Title: Let's Follow (Acts 12:5-9)
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Among the games we played together when we were young, there was a game called “Do it like me.” It is a game in which the person behind imitates the actions of the person in front. So, the person in front did something that the person in the back was difficult to follow, and the person in the back imitated the funny behavior of the person in front so as not to break the rules. They imitate behaviors that are difficult to imitate, and imitate behaviors that they do not want to imitate. Why? It is because of the desire to taste the sense of victory through the game.
Life is maybe like a game. If you meet a guide like a good teacher on the path of life like a game, his life will be easy on the road to victory. It's not perfect, but as long as you follow someone who has walked the path of success in life, you'll be guaranteed some success.
Those who believe in Jesus are those who have received special grace. Because we are living a happy life that no other person in the world can enjoy. However, there are people who claim to believe in Jesus and still do not know that fact. All of you gathered here today want to live a life that is convinced that you are a person of special grace.
We want to enjoy grace together through the Word. First, prayer is the power that moves us. Peter was imprisoned, and the church fervently prayed to God for him. Prayer makes us see light in the dark. To rejoice in the midst of suffering. Changes an impossible tunnel into a possible tunnel. Second, Peter didn't take himself for granted, he did what he was told to do. When I asked you to get up, I got up. They told me to put on my belt and put on my shoes, so I put on my belt and put on my shoes. When he asked me to put on my coat and follow me, I put on my coat and followed him. Faith seems grandiose, but faith is doing what God tells us to do. Third, when I started following it, it started to be solved (unsolved) one by one. I was told to get up and when I got up, the chain came off my hand. The gates of the prison are locked and guarding him in four groups of four. But as Peter passed, the door opened by itself. Saints! I believe that these amazing things will happen to Peter when we obey God's word to us in our lives as well. Amen