Joined me, if you would, this
morning in the book of Acts. Acts, and we're going to be spending
the bulk of our time today in the fourth chapter of the book
of Acts, but we just want to say a few things about the third
chapter. The third chapter of the book
of Acts did not go unnoticed. We have a whole host of people
from Jerusalem that gathered together there just outside the
temple when Peter and John were going up there about three o'clock
in the afternoon to go to prayer, and there was a man. How many
times they passed him in the past? Maybe once, maybe none,
maybe a hundred times. I don't know. But this one man
stood out this one day. Now this man stood out for several
reasons. Number one, he couldn't stand.
He was broken in the feet since his birth. He could not walk. And he was there begging alms. He was trying to get enough money
together to buy food for he or his family or whatever. Peter
and John come along, and we know the story, the account. Peter said, I don't have any
gold for you, but such as I have, in the name of the Lord Jesus,
arise up and walk. And instantly, the man was healed
completely. There was nothing left. He didn't walk with a limp. He
didn't halt. He didn't have to grow into this. Instantaneously, the Lord raised
him from that condition he was in. And we find that, by nature,
all of us are in that condition. We are broken in the feet. We just cannot move towards the
Lord, and it takes an act of grace to do that. Well, a whole
host of people from Jerusalem gather around there, and they're
witness to this. They know this guy. They've been
around him. They've seen him there many,
many times, and they are brought together. Well, we find that
it did not go unnoticed. This whole scene that was there
outside of the temple was noticed by those from Jerusalem, but
it was also noticed, and just jump ahead, if you would, in
chapter 4 and verse 4, It was also noticed by a whole host
of people, 5,000 brethren, 5,000 people at one time. It tells
us in verse 4, how be it many of them which heard the word
believed, and the number of the men was about 5,000. What a ministry took place that
day in such simple circumstances and over a situation that we
probably wouldn�t have noticed except Peter for the second time
consecutively. Chapter 2, Peter preaches on
the Day of Pentecost, preaches Christ and Him crucified. Second
chapter, third chapter, Peter preaches 5,000 are born again
as a result of that preaching. And in the fourth chapter, we're
going to find Peter preaching again. And he's going to be in
front of the Sanhedrin court. Seventy-one people are gathered
together to find fault with he and the preaching of the gospel.
So, we have three consecutive times that Peter is brought to
preaching the gospel, and every one of those times, and it didn't
matter who it was in front of, he's preaching Christ and Him
crucified. Day of Pentecost, to the world,
twelve different languages at least were gathered there together
at that time, and the message was Christ and Him crucified.
And then we have the citizens of Jerusalem in this third chapter,
and it s Christ and Him crucified. Now what would you do? What would
I do? If we stood before the legislative
body in whatever state we live in, or if we were asked to go
to the federal legislative body and there bring the gospel, what
would we say? Well, Peter didn't have a problem
with it. He preached Christ and Him crucified. And this was going
to bring a lot of persecution upon them and upon the church
was preaching Christ. Alright, let's look here at Acts
chapter 4 and verse 1, and it says, And as they spake unto
the people, Peter and John are speaking to the people about
what had just happened, and they preach in the gospel, the gospel
of God's sovereign grace in the person Christ Jesus the Lord.
And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain
of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them. Now they have
their place around the temple, and they have heard some words. The third chapter of the book
of Acts did not go unnoticed. Here we have a whole host, eventually
it's going to be 71 people that are going to be gathered together
in the Sanhedrin court. they're going to be asking Peter
and John some questions. But let's just follow this for
a moment. Verse 2, it says, being grieved. That's quite a word. They did not like what they heard. Because it tells us in the remaining
part of verse 2, and preached, that being grieved, this whole
group of people were grieved that they taught the people and
preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Oh, they were
upset. Who is this group of people to
begin with? These 71 people have been the court for a trial that has just recently
happened in Jerusalem. And that trial was the trial
of the Lord Jesus Christ. These are the same people that
were there that found fault with the Lord. Pilate is a Roman citizen
and he's there keeping control over Israel at that time and
Jerusalem at that time. And he said, I find no fault
in him. Who found the fault? These 71 people that are gathered
here that find fault with the preaching that Peter is bringing
because if what he has to say is true, then they are nothing
more than murderers of the Messiah. They have a special
interest. What special interest group we
have here? You know, I read of an old preacher
here in Oregon that was asked to go in front of the legislative
body down in Salem. This is 150 years ago, 140 years
ago. He was asked to pray before that
body, that astute body down there in Salem. And he stood up and
these are his words that were recorded. Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they do. Amen. Well, Peter and John are going
to say about the same things to this Sanhedrin court when
this accusation is brought up. So it tells us that they preached
through Jesus the resurrection from the dead, and now they lay
hands on them. They arrest them. They bring
them into an area that is a jail. It says they laid hands on them
and put them in hold until the next day, for it was even tide.
