{"id":1389,"date":"2019-01-11T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2019-01-11T09:08:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:08:02","slug":"1389","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Acts 4:10-12 The One And Only"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acts 4:10-12<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,\u00a0whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead,\u00a0that this man stands before you healed.11\u00a0Jesus is \u201c\u2018the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.\u2019\u00a0 12\u00a0Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cthen know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,\u00a0whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead,\u00a0that this man stands before you healed.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 Peter and John have already given full credit to Jesus as the one who healed the man who was lame from birth. \u00a0Again, as he had previously done in his Pentecost speech (Acts 2:14-41<\/b>), Peter reminded his questioners just whose power was on display.\u00a0 He proudly said that it is by the power of the \u201cname of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 This time Peter was not content to, as in his Pentecost speech, use solely the name Jesus, but he includes His full description with it (Jesus is His name.\u00a0 He is the Christ, meaning the Messiah.\u00a0 He is from Nazareth.) \u00a0Being that Jesus was not an uncommon name during that period, Peter wanted to make sure that both the accusers of him and John, and all who were listening, understood exactly who they were speaking about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, to drive the point deep, he states to all who could hear that they were the ones who had murdered Jesus.\u00a0 They had assessed Jesus to be a liar.\u00a0 They who opposed Jesus did not call Jesus a prophet and they even did not call Him a good man.\u00a0 They called Jesus a liar, a evil heretic and then planned and carried out the murder of innocent Jesus.\u00a0 Family, this is not something that impassively played out, no not at all.\u00a0 The persecution and murder of Jesus was done by fearful men who hated Him because what Jesus had preached was that the people of God no longer needed priests to approach the great Shekinah glory of God, but that He Himself would live within them and remind, teach, and guide them in His will for them.\u00a0 The priests thought that their livelihood, the way they lived their lives and tradition of their elders was at stake.\u00a0 Those who killed Jesus impassionedly pursued Him, spied on Him, sought out something to accuse Him of and finding nothing, falsely accused Him with lies they had manufactured.\u00a0 They ignored their own laws to bring Him to an illegal court.\u00a0 They could not stomach that their power might move from them to Him.\u00a0 The wanted this man to be humbled and to stand before them, to answer to them.\u00a0 He who said that they would answer to God demanded that He would answer to them.\u00a0 When Jesus would not kowtow to them they were infuriated and realized that unless they kill Him they would no longer have their jobs, as they knew and understood them.\u00a0 What is so terribly tragic is that they did not consider that Jesus had said that He had come not to abolish, or end the law, but that He had come to fulfill it (Matthew 5:17-19<\/b>).\u00a0 Family, if a Jewish Rabbi converts to Christianity, he does not lose His job but rather what he begins to teach the people the full and beautiful meaning of the Old Testament and the New Testament combined, the whole truth of God.\u00a0 If they had received the full message of God through Jesus, they would have been used to teach the full message to the people.\u00a0 How beautiful would that have been?\u00a0 But they did not, they rejected the \u201cCornerstone\u201d and so they fell from their self-built pedestals.\u00a0 All, even today, who worry about protecting their pedestals more than about doing the will of God, are in error.\u00a0 Peter drove home the point that they had not stopped Jesus.\u00a0 No-one and nothing can stop Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0 Both Pentecost and the miraculous healing of the formerly lame man were proof that Jesus was both man and God and that He was not dead.\u00a0 Being driven home was that Jesus was the Savior and Lord, and that Truth was on full display before them.\u00a0 Those who opposed Him thought they had buried Him away never to be bother them again.\u00a0 Peter let them know that Jesus was indeed alive and ruling from His throne in heaven.\u00a0 Whom they had rejected, was indeed the Cornerstone, they key piece by which salvation for all men was offered.\u00a0\u00a0 Just the mention of the name of Jesus, glorifying who He is, is enough to save and heal all mankind.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSalvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 Family, what this verse says is the key thought that the world hates about our faith.\u00a0 The world does not want to believe there is only one way.\u00a0 They want to believe that there are multiple ways.\u00a0 They make up their own slogans that state that we must all agree that people can define their own divinities, including self, and that we should respect and honor that.\u00a0 But the Word of God, but God Himself, denounces that.\u00a0 This verse boldly declares that Jesus is the only way to be at peace with God.\u00a0 Succinctly stated, if there was any other way for men to find peace with God than through Jesus, then Jesus stepping down from divinity to walk as a man was unnecessary.\u00a0 If there was another way, then the Father was cruel and mean to Jesus to have Him suffer and die for no reason because if there is another way, then Jesus need not have come, suffered and died.\u00a0 But there was, and is, no other way!\u00a0 No, forever that thought is a lie from hell!\u00a0 There is only one way to be at peace with God and that is through Jesus.\u00a0 All religions that teach anything other than the gospel are a lie from hell.\u00a0 Family think how evil any thought or teaching is that does not lead to Jesus.\u00a0 The one who does not have Jesus does not have God and thereby will suffer eternally.\u00a0 The Word clearly teaches that the enemy hates us and wants to destroy us (John 10:10<\/b>).\u00a0 The enemy knows that however he labels the lie is insignificant as long as it does not lead to the Gospel.\u00a0 The way to eternal peace and life with God is only through Jesus, or Jesus died for nothing.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0And Family, Jesus did not die for nothing.\u00a0 He died for everything.\u00a0 It is the point that Peter was making.\u00a0\u00a0 Let us, as Peter did, do all we can to bring glory to God!\u00a0 Thank You Jesus!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/span><\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acts 4:10-12\u00a0–\u00a0then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,\u00a0whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead,\u00a0that this man stands before you healed.11\u00a0Jesus is \u201c\u2018the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.\u2019\u00a0 12\u00a0Salvation is found in no one else, for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[82,100,101,94,17],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-acts","tag-john","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}