EVIDENCE YOU HAVE BEEN WITH JESUS

ACTS 4:13

INTRO:   THE LAME MAN IN CHAPTER 3 HAS JUST BEEN HEALED, PETER AND JOHN KEEP ON PREACHING AND NOW THEY ARE ARRESTED IN CHAPTER 4.  BUT IN VERSE 13  THE COUNCIL ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THEY HAD BEEN WITH JESUS.

--WHAT ARE SOME EVIDENCE YOU HAVE BEEN WITH JESUS?

1-  YOU WILL GIVE GOD THE CREDIT   CH.3:12,14,16

   -EXPOUND ON VERSES 12-16

   -TO  MANY TAKING CREDIT, WHEN IT BELONGS TO GOD.

   -IF YOUR WHERE YOU NEED TO BE WITH GOD, YOU WILL NOT WANT THE  CREDIT.

   -SOME FOLKS WANT THEIR NAME MENTIONED AND IF ITS NOT, THEIR UPSET.

   -IF THERE IS ANY GOODNESS IN ME ITS GOD.

   -ITS NOT ABOUT ME, YOU,  ITS ALL ABOUT HIM,  JESUS.

   -THERES TO MANY PASTORS AND PREACHERS  ECT…  THAT HAVE  (I) TROUBLE, LOOK WHAT IVE DONE OR I DID.

   -PETER AND JOHN WAS GIVING GOD THE CREDIT.

   - ITS GOOD EVIDENCE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WITH JESUS, WHEN YOU GIVE ALL THE CREDIT TO GOD.

2-  YOU WILL GIVE SOMEBODY THE GOSPEL  CH.3:18-21

   -PETER AND JOHN  - CH.4:1-3

   -HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE YOU GAVE SOMEBODY, JESUS

   -IF HES IN YOU HE WILL COME OUT SOME HOW.

   -ITS GOOD EVIDENCE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WITH JESUS, WHEN YOU GIVE SOMEBODY THE GOSPEL.

3-  YOU WILL BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST  CH.4:8

   -ACTS 1:8

   -HIS SPIRIT WILL BARE WITNESS

   -YOU CAN TELL WHEN SOMEBODY IS FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST OR NOT.

   -THERE WILL BE EVIDENCE OF THAT HOLY GHOST POWER.

   -I LIKE TO SEE THE HOLY GHOST POWER MAKE ITSELF EVIDENT IN OUR SERVICES AND THE PEOPLE.

   -ITS GOOD EVIDENCE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WITH JESUS, WHEN  YOU ARE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST.

4-  THERE WILL BE POWER AND BOLDNESS  CH.4:13

   -BOLDNESS MEANS  COURAGEOUS

   -COURAGE  MEANS  THE ABILITY TO FACE DANGER WITHOUT FEAR.

   -VERSE 13, THERE BOLDNESS AND POWER WERE NOT DUE TO EDUCATION AND LEARNING.

   -IT WAS DUE TO THEIR HAVING BEEN WITH JESUS.

   -WE NEED TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH JESUS, BECAUSE HE IS OUR SOURCE OF POWER AND BOLDNESS.

   -IF WE SPEND ENOUGH TIME WITH JESUS,  PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THAT BOLDNESS AND POWER IN US.

   -VERSE 14, THERE WAS PROOF THEY HAD BEEN WITH JESUS AND OF THEIR BOLDNESS AND POWER.

   -WHEN THERE IS EVIDENCE THE DEVIL CANT SAY OR DO NOTHING, VERSES 14,16.

   -YOU JUST CANT DENY WHEN JESUS PASSES BY.

CONCLUSION

ARE THERE EVIDENCE YOU HAVE BEEN WITH JESUS?