As Pastor Tim shared on Sunday from Acts 4:18-22, Peter and John said that they had seen and heard something that was so compelling that they were not able to keep quiet. It was going to come out. Even threats of violence against them, and eventually the violence itself, wouldn’t stop them.
What they saw and heard was the man Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified and then resurrected. Jesus had told them that He alone was able to bring people to God. He alone was the Way.
This claim was not made by someone who was crazy or who had any hint of self-promoting or self-serving. He was a servant even to death, never wavering from this message, and never wavering from the perfect ways of God.
Peter and John had seen it all happen, and nothing could stop them from telling what they had seen (Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection) and heard (Jesus’ claim that He was God, and that He alone was the Way to God).
So what have you seen and heard? May the Holy Spirit give us boldness, and stir us so that we also cannot keep quiet but are compelled to share what we also have come to know!
