Pilot Knob Lutheran No Other Name 11/13/2024
“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12
The context of this declaration is John and Peter’s healing of a forty – year old man who was lame from birth in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. The report of this spread like wildfire. The lame man was placed in front of the temple everyday by his parents so he could beg for donations. Everyone knew him and that his condition was not fake. Such a dramatic healing which would transform the man’s life would be something to talk about on every street corner and coffee shop until the entire town heard.
The result led to people giving praise and glory to God. In other words, the praise and attention shifted from the religious leaders to God, specifically to Jesus. This did not sit well with the religious establishment. They became very jealous and angry enough to demand they stop speaking about Jesus; who, by the way, was crucified only a few months prior and rose from the dead. This is something they couldn’t deny nor the healing of the lame man, yet neither miracle changed their mind about Jesus, they continued to deny Him and suppress the truth.
People today are no different. Confronted with facts only reinforces their stubbornness and willingness to embrace what is clearly not true.
When threatened by the authorities to stop talking to others about Jesus what would you have done? What might be your reaction? Peter and John made it clear they were rejecting the only way and only person that can rescue them from eternal death and separation from God. Nothing has changed two-thousand years later. As Jesus declared in John 14:6 “I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Are you looking for a different path to God? Are you willing to share the truth regardless of what others say or threaten to do? Pr. Bob Snitzer
By the Way:
Today: confirmation 4:30.
Thursday 14, 10:00 quilting day.
Tuesday 19, 2:00 Women’s study
OCC drop off begins the week of the 18th
from 4:00-6:00
Sunday 17, 9:00 AM Morning worship service. Sermon: What a Wretched Man I Am Romans 7:14-25 You can listen on KIOW at 107.3 FM at 7:00 AM Sunday, or KGLO at 1300AM at 10:00 AM Sunday. Your feedback is welcomed.
If you have any article or God sighting you would like to share with the congregation please submit it for publication in the Briefings. pastorbob@pilotknob.org
GriefShare: Sunday 17, 2:00-3:30. For more information go to: https://www.griefshare.org/findagroup or contact Pr. Bob or Sue Reese.
~ Past communiques and sermons can be read and heard on our website: www.pilotknob.org and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PilotKnobLutheran/
