Signs And Wonders Series

Acts 4:23-31 Signs and Wonders

1. WHAT THEIR PRAYER REQUIRED -

23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.

A Fast Disclosure - They Didn't -

Delay the Mission 23 being let go, they went to their own company,

A Full Disclosure - Dilute the Message - and reported all

A Factual Disclosure - Distort the Meaning -

that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.

2. WHAT THEIR PRAYER RECOGNIZED -

A. The Sovereignty of God - 24 And when they heard that,

they lifted up their voice to God with one accord,

i. Their Focus - 24 And when they heard that,

ii. Their Fellowship - they lifted up their voice to God with one accord

iii. Their Faith - 24 and said, Lord, thou art God,

Their Worship - Lord, (Despot) absolute rule -

Their Wisdom - thou art God,

(Not were God, or will be God, - art God)

Their Witness - which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea,

and all that in them is:

iv. Their Fight -

The Heathen Rage - 25 (READ)

The Heathen Resolve - 26 (READ), The Heathen Rebellion - (READ)

The Heathen Rejection - 28 for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done

B. The Security of God - 29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings

Their Threats are - Powerless - Against God,

Pointless -

25 Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

Profitless - 26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ...28 to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

C. The Sufficiency of God - 29 and grant unto thy servants,

that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

III. WHAT THEIR PRAYER REQUESTED

Divine Investigation - 29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings:

Divine Inspiration - To Walk - To Work - and grant unto thy servants,

To War, that with all boldness, To Witness, they may speak thy word

Divine Intervention - 30 by stretching forth thine hand to heal;

Divine Inundation - and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. (God would come in Flood)

His Foes Exposed - 29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings:

His Word Expounded - and grant unto thy servants,

that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

His Hand Extended - 30 by stretching forth thine hand to heal

His Son Exalted - And that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.

IV. WHAT THEIR PRAYER RECEIVED They Got A -

Direct Response - 31 And when they had prayed,

Dynamic Response - place was shaken where they were assembled Definite Response - and they were all filled

Divine Response - with the Holy Ghost,

Definitive Response - and they spake the word of God with boldness

Acts 5:12 by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people;

2 Cors 12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

Heb 2:4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

Mark 16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; (Only)

Their Walk - In my name shall they cast out devils;

Their Word - they shall speak with new tongues;

Their Warfare - 18 they shall take up serpents;

Their Weapons - if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them;

Their Work - they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.