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Thank you for joining us today, July 25th, 2021! Please take a moment to fill out your connection card. Once that is completed, we encourage you to join us in worship and be ready to engage with our sermon. You can find the worship songs below as well as upcoming events and the sermon note outline. And if you are an Orchard regular, there is a "Give Now" button for you to give your weekly offering below.
Worship with Orchard
One of the things our community loves to do every time we gather is worship the Lord through song. While we understand this may not be your jam, we would ask that you would open yourself to the idea of musical worship and allow this time to prepare you to hear from our speaker and the Bible.
Sermon Notes for July 25th
Series: Church On the Move
Title: Jesus The Cornerstone | Acts 4:1-21
Acts 4:1-4 (NIV)
4 The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people. 2 They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. 3 They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day. 4 But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand.
The Problem: We will face opposition. (vv. 1-4)
Acts 4:5-12 (NIV)
5 The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem. 6 Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and others of the high priest’s family. 7 They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”
8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11 Jesus is
“‘the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the cornerstone.’[a]
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
Point: Power in Jesus’ name. (vv. 5-12)
Acts 4:13-17 (NIV)
13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. 14 But since they could see the man who had been healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say. 15 So they ordered them to withdraw from the Sanhedrin and then conferred together. 16 “What are we going to do with these men?” they asked. “Everyone living in Jerusalem knows they have performed a notable sign, and we cannot deny it. 17 But to stop this thing from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them to speak no longer to anyone in this name.”
Point: You are a living testimony. (vv. 13-17)
Acts 4:18-21 (NIV)
18 Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John replied, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges! 20 As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
21 After further threats they let them go. They could not decide how to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened.