for the ultimate goal of what's 
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I talk about that because it 
relates to this passage in the 

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sense at the early church at 
this point, I think at any point

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there were a couple of 
checkpoints for the people 

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involved in the early church. 
The safe spot there was, there 

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was a safe spot for them and, 
and really for us, knowing what 

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Jesus did, calling on the name 
of the Lord to be saved, 

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acknowledging that he came and 
died and even raised from the 

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dead, is that enough to be 
saved? 

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The Bible tells us it is that 
those who confess and believe 

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and call in the name of the Lord
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Now there's also the second 
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Great Commission to go and make 
disciples to spread this word to

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tell more about him who would be
saved. 

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So we have this first, this 
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yourself, you acknowledging this
Savior Jesus, and that's you 

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could stop there. 
You're good, you're saved. 

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You, you know Jesus this second 
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making disciples, spreading the 
word, telling others, maybe 

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maybe mentoring someone else in 
in the faith that you've come to

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know and, and bringing them 
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You're you're a step or two 
ahead and, and bringing them all

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along in in the footsteps of of 
Jesus that you've walked in and 

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bringing them along with you. 
The early church is past both of

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those things. 
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the numbers of those who 
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about 3000. 
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an accounting that even after 
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and healing at the point that 
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Luke writes in the in the early 
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the the men, the number of men 
who believed was about 5000, 

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which again, if you if they have
households, if they have wives 

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and children. 
I mean the, the early church is 

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growing into into the the 10's 
and 20 thousands at this point 

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of, of believers, the church is 
reaching a critical point. 

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Those first two checkpoints are 
safe, but there's a goal that 

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isn't out of reach, not for the 
power of the Holy Spirit, but 

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there's a temptation for them to
stay just where they are in 

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their own faith, in the faith of
of their family or those close 

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to them. 
There's still a goal to go out 

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and reach the ends of the earth.
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ago the the city and the state 
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then at the end of it, Luke just
wraps in Jesus wraps in the 

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command. 
Well, what I'll just the ends of

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the earth. 
It's all it's everywhere. 

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That's going to require a manner
of boldness because complacency 

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and contentedment or even 
satisfaction in where we've 

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gotten to to this point. 
This is this is maybe a year, 

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maybe a couple years. 
There's 20,000 people from 

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nothing. 
That's pretty good. 

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That's feels like we 
accomplished something here 

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right? 
If this Church of of group of 

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200 believers escalated to 
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would feel like we're doing this
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I would, but what would happen? 
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Say mission accomplished, the 
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brought God's church to do it. 
My life is accomplished. 

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I hope not this. 
Prayer of boldness was so 

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critical for the early church 
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And we're going to start at the 
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because in praying for anything,
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It's not always, it's not always
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the plan or the answer that we 
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prayer for what they were 
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The first part of why this 
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today is God's response, and we 
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When they had prayed, the place 
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shaken. 
They were all filled with the 

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Holy Spirit and continued to 
speak the Word of God with 

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boldness. 
Wish granted God gifted them and

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that word there that we talked 
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and we talked about Pentecost. 
They were filled with the Holy 

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Spirit. 
This wasn't this wasn't just a 

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little dosing. 
They were completely filled 

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topped off supernatural Holy 
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So it's important, and I know 
I'm not, I'm not saying that God

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always grants exactly what we're
asking for. 

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If it's in his design, if it's 
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alignment with what he has laid 
out, yes, he's going to ask. 

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He's going to give what is asked
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And in this case, we see it was 
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But it's important. 
What's more important is how 

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they got there and why this 
boldness was given. 

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This church so needed the 
boldness of the Holy Spirit to 

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continue to to endure 
persecution, to continue to 

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testify and glorify the work 
that God had done. 

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And he responded by filling them
with the Holy Spirit in the same

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way, working through this power.
It's what they so desperately 

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needed, and it's what we still 
desperately need today. 