Now, in this part of the world, about 6 o'clock, the sun goes
down. Doesn't matter whether it's in
December or whether it's in May. the six o'clock about that time
the sun goes down. They were on their way to the
temple at three o'clock in the afternoon. So how long they spent
talking and preaching to these people, it is almost time, as
it says, eventide. Whether the sun is about to go
down, whether it's an hour before, but they arrest them because
we find out that these people don't have time to deal with
it that day. We'll wait till the next day.
So how be it Verse 4, the results of the preaching of the gospel
that day, how be it many of them which heard the word believed,
and the number of the men was about five thousand. Now how
is it that five thousand people that day could believe? It is
recorded in the 13th chapter of the book of Acts how it happened.
Would you join me there in the 13th chapter of the book of Acts?
Acts chapter 13, and there in verse 48, we have, only this
has to do with Gentiles, and you know what? God saves Jews
and Gentiles exactly the same. He saved people before the flood
exactly the same way He saved people after the flood. He saved
people under the Old Testament economy exactly how He saves
them in the New Testament economy. There is not two or three or
a half a dozen ways that God is going to save His people.
I remember when I was in college, I went to a church there in Klamath
Falls, and I was in a college class, and I went there because
I was lonely. And here I am sitting there,
and the teacher brings up that people in the Old Testament were
saved by those animal sacrifices. Well, I didn't know anything,
but I knew that was wrong. Nobody has ever been saved by
animal sacrifices. It is not the blood of bulls
and goats that take away sin. So here we have in the book of
Acts chapter 13 and verse 48, a group of Gentiles. They hear
the gospel. They, well, they asked Paul to
preach the gospel. They want to hear more about
the gospel. There's something that got their ear. And in verse
48, it says, and when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and
glorified the word of the Lord. We heard that in the lesson this
morning. You know, that's one of the things
that we have in common. Everybody that is a believer
has such an attitude towards the Word of God. It is God's
Word. And there are some things that
are not open for discussion. Everybody that God has ever saved
are going to believe that without any conversation. We're going
to believe in grace for salvation. We're going to believe in the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We're going to believe
that the Word is the Word of God. They're just some things
that God gives to every believer. They're common. Well, here in
this passage of scripture, it shares another thing that is
common, whether it be Jews or whether it be Gentiles. Whether
it be those 12 different languages, or whether it be citizens of
Jerusalem, or whether it be even those who sat on that council.
We don't know the outcome of all that took place with those
on that council. But we do know this, as many as were ordained
to eternal life believed. What was the first cause of these
5,000 people being saved? They were ordained to eternal
life. Now they didn't know it. I didn't
know it. It was an estranged doctrine
to me. But once the Lord saves His people, we find out that
He is the first cause of every spiritual act. We're not the
creators. He is the creator. We have no
problem with looking at the Bible and saying, God created the heavens
and the earth, and as big as it is, He created everything
and put order to it. Pick a dandelion. That's one
of the worst weeds I know of. Pick a dandelion. You can see
order in those petals on the flower. And then we used to pick
those things after they went to seed and go, what a way God
has put in that to reproduce after its kind. Those seeds go,
bonk, down into the lawn, and there we have the next batch. There's order. Well, there's
order in salvation. You know there was order in Peter
and John going up to the temple that day? There was order at
the trial of the Lord Jesus. There was order in his arrest. There was order in his trial.
