Latest / His Hop Radio Podcast / Acts 12:12–17 (NKJV) “They Were Praying… But Didn’t Believe It” 👀🚪
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- 0:51Speaker 1: today meet us in acts chapter twelve, we're gonna pick
- 0:56Speaker 1: it up. In verse twelve, we're talking about the praying
- 1:00Speaker 1: church that didn't believe it right. It's a little comical,
- 1:04Speaker 1: but it's gonna be powerful. We're gonna get a lot
- 1:08Speaker 1: out of it. We're gonna continue our verse by verse
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- 1:17Speaker 1: something then got shocked when God actually answered, this one
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- 2:22Speaker 1: Father in prayer, have the Father, We thank you for
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- 2:45Speaker 1: of Jesus. Amen and Amen, hallelujah. All right, So for
- 2:54Speaker 1: a little background, the Apostle James was just murdered by
- 3:03Speaker 1: King Herod. He was ruling in Judea at this time,
- 3:12Speaker 1: and so it pleased the Jews, and so he thought, okay,
- 3:17Speaker 1: well if this pleased then't well, I'm gonna go after Peter.
- 3:19Speaker 1: So he went. He arrested Peter, and he was gonna
- 3:23Speaker 1: bring Peter out so that they could have an execution.
- 3:27Speaker 1: But Peter was rescued by an angel. The church gathered
- 3:32Speaker 1: together and they prayed for Peter, and he was delivered hallelujah.
- 3:40Speaker 1: So this is the reaction. These are the events that
- 3:45Speaker 1: unfold right after his deliverance. The ain't At first Peter
- 3:50Speaker 1: thought he was. He saw a vision. He thought he
- 3:52Speaker 1: was dreaming. But then when the angel disappeared, then he
- 3:57Speaker 1: realized that this was real, and so let's die right
- 4:02Speaker 1: into it in verse twelve. So when he had considered this,
- 4:07Speaker 1: he came to the house of Marrying the mother of John,
- 4:11Speaker 1: whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together praying.
- 4:17Speaker 1: And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate,
- 4:21Speaker 1: the girl named Rhoda came to answer. When she recognized
- 4:26Speaker 1: Peter's voice. Because of her gladness, she did not open
- 4:30Speaker 1: the gate, ran in and announced that Peter stood before
- 4:35Speaker 1: the gate. They said to her, you are beside yourself. Yes,
- 4:41Speaker 1: she kept insisting that it was so, so they said
- 4:47Speaker 1: it is his angel. Now. Peter continued knocking, and when
- 4:52Speaker 1: they opened the gate and saw him, they were astonished,
- 4:58Speaker 1: But motioning to them that he with his hands to
- 5:02Speaker 1: keep silent, he declared to them how the Lord had
- 5:05Speaker 1: brought him out of the prison and he said, go
- 5:10Speaker 1: tell these things to James and to the brethren. And
- 5:15Speaker 1: he departed and went to another place. Allelujah, man, this
- 5:23Speaker 1: is amazing. I love the way our God works. Allelujah.
- 5:29Speaker 1: All right, let's break it on down, so I'll speak
- 5:38Speaker 1: it up in verse twelve. So when they had considered this,
- 5:42Speaker 1: they came to the house of He came to the
- 5:44Speaker 1: house of Mary. Excuse me, So when he had considered this,
- 5:48Speaker 1: he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John,
- 5:51Speaker 1: whose surname was Mark or Mary or Many were gathered
- 5:56Speaker 1: together praying. Now, Peter didn't run away at this point.
- 6:02Speaker 1: He didn't hide in fear after being delivered. Instead, he
- 6:07Speaker 1: went exactly where he knew prayer was happening. The early
- 6:12Speaker 1: Church understood something modern believers often forget. Prayer was their
- 6:19Speaker 1: first response, not the last resort. Hey, man, he went
- 6:27Speaker 1: straight to the prayer meeting. How many of us would
- 6:30Speaker 1: go through something and as soon as we get out
- 6:34Speaker 1: of a situation, we're looking for a prayer meeting, Like
- 6:37Speaker 1: is that the first thing on our minds? It should be.
- 6:44Speaker 1: It should be we should be looking all over the
- 6:46Speaker 1: place for Okay, where is the nearest prayer meeting? And
- 6:49Speaker 1: even in church service, you know, we have you know,
- 6:54Speaker 1: Sunday morning Bible study, and we have Wednesday Bible study.
- 6:59Speaker 1: In all these events, but sometimes when we call prayer,
- 7:04Speaker 1: sometimes that is like the lowest attended service in the ministry.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Prayer should be the most populated service because that's where
- 7:15Speaker 1: our power comes from. Amen. Now Peter knew where the
- 7:23Speaker 1: prayer was, right. He wasn't looking for politics, he wasn't
- 7:27Speaker 1: looking to protest what was going on, and he was
- 7:32Speaker 1: not you know, panicking about the situation. He was in
- 7:37Speaker 1: prayer and noticed this wasn't a church building. It was
- 7:44Speaker 1: a house that they were in, that they were praying in,
- 7:47Speaker 1: and people were already praying before the miracle showed up.
- 7:52Speaker 1: Now that's faith. Okay, Let's go to verse thirteen or fourteen.
- 8:02Speaker 1: In as Peter knocked at the door of the gate,
- 8:05Speaker 1: a girl named Rhoda king to answer when she recognized
- 8:10Speaker 1: Peter's voice. Because of her gladness, she did not open
- 8:14Speaker 1: the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter stood
- 8:18Speaker 1: before the gate. The realism of scripture here right. The
- 8:24Speaker 1: Bible doesn't hide human emotion. Rohoda's faith was real, but
- 8:33Speaker 1: her response was overwhelmed with joy. She believed enough to
- 8:39Speaker 1: recognize the voice, but excitement interrupted obedience. She was like, uh,
- 8:47Speaker 1: I'm so excited. She forgot to open up the door.
- 8:50Speaker 1: That's funny. Now she heard the answer to prayer, she
- 8:57Speaker 1: just didn't open the door. Now, let that preach. How
- 9:02Speaker 1: many times have God answered that we got distracted by
- 9:07Speaker 1: emotion instead of action. Amen, we cannot allow our emotions
- 9:17Speaker 1: to distract us, in our emotions to lead us. I mean,
- 9:24Speaker 1: of course we are human another one, but we have
- 9:32Speaker 1: to be aware that our emotions can lead us astray.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Sometimes not saying that she was led astray, It's just
- 9:43Speaker 1: that she was overwhelmed with joy that she forgot to
- 9:47Speaker 1: allow the answered prayer to walk through the door right now,
- 9:51Speaker 1: verse fifteen. But they said to her, you are besides yourself.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Yet she kept insisting that it was so. So they
- 10:00Speaker 1: said it was his angel. Now, if she did not
- 10:04Speaker 1: allow her emotion to override her at this point, this
- 10:09Speaker 1: conversation wouldn't have happened. She wouldn't have to insist, she
- 10:13Speaker 1: wouldn't have to try to convince, right, because all she
- 10:16Speaker 1: had to do was open the door, and Peter would
- 10:18Speaker 1: have been standing in the midst of them. Peter would
- 10:22Speaker 1: have been right behind her and this conversation wouldn't have happened.
- 10:27Speaker 1: So sometimes we can allow our emotions to just you know,
- 10:32Speaker 1: allow extra drama that really is not necessary. Okay, So
- 10:41Speaker 1: the people praying for Peter's release did not believe the
- 10:45Speaker 1: reports when it happened. When he actually was released, they
- 10:50Speaker 1: couldn't believe it.
- 10:54Speaker 4: They had.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Thought that it was is angel, but not faith for
- 11:05Speaker 1: answered prayer. Right, They're like, first they said, she's beside herself.
