Three Promises For A New Year | Jeremiah Lepasana | Acts 5:17-42

The new year will no doubt bring incredible highs and lows. This past week, we talked of three anchoring promises from Acts 5.17-42 that I hope you remember this year:God unlocks tightly guarded doors.   God repurposes our gravest failures. God invites us into His inevitable movement. In the first, we saw the first Christians thrown into jail and an Angel of the Lord set them free. From this, we know two simple truths, God cares and God acts. If you do not believe God cares about you and God acts on your behalf, you will experience life as one locked door after another that you will have to jam open with your finite ability, talent, and competency. And this will make your soul prideful, spiteful, and tired. In the second, we saw the first Christians explaining to those opposing them that though these opposers delivered Jesus to the Romans to be killed, God has repurposed this grave failure of theirs, and now it has become the very basis of God's grace and forgiveness. In the last, we saw a respected leader of those opposing warn his own group that if this Christian movement was of God it could not fail. And, that is our ultimate hope. We believe that there is no stopping this Resurrection movement marked by worship, hope, and healing.