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Confidence
The idea of confidence is hard for many of us this morning.
There is much of what we face in life that shapes our confidence.
Parenting is scary thing and I’ll tell you why—Because is there are numerous ways to mess up your kids and so few ways to raise them right.
It’s insane.
We are extremely fragile creatures, especially when it comes to our confidence and security.
So much so that there are entire groups of people who not only question their abilities, but question God’s ability to keep us safe.
The idea of once saved always saved, I believe, comes from a root of fear.
That God cannot sustain us in his presence unless he traps us.
I read a book by John Eldrage, called Wild At Heart, this was quite a few years ago when I first learned that I would be a parent and it has given me immense freedom to allow my children to explore, get hurt, and fail because through all of this when they succeed there is a building of confidence only failure could grow.
Today we are afraid to allow our kids to fail.
We are raising kids in a world of participation trophies and mediocre success.
In high school graduation cerimonies I see the principle more as Oprah.
You get a diploma, you and you and I don’t know who you are, but you’ll walk away with one as well.
We have become afraid of failure, but failure isn’t bad.
Failure has shaped the World as we know it.
One of the biggest failures, Christopher Columbus, gets celebrated because he got lost and missed the mark entirely.
This morning we aren’t going to get in depth into Paul’s second sermon because it’s much like the first.
Peter is an evangelist.
His message doesn’t have to change, he doesn’t need new stories because the people he preaches too are different each time he preaches.
We are going to open in Peter Healed the lamb man and preached his second sermon 5,000 came to Christ and then Peter got detained.
Bunny trail alert: Listen Satan’s biggest attacks are often after God’s biggest Miracles.
We see it here, we see it Elisha when he defeated the Prophets of Ba’al then ran away from Jezebel.
Satan isn’t going to let you marvel in victory because a well earned victory is an immediate confidence booster.
We are going to cover a big chunk of scripture this morning so lets get right too it.
Acts 4:5-
Peter’s sermon, second sermon, and now third sermon all have the same thing in common.
Peter started by showing people their failures or their sin.
If you want to help someone to become better show them your failures.
The issue I have with the word confidence is that all to often it’s directly linked to self.
People who have failed in the past, been wounded in the past, or other wise have been put down in the past often see confidence as this unattainable object.
The issue with this is that we believe confidence must come from us.
Peter laid it out that the Jews had nothing to be confident about.
That they were failures, they crucified God and that their freedom lay in the hands of the man they crucified.
How does Peter come with such confidence?
Peter was an uneducated common man.
Many of us here today would fit that description.
I myself fit this description.
There is so much about life, the world, and the bible we just don’t know.
The more I learn the more I realize that I don’t know.
It’s a never ending circle.
puts it best.
We are to have no confidence in ourselves.
The Saduccees Ask one simple question:
By what Power did you do this?
The the word of God says:
Peter, Being filled with the Holy Spirit
So where does Christian confidence come from?
2 Corinthians 12:
The reality is you can’t, placing confidence in yourself is just misplaced arrogance and there is a huge difference between arrogance and confidence.
According to the dictionary
Arrogance- is having an inflated view of one’s importance
Confidence- feeling or showing certainty about something
Understand-Peter is standing in front of the Saducees.
These people were considered to be some of the most educated people concerning religion and philosophy.
He stood in front people who dedicated their lives to gaining knowledge, but on thier persuit of knowledge they neglected wisdom.
You can know just about anything, but wisdom is the ability to rightly apply your knowledge.
The saduccess were arrogant and over estimated themselves.
Most Christians fail at being like Christ because they believe arrogance and confidence are one in the same.
They believe that because they said a prayer and recieved Jesus that they can overcome their issues.
They can believe they can change themselves.
This is what the Saducees believed.
That by being obediant to the law they could taste salvation, But Peter exercised wisdom.
Being enlightened by the Holy Spirit, following His words.
Peter spoke and the Saducees were
Amazed
When we place our confidence in Christ we access to not only an unbelievable amount of knowledge, but also the wisdom to know when to apply the knowledge we have.
So what is the outcome?
When Christ is spoken about with Holy Boldness people will notice and praise God.
Peter and John couldn’t be persecuted because of the amount of people who were praising God.
The Saducees found NO WAY to PUNISH THEM
BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE, FOR ALL WERE PRAISING GOR FOR WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
Are people who are in your life praising God for what he is doing in your life?
Are you living with wuch confidence that you can preach the word of God with the full confidence of living the word of God because preaching without living is hypocrisy.
But living confidently what you preach confidently will equal the people coming to Christ.
Live confidently in Christ and Christ will never let you down.
He will get you through the hard times.
He will not only get you through it he will make it so that you increase your testimony amongst you unchurched friends.
Your struggles are only avenues in which God can work his miracles to increase the moving of God’s message through the unchurched.
1 Peter 2:12
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