Key Characters

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Key Characters

• Peter John
• Healed Lame Man
• People
• Priests
• Captain of Temple Guard
• Sadducees

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Disturbed

• d?ap????µa?

diaponeomai
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Disturbed

• d?ap????µa?

diaponeomai
Through/because of
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Disturbed

• d?ap????µa?

diaponeomai
Through/because of
to work, toil hard
To toil through, to be worn out, sore, or
annoyed
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Sadducees

• adherence only to the Pentateuch
• an association with the wealthy class
• a disbelief in bodily resurrection and a denial
  of angels or spirits
• loyalty to the Roman government
• a desire to maintain the status quo

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Made well/healed

• s???

sozo
Safe, made well, preserve, recover, restore,
deliver, save (verse 12 saved)
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Acts 223 (NASB)

• this Man, delivered over by the predetermined
  plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a
  cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to
  death.

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Acts 314-15 (NASB)

• But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and
  asked for a murderer to be granted to you, but
  put to death the Prince of life, the one whom God
  raised from the dead,

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Psalm 11822 (NASB)

• The stone which the builders rejected has become
  the chief corner stone.

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Confidence/courage

• pa???s?a

parresia
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Confidence/courage

• pa???s?a

parresia
all
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Confidence/courage

• pa???s?a

parresia
all speech
Freedom of speech, frankness, openly, confidence,
boldness, courage
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Uneducated/unschooled

• ????µµat??

agrammatos
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Uneducated/unschooled

• ????µµat??

agrammatos
negative particle
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Uneducated/unschooled

• ????µµat??

agrammatos
negative particle
letters or to write
To be without learning, unlettered, uneducated
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untrained/ordinary ?d??t?? idiotes
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• untrained/ordinary ?d??t?? idiotes

a private or unskilled person, the layman as
compared with the expert, ungifted, unskilled,
untrained,
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Luke 1211-12 (NASB)

• When they bring you before the synagogues and
  the rulers and the authorities, do not worry
  about how or what you are to speak in your
  defense, or what you are to say for the Holy
  Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you
  ought to say.

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Noteworthy/outstanding

• ???st??

gnostos
Known, not theoretically known, but known through
experience
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I Peter 213-14 (NASB)

• Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every
  human institution, whether to a king as the one
  in authority,  or to governors as sent by him for
  the punishment of evildoers and the praise of
  those who do right.

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Peter and John faced a _______________
circumstance
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Peter and John faced a _______________
circumstance and were _____________.
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The Prayer

• Acknowledged God as sovereign creator
• Quoted applicable Scripture

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Psalm 21-2 (NASB)

• Why are the nations in an uproarAnd the peoples
  devising a vain thing? The kings of the earth
  take their standAnd the rulers take counsel
  togetherAgainst the LORD and against His
  Anointed, saying,

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The Prayer

• Acknowledged God as sovereign creator
• Quoted applicable Scripture
• Asked for confident boldness while God does His
  thing

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What is not in this prayer?
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Christianity is

• Not Narrow
• Is Narrow and Wrong
• Is Narrow and Right

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Christianity is

• Not Narrow

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John 824 (NASB)

• Therefore I said to you that you will die in
  your sins for unless you believe that I am He,
  you will die in your sins.

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John 146 (NASB)

• Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth,
  and the life no one comes to the Father but
  through Me.

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Christianity is

• Not Narrow
• Is Narrow and Wrong

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Pluralism

• diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or
  cultural groups is tolerated 
• no single explanatory system or view of reality
  can account for all the phenomena of life.

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Christianity is

• Not Narrow
• Is Narrow and Wrong
• Is Narrow and Right

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A Few of Jesus Unique Claims

• Power to forgive sin
• To be personally sinless
• To fulfill Hebrew Messianic prophecies
• He would rise from the dead
• He would come again and judge the world
• To be the exclusive way to God

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Boldness/boldly

• pa???s?a

parresia
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Boldness/boldly

• pa???s?a

parresia
all
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Boldness/boldly

• pa???s?a

parresia
all
speech
Freedom of speech, public openness, confidence,
boldness
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The Way boldly proclaimed that Jesus is the only
way.
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Results of WBC 2007 Survey

• 62 - I feel equipped in how to share my faith.
• 29 - I share my faith in Christ with those who
  dont know Him personally.

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The early church had to be told to stop
speaking in His name, the modern church has to be
told to start.