Good morning once again, and
would you turn with me to the book of Acts. The book of Acts
chapter 4. The book of Acts chapter 4. We
sang that song, Immortal, Invisible. You know, if we took that song
and just started writing everything that was mentioned in here, we'd
have a long list of the attributes of God. That author saw some
things in the attributes of God, and we delight and relish in
the attributes of God every day. Thou changest not. All right, the book of Acts chapter
4, we have witnessed in the third chapter of the book of Acts that
Peter and John on their way up to the temple one day were pushed
upon, they were imposed upon by God Almighty to heal a man
that was without the ability of walking all his life. And the moment that he was raised,
we find that he was in perfect health. He didn't have to go
through all of the things sometimes we have to go through after some
surgery. He was in perfect health. His bones were knit, everything
worked. But the disciples, Peter and
John, were found to be in the bad light of the Sanhedrin court
because they mentioned Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the one that
raised him. All right, we're going to drop
down to verse 7 to start our message this morning. We looked
a little bit at the last verses 1 through 6 last time. In fact,
we got down through here, but we want to cover it just a little
bit more. We do know that 5,000 men were
brought to new life in Christ Jesus as a result of the preaching
that we had there at that day. Alright, verse 7, And when they
had set them, when the Sanhedrin court, 71 men that were the court
of the temple, when they had set Peter and John in the midst
of them, They ask, by what power or by what name have you done
this? By what authority have you done
this? You know, this is really a continuation
of what we find in the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. Go
with me back to the book of Matthew, if you would, for just a short
reading. In the book of Matthew chapter 21, The book of Matthew
chapter 21, we find here beginning with verse 23. Matthew chapter
21 and verse 23, it shares with us that the same group of people
that are dealing with Peter and John are dealing with the Lord
Jesus Christ in His public ministry. And they said, And when he was
come into the temple, the chief priests and elders of the people
came unto him, as he was teaching and said, by what authority dost
thou these things? And who gave you this authority? It wasn't granted by them, so
he didn't have authority to do that. And then Jesus says in
verse 24, Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask
you one thing, which if you tell me, I in likewise will tell you
by what authority I do these things. You know, he brings out
here a really interesting point with regard to this Sanhedrin
court about the ministry of John the Baptist. Now, John the Baptist
was the forerunner. He is truly the one that was
sent to introduce the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin
of the world. He was not in it for himself. We find that when there were
disciples that John preached the gospel and were saved, he
immediately pointed them to the Lord Jesus. Don't stay with me,
go with him. And that's the minister's responsibility,
go to him. Don't attract yourself around
a minister, go to the Christ, go to the Lord Jesus. So we find
here, the baptism of John, verse 25, which was it, from heaven
or of men? Now, the Lord knew their minds,
and He knew their character, and He knew all about them. He knew where they slept, He
knew where they ate, He knew everything about them, and He
had this to say. And they responded with themselves,
saying, If we say from heaven, He will say unto us, Why did
ye not then believe him? But if we say of men, We fear
the people, for all hold John as a prophet. Their prestige
is on the line, one way or the other. And they answered Jesus
and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither
tell I you by what authority I do these things. Well, whose
authority? God's authority is what he was
doing. He was preaching the gospel on
God's authority, covenant of grace authority. He was on this
earth on God's authority. Well, another place we'd like
to look at is found over in the book of John chapter 2. John
chapter 2 as we find that the disciples are brought under almost
the same magnifying glass that the Lord Jesus Christ was brought
under in His public ministry. Here in the book of John chapter
2 verse 13 we read these words, John chapter 2 verse 13, the
Lord does something probably nobody else had ever done. He
went into the temple and He was running the money changers out. That was not the place for them. Make not my father's house a
house of merchandise. It's a house of prayer. The Jews Passover was at hand
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem and he found in the temple those
who sold oxen and sheep and doves and changers of money sitting.
