LEGACY 4 - EMPOWER - PTR ALVIN GUTIERREZ - 4PM AFTERNOON SERVICE

2. Empower

3. 12 The apostles performed many signs and
wonders among the people. And all the
believers used to meet together in
Solomon’s Colonnade. 13 No one else dared
join them, even though they were highly
regarded by the people.14 Nevertheless,
more and more men and women believed
in the Lord and were added to their
number.
ACTS5:12-42

4. 15 As a result, people brought the sick
into the streets and laid them on beds
and mats so that at least Peter’s
shadow might fall on some of them as
he passed by. 16 Crowds gathered also
from the towns around Jerusalem,
bringing their sick and those
tormented by impure spirits, and all of
them were healed.
ACTS5:12-42

5. 17 Then the high priest and all his
associates, who were members of the
party of the Sadducees, were filled
with jealousy. 18 They arrested the
apostles and put them in the public
jail. 19 But during the night an angel of
the Lord opened the doors of the
jail and brought them out.
ACTS5:12-42

6. 20 “Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said,
“and tell the people all about this new life.”
21 At daybreak they entered the temple
courts, as they had been told, and began to
teach the people. When the high priest and
his associates arrived, they called together
the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the
elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the
apostles.
ACTS5:12-42

7. 22 But on arriving at the jail, the officers did
not find them there. So they went back and
reported, 23 “We found the jail securely
locked, with the guards standing at the
doors; but when we opened them, we
found no one inside.” 24 On hearing this
report, the captain of the temple guard and
the chief priests were at a loss, wondering
what this might lead to.
ACTS5:12-42

8. 25 Then someone came and said, “Look!
The men you put in jail are standing in the
temple courts teaching the people.” 26 At
that, the captain went with his officers and
brought the apostles. They did not use
force, because they feared that the
people would stone them.
27 The apostles were brought in and made
to appear before the Sanhedrin to be
questioned by the high priest.
ACTS5:12-42

9. 28 “We gave you strict orders not to teach
in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled
Jerusalem with your teaching and are
determined to make us guilty of this man’s
blood.” 29 Peter and the other apostles
replied: “We must obey God rather than
human beings! 30 The God of our
ancestors raised Jesus from the dead—
whom you killed by hanging him on a cross.
ACTS5:12-42

10. 31 God exalted him to his own right hand as
Prince and Savior that he might bring Israel
to repentance and forgive their sins. 32 We
are witnesses of these things, and so is the
Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those
who obey him.”
ACTS5:12-42

11. 33 When they heard this, they were
furious and wanted to put them to death.
34 But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a
teacher of the law, who was honored by all
the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and
ordered that the men be put outside for a
little while.
ACTS5:12-42

12. 35 Then he addressed the Sanhedrin: “Men
of Israel, consider carefully what you intend
to do to these men. 36 Some time ago
Theudas appeared, claiming to be
somebody, and about four hundred men
rallied to him. He was killed, all his
followers were dispersed, and it all came to
nothing.
ACTS5:12-42

13. 37 After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in
the days of the census and led a band of
people in revolt. He too was killed, and all
his followers were scattered. 38 Therefore,
in the present case I advise you: Leave
these men alone! Let them go! For if their
purpose or activity is of human origin, it will
fail.
ACTS5:12-42

14. 39 But if it is from God, you will not be able
to stop these men; you will only find
yourselves fighting against God.”
40 His speech persuaded them. They called
the apostles in and had them flogged. Then
they ordered them not to speak in the
name of Jesus, and let them go.
ACTS5:12-42

15. 41 The apostles left the Sanhedrin,
rejoicing because they had been counted
worthy of suffering disgrace for the
Name. 42 Day after day, in the temple
courts and from house to house, they never
stopped teaching and proclaiming the good
news that Jesus is the Messiah.
ACTS5:12-42

18. 8 But you will receive power when the
Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will
be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in
all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends
of the earth.”
Acts1:8

19. In Acts 1:8, Jesus says this: “You will
receive power when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you, and you will be my
witnesses,” starting locally and
culminating globally.

20. And what it means to live a Spirit-filled,
Spirit-empowered life is to be one who
bears witness to Jesus, who demonstrates
with a changed life and declares with clear
speech that Jesus is God, that Jesus
forgives, that Jesus loves, that Jesus saves.
As we like to say it, it’s all about Jesus.

21. So the book of Acts shows the explosion
that begins to erupt after the resurrection
of Jesus, that 120 followers soon have
added to their number three thousand and
then thousands more are added.
But by the time we pick up the story in Acts
chapter 5, persecution and opposition
arises.

23. Here’s what’s going on: the apostles,
the leaders, chosen by Jesus are doing
ministry openly and publicly. You need
to get that, because today, people
want ministry to be done privately, not
publicly.

24. They’re going to get in trouble because
their faith has gone public; it’s not
private. They are inviting others to
learn about Jesus.

27. So were they, but it says that many,
multitudes, numbers of the people who
heard about Jesus, they crossed the
line of faith. They went public in their
commitment to Jesus, both men and
women.

28. Give your sin to Jesus. Give your soul
to Jesus. Don’t allow the criticism of
others to damn you to Hell. It’s much
better to face their wrath than his. And
many were saved. So people are loved,
people are saved.

30. It says that sick people get healed. We
believe that God is the same
yesterday, today, and forever. He has
healed, he will heal, and he is healing.
We believe that in the kingdom of God,
no one will be sick.