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But notice it wasn't just 
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Peter and John to this point had
been speaking, testifying, 

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quoting Scripture, speaking 
truth, healing people, working 

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in the power that was given. 
They were not sitting on their 

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hands waiting for God to move. 
They were moving in the power 

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given. 
They were faithful and obedient 

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to this outpouring of the Holy 
Spirit. 

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They were spectacularly obedient
to the gift that God had given, 

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and they were willing to move to
execute His. 

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Plan spectacularly obedient. 
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We cannot passively, 
complacently be praying this 

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prayer for boldness when we 
don't want to be bold. 

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They weren't. 
Peter and John earnestly wanted 

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their boldness to be sustained, 
and their actions backed that 

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up. 
And the gift was continued to 

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be. 
Given the second. 

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Part of why this prayer is 
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because of who was praying. 
We have a little narrative about

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Peter and John in these couple 
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they come back, when they're 
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they're released from their 
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come back to their friends, to 
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It's not just the group of the 
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They come back to their church 
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When they were in captivity, the
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law saw this verse 13. 
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Peter and John, they perceived 
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common men. 
They were astonished, but they 

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recognized that they had been 
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This is the response of the 
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this all to be untrue. 
They couldn't even deny it when 

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they saw the boldness with which
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and healing and filled with the 
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They themselves couldn't deny 
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it quiet. 
They didn't want that getting 

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out. 
They didn't want them or the 

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early church to know what they 
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So beyond this, we see that even
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Luke as uneducated common men. 
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rock stars of this thing, right?
They're they're leading, they're

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leading this thing. 
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They even come back to the 
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the unqualified. 
And I use quotes pretty 

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intentionally there because 
there's there's nothing 

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exceptionally remarkable about 
Chris or I even in this context.

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There's nothing in the word of 
God that is more powerfully 

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preached by us than it could be 
by you. 

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There's nothing, there's no 
prayer that we could pray that 

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is more readily heard by God 
than it would be by you. 

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This prayer is prayed by the 
people, all the people on equal 

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ground who make up the church. 
It's not some big proclamation 

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that only the apostles prayed 
and that only God would hear, 

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because only the apostles prayed
it. 

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It was done by those who maybe 
we're still doubting, who maybe 

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we're still wrestling, who maybe
felt like they shouldn't be the 

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ones praying, but they did it. 
But they prayed and they asked. 

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For boldness, so this. 
Is relevant for us today because

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it wasn't prayed by anyone with 
special rights or privileges 

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then it's it's not done by 
anyone who has special rights or

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privileges. 
Now this prayer is for all of us

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to be praying. 
It's the church, the people 

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gathered, not just the leaders, 
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the apostles, it's the people 
who make up the church praying 

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this prayer. 
The third part of why this 

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prayer matters for us today is 
is when it was prayed, they had 

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just been released from prison. 
There was persecution and 

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opposition to their message 
happening constantly. 

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Peter and John told the church, 
the people who made it up about 

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their experience being being 
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threatened while they were in 
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Verse 13 or verse 18 and chapter
4 here they called them the 

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leaders and the Pharisees, the 
religious leaders, they called 

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them Peter and John and charge 
them to not speak or teach at 

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all in the name of Jesus. 
Sat them down, said stop doing 

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this. 
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them, Whether it is right in the
side of God to listen to you 

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rather than to God, you must 
judge, For we cannot but speak 

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of what we have seen and heard. 
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threatened them, they let them 
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them. 
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their boldness where they can't 
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They don't want to turn it off. 
They don't want to acquiesce to 

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their request to stop. 
But this response that we see is

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we we couldn't if we wanted to, 
we couldn't stop if we tried. 

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That's the point that they are 
filled by the Holy Spirit. 

