So far, it acts our story. We've kind of come to this place where, you know, everything,

on last Wednesday night, we left, everything's going great. We have great things happening.

In fact, we saw last week, we ended last Wednesday night with great power. Remember the

scripture there in chapter four. It says, and great power gave the

apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And then secondly, great grace was upon all of

them. But do you remember what the next great was? Yes, somebody said it. What was it? Great fear.

That was the next one.

That's the one we come on tonight.

We saw it on the weekend.

And great fear came upon all the church and upon as many as heard these things.

You say, that's such a bummer, man.

What a bummer to go from great power to great grace to great

fear. But I'm not sure that's really a bummer. I think it's actually a blessing.

One of the things we need to remember as churchgoers and Christians is, uh, to have great fear.

Uh, more of that healthy fear of the Lord. Are you a God-fearing person? That's a phrase they used to use, I'm a God-fearing man,

you know, or I'm a God-fearing woman. But, you know, we're a cultures. I'm not afraid of anything.

And yet, we're a culture that's afraid of everything. It's kind of a weird thing. But when it

comes to this idea of the fear of the Lord, well, the Bible talks about the fear of the Lord and Solomon talks in his wisdom about, you know, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. So fearing the Lord

in a healthy way, and I believe that's what happened. The result of it, it was a scary story.

It had a nice, let's fire a kick in the bucket. But it brought great fear upon all the church

and upon as many as heard these things. We're going to

find out tonight that the church is, you know, if you wouldn't join the church unless you

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