Peter the Powerful – Growing in Grace Series

“Peter the Powerful,” a sermon in the ongoing series on the life of Peter, looks at the end of Acts 4 and beginning of Acts 5, when God’s use of Peter as a preacher of truth, healer of the sick, righter of wrongs, and leader for the apostles, reaches its peak. The power is all God’s, of course, not man’s, and the Name of Jesus is the One being exalted through it all. At the center of the events is God’s swift and strong judgment of a married couple who tried to take some of that Name’s honor for themselves. Their quick deaths remain a dire warning for each of us today, and an all-important lesson for us to learn in our walk of faith.