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It's it's overflowing, it's over
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They can't even keep it in, even
in the face of persecution of 

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threat. 
We don't often experience 

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physical persecution, life 
threatening persecution for our 

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Christianity in this country. 
But there's there's places in 

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the world that certainly do we 
face, I think a different type 

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of persecution of opposition. 
We face an appeal of the worldly

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nature. 
We face distraction by by social

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media and entertainment 
industries looking to flood our 

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thoughts and our consciousness 
and our and our actions with 

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ultimately meaningless things. 
Satan's favorite kind of 

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Christian is a distracted 
Christian, I promise you. 

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One who maybe seems like they're
with it, they're chasing the 

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$1,000,000 prize, but there's 
maybe content with with the 

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$5000 prize found, found 
something good enough to 

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distract me for now. 
I can I can walk along with 

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this. 
Even short of those social 

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pressures, there's certainly 
things that hold us back from 

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acting in boldness. 
We even see it at the beginning 

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of this passage here in Acts 4 
when they were speaking to the 

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people, the priests and the 
captains of the temple and the 

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Sadducees came upon them. 
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chapter 4. 
They came upon them greatly 

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annoyed because they were 
teaching the people and 

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proclaiming in Jesus the 
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Are there people in your life, 
friends, Co workers, family, 

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peers, teachers, students, 
customers who might be greatly 

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annoyed at your proclamation of 
Jesus, either lived out in your 

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life, in your actions or by your
blatant spoken word? 

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I think that faces a lot of us. 
We don't want to be a 

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pesterance. 
We don't want to be an 

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annoyance. 
Maybe some of you do. 

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Not in a malicious way though. 
You don't I in a good way. 

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Yeah, I want to be annoying for 
Jesus, but I think that's what 

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scares us some of the time. 
Are they going to want to hear 

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this? 
Are they going to accept this? 

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Are they going to dismiss me 
because of how I act or what I 

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say? 
It didn't stop Peter and John in

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the early church. 
The 4th part of this prayer and 

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why it matters for us today to 
whom it was prayed and that 

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might it seemed weird to say it 
that way because who else were 

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they praying to other than God? 
But it's important that they 

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prayed to God first and about 
themselves 2nd. 

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And this is how Jesus taught us 
to pray too in the our Father 

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who art in heaven, holy be your 
name, your Kingdom come, your 

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will be done on earth as it is 
in heaven. 

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All of that before a word spoken
about me then give us this day, 

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Our Daily Bread. 
Forgive us our trespasses, 

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right? 
We see that same model here. 

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They acknowledge, they even 
quote, they even quote Scripture

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in their prayer. 
They say sovereign Lord, who 

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made the heaven and the earth 
and the sea and everything in 

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them acknowledgement of His 
Holiness of his of his 

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sovereignty, of his goodness, 
who through the mouth of our 

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Father David, your servant said 
by the Holy Spirit. 

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Then they then they quote Holy 
Spirit inspired Scripture from 

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King David for truly in this 
city they were gathered together

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against your holy servant Jesus,
whom you anointed both Herod and

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Pontius Pilate along with the 
Gentiles and the people of 

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Israel to do whatever your hand 
and your plan and predestined to

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take place. 
They acknowledge all of these 

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things. 
They talk about the threat that 

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face Jesus, the threat that is 
facing them now. 

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They acknowledge the greatness 
of God and his sovereignty over 

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it all. 
And then verse 29. 

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Now, Lord, look upon their 
threats and grant to Your 

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servants to continue to speak 
Your word with all boldness 

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while you stretch out your hand,
heal and signs and wonders are 

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performed. 
They start with the greatness of

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God, and they finish the prayer 
with how they see Him moving, 

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with how they want to move in 
His name, to do whatever your 

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hand in Your plan had 
predestined to take. 

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Place. 
So all these things in form, why

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God's response with boldness, 
with what they asked for. 

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Look at how they got there. 
They believed it. 

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It was just them. 
There wasn't anything special. 

