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| "SEEING GOD AS OUR HIGHEST TRUTH SOURCE" by Kaely Miller | ||||||||||||
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YOUTH GROUP LESSON 75
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| KEY VERSE: But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than any human authority.” Acts 5:29 FAITH STORY: Acts 5:17-42 FAITH FOCUS: The high priest and the sect of Sadducees are jealous of the apostles, because crowds are gathering around them, bringing the sick and the tormented for the apostles to heal. They arrest them and put them in the public prison. During the night, an angel of the Lord appears and opens the prison doors. The apostles leave the prison and enter the Temple at daybreak, ready to proclaim the message of life that God has asked them to proclaim. When the high priest sends for them, the police find the prison securely locked with the guards, but missing the apostles. Someone arrives and explains to them that the apostles are back in the Temple, teaching, and the Temple police are sent to arrest them again. The apostles are forced to stand before the council, and are reminded that they were ordered not to teach in Jesus’ name. Peter and the other apostles answer that they must obey God, because God raised up the Jesus everyone killed, and exalted him to his right hand as leader and Savior in order that Israel might receive forgiveness of their sins. The apostles claim to be witnesses. After hearing this, the council is enraged, but a Pharisee called Gamaliel stands up and tells the council to consider carefully how they will punish the apostles. He recounts other leaders who died, and whose following died out, reasoning that if the followers of Jesus are rising up for their own accord, it will eventually fail, but if they are doing it because of God, then there’s no way to overthrow them, and that would also be fighting against God. The council listens to him, and has the apostles flogged. The apostles are ordered not to preach in the name of Jesus, and they leave, rejoicing because they were considered worthy to be punished and dishonored for Jesus’ sake. They didn’t stop preaching or teaching. Continued... |
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