Now, these were sacrificial animals and the changers of money was
someone came in from another foreign country, you had to buy
this with the proper coins so they would exchange it and who
got rich off of that? Well, And when he had made a
scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and
the sheep, and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money,
and overthrew the tables, and said unto them that sold doves,
Take these things hence, make not my father's house a house
of merchandise. And his disciples remembered
that it was written, The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign showest thou
unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? By what authority
are you doing this? Well, he goes on to tell us one
of the true gospel stories, destroy this temple in three days, I
will raise it up. Well, they get into a discussion
about that. We know about the time that it took to build it.
Well, anyway, as we look into the scriptures here, we find
that the disciples in there in the book of Acts, as we go back
over there, book of Acts chapter four, We find these disciples
are facing the same kind of circumstances. By what authority do you do this? How often in the scriptures,
we're going to find this, and also in history. If we read church
history, we're going to find that this is also a truism there.
How often in the scripture and in history do we find that the
hatred of men have often put gospel preachers in the best
pulpit? Here we find that these two men
are brought to 71 official leaders of Israel, the temple leaders
of Israel, and they're put in the best possible pulpit they
could be put in. They're asked a question and
they're expected to answer it, and here we have the answer is
the gospel. of the Lord Jesus Christ. How
often we read in history people are brought before an authority,
a king, a prince or someone and given the opportunity to answer
for themselves and they preach the gospel. Now it may be that
they're taken out and burned or hung or whatever, but the
best possible pulpit was granted to them in front of all of these
people happens in our country. If we look into our history,
we find it throughout church history, wherever. And we find
it right here that Peter and John are given an audience before
the 71-person Sanhedrin court that they could have never entertained
by their own. If they wrote a thousand letters
to him and said, we'd like to come up and preach the gospel
to you, they would have all been thumbs down. Well, now after
the healing of this man and then brought into the presence of
this Sanhedrin court, they're asked a question and Peter is
given the opportunity of a lifetime to preach to the Sanhedrin court,
these men of authority. Now it's not going to make much
difference at the moment, at least, But we never know the end. To most people, it made no difference
to hear the gospel when Saul of Tarsus heard it. To most people,
it was a waste of time. To most people, there was no
reason to do that because he was such a mean guy. But we find
in the ultimate outcome of it, God was pleased before the foundation
of the world to write Saul of Tarsus' name, Paul the Apostle,
in the Lamb's Book of Life and send the gospel to him and convert
him, give him the new birth, and he became a preacher of righteousness,
and he is put into those positions. by invitation from the king to
declare, why are you doing these things? The best possible pulpit
that he could be given. Here in the book of Acts, chapter
4 and verse 8, we find that there is equality about Peter. that
is mentioned in this verse of scripture. It's such a high quality. It is a necessary quality. It
is a quality that God alone can give somebody. We cannot appropriate
this quality on our own. It is a quality that gives responsibility
to the speaker that they never had or could gather themselves.
And that is placed here when we read in these words in verse
8, then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost. Peter filled. Now, I can share this with you. If anybody is filled with the
Holy Spirit, they're going to share the gospel with you. That's
the only thing that being filled with the Holy Spirit will do
for us. Somebody's gonna preach the gospel. Now today in our
world, we have all kinds of people telling us all kinds of things
that happen to people that are filled with the Spirit. And you
don't find it in Scripture. You don't find people speaking
in gibberish. You don't find people jumping
over pews. You don't find people doing all of that stuff in the
Scripture from people that are filled with the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit of God is going to always, let me emphasize this,
always do all things decently and in order. So here we have
the Apostle Peter filled with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost,
and this is a characteristic that we find throughout the book
of Acts. that this is something that God does for His preachers,
and we find that characteristic here in the book of Acts. Just
back up with me to chapter 2 if you would. Chapter 2 and verse
4. There on the day of Pentecost
we find that this was one of the characteristics that God
granted to those preachers on that day. It says there, then
they were, and they were all filled. We have 12 preachers
of righteousness on the day of Pentecost getting prepared to
preach and the way that God is going to authorize them, give
them grace, the way that God is going to do this is to fill
them with the Holy Spirit. Now, you know, In reality, every
one of God's people are filled with the Holy Spirit in the new
birth. We have this characteristic brought out in these preachers,
that God was honoring what He had created in them by sharing
with us that they were filled with the Holy Spirit, and as
