as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.while thou stretchest forth thy hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of thy holy Servant Jesus.
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… and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his anointed. For truly, in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 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 …
… of the earth, all the people in the world all bow down to him. He is sovereign over everything. The early church knew this. Did you catch that in Acts chapter 4 verse 23 through 31? When they came together to pray, here they are experiencing persecution and they come together and how do they address God? Do you remember? It said, sovereign Lord. Sovereign Lord. It's in verse 24. Sovereign Lord, they declared. The word literally means despot, despot, the one who has all authority and all dominion and all rule. And that was huge for them. When you're experiencing persecution, when your family is being threatened and you're experiencing attacks from different sides, it's good to look up and see that God is still in control, that he's still on the throne. And it's the same picture we see in Acts chapter 12. You've got the king, Herod, pitted against the true king, the king to whom all kings bow down. And you've got the power of King Herod and him having Peter put in prison and have James beheaded. …
… The Bible says, stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus over and over and over again the emphasis is on the name of Christ now what did what did the name of Christ represent well as we study throughout the gospels and especially the book of Acts as it's used 33 times mentioned of the name of Christ basically it's talking about three different facets of the character of Christ number one in order to speak in his name we got to know his person his name represents his person his identity who he is in fact that's exactly what fuels peter's sermon in acts chapter 3 when he stands up to preach after this guy has been healed a crowd gathers around and he begins to preach in verse 13 all the way to verse 16 he begins to identify who christ is says christ is the one who is talked about way back in the Old Testament. He is the holy and the righteous one, Peter says. He says, you killed, you crucified the author of life. It's an amazing statement. You've killed the author of life. So he begins to define who Christ is. It's a sermon that's remarkably similar to the sermon we saw in Acts chapter 2. He is exalting Christ, the person of Christ. And we see that over and over again throughout his sermon in Acts chapter 3. I want you to look at chapter 4 verse 12 just …
… 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. They were all astonishing because in the face of the threat, they were filled with the Spirit and they spoke boldly the things that they were told not to say. They were astonishing. it's unlikely that most of us are going to ever be in a situation like this where we're going to get thrown in jail and dragged out by people and they're going to tell us, hey, don't talk about Jesus. It's possible. I mean, everything's possible in this world, but living in Atlanta, Georgia, it's not likely that this is going to be the scenario we're going to be in in the immediate future. But God is asking you today to consider the way he moved in these ordinary and unschooled people so that then you could be inspired that maybe God could move like that in you. …