There was order in his crucifixion. And there were order in his words
that he spoke from the cross. And there is order in all things. God is not the God of confusion. He's the God of order. And here
we have him ordering things that are going to take place. And
those there, as we found in Acts 13, 48, are the same type of
people that we read over here in the book of Acts 4, verse
4. It says, how many of them which
heard the word believed. How important it is to hear the
word. Not mismatch, but the word. Not a lie. You know, I don't
know whether I'm going to plant a garden this year. I keep thinking
about it. But I'm going to experiment this year. If I do plant it,
I'm going to take some kernels of corn and some kernels of candy
corn, and I'm going to plant them. And I'm going to see. what actually
produces. Because if I could get a candy
corn tree, I won't have to go to the store and buy that. You
know, in reality, that's what religion is. It is a nothing
that has some appearance of, but it cannot produce life. The
real corn must be planted. And the real corn is not given
life by me planting it, it is given life by the creator. It
is a miracle how a little seed can be planted in the ground
and we, as the Apostle Paul shares about the preaching of the gospel,
one man preached, we came along and we water, God gives the increase. That's just the way it is. So
who gave the increase on this day after Peter had preached?
That is God. Peter didn't claim the responsibility. He didn't claim any act of it.
He simply was used to preach the word. Christ in him crucified. And it says in verse five, it
came to pass on the morrow. So we have our friends, Peter
and John spent a night in prison. Because it wasn't convenient
to gather those folks out that evening. So the next day, the
court is assembled. And this court is an investigatory
court. They want to know, why are you
preaching in the name of this man? You know, it's interesting,
as we follow this, we find they did not question a man being
healed. Boy, that's common knowledge,
you can't argue with that. Here's a man they all had seen
probably, and like most of the religion people of this time,
when they saw him, they went way away from him to go up to
the temple. Just look at the good Samaritan. Levite, priest, how far did they
keep away from that guy? Well, you know, the law told
him, don't you dare touch this guy. They avoided him. The law cannot help us. The law
cannot lift us. The law cannot guide us. The
law cannot do anything for us except condemn us. But we find
the gospel does away with condemnation and gives life, life more abundant,
gracious life, life from above. So here we have the judicial
people coming in that have no life whatsoever, and they're
going to question two preachers that know something about the
gospel. And so what happens, they pass
on the moral that their rulers and elders and scribes, if we
brought these out, I had a list this long when I started writing
out all these people that are here. Boy, we got the priests,
the captain of the temple guard, the Sadducees, the rulers, the
elders, the scribes. These guys are pretty important.
They've caught the attention of some real political guys.
And so they are gathered together. Instead of just Anna going over
there, or the temple guard, or the elders, or the scribes, or
Caiaphas, or John, or Alexander, we got the whole host there.
71 against 2. 71, it didn't know a thing. And two,
who knew the gospel. All right, it says here, they
came to pass on the morrow, verse five, that their rulers and elders
and scribes, comma, let's go to the next verse, and Annas,
the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and
as many as were the kindred of the high priest, were gathered
together at Jerusalem, and when they had set them in the midst,
Now, according to some of the commentaries that I read, this
was kind of in a semicircle. These 71 people were in kind
of a semicircle. And they bring those two guys
in the middle of them and stand them up. And now we're going
to have an inquiry. We're going to find out what's
going on here. We need to know something. And
if they answer our questions incorrectly, we must tell them,
don't ever mention this again. If they answer incorrectly according
to the council, they're going to be told. the first time. Don't do it again. Eventually
we're going to find out that they're going to scourge these
guys for preaching the gospel, which doesn't change them at
all on this subject. All right, it says there in verse
7, And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By
what power or by what name have you done this? By what power,
by what authority Now, I had a friend one time that was used
to going into the park blocks down in Portland. And he was
preaching the gospel. And you know what? A church got
a hold of him and says, by what authority are you doing that?
You don't have authority from us to do that. Well, hallelujah. I don't want any authority from
that church. I want God's blessing when I'm preaching. I want the
church's blessing when I'm preaching. But I don't want anybody saying,
by what authority are you preaching? I have the authority of God Almighty
to preach the gospel. Now, I don't know what would
happen to me if I was put into the same situation that Peter
and John are put in. I've never been put into that
situation. I cannot answer you, but I can
tell you this. A person asked me one time and
said, Norm, I don't think I have dying grace. My comment was,
are you dying? No. Well, you don't need it.
