Acts 5:12-42 | First Loyalty (No Matter What)Sample

Acts is a story of the conflict between two powers and the colliding of two ages – the powers of Jesus over and against the powers of this world, and the age to come with this present age. Acts shows it again and again. Today it’s seen in living color.

Sometimes in this conflict, God springs you. We’ve seen him spring the apostles from jail. We’ve seen God springing people from slavery to all kinds of disease and torments by unclean spirits too.

But when God springs you, it’s often back into the fray. What does the angel tell the apostles? “Go stand in the temple courts and tell the people all about this new life” (Acts 5:20). Get back in there! Because this kingdom of God needs explanation and teaching.

Jesus doesn’t say why God will sometimes break a person from jail, but not others. It doesn’t say why some are healed by mere shadows while at other times people pray and pray without seeing it. We simply see that God sometimes breaks in with the full power of his kingdom in extraordinary ways.

God continues to do the mysterious and miraculous. In his will and in his way. It's best to leave the timing to him and focus on something else instead. Just be loyal to him. No matter what. Take him at his word, and do what he says.