31. We believe that sickness has entered
the world because of sin, and
occasionally the kingdom of God
breaks into this world and healing
comes to reveal Jesus as our Great
Physician.

32. As Jesus healed when he was on the
earth, he rules from heaven. He can
still heal on the earth because his
jurisdiction has no limitation.

34. They had unclean, demonic spirits. Our
culture does not believe this, but the
Bible declares this: there isn’t just God,
there is Satan who, along with the
fallen angels, are in rebellion against
God.

35. They didn’t want to submit to God’s
authority, they wanted to have God’s
authority. And as a result, they were
cast down and they were fallen, and
they have been at work in the world
ever since, beginning with our first
parents.

36. What that means is this: not all spirituality is
good, godly, or safe. And this great
erroneous false teaching is that the spirit
realm is good. Open yourself up to
whatever religion, or ideology, or
experience, or spirituality, and it’s all good
because spirituality is good.

37. Some people are dangerous, some spirits are
dangerous. Some people are unclean, some
spirits are unclean. And these people were
very spiritual, but they were open to demons,
they were oppressed, and they were
depressed, their minds were affected, their
bodies were polluted, their souls were
discouraged. They were in bondage.

38. You need to know that. God still does these
things, and if we participate with him by the
power of the Holy Spirit, we will receive
opposition as they received. And very
quickly the opposition comes because for
every action there’s a reaction.

39. Again, for every healing, there is hatred. For
every deliverance, there is a debate. For
every conversion, there is a criticism. This
is the price of ministry

41. What they’re opposing is that they don’t
have the power, they don’t have the
control, that the Holy Spirit has not
anointed and appointed them for this kind
of ministry. As a result, they suffer from
jealousy. And the disciples, the apostles,
they haven’t done anything wrong.

42. Jealousy is a deep root of sin in the human
heart. The religious people here, it’s all
about power and control. But the Holy Spirit
decided he was going to love, and save,
and heal, and deliver people.

43. Religious people want to argue, they want
to fight, they want power, they want
control, they want every bit of attention on
them. Ministry’s about helping people, and
sometimes that requires dealing with,
ignoring, religious people who don’t care
about lost people, because their real issue
is jealous opposition.

44. Here’s the truth: God anoints whomever he
wants to anoint, and just because he
anointed that person doesn't mean they’re
more godly, or more gifted, or more
capable, or more special. Sometimes God
likes glory, so he picks the loser and lets
him do amazing things by his power.

47. Keep preaching. Keep talking about Jesus.
Jesus paid the greatest price for us, we’ll
pay any price for him. And better than us
living a life of comfort and ease is people
being loved, and saved, and healed, and
delivered.

48. And there’s a joy in seeing the work of the
Holy Spirit in and through people, and that’s
what ministry’s all about.

51. He paid the ultimate price, you may need
to pay a little price to walk with him, to be
a witness to him so that others can meet
him and be saved and served by him.

52. But our goal is not comfort and ease, our
goal is to be witnesses. Jesus took a
beating for you. Sometimes you may need
to take a beating for him.

53. But what a great joy, what a great glory,
what a great honor, what a great privilege
it is to be counted worthy of being
opposed because of Jesus. You’re going to
pay a price. Make it for the name of Jesus.
You’re going to live your life for some
cause, reason, or purpose. Make it the
name of Jesus.

54. Elisha Gray
(1835-1901)

55. Elisha Gray was a Quaker from rural Ohio
who grew up on a farm. He studied
electricity at Oberlin College. In 1867, Gray
received his first patent for an improved
telegraph relay. During his lifetime, Elisha
Gray was granted over seventy patents for
his inventions, including many important
innovations in electricity.

56. He devised a tone telegraph of this kind
about the same time as La Cour. In Gray's
tone telegraph, several vibrating steel reeds
tuned to different frequencies interrupted
the current, which at the other end of the
line passed through electromagnets and
vibrated matching tuned steel reeds near
the electromagnet poles.

57. Gray's 'harmonic telegraph,' with vibrating
reeds, was used by the Western Union
Telegraph Company. Since more than one
set of vibration frequencies – that is to say,
more than one musical tone – can be sent
over the same wire simultaneously, the
harmonic telegraph can be utilized as a
'multiplex' or many-ply telegraph,

58. conveying several messages through the
same wire at the same time. Each message
can either be read by an operator by the
sound, or from different tones read by
different operators, or a permanent record
can be made by the marks drawn on a
ribbon of travelling paper by a Morse
recorder.

59. On February 14, 1876 at the US Patent Office,
Gray's lawyer filed a patent caveat for a
telephone. However, he arrived at the
patent office two hours after an engineer
named Alexander Graham Bell arrived to
apply for a patent for his version of the
telephone.

60. On February 14, 1876 at the US Patent Office,
Gray's lawyer filed a patent caveat for a
telephone. However, he arrived at the
patent office two hours after an engineer
named Alexander Graham Bell arrived to
apply for a patent for his version of the
telephone.

61. On the basis of its earlier filing time -- a
mere few hours -- and on the subtle
distinctions between a caveat and an actual
patent application, the U.S. Patent Office
awarded Bell, not Gray, the patent for the
telephone.

63. FAITHWORKS CHRISTIAN CHURCH GLOBAL
Presented By:
Pastor Alvin Gutierrez
FCC Main, San Mateo,
4PM Afternoon Service
, January 24, 2016
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