Today’s reading is Acts 4.
I’m going to go out on a limb today. I want to encourage you to be annoying. Yep. That’s what I want to provoke you to be today…annoying. Peter and John had healed a lame man who went walking and leaping and praising God. Then they started preaching the gospel and explaining the power of Jesus to heal that man and to save everyone’s souls. But then the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees come up and are greatly annoyed with them because they were teaching about the resurrection from Jesus. Of course, Sadducees don’t believe in the resurrection. Thus, Peter and John annoyed them with this teaching. Based on this, I want to encourage you to be annoying. Now, don’t misunderstand. I actually do not mean that you should teach in an annoying fashion. I don’t mean you should purposefully strive to annoy people. However, we need to be aware that when we teach what the Bible says, there will be plenty of people who don’t want to hear it. There will be plenty of people that don’t believe what the New Testament says. No matter how kindly, carefully, and lovingly we teach it, they will be annoyed. When that is the case, we have a choice. We will either quit teaching or we will be annoying. With that in mind, today, I want to encourage you to be annoying. Go ahead. I give you permission.
Tomorrow’s reading is Acts 4.
A Word for Our Kids
Hey kids, did you catch that even though the priests, temple captain, and Sadducees arrested Peter and John and put them in jail, many who had heard Peter believed him and started following. The number of believers grew from 3000 on the day of Pentecost to about 5000. Wow! Keep paying attention to these little details. Acts will show us opposition to the Word of God, but despite the opposition, it continues to grow. It continues to be accepted and followed by more and more people. It is almost as if the more the Word is opposed the more it gets accepted and followed. That is how powerful the Word of God is. Let’s not forget that. The only way the Word gets defeated is if we quit sharing it. As long as we keep spreading it, it is powerful and brings people to Jesus. Keep reading it. Keep learning it. Keep passing it along.
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