a result of that, they are going to preach the truth. There is
no room for error. The Holy Spirit is not going
to lead us into error. The Holy Spirit is not going
to lead us to a wrong conclusion about the Word of God. If we
find a verse of Scripture that seemingly contradicts another
verse of Scripture, then we have a problem. It's not the problem
with the Bible. There is no contradiction in
Scripture. We're looking at something a little odd. We have something,
and pray to God that He gives us the understanding of those
verses because there is no contradiction. Now, I was talking to Brother
Mike this morning that there are often times we run into passages
we don't understand, but we can simply say, Hey Lord, I believe
it. When it comes to the subject of God, I don't understand. I
don't understand eternality. I don't understand omnipotence. I don't understand omniscience. I don't understand those great
characteristics about God. But the church is so thankful
that that God that we worship is that God. So here he's filled
with the Holy Ghost and they began to speak with other tongues
as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now we know that those tongues
are just languages because they're divided among 12 different groups
of people. 12 different languages that were
assembled that day on the day of Pentecost. Well, in chapter
4, we find again, in chapter 4 of the book of Acts and verse
31, Acts chapter 4 and verse 31, a little farther down than
where we are here in the book of Acts chapter 4. It tells us
here that they had been threatened. The Sanhedrin court's going to
threaten Peter and John and let's them go. Now it's not going to
be very long, they're going to come home bloody. But they threaten
them, and it says here, that they came to their own folks,
and when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were
assembled together, and they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. That's
what being filled with the Holy Spirit will do for you. you will
declare the Word of God with bolus. Not gibberish, not some
person's theology, but the Word of God. That is so important,
that it's the Word of God, not some ideas, but the Word of God. And then we read in chapter seven
of the book of Acts, along the same line, chapter seven of the
book of Acts, it tells us here as we move ahead of where we
will be someday, In Acts chapter 7 and verse 55, we read this. And every time we read this,
we find out that it's the Holy Spirit filling people, gives
them the ability of declaring the gospel. Here's Stephen on
the day the Lord is going to call him home. What a rough way
to die. We talk about how cancer is,
or how a car wreck is, or something like this, but what a way to
die, to have your relatives and your friends throw rocks at you
until you're dead. He was stoned because of his
belief in the gospel. It tells us here in being, he
being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven.
What are you going to see if you're filled with the Holy Ghost?
The glory of God. And Jesus Christ, this is what
God gives us when we have His Spirit. We're not looking for
something else. We have enough. We have everything
when we see the glory of God and we see the Lord Jesus. So
Peter that day, when he was filled with the Spirit and began to
talk, he'd seen the glory of God. He'd also, as we see here
in Jesus, He's going to declare Jesus. That is the crux of the
matter of being filled with the Spirit. Everyone that is born
again is going to go to those issues and not be divided on
other issues. We're going to see the glory
of God represented in these great attributes. We're going to see
the glory of God represented in all his activities throughout
the Old Testament and the New Testament. And then we're going
to see the sum and substance of the gospel found in Jesus
Christ, because that's what the Holy Spirit does. The Lord Jesus
said, when the Holy Spirit comes, he will testify of me. He will not testify of himself
and he will not testify of the Father, particularly. because
when he testifies of the Lord Jesus Christ, that is honoring
the Father and honoring the Holy Spirit. But when we honor the
Father only or the Spirit only and leave Jesus out, he's not
getting the glory. All right. So we look at this
and we find that this, he's filled with the Holy Spirit, and he
has this to say, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. What
a statement about our brother. In the book of Luke, chapter
21, would you turn there with me to the book of Luke, chapter
21? In Luke, chapter 21, we have this recorded. Chapter 21, verse
12. Jesus is going to tell, we read
this last week, I want to go over it again, but Jesus is foretelling. He is declaring. He's sharing. You know, the other day I was
visiting with my dear brother Ed, and I hadn't been feeling
too good, and I just told him, I'm glad that part of predestination's
over with. And he said, God even predestines
our sickness. Amen. Now we may not enjoy that part
of predestination. But it is part of his predestination. Here it says, Jesus said, this
is what's gonna happen to you. And we're witnessing it here
in the book of Acts chapter four. And we're gonna witness it a
whole lot more in Acts chapter, the book of Acts. But before
all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you,
delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, being brought
before kings and the rulers for my name's sake. Well, it just
simply goes along with what we said earlier. The best pulpit
in the world, if you want to talk to a king, is to be invited
there and give an answer for the faith that you have. being
brought before kings and rulers for my namesake, and it shall
turn to you for a testimony. Settle it therefore in your hearts.
