We ought to have churches that are modeled after the Book of Acts.
The Book of Acts is my favorite book.
That's why I said it was my first Bible study at the start of the church.
You've got the four gospels, and then immediately following the gospels, you've got the Book of Acts.
The Book of Acts means action.
It's always been my favorite book because they're just doing so much.
I mean, man, they're turning the world upside down with the truth and doing so much great work.
Man, it's exciting.
I remember the first few times I'd gone to faith for a word, I was explaining it to Pastor Anderson how,
man, the Book of Acts is my favorite book.
I talked about it, just like, oh, wouldn't that be great, how things were in the past?
He's like, there's no reason why it can't be like that today.
There's none.
I mean, there's nothing different.
God's power isn't shortened.
God's hand isn't weak.
It's not waxed fat.
It's there.
He's willing to use it.
You need to be willing to let Him use you.
Let God's strength and power be shown through you.
You don't have to be strong.
You personally don't have to be.
You can let God's strength show you, but you have to be willing.
You have to be willing to say, here I am, Lord, send me.
I may not have a good tongue.
I may not be the best at coming up with analogies.
I may not be good at talking to you.
I may be pretty shy.
I may have all these things going against me, Lord, but here I am.
I want you to use me, and He will use you.
And actually, God gets way more glory and honor through the people who don't have the skills,
and He's willing to use those people even more.
Acts 5, we need to roll up our sleeves and get to work.
We read verse number 40.
And to him they agreed.
When they had called the apostles and beaten them,
they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus and let them go.
And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.
And daily in the temple and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
Now these people didn't.
The reason why I'm reading this in Kansas, you've probably heard verse 42 many, many times being preached.
A really popular verse.
Daily in the temple and every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
We use this for sowing all the time because this is what they're doing.
But look at the context.
They had just gotten beaten up for Jesus Christ.
Did they let that stop them?
Nope.
In fact, that invigorated them.
They said, go ahead, beat us.
You want to try to shut us down?
We're going to go every day and preach the Lord Jesus Christ.