The Fifth Act | Responding to Resistance - Jon Tyson

Church of the City New York

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our series through the Book of Acts, The Fifth Act, with a powerful message from Acts 4:18–31 on how the Early Church responded to resistance with unified prayer. In this passage, we see Peter and John boldly proclaiming the name of Jesus in the face of commands, threats, and pressure to conform. Today, we are also called to respond to resistance by choosing faithfulness over fear, and pressing in with prayer instead of retreating.

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0:00.0	Our teaching text for tonight comes from Acts 4, verses 18 through 31.
0:13.0	Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
0:19.4	But Peter and John replied,
0:21.4	which is right in God's eyes to listen to you or to him?
0:25.0	You be the judges.
0:26.6	As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.
0:30.8	After further threats, they let them go.
0:33.2	They could not decide how to punish them
0:35.0	because all the people were praising God
0:37.0	for what had happened.
0:38.2	For the man who was miraculously healed was over 40 years old.
0:42.2	On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported to them all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
0:50.5	When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God.
0:54.7	Sovereign Lord, they said, you made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
1:00.3	You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father, David.
1:05.1	Why did the nations rage and the people's plot in vain?
1:08.9	The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord
1:12.8	and against his anointed one.
1:15.2	Indeed, Herod and Pontius Pilate
1:17.0	met together with the Gentiles
1:18.6	and the people of Israel in this city
1:20.3	to conspire against your holy servant, Jesus,
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