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Sep 28, 2025

The Good News Non-Negotiables | Spirit, Power & The Church

The Good News Non-Negotiables | Spirit, Power & The Church

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The Good News Non-Negotiables

 

September 28, 2025

Acts 2:42
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

PRINCIPLE: When Spirit-filled evangelism is to a collective commitment to oneness, devotion, and generosity, God moves mightily.

Non-Negotiables of Spirit-Led Evangelism

1. Personal .

Ephesians 5:8–11
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord. 11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
Acts 5:12–14
12 The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade. 13 No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. 14 Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.
Acts 5:13
…they were highly regarded by the people.
Acts 5:14
Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.
Acts 5:15–16
15 As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. 16 Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed.

2. Distinguishing .

QUESTION: Do see so much of what Jesus is doing in me that they just want to get close?

3. Relentless .

Acts 5:17
Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.
Acts 5:18
They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
Acts 5:19
But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out.
Acts 5:20
“Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people all about this new life.”
Acts 5:21
At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people.
John 11:25–26
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
Acts 5:21–24
21 At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin — the full assembly of the elders of Israel — and sent to the jail for the apostles. 22 But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they went back and reported, 23 “We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.” 24 On hearing this report, the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests were at a loss, wondering what this might lead to.
Acts 5:25
Then someone came and said, “Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people.”

4. Divine .

Acts 5:26
At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles. They did not use force, because they feared that the people would stone them.
Acts 5:27–29
27 The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. 28 “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.” 29 Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings!”

PRINCIPLE: Obey the law it explicitly contradicts God’s Commands.

1 Peter 2:17
Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor.
Titus 3:1
Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good.
Proverbs 28:1
The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Acts 5:41
The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

5. Kingdom .

Matthew 5:10–12
10 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Acts 5:42
Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.
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