You don't need dying grace if you're not dying. Now, when dying
comes along, then you'll get your grace. Alright, so they
bring them in the midst of them and ask them by what power or
by what name? What authority have you done
this? We haven't granted you this power.
We haven't granted you this name and we haven't granted you this
authority We're in charge here. And why are you doing what we
don't want you to do? Well Peter Look at what happened
to him What a statement is made here in verse 8 with regard to
Peter. Peter is not alone in this. Peter's not depending on himself
in this. Peter has a great help in this
situation. What's it say there? And Peter,
then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, That's
exactly what we find the Lord said would happen, and we find
that same thing throughout the Old Testament, that those prophets
and preachers were filled with the Spirit of God. They were
given the Word of God. They were given authority to
preach the Word of God. It was them that were standing
against the host. I think of our dear prophet brother
standing against 300 prophets of Baal. They didn't know a thing. He
knew the God of heaven, and that God of heaven came down in such
a dramatic way, and consumed that sacrifice, and all the water
in the trench, and the dirt, and everything else, and that
was a sign from God, this man is speaking for me. I've given
him the words to say. Well, you know, as we look at
this, we find that we're a witness, as we witness these proceedings,
they are truly the fulfillment of the words of the Lord. Turn
with me, if you would, to the book of Matthew, chapter 10.
Matthew chapter 10. In Matthew chapter 10 we find
the Lord gives us some inside track about what's going to happen.
In fact, the Lord said, I'm going to send you. I'm going to send
you. I'm going to send you forth as
sheep in the midst of wolves. Matthew chapter 10 verse 16.
In Matthew chapter 10 and verse 16, we find the Lord speaking
to His disciples, Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst
of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents
and harmless of doves, but beware of men, for they will deliver
you up to the councils. Hmm. It's right there in the
book of Acts chapter four. I will do this. You know, the
Lord will always get his word where he has his lost sheep.
The Lord will always get his word where he has his saved sheep. They will always be able to hear
the truth of the gospel. Beware of men, it says in verse
17, for they will deliver you up to the councils and they will
scourge you in their synagogues. And that means beat you. Generally
with a cat of nine tails. And they shall be brought before
governors and kings for my sake for a testimony against them
and the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up,
take no thought how or what you shall speak, for it shall be
given you in that same hour what you shall speak. Now he's not
saying don't ever study the word. He's not saying it's going to
be a miraculous giving of the Word. God's people are going
to be in the Word of God. But it's by the blessing of God
and His Holy Spirit that He gives us the Word to say at the right
time. I don't know how many times the Lord has opened a door for
me to share the Gospel with someone, and I wonder, what am I going
to say? And here comes that verse of Scripture that I hadn't thought
of for a while, or I just thought of, that had never been brought
to my attention. And it just fit perfectly. So the God of
heaven has a word and he expects his people to be in that word,
reading that word, studying that word, and when the proper time
comes that God opens the door, that word will be brought to
our attention and we can share it. And you know what the word
of God is? Seed. It's seed. You know what the
responsibility of God's people with his word as the seed? Scatter
it. Are we responsible for the produce
that comes from it? Not on your life. We cannot produce
it. We cannot bring it about. We can't do any of that. All
our responsibility is the seed, scattering the seed. God must
give the harvest. In religion, we were trained
how to create believers. Boy, say these words, do this,
pray this. In fact, not that long ago, one
of the messages I brought, I went to the internet and just typed
in, what must I do to be saved? And you will not believe the
millions of pages that will instruct you, and I did not find one of
them that came out of the Bible. They all had some thought about
how it's done, how we're born again. You know, there's no how
about being born again. There is a must. You must be
born again. You must be born again. You must
be born again, or you'll not see the kingdom of heaven. You'll
not see God. Well, where do I get that from
God? I just asked that question again.
