Title: Key Characters
11.
21.
3Key Characters
- Peter John
- Healed Lame Man
- People
- Priests
- Captain of Temple Guard
- Sadducees
4Disturbed
diaponeomai
5Disturbed
diaponeomai
Through/because of
6Disturbed
diaponeomai
Through/because of
to work, toil hard
To toil through, to be worn out, sore, or
annoyed
7Sadducees
- 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
8Made well/healed
sozo
Safe, made well, preserve, recover, restore,
deliver, save (verse 12 saved)
9Acts 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.
10Acts 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,
11Psalm 11822 (NASB)
- The stone which the builders rejected has become
the chief corner stone.
12Confidence/courage
parresia
13Confidence/courage
parresia
all
14Confidence/courage
parresia
all speech
Freedom of speech, frankness, openly, confidence,
boldness, courage
15Uneducated/unschooled
agrammatos
16Uneducated/unschooled
agrammatos
negative particle
17Uneducated/unschooled
agrammatos
negative particle
letters or to write
To be without learning, unlettered, uneducated
18untrained/ordinary ?d??t?? idiotes
19- untrained/ordinary ?d??t?? idiotes
a private or unskilled person, the layman as
compared with the expert, ungifted, unskilled,
untrained,
20Luke 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.
21 Noteworthy/outstanding
gnostos
Known, not theoretically known, but known through
experience
22I 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.
23 Peter and John faced a _______________
circumstance
24 Peter and John faced a _______________
circumstance and were _____________.
25The Prayer
- Acknowledged God as sovereign creator
- Quoted applicable Scripture
26Psalm 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,
27The Prayer
- Acknowledged God as sovereign creator
- Quoted applicable Scripture
- Asked for confident boldness while God does His
thing
28 What is not in this prayer?
29Christianity is
- Not Narrow
- Is Narrow and Wrong
- Is Narrow and Right
30Christianity is
31John 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.
32John 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.
33Christianity is
- Not Narrow
- Is Narrow and Wrong
34Pluralism
- 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.
35Christianity is
- Not Narrow
- Is Narrow and Wrong
- Is Narrow and Right
36A 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
37Boldness/boldly
parresia
38Boldness/boldly
parresia
all
39Boldness/boldly
parresia
all
speech
Freedom of speech, public openness, confidence,
boldness
40 The Way boldly proclaimed that Jesus is the only
way.
41Results 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.
42 The early church had to be told to stop
speaking in His name, the modern church has to be
told to start.