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They prayed it even under 
threat, not just because the 

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grass was green. 
They weren't dissuaded by the 

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annoyance that might come by the
punishment that might come by 

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the oppression or negative 
things that that might enter 

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their lives. 
And they also, amidst it all, 

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still acknowledge God. 
You're in control. 

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You are great and sovereign over
all this and we need your help 

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and we need you to move in power
to see this thing. 

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Through I know we. 
Say sometimes that praying to 

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God, it doesn't matter the words
you say and to some to some 

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degree it doesn't. 
You can say anything to God. 

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You can. 
But I think we also see 

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something in this passage that 
the words we say are important. 

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Are we just going God? 
I don't know. 

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I haven't been the best lately, 
but like if you show me this 

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thing or work this thing out for
me in my life, I'll be totally 

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bought in for you. 
I'll do it. 

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I'll be ready. 
You, you move first and I'll be 

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ready to go. 
That radical, faithful obedience

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that we talked about at the 
beginning with Peter and John, I

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think that's what leads us into 
this posture that that's what 

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naturally flowed out of them was
with God. 

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You're great and you've been in 
control and you've faced this 

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opposition already, and you 
brought Jesus back from the 

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dead. 
So of course you could move in 

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power and continue to sustain us
in boldness. 

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Do you see that shift? 
God, you're great. 

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I've acknowledged that. 
I've saturated in that. 

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I believe it. 
Keep going, keep moving. 

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The final part of this prayer 
that I think is really 

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encouraging and good and 
relevant for us today is what 

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they asked for and what they 
focused on. 

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It wasn't a if then God. 
If you do this, I'll be happy to

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do your work for the rest of my 
life. 

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We'll be happy to follow your 
leading if you. 

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Do this they. 
Appealed to God, acknowledged 

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the threat and the persecution 
and the opposition that was 

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facing them. 
Look upon their threats, both 

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the threats that had happened to
Jesus, Pilate and Herod bringing

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those up, but they also 
acknowledge the threats that 

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were happening against them now.
Peter and John were just out of 

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prison and they appealed to God 
and said this stuff's happening.

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We know we can't beat it back on
our own. 

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So God in the name of Jesus, 
protecting your son's name and 

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your son's message and your 
son's works, stretch out your 

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hand to heel perform signs and 
wonders in the name of Jesus. 

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They were not building the 
Kingdom of Peter or the Peter of

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the Kingdom of John. 
They were building the Kingdom 

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of God, and that is how they 
appealed to God in prayer. 

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We are concerned, God, about 
your Kingdom. 

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Is that how we pray? 
Is that how we go to God now? 

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Sometimes? 
Maybe, but I think we're more 

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often concerned with our 
Kingdom. 

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God, the Kingdom of me is 
crumbling, and I need you to fix

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it. 
The apostles were concerned with

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God's Kingdom, and that's how 
they approached him. 

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That's how they went to him in 
prayer. 

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God, this, your Kingdom, your 
son is under attack and we want 

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to defend it. 
But we need your boldness. 

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We need your strength and your 
power. 

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This is how we should seek the 
Holy Spirit. 

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We should be praying for it like
the early church was. 

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We can pray in general ways, but
we can pray in specific ways. 

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God, this is happening right now
and it's an affront. 

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It's an attack on your Kingdom. 
And I want to stand with you 

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against it, but I need your 
boldness. 

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And these three things were 
poured out by God in the name of

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Jesus. 
He did answer. 

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We see that they were filled 
with boldness. 

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He answered with healing and He 
answered with signs and wonders.

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These are the things that they 
ask God to act out in for His 

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glory, for the name of Jesus. 
They didn't just want this 

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Pentecostal spiritual high. 
Hey, that was really cool when 

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the flames came down and we were
all speaking in different 

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tongues and languages and like 
let's see if we can get some of 

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that Holy Spirit power again. 
That's not what was happening. 

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They knew that that was the 
magnification of God's glory and

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the proclamation of Jesus name 
that they saw was resulting in 

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the multiplication of His 
church. 