- 11:14Speaker 1: Now even if it was his angel, that would have
- 11:18Speaker 1: been amazing. And also, now you can't make a doctrine
- 11:22Speaker 1: out of something that just kind of happened, right, This
- 11:26Speaker 1: just happened off the cuff. It's not a doctor know
- 11:32Speaker 1: a new doctrine that I'm starting here. But this is
- 11:37Speaker 1: more of a question in my opinion. You know, I
- 11:39Speaker 1: always say if I'm gonna give my opinion, I'll let
- 11:43Speaker 1: you know. I'm not saying that this say is it Lord?
- 11:45Speaker 1: But it's interesting to me that they said that it
- 11:49Speaker 1: was his angel. Now, we know that the Word of
- 11:54Speaker 1: God gives us angels, and we believe that there's an
- 11:59Speaker 1: angel assigned to us, right, we call it our guardian angel.
- 12:06Speaker 1: But they're saying that this person was Peter. So does
- 12:12Speaker 1: that mean our guardian angel looks like us and sounds
- 12:16Speaker 1: like us and talks like us? Right when they were
- 12:20Speaker 1: saying it's Peter, but they're saying, no, it's his angel.
- 12:24Speaker 1: And first of all, why wouldes angel need to knock
- 12:27Speaker 1: at a gate? Right? The angel can just walk into
- 12:31Speaker 1: the room. So I don't know, that's interesting. Does our
- 12:35Speaker 1: guardian angel look like us and talk like us? Now?
- 12:38Speaker 1: Like I said, I don't have chapter versus scripture. This
- 12:42Speaker 1: is just my opinion, just an interesting thought by their
- 12:47Speaker 1: response to this young lady Amen, now an one, where
- 12:57Speaker 1: are we not kind of going off on a rabbit trail? Yeah,
- 13:01Speaker 1: people are praying for Peter's release. Now, they were praying,
- 13:06Speaker 1: but they were not expecting an answer to it. They
- 13:12Speaker 1: had prepared themselves for Peter's death, not his deliverance. And
- 13:17Speaker 1: you can kind of understand because they just lost James, right,
- 13:24Speaker 1: another heavy hitter, so they thought they were embracing themselves
- 13:29Speaker 1: for another impact. And man, I actually I'm glad that
- 13:34Speaker 1: Peter wasn't killed, right, because you're taking out some of
- 13:38Speaker 1: the big names, these big heavy hitters, right all right?
- 13:43Speaker 1: Verse sixteen Now Peter continued knocking, and they opened the
- 13:50Speaker 1: door and saw him, and they were astonished. Now this,
- 13:57Speaker 1: this astonishment reveals how often God works beyond our expectations,
- 14:06Speaker 1: not because of our faith, but because of his grace. Amen.
- 14:12Speaker 1: Now Peter kept knocking. Sometimes a miracle doesn't stop just
- 14:16Speaker 1: because we doubt God will answer anyway. But imagine how
- 14:23Speaker 1: much quicker we'd open the door if expectation matched our
- 14:29Speaker 1: prayer life right, we would be able to get through
- 14:33Speaker 1: things a lot quicker if our expectation would come up
- 14:39Speaker 1: a little higher. Go to the next level, Amen, now,
- 14:42Speaker 1: Verse seventeen. But motioning to them with his hands to
- 14:48Speaker 1: keep silent, he declared to them how the Lord had
- 14:51Speaker 1: brought him out of the prison. And he said, go
- 14:56Speaker 1: tell these things to James and to the brethren. And
- 15:00Speaker 1: he depart and went to another place. Now Peter's wisdom
- 15:08Speaker 1: deliverance does not eliminate discernment. God rescues him, but believers
- 15:15Speaker 1: must still walk wisely. Right, Peter gives glory to God.
- 15:23Speaker 1: Peter strengthens the church, and Peter moves with wisdom. Peter
- 15:28Speaker 1: went to another place, and it doesn't tell us exactly
- 15:32Speaker 1: where he went. He probably went into hiding for a while.
- 15:39Speaker 1: Miracles are not for attention, They are for our testimony. Amen.
- 15:53Speaker 1: Hey man, this is amazing how they prayed and how
- 15:58Speaker 1: they answered prayer, and their expectation was not exactly where
- 16:04Speaker 1: he needed to be. All right, let's take a break.
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