Counted Worthy to Suffer

Sermon:              Counted Worthy to Suffer                     Acts 5:17-42

I.  The Apostles Arrested Again and Again  (17-33)

II. Gamaliel Takes a Moderate Approach  (34-40)

III. The Mission Continues  (41-42)

1 Corinthians 6:4 …as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, 5beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; 6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; 7by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; 8 through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.