Do not meditate before what you shall answer, for I will give
you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not
be able to gainsay nor resist. When Peter answers these questions
by this Sanhedrin court, they could not argue with it. Now, they were upset, and they're
going to deal with the apostles, but they could not argue with
that, and that's exactly what Jesus said here. They cannot
resist. They cannot gainsay what you
have because I've given you this word. You know, we find out the
blessings of the Lord, and Peter and John are going to find this
out, too. They found it out. They're finding it out. They
will continue to find it out, just like all God's people realize,
as we find in the book of Lamentations, that the Lord's blessings are
new every morning. great is thy faithfulness." Put
before a group of people that had just murdered the Lord Jesus
Christ, and Peter and John are given an opportunity to share
why this man is walking, how he is walking, They are new every morning, great
is thy faithfulness. So one more day of their life.
They spent the night in jail. Do you think they got good food?
Comfortable place to stay? They didn't have TV. They didn't
have, oh my goodness, they didn't have all of the niceties that
we have today. They were put in jail. All right,
let's go back to the book of Acts, if you would. There in, Chapter 4 of the Book of Acts.
We're going to go to a few other places here because this subject
is brought up and it's so very important. Now, the Holy Ghost, we know
this. He is the third person of the
Godhead. But I have to ask this question.
Do you believe that? Let me make a statement of why
I'm asking that. Because it is so prevalent today
that the Spirit is treated as incapable of doing something
without my help. Now, we read in the Scriptures
that the Holy Spirit is not only omnipotent and omnipresent and
omniscient, but He is God. He was the one that was there
in Genesis 1, verse 2. He was involved in the creation
of heaven and earth. Nothing was done without the
members of the Godhead. And He is all-powerful, and my
friend, He doesn't need help. When it comes to the salvation
of people, he does not need my help to get somebody in the mood,
if you please, to pray a prayer. I have just found out that God
alone does the saving. I found that out when he saved
me, and nobody was around, and no preacher was counseling me.
You know what the preacher counseled me with? The gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That was his counsel. And then
turned me loose. Well, that's how God saves his
people. He is going to do it in his powerful
way. The Holy Spirit is often treated
as incapable. He's often treated that he can't
do anything without the will of some person. I've heard that
till I'm up to here. Some of my good friends believe
that, and it's up to here. And how faulty is that belief? thought about the Holy Spirit.
They have a very small opinion of God the Holy Spirit, if He
can't do what He intends to do. He was involved, He moved upon
the face of the waters. We read in John 3 and verse 8,
so is everyone that's born of the Spirit. We have a new birth
as a result of the Holy Spirit. Turn with me if you would to
the book of John chapter 15. John chapter 15. Sorry I led
you to the book of Acts when I wasn't ready. John chapter
15 verse 26. But when the Comforter is come,
whom I will send unto you of my Father, even the Spirit of
truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he will testify of
me. And ye also shall bear witness,
because ye have been with me from the beginning." We have
handled, we have heard, we have tasted all those things that
we read in the Scriptures. You know, when it comes to the
very Word of God that you hold in your hand, Holy men of God were moved by
the Holy Spirit to give us that book. Holy men of God were moved
by the Holy Spirit. Inspiration. God granted them
inspiration. He did not leave it up to them
to write what they thought should be written down. He took over
their mind in such a way that they wrote down exactly what
God intended to have in His Word. So, the Holy Spirit is all-powerful. He does all things. And now,
let's go to the book of Acts chapter 4 and verse 9. Acts chapter
4 and verse 9. In Acts chapter 4 and verse 9,
we read this. We just have him recognized,
Peter just recognized as being filled with the Holy Spirit,
verse 8. He said unto them, ye rulers of the people and elders
of Israel, he recognized them for who they were, he didn't
get into a spitting contest with them over their authority, he
just let it stand, but he goes on and says in verse 9, if we
this day be examined of the good deed done to this impotent man
by what means he is made whole. If you're examining us how this
man was made whole. If you're investigating how this
man was made whole. Now drop down if you would to
the book of Acts chapter, oh boy. Verse 16, yes. This is the court's determination. What shall we do to these men,
for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done? Now, this Sanhedrin
court recognizes the fact that a notable miracle has taken place. A man that they've known about,
their relatives have known about, the attendees at the temple have
known about for years and years and years. This is a notable
miracle hath been done. They confess this very fact.