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They knew it wasn't just their 
mortal word. 

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They knew it was a supernatural 
power, that the Spirit of God 

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was moving and changing lives. 
The Kingdom was being built and 

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it wasn't theirs. 
It was God's Kingdom for his 

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glory. 
So Church, the $1,000,000 

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question. 
Today is this what you want? 

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Is this? 
What you want to see in the 

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church where you live, and I use
that word church as the people. 

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Is this what you want to see in 
the people of God where you 

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live? 
The answer should be a 

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resounding yes. 
The answer should not be one 

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that is content to stay at one 
of those safe checkpoints down 

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here. 
And this is good. 

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Enough. 
There's many things. 

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That can hold us back, our own 
selfishness, our own 

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complacency, our own fear of the
annoyance that we might bring to

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someone else's life. 
I mean it. 

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If I'm going to be annoying 
about one thing, it better be. 

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Jesus. 
So how does? 

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This come about. 
How do we get to this point 

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where it's not the Kingdom of me
or the Kingdom of we, but the 

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Kingdom of God? 
I'm going to sound like a broken

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record, but I'm going to try to 
bring a little practicality into

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it here. 
And those of you with medical 

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minds in the room, you're going 
to have to forgive me for my 

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amateurism in this area, but I'm
going to use, I'm going to use a

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word, a word because it is a 
biological function that we have

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neuroplasticity. 
It's not, I'm not going to put 

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the Greek word up there or 
anything like Christian. 

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I don't even know how to say 
that in Greek. 

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It's a function in which the 
brain is reshaped and reformed 

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both physically and and 
neurologically and in different 

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cases, but it's how we learn. 
It's an adaptation to 

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experiences and habits and 
disciplines that we have. 

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And as much as we talk about the
supernatural power of the Holy 

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Spirit, and that is true, you 
want to see how this boldness 

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manifests in your life. 
How regular is your habit of 

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being in the Word? 
How regular is your habit of 

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praying to God, not just about 
your things, but about the 

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things that He is, about the 
greatness that He is? 

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How's your time in fellowship 
with the people of God, both 

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here but outside of here too? 
Who's in your circle? 

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Who are you encouraged and 
uplifted by? 

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What are the things you're 
feeding your body and your mind?

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Are they pointing you to Christ 
or are they annoying you about 

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Jesus? 
I think that's how we get to 

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this. 
Point that might sound. 

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Like a lot to to plan out and 
I'm just going to hang out with 

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church people all the time. 
Sounds good to me. 

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I don't know. 
That's not the whole picture. 

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We got to can't make disciples 
if we just hang out with church 

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people all the time. 
We got to bring in the non 

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church people too. 
But you know what, we can do 

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that together too. 
They were doing that together. 

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If these are the things we want,
and I think to truly be the 

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church they must be the things 
that we want, then that is how 

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we must live our lives. 
We must be regular in those 

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habits, in those ways of Jesus, 
and recalibrate our thinking, 

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recalibrate our physical wants 
and needs and expectations so 

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that we cannot but help speak in
the name of Jesus. 

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Yeah, let's pray. 
So Holy Spirit, great God, our 

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Creator, Lord Jesus, our Savior,
who from the beginning of time 

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was ordained to die, How great 
you. 

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Are our words. 
Don't seem magnificent enough to

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measure your greatness, but we 
ask that in the areas that we 

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fall short, in the areas that we
are under threat or fear, that 

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your boldness would prevail. 
That you would bring healing 

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physically, psychologically, 
emotionally to the people in our

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lives, to the relationships in 
our lives. 

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That you would move with signs 
and wonders and in ways that we 

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can't ask or imagine, that are 
immeasurable to our mortal 

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minds. 
Stir our affections for you in 

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your word, in prayer and 
fellowship with your people. 

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And it's for boldness we pray. 
Build your Kingdom here in Jesus

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name, Amen. 
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