And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness,Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness,
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… They went and got together with the Christians. Look at Acts 4.29. They're praying now together. And now, O Lord, they pray. Hear their threats. and give your servants great boldness in their preaching. Send your healing power. May miraculous signs and wonders be done through the name of your holy servant, Jesus. Apparently, God affirmed this prayer. After this prayer, the building where they were meeting shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they preached God's message with boldness. You know, I've heard people describe a trip to Israel as seeing the Bible actually come to life. Hey everybody, Greg Laurie. And I've been to Israel many times and I've led a lot of tours. And I have to say that's absolutely true. Listen, when you're walking on the same stones that Jesus himself walked on, that's something that's enriching to your faith. It's not just a travel experience. it actually energizes and enhances your study of the Bible. Think of it this way. It's a vacation with a purpose. And we're going to be taking a tour of Israel, April 6 to 15, 2027. You can find out more at israel.harvest.org. Step right into biblical history. Join Pastor Greg for a tour of the Holy Land, April 6th through 15th, 2027. Get details at israel.harvest.org. …
… to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness while you stretch out your hand to heal and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness. Amen. Just a brief prayer, an old Anglican prayer. Father, what we know not, teach us, what we have not give us, what we are not make us. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Well, I have actually been following what's been going on here at least the last couple of weeks so that I had some context into which I would come. And I know that you are in Romans chapter one. I hope that you know that because you are. And you also know that you have been purposefully delayed on the 16th verse for the last two weeks. And that is on account of the fact that Matt has been dealing with the unashamed testimony of Paul to the gospel of the Lord Jesus and the importance of that not only understood but lived out. I found that very helpful because the thought that I have had in mind to bring to us this morning has in many ways followed along …
… against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed. They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand, they prayed, to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus. And after they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. That's a passage that we had the opportunity to study together last April when we had four brothers from the Sudan here, and we talked about the relationship between prayer and persecution. We see the early church united in prayer as they begin to experience persecution. Now I want you to turn over to the right a few chapters to Acts chapter 12. Similar circumstances in the middle of persecution. I want you to see how they gathered together in prayer. Look at Acts chapter 12 verse 1. This is a great story in the book of Acts. There's humor in it. There's the power of God all over it. Just listen to this. …
… they're going to do because you made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them and you have a plan and your plan according to job 42 will not be thwarted now lord consider their threats and eliminate them. Oh, excuse me. Sorry. Consider their threats and save us. Nope. Consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. What a prayer. they threatened him as much as they could, but they couldn't really punish him because they had a whole town in revival. and so they said as much as they could and they let him go they go back and report hey these guys are breathing down our neck they're telling us to shut this whole thing down okay let's pray sovereign lord you know they're threatening us will you give us boldness to proclaim your word and then he said they prayed this stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus and after they prayed the place where they were meeting was shaken that kind of prayer right there shakes things and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and the result was they spoke the word of God boldly. …