By them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem, and
we cannot deny it. So as Peter speaks here in chapter
4 and verse 9, we find that the Sanhedrin court in just a little
bit when they ask these two to step off a ways and we'll discuss
the issue, they have to confess the same thing. This man has
had a notable miracle happen to him. Now in verse 10, the
apostle Peter is given the privilege of preaching the gospel. He is
filled with the Holy Spirit. He has one glorious thing in
mind, and that's the declaration of the gospel of Christ and Him
crucified. The only thing that ever affected
Peter was Christ and Him crucified. Do you remember what he had to
say? We all knew that. Who am I, Peter? Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus said this to him,
flesh and blood did not reveal that unto you, but my father,
which is in heaven. So Peter is a representative
of what God can do when he reveals his son in us. He says, be it
known unto you all and to all the people of Israel. What a
pulpit. I wonder if this is being written
down and put into, going to be sent out in the papers. I don't
know. But he says, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth
this man stand here hold before you. Before you hold. This is the stone which is set
at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none
of the name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved. And when they saw the boldness
of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and
ignorant men, they marveled, and they took knowledge of them,
that they had been with Jesus. Now what a statement the Apostle
Peter makes here. By the name of Jesus of Nazareth,
whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man
is whole. You know, he uses a term, and
this is one of those, it's on the don't use list. This is a
word on the don't use list. The word is Christ mixed with
Jesus. Now, we don't mind you using
Jesus, and we don't mind you using Christ. But when you combine
those together, we don't like you. It's on the don't use list. How often we find that people
had trouble when those two words were combined. You know, on the
other hand of the coin though, how many were blessed when the
Holy Spirit revealed unto them these two words combined. we
find in the book of John chapter 1. John chapter 1 verse 41. Turn over there with me if you
would. The book of John. How many words are on the don't
use list? Election, predestination, on
the don't use that with me list. Perseverance, preservation, eternal,
the number goes on and on, of the words that religion doesn't
want used in front of them. Or grace alone, not by works
of righteousness which we have done. Well, anyway, get over
here to the book of John. John chapter 1, verse 41. John chapter 1, verse 41. Verse 40, ìOne of the two which
heard John speak and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peterís
brother.î Isnít it interesting that this very man is in front
of this crowd this day? Isnít it interesting that this
man preached on the day of Pentecost? Isn't it interesting that this
man and his friend, John, are the ones going up to the temple
that day, and a man that has never walked is healed? Isn't
it interesting that this man is brought before the Sanhedrin
court? Well, we find out the beginning of his walk, the beginning
of his life, spiritual life, is mentioned right here. He findeth
his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messiah. which is being interpreted the
Christ. And he brought him to Jesus,
and when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon, the son
of Jonah, thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation
a stone. You know, the transformation
that God produced in Peter, he was able to say, Thou art the
Christ, the son of the living God. You're the Messiah. You
know, that's what we have here. There in the book of Andrew,
bringing to his brother, we have the combination now. We have
Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ. Now it's not going to be popular.