I asked it last Sunday. How much did you have to do with
your physical birth? That's exactly how much you'll
have to do with your spiritual birth. It's a gift of God. the
seed is planted, God causes it to mature, He brings about the
new birth, and in that, we can look back and say, I was saved
by His grace. Alright, going back to the book
of Matthew chapter 10, verse 19, For it is not ye that speak,
but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. What a
statement. All right, keep this in mind
as we travel over to the book of Mark. The book of Mark, if
you join me in the book of Mark, same instructions, but a little
bit of different background here in Mark chapter 13. What is happening
to Peter and John has been determined by God before the foundation
of the world. They're not there by mistake.
They're not there unassigned. They are there exactly in the
right place at the right time. That council of 71 are used of
God to one more time give the opportunity to one of the servants
of the Most High God, a preacher of righteousness, Peter by name
is what we have record of, that preached the gospel in front
of these folks. Now the only hope for that 71
is the grace of God. The only hope for Israel is the
grace of God. The only hope for the Gentiles
is the grace of God. So it is that which must be preached. All right, here it tells us in
the book of Mark chapter 13 verse 3. Mark chapter 13 and verse
3. It says, and it's interesting
in the book of Matthew, it's almost identical except not this
background. And we find here that they're
bringing up, what's going to be the end? What's going to be
the end? You know, in the second, first chapter of the book of
Acts, the disciples were saying to the Lord, is it about now
that you're going to give the kingdom back to Israel? He just
said, that's not it. That's not it. You know, from
a year, from a year's appreciation time,
Israel had a kingdom for a very short time. David, Solomon, they didn't have
much of a kingdom. Very short. So all that conversation
went down through the channels, through the synagogues, through
the preaching of the Seventy, through all this about the restoration. Well, here we read in the book
of Mark, chapter 13, verse 3, And as he sat upon the Mount
of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John were
right there where this miracle took place, over by the temple,
and we have Peter, James, and John this time. Ask Him privately,
Tell us, when shall these things be, and what shall be the sign,
when all these things shall be fulfilled? And Jesus answering
them began to say, Take heed, lest any man deceive you. For
many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive
many. When you shall hear of wars and
rumors of wars be not trouble for such times Must be needs
be but the end shall not be yet for nation shall rise against
nation and kingdom against kingdom I want to ask you a question
about this. When hasn't this happened? When hasn't it happened follow
human history and When was not these words fulfilled? Now, during
Rome, at the time of the birth of the Lord Jesus, we have Pax
Romana, which is Peace of Rome, but it was at a cost. There was
wars going on all over to keep that. Alright, let's follow this
out. For the nation shall rise against nation. When has that
not happened? kingdom against kingdom, there shall be earthquakes
in diverse places, and there shall be famines and troubles.
These are the beginnings of sorrow." When hasn't that happened? What
is the worst sorrow in this world? A famine of the Word. When God ceases for us time not
to have the Word of God preached in a place, that's a famine. That's serious how it is that
God would shut off His Word to a people, but He does. There
shall be a famine of the Word. Secondly, as a result of that,
God is declaring unto us, I have no sheep there. My sheep will have the word.
All right. Take heed to yourselves that
you give shall deliver you up to councils. All right. This
is where we were in Matthew chapter 10. This is where we are in Acts
chapter four. They take heed to yourselves
for they shall deliver you up to the councils and in the synagogues
you shall be beaten and you shall be brought before rulers and
kings for my sake for a testimony against them. a testimony against
the religious leaders. What was the testimony that Paul
had already preached against the religious leaders? He had
already declared Jesus Christ and His resurrection. That was
what they despised the most. They were not worried about a
man being healed. They were overly concerned about
hearing, preaching about Christ and His resurrection. Verse 10,
the gospel must first be published among all nations. When they
shall lead you and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand
what ye shall speak, neither do you premeditate, but whatsoever
shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye, for it is not
ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. Brothers shall betray brother
to death, and father to the son, and children shall rise up against
their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. All
right, so we have the Lord saying, prophesying, declaring that this
action that's taking place this day in Jerusalem by this council,
God had already mentioned this is going to happen to you. And
I have already decreed it. How else are those that are on
this council ever going to hear anything. They're not going to
go to church. They're not going to go someplace
where these guys are. So God brings the gospel to them. And they are not inviting that
a moment. You know, as I think of the Apostle
Paul, he was not going down to Damascus to preach the gospel.
He's going down there to get rid of some preachers of the
gospel. Going down there to get rid of
some families that love the gospel. And God stopped him on the way.
And Paul brings up the fact that he is a pattern of every believer. We're on our way. doing our own
thing, and God must arrest us. God must declare unto us the
gospel. All right, if you'd go back with
me to the book of Acts chapter four
for just a bit. Acts chapter four, verse eight. Peter, then Peter, filled with
the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and
elders of Israel. You know, I notice with this
that they are very respectful where they are. You are the rulers
of Israel. You are the elders of Israel.
You are the rulers of the people. I know that, we know that, we're
also commenting that we understand that. But be it known unto you
all. Oh, excuse me, verse nine. If
we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent
man by what means he is made whole, be it known unto you all. and to all the people of Israel,
that by the name, we highly respect you, you are the council. We're
here by divine appointment. We have divine words to share
with you. But if this is only because we've
been called here because of healing of an impotent man, let's go
on. And it says, be it known unto
you all and to all the people of Israel that by the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, what was the words that Peter used
when he reached out and took that man's hand? in the name
of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified. 71 right there as they're in the
summer circle there the apex of this the Everything is directed
towards them. They bring up this subject to
them one more time He says be it known unto all and all the
people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
whom ye crucified whom God raised from the dead. They don't want
to hear this message, but once again, Peter brings up this glorious
message of God's grace, even to this group of people that
could have them killed. They preach the gospel. The only
hope is the gospel. He goes on to say, whom God raised
from the dead, even by Him, does this man stand here before you
whole. And then he goes to the Old Testament. Someone mentioned to me the other
day, he says, Norm, most of the time you spent in the Old Testament.
I says, I'm in the book of Acts and I'm spending most of my time
in the Old Testament there. It's what they used. It was their
message. They reached back to the Old
Testament because they didn't have Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
Romans, Acts, Romans, 1st and 2nd Corinthians, and so forth.
It wasn't written yet. And when it was put together,
then they started using it. But until then, they used only
what we have as the Old Testament. So he reaches back to the book
of, let me look here. Psalm 118. This subject is mentioned a number
of times in Scripture because it is so important There is a stone, a precious
stone, an elect stone. But this stone doesn't look like
it's worth anything. It doesn't look like it fits
anywhere. It's been hewn out, but it's been left to the side
as the rest of stuff has taken place. It's one nobody wanted. We're about ready to go into
the 11th chapter of the book of Judges on Wednesday night,
and there's a guy there that's going to be the judge that nobody
likes. And they send him scurrying.
His mother is a harlot, and they don't want that guy around. But
you know what? When they need help, who do they
call on? The stone that the builders refused. That's what's said here. The
stone which the builders refused is become the headstone of the
corner. Now that's God's opinion, God's
statement about this. Mankind wants nothing to do with
this stone, but this stone is appointed by God before the foundation
of the world to be the lamb slain. This stone has been given a covenant
of grace. This stone is the writer of the
covenant of grace. It's by his blood that it will
be inaugurated, the covenant of grace. So this is the stone
that God chose. Now mankind wants nothing to
do with that stone. We find no interest in him. There's nothing about him as
we read in the book of Isaiah chapter 53. There's nothing about
him that would be attractive to us. There's nothing about
him that would cause us to have attention towards him. Where
does that come from? God changing our mind. And that's repentance. God changes
our mind about God. So in verse 23 of that book of
Psalms, Psalm 118, this is the Lord's doing. It is marvelous
in our eyes. Peter's gonna bring up this passage
of scripture. It's mentioned a number of times
here in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. This passage
of scripture is mentioned about, and Jesus brings it up in his
own ministry, about the stone that the builders refused, the
stone of stumbling and the rock of offense, a stone, a great
stone appointed by God, placed by God. This stone is our salvation. The stone, the Lord Jesus Christ. So we're going to stop there
for today. We'll pick this up Lord willing
next time. And we'll see again from this
point of view, the stone that the builders refused has become
the head of the corner. And that's the message that Peter
brings up to this 71 members of this council. And can you
just imagine their ears beginning to burn? as he brings up the
truth of the gospel. Brother Mike.