ACTS 4-5
God has the final say and not the devil nor people. The High priests jailed them for doing signs and wonders in the name of Jesus Christ. In the time of Peter, the church was feared because of the strange things God was doing through them. Jesus didn't heal with shadows, but Peter did. There were brought unto them all who were sick and they healed them all not even leaving one of them. No one could lie to the Holy Spirit but our time is where there are so much lies in the body of Christ. People count monies and steal some, and get the boldness to say they took none and also announcing it at church. They would take monies donated by people meant for the church and spend it, and yet there is no man filled so much with the Spirit to find out what was going on. The strange things
made the people fear and revere them, but now the world is mocking the church because even Headaches, we are not being able to heal. How much more cancer, nor arthritis, nor tumor, not to talk about raising the dead. In Smith Wigglesworth's meeting, someone died and he took the person to the wall and shouted, wake up, the person fell, for three times then the last time, He hit the young person with a blow and shouted you Spirit of death, leave this one and said young man, Run and the boy started running. But now, let someone collapse in church, we will take the person to the hospital, and by the time we get there the person will be dead. If not so; the person will be diagnosed with a sickness that we cannot even pray as a church for that sickness to go. If you were a mother who has only one son like that widow,
then Your son believes in God so much, then they tell you he collapsed in church and by the time they took him to the hospital, He had passed on, he's dead. How will you react as a mother whose only son has gone into that situation. Where is the Power of God? It is still available but we are living as the World lives, we are reacting to issues as the world is reacting, we are losing faith and now clinging to facts, we are looking through the lens of facts rather than the lens of faith. If it was this church in our time that we healed and we are warned not to speak in the name of Jesus else we will be jailed, we would have kept quiet and quote that even scripture says we should obey those in authority. But why didn't Peter, John and the rest comply, they rather went to pray to ask for more Boldness to speak in the name of Jesus Christ
and also more signs should be done. Are we the Church that Jesus wants? The doctrines and routines are limiting the Power of God, we are rather keeping people captive, why won't the people say that Christianity is modern slavery. Was this statement made in the time of Peter, James, John, Paul and the rest? No, because they were running the church with Christ as the head and working signs and wonders as they preached. Even when they were jailed for miracles done, the Angel of the LORD came at night and let them free to go and speak more in the name of Jesus Christ. Some came to tell the Chief Priests that they were in the church then they came bring them without violence, because they feared the people might some them. Thus the people were on their side, but now the people are against the church. I know Jesus said
the world will hate us but these were not people of the world, but people who believed. Now even members are against the church itself and certain things going on, if you give people the chance to share grievances about their church and denomination, you would be shocked what church members will spill out. People cannot defend the church anymore because the church is losing its way as a place of Gods Power, Love and Goodness. If it were to be today that Peter and John were caught, people cannot even stand for them because they would have been men whose aim is on money, church strategies, how to get new cars for pastors and not on how people can be saved, how people can be healed, how we can reach to the unsaved through Power Crusades. We build develop strategic plans without seeking Gods Strategy for How He wants
it and How we should do it. When they wanted men to serve tables, they prayed and chose men, and imparted them for the work. Now we are thinking and reading of how to Grow Ministry, How to Plant Churches, How to Increase Membership, How to Prophecy, How to Preach, How to Maintain Members. The Apostles were never exposed to any of these books, yet the impact they made was greater than we having all this knowledge. We feel that the moment we read these books that's all, we forget that the LORD did not promise them Knowledge or Wisdom to do Ministry but Promised them the Holy Spirit. If that sinner was a leaper and was healed by the Power of God, why will we have to read again what to do to maintain them. The power of the Holy Spirit that Healed them will also sustain them, anytime they went to preach
in power and healed, People were added more to the church. What they did to maintain them was Teaching, Praying with them and Supplying their needs physically as every wanted. That was why someone can sell their land and lay it at the Apostles feet because the person felt it’s for all of us. But these three things are lost in our churches and we are flooding it with certain ideologies. When the chief priests caught them, they asked them, didn't we warn you strictly not to teach in this name again? Why have you filled Jerusalem with your Doctrine? Which Doctrine were they preaching, it was the doctrine of Jesus Christ. That He is the Son of God, He died for our sins, He was buried and on the third day He arose and Ascended to Heaven, and will come again.
That was the doctrine they were preaching and signs, wonders, healings were accompanying it and many were being saved. The reason why people are not being saved is because the foundational doctrine of Christ has been neglected, now we are always preaching demons, devils, how to be rich. How can someone stay on Fire if the person does not have fire. The devil is happy because the doctrines are so much that we forget about the one that Has the Power to save. We can apply all those principles of wealth but if we are not directed towards Christ, we will be rich and still make it to hell. They didn't ask why are you still healing, or performing signs and wonders but they asked "Why have you filled Jerusalem with your doctrine to bring this man's blood upon our heads?", they questioned the doctrine because it was the doctrine which
was healing the people, it was by that doctrine that people are being freed from sin and living holy; it was no other doctrine than the Doctrine of Jesus Christ. Why is the devil infiltrating the church will all sort of doctrines through misinterpretation of the Bible? Because He knows that when people come to the knowledge of Christ, they will be set free from his rulership. He has turned the battle against denominations, now we are fighting over whose doctrine is the best, no we are discrediting each other rather than all preaching the Doctrine of Christ which leads to Salvation. Didn't the devil try to misinterpret the Word of God when he went to tempt Jesus? The signs and wonders do not just come but they come through Jesus. Now men of God are seeking for Power from other sources and not Holy Spirit, they're