People are going to find fault with you. But this is the glorious
combination that we have the virgin born Jesus, declared and
is the Messiah. Old Testament scriptures all
came down and settled in this one word, Messiah. The promise that God made to
man in the Garden of Eden that there would be someone to come
and take care of the problem that we're in. Moses declared
there be a prophet like unto me him you will hear and throughout
the Old Testament the prophets that came and declared a Messiah
is coming We just heard that read over there in the book of
Isaiah this morning a prophets coming a Messiah is coming the
One that will deliver us from the problem that we're in. Well,
those 71 men that were on that council did not want to hear
that Jesus was the Messiah because what did they do with him? They
crucified him. Well, thank God for God's predestination. That's exactly how God determined
that His Son would be dealt with when He came to this earth. He
determined that it was how God would give His Son a ransom for
many. He would be on the cross and
lay down His life a ransom for many. So, He findeth His own
brother, He brings this idea, this thought, we have found Messiahs.
And in John chapter 4, remember the woman at the well? John chapter
4, there in verse 25 we read these words, John chapter 4 verse
25 it says, ìThe woman said unto him,î now this woman didnít know
anything about the gospel and sheís looking right at it, but
the Lord is going to reveal to her the gospel Himself. Remember
what, she had this religious background though. She had some
understanding about, of religion. It says, the woman saith unto
him, I know that Messiah is cometh, which is called Christ. When
he is come, he will tell us all things. Isn't that interesting? That when she went and told her
friends, there's one guy over here that told me all things
ever I did. He shall tell us all things."
Well, she's identifying she knew something about the Messiah.
The Old Testament prophets knew a lot about the Messiah, and
people brought that down. And then we find as we look at
the name Christ, which is translated to us from a Greek word Christos,
it means anointed, that is Messiah, and that word is used 600 times
in the New Testament. And most of the time it's attached
to Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus Christ, Jesus the Messiah, the Savior,
the Messiah is what they're saying. So Peter declares unto these
folks that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Now, we have
mentioned that his name, this name was on the no conversation
list. It shouldn't be used in our presence
or in the presence of anyone else. In fact, we're going to
warn you and tell you not to ever speak in this guy's name
again. We cannot have Jesus of Nazareth and Christ attached
together. They would not stand for it.
Now, the disciples said, that's the only way there is. Jesus
is the Christ. He is the Messiah. And the leaders
of Israel said, no, he's not. No, he's not. And no, he's not.
Well, Jesus of Nazareth, he also warned us. Jesus warned
us, for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets. Well, that's interesting. And
history tells us about people that raised up and called themselves
the Messiah or Christ. Turned out when they were taken
care of or when they were arrested, they didn't do anything about
it and nothing happened. Well, this one, this Messiah, this
Christ, when He was slain on the cross and buried in the tomb,
Three days later, he fulfilled exactly what he said he would
do and came forth out of that tomb. And 40 days later, he ascended
back to the Father, accepted in the presence of the Father
because he had paid the price of all his people's sin. And
he could be welcomed back into the presence of the Father with
open arms. Welcome! You know, God could
say, welcome, thou good and faithful servant. And he was welcomed
back to the Father. Can you say Jesus of Nazareth? Jesus Christ of Nazareth. We
have found Him. Peter's declared Him. Jesus of
Nazareth is the promised Savior. Let us go back for just a few
moments, back here to the book of Acts, chapter 4. And we find
in the book of Acts, chapter 4, restatement of what He has just
done. That's a short preaching, isn't
it? He's given a pulpit, very prestigious
place to be. Stands up, speaks up. When he's
done, he shuts up. And this is what he said. If
you want to know how this man is whole, let me tell you. Be it known unto you all, verse
10, chapter 4, and to all the people of Israel, that by the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised
from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you
whole. This is the stone which was set
at nought by you builders, which has become the head of
the corner. You left him out of the building,
but he is the foundation stone, the cornerstone, the chief cornerstone. He's the stone that all the church
is built upon. And then he says in verse 12,
and I can just see 71 guys rolling their eyes when he mentions this,
neither is there salvation in any other. For there is none
other name. What is that name? Jesus Christ. I can just see him taking another
deep breath. He used it again. He used the
word again. For there is none other name
under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. No other name, no other person. The Messiah is the only one,
God's Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, whereby we must be saved. Brother Mike, if you'll come.