Why Didn't Anyone Hear the Chains Fall? Acts 12 Sermon | John Giftah | Biblical Teaching

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

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0:51 Speaker 2: we are looking at various lessons that we can take

0:53 Speaker 2: away from the incident recorded in Acts Chapter twelve, from

0:57 Speaker 2: Versus six onwards. I had previously done as that we

1:00 Speaker 2: can check out from Acts chapter twelve, verses one to five,

1:06 Speaker 2: so many things that you can take away from that.

1:08 Speaker 2: But today one of the things I wanted to understand

1:10 Speaker 2: is that there's an incident where Peter is in a

1:14 Speaker 2: very despicable state. He's in a position where he's about

1:17 Speaker 2: to be killed as the same way as the apostle James.

1:21 Speaker 2: And what I wanted to understand is that we think

1:23 Speaker 2: about this aspect of how the church was praying for

1:26 Speaker 2: him earnestly. And look at this. The scripture says that

1:30 Speaker 2: an angel suddenly came in and what happens. He struck

1:34 Speaker 2: him on the side to awaken him and said quick,

1:37 Speaker 2: get up and look at verse seven, it says, and

1:41 Speaker 2: the chains fell off his wrists. Then the angel told

1:45 Speaker 2: him get dressed, put on your sandals, and he did,

1:47 Speaker 2: and he started following the angel. Now listen to this.

1:51 Speaker 2: There were so many soldiers around. Right. There were two

1:55 Speaker 2: soldiers who were adjacent to him when he was chained.

2:01 Speaker 2: And you listen to this calvy. The miracle is not

2:04 Speaker 2: just the chain falling. But I was thinking about how

2:08 Speaker 2: the chains fell and the soldiers were not woken up.

2:13 Speaker 2: Have you ever thought about this like the miracle, of

2:16 Speaker 2: how God made this miracle in a sound proof manner

2:20 Speaker 2: so that the wrong people don't hear him getting the miracle.

2:26 Speaker 2: They were still sleeping when the miracle happened. What I

2:30 Speaker 2: wanted to understand is that sometimes when God does a

2:34 Speaker 2: miracle in her life. He's going to do it in

2:37 Speaker 2: a way where no one else can even hear or

2:40 Speaker 2: see or know what he's doing. It may look ordinary,

2:43 Speaker 2: it may look like nothing is changing. Your life, may

2:46 Speaker 2: feel like, oh my goodness, John, like nothing is working out.

2:50 Speaker 2: But I wanted to understand other people may not even

2:53 Speaker 2: know when you got delivered. They will not even know

2:56 Speaker 2: how you got delivered, because God is a special in

3:00 Speaker 2: doing miracles in a soundproof setup. Now, for example, I'm

3:05 Speaker 2: recording these podcast episodes at a studio. We're doing this

3:11 Speaker 2: in a soundproof setup. No one here can hear anything

3:16 Speaker 2: from outside, and no one outside can hear what I'm speaking.

3:20 Speaker 2: It's a soundproof system. See. I wanted to understand the

3:23 Speaker 2: same principle here that when God did the miracle, the

3:28 Speaker 2: supernatural aspect of it is not just the chain's falling,

3:32 Speaker 2: But the other aspect is that when the chains fell,

3:35 Speaker 2: it did not wake up any of the soldiers. The

3:38 Speaker 2: soldiers were right there, if you see right there, there

3:42 Speaker 2: were always sixteen soldiers guarding this one Peter. I've made

3:45 Speaker 2: even a sermon on that, sixteen soldiers for one Peter,

3:49 Speaker 2: and not one of them woke up when the chains fell.

3:52 Speaker 2: Not one of them woke up when all this was happening.

