Acts 5:41 – “The apostles left there rejoicing, thrilled that God had considered them worthy to suffer disgrace for the name of Jesus. And nothing stopped them! They kept preaching every day in the temple courts and from house to house… The gospel of Jesus, God's Anointed One!”
The apostles were called before the Sanhedrin, the governing council of the land, to be tried a third time for preaching Jesus to the multitudes (see Acts 4) after they had been strictly commanded three times not to by the governing authorities! And they had been imprisoned and miraculously released by an angel from heaven who told them for the third time, “go stand in the temple and preach the word that brings life!”
At this point, if there were any doubts in their minds about noncompliance with governing authorities, (even after “great numbers of people swarmed into Jerusalem (to the apostles) with the sick and those troubled by demons and everyone was healed..” (v16)), this was their answer: a heavenly mandate from an angel!
That is how, when questioned by the highest court in the land about their noncompliance, the apostles, confidently replied, “we must listen to and obey God more than pleasing religious leaders!” (V29)
Remember – government didn’t give us our rights and government can’t take them away unless we let them.
We do have a mandate, not just from heaven but also from our Founding Fathers, to say “no more” to all the attempts by the federal government to take away our rights. We must call for an Article V Convention of States.
As the Declaration of Independence reads:
“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.”
