They Had Been With Jesus

• They Had Been With Jesus
• Acts 4:13
• Acts 4 Peter and John on trial …
• Healthcare plan …
• Do you know about the healthcare plan? …
• Do you really know the healthcare plan?
• Do you know some things about Jesus? …
• Do you really know Jesus?
• They Had Been With Jesus
• Acts 4:13
• What they knew about Jesus … His miracles
• John 11:45-46 Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him. But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things Jesus did.

• Response to Jesus miracles …
• John 11:47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? For this man works many signs.”
• Believe in Jesus’ miracles? …
• You may believe in every miracle recorded, but is that knowing Jesus?
• Even his enemies couldn’t deny that?
• They knew His claims …
• John 8:56-58 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad." Then the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."
• Ex 3:13-15 "when … they say to me, 'What is His name?' what shall I say to them?" 14 And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel,'I AM has sent me to you.'"

• They knew His claims …
• John 8:56-58 Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.“
• John 8:59 Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
• John 10:30-33 I and My Father are one." Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"

• John 10:30-33 "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

• His resurrection
• Matt 27:62-66 On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate, saying, "Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise.'
• His resurrection
• Matt 27:62-66 Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, 'He has risen from the dead.' So the last deception will be worse than the first."Pilate said to them, "You have a guard; go your way, make it as secure as you know how.”

• Do you believe His claims …
• Even his enemies knew about His claims to be God and that He would be raised the third day…
• What knowing Jesus is …
• Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.

• Healing the lame man …
• A miracle like the miracles of Jesus which no one could deny …
• Followed by fearless preaching of Jesus and his resurrection …
• Acts 4:1-2 Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
• Acts 4:3-7 And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
• Acts 4:3-7 And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes, as well as Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. And when they had set them in the midst, they asked,"By what power or by what name have you done this?"
• Acts 4:8-10 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified,...
• 4:10-12 "whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the 'stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.' Nor is there salvation in any other, ..."
• It’s not wrong to be confident when our confidence is in Jesus …
• Another characteristic…
• Acts 5:27-32 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, saying,"Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name?
• Acts 5:27-32 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said:"We must OBEY GOD rather than men! "

• Knowing Jesus …
• Boldness and confidence in living for Jesus …
• Obeying God no matter what the cost …

• Knowing Jesus …
• Phil 3:8 I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord ...

• They Had Been With Jesus
• Acts 4:13