1. Kim May, Sr. Pastor March 16, 2014

2. Acts Series, Week #11 “Extraordinary Courage” Acts 4:13-22

3. “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)

4. Peter and John were ordinary men in an unordinary time demonstrating extraordinary courage.

5. The only requisite to God’s power generating extraordinary courage is relationship with Jesus.

6. The people “found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.” (Luke 8:35)

7. Sanhedrin = Highest law in the nation of Israel

8. The name of a person in Hebrew culture usually represented their nature and authority, their whole person.

9. The name of Jesus constituted the nature and authority of God as revealed in the gospel.

10. The name of a person in Hebrew culture usually represented their nature and authority, their whole person. The name of Jesus constituted the nature and authority of God as revealed in the gospel. “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ…” (Acts 2:38)

11. Water baptism in the name of Jesus depicts an all-encompassing absorption into who Christ is, His nature and authority.

12. Give me all. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work; I want you. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it … Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires you think are innocent as well as the ones you think are wicked … I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself. (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)

13. Contrast The highest authorities in the nation of Israel cower in fear as people pleasers while ordinary people, Peter and John, stand in faith as God pleasers.