3:57 Speaker 2: You See, guys, you may feel like nothing is happening

4:01 Speaker 2: because no one is able to recognize what God is

4:04 Speaker 2: doing in your life. Sometimes you feel like, oh, I

4:08 Speaker 2: want to see a miracle. I want to see God

4:11 Speaker 2: bless me, promote me, elevate me. But no matter what

4:14 Speaker 2: I do, I'm not no one is able to recognize

4:16 Speaker 2: or nothing is working out in a sense of you know,

4:19 Speaker 2: something quantitative like many times you need a proof, right, Like,

4:23 Speaker 2: for example, if I'm saying the ministry, for example, since

4:28 Speaker 2: my ministry is predominantly online, right for people to know

4:32 Speaker 2: or evaluate how this ministry is effective. People want numbers, Right,

4:39 Speaker 2: I can come and tell you that you know what

4:41 Speaker 2: this is ranking, or you know I'm putting out content

4:44 Speaker 2: from the studio and all of these things. But what

4:48 Speaker 2: actually makes the difference is when people are able to

4:52 Speaker 2: see the numbers, When people are able to see the response,

4:56 Speaker 2: the effectiveness, and so on and so forth. Right, So

4:59 Speaker 2: look at this, Peter getting this miracle was in a

5:03 Speaker 2: silent way. The enemies did not even hear what was happening. See,

5:10 Speaker 2: sometimes God does a miracle in such a way where

5:14 Speaker 2: you feel like maybe God is not even doing a miracle.

5:17 Speaker 2: Like in fact, even Peter thought it was just a vision.

5:20 Speaker 2: He didn't even realize what was happening. That's the way

5:23 Speaker 2: God does supernatural miracles. Sometimes you may feel like nothing

5:26 Speaker 2: is happening. You may feel like nobody is able to

5:30 Speaker 2: hear it, nobody is clapping or celebrating with you. But

5:35 Speaker 2: it's all for good. Imagine if any of them woke up,

5:39 Speaker 2: Peter would have got finished. So the miracle was not

5:43 Speaker 2: just the chains falling, but the miracle was also ensuring

5:50 Speaker 2: that the miracle happened in a silent, sound proof manner,

5:55 Speaker 2: and God is an expert in doing that. Sometimes you

5:59 Speaker 2: may feel like nothing is happening because you can't hear it,

6:02 Speaker 2: you can't feel it. But today I want to remind

6:05 Speaker 2: you the same way, when Peter's chains fell, the soldiers

6:11 Speaker 2: did not hear the soldiers when out worken up, when

6:15 Speaker 2: your chains fall, the wrong people will not know about it,

6:20 Speaker 2: and it's good. Let them not know, let them not

6:22 Speaker 2: feel jealous, let them not try to sabotage what God

6:25 Speaker 2: wants to do in your life. Praise God that they

6:28 Speaker 2: can't hear, and just walk with that saying God, I

6:32 Speaker 2: thank you, because them not knowing is actually a blessing

6:37 Speaker 2: for me to walk into the freedom and the next

6:39 Speaker 2: level that God has in store for me. See, I've

6:43 Speaker 2: noticed this in my life where sometimes even when God

6:46 Speaker 2: blesses me or elevates or promotes and things like that,

6:50 Speaker 2: no matter how much i want to share it with

6:52 Speaker 2: certain people, I'm just being in a place where I'm

6:55 Speaker 2: not able to do that, Like this circumstance and them,

7:00 Speaker 2: you know, walking away. For all of these reasons, I'm

7:03 Speaker 2: not able to be as close or to share. Till

7:06 Speaker 2: one point, God said, I don't want them to see

7:11 Speaker 2: what I'm doing in your life because they don't have

7:13 Speaker 2: good intentions. They don't want you to grow, John, So

7:18 Speaker 2: you don't have to go and tell them, like, see

7:20 Speaker 2: how God has helped you grow. Let when the miracle happens,

7:24 Speaker 2: when they see you, you know, elevated and promoted, let

7:28 Speaker 2: them see. But I don't want them to sabotage what

7:33 Speaker 2: I want to do over your life. So today I

7:36 Speaker 2: want you to have that perspective in your life that

7:40 Speaker 2: we serve a God who does miracles in a sound

7:43 Speaker 2: proof manner, we serve a God who does miracles in

7:47 Speaker 2: a way so that the wrong people won't get the notice.

7:51 Speaker 2: The wrong people will not be notified. Only you know

7:55 Speaker 2: that you got the miracle, you are free, and that

7:58 Speaker 2: the right time God will bring the promotion and the

8:00 Speaker 2: elevation it needs to be given to you. I really

8:03 Speaker 2: to challenge you to share this with someone and leave

8:06 Speaker 2: a comment and I will see you back next time.

8:08 Speaker 2: God bless you.

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