Yesterday as I was reading through a portion of Acts and
this verse stood out to me. Acts 5:20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of
this life.
Many people were being healed and many people were being
saved. The apostles had been put in
prison by the religious leaders because they were jealous of what the apostles
were doing. During the night the angel
of the Lord came and freed the apostles from prison and told them to go into
the temple and speak to the people all
the words of this life. They
were to preach life eternal through Jesus Christ to the people stuck in the
dead religion of that day. The very
religious leaders whom Jesus called whited sepulchres (Matthew 23:27) were at
it again.. These that looked good on the
outside and yet were dead on the inside are the very ones who crucifed the
Prince of life. (Acts 3:15) These same spiritually dead people were trying to
stop the ones who now had the Holy Spirit of the Prince of life living within
them. Gamaliel was a wise man when he
counseled these spiritually dead ones to let the apostles go for if this was
truly of God they would not be able to stop it and they would find themselves
fighting against God Himself. There is
no way to stop the Prince of life.
I don’t want to be a whited sepulchre. I want to be one preaching the words of
life. Jesus said I am the way the truth
and the life, no man comes to the Father but by me. In Jesus is life and that life is the light
of men.
Matthew 23:27 Woe unto
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres,
which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones,
and of all uncleanness.
Acts 3:15 And killed
the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are
witnesses.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the
truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light
of men.
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