After receiving the promised gift of God’s Spirit the first Christians boldly proclaimed that eternal life and forgiveness were found in Jesus alone. That because Jesus willingly gave His life on the cross to satisfy the wrath of God against all the sin and evil committed by His people we can be free and forgiven and be friends of God again, and He can dwell intimately with us through His Holy Spirit. In Acts 4-5, the religious leaders of the day hear these men and women telling others about life in the name of Jesus, and these leaders arrested them and demanded that they stop talking about their faith. Instead they kept meeting together for worship, and kept telling everyone they knew about life in Jesus. Let’s observe what this passage has to say for us as we steel the courage to defend the faith in our time.
