The Stone the builders rejected

  The stone the builders rejected.

In the book of Acts we read,

“Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers and elders of the people!  

If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.  

He is " ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.' Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:8-12.

Here Peter is standing before the religious leaders of his day having to give an account to them for healing a man in the name of Jesus. 

Those leaders did not believe in Jesus. Not only that they had the authority to have Peter and those with him jailed or flogged for speaking about Jesus. 

Yet knowing this Peter still spoke boldly about who Jesus was saying,

“He is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.' Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:11,12.

This is what Christians believe today and speak boldly about to the world around them.

If you consider yourself a Christian do you tell those around you, in word and in deed about Jesus?

Please think about it.