A Sunday sermon by guest speaker Mark Liburd from Open Doors “Will We Stand In Courage?”. The reading is Acts 14:8-20. Delivered on Sunday 11th September 2022.

Will We Stand In Courage?

• Acts 14:8-20

  8 And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.
  9 This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed,
  10 said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked.
  11 Now when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
  12 And Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
  13 Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, intending to sacrifice with the multitudes.
  14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out
  15 and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them,
  16 who in bygone generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.
  17 Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
  18 And with these sayings they could scarcely restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.
  19 Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.
  20 However, when the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

  New King James Version

Below are the Open Doors videos played during the service.

Open Doors